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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1939
Kansan Comment
Popenoe Makes Campus Marriage Conscious
Despite the fact that many students consider the lectures of Dr. Paul Popenoe a waste of time, the lectures serve a worthy and practical purpose in awakening the interests of American youth in the problems of marriage and in the field of social relations.
The fact that the public is attaching more importance toward marriage and family relationships is also shown by the increasing number of courses in that field which are being offered in colleges throughout the country. Another indication lies in the establishment of marital and pre-marital institutes and clinics in many of the larger cities. The Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles has been quite successful during its nine years of operation, under the direction of Dr. Popeneo, leader of the University seminars.
Facts show that marital relations clinics have been successful in nearly all cases in keeping out of the divorce court the couples that have come to them for assistance. A difficult problem is that the clinics are not now able to reach many of the people that most need their advice, both because of the limited number of clinics and because most people do not take advantage of what they have to offer. Likewise only a small percentage of the population can study marriage relations in colleges.
Some divorces are, of course, unavoidable. But by far the majority of them could be prevented by adequate information and advice. As college graduates already have a very high rate of successful marriages, the spread of interest to other groups is to be desired.
The Popenee lectures have been well attended. They have aroused sufficient interest to stir up agitation for a course in marriage relations to be given at the University next year. Although not as scientific as might have been expected, the lectures have made many students think seriously about a successful marriage and are indeed a step in the right direction.
Marriage is definitely a career. Why shouldn't young people prepare for it as well as for a business career?
Keep Kansas Paved For Kansas Autos
What has been done recently to bring Kansas out of its bewildering maze of impassable roads and dangerous detours? This situation is not only causing inconvenience and annoyance to the people of Kansas, but it is also bringing economic loss. Ninety per cent of the automobile traffic that would normally pass through Kansas is being directed through Nebraska and Oklahoma, according to a recent statement made at a good roads conference in Topeka, because of the highway inefficiency and detour nuisances.
This condition has been brought about mainly through false economy practiced in the past. Instead of constructing highways of good grade cement to insure permanent concrete roads, Kansas officials used the cheaper gravel. Such gravel roads are satisfactory when new, but necessitate constant repairing and rebuilding. The neglect of upkeep is seen in a tour of this state.
The Kansas Highway Federation, launched last fall, was looked upon as the possible means of correcting these conditions. Yet now it is unnoticed, and the results so far have been unproductive.
Various reasons have been advanced for this. One of the main ones, perhaps, is the fact that the federation took the position that it was not going to become entangled with any "selfish money," namely, contractors, concrete and asphalt men. Because of this, the group closed the chief source to which it might have turned for financial support.
Only one or two steps have been taken up to this time. The highway commission has agreed to do away with the detours for the coming tourist season. If this is realized, it will be one step ahead on a long road.
Governor Ratner has indicated that he would not appoint a new highway director until the end of the legislative session. The federation hopes that the new commissioner will cooperate in this matter.
The highway federation idea is a good one, and its members are capable and sincere. It will be too bad if this group becomes hampered by political questions in the state capital. At any rate, it is certain that something must be done about the highway situation soon, and many think that the present federation is the group to do it. Perhaps this problem will serve as a lesson in the future that false economy in the long run brings inefficiency, waste and expense. It is to be hoped so, for this is but one example of this misguided theory in which Kansas has indulged.
Campus Opinion
(Editor's note: Needless to say, the following campus opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the editor.)
They Seem to Want Us to Swing.
Editor, Daily Kansas;
Of all the amine editors ever printed in the Kansan the most asinine, the most unreasonable, the most inaccurate, the poorest which ever appeared was in the Tuesday edition of the Kansan. Some editor desiring to hop on a bandwagon with the rest of the design team decided to make Godman into a globe of mediocrity it could be.
A comet may appear in the sky of swing and briefly the brilliance of the Goodman aggregation but the excellence of this orchestra will continue unabated. Artie Shaw is good. Gene Krupa is good. But every one who goes to see him is a "bustuck" is the best in the swing world, that is, one except our presumptuous editorial writer.
And so far as drummers go, Lionel Hampden piano,
should have heard him to "Gone," Gene Kruger,
should have heard him to "World is Waiting for the Sunrise" or the Swing School Tuesday night, and you should have heard his piano
Jessica Bell with Benny Fowler on the night. And so to you, Mr. Editor-Phoebe! Nuts! Ge in the Groove! Leave to Benny and recount your day.
GORDON BERTRAND TERWILLIGER AND ELJIAH CARMELO COLE
Gives Editorial a Grade—of '86'
Editor: Daily Kavanagh
Whoever it was that wrote that strictly '86 art on Benny Goodman didn't have much on the ball. F was under it. Besides being misinformed he was i literate. Anyone that spells Krupa as Croupu mc come direct from Cow Tech. Croup is what lit comes from, from exposure. We got it from **readir** the article.
What if Goodman is tired of the swing business? If he wanted to be could outplay Artie Shaw using a swing. So he wrote it and sent the writer of the article that appeared in the Kauan as press agent. Incidentally that is quite a handicap. The bridge happy journalist that wrote the article stated that he would like to be any single drummer to be a whole band. Kruper is trying to be now but all he's doing is increasing aspirin pills. Unsurped that he has a contract with the Bayer company.
It was stated, "Goodman has nothing on the ball." It's a good thing that the writer of the article didn't sign his name. Some resentful jitterbug might have been found and the man who found it (and found) out with a clarinet. There has never been a gobber who could elude out a hotter with such a sophistication than Goodman has nothing on the ball then we're Lombardo fans, Jimmy Robertson is a columnist, and the author of the article that appeared in the Kansan is a journalist.
BEN COURSE VIRGIL ALLISON.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1939 No. 99
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ADAGIO. All students will anticipate joining the gymnasium after attending a meeting in Robinson gymnasium at 3:30 Friday afternoon. No previous experience is necessary and no scholastic requirements are made—
A. S.M.E. At the regular meeting tonight there will be five reels of motion pictures on wrought iron pipe by the Byers Pipe Company. There will also be a short film. All interested are invited.-Hal Whitaker. Secretary.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission of the Y.W.C.A. and the Y.M.C.A will meet Sunday afternoon, Feb. 26. Mr. "Poe" Moriarty will speak on the topic. We May Understand and Appreciate It." Members of the commission will meet at Henley House at 235 and then go in a group to Mr. Frazier's studio, where the meeting will be held. Everyone is welcome to - Marjorie Wiley, Charles Yeomans, Co-chairmen.
DIRECTORY CHANGES: Members of the staff whose residence or telephone numbers have changed should notify this office immediately in order that the directory be updated, and the director, Raymond Nichols, Executive Secretary.
INDEPENDENT STUDENT ASSOCIATION: There will be a meeting of all salesmen of Independent Student Association memberships this evening at 7 o'clock. All you have to do is register. All who have been issued tickets for sale are asked to attend without fail. Pamphlets and contract books are now available to aid you in your sales. If you cannot attend, call some member of the council and report to your progress—John Oakson, Member Committee.
WESTMINISTER READING GROUP! The reading group of the Westminster Student Foundation will meet at Westminster Manor, Feb. 2 at 4:45 at Westminster hall or Eleanor Mannor Hall, Feb. 10 at Stanley Jones. Those who wish to remain for a 13 cent lunch should make reservations at Westminster hall before Saturday noon. Everyone is welcome—free.
NOTICE TO ALL WOMEN STUDENTS: The W.S.G.A. Nominating Committee will interview women desiring to run for Council positions at 4:30 and 7:30 this week for the position of the Union building—Gevenle Landrush, President.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet at Henley House at 4:30 Friday, Rev Joseph W. Green, Director of the Religious Affairs Center, 'All interested are welcome.' Elizabeth Meek.
WOMEN IN EDUCATION: All women interested in becoming a teacher must register as a member to sign up for it in the Education office 103 Fraser, or at Henley house before 5 o'clock Friday, Feb. 24. The first meeting will be on Saturday at 9:30 am and will be at 7:30 pm.
WESLEY FOUNDATION: Wesley Foundation will host an evening of dancing with his family, February 24 at 8:00 - 10:00 - claimahn Preserve, Presser.
SOCIOLIogy MAJORS: There will be an hour meeting of Sociology majors at 7 o'clock this evening, in the Union building. All are urged to come—Leone Hoffman.
SIGMA ETA CHI. The initiation ceremony will be held at 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Fourth Flower, Dinner will be at 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
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Elephants and Mice Romp In Union Building Lobby
By Mary Lou Randall; c'uncl.
To augment their artistic ibas—and incidently, to test the *sense of humor*—students might take a look at the nursery wallpaper designs in the Memorial Union building. At the library, you can see if they ever become children again.
But the students do not need to
become children to enjoy the wallpaper
designs. Indeed, the brilliant
designs should not be wasted on
children and should be made up of
minds. No, they should be wasted upon those
of the college students.
Work by the design department is being exhibited in the Union jobby until Monday. At the request of Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Union building, frequent exhibitions will be displayed there. These present mounts are second in the series. Sixteen of the 24 drawings are designs for cotton and silk material and draperies. They show variety of colors and textures, brilliant while others are more subdued and neutralized. The remaining eight are the wallpaper designs already mentioned.
notes'n discords
by John Randolph Tye
Picture, if you can, a clown leading a big elephant, a middlesized elephant, and a baby elephant walking in typical circus fashion of trunk around tail. The baby elephant, the little card, is tweaking the middlesized elephant's tail rather gleefully. And then picture what might happen to the baby elephant for this mismeaned.
by John Randolph Tye
If any reader has a thesaurus or dictionary that contains any of these terms—a hotter, gob-stick, nothing on the bait, jive in the groove, long underwear gag, paper men, rug-cutters, senders, whacky, or alligators—will he or she please get in touch with this department. We fear our pre-editorial training has been sadly neglected.
A mid-week by any other name would be a mid-week.
*Wonder if the lecture on marriage now on the campus really is an authority on the subject or if he is just Popenoe his mouth.*
Bob Bussy reports in the Lawrence Journal-World that the iliac bush in Watson library is thriving while the one in强 Hall has wilted. How did Bussy ever find out about the one in the library?
Literary note: Readers of James Ferrell's famous novels on the Chicago Irish may be glad to hear that in the latest novel of the second trilogy, the war is Lost." Danny learns two new cursive words. They are honeyes, too.
Another mount portrays the story of the three blind mice, who look rattier than a hobo from across the tracks. An dressed in a barrel with a patch over his eye, while the other two are practically obliterated by their huge blinders. The one with the barrel has a light object in its mouth, all three of which actuates of a mug. The last scene shows the three mice running sadly home with bow-tied bandages where 'heir tails used to be.'
Or, if you can't picture it, then drop in at the Union building sometime and see it.
After reading the symposium on freedom of the press put out by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which contains statements and expressions by 120 representative Americans, we find it more difficult than before to define what freedom of the press really means.
Not only may University students see the work of the design department at the Union building, but also a continuous display of it on the third floor of Frank strong hall. Because of the physical effort required to go three flights of stairs many students go through college without visiting the exhibition room or seeing the colorful corridor filled with masterpieces of the art students in this building.
and Ohio streets every morning has finally been cleared up. A janitor was caught yesterday morning bringing it into the House of Rowland.
And speaking of ice, what ever happened to that petition of the M.S. C. requesting that icy side walks be sanded? It was about the first and only constructive legislation the council has passed on all year. May-
Another display at the Union building is a case of handcrafts representing the work of students of the department of design. There are examples in copper, leather, and pewter. The delicate pendant and skull skilled in metal ship. Rings outnumber the articles on display. Some are set with green onys, blue turquoise, and gold mixed with the silver.
mirrors who asked her for a date to the Hob-Nail Hop by telling them she was going to stay home and study that night. She ended up by meeting all four of them at the hospital. Undoubtedly she will stay home and study this weekend.
On the Shin --
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After listening to a conscientious library assistant bemian his lot, I have become a deep sympathizer. He tells, for example, of the girl who asked for a book bound in blue covers with gold lettering. She didn't remember its title or author but was able to point through a doorway into the books and say it might be in there someplace. Just look for it real good." Then she got mad when the poor fellow couldn't find the book.
The mystery of the cake of ice that sits by the mail-box at fourteenth
I have just discussed the static-electricity situation in the Union ballroom with Prof. Storer of the astronomy department. He believes that it is caused by sun spots, although he quotes Sir John Hirschel as having nothing to say on the subject. Sun spots, you know, appear on the face of the sun and vary in size from that of an ordinary school district up to several hundred thousand degrees. Radio reception is bad when you try to listen to Tommy Dorey or if your sinus trouble bouts, you just blame it on sun spots. In fact, you can blame just about anything on sun spots that you can't blame on Betas or the administration.
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