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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8. 1939
Kansan Comment
Cheer Leaders Attention
Organized cheering and mass yelling is as much a part of most colleges as freshmen rhetoric, yet here are 5,000 leather-lungs and voices waiting and pleading for some cheerleader to bring them to life, and all we get is a valiant but disorganized trio who fail to inspire.
Granted that our cheer-leaders are a great group of fellows and all of us would yell our heads off for them, yet they fail to give the urge for such an effort. Comparison with other colleges, not to mention high schools, in their efforts to arouse pep is odious, but why can't our elected and chief exponents of the art of vocal extrovertism put themselves into their part. Handstands and minor acrobatics cannot be learned overnight, but a little concentrated practice among themselves, a few new yells, a trio of girl cheerleaders might inspire a hearty shout from the game-weary crowd.
Football teams may take a beating on the field and on the pan, but a well-organized pop-crew and a responsive student body could help dispel the morgue-like atmosphere at games and might even support a fighting team.
Missouri is just around the corner.
Wake Up
Destructive criticism tears down a school, and there are plenty of gloomy prophets around the Hill. They are exceedingly glib with their sob-notes on "what this school needs." They are the ones who lack the verve and nerve to dream of this school as it might be in the future. They are the ones who lay down and admit defeat when the fight has just started.
Talk is the backbone of democracy. Gabbing is the spine of the campus. Yet what good are bull-sessions if they end in a disgruntled sigh, and a what's-the-use attitude? Campus leaders don't have the courage of their convictions; the student body has a glazed eye and hypercritical pose combined with a do-nothing mode of living that results in a deadly mass of apathy that would confound the heart of any reformer.
We have chosen this University as our college. We profess to be proud of the University and her traditions. Reputation is not a dormant nor a stagnant possession which once achieved is held, world without end. The reputation of a school is built slowly and changed for better or worse each year not by the faculty, the administration, or the football team but by the type of graduate it produced. Lectures repeated to the point of triteness have been pounded into our brains on the value of democracy and citizenship, yet with habitual indifference the everyday significance passes us by. We are citizens on this campus, yet do we prove our higher ability, assume the leadership expected of college people, establish a working democracy, accomplish a working plan of student government?
Is higher education so deadening to creative thinking, so demanding of time, so sunk in a reactive rut that it fails to inspire clear-headed working idealists? Is there no such thing as someone's being enthusiastic enough about an idea to fight for it, despite opposition? Why is K.U. and the average American university afflicted with rigid mortals? Someone should revive higher education or bury it.
University of Kansas' students like students at every college are only a part of the United Sheep of America. They follow the uninspired footsteps of the elders, neglect to vote in elections, carp about their representatives, hold dishonest elections, break the laws prescribed by their legislators.
--theory are numerous—choose any individual instead of the Dies committee and substitute the town for the nation and you will see what it can lead to.
Weather:
Hotter
For years people have been suspecting it; for years comment has ragged about it; for years nothing has been done about it. And now, at last, a scientist suggests that it may be true. The world is getting hotter. J. C. Kincer of the United States Weather Bureau says.
And he's got the facts to prove it. For instance, there's Portland, Ore. Now Portland, Ore., is probably a nice place, but it is getting hotter. Seventeen of its last twenty years have been warmer than normal. Or take Capetown, South Africa, where nineteen of the last twenty years have been warmer than normal. Mr. Kincer reports that this has been general throughout the world.
So you see, the world is getting hotter
Although no one knows exactly why the world is getting hotter, many hypotheses may be suggested. As an example, take the fact that the Dies committee is painting the nation red. Red is a heat-provoking color. This makes the Dies variations on this particular
Another theory is that the world is not really getting hotter but that things used for measuring temperatures are gradually expanding and this factor makes the thermometers register higher temperatures when it really isn't any hotter at all. At this point relativity comes in to show that the world is getting either hotter or colder or vice versa, making the rest of the theory impossible to describe here.
But you can take the weatherman's word for it. The world is getting hotter. Just wait until spring and see.
--prepared some potatoes, made some coffee and about 8 o'clock went to work again."
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The professors call it intellectual curiosity; I call it spirit or whatever this University lacks. In the school's realms, it means enough interest in one subject than in another. It means enthusiasm for what is going on University, it means enthusiasm for what is going on
The lack of ideas, of interest, and ambition is appalling in this University. We develop into citizens that don't know how to vote because they haven't kept up with the news.
No one has ideas that they want to put through. Ideas that mean a lot to them. The students aren't broused by what is going on. In other words, they don't care about it. They don't know it, they lack the zip and pep to do anything about it.
The students are dulled, apathetic. Even if one is the originator of a wrong idea, it is better than no idea at all. At least it shows thought. No one is narrow minded enough to get acquainted by campus activities. There is no such thing as student opinions in the plural. There is nothing any difference to the student who does what or when.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1939 No. 39
Notices due at Cancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on weekends.
--prepared some potatoes, made some coffee and about 8 o'clock went to work again."
EL ATENEO: The regular meeting of the Spanish
basketball team from room 113
Frank强半红: LouiseBus, president.
FRESHMAN Y.M.C.A. COMMISSION: The regulary weekly freshman Y.M.C.A. meeting will be held in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building, beginin at 4:30 Thursday afternoon. There will be three seperate round table discussions on the subjects: "At What Point Should I Affect Us?"—Bill Muxlow, chairman.
FRESHMAN Y.W.C.A. COMMISSION: The freshman commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at Henley house at 4:30 Thursday afternoon. The group will go to Thayer museum - Helen Martin, public chairman.
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting at 4:30 today of the Board and I will be on Friday of this week. -Wilfred Jameson, president
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial hospital.—Ralph I. Caundeson, director, health service.
PI LAMBDA THETA: Pi Lambda Theta pledge services will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 in room 116 Fraser. Pledges should report to room 103—MatechRich, president.
QUACK CLUB. There will be a swimming meeting at 8:15 time—Mickie Learndar, president.
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 clock this afternoon. Chi Omega sorority will be hostess - Ethylene Burns.
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Manhattan (UP) — It isn't the writing of a book but the autographing of a book that makes an author's life a strenuous one.
Kirke Mechem, who wrote the 1938 Maxwell Anderson A ward drama, "John Brown," spoke thus as he massegged a wrist made weary by affixing his signature to 800 copies of the book.
The Kansas Magazine Association Press asked Mechem to autograph the copies it planned to release this week. The author consented and for days was buried behind copies of the Kansas Historical Society.
"Writing a book is no walk in the garden," he said, "but it is easier than autographing."
Mochem said he is a "part-time writer." His duties as secretary of the historical society engage most of his time, and writing is done in spare moments.
Then the author laid a supply of canned salmon, potatoes and coffee in a corner of what he calls a "metamorphosed Santa Fe cabooo" on Wakauria creek near Topeka, storied stream of bloody warfare in the 1850's. There he hooled-up for his "vacation."
"John Brown." a biography of the impulsive Kansas abolitionist, was written while Meech was on a 30-day vacation. Copious notes had been made in his sparse time at the university, and histori- al records filed there.
He wrote the play in longhand while reclining in the caboose bunk. "I usually worked three or four hours in the morning, got lunch three, around a little, and worked two or four hours in the afternoon" he said.
"Then I got out the trusty can opener again. If tired of salmon, I
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By Roderick Burton
Summary of the Kansas City situation: The machine broke down and it's been running ever since.
If anybody wants to know what goes on at northeast houses, we can tell them. The girls play bridge all the time. We know, because we drew two security girls to play in the current tournament. Suffice it that when we were outside, played and otherwise totally unexcited.
But one consolation remains. We are still the best chess player in the seven deserted counties of New Mexico. We believe that we are perfectly safe in making that remark: whoever heard of any sorcery girls playing chess all the time?
This department does not favor American intervention in overseas wars. The United States should let the European countries fight it out in peace.
Add bridge tournament notes: Memories of previous victories seem to stir one couple in the playing this week—they kept humming "Our last good-bye"
If the "shack" does not soon discontinue being the hottest building on the Hill, the buildings and grounds department is going to be suspected of trying to acclimate the journalists for the hereafter.
The numbers were entitled "Unicorn," "Sea Serpent," "Scapegator," "Pegasus," "Gargoyle" and "Phoenix." Lyrics for the songs were written by Lillian White Spencer of Denver. In 1830 Ms. Spencer worked with Professor Shilton him his Indian art, The Sun Bride."
A group of six songs entitled "Zeddie Zoo" by C. S. Skillton, professor of organ, was presented Sunday afternoon at Emerson hall before the Kansai City musical club. Miss Irene Feebody, associate producer, accompanied the piano by Wintired Hill, in 41.
Peabody Presents Songs by Skilton
The theme of Professor Skilton's "Sea Serpent" was used by the organist, Marcel DuPpe, in his imitation at Hoch auditorium Monday night.
Men and animals working above 10,000 feet altitude are subject to a malady called mountain sickness.
"I have to write in spasmodic rushes whenever I can find *tine*, he said, "and I have done a good deal of work this week. An imabilis does a definite writing routine should never keep one from writing."
He doesn't have any use for the would-be nather who "just doesn't have any time to write."
Dorothy Thompson's Charm Thrills Three University Co-eds
The fish are housed in a bowl in a fraternity house. On one side of the bowl, Sherwood has printed his name.
Morgantown, W. Va. (UP) -Gordon Sherwooln't industrially any chanances on losing his pet goldfish,
Sherwool, a sophomore student at West Virginia University, well aware of the recent goldfish-swallowing crab, has taken steps to protect his three fish.
Do not trespass
"Do not feed.
"Do not EAT!"
By Sue Johnston, c'42
By Sue Johnston, c'12
After a short visit with Dorothy
Thompson, international newspaper-
women and columnist, Monday afternoon,
three University co-eds said they
found her in real life just as
she is in the air, charming, frank
jovial and eastern.
this notice
In the afternoon she entertained the three Alpha Chi Omega sorority women at tea in the penthouse in the Hotel Mulebach. Ernestine Menges, c40, president of the University chapter, Inez Rice, c40; and James O'Neill, presented Miss Thompson with orchids as a present from the local cluster.
Miss Thompson arrived in Kansas City from Chicago Monday morning and spoke in Municipal auditorium. Her topic was "Tomorrow, What?"
Miss Thompson discussed her college days and her sorrow, as well as her recent Hollywood venture in script writing. She has just completed a script for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dealing with the times of 1987 when she was on her own words, "It's a thriller."
She said she chose a man who
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Unlike most people in her position, Miss Thompson travels without a secretary or maid. She relies on the local stenographers, which, she added, are sometimes positively "illiterate." Miss Thompson had to rewrite her speech because of an inefficient stenographer in Chicago, and she seemed more than a little distressed about it.
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knew nothing of that era of history; to help her write her script because she knew the facts, and he wouldn't be able to correct her. Her work in the film capital lasted from 10 to 12 years before she became aware that it because it was unusual to her.
When the students admired the penthouse, she said, "It's perfectly lovely. I suppose it's what they give to all the visiting firemen."
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She spoke of her column, but of served no comment on the current political situation. Her typewriter left a swipe across the most evident thing in the room.
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Charles C. Dills, state industrial hygiene engineer, will spend the next several months in the lead and zinc mining district of southeastern Michigan to investigate possible diseases which may be caused by exposure to the chak dust.
Education Fraternity To Elect
The investigation is the result of complaints that the chat dust was hazardous as a cause of silicosis, an occupational disease found mainly among miners.
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