PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief ... JAMES PATTERSON Associate Editors lev RO Campus Editor Staff Makeup Editor Merle Hearr Sports Editor Lena Wyatt Night Editor R. B. Hayes Economist Editor Hugh Renau Alumni Editor Max Muxley Sunday Editor George Lerrago Sat Owl Maryargel Gregg Chiles Coleman Alan Cox Maurice Rue Brookield Kretmann Jimmie Johnson Greghel Orcup Larry Sterling Paul Woodmansee Virgil Packe Paul Sandmanse Sally Sandman Advertising Manager Chareece E. Mundu Circulation Manager William Leutherman Business Office XII. XI. 66 Business Office XII. XI. 66 Night Connection Business Office .5701K 8 Night Connection Business Office .5701K 8 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday morning during school holidays by atc journal of Kannan University of Kannan, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. In year, $300 cash in advance, $25 on payments, single copies, 12 each. Published as second class matter September, 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kannan SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1934 PRESENT DAY EUROPE By Prof. H. B. Chubb (Herewith follows the second in the series of editors for which the Kanans has asked, written by experts on our own campus, concerning momentous present day events.—The Editor.) We Americans have been so engrossed in our own recovery problems that we have given but little thought to what is going on in Europe. Not until civil strife in Austria and riots in Paris caught our attention on the front page did we begin to ask what it was all about. Having been drawn into the last European war, will we be drawn into another conflagration that seems imminent? With a start we have come to realize that few years in the future will witness such striking world developments as has the year 1933. Looking back over the history of Europe, we can get an accurate perspective of three great periods through which Europe has passed. The fourth or present period is not so easy to interpret, because it is so close to us that we lack perspective; nevertheless if we but name these periods perhaps they will help us to understand present day Europe. First, there was the feudal period. Second, the period of the absolute monarchies and landed aristocracies, heirs of the feudal lords. Here we see emerge the modern state as we know it today. Third, the period that marked the rise to power of the bourgeoisie; the replacing of the landed aristocracies by an industrial and commercial class on a vast scale, a class that was the product of the industrial revolution. Fourth, the present period, which finds the bourgeoisie being challenged by the proletariat, has been in the making since the Great War. This is the rising of the European masses and their struggle to take control of the modern machine from the hands of the bourgeoisie before the opportunity afforded by the late war is lost to them In Russia we see the successful results of this challenge, but it came before the proletariat was trained to wield its power, and so it has been turned over to dictators to be exercised for the proletariat. THE CHANGES IN GERMANY In Germany the change came in 1919 in the form of the German Republic under Ebert, who declared himself "a son of the working class, grown up in the world of socialistic ideas." But the Socialist Republic of Germany was destined to fail, not because of lack of ability in the German people, but because no government, either bourgeois or proletariat, could succeed under the impossible terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The substitution of the dictatorship of Hitler for the socialist government of Ebert was inevitable when the Allies refused to revise the peace terms. Now persons of leftist political leanings, communists and socialists and of "non-aryan" descent, the Jews, are ousted from public office and private positions and are regarded by the Nazi as responsible for the military defeat in 1918 and the humiliation at Versailles. The National Socialists or Nazi are not "socialists" at all; they are extreme nationalists backed by the industrial magnates of Germany. The cause of the proletarian has been crushed under the fist of dictatorship. Fascism Italy fell into the hands of a dictator before the revolt of the proletariat take definite form. Fascism did not attack the monarchy or parliamentary institutions, as had Russian Communism. It retained the form of these institutions, yet repudiated the conception of popular sovereignty. No party was allowed to exist except the Fascist party, and the principles of rigid discipline and force are its watch-word. Fascism recalls the grandeur of authority in ancient Rome, as against the class struggle of Marxism. Fascism is extremely nationalistic; it does not believe in the suppression of capitalism, or the existing economic class system. It is aggressive and has more than met the challenge of the proletariat. While Mussolini came direct from the ranks of the socialists he nevertheless is the most potent power in Europe today against any form of class struggle. AUSTRIA'S TROUBLES In Austria, immediately after the war the Social Democrats and Christian Socialists set up a provisional government by an almost bloodless revolution. In 1921 economic conditions became desperate, and by 1922 the League of Nations came to her aid with funds, but it was understood that this financial help was conditioned upon Austria's guarantee not to alienate her economic or territorial independence, and that she should not join with Germany. Vienna fell completely into the hands of the Social Democrats, and socialist municipal control was extended to a wide variety of fields. Outside of Vienna, for the most part, the Austrians were Christian Socialists and bitterly opposed to Marxian Socialism. The bitterness between Vienna and rural Austria expressed itself openly in the organization of two rival militant bodies, the agrarian Heinmewehr, and the Socialist Schutzbund. The program of the Heinmewehr, or Austrian Fascists, called for the overthrow of the Socialists in Vienna and union with Germany. The Schutzbund was concentrated in the industrial centers and was possessed of considerable quantities of munitions. The present Austrian Government under Chancellor Dollfus, with the help of Mussolini, has tried to build up a dictatorship that can keep the peace between these two militant factions. Coming from rural Austria, Dollfus hates the Vienna Socialists and the Schutzbund, on the one hand, and being an Austrian Nationalist he fears the German Nazi element in the Heimwehr on the other. Dollfus as a dictator in Austria meant certain defeat for socialism. It spelled defeat of the proletarian gains against the bourgeoisie that had been made in Vienna and other industrial centers, so the socialists took up arms and fought the rise of another European dictator. REVOLT IN PARIS The new epoch in Europe, despite the strain imposed by the World War, left the economic and political institutions of France much the same as they were before the war. France has maintained her traditional position as the center of nationalistic capitalism. France emerged on top after the war, and her secure economic and political position gave the French workers little or no opportunity to rise against the old order. To what extent the recent riots in Paris are an expression of a proletarian revolt is hard to determine, nevertheless the establishment of a government of "national union" under the leadership of Gaston Doumergue is significant in that it is designed to appease all factions and prevent a swing either to the right or to the left. The new Cabinet includes all political groups except the Communists and orthodox Socialists. The extreme right is represented by the reactionary Louis Marin, with Adrien Marquet, a leader of the Neo-Socialists, on the extreme left. The riots in the streets of Paris incited by the Stavisky scandal were directed at the Cabinet of Chautemps, which fell on January 27, and the new cabinet of Daladier met a similar fate on February 7. M. Daladier tried to save his cabinet by winning the support of the Socialists through the removal of Jean Chappe as prefect of police in Paris, but this act alienated him. He was then arrested and worked in curbing socialist and communist demonstrations. On February 6 riots against the Government developed into the severest test the present Republic has had to face. Casualties of 10 killed and over 300 injured in Paris alone were reported, to say nothing of the property damage. What is liable to happen in Europe it is impossible to say, but it seems reasonable to suppose that there will be class struggle, perhaps civil war, within the countries before there is war between them. As Mr. Norman Thomas has aptly said, "no government of Europe today wants to start a war, because none of the present day leaders know what their own people will do." The fourth phase of European history is in the making—it is a struggle between classes rather than between nations. Since these demonstrations the Royalist Right has gained new support, not because it espouses the cause of any pretender to the throne, but because it stands for authority. Incipient, yet unorganized, Fascist movements have started up primarily to crush any proletarian revolt, and secondarily to counter the German Nazi and Italian Fascist movements. A true artist is said to be one who can invoke momentary thought, though most of the thought is spent on the modern pictures by a person's trying to determine what it is the artist has painted. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN No.98 APPLICATION FOR SCHOLARSHIPS: Sunday, Feb. 25, 1934 Application for scholarships will be received in room 310 Fraser hall on Tuesday and Thursday, Feb. 27 and March 1, at 10:30, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Feb. 26, 28, and March 2, at 9:30, or appointment may be made by telephone. E. GALLOO, Chairman. Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:38 a.m. on Saturday foriday issues. The Christian Science organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Myers hall, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The Advanced Standing commission will not meet on Tuesday on account of the Y.W.C.A. Assembly. EMILY LORD. ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION: LUCIENE THOMAS, President FRESHMAN COMMISSION: The Freshman Commission will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30 at Henley house. Miss Mary Larson will continue the discussion of Student Life in Sweden All freshmen women are invited. MARY LOUISE ANDERSON. KAYHAWK CLUB: There will be an official meeting of the Kayhawk club tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS; at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building. ED. THOMAS, Vice President. Le Cercle Francais se reunira mercredi a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites. STEEL KEY: RUTH BARNARD, Secretaire. There will be a meeting of Steel Key on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 9 o'clock in room 102, Marvin hall. All members must be present, or excused by the president. ROBERT M. ARMSTRONG, Secretary. Regular meeting will be held at 5:30 on Tuesday at 1124 Mississippi street. The guest speaker will be Miss Naomi Light. ROWENA LONGSHORE. THETA EPSILON: A Y.W.C.A. assembly will be held in central Administration auditorium on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. Rev. Joseph F. King will speak on "Being vs. Doing." All University women are invited. FRANCES BALLARD. Y. W. C. A. ASSEMBLY; A.A. will meet Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 4:30. MARY ELIZABETH EDIE President . A. A. : Campus Opinion I suggest we look over the record of the Lawrence police department and notice the good work they have done in robberies, murders, and holdups. Balance the many successful activities against the few unsuccessful, such as the Rowlands' case. The verdict is overwhelmingly in favor of a rousing cheer for the police. I feel that the Mayor acted quite wisely in reinstating these officers, his only error being in suspending them in the first place. I imagine the officers have learned their lesson without us sticking our noses in city affairs. No lives were lost, as you suggested might have happened, and Rowlands have in years past drained enough out of students' Editor Daily Kansan: In last Tuesday's Kansas I noted your well-written editorial entitled, "Are We Stepping Backward?" and I am wondering if there are not two clear and distinct sides to the question of the blame to be placed on the four officers of the Lawrence police department, for their alleged blunder in regard to Rowlands' robbery. The editor in your column praised one officer who did it not sound like the words of our student editor of the Daily Kansan, but more like a political foe of the present city administration. I do not propose to make any excuses for the actions of the officers in regard to the robbery, but I don't want any Kanans readers to be misled as to the sincere, courteous officers. For years past the police of Lawrence have had to "put up with" the pranks, disturbances, drunkenness, and abuses of students of the University, and you haven't heard them whimper once. They placed faith untold in University students, trusting them time and time again where ordinarily they would have been cold-hearted as officers should be. They used to hire 15 to 20 students on the days of football games to aid in the recovery of a student, to be unreliable and yet the police didn't condemn them. So it was with the rober at Rowlands', a young man appearing to be a student, talking like a student, supposedly holding a job a student would likely have. Again the police trusted, this time they were fooled. And yet you condemn the police for their practice of being lenient with students. I can well imagine it would be a "horse of a different color" if the officers should, as a result of this unnecessary criticism, begin to hold students accountable for their breaches of the peace, speeding, drinking, and the like, as they do other citizens who are not under the protection of the title, "University Student." Your editorial column would likely be full of words asking why it is the police don't make exceptions of the students. After the way the public and the newspapers have criticised these officers, I wouldn't blame them at all if they cease to have that friendly attitude and respect toward us as students. There have been many times when these four officers could have put some of our best-known students in jail for the night for various breaches of the peace, and yet they didn't, and just because the offenders were students. Favor after favor has come our way, then we condemn our friends for an innocent mistake. pockets to pay for several such robberies, even though insurance companies usually stand such losses. By the way, Mr. Editorial Writer, do you work for Rowlands? - A.G.G. (The writer of the editorial in question is now and never has been an employee in any capacity with the above firm—The editor.) One favorable argument for the CSSEP is that it gives the college undergraduate a comprehensive knowledge of digging ditches. Ima Pledge says that she will be glad when Courtesy Week is over so she can come back up to earth. An Ober Spring Topcoat can make you feel like a new man. 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