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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1937
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Home for Needy Books
Forty-four thousand library books at the University of Kansas are without a home.
To this overflow is being added annually an average of 9,000 books. And still no home.
On the campus at present there exists 265-135 volumes, and there is sufficient shelving capacity for only 221,800 volumes. (This includes the space in campus branch libraries.)
To care for these surplus books it has been necessary to take harsh steps. Unnecessary duplicates have been removed from the collection; books have been placed on temporary shelves in public corridors where they are exposed to theft; they have been turned on their edges to conserve space; or they have been stored either in the sub-basement, where they are deteriorating from damp and mould, or in cartons in the attic where they are unavailable to the public.
The results are as regrettable as the causes: As over 36,000 volumes are shelved out of their regular order, the service to the public is slowing up each year. This dislocation makes it increasingly difficult for graduate students to carry on their research. Valuable books are exposed to mould, mutilation, and theft. When a new set is bought, great shifting must be done to make space, or some older set must be sent to the attic.
In this present crowded condition it is impossible for the library to attract the gifts or bequests of the valuable collections of books that now exist in this area. It is impossible to promise any prospective donor that his gift will be given even decret, not to say dignified, treatment. This is an extremely important point to a university library, for most libraries of this type depend on collectors and rich donors for their outstanding treasures.
To remedy these deplorable conditions, the stacks in the rear of Watson library should be extended 70 feet to the west in conformity with the original building plans. This construction cost has been estimated at $150,000. The bill which will make these things possible will soon be before the legislature.
We need more money!
Airline Safety
It takes tragedy to promote safety. That is the lesson to be learned by the recent airplane accidents. The government is notoriously slow in promoting safety on its subsidized air lanes.
The first accidents on commercial airlines brought improvements in operation through the use of lighted airways and radio beams. All went well with airplanes for a time and the agents of the government adopted a lazy and smug attitude. Nothing untoward had happened to shake them from their legarity.
But, with the recent west coast accidents, the officials of the government began to worry. Investigations were made and they fixed the blame on the pilots or the operating companies, several months after the accident. Their reports said among other things that some of their safety devices were faulty and that airlines were forcing their pilots to fly when conditions were not favorable.
Just a short time ago, the latest catastrophe occurred. Three months from now they will have learned the reason. Interested peoples will by then have forgotten the incident for other headline pleasures.
However, if the government is awake, other safety devices and measures may be incorporated into the operation of airlines. If they choose to follow their present plans and actions, airlines will increase in the efficiency of their flying equipment while the safety devices of the government become inadequate and antiquated.
The department of commerce officials need to be startled out of their complacent attitude toward airplane accidents. The government is footing the bill and so their interest is not just nominal.
Patent Medicine Plague
A bill prohibiting advertising liquor and beer by radio has been introduced in Congress. Another section which will not be pressed this session — would prohibit such advertising in newspapers, magazines, circulars, and the like. The thing that is puzzling is why they pick on liquor when there are so many other things far worse.
When a person reads a liquor ad and goes out to buy the liquor, he knows what may happen; but with a thing like a patent medicine,
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1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
the innocent are the victims, yet the bill ignores this type of advertising.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Reopening of Dyche museum.
b. Construction of a medical science
building.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
Several years ago the major networks took it upon themselves to ban laxative advertising, but other types, far more vicious, still continue to advertise. Distributors of cure-alls, health water, and what have you find there is nothing to stop them from using the air.
c. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
In periodicals and newspapers conditions are worse. Quack medicines will do everything from growing hair to cutting your waistline—the latter at the expense of your heart, and all at the expense of your pocketbook, for it's a thousand to one they will do you no good.
So if a representative with nothing to do wants to prohibit something, let him work on patent medicines. The Volstead Act is dead (for the most part).
A Saner Contract
When the Post-Office department gave out the contracts for the Trans-Pacific air route they made several errors. Let's hope they don't pull the same blunders when the Atlantic route is inaugurated.
The most important of these mistakes was the specification that the planes alone should be used. And that contract is good for 10 years.
Compare what you have heard of the comforts of the huge dirigible, von Hindenberg, with what has been said of the Pacific planes. In the Zeppelin one can take a bath, dance, enjoy all the comforts of home. And in the plane? One has to either sit or lie down. Which would you choose if you were going on a trans-oceanic voyage?
The choice is easy. And when one considers the fact that dirigibles are far safer in storms than airplanes, it should cindh the argument. Many have been the delays on the Pacific route when weather was bad, yet the Zeppelin had a comparatively easy time.
So unless the United States wants to lose the great mass of ocean trade, let it be stipulated that dirigibles as well as airplanes may be used. There will be plenty of competition from European countries when the Atlantic route is opened, and there is little sense in handicapping ourselves.
Campus Opinion
More Convocations
I am another student who would like to see more University convocations during the school year.
It is a well established fact that University convocations are beneficial to everyone concerned, and as such they should be scheduled at an satisfactory time schedule. I think the Administration should make a greater effort to hold convocations at reasonable times. Schools of much smaller enrollment hold convocations as often as once a week, and certainly we can hold one each
To provide programs would be a simple matter. For my part, I should like to hear, by any means, that students in our class will outside available talent. I think it would be an easy matter to secure the cooperation of some of the men and women who have experience with our subjects in carrying out such a program, and I am sure they will improve but meet it with enthusiastic support.
Music in various forms would be welcome too, as would dramatic art. The University is fortunate in providing an abundant symphony orchestra, not to mention the abundant cello ensemble, which certainly be available. M. D. McComas, Jr.
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Official University Bulletin
COLLEGE FACULTY: There will be NO MEETING of faculty of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at the Landley Hall.
February 16, 1937
Vol. 34 February 16, 1937 No. 34
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: There will be a meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in room C. Myers hall. Students and faculty members are welcome. Keith Davis, President.
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LECTURE. Mr. G. Newell Bebout will lecture on "Science and Society," Wednesday, February 17, at 3:30 to 205 Fraser. Upperclassmen and graduates are cordially invited—W. S. Johnson, Chairman, Desk Chair.
February 16, 1937
DRAMATIC CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Dremet in Club at 11 a.m. this afternoon in the Little Theatre.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION: The regular meeting of the Y. W. Freshman commission will be a tea at the Gamma Phi Beta house at 4:30 a.m. this afternoon. The meeting will be held on Friday, day's bulletin. Jane Rape, Publicity Chairman.
FRIESMEN MAN: There will be a regular meeting at T. college on the Y.M.C.A., office at T. college in the Y.M.C.A., office.
TAU SIGMA. There will be a regular dance meeting at TAU tonight, though. Mary Ellen Miller, President, Mary Ellen Miller, President,
JAY JANES. Pledge service will be held Wednesday at 4:30 in 212 Ad. Attendance is required.
Date: Wed, Jan 16, 2018 10:30 AM
Beulah Pinneo.
VACANCIES IN MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL!
Notice is hereby given of vacancies in the Men's Student Council in the positions of representative for Pettitions for the filling of these vacancies must be in my hands on or before February 22, 1437. Pettitions tendered after this date will not be accepted - William
By Ralph Bryant, c28
Men and women, supposedly in the wings at each other one minute and daggers the next in "This Thing Loved Love," the next dramatic Club production for Feb. 23, 22, and 25, under the direction of Boulder Knicks, who held court in its third week of rehearsals.
Marriage, Love—Happy, Unhappy Theme of 'This Thing Called Love'
By Ralph Bryant, c'38
A sophisticated comedie presented in a special modernistic setting, "This Thing Called Love" opens at the height of a quarrel between Harry and Edith, whom he beckers, c37, that may be remembered as furnishing the climax in "Bury the Dead" last November with the line, "Tell them all to stand up" plays the hysterical Florence, whose husband, Harry, is Sam Kimble, c37.
Betty Ruth Smith displays her romatic ability in the leading role of Ann opposite Larry Wightman, 37, in the person of a millionaire from Peru. A comical couple played by Lucie Wagner, fa'28, and Joe Myers, c'uncel, show further the limits of happy wedded life.
Always, in a play of this sort, there must be an inscrutable menace, the third side of the invectible triangle. Mary Frances Martin, c'37, obliges and, with the aid of the gido Normali, played by Fred Littoux, c'29, succeeds in Ann's happy home a momentary leidown.
WOMEN'S RIFLE TEAM. There will be regular practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 to 5:30. There will be a meeting Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7:15 in Fowler Shops. Be sure to bring your tickets.
James Bradfield, cured, as the butler, and Jane Flood, cured, an the maid, give another angle of evidence against the danger disruptor, Leave.
Divorce or the Understake
their marriage. The violence will doublestress wonder which came first, divorce or the undertaker. What he two major characters fail to call such other is a matter of running away from an inevitable always a happy ending." or is there?
Smith Has Lead
Bob Gard, head technician of the Fraser stage, has built for this play a window 16 feet high and five feet wide. It is the center of an ultramodern rich man's apartment. Modernistic paintings, staircase, furniture, and doors make up the apartment. Everything is streamlined.
Divorce or the Undertaker
"This Thing Called Love" will be previewed by an invited audience
Barbara Kirchhoff, Captain.
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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next Thursday night. Tickets will go on sale for the general performance Thursday in the basement of Green Hall. Activity and season tickets will be honored. To others the price is 50 cents. Since the last play, "Bury the Dead," broke all attendance records for Fraser theater, it is advised that students get tickets early for this production.
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Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
A collection of bookplates presented to the library by instructors, alumni and students is now on exhibition on the second floor of the library.
FEATURE EDITOR  KOLEBARY SMITH
These are only a small number of the many boxes of bookplates which have been given to the library, and they are being exhibited by Miss Brown. You can see because of their connection with contemporary students and instructors.
The personal interests of these instructors, alumni and students is well represented in the designs of the plates, which range all the way from mere printed signatures to elaborate and delicate engraved effects.
Almost all of the plates have inscribed either above or below the design, or actually worked into it, the words, "Ex Libris," Latin for "For from the library of." Another frequent characteristic of the plates is the appearance somewhere in the picture of sets of books, or books in the hands of central figures. There are often the names of the owners, of course, occupy the prominent positions, unless they have been used in some original way.
For instance, Prof. James M. Smith and Will Ella Smith use reproductions of their own fingerprints placed side by side on opposite pages of a book drawn upon the plate. Below are some words, "his mark" and "her mark."
Another plate reads, "Ho, there Take me back to my master! Jerome G. Beaty, his own." It was made by Mr. Beatty when he was a small boy. Others have stanzas of four lines or two lines, or in some case quotations, such as, 'The wide world is mirrored in a little book.'
Outstanding among the other plates are those of Prof. Wilson Sterling,
Helen Rhoda Hoopes, Sydney Prentice, John Herbert Nelson and Mabel Elliot. A.H.-J.
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G. Davidson, c. 40. "The Supreme Court was made to curb such things as him."
LEE TRACY GLORIA STUART
Question for the day: In your opinion, was the Supreme Court reform recommendation made recently by Roosevelt a political gesture to accuse him of authority or won it made purely for the sake of our national welfare?
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George Cronemeyer, c. 38 "If you'd pardon my saying so, I believe that it was three-fourths for the sake of our national welfare."
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