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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1039
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Kansan Comment
There Are Books And Books and Books
There are four kinds of books in the library. There are books that are out, books that are on reserve, books that are in the astronomical, the mathematical, the physical, or the engineering libraries, and books you didn't want any way.
Books that are out are all right because they're probably in use — unless they're checked out to a professor for more than a year.
Books that are on reserve are all right because they're probably being used—unless some professor has put them on the year before and forgotten to take them off.
Books that are in special departmental libraries are all right too, because they're probably being used; and if you spend enough time in research, you may find the location of the departmental library; and once you find the location, you can find what time it is open so that you will know when to come back again.
Books that you didn't want anyway are all right, because probably no one else wants them either, but in any case you can at least check them out.
The present system of library booking is simply marvelous. And it is efficient. And very good.
But if you want to read a book very badly,
and if you can't get it after the tenth attempt,
you'd better buy the book to save time.
Ben Bernie sagely observes that a jitterbug is a person vaccinated with a riveting machine.
Technology Doesn't Have to Cut Our Throats
A rather pessimistic summary of the world's present condition was given by W. L. Phelps, Dr. Neiber, Professor Shapley, and Mr. Wang on Thursday night's America's Town Meeting of the Air. The question was: "Is Twentieth Century America an Improving Civilization?"
Modern technology plus primitive tribal instincts is a terrifying combination, according to Dr. Neiber. In our civilization, one of technical progress; each new invention brings an increased capacity for good—or evil. A technical age can destroy itself; its weapons are deadly. An agrarian state may survive with injustice; its injustice is state, but the injustice of an industrial state is dynamic.
The movie, the radio, and all other recent mechanical developments have powers for progress or destruction. As our world becomes more closely knit together by improvement in communication and transportation facilities the number and intensity of frictions and tensions increase.
Under sane and progressive leadership, our multitude of inventions could change the world into a fairyland. But as long as a rampant fanaticism is abroad in the world, airplanes will be planned as bombers—not passenger planes. If the ever-present fear of war could be removed, and a workable economic system be evolved, then our modern technology could come into its own and be a blessing rather than a two-egged sword hanging over our heads waiting to destroy its inventors.
Some American hotels are adopting the European plan—insult and evacuation.
W.P.A. Beats Pyramids A Mile
The recent reduction by Congress of a million and a half dollars from the Works Progress Administration relief fund has caused additional discussion of the merits and effectiveness of make-work relief. This topic always has been a debatable solution in light of its relation to social welfare and improvement.
The present W.P.A. is a more or less streamlined version of a theory that reaches back at least to the fourth century B.C. to the building of the famous pyramids of Egypt. The modern program, however, like so many phases of our modern civilization, is interwoven with highly technical economic theories of more recent origin. It has been emmeshed with our complicated system of democratic national and state governments, and is held to be an integral part of the highly variable social welfare movement. Although the Egyptian kings had none of these problems to worry about, there is little doubt that the fundamental ideas behind these engineering and architectural projects is the same.
As engineering problems pure and simple, the pyramids had little to do with art. They were definitely of the utilitarian nature and most historians agree that they were the result of long periods of proverty and unemployment and were constructed merely to keep the people busy and to allow their kings to feed them.
Conspicuous waste the pyramids might have been, but they certainly did not fulfill the
purpose of W.P.A. construction. These are built for the purpose of making the country a better place in which to live-more healthful, more beautiful, and more efficient. Proof of this can be found in the modern parks and playgrounds, school buildings, libraries, roads and bridges which have been erected in the last six years.
Another part of the program is directed toward bringing out the most creative abilities of those who otherwise might have no opportunity to develop their talents. Musical organizations, radio broadcasts, and development of literary talent exemplify these projects.
Certainly the American form of the ancient relief theory reaches a higher level of publa welfare and constructiveness than the earlier types. Perhaps our manifestations of this idea may not be as enduring in years as the early pyramids, but they do touch the lives of the people and serve a far more constructive purpose.
An Omaha teacher says not to ban bad books but to recommend good ones.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 36 SUNDAY, FEB. 19, 1939 No. 96
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ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION: An all-university convocation will be held Monday morning, February 20, at ten o'clock in Hoeid Auditorium. Dr. Paul Foponen will be the speaker—E. H. Lindley, Chancellor.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION The regular weekly meeting, open to all students, graduates, and faculty members who are interested in Christian Studies, will be held in Room C. Myers Hall - Richard MacCann, Secretary.
ENGLISH LECTURE. On Thursday, February 23, at 3:30 in Spooner-Thayer Museum Miss Lily will speak to English majors and others interested on "William Penn and the Reformation." She will talk about lantern slides and pictures. Mr. Paden will have a selection of books printed in the 18th century on display in the building in Spooner-Thayer—W. S. Johnson, Chairman Dept. of English.
FALL. SEMESTER GRADES: Grades for the fall semester may be obtained from the Registrar's office this week, according to the following schedule of names: Monday, A to G inclusive; Tuesday, H to M inclusive; Wednesday, F to I inclusive; Friday and Saturday, those unable to appear at the scheduled time—G Ouster, F Registrar.
FRESHMAN VACANCY ON RELAYS COMMITTEE: All freshmen students wishing to become candidates for the Student Committee of the Kansas Residents should hand in application letters to the Athletic office in Robinson Gymnasium on on before Feb. 20 care of a Walter Sutton, senior manager. Weller Sutton.
HOME ECONOMIC CLUB. The club will entertain with a waffle supper Tuesday at 4 o'clock at the Home Management House. There will be initiation of new members - Marv Cavaness, President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: There will be a meeting at 4:30 Thursday, February 21, in Room 203 Frank Strong Hall. Bruce Crobbtree will speak on the "Four Color Drama," and she is invited to attend—Dorothy Bubilz, President.
MEETING OF THE COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on the third floor of Frank Strong Building. The consideration of the committee's report recommending the granting of a Bachelor of Science degree in certain departments will be a special order of business—E. H.
NEW ADDRESSES FOR DIRECTORY SUPPLEMENT: Students who changed addresses between school districts to the Registrar's office should file these addresses at once so that the corrections may appear in the District Public Records.
PHI CHI DELTA: The regular supper meeting will be held Tuesday at Westminster Hall from $30 to o'clock. Miss Vilja Anderson from the Home Economy and Program Chairmen, Marjie Hurcet, Audrey Ratseman, Program Chairman.
WOL SOCIETY: There will be a meeting in the Pine
Room. 8:00 a.m., Monday, Feb. 26.
- 30:00 Brown Power, President.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The second of this year's three examinations will be held on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 9 a.m. Registration at the College Office, 121 First Floor, College of Sciences and All for who wish to take the examination. All students in the College of liberal arts and Sciences who are enrolled in this year in 1940 or later will have to examine Examination this year in order to qualify for enrollment in their last thirty hours of course work Only such students are eligible to take the examination.
STUDENT CORRESPONDENTS' COMMISSION:
The Student Correspondents' Commission will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30, 20. in 102 Journalism building. All members are urged to attend. A special meeting is to be given by C. H. Mulligan, dean of the State-Wide Activity Commission—Veronica Wilson, chairman.
FHI DELTA KAPPA: There will be a meeting Tuesday evening, February 21, at 7:39 a.m. on Oatread Training School. The topic for discussion will be "Evaluation of Secondary Schools"—Reid Hemphill, Secretary.
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"I remember that it created quite a sensation in our Republican household when my brother Dick, '20, came home from an economics lecture of John Ise's at K. U. and announced that John Ise scaffled at the then widely held notion that Calvin Coolidge was a perfect president. I welcomed this support and hastened to enroll in John Ise's courses when I enrolled in school. I also read the Nation and the New Republic, and before long my ruin was complete."
By Mary Lou Randall, 'cuncl Doris Fleeson, 23, well-known New York Daily News reporter and Washington correspondent gathered her political ideas in the classroom of John Isa, professor of economics. The 38-year-old woman paper, a graduate of the University where she was born, and an economist, is one of the country's leading women writers and a personal friend of President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
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The political ideas of Miss Fleisson are slightly more "left-wing" than those of Roosevelt or the liberal New York Daily News for whom she works. In a recent interview, in the Kansas City Star, Miss Fleison discussed her first interest in politics and economies:
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After graduation, she borrowed $60 from her brother and set out for the east. Her first stop was in Chicago. "I arrived on the Chicago door step of Maureen McKernan, '15, on a Sunday morning to find
Time marches on. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is rapidly disappearing from local nickelodeons.
What Kauas needs more than anything else is two days in a row with the same kind of weather.
Pat Murdeck of the Pittsburgh College advises that he'll give us his interest in the new stadium if only we will take Jay Simon back.
We refuse to discuss the matter even if Murdock throws in the entire stadium and Carney Hall besides.
On second thought there may be something to the idea of swapping stadia with K.S.T.C. That would be nice, but I'll fill its stadium for a football game.
It is to be hoped that Jack Lafleur's song "All Hail the Spirit of Kansas" isn't forgot as soon as the last curtain drops on "Dum Laude." The song deserves to rank with "I'm a Jayhawk" and the Alma Mater.
Who would ever think that the engineers would follow Horace Greeley's advice and go West?
Before the rainy season starts, why doesn't someone revive that classic line about keeping Kansas dry for Kansas youth.
A publishing company is offering for sale second-hand copies of "Lady Chatterly's Lover," by D. H. Lawrence—"unexperiated, except for the obscene passages."
In the Shin -her recuperating from a scoop she had pulled off for the Chicago Herald-Examiner. I was sure then I had to be a reporter and emulate this glamorous friend of mine. But while I invaded editors' sanctums with monotonous regularity, I was unable to find work on a paper and made my living as a clerk. Mary Capper, Senator Capper's sister, was a great help to me. She used to invite me to lunch. Marshall Hamilton了 who did best and tautely order herself an enormous luncheon so I'd feel free to stoke up for the week-end. Finally a Chi Omega sorority sister on the Evinston News-Index got me a job in society editor."
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be worth the price it will be this one.
After eight months on this job, another college friend got Miss Fleeson a position on the Great Neck, L. L., News. Here she worked up to managing editor and then one day on sudden impulse she applied for work at the New York Daily News, one of the largest newspapers in the country. Being short on women reporters, the Daily News hired her. Concerning her job on the News, she says:
Setse Poo is undoubtedly the unpleasant name a pleasant organization ever had. It's merely Este Co-op spelled backwards but some others are just names of another nurse Setse Poo sounds like a scientist name for summer complaint.
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Probably the humongiest boy at the bi Gam Pig dinner last night was ledge Conrad Voikler. The dinner necessates a week of hard labor on he part of freshmen, and wanting no art in it, Conrad told the capital had put him on a liquid diet When activities learned of the bamboozolemer they kept him on a liquid set the rest of the week.
"The News was new and vigorous. We had that in common, When it turned out to be liberal as well, I liked it even better. And that it gave an equal chance to men and women reporters instead of shunting women off on the "women's angle" was another stroke of luck. I acquired a sex, a sex, courts of every variety, murder and mayhem, I covered. Early I got a taste of politics and liked it."
Sinister sounds in the night woke Chi Omega's around 4 a.m. yesterday. One girl told another that a man was on the fire escape until an unusually brave one spoke to him. He demanded some silk unmentioned-ables and said he couldn't go away until he got them. He was a Sig Ep pledge on a hell-week scavenger hunt so a sympathizing Chi O pledge co-operated. The scavenger was Bob Mathews.
One of New York's star reporters, John P. O'Connell used to take the young Kansas girl with him on important assignments during these early days. In 1930 they were married. A year later Judge Seabury delayed his investigation of the Tammany Hall scandal, an assignment on which Miss Fleson had worked for many months, for her to have a baby daughter. In 1933 when her husband was sent to Washington as correspondent for the News, Miss Fleson and the daughter soon followed in her footsteps. Washington column called "Capital Stuff" which appears daily in the New York news.
A great admirer of the New Deal and of President Roosevelt, Miss Fleeson's only criticism of the President is that he vacillates and doesn't hold to his course. "But, of course, I like him person-able," she said. "He cultivated gentleman, he's interesting, and he likes people."
Miss Fleeson calls herself a feminist, but defines the word as a woman who thinks men have a betrayment. "I'm not something should be done about it."
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