PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1935 University Daily Kansan THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANAS GOLDFENER CAROLYN HARPER PHOTOGRAPHY COPIES CHARLES D. BROWN MANAGING EDITOR _ HARRY VALENTINE Associate Editor Robert Robinson Genqvieve Horn Hurley Manager ... F. Quentin Brown FOREST Cornell Editor McKinsey Hickman Burke Editor Burke Editor Chen Illustrator Joseph Jones Frances Wundertsch Burke Editor Burke Editor Business Office K.U. 64 News Room 2015 Night Conferences, Business Office 2791K2 Night Conferences, News Room 2702K2 Lynn Worcik Brice Olson Robert Harden Julian Marks Burke Harper Charles Hirsch Charles D. Brown Max McBrowk Wayne Goldman Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morning at the university's department of Journalism at the University of Kansas from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Subscription price, per year, $200. Cash in account required. Received as second class matter, September 19th, at the office of law at Lawrence, Kan. TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1935 JOHS FOR US YET With the resumption of the regular school activities next fall, groups of all the old questions left over this year will have to be Also student forum idea, advanced by the P.S.G.L., will be outlined this summer and early next year. It ought to be put into compilation as soon as possible, not only because the will of the voters is represented by this action, but also because by it the student will have access to all fields of study. The plan has been adopted and shown to be creative and constructive in other universities. An old question in its economic and social implications will call for further action next fall when the Negro students here seriously take the attitude that the law means what the law says. The question has been handed from one authority to another for so many years that perhaps it is expecting too much for it to be met next fall by direct, intelligent, sympathetic efforts. But the point is, it could be done sooner or later. Some bitterness has been caused this year by discrimination in the Union Fountain and the policy of segregation in the use of the swimming pool. Of course these in themselves are not major issues, but they serve to point out the basic situation of marking off spheres of activity by pigmentation. A recent decision of the Student Council in regard to freshman cap regulations means that next fall our newcomers will probably become familiar with K-men right away. Or wouldn't it be more fitting to say the K-men will become familiar with the freshmen? Last fall the prevailing opinion among students now and then won't hurt no one1. If that policy is continued next fall, we can proudly think of our school as standing in the rearguard of educational frippery. the ancient problem of academic freedom, grown more acute directly as the depression advanced, will be with us next fall as surely as a dog has fleas. The past few months have given the friends of academic freedom just cause for alarm—with legislature's investigators, Chamberls of Commerce, threatening to sit down in the class room and hold the teacher's nose to the grindstone of their own prejudices. The record of our University has given encouragement among intellectual sons proudly thinks of his school as a stronghold safeguarding no single interest, but the high and fine right of open discussion with the face on the table. To the hundreds of students who will be able to return next fall, The Kansan says, "OK, here are a few of the problems that we as students want to face. Let us face them with intelligence and courage, as our University wants us to do." A YEAR'S WORK With this last issue of The Kansan of the present school year, it is natural to glance backward over the achievements of the year and to plan collectively for a finer, more effective academic year in 1933-1936. We cannot glibly say that the whole course of events this year has meant progress, or bettermement, or even all the possible advances that could have been made. Our students are primarily interested in their studies, which are on the whole academic, so that we come to measure what we do in terms of what we say. Some achievement did pass over into the realm of activity. The Kansan did finally say in public some of the things about our campus organizations that were not too generally known. A questionnaire on freshman paddling indicated that it will be with us next year and maybe longer. A series of lectures given under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy caused some stir among outstate editors who saw in the series a menace to something. The reception given these lectures hinted rather openly that criticisms of capitalism are deeply resented as "unfair", whereas criticisms of socialism are to be allowed as "academic freedom." The high tension of the year was generated when a group of students, variously named, decided to participate in the national student strike against war on April 12. The press and other official opinion took the attitude that the students were "sincere but misguided," and perhaps far afield of their proper feet, and was inaccurate feet, and the head of prehistoric Piltdown man. To think about their own feet and heads in another war being, well, you might say, "rude." Official opinion nowwithstanding, some 150,000 college men and women attended or participated in the student strikes against war. We had our own perfectly orderly demonstration, without the sanction or encouragement of the University, although the University is vitally concerned in the creation of a warless world. The battle over student government took a new form when a Progressive league of voters made serious thrusts into the strength of the conservative Pachacamaparty. The program developed the Progressives showed a growing student interest in managing their own affairs along more liberal lines, with such proposals for increased educational facilities as the student forums prominent. Surveying the year as a whole, the graduating student ought to feel that his University has made constructive and intelligent advances on the road of human welfare. Those who will return next year will take pride in their efforts and in the forts next fall when many of the constructive ideas will be given a trial. SUPPRESSION OF FREE THOUGHT INCREASING IN SCHOOLS The reverberations of the impressive anti-war strike by the high school and college students of America go steadily on. Respressive measures on the part of school authorities, trustees, alumni and politician are constantly being introduced—so far with only a few exceptions. The mainly to protest and pressure from labor groups and students' and teachers' organizations. Greetings:—By Schiller Shore. One of the most reactionary measures was the memorandum recently sent by Cheree E. Lovoyj, secretary of the university and a representative to university officials and the executive committee of the Federation. As evidence of the growing disturbance among the alumni because of the assaults against them at the campus, Lovejoy cited a number of complaining letters from individual "old graduates" refusing to contribute to the Columbia Alumni Fund. Typical responses included Bettelheim, "11, who withheld funds because of "too much pacifism in the university." Student papdia accordingly steps forward as the latest assasination to moneysed alumni. The investigation by Arkansas legislators some time ago of "un-American" teaching at Commonwealth College led to the investigation of "inradical influences" at the University of Chicago, which allegedly caused Charles R. Walgreen to become the University, are additional indications of the same repressive trend. More serious and menacing is the bill recently introduced into the Board of Aldermen of New York City by Elias H. Jacobs. This bill states in part: "No person shall by speech, writing or action undertake any activity in defiance of the rules and regulations of the duly constituted officers and authorities in the city of New York, under the supervision of the regents of the university of the State of New York." Pressure from individuals and organizations is reported to be responsible for the bill before its hearing on May 31st. National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners. VIOLEENCE OR LAW? That the reabsolution of Roberts Minor and David Levinson in New Mexico was not an isolated event but part of a nation-wide wave of terror was shown when two similar acts of violence in Alabama made a total of three kidnappings within the short space of two weeks. On May 12, Sheriff Reynolds of Dal- SPRING SERVICES For Your CAR Polishing Changing to proper Oil and Grease. Battery Service Brake Service GOOD YEAR SUPER SERVICE STATION CARTERS OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 8 a.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:59 a.m. for Sunday issues. Vol. XXXII The Instructor of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Sat. 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium for the Administration of the Administ- ration, LINDLEY There will be a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 8 in the auditorium of the Administration building. COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: Tuesday, June 4. 1935 TEACH ACTION MEETING: GROUPSHOT SCHOOL FACULTY: The University of Kansas Peace Action Committee will hold its first meeting at the Summer Session Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Book Exchange room in the basement of the Memorial Union building. Everyone who is interested in action for peace is urged to be there. CERTIFICATES: ELIZABETH CASWELL, ALFRED AMES, Executive Secretaries. CALLING 105 Robinson gymnasium scaled to call at room 105 Robinson gymnasium. scaled to call at room 105 Robinson gymnasium. HERBERT G. ALLPHIN. We will have whatever you may call for in toilet articles or drugs. The third kidnaping took place in Birmingham on May Day when Robert Wood, District Secretary of the Inter national Labor Defense, was abducted by a man named George Bingham, beaten, thrown into a creek and warned to leave town. For Going Home Our Stock Is Completed GRADUATION GIFTS Isa County, Ala., and a group of deputied landowners burst into a sharecropper's enclave where Negro and white landowners planned to cover plans for a cropper strike. H. Johnson and B. Owen, organizers of the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, were joined by other landowners following the night. When release I, they noticed two cars with covered license plates before the jail and demanded police protection which was GRADUATION GIFTS Perfumes — Yardley Products — New Compacts Stationery — Pountain Pen — Bill Folds — Electric Razor — Rallos Razor — Kodaks — Library Sets Forced by the sheriff to leave the jail, they were at once seized by armed men in the two cars and driven into a wooded area where trees and beaten with a heavy rope and horsewife. Lighted matches were stuck into their wounds. Abandoned vehicles later picked up by motorists. Both Owen and Johnson charge Sheriff Reynolds. 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