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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1935
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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1935
LOOKING FORWARD
For several hundred seniors in our University, the next few days will mark a beginning and an end. They will be looking backward in consideration of their time and effort spent here; to the future they will look with determination—and hope.
A faculty member suggested to the writer that university papers like The Kansan would have a sure-fire tie-in something like "The Real Interests of the College Student."
This "real interest" now for our hundreds of graduating students, to which they turn with determination and hope, is a job. At this time, what position does the smart collegiate find himself in when he goes to apply for work?
Unless he has some "inside track" he is told that waiting lists ahead of him include the names of men and women with experience, and that in brief his college education was a fine thing but it doesn't in any way obligate an employer to give him a chance. He may wander about for several hours, at last giving by 'seeping' very gladly a job that he would have scorned, or thought he would have scorned, in the relative comfort and security of his college existence.
It is not untidy pessimistic to warn the anxious senior that he very likely will not hop from school to a lucrative position. In the past few years, on the whole, college graduates have been absorbed by private industry because they are the hours unsatisfactory to men and women who knew the old standards of Coolidge days.
As the depression fails to round that corner, more and more college graduates will begin to reflect on the irony of their position in a world that cannot use them because it cannot make a profit from them. They will necessarily come to question their position, their chances, and their part in changing a system that prepares them for life and then cannot use them. Several green and a squad of Committees for the Defense of the Nation will not be able to prevail against the changing social psychology of these unstable college graduates.
"To the future they will look with determination—and hope," we have said of these graduates of 1935. Yes, and they soon will learn that determination and hope, fine qualities no doubt, cannot help them in the vital struggle for a job. Many of them will be forced to think that determination and hope must be applied in the direction of changing the circumstances that surround them.
A wit suggests that the phil-
sophical question of mind and mat-
ter has been settled since we found
that a college education "doesn't"
make mind where there was on matter to begin with."
Said Smarty High Schooler brilliantly answering intelligence questions:
Q: "How far can a dog run into the woods?"
A: "Only half-way. After that he is running out."
And the old favorite, "How long is a piece of string?"
"Twice as long as the distance between the center and either end."
Now there is a lad who doesn't need college.
COLLEGE'S ODDITIES MAKE GOOD NEWSPAPER 'COPY'
Minnesota Daily
Whether or not they actually do more queer things or whether it is just because new media are engaged to observe them, college students and their teachers find themselves in the news more often than most people. And more than likely the things for which they choose to read are a subtle look on the college life as a little bit queer anyway, and what it reads upports that opinion.
Out of Columbia comes the story of the student who is working his way through college by being the university's "wake-up-er." For a consideration, paid in advance, he makes the rounds, shakes out the sleepers in time and finds that the university's social season is also peak time for his usual profession.
At the University of California a zoology professor easily made the headlines by an appealing experiment. He announced a few days beforehand that he would graphically demonstrate to his class that microbes are transmitted by kissing. On the announcement day he gave each student a pad of gauze, told him to kiss it, and rubbed the pad on a microbe set up in the classroom. The set of microbes was set up. "Great stuff," said the city editor and sent over a photographer.
A student in an eastern college makes his tuition by the uncommon work of "ghost writing." He grinds out themes, theses and term papers for his customers, and even conducts a mail-order business with students in other colleges. He charges $3 for 1,000 words, $5 for 5,000 words, and $10 for 10,000 words. So he uses that ability so that guarantees an "A" grade for a small additional charge.
Oldties from the Minnesota campus go out to the press in the same way. They are usually above, sometimes slightly more important. But out they go in the newspapers, giving unbalanced impressions of the public's opinion of the University.
ALL-AMERICAN HEARST
Obio State Lantern
William Randolph Hearst, that patriotic bugaboo, has again affirmed his Americanism.
This time he has done so in an editorial carried in all Heart newspapers, copies of which were sent to university faculty members throughout the country. The gist of the editorial is that Mr. Heart is "a rugged individualist," "an advocate of the capitalistic system," "a believer in the Jeffersonian principle of liberty," and "is the least governed country," and, above all, that he is "an American."
All of which leads us to agree with
hamilton Basso, writing in the New Re-
public, who, in so many words, says
Phoebe."
We wonder, along with Mr. Buse, whether Mr. Heartst's stand on individualism, capitalism, and Jeffersonian democracy may not be due to a few personal factors rather than a stunner because of the Americans." It seems that Mr. Heartst would have a lot to lose in a financial way he didn't believe as he does.
Besides being probably the most powerful single publisher in the country, Mr. Reece is also one of its biggest capitals. The newspapers he owns, themself, sell 100,000,000, but a small part of the immense fortune he has at his control.
The Heart pocketbook has swelled, and continues to swell, from rich film and radio properties, New York real estate companies, various California agricultural holdings, and extraordinarily small mining properties. To top it all, he has 400-square-mile estate in California over which he rules in a foul splendor.
Mr. Heart, the All-American bugaboo, has again thundered forth his faith in "sound American principles." It is nice to know why.
The Campus Muse
Somehow, out of chaos, comes the plan That places vectors there between the stars.
Query
While man
Measures the motions of eternity
And charts the scas of space beyond
the sun.
Moon matched with tides' diurnal changes.
He said of himself, in describing his
Herndon Said "Do What You Will to Me" But You "Cannot Kill Working Class
Dawn following dawn, intelligence Arranges
By John Howard Lawson (for National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners)
Angelo Herndon's name has become a symbol. The bitter legal struggle for the freedom of this young Negro is being tensely watched by symbizators throughout the world. When he met his first boss, Mr. Nickel $18,000 had been raised by the nickels and dimes of workers), the train which carried him North was greeted by cheerening crowds at every large town along the route. When he reached Pennsylvania Station in New York, his team were assembled to welcome him.
Hurdson is 21 years old. He is slight and scholarly in appearance, and wears horn-rimmed glasses. He has a fire and earnestness about him which must I, think, impress everyone who meets him. I am an expert in the struggle of the workers for organization, for better wages and living conditions.
Eons of solar cycles, whirling worlds Whose perfect rhythms are reduced to law.
The State of Georgia never bothered to "frame" a charge against Herdon. His trial involved no questions of fact; the defendant was accused of no heinous crimes. Herdon was arrested on July 11, 1952, as he was getting his mail sent by a friend before he had led an unemployed demonstration which appealed to the County Commissioners for relief. Negro and white workers joined in the entirely peaceful demonstration. No arrests were made at the time and it has been suggested that any disorder there. After his arrest, Herdon's room was searched without a warrant. Some pamphlets and books were found, among them "The Communist Position on the Negro Question." On the basis of his personal circumstances, he landed in his possession, Herdon faces the tortures of a Georgian chain arm.
When an all-white jury found him guilty of "insurrection," he said to the court. "You may do what you will with Angelo Hernandez or with Angelo Hernandez in jail. But there will come thousands of Angelo Hernandez . . . You may succeed in killing one, two, even a score of working men. But you cannot kill the working class."
imprisonment in Atlanta; "I was denied the sight of friends, denied the literature of the class struggle, which mount more than food and drink to
Herdon's defenders charge that the statute under which he has been found guilty is so extreme that it seems a parody of similar legalization being discussed in Congress and in various states. The Georgia law was passed in 1861, when Negroes were chattel slaves, and in 1862 when Negroes were slave rebellions. The law was amended in 1866, but since that time has been unused and forgotten. It provides the death penalty for "bringing, introducing or circulating within the state any printed or written paper, pamphlet, or circular for the purpose of exciting intemperance on the part of slaves, Negroes or free persons of color."
The International Labor Defense claims that the State of Georgia, in resurrecting this ancient law, is planning a wholesale attack upon the rights of free speech and assembley. Georgia has made a victory over them, that if they win a conviction against Herndon, they will use the statute against all those who advocate Negro equality or the right of Negros and whites to organize together. In fact, 18 other persons, six of them women, are under indictment under the same law. And the Supreme Court decides against Herndon. These 18 are organizers who have advocated unionism and Negro and white organization at orderly meetings.
Yet, when the unseen atoms are resolved
More accurately, must there still remain
The mystery of mind—unmeasured
The distances dividing soul from soul?
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John H. Hudson, Assistant Solicitor-General of Fulton County, Georgia, told me last July that he made no disclosures about his involvement in regarding them all as "part of the red set-up" and "persons with criminal records" who are "all toil for liberal for the benefit of the community."
There is no pretense that any of them have taken any direct part in any violent, malicious or subversive acts.
Herrdon's case is unprecedented both in the violence of the punishment and in the admitted slightness of the murder, which the jury recommended that "mercy be shown and fix his sentence at from 18 to 20 years." John L. Spivak, made a thorough study of chain gangs for his book, "Georgia Nigra," says, found no record of any prisoner who had been charged with ganggling; I found no record of a prisoner who lived more than 10 years.
The International Labor Defense claims that the Supreme Court, now considering the case, sustains Hernández and Bordalos to civil rights in the United States, and would violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
A nation-wide campaign has been conducted for his release, and wide and increasing popular support has been
My own meetings with Hirrdon have given me an unforestalled impression of his personality. I first saw him in July, 1854, in Fulton Tower prison in New York, where he was seated in a row, 10 feet from the prisoner, who was surrounded
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by half a dozen prison guards who hemmed him in closely and interrupted him several times. Hernad, thin, under-nourished and obviously in bad health, talked smilingly and easily; he paid no attention to the threatening attitude of the guards around him. When they interrupted him, he cared more deeply than they talked about his own case objectively, and as brilliantly as if he were on a lecture platform instead of in a mould medieval southern jail.
The next time I saw Herdon he walked on to the stage of a large theater in Los Angeles, California, which was packed to the rafters with greetings by popular stars. He has been greeted by larger crowds throughout the country.
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You are about to finish the spring term, and you feel that you want the usual three months vacation period. But stop and consider: CAN YOU AFFORD IT?
Will you spend it profitably, or will you follow the guidance of custom and waste it in idle vacation time?
By attending Summer Session, you can make up an entire year toward your degree. That means graduation a year sooner. You can earn a master's degree in four years. Or, you can do intensive and additional work in your field of endeavor.
What will that year mean to you when you are ready to enter the active world? Think it over.
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