The KANSAN Comments...
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941.
Thanks Iowa State
Last Monday night, when our basketball team lost to the Iowa State Cyclones, Howard Engleman, All-American, was held to only five points.
If it were true that there is bad blood among all the teams of the Big Six, the Iowa State paper would probably have razzed the Kansas team the next day—and Howard Engleman in particular—because Iowa State is the only Big Six team that has held Engleman down.
But that did not happen. In Wednesday's Iowa State Daily Student there appeared an editorial discussing two things—the ability of the Cyclones to play as a team and the idea that Howard Engleman played like a true All-American in the game.
There is no need to explain to Kansas fans and students the greatness of Howard Engleman as a basketball player, but there is need to point out the harmonious relations between Kansas and Iowa State in their athletic rivalry. Is there any good reason why these same relations should not be extended to all other members of the Big Six.
The editorial explained that Engleman proved himself to be a real team player. Unlike most stars, he did not rage at the opposing team when he was unable to get loose. He played coolly without losing his head. He played to win the game for his team.
Out of the Statistics Book
The editor and publisher year book for 1940 estimates that the daily newspaper circulation as of September, 1940, totaled 41,131,611 copies of which 16,114,018 were morning and 25,017,-593 were evening. The morning figure is about 300,000 above the previous high mark, the evening total is about 524,000 below the 1937 record.
Presenting the other side of an interesting case is Broadcasting, a weekly trade journal, published in Washington, which reports that there are 881 broadcasting stations in the United States and 87 in Canada in operation or under construction. The magazine estimates that there are 50,100,000 radio sets in the United States, that 11,500,000 sets valued at $390,000,000 retail were sold in 1940 and that gross "time sales" by stations and networks in 1940 totaled $201,956,000, a 21.5 per cent increase over 1939.
These facts ought to make radio men, who hate the newspapers, chortle with glee. They can safely boast now that the radio is omnipotent in the field of communications, and that the newspaper is just one of those things that can't be helped, and should be ignored.
Psychologists tell us however, that eye appeal is much stronger than ear appeal; that one's eyes are his strongest and most forceful sense perceptor. How may we account then for the discrepancy that these figures obviously point out?
One answer to the question may lie in the "hurry-hurry" complex which everyone in this country seems to have, and in the very times themselves. People figure that they can listen to the radio and still work with their heads or their hands, but a newspaper requires one's undivided attention. It's the easy way out, the line of least resistance to turn on the 10 o'clock broadcast, instead of devoting an hour's study to a comprehensive newspaper account.
One cannot deny the popularity of radio entertainment. As a medium for amusement
which one can enjoy without moving from his easy chair, it is unsurpassed. But just as newspapers are fallible, so is the radio. The spoken word slips from the mind more easily than does the written word. When one sees a word in print, his visible memory reprints a word picture in his mind. A spoken word, however, conjures up no fixed picture, and is more readily forgotten.
Radio and the newspaper must work hand in hand as a supplement to one another. They can't get along without one another, so a "Union, Now!" seems to be indicated.
Pithy paragraph from TIME: "In 1940-41, the U.S., struggling in a war of diplomacy, of sea power, and of nerves, was arming to fight Heaven-knows-whom at Heaven-knows-where for Heaven-knows-what." And Heaven-knowswhy!
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, March 7, 1941 No.101
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday, March 11, at 4:30 in the Pine room of the Union building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.-Betty Charles, Seec.
FRESHMAN CANDIDATES INTRAMURAL Board: Men wishing to be considered as candidates for the vacancy of a freshman member of the Intramural Board of Managers must state qualifications in a written application addressed to the Senior Intramural Manager. Applications will not be accepted after Wednesday, March 12—Lee Huddleston, senior Manager, 107 Robinson gymnasium.
KAPPA PHI: There will be no pledge or cabinet meeting this evening.—K. Snakea, Publicity Chairman.
JAY JANES: The Jay Janes will meet in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Wednesday at 4:30.-Ruth Spencer Ashcraft, President.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Dr. R. I. Cuteneson.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: The Psychology Club will meet Monday in room 9 Frank Strong hall at 4:30. The films of the experiments on animal behavior will be shown and discussed by Garth Thomas. Everyone is welcome.-Lois Schreiber, Secretary.
Y. M.-Y.W.; Come on Children Let's Dance, at the all YM.-Y.W. Barn Dance to be held Saturday night from 8 to 11 p.m. in the K.U. Gymnasium. Fifteen cents for some real fun—Keith Martin.
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No Symphochrome---
Phonoscope Projects Music's Progress
Oh, the symphochrome down.
And it made the derndest sound,
But the phonoscope
Goes on, (we hope)
Forever.
Forever.
Pardon the ditty, please, but it tells the story. The symphocrome broke down, all right. Continuous 15-minute recitals from dawn to dark during the two-day Kansas Music Teachers' convention, proved to be too much for the color-music synchronizing invention of T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design. The machine's working parts, says Professor Jones, are completely worn out, and will have to be junked.
But the phonoscope—"No, it's going as strong as ever," says Prof. W. O. Miessner, professor of education, its inventor. It, too, went through many long demonstrations for the music teachers. "It's tireless," says Professor Miessner. And it must be—he gave a demonstration before a class in Frank Strong hall with it.
The symphochrome is not lost from civilization forever, Jones hasstens to inform us. It will be completely remodeled and perhaps will be placed upon a portable base; then color and music again will be scientifically combined to provide inspiration for artists and musicians, to give pleasure to those who appreciate the finer arts, and to satisfy the curiosity of dubious persons such as reporters.
The phonoscope, used in music appreciation classes is equipped to project music information charts upon a screen. Upon the charted music, a pointing finger of light traces the progress of the score as it is played from a recording. A relatively simple system of three mirrors is connected to the record playing apparatus, and by watching
the projected tracing light-finger students can compare music as it sounds to music as it appears on the written sheet.
Five hundred musical compositions, including all of Brahm's, Tschaikowsky's, and Mozart's, have been charted and are on file with the machine. The chart guides to recorded music, relate at a glance such information as how many minutes and seconds from the beginning of a composition a certain effect occurs, what instruments are used for unusual effects. If the composition is narrative, the story is told as the music interprets the action.
A recent demonstration was of Tschaikowsky's "Fifth Symphony," which was played Tuesday night by the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra in Hoch auditorium.
Spring Varsity Tomorrow
The second in the new series of 8 o'clock varsity dances will be held tomorrow night in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building with Clyde Bysom's band furnishing the music.
Dancing will last until 11 o'clock under the new plan. The regular admission price of 75 cents will be assessed for both those with dates and stags.
Bysom's music will feature vocals by Virginia Gsell.
John Burge, education senior, underwent a tonsillectomy at Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday morning.
Remove Burge's Tonsils
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Among Kansas basketballers Vance Hall is the "pretty boy." Agreeing with this statement, Jane Stallings picked him as one of the forwards on a team of Big Six basketball beauties published in the Iowa State Daily Student March 4.
Here's what she said. "What girl wouldn't choose one man in a quintet for his boyish charm? The Jayhawks' Vance Hall, my selection for the other forward, fulfills every expectation along that line. Jet black wavy hair in abundance and penetrating eyes that fairly shout frankness don't do him a bit of harm. His mouth doesn't have that set hardness, either, a sure earmark of winning ways."
All we have to say is "whew!"
If you saw a girl going out of convocation this morning with a streak of charcoal on cheek or chin, she was a good rally-patriot. Before the rally started Charles Wright stood in the lobby with his face covered with charcoal and dressed in overalls and tacky hat, trying to kiss each girl that came by. But only a few submitted to this treatment.
During the rally Wright was the lad cutting capers directly in front of the stage.
Some of the Sigma Nu's jumped the gun on the weather, had their heads shorn in the crude crew manner before they were sure it was Spring. Then the freak snow storm caught them. Cases of cold heads and head colds are reported.
Beta bathers were in a quandary the other day. Someone planted tablets of methyl blue in the shower heads, and the shower water streamed out with an eerie cast to it.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott was a dinner guest at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house. After dinner he went to the kitchen, took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and began drying dishes. Any Teke who ventured into the kitchen to witness the spectacle was handed a dishtowel and drafted into work.
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