PAGE TWG UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1939 Kansan Comment Wanted: Wanted: Brain Trust Cancellation of the performance scheduled on the Campus of the Bali and Java dancers is the result of failure to solve a recurring problem. Whenever an addition is made to the University Concert Course, the financial angle must be considered. It is to the interest of the students, faculty, and townpeople, to find an answer to this problem. The University Concert course receives a percentage of the student activity ticket fee with which to arrange a concert program for the year. Insufficient funds derived from this course must be supplemented by sale of season tickets to faculty and townpeople and by single admissions to performances. Student interest generally is greater when a more popular type of entertainment such as a ballet or opera company is offered. Because of its nature, any performance that requires a group of people is more expensive than is the scheduling of a single performer. Furthermore any group that requires its own orchestra, stage equipment, and assistance of skilled labor is even more expensive. It is sufficiently more expensive that the income from the activity fee would allow but one performance of this kind during the school year and no performances of any other kind. The choice of the concert management, then, lies between fewer and more popular performances or a complete program providing for a diversity of tastes. The Concert Course schedule must be made out before school starts. Nearly every year after the schedule is completed, the management has additional opportunities to secure musicians, dancers, and other performers, opportunities which were not present earlier. The Bali and Java dancers represented such an opportunity. If they were to appear on the Campus at all, admissions had to be paid. This presented the concert management with the alternatives, either of presenting the dancers at low prices in the hope of filling the auditorium or of keeping prices on a higher level, knowing that the audience would be reduced accordingly. Guided by experience in past years, the first choice was made. It was backed by a comparison of prices for the performance here with ticket prices in other cities. Although University students had to pay to see the dancers, the price was reduced. Not all students, however, could afford to see the dancers even in the price range offered. Other students may not have purchased tickets in expressing a negative disapproval because the performance was not among those offered on the activity book. The practical answer seems to be in bringing the concert management and the students together. The way to lower prices lies in a more complete surety of support by the student body of similar organizations to the regular concert students. Some workable method of ascertaining student support of a particular offering should not be too difficult. Lower prices to students with the requirement of ticket reservations in advance might fill up already occupied places on the cancellation lists which everyone wants to solve nothing. Dictator Deflated In discussing Joseph Stalin, current writers continue to promulgate the "great man" theory without sufficient consideration of the social forces underlying the emergence of such a leader. Why is it that in the topsy-turvey world of today, the democratic nations have been jarred out of their complacent contemplation of domestic problems by upheavals that not only shake governments but result in rearrangements of the world map? Sufficient explanation cannot be found in blaming single individuals who have risen to power. Admittedly they have their sins to answer for, but their very numbers contradict the argument. No man has risen to more than a very temporary dictatorship, not excepting Napoleon, simply by sheer force of personality. The circumstances under which the individual arose, the background of the dictator, is the source of explanation. Stalin is credited with the "Asiatic mind," his government described as "oriental despotism." Despotism need not be qualified by adjectives in order to make it a stronger or a more distasteful term. If Stalin's despotism is Asiatic, what is Hitler's despotism? The answer lies deeper, if not hidden at least complicated by many factors, chief of which lie in the historical and sociological, rather than solely in the political field. Oppression, illiteracy, lack of any kind of equitable distribution of goods, capitalistic or communistic, the technological advances of other countries which slowly were penetrating the vacuum that was pre-war Russia, are some of the chief factors which were bound to explode and did explode in the Russian revolution. Most first hand observers date the disintegration of Communism as a political system in Russia long before the recent Stalin-Hitler alliance which publicly repudiated the professed ideologies of both countries. Other competent observers have never believed that Russia had Communism at any time. Proably no country in the world, particularly Russia, was ready for a collective economy at the time it was claimed for the Soviet Union. Defensible ethically or not, dictatorship in Russia was inevitable following the revolution. As the improvement of the social structure takes place, as the more obvious evils are eliminated, as the reasons for Stalin are displaced in the Russian economy, his grasp on the government is maintained only by concomitant growth of dictatorship. Eventually the forces that contributed to his rise will defeat him. YOU SAID IT EDITOR'S NOTE. The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published i this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to review, and no comment will be allowed, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires. Critic Criticized Dear Kansan Staff: Your self-styled "simple-minded" music critic is hereby given special invitation to the Children's Concert, which the K.U. Symphony Orchestra will present Tuesday afternoon in Hoch auditorium. He may rest content that the program, for the most part, will be within his range of appreciation. The one number on this list is "The Sound of Music," famously "The Carnival of Animals" by Saint-Saurs, will have its individual sections announced separately in order that he may avoid the embarrassment of losing attention during the concert. His confusion on the evening of the annual fall concert, for it is generally recognized that only the most passionate orchestral effects of a goldfish and a jackdaw. EUGENE NININGER. President of the Orchestra Yours truly. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 37 Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1829 No. 48 Noticees 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. --the best way to make 'em BOTANY CLUB: Will meet in botany lecture room for a noon luncheon at 12:25 pm. Wednesday, Nov. 22 Miss Frances will review an article, and Glenn Turner will discuss soy beans. The luncheon will con- dom be food. For more planning to attend should make reservations before 3 p.m. today. Go to Franklin, president. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting, open to students, graduates, and faculty members will be held this afternoon at 4:30 in room C, Myers hall—Dalkey, secretary. COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet to d.43 in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong hall—Deane W. Malott, president. DELTA PHI SIGMA: Delta Phi Sigma, Congre- national sorority, will have a superset meeting at the home of Jean Stouffer, 1019 Maine, tonight t 6 p.m.-Alice Ann Jones, president. EL ATNEHO: The Spanish club will have an open room 9. A colored movie will be shown. Anyone interested in Spain is invited to attend. Members please remember to bring your dues—Louise Buah JAYHAWK TUMBLERS: The Jayhawk Tumblers will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday for special practice— ease. PHI CHI DELTA: Phi Chi Della will have its regular dinner meeting this evening at Westminster hall at $30. Flora Roberts will lead a discussion on family re-entry, together Tippin and Emily Jane Yount, program chairmen. PREMEDICAL STUDENTS: The Medical Aptitude Test given by the Association of American Medical Colleges will be held on Tuesday, November 28, at 2:30 p.m. in room 206, Marvin hall. All premedical students must have a valid ID and pass test, fall either at the University of Kansas or elsewhere, should plan to take this test at the time designated above, since it will not be given again this year. A fee of one dollar will be collected from each student taking the test. For any other information, see the underwriting form or professor of Physiology, room 8B, Frank Strong hall. W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a tea for all University women in the women's lounge of Frank Strong hall from 3 to 5 Wednesday afternoon. Kappa Alpha Theta society will be hostess. - Ehheylne Burns. W. S.G.A. EXECUTIVE COUNcil. There will be a short, but important meeting tonight at 7:00 in the Fife Hall. TAU SIGA Mau Tau Sigma will meet at 7:30 this evening.—Geraldine Uml, president. Editor-in-Chief Udaarth Sherry Richard Boyes, Jeffrey Jones Fashion Features Mary Liu Randolph, Linda UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Managing Editor Walt Meiminger Battery Editor Betty Kelly Campus Editors Bettie Coulson, Huw Wright Society Editor Elizabeth Kirch South East Edison Claire Holdeen Media Editor Daniel Koehler Telegram Editor Eugen Kahn Revery Editor Key Brian Picture Editor John Baldwin News Stoff Editorial Staff Business Manager ... Edwin Brown By Imogene Morris, c'42 "That building over there? Why that's Dyche museum, but none of us have been inside. Its usefulness died years ago and it is almost extinct." This remark is a characteristic reply to questions concerning one of the most interesting buildings on the University Campus. Life Story of Dyche Museum Dates Back to Spring of 1885 Submission roles, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school year except Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class office at Lawrence, office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. When Joshua Allen Lippincott was made Chancellor in 1883, he pointed out to the Board of Regents the need for a natural history museum. Lippincott believed that the excellent specimens collected by Prof. Francis H. Snow and Prof. L. D. Leydhe should be housed in a fire-proof building, along with the class rooms and laboratories of the department of natural history. $50,600 State Anpanization The campaign for the new building was further carried on by The University Courier, a student publication. Thirteen issues of The Courier, each pointing out the needs of the University, were sent to the publature. As a result, an apportionment was made to the University on March 6, 1885. There was much discussion as to the location of the proposed building. When the present site was decided upon, it was discovered that the building would project 30 feet into Mississippi street. Not wishing to change their plans, the University officials promised to build a graded road from Thirteenth street to North Hollow if the city would vacate Mississippi street south of Thirteenth. Thus Dyce museum was built on an axis coinciding with Spoon-Thayer museum. Venetian Romanesque Architecture The architecture of Dyce museum is particularly interesting. The style, Venetian Romanesque, was quite popular at that time. The main entrance, copied from the Portal of St. Strophine at Arles, France, is surrounded by naturalistic carvings of birds and beasts. These were all done on the site by an Italian stone cutter. However, according to Professor Beal, of the School of Engineering and Architecture, it was originally thought that these would be done by the students. Exhibits Mammals and Birds The walls of Dyche museum were constructed from native limestone, while the decorative stone came from Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. All of the wood was made of concrete, interwoven with carved wire to give tensile strength. Dyche museum, largely developed from a plan submitted by Professor Dyche, was designed to exhibit the principal American mammals and birds in a realistic setting. The first floor of the building was arranged to house the exhibits of mammals in panorama. An anise in the rear of the building was placed there to prevent the specimens from fading. The basement was planned to contain tadpolemim shops, class rooms, store rooms, and a skeleton room. The second floor was arranged for the display of American birds, and the third floor exhibited fossils. What was originally a third story skylight has been rebuilt in recent years to make possible a small display room on the fourth floor. Once Used As Auditorium Though still under construction. Classified People You need a haircut, a good shampoo. You need to have a new key made for the one you lost. You want to Know the best place to get your camera film developed. You're not satisfied with the place where you eat at present. You want to pick up an extra book-end. Little things are continually coming up. And the answers are already prepared for YOU in the classified columns of the KANSAN. Read it regularly. It's there for your convenience. And if you want to advertise, and pay LESS THAN YOU THINK, call K.U. 66 right now. Convenient rates to your measure. Dyche was first used as a temporary auditorium when Dr. Frank Strona was inaugurated as Chancellor of the University on October 17, 1902. For the past five years the museum has been condemned as unsafe. However, a W.P.A. grant of $10,455 in 1933 and state appropriations in 1933 and 1937 have made partial remodeling possible. 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