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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; DAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 23. 1939
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Still---Why Have
A Dance Manager
Without any excitement or quibbling, a committee selected the new varsity dance manager last Saturday. For the first time is a long time the political affiliations of the applicants didn't affect the committee's decision. Instead of having the Men's Student Council submit a slate of candidates as heretofore, the position was opened to any man whose grades fulfilled the eligibility requirement. All of which has met with general approval.
Now, however, the question may well be put as to whether or not a varsity dance manager is essential.
The job was created back in the not so good old days when it served as an added inducement to come to the aid of the right party. Of course some attempt was made to select a man who possessed a little ability, but it was merely a happy coincidence if he needed the job's small remuneration. Then and now, the dance manager's duties were about as important as those of an honorary fire chief.
There are usually eight or nine hour variases a year in addition to the mid-week hour dances. Practically all arrangements are made during the summer before the K-Book is printed. All money is handled through the bursar's office. Therefore, the dance manager's job is co-ordinative rather than administrative.
Each class elects two dance managers to help with the class party. Nobody seems to know exactly what the class dance managers do once they are elected, although there has been some speculation. In fact, it all narrows down to the point where one may safely conclude that dance managers are relatively unimportant and could be done away with entirely except that the position carries with it a certain amount of prestige. The prestige would be absolutely worthless if some fraternities lucky enough to have a dance manager couldn't point out the fact to rushes. As for the majority of students, they would probably prefer to let the Student Union operating committee manage the varsities in its spare time and give a free varsity with the spare change.
Russia Is Now Safe For Democracy
This week Russia's Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, will convene to point with pride to Russian advancement and to view with alarm the general European situation. Except that Russian representatives will not meet in an opera house and listen to Wagnerian operas whenever their culturally inclined dictator is in need of inspiration, the Supreme Soviet will undoubtedly behave as obediently as does the German Reichstag.
When the new Soviet Constitution was adopted back in 1936, millions of Russians cheered it as a step toward the creation of a real democracy—with freedom of expression, the freedom of gathering and worshiping as they pleased, and the right of parliamentary representation. That Stalin viewed it differently may be gleaned from a statement made late in 1936. At that time all he claimed for the new constitution was its power to record and to consolidate by law those achievements which had already been attained. Pravda, the official organ, further said, "It must not be believed for a moment that the new Constitution can lead in any way toward weakening the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Given the right to vote, the Russian voter was also given extensive "education" in the use of his vote. In view of election methods employed the last election, such education was hardly necessary. When the voter appeared at the polls he presented his credentials, after which he was given two ballots and directed to a secret voting compartment. There he placed his ballots in envelopes, sealed them, and dropped them in a ballot box. The system was very simple. He didn't even make a mark on his ballots, for that would have disqualified them. The ballots, too, were very simple. On one was printed the name of the lower house candidate; on the other was printed the name of the upper house candidate. Dictator Stalin didn't even run the same risk that Dictator Hitler did in his famous plebiscite when Sudetenland Germans voted "ya" or "nein," the neins being thrown out.
Although it's putting a strain on the word "democracy," it is pleasant and reassuring to think of Russia as being a democratic nation. Cartoonists may eventually picture communists as cleanly shaven gentlemen; British subjects will no longer be troubled with visions of Reds marching through Buckingham Palace; the French Chamber of Deputies might accomplish something if it no longer needs to snop around industrial plants looking for Bolsheviks; the average American might conceive of the Russian as doing something more constructive than bombing the First National bank; and the
Comment
Women's Knees Go in Cycles
Dies Committee might even go on a fishing trip.
Women's knees seem to follow an eleven-year cycle. After a decade, they are about to appear once more. Since 1929 the skirtline has acted like an elevator stopping at all points between the ankle and the knee. First it's up, then it's down, then up, then down. In 1929 the dress was at the highwater mark. The following year, skirts went down along with the stock market, and continued a downward trend that missed touching the ankle by a scant margin in 1932.
In the depression years from 1933 to 1935, the skirtline advanced to about the half-way mark. In 1936 it came up again as did the price of butter, this time about three or four inches below the knee where it remained fairly uniform until this year.
Today the skirtline threatens exposure of the knee, and if the past ten years can be used as a forecast, 1940 will go back to the good old days. But if the skirtline ever goes too far above the knee, women will look pretty silly walking around in extra long coats and no skirts.
The Clean-Up Campaign Should Continue
With the sentencing by the federal court of Boss Pendergast to one year and three months in prison and a fine of $10,000, the figurhead of Kansas City's civic corruption is temporarily removed from the scene.
Those who question the justice of the sentence should remember that Pendergast was charged with federal tax evasion and no mention was made of his nefarious activities in connection with the municipal administration. Citizens know that the political leader has had his thumb in many shady pies in the thirteen years that he has controlled Kansas City, but Pendergast was smart enough to plead guilty to the least incriminating charge that might have been brought against him.
The temporary eclipse of Pendergast solves nothing. The graft machine is drifting rudderless and henchmen are under cover, but unless the "clean-up" campaign continues with force and the support of the citizens of Kansas City, the situation will revert to its former corruption. Many are eagerly anticipating the lagging of interest in the crusade, and are counting on social inertia to win their anti-social battle.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Tuesday, May 23,1939 No.157
Vol. 30 TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1952 NO. 167
Notice dos at Chancellor's office at 11 a.m. on date of
separation from the Office of the President.
--the human, the better for the human cause. The various systems of the dog greatly resemble those of a human body.
A. I.E.E. The KU. branch of the A.I.E.E. will hold a regular meeting on Thursday evening, May 25, in room 296 Marvin Hall, at 7:30. Election of officers for next semester will be held and a field trip to the new Lawrence Power Plant will be made. Bring your cars if possible—Richard F. Grabar, Secretary.
ALL UNIVERSITY WOMEN: Any girl, preferably a freshman or sophomore, who is interested in doing some freshman counselling next year, please call me at 1233 or Miss Muguel's office, K.U. 12. Please call this week, as the list of counselors for next year will be an article — Alice Russell, Chairman, Federation of Counselors.
CAMERA CLUB Professor J. M. Kellogg, head of the department of architecture, will discuss the prints of the current Camera Club exhibit tonight at 8 o'clock in the west ballroom of the Union Building—Herbert
FRESHMAN COMMISSION PICINC: The Joint Y M-Y-W. Freshman Commission picnic which was scheduled for Thursday afternoon has been called off There will be no more meetings of the Freshman Com-
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Anyone who has a book or pamphlet checked out from the W.C.A. library is asked to return it before final examinations.
-Ellen Payne, Secretary V.W.C.A.
W. S.G.A.: There will be a meeting of W.S.G.A. members tonight at 7 o'clock in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building. All members are required to be issued by Veldm Wilson - Winifred Jamison, Secretary.
QUACK CLUB: There will be a short business meeting of Quock Club tomorrow evening at $15. Please join us!
PHI CHI DELTA: The final spring banquet will be
auctioned by Betman Matel Hortex, Program Chairman.
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Every Dog Has His Day In Physiology Dog House
By Gene Coleman. c 10
Even a dog hasn't got a chance in the dog house anymore. At least that seems to be true in the University physiology department's dog house. Each month 90 to 100 camel attaches are used to further the cause of medicine.
By Gene Coleman, c'40
Since the dog's physiology is similar to our own, it is quite logical to use the canine. It has been known for some time that the surgeon and the physician are useful. It is also an established fact that in order for the surgeon and the physician to be useful to us, they must know something about our physical makeup. To sacrifice a five human body for the purpose of seeing what makes it tick would, in all probability, stir up considerable communication among the "anti-vivisectionists". Since human sacrifice is uncommon in the medical profession, some other being may be used. The more this being is like
notes'n discords
by John Randolph Tye
In the last few years more than two dozen Kansas Citians received prison sentences of 2 to 5 years for stealing a few hundred ballots in their precinct. Yesterday, the boss who ordered the ballots stolen and who received $350,000 of public money for a bribe settlement got off with a 15 month sentence. Perhaps there is a moral somewhere in the situation; we can't say. All we know is that we haven't the slightest urge to write any editorials on crime does not pay.
by John Randolph Tye
Our sympathy goes out to poor Mr. O'Malley who—next week is to appear before the same judge who sentenced Pendergast yesterday. In another week the papers will start shouting about the travesty of justice, the citizenry will be ready to lynch anyone who has a kind word for him. The judge's next-up anger will fall on O'Malley's shoulder. The judge will probably sentence him to 10 years in Alentraz and not but an eye-lash.
Bob Eubay is so naive that he thinks the busby King George is carrying with him on his Canadian tour is a relative.
Tsk, tsk! According to yesterday's papers, some of the Canadians had the bad taste to behave in the King's presence like Americans.
Being a columnist no the Kauan during our senior year has its good point. Now we have a chance to be in desire of our desires of our write a Swan song.
Bette Davis will certainly get the 1939 Academy award for "Dark Victory," but there should be some citation for Geraldine Fitzgerald whose fractured nature proves that she is probably the best young actress in Hollywood.
Joseph J. Bowlus b139 has received an eleventh-month's scholarship in the Graduate School of Commerce at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Bowlus is the only senior in the Business School to receive this honor which provides half of the tuition and a position in Chicago while attending school. At the conclusion of the scholarship period he will receive the degree of Master of Business Administration.
Bowlus, whose home is in Coffeyville, has distinguished himself on the Campus by making Beta Gamma Sigma and the Dean's Honor Roll. He is a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Scholarship
To Business Student
Where Do the Dogs Come From?
Should you any student inquire as to where the dogs in the dog house are, you should tell them that "nobody known." Lots of dogs run around in the pen every day, but after visiting the house each day, one w'll discover that seldom do the same dogs appear all the time. Dog-lovers who might resent seeing dogs in a house told that the animals are not pets. And they feel no pain in the course of an operation.
Taking the bark out of each dog is a minor operation. This little job prevents unnecessary barking at all hours of the day and night. In other words, when a dog feels like barking, he may go through all the motions and straining, but there isn't any bark. Whether the dog feels badly about the failure, an objection or a misunderstanding, animals still wag their tails and look happy about things in general. Dog Sleeps.
Numbetal, a sedative, is injected into the dog's blood stream, and the animal loses all traces of consciousness. He does not fight the drug. He just lies down and goes to sleep. Then he is placed on the "animal board". This board is used to keep him on his back. Otherwise, he is left alone in the room outside. Both pairs of legs are strapped down to the board, and his jaws are opened to shut over an iron red to keep his head in place.
The operation is then performed on an animal that never knows what happened. He sleeps peacefully through the entire process, and never wakes (that is if the experiment is sufficiently serious). Death, if not automatic, is brought about by either bleeding or by a process of caving in the chest. The animal stops breathing when the diaphram) are severed. This causes a negative vacuum, and the animal stops breathing. He just doesn't wake up, that's all, and he's man's best friend more than ever.
On the Shin -od look and decided it was a snake 10 feet long. Eldredt Cadwalader, at but when the discovery was made, took his hive to the scene, and withthief the reptile blow upon the cranium. Wayne Nees then whipped out his knife and severed the head and the tail. The snake was a 7-year-old rattler, and Freddy Bosilevice claims that it wiggled for more than an hour. He didn't stick around long enough to check up on the old sundown theory, however.
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The "biggest pin" deal in a long time was completed last week by Theta's and Phi Delts. First indication of an affair began the night of the Theta party when two Phi Delts stole the large Theta kite that hung above the Union building portals. Serenading Tuesday night, Theta's team had to send their electric pin turned on above the Phi Deli doorway. Phi Delts were even more surprised when they went serenading Saturday night after their party and discovered Theta's had stolen the Phi Deli pin.
Also at the state lake on Sunday were Sig Alphs and dates on their annual violet hunt. Nobody found any violet, but one of the boys says he had caught it until after dug to out and look.
Unhappiest girl in Hillville last Sunday night was Marian Springer, Jayhawkier secretary, who spent three hours calling 70 seniors to tell them today is the deadline for paying the $3 tariff on picture screens.
Million Ross was eating a bowl of chicken-rice soup at a local lerent last night when he disgusted repeatedly by the Chinese student to school."
Final Examination Schedule----
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
June 1
FRIDAY
June 2
SATURDAY
June 3
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MONDAY June 5 TUESDAY
2:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
2:30 classes, 2 1 hours at 8:30 to 12:00
9:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
9:30 classes, 2 1 hours at 8:30 to 12:00
10:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
10:30 classes, 2 1 hours at 8:30 to 12:00
TUESDAY
June 6
Sundav. June 4. 1939
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY June 8
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8:30 classes, 5,4 2 hours, at 8:30 to 11:20
8:30 classes, 2,1 hours, at 2:30 to 1:20
1:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours, at 8:30 to 11:20
1:30 classes, 2,1 hours, at 2:30 to 4:20
11:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours, at 8:30 to 11:20
11:30 classes, 2,1 hours, at 2:30 to 4:20
3:30 classes, 5,4 3 hours, at 8:30 to 11:20
3:30 classes, 2,1 hours, at 1:30 to 3:20
4:30 classes, all hours, at 3:30 to 5:20
Students Direct Symphony Group
The University Symphony Orchestra presented a program Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium with students of orchestration from the classes of Prof. Charles Skilton acting as directors and arrangers.
The program opened with "Three Aequilai for Trombones" (Beer-thoven) played by Dallinger, f'39, George Drew, c'41; and Leslie Sperling, fa'uncl and Joe Spearing, c'42.
Lynn Hackler, fa'38, directed "Cantilele Pastorela" (Guillmant) with Alex Fielder, c'38, flustist, and
Louis Maser, fa38, led the orchestra in "Mazurka in G Minor" (St Saens) and in "In the Church" (Pierce). William Ward, fa40, directed the string section in an arrangement of "Intermezzo" (Kramer), "The Concerto," and "Minor Folk Song" (Mendelssohn) and "Romance Sans Paroles" with Dorothy Flory, fa uncl, playing the violin solo.
James Flower, obliquely, playing solos, and "To the Lyre" (Schubert) in which Jack Lager c'39, sang the solo. Hal Dellinger led the orchestra in 'N one but the Lonely Heart' (Tschakowsky) (the Vain Seremende) (Brahma) in the first part, sang the solo. She was also soloist in the arin from 'Lerou' "The Nile" arranged and directed by James Flower.
Spitsbergen is the most northerly inhabitable land in the world.
THE PROGRESSIVE
R.O.T.C. Boys To Celebrate; Awards Will Be Presented
ONE RAILFARE!
KANSAN
The honors will be given at the final parade of the units in the state hall, which will be held after the parade for the members of the R.O.T.C. and their guests.
R. O.T.C. awards won in competition by units and individuals will be presented at the spring barbecue in the Memorial stadium. Mav 31.
Robert Briggs, gr. conducted "Scotch Poem" (MacDowell). The program closed with "The Chatter-ter." (Loomis) by James Flory.
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Bettio DAVIS in "Dark Victory",
her greatest performance, is now
playing at the Granada through
Wednesday. George Drew, this is
your free pass for today's showing.
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