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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Senior Law Explains How State Auditor Mussed Up Faculty
Teachers' Salaries For Two Months Held Up Because of Discovered Technicality
New Ruling Causes Trouble
Board of Administration Uses Counter-Technicality That Gives Temporary Relief
Students of psychology returning to the University today declared that already they had detected a new influence, a subtle, sinister stimulus from which the members of the faculties were reacting vaguely in strange and disturbing ways that are not readily detected by crass observers. The faculty members so reacting the psychology students said, apparently are entirely unconscious of an abnormal attitude on their part and are unwaware than an unusual setting element has penetrated their mind and caused a psychotic condition.
The foregoing opinion was submitted to a well known senior law who arrived on the noon train today and he replied that the psychology students were, as usual, shooting bunc.
"There's nothing the matter with the faculty," said the senior law, "except that they're all missed up financially. The state auditor has been monkeyin' with their salaries all summer and you can't blame a lot of them." "Well," she drew a teacher's salary and a state auditor stopped it or held it up, through no fault of yours, I guess your aura would have the pip, too.
"Don't these psychology students ever read the papers?" the senior law added. "There's been a lot about that salary injustice printed this summer and they ought to have seen some of it. However, for their benefit and for the engineers, who also seem to have trouble pickin' out small print, I'll recite the whole book." She then goes on to feare, de minimis est no cura lex, in loco parentis and all that. Here goes:
"Along last summer after all of us had gone to Fort Riley, the farm and other places a bunch of profs were laboring here to inject a medium of erudition into six or some students' student journals that's some job, "she" I hate to work on a summer student. Me for the undertaking business first.
"Well those profs were plugging away hoping to make enough to square themselves with the grocer and meet the last delinquent payment on the encyclopaedia when this auditor person, name's Knapp, discovers an amusing check in his library checks sent to each of the summer profs. Yes, sir, 'double-o-of'em, two count, om. You know he rather got off on the wrong foot when he accused a lot of poor devils of fee grabbin' last winter, but here now was a real chance. He had 'eam at last. Sure, n't the whole faculty of the jiggers, the aggregator and mollbuzzers, n't the engineering and medic profs all second storymen and con workers and the only reason the law profs haven't been pinched for liftn' leathers was because they never'd had a chance.
"Say, I been practicin' in justice of the court this summer and I learned
"Well the auditor asks the chancellor in all very sweet and polite, 'How are you, Mr. Auditor; you're lookin' fine, Mr. Chancellor.' Just as sweet and dainty and the chancellor sits through the little expose of his life, he smiles with a smiled patiently, I am advised in the premises, and he wilted nary a wilt.
"You see it's this way," the chancellor explains to the auditor. "The state employs its regular faculty for nine months teaching, just as other universities do, instead of paying the salaries in nine installments, the state splits the total salary for the nine months work into twelve installments and pays one of those twelfths each month. The state ought to pay for the work the work is doing, but instead the work is finished, but the salaries for three months—- a thing that is absolutely unfair and untenable in equity, I'll say that.
EVERYTHING ALMOST ALL RIGHT
"Well the chancery tells him how these fellows won't get their pay for all last winter's work until this September and that the other checks they were getting were for the sum of material teaching work in summer school.
“Well, of course, the auditor saw that everything was square and that everybody had a right to those checks and that nobody was being paid down to 'em. Down to 'em. Seemed like everything was going to be all right then.
“An everything might of been all right, too, if the end of the state fiscal year had’t come along about that time an ascombody had didn’t want to pay taxes. And I found it out some way. Yes, sir, right there was where trouble began and if I was a faculty member and I ever saw that guy that went and the auditor when the state fiscal was sure would take him to a trimmin!”
"After he lays the facts before the
narrary general the corpus delectus
deliciates."
BRINGS IN CORPUS DELECTI "You see the fiscal year ends June 30. They ain't no New Year's in January, so far as money is concerned. New Year's' begins July 1 New Year's' begins July 1 that all that out, too--some folks just can't keep their mouths shut, and he has the attorney general in.
"Old teachers who worked last winter were hired with money available in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1915, and ending June 30, 1917, see. Old teachers who worked last winter had their salaries date from September 1, under the state's unanticipated end of the mentis, system of paying teachers at the University and the agricultural college. The old teachers, naturally, couldn't draw their full salaries until a full year had rolled round. While that full year was rollin' 'round the fiscal year comes to an end, so the student has caveat emptor. What does that do? Why that leaves the old teachers with two months old salary comin' to 'em for last fiscal year's work and here's a new fiscal year buttin' in and the auditor dament touch a penny of new fiscal year money to pay for old work done in an old fiscal year. That's the law and the status and any other kind of penalty would issue immediately ad ventus est and where'd the state auditor be? Where'd he be? I ask you.
"You fellows who know law, can not get hep to the gravity of this situation," he said.
ence that the boards of administration and the two big state institutions, the other auditors and the governors had been paying money this way the last fourteen years the auditor had found now it wasn't legal and he wasn't going to do it a-tall. He didn't either.
HOLD ANOTHER CONFERENCE
"So they has in the chancey, the head of the aggies, the board of administration, the attorney general and all the other necessary factotums this time. The auditor explains. He's sorry. The law there's. Everybody agree that the law does look right for the authorities on board and the aggie guy asks to know how about the injustice-that'll do a lot of women, as well as men who are supportin' families on small salaries. All of 'em are innocent victims of the state's system of paying teachers, and now they are to be made to suffer further hardship because of a technicality. But auditor, he stands firm, standerence profusus." Blackstone might get how it goes, it might be considered incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial here, so we can leave it out.
A COUNTER-TECHNICALITY
"Well, that's a pretty warm meeting, I understand. Seems the auditor wasn't tickled some time ago at something some agricultural college fellow did when he was helpin' run a fair out somewhere, an' he brought that up 'an' the top side man of that stand for any monkey business and isn't afraid to 'nounce his convictions right out.
HOLD ANOTHER CONFERENCE
"But they didn't budge the auditor. So they say we'll just dig up a little technicality of our own and they date says we'll make the school year date from July 1, instead of from September 1, and you'll begin paying teachers two months before they do work instead of two months after they quit work. And they did and he did. But they did to the teachers who did and quit school and for any other reason. They haven't any next year's salary coming to 'em.
"What'll they do?" Why they'll just have to wait until the legislature convenes in 1919. Sure, it's tough, res rotten in Denmark non quam supra - I forget how that goes, too, but it fits in very fine here. Get a freshman law to look it up for you. Everybody ought to know that.
"How're these guys that didn't get pay goin't to live?"
"You can search me. Tain't their
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Faculty Members Promoted
This store is not going backward, or even standing still. Like the University itself, it is going ahead.
Nine Promotions and Seven Appointments—Others Take Leave of Absence
H. B. Hungerford, associate professor of entomology.
G. J. Hool, professor of mechanical drawing;
R. E. Carter, associate professor of education;
E. B. Stouffer, associate professor of mathematics;
Nine promotions and seven permanent appointments were announced Saturday from the office of Chancellor Frank Strong. Along with these promotions and appointment announcements, five instructors were granted leave of absence. The department of physical education and the School of Engineering suffered the most in the granting of these furious, aloof, disgruntled school and department in the University cost some of its best men and women.
The changes and promotions are:
C. A. Dykstra, professor of history;
C.
B. F. Moore, associate professor of political science;
May Gardner, assistant professor in Romance Languages;
Helen Maud Clarke, assistant professor in correspondence study;
mechanical engineering;
housing, assistant professor of
biodiversity.
professor in orthopedic surgery. J. D. Garner, assistant professor of
Frank L. Brown, assistant professor of mechanics:
J. D. Garfer, assistant professor of mechanical engineering;
W. M. Duffus, assistant professor of computer
of economics.
Grace Miriam Charles, assistant
Grace Mithrath 'Charles', assistant
process of botany;
and Ralph H. McIntosh, assistant
Josephine May Burnham, assistant professor of English;
J. W. Evans, assistant professor of journalism.
James Naismith, professor of physical education.
Perley F. Walker, Dean of the School of Engineering and professor of Physics at Columbia University.
Lindsey Stephen Milne, professor of medicine;
Walter Samuel Hunter, professor of psychology;
Frank E. Jones, superintendent of Fowler Shops and assistant profes-
Charles Cochran, assistant professor of mechanical drawing;
H. A. Roberts, assistant professor of civil engineering;
Leon B. McCarty, assistant professor of physical education.
Clarence B. Francisco, assistant professor in orthopedic surgery.
professor in orthopedic surgery;
french, assistant professor of
journalism;
Donald G. Paterson, instructor in psychology;
W. C. Stevens, professor of botany,
first semester;
F. H. Billings, professor of bacteriology;
E. F. Engle, professor of German, first semester;
first semester;
Alberta L. Corbin, associate pro-
Arthur, Gelfman
Arthur, Mitchell, professor of phil-
onomy;
Dinsmore Alter, associate professor of astronomy;
Lita Battey, instructor of the teaching of English;
L. E. Whittemore, instructor in physics:
Ray V. Brewster, instructor in chemistry.
Cheerleader Greeted General Wood
Delivering the welcome address at the huge reception given to Major General Leonard E. Wood, when he was presented with a medal for honor given to Lawrence B. Morris, former cheerleader at the University. Major General Wood recently arrived at Camp Funston to take charge of the national army encampment there, which is the largest in the United States. It was in response to the state of a relations committee that Mr. Morris spoke at this meeting in honor of one of the country's best generals.
Graduated from the University in 1913, Mr. Morris is now county at-力 for Garvey County. His law practice has been a big success in Junction City.
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