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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1939
Kansan Comment
William Allen White Clings to Youth
"Boys—for I assume this is after all a boy's affair—this is written on my forty-fourth birthday. I am clinging to youth as a dying man to life. I have a passionate desire to see and understand and be one in the life you are living. Above everything I don't wish to be an old crank. I am speaking only for myself. I am speaking just as an old friend who romped and fooled and loafed and loved and sorrowed and was happy on the Hill twenty-five years ago and who was meaner than any of you."
Twenty-seven years ago today William Allen White wrote the above words to the Daily Kansan. The date was Feb. 10, 1912. The occasion was some problem which had the entire Campus aroused but which has now long since been forgotten. But the spirit of the man who wrote this letter of advice to the Kansan stuff in 1912 is still as fresh and as youthful today as it was twenty-seven years ago. With few exceptions the thoughts and ideas of Bill White, his attitude toward life and his service to Mount Oread, remain unchanged.
How strange it seems to read that twenty-seven years ago William Allen White was clinging to youth "as a dying man to life," for to those who have read his books and his clarion-like editorials in the Emporia Gazette, he has always seemed the embodiment of the youthful spirit. Sooner than most people, Bill White found the secret of eternal youth. His ideals, writings, and philosophy are not those of an old man, but rather those of a man who has romped, fooled, loafed and sorrowed his way through life.
Today this outstanding Kansan—probably the most renowned one now living—is seventy-one years young. His editorials have been read by the people of America for many years. For these many readers he has always held high the spirit of liberalism. The young conservative of 1896 who won fame with "What's the matter with Kansas" has become one of the leading liberals of the country.
His pen has known no fear; his opinions have known no predilection. His condemnations of President Roosevelt have shared editorial space in the same issue with praises of the President's work. And because he has for so long valiantly fought the good fight, his criticism and his praise are listened to and respected. He has watched three different liberal movements rise and fall: the "Square Deal" of Teddy Roosevelt, the "New Freedom" of Woodrow Wilson, and the "New Deal" of Franklin Roosevelt. He has watched two of the movements superceded by reaction. Yet because he feels that progress moves slowly but surely onward, he has continued to fight, and what is more important; to laugh.
White's friendly attitude of "Don't shoot the pianist; he's doing his best" has stamped him as a man who can point out the deplorable side of life and yet look toward the future with hope. Such a mind is rare today when people seem incapable of taking the long view on current ills.
So here's to William Allen White. Long may his talents continue to cast light on the gloom dispensed by lesser figures. Long may his inherent idealism, his humor, his liberalism, and most of all, his tolerance continue to point us toward a worthier goal.
Happy birthday, Bill!
How Long Does Labor Expect Public to Wait?
Recent conflict over control of the United Automobile Workers workers union emphasizes forcefully the most serious threat to the American labor movement—the waning sympathy of a disgusted public. Aided by strong public support, working classes during the past decade have made important progress in their fight for higher wages, shorter hours and more humanite working conditions. Continuance of such episodes as President Homer Martin's row with his executive board of the UAW can result only in the loss of sympathetic public opinion, a weapon labor cannot well do without.
The public' so far has patiently tolerated labor's growing pains. It has sacrificed essential services so that workers, by striking, might strengthen their economic position. It has remained remarkably loyal while constant bickering within organized labor—between C.I.O. and A.F. of A.L.-gave it every reason to lose its patience. The public, furthermore, has overwhelmingly supported a national administration that basically is friendly to labor. It has even defended the laborer's right to seek safety and sanitation in the conditions of his employment.
The C.I.O.-A.F. of L. conflict perhaps is partly justified because the two groups represent fundamental differences in labor philosophy. Jurisdictional disputes, however, are another matter. Occasionally, it is true, a sincere official makes an honest attempt to eliminate fraud in his organization. The disputes more frequently are in the petty feeds between factional leaders—as in the UAW squabble—with nothing at stake but the honor of editing an union paper or the right to collect a local's dues.
Jurisdictional disputes in 1938 reached the highest percentage since 1928. They caused thousands of dollars of economic loss. They jeopardized public safety and added immeasurably to public inconvenience. The public cannot reasonably be expected to tolerate such practices. A sympathetic government cannot long remain unsuspicious. And employers who recently have shown willingness to cooperate and sincere desire to understand certainly will have ample grounds for hostility.
When President Martin asked reporters "Just between us, what does the public think?" he was sounding out popular sentiment regarding his own side of a petty jurisdictional dispute. But the former Baptist minister voiced a question that all organized labor might well ask itself. For that public, long unrewarded for its confidence and trust, will not indefinitely remain loyal to an ungrateful, internally divided labor movement.
The Kansas house of representatives voted to eliminate sales tax tokens. The manufacturers of vending machines had already taken this step.
Campus Opinion
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 revision and will be withheld through the name will be withheld if the writer desires.
To the Editor:
John Gunther came to the Campus celebrated as a intelligent commentator on world affairs who was suped to enlighten the University concerning international relations.
A thousand people attended the lecture only to discover that as a lecturer he was a washout.
As long as the interpretation of world affairs is left in the hands of such narrow-minded people as Mr Guntrummer, we cannot rationally expect to lift ourselves from the swamp of national enemies and race hatreds.
Though such so-called journalists may be well acquainted with international goings-on, disparaging comments on a race as to call them stupid, difficult people is entirely unwarranted. As long as correspondents continue to poison the minds of their listeners and have to deal with them as obnoxious or as the Japanese, we will have nothing but bitter wars which will kill the youth of our countries as did the dark black plague of three centuries ago.
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FRIDAY. FEB. 10, 1939
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FACULTY MEMBERS: The State Auditor has requested that the pay roll be in his office not later than the 4th of this month. All faculty and staff members must sign the regular pay roll—Karl Klooz, Burser.
FRESHMAN VACANCY ON RELAYS COMMITTEE. All freshman students wishing to become candidates for the Student Committee of the Kansas Relays should hand in application letters to the Athletic office in Robinson gymnasium on or before Feb. 20, for either of Walter Sutton, senior manager—Walter Sutton.
KAPPA PHI: Kappa Phi will meet at seven o'clock this evening. Professor Schowe, of the Geology department, will be the speaker—Nancy Fleming, Public Chairman.
SOCIAL SERVICE COMMISSION: The Social Services Semester, February 18, at 4:30 at Henley House. Mr Finnen will speak. Plans will be made for the tour of Kansas. All women are welcome: Mary Jones
WESLEY FOUNDATION: Wesley Foundation will have a party this evening at 8:30 in the church basement. There will be skating from 10 to 12 at the ice rink, followed by 15 cents or 2 for 25 cents — John Lintner, President.
WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB: The range will be open this evening and Saturday morning, for all women who have not fired their official scores—Helen Naramore Captain.
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Coeds Are Reason Men Become Misogynists
When Marian Phillips, University of Michigan coed, let down her hair and in a fit of typical female rage tried to convince people that she was the one with the essential female logic—a thing that is only a combination of intuition and wishful thinking. Miss Phillips really doesn't hate men; she is merely a person who doesn't trouble of prying into the psychology of men could really hate them.
By Phil Russell. c'39
The question of women versus men is an old one, yet women never seem to realize that many of their habits and traits are disguising to the men they work with who understakes the task of pointing out these defects, welcomes a great deal of criticism for to tell a woman that she lacks many important reqe-ments, one of the most dangerous predications into which a male can venture.
A woman eludes definition. To define her correctly would require (1) a great deal of time, (2) a diplomatic manner, and (3) a bank-roll rivailing the national debt. According to Funk & Waggall, a woman is "an adult female who can write well,lish, and) a bank-roll rivailing the national debt. According to Funk & Waggall, a woman is "an adult female who can write well,lish, and) a bank-roll riva
What Is A Woman? No Answer
Difficult and complex as women may be, are on the whole necessary things—at times even lovely things to have around. Any man who claims he hates all women is a pathological case. There are times when women—especially women are frightfully irksome. It is with this group that this article deals.
They add insult to injury by standing up a man one night and then the next day ask him to play bridge with them and their another boy-friend, without even bothering to explain about the stand-up.
No coed possesses all the faults listed below, but unfortunately everyone does possess enough of a woman's personality and a woman feels that she would improve herself in order to be more pleasing to the men—and what other purpose has she in life?—she should be a good listener. This is the lowest list. For the little women's information, thirty-five per cent is considered a good grade.
And just because you don't like Tyrone Power, they think you are jealous of his good looks.
They desert a man who has been their main source of getting around for another man just to attend a social function at the latter's organization. There is no desire to obstruct the learner by the cry gallons of sympathetic tears on their date's coat at a movie just because some guy plants a few healthy blows right in Tyrone Power's cute little baby face.
notes'n discords by John Randolph Tye
We didn't realize how bad the movies were this year until we saw "Boys' Town" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" listed among the 10 best. If ever there was a picture that was built on nothing but one emotional clap after another, it was "Boy's Town" and as for "Alexander's Ragtime Band"—we still insist it reaches a new low in banality even though our best friend liked it; so well be sait it seven times.
John Gunther may have graduated from the English department of the University of Chicago, but were willing to bet he was never taught t say "bet between the three of them."
One wouldn't mind Eleanor Roosevelt's recent inclusion of international opinions in her column. If her national affair wasn't so infuriating
R. B.R. in the Garden City Daily Telegram is disappointed in the editorial page of the Kanan. "The appearance of the Kanan's editorials in single-column width type for several days had almost convinced us that student authors at least had arrived at an accurate estimate of the worth of student editorial opinion columns. The editorial column blossomed forth again this week in type one and a half columns wide."
My! My! Does the Telegram really mean to imply that we've been viewing with alarm all this time for nothing
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Add to our list of Mount Oread immortals the Reginald Clement Buxton who spent two years in the journal, and never without hearing of Schiller Shore.
They flick cigarette ashes in the middle of the table and then grind out the cigarette in the ashes when it is too strong to melt off their lipstick.
They become indignant when you try to be helpful and point out their short-comings.
They Can't Take It
They see nothing nauseating in dropping their cigarettes into an empty coke glass or coffee cup.
They say they don't want a cigarette, only a puff, and then ruin your cigarette by smearing it with lipstick. And they are absolutely incapable of smoking a cigarette with any grace.
Make Everything Red-Or Orange
They leave lipstick on everything from coke glasses and napkins, to handkerchiefs and white coats.
They try to impress you when you take them out to dinner by not ordering dinner. Instead they run up a 60 cent mincing bill.
They brave the elements in warm, woolly ski-suits in fair weather, and sweller in ankles and fouls coat open during blizzards and near blizzards.
They capitalize on current styles by sitting on the front row of a masculine proff's classes. This is excellent grade insurance but perfectly unfair to the poor guys who have little brains with which to pass he course.
They spent hours on their makeup then appear with crooked seams in their hose.
Escort Becomes Hand-Bag
Instead of carrying hand-bags they stuff their date's pocket with lipstick, compactes, and frilly silk hand-kerchiefs until the poor escorl looks like a shop-lifter after a busy day at the five and ten.
They are incapable of running the trunk-lines in their houses—so when you finally do get into the house, they'll be by phone they already have a date.
They make a double date sound like an old maid's tea by talking about the things they were once had with Butch McGinty in a year ago; later 'catching time'.
Or They Laugh Alm I Wrong Time
They stop you in the midst of a story and say 'I've already heard it.'
They make them satake that they before you started.
They look insulted if you tell them a dirty story but their version of "Frankie and Johnnie" has even the drunks in the next booth blushing. Unlike Miss Phillips, we do not believe that offering these little suggestions in the spirit of good, wholesome, and constructive criticism.
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Gish dips in to tell me we will have to anti-freeze in the thermometers or to keep them from freezing. I'm taking a gun to classes today in hopes of bugging a fresh air adjetr or two among new profs.
Hill cave society has probably noticed that Frances Fussman, formerly a very regular consumer of
Cottage viands, is now frequenting Brick's. Heart trouble, not stomach trouble, causes the change. You see Herman Janzen, adagio partner and so forth of Miss Frances, has left the Cottage to work at Brick's.
If Ye Shinster didn't like Louie Kuhn's band so well in general and Vocalist Dorothy Jean Russell so well in particular he wouldn't let Dance Manger Don Wood see him enter the Union ballroom tomorrow night. "Manager Wood is unfair to Union dancers!"
Memo to whomever it may concern. Why don't you take the room numbers off the doors of Frasher Hall and put them up over the doors where they belong? When the gates are open a guy has to stick his neck into a room full of people to discover it's the wrong one. Disconcerning no end. One might even say embarrassing.
Never having seen Jackie Coogan in the flesh I can't be too sure, but off-hand I'd say that Bob Eldon is a ringer for Mr. Betty Grable.
Don't put off inviting professors to dinner. In a few weeks your motives will be entirely too obvious. If he's married you'd better invite his wife also. He might not go straight home after supper which would lead to him going to the bar and put him in an ugly frame of mind which would thereby result in the opposite effect you hoped to gain. And don't talk shop.
Oh for the life of Grant Hatfield who finds himself the only boy among 25 or 30 girls in a home deocration course. Or would it?
Miss Jo Chapman is the men's basketball coach at Martin College.
Present Skilton's Composition For String Quartet
The premiere performance of "Quartet in B Minor" by Charles Sanford Skilton, professor of organ at the University of Kansas, was sponsored by the Kansas chapter of Pi KappaLambda, honorary music fraternity in Fraser Theatre before an audience composed of the faculty and seniors in the School of Fine Arts.
The string quartet which rendered the number was composed of: first violin, Karl Krusteiner, associate professor of violin; second violin,
Conrad McGrew, assistant in violin,
viola, Olga Einer, sp.fa. and 'cello,
Raymond Stuhl, instructor in violin.
The composition entitled "Quartet in B Minor" was written in Vienna.
The second part of the quartet, the Allegro, Scherzo (Allegro Vi-ace), Adagio, and Allegro (Indian Hunting Dance) movements.
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