PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1935 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of TIME FOR TECHNICAL ASSIGNMENTS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ___ WESLEY McCALLA LEEN WYAT JOO BOE MANAGING EDITOR MAX MOXLEY Associate Editors Campus Editor Caroley Harper Makeup Editor Harry Valentine Sunday Editor Charles Ranbush Sunday Editor Elizabeth Crawford Society Editor Elaine Gavny Society Editor Elizabeth Crawford Alumni Manager Virginia松 Business Manager F. Quentin Brown Business Manager Aest. Business Manager F. Quentin Brown Eldon Carter Kansan Board Members Lena Wyatt William Cooper Loreal Mills Wesley McCalla William Blizzard Iris Olson Max Beer Rutherford Hayes Gorgeous Julius Murray Milton Keynes F. Quentin Brown Business Office K.U. 6. News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 701k2 Night Connection, News Room 702k8 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday Weekend, April 19, 2015, students arrive during school holidays by学生签到 in the Department of Journalism at the Department of Journalism. Students pay $2.00 cash in duance, $3.25 on payments. Single copies, 5c. sch. as second class matter, September 7, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1935 WHAT! REDS AGAIN? "The lecture course experiment in adult education is really convoitation of revolutionary reds. Allowing people to discuss seditions and treasonable ideas as a freedom of speech is one thing, and making our Kansas public schools and university a rallying point of sedition is another." This quotation is taken from a newspaper which feels that the lecture course, backed by many responsible and intelligent persons, is tending to teach students radicalism. The writer is apprehensive over the fact that the course was also underwritten by a minister in Lawrence. Such courses are conducted on most campuses in the nation, and red scares, stirred up by Hearst and other notable men, are frequent. It is difficult to reassure these people that the lecturers, some of whom it is asserted have records with radical groups, are brought here so that their thoughts may be presented fairly to students under intelligent supervision, and not picked up in literature passed out on city streets and by irresponsible soap box orators. The public guardians who fear red invasion of the University are, perhaps, the same men who in the past advocated intelligent treatment of sex problems in responsible places, so that young people would not have to pick up these essential facts in the gutters of the nation. Why do they rebel when Socialists are allowed to bring their arguments out into the open instead of being forced to resort to the steel mills, the packing houses, and other concentrations of social unrest? In the University the unreasonable arguments will get intelligent thought, and consequent condemnation. The backers of the lecture course certainly have nothing farther from their minds than "seditable and treasonable ideas." They simply want to inspire intelligent interpretation among adults, the aim of every university. They know that the fallacies of Utopian Socialism, communism, and other isms will be better revealed in sources of responsibility and thought, and may be better coped with in mines, mills, and markets with this better understanding. Those who attend the lecture courses have enough faith and pride in our nation and its government to fear nothing from specious arguments. If they can gather a few pointers from speakers on how to cope with social problems through being made to think, so much the better. All the onslaughts of hair-tearing agitators avail nothing in their true lights. It is when they are suppressed and magnified that they become dangerous. After listening to some of the dumb answers that are given to equally dumb questions in class we wonder why scientists are having so much difficulty in finding the missing link. TO THOSE WHO KNOW With every major trial, and now particularly with the Hauptmann trial, arises anew the question of public comment and newspaper interpretation of the progress in court. Legally the matter is clear enough, that anything tending to interfere with the administration of justice can be held in contempt of court; but of the millions of words written about a case like the Hauptmann trial, only a few will ever be seen by anyone in authority to press action for contempt of court. Thus, since comment cannot be controlled in any legal way, the question arises, how can it be supervised in some manner so the defendants in these major trials will enjoy the maximum of fair treatment at the hands of an interested public? Ultimately, it is a matter of good taste on the part of those who feel themselves equipped to comment. There is really no way to keep them quiet; the forces of law are powerless. Public opinion alone can be the effective weapon against the unfair person who decides he knows just what to do. STARTING AT THE BOTTOM One of the proposals of the Federal government in its war on organized crime is the creation of a Federal Youth Service. Operating under the Department of Justice, this agency would investigate youth problems especially as they concern crime, unemployment, and leisure time. It has been conservatively estimated that there are at the present time approximately 6,000,000 young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five who are neither employed nor in school. Authorities on crime unanimously agree that the crime problem centers upon the young people. All of the suggestions of possible remedies to the gangster and racketer menace have included some suggestion as to a way by which American youth may be dragged into the crime net by inactivity. There are many potential Dillings, Floyds, and Baby Face Nelson in the United States. Given the understanding of rigid enforcement of law and severe punishment for violators they will see the error of their ways and become good citizens. Permitted to observe a laxity in law enforcement and a continuation of the politically controlled mills of justice, they will almost over night become a national menace. Will the American people help youth, many of whom have been excluded from the Federal relief program, to find their niche, perhaps as apprentices to public officials or as apprentices to research workers, increasing the nation's knowledge; or will they permit these young men and women to go unaided into the great class of delinuents? The fate of Federal Youth Service will be decided in the near future, and with it the problem of unemployed youth. "Short simple sentences." They have long been our distant goal. Ever since, in fact, their advantages were pounded into us in a valuable course in composition by that aggressive foe of "fine writing". Prof. Frederick M. Tisdel, now professor of English and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences in the University of Missouri. We hasten to apologize to Dean Tisdel for the length of that sentence—Kansas City Star. The "foe of 'fine writing'" may consent to forgive the writer for the length of his "sentence" in consideration of the fact that it isn't a sentence in the first place. Up at Yale The newly elected 1966 editorial board of the Yale Daily News, in a revolutionary editorial, recently announced the conservative policy to which the paper has adhered ever since its inception and forewarned their readers that their inauguration would signify the death knell for the newspaper's ideals on matters of education, and as the "News" as an institution primarily and as a newspaper secondarily. From the Daily Pennsylvania. We are overjoyed to see a college newspaper which, for over a half century lost in the depths of conservation, can number among its newly elected board members a group with enough intestinal fortitude to make such revolutionary changes. This sturdy band of genuine newspapermen—we like that term and consider it the highest compliment we can bestow upon them—bitten off a huge chuck. But we sincerely hope that they will be able to handle their mouthful gracefully. And we think they can. Men who menure on higher education are perils in that on higher education and perhaps in that on higher education N23 are more apt to be filled with a sense of mental awareness, or hard realization of their job, than were their predecessors of a few years back, who were steeped in the attair of roses characteristic of the dim Rah-Rah days of college. College students have begun to think for themselves; this fact has been self evident for the past four years, at least. Then why not a college newspaper with the stamina, yes, the GUTS, to express the sentiment of the student body who subscribes to it? The day of the collegiate "notice sheet," announcing to the exclusion of all other information, that the varsity gridders excelled in their win over Whoosh, informing the readers of a meeting of the Milkman Society, whom he had left stand taken by the dean of men on the Peruvian bond situation has drawn to a close. What we need is more collegians who take an interest in moulding campus opinion, who know what they want to do, and then go out and do it. CAMPUS OPINION We take our hats off to the Yale Daily News. Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanan. Articles over 200 words in length may be excluded from these contributions on any subject are invited. Editor Daily Kansan: It is with considerable reluctance that I take to time read the sensational columns of the Daily Kansan. (Primarily to read official university announcements). Now that the W.S.G.A. exposure has died a natural death, the managing editor and one of his protégés see fit to characterize the Owl Society as a purely political and unworthy organization. Although I am at sea to predict the next melodramatic story of the Kanan, there are two possibilities; the Jayhawker and the Men's Student Council. The enlightening stories concerning this junior organization, which will undoubtedly follow in forthcoming issues of the Kansan, will merely reflect the fact that the editor and his little sophomore reporter are entirely at loss to find any other filler for the "scandal sheet." In spite of the screening headlines of the Kansan, "Owls Are Color-blind," I can't help but ponder the emotions it is with great enlightenment and joy that I find I am an alumnus of an organization which developed from "a nasty old drinking fraternity." The Kanan charges that a great majority of the members are fraternity men. This is true, however I maintain that men in all the various activities on the hill are in a majority, fraternity men. Although the managing editor was never fortunate enough to become an Owl, having been in the University less than two years to the present time, he seems to know quite a bit of the history of the Owl Society. I would inform the editor nevertheless, that the Owl Society never meets in the student council room and that newspaper reporters are never given the actual proceedings of an Owl meeting will never be disclosed first hand. Will the editor prolapse from his golden and sacred temple long enough to actually find the scholastic standing of the organization, the type of men represented, and the character of these men? John H. Rizley If this were Huey Long's alma matter, you can bet your last mint julep he would have been an Owl, for Huey has always had lots of good contacts and it seems that contacts are what one needs to secure himself of a berth in the society. P.S.--If this were Huey Long's alma inter and he were an Owl, you couldn't o this to us. The Kanan is not interested in running down the character of the men who were involved in seeing that deserving whoels who don't happen to belong to certain political parties or certain fraternities are given power and influence so that they choose the members of the society. The history of the organization seems to be rather dark. It is known that the club was established in 1914 and for many years until that publication was taken over by Sigma Delta Chi. It was not until 1930, sixteen years after its founding, that the organization was put on the map and eventually received a vocation. It is generally believed and whispered among the present members (with an attitude of pride) that in its early days the club was of the same kind and its fellow social society, Sachen. While reporters do not attend Owl society meetings, there are many ways, and reliable means too, of finding out just what is going on. Boys and Young Ladies of 50 Years Ago From The University Courier of Jan. 29, 1935 Managing Editor. There is said to be a chapter of the great international fraternity, Sigma Nu. in Kansas University. The petitioners are said to have ben solicited by Pai U., but preferred the prestige of Sigma Nu. The fraternity is a very select one, limiting its chapters to a few of the highest colleges. It now has representatives in the Missouri Normal School and Arkansas, and oly extends to K.S.U. because of the chance to obtain a foot-hold in Baldwin. The charter members worthy represent this distinguished order. Caldwell visits his girl; getting quite late; Coldwell lags; girl node; noms of the long earned genus brassy girl; I guess I was long in line. C: "I guess I time was it going." FAITH Better trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving. Than doubt one heart that if believed Hadd blessed one life with true believing. b, in this mocking world too fast The doubling f宾 t'oɪkrates our youth ent be cherished to the last Than lose the bliss of truth —France Anne Kemble A certain K.S.U. young lady who sometimes gets tired of the regular routine of college work, undertook last week to have a little game of "freeze out." She invited her two "best fellows" around on the same evening, and having made a good film, she offended the old man who had the most "grit." The young men, however, finding out by experience that "tis a good plan to compare notes," thought "two company and three a crowd," so they adjourned to an up town restaurant and spent the evening quite pleasantly indeed. The young lady then returned to her when that Love is a dangerous thing With which to play; For acts may issue be Which you would say. The board of regents at their meeting last Tuesday very generously appropriated $50 to the Courier for advertising purposes, for the remainder of the year. Under the circumstances attending this action, however, the Courier does not feel justified in accepting such in the nature of an "appropriation"—cannot and will not. If the authorities desire to do any advertising in the Courier beyond what we see fit in our loyalty to our school to give, they will be given our regular advertising rate on a strict business basis. We are pained to be compelled to take this step, but actions of which we do not care to speak, ye deeply resent, have urged us to this conclusion. Kansans are inclined to "poke fun" at Missouri as a "moss back bourbon State." But how would an appropriation bill for our University strike the legis- lature, which would rank equal to the amount asked for the Missouri State University. Beneath the bright ledge midtelete I kissed my Mary Ann. I thought her eyes were low— When suddenly away I ran, Proplied up the midtelete to kneel. Prof. Snow has made his collections with the most meagre means. With a few hundred dollars to pay more expenses he has sent for his students in vacation, he has sent for his parents to the master head, he frequently accompany them, and they have been seen Why not Investigate Our Special Meal Plan so you can make your money go the farthest this next semester. Join the satisfied group on the painte, in the desert, wherever a fossil could be picked up, a bird or a bug found, or scaling the crags of mountains, until he has deposited in the building, collections which could be put in the market and command more than $100,-.000. If he had invested the trifle spent by the State as a private individual in a business transaction, he would have been worth more than his salary for fifty years, because valuable innovations as time advances—may we not say invaluable?—occupy seven of the best rooms of the University, liable to be destroyed by fire at any moment as were recently similar valuable in the Missouri University. CAFETERIA at the The following note was found in the corridor this week: "Mary R." - If you think I am going to stand by and see you flirt around and receiving notes from other fellows, you are very much mistaken. If you have another fellow, have him, and I will get another, for two is company and three is friendship. If you want to be to you, and that was proof enough for me that you was going about with other fellows. I never suspected you was such a girl as that, C.S.M." 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