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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1960
The Swastika
The world leaders are trying to stamp out the swastika-smearers.
A sploteny plague of Nazi insignias and anti-Jewish slogans has broken out from as far as West Germany to as near as Topeka.
Leading American Protestant clergymen — including evangelist Billy Graham—warn that the wave of Jew-baiting "shows a central organizing force of the same vicious type that existed in Nazi Germany."
Carl Sandburg, gentle-mannered poet and biographer of Lincoln, says that he is against capital punishment—but "was for" a death sentence for any man caught painting a swastika on a synagogue.
"Make the arrest and trial as quick as possible, then death and extinction," says Poet Sandburg.
He adds that "the swastika stands not for the murder of an individual or a few individuals, but for the death of a race. It is a symbol of race murder."
In Europe, thousands of young people in Paris and West Berlin demonstrated against a revival of Hitler-like radicalism. They marched through the streets shouting, "Down with the Nazis" and "Death to the hangmen."
In West Germany, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said he is revolted by the outbreak of anti-Semitism.
"Efforts to find the wire-pullers are now in progress. There are certain circles trying to compromise the federal government (of West Germany)."
The West German government has been mentioning "wirepullers" for several days but has not named them.
The anti-Semitic outbreaks first flared on Christmas Eve in West Germany. Since then the swastika smearing has spread to France, Italy, Britain, and finally to the U.S.
In the U.S., the teenagers seem to be carrying the campaign.
A number of high school youths have been arrested in New York and Ohio. Two boys were apprehended in Augusta, a small town near Wichita, and swastikas appeared at Topeka in front of a Methodist Church and on a mirror in a YMCA washroom.
Recently unidentified persons daubed swastikas on or around three of the four Jewish fraternity houses at the University of Missouri in Columbia. One of the two MU Jewish sororities was also marked.
Police are investigating the MU action, but Jack Matthews, dean of students, said he planned no investigation that he would not dignify the incident that much.
Dean Matthews said he believed that perhaps intoxicated persons did the painting, and that he knew of no anti-Semitic sentiment on the MU campus. He described the incident as regrettable.
The incidents are described as a number of things.
Benjamin R. Epstein, U.S. director of B'nai
B'rith's Anti-Defamation League—an organization that works against minority group discrimination — said that in New York the smearings were the work of imitators "excited by the dramatic aspect of the thing."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower called anti-Semitic demonstrations a "virus of bigotry" that must not be allowed "to spread one inch."
U. S. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-NY) said the wave of anti-Semitism is a "kind of chain reaction by ultra right-wing elements" set off "by the neo-Nazi spark in West Germany."
And in Germany, the German Reich Party (Neo-Nazis), under official scrutiny because of the swastika-swabbing, screamed, "Allies, get out."
Neo-Nazi party officials in Germany took hearty advantage of the publicity.
"We cannot bear any foreign troops on German soil. We don't want to have any atom bombs stored here just because France doesn't want them. We will not be idle if it comes to save Germany from disaster." They said:
Then the party leaders took pains to claim the party is not anti-Jewish. Three members were expelled after they were charged with defacing the Cologne synagogue on Christmas Eve. This incident started the world-wide wave of swastikas-smearing.
But this isn't any comfort to the West Germans.
President Heinrich Luebke told a group of diplomats that West Germany faces difficult times this year because of the tidal wave of swastika-smearings that started there and spread over all the world.
Germany, as a nation, seems to feel it must take a great deal of the responsibility for worldwide blight. West German police are arresting as many "hate-mongers" as they can track down.
The German school officials are threatening to crack down on teachers who refuse to tell their pupils the truth about Hitler and the Nazi era. The officials said this move was inspired by the recent wave of anti-Jewish acts—most of them carried out by youths who have had their schooling since World War II.
This is a point to consider.
Most of these German youths were only five to 10 years old when Hitler was injecting Germany with his radicalism. Has someone else been teaching undercover Hitlerism, or are the youths simply wanting to do something that is dangerous, exciting, and creating fantastic publicity with a minimum of thought or effort?
There is a possibility that German youth may be taught the romantic side of the super race, but it is improbable that American youth know much about it. American youth of the same age, as a general rule, either hear nothing at all or only "Hate Nazis."
The question is, do American youths realize what they are doing when they swab a building with swastikas? —Tom Hough
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"NAWA I ANT WORRIED ABOUT THIS! GO! MOST OF THE CLASS GOT ONE AN' SINCE A GRADE ON TH' CURVE I FIGGER IT WORTH A'C"
Letters
We of the College Bowl team wish to thank the Daily Kansan for the coverage which our activity received during the past two weeks. We also wish to thank the members of the student body and of the faculty for their fine support. Especially deserving of recognition are our fine coaches, Dr James Seaver, Dean George Wagoner, Dean Francis Heller, Dr Kim Griffin, and Mrs. Alan Forker. —The College Bowl Team
Team Says 'Thanks'
Editor:
senior Fred L. Morrison, Colby junior Cheryl Payer, El Dorado sophomore
Alan D. Latta, Wichita sophomore
Elinor Hadley, Kansas City, Mo. senior
With John Morrissey
Did you know that you can purchase brew in the Student Union? at the University of Wisconsin.
A girl friend of long time acquaintance once accused a buddy of mine of being narrow minded. "On the contrary," he replied, "Tm very broad minded."
Faculty Salaries
(Editor's Note—This is the second article in a series of four concerning a recent comparative report of 14 state-supported universities including KU.)
The University of Kansas ranks sixth among 14 selected state-supported universities in the amount of state support it receives and thirteenth in the amount it pays in salaries.
By Carrie Edwards
KU faculty salaries average $6,963 for a 9 to 10 month period.
This is $1,733 under the top reported average of $8,696 in wagegiving. It is only $44 above the lowest reported salary mean, or arithmetic average, of $6,919.
KU ranks sixth in the amount received in state appropriations and in per capita support. It is receiving $7,944,000 and $3.66 per capita from Kansans.
The highest salary being paid any KU professor is $16,000,and this is going to one faculty member who holds the title of "distinguished professor."
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said:
"$4,000 of this distinguished professors' salary is an annual gift from the Solon Summerfield estate to supplement the $12,000 received from state appropriations.
"If this $4,000 were not counted in computing the all-faculty salary average at KU,the pay average would be lowered $7—from $6.963 to $6.956."
If this were done, KU's faculty salary average would be just $37 above the lowest reported wage mean of $6.919. It would still be thirteenth in rank.
The current year's KU budget supposedly represented the time of a big pay boost for the professors and deans but for no one else.
A breakdown of the Colorado committee's report shows the average of KU's salary for professors alone jumping to $9,456 from last year's average of $8,816.
But even with this boost for the professor category, KU dropped from the eighth spot last year to tenth place this year in professors' salary average.
The 1958-59 salary mean for KU associate professors' pay reads $7,210, compared to this year's average of $7,044. This represents a slide from the eighth to thirteenth place in the associate professors' salary category for the 14 selected universities.
But KU's associate professors' wage average took a bounce backwards to make up for the forward step made by the professors and deans.
KU's all-faculty salary average also dropped from eighth to thirteenth between last year and this year. This step-down in relative position came in spite of a $188 raise in KU's all-faculty salary average of $6,963.
This year the all-school faculty salary average jumped upward $521. One university climbed from its 1958-59 position of thirteenth to the ninth spot. It raised its salaries an average of $1,113.
The comparative report included statistics from universities in Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Washington, Oregon, Indiana, Arizona, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia and North Carolina.
A code of letters is used for all the schools except the University of Colorado. UDK editors were told only the symbol representing KU in the report.
Statistics showed that only once during the last three academic years has any KU salary average exceeded the 14-university salary average. In the last school year KU's assistant professors' salary mean was $6,055, some $66 above the all-university assistant professors' salary average.
KU's faculty salary averages compare this way with the all-university pay averages in other cases:
All-faculty Salaries
1557-58—KU average: $6,299.
All-school average: $6,717.
1058-59—KU average: $6,775.
All-school average: $7,064.
1859-00—KU average: $6,963.
All-school average: $7,685.
Professors' Salaries
1957-58—KU average: $8,412.
All-school average: $9,000.
1958-59—KU average: $8,816;
All-school average: $9,343.
1959-60—KU average: $9,456.
All-school average: $9,968.
Associate Professors' Salaries
1957-58—KU average: $6,745.
All-school average: $7,022.
1958-59—KU average: $7,210.
All-school average: $7,295.
1959-60—KU average: $7,044.
All-school average: $7,766.
Assistant Professors' Salaries
1937-58—KU average: $5,747
All-school average: $5,857.
$6,055
1058-59—KU average: $6.055.
all-school average: $5,989.
1959-60—KU average: $6,341.
All-school average: $6,487.
Instructors' Salaries
1957-58—KU average: $4,345.
All-school average: $4,559.
1958-59 - KU average: $4,691.
All-school average: $4,742.
1959-60—KU average: $4,785.
All-school average: $5,037.
Dailu Hansan
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