UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1923
Comment
Seriously Now.
Is This a Joke?
What is it—a joke $ ^{9} $
The question arises naturally and inevitably as we consider the Union Operating Committee's plan to effect "sweeping changes" by establishing a board "of student directors" and "officers."
That the officers and the board of directors will constitute the Student Union Activities board which is "to be under the direct supervision of the present U.O.C." is in itself enough to make us smile.
Then glancing down the list of proposed committees we find: a Union publicity committee and a student public relations committee. Since their functions (if any) are identical, we wonder if they might not meet jointly after lunch at 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon. Then we observe that they have set up an intramurals committee. Now intramurals have never concerned the Union Operating Committee heretofore, and the Kansan is happy to realize that someone has taken its suggestion for intramurals sponsorship seriously, though we must confess, we had not thought of the U.O.C. as potential sponsors.
We are happy to note also that a camera club committee has been provided presumably to sponsor the camera club which has met and worked in the laboratory at the Journalism building since it was organized this school year. Of course their pep committee may find something to do despite the fact that pep organizations are old in the history of the school and are apt to resent any infringements into their well-organized activities.
Unfortunately, we are cynical enough to wonder if a certain political party in the elections next month may not point out as a campaign issue what "we did for the students in the matter of the Student Union management."
Undoubtedly the program is a good one. Perhaps the student board of directors will wear stiffly starched white shirts. They create such a nice appearance—and are so easily stuffed.
America Not Interested—But—
"Right now the average American isn't as interested in foreign affairs as he is in how he's going to eat and whether his insurance is good," Joseph Patrick Kennedy, the new United States ambassador to the Court of St. James, told Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Well, why should the average American show more interest in foreign than in his own domestic affairs? He is still footing the bill of his last international entanglement—a bill that renders a horrible accounting of placed gravestones, mangled bodies, shattered minds, broken hearts and homes, economic instability, and back breaking taxation of the money for generations and generations."
But now that Europe is preparing for another war, what are we Americans going to do about it? Do we propose to allow ourselves to be caught up in the same surge of forces that carried us into the last war? Are we going to throw men and money into another international halocust?
There are many who believe that by removing the profits we should rid ourselves of the greatest cause of war. In regard to this Gen. Smedley D. Butler, advocates conscription of capital one month before consecration of the nation's manhood. The same wages which are paid to the soldiers—$30 a month—should be paid to the officers and directors of our armament factories, our gun manufacturers, munition makers, and shipbuilders. Everyone in the nation—all workers, all executives, presidents, directors, managers—should not receive more than the men who fight and give or risk their lives.
"Give capital thirty days to think it over and you will learn by that time that there will be no war." concludes General Butler.
The Hill-Sheppard bill is purportedly designed to conscript capital as well as manpower in the event of another war. However, it is, in its present form, a hoax and a fake. Capital can be conscripted within certain limitations—generous for capital. Why discriminate between capital and man-power, if as it must be assumed, we are threatened and have to wage war? If it is a case of giving for the common good, why is it not arranged that everyone give all?
The bill as proposed is unfair in that it demands everything of the common man and only a little from wealth, which it purports to tax equally.
Syphilis control today is primarily a problem of appliance of scientific methods developed over many years. The achievements of medical science in the field of syphilology in this century are most satisfying. It remains for a broad
public health program to attack as successfully the barriers preventing the application of our knowledge.
Is Civilization Arriving?
The Daily Record
Is Civilization Alluring?
The Daily Reveille (Louisiana State University)
The University of Kansas recently contained the following editorial comment in its daily publication:
"Today it is usually the fathers and grand-fathers who say that war is inevitable. The most jingoistic talk in America can be heard from the mouths of old men with one foot in the grave. The most militaristic editors drip from the pens of middle-aged editors safely passed the danger of military duty. They are not demanding war, but they are doing little to stop one. Here then is the material with which to build an army. If war breaks out,they should be given the first chance for reservation in Valhalla."
It is true that middle-aged editors and more elderly people are more militaristic than the younger generation. It is true that the youth of the world is more against war and is doing more to stop war. But these elderly people should not be too severely scolded. They are of another generation, a generation that was reared with the inevitability of war before them. Do not pass too severe a judgment on them.
Rather, be thankful that you are of this generation, a generation that realizes the futility of war, the mangling and killing of youth. Be thankful that you have the opportunity of fighting war before it gets started. Do not go to the extreme, though. Be a pacifist, but remember that the just should rule. Be a pacifist but do not be a coward.
Official University Bulletin
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular pupil lunch at 10 a.m. on Tuesday for daylight
breaks.
Vol. 35 Wednesday, March 16, 1938 No. 115
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A1ChE. AND ALPHA CIH SIGMA: There will be a meeting tonight at 8:15 in robm 305. Bailey Chemical laboratory. Carl Dietz of the Johns-Mansville corporation will speak—L., F. Ballard.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will hold a Swedish meeting at 8 o'clock Friday night, March 18 at 1223 Kentucky. Miss Mary E. Larson will experience in Sweden.-Ruth Yenemann, Secretary.
JAY JANES: There will be an important meeting
and training to occur for those required to be required: Roberta Cook, President.
NURSING AND CHILD CARE STUDENTS: A movie of the nursery school, at the University of Iowa, will be shown at 1:30 Wednesday, room 110 Fraser. All home nursing and child care students, who are free at this hour are urged to attend—Fern Hotten.
QUACK CLUB: There will be a meeting for all Quack Club members at 8 o'clock this evening. Members and pledges are asked to be there for both a business meeting and swimming: Betty Jane Hottmann.
SPANISH CLUB: El Ateneo will meet this Thursday in 113 Frank Strong hall at 3:30 o'clock. This meeting will be for the election of officers for next year, so it is very important that all members be present. Refreshments will be served—Karl Ruppenthal, President.
W. A.A.: There will be a business meeting and initiation for new members Thursday at 4:30. After the business meeting there will be a short party—Ruth Baker, President.
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Professor Skilton Tells About Vienna in Letter
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"Vienna is wonderfully musical. Everyone plays strings and piano beautifully, and the orchestras are superb, though I have heard better wood sax. And I can hear better lettered by Fine Arts, in a long and especially interesting letter to Dean D. M. Swarthout, written before the recent disturbance in Autria.
intered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
Professor Skilton and his daughter Helen, sailed from New York last September for a year's stay in Europe. They have been living in Vienna during the past three months, forming many delightful acquaintances, musical and social. In what they describe as a "beautiful apartment," centrally located in the city, they are only two blocks from the opera and the three chief hotels, and are right above the American Express company where they receive their mail.
Group Meets To Hear New Music
The Countess Murback, owner of the apartments, is the widow of a Hungarian count killed in a hunting accident. She speaks seven languages and plays, and her cousin, Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel' stories.
Professor Skilton quite naturally has sought out musical connections in Europe. Barossen Freudenthal, a concert pianist and member of one of the best known Vienna families, was especially kind in presenting him with many lettered to outstanding musicians in and outside Europe. It was through her
about Vienna that he was able to interview the modernist, Dr. Egon Wellesz; William Kienzi, the operaeter composer; and Dr. Schmidt, director of the Vienna chair boys.
Dr. Wellesz lives in a modern house with central heating, which is rather rare in Vienna. He presented Professor Skilton with a card to a musical in Vienna, and it led, the Professors say, "to the most delightful of all my social experiences, as it introduced me to a circle of the musical elite once a week to hear nothing but new music from all over the world, especially from Viennese composers.
Collist Pleased by Skilton's Work Doctor Skillton says of the meeting: "Tea is served first, then there are two hours of music by the guests, many of them distinguished musicians, others, amateurs of professional excellence."
The call on William Kienzl was another rare treat. Mr Skilton describes the old composer very vivid: "He is 81 years old, a little deficient in vision, but keen of hearing, vigorous of speech and still an excellent pianist. He is short, with white, full beard and mustache and an arceau of thick, white hair framing his face, with a small round bald spot on the top like a torsure. His apartments are a museum of curios and souvenirs, among them a lock of hair of Liszt and Beethoven, the latter given him by a son of Schubert's friend."
Buxbaum, well-known cellist, received Professor Skilton very cordially and played "Cello Fantasia," aSkilton composition, which was one of his most successful with the middle part of the piece that he insisted upon Doctor Skilton
Library Association Meeting
Prof. Marpe Mcphus has been selected to represent the American Sociological Society at the national conference of the American Library Association in Kansas City in June it was announced yesterday by Prof Carroll Clark, chairman of the department of sociology.
Smith To Attend
Iowa Will Create Hunting Preserves for Archers Only
Library Association Meeting
The archery preserves will be set up on farms with consent of the owners and will be stocked with some by the commission.
Des Moines, March 15—(UP)—Hunting preserves for exclusive use of archers will be established in Iowa as rapidly as interest in the sport wavers. Taylor W. superintendent division of the Iowa conservation commission has announced.
leaving it for him to practice. Helen Shilton Member of Club
Farmers will be discouraged in practices of burning over game breeding areas, or in removing desirable cover or water supply
Benefits to farmers from the archery preserve program, Huston said, will be in the economic value of the game, soil erosion control derived from preservation of national game cover, recreation and trespass con-
Archers in return, will build winter shelters and help fence off corners that the farmer prefers to use as game cover.
Hire K. S., Mr. Skillman's daughter, has recently accepted an invitation to be a member of the American Women's Club at the Hotel Bristol. The members are mostly English people and devote their club meetings three times a month to lectures; the fourth meeting is for bridge playing. She attends the small English church in Vienna too, and is associated with the Vienna branch of the American University Women's Club. All of her connections seemed up to her opportunities. She attends frequent teas, bridge parties, an occasional dinner, and now and then a ball.
Included with the letter to Dean Swarthout were two pictures: one of Professor Skilton skelting during a New Year's weekend at Searmerling in the town of Southport, the other of the professor viewing the Sax山Mountain, which is the source of Vienna's wonderful water supply.
New Courses-a geology major, or courses in geology from counting in a geography major.
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Recommend Music Courses
Also upon recommendation of the administrative committee, the faculty approved for professional credit a number of courses given by the School of Education, notably several courses in the teaching of
Approval also was given the request of the department of history for the establishment of a course, "Reading for Honors in History", six or eight hours. This is in line with the policy of the college, presenting the presentation of courses designed especially for the more able students.
The administrative committee reported that it had approved charges of prerequisite for several courses in the department of economics, and had also approved the request of the department of journalism that a course design in advertising be included in the journalism section of the catalogue. It is also made a required course to precede or accompany advertising copy and advertising campaigns.
'Suicide Club' Disbands:
Joke Becomes Too Real
Wyndham, North Australia, March 15—(UP)—The "Suicide Club" of this city has been abandoned as the result of the discovery of the fact that the name and practices of the club might not be a joke after all.
The constitution of the club was based on the assumed principle that a crocodile will not attack human beings in the water, and men members of the club swam in the microcremie infested waters of the gulf here.
All went well until an 18-foot reptile made a dash for a member who was swimming some 20 yards from the jetty. The member vom out by a few inches, but the reptile exhibited its constitution and disbanded.
Templin Will Attend
Alumni Meetings This Week
Froil, Olin Templin of the department of philosophy will attend a number of alumni meetings in the Southwest this week. While in Doodge City he will manage the Summerfield examinations to be held there. From Dodge City he will go to Albuquerque, N.M., to attend a meeting of University alumni and visit his daughter, Alice Tempkin, Rankin Kirk, 98, Cale W. Carson, 25, is in charge of the meeting. Professor Templin will later go to Colorado to attend another alumnium meeting. The last meeting on its itinerary, before returning to Lawrence, will be held at Colby.
yesterday afternoon decked out in a combination of polo shirt, blue and brown breeched belted suit, and blue and black high tied scarf., *Betty Burrows* is hard to believe those with the adolescent attitude, which is quite safe.
POME
—Scoop Hill.
"I wish I were a palm tree."
"A co-ed shy states."
"For if I were a palm tree,
I'd have a lot of dates."
Winterset Notes: Betty Butcher is doing a fine j job despite back injuries...Bob Rohde is going to need a lot of makeup and practice to convince anyone he is a slam native. ...You'll enjoy hearing Mrs. Crafton cackle at the cap.. When they bump off the first gangster you have a feeling that you may be next...The outdoor set is a work of
art, but from where we sat it is not very realistic. Not enough light and dark. Studies like to work for Crafton because he stops practice at 10 o'clock on the dot.
The modern blacksmith: Under the chesting spreadnut tree, the village automuth stands, with large and padded arms to hold the flap-arm cover. Just as it is that the Alpha Chi's may have to move Maxine Perdition out in the
country or "Ding Dong" Bell of the Delt屋 is going to get picked up for disturbing the peace with that ear horn of his. He sounds like a four-alarm fire when he goes by the house.
Today's winner is submitted by the galloping reporter for the Kansan, Harry Hill, who receives the free ticket to the Grannada. Have you turned in your contribution yet?
It's All Right This Spring If It's Got That Ober Swing
Fall styles in men's hats are as dead as door nails and even a boy can spot an old block several blocks away.
You can be sure of your head-dress by depending on an address. No . we don't say this is the only store on earth that's showing new hats, but we do say that you won't have to worry your head about style at Ober's because there are no old hats to worry under.
What you want this Spring is that new swing...and that's the only sort of hats you'll find here, for we haven't an old hat in the house.
Bing & Dobbs Spring Hats $3.95 and up
There Is Nothing Like The Student Paper for Reaching The Busy College Man
Business Men
It is his most constant medium of information. The more business-like and the more alert he is, the larger his interests and the greater their importance, the more certain is he to be found, at least once a day, with his nose in the DAILY KANSAN.
One cannot be certain that he reads anything except his student newspaper.
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