PAGE TWO WFDNESDAY MARCH 3, 1827 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS - Comment Whitewashing Murals The sound and the fury occasioned by Thomas Hart Benton's murals in Missouri's capitol continues unabated. Typical of the more violent criticism is one self-appointed critic's judgment that the murals are a disgrace to the state and a blot on the walls of one of the nation's most beautiful capitals. The unruffled muralist, with a tongue as cascatic as his brush, meets the attack with wicked ripostes and, if news reports give a true account, has obviously come off best man so far. Criticism seems to come in the main from the Chamber of Commerce patriots who believe in the undefiled glory of old Missouri. One critic, with unconscious humor, publicly opined that Benton's deceptions of the James boys, Frankie and Johnny, and the typical Missouri "hick" ought to be "whitewashed." They would have us believe that these things are not of Missouri's flesh. For the pillars of society, an abstracction of the state would consist of its Rotary Clubs and affluent citizens. If there be reincarnation, then surely these are the solid and substantial citizens of Holland who turned on Rembrandt after the painting of his "Night Watch." We have seen them in altarpieces, too, the donor and his family sitting blandly amid the saints, angels, and hierarchy of Heaven. Babbit is not content with the place Benton has given him in the murals. A shining row of bald pats should replace Benton's lynching scenes and near-nude dancing ladies, though these latter will be remembered long after the owners of the bald pats are moldering dust. Ostrich-like, these good citizens hide their heads when confronted with the quite real seamy side of life, and would deny its existence. If they wish to dwell in a land of make-believe, away with them to the nursery where they may find escape in the chromatic fairy tales of the children, but let us have no whitewashing of Benton's Missouri. The Italians are celebrating the birth of an heir to the throne. Anything for a laugh. All Time High One all-time high to which no one can point with pride is that which was made by deaths in motor car accidents in the United States during the month of January, 1937. In the 31 days that comprise that month, 3,050 persons died as the results of accidents, an average of almost 100 persons a day. The National Safety Council which reported this information along with the fact that the blame rested on "favorable driving weather and carelessness among city motorists," also stated that the total for January was $20\%$ above the 2,250 deaths in January of last year. All of which causes us to shake our heads, mumble "How terrible" and immediately forget what we have read. We are not the National Safety Council. We are only the automobile owners and drivers of which they speak. Let us take care that they do not speak too personally. The National Safety Council does not give this information to newspapers every month as a publicity stunt. Behind those figures is the plea that steps will be taken to decrease instead of increase those deaths. Why doesn't some quipster say something about the title, "Brown" Bomber being exceedingly appropriate? The Price Is Low A 40-year old Indiana man will seek compensation, according to a news report, from that state for loss of wages for the 10 months he spent in the Indiana state prison for a crime he did not commit. The gentleman has a good case. The surprising thing is he didn't ask for more. Couple the hardships of prison life with the disgrace which accompanies it, and it is worth far more than the regular weekly wages of a man of moderate income. Certainly the state should pay him. Justice was wrong in his case once; let it make right its wrong. "I don't want to ask anything out of reason from the state," said he, "but I think I should be given just pay for remaining in prison such a long time for a crime I didn't do." On Apple Polishing Apple polishing is a nasty term and apple polisher is a still nastier appelation. Nasty terms are all right in their place and nasty The Kansan Platform 1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program. 2. Betterment of student working conditions. 4. An adequate building program, including: a. Construction of a medical science building. 3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore. b. Addition to the stacks of the library. 5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries. names are sometime quite aptly used. But there is a danger of stretching these terms far beyond their true implication and applying them to actions and persons entirely unmeritious of them. We have a healthy dislike for the true apple polisher who is so obviously nasty nice to the instructor as to nausea even the less sensitive, but we incidently have a greater dislike for the professor who thrives on this kind of insincere and ulterior attention. No student who is truly interested in his work, and who believes in earning what he gets and getting what he earns should feel bad about not getting a good grade from this sort of human flattery sponge who holds praise and attention above industry. But taking this all into consideration, we feel that a certain element that is reluctant to extend its activities beyond fifty minutes of stupidly sitting in class cause the more industrious student some embarrassment by dubbing them apple polishers if they so much as solicit an instructor's opinion on a matter or a do a bit of outside work not specifically required of them. Let's call an apple polisher an apple polisher and confine that term to those who really deserve it. From Rabble to Might To date the Spanish government armies have proved their heroism and fighting ability beyond any doubt. They have fought off and even driven back some of the finest trained troops Hitler and Mussolini have to offer, and no one denies that as fighting machines the soldiers of these two dictators are the best in the world. The undisciplined malicians, many of whom never had a gun in their hands before the revolution, have molded themselves into a fighting force equal to anything that dictators can produce in their cannon-fodder mills. Once capable only of defensive fighting, they have become a strong offensive force. The constant boasts and predictions of the "radio general," Queipo de Liano, that the rebel armies would enter Madrid "within a few days" have not come to fruition. A few weeks ago he predicted that the armies would enter Madrid March 4. Well, that date is here, and if anything, the rebels are farther from taking Madrid then before. Franco has lost three armies before Madrid and is now losing his fourth. If the sea patrol of the non-intervention committee really prevents any more volunteers from reaching the rebels, they are finished. Simply munitions of war and airplanes will do them no good. They must have men who will fight and not desert at the first opportunity as their Spanish soldiers have the unpleasant habit of doing. But der Fuehrer Hitler and Il Duce Mussolini know this and they have shown that a non-intervention pact means no more than a "scrap of paper" to them. Official University Bulletin Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m. on Friday, March 24. Vol. 34 Wednesday, March 3, 1937 No.105 JAY JANES. All day Janes are to wear their uniforms today. The tea will be from 3 to 5 o'clock, with a meeting immediately following the tea—Beulah Fincee, President. --great american sport" in the athletic program and have made provision for it in the budget. For several years it was running low in the SIGMA TAU: There will be an important meeting of Sigma Tau Tuesday night at 7:30 in Marvin hall for the purpose of electing new members—Joe Robertson, corres. see. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS KANSAS PRESS MEMBER 1937 ASSOCIATION URLIMER DALU O'BRIEN MANAGING EDITOR MARION MUNDO SAMPUS EDITORS DAVE PASTIRGE and DIFFEED BRIDGES NEW EDITOR RACHEL SMITH SENIOR EDITOR MARY K. DORMAN HONOR EDITOR HOWIE WILE PEELGRAPHY EDITOR JIM BLAKE EDITOR J. HEWARD RUSSEY and ALAN AHMER SUNDAY EDITOR KEN POINTWILHEATH EDITOR-IN-CHEF ASSOCIATE EDITOR STEVEN DAVID AND CRAIL SMITH News Staff Kansan Board Members FEATURE EDITOR ROSEMARY SMITH Baseball Revival Here in University Recalls First Games Played in 1880 By Don Hays, e28 For the first time since 1931 the Kansas Jayhawks will draw out their buns and go to play in their Big Six competition in their first game with Iowa State Ani 15. KFKU Receives Praise From National Radio Magazine ALICE HADAMEN-JULIUS KEN POINTTUWANN- GILL BROWN CARL SMITH STEVEN DAVENB MAN RUSTE William R. DOWNS PHIL STRATTON J. HOWARD RUSC WILLIAM GLEE DIEHAN DIONE BRI KINCHANDY REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Services, Inc. 420 MADRID AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y. CHICAGO • BOSTON • BAY FRANCISCO Business Staff "From two great hills of learning come the programs of WILL, Urham, IL, and KFKU, Lawrence, Kansas. The former speaks for the University of Illinois, the latter for the University of Kansas. According to our survey, there is scarcely a station in the nation that is not attempting to broaden or develop educational schedules that offer them broadcast dealing directly with schools and colleges..." For six years the Jayhawkers have gone without a varsity baseball team, but this year the Athletic Board has voted to include "the Ry Don Hays 638 BRUNHMAN MANAGER F. QUINNIC BROWN Entered as second-class matryx, September 17, at the point The above quotation is an excerpt from the lead of the featured article in the February issue of "Pick-Up," national radio magazine, that discusses the important corporation. In an illustrated commentary answering the question, "Can education and radio science?" M. M. Beard takes the results of a nation-wide poll conducted by the magazine and chooses these two stations as representative of the best in educational broadcasting. "KFKU, although on the air only a little time each day, manages to crowd in a series of interesting and mosty programs," he continues. "The School of Education sponsors two programs each week. One on 'Educating Yourself' is addressed to the general radio public, the other is directed towards parents of Parents ... Foreign languages lessons offered by KFKU receive much favorable comment . . ." "The department of speech and dramatic art schedules two of the annual conferences of the association carries. These include a series of episodes dramatized Kansas history office at Lawrence, Kan. and a program of tributes, recol- ... Faculty members and ad- vocates perform at all music programs each week. ... Newa flashes. Athletic Scrapbook, book reviews, debates, music appreciation period, and programs sponsored by high schools complete KFUK' broadcasting schedule." An accompanying full-page illustration reproduces a facsimile of a radio debate program prepared by B. C. Bucher, director & forensics. PATEE Week 10c Til 7 Days Then 1c sport and finally by 1031 it had degraded to the point where it was no longer included in the athletic program. Within recent years, however, interest has been on the upgrade, and the Jayhawkers will once more enter Big Six competition with a varsity baseball nine. ENDS TONITE Freddie Barboleum "Devil Is A Sissy" and Eddie Quillan 'Mandarin Mystery' Several coaches of Big Six baseball teams have urged Kansas to enter a team into competition. The coaches of Oklahoma and Iowa State have been especially eager that Kansas enter this year, the reason being that they will make the trip between Norman, Okla., and Ames, In., stopping at Kansas as an intermediate point for a game. 2 Big Entertaining Feature Pictures The Scarlet History of Nature's Yellow Streak! THURSDAY 3 Days The Big Six baseball conference was organized in 1929 and Kansas had teams entered during the three years, 1929, 1930 and 1931. During these years of competition the Jayhawk teams were unable to develop a championship team but they were successful in winning ten tournaments, the most exciting being a 6 to 5 win over Missouri in 1930. This was the only contest that Kansas has ever taken from the Tigers Tigerz. Baseball at the University really started back as far as 188. 100 records show that the earliest games were played with Washburn in 1880. Two games were played that year, the first going to Washburn in 23 to 20 count. The second went to Kansas by a 21 to 10 score. In the history of baseball at Kansas University the various Jayhawk teams have met some 70 different teams. In 1900 the Jayhawks played games with Chicago University and Cornell. Also at this time the Kansas Jayhawks were one of the now famous Kansas City Blues. In 1913 the Jayhawkers lost a pair to Chinese University, and in 1914 Honolulu took a pair from Kansas. And so it is with great interest that the baseball enthusiasts look to the re-establishment of the Jayhawk baseball team. What the future holds in store for Kansas teams will be something to anticipate. RICHARD DIX Here Comes Romance On the Wings of Song! "YELLOW DUST' AND "Walking on Air" The Roving Reporter Conducted by Ralph Bryant GENE RAYMOND ANN SOTHERN "Robinson Crusoe" Question of the day: What do you do in your spare time? Which sounds like a foolish question on a day that feels like the opening of the spring season, when we feel lazy enough to do a great deal of nothing, not that that isn't our usual occupation. SUNDAY "LIBELED LADY" Rose McVey, e'38: "I sit around and think about what I could do if I had the time." Siren Spring takes the decision again. Tsk, tsk, such lancard "students." Anna Lee Hazen, 'c37: "Just relax." Spring IS here. Jack Vaughn, e'unel: "What spare time?" See, even too lazy to think about it. Forrest Smith, c'38: "Listen to serials over the radio." Smith's daily dozen. Helen Wilkerson, *cuncl.* "Browse over a coke." I usually fall asleep and drown when I try that. Joe Robertson, e373 "Send out applications." Wool, Spring took it on the chin that time. An upburst by her foe, industry. Phyllis Fount, *cureel*: "Study" Oh, Phyllis, what a hard word to bring up when the sun is shining, the birds are singing, love is blossoming, and everyone is—(pause for a yawn). Bob Zwilling, 'faucl: "Practice the piano." Bang. Spring hits the canvas with a thud. Will she be saved by the bell? Several other persons were stopped by the writer for answers, but a vawn seemed to strike him when on the verge of speaking. Many stared at him, standing there with his mouth wide open, in the midst of a grade A lecture. The teacher would receive, however, back up his theory that on days like yesterday the spring fever temperature hits 112. Even the fellow who listened to the radio probably had his landlady turn it on for him. Studious Miss Fount probably read the same book that Zwilling talented though he may be, doubtless pecked out "Chop针蛛" lazily yesterday. Job-seeking Joe could hardly have kept from yawning; the first line and having to throw the application in the white basket. 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