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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1936
Kansan Comment
Three Cheers For Spring!
- Today is indubitably the first day of spring, 1939. Both the calendar and the weather announce the glad news to winter-weary students Spring is the season which above all the others brings a revival of enthusiasm and a joy of living.
Spring brings not only hayfever and Easter vacation, but a vast dissatisfaction with one's winter wardrobe. A sudden longing for bright new clothes takes possession of the feminine half of the campus with the appearance of views of the Paris Openings. Every shop and magazine bursts with the new fashions. The University sidewalks and corridors are echoing already with the tap of wooden shoes. Anklets, pastel skirts and sweaters, and beer jackets are again in order of the day. Even the drab males are blossoming forth in saddle shoes and tweed sport coats.
Spring is really here, we hear. But as every one knows Kansas weather is as unpredictable as a feather in a hurricane, students would be wise to delay shipping their flannels and furs home for at least a month.
Robins and roadsters and romances will be multiplying, and when the lilacs bloom on Orread . . . we've got something here!
Let's Make Honor Societies an Honor
Once again the time has arrived for the selection of the honor men of the campus—Sachem for the seniors and Owl society for the juniors. To be in either of these organizations has been, in the past, a great honor; to be an Owl or a Sachem to-day. . . . "Well, congratulations, old man. Niece going." Nothing more.
Two things seem to be wrong with the societies at the present time. First, the standards have fallen, the gates are being let down to admit men who are not worthy of the honor. Secondly, the whole affair, the notification of new members and their initiation, is too drab, colorless, and dull. The two societies, long traditions of the University, have none of the prestige and glamour that they once possessed and so rightfully should have again.
What might be a cure for the first wrong? Why not try to draw up a balance between 'leadership, scholarship, breadth of interest, unselfish service to the University, and character,' the requisites of one who would join either society. An off-center balance results from taking a man with medicore grades and many activities. Nor can the proper balance be maintained by picking only men with exceptionally high grades and nothing else. Each qualification must bear equally with the others or the purpose of all is defeated.
At the present time interest in the societies is sadly lacking. No ceremony, no color, adds attractiveness and interest to the occasion. In the past various attempts have been made to establish a permanent method of notification—to make a tradition of the acceptance—but none have lasted. In 1912, a vague form of 'Tap' day was inaugurated, but it dropped out of sight; another form of public ceremony was used in 1923, but it, too, died a quick death. Other methods of notification were adopted in 1931 and in 1934, but they also fell by the wayside.
Other universities have more colorful ceremonies. They are true traditions, some as old as the schools themselves. Take the 'tap' day at Yale University, 'Cane' day at Pennsylvania University, Iowa State's 'Tap' day—all are colorful, all are a definite part of the university life, all are traditional.
Why not let the members of Sachem and Owl society don their robes for one day, and, at an appointed hour, gather in front of the Library or some other appropriate place and select the new members in front of the student body.
Today's Laborer Must Be Versatile
Certainly there is ample opportunity for the inauguration of colorful reforms that would enhance the prestige and the honor of being elected to one of these societies.
Contrary to the popular belief that the invention of labor-saving machinery has been the cause of our unemployment, recent figures show that machines create more jobs than they destroy. A fact-finding committee of the American Society of Tool Engineers estimated that the highly mechanized automotive industry alone had created ten million jobs in 40 years.
The committee also proved that the time saved by machinery is money. It is estimated, for example, that the modern car would cost $17,850 if made without labor-saving machinery, and that only 50 of them could be sold in a year. This is a huge contrast with the three million or more sold annually. Another example given by the committee was that of a
watch retailed at $1.50 which would cost $1,040
if produced by old machine shop methods.
Other reports have estimated that one fourth of the employees in American industry today owe their jobs to eighteen new industries developed since 1880. In general, those industries in which there has been the most rapid growth of employment are those which have also advanced the fastest technologically. The Machine Age has created one of the largest fields for employment today,—that of research. Science has both created new products and made older ones cheaper.
The fault, then, lies not with the machines, because they have created wealth and employment. Rather, the problem lies in the lack of versatility on the part of the workers. Fifty lumbermen laid off in Washington are not trained in any other field. They cannot be re-employed immediately, nor can they fill newly created jobs in the Pennsylvania steel industry.
The answer to the problem of unemployment, then, is principally versatility in ability. Perhaps, after all, the "Jack of all trades" may be better fitted to cope against unemployment.
Collegiate Doesn't Always Mean College
Can't something be done about "outlaw" basketball tournament calling themselves pretenious names like "The National Intercollegiate Basketball Championships," such as the one recently completed in Kansas City. Not only is the name unduly pretentious but it is also untrue.
The recent K.C. tournament was without official backing. It was the promotion of some Kansas Citians who were primarily interested in the money the tourney would draw. It by no means represented the class of national collegiate basketball world. Big schools couldn't compete. The teams which played were from schools which allow freshmen to compete on their varsity teams.
It's all right if the city promoters want to call their tournament The National Junior Championships, but the collegiate sports world objects to the pretense and hollowness of the title used now.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Tuesday, March 21, 1939 No. 117
Vol. 36 Tuesday, March 21, 1939 No. 117
Nine days at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on date of
March 25, 1939
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--publisher ... Harold Addington
A. I.E. E. The University of Kansas branch of the A. I. E. E. is a regular guest at the A. I. E. E. evening, March 23rd-26th, Marvin hall, Mr. C. H. Weisner, personnel manager at the southwestern Bell Telephone Company of Kansas City, Missouri, will be there to discuss the latest developments in the
CREATIVE LENSURE COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at 7:30 Wednesday evening at Henley house. The plot of the original movie to be made by the Commission will be decided upon and plans for the movie will be drawn up. Anyone interested is welcome to—Marjurie Wiley, Charles Yeoman, Co-chairman.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION. Y.M.C.A.: There will be a memorial service at 10am on the Memorial Union balcony. Rev. Joseph King will talk on the subject, "Little Freshmen What Now?" All freshmen are invited—Lloyd Eates, Public Chair-
MATHEMATICS CLUB: A meeting will be held Thursday at 4:30 in room 263. Frank Strong hall. Any one interested is invited to attend. Mr. Marvel will speak here and will present in Physical Chemistry." - Dorothy Bul扎t, President.
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting in the west
bathroom on ballroom Wednesday at 4:30
D. J. Willett, President
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY WOMEN: Women interested in the position of manager will be invited to attend a special meeting in Mist Elizabeth Meguina's office, 239 Frank Strong hall, before Monday, March 27 - Genevieve Lencard, President
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY WOMEN. There will be a W.S.G.A. tea tomorrow in the English room of the Memorial Union building. The Independent Student Association will be the hostess—Delos Woods.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY. There will be a meeting Tuesday, March 26, at 3:30 in room 115.
TAU SIGMA. There will be a regular meeting tonight at 7:30 in Robinson gymnastics. Attendance reached 12,000.
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The colored lights, when turned on, project the moving design in multitudinous colors on the screen. The screen is viewed from the front consequently none of the simple apparatus is visible. The effect is similar to the Clavius organ which was demonstrated at the University last year, the only difference being that it moves in the pattern and a faster movement.
Red, blue, green flashing upon the screen portrayed an imaginary world of tomorrow on the light machine created by T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design. It is all done by putting such things as tinker-toys and straws on a revolving wheel in front of a red, blue, and green light and behind a screen of tracing paper.
One spectator said that it gave her a "feeling of freedom" to look at the everchanging infinite configuration which moves steadily across the screen. "Release from nervous tension" were the words that expressed the effect on another person when he viewed the beautiful colors. The deep blues and blotles, the vivid reds and green concentrated in fantastic designs of day dreams where imagination plays a major part.
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Business Manager Edwin Brown
Advertising Manager Oren Wanamake
Besides pleasing the aesthetic taste, the 6-foot machine fulfills the more practical duty of clarifying the air. The machine's sign. For an instance instead of
Commercial Use of Light
Light Machine Created By Professor of Design
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notes'n discords by John Randolph Tye
Now that the Archbishop of Canterbury has declared that there are some things more holy than peace, we must conclude that God is on the side of the British and take our course accordingly.
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One doesn't need to be an alarmist, however, to get excited about the European political situation. The new Lithuanian foreign minister is Juozas Urbsy. Lithuania itself is hard enough to spell, but if on top of that, editors are going to have to worry about Juozas Urbsy, they will be in a fighting mood before the week is over.
Thought for the day. As a comedian, Beatrice Lillie is better than the Mars Brothers, the Ritz Brothers, Benny, and Lew Lehr combined.
Seen at Brick's. Two dear old ladies, looking like characters out of a Peter Arno cartoon, smoking cigars. What is this older generation etc.
The Rover Boys at the Topeka Capital; J. Howard Rusco, executive secretary of the Kansas Press Association and publisher of the Kansan last year, is a double for Governor Rattner . . . The Shinier readily had to take it on the Shin Monday. He hitchhiked to Topeka . . . One of his first assignments was to head the capital under the impression that it was the State Journal . . . Dick LaBan of the New York City La Bana was at a loss when giving an assignment to write a feature story about buses . . . The staff of the Topeka morning paper refer to their evening rival as the "evening headache" . . . and vice versa . . . Shirley Richard and Richmond Boyce are beginning to doubt the veracity of movies where the reporters haunt a city. In the past Shirley walked to Washburn and back on one assignment. And a walking trip to North Topeka made Boyce a bit footsore and fancy free . . . Agnes Mumert had to leave just when she was ready to go on an assignment with the night police reporter . . . If the staff of the Topeka Daily Capital ever wish to put out an issue of the Daily Kansan, they will be in touch at the Shack would have to be on their toes to equal the courtesies they received at Topeka.
laboriously mixing pigment with pigment to obtain a desired color effect, the student merely experiments by switching on different colored lights. This way is more scientific because the whole creation of color is based on light instead of pigment. Contrary to the grade school theory, red, green, and blue are the primary colors. The proof is the white color they produce, when blended together.
When the screen is removed the sturding fact is brought out that complements of the original colors appear in the shadow of the small perchings, has been the most valuable thing fostered from the light box.
On the Shin--
To illustrate the more businesslike aspects of light. Mr. Jones demonstrated how the wrong color lights can ruin a window display. Putting a bottle of catup on the stage of the box, he turned on a red灯。The catup looked almost black. Not until he put a white light and a little red did the catup reflect a warm light. For the correct lighting of balloons red and blue, white and violet ones should be used.
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Evolution of Light Box
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a limited supply of book covers constitute the main expense of the 15 most beautiful girls on campus. They will be sent post paid in a plain wrapper upon receipt of 50 cents.
Publisher's notice: Don't bite on this one you dozes. The last time Robertson pulled it we couldn't find any student directories around the campus. Furthermore, Robertson offered all of his many debts next day.
Professor Jones, who is an art teacher with a mechanical twist of mind started working on the box this fall. Using the box merely as a screen to throw colored lights on was the first step in the evolution of the light machine. In this way the students found out how different colors could be used and placed on the stage for the colored lights to play on was the next step. This resulted in the complementary shadows' discovery.
Professor Jones then conceived the idea that the whole thing would be more exciting if the lights automatically changed. Thus abstract forms were made out of cardboard, straws, toy airplanes, etc., and put on two concentric revolving disks which travel at different rates of speed. In this way there is no repetition of form. The abstract designs are viewed from the other side of the screen so only their odd multicolored shadows can be seen. Future improvement on th-
Future improvement on the machine will be automatic light control for the purpose of regulating the lights from the other side of the room. Professor Jones thinks musc would add to the pleasure of the audience.
The machine has been a real help to the students especially those in the
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abstract design class. Besides being beautiful, the box is a creative medium and an inspiration for design. The novelty lies in the simplicity, smallness, and cheapness of the box and the fact that it can be used in classroom discussions.
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