SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
COMMENT
A Teacher's Duty
How can we train our young people to become ideal citizens in a democracy? As teachers we should give careful thought and study to this question in order to find the best possible answer. For the success and progress of a democracy depend upon intelligent and educated individuals who have the opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest extent and who have the opportunity and freedom to seek their own welfare and happiness.
Dr. Charles B. Glenn, superintendent of schools of Birmingham, Ala, has found a satisfactory answer to the above question. Because he believes that character is a matter of habit and that desirable habits can be acquired and cultivated in school situations which are real and life like, he began a program for character education in elementary and secondary schools.
secondary school.
Realizing that his plan could not be carried out in a short time, he introduced a 12-year program which is described by Will Irwin in "The Commentator." Teachers, pupils, and the people of the community each year emphasize one quality necessary for the make-up of an ideal person. The first year the program started with health, then followed sportsmanship, work, beauty, thrift, courtesy, nature, leisure, service wonder, co-operation, and self-reliance in the order named.
The program produced excellent results. Manners and morals of Birmingham people were greatly improved and juvenile delinquency was reduced by 29.5 per cent.
Character education is important because it develops self-directing, intelligent people who are able to meet their problems in an intelligent, wholesome, and efficient way. These, then, are the individuals who make the best citizens in a democracy.
Propaganda or Intelligence?
To be duped by propaganda should be an insult to one's intelligence. However, a large body of propaganda clouds our understanding of conditions about us, and of what can be done about them, in short, it directs public opinion.
directs public opinion.
Most mature people readily admit that they were misled by World War propaganda as to the real causes and purposes of the war. During the post-war period glittering generalities were exploded by congressional investigations and such books as George Creel's "How We Advertised America," Lord Ponsonby's "Falsehood in Wartime," Walter Millis' "Road to War," dramatically reveals how gullible the American people were.
Today, we are more than ever confronted by a confusion of propaganda, disseminated by nearly every social group through all the channels of communication that modern technology has devised. Knowing that propaganda is expression or opinion by groups or individuals, designed and deliberately disseminated to influence others to obtain predetermined ends, its detection and analysis should be an important function. The studies made by the Progressive Education Association bolsters this credo and the association reports that "young people in high schools and colleges should
know the nature of propaganda, the channels through which it flows press, radio, cinema, school, church labor and business groups—and that they should know what makes them respond to it as they do."
Last October, a non-profit educational undertaking, the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, was established to aid the student and citizen to do this very thing—to detect and analyze propaganda. Today 4,000 subscribers receive its letters, bulletins, and study materials; nearly half of this number are teachers, and school administrators. Its aims are chiefly limited to developing methods enabling its subscribers to recognize propaganda and making their own analysis, whether it be anti-social or socially desirable. It applies scientific scrutiny to gain truth and is fatal to the propagandist who desires specific action, decisions based on emotion, bitterness, and prejudice rather than on rational considerations.
In the light of these scientific investigations it should not be difficult to determine the gullibility of Americans in respect to the propaganda emanating from the conflicts that involve Spain, Germany, Italy, Russia, England, Palestine, or the Far East. And recognizing the charges and counter-charges, assertions and contradictions, that we meet through press, radio, and newsreel, and knowing the sources of propaganda to be labor unions, political parties, churches, patriotic societies, business organizations, and other agencies our intelligence need no longer be insulted, unless we are just plain lazy.
We see by the Kansas papers that rains, high winds--and Shirley Temple swept across the state Tuesday,
The society to get Lily Pons married has disbanded, we hear. Reorganization may come soon, however, for who is going to grapple with the Garbo question?
Campus Opinion
10. The editor:
"More than 100 persons had a rolllicking good time at the all-school picnic held at Robinson Gymnasium yesterday evening." Who said that man had a gregarious instinct? The above absolutely disproves it.
To the Editor:
For four summer terms I have overheard complaints of the social offerings of the University of Kansas Summer Session. The first offering this summer was turned down flat by over 1000 students, and if we were to subtract the Profs and their wives who went merely to help make your summer a more pleasant one, we wouldn't be able to say "More than 100 persons."
The other 1000 enrollees in the summer school session could have been found at their usual greasy spoon hangout, eating, for the sixth consecutive evening, a ham sandwich and an indigestible slab of cherry pie. But who could have refused a menu of salad, ham, beans, pickles, rolls, and ice cream bars? Well you did, and I did, and all the rest of the 1000 slackers.
1938 Scholastic Honors - Prizes
100 persons Anyway if you came to the Union Building Monday night for entertainment and dancing, I am certain that you will see me there.
Another Slacker.
The Scarab Medal for excellence in Sophomore architectural Design to LEAND ROBERT JOHNSON of Stafford.
Continued From Last Issue
Continued From Last Issue
The Scarab Medal for excellence in Sophomore architectural design to LELLAND ROBERT JOHNSON of Stafford.
The Alice Chittendon Prize for excellence in Freshman architectural work to DEVON CARLSON of Topeka.
The Phi Sigma Scholarship Medal Award to JAMES MATHEM SPRAGUE, of Lawrence, a senior in the College.
The Henry Schott Memorial Prizes in Journalism to HAROLD E. ADDINGTON of Burlingame, a junior in the College; to LOUIS R. FOCKELE of LeRoy, a junior in the College; to MARVIN T. GOEBEL, of Alton, Iowa, a junior in the College and MORRIS THOMPSON, of Trenton, Mo., a senior in the College.
The Sigma Delta Chi National Scholarship Awards to CLAUDE DORSYE of Cameron, Mo., a senior in the College; to J. Howard Rusco of Burr Oaks, a senior in the College; and to MARTORIE HOUSTON of Kansas City, a senior in the College.
The Phi Sigma Scholarship Medal Award to JAMES MATHEL SRAGUE, of Lawrence, a senior in the College.
The Carter Prize in Design to JANE KREBBEL of Kansas City Mo., an unclassified student in the School of Fine Arts.
The Carter Prize for Watercolor to ALBERT MUZENICK of Kansas City, a sophomore in the School of Fine Arts.
The Rowlands Prize in Antique Drawing to LOUIS WEINBERG of Oskaloosa, a freshman in the School of Fine Arts.
The Rowlands Prize in Design to Michael ANDREWS of Central City, Penn., an unclassified student in the School of Fine Arts.
The Keeler Painting Prize to EDGAR STARECK of Benton, a junior in the School of Fine Arts.
The Vermon's Prize in Design to FLORENGE CHALLACOMBE of Topeca, a freshman in the School of Fine Arts.
The Lehn & Fink Gold Medal for 1938 to CLARENCE M. BIRREP of Grainfield, a senior in the School of Pharmacy.
welcome to attend. A social hour will follow the business meeting.
Officers of the society for the summer are: President, Lawson Roberts; and social chairmen, Marguerite Harris and Harold Gregg.
SPRAGUE, OF LAWRENCE.
The Henry Schott Memorial Prizes in Journalism to HAROLD E. ADDINGTON of Burlingame, a junior in the College; to LOUIS R. FOCKELE of LeRoy, a junior in the College; to MARVIN T. GOEBEL, of Alton, Iowa, a junior in the College and MORRIS THOMPSON, of Trenton, Mo., a senior in the College.
The Sigma Delta Chi National Scholarship Awards to CLAUDE DORNEY of Cameron, Mo., a senior in the College; to J HOWARD RUSCO of Burt Oak, a senior in the College; and to MARJORIE HOUSTON of Kansas City, a senior in the College.
design to LELAND
The King Charles II Prize for excellence in Freshman architectural work to DEVON CARLSON of Topcka.
The Carter Prize in Design to JANE KREEBEL of Kansas City
was an unplanned student in the School of Fine Arts.
The Carter Prize for Watercolor to ALBERT MUZENICK of Kansas City, a sophomore in the School of Fine Arts.
The Rowlands Prize in Antique Drawing to Lours WENBERG of Oskalaosa, a freshman in the School of Fine Arts.
The Rowlands Prize in Design to MICHAEL ANDREWS of Central City, Penn., an unclassified student in the School of Fine Arts.
The Keeler Painting Prize to EDGAR STARECK of Benton, a junior in the School of Fine Arts.
The Vernon's Prize in Design to FLORENCE CHALLACOMBE of Topeka, a freshman in the School of Fine Arts.
The Lehn & Fink Gold Medal for 1938 to CLARENCE M. BIRRER of Graindale, a senior in the School of Pharmacy.
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Friday, June 17, 1938
At the Dickinson
Sylvia Sidney and George Raft, who thrilled moviegegers when they appeared together last in "Pick Up," return as co-stars of Paramount's "You and Me," due Sunday at the Dickinson Theatre.
Union Young People to Meet The Union Young People's society will hold a meeting at 6 o'clock Sunday evening at the Christian church located at 10th and Kentucky street. Young people of all churches are
welcome to attend. A social hour will follow the business meeting.
Officers of the society for the summer are: President, Lawson Roberts; and social chairmen, Marguerite Harris and Harold Gregg.
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See Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Ben Blue, Martha Raye and a host of other stars go oot town in "Artists and Models," opening at the Varsity Sunday for three days.
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AT THE GRANADA
Here is just a rough idea of what to expect in gorgeous, lovable girls in "Gold Diggers in Paris" starting Sunday at the Granada. It has a great story packed with hit tunes and comedy with Rudy, Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins.