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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Kansan Comment
FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1939
High School Students Inspect Mt. Oread
Today there are 2,700 high school students from all over the state on Mt. Owatron. Today this mass invasion of potential college students will perform in an athletic way at the Memorial Stadium, but more important than this, they will see the University in operation.
Today the greatest publicity agent for the University is, without doubt, the annual interscholastic track and field meet and the Kansas Relays. There is no other single event which brings so many students to the Campus. The efficient way that Ed Elibel and his staff run the Relays, and the showing the Kansas track team makes sells the University to these high school athletes.
For many of these youngsters, today's visit to the University is their first contact with collegiate life. Today they will see what it is like to be in college. Perhaps when they leave, they will take back dreams of being students at the University of Kansas.
One of the Relay's greatest objects is to instill this dream into the minds of its prep visitors each year. Fair and spirited athletic competition is another. This second object ties in with the first in selling the University to Kansas high school students.
When Dr. Allen and his aids planned the first Kansas Relays back in 1923, they had their far-seeing eyes on national publicity and support for the annual interscholastic meet. Without the Relays, the interscholastic meet would be just another track and field carnival. With the Relays, the interscholastic meet becomes a two-day affair.
Foremost in the minds of the young athletes who will show their abilities at the Stadium today is the thought of winning. But that is not all. Track is the type of sport which does not breed intense rivalries. Rather it promotes friendly relationships between the competitors. This is the type of sporting event that wins friends for a school.
Today when these 2700 high school athletes see Mt. Oread's beautiful campus, the clean scholastic attitude of her students, they will unconsciously form in their minds a desire to come here. Tomorrow when they see such great athletes as Bill Hargiss' Glenn Cunningham, Bob Stoland, Don Bird and Ray Harris running under Kansas colors, they will feel the pride and privilege of being a Jayhawk from Lawrence on the Kaw.
Next year many of these boys and girls will come up the Hill as new freshmen proud to be a part of the University and already filled with the spirit that is the University of Kansas.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, in their forty-eighth national annual Congress, reaffirmed the necessity of a larger national defense. According to various reports, this action was not totally unexpected.
Bill of Rights Assumes New Importance
After 148 years, the state of Connecticut is considering ratifying the Bill of Rights. Connecticut never did ratify the Bill of Rights. It never did seem to get around to it.
The importance of civil liberties has been brought home to America by the refusal of dictators to allow their citizens to express minority opinions—or for that matter, any opinion. The growth of totalitarianism and the wiping out of personal freedom in many countries of the world has made American citizens realize the necessity of liberty in a democracy.
Without civil liberties, there can be no truly democratic government. Opposition is stifled where the freedom of speech, press, and fair trial by jury are nothing more than unenforced phrases of the law. A democracy can't progress without an articulate opposition. The denial of civil liberties eliminates all articulate opposition.
But Americans want to keep on being a democratic nation. Hence, in times like these when democracy is under fire in many sections of the world, they are turning their attention more to the preservation of the laws guaranteeing personal freedom. They want to reaffirm their faith that democracy is the best form of government.
The move by the Connecticut legislature to ratify the Billof Rights is therefore appropriate. It is more than the addition of Connecticut to the list of the 47 states that have already approved the Bill of Rights—it is the pledging of the citizens of Connecticut to one of the basic principles of any democracy.
Tyrone Power is going to get married. That, on top of the Gable-Lombard match, is expected to be a fatal blow to the vanity of many of the girls who believe that a handsome man can't marry any one but them.
Parole System Needs Revision
The parole system has been under constant attacks in various states. It has been charged that the system is inefficient, that it occasionally lets criminals out to prey upon society, and that its enforcement is often corrupt. All of these charges are true, but they are arguments for improving rather than abandoning altogether the parole systems.
A way to reform the parole standards was suggested by Attorney-General Murphy at the national Parole Conference this week. He proposed an agency established in the Department of Justice which would attempt to co-ordinate through information gathering the state systems. Crime has become to a large extent interstate, but parole laws are decidedly not interstate—it would be hard to find as striking an example of uniformity in state laws as the parole systems. Some method of co-ordination among the state laws on the parole is necessary. The establishment of an agency of the federal government to keep all the data on the various types and sub-types of the parole set-ups in the states would aid in this uniformization.
The main job, however, is up to the citizens of the states. They should check up on the parole system in their states and assure themselves that it is functioning fairly and efficiently. The elimination of corruption in the operation of parole releases is in their hands. And if some American parole systems represent "misgovernment at its worst," the fault must lie with the lack of interest of the average citizen.
After the triumphant "peace parade" in Madrid May 15, Italian and German soldiers will be withdrawn from Spain. It is about time that the non-intervention committee's protests are showing some effect.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to the editor's discretion, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires.
Campus Opinion
Editor, Daily Kansan
As four disappointed members, we are surprised to find the U.S.A. in providing a band for their Spring Festival.
This isn't merely destructive criticism for we feel upset by their use of the phrase 'boredom' by their past two dance, but the present attempt to pawn off on the members an evening of boredom under the attractive title of a "Gay Lady Dance" isn't just the same.
Since this dance was advertised in the "K" book of the LSA. Spring Formal, there are no excerpts for it. I just took a couple of excerpts from the LSA. for the three big dances and the big name one foot barely about the big name because it was really fun to do. It was just a council pool dream, but we do think it's a laxy deal to accept members who understand one thing, and then they just try it out.
DONALD STROHMEYE
EDWARD MOORE,
LUCILLE HAWORTH,
GORDON FIELDER
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Friday, April 21, 1939 No. 135
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on date of publication and 11:39 a.m. on Sunday, june 27.
--when the polls closed at 5 yesterday, this department called an embargo on goldfish. Henceforth the only way a goldfish can attract oup attention is to swallow a college student.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The monthly Mass and breakfast for students will be held this Sunday April 23 at 7:30. All those wishing to go, and who have not made reservations, should call 2324W and—if over—Ivan.
ESTES COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at Henley House Sunday afternoon at 5:30. Everyone interested in the Estes Park conference is invited. Call X office for supper reservations: Ruth Olive Brown.
LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION. A meet-
ing will be held Sunday, April 22 at 6:15 at the
Hall of Science in New York City.
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Jeffers' Work and Looks Deceiving, Says Eisley
By Agnes Mummert, e.V.
"Meeting Robinson Jeffers was something equivalent to encountering a god stepping out of a cloud over Point Labos," said Loren Eiselev, assistant professor of sociology.
Professor Eilesey was recalling his introduction to the American poet whose works are now on exhibit at Spooner-Thayer museum. The exhibition includes a manuscript of his verse and several photographs. They were loaned to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers.
Edward Weston, photographer whose photo study of Jeffers is included in the exhibit, introduced Jeffers to several years ago in California.
Ursing students to see the exhibit, professor Eisley said. "It is an unusual opportunity to see the actual ought draft of poetry that will go down beyond our time, and to realize in the scratched out, re-written lines something of the painful effort and high-tension labor that enter into the production of distinguished erse."
"It was a pretty awkward affair," the sociology professor explained. "His lined and powerful face and reticent courtesy left it difficult to say anything. It was painfully concious of our homely term 'Mister.'"
"One wanted instinctively to use term of more distinction in addressing him. And you don't say to him, "I don't enlarge enthusiasm about our work."
"I remember," Eisley continued "that Mr. Jeffers, with a tinge of amusement, explained that he had just been excused from jury duty. The lawyer for the defense (it had said) that Jeffers looked too cruel to be entrusted with the life of his client. "There was a certain element of
There was a certain element of grim humor in the sittation. Here was a man whose austere pity might
notes'n discords
by John Pendlebly Tux
This morning there are a lot of mad politicians on the campus—those who lost and those who supported losing candidates. There is absolutely no excuse for such a state of acers. Hill elections are too trivial to get to med about. Hill politicians should learn to approach polites as the Quill Club does sex—analytically.
Not long ago when this department referred to a second-rate sax player as Gene "Croupa" something like the wrath of God descended on our frail shoulders. Everywhere we turned in the journalism shack we were received with sneers. Maybe that's why today we are enjoying the embarrassment of the people who in Wednesday's Kansan spelled Kysser as Kayzer. And in a banner headline too.
One of the things wrong with capitalism is that there is too much capital and not enough money.
by John Randolph Tye
Ah, me! It seems the goldfish record has gone East again—this time perhaps forever. An employee of an Indiana fishhatchery accidently downed a bowl of water filled with newly hatched fish. The cup is reputed to have contained approximately 500 of the little raalsc.
NOW IT'S---when the polls closed at 5 yesterday, this department called an embargo on goldfish. Henceforth the only way a goldfish can attract oup attention is to swallow a college student.
. . .
Sue Maloney, back from a Hollywood visit, reports that Hedy Lammar is as glamorous in real life as she on the screen, but that, as she and Gene Markey seem perfectly contented.
ARROW SHIRTS
CARLS
There are things some students won't do—even for peace. One of the young men who sat through the goodless banjuet at noon yesterday had risen from a table at a nearby restaurant not 15 minutes before.
Dave Angevine took us to task for calling McPherson, from whence hails the newly elected Phil Beta Kappa member, a town. "It's not a town," he said indigently. "It's a city. It has nearly 5000 inhabitants."
have encompassed any crime, and have whose whole life had been devoted to the recording of human passions. Yet he was barred from a jury by a petty lawyer who was certainly no judge of men."
Fisley is the author of a critical study of Jeffers poetry which was "kindly received by Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers."
In discussing some of his significant works, he said, "No poet of our time has caught more fully and deeply the implications of modern science, nor more powerfully expressed them."
Jeffers' works include "Give Your Heart to the Hawks," "Solitude," and "Room Stallion." His first significant work was in 1923 when he was 38 years old.
"Doubless Mr. Jeffers would smile at my youthful and awe-struck impression of him," Elseley said. "I mention it merely because it suggests what I believe to be true—that his stature and qualities as a man are no disappointment to readers of his verse."
P.S.G.L. Majority
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(Continued from page one) treasure's position was won by Paul Wise, c'42 of Pachaeamac, by virtue of a 282-201 margin over Fred Robertson, c'42, P.S.G.L. Jim Miller, c'42, of Pachaeamac, won the position of dance manager along with P.S.G. L's Donn Mosser, c'42.
There was a slight delay in the final counting when the election committee held a short meeting to decide whether to use proportional representation in counting the dance managers and decided to use the same procedure in counting them as in counting the others and P.R. it was. Prof. W. R. Maddox, associate professor of political science and an election adviser, said, "I feel that if a change in method of choosing the舞 managers is desired the council should be made aware of the election of candidates other than those to the Men's Student Council." Shortly after the election crews began counting ballots at 7 p.m., students checking poll books and the specially marked student directory against the number of votes cast in the School of Pharmacy discipline at the university of the latter to the extent of 13.
Professor Maddox, and Prof. O. E. Stone, assistant professor of political science, sorted the ballots and found what they said were 13 marked for the same presidential candidate in almost an identical manner. It was agreed merely to discard the 13 votes without invalidating the entire ballot. The advisors would not reveal for which candidate the ballots bad been marked.
With the counting of the last dance manager ballot the election was officially over. Congratulations and regrets were exchanged by the leaders of the two parties, Wilbur Leonard, c'39, and Floyd Kelly, f'40. Mur thrown during the campaign was beaten by the candidates, acmaeus and P.S.GL. got together to talk over the last two week's events. All but Bob Marietta and Andy Hibbard kissed and made up. That pair will never be friends.
On the Shin --
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Publicity Head Ken Poulteathle is stuck with an armful of worthless pictures. A dohouse is now in construction for the ering Bowlus.
This column predicts a decrease in economic class enrollments next year when popular Professor Howey (No, I'm not in any of his classes).
O happy day when we can send copy down the chute without finding a politician mixed up in it.
To save the Shinster's reputation I must confess I wrote the corny comments in Wednesday's column sans by-line.
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The owner of Nuts and Bolts—second page, three columns to your right — is contented now. Kansan eds misspelled Kyser in the banner and Tye is now revenged for the panning he took when Krupa became "Croupa" in one of his authorials. But the shining spot in the little book is on the fact that Louis Fockle is on the cover. Oakson is busy campraising and has Mary Robelene Scott, his secret ambition, to himself. They sit by the hour in Brick's with he giving glowing descriptions of Greek architecture and she giving giggle-by-giggle accounts of the day's events.
Society Chooses Banquet Date
May 27 has been chosen as the date for the annual banquet of the K.U. Architectural Society. The committee in charge of the occasion is Mr. Hammond, an artist and muralist, to speak at the banquet. All alumni are invited.
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