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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Governor Woodring has a difficult task on his shoulders.
There is a certain portion of the population of Kansas which desires this return to barbarism. It represents a body of men and women who feel that they have the best interests of Kansas at heart, who are sincere in their belief that the number of murders in Kansas will drop if Kansas installs the electric chair. They feel that organized crime will get ahead of the state if something is not done and done quickly.
On this last point they are right. They err by not going deeply enough. They err because they want immediate action, without a thorough and complete study of crime in Kansas. They are impulsive but well-intentioned.
Before the governor signs the bill for capital punishment it is to be hoped that he will consider the following procedures in order that Kansas may step into the front rank among the states in the scientific handling of crime:
1. A crime commission of a fact-finding nature, headed by an expert, unharmed by political attachments, should be given an adequate amount of money, freedom with responsibility, and time to study (a) crime conditions peculiar to Kansas and (b) theories of expert criminologists as to the best methods of shaping legislation to meet the situation in Kansas.
2. The development of social work, especially the guidance of children's groups into social and constructive channels should be heartily encouraged, and state appropriations should be made to develop such work.
3. Research as to the best methods for newspapers to handle crime news should be carried on, and the news should be informed of these methods.
4. The ideal of institutional life for criminals should be changed from vengeance and vindictiveness to re-educating and readjusting criminals in social ways by studying each case individually, so that they will leave prisoners fitted to be normal members of society again.
5. The indeterminate sentence, probation, and parole should be modified and improved for the greatest possible effectiveness; justice should be quickened and made sure, not more harsh; the systems now prevailing in other countries have been studied and copied insofar as they are better than our own.
These suggestions are only tentative measures. They are related not only to capital punishment, but to the whole field of crime, which is becoming a problem much faster than the police and law enforcement can cope with it are being improved.
It is to be hoped that the state will turn more and more to reliance on intelligent, independent, and honest experts who are familiar with the field of criminology. In doing this, it may be necessary to withstand much pressure from the general public; it will take time; there will be diminished opportunities for dramatic damage, but in the long run such reflective
The abolition of capital punishment has been an ideal of Kansas for 60 years. To return hastily to older methods seems unwixy to many.
efforts will be more successful than more yielding to popular demand.
A baby camel, born to one of a show herd located at 101 Ranch in Oklahoma, has been christened "Wickersham." The name implies incongruity, but then we suppose that the point.
HOW TO BE A SOCIAL SUCCESS
College students don't study. We have heard it so often it must be true. But why don't they study?
What is the good of knowing facts and dates which will never be used? The decline and death of conversation may be one cause. In the English Uni-
may be one cause. In the English University a cup of tea and a conversation among friends and acquaintances is considered something of a social event, but in the American University—a twelve piece band, a movie, a bridge game or at least a tankful of gas are necessary requirements for a successful evening.
What's the use of learning? You can get by successfully by studying a bridge manual, taking a few dawning lessons, keeping up on the movie magazines and being careful never to express an idea which would start a real conversation. You won't be prepared to prepare us for American life! They are, and that's the trouble.
A pedestrian, frightened by the sharp blast of a horn, hit an offensive motorist over the head with a milk bottle. Hereafter the driver had best woo like a cow if he expects safety.
THESE MILD PRISON SYSTEMS
A prisoner, and a World War veteran, died Sunday in solitary confinement at Joliet, in the Illinois state penitentiary. He had thrown a quantity of food on the kitchen floor, and had also stolen some butter, according to Warden Hill. Like all other prisoners who are put in solitary confinement, he had a chance to defend himself before a deputy warden. Deputy wardens in the American prison systems are intelligent men who know so much that they do not have to pass any kind of an examination to get their jobs. Bias and personal feeling never enter into their judgments.
Replying to the charge of cruelty, Warden Hill said, "Men in solitary cells are required to stand four hours twice a day with their hands menaced to the bars of the door. They are examined daily by the prison physician and if for any reason they show signs of physical fatigue, they are required to stand in the handcuffed position for a shorter period." Eight hours a day in one position, and still not show signs of physical fatigue? It is impossible for a man to stand still that long and not be very tired.
Then prison physicians are often overworked. They have more duties than it is possible for one doctor to
perform. Proof of this statement is furnished by the situation under consideration. A physician, or several physicians, would find it impossible to
the physical condition of the various men in a prison the size of the penitentiary at Juliet. Coakley, the man who died, had just recovered from an attack of influenza, and in all probability was in a poor physical condition, but the doctor said he was not too fatigued to stand eight hours a day. Coakley also needed heat, and Warden Hill said the solitary cells were warm; but the dead man's body was found leasing against the radiator Sunday morning. The radiator cannot have been very warm.
But later that is 18 a.m. The criminal should need heavy punishment If a few die in the brutal deaths are the thing. Circumstances under which crimes are committed make no difference. If the criminal is a pathological case, he should be dead anyway. Pour on the punishment. That will bring results.
But then that is all right. The criminals of today need heavy punishment
So far as we have gathered from the W. S. G. A. election, the returns were encouraging to Little.
A new projector of light is so strong that a newspaper can be read five miles away. That is about the right distance for the average person who reads the tabblids and wants to keep from being nauseated.
Mayor "Bill" Thompson of Chicago declares "he wears no man's halter." We suppose he leaves that for the animals in his zoo.
"Pedestrians discuss traffic situation."
A worms-eye view of the problem, we suppose.
The R. O. T. C. men will have white pants and white gloves—maybe a gardenia in their buttonhole, too.
Many American women, a writer in Harper's said recently, are taking their reading so seriously that they have begun to consider their husbands as Babbatha. Apparently this is not true of Kansas City women. They regard their husbands, we take it, as martyns
Campus Opinion
--new-found estate, for it appeared that a new defense which should enable the Crimson in the quietude of a lecture hall to average many a defeat handled it on the grid.
--new-found estate, for it appeared that a new defense which should enable the Crimson in the quietude of a lecture hall to average many a defeat handled it on the grid.
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Editor Daisy Kanan:
In this column appeared a few days ago, when he presented 'R. O. T. C Opposition' by Mr Frank McClelland in which was the item that 10,000 college students have signed petitions against compulsory military training.
Of the entire student body this 10,000 represents perhaps a little more than 1 per cent. Do the others feel convinced? Or do they concede to give consideration?
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These 10,000 are but a small portion of the students of the colleges and universities of the several states. The number is not large, and there are ten of thousands who are unable because of physical disability or class conflicts to give this training to be given of the chance to be trained to be given have a fair chance in the stifle of life.
The agitation against R. O. T. C. is made, we discover, by persons who are willing and ready to accept the proclamation of democracy and who would immediately make protest if such protection were inadequate. But do they themselves recognize that the training of the people "provides for the common defense"? according to Preamble of Constitution of the U. S. If the government of the United States recognizes that the training of reserve officers is so important as to require a clause in the National Defense Act to pointed saviors of the country to give consideration to other than their personal feelings which tend to be hammers on the "promotion of the general welfare."
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To give Mr. McClelland a view of the more mature reflections upon such agitations I can only quote from the Army and Navy Register, March 7.
"These youngsters who are parading their immaturity of idea, undevelopment of intellect, and imperfection of logic, in the high-sounding title of liberalism, should not be taken too seriously, even by those senators whose vanity they are feeding. It may be a waste of time and effort to ignore them or to treat them to get excited over the prospect that this agitation, perpetrated by a delegation from the student liberal club, is going to rock, much less wreck. They must have with its convulsion over "compulsions."
A COMMUNICATION
Thoroman.
I wonder if you will give one who is in a rank outsider but who is also an insider to the Wall Street and around "the Hill" space to impulse how many members of the WhyClub noted the curious inconsistency in the Wall Street report that the Kansan of March 10. Mr. Happgood we are told, "ridiculed the reasoning which a tributes unemployment and employment market has given a little later in his address declared that wages are not high enough to meet the overburdened market." The burdened thinker might inquire how it happens that there is an overburdened market — there has been no over-production.
Editor Daily Kansan:
An Insistence
An Inconsistency
Charles F. Scott.
H. Mappooh's remedy for poverty and unemployment in the nationalization in which this plan has been tried it has reduced people's poverty than they had even known, and has replaced unemployment with forced labor—at labor
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Cambridge—(UP)—All's quiet on the intellectual front. Harvard, holder of the interlegible hard thinking championship by virtue of its single victory in the 2013 FA Cup, in the memorable brain battle of 182, cannot find a fitting foe for 1531.
It was three years ago that a hand-picked team of 10 Harvard mental giants sat in a local lecture hall and soundly squished the Yale's team of 10 in an English literature examination coercively in Cambridge and New Haven.
Attempts to Make Brain Battle Annual Institution Fail When College Refuse Challenge
After that Harvard rejoiced in its
Four Brothers Enrolled:
Each in Separate Class
Not since "way back when" have four brothers been in school here at the same time in the four different classes. This is the case of the Ericke School of Engineering, and has done commendable work in radio. Harold belongs to the junior class in the same school, while Lowell is a freshman computer science student. Outstanding voice and is enrolled in the College, preparing a foundation for musical work later. He is a member of the Presbyterian club and of the Presbyterian chair.
The scholarship of each is rallied in high school and works as he works his way through school. David, Maurice, and Lowell are each awarded at the Harvard Radio show. The four of them live together and each in his turn has helped the younger to attend college.
Eighty-one students from foreign countries and the mainland United States are registered as regular student monitors, according to figures published in the faculty-student directory last week. This is an increase of 20 over the figures for last year released in the foreign countries and 24 states are represented.
Three brothers are the only children in the family, and their home is in Clifton, Kan. This year is the only year that they will all be in school together.
"The Birth of a New Religion"
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That the brain battle would become an annual institution assured seemed assured since Mrs. William Lowell Pfister, sister of the president, A. Lawrence Lowell, has established a $125,000 fund to provide yearly awards to the winning
But while plenty of undergraduates good and still stand "to do or die" they are not always able to parachute. Parents rarely unsurmountable obstacles have cropped out. Yale never mental resuscitation, but they trained the initial brain braint and cannot be induced to meet the Crimes again on their own.
Advances were made to Prinnette, a rat reluctantly, perhaps, in view of the fact that she had been one of these former "Big Three" rivals who long since been swerved. The Tiger too was unable to get around paper as weapons. A challenge to Cambridge University of England was to
It is understood that Harvard in recent weeks has approached one or more universities with proposals to do something doesn't develop pretty soon, the Crimson brain square will take it.
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