PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY,MAY15,1935 University Daily Kansap Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER CAROLYN HARPER EDITOR-IN-CHEIF CHARLES D. BROWN Associate Editors Associate Lecturer Robert Robinson Genevieve Born MANAGING EDITOR . HARRY VALENTINE Cumman Editorial Makeup Editor Sport Editor Bulletin Editor Bulletin Editor Bulletin Editor Herbert Mewitt George Moore Jordan Lynn Francesco Vaccari Elinor Winter Business Manager ... F. Quentin Brown Lena Wurtz Elise Weiss Hetheron Markham Julia Markham Wendy McCalla Candy Harper Carolyn Harper Charge D. Brown Herbert Herwer Wesley Gordon Wesley Gordon Business Office K.U. & News Room K.U. 22 Night Connection, Business Office 2741K Night Connection, News Room 2702K Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Saturday may occupie dtime from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Journal of University of the University of Kansan from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Subscriptions rate, per year: $3.00 each rn * Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. an. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1935 GOOD START The K. U. Peace Action committee rounded out a full year working for peace when it spanned the globe and was "opaganda on War and Peace." The committee has been aggressively active since it was organized early this school year. Before the state election last November it sent questionnaires to congressional candidates from Kansas. They were asked, "If you are running for office, what are your granting of money to continue the munitions investigation?" Most o On November 25 the committee sponsored a peace conference that was attended by delegates from 30 midwestern colleges and universities. It also supervised and successfully carried through a local demonstration April 12 in connection with that drew 150,000 protesting students into groups active against war. On March 20 the first open forum was held to discuss the topic, 'Is War inevitable?' Rep- presentation of this topic differing points of view wavered. These are the high points in the program as carried out this year and from them the plan for next year's work can be pressed forward. No while no decisive results have come from the committee's activities, their work has beer marked by determination and intelligence. Every thoughtful student ought to be heartened by the courage and leadership developed from the position committee in its war on war. If we went ahead and made every man a king, and all on the British style, wouldn't we have some fun in 1960? 132,000,000 silver jubiles! FINE CROP YEAR Did Kansas and the vast region struck by years of drought ever see and feel a more welcome series of rains? Probably not. You don't hear anyone growing about the discomfort of damp clothes and wet feet; for this time our rains are life-savers. The papers are happily predicting good crop yields; the old farm house will get a bath and from the good black earth we will have an abundant yield. Wheat and corn and feed crops are looking up. But is it all so cheery? Even if our farmers have the most fortunate weather and bring in bountiful crops, what assurance do they give us of substantial profits? The fact is, they have no such assurance. For several years, as an emergency depression measure, our federal government has directed and persuaded our farmers to restrict their crop production, to plow under, to kill live stock. With 17,000,000 persons directly unemployed and their dependents on relief, we are actually restricting our food production. Why then do we plow under while children are under nourished (12 per cent by Mayor LaGuardia's report on Unemployment)? Not because we are inhumane, but merely because we can't do anything else under our economic system. Aren't the rains fine for the crops? Sure they are—but what on earth will the farmer do when he gets his fine crop? And what our vast population of unemployed, hungry, desperate fed will do to buy the food that will be made from these fine crops? You can say this for the dust storm you can't say for politics . at least the dirt from one can be cleaned up. NO NEW SLOGANS? What you might call a "193 Version" of imperialism on a Gil bert and Sullivan plan will be fought out this September between Italy and Abyssinia. When the drenched summer rains slow up on the East African coast, Italy will be able to move the troops she has been concentrating or Abyssinia's door step. The old flair of the Kipling type is definitely vanishing. Iron ore, oil, and the rich uplands that could grow cotton very nicely—this is the new terminology. The pretext for invading Abysinia can't very well be "the white hills" because that slogan has been used up and Italians don't look very white anyway. Meanwhile, the tragi-comedy catches England and France in very jittery attitudes. England cannot permit Italy to get a paw into Abyssinia where she would control watersheds vital to the economy of Africa; France must have the support of Italy against rearming Germany. Students of the old school will bewail the direct and merciless march of the New Imperialism, version of 1935, but the citizens of the great Corporative State will shoulder their French-made guns, embark on their English-made ships, and perhaps eat American-made bread for the eternal glory of Fatherland. ALUMNI SUPPORT When a student enters Princeton University he does so with the understanding that he will help to support that institution for the rest of his life. His graduation is only the beginning of a long period during which he feels loyalty to the university and finds it in a privately endowed institution, exists mainly through the contributions of its alumni. Kansas University students do not seem invariably to have this life-long loyalty to their school. They fail to realize that although the University is partially supported by the state, it also needs the financial support of its alumni. A good many students, when they graduate, sever all connections with the school, leaving the state responsible for its future support. The class of 1935, in a recent meeting, went on record as joining the Alumni association as a class. The fees of seniors who join the association are three dollars a year. One dollar is lost each year. Last year, the senior class did not join. Although it has been stated by a reliable source that no active campaigning was done to get this year's class into the fold, we can't understand what was the difference in the classes. The fee was the same. No doubt the Alumni Association was deeply injured by the lack of financial support which would be caused by the class of '34's refusal to join. Some attempt must have been made to cause the sudden shift in the sentiments of the two classes. Law students and medic students were the only ones who voted against the measure. They stood firm. We wonder what could have been their reasons; they must have been good. There is no doubt that the Kansas Alumni Association does some useful work. It maintains an employment bureau and many alumni will hire Kansas graduates preferably. It sponsors Commencement and Homecoming. In the last session of the State legislature, the Association maintained three lobbyists who interviewed 791-2 representatives about University matters. Economic Status, Group Membership Determine Black and White Justice By Joseph C. Campbell, '35 If you are a poor man, either black or white, you'd better behave yourself, because a poor man stands little chance of receiving justice in court, especially in Texas. John D. Bowles came to this city after his research and the parative study of the cases of 100 Negro and 100 white offenders brought before the court of Harris County, Texas. In spite of these undeniable pieces of good work, the Alumni Association should realize that there is still a depression. Why criticize the class of '34 too harshly for not joining the Association as a group? Roosevelt says the 1500 new CCC camps to be operated on the new relief appropriation will "probably take care of the unemployment problem." What booh said this isn't a New Deal? Most of America's outstanding educators and college students are bolshievs, declared a recent front-page editorial in Heurst's New York American The reason for the outburst of scathing consciousness? The American has just discovered that the above message is not shared with the advisory council of the Institute of International Education, which advises the Anglo-American session of a state board of education. His gang is it deduced by the American, have been enticing American students to Moscow—"Obviously, for the purpose of making adept Communist propagand- THE MOUNTAIN LABORS Hardly anybody is safe from attack, if the standards sets by the American are to be used in picking Communists. It is just as absurd indict John Dewey as a "rel," as it would be to indict Henry Ford—and Mr. Ford has for stronger connections with the Soviets than others. He has bristles—hairs, brains, hairs—perhaps, if you are so minded—for his advice in the construction of the automobile factory at Gorki. He has participated in a build to plow the Soviet union. Dewey has merely served on an academic advisory council, which has as its function the establishment of a Cook's tour of Russia, in conjunction of couple of weeks at a Soviet university. Included among the offenders, according to the editorial, are John Dewey, Chancellor of Columbia College of North Carolina, President Hutchels of Chicago President Nelson of Smith, President William O. Johnson, Columbia of Teachers College, Columbia. There is one thing very obvious in this crusade against Bobhweil educators: Still water runs deep, and the Heart editorial intelligence is by no means still Washington University. You Will Enjoy Our 12c Salad Plate Mr. Bowley, who received his M.A. degree from the University in 1934, and who is now a teacher in a Negro high school in Houston, Texas, has set forth the results of his study in a thesis entitled "A Comparison of African-American and White Offenders Brought Before the Court of Harris County, State of Texas." First, "the Negro criminal, springing from an inferior economic group does not avail himself of legal aid in the same measure as whites, and if there best likely to escape punishment in the criminal courts." Also the variety of other salads at 10c, 8c and 6c In the second place, "that the Negro criminal, credulous and ignorant of position, should be left to himself and tenants and renters legal aid less effective where he is fortunate enough to secure such an gives four reasons why the Negro has always contributed disproportionately to prison population: Thirdly, "that while race prejudice in an inseparable factor in the whole race problem, it is only one of a number of factors that make Negro offenders, the commitments of Negro offenders." In regard to the last-mentioned of these factors, Mr. Bowles found that if a Negro, or a white man, commits an offense against a white property of a Negro, he unsees easily punishment. If on the other hand, a Negro commits an offense against a white property of a Negro, he is guilty of objection. Negroes are arrested on criminal charges more often in the North than in the South, and in the South they are punished less frequently than are in the South. And finally, "that the nature of the offense does not necessarily determine punishment, but rather this in infringement of the right group of the offender and the offended." at the CAFETERIA The types of crime most frequently committed by the Negro, Mr. Bowles found to be theft and burglary. The tendency toward these two types of crime among Negrees was almost twice as great as among whites. He suggests that a reason for this lies in the Negree's need for assistance. This inequality predisposes the Negro to commit crimes which tend to satisfy his wants. The number of murder and rape cases among both races was about equal according to this study. Circumstances in the cases of Negroes charged with murders were the same as those for the most part the result of "weak heads, warm hearts, and quick tempers." In OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXXII Wednesday, May 15, 1925 No. 139 Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 5 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11-29 a.m. Saturday for后续 issues. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The club picnic will be held this afternoon at 4:30. Meet at East Administra- tion building. MARLOW SHOLANDER. The regular mid-week classes will be held tonight at 9 a.m. in the Memorial Union hallroom. All students must present their identification card prior to registration. MID-WEEK DANCE; the causes of whites charged with murder, Bowles found the causes less frequently emotional; they ranged from uncertain causes to disgraceful crimes. The method of handling offenders in Texas Bowies calls "classical." It is based upon the principle that man is a victim of wrongful action, right and wrong, and that the criminal is responsible for his acts of wroughting. Even in cases of suspended sentence, the individual is left to work out how to be punished on the part of authorities to remove the cause of the original offense. This, Bowies consider to be a contributing factor in the number of second and third killings among both Negroes and Whites. The three means of escaping punishment open to both Negro and white offenders are dismissal, acquittal, or auspicious. The three crimes against the person, the Negro murder received lent treatment. Of the 9 offenders charged with that crime, four were convicted of self-defense, and 2 were convicted and received suspended sentences. For crime against property, Negro offenders were more frequently than whites. The real son for this may be seen in the foot that the Negro stalks usually to improve his economic condition and mainly commits his offense against a white. 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