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SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
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SUNDAY, APRIL, 24, 1927
WE SALUTE
Scholastic achievement will be recognized at the honors convention Monday, when students with exceptional grades will be presented to the University.
This annual ceremony of honor for those who have been faithful to the tasks of education during each year is only a degree of the recognition which some of these honor students may deserve.
All other activities about the University bring publicity and a great amount of recognition to the participant. And these activities may be the kind which require only spasmic effort, which bring the greatest honor.
The honor student has to keep faith with his work every day, and probably includes outside activities in his program, as well.
Therefore, with a right great grace,
we will say at Monday's ceremony,
"Hail to the honor student," instead
of giving a rah, rah for the football
king or kashkali ball.
JUSTICE OR MURDER?
The small shack East of Green Hall gives to our campus the aesthetic appeal of a remote corner of a barnyard.
On May 5, 1920, Nielia Saco and Bartolomeo Vanetti, the former a steady showworker, the latter a prosperous fish-peddlers, were arrested on the charge of having participated in a payroll robbery committed in South Braintree, Mass., which resulted in the murder of two men.
More than a year later the men went on trial, were convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair. A motion for retrial was made, based on the glaring fallacy of evidence presented to the jury, but it was denied. The men were held in jail pending appeals.
A few weeks ago, nearly seven years after the murder, the supreme court of Massachusetts denied an appeal for a new trial, and it was decreed that the men die on July 10. Pardon by Governor Fuller is all that can save the men now from the electric chair.
Since the recent decision a storm of protest has swept the civilized world. Laborers in foreign countries have gone on strike; unions are sending petitions to the Massachusetts executive asking pardon for the men; the School of Law at Harvard has made an investigation into the case, and declared that a new trial should be held; Professor Frankfurter has written a critical review; free speech societies and lawyers have written letters of protest; but the governor has said nothing.
There are few who are denying that the two may not be guilty, but there are many who are defending the courts, not as perfect instruments of justice, but as the best means of obtaining that end. They believe that the decision of the courts should be final. Why, they say, should we dig up something that is history?
The circumstances of the first trial itself are one answer. In 1920 the American public was still insane from the war fever. The two men were connected with radical propaganda, and were under suspicion of the de
mentation of justice at Washington Recent evidence of former agents of the department points to the conclusion that this agency of the national government was directly connected with the prosecution of the case. During the trial the point at issue was buried under the barrage of accusations ranging from dodging the draft to speaking disrespectfully of Harvard. Their identification as murderers rests on doubtful and discredited evidence, and on testimony of a gun expert, given in secret and alleged to have been later falsified, to prove that the bullet found in the body of one of the murdered men was from Saco's gun. The circumstances of the first trial are sufficient warrant for the new trial.
A second answer is the confession of Madeiros, with a consequent substantial body of evidence in the form of affidavits and corroborating circumstances tending to show that the crime was committed by the notorious Morelli gang. The nature of the crime itself points to professional work. The confession of Madeiros completely exonerates Sacco and Vanzetti.
The point at issue is not so much whether Saacco and Vanzetti are guilty, but whether we should no sanction our courts that they in their camberameness and their inadequate response to public opinion cease to be instruments of justice and become instruments of murder actuated by mob spirit. The Massachusetts courts have withdrawn within their sanctity, and have refused to be scrutinized, in much the same way that the old courts of inquisition used to maintain their autocracy.
Those who have a deep desire for justice hope that Governor Fulter rebakes the learned judges by pardoning the men. What a sharp relief this would be, for the courts were not asked for pardon or a reversal of opinion, but only to give the man another opportunity to prove their innocence.
"THE MESSIAH"
"The Messiah," composed in 1741 and first presented by the composer in Dublin the following year, has come down to us from its first popularity to world-wide significance. Whenever choral works are mentioned, Handel's masterpiece is given a high ranking.
Perhaps the very circumstances under which it was first written and presented are sufficient reasons for its popularity. There were neither orchestral nor choral resources at Dublin for a work of gigantic proportions. So this choral work, which was written to fit into the conditions of the time, comes within the limitations of a vast number of amateur choral societies. The wonder that Handel could include so much in a work that is within the comprehension of so many amateur organizations.
"The Messiah" is not easy. The choral society that can present it effectively must practice diligently and efficiently. And its performance is not limited to strictly amateur societies. In this respect the Messiah is like a Beethoven sonata. A student can present a soma in an interesting manner, but there is still a vast difference between the student's performance and that of an artist.
So when we hear the overture, the opening recitative and air for the tenor, and then the chorus rising to grandure in "And the Glory of the Lord;" when bass comes out with "And the Trumpet Shall Sound;" when we stand, as the king of England stood when the majestic "Hallelujah" was first presented in his presence; when we listen to the favorite air, "I know that My Redeemer Liveeth," and when we revel in the climax of the mighty "Amen" (for, after all, the chorus is the most important) it will be significant not only that some of us are listening to the work for the fourth time, but more than throughout this country there are hundreds of other audiences that are listening to the same oratorio. And we can be thankful that the necessities of the Lenten season turned Handel from the writing of operas to that of oratorios.
The fourth annual honorary conference will be held Monday, April 25, at 10 a.m., in Johnson gymnasium. Dr. Will Durant will speak at the event. ANDREW SCHLIDER
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
CONVOCATION:
There will be no rehearsal on Sunday afternoon. Rehearsal will be held from 5 to 6 p.m., Monday, in Robinson gymnasium. This will be a final rehearsal.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB:
OFERCIAL UNIVERSITY
Vol. VIII Sunday, April 24, 1927 No. 162
The Men's Glo Club will ring at convention Monday morning at 10
Members are requested to meet back of the stage in the gymnasium.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
There will be a meeting of the department of English on Monday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m., in room 295, Fraser hall.
W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
The Mathmation Club will meet Monday, April 25, in room 291, enclosing Administration building, at 3:30 p.m. Please note the change in time. Miss Babcock will talk on "Determinants." There will be election of officers. MARIEL J. HEPZELLE, President.
GERMAN CLUB:
BETA CHI SIGMA:
Professor Hollands, of the department of philosophy and psychology will have charge of the meeting of Beta Chi Sigma, April 25. Dr. R. H. Wheley will review the latest book of Hollingsworth, "The Psychology of Thinking" Beta Chi Sigma meets every May at the University of Chicago. C. GARKEY, President.
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