PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935 University Daily Kansa Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW ENCEE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ...WESLEY MeCALLA Lenn Wyatt Joe Doctor MANAGING EDITOR ___ MAX MOXLEY Campus Editor Carolyn Harper Makeup Editor Derryl J. Howard Jr. Sunday Editor Charles Ranahan Charles Ranahan Brown Bach 12th Editorial Elaine Carson Bach 12th Editorial Elaine Carson Alumni Editor Virginia Poirre Business Manager F. Quentin Brown Kansan Board Members Leon Watty Idril Ohon Michael Magpie Lorenzo Miller Rutherford Ian Wenley McCalla George Lewis Harrison Garcia William Hillard F. P. Quentin Brown Business Office ... K.U. 66 News Room ... K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office ... 700K1 Night Connection, News Room ... 700K1 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Week monday. Thursday and Friday and on Sunday murraying. From Monday to Saturday, the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Subscriptions price, per year, $3.00 cash in drance. $1.25 on payments. Single copies, 5c ach. Entered as second class matter, September 7, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935 THE RIGHT OF DISCUSSION A movement to "purge" American colleges of Communists, "sap-headed college boys and unbalanced professors," is gaining momentum throughout the nation. Syracuse, Columbia, Wisconsin, California, Chicago, Harvard, and other universities have been "exposed" as "hotbeds of radicalism," and it is expected that others will be attacked in the near future. Started and vigorously pushed by the Hearst newspapers, the movement seems to be founded on motives much deeper and more obscure than the mere increase of circulation of the newspapers involved. It is militant, strategically planned, and ruthless. The despicable methods used by Hearst men to collect the material for the Red scare news stories and editorials are exemplified by the "exposure" of Communism at Syracuse University. A young man, giving his name as Richard Smith, called on Prof. John N. Washburne, of Syracuse, said that he wished to enter the university and was especially interested in the Russian experiment, and asked that liberal professors be recommended. The young man was a reporter on the Hearst Syracuse Journal. Professor Washburne's remarks, both at the first interview and at a lunch the next day where Smith and another Journal reporter represented themselves as violent revolutionaries, were splashed all over the front page of the Journal with distortions and misrepresentations, as an exposure of insidious Communist agitation in Syracuse University. The same tactics were unsuccessfully attempted at Columbia University. The cry was taken up by other Hearst papers, Senator Hamilton Fish added his voice making charges against several other schools, and editorials demanded "What do you propose to do about it?" The campaign has met with some organized opposition, not because the opposing groups and individuals are in sympathy with Red agitators, but because they believe in the right of every man to state his opinions, and recognize the danger of submitting to such Fascistic movements as Hearst is conducting. A group of eminent teachers is attempting to bring Mr. Hearst's methods out into the open, and threats to boycott his newspapers. Conferences of professors of journalism and of college editors have passed resolutions opposing any interference with academic freedom, and condemnation of Hearst's policies and tactics has been general and vigorous in the collegiate press. American students, whether they are in sympathy with radicalism, or intensely opposed to it, should seize every opportunity to defend their right of discussion, against campaigns which are clever enough to deceive a large part of the American people. President Williams of Missouri has been honored with the gift of an autographed photograph of Mussolini. Now what is the inwardness of that? THE GRAB BOX METHOD When you get a fast idea on how to touch up things about the Hill, you go to your roommate and he recommends, or she to you women that you get more sleep. The idea frets the under side of your scalp just the same. Maybe you're away out in the blue with your scheme of salvation, but still you want to give some poor sap the pleasure of hearing it through. You tell your friends and they all decide you're a neglected genius with a cause that will go at least to the Chancellor. You let the notion soak in the nether third of your cerebro-spinal fluid until it permeates the system. Later it breaks out in a sort of campus itch; you feel fidgety all over. But still, you think a trip to the Chancellor is a bit too much. Your friends begin to lose the high temperature they once registered for the cause. Later on you say, "Oh, soup, it wasn't much of an idea anyway. Guess the University can move along somehow without it." Of course it would be nice if we had some definite and sure machinery for collecting these ideas, lifting, and presenting to the Administration. But we don't. We think that's just another good idea. TIS. 'TAIN'T Some time ago a minor explosion took place in Washington, D. C., and Hugh S. Johnson picked up his marbles and went home. In explaining his schoolboy attitude, he made the statement that "the NRA is as dead as a dodo." According to him, the new governmental agency which he had directed from its inception had failed its purpose and he didn't care to have anything more to do with it. Now Donald R. Richberg, the victor in last fall's quarrel, says that the NRA is not dead; all it needed was a doctor, not a mortician, and now it is performing far more valuable service than before the shake-up. To the citizens of the United States, especially to the nation's business men, this dispute between Richberg and Johnson is about as important as a controversy between two school boys as to which kind of fish-bait should be used. The important thing to the business man is the restoration of normal economic conditions. By what method or under whose direction it is done is of little consequence to him. If he can only get his pre-crash volume of business back again, General Johnson and Mr. Richberg can yell "Tis, 'taint'" at each other to their hearts' content. He'll be too busy to notice the noise. CAMPUS OPINION Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanun. Articles over 200 words in length are prohibited from publication on contributions on any subject are invaded. It is a peculiar fact that frequently the persons who know the least about a subject are the ones who do the talking. This is clearly the case with the Kansan and its so-called attack upon and investigation of the W.S. G.A. Merely because the council has never chosen to broadcast its activities from the house-tops is no sign that nothing is being done. The Women's Self Government Association has always stood for fair representation and maintenance of the highest ideals of the University of Kansas. It is in no way a week and crbling organization as you presume merely because you have not taken the trouble to discover that it does nothing but give dainty teas and set closing hours. Just how many students have never availed themselves of the advantages offered by the W.S.G.A. book-exchange, the I.C.M. Memorial Comedy, Woodside Goldmine Week, and other projects sponsored by the association which you so ridiculously deride are utterly useless, how can you account for their popularity throughout these years? Editor Daily Kansan: This is in no way a concern of the men students and your mighty effort to obtain their opinions of the matter they are about. You can't out and out politices with its inevitable OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXXII CHRISTIAN BLEESBORG HOME Third, will he be a meeting at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon in room D of Myer Hall. There will be MAURINE JISSEE, Treasurer. Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1935 HIPRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION MID-WEEK DANCE: MIDWEEK WEDNESDAY The regular mid-week dance will be held Wednesday night at 7 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. All students must present their identification cards. BILL COCHRANE, Manager. TRANSPORTATION, OSCAR AMERINGER LECTURE: TRANSPORTATION, OSCAR AMERINGER LECTURE Persons wishing transportation to the lecture by Oscar Ameringer Wednesday at 8:15 in the Auditorium of the New York School building please visit at the following places not later than 8 o'clock: AUTO WRECKING CO. 712 E. 9th St. Dist. No. 1 Union building, Tony, Henry Baker, chairman. Dist. No. 2 Henley house, Mrs.Charlotte Walker, chairman Dist. No. 3 1125 Miss. St., Anna McCrane, chairman. Dist. No. 4 Coe's Drug store No. 2, Curtis Packard, chairman. Dist. No. 6 1658 St., Jane Plummer, Chairman. Dist. No. 7 1659 Chairman, Chairman of Transpo mud-salting and stuffing of ballot boxes, then I say, let them try it. But the only satisfactory means of determining that is by a special election. The council may have better ideas. I maintain, however, that that system, even though more fun, will not give more equal representation and will decrease the number of non-soriority women on the council. WORKING STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE: All Freshmen and Sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who work in the afternoons and therefore wish to be excused from taking afternoon classes should come to the College Office for work cards. These cards should be signed by employers and presented either at the College Office before the time of enrollment or at Robinson gymnasium on enrollment days. L H MELSON Associate Dean W. S. G. A. BOOK EXCHANGE: The W.S.G.A. book exchange will open for buying books Thursday morning, Jan. 24, at 9 o'clock. It will be open from 9 to 4 o'clock daily until the close of the semester. EDITH BORDEN, Manager. STUDY OF THE LOWLY WORM IS SCIENTIFICALLY IMPORTANT By Wes Gordon. c'35 By West Gordon, c135 that Charles Gilbert added materials to scientific knowledge, when he catalogued books and the archibald of Kansas and their parasites, is the opinion of Prof. Mary E. Larson of the zoology department. Mr. Gilbert did this work for an M.S. thesis at the University of Kansas in 1933-34. The lowly and prosaic earthworm forms a significant link in organic evolution, according to Miss Larson. She explains that Charles Darwin regarded the worm as such a remarkable animal that he devoted a whole book to it, the result of an investigation extending over many years, Darwin's书 is called "The Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms, with Observation on Their Habits." Since worms are Nature's cultivators of the soil, Darwin regarded them as among man's best friends. Their instinct of burrowing matters brings vegetable matter down into the sub-soil and the sub-soil up into the top layer. The worm, too, is more thorough than man-made cultivators. "Mr. Gilbert's thesis is important because it is the first thorough study that has been made of these significant but little known animals of a prominent agricultural state," said Professor Larson. Mr. Gilbert found that eight species of earthworms reside and thrive in Kansas. This information, although it may lack interest for the average reader, furnishes a reference list for scientists and a starting point for Mr. Gilbert's study of the illnesses of worms, their parasites. The most mysterious part of his offering to science in his list of labels for his My advice to you and the Kanan in its future policy is that the next time you set out to bring about a violent incident, you should conclude on facts and not assumptions. Editor note - Re-reading of the Kansan's stories about the W.S.G.A. will reveal that the Musket Conspire Weekbook exchange, and other such projects have not been derided as utter useless. The value of their work is to guard the election system, to say that mud-slinging and stuffing of ballot boxes is inevitable in a best, and oust, which will not lead to improvement of present conditions. eight species. Scientists must always be devising new names, because they are continually finding new species. The lowly fishworm for instance is a lumbricus terrestis. Mr. Gilbert discovered that the lumbricus terrestis is not found abundantly in the state of Kansas; Kansans seldom fish with ordinary fishworms, therefore, but some other earthworms, perhaps the Helodrilus Elsienia foetidius or the Heledrila Allobophora caignosus trapezoides. Lila Lawson Smith. Doors $2.00 Windshields $3.00 CALL 954 PRICES SMASHED ON AUTO GLASS "The worm turned," a phrase common to most of us, takes on new significance when the animal's anatomy is understood. The worm's bodily processes in many ways reverse those of man. If if it were this way, even might happen, the worm might become man. The calamity would be if "man turned." Mr. Gilbert not only studied the earth-worms; he also studied their parasites. To the ordinary mind there seems to be nothing lower than a parasite of an earthworm. The larger, fresher, few animals are so lowly that another does not derive life from them. The study of earthworms became a tedious matter. Mr. Gilbert was forced to use a microscope to discover the parasites. To find them on the stomachs of the worms, the creatures had to be carefully dissected and studied. Why are parasites of earthworms important? Miss Larson explains that the study of all parasites is significant, because of the fact that parasites in man cause many diseases and even death. The study of the parasites of earthworms advances our general knowledge of them. The sleeping sickness of South Africa and malaria are caused by parasites. A few years ago a number of people died in a Chicago hotel. Scientists, in unraveling the mystery of discovered that parasite, the entomone. The story of parasites, when one day, it is completely told, will show physicians the way to the cure of many diseases. On Other Hills President Ruthven of the University of Michigan has expressed dissatisfaction with the way in which some of the fraternities are measuring up in the three fields of scholarship, financial condition and social standards." If she is forced to ask them, she shall be forced to ask their organizations to withdraw their charters." "Chief Shanif Burns Revengeful Message in Fiery Letters on Teletype to Timid Illini Tribe," grows a headline in the Daily Illini. The story under the head reveals that Shanif is a dishonored chiefain of the Illini tribe, the personification of the Spirit of Finals, who has discovered that some tribe members haven't studied, and sent his warning of revenge over the wire. A drive which started in 1927 to obtain a new library building at the University of Oregon was last week successfully terminated when the Pub Works Administration allotted $850,000 for construction of the building. Good Shoe Repairing, Shining, and Dyeing Is Our Specialty. 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