PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927 University Daily Kansap Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Taylor Editor, Magazine Larry Watson News Editor Lauren Watson Night Editor Kenneth W. Johnson Plain Tie Editor G. H. Roberts Paint Tie Editor G. Gayrens Sunday Supplement Jessica Tinkler Sunday Supplement Mary E. Filii Marylean Fillet Jacob Melendez Alumni Editor Frank Tiffany Charles Edisonor Charley Alden Gordon Linton Glayda Flinon Kathleen Kline Graham Carter Lauren Catterall Ranell Winstonebeth Chris Stirrime Mary Greenblatt John Sparks G. H. Mankwara Robert Slightman Advertising Manager...W. Morgan Co- nst. Advert. Marketing ...R. John. Monee- Circulation Manager...James T. Newton Foreign Adv. Merg...R. M. Dale Telephone: Business Office K. U. 66 News Room K. U. 25 Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Wisconsin, in The Press of the Department of Journalism. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1010, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1897. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927 THE PULLMAN PORTERS Has the Negro the right to organize? That is the question today which is the central issue in the grievances of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters against the Pullman company. The porters have organized, successfully too; but they are encountering serious opposition from the Pullman company. The leaders of the organization movement have been dismissed from the employ of the company, and the brotherhood asserts that the company is resorting to intimidation of the porters to prevent their joining the union. As a consequence organization is being carried on secretly, and the extent of membership is not publicly known. Although the brotherhood is less than a year and a half active groups have been formed in more than twenty important cities. This is remarkable in view of the fact that the porters are endangering their jobs by joining the brotherhood. There is little doubt that the Pulliman company maintains an espionage system for the detection of union porters. Too many members of the brotherhood have been discharged for the contrary view to be sustained, George L. Collins, secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who joined the brotherhood out of sympathy with the movement, relates that on a recent trip he met two porters who had been traveling together for several years, neither of whom knowing that the other belonged to the porters' union, but both suspecting him of being a spy until he discharged his union card. Through the efforts of A. Philip Randolph, editor of a widely-read Negro magazine, and the leaders who were discharged by the Fulman company, the brotherhood has appealed to the U. S. Mediation board of the Department of Labor for adjudication of specific grievances. These grievances they list as interference with the right to organize, insufficient sleep, insufficient wages, unduly long hours of work, and "doubling-out" on runs. They are asking for 240 hours of service in a month instead of nearly 400 hours now in effect, the贮雇 of the tipping system, and minimum wages of $150 a month in place of the now monthly average of $78.11. This approximates the privileges now granted to the Pulman conductors. The porters have back of them the sentiment of an appreciative public. From all over the country letters have been to Edwin P. Morrow, former governor of Kentucky, who is hearing the grievances specified by the brotherhood. From the University 120 students and faculty members have formed a Students-Citizens committee and drafted a statement in behalf of the porters which has been sent to the U. S. Mediation board, the Pullman company and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In all America there are no more courteous, faithful, industrious and intelligent public servants than the porters. They are deserving of the undivided support of the public which they have so well served. ANOTHER CROSSING ACCIDENT DENT as time it took to look University students. Frank and George Coleman paid the price of another railroad crossing accident. Though it was on a temporary road and a particularly bad crossing at that, the mishap, irreverible and unforgettable, points out the crying need for reduction of railroad crossings, more protection through mechanical devices, and greater caution. The Kanun wishes to convey a message of deep sympathy to the beloved relatives at the same time expressing confidence in the hope that this misfortune will prove a sacerdote in the progress toward ultimate relief from all dangerous grade crossings. The time must come when crossing accidents will not be tolerated, when every means to their prevention will be applied; when it will not be necessary to sacrifice lives to inefficient management. Just as we had the world was getting "back to normaly" the Anglican church banished St. Valentine from the new prayer book calendar. A BLANKET OF SNOW A blanket of snow covered the fields of Kansas when the Senate passed the M.Nary-Huogen bill. Quite oldly that coveret of snow typified the hosped for attentions of the famous agricultural aid proposition in more ways than one. Many dollars were potentially added to the value of the 1927 wheat crop because of the protective and moisture-laden covering of snow. A similar increase in value is the goal of the McNary-Haugen measure now awaiting house approval. To the eye of an artist the ordinarily drab Kansas plains take on a new beauty from the covering of snow hiding its winter blimps. Likewise the political artists backing the McMary-Hungen bill seek to hide with it the inefficiencies of their legislation. As this point the wounded are The snow actually does enhance the growing wheat; but the proposed agricultural bill attempts the same end in a purely artificial manner. While the farmer may be momentarily led to believe he has been greatly benefited by this piece of tom-foolery, perhaps long enough to re-lect his esteemed representative, he will find that no bootstrap legislation can increase the earning power of his farm. Under present conditions of low-priced农产品 due to over-production, any piece of legislation that seeks to maintain a high price for those commodities artificially will prove expensive beyond reason. Establishment of a high level of prices in order to make farming profitable will without question increase the present over-production, with resultant conditions worse than before. That legislation cannot cure farmills, can at best only alleviate them temporarily, almost every thinking farmer knows. But just why congressmen are not astute enough to know that their methods will act as a boomerang is difficult to say. It is enough to know that the best solution to the present agriculture evils is diversification, and then to hope that some day Congress will replace its plumb-pulling tactics with encouragement to the farmer to invest his efforts in varied ways. Doubtless, however, between the help of nature and his own methods, haphazard though they may be, the farmer will find his own salvation in spite of Congress. At the Concert By John Shively Mariana Kurенко "took" the audience last night in her concert. The listeners clung to every word, every phrase she said, and even when she it passed without dispute that Mme. Kurenkova had a beautiful voice. It not only was clear, but it contained a certain plaintive quality that gave full expression to her emotions. She skied, ran scales with lightning rapels, and then she wished to roll the most effect --- The attribute that munks Muse, Kurenko a great artist is her personality. Its charm added much even to the showy arna from "The Barber of Valentine celebration at the home of Doctor Walker, 1645 Louislin, to night, Feb. 15, at 7:30. TWILA SHOOKMAKER, Secretary. PHI LAMBDA SIGMA. MU TAU ALPHA: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. VIII Tuesday, 15 February, 1927 No. 309 There will be an important meeting at Westminster hall Wednesday evening at 7. All members please be there. PE LAMBIA THIRTA! 13 Lambia Thirta will meet at Harbor House Wednesday evening at 7:20 TWILA SHOEMAKER, Secretary. MARY ELLEN SPAUR, President. Regular meeting of W, A, A, will be hold Wednesday at 4:30 p. m. Board meeting at 4 p. m. TWILA SHOEMAKER, Secretary. W. A. A. : KAPPA PHI: Regular business meeting and election of officers Wednesday evening at 7:39 at the house of Mrs. Eldin Foibrue, Price 1, Bristol Ohio. Impatient that every event is timely, the business meeting will be held on Thursday. BETHANY CIRCLE: A called meeting for all Bethany Circle members will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in the Bettynny room at Myers hall. This is a very important meeting. All members must be there. RUTH SHAP, President. Professor Herr will speak at the Botany Club at 1121 Louisiana, Wednesday evening at 7:15. W, F, CRIER, President. ROTANY CLUB Rehearsal will be held Wednesday night in room 302, central Administration film, at 7:18 instead of 7:20 because of the inter-corrory contest singing. MEN'S GLEE CLUB: COMPUTER CLUB: "The Capitalist Club will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. There is some important business pending, so everyone try to be present." THI SIGMA: J. CLIFFORD JONES, Secretary. Seville." In all of her program there was a certain daintainess. This manifested itself particularly in "My Love in a Fisherman," a song which is so often given with greater vigor and less of subdued melancholy. Mice, Karenko was emotional, but this was expressed more through the quality of her voice and the fine shading of her numbers than through any great vocal display. She used all her friends to portray the simple sadness of Bey Ay Blue," he said. "but she kept the emotional within the sounds of simplicity. To say what number or what group was the best is to set a doubtful arbitrary standard. Her program must have been built with an impressive brilliant performance, hunch group was balanced with light, tiny numbers and more serious melancholy songs. 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