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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1908
Kansan Comment
Kansan Does Its Bit
Toward Promoting Phobias
Americans like to be scared.
They go by thousands to see movies like "King Kong" and "The Phantom of the Opera." The double feature, "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," has just swept the country. Encouraged by box-office returns, Hollywood is now sending out "Dracula's Daughter" and "The Bride of Frankenstein."
(In the 1936 campaign, Republicans assured Americans that unless they went out and threw all the WPA workers out of work and balanced the budget, dire calamity would result. This scared Americans. They voted Democratic so that they would get scared again the next campaign.)
Americans buy pulp magazines by the millions, and one of the largest fields in the pulp rag stuff is the horror and detective stories.
(Americans eat it up when the President or War Department reminds them that almost any day now we may find foreign bombers飞 overhead with their cargo of death. The more matter of 3,000 miles of ocean is, of course, of no importance—not if Americans can get a good scare by forgetting about it.)
Despite all the protests, Orson Welles' Martian invasion was probably the most enjoyed fictitious program ever on the air. The fan mail received by "Lights Out"—which is no program to listen to if you have a weak heart—indicates that Americans duly appreciate radio blood-curdlers.
(Americans read about the Dies committee investigation which has proved, to its own satisfaction, that the reds run everything, including Hollywood, Spain, the administration, and maybe Germany. The committee seems to be expecting a Red revolution almost any time soon—although no one has yet explained what reason the Reds would have to revolt, if they already run everything anyway.)
The conclusion? Americans must like to be scared.
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Education Should Be Tackled, Too
Athletic Director Rotty Henry at the annual Lawrence Rotary Club luncheon Monday reminded the football varsity men that they were in college primarily for an education.
With this as his thesis, the speaker cited Dr. Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, whose recent article on this subject stated that big time football attracts to colleges not only football players who care little for education but also other students who go to college for "fun." The latter type usually doesn't last long in a school demanding high academic work.
The enormous financial investment created by college football is responsible for the heightened public consciousness of the importance of football in colleges. The costs of stadiums, high-praised coaching staffs, traveling expenses, and equipment, force schools to try to make a paying business out of football. The resulting volume of publicity given football, in comparison with other university activities, gives the public an erroneous view of the status of football in a university or college.
Dr. Hutchins assures his readers, furthermore, that the alumni will not leave their alma mater cold financially if football teams don't win every game. He cites endowments, as compared to football records of many large schools, to prove his point. Such benefactors care little about how the teams are faring.
Because serious students on this Hill are interested in football, Dr. Hutchins' suggestions of eliminating the fascinating game falls on fallow ground here. The students want a football team of which they can be proud whether it wins every game or not. Students are therefore naturally interested in the football situation, and they are justified in making their desire known.
While the alumni and public, as well as downtown quarterbacks, have an interest in football, they should not forget, however, that "the effort to discover truth, to transmit the wisdom of the race, and to preserve civilization, is exciting and perhaps important, too."
The labor unions in France are objecting to the lengthening of their 40-hour week. Presumably, they need the extra time to demonstrate against Daladier.
In New York underworld slang, "Cow-simple" means girl-crazy. We presume there is an axiom: "If you're cow-simple, look out for the Bulls."
Nazi-Jap Culture Pact Signifies 'Nordic' Unity?
With the announcement of the culture pace of Germany and Japan, the Nazis give the res of the world a good laugh and succeed in demonstrating the "inconsistencies" a nation often commits in its path to a sworn goal.
The world had just been given to understand that Germany considered her "Nordic" culture the one and only culture worthy of perpetuation. The Nordics, it was announced, were the only fit race and were the divinely appointed group destined to rule the globe. But somehow Nazis have now discovered that Japan, too, has a meritorious culture. Their plans to disseminate each other's culture appear as a distinct reversal of former policy.
Why do Germans suddenly think Japan's culture so worthy of absorption? The culture pact is fooling no one. It is but another of the diplomatic moves in the quest for power. Japanese are more unlike the Germans than the Jews who have been "degrading" German culture, but Germany doesn't need to be told that the way to get the other fellow's support is to "ok" everything he stands for.
In vaunting her own culture there was implicit, if not always explicit, Germany's contempt of all other cultures. Discovering that error when she wanted Japanese support, Germany quickly remedied the situation by a special culture pact in which both parties approve the "racial principles" of each other.
Japanese are not Nordics, and their culture is a far cry from that of Germany. Are we now, presumably, to witness the spectacle of the Nordic Germans and Oriental Japanese studying one another's countries, exchanging films, art objects, and dissertations—pals to the end?
Hitler has come face to face with ingratitude. The Sudetenlanders gave him only 98.7 per cent of the vote in the election Sunday.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 26
NEWSDAY OCT. 17, 1938
No. 48
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Monday through Saturday.
--by John Randolph Tye
A. I.E. E. The K. U. Student Branch will meet Thursday, December 8. at 7:30 in Marvin auditorium Refreshments will be served—Hugh Magruder, Secretary.
ENGLISH MAJORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Professor M. W. Sterling of the Classical department will give in English Socrates defense of himself before his judges from Plato's Apologia in Fraser 206 on Thursday, December 8, at 3:30. Miss Mary Grant will give an interview, primarily for majors in English but all interested are welcome—W. S. Johnson, Chairman, Department of English.
FRESHMAN Y.M.C.A. MEETING: There will be a meeting of the M.Y.C.A. fernate at 4:30 on Thursday in 16 Fraser Hall. Henry Van Sweingarten, assistant in Education, will talk on the value of reading and how to读. He will also demonstrate instruments in Campbell, Advisor.
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in the Fine Room. Will every girl please remember to bring the money for her own basketball ticket—D. J. Willecus, President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics Club will meet at Thursday at 4:30 in 201 Frang Strong Hall. Dean Crawford will speak on "Mathematical Applications in Computer Science" and theurgist is urged to attend. Dorothy Bubbit, President.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY WOMEN: There will be a W. S. G. A. tea today in the English room of the Union building. Kappa Kappa Gamma will be the hostesses—Delos Woods.
SPANISH CLUB. The annual Christmas party of the club, held at 1276 Indiana Street, at 7:30 o'clock. All members of the Club are requested to come into the Club to draw for a ticket. Boy President Bobby Prescott.
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Re Phil. Gray, c'uncl
By Phil Gray, ceter
All right, don't believe it, but there are art critics on this campus. Since there is no distinguishing mark of this ability, and since the critics mentioned are a shy and shrinking lot, who prefer to remain anony-mous, you will not be able to " tell one as they go about from day to day.
If you are curious about who is the Eastwood of the exhibition, the gentleman is Prof. Raymold Eastwood, professor of art in the University of Kentucky, Bridgeport, Coquitlam, and recently one of his dune pictures won the first prize at the "Sweepstakes" exhibit at the Kansas City art institute.
However, as they are not shy about putting their criticism in writing so we have at least that as evidence. It happened like this. Last week an unnamed class in narration and description viewed the Eastwood exhibition of paintings, most of which were oils of sand dunes near Cape Cod, Mass., in the Spooner-Thayer museum.
Critic 1: A hillock of sand, a few clumps of tough-looking grass, a sky, sometimes a twisted tree, sometimes a glimpse of the ocean—the are the principal elements which Professor Eastwood combines in presenting his striking and effective landscapes, now on exhibition in Spooner-Thayer museum. Simplicity is one of the chief keynotes of these pictures. In none of them is the observer's attention distracted by a clutter of unimportant and confusing details.
But I suppose you want to read the flights of rhetoric anant the art Here they are;
Critic 2. As I viewed the collection, one thought continually came to my mind, despite my efforts to put it aside as irrelevant. I wonder what Professor Eastwood's reaction would be if he knew that I was most impressed by the adaptability of the colors predominant in the paintings, prussian blue, burnt sienna, light gray and red. He interiors an interior decorator in doing a living room in the popular "contemporary" manner.
Critic 3: A first sweeping glance at the collection of Professor Matthews' paintings in Spooner-Thayer Museum in partial approval because of my partial for
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A record of twenty-seven years was broken last week when Professor Skilton was ill. It was the first time since 1911 that the composer of the famous "War Dance" failed to meet his classes in the School of Fine Arts because of illness.
Sometimes it is hard to decide which is the worst—making good music like the "Liebestraum" a vehicle for jitterbugs, or attempting to make symphonic music out of a number as vicious as "Star Dust."
If France doesn't watch out, she will awaken some morning and find that Tunisia has gone the way of Czechoslovakia. We didn't give the problem much thought until we read that Neville Chamberlain planned to visit Duce in Rome during the holidays. Since then we've had our fingers crossed for Tunisia—and for Corsica and Savoy, too. That Chamberlain guy can beat Santa Claus for giving things away.
And to our list of Mount Oread immortals we must add the student hitch-hiker who turned down a barn in a Baick because it had no radio.
Critise 5: One of the paintings, the one titled "Twisted Tree" struck in me a chord of approval. This painting carried a theme of rugged individualism for me. Here there was depiction that showed their deep dependence that showed in its physical make-up a life long handheld endured and battled against.
We had a suspicion that many of the Russians in the Don Cossack chorus had been born Charley Smith's of Peoria, until Agnes Mummert proved to us that our suspicions were unfounded. Agnes, who went behind stage at intermission and met everyone from Sergei Kovalevich, said that if they weren't Russian, they certainly had to hang around Russian restaurants for a long time to pick up such thick accents.
realism in art. Although I have never thought of sand dunes as particularly good subjects for art compositions, after a careful critical view of the artist's work, of which the greatest number are of these heaps of wind-blown sand, I was quite convinced that they possess a color which my unicultivated artistic sense had never detected before.
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Critic 8: When you walk in the room where these pictures are hanging, the first thing that meets your eyes is the sweeping sand in all his pictures. The startling blues of his skies which are either powdery blue or deeper shades such as turquoise are distinct contrasts to the tan shades of the sand. There is a feeling of space and depth. The strong contrasts give a clear brilliant effect.
Critic 6: "Rain Coming" gives the impression of a beautiful world waiting in stillness for the rain.
Critic 7: Impression—sand! Sand and more sand with a couple of barns thrown in. Had it not been for the signs of vegetation and that vegetation too rich with life and color, I would have thought I was looking at the Sahara.
I left the exhibition with an extreme sense of lonliness and desolation.
It would be a pity if the American public had to wait 40 years, as in the case of Emile Zola, to see a motion picture based on the life of the American poet Emile Zola. It would think what a speech Paul Muml could make of the Chicago attorney's famous plea against capital punishment!
Critic 4: The two paintings of Professor Eastwood's which I remember most are the ones entitled "Helix," and "Sand Blasted." The first of these, almost photographic in its sharpness of detail, is the one of the entire collection which I should choose as my favorite. In it the sand is presented at its best in a broad, pleasing curve with clumps of bright-green bushes- perhaps a bit idealized in richness of color for vegetation which must grow on a sand dune--ditting its surface in various places. The sun is shining through the leaves defined in the left foreground, and the clear, blue sky above contains several billowy clouds.
Harry Hill claims that he has no objection to entering a monastery, but that he must be the high monkey-monk.
President Favors Pay-As-You-Go
Washington, Dec. 6- (UP)-President Roosevelt disclosed today that he favors financing his new billion dollar national defense program on a pay-as-you-go basis, and suggested additional taxation as a means of obtaining this objective. He also signed an order to permit himself to such a course.
At his first press conference after returning from Warm Springs, Ga. he said he flatly opposed paying for the expanded armaments program through additional borrowing. He added that the program has not provided adequate resources to that no decision as to the apportionment of costs has been reached.
Because defense expenditures are seldom liquidizing, he said, he firmly believes that such spending must be paid for from year to year. Following the conference the White House stressed that Mr. Roosevelt remarks should not be interpreted to mean that new taxes are being considered as a means of financing rearmament. It also was indicated that new taxes for this purpose might be avoided through reductions in other budget items.
Replying directly to criticism that his proposal to arm the western hemisphere against aggression might be a mask for additional government pump-priming the President said that the program should not be construed as supplementing the administration's efforts to bring about recovery and reduce unemployment.
Y. W. Board To Entertain Cabinet With Dinner
The Y.W.C.A. advisory board will entertain the Y.W.C.A. cabinet at a dinner this evening at the home of Miss Amida Stanton, associate professor of French at 2045 Learnard street.
Members of the cabin are asked to be at Henley house at 5:30 p.m., where there will be cars to take them to the dinner.
Political Unrest In Germany
★Economic Conditions Are Becoming Increasingly Difficult
London, Wed., Dec. 7—(UP)—The Daily Express political writer said today that information had reached informed quarters from Germany, suggesting that a very expensive political purge was under way there, involving high army officers, civic leaders, and civil service.
The dispatch stated that economic conditions in Germany were be- fore the end of the war and to political tension involving stability of the Nazi regime.
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