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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935
DO WE HEAR A COMPLAINT?
Since no proper machinery exists here for the recognition and presentation of student grievances, the Kansan has suggested the creation of a board of students who would sit regularly to hear the run of legitimate student complaints.
Men's and women's governing bodies and the leaders of them have made no statement, as yet, to indicate that they have heard the plan. But perhaps they do not regard it as a matter for action for them, because after all the only benefit derived from the idea would accrue to the University and its students.
In suggesting the creation of a board of students to hear complaints and report them to the Administration authorities, we feel it is about time to recognize in practice what is so frequently repeated in class: that University students are old enough to have ideas of their own, and to act on them.
THE GOVERNMENT LEARNS HOW TO BUILD HOUSES
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks about himself; a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself—Atlantic Journal.
Early in the Roosevelt administration a plan was brought forward to assist jobless family men by providing each with a small house and a yard big enough for a few vegetables. The families were to be settled in communities near government-subsidized factories in which the men could work, not steadily perhaps, but enough to provide a little cash once in a while.
It sounded like one of the best of the New Dealers' ideas. Instead of handing an unemployed man ten dollars so that he and his family could keep themselves alive for another thirty days, during which time they would have nothing to do but sit around and wait for the thirty days to end so that they could collect another ten dollars, the new plan would give them something they could call a home, with a little security, and, most important, something to do.
Sixty-one Subsistence Homestead projects were started at various places over the country. The one at Reedsville, Pa., was given the most publicity because it was receiving the personal attention of Mrs. Roosevelt, who has been intensely interested in the whole project. Last week reports of the progress and cost of the work there were printed, and the information they contained was summed up in the statement of Charles E. Pychon, general manager of Subsistence Homesteads, to the effect that after more than a year of delay and indecision, fifty houses are finally occupied and the government stands to lose half a million dollars because of "experimentation" and "errors in judgment."
Twenty-five families of unem-
On Your Mark!
STARTING THE SPRING OF '35
played miners were moved into Reedsville on Nov. 7, 1933, and lodged about the town until their homes could be made ready. Fifty ready-cut four-room houses were ordered. They were supposed to cost $960 each, and were to be ready for occupancy by Thanksgiving. The materials did not arrive, however, until Dec. 6, and the houses were not finished until June, 1934, and then only after each had been built, torn down, and rebuilt, for reasons which have not been explained. Secretary Ickes estimates that each house has cost the government $4,880, which estimate, observers say, is conservative. Figures in the newspaper reports of this project have not been denied by government officials, and can be assumed to be correct.
Mrs. Roosevelt justifies the financial loss on the grounds that lessons learned at Reedsville will be valuable in future projects. That gives reason for hope that some efficiency may be introduced into the Subsistence Homestead idea, and that the projects will continue, if the public, which may fail to understand why the government can not take advantage of the knowledge already collected on how to build houses instead of using the trial and error method, does not refuse to permit the projects to go on.
The Senate Slaps A Face
*baily Oldham*
Daily Oklaboman
Once again the ghost of George Washington has appeared on the senate floor. The senate, bawering of entangling alliances, voted down the proposal to join the World court. Four men by altering their vote could have changed the outcome. But Mr. Obama has sponsored arbitration has also rejected the tool of arbitration.
The history of man is a long series of readjustments which have unified him in larger units of co-operation. Tribes came from the union of families—cities from the union of tribes—states from the union of cities. Each union has developed its own language and at the same time made bigger ones possible. But in each union, co-operation resulted in a civilization better able to meet the needs of men.
To make a more concrete example: The United States under the Articles of Confederation were weak. The quarrels between states did little to further the cause of men. When India and Pakistan individual rights under the Constitution a more efficient nation was created. Some states lost power and others gained but the gain of the whole more than equaled the loss of the few.
The nation then formed new refuses to be welded to the rest of the world as New York hesitated to adopt the Constitution because she had more power than the majority of the states. The state has floundered under the Constitution. Why would the United States flourish under the world court? If the future can be read in history, 'the senate slipped the face of destiny.'
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MORE ABOUT REDS
From all sides come comments on campus Reds. Kansas Citizens are told that Reds are behind the anti-military movements on the campus. Maybe Reds are also behind the members of the Kansas legislature who voted "no" on the question of compulsory military training at Kansas State. If they are, they had almost enough strength to deflect the measure.
College editors are still ridiculing Hearest and his accusations that colleges are pink. An editorial in Cornell's paper deems it an insult that their school was not included in Hearest's list of Red schools, saying that other universities will believe Cornell does not welcome freedom of discussion.
HONOR SOCIETY
Frenchmen have discovered that there are approximately 175,000 wearers of the Legion of Honor ribbon. France's great award for service to the country. Ideals have been forsaken by making the award political pork. Something, no doubt, like a student honor society.
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MIDWEEK DANCE:
The regular mid-week dance will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. All students must present their identification cards. BILL COCHRANE, Manager.
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worth while and best administered of all the different plans for help." Our own Chancellor should take this as a fine compliment, coming from deep appreciation on the part of a fellow educator, it was Chancellor Lindley, you remember, who was largely responsible for the CSEP.
PICKING A QUEEN
Max Factor, Hollywood make-up-expert, lost no time in choosing a sophomore beauty queen from the photographs sent to him by the Jayhawker Magazine. The editors were started by the quick service. Max Factor has, of course, only been working most of his life trying to fool the camera with his cosmetic applications. He no doubt realized that it would not be impossible to fool him. It was probably but the work of a moment to have a stenographer mark one photo and moll it back to gladden some girlish heart.
We fear that it is going to take more than a barrel of spinach to give Popeye out of the Sea Hag's clutches this time.
In Germany all hail Reichfuehrer Hitler. In this country the cry is for "fuerch rich."
We learn that Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd kept a record of his "kills" by notching his watch. He probably meant he just be a few blots on the face of time.
"Nazi War Plants Roar."—Headline. And just to keep up the rhyme scheme we ask: "What for?"
U. S.S.R. means United States of Soviet Russia, United States Senate Restaurant and also might mean United States of Sad Republicans.
Since the Kansan has become a morning publication the editorial desk has posted a sign: "Today is yesterday and tomorrow is today from now on." Someone something like one of Gustave Trostle's remarks. Or a logic problem.
The CSEP workers who lose their jobs because they failed to make the required 13 grade point average will probably think CSEP means: "Couldn't Satisfy Every Professor."
A scholarly student said something about Charles (Handsome Adolescent) Floyd the other day. We shook our hands with George of George (Infant Counterance) Nelson.
We'll bet that the official announcement of Spring will gladden the heart of every fan dancer.
The semester is over but the worries linger on.
"An optimist," says Dean Ingo, "is a man who would buy from a Jew and sell to a Scot, and expect to make a profit."
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