PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1935 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HERBERT A. MEYER JR. EDITOR IN CHIEF BILL ROGERS ASSOCIATE EDITORS MELVIN HARLIN RUNNER CHAUMZU MANAGING EDITOR MARGARET BOYNT BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN Campus Editor JAMES POKEHENSON Make-up Editor AJCER CUSKINNER Sports Editor HORACE HORACE Assistant HORACE MAYON News Editor DONNATI TIDA Social Editor JOE MATINEO Sunday Editor RYAN SMITH Sunday Editor SHIRLEY JOHN TELEPHONES KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS MARGARET BONY ... RUTHERFORD HAYS HERRY MURRAY ... F. QUINCY BROWN JEROME RUSKIN ... RUTTER SWORLD JOHN SYLAND ... SIMBLEY JOHN ALAN XUEMER ... HOEN HAWKES JACK WILSON ... MICHAEL WILSON Business Office KU, 66 News Room KU, 25 Night Connection, Business Office 2701 K2 Night Connection, News Room 2702 K3 Sale and exclusive national advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. Published, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings except during school holidays by students in the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Subscription price, per year, $1.00 cash in advance, $1.25 on payments. Single copies, 6 each. Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lakata, Karnataka. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1935 LIVING COSTS The cost of living has been steadily creeping up, making it harder and harder for teachers to make ends meet. This fact has been generally recognized by a partial restoration of salary in high schools and grade schools of the state, but University teachers, however, have been neglected. National government statistics, taking the 1913 food prices as represented by 106, give the price index for 1933 as 92.7. From that time prices of food have risen steadily, until on August 27 of this year, the index number was 125, an increase of 40 percent from the average of living. Other costs of living also have risen. Before salaries were cut, many teachers assumed such obligations as insurance, and payments on homes and property that amounted to a large portion of their salaries. With a 25 per cent decrease in salary, it was difficult to keep such payments up, and with prices rising at the present time, the difficulties increase each day. Some of the lower and medium salaried teachers especially, have had a hard time. Loss of homes through inability to meet payments has not been unknown in Kansas. Under the present cheap money policy of the national administration, the situation faced by teachers will become worse and worse unless salaries are adjusted. A Medicine Lodge Ford dealer says he can get in one of his cars at 5 in the morning and he in Kansas City before 9 o'clock the same morning. He does it by driving to Wichita and taking passage on an airplane, -Topteka Daily Capital. President Roosevelt's greatest surprise was not in the results of the corn-hog vote, as might have been expected, if we accept the reporting of G.A. V. in the Manhattan Mercury, but in finding Mrs. Roosevelt at home when he returned from his recent ocean voyage—"Toppea Daily State Journal." BACKBITERS President Roosevelt's whole administration has been a period of criticism, backbiting and general disagreement and argument. It is a relief to find at least one group who has been pleased; to see one set of people who have not expected benefits of unimaginable magnitude. The midwestern farmers, in voting to continue the plans of AAA, realize they have been helped. They know that they are far better off than they would have been if crop restriction had not existed. Their approval of this plan should be proof to many thousands of "doubling Thomases" that there have been some benefits from the policies inaugurated under the New Deal. In any policy or program there are bound to be errors. The task facing the government is that of getting a policy with the least errors and the most benefits; one that at the same time is workable. Those who scream so loudly against the press are too young, too unresponsive, too a temptile, practical scheme, and learn for themselves the immensity of the program which is facing the leaders of the country. Then they might realize, if they are willing to face the facts, that criticism should be favorable and helpful rather than bitter and often selfish. It is the men with the biggest holdings, the men who have the most to lose, who are such conscientious objectors. Those who are really in a bad position, those whom the New Deal set out specifically to aid, are admitting, to a great degree, that the new program has been beneficial. And they realize that the administration is making every effort to correct the errors and see that the new laws are justly administered. If the people who are looking so hard for defects in the New Deal would open their eyes to the obvious benefits that have resulted, the whole question of recovery might be more easily solved. It is the people who tear down without attempting to rebuild who obstruct progress simply by getting in the way. If their effort could be turned along constructive lines, as the efforts of the farmers have been, then their action and criticism would be justifiable. Campus Opinion Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Karan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited. The independent freshman men are to be complimented upon the action they are taking with respect to the coming election. Their movement has been well organized and well publicized. The independent women, likewise, have been organizing, but we have not heard so much about their program. And contrary to student opinion, this is not because women are less interested in current events on the campus; it is rather due to a certain request from W.S.I.O.A. constitution, to the effect that University women can do no electionening prior to their voting. Do you realize what this means? Political parties and campaigns are forbidden to the women of the University. Originally this ruling was intended to do away with this kind of electioneing which we will find in the world of large. Such dirty campaigning was felt to be unworthy of college women. I might object to this on the grounds that ignorance of evils of real life will not help us to cope with them when we must meet them. But, at present, my objection is to the unfair position in which this ban on organization places the unfamiliar women of the Hill. The securities are already organized, and of course girls in their youth each group includes (or可 candidates) and all the former members of the group vote for that girl. but, you say, what of that? These are comparatively small groups. Their sole power lies in the concentration of several of the Greek clubs upon one or two candidates, and such combinations are also forbidden by the women's constitution. True enough, but while combines are not always secretly agreed upon, in defiance of rules, when the votes are counted under the present system of voting, a virtual combination is often used to exert the hill gates combined with LA GLA last spring direct every vote on the first, second and third choice. If no candidate has received a majority of the votes cast, the votes of the least-favored candidate will be redistributed according to second choices. We will assume that security women will vote first for the candidate from their own houses, and then for other Greeks who move in to the same social circles with them. Therefore, the voting process is distributed between the security candidates, the votes of the security group will eventually be concentrated through a combination of the votes of all security women. Of course, the majority of the women voting have been "satisfied" by the outcome of the election but the majority of the women on the Hill are unaffiliated, and they do not vote. But if a majority of non-soronary women went to the polls, But, if the independent women can not organize, can not form a political party, or parties, can not meet and select leaders from their own group, can not actively participate in the election against the superior organization of the soronary women. "The taris" have a right to equal representation in politics with the "Greens". I protest that this regulation forbidding electoneering works a great injustice upon the unfulfilled women of the University.-H.K. Our Contemporaries AMERICA ENTERS THE OLYMPICS Rainy Pier station Daily Princetonian The announcement made yesterday by Avery Brumfield, President of the American Olympic Association, that the United States would positively enter the Olympics in 2014 was an astonishing feat for great Americans who feared that bigoted political prejudices and old world hatred might master enough force to make this country's entrances into the games a matter of sport. The American Olympic Committee does not endure the policies of Nazism by this action. Germany's political actions within or without the country rightly have been criticized for their lack of support, and the committee who have devoted time, thought and money to the Olympic cause know the best interests of amateur sport and have kept in mind the prestige of the United States. As Mr. Brunsdie has said, "We have no reason to cause not our own or amateur sport to be saddened to a political issue." As Mr. Bründlage states, the Olympic games belong to the athletes and not the politicians. The sportmen of this country are unanimous in their desire to enter the games and will not tolerate the use of clean American football as a mode of friendly feasts, enraged in this country by individuals who have never learned the lessons of amateur sport. Notices at Campbell's Office at 10 a.m. p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday images. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Messing will be held at 4:30 this afternoon in room C. Myers Hall. Send resumes to Christian Science Organization, 517 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10019. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN --malicious and unpatriotic motives. For example, General Johnson implies in his article that Professor Frank Koch is a vast organization working secretly to control the government. His movements are "surreptification." His agents are "borsers from within." He wields supreme and uninvaded power, General Johnson using italics to emphasize this point. He does not add that Professor Frank Koch is a judicious of his readers will promptly make that addition for themselves. COMMISSION ON WORLD AFPAIRS. The Commission on World Affairs of the W.C.W.A. will meet this afternoon at 4:30 at Horsley house. All women inter-commissioned to the organization have visted. Jane Thompson, Esther Anderson, Co-chairman. PHI DELTA KAPPA LUNCHEON: A noon-luncheon meeting of Phi Delta Kappa will be held in the private dining room of the Union cafeteria Friday at 12.15. Following the luncheon a short discussion will be presented by Prof. Keith Roberts, who will leave his names with Nicholas Rizzo, Prof. Twente, and Keith Roberts by 9 a.m. Friday. Keith Roberts SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Tedy's rehearsal will be held at 3:30 in the Auditorium. K.O. Kauersteiner. by John E. Hankins Assistant Professor, English Unjust Criticism of College Professors Instills Public Distrust of Education In the current number of The Sunday Evening Post, General Hugh S. Johnson gives his impressions of the New Deal in its present stage, and of what he considers the errors of the Rosewell Administration. These errors, he feels, are the result of a departure from the President's agenda of national events must recognize considerable merit in General Johnson's arguments. But in the basic assumption of his article he is both inaccurate and unfair. Briefly, his assumption is that the errors of the New Deal may be attributed to one of the more significant challenges Harvard, and to his "boys," former students now in the government services. In giving utterance to these views, General Johnson accords with the editorial policy of the Saturday Evening Post for the past several years, a policy widely adopted by opponents of the New Deal. This policy contrasts partisan advantage. This policy may be defined as "smearing" the Rosewell Administration by attacking its professional adverses. Thereby casting suspicion upon all members of the teaching profession. The campaign, which at first pressured the浸透性和 informality of the New Deal, assumed a more sinister tone, attributing it to or—to some of them— salicious and unpatriotic motives. I am not primarily concerned with the political effects of General Johnson's article, "we have become accustomed to such political jockeying—but I am profoundly concerned with his implied attack on the academic profession. He has chosen to designate this profession a single man—and that man is a professor. Furthermore, this professor is not connected with the government; that he is a former instructor and personal friend of several government officials is considered sufficient proof of his malign influence. These officials are not attacked by name; they are properly kept vague and shadowy to emphasize the one Bill Genius, Professor Frankster of Harvard. Now it is quite impossible to attack individual men because they are pre- forsers and not throw suspicion upon professors as a whole. This suspicion is already felt throughout the academic world. To the insistent propaganda against professors in politics must be tempered by the awareness of "radiation" activities in the universities, the denunciations of "socialistic" teaching, and the requiring of college professors to take the oath of allegiance. And prejudices are easy to warrant in colleges, but suspicion on those who seek, however sincerely, to extend the bounds of human knowledge. During the Middle Age, more possession of books on abstract subjects was equated with adultery. In the 18th century, the deli Calhoun was required, on pain of death, to retract his statement that the earth moves. And to-day a teacher who seeks to analyze fairly the various forms of government can easily be consisted of "revolutionary" activities, which have been out of many a modern university. True learning cannot exist in an atmosphere of impassion, yet such an atmosphere is being created in American colleges by these intent on political advantage. That they do not intend to hurt the colleges is beside the point; they are doing so, whether they intend to or not. To attack the relatively few colleges that have been trained, they reaffirm a distrust of all men of similar profession and background. I quote from the usually conservative Kansas City Times (September 2, 1955). (Continued on Page Three) for Thursday SPECIAL Corn Beef and Cabbage Swiss Steak Always fresh vegetables CAFETERIA at the - An added touch of color—plus an added touch of style make these new Arrow shirts with the chevron design indispensable to your wardrobe. 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