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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1935
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1935
CIVILIZING THE ETHIOPIANS
Press dispatches seem to indicate that Benito Mussolini is succeeding in achieving his announced goal of bringing civilization into Ethiopia. He has previously charged the natives are barbarous and he has adopted the sacred trust of civilizing them.
Opposed only by the crude weapons of the defenders, victory appears to be a matter of time. Native villages lacking any anti-aircraft protection are excellent targets for air bombs; and even men inspired by defense of their homes can hardly withstand the withering fire of machine guns. Thus with all the modern equipment of warfare, the soldiers of the pompous imitation Caesar have steadily mowed down the stubborn opposition of the Barbarian natives.
Perhaps some might question just what civilizing motive lies behind the wanlon slaying of thousands of women and children innocently ignorant of the sacredness of the act. Unfortunately, some of the methods of the inspired Italian dictator might appear to be deliberately cruel, barbarous and the works of a man driven mad by the greed for power and wealth.
But civilization is a costly item. Apparently it can be achieved only at a tremendous human expense.
—Iopeka State Journal.
Mr. Hearst's interview in which Governor Landon is selected as the candidate who can beat Roosevelt next fall will bring the Kansas executive another batch of complimentary publicity, but it is altogether possible the governor remembers the ancient admonition to beware of gentlemen of a certain nationality who come bearing gifts.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor or publisher. All content in large lengths are intended to curate by the edit. Contributions
Editor Daily Kansan:
Many people have asked just what happened to me last Saturday between halves of the football game, and why it happened. Since there are probably many more players than fans, that actually occurred, I take this means of explaining.
Yes, I was mobbed by the K-Club. I think "mobbed" is quite a fitting word. I was sitting in the stands and, along with many others had been expressing my disapproval of the paddling of two freshmen. Suddenly Gordon Gray appeared on me. Where's your paddle? he asked me. I told him I didn't carry a paddle and I felt like I had lost my mind. I thought of the whole rotten and despicable practice of paddling and bullying freshman, and that I would be ashamed to take part in such activity. "Come on," he said, "you're going through the line. We passed a rule that all K-men must carry paddles or be paddled." I had never been informed of such a rule and I wouldn't have carried a paddle if I had. Moreover I didn't know why I had no difference; he said, and took hold of my arm and started to drag me out of the stands. I went with him; there was not much else to do.
I went out on the field and told the rest of the K-men what I thought of them and their practices. I told them they had no right to do what they were doing, and that they should have been better lined up in their best known K-line. When I still refused to go through, Gray shouted down the line to his colleagues in the noble art of bullying the great unbenders of "tradition", fair play, and "sportmanship" at the University, where he grew up. "The university has him have it." This they did. My glasses were removed and some twenty-five fellows gathered around to help me and beat me. Since the odds were well over twenty one, and we were a husky, healthy bunch, (physically healthy at least), resistance was futile; in fact, im-
Well, I was held and beaten. No, they didn't beat me very long. The loud booing from the crowd, the fact
that a number of my friends were now down on the field with blood in their eye, so to speak, and the fact that I tried to have him on his knees, the fact that I was holding me, made the situation so tense and ugly that even the K-men could sense it. So they stopped beating me. Ringbeater Gordon Gray decided "That's not what I'm supposed to be." 43 Mr. Gray believes in sportmanship and fairplay.
And all this occurred because I don't carry a paddle; because I don't believe in strutting around paddling and bullying defenseless freshmen; because I see fit to exert himself against the strong, powerful women there are more intelligent ways of treating newcomers to the University of Kansas, ways which will make the student feel he is part of a great institution and proud of his abilities.
There is one other reason for the occurrence. Last year there was a great deal of opposition to the paddling of freshmen by K-men, and the K-club members were circulating their usual assinine arguments that "Paddleming should not be done in cost." In the midst of things I wrote a long letter summing up their arguments. This letter was printed in the Kansan and it caused a good deal of discussion for it placed the K-men and their practices in a rather questionable light, to say the least. So the K-club members felt they had a grudge to settle. They wished to relish this grudge for a while. When he got to top, so they decided to it by force. They come to me between halves of a football game and tell me they have recently passed a ruling which gives them the right to paddle me then and there, because I don't have a handle with me. The fact that I had not been at the meeting, I didn't know what was going on, and the fact that I am now a graduate student; the fact that I had never been active in the K-club, having never attuned a meeting; the fact that I had become thoroughly disgusted with the organization even before receiving my "K"; the fact that I have never taken a hand in beating freshmen and they realize that I despise the way his made no difference. These sportmen do not reason.
I do not esent the beating as such. I have been paddled longer and harder, and by better men than the Kmen. Of course it isn't the most pleasant thing in the world to stand in the midst of a group of angry men, notorious for their unintelligent treatment of others, men who are too arrogant to commit acts of all University groups; and it is even less pleasant when one realizes that these same men consider themselves divinely appointed to commit acts of mob violence on almost anyone they please and get by with it in the sacred name of "School Spirit." However I am none the worse for the experience outside of a rather stiff back which could not have come from paddling, but I am told so because due to the fact that one, "Mitt" Allen, appeared to be slugging me in the middle of my back with his fist.
But I do resent that such an organization should exist as the official keeper of all the traditions of the University of Kansas. I think it wrong that the attitude of a university should be one of punishment, toward a University, a community of intelligent people, should be moulded by hands so incompetent to do so; hands which delight in subjecting sensitive young lives to the disgusting indignity of being publicly beaten in the eyes of the millions of their classmates and others.
Sure, some freshmen are cocky and have a questionable attitude, but look at the upperclassmen. The K-Club itself is a living refutation to the theory that padlocks must be locked up in order to ward one's school. Look at them; they were all freshmen once. Observe in them that much-vaulted good sportmanship of athletics, that love for fair play, that respect for the rights of others, that intense desire for achievement, that know how to influence the world a better, happier place in which to live.
Signed: Glenn Austin.
Of course I'm aming unfair to some of them as individuals. They may be fine fellows. I do not attack them as individuals. I criticize them as a group; I criticize their group functions, their activities as a group, as being not only childish, silly, and out of place in a University, but also bad, vicious, and contrary to the best interests of this University.
The K-Club members as a group, delight in using their physical superiority to over-ride other students in their rights; they specialize in winning arguments by force. They are also the ones who seem are unable to rise. "A strong back and a weak mind," by their deeds ye shall know them." They may be excellent "Makers of the Royal Mules" or "Chief Kings" to whom he going have no business as "keepers of traditions" in his institution conducted for the welfare of human beings.
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Vol. 33 October 9,1935 No.22
A I M E. AND MINING SEMINAR: Open meeting will be held in Mining building at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Oct. 10. Two student talks will be given. All metallurgy, geological and mining science topics. F. A. Coleman, A. Cole, Secretary.
COUNCIL OF RACE RELATIONS: Students interested in furthering racial understanding on the campus are urged to attend the first fall meeting of the Council on Race Relations on Friday, Oct. 13, at 2 o'clock. L Wanchey, Chairman,
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION. Regular weekly meetings begin today at 430 in room C. Myers
INTERIACIAL COMMISSION: The Interiacial Commission of the W. Y.C.A. will have a picnic at Potter's Lake Thursday evening. Meeting at Hensley house at 5:30. Bring 18 cups. Make your reservations at Hensley House
QUILL CLUB: The first regular meeting of Quill Club will be held Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7:45 p.m. in the Women's Lounge, central administration building, Charles Zeokov, President.
Martha Peterson, Dorothy Hodge, Co-chairmen
One of State's Oldest Newspaper Columns Carried in Iola Register
Alfred C. Ames, President.
By Marion Mundis, c'37
RHADAMANTHI. Rhadamanthi will meet this afternoon at 4:30 in the Green room. You need your docs.
TAU OMEGA? There will be a meeting of Tuat
Oguague, the national aeronautical fraternity, at 8:30
am.
One of the oldest and most interesting famous museums is carried in her Ibis Doll Register. This unusual column, "Mrs. Gail's Items," is written in the style made famous by Artemus Kard.
Although Mrs. Gullet, now 85, is bed-fast at present, she continues to write new as she has done for the past 35 years. She is extremely sympathetic, with a kindness both with cottage ladies and LaHarp, Koman from much of this sympathy is shown in her "form."
Gordon Guise, Secretary-Treasurer.
The column is quoted frequently by many papers because of the queer and unusual spelling, the homy philosophy in the news items, and because of the
"Ben Gardner was over a Tuesday and said a number were buying earned goods by the crate—well how about fuel—no oil and they had to buy it. We were doing charity sake and it was heart-rendering how many needed help and then some could do better then they D split Twain and made of thread for the children to saw with and it wilt all we do we do that during the holiday."
"We only hope the ones that can help will help the ones that have children and no Mother's are ones that need a Mother." something a Mother will glad to give
Home and so many distant occupations a Mother can fill that a Man can't.
"Mr. Montgomery and her Fam-
ley called a Tuesdays cave and
a album of the Paul Family—Old
style and nice looking."
Any little item, personal or otherwise is news for the column if Mrs. Gulle writes of it.
"Ever Meeks to survive a baby Jaday he is recovering auto-makes odd ones look like own - Ever in a baby boy and works hard to keep a home
"Wilson Hackney is a running his ice truck Early and late just call his number."
rected her news for spelling and punctuation during the first 15 years of her column writing. Then, 20 years ago, he secured her permission to print the book in a distinctive style quickly elevated her column among those of the unusual.
Mrs. Gullet, who has never used a typewriter, first wrote for the Register as country correspondent for Golden Valley, Allen County. In 1921 Mr. and Mrs. Gullet moved to LaHarppe, and Charles P. Scott, the editor of the Regisher, had a reporter in LaHarppe. Mrs. Gullet, however, and other ideas, she argued convincingly that there were columns of news that were unreported every day, and she insisted on writing it. The editor solved the problem by heading her column as "Ms. Gullet's news." The column he continued to present.
Mr. Scott, "the worthy editor," as Mrs. Gullet refers to him, diligently cor-
Her style is starting in its resemblance to the famed Armand Ward. Mrs. Cuollet admits that as a child she admiRED the author's style, and copied it in all of her writing just to see if she could master the technique. She was so successful that she was unable to break herself of the habit, and the result is the unique column.
For several years she has been a shatter-in, but being the true writer that she is, this does not hinder her from turning out her regular amount of "copy" each week, in addition to taking care of if these items are too few, she looks out her window, and creates more. Another method of filling her column, more noticeable in recent years, is her way of writing incidents other days. There seeming little bits of history appear often.
She is familiar with the Bible, quoting it frequently, for she is able to give a text for practically every situation in life. She also writes a touching obituary.
"W尔她 will all always be a seed time and harvest for God said so and the end has not yet come for he said so and the poor you will all ways have with you and we sure got them."
"Oh how many hav Passed a way
the last time we saw Mrs. Gifford we never thought of her passing a way be forlme Did she was a fine woman and he will be lonley but has children can go see and help pass the lonely hours."
Her body has tired of the hard struggle
with life, but her mind is just as kern
and ambitious as ever as shown by one
f her recent items;
"Dr Deneed said he wanted me to lay down my pen—well I will in a few years but not now."
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