YAF: 135 years too late
The Far Right, always a curious souvenir of Americana, is outdoing itself in its attempt to keep up with the rest of the country.
Keep up with the advertisement in yesterday's Daily Kansan paid for by the younger members of the "grass roots" crowd, the Young Americans for Freedom.
The ad, which was an officious-looking thing, took 50 column inches to critique the Sadler Report (remember your Western Civ) for giving our society an unfair picture of "nearly laissez-faire capitalism."3
IN CASE YOUVE FORGOTTEN, the Sadler Report is a survey of working conditions in English industry. It was made public in 1832, a mere 135 years ago.
But according to the Young Americans, that Report is as nasty as Lenin's beard.
As those Young Americans preach it, the Sadler Report and its tales of prison cell working conditions were all wrong—those nine-year-old children enjoyed their 50-hour week.
But aside from such alleged factual errors of Mr. Sadler's report, the Young Americans are most horrified that such an expose brought government interference into their opaque bubble
of capitalism—it seems that some socialistic Members of Parliament thought the 1832 child labor laws to be rather lax.
Furthermore, it seems that the Young Americans have chafed at the governmental bit for all those 135 years, arguing violently that government circa 1832 had deprived those young Britons of a living and, consequently, deprived all those capitalists from capitalizing on such cheap and expendable labor.
PERHAPS IT IS FUTILE to remind the KU Young Americans that their campaign to vindicate the Capitalism of the Really Good Old Days is as fruitless and as unfortunate as Karl Marx's attempt to measure history with a cash register.
If they truly believe that they have the historic right, based on their refutation of a 135-year-old event, to devastate our economic system of today, I don't think we'll be able to tell them much of anything.
In fact, I think we'll all have to put our tongues in our cheeks and see what the Young Americans have to say, for instance, about the Louisiana Purchase or some similar governmental crime.
—Dan Austin
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The people say...
To the editor:
This week's KU Newsletter and the Official Bulletin of the Feb. 27 issue of the UDK contained an announcement of the Psi Chi lecture on LSD Therapy by Dr. Robert Soskin. On the opposite page was a short article about the lecture. However, nowhere was it conveyed that the lecture was closed to the public, open only to psychology students, clearly a misuse of the KU Newsletter and UDK Official Bulletin.
At the door more students were turned away because they were "unqualified" than the number of those admitted. Of what great use is it to invite a man of as great learning as Dr. Soskin to speak and at the same time prohibit students from listening?
I am deeply offended by the poor public relations and the atrocious lack of understanding our Psi Chi psychology experts have shown.
Robert M. Haralick
Westburg, N.Y., graduate student
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TODAY
Poetry Reading, 4 p.m. Danks
Lovestrov, Vassar, Forum Room,
Union.
Christian Science Lecture, 7:30 p.m.
Roy Linning, Boston. "Force is Ind-
vidual." Jayhawk Rm.. Union.
English Pro Exam, 7:30 p.m.
English Pro Exam, 7:39 p.m.
College Life, 9 pm. Dita Tau
Delta, "Mar. 2 could change you"
Life."
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Thursday, March 2, 1907
THE ARROGANCE OF POWER, by Sen. J. William Fulbright (Vintage, $1.95)—A hot item in both the hardback and paperback lines. Fulbright has been the most vocal as well as most authoritative critic of recent American foreign policy, and he continues the theme in this book. He says America is showing signs of that arrogance of power which has conquered other past great nations. The book stems from the Christian A. Herter lectures which Fulbright delivered at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Public opinion seems to be shifting to the Fulbright position; such a book undoubtedly will accelerate the shift among university communities.
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FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, and THE LADY IN THE LAKE,
by Raymond Chandler (Modern Library, $2.45)—Modern-day
mysteries that now take on the aura of "classic," more or less.
Chandler was a leading practitician of the hard belled school
that was riding high a few years ago (and not the Mickey Spillane kind of thing). Philip Marlowe was his hero, and this tough guy private eye (almost the prototype of the detective) is herein involved in a good deal of blood and gunplay, as well as amour.
If you enjoy mysteries you should by all means be acquainted with Chandler.
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LITERARY CRITICISM: A SHORT HISTORY, by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Cleanth Brooks (Vintage Giants, $2.45) A short history consisting of more than 700 pages, printed in rather small type. Wimsatt and Brooks begin with Plato and come up to T. S. Elito and his contemporaries to provide an extremely scholarly work that should be cherished by the scholar in literature, to whom it is especially commended.
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