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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1930
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Liberty on the Scales
"The frontier of liberty is certainly retreating," Norman Thomas told University students. With the citation of numerous cases to prove his point, as "the tragedy of the stark open terror behind the evictions of share croppers in Arkansas," Mr. Thomas demanded, "What do you mean, frontier of liberty?"
The threat of fascism has become a favorite topic with our writers and public speakers. Enough examples of the denial of human rights exist, in modern America, on which to base such alarmist opinions. But is the frontier of liberty retreating?
Until 1865 the feudal economic system of the great South subsisted on slavery.
In 1887, Illinois hanged four men who had spoken at the Haymarket Square riot, because, when police had attacked the audience, some one in the crowd had thrown a bomb.
In 1894, President Cleveland smashed the Pullman strike with federal troops. Would Roosevelt dare attempt such a thing?
The Sedition Act of the World War caused a complete denial of the "guarantees" of the Bill of Rights, and in 1919 the nation saw perhaps its worst loss. It also led workers, with the "G-Men" to immer in the fun.
Not so long ago the masked marvels of the K.K.K. paraded here in the streets of Lawrence, replete with all their anti-Jewish-Catholic-Negro conspiracy. Those who were hardly dedicated to protecting liberty.
Then there was the infamous Sacco-Venzetti case, and not until 1928 did the Communist party darge to come into the open with that name. Yet we listened to Dr. Strong last night with safety.
Was Mr. Thomas justified in saying, "The amount of liberty in the United States is growing decidedly less?"
We may have reciprocity with Canada, but we can send her nothing nearly so frigid as she sends us. —Wichita Eagle.
The Date Bureau
The more mention of the name Date Bureau is greeted with smiles, laughs, slurring remarks, and is the object of much joking and railery. But when one sets aside the humorous aspect, he can see that there is really a need for such an institution on a campus harboring over 4000 men and women students. The small minority of students in the organized houses have their social life laid out for them. Open house, parties, and older friends on the campus soon make them feel acquainted and welcome.
The majority of men and women students on the campus come to the University as total strangers. The only way they have of meeting people of the opposite sex is in the classroom, and that is generally limited to the persons sitting nearby. What good is one's education if he has no one with whom to enjoy it? The student receives as much education from contacts with people whom he becomes acquainted with during his college years as he does from his books. A date bureau, sponsored by the University and accepted by students as a matter of course, would do much to widen student acquaintanceships.
Maybe the ladies shouldn't work, but try to imagine a tobacco-chewing male saying "Number please?"—Daily Tail Heel.
Germany Explains
Much adverse criticism has been heaped upon the heads of the Nazi party and its leaders for alleged press censorship, persecution of Jews and for the rearmament of Germany in defiance of the Versailles treaty. Since much of this criticism is based on hearsay evidence, it is not fair before accepting all this, to consider the Nazi explanation of their activities?
As for the persecution of Jews, we are sure only of the facts that some Semitics have been beaten and some rights been taken away from them. The Nazis deny any political killing of Jews, stating that they have been particularly careful in this matter that they might provide no martyrs for that people. The German looks upon Communism or Bolshevism as a Jewish intention and points to the setup in Russia as proof, where they claim at least three-fourths of the key positions in the government are held by Jews. Despite a deep-seated racial antipathy, the Nazis insist that their anti-Semitic activities have been wholly political—to save Germany from Bolshevism.
Germany is re-arming, they admit it. They agreed to a peace in 1918, with the understanding that they too had fought a war to end war, that there was to be no victor, no vanquished. Then came the Versailles treaty stripping Germany of everything worth taking. The German people are bitter about that and feel that those 17 neighbors who helped force the treaty on them will not hesitate to take anything they wish in the future. Re-armament is the German answer to this problem.
Censorship is admitted by the German government and is explained as an emergency measure to protect the unity of the German people. Hitler justifies the publicity control measures as being imperative to united action. The United States fought a civil war to accomplish the same end.
We are a remote country, comparatively safe from any interference by our neighbors, we cannot visualize the tension existing in such a country as Europe where 17 nations, each bearing a certain amount of distrust for the others, live side by side, suspicious of every move.
We are supposed to be a fair_intelligent country, so let us weigh both sides of the case before we judge for or against Herr Hitler and his followers.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kaavan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansan:
It is with regret that we note that the only member of the Jayhawk stuff not belonging to a Greek-leter organization has had to college after one semester through no fault of his own (nor, he has toen add, through the fault of anyone else). We wonder through what slip he obliterated when he had to drop out of advertising space with such an exclusive magazine.
Should the above implication be incorrect, it is unfortunate that no barbarians of such ability as to deserve a post on the annual staff have had sufficient interest to seek a position with the student body. In school, and it is an unfortunate situation when one of the two main groups of the student body does not serve for representation in its production, or is not permitted to observe their conduct.
Editor Daily Kansan:
What to do? What to do? Twenty-six hundred doLorn is such a lot of money!
The two student governing bodies are faced with the same problem these days. With the specter of impending elections nightly disturbing their sleep, the brances of our pompous personalities should be smoking with us and the attending student members.
That thirteen hundred or more apiece which the two councils will receive from the activity fees may be too much for them. Now, if these were but year's government expenses, the amount of apiece binges, send a couple of boys out to Boston to the N.F.S.A. convention, buy forty dollars worth of stationery, or purchase one in which to drink one hundred and ten dollars worth of tea.
But our present counsels will to think themselves dedicated to useful intentions. Of course, the little girls still drink their tea, but the boys couldn't send their conference delegates farther than Kansas City this year. And unfortunately, they have practically thrown away a large number of arguments for rather beneficial purposes, like forum lectures.
The time has now come for these counterfeit politicians to get some good out of our money, before it is too late. And they are having their troubles. They like the services which they render, to at least look indispensable, and few of this type existed on former council programs. New ones must be invented.
Perhaps our counsellors will measure up to their for-
bearers. After all, it wouldn't do to waste twenty-si-
mester hours.
The question as to why we go through the motions of electing a student government, give it money, and then forget about it, come up the other day. There were some conversations in the opinion of the answers, but they run like this:
The organizations are like the baseball games played in stum area to keep bad boys busy, in that they keep them
The councils remove a few duties from the burden shoulders of our faculty and administration.
They bring us Communist lecturers. Once in a while, they do something useful
They feel us into believing at odd moments that we actually do govern ourselves here on the campus.
Once in a while, they do something useful.
They promote traditions, although we always believed that traditions were by nature self-promoted.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m. prepering regular
public day and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues.
B. C.
They put more tea in the weekly teas.
A. S.M.R. "There will be a regular meeting of the A.S. M.E. in Marvin hall Thursday evening at 8:00. Professor W. K. Porter, U. of N.C."
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
EL ATENEO: El Ateneo tendra una sesión el jueves a la cuntro y media de la tarde.
Vol. 33 FEBRUARY 26,1936 No.102
--hunky. To Alf Landon the shovel of the worker is more sacred than the silver spoon of the aristocrat.
Ray Halstead, Secretary.
Charles Zeskey, President.
LE CERCLE FRANCAISE: Le Cercule Francais se reunira un niveau a quatre heures et demies la daille 5900 h. Elle se distingue de ses niveaux par le plus grand nombre.
Margarita Osma, Secretaria.
Ruth Brandt, Secretaire.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION Students who failed to take Psychological examination may do so on the following day.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet Thursday, Feb.
10th at 7:30 in the W.S.G.A. Lounge. Pledge
should bring please.
RHADAMANTHI: Bhadamanthi will meet today at 4:30 in the Green Room, Alfred C. Ames, President
June Thompson, Esther Anderson, Chairmen.
WORLD AFFAIRS COMMISSION: There will be a meeting of the World Affairs Commission Thursday afternoon.
Kansas City, Mo. — (UP) Roe B. Hinkle, former Kansas labor commissioner, told today he believes Gov. Al M. Landon of Kansas, if elected president, will do more for labor than any executive since William McKinley.
Hinkle Believes Landon Could Do More for Labor If Elected President
Hinkle was commissioner and state federal labor director during the administration of the late Gov. Sam A. Baker and special agent for the United States Department of Labor in 1931.
"It takes more than just a starry-eyed idealist to the labor problems of today," Hinkle said. "A man who is not interested in the problems he instituted by the chief executive. A man born with a silver spoon in his mouth who never earned a dollar by the sweat of his brow cannot attune himself with the feelings of the laborer no matter how many impractical academic schools surround him."
Hinkle, who was an employee of the Missouri Pacific railroad before entering politics, 20 years ago, and the laborer he worked as, are "infinitely worse off" than at any time in the history of the country.
"Those who are working now must meet, continually rising prices with deprivation wages, and that condition will prevail until business gets a little confidence in our government. Those who aren't working are being undermined by an injurious dole system and coddling paternism which tend to devalue the industry which made this country the greatest in the world today.
"Previously a man became a social outcast if he refused to work. Today he is rewarded by the government. Is that the Americanism of our fathers?" Hinkle explained he did not mean to have there were jobs for the millions of unemployed in his father's gratefully learning the cultivation of laziness has its just reward.
"It seems to me with the administration's ranting about Jefferson and Jackson, they should go back to their own Cleveland who believed the people should support the government rahet on an government supporting the people."
Hinkle said that Lander's entire environment has tended to instill in him a respect for the worker plus an understanding of his problems.
"The forgotten man, who apparently remains forgotten, needs a man with the depth of understanding and grasp of human principles such as the Kansas executive has. It is true that London has made considerable money to be started out by the sweat of his brow and native industry and initiative.
"He has worked long hours on the farm and in the oil fields. He can plow a furrow as deep and straight as any other farmer. He can drive the oil field that he demands of a
Caryy Robinson, scenarist, was given the novel and told to do his best. He began by suggesting a new title, "I Married a Doctor."
Robinson then strode into his job by considering the changes in the manner of living since Lewis penned his novel of small town life.
Hollywood (UIP—Sinclair Lewis fans have something in store for them as filming of the Nobel prize winner's "Stain Street" neo completion.
"Airplanes, better roads, talking pictures and the radio have almost completely removed small towns from isolation," says Robinson. "But the people, their problems, are still the same." But of "Main Street" hammond been changed.
"Certain externals and 'props' have been revised to make the story timely," explains Robinson. "Instead of the doctor bringing his city, wife home on a train, they fly in aboard a chartered airplane."
"He is the only political leader today with common sense enough to keep a firm hand on the balance wheel which connects change with progress. He can do more for our laboring classes than since the late President McKinley."
"And instead of the town's social set congregating at church socials, they meet at the new country club adjoining a nine-hole golf course.
"The women play contract bridge and know the latest fashions. The men don't talk about real estate deals and crops. They are all concerned with politics.
The motion picture writer then tells of his revision.
Robinson is a hunky, greying former newspaper reporter and during the days of silent pictures was a title writer. Among his successes recently was "Captain Blood" that sky-rocketed the new star, Earl Flinn, to fame.
Adaptation of literary classics to the modern screen is justified, Robinson contends.
"Magazines, books and pictures put a terrific drain on the capabilities of creative writers," he says.
Up in our town they are having a little trouble getting the minors to work. They can train many more working on WPA proclaims for the mine, and the work is clean.
The impending wet season may put a damper on Italy's little campaign into Ebolia.
The suggestions that the architecture students have on display in the second floor vestibule of the library show "steps" toward the completion of the library entrance, 11 years past. They are very good; don't miss them.
Rustic Fallacy
Blamed on Little Bo-Peep
And Simple Simon
London-(UP)-Nursery rimes were blamed for the popular picture of a farmer as a "hystero" by J. H. Wainwright and *B.* J. H. Kinnick, in *The Littlest Farm Union*, in a speech to Leifield farmers. Complaining that whenever in a nursery rime it was desired to set out something that was ridiculous in it, they wrote: "The Little Bo-Peep, with its rime about
sheep—Leave them alone and they'll come home'-tends to give the impression that farmers are a Micewher sort of people who have blind trust in Providence. In Three Blind Mice, when they selected someone for the farm, it would be hard for the farmer's wife'--though it would be the last woman they would run after.
Graduate Magazine Out in March
"Then, what was the moral of Simplem "Going to the War," which was supposed to be a victory, that he was trying to get possession of something of which he was not in a position to pay. I suggest that that man should have been a meritorious in town than in the country."
In the next issue of the Graduate Magazine that will come out the first week in March, there will be a special article on the students in the journal-ism department whose parents are in the newspaper business. Last week a picture of the group was taken. It will appear in the magazine and also will be sent to the different papers throughout the country. The features are special action pictures of football teams and the latest picture of Chaucerloh and Mrs. E. H. Lindley.
Prisoners Live Monotonous Daily Routine
by darold pee eagle
Thousands of Empty Oil Cans Serve As Water Vessels for Selassie's Men
Hard faced men sitting around a poker table, murderers, life termens. Unshaven, grim faced men who would as soon as not kill each other if it were not for the present watch of the guards, but after they are taken, the plague. The steady hum of gurgles from the black section. Dixie modules. Shuffling feet. But pervading this atmosphere a grimmness that makes mookery of these attempts at levity. Yes, this grimmess is one of the factors that to bring on that contagious disease. So hard are the primary factors in the cause of prison riots and murder within the penitentiary.
Painted and used as flower pots, punched full of holes and transformed into shower-hards by the natives of the island. Their discarded receptacles suddenly have become of military importance. They are worth more today as cannisters than the hundred and one things they can be put to use by the blacks on the African coast.
THOUANDS of five gallon tins, carried on the shoulders of the women following the bearded warriors of Ethiopia, are as good as aqueducts or toilets. This is where the saving contents of distant wells to the encampments in sun-parched deserts.
Quick to exploit demand, the natives have embarked on a profitable oil can business. Camel caravans and strings or mutes are being utilized to transload cargo from Egypt to the ancient slave routes into Ethiopia. One empty tin sell for as high as one thaler.
Dibuit, Feb. 19. —(UP)—The American oil can and British petrol tin, symbols of white man's civilization in the desertlands of East Africa, are being smugged into Ethiopia today to meet the needs for the troops of Haiti Selasie.
Become Pipelines
The oil can, joke of the slapstick vaudeville stage, has come into its own. It may prove to be one of the all-time greats of the Ethiopian's stand against the Italiana.
For years Somaliand people have made use of these empty tins. All the flowers of Dijbourt's Place Menikil sprout from oil and gasoline containers that have been painted blue, green and yellow.
In the native villages the cooking is done over a charcoal stove made from a petrol tin. The top is removed and an iron grate inserted. A hole is cut beneath the bottom for a draft. The fabric is simple, but a unstable stone results.
Made Into Stoves
Uesd as Measure
Hammered and flattened out, the tin of these cans is the main material of the Arab carpenter. Any self-reporting native nuthat is roofed with oil cans, and if the owner is really swanky it will be wallpapered with it as well.
In the homes of Europeans here, the daintily painted waste-paper papiers formerly were oil cans. In the kitchen, they were bread and cheese. The Arab merchant measures his vegetables and grains with them. But today, little barefoot black boys eat the bread and cheese on streets through the native villages or the European section of Dilhouit. They
It is one more use—and the most profitable of all—for the American oil can and British petrol tin.
go to the caravan stands and sell them to the drivers, who know the profit they can make, once they cross into Ethiopia.
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fairy. It indirectly arises from the unbelievable gray monstrosity of prison life.
Morning. Up at six; breakfast at seven; exercise at eight; work till eleven; dinner at twelve; coercion; work till five; supper then cell confinement; lights out at nine; food the same, conversation. Nails. Radiators clunk-ink, leaking steam pipes, bed scripping the floor. The all prevailing prison stench. Hubbed noses, planning, plitting a way to escape. Hidden sex practices. Memories of bygone days, hurry, fundraiser, graduated have an effect on the prisoner and sooner or later he will be in the elementary stages of "sir crazy."
Perhaps this factor was present in the recent death of Leeb. Who knows? Smart politicians immediately take the necessary steps to suppress publication of news of this type. Perhaps the public is not aware of the facts of this case. It may be best.
Someday all vice and crime arising within prison walls will be dault through legislative action. This day should not be far off, Who knows?
University To Be in World Book
The University of Kansas will be represented in the next edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, to be issued soon. The editor of the encyclopedia, in a letter to Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, states that the work will include an extensive article on the state university's history. University. He requested a photograph of the Administration building for publication with the article.
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Long distance telephone rates are now reduced as follows:
1. Person-to-person rates are now reduced after 7 every night. (Heretofore, only station-to-station rates were lower at night.)
2. The low "night" rates are in effect all day Sunday on both station-to-station and person-to-person calls.
The reductions apply on calls to points more than 100 miles distant, and to many shorter calls. The Long Distance operator will be glad to give you the rate now in effect to any point.
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