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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24. 1937
Comment
There Ought To Be A Law
The noise in the local theaters continues. It's not the innocent crackling of pop-corn bags, either, but deliberate, premeditated racket. It's fairly amusing, on the whole, but after a time it becomes irritating no end. Trying to hear what the actors and alleged actors are saying becomes an impossibility.
Whether it be a villian who is stalking softly or a bunch of men on horses, one can feel fairly certain that someone will start stomping his feet at what strikes him as being the correct time. Mob psychology or something then comes into the picture and most of the audience begins stomping. It's great fun, that's undeniable, but pity the poor guy who (ha, ha) came to see the picture.
Then, of course, there are the additional noises—inhuman for the most part—which are always there. Screeches and cat-calls, ejaculations and gossip, anything and everything, add to the maelstrom.
There is a place for all this—probably in a burlesque show—but it hardly belongs in a Lawrence theater. So let's have more quiet.
Assemblyman Ashean says Kansas is having trouble deciding between a beer reign and a beer rein.
Joe College is having trouble deciding whether it's a steamship that its ill, or the Queen of Roumania that broke the latest speed record.
Ostriches At College
From the Cincinnati News Record
Student bodies are made up of many types of persons. But there is one type which is deserving of the greatest sympathy and wringing of hands.
Human necks are generally short; but prolonged effort by many of us has lengthened the average neck during the last few years. Problems of accentuated importance have besieged the world since the last depression, and the new "ostrich" student has contributed to intelligent discussion and action precisely nothing.
College students are members of a classified group of the community. Whether they have been selected for their opportunity by wealth or intelligence, they have in any case a supreme responsibility to the society which has made possible their opportunity and the maintenance of their privilege. Therefore the problems of war, unemployment and underprivilege in society are deserving of the most careful, deliberative consideration by those whom society has bestowed with the equipment to competently consider those problems.
Thus the student, with his head sunk in the sand of technicalities and specialization in things to which he fears to give social significance and to attempt to treat with all of his intelligence, is not only a lamentable sight, but also a cheater on his patrons. He is not legally a criminal, but by all the moral considerations which society commends and often ignores, the "ostrich" student is a criminal of the most subtle and predatory variety—he is collecting his fee and evading delivery of the goods.
Many profess sentiments of the most noble spirit; but they also make their professions mere verbania when they quickly jam their heads back into the sand in order to miss those things which might tempt or force them to act on the basis of their study and conclusions.
It has been pertinently suggested that the first step in revising student government is revising students.
So we are required by the inexorable logic of the situation to remind the ostriches of the college campus that "time is marching on" with a goose step which may not feel good in the seat of those who are bending over so diligently to keep their heads in the sand.—A. H. L.
The German-U. S. verbal squabble—we're pleased with us and displeased with them. They're pleased with them and displeased with us.
Shades of Goethe
Some months ago, in Nazi Germany, criticism of art was banned by decree of propaganda minister Goebbels. Art has suffered badly enough at the hands of the Nazis. Go to the volume which contains the papers presented at the American Artists' Congress, 1936, to see what artists say of the status of art in Fascist countries. Several leading artists presented papers on art in Germany, art in Italy,
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
and art in its relation to the Fascist philosophy. No one could find a good word to say for the Fascist countries. All were unanimous in the opinion that culture and the arts are being stifled by Fascism.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
4. An establishment building for bookstore.
Then came what seemed to be the last straw. No more criticism of painting, the theatre, music. One might describe these productions, but to criticize them might be to find something good in art which was presented in a spirit imminent to the fascist philosophy. Just why art can't be good unless its spirit agrees with fascist doctrines is explained by Captain Bernhard Weiss, one of Goebbels underlings, who recently announced that criticism will again be permitted in Germany. His statement requires no comment.
"If a work of art and its presentation contain a National Socialist idea," said Weiss, "we favor it. If the opposite is the case, we have not only the right, but the duty, to be against it. Art criticism is not primarily an esthetic question, but a political one. Until very recently the majority of theatre critics neglected this fact. . . The old idea that there is good art and bad art must be removed."
Kansas Wins Fame Again
Bright days hold their charm only by contrast with the cloudy days that precede—happiness and trouble are that way too.
Comes the news, via the New York Times, of the desolation created by a Kansas dust storm. News is not quite the term. It is a feature story, averaging some two columns in length, and given top position on the front page with a double deck headline, a "special to the New York Times" and "In Kansas, Aboard the Denver Special of the Union Pacific" complete with by-line.
It looks, then, as if the stories of our dust storms may replace those of our wolves and Indians.
Of the two, we Kansans would undoubtedly prefer the latter.
Points of view are like finger prints—no two alike.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
Council Plan Explained
Editor Daily Kansan
With the ratification of the Council reorganization proposal by the Senate on the Hill two political parties, it is clear that the Senate will feature the features of the proposal so that the electorate of the campus may know upon which future councils will be elected.
The proposal as it now stands, is not in it's final form and will not be until the repugnance of that instrument to the constitution has been ironed out. It will be necessary, after this has been done to legally incorporate the proposal into the constitution.
Laying aside for the present, the mechanics of putting the proposal into the fundamental authority of the council, an inspection of the proposal would be worth considering.
The proposal provides for: redistricting of the company with a proportional representation from each district, a representative, or a representative-at-large, thus doing away with any boundary in the council, and the athletic representative, provision for an strictly party lines, in case of a tie vote, and a provision for a majority vote, in case of a tie voter ager non elective. It has been suggested that this last named position shall be filled upon petition and much more information is the selection of the Ja Hawyker manager, by application.
This new proposal marks another milestone in student government. While it is true that the most exerting government role is the chairperson, it is an improvement. One of the essential provisions that makes it is that the councils in the future will be assured regularity and regularity of participation. It also mean that the Council itself will have the right to appoint a President and Speaker pro tem from the majority.
WILLIAM D. COMER, P.S.G.L.
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By Clinton Raymond. c'37
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Colorful Joe College and Dainty Betty Co-ed will march side by side in the Easter parade. As they prepare for this stroll, they should adopt the innovation of selecting their costumes to harmonize and sympatize with each other. This way they can prevent all clashing, either of colors or temperaments, so that they can go happily and peacefully along together Eastern morning.
To this end, let them work out color
In Selecting Easter Finery Betty Coed Should Heed Joe College's Color Scheme
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To this end, let them work out color schemes in similar, contrasting, or complementary colors. For example, they might paint a girl on a grey, blue, and red combination using the similarity approach. If Jane supplements a grey jigger suit with a flat, veiled sailor and gloves of coronation blue, white suit flowers, coronation red shoes, shoes and pocketbook and copper-colored hose, then Joe should see a flashy red, grey and blue combination Glenplaid sport coat, dark grey wide cheek troubles, a bright figured blue shirt topped by a broad striped dark blue and red tie with matching hand-kierdon, skin and white shoes, and a crowned, broad-brimmed, crumbled hat, the realm of being a bad example. You can do better. But, seriously, this matching business is a good idea.
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Beth-Coed is becoming more feminine this spring. This means more accessories, jewelry, flowers, and other ornaments. Too, she must have
a new spring coat with a fur collar, a jigger suit in place of last year's swagwear model, a relatively flat hat either flowered or veiled to replace the high winter variety, high tipped shoes of garbardine, back, or patent
leather, and bright colored sweaters,
either plain or ribbed. Hose are good
in copper and thistle shades.
Now back to the men. Joe College is busy revealing the colorful side of his personality in a display of garbled garb. He demands and is given bold striped, obstreperous ties, strenuous, large figured shirts or the other way around. Sometimes he wears plaid shirts. Or perhaps his weakness is
socks with violent horizontal stripes;
Saddle-tan calf shoes are replacing the more soaker heavier variety, and the English drape overcoat may be of large plaid check, or coarse Hairseal. all shades of gibbered, plaid, and chalk strips are popular, but the more vital spirits are discardings suit the glossy hoioolor Glen-plaid sport coats and harmon-
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Seeds for cultivating dollars
AS YOU TURN the pages of the Kansan, dozens of seeds are scattered over your mind.That's a good-looking suit.I'd like to have that radio.What a pretty dress.I think I'll go to this show.Some of these advertisements may not interest you.Others will fall on fertile ground,take root and bear fruit in some future purchase.
NOT ONLY THAT, advertisements stimulate your interest in appliances that save labor, time and money. They help you to keep in touch with the times. Through their products, they offer you an added enjoyment of life.
ADVERTISEMENTS help you to weed out waste, both in your time and money. They draw a straight line between your cash and the correct counter. They remind you that there is still one hundred cents in the dollar. And they make it possible for you to budget your spendings before you buy.
Cultivate the Habit of Reading Advertisements . . . They Bring You a Harvest of Much Usable Information