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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1937
Comment
Politics, Like Life,
Is What You Make It
"The class of '37, the group of young college graduates from which will emerge the national leaders of 20 years hence, believe that virtue has little reward, and that the thing for them to do is to work as little as possible, get paid as much as possible, and retire as soon as possible," writes Bruce Bilven, Jr., in the Woman's Home Companion.
Bliven was graduated from an eastern college this spring, and while in college he was active in the American Student Union and other campus organizations and had ample opportunity to form his opinions. The quarrel then, is not with Bliven, but with the college graduate for substantiating these statements, the truth of which may be seen and heard in the classrooms and on the campus of the University every day. Neither are these truths confined to the class of '37. The class of '36 was much the same, and the class of '38 is bewing to a like course.
And 1957 will suffer . . . along with the class of '37 . . . for it is an economic truth that all can't achieve the ambition of the current college crop. The greatest loss, as it has always been, will be in the field of politics. For one thing, politics is too rigorous for the class of '37. Too, politics brings to the college graduate the savor of the pork barrel and the protruding waistline of the cartoon politician, and the college graduate doesn't want to be caricaturized.
In other countries young men are reared in political families and trained for politics from elementary school. Government service (politics) is an honored profession.
Although thousands of men in government positions in our country are intelligent and honorable, Joe College still can see only the cartoon and column politicians and doesn't care to become one. He is too obsessed with his ambition to crusade for a change in the profession, so he avoids it. Until he changes his mind he and his country will suffer.
Will the Pirates Walk the Plank?
A powder keg which rests in water, the waters of the Mediterranean, is once again threatening to plunge the major nations of Europe into war. Great Britain, fully aroused by acts of piracy on her vessels, has mobilized nearly 200 warships in the Mediterranean in a search for marine mauders.
Relations between Britain and Italy are more strained than ever before because of the failure of Italy to participate in the international anti-priracy conference at Nyons, Switzerland. There seems to be overwhelming circumstantial evidence that Italy is the culprit: Britain, France and Russia have been attacked by these mauraders; Italy and Germany have not, and Italy possesses the greatest number of submarines in the Mediterranean area.
Italy is offended because of the small position offered her in the anti-piracy patrol, and because of the point-blank accusation of her guilt by Russia—a member of the anti-piracy patrol.
If Italy is found to be responsible for these pratic raids, the British are prepared to demand and fight for reparations — a challenge which under the Italian dictatorship, where war and valor are idealized as the supreme raison d'etre, could only be answered with war.
You were starving . . . a tenant farmer in the Midwest in 1935. You and your family were transplanted to Alaska. You lived in tents for months. You worked, you built a house and cleared land. You've produced prodigious crops, but you've had trouble marketing them all. Your cows produce well, but you pay $65 a ton for hay. You now have forty acres of land, only five or ten acres of which is cleared, and the government informs you that you owe $8,000 . . . You are a member of the Matanuska colony, and you have a staggering debt hanging over your future in an adopted home you have learned to love.
You may give up. You may get an adjustment. You may work on with the debt haunting you. You don't know and neither does the government that brought you there
The fault is partly yours for living too well from an unreluctant government commissary where double a reasonable price was charged for everything. The fault is partly the government's for being so idealistic and so impractical.
Pay Day Comes... Even for Dreams
Where do you go from here?
'Who Cared Most, And, Caring, Dared'
A small but growing vanguard of college students, sobered by depression and present world conditions, is beginning to think, beginning to realize that international and national problems are of deep concern to us all.
They realize the complexity of our modern economy, and though they may not understand the implications of the latest crisis in Spain or the Orient, they know that indirectly it affects even so cloistered an individual as the college student.
William Allen White, the Kansas sage, has thrown down to youth the following challenge:
"You must point your achievement toward a fairer distributive system in America. Abundance is here for the taking. Out of the laboratories will come new processes to multiply almost infinitely material things for your America; but only if you will hold open the channels of free science, unfettered thought and the right of man to use his talents to the utmost, provided he gives honest social returns for the rewards he takes."
We must meet this challenge. Our fate is plain if it is left unanswered.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Summer Session Kaman. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Standing Room Only
Editor, Daily Kansas
Editor Daily Kansan:
This morning I attended what purported to be a convocation. Had I not attended the opening Convocation for the past four years I should have the thought I had lost my bearings and stumbled into a church.
Standing Room Only
I have no objection to churches. I think they are admirable places in which to hold church services. But my idea of a concoction is a well-balanced combination of entertainment and educational features, without alternately sitting and standing through the body, responsive readings, the Lord's prayer, and a hymn.
The present set-up, however, is not entirely without its beneficial effects. The coke joint report a
Probably more students would like to attend convocations. But students don't like to be bored. J, H, R.
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ADAGIO GROUP TRYOUTS- Tynports for the adagio group will be held Monday, September 20, at 4:30. All men interested report to Room 101 Robinson Gymnasium - B. F. Humphrey
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION The * Christian Science Organization at the University of Chicago,* will be held on Friday, September 21, day afternoon, Sept. 21, at 4:30 in Room C. Myers hall. All students and faculty members who are interested may attend this meeting.
COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 tuesday afternoon, Sept. 21, in the Central Administration auditorium. E. H. Linden, President.
CREATIVE LEISURE PICNIC: The Creative Leisure picnic hikes planned originally for September 19, 2014 will be held in August.
DRAMATIC CLUB TRYOUTS; Trouws for the Dramatic Club will be held in the Little Theater of Green hall on Monday afternoon. These trouws will be to all students of the University--Rolla Nuckles, Sponsor.
PHI CHI DELTA': Phi Chi Delta will hold a super meeting for all Presbyterian girls Tuesday, September 21, from 7:30 to 7 at Westminster hall. 1221 St. John's Street, Observations Monday—Ezina May Parks, Vice-president.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of all M.S.C. members in the Pice Room Mon-
tage on Thursday, March 26th at 10am.
TAP CLASS. There will be an advanced tap class Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. I should like to have anyone report who has had experience or has been working in advanced tap -Elizabeth Dunkel.
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Now if you've read this far, you are probably thinking someone is crazy, but that's because you don't know about jazz. And after all, "jazz don't mean a thing if you don't like it." And we don't even weave a hammock.
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If you alligators are beat to the sox after riffling through this first session, kindly remember that it's a little off the beat for those of you who haven't been swinging with the rest of the cats.
BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN
Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
In order that you may get your "kicks", if any, out of this column, it will be necessary from time to time to define a number of terms that are used by swing musicians. These terms are found in the true vernacular of the swing world so that it may be a little more interesting and instructive.
Perhaps it would be a good beginning to translate the second paragraph. The term "alligator" is one used by swing musicians when speaking of these swing enthusiasts who are interested in swing but who do not play themselves. In other words, if you go for swing and
"jam sessions" you are an "aligator". Some of the most enthusiatic aligators on the hill include Dorothy Fritz, Jane Coates, Doc Dear, Gene "Slugger" Haughey, "Stew" Chamberls, and others who like to go to Bottles. "Bottles" Payne gets a lift out of a good riff session.
You've probably had your "sox beat" or have been "beat to the sox" without knowing it. Someone told me, and I'll have to keep it a secret, that Don Woods thinks having one's "sox beat" is a most unusual way of having the laundry done. However, this expression did not originate in a laundry, and still it's been kept clean. "Beat to the sox" means that someone has worn it out, laundry service eliminated.
A very similar expression is one used by a musician who plays a wind instrument. When such a musician has played so strenuously that his lips are tired, he will say that his "chops are beat."
To the average layman the expression "off-bat" might have several interpretations. For example, it means to be silent, or to describe a description of a cop who wasn't on duty, but the expression, in its true sense, is used when referring to something that doesn't adhere strictly to the conventional. It may mean a lie.
So much can be written about the jazz that it would take months, so if you alligators are interested in getting in the groove with things and learning all about this thing they should do, they should sit this column and sit on in the Sunday session of alligators. To the first 10 who write we'll mail absolutely free an invisible Chinese drum stick. Keep swinging and we'll go out and play. (In case you don't have a.swing dictionary "jive" meens chatter.)
On the Shin-were German the lads said, "no they were 'sweetish.'"
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Things: Bob Black, Sigma Chi,
must be thinking about the more serious side of life judging from his enrollment schedule—Child care in the morning, and family finance in the afternoon... Fred Littoux, Art Welf, and Bob Martin from the Beta house went on a six weeks junt up in Wisconsin this summer and spend the whole time on an island in a lake supposedly fishing. They were able to catch that time the time was devoted to—well there were eight girls on an adjoining island, and then there was a hamlet of beverage houses a few miles distant. When asked if the girls
You'll 'be reading another column in this paper today, or so they tell me. The by-line says Dale Shroff, and here are a few items from his past: Comes from the Kansas Cow college up on Manhattan way; is the trumpeter for Louie Kuhn's band at present; for two years he wrote a humorous column for the Cow Journal; for four years he was president of Manhattan in their last mayoral election and just missed being elected—The PI Phi's are old stuff to him—and his big eyes are helping him make a living right now.
Just two of the stars who dare portray the truth in the picture which was held over for two weeks in Kansas City, "Damaged Glo" opening at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
AT THE VARSITY
Sonipa Henie, helen as the star discovery of 1937, in the Twentieth Century Fox speculative smoother "Sone in a Million," which has won the VARSITY.
AT THE GRANADA
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Dick Powell, Priscilla Lacey, Fred Waring and his Pennyvailians all join him and not rhythm in "Varity Show," now playing at the BRANADA
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The University Men's Glee Club
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Monday, Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m.
A to M inclusive
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m.
N to Z inclusive
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