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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY. MARCH 12. 1939
Kansan Comment
Let's Tango To Brazil
The recent invitation of foreign minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil to Americans to invest surplus capital and to come as immigrants to his country presents a parallel to the United States in the '70's when British capital sought profitable investments here. Brazil is as large as the United States, plus another Texas. Economically it is in about the same stage that this country had reached in the middle of the nineteenth century.
The element that increased development in the United States was foreign capital, particularly British. Foreign money was advanced to build railroads, factories, textile mills, steel mills and office buildings.
Individual investors lost some money, but on the whole the British found in America a profitable outlet for surplus capital. Expanding activities attracted immigrants from other countries who in turn became customers for these industries. With the aid of foreign capital our country was built.
The Johnson act may stand in the way of the aid which Brazil desires as it prohibits the lending of American money to any country which is in default of its obligations to the United States government. The South American republic owes about 530 million dollars in defaulted obligations to American citizens. Although this money is not owed to the government and thus any support would not be a crime under the act, the safety margin is so narrow as to make public opinion touchy on the subject.
Brazil provides a good opportunity for surplus capital, as railroads need to be built, mines developed and the rubber tree, native to the country, needs improvement.
Economists figure that 100 million dollars advanced to Brazil would start her on the road tointernal expansion. There is then a chance to do with our surplus capital what the British did with their seventy-five years ago.
If the United States does not do this, some other country will take advantage of the opportunity. Powerful interests of the totalitarian states in South America are not desired. At the present time Brazil seems to prefer us. More than fifty years ago, Horace Greeley advised progressive and ambitious young men to go west. According to Senor Aranha, now is the time to go south.
D.A.R. Might Try Americanism
The refusal of the Daughters of the American Revolution to permit Marian Anderson, internationally famous Negro contrato, to sing in their tax-exempt Constitution hall proves that more than ever our so-called democracy needs to be Americanized.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately revealed her stand on the situation when she turned in her resignation to the D. A. R. Many other of the nation's intelligent people voiced opinions of the disgraceful incident. Eddie Cantor congratulated Mrs. Roosevelt on her resignation from an un-democratic organization.
The Board of Education in Washington who formerly denied Miss Anderson an appearance in any of the school auditoriums have now consented to let her sing in the Central high school auditorium. Miss Anderson said of the whole affair: "It shocks me beyond words that after having appeared in the capitals of most of the countries of the world, I am not wanted in the capitol of my own country."
The D. A. R. would probably deny that Miss tribute more to her country than do many Anderson is an American, but she does commembers of the sacred organization.
Gable Romance
To Provide Third Wife
It is one of the perplexities of life that long months or even years of events must unfold before a denouncement is forthcoming. The final chapter of the Spanish rebellion has not yet been written, although the last installation will probably be on newsstands next month. Millions await the solution to the Sino-Japanese conflict and the entire nation is waiting for the new play, "Working Our Way Through Electoral College of 1940" to begin.
But another serial has been finished and it ranks as one of the current best-sellers. Thousands of love sick women and a scattering of sympathetic men are happy that the climax has been revealed. The anti-climax is obvious and even now these romantic mushers are reveling in their idols' future happiness.
Clark Gable got his divorce fro Rhea Gale,
And the strong handsome man of the silver
screen plans to weed, within the next fortnight,
the frolickesame and lovely Carole Lombard
Pitter patter!
Who cares about Spain?
No Pressing Need For Crime Bureau
One of the most important questions before the Kansas Legislature is that of the establishment of a State Crime Bureau. A similar effort in this direction failed two years ago in the 1937 session. The Crime Bureau would serve a good purpose, but is this service as necessary to the public as other measures now under consideration?
The new bill requires appropriations of $50.000.00 annually for two years. About half of this sum would be used for salaries and half for equipment. The bureau would consist of ten persons or less, trained for the detection and apprehension of criminals. Scientific crime investigation equipment would be used and complete identification records filed.
In comparison with other states, Kansas has a low crime record. The present police system of the state is relatively satisfactory in most sections. A smaller sum spent to modernize the present system would have approximately the same effect in decreasing crime as the bureau.
The state highway police patrol operates efficiently and actively. Whenever a criminal violates a federal law, the local authorities may have the aid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist them. Improvements made in local police departments are commendable, but the establishment of a special bureau would be spending money unnecessarily.
More public good, as a whole, would be derived if some of the money were spent on the problems of flood control, road improvement and education. These are things in which Kansas is known to be deficient.
The funds available for public improvements are limited, and necessitate careful considerations of expenditures. Instead of striving for absolute perfection in one phase of state work, the legislature should strive to bring all phases up to a satisfactory level.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Sunday, March 12, 1939 No.111
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ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be an important meeting of the National Service Fraternity at 4:30 tuesday afternoon in the hallroom of the Union Building. All students who are invited to attend will be welcome. Secretary:
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting, open to all students, graduates and faculty members who are interested in Christian Science. Classes are 4:30 in Room C. Myers Hall, Juddy Kelly, Secretary.
CONTEMporARY LITERATURE LECTURE. The last lecture of the contemporary literature lecture series will be given Wednesday, March 15, at 3:30 in 205 Fraser Hall. Miss Misa Sara G. Laird will speak on "Contemporary Biography," with special emphasis on autobiography. While this lecture is primarily for freshmen and second-year students in English are ordinarily invited. W.-S. Johnston, Chairman, Dept. of English.
CREATIVE LENSURE COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission of the Y. M. C. A. and W. Y. C. a will meet Sunday afternoon, March 19 at Honeysuckle House in New York City to discuss what to do during the next few weeks. Anyone interested in writing, acting, photography, or observing this work is in need of part—Marilyn Wiley, Charles Yoyouma, Co-Chairman.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: There will be a short meeting concerning the convention at Omaha in room 104, Frank Strom Hall, at $3.90 Tuesday, March 27. Please be present and bring dues - Lola Siebert Senate.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: There will be a meeting Tuesday afternoon in Fraser Hall, 100 room at 4:15. Miss Anderson will conduct the meeting on "The Family Conference."—Mary Cavanna, President.
SOCIAL SERVICE COMMISSION, Y.W.C.A.: A meeting will be held Monday, March 13, at 4:30 at Henley House. Miss Irme Schake of the Douglas County Welfare Office will talk on "The Effects of Re-people." Reports of the field trip in Kansas City will be given. All girls are welcome—Mary Jones Chairman.
LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: There will be a meeting this afternoon at 3 c'clock with the Kansas State College Lutheran Student Association at the University of Kansas. All students are urged to attend - Mary Jane.
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Not a literary giant, but a deserving young poet worth watching is Kenneth Wingina Porter whose collected works were recently published under the title of "The High Plains." This collection embodies a greater variety of themes and poetic structures than can be found in most modern books of verse. Yet for this very reason it is difficult to say just what sort of a poet Mr. Porter is. Still Experimental.
By Gordon O'Brien, c'40
A new book of verse by a Kansas poet is not always a signal foraelm, but fortunately "The High Pihin" by Kenneth Porter is not the usual book of Kansas verse.
To compare the work of a deserving Kansaan poet with that of his great American contemporaries will inevitably shrivel the Kansaan's poetry to an insignificant level. But such a comparison is unfair—as unfair as to compare S. T. Elliot with Shakespeare, or Robinson Jeffers with Dante, for one neither demands nor inspires the poets of early twentieth century America or looks for literary giants in Kansas.
Kansas Poet Wins Acclaim On First Book of Verse
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With no particular message to impart to the world, Porter confines his settings to no single locality. He writes blank verse, free verse, and sonata, and makes use of prefabs, metaphors, and schemes. By turns he is optimistic and pessimistic, jubilant and melancholy, and he contemplates war, race
By Gordon O'Brien. c'40
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by John Randelshaw Tux
You can say this for Hitler. When he relaxes, he really relaxes.
Some people say they lack time to play the piano. On the other hand, we lack time when we play it.
The best radio clip of the tongue to happen in a long time occurred yesterday afternoon when the erudite pontifexman who announces the truth of a conspiracy they had been listening to "this tragic performance of Rigoloet."
A diplomat is a person who remembers a woman's birthday but not her age.
Almey with Samuel Johnson's famous definition of patriotism, historians of the future should rank singular definition of a sociologist.
Maybe disieses don't tell but we are tempted to tell on Daisy, the slee-yed black puppy, who unidoubtedly has more gentleman friends than any other canine on the Campus.
Says Austin Butcher in the Alta-Toona Tribune. Of course we don't want to appear egotistical, but if they can't find anyone else to take the job as chancellor of the University of Kansas since the resignation of Chancellor Lindley, they wouldn't mind to accept it. But there are some things we would like them to know about and what hours are required? How many holidays, etc? Union or non-union?
Much as this department would like to see Austin Butcher as Chancellor, we don't think there is a chance for him. I'd be just like him to appoint Kate Bender Dean of Women.
prejudice, the evanescence of man, humanity's viee, Christianity, and the more picturesque of the natural phenomena. Porter is obviously still experimenting both with ideas and poetic forms.
So far the experiments which have produced the best results are those concerned with describing the high plains of Kansas. Here he gives a vivid, colorful picture of the wheat in harvest time, the brilliant sun, in the fields, and the various topographical features peculiar to the state.
Here, too, the poet is at his reflective bost. He is poet of leaming against a fence in order to watch the sea gulls overhead and wonder when the next inundation will come to bring back "the flashing tail and fin" and wipe humanity from the face of the earth. Or again he presents with intense feeling his awe at beholding a great storm cloud darkening the earth in harvest time, seeming to bring back weedy for a split sec-ond the ancient age of glaciers.
Wheat Is The Gladen Flere
Wheat Is The Gloden Fleece
Greek mythology plays a big part in his descriptions. It is in fact about the only field of literature to which he ever alludes. The yellow wheat is the Golden Fleece, the white sheep is Cinderella, and Jason's heroes sailed in quest of the Fleece, and in times of forgetfulness he refers to the river Lethe.
Few poets can successfully present their own opinions on ethics, politics or metaphysics in an artistic form. Strive though he may, Porter is not one of these. This may be because the themes that he uses are old and must be presented powerfully in order to produce the desired effect, and in this first volume Porter has used them. If poets possessed this power he could be ranked with Jeffers and Ellot, but one must not forget that Porter is after all a young poet and this is his first volume of verse.
The poet's lack of power is not offset by an adequate artistic expression. Many poets when they fail to elicit the desired emotional effect from an abstract idea have been able to make the poetry pleasing through tone, color, aesthetic imagery, and rhythm of words. This requires a certain amount of genius or at least a great deal of experience in writing. Porter has not yet had much experience, and unfortunately, poetic genius seems foreign to Kansas soil. Some of his imagery is good, but much of it is poor. The description of fish in clear water as "the flashing tail and fin" is an undeniably perfect description. When the reader will find such platitudes as "the sky's inverted shell of blue" or "chunks of ice big as a baseball."
Writes Of Nondescript People
The characters in the poems are nondescript individuals, unimportant in themselves but typifying certain classes in society. Sometimes his harvest hands seem a little too intellectual and often his intellectual are unreal, but the greatest criticism is that characters are not marked by a definite individual, nor are they impersonally grand. It is necessary however to remember that Kenneth Porter is a young poet and that he is writing some of the best verse in the state today. His themes are interesting and timely the descriptions of Kansas oil and
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As the first fruit of a true Kansas poet, "The High Plains" is note-worthy. It is for superior to most entries in a representative anthology of Kansas verse. Readers who have followed the writings of the young man will look forward with interest to his next volume to watch his development into the poetic maturity of which he seems capable.
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