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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935
Comment
Sanity
In a Trying Situation
The Chancellor's attitude toward the proposed legislative investigation here at the University is calm, reasoned and judicious.
The University Daily Kansan wishes heartily to commend the Chancellor's stand in the matter, and to offer him its complete endorsement and co-operation. In so doing the Kansan feels it is endorsing the majority sentiment of the student body.
A mass meeting was held on the Hill Sunday, and a committee of twelve was named to co-operate with a previously formed committee composed of thirteen widely representative student-leaders, and in joint session these two committees endeavored to formulate a student policy.
The results seem quite in keeping with the tenets of good taste and judgment. There was no hysteria, no injudicious procedure, no jumping off the deep end in unconsidered reaction. Rather, there was a spirit of judicious reasoning.
These students—representing as widely as possible, under the circumstances, the whole student body—have insisted that the matter be treated as serious but not portentous and have requested the students they represent to consider it in that light.
The Kansei feels that these student-leaders are right and suggests that for the time, all persons connected with the University look at the matter through the same colored glasses.
The zoology department could purchase 2 electric ovens,1 high-power centrifuge, and 16 research microscopes (they possess but 9 of at least 25 needed, at present) — all much needed equipment for Besides this, they could offer six graduate assistantships—if they had $7,400.
Don Your Red Coats!
Topeka State Journal:
By Ted Weir
The Kansas senate soon will consider the house-approved resolution calling for a probe of communistic activities at state educational institutions. The house offered only four dissenting votes in its adoption of the resolution.
What the senate will do with the resolution is problematical. It may arouse lots of debate; it may be adopted without more than one or two speeches.
A suggested speech on the Red probe is offered herewith:
"Fellow Witch-hunters:
"I favor this probe of communistic activities at the University of Kansas. It's an entering wedge—a step in the right direction.
"When Kansas legalized the smoking of cigarettes in 1927, the state lost one of the best gaglines ever used in vaudeville houses. When ten years later, the legislature legalized 3.2 beer, another grand joke to advertise our state was lost for all time.
"This witch-hunt is exactly what we need. How many other states have had the foresight and advertising acumen to institute a large scale inquisition into the teaching of political sciences? What other state has foreseen the trend of the times and ordered a magnificent purge in the best Adolph Hitler manner?"
"The house has seen fit to appropriate a mere $7,500 for this merry chase. Our senate more correctly recognizes the advertising value and has suggested $15,000. I favor the latter amount. If we can find twenty Reds for $7,500, we can find sixty-five or seventy for twice that amount. My understanding is that the cost-per-Red decreases as the amount available increases.
"Following the unmasking and discharge of all professors who believe in mentioning anything other than democracy, we can start after the Socialists. Following a purge of that subversive class, we'll concentrate on Republicans. Then we'll have a true democracy for Democrats, and every Democrat a happy Democrat. We'll have a dictator to enforce the teaching of whatever he may choose, provided, of course, it doesn't conflict too much with the best Fascist theory."
theory.
"We need the advertising that this Red probe will bring to Kansas. We have no Sockle-less Jerry Simpson, no Carrie Nation, no Doctor Brinkley to lead us today. We must lead ourselves into the laugh-spot of the nation."
"Fellow senators, den your red coats! Sound the hunting horns. Mount your horses! Let the witch-hunt begin!"
The housing-committee seems potentially able to do a deal of good for the physical well-being of students of the University. Unfortunately it has been hampered by lack of funds. Yet it could operate between seven and ten years if someone would but endow it with seven or eight thousand dollars.
Young Radicals
Fort Scott Tribune:
The excitement frequently engendered by alleged communistic and other radical movements among students of our state schools has never yet been justified by investigations made of them. The charges that now have members of the legislature excited enough to take time off from their study of social welfare to call for $7,500 to investigate subversive activities at Kansas University, are not new by any means, but the excitement will no doubt pass as it has before.
There are no doubt some students in the state university who are professed communists. So are there on every other university campus in the country. The same students played Indian and stick-up men when they were young, and they are still fired by the same youthful enthusiasm and imagination.
University students are still young enough to be radicals and not experienced enough to have their radicalism tempered out of them. The legislature may spend a lot of money to find that out but they ought to know that much about youth without having to make a formal investigation.
There is a pronounced shortage of instructors at the University. At the present rate of pay here, about four instructors could be hired for a year at a cost not greater than $7,500.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Solicit Your Support
Editor Dolle Konson
Eunice, Jerry, and Bob meet in the student meeting which was held in the Union lounge Sunday to discuss the beginnings of a new chapter in literature, and after sitting through a very interesting and participative session came out with the following comments:
there could be really something evil at the University here couldn't we depend upon our own facultynememember of you, Mr. Lindsay, to chair Chancellor Lindley to squash it? Chancellor Lindley we all know is a kind, lovable person with the interpersonal skills we need.
Upon what vast store of knowledge do the honorable and heroic alumni Mur and Carper base their claims? (Saturday evening papers). And upon what digests they do see fit to make their degrading remarks about KU. UD, and mind you, they are graduated this year from Mur. The students at Mur's Mur course may be able to name every building on the Campus, but I have a sneaking suspicion *dut our Chancellor*, who has been with us these many years, somehow knows more about the school and its student body than the aforementioned hostesses to say. Chancellor Lindley hasn't blown the roof off the Ad Building dashing wildly after some elusive "Reds."
Frankly, if anyone has the right to a course of action it is the student body. They have been accused and unjustly so; slandered viciously, also unjustly so. It is they who should write their legislators, both representatives and senators, and demand that the institutes be punished and the parties behind the shame be held accountable.
Now, if ever, is the time for the students to act if they are to prevent the name of Kansas University from being dragged through the mud. Let's kick about it.
Now, if ever, is the time for the students to show their appreciation and respect for the faculty by giving them p unanimous vote of confidence. You and I know that our teachers are not evil beings to mankind sent her with a baggage to paint our human beings on the contrary良, honest t.-good human beings with our interests at heart. But here's where the rub comes in. The people are being informed and as we know the real situation up to us has been made by truth. Our students and our help now. Students to the University of Kansas let us not fail them. K. W.
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Official University Bulletin
LE CERCLE FRANCAISE: Le Cercle Francis will meet at 4:30 the afternoon in 113 Frank强牢站. The prgram will be on chateaux of France. We welcome and urge all interested to come. Helen Cooper
Vol. 35 Wednesday, February 23, 1938 No. 100
JAY JANES. There will be an important meeting there, in the Pine room. Please be there. *Bright Cooke*.
A. I.Ch.E.: The American Institute of Chemical Engineers will meet at 8:15 this evening in the Chemistry building, Mr. George D. Walters, vice-president of the Lawrence National Bank, will speak -L. F. Ballard.
MATHEMATICS CLUB. There will be a meeting of the mathematics Club Thursday, Feb. 24, in 203 Frank Strong hall. Ernest Kembery will speak on Some Applications of Number Theory to Charles Richard, Charles Rickart, President.
MEDICAL APTITUDE TEST: A supplementary medical aptitude test will be given by the Association of American Medical Colleges on April 9, 1983. All premedical students are required to attend a medical school, are planning to enter a medical school, either at the University of Kansas or elsewhere, next fall, should take this test on April 9. Those who desire to take the test should notify DAVIS LINCOLN HALL (phone - KU-86), immediately - O. O. Stolland.
OFFICIAL STUDENT CORRESPONDENTS’ BUREAU. All correspondents are urged to make them available to the press on Friday, Feb. 24, in room 104 of the Journalism building at 4:30 p.m. Professor Olivia Oltmilp will speak on “2Nineteen: The Story of Women Journalists”
W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a W.S.G.A. tea this afternoon from 3 until 5 o'clock in the lounge of Frank强尚杯. All University women are invited. —Bette Wasson, Secretary.
Meissner Mechanical Method For Mastering Most Music
Back in grade school, when you were black cotton stockings or maybe corduroy knickers, you probably had your first experience with piano lessons. Remember how you used to squirm, pounding out your "exercises" with one leg twined around the piano stool and one eye on the clock? Or may you practice willingly every day, with childish abandon and both eyes to the future--maybe. Anyway, the chances are ten to one that your text book was "The Melody Way."
By Agnes Mumert, c'40
ext book was "The Mercury Myth",
written by Prof. Otto Meissner, of
the department of public school music
of the University.
For Professor Meisner has definite ideas about teaching music to children, and most of them have proven surprisingly practical. One of them is that music teachers ought to impart "that inner, exotic feeling" to their students; that they should allow the children to enjoy music and leave the mechanics to machines. Maybe that accounts for the fact that Meisner, who is listed in "Who's Who" as composer, author, editor, and teacher, has invented at least five mechanical devices for simplifying the process of learning how to play the piano.
'Chord Finders' Help Beginner
If you were one to whom that process was particularly painful, your grappling with the key-board might have been less strenuous had you been introduced at that tender age to one of the professor's "Chord Finders." This invention, consisting of cardboard slide rules, enables you to find every possible chord; merely by placing it upon the keyboard, sliding it over the keys, and striking the unknown combination.
Professor Meissner says that this makes the learning of piano easier than anything he knows, and admits that it is an outgrowth of his learning music for himself by playing chords on a pedal organ as a child. "Melody Bella," another invention, is an instrument resembling the xyplayer used in the music core of the teaching of melody. The bars on the bell are cylindrical brass tubes with the whole and half notes of the scale. They are arranged on a sort of slide rule, so that if the child wants to play in any one key
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he slides out those notes which do not belong in the major scale. That way, he can't make a mistake.
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"He learns by the most exciting method—that of discovery—just as the inventors of the marimba learned in the African jungles. Chilians knocked another when they can manipulate something," the inventor explains.
Other Inventions Important
So, in addition to these mechanical helps, there is the "Ryth-o-phone" which sounds out any desired rhythm and repeats it until it is forced into the consciousness of the listener; there is the "Phonosec" which is a device placed on a phonograph to tell the story of great music; there is the "harp piano" and the "Meisner Bay Upright" piano, which have revolutionized piano construction.
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The inventor, as mentioned, is also author of the most widely used public school music texts, standard in 6,000 cities. He is past-president of the national Music Supervisors' Conference. For nine years he was director of the School of Music at UCLA, where he helpedlege and for 10 years he served on the faculty of the Chicago Musical College.
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Addis Ababa, Feb. 22—(UP)—Strange tales of African pygmies who hunt elephants by running under them and stabbing their stomacs open and who allow themselves to be hugged by giant gorillas in order to stab them are told by four Italian explorer who were found in Tanganyika, were described as being $3\mathrm{ft}$ high feet.
"When they first saw us they scammed into the trees," said one of the members of the exposition. "They inhabit the Itiuri forests and have a peculiar way of hunting. They kill elephants with spears from underneath and then let 6-foot gorillas hug them and then they stab the gorillas through the middle with a spear."
Giants, too, were encountered on the journey. Three huge tribesmen.
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the explorers were Count Gigi Martinotti and Count Salvadego, of Brescia; Signor Gino Campello, of Rome, and a mechanic who looked after their two motor cars in which they trekked for six months.
The state law provides that the total outside width of any vehicle shall not exceed eight feet and the maximum height is $12\frac{1}{2}$ feet, yet the Kansas Highway Patrol finds quite a few vehicles which exceed these maximums. It is not unusual to encounter vehicles or loads 10 or 11 feet wide and 14 or 15 feet high.
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