. B. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1938 Comment News Review Of the Vacation for the benefit of those who were too busy Christmasing and NewYearing during the past couple of weeks ... a news review of the vacation period: Dec. 17: Exodus. Japan says Panay sinking was a mistake. United States agrees, but feels it was a deliberate mistake. Dec. 18: More exodus. Japan apologizes again for sinking of Panay. United States insists it was deliberate. Dec. 19-24: Top stories tell and retell the Panay sinking. Japan apologizes. The United States insists it was deliberate. Dec. 25: This was the anniversary of the birth of our Savior who brought peace and love and brotherhood to the world. The Japanese still slaughter the Chinese, the Chinese kill the Japanese, and assorted nationalities butcher each other in Spain. Dec. 26-31: The administration says business is responsible for all our ills. Business says the administration is responsible for all our ills. Pictures of the Panay bombing and sinking arrive. The flag of the United States sinks into the Yangtse on the front pages of all the metropolitan newspapers. Jan. 1-3: The New Year arrives. The Bears beat 'Bama. East and West tie. Rice beats Whizzer White. More Panay pictures. We come back. President talks. They Can See Alike —On Some Few Points Prospects of a truly national farmer-labor party seem to be growing, not out of Minnesota's Farmer-Labor party, but out of the decision of labor's Non-Partisan League and the Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union to merge on legislative recommendations and lobbying during the present session of Congress. Other indications of an approaching union have also been given. Mayor LaGuardia, while aligning himself with the American Labor party, at the same time expressed sympathy with the farmers' plight. John L. Lewis in his Labor Day address urged the fusion of labor and agriculture into political unity. Secretary Wallace, speaking in behalf of both the wage-hour and crop control legislation immediately following the recent special session of Congress, urged the farm and labor blocs to abandon the sabotage of each other's bill in the interests of harmony. But these are only speeches, even though they do represent the beliefs of the most influential leaders in the fields concerned. The policy of the Farmers Union and the New Deal labor group represents action. The farmer and laborer find themselves divorced by divergent economic interests, interests which perhaps cannot be reconciled. The laborer is interested in higher and higher wages which, under capitalism, cannot help but force prices higher and higher. He is interested in cheap food for himself and his family. On the other hand, the farmer is interested in cheap manufactured products which high wages can never bring. He, moreover, wants high prices for his products, which is incompatible with the laborer's demand for low-priced foodstuffs. But these divergent economic interests can unite in opposition to cannibalistic capital which takes its return whether or not the laborer or the farmer get theirs. They can unite on the principle that the organizing force of industry —entrepreneurship—deliberately gives its advantage to capital and not to labor or the farm. They can unite in seeing that there is less spread between the price which the farmer receives for wheat and the price of bread which the laborer pays, between the wage that the Ford worker receives and the price of that automobile. They can—and they must. Does It Mean The End of the Soviet? The Christmas present to partisans of the Soviet Union was a new batch of executions which leaves Stalin as the only surviving leader of the 1917 Communist party. The Soviets have accomplished much which the rest of the world can utilize to its own advantage—the socialization of the instruments of production and distribution, processes of crime correction, and the right of minorities to determine their own solutions to problems in an ever-widening field of everyday living. The result of these, as well as preceding incidents of a similar nature, has been to relieve liberals of the necessity of defending the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics as the incarnation of the Kingdom of God. Unquestionably the status of the Russian peasant has been improved. His education has been broadened, his supply of life's essentials has been increased, his ideology has been socialized, and his cultural intelligence has been deepened. But the leadership of the Soviet state is undergoing a weeding-out of such violence that the rest of the world rightly views it with horror. This process has revealed that the idealism with which the Soviets are imbued can no longer hide the personal dictatorship of Comrade Stalin—a dictatorship which is just as offensive, just as destructive of life and liberty, as that of the hated Fascists. Perhaps the heyday of the Soviets is past. The revolution which forced a recapitulation of values is over. The achievements which can be accomplished in the present phase of the Socialist state are over. The means inevitably determine the end. Unless Stalin can maintain himself with less violence or acknowledge defeat, one of the most remarkable experiments of the twentieth century has collapsed. Much Ado About Very Little In the special session of Congress which adjourney just in time to allow legislators to trip off to Christmas turkey, a five-point program was passed which provided for such important things as the payment of members' traveling expenses to and from the extra session, payment of salaries of pages, and the loan of portraits of Declaration of Independence signers to an art gallery for a sesquicentennial exhibition. With the regular Congress entering its third session yesterday there is occasion for much conjecture as to what the legislators will find to do in the coming session. It is just possible that they may consider, the adequacy of the already appropriated pages salaries in lieu of the rise of commodity prices, or perhaps the congressmen will look into the future by providing for the safe return of portraits of Declaration of Independence signers to the Capitol's gallery. Official University Bulletin Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m. preceding the meeting on Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. Saturday at 4:00 for Sunday. Vol. 35 Tuesday, January 4, 1938 No. 69 ALEE; There will be a meeting of the local branch of the ALEE in Marvin auditorium on Thursday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend as there will be election of officers. Refreshments will be served—Raymond F. Horrell, Chairman, Local Branch ALEE. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in room 9, Myers hall. All students and faculty members are invited are attended to attend.-Keith Davis, PhD. FENCING TOURNAMENT: The Fencing Club will conduct a men and women's fencing tournament in Robinson gymnasium this Thursday evening at 7:30. All who wish to participate must submit their fencing registration midway in Goose Jim Armour. All others interested are invited to attend Kaplanman A. Oravetz, Armorer. TAU SIGMA: There will not be a regular meeting of Tau Sigma but Alice Sherbon Bauman's group will rehearse at the regular time—Catherine Dunkel, President. YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be a meeting of the K.U. Young Republican Club this evening at 8 o'clock in the men's Lounge of the Memorial Union building—Blaine Grimes, President. University Daily Kansan University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER ... J. HOWARD RUKO EDITOR IN-CHIP ASSOCIATE EDITORS: JOHN TYE AND DAVID ANGINEV **MANAGING EDITOR** CAMPS EDITORS MARVIN GOBBEL AND JANE FLOOD **NEWS EDITOR** WILLIAM B. TYLER M. WILLIAM CAMPBELL **SOCIETY EDITOR** OLEON ROWLIS ELTON ROWLIS **TELIGRAPH EDITOR** HAROLD ADDINGTON **MAKEUP EDITOR** JULIE BANKS AND ARBRAIT CAUBLE **REWRITE EDITOR** FLERI COLUMBIA **LED EDITOR ROSE** **SUNDAY EDITOR** ELTON E. CARTER News Staff Editorial Staff ALICE HALDMAN-JULIUS ALICE RUSCO DAVID E. PARTINGER KENNETH MORRIS GRACE VALLENTINE JO COCAHAN QUENTIN BROWN WILLIAM FITZGERald DEW MCLAHLIN EDWARD BRAUNTY MARTIN BENTTON MARVIN GOBELB JANE FLOOD MORGAN THOMPON MORGAN DOWN CLAREN DAWN ELTON E. CASTER ALAN ASHER CHARLES ALXENDER Kantan Board Members 1937 Member 1938 Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. BUSINESS MANAGER R. QUENTIN BROWN REFRESHED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publication Representative 450 N. MIDDLETON AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. CHICAGO 61803 BUTON 802-798-2000 SAM FRANCISCO LO LAUGHELBS 40001 PORTLAND 802-798-2000 SEATTLE The revival of the musical revue to be sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi brings to mind the musical comedies presented by the W.S.G.A. of year. Renewal of Musical Comedy Revue Recalls Tragedies of Early Years Although some of the earlier ones were successful, the musical comedies were abandoned in 1936 in favor of a W.S.G.A. carnival, because of the difficulty in the planning, writing, and directing. In 1835 the last of the comedies was given. Although well received, "Hold That Line" was not a smashing success. Of the many shows presented, the worst undoubtedly was the one given in 1926. Worst Show in 1926 At the first presentation of "Wango-Pongo," the audience finally gave up and began to pitch pennies at an imaginary line on the Woman Misses Choking Death On Escalator London, Jan. 3. —(UP) —Mrs. W.H. Preston of Cheshire was almost crushed to death in a strange accident that may never occur again. A love scene was greeted by the Then the coat pulled tighter still and began to strangle her. Just as she was losing consciousness the neck of the coat parted. Her daughter and a friend sprang to her aid and gripped the dragging coat in a desperate turkey-wing motion, crushed to rubbed to the safety wav and stopped the machinery as she fainted. She was walking down the escalator of a tube station, when a rush of air from a passing train blew her coat into the mechanism. The next second she had reached the bottom and the coat was removed on Mrs. Preston was dragged to her knees, screaming in terror. tion from the railway company. Nearly a million persons use the evaluator every day. The odds against injury are calculated at 90/1000 to 1. Mrs. Preston is seeking compensation from the railway company. Rare Historical Edition Acquired by University Anquequerque, N.M., Jan. 3—(UP) —A three-volume second edition of Torquemada's "Les Vyrite y un Llibres Rituales y Monaco Indiana," published in 1723, has been acquired University of New Mexico library. The value of the second edition, which was published 108 years after the extremely rare first edition, collectors say, lies in the fact that numerous first-edition errors were corrected in the later publication. Young Grandmother in Race Sydney, Jan. 3. — (UP)—A contest has been opened here to find the city's youngest grandmother. To date, the leading claimant is Mrs. Constance Phillips who became a grandmother at the age of 22. She was married in 1917 and her daughter was married at the age of 14, was a mother in 1917. Oxford, Miss. Jan. 3. —(UP)—William Falkner, the falterer, has not read "Gone With the Wind" or "Anthony Adverse" because they were long for every story. "No story took 1000 pages to tell," Falkner said. PATEE Long Novels Irk Falkner Week Days 10c 'Til 7 Then 15c TODAY ENDS WEDNESDAY Wm. Hopper June Travis Johnnie Davis Spencer Tracy Gladys George Franchot Tone TWO ACTION HITS Rose Bowl Football "OVER THE GOAL" The Biggest Thrill Since "The Big Parade" "They Gave Him a Gun" News - Pup's Xmas Cues were forgotten, the spotlights were used in the wrong spots, and the leading lady fainted behind the scenes from the excitement. ringing of a cow bell and throwing of pennies at the actors. Although "Wango-Pango" was very poorly handled, everyone enjoyed himself. Even the boxoffice came out ahead. Musical Satire Best This was more successful than "Scholastic Scandal," the 1922 production. Despite the fact that it was a well written, well produced comedy, the net loss was over a hundred dollars. The best of the shows presented was "You Tell Em Sam," the offering of 1928. It was written and produced entirely by students. A musical satire on Hollywood in three acts and in pantomime, it contained all the usual ingredients of a typical Hollywood musical comedy plus a few of its own. When the audience became unruly and began pitching pennies and ringing bells, the play was stopped and the direc-tor requested quiet in no uncertain terms. Welcome Back to Lawrence Students DICKINSON ENDS TONITE It's Really Got Ummph! WALTER WINCHELL BEN BERNIE SIMONE SIMON IN "LOVE A' HISSES" Hear Simone Simon Sing PLUS: Authentic Pictures of Bombing and Sinking of U.S.S.PANAY The Actual Pictures Taken by Eric Mayell, Movietone News Cameraman, While Under Fire on Board the "Panay" Are Playing at the Dickinson through Tuesday. TOMOPROW Soldiers' Three! Heros all, ~ comrades in the Lancers, ~ living, loving/fighting together! *Spectacular action...* *thrilling adventure!* *Aidan Zucker presents* "THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER" A Permanent FILM WITH GARY COOPER FRANCHOT TONE GARY COOPER FRANCHOT TONE RICHARD CROMWELL KATHLEEN BURKE KATHLEEN BURKE FRIDAY BATTING BAITIING MAD CAP MODELS ART IST ANTICS STARTS SUNDAY Shows 3-7-9 Daily Continuous Shows Sunday from 1 p.m. Stars, Story, Swing, Spectacle, Speed! Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra. Louis Prima and His Band. Ted Lewis and Band. Kay Thompson and Her Radio Choir. ALSO! Pete Smith Novelty "ROMANCE OF RADIUM" Color Cartoon - Latest News Events HELD OVER 2 MORE DAYS! SENSATIONAL HISTORY HAP- PENING BEFORE YOUR EYES! HELD OVER 2 MORE DAYS: EXCLUSIVE! First Showing in Kansas. Only the Granada Could Give You the One and Only Authentic Picture--- BOMBING OF U.S.S. PANAY! NORMAN ALLEY'S A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE! KNOW THE TRUTH These Pictures Were Rushed to America on the China Clipe —They Are the Only Complete Pictures of the Attack That Shocked the World! WEDNESDAY LAST TIMES TODAY! "Rosalie" It Has Everything SUNDAY Nelson Eddy Eleanor Powell The Varsity Has the Pictures Admission This Attraction Only — 25c Shows 2:30 - 7:00 - 9:30 Bob Martha BURNS RAYE Bing CROSBY "WAIKIKI WEDDING" With Shirley Ross and "Wafford." — And-- "Bulldog Drummond Comes Back" John Barrymore - John Howard - Louise Campbell These Are Not "Exclusive" Nor Are They "One and Only" Pictures but They Are Authentic Scenes of the Actual-- Bombing and Sinking of U.S.S. Panay Taken Aboard the Doomed Ship by Fox Movietone Cameraman Eric Mayell! TOMORROW! — No. 1 — The Great Love Story of the Great War! LIONEL BARRYMORE FREDERIC MARCH WARNER BAXTER "Road to Glory With JUNE LANG FRIDAY - SATURDAY "NIGHT CLUB SCANDAL" "BLACK ACES" 2 BIG HITS 10c Any Seat Any Time No.2 Baring the Heart of a Woman and Her One Consuming Passion! - ROSALIND RUSSELL JOHN BOLES "Craig's Wife" Pulitzer Prize Play SUNDAY! Roh! Roh! "Hold 'em Navy" "Head Over Heels in Love"