SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
COMMENT
Not Dizzy---- But Good
"Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neimeyer and family, John Beck and children and D.C. Brewer enjoyed ice cream Friday evening at the Oscar Brewer home . . . Mrs. Orval Dobson purchased Barred Rock and Rhode Island chicks at the Bigler hatchery Friday."
"It's a dizzy pace," wisercracks a columnist, reprinting the above items of country correspondence from the Stillwater (Okla.) Gazette.
Well, maybe there is something quaintly funny in the fact that there still are communities where such items get into the papers. On the other hand, it's just barely possible that the Neimeyers, the Becks, the Brewers and Mrs. Dobson were making news of more real importance than many of the exciting things the city newspapers print.
Country families gathered on a summer evening to eat ice cream, farm wives buying baby chicks—perhaps they're missing a lot of thrill. But, somehow, it's good to read about them, even at second-hand in a humorous column.
The Mortgage
From the Detroit News:
From the Declan News:
All of these figures except the one at the bottom of the column ars taken from the Treasury's records:
Fiscal Year Interest of Public Debt. 1933 $689,400,000 1934 756,600,000 1935 820,900,000 1936 749,400,000 1937 866,400,000 1938 926,200,000 1939 976,000,000
The bottom figure is from the President's revised budget estimates for the fiscal year just started—and it seems to us the most important item in those estimates.
Almost one billion dollars—almost as much as we pay to operate the legislative and judicial and executive (non-military) divisions of the regular federal government, nearly twice as much as we spent for benefits to veterans of all past wars, more than we spend for the enlarged farm program, more than three times as much as we spend for the Civilian Conservation Corps.
There is no way of escaping this charge on past borrowings. For several years we have been trying to pass the burden on by paying it with more borrowed money, thereby making the burden larger year after year. Because of lack of desirable investment opportunities elsewhere, the Treasury has been able to make substantial cuts in the rate of interest. The rate is now almost at an irreducible minimum, yet the debt continues to rise, making the interest bill higher and higher.
What a lot of fine government services we could buy with that money, if it weren't for the mortgage! Not to mention the luxuries, perhaps necessities, which future taxpayers will have to forego.
Urgently Needed
Soon after listening to the tumultuous welcome for Howard Hughes and his globe-encircling companions at Floyd Bennett Field we turned the radio dial and heard the President,
at San Francisco, telling his hope that the other nations will join America in a program of armament reduction. And the permanent world peace of which Mr. Roosevelt spoke seemed more desirable, more urgently needed, even than he said.
For a world in which men fly one day across the wastes of Asia and the next above the farms and cities of America has become too small for any but good neighbors.
People
From the N.Y. World Telegram:
The human race is a great institution. That thought, we realize, is not particularly new, but it was inspired by a bunch of clippings that have accumulated on our desk.
Here, for instance, is a story about Edgar D. Pepper, 250-pound hitchhiker, who registered at a big Chicago hotel, ate $3.08 worth of breakfast, $5.91 worth of lunch, $5.70 worth of dinner, $4.59 worth of bedtime snack and then went to jail when he admitted having no money to pay for all that food.
Here is Sally Rand, the fan and bubble dancer, who says she turned down an important movie role because she was expected to dance the can-can, which she considers "suggestive."
Here are Dr. Nothaniel Kleitman, Chicago University psychologist, and Bruce Richardson, a student, who are undertaking to live for a month in the depths of Kentucky's Mammoth Cave "to determine whether a man can adjust himself to a twenty-eight-hour, six-day week." No, we don't know what living in a cave has to do with the twenty-eight-hour week.
Here is an Indian calling himself Chief New Moon and claiming to be a full-blood Cherokee, who spoke at a German-American Bund camp in New Jersey and advocated an alliance between the German Nazis and the American Indians to fight the "red menace" to the United States.
Here is a veritable Sheik of Araby—Hafiz Wahba, Arabian Ambassador to London—who wore white robes, a turban and horn-rimmed glasses when he called on President Roosevelt, and who said he is making a world tour to study "the female education problem."
Campus Opinion
And here is Lieutenant Robert M. Stanley, a navy flying cadet, who soared 8,200 feet to break the American altitude record the first day he ever flew in a motorless glider, and then a few days later piloted another glider 225 miles, from Elmira, N.Y., to Washington—which may be a distance record.
All of which, perhaps, proves nothing much, except that this would be a pretty dull world if it didn't have people in it.
Editor, Summer Session Kansan:
Take a Kansan; Not the BOX!
If it were a more generally known fact that no "try-outs" were held for the players who performed Tuesday night, but each person filled his part because he was asked to, the condemnation falling about the ears of the inexperienced actors might be less severe.
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The effect of "Let Slip the War Dogs" was considerably weakened by the noisy, but inevitable, "latecomers," and further disturbance was created by the appearance of an inquisitive cat and a threatening bat.
The indistinct "hillbilly" play owes its somewhat doubtful success to Charles Beard in the refreshing role of Tommy.
"Stephen Speaks the Truth" was, beyond question, the outstanding play, although the audience experienced distress when the husband appeared in white socks after having been given a pair of red and blue ones. Miss Katherine Aston did a nice piece of work in the role of Elmira Babstone.
Friday, July 22, 1938
Thanks to Miss Aston and Mr. Beard, the evening could not be considered wasted. However, we trust that if the "play-idea" is carried over into next summer,
A. B.C.
5 More Teachers Secure Positions
Five new appointments were recently made through the teachers appointment bureau according to H. E. Chandler, director of the bureau. They are as follows: Forrest Hardacre, B.S. Ed.'38, will teach biology and athletics at Ness City; Rosamond Barr, A.B.'38, will teach history and English at Washington; Mary Belle Oldudgr, A.B.'16, will teach French and Latin in Leavenworth; Ruth Baker, B.S.Ed.'38, will teach physical education in Salina; and Romola Hammons, A.B.'36, will teach home economics at Yates Center.
Phi Delta Kappa to Picnic
Members of the local chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, honorary education fraternity, with their wives, sweethearts, and children will picnic in Brown's grove Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Prof. Jacobs is Guest Speaker
Professor J. E. Jacobs of the Summer session faculty will be the guest speaker at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning at 10:30 to 11 o'clock. Prof. Jacobs will talk on the subject of "Uncle Sam's Child.
Dr. Victor Labunski Visits Campus
Dr. Victor Labunski, head teacher of piano at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and Mrs. Labunski were guests of Dean and Mrs. D. M. Swarthout Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Doctor Labunski will be soloist next season with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in March, playing his own concerto. He is at present preparing articles on phases of American life for papers and periodicals in Poland, and while here visited at Haskell Institute as the guest of Russell Kelley, superintendent at Haskell, gathering material for an article on this institution.
Elma Carey to Teach At Holton
Elma I. Carey, A.B.'55, will teach the primary grades at Holton next year. While attending the University Miss Carey was vice-president of Sigma Eta Chi, Congregational church sorority, and society editor of the University Kansan. She is a member of Sigma Kappa, social sorority, and of the American Association of University women.
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