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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1937
Two Cents or
Comment
Two-thousandtbs of a Cent?
The $77.30 resulting from the dime contribution of each member of the Men's Pan-Hellenic shows well what a little bit given by many can do to a total. With this splendid contribution, the all-University average now rises to nearly two cents. Although two cents is not in itself a good average, it is at least a great improvement over Sunday's average of two-thousandths of a cent per student.
"This single, collective contribution brought the "Russell Kelly Reward Fund" to slightly over ninety dollars—an excellent base on which to build future donations. The boxes will be opened again this afternoon, and another count made. If you have not contributed yet, why don't you put in a dime and see what a difference it will make?
Upset In Arkansas
New Dealers must hide their collective face when mention is made of the victory of Rep. John E. Miller in the Arkansas gubernatorial contest this week—and for several reasons.
In the first place, one of the prime issues in the election was the national administration—its support or ostracism in Arkansas. Election of an outspoken anti-new dealer, such as Representative Miller, amounts to a slip in the face for the President's machine.
But that is not all. Representative Miller himself is a Democrat, and was able to run against his opponent, incumbent Gov. Carl E. Bailey, only by declaring himself an Independent.
As if those things were not enough, the upset came in a state which New Dealers revere, or should—Arkansas, the stamping ground of the late Joe Robinson, without whose support many of the President's political feats would have been impossible.
لأنها لا تستطيع استخدام المثال التالي.
Avalanche On Wall Street
Yesterday's stock slump is the latest development in a two months steady decline in stock prices which is the steepest since 1929. Since August 14 the New York Times' combined average had by October 17 dropped from 135 to below the 100 mark.
Opinions vary widely as to the cause of the drop, which many financial observers do not feel has hit bottom. The New York Times offers four main reasons, to which may be added the announcement by the President of an unbalanced budget and an investigation into stock transactions by the SEC, namely: I have current decline in business and uncertainty over the future course of industrial activity; the reentrant flood of "constructive" statements by high ranking government officials; over regulation of the markets and, finally, foreign selling.
Activity in the steel industry has dropped 35 points in the last four weeks, although retail sales are still strong. Since the steel industry is considered a strong indicator of trends in the basic industry, this fact may have prompted some of the encouraging government speeches.
Too, it is pointed out, as before the World War foreign holders attempted to unload their holdings in domestic corporations and forced a fade-out on prices. Since the Times states that there has been a rather heavy sale of domestic securities by foreigners in recent months, this may be one of the strongest reasons for the slump.
Whatever the reasons, it is evident that Wall Street has the jitters either in anticipation of further complications in world relations or of another economic debacle.
What About Mexico?
Worry about the active destruction of American property and interests in China has been supplemented in Washington by more worry about the American investments in Mexico, which are six times as large as those in China.
Shrinkage of from 2,000,000,000 dollars to between three-quarters of a billion and a billion dollars, with the greatest shrinkage under the present Cardenas administration, has been the result of revolutionary expropriation and "Mexicanization" of industry. At a meeting of United States Consuls in Mexico, Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Mexican government, Ramon Beteta, told the United States representatives that "Mexico is for the Mexicans," and that the present policy would continue.
Protests by Washington have received only half-hearted satisfaction, while the Mexican government has continued its advances against American interests especially under its Expropriation Law, which permits the government to
seize any property in Mexico to be used in na-
tionalizing seven thousand miles of railroads.
The United States faces a major problem in Mexico. Will the administration solve that problem according to the idealistic standards it holds up to other countries in the same position, or will this country adapt methods which it condemns in them?
The English Are a Loonier Race
"When the Australian government an nounced that the national debt was 1,202,911,646 pounds and one penny, somebody signing himself "Patriot" forwarded to the Prime Minister a penny stamp. It was to be used, he stipulated, "to reduce the debt and bring it to round figures."
To that end the penny was offered to the treasury. It couldn't be accepted; the Jaw made acceptance of so small an amount impossible. Thereupon the Prime Minister's department, having acknowledged receipt of the penny and thanked the donor, put it in with the petty cash.
But the department reckoned without the Auditor General's department. Thenee came word that it might challenge the disposition of the penny as misappropriation of funds.
So the government has the penny, but cannot pay any of the debt with it, cannot spend it and doesn't know what to do with it."—New York Times.
And how far would a penny go in unwinding so much red tape?
No. Genevieve, a beer jacket is not a new drink . . . it's a little coat co-eds started wearing to be different and are now wearing because it's a fad.
Official University Bulletin
Notices due at Charlotte's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular publication days and 11:15 a.m.
Mail to: Charlotte, D.C. 20578.
Vol. 35 Wednesday, October 29, 1937 No. 30
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AMERICAN STUDENT UNION: The A.S.U. will hold an important meeting at 8 o'clock this evening in Room 2010, where the mounted museum are asked to be present, and anyone else interested is cordially invited.-Greg Wines, President
GERMAN LANGUAGE TABLE. The German Language Table will meet for supper in the Lounge of the Union building at 5:30 o'clock this evening. All who wish to speak German or to improve their knowl- of speaking are invited to them. It is not for their obligation than to speak German — W. B. Schaffrath.
JAY JANES! There will be a regular required
afternoon in the Pine room-Hoberta
Cook, Fiesta.
QUACK CLUB. There will be a Quack Club picnic for initiation of Quack Club pledges Thursday afternoon. All interested in young should meet at the club on Tuesday and Saturday, as well as pledges are urged to come—Betty Heitmann.
SPANISH CLUB: El Atento will meet this Thursday in 113 Administration building. All old members are requested to be present to vote on prospective new members—Karl Ruppenthal, President.
W. S.GA TEA: There will be a W.S.GA tea this afternoon from 3 to 0'clock in the lounge of the Administration building. All University women are invited—Bette Wasson, Secretary.
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Early Football Games Were Occasions of Much Excitement
Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
Rv William Fitzgerald, c'39
By William Fitzgerald, c. 195
Football at the University of Kansan began to be taken seriously about in the late 1970s and the first inter-school match was played. In 1889 the University Kansan came out with "What is the matter with the football club?" (Shades of 1036). We should endeavor to have some games this summer some of our neighbor colleges."
The football association of the school at this time met every Saturday afternoon for practice and later that year the constitution of the K.S.U. Athletic Association was drawn up.
The next year, 1880, the football team played three games, two with Baker and one with the Kansas City Y.M.C.A. The only victory was a 14-12 decision over Baker in the first game played.
Finally Locate Field
In 1891, however, the school adopted the game in earnest. After some difficulty in finding a suitable field, one was finally located on the present site of Lawrence Memorial High School. An argument also developed as to whether K.S.U. or U.K. should grace the fronts of the football team that year had two complete teams with three subs left over.
Exposition Park in Kansas City was the scene of the first game played with Missouri in 1891 and the game was advertised for the "championship of two states." The game created a lot of excitement and when the Jayhawkers won 22-8 the joy of the Kansas fans knew no bounds. (Some of the celebrants were kept in bounds, however, in jail cells around the university.) An undefended season with victories over Washburn twice, Baker tweel, Iowa State and the Kansas City Y.M.C.A.
Took Game Seriously
The game was taken even more seriously by the fans then than now. The Women's issue of the Kansan in 1897 described the Nabraka team as "a set of ungentlemanly sluggers" (horrors) and Coach Woodruff of Kansas made what the Kansan called a fair proposition in challenging Nebraska to a return game from sunrise to sunset on the Monday following the game in dispute and letting the realities of the game unfold. (Coach Woodruff evidently had great faith in the staining of his players.)
The students took the game so seriously, in fact, that their victory celebrations many times got them in trouble. One account of a celebration taken from an early Kansan charged the police with trying to break up a harmless Saturday night jubilee of students, while a murderous riot was going on at the railroad station. It seems that one of the local road station brudes had administered too many thrashings to the local constabulary and the police picked on the students instead. The Kansan gets quite wrably in saying that the students paid their fines like gentlemen, entirely out of the class of the "vile-mouth," rotten-outhed, and bloody-cyed human beings wearing old blue uniforms and embittering talk from their mouths. (Such talk, and in the school paper too.)
Gicket Sale Starts Thursday For "Beggar on Horseback"
Reserved seats for "Beggar on Horseback," current production of the Kansas Players, will go on sale tomorrow morning. The ticket office is in the basement of Green hall and has been set up to accommodate and from 1 p.m., until 4 p.m., Don Dixon, director of ticket sales, has announced.
The first production of "Beggar on Horseback" will be Monday, Oct. 25. The cast is in now in the last week of school and will be preparing for the opening night.
Faculty members and Lawrence residents who have purchased the special season tickets, and holders of student activity book tickets, may exchange them at the ticket office after 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Ticket offices open tomorrow and Friday, and Monday to Thursday of next week.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, Gwin Henry, director of athletics, and Ray Wright, chairman of the University representatives, attend the Oklahoma-Kansas game at Norman next Saturday afternoon.
Will Attend Alumni Meets in Oklahoma
Leaving Thursday they will stop at Independence for an alumni meeting at noon. They will attend other alumni meetings at Bartlese and Pike Center, where they meet Tula, Olda, Friday noon, and Oklahoma City, Friday.
Pratt Elected Standard Oil Company Director
Wallace E. Pratt, '97, of Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., was recently elected a director of the Standard Bank and was a regular member of the executive committee of the board, which is the executive agency of the company.
Plenty of 'Spirit'
Miss Anna McCracken, instructor in philosophy, was called to her home at Granada, Colo., yesterday for the serioula illness of her mother.
Philosophy Teacher Called Home
Davis to Speak at Council Grove
Prof. Robert M. Davis of the
School of Law, will speak on the
constitution at a Rotary Club meet-
ing at Council Grove, Friday, Oct.
27.
The Kansas City Star said, "Apparently the only way for the University of Kansas students to avoid the wrath of the Lawrence police is to win no more football games!" He also said he would welcome a few victories now.
Dean "Jimmy" Green and other faculty members of the Law School were kept busy defending students in court after nearly every game, and fines ranging from $5 to $100 were imposed. The university also hosts events as inter-school debates were objects of intense rivalry and oftentimes ended in brawls.
The "Gay Nineties" may be called tame and the modern youth may be termed "wild", but there was certainly nothing lacking in the early-day school spirit at the University of Kansas. (Unless it was temperance.) In fact, modern Jayhawkers might be called "sissies" in comparison to the "studies" who used to roam Mount Oread.
Debate Squad To Broadcast
The second in a series of eight broadcasts by Prof. E. C. Buehner and his debate squad members will be held on Friday from 2:30 to 3:10 cover over KFKU.
In this broadcast Professor Buehler will discuss, "Lining up the Arguments," a talk pertaining to the state high school debate question. Resolved: That the several states should adopt the unicameral system of legislature. This speech, and the argument, has been ago, are minegraved and will be sent free of charge to requests addressed to KFKU.
The third in the series of broadcasts will be a round table discussion between Professor Boehler and the team, including the three on Friday, Oct. 29. On the three successive Friday afternoon a following this date, members of the squad will broadcast discussions relative to the phases of unicommercial regulation.
Two more broadcasts of an hour length in the evenings will be given at the close of this series. The first will be among members of the squad, the second is a scheduled meet with Kunzman. Then for the two closing broadcasts of the series so far has not been determined.
Crawford Will Address Annual Engineer Meeting
Ivan C. Crawford, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, will address the twenty-second annual meeting of the Kansas Nebraska section of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education Saturday. Oct. 23. The meeting will be at Kansas State College, Oct. 22-23.
Local officers of the society are Prof. Earnest Boyce and Prof. R.W. Warner.
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her of this when she showed her the little nook under the railroad bridge on the south road to K.C. She ran across it, mingled, rainproof, and "just darling."
EVERYDAY SPECIAL!
Natty Numbers—That blue velvet affair that Shinkle wore as bride-maid for the Shawner-Reitz linking up at the Parkline in the City last Saturday. . . The new nurse at the student hospital; but, did dad gum it, we can't all choose our nurse after we convinced the sawneves that we can't possiblyake a step on the sprained ankle. Those little black ribbons that I wear in back of my shirt, she really should flavor them if we have to chew on them while dancing with her. . . Those perfectly divine and vari-colored diapers that the "K" Club initiates were wearing yesterday. Whoops, darling, your idie's draggin'! The beer jacket which had such a short reign on the Mound; whatautta, Mitchell, you can't get the rest of the boys het up to the idea. . . The ultra-modern hat is tootl around since he went to sleep while too close to the barber. . . Those hats (?) the females are wearing that require you to get behind them to see. . . The Studhader "vice" President that Humphreys took around in; by the way, what's the lice number? Hello, George.
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