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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1935
University Daily Kansan
umcial Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1935
STRACHEY CHANGES
HIS MIND
The humor of visitor John Strachey's situation is getting a bit too thick for us. Employed by American audiences "to give a scientific and accurate account of certain modern political theories and movements," he came, perhaps in all innocence, and soon found the government declaring he had entered the country "illegally."
Presently Mr. Hearst, a newspaper publisher, accused him of "outraging our hospitality" and "afflirant our President" with certain remarks Strachey reputedly made. This is really too much for us—Mr. Hearst firmly standing by Roosevelt in the mask of a great protector. And hospitality? His lecture tour was made rather under the auspices of government agents, dodging in and out of police stations between lectures, in true comic-opera fashion. It made you wonder if he was really being asked to move on because he had entered "illegally" or because someone didn't like the impartial and scientific lectures.
American hospitality, which our friend Strachey supposedly violated, has now gone out of its way to request that he prolong his visit. He has completed his lecture tour, but the government finds he must remain a bit longer to talk things over. Of course this will cost him something beyond his trip budget; it is not too much to expect, however, that our hospitality will provide for his enforced stay.
What is this strange sort of Americanism that Mr. Hearst advances, and why does he appoint himself the protector against "ferriners"? Perhaps the Hearst large stake in our system helps him make up his mind. What about democracy and civil liberties? Do they mean nothing to Mr. Hearst?
To read American social statistics is to know that vast maladjustments exist between our power to produce goods and our ability to distribute them. It would seem, since there is no law against the discussion of economics, that any foreign visitor of Strachey's sincerity and acumen would be welcomed to help us on the road to material progress. Is it possible that Mr. Hearst, as usual thinking of the national welfare, is purposefully detaining Strachey for his valuable suggestions in Scriner's and The New Republic?
WAS THE LEAGUE SERIOUS?
Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations, effective last week, is evidence that the League's intention to create a warless world is not effective. Critics of the League from its inception pointed out that it would probably operate chiefly as a device for the perpetuation of boundaries set by the Versailles treaty. And now that its machinery is falling to pieces, those critics are upheld in their dark view of the League's sincerity over stopping war.
Evidently much more than talk is needed to stop war. When the issues became vital, when the League insisted that Japan act against her economic need to expand in Manchuria, the jig was up and out went Japan.
Germany withdrew soon after this. Her move added plausibility to the talk of German-Japanese agreements, hinted in press dispatches at the time of the rupture. Hitler's program of National Socialism, more nationalism than socialism, aimed at reunion with Austria and recovery of the Polish Corridor. Would the League stop her? Not with talk, a prevalent article at the League meetings. So Germany notified the powers of her intention to withdraw.
Maybe the fact that the League has not been able to quiet anyone's fear of international war is tied up with early suspicion that her members didn't intend to stop the onrush of events that lead inevitably to war.
PLEDGE PEACE STRIKE
Stirred by editorial comment in the Kansan, and the growing concern of the Administration over the possibility of unruly demonstration on April 12, the Student Strike Against War Committee has clarified its stand with the following official statement:
"The Committee wishes to make it clear that the strike will not be in the form of a parade, that the demonstration is to be conducted in an ORDERLY, INTELLIGENT manner, and that its purpose is not sensationalism. It believes this is the only way the entire student body may indicate to the American people that it is declaratively against war and all the agents of war, and that it is definitely aligning itself against those evils."
Certainly this is guarantee enough from the organizers of the peace strike; their pledge of an orderly demonstration is what The Kansan hoped would come. A declaration of good faith from those who might desire to oppose the strike is definitely in order now. We are assured by both groups that the difference of opinion between them is over method. Can't they get together long enough to accomplish their desired result — some progress toward the abolition of war?
We Polish Apples
Editor's note: The Kanan will present in this column thumb-nail sketches of the members of the faculty.
Miss Lila Walling, although a native Californian, pursued her scientific career for the most part here at the University. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees here and was enrolled in the University of Chicago and at Wood Hole, Massachusetts, for two summer sessions. In 1977 Miss Walling became a member of the family and is now assistant professor of Physiology.
Lalia V. Walling
Professor Walling is especially interested in her flowers and the garden which surrounds her lovely home. Her spure moments are spent in tending her garden favorites and encouragement to grow. Miss Walling, while a student here, was a member of Sigma XI, national honorary science fraternity. Her education includes experience with the students. Few students on the Hill who came here as freshmen have not had a biology course under Miss Walling.
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Krant. Articles over 200 words in length — subject to cutting by the editor, Cons.
CAMPUS OPINION
On April 12, thousands of university students will meet on campuses all over the United States. They will meet to express publicity their belief that war is inevitable. They will definitely do that they do not intend to participate in any armed conflict in the future.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Undoubtedly the majority of students are sincere. They aren't cowards afraid to fight in defense of the United States. They are intelligent hu-
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXXII
All Freshmen and Sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences should see their advisers during the period from Monday, April 8, through Friday, April 12. Names of advisers and their office hours are posted on the bulletin board in the hall opposite 121 Administration building.
Sunday, April 7, 1935
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 8 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:39 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues.
RESHMEN-SOPHOMORES IN THE COLLEGE;
J. H. NELSON, Associate Dean of the College.
The Girls Reserve training course, scheduled in the K Book for this week end, will be held on May 3, 4, and 5. EDNA TURRELL, Chairman. OMDEOECONOMIC CLUB.
JBLS RESERVE TRAINING COURSE;
A pageant, "Modes and Manners, Past and Present," will be presented in Fraser Theater on April 9 at 4:30. This is an open meeting, and everyone is invited to attend.
MILDRED INGHAM, President.
The University of Kansas Peace Action Committee will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the Book Exchange room, Memorial Union building. Everyone in
PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE:
ELIZABETH CASWELL, ALFRED C. AMES, Executive Secretaries.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB:
Physical Education classes will change from first to second half semester
Monday, April 8. F. C. ALLEN.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES:
The annual Ku Ku nomination and election of officers will be held Thursday evening, April 11, at 10:30 p.m. in room 209 Fraser hall. This will be an important meeting and all members are urged to be present.
PI EPSILON PI:
7. There will be a meeting of Rhadamenti in the Green Room Sunday, April 1.
8. Bring a poem.
9. NOI MAN JACOBHAGEN, President.
SCHOOL OF LAW:
WALTER LYMAN, President.
Practice Court will be in session Monday night, April 8 at 7:30, in the court room, Green hall. At that time the case of Furniture Co. vs. Metro Fire Insurance Co. will go to trial before Judge Elvin R. Latty, of Division No. 5. Counsel for the plaintiff are Robert Morton, George Benson, John Buckler; for the defendant, Walter Lyman, Charles Hess, and Elmer Jackson. This will be a jury case.
A GLENWOOD GILLIELAND. Clerk of Court.
STUDENT FORUM:
Dr. Herry B. Benningboff, of the Waseda University, Japan, will talk at noon forum Tuesday at 12:30 in the Memorial Union cafeteria.
can beings who, through the study of history and kindred social sciences, know that war accomplishes nothing except the fertilization of white-crossed cemeteries with the best young blood and brains of the warring nations. These people have right to their heirs they have a right to express them openly and fully.
ROCK - - -
CHALKLETS
The average citizen would expect to find almost unanimous support of the Peace Strikers by the American colleges. Instead, many college newspapers, including the Kanan, deter it and pronounce it docured to failure as impractical. Many college editors deny the possibility that the Peace Strikers will be able to carry out an orderly, intelligent meeting. In almost every case these students are offered no substitute—no plan whereby the present generation can inform the older one controlling the government of its attitude concerning war.
Those who back the Peace Strike would probably be the last in the world to declare that it will perform any great miracle. The younger generation of one nation, even if united, would have a Herculean task in converting the warmed world of today to peace. At the same time, the Peace Strike is a gallant gesture which may lead to greater things. It deserves a square deal. D.F.
Conducted by R. J. B.
Time—The Heekly Fewstagazine
NANCY CALHOUN.
(Imagine another picture. This time a Haywirephoto.) PIXELIER MACLERIDUX Machiavellius Dove Dunanella has made a move for the
The senate chamber reverberated.
Challenging choreums churned the choked atmosphere of the chamber. Blustery Sen. Cass A. Weigh (Q, Oz.) was standing atop the president's desk. He leered.
He careened. He leared again. "Ma frans," hawled the senator, I. . . "(See on my hands, Jan. 16). In a few words the senator was making a motion for adjournment.
Variel Items Gathered from Hither an Thither and Penned in the Laconiary Manner of the Well-Known Peckly Mewnagazine
(Imagine you see a picture)
SENATOR CASS A. WEIGH
Twice more He leerd
In a dingy, dark, dreary, dark holow lives Amos T. Quillipickle. Alone he lives by himself. For days he hadn't eaten. No food. Four months ago Arrogant Amos spent his last two-bits on a lottery ticket for the Underpass Brush-stakes. He had cursed himself for sloughing off his last shilling. Hunger wracked his body. He had wracked his car only the week before. (See Time by the clock.) Today this physically broken Bronxite is rich. He won $14,890.21 first prize money on his lottery ticket. Quillipickle celebrated by eating eight bowls of chill and four lemon pies. No, he's in Fixem hospital.
(I imagine a tintype)
AMOS T. QUILLIPICKLE
On His Nose He Juvedd Dollars
eternal peace of Europe. (See Time Mar. 5 by Bulova, spelled B-L-O-V-A.) Premier Stevkoei MacLerreux today authorized the building of 33 super dreadnights, 22 dreadyeses and 2,000 airplanes. "Peace," he said, "peace is paramount and Dupaniace will do its part." The speaker pointed to "Protest, Protest, Who's Got a Protest?" The dove of peace soars over Dupaniace—with machine guns.
(This should be another picture.)
MISS GRETA GUSH
For Her a Polly Stirnd
Last week Greta Gush quit Acme studios because they wouldn't pay her $10,000 a week. She complained she couldn't even feed her pup on that. Rube kienberg, mogul of Acme, said the reason he refused to pay her that day was that he tucked her eyebrows too short. Acme is looking for a bearded lady, he said.
TIME ON THE BOOKS (An Indigestion)
(An Indigestion)
"Two Bugs in a Rug" ... Terrible
"While Fire Burns" ... Terrible
"The 40 Days of Hound Dawg" .Terrible
Dust storm paragraphs are as frequent as the storms themselves, but they're still coming. So hold your hats, boys, here we go again. The recent dust storms are the biggest transfer of real estate we have had in these parts in quite some time.
"The pine-bench story sounds faby to me," chircled a correspondent, "but you night be interested in knowing that out where I come from the parson serves him. At the lose of the service the congregation whistles the doxology."
Fraser Hall Once a Self-Sufficient University Southwest of City Limits
By Joseph C. Campbell, e'35
By Joseph C. Campbell, 'c35 Fraser hall in the seventies resembled a medieval, European university. Standing alone on Mount Ordn, half a mile or so southwest of Lawrence, with its campus enclosed by a wall of Osage hedge, the University Building, as it was then known, had little connection with the city.
Not only did the new building meet every department of the University it also provided space for its own heating and water systems. Heat was supplied by a steam boiler which occupier the northwest corner of the central basement. Four large cisterns furnished the water, which was pumped into the basement from the towers. From the tanks, it was piped throughout the building for use in case of fire. The students refused to drink the cistern water because of its dark color, received from the roof of the building. They secured their drinking water from the well of the Universities nearest neighbor. Coal-oil lamps, set in the windows, provided the only source of artificial light. A new outdoor toilet stands a short distance west of the building, and covered sidewalks connected them with the west doors.
The hall had had one neighbor, an astronomical observatory, which had been built in 1888 and stood a short distance east of it. The size and height of the new building, however, had rendered the observatory useless, and the barns down, and the new-comer occupied the hill close for more than a decade.
The first signs of disintegration came to the self-sufficient University building in the late seventies, when the legislature made an appropriation for the building of a coal-house. The board of reges felt that the boiler, standing on the plank floor of the basement, was inefficient. They consequently induced the legislature—whether by supplication, bribery, or intimidation remains a mystery—to increase the appropriation so that the coal-house might be made large enough to accommodate the boiler. The new heating plant was built between the two rows of toilets, so that the boilers could be connected to it. The University remained academically intact, however, until 1883. By that time, the would-be chemists were creating such foul-smelling compounds in the north end of the basement that
it was deemed necessary to isolate that department. A fine, new chemistry building — that disreputable journalism shack to the modern student — was evicted for it. The building contained many of its chemistry laboratories in the country.
Then the Department of Biological Science outgrew its quarters, and, in 1886, Old Snow Hall was erected in front of where Watson Library now stands. Soon the Department of Law moved to old North College, which, from its abandonment by the University in 1872, had been occupied for several years by a school for deaf children.
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Since then, departments have outgrown their allotted space in the building, and new buildings have been erected for them. Today, the city of Lawrence has nearly surrounded the University campus and supplies it with gas and water. Heat and electricity are supplied by the University's own power plant. The building which once could contain the entire educational plant is now only one of more than a score of buildings, each of which house a few departments of the University of Kansas.
UNION FOUNTAIN
About 1895, University Hall became Fraser Hall, named in honor of General John Fraser, second chancellor of the university, and the instrumental in planning the building.
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