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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1928
Kansan Comment
More About Santa Claus Christmas, and Virginia
Last year at this time the Kansan printed an editorial parading the New York Sun's classic "Letter to Virginia." That editorial, to say the least, created widespread comment from press and pulpit. It was accused of being cheaply cynical, subversive, un-American. It also received commendation — paradoxically, from some of the very gentlemen of the cloth who are often represented as the anathema of liberalism—for the undisputable realism of its approach.
Without going into all that again, or seeking in any way to sit up the former controversy for the sake of sensational effect, the present editor believes that the following paragraphs deserve reiteration:
"There are numberless children, Virginia, who do not have a warm, comfortable home as you have. Thousands of little boys and girls in your city do not even hang stockings to wear, let alone to hang in the fireplace. Their fathers belong to the great ranks of the unemployed and have been unable to find work the last few years. It is pretty difficult to explain to a little girl like you about the employment situation—important men have been puzzled by it—but the children of these unemployed men know what it means to have no coal with which to heat their homes, to have no food to fill their empty stomachs, and no warm clothing to protect their bodies. . . .
"There are hundreds of little boys who work for the editors who write these nice letters to you. These little boys sell papers on the streets, they wear ragged clothing, and the few pennies that they make support mothers and sisters. . . .
"There is something phony about a Santa Claus who thinks that a charity dinner on Dec. 25 will make children forget about the other 364 days in which meat and potatoes are things like fairies and sugar-plum trees that little girls dream of at night. There is something wrong about a Christmas spirit which makes men dress up like Santa Clauses to lure customers into department stores, yet does little else to help men possess the simple necessities of life.
"A world of love and fellowship that can function only on one day of the year must be a difficult pill for little boys and girls to swallow. Don't let them force it down your throat, Virginia."
The above paragraphs are not a blanket indictment of the holiday that for nineteen hundred years has crystallized the finest in human sentiments and emotions. They are not an indictment of the Christmas spirit that each year makes it possible for thousands to enjoy the one good meal—or even the single week of good meals—they have received for fifty-one weeks.
But they are a recognition of the fact that such occasional sentimental manifestations are not enough. They are a healthy indication of the superficial aspects of the modern Christmas season.
Anyone who has ever spent the days before Christmas delivering "Holiday baskets" to the poor of a large city—and the writer has—can not come to the close of each day's work without a stabbing sense of futility, a gnawing sickness in his heart, because of what he has seen. It is not that most of the receivers of Christmas charity are ungrateful—but that they are too grateful. Not that they are unhappy or untouched by the gifts—but that they are too happy, too overwhelmingly appreciative of these temporary evidences of the good will of their fellows.
One cannot assist actively in dispensing Christmas charity without stopping to ask himself a hundred times a day, "What does all this mean? What kind of existence must these people lead from day to day, to make them so glad to receive the pitiful, impermanent suceor we have to offer?"
Not until the Christmas season comes to mean less, in a material way, to those to whom it now means the most—the cold, the hungry, the destitute—can it hope to achieve the ultimate purpose for which it first can into being, and toward which it now strives imperfectly. Not until the Santa Claus of countless thousands comes to stand less for the necessities of life, and more for the additional tokens of man's good will and well-being, will Virginia's faith in the spirit of Christmas be fully justified.
Always, when bulging an eye at some new incredible report from abroad, we expect to encounter the familiar forward. "The characters and events depicted herein are purely fictitious."—Detroit News.
Jews Destined To Continue Wanderings Outide U. S.
The United States is not likely to provide a wholesale refuge for the Jews. Indications are that the effect here of the persecution of the Jewish people of Germany and Austria will be a tightening up, rather than a loosening of immigration laws.
For the first time in three years, the immigration quota from Germany and Austria has been filled in each of the past five months. Not more than 10 per cent of the annual total is allowed to enter in one month, and if the present rate continues, the quota for the fiscal year will be filled by May.
The next Congress will consider such contrasting proposals as modification of immigration laws to permit a lumping of quotas for several years to give immediate admittance to a larger number of refugees, and the demand that the quotas be further restricted.
The same conflict of feeling, apparently, is present in France where early signs of newspaper and other protest are pointing to an anti-foreigner movement. Great Britain, however, is more lenient when it comes to Jewish children, some sixty thousand of whom will be taken from Germany and eventually established in English homes.
Although the chief cry against liberalization of the immigration laws in the United States is from labor, which, because of the unemployment situation is against lowering the immigration bars, anti-semitic groups of other types also appose the raising of Jewish quotas.
Why Don't Dramatic Critics Go to College
Things have come to a pretty pass when dramatic representations of Midwestern colleges make critic Bob Benchley confess, "They don't ring true, but we are assured that they are." Every red-blooded student will agree something should be done.
Assuming that college life has not sunk to a new low, that it is still continuing on its former elevated plane in providing intellectual and social nourishment for those who seek it, we rise to protest. Judging from screen and stage, a college is a place abundant with zanies of all kinds—chorines, callow youths, and crazy professors.
To protect ourselves from this sort of vilification, perhaps the best thing would be for some conscientious student to vindicate college reputation by writing a play about college as it really is. But even then difficulties would arise. Certainly no one would agree as to its merits—critics would flourish like dandelions on a campus, and howls would rend the heavens.
Probably the most successful plan would be to arrange field trips for Mr. Benheley and other critics who find "serious dramatic evaluation difficult because one doesn't know whether such things really exist or not."
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IREGULAR PAY ROLL. All students on the irregular pay roll for the month of December should call at the Business Office to sign this pay roll before leave is for the Christmas vacation.-Karl Rlooz, Bursar.
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University Student Recalls German Holiday Traditions
All over the world at Christmas time, men lay aside human hatred and material cares and celebrate the coming of the Christ child. Christmas was celebrated in Germany a few years ago by a girl who is now attending the University. Although she is an English student, she exiled from Germany, she still loves the German traditions of this season.
By Lillian Fisher, c'41.
In Mannheim, Germany, where Herta lived, the Christmas holidays are opened by a huge Christmas tree market in the center of town. This market is out of doors and is the only place where the trees can be bought. In the center of town, she and her husband burn candles. The odor of pine fills the air, as the happy fathers buy large trees to take home.
The only forms of vuletide decoration in Mannheim are the tree market, plain trees (no lights or candles on them) in front of the government buildings, and the attractive window displays. Stores do not remain open for business at night in Germany, but for two weeks previous to Christmas, they remain open on Sundays.
The Hellarsarme is an organization similar to the Salvation Army in the United States. It collects clothes, food, and toys for the poor people. The boys and girls in German schools make present for the more unfortunate children, and they also wear a cap for the hospitals. However, no caroling is done. The German family singls only at home.
Children Make Presents For Poor When the German father buys a Christmas tree, he takes it home and locks it in a special room. He and his wife decorate it, and from time to place presents on it; if the children see the tree they are punished.
Many clubs and organizations hold Christmas parties. These parties are joyous occasions for the
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It only goes to prove what we've always said—that it is impossible to please everyone. At the University of Oklahoma, students are writing to the editor blemening the book "Duncan consistently refuses to say anything good about the musical and dramatic productions.
Alif Landon has learned the Lambeth Walk during odd moments of the Lima Pan-American congress. A typical Lionan gesture. A good Republican would naturally shy away from the Eleanor Glise, but would compromise on the Lambeth Walk.
The composer of "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones," the ditty getting a big play on Hill nickledeons, might have simplified the matter by adding a more ground by calling the number "Franklin Dealer Jones."
We can not say truthfully that we got up yesterday morning on the wrong side of the bed, but it was one of those days when we felt like getting up and giving the President hell.
Walter Winchell note: The Shinster and what Dean are feuding!
Add descriptions: She has a face that resisted a thousand passes.
"Windsors to spread cheer," says a headline in one of the Kansas names maybe she's put it sounds like. Dixie puts agent is spreading something else.
Oh, well, just two week's from today, the last Christmas light will have been taken down, and the radio will discover that other music has been written, since Silent Night."
Maybe we are doomed to be ousted always with the minority, but we for one fail to see how Lew Tyres' return to the screen will improve the grade of movie entertainment.
Paul A. Misch, Ohio State University student has volunteered to paint the campus lower clock free of dust and to read to the face from his room.
The University of California's atom mashing cyclotron weighs 85 tons.
Little German children. The Santa Claus of Germany, "Weihnachtsmann," is characterized by a man in a red suit with white fur, a long white beard, a sack of presents, and a whip.
Bad Children Receive Whippings
If the children have been good,
Santa Claus gives them a each present.
But if they have been bad,
Santa has to use his whip on them
everyone watches their discomfort.
Hanging up stockings is unknown in Germany. Our legend of "coming down the chimney" cannot be used there because Santa always appears in person the night before Christmas.
When Christmas eve arrives, each member of the German family takes a lighted candle, goes to the door of the "mystery" room in which the tree has been placed, singing carols, and then throws it over loud "thump, thump," on the steps outside assures them that Santa is near. The jolly fellow is usually played by the father, although there are chartered Weichnachtmanns. He gives a special present to each child and a whipping to the bad children.
After the presents are opened the happy family gathers around the piano and sings carols: "Stille Naht," (Silent Night), "O Tannenbaum," (O' Friar Tree, Green), and "Honnet," (Come Children, Come).
Christmas day is spent going to church, both to morning and vesper services. At noon, the family eats a traditional dinner. The dinner is composed of: soup, goose, fried potatoes, all kinds of vegetables, leftovers, pickles, celery, peppermint, (candy peppermint) springlece, cookies, and wine.
The German people are not satisfied with one day's celebrating, for they also call the day after Christmas "Christmas day". Working children have the December 27, and school children have the customary two week's vacation.
Men's Intramurals
Jumping to a 16 to 7 lead by the end of the first half, D. U. continued its heavy bombardment by adding 28 points to its total in the last periods while Acacia could only muster fourteen.
Two extremes of basketball were witnessed in late Wednesday night contests when Delta Upsition took an loosely played game from Acuage, 43 to 21, while the Delta Chies employed a defensive play against the Pi K. A. aggregation, 18 to 10.
In the second game of the 9 o'clock schedule, Delta Chi upset the Pi K. A. basketeers, 18 to 10, by throwing a defense around their goal which permitted but four baskets to be gained from the field.
Galloway, Turgon, and Wefold sparked the D. U. offensive attack by scoring 13, 10, and 8 points respectively. Leading Acacia point grabbers were Martin and Watson who together scored 13 points.
Burton and Wendstrand led the Delta Chi's in scoring with four points each, while the remaining scores were equally distributed. Poeyjain mustered five points for Pi K A. to score half of his team's total.
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A lot of you dopes could learn something, about resolutions from Harry Hill, who says:
"I will get more sleep—I owe this to my body.
"I will study more faithfully—I owe this to my mind.
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"I will pay my debts—I owe these to everybody."
"I will go to church more often— I owe this to my soul.
Betty Smith should resolve not to ask Ralph Miller for any more dates. Ralph Miller should resolve not to chump off again in case she does.
All the girls on this Campus should resolve not to go around with fingernail polish half on and half off.
Kappa's Doris Johnson, who has the prettiest hair in Hillville, should resolve not to wear it on top again. She forgives for doing it once.
Don Wood, the dance manager,
should resolve to get a decent dance band for at least one class party this year.
Gordon Brigham should resolve not to wear more than two keys on his watch chain. And he should have had one made for the Quill Club.
Present Jayhawk Cage Team Holds Its Own In 'Smoothness'
Most typical of teams coached by Dr. F. C. Allen, deck of basket-ball coaches, is the ease and grace with which the players pass and handle the ball. Dr. Allen stresses handling and with good result.
In 28 years of coaching Doctor Allen has turned out 22 championship teams. The type of basketball he teaches is built upon "set" plays, with the fast break used only when the other team is wide open. The basketball's methodical style of play adds to the team's smoothness.
Another standout from Arkansas City who shows the benefit of prep school coaching of Everett Nicholson is. Howard Engleman, sophomore forward. Engleman is best known for his scoring ability, but this does not surpass his ball handling.
The present crop of Kansas cagers hold their own with past Crimson and Blue teams in this matter; Bruce Reid, junior forward from Arkansas City, is the smoothest and flashiest passer on a wonderful "feeder" of the other players and also is a good score.
Expected to be one of the greatest ball handlers in Kansas basketball all history is Bob Allen, the oach's youngest son. A sophomore enter, Bob has been playing basketball as long as anyone can
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