PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY. APRIL 29, 1937 Comment A University student reports that while looking for a position in a southern Kansas town he encountered some of the red baiting tactics of the American Legion. So It Can't Happen Here? His story goes something like this: While looking for a position he noticed a poster advertising a lecture on Russia to be given that evening. He had nothing else to do so he attended. After the lecture he asked the question, "Why does the speaker disagree so violently with authorities like Walter Duranty and others?" After the meeting the student was approached by a couple of the Legionnaires and questioned as to who, what, why and where, and how come. The job hunter from the University answered all questions and went to his hotel room to rest for the day's work on the morrow. He was no sooner in bed when the police arrived, arrested him, gave him another thorough questioning, and finally escorted him a few miles out of town and told him to keep going. The same speaker lectured here a few days later, but from all reports gave a very modified version of the lecture he gave under the sponsorship of the American Legion. These Things Called Grades . . . Strange are the factors which enter in to raise or lower the grades of a group of college students. Occasionally, the professor provides the stimulus that brings up the academic standing of his classes. Such was the case when a California teacher devised the ingenious method of placing corrected papers in three different receptacles, out of which each student must retrieve his own product. Good papers were placed in a jar which, when the lid was lifted, gave off a delightful aroma; papers only "fair to middlin'" were contained in a jar the odor of which was slightly unpleasant; but to retrieve a paper marked "F," the student must encounter most offensive fumes. Believe it or not, the class average rose appreciably with this innovation. Another method for raising their standing was arranged by the students themselves in a Georgia Tech classroom, in which failures predominated. The class was conducted on a basis of answering "yes" or "no" to questions put by the professor. Among the class members was a blind boy, who was an "A" student. As this individual was permitted the use of a typewriter in class, it became a matter of routine for the other class members to await his answers before they put down their own. If he struck two keys, they wrote "no"; if three, they wrote "yes." Would that we could get some such a break around this school! However, the professor, not being such a dumb cluck himself, devised the method of having the informer type a period after the "no" answers, and thus the fun was spoiled. Get Some Culture Into Merry-Go-Rounds For years we've been blinded by the signs and headlines, coupled with yell and bull of the supporters' speeches, reminding the American people to "Buy at home!" "Help prevent forest fires" or participate in a dozen other campaigns, which all indirectly led back to an economic basis. But for the year of 1937 no mediocre campaign shall be given us. No, for this illustrious year, in celebration of the American people's trip around the corner to meet prosperity, a new objective has arisen. No longer will the financiers dictate the policy of our slogans, for this year the aesthetics have stepped in and handed to the nation's people the cultural program and objective of "Better Music for Merry-Go-Rounds." It seems that the National Federation of Music clubs has taken upon itself to better these existing conditions because the organization feels that "Merry-Go Rounds play an inferior grade of jazz which is destroying the musical ideals of young America." And right this organization is! Imagine what this country will be 50 years from now, full of the descendants and people who spent their earlier days being dragged down and down (culturally) by The Kansan Platform 1. A well-rounded diversity athletic program. 2. Bettlement of student working conditions. 4. An adequate building program, including: a. Construction of a medical science building. o. Addition to the stacks of the library. 5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries. the inferior and monotonous and repetitions music of the Merry-go Round. It might breed cultural lag even? To keep carnival-loving America sane and happy and culturally tops, we must have better music for our Merry-Go-Rounds. Citizens, it is indeed a goal worth striving for! What's The Comic Section Coming To? The mercenary attitude of this modern age is taking the joy out of life, step by step. Time was when advertising was confined to certain columns of the newspapers and to the asbestos curtains of theaters. The advent of radio opened up a fertile field for the purveyors of the necessities of life until they have crowded all the real enjoyment out of radio programs with their constant ballyhooing of the "bite test," or "how to grow pleasingly plump or slender by using Dr. Zilch's newest concoction." Not satisfied with ruining radio programs, they have started on another of our favorite sources of amusement, the funny paper. In the good old days we could sit down and enjoy a half hour reading about the capers of Jiggs and Maggie or Andy Gump or some of the others. Now we start to read of the adventures of some person only to find at the end that person couldn't have accomplished all of these feats of daring if he hadn't eaten Crispy Crunchies three times a day all his life. Perhaps we haven't long to wait before we will see the pictures in the famous art galleries interspersed with placards advertising hotels, restaurants and the like. Campus Opinion P. K., Please Note P. K., Please Note Editor Daily Kansan It isn't my wish to get into a troublesome quarrel with the morbidite Mr. P., K., but I would enjoy the privilege of hearing you. In the first place, the number of non-sorority and non-fraternity individuals on this campus for outturns is low. We know that students hold more of the campus offices? But considering the fact that there are at least three bars for our previous article, we should consider the proportion of the jobs. The writer of the previous article says that the Jayhawker, Kansan, and Crescent have had a lot to do. Considering though, the fact that the editorship and business manager's office of the Jayhawker have been divided this year between fraternity and non-fraternity groups, and independent, for its managing editor a fraternity man, and until last month a fraternity man (or men), we know that these two groups have had more bars in their number than Greeks, but the entire journalism department is overrun with independents and lacking in fraternity men. As to politics, most people believe that it is a wiz- idea of the politicians to attempt to win the independents to their side by running independents on either party's platform, so they lead the major council offices between the two groups. And now, as to the alleged fact that fraternities and sororites are on the decline. Where would the University be if it didn't have the organized houses to buy its stamps and board and room its convention guests, and do the thousands of necrophiles? It is a question with an answer, that if this system of fraternities fails, a new one will begin. The human race has the inherent desire to organize. F. W. Official University Bulletin Vol. 34 THURSDAY, APRIL, 29, 1937 No. 143 PI SIGMA ALPHA: Election of new members will be held on Friday afternoon, April 30, at 4:30 in 160 Ad. All active members please be present—J. Hubert Anderson, President. WESTMINSTER HIKING CLUB: There will be a hike this Friday at 4:30. The cost for each will be 15 cents. All others who are interested are invited. Wallis Campbell, Publicity Chairman. Y.M.C.A. CABINET. There will be a meeting of the school board members at afternoon in the Y.M.C.A. Great for you! W.Y.C.A. CABINET. The Y.W.C.A. Cabinet will now be open this afternoon at hennessy house—Elector Sister. Press release. ALChE. MEEETING: There will be a meeting at 8 o'clock this evening in 303 Chemistry building. Dr. Earle C. Brown will speak on problems encountered by women with cancer. Everyone is invited. Joe Robertson, President. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS MANAGING EDITOR CARL W. SMITH CAMPUS EDITORS MARY RUTTER AND MOBER THOMPSON NEWS EDITOR MARKIN GOBELB SOCIETY EDITOR JAMES JOINS SPORTS EDITOR HOWIE WOOD TELEGRAM EDITOR BOONE CASSIE MATURPAGE EDITOR BILL TYLER AND ALISA FRAZIER News Staff PUBLISHER ... DALE O'BRIEN EDITOR - CHIEF ASSOCIATE EDITORS: ISABEL VORK AND GEORGIA WHITTORD STEVIN DAVID FEATURE EDITOR JANE FLOOD Kansas Board Members ALICE HALEMAN-JULIUS FREIDA BLAIR F. QUENTIN BROWN WILLIAM R. DOWN WILLIAM GILL MELVIN HARLIN CARL SMITH STEVEN DAVID PILEPH STRATTON DALE O'BRIEN DANIEL HUIS HUMS POKINGHORN KEN POSITILEWATE MONARON MUNSON MARY RUTTER J. HOWARD RUNO BOB RICHAAMRON JAMES POKINGHORN Entered at second-classt matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. Consequently, all the KU. radio actors have to die at least once a month. It is said that one of the actors, during the dramatization of a pre-civil war scrap, died three times in fifteen minutes. This, however, may be an exaggeration. It is nevertheless quite true that the announcer was shot during one program, and like a dying hero in the opera, was forced to make several comebacks before he could pass away in peace. When the Kansas Players go professional, they're hoping to get the DuPont Powder Co. as their sponsors. By matthew bernhardt When the Kansas Players go on the air—any Monday night at 9:45—to dramatize the history of Kansas, powder is burnt by the hogsbend and the blood is waist-high. When Allen Crafton started to write his series of 40 plays on Kansas history, he discovered that the semi-mythical early settlers of Kansas were extensively tough citizens who shaved with the primeval equivalent of blow-torches and parted their hair with six-gum sights. You might not believe it to look at some of their clothing but it looks like a flat hat. It have been a very dull evening indeed when our forefathers didn't leave at least two bodies about to mark the course of the night's festivities. BUSINESS MANAGER... Have Appreciation of Music The Kansas Players programs are an appreciation of the music in life. Until you have heard Professor Crawford render the original version of "Home on the Range," you can't hear nothin'. Much can be said, too, of the massed chorus effect which was obtained by having the entire cast of "John Brown's Body": it's not the sort of thing one would say in public, however. Likewise the male chorus which put the Men's Glee Club to shame recently with its interpretation of the American national anthem and "Bellevue Me. If All Those Young Charms" should certainly be taken as a technical flow in these performances is that the group as a whole tends to swing its rhythm; and really, one doesn't do that sort of thing with "John Brown's Body." Individual stars of these singing performances are worthy of mention. Aside from Professor Crafton's tenure, that is Joe Myers' celebrated monotone and James McComb Bradford's steam-whistle soprano. Mr. Bradford's pitch varies from time to time and from key to key. Messrs. Bradfield and Myers—known locally as the "Gold-Dust Twins"—hope at a concert with this special gram (over my dead body) with a new vocal arrangement of that popular song. "Brighten the Corner Where You Are." Kansas Players Dramatize Violent Acts and Sentimental Songs Over KFKU By Martin Maioney. c'37 Have Appreciation of Music Even more remarkable than the singing, is the acting. First and foremost is that grand old man of the airwaves, Mr Richard McCann. To the casual eye, Mr. McCann may be a rosey-cheeked freshman; but when you put him to acting in front of a microphone, he's a cross between Walter Hampden as Hamlet and George Arliss do disarming. In other Acting Is Supreme words, you'd never believe it. Then of course, come the inevitable Myers-Bradford combination. The range of the Myers dramatic talents is amazing. Mr. Myers is superb as a recently encamped slave; he is excellent as a more or less grizzled (or should one any sozied?) plainsman; he even does with considerable elan a character portrait of a gentleman of the Old South. But tapping all the Myers performances was that of the Indian chief; all that Mr. Myers said was, "Oomph. You coom!" but that was enough. One should note the fact that Professor Crafton has occasionally doubled in brass by taking several parts in the show; this has led over or two times to the conclusion which the professor was forced to carry on longe and complicated conversations with 'inself' Ladies Take Part Among the ladies of the ensemble is Maribeth Schreiber, who does practically anything from Ada Worley (the heart-interest of the earlier plays, ob, boy, ob) to Kate Bender (who maneuvered stray travelers into the handiest position for Papa Bender to slug them with a sledge hammer). Miss Schreiber's mother (who maneuvered stray travelers to pronounce a little German (imagine, with a name like Schreiber she can't say "Schweinhund"). Then there's Barbara Goll, who played that supernaupied vampire of the seventies, Calamity Jane. If Calamity Jane looked like Miss Goll, her six-guns were just so much excess armor. Over this brood presides Mr. Rolla Nuckles. The less said about Mr. Nuckles' agony and travail of spirit, the better. If you have ever seen a boy with a brood of playful young cormorants, you'll know how he feels. the Insects Are Problem Not the difficulties about a radio show are the effects. The nice thing about these sound effects is that they are never the same twice in a row. The sound of a door closing may be a gentle rattle one time, and the clap of doom the next. Sound effects in general may be divided into two main classes: the mechanical, and the vocal. In the first class are imitations of horses' hoofs, wagons moving, door-slams, gunshots, and the like. The more complicated of these are produced by assorted mechanisms which resemble something designed GIFTS and Greeting Cards for TODAY! 1021 Mass. St. THE BOOK NOOK THE STUDENTS' CHOICE THE THEATRE WHERE THE BIG PICTURES PLAY by the late Prof. Lucifer K. Butts is one of his off moments. The vocal sound effects are even more tricky, so much so that particular artists specialize in particular effects. There are, for example, several types of grunts alone. There is the agonized grunt (as one of being hit in the head with a slide hammer; Mr. Craffon does these with some finesse) or the bawdying grunt (you're doing an Indian), and the comfortable grunt (practically anyone can do that). One in the field of barryn institutions, a newcomer to the radio shows, Miss Dorothy Friz, seems to have captured the field. Miss Friz does an excellent whimmy, which goes well with wheelogs and horse's hoofs. She also has a particular turn for sounding like a when jumping on an Aside from this, Miss Friz also uses a squallying耳, And they taste taut. Anyway, of such stuff in radio drama made. Two visits to the KFKU studio will convince any normal adult that—yes, I'm going to work Hamlet into this; just try to stop me —"there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy." The Roving Reporter Conducted by Fred Littloy Next fall gives promises of bringing with it a new problem for the school to cope with. The new non-resident fees will probably be a predominant factor in the size of the school's enrollment, and, since many are loath to see this decrease, the criticisms of the new ruling are legion. It all boils down to the question of whether or not we should partially exclude out-of-state students. With this in mind, the question is appropriate. "Are you Frozen Fruit Salad Served with Toast 20c A DELIGHTFUL SPRING DISH AT YOUR UNION FOUNTAIN Sub-basement Memorial Union The Most of the Best for the Least VARSITY Home of the byhowt LAST TIMES TODAY Hits — 2 — Hits No. 1 HIDE HO! From the Brooklyn Show ANYTHING GOES with BING CROSBY ETHERS MERMAN CHARLIE RUGGLES No. 2 MILLIONS MIRTH AND MAPXPS ROMANCE WITH RICHES with CARY GRANT MARY BRIAN Tomorrow and Saturday Adm. 15, kiddies 10c Action Lovers! Here's Your Show! Entertainment From the Word Go! A GRAND NATIONAL PICTURE A L S O A Fost Action Western SUNDAY - MON. - TUES. WE PROUDLY PRESENT! in favor of the hike in non-resident lives?" Dorothy Fritz, cep: "No, I really think that many of our better students come from other states. The quality of the student personnel will be lowered and out-of-state contacts will be cut off." And that is, in essence, the gist of the whole argument. No matter how heatly and voyeurous we may debate the question all boils down to those basic essentials. Bill Asher, c'39: "It's pretty poor if you ask me. We use other states!" Continued on page 1 New Jubilesta 936-38 Mass. DANCE Week 10c 'Til 7 Days Then 15c K. U. Rhythm Club TODAY! ENDS SATURDAY PATEE Big Double Treat! 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