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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936
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Comment
Landon Advancement
This comment not only involves introduction but also a little bit of incredulity; just a little incredulity concerning the advancement of a person in the queer field of politics. Taking, for example, the case of Alfred M. Landon, we can construct a setup so that almost anyone can be president of these United States. Maybe he won't be president but as it stands now his name is on every tongue in the country and the question is, just how did it get there.
On closer analysis, however, this success is not a magic formula but one that has been used year after year by successful politicians. It merely involves the use of political organization. Landon has the support of the Republican organization. He has every resource needed backing him, the right publicity, and plenty of money. It has been interesting to note the build-up his supporters and campaign organizers have given him. They have taken an unostentatious individual who is governor of a middle western state and by employing the most notable thing he has done, the balancing of the budget, have made him into the most talked of possibility for the Republican nomination.
1932 proved to be a disastrous year for the Republicans in almost every phase of administration. They lost their first election after twelve years of being in power; their senators and congressmen's votes were literally nonexistent in the deluge of Democratic ballots. But during that time, Alfred M. Landon was riding merrily on his way and in 1934 he came through for re-election, riding rough shod over all the Republican opposition. One might almost suspect that he had located some magic formula for success and was using it to its best advantage.
This stage of the game is a little early to make a prediction concerning any candidate's chances but as it stands now it looks as if our Kansas governor will go a long way toward beckoning the big guns in the race. The work of Landon and his supporters simply serves to illustrate, however, the ability of organized machine politics to do the thing which it sets out to. Looking at this backling, one cannot do anything but predict that Landon will be the man to watch in June.
—Topeka State Journal.
William Allen White calls our attention to the startling thought that people who are listening to the Hoover and Roosevelt speeches of today are witnessing a two-man debate comparable to the Lincoln-Douglas debate of eighty years ago.
Modern Breaks
Modern X-ray specialists, states the Wichita Eagle, have found something distinctly different since the innovation of the automobile. This discovery is a break in human bones such as never occurred before the day of these modern death dealers.
Shortly after the invention of the automobile doctors became very familiar with a distinctive fracture of the wrist. This injury was caused by the reversing of the crank by the backfiring of the motor when it was being started. In other words, it was caused when the crank "kicked back." The universal installation of self-starters practically eliminated this type of fracture.
But it is neither much of a help or comfort to an injured man to be able to assure him with X-ray pictures that it really was an auto that hit him.
But a new one now characterizes modern bone breaking. This is known as the "bumper" fracture. It is caused by the low placing of the bumpers and the U-shaped depression usually in the center of the bumper. It can break a man's leg or shinbone in the center so unusually that an X-ray will immediately reveal to a doctor the sort of accident that has occurred. A certain sort of break in the lower jaw bones has also become more common since the widespread use of non-shatterable glass in windshields.
Overemphasis on Grades
“This tendency to overemphasize the value of a 'mark' seems to be growing throughout the country, and the trend is an evil in that it sidetracks the main objective in a course of study. Our present graduated system of grading could also be held as taking at least a part of the blame for the innumerable cases in student dishonesty that have appeared over the country in the last few weeks, the most notable of these cases being the wholesale expulsion of students from the University of North Carolina.”
“As a decisive means of measurement, the modern grading system has repeatedly proved itself false,” comments the Purdue Exponent, “and the alphabet has become so deeply entrenched in the educational process that a high mark is the ultimate goal of the graduate rather than a thorough understanding of the material contained in the course.”
"The scramble which has reduced learning to a position incidental to the desire for high grades has reflected in the present-day worth of a college degree in the eyes of many employers. The ideal system would account for all the numerous factors that enter into a course besides the number of questions that are answered right or wrong, and it is to this goal that leaders in the field will point their efforts."
Campus Opinion
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Editor Daily Kansan:
By golly, I think people are driving too fast on the campus. I am in constant fear that one of our geniuses will get knocked gallety west any time now when we forage in the grass with the sun soaked and preoccupied. This spring weather is beyond a doubt turning men's moms and women's fancies to love and away from their careful driving. Monday, one of the blind students was struck. Yes sir, I would hate to see them walking around with the sun soaked and pressure to some of the University's Barry Oldfields.
Editor Daily Kansan:
R. M.
Inasmuch as it will be only a short time until we shall have our annual men students' election, a campus political issue of great importance should be brought to the attention of both parties. I refer to the situation which now exists whereby working students are forced to nav for an activity ticket they cannot use.
This problem has been submitted to the present PSGL leaders of the Men's Student Council. They have refused even to call a meeting of a committee appointed to consider the problem four months ago. Such calls disregard for the interests of a large bale of PSGL supporters shows only one thing: the present PSGL leaders of the council sought office not to work for the interests of the men who elected them, but to boost their own self-esteem. What satisfaction they must gain from being pointed out to visiting high school debaters and sorority rheumatist?
This disregard for student interests calls for a change in the leadership of the Men's Student Council. It may come about through PSGL, it may come about through the students' committee, or it may be the working students and to capture their votes by a sincere effort to remedy this evil. The working students should work through the organization of both parties, and if necessary, through an independent organization of both parties. It is also wise to ensure this issue of both parties. Chas. B. Anderom.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Yesterday some misguided writer, in this column, raised the question of the intramural finals and the activity ticket. Now this writer, who whomever he may be, charges that the intramural office will require an admission fee from all students who attend the intramural finals of wrestling and basketball. In that charge the writer was entirely wrong, the intramural office does not charge an admission price for any of its sport events.
A. B.
As to placing the intramural sports on the activity ticket, well, the writer has got something there and should be complimented for suggesting it. I have information from a good source that leads me to believe that the intramural directors would be glad to have the extra money that could be granted to them if they were on the activity ticket. At the present time the money that could be granted to them is not granted to the Physical Education department, and from money given to them by the athletic department. With the additional money that could be possible for the intramursals through the activity ticket it would be possible for the intramursal office to broaden its activities, to purchase additional equipment, and in general provide a greater amount of activities for the students. All money provided for intramursal activities is used to purchase trophies and is not used for carrying on the work of the department.
I hope that I have been able to set yesterday's writer straight and I hope that he will go further into the plan of the course.
Vol. 107
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March 4.1936
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INTER-RACIAL GROUP: The Inter-racial Group of the W.C.A. will have a dinner meeting at Henley house Thursday evening at $50. Call Evelyn Thompson, Maria Pattener, Dorothy Hurdle, Committee Chairman, Maria Pattener.
LANDON-FOR-PRESIDENT CLUB: There will be a meeting tonight at 8:15 in room 102, Journalism building.
Shiller Shore, President.
MENS PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL1. The picture for the Judahwher he will be taken at 7:00 o'clock Thursday morning at the University of North Carolina.
LE CERCLE FRANCAISE: Le Cercle Francais se reunira mercredi a quarter heures de丹麦 dans la flamme 306 Fraser. Tous ceux qui parient francais sont invites.
Ruth Brandt, Secretaire.
Lloyd Morgan, Secretary.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. The Men's Student Council will meet Wednesday evening at 8:00 p.m. clock.
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will meet at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the church.
Modrid, Feb. 29. — (UP) Freedom of speech, partly or completely denied in the past five years in Spain, has been restored, with conditions.
Katharine Aston, Secretary.
The Freedom of Speech in Spain Has Been Restored, With Conditions
Orators at political mass meetings are permitted complete freedom unless they attack the president of the Re-visionist Party. The same rule holds for the press.
When the Rights moved into power in December, 1933, an anarchist-syndicalist uprising occurred and from that time until January, 1936, constitutional guarantees were revolt or totally suspended. A Socialist Party in October, 1934, brought one of the most rigid encumbrations in Europe. Press tables were written with the sender of the violent infliction organization the countryside summoned the difficulties for the national and foreign press.
When the Leets ruled the Republic during its first two years, an all-embracing so-called "law of defense" was utilized to curb free speech and free press in the republic, supported. The monarchist newspapers could not publish attacks upon the regime and the limitation also extended to the publication of photographs of former King Alfonso and his son-in-law, king Ferdinand of kings they prohibited in the press. He was referred to as Don Alfonso de Borbon. A cheer for the monarchy was, and still is, considered subverse. The result in arrest for the suitor twice.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: Phi Delta Kappa will meet in Room 115 Fraser Hall at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, March 4. Spring elections and plans for the initiation to Phi Delta Kappa will be held at members, students, and faculty, should attend this meeting.
Nicholas D. Rizzo, President.
Rigid Censorship in 1933
the end the censorship proved a boomerang and resulted in political troubles it was designed to avoid. Premier Manuel Portela received a special vote of confidence from the censorship in January. He permitted the most complete freedom possible under the circumstances, in fact, the most complete in almost five years. However, government intervention still exists, as the company offices in accordance with the press and private communications still must pass official interviewees who, if in doubt, can consult higher authorities as to whether any dispatch is to be censored. It must be admitted that the companies from censorship as much as possible.
Some Editions Confiscated
Some situations have led various political campaigns to believe the boundaries, The Madrid Lett Republican newspaper, La Libertad, was configured four times in 17 days because it published articles allegedly offensive to judicial authorities. The alleged might cause disturbances in this country. Socialist organ, suffered several conflations for similar reasons so that the freedom of the press is not as complete as that in the United States. Most wing dikes have suffered fines.
The independent, austere Madrid newspaper, "El Sol," in a review of the history of the censorship during the past two years, pointed out that a noose in the hands of a criminal was revealed by the Socialist daily, "La Guardia." Was confiscated by orders of the censorship under the jurisdiction of the minister of interior, then a member of the Radical party. The scandal induced the government to gambling privileges to a Mexican state. Although in reality only some $10,000 seemed to have changed hands, the affair, when given official status by the government a year after it happened, was quickly crushed. Almost immediately wrested the Strong Political party cast a shadow upon the reputations of
several of its more prominent members.
Paper Outlines Arguments
"El Sol" commented that "in a regime of liberalism, denunciation of criminal acts committed by the use of political influence would have gone to the courts without parliament having to occupy itself with anything except granting or denying permission to the courts to try the deputies. But since this public denunciation was impossible, those injured went to parliament, which almost became案件 to the police court for crimes of its deputies.
"The censorship is the imprudent maidservant of imprudent men," the paper said. "It can never prevent thoughts and political action from pro-communist agitators. The man it is liked or not, liberty is consubstantial with democratic regimes and its use cannot be restricted immediately. The long period of lack of freedom of expression in Spain resulted in climactic confusion and obsculous manifestations and columines.
"Good sense counsels that moments of reaction should not be prolonged excessively because they produce the paradoxical case of converting the remedy into a grave illness. The gravest rework against the censorship is that it would not prevent anyone that had to happen, happened." El Stol said
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Boys of the Dance Committee of Winthrop House, Harvard, got out their riders for a slashing expedition on the campus recently.
Dr. R. M. Ferry, house master, banned the picture of a nude woman which the committee had printed on the press because it violated the committee plans to pin skirts on the figures so that the boys had to cut out the pictures. P. S.: No pictures were to be found during an ashran hour after the order was issued.
Conducted by J. M.
Everyone knows Venus de Milo is armless and no trouble getting along with people. Tuesday, Britain did some re-arming.
We suspect there is a strong positive correlation between the balminess of the day and the number of afternoon naps. We mustn't draw too many conclusions!
There seem to be a good many pretty ladies on the campus these days, but perhaps it's only the spring.
May we remark that some of the young bloods with gas buggies are hitting it up a little too fast nowadays for the common safety.
And there was the impudent freshman who called one of the ladies belonging to the Liberal Club a "red hen."
Because of the rising nature of their work, the elevator-operators in New York have struck for a rise in "wages."
We are thankful for small favors. In Chicago Sunday night the town
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