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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 17. 1935
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PUBLISHER             CAROLYN GARBER
EDITOR-INCHIEF        CHARLES D. BROWN
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FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935
WILL THEY HEAL?
"Healers!" Festival We eek opened May 12 in Berlin with Julius Streicher, leading Jew-baiter, explaining the iniquities of medicine as practiced by the Jews. Scientific discoveries from Koch on tubercular antitoxin to Wasserman on venereal diseases are to be "wiped out" because they repel antibodies against the immune systems of Jewish robbery and murder, clothed in the mantle of exact science."
What will take the place o sound scientific methodology is medicine? Nature healing, says the author, with the click of Natal authority.
When this great program is carried out, when all Germany is cleared of Jewry in medicine, we may expect something like this when Herr Streicher calls on Hitler — who unfortunately has a "cold" this morning:
"How," begs Streicher of the attending Nazi official, "is the Furrow this morning?" Hitler breathes unlessly and does not look up.
"Hocus pocus" to the good doorman guarding the secret "sick chamber" of the Furor. The door swings open as the guard quietly munches a fistful of parsy to protect his health against rabies.
"Those ___ Jews," mumbles Streicher with menacing gestures. "They have cast a spell on him—they and their witch-doctoring. Summon five thousand pure-blooded Germans and form them into shock brigades," he shouts to an assistant, "and they will have power to butcher these nefarious Jaws on sight."
"Ah," says the official, "all loyal members of the Third Reich ardently wish for the Furor's recovery. He cannot lose. Already for breakfast he has gulped three pounds of select spinach."
The assistant departs, and with him takes the bushel of carrot tops left over from the Furor's diet of yesterday.
"The Poor Hitler," reflects Streicher to himself, "years ago when the great German nation needed guidance, he gave it. But sunshine was lacking. Did we not have our airplane parades; and so many of them—one could not see the sky, we did not have our nurses, our social workers might say? Ach, but they were not enough. . ."
Meanwhile Hitler groans in semiconiousness. "Wasserman," he breathes half audibly, "Why did we drive him away?"
"Heimwehr" shouts Streicher overhearing the whispers of Hitler. "It is verbaten to mention the murder of Hitler, that fake of fakes, Wasserman!"
Streicher prances to the door dramatically opens it as if a hinged on new worlds, and lets a dragon of peach skin bearers en room the room. As he walks down the corridor—lined with steel helmets and dried corn—he wonders
if maybe Hitler's former acquaintance with a few rather wealthy Jews wasn't sh, well, ah, the cause of the illness. . .
Thus Germany in ten years?
Modernization of the Ozark "hill-billy" country will sure cripple the movies and the radio. Or will it?
AH. NUTS!
Nerts and nuts, what gracious little words. They make us as witty as the other fellow. We feel that we have a very clever comeback with "Ah, 'nuts!" But are we so smart? Is it just because we are lazy, don't have enough original initiative to think something more creative? Or that of a Junior High School adult. Example, Number 36,788. Here is the opening on an editorial in the Kansas No. 153:
"ALL NUTTY?"
"Hey, hey—and a pair of boopa-boops, are we all wet? Yes! Or what do you think?"
How is this for a snappy, original, collegiate paragraph?
P. S. The composing department is thinking about having a copy made of the above paragraph and the below, gross each of "norts and nuts."
(Contributed by Schiller Shore
Newspapers say Clark Gable blushed despite his repute. Most men would say, — because of it, grandma.
ANTI-RED LAWS
Red scares will almost inevitably lead to the indictment of labor leaders on easy charges of inciting to riot and of plotting to overthrow the government.
eight charges of inciting to riot and of plotting to overthrow the government. Four states — Washington, Illinois, Nebraska, and Tennessee — enacted laws against anarchy and sedition. Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, and Tennessee have deprived left wing parties of their right to appear on the ballot. Scores of anti-communist bills have been introduced in both state and national legislatures, and certain provisions taken from a model antiedict bill drafted and circulated last fall by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Enactment of these bills will not merely drive communism underground, strengthen the discipline of the movement, and tend to justify its doctrine of direct action as the only method of changing the form of government, but will be strengthened, not weakened.
It is to be doubted that persecution under anti-communist statutes would be limited to known and proved communists, but it is also assumed that similar laws have been used in the past, to persecute active labor leaders. Regardless of their beliefs and objectives, labor leaders, when they come in conflict with the courts, will be subjected to arrest and imprisonment. Laws according to the American Civil Liberties Union, the proposed laws and statutes already enacted are stated in language so vague as to allow almost any individual to plott to overthrow the government."
During the past few months, more than fifty persons have been arrested under a federal dumont laws. Seventeen have been arrested under these laws in Colorado. Most of these persons were officials of the canning and agricultural workers state's agriculture department, sixty striking truck drivers were indicated for the crime of riot. Sixteen of them were given a sentence of from two to six months in prison. Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota are a naturalized citizen of the United States was deported from Oregon on charges of being a communist. He denied that he was a member of the committee responsible for criticizing nativistic beliefs. The evidence against him was said to be of the most flimsy sort, coming, as it did, from the testimony of an authorities for relief
press, and free assemblage, and their right to organize, their right to strike, and their right to picket. These civil liberties are the only means labor has
Laws to outlaw communism will be used, not against communists, but against labor leaders. labor organizers, workers and union members by using their right of free speech, free
to aid it in bargaining for a fair wage and better working conditions. The right of labor should not be placed before the decision in a democracy. C. A. Wollman, *C*.
By Grove Patterson, Editor, the Toledo Blade; President, The American So-
THE AMERICAN PRESS—NEEDED BUT ANEMIC
city of Newspaper. The following is an extract from Mr. Paterson's letter in brief but effective to the secretary of News Paper Editors. It is the section of his talk dealing with the newspaper's relation to economics.)
Michigan Journalist.
Moving now into the field of economies, taking a very long look, I am not too greatly disturbed by the economic state of our country. We produce the world's population, we produce 40 per cent of its minerals. We produce 40 per cent of the shoes on the feet of the poor and unemployed. We produce 54 per cent of its iron; 64 per cent of its steel; produces 66 per cent of its petroleum; 70 per cent of its agricultural products and 90 per cent of its automobiles.
We could set all Germany down in the state of Texas with enough room left over for the state of Ohio. And with a city like New York, where many could live better than they do now, Italy is the size of California. And today the 42,000,000 of the Indians could be taken to Israel and they do in Italy where, since Mussolini, the trains run on time. We have cause for long-range optimism, even for short-range pessimism. We do well to re-
Never before has it been so clearly the duty of newspapers, with the extraordinary facilities for reaching into the heart of a city, to think long and work devotedly to bring constructive suggestions to men in public office. Personally, I do not believe that dead pigs and buried wheat should be the mainstay of an office. I do not believe that any notion in the history of the world ever kept its budget deliberately unbalanced, ever spent vastly more than it took in, and kept out of sight, and the confidence of its citizenry.
We have never suffered from overproduction, but from faulty distribution. I have faith that the amazing ingenuity which devised the most amazing machine for production the world ever produced will be a plan for more equitable distribution.
When the credit of a man and the confidence in a man are destroyed, he is destroyed. With men so with government, they are unable to counsel steadiness, economy and common sense. It is the duty of newspapers to call for leadership among men experienced in life—men who have made lands and green eyeshades to face facts.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
SPECIAL SENATE MEETING
We never have heard a bass viol or a cello but that it sounded like a bull frog with a good cold.
It was advisable to a track meet with Missouri on the week-end that a band festival was held in Lawrence because it had power to soothe the savage beast.
Note to R.J.B.: This is to be used if K U. wins M.U. track meet.
Notation at Chancellor's Office at 8 p.m., preceding regular publication days
and 11 a.m. on Friday, November 21.
Now if someone would mix cement with the dust we would have no mud but a solid substance to walk upon.
William Terry, of the New York Giants, is speaking lightly of the Brooklyn Dodgers these days. Briefly he is dodging the issue.
The silver jubilee in Great Britain is in honor of King George V, but Queen Mary, the other four-fifths, has probably much to say in the matter.
The question is now whether or not the penguins that Admiral Byrd brought back from the Antarctic can struct any better than Huey Long.
"Are they being forged?"
"No, they are being filed."
"The records are in the blacksmith shop."
"Where are the records?"
Y. M. C. A. LIFE SAVING TEST:
A special meeting of the University Senate will be held Monday, May 20, 4:30 in central Administration auditorium. H. L. EINLEY.
"Dear me," said the absent-minded professor as he fell downstairs, "I wonder what is making all this noise?" —Washington State Press
Friday, May 17, 1935
Y. M.C.A. Life Saving Test will start this afternoon at 4:30 at the University Pool. Only those who have qualified in Red Cross Test are eligible.
The Mennonites of Kansas Have Mores And Folkways Guarding Their People
No.156
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
The largest group of Mennonites in Central Kansas, the group to which Miss Richert belongs, are called General Conference Mennonites. They live in Harvey county, in the region surrounding Newton, where they maintain Behel church. These men do not go to states themselves from other people, as do the Holdermen.
By Joseph C. Campbell, c35
"Well, where is your honnet?"
Miss Elia Richter, an instructor in the German department, says people who learn English when they learn that she is a Mennonite. Most people think of Mennonites as a strange religion sect whose members wear queer, old-fashioned clothing. They picture the men wearing skirts with long sleeves and built-in hats, and the women dressed in plain gray or black dresses with full, street-sweeping skirts, and little black bonnets. Such constitutions the average person's future will find in the Middle Ages. One frequently sees men and women on the streets of Lawrence dressed in this manner. They are members of a Mennonite community located in the village of Lausanne, near Peleasant Grove. They belong to a group of Mennonites who are known in Central Kansas as Old Mennonites, or Holdermen, and form only a small part of the population.
The Memnonite nec was established in Frieland, a province of the Netherlands, in the sixteenth century. It received its name from Meno Simoni, its founder, who was to go to war, to take oath, or to hold political office. They believed in baptism as a sign of conversion; they were simple in dress. The Holdreemen were not outwarded sign of this belief, but other branches have discontinued the practice.
During the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great invited the Mennonites into Russia to teach their superior methods of learning in their religion, however, for them to intermary with the Russians. Although they still call themselves Russian Mennonites, their Germanic blood is almost as pure today as in the days before the Reformation, and still speak the dialect of northwestern Germany, known as low German.
The Russian Mennonites came to America about 1879 and settled in the vicinity of Newton, which is now the home of a branch of the branch came directly from northwestern Germany and settled near Heeston, where they maintain Heeston College. Still another branch, the Mennonite Brethren, founded Tabor College at Hillbrow. This group differs from the Baptist brethren in baptism by immersion rather than by shrinking. The Holdermere do not believe in higher education, although a few individuals of their belief have gone to Heeston even at the risk of breaking home ties.
Those people's refusal to go to war brought grief and even death to some of their faithful young men during the World War. Those who attempted to flee were taken to prison. These they refused. The United States Army. Their own clothes were taken from them, and they were locked into cold damp cells where they suffered intensely from exposure. Many of them contracted pneumonia and the loss of faithful young men, so found life in the army less perilous.
When a Mennonite is called upon to testify on a witness stand, he is legally permitted to affirm the truth of what he said, rather than being forced to swear to it.
The Holdermen still refuse to hold political office. The General Conference group, however, no longer make this restriction. They feel that in their own communities they should hold public offices for the good of their sect.
So simple are the lives of one group of Holdermen, who inhabit a small village near Freeport Prairie, that no one in the community is familiar with. National tourist drives through the town, its inhabitants disturbed by the noise of a motor vehicle. On such occasions, the children rush to the street in an attentive mood. The strength of the strong worldly contraption.
Among the General Conference Men-
nites, a wedding is the biggest affair
in the community. Miss Bilefah says,
While it is not an Emily Post affair,
the wedding will take place in the church in the afternoon,
usually about three o'clock. The church
is always packed with guests; nearly
everybody in the community is invited.
The church also has a center table able to together of some wedding march—unusually not the Bridal Choran from Lohengrin. They sit together in a pew reserved and decorate with music and two or three sermons. One of these sermons is addressed especially
to the bridal couple. When the sermons are finished, the actual ceremony takes place.
The ceremony ends at about five o'clock and the guests go to the basement of the church where they receive and congratulate the bride and groom. Dwarfs, squirrels, rabbits, lunch ham, sandwiches, coffee, ice cream, and large quantities of cookies.
One large party serves for both the promotional shower and the chivalry. All the guests who have been invited to the wedding mother at the bride's place are welcome. The guests bring gifts for the bridal couple and all sorts of noise maker with which they announce their arrival. When the couple have enjoyed the noise for a time, they invite the mormyrs into the room, dance, sing, and weasels, and receive their gifts.
Mennonite children all learn to speak German at home, then when they go to school, they learn English. Thus the Mennonites become bi-lingual.
Although, with the exception of the Holdermen, they provide colleges where their children may receive higher education, they do not altogether approve of their children attending non-sectarian schools, such as KU.
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