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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY. MARCH 6. 1936
Comment
Sanctions Broken
During these troubled times, signifying by their very nature impending disaster, it might be well to write a few words of explanation concerning Woodrow Wilson's brain child, the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson gave his life to the cause of ending war. During these hectic days of 1917 and '18 and shortly thereafter he spent almost all his time convincing representatives of the great powers that his plan would be a success. The powers banded together and became known as a group for the betterment of law among nations. At that time, however, their's was an especial mission. They were given fourteen points for a basis of international law to end all wars. The queer thing about the whole setup was that even though Wilson was the father of the move, his country was among the few great powers to stay out.
Now the League is involved in a crisis; one which has a much greater import than that which shows on the surface. Its true principles are being tested and are found lacking in a good many respects. Why? Because of the petty rivalry existing between a power within the League and one outside; namely Great Britain and the United States.
The League has in back of it the plan of economic sanctions. The example already pointed out between Great Britain and the United States shows how and why the plan fails. There is a very strong rivalry between these two powers in the sale of oil. Italy, as a result of the motorization of her army, is ready to buy and buy plenty of this commodity. This country in its neutral position can sell oil to her with a free conscience. In order to avoid being beaten in this economic rivalry Great Britain broke the oil sanction imposed upon Italy by the League and is now transporting as much of the commodity as is the United States. With this act the sting went out of the League's move and it became a farce. What would have happened had we belonged is a different matter entirely.
This comment merely serves to cast bread upon the seas for bait when it suggests that it might be a good thing for every one concerned if the United States joined the League.
—The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Japs are determined to get into trouble. If the United States won't fight, and thumbing their nose at the rest of the world won't start anything, they'll pull off a little rough stuff at home to relieve the ennui.
We wouldn't mind how much they paid for waste baskets up at the State House if they'd just use them a little more frequently.—Boston Transcript.
Collective Bargaining
The only effective way which the worker has to enforce his right of collective bargaining, the strike, is in use in New York City where the company Employees Union has called out its members.
The strikers are seeking a $2 a week raise in wages, a 48-hour shop, a closed shop, and an effective arbitration board. The strike was primarily directed at the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations who refused to negotiate with the union when confronted with its demands. The board claims that the union's demands are impossible to meet and points out that while rentals in New York have decreased 40 per cent since 1929, salaries have decreased only 7 per cent.
The only people who are affected by the strike at the present time are office workers and apartment dwellers who have to walk up and down stairs. The recent newspapers carry pictures of celebrities who have dropped the robes of honor and taken up the humble garb of an elevator operator so it seems that even these are not suffering. However, unless the strike is settled in a few days the whole city will be affected and the nation might see the re-enactment of the general strike in San Francisco.
Senator Borah gives the impression he'd rather be a monkey wrench going into the machinery than a successful candidate going into the White House —The Cincinnati Enquirer.
—The Boston Evening Transcript.
Recently, leaders threatened to "tear up the town if the employers didn't come across." Probably not one in a hundred of the strikers have such violent ideas and it is relegatable that their leaders should express them. Public sentiment is generally with strikers until they resort to violence. The strikers are apt to defeat their own purpose and sincere workers will be thwarted in their effort to get decent wages if they permit a few extremists to declare violent methods.
Mr. Ickes' pleasant exposition about "Old Deal" meaning "old devil" to the Scots is what the great legal minds would call irrelevant, incompetent, and immaterial. The point in question is not the Old Deal but the New Deal, and the people affected are not the Scots but another race known as the Americans.
Freedom in Teaching
A layman and an educator have agreed after watching a classroom demonstration that controversial questions can be discussed in the public school without preinducing the students.
The experiment was watched by several thousands and members of the department of superintendence of the National Education Association. The students were given a wide variety for freedom of speech in the classroom.
The demonstration consisted of a discussion of the recent decisions of the supreme court. A class room was set up on the convention stage and twenty-four boys and girls from a St. Louis high school with Dr. Roy Hatch, head of the New Jersey State Teachers College, as instructor, joined in the debate. All angles of the court's recent momentous decisions were explained with the various governmental implications.
This experiment has been praised the country over as proof that "controversial issues can be handled safely in the classrooms with positive educational benefit to the pupils."
Ignorance is no longer bliss, and according to Rabbi Aibla Hillel Silver of Cleveland, "It is the best testimonial possible for soundness of freedom in schools." He expresses the opinion of the layman.
Enlightenment is the best possible antidote for propaganda, and one who is familiar with all issues is not a ready victim for the propagandist. At least, another milestone in freedom of speech and thought has been passed.
A scientist says you can tell the Fahrenheit temperature by counting the number of chirps per minute of a cricket, subtracting forty, dividing by four, and adding fifty. But our calculating machine froze up a long time ago.
—The Boston Evening Transcript.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
By gooh, I think R. M. was right about the fast driving on the Hill. He was on the wrong track though, about students showing down. That isn't the way of progress. Besides, negative suggestions don't go over. I'm for rugged individualism and you've got to have positive action.
Instead of blind students walking around and being run over by trucks, my plan is to give them trucks. What we need are more care for the common student and trucks too. If they were driving under a defense, defense "gogo-dike" hate to see anyone killed either. The more students we have, the smaller will be the number who won't go backwards, though. II-3.4.8 More cars and trucks.
Editor Dailv Kansan:
Much agitation has been expressed recently on the subject of the closed doors in the Union building and the Administration building. Individuals interested in as much information about the University have communicated with the State Fire Division in Topека about these conditions. After a great deal of pressure the division telephoned our local superintendent of buildings and grounds and ordered the doors of the 42 doors of the Administration building were opened.
Hower, nothing has been done about unlocking the doors of the Union building. There are two groups of doors with three in each group, leading from the four entrances. Another door is unblocked. There are three doors at the main entrance of the building and only one is ever unlocked. Saturday night after the fire, an entrance on was forced to file out the narrow entrance, on a wall.
As has been repeatedly said, "The Union building is fire proof but not panic proof." The State Fire Division has said it wants nothing to be left undone to prevent danger. Surely the custodians could spend a few extra minutes unlocking and locking these extra doors. O.P.
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MARCH 6, 1936
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: There will be a party at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Carter, the President of COSMOPOLITAN SECRETARY.
CO-ED CLUB: There will be an important meeting Monday night from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Women's Lounge, Central Administration building. All women interested in the coming election are particularly urged to come.
No.109
Catherine Holmes, Manager.
DER DEUTSCHE VEREIN: Der Deutsche Verein versammelt sich Montag den 9 Maerz um halb fuß im Zimmer 313, Fraser. Bernadine Berkeley, Sekretär.
SIGMA ETA CHI. The regular supper meeting will be held at 12:50 on Tuesday, March 10, at the home of Raymond Beyton, 808 Illinois Street. A discussion on "Personality Adjustment" will be led by Mrs. King. If you can be present, please notify Margold Hall by Monday night.
Evangeline Clark, President.
University's German Exchange Scholar Writes of His Experiences in 'Naziland
Ed Ogren, President.
WESTMINSTER HIKING CLUB: Westminster Hiking Club will meet Saturday afternoon, March 7, at 3:28 p.m. at Westminster Hall. Sign up on bulletin board in Westminster Hall before 9 a.m. Saturday or call.
Dr. Karl H. Pfluecz, the University of Kanzu' exchange student in Leipzig, Germany, this year has written a letter to the Kanzu', in which he gives his impressions of the student life in Germany and tells of his travels. Since the letter is so long, it will be printed on two pages. The first one follows: the Editor;
Dr. Karl H. Pfistere, the University some of his arguments sounded con-
of Kansas' exchange student in Leipzig, vining.
I have been wondering for some time past if the students there at Kansas University might not be interested to hear from this year's exchange scholar to Germany, some of his experiences, impressions, etc. With what experience did you learn so much has happened since I left the states that I knew every where or how to work. Perhaps the beginning is as good a place as any. I sailed from New York August 28 aboard the Hamburg-American liner, "Deutschland." On the last leg of the trip so I was spared the unpleasant experience of being seasick-
There were several other American students on board going to Germany as exchange scholars and among them I developed some fine acquaintanceships. On船board since no one has any ability to do that enjoy himself, we all joined in. We learned a few able parties of every kind from "Bock Beer Fests" to costume balls, to mention informal tense and "beer parties." There were, of course, many Germans on board so I had a fine conversation with a conversational German—which I enjoyed in doing. They were all most friendly and seemed particularly interested in us exchange students, telling us many things about the "new Germany." The picture they painted was somewhat different than that a person obtains from a function, newspaper, and I must admit that their enthusiasm was infectious.
Our ship landed at Cuxhahn Sept. 6 where the passengers disembarked and took a train to Hamburg. One of my companions on the boat, a young student, frotted at Chicago University, and landed in a railway station by a cousin of his, a big straying young brown-shirted Storm Trooper who immediately took us in hand, arranged for our baggage and hotel room, and in general looked out for us. We agreed, agreeable. He lost no time in trying it "sell me" on the Hitler regime, an
Careless
Drivers Lose Heads
In Accidents
I was much impressed then and still am at the enthusiasm of the youth of Germany for the new regime. Whether we agree with all their policies or not, one cannot but be impressed by the patriotism and determination of the "Eastern" leaders of their "Eastern"land following the hawk of the war and the post-war years.
Perhaps the greatest horror in death from a serious accident is deception. The purpose of this article is not to go into a dissertation on safe and sane driving but merely to present to the reader the actual tragedies as they occurred, and the facts stated with the facts, and the reader the realization of the horrors that must exist on the highways of our own country.
Road construction was under way on an important California highway a couple of years ago. Four young men streaked down that road in a high-powered touring car on their return trip to California, and they underway, failed to see the danger signs and the car crashed through the blockade at a speed of sixty miles an hour and careened under a huge steam shovel, the car continued with the crash and the heads of the occupants were left in the street. A man and his fancies were in the rear seat of an automobile crossing the vaduct at Kansas City. It had been a gay party and the driver was not paying a great deal of attention—but the driver was able to stick his head out of the window at the same moment the car swerped—he fell headless in the arms of his fancie. He had struck a bridge support. Many remember the tragedy that occurred in an eastern Kansas city several years ago when a girl late at night and failed to see a house which was being moved in the center of the street. The speed of the car forced it partially under the house and the two in the front seat were decapitated. Those in the rear were also killed.
An oil field worker who was returning from the western Kansas oil fields witnessed a grusome spectacle near a man, his wife and a man, his wife and daughter wrecked their car. The parents had found their daughter's head but the body could not be found. When dawn came they found body across the ditch in a wheat field.
These actual tragedies may be taken at the will of the reader, but for your own good and the sake of those who are affected, you should remember those incidents and take it easy.
A prominent Kanan returning to his home from Wichita hit a curve and skidded at a high rate of speed into the rear of a truck. The car wedged beneath the truck and the man's head was crushed from his body.
We spent two days in Hamburg seeing as much of this great German seaport as time permitted. The harbor was particularly interesting with its enormous amount of shipping, with boats of every kind and description floating above the waterlineers. The numerous canals running thru the city and crossed by numerous bridges and lined by centuries-old houses were most picturesque, especially in the older sections of the town. Hamburg also has a superb park system with lakes which afford splendid sailing for sailoring, motor-boating and canoeing.
From Hamburg I took the train to Colgae, where I spent two days visiting this fascinating old city on the Rhine and its world-famous cathedral Bamberg. We visited a botanical structure in Germany. One of my days there was a Sunday, so I was able to attend Sunday morning mass in the cathedral and found it packed to the brink. It was a lovely park and the Botanical Gardens, not to mention wandering through the old section of Colgae with its crooked, narrow, cobblestone streets.
From Colego I took a river steamer up the Rhine to Mayence; truly a beautiful and never-to-be-forgotten trip. If you have ever read of the glories and beauties of the Rhineland with its many ancient castles and its steep vineyards growing on its peaks, you know that the river should be sure the author hasn't exaggerated. On the contrary, words full one when he attempts to describe the wondrous charm, beauty and picturescapes of the Rhine valley.
long we met or passed long lines of river barges, as many as six or seven barges in a string, each one 75 to 100 feet long. We saw the very little tough. Coal and kinds of boards are hauled in this manner. It was a striking example to me of the use to which rivers may be put for navigation purposes when necessity demands
I was amazed at the enormous amount of traffic on the Rhine. All day
We passed the famous old university town of Born a few miles south of Cologne. It was here that the sons of the ex-Kaiser went to school. Some were from great vineyard country of the Rhine, where for miles and miles the steep hillsides along the river are covered with vineyards. Ever so often we see the towering top of a rocky cog or hill-top. Some are more famous than others but each has its own particular history and legacy— many dating back six and eight hundred years. We of course passed away during which time the ship's orchestra played "The Song of the Lorel" and all the passengers joined in singing. And a little later we passed the famous house in the Rhine," on a little island in the river.
(To Be Continued)
Sultan's Niece
Claims Group of Islands
Near Philippines
Manila, P.I.—(UF) "Daysay Dayang-
day, niece of the Sultan of Zulu,
in a letter addressed to the United
States government, has formally laid claim to
12 small islands near Borneo, over which
she proposes to rule.
In full conformity with the Wilsonian deocrinia of self-determination, she declares that the inhabitants of these islands, who are Jolans, not only recognize her ownership but desire no one else but her a ruler.
Notice of her claim also has been sent to Judge Tiopei Guinea, director of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes in Puerto Rico, to explain the boundary of the Philippines as established by the Treaty of Paris, and Judge Guinea does not believe they are a part or extent of Borneo, as they are out-under three-mile nautical limit of that island.
Princess Dayang-Dayang asserts the
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