In Kansas

Democratic Governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas (now retired--see Page 6), through the State Board of Administration, ousted Dr. Ernest Hiram Lindley, Chancellor of the University of Kansas, on Dec. 27. A verbal civil war followed.

Governor Davis charged the Chancellor with "incompetency, insubordination, procrastination, political activity and aloofness from the people and the student body." He averred that the learned Doctor had spent more money than the University statutes permitted and that it had been necessary to discharge him "in order to demonstrate that the state ran the University and not the University the state."

Chancellor Lindley, who successfully applied for a temporary injunction (later quashed by the state Supreme Court) to restrain the Governor, countercharged that he had been obliged to fight the Governor for most of the latter's two-year term by resisting his attempts to foist upon the University his political friends at the expense of tried and faithful servants.

The fact that the Chancellor is a Republican, an able administrator, a brilliant scholar--A. B. and A. M. of Indiana University, Ph.D. of Clark University, LL.D. of Indiana University and State University of Iowa, sometime student at Jena, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Harvard, President of Idaho University before he went to Kansas University in 1920--focuses upon him the agitated attention of the usually peaceful town of Lawrence where the University is situated

A handful of students remaining in Lawrence for the vacation paraded the streets as a protest against the eviction of their Chancellor, indignantly repudiated the charge of aloofness, declaring themselves to be the best judges. Many irate Republicans wrote letters of protest to the Administration; many a staunch Democrat backed the Governor against his agitated enemies. It was, however, bruited about that the new Governor, Ben S. Paulen, Republican to the core, would reinstate the Chancellor. Public opinion became calmer.