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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1937
Comment
Ogres in the Office
Of course you've known ever since the football campaign how malicious and nasty the Kansan is. One of our chief delights is making life miserable for someone. Oh, maybe it's not quite that bad. We usually try to give credit where credit is due, but just give us an opening!
A rumor floated through the office and the chief grabbed it. "Get the dope on this," said the chief. "If it's true, we've got enough on the College office to send them all to the pen. Or anyway enough to run an editorial about it." So we went snooping.
Some poor freshman, so the story went, was interned in the hospital during finals. He emerged to find 15 hours of flunk on his transcript, "This," said the student, "isn't cricket." The dean was adamant. He not only refused the student a chance to make up the work missed, but, applying the 40 per cent rule, refused to admit the student the second semester. We were assured that the malfrained martyr had been passing everything at mid-semester, so it looked pretty bad.
First to the hospital. Yes, he came there January 8. He had the flu, and wanted their opinion on flying home to enter the hospital there. The next they saw of him was on January 20. He said he'd just get back a few days ago, and wanted an excuse. He had been in a hospital at home for a week, he said, and in bed since that. They showed us a copy of the note sent from the hospital to the College office, saying that the student had been advised to get an excuse from Doctor Blank, who had attended him while at home.
Next, feeling like a Christian being thrown to the lions, we went to the College office. "How about it?" we asked, trying to sound menacing. Ab. the power of the press! Out came the records. Anything from Doctor Blank? No. How about his mid-semester grades? Flanking 15 hours. That wasn't quite the way we'd heard it, but there it was. Mid-semester reports from his professors read: "Hopeless." "A bare chance if he applies himself." All his teachers had given him flunks instead of incompletes—indications that he couldn't have passed even if he'd made up the work. One had asked him to take a special exam, for which he never appeared.
Maybe you wonder what this is all about. Well, you hear tales like that every once in a while. They make you think the college office must be peopled with horrible ogres. We've decided that most students who have met with defeat at the hands of the authorities try to make martyrs of themselves when they give their version of it. The student's version of the above case seems to have reached several ears, so we thought we'd pass along the results of our soo napping. Incidentally, not a single one of the ogres snapped at us while we were in the office.
Lest We Lose Them
The newest fad to "hi't" the American public is the "sit-down strike," the latest great American pastime—the most recent development of which is the "sit-down strike" for love by the Excelser Springs youth who sits chained to a radiator in the home of his girl friend and refuses to leave until she promises to marry him.
Could we blame them?
Let us hope the fad does not become too popular on the campus, lest the students should climb the Hill some bright morning and find that our faculty members had succiced and become "sit-downers" for a raise in salary.
Something must be done before it is too late. The faculty should have salaries comparable to those paid by the better universities in other states.
The Kansas legislature has been so slow in restoring faculty salaries to the pre-depression schedule that several of our professors have already gone to other institutions where they received better pay than the University can offer.
Can Kansas afford to allow her good professors to be lured to other schools? Is not Kansas youth entitled to the best instructors available?
The mills of the Kansas legislature grind slowly, but shall they grind in vain?
Gas Mask Parties
The latest "social wrinkle" in London is a gas mask party. The government is loaning hundreds of masks to go with the fetching
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Establishment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
4. An adenate building program including:
a. Reopening of Dyche museum.
b. Construction of a medical science building.
c. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
costumes of the guests, according to news reports.
The socially elite consider it merely as an interesting fad, something to relieve for a few hours, the burden of boredom which hangs over them, but the government has a different idea in mind. To them it is a grim educating process, a preparation for "eventualities."
process, and prepare. Another report, relayed at the same time tells of the increasing number of cases of delayed blindness coming to hospitals for treatment, as a result of mustard gas attacks during the war.
If the true meaning of what the British government is trying to do should penetrate the consciousness of those who consider it a "lark," consternation would reign. It is too bad that there is small likelihood of this happening, it might make gas mask parties unnecessary if they did understand.
America's Ogpu
The national labor relations board will not be permitted to investigate reports of alleged unfair labor practices in the General Motors plant in St. Louis, a judge has ruled. General Motors secured a temporary injunction last July, and the restraining order has been continued.
On the same day that the announcement of this decision was made, the La Follette civil liberties committee reported to the senate that "espionage has become the habit of the American management."
"Men cannot meet freely to discuss their grievances or organize for economic betterment until espionage is eradicated. They may not even express opinions on politics or religion so long as the machinery of espionage pervades their daily life."
Americans point with horror at the Ogpu in Russia, and the Gestapo in Germany, but the matter can be brought much more closely home. Loopholes provided by the law do not help our system of democracy either.
Patience — And the Price
Commercial television broadcasts in New York before the end of this year are the forecast of Don Wharton, associate editor of Scribner's magazine, in an article entitled "Television in America."
The year 1940 is looked upon as the probable boom year for television. One or more networks are likely for 1941 on the Eastern seaboard.
The rumor has long been going around that the price of sets will be in the neighborhood of $500, but there is nothing really definite. No one wants to be quoted and the price is merely somebody's guess. There may be a hint of the average price in the fact that Londøgers are paying $450 for television receiving equipment. At any rate, it is improbable that the price will get below $300 before the end of the year.
So if you have the patience, television will be here soon; then all you'll need is a tidy sum of money.
Nameless Death
Professor Moritz Heymann was at one time director of one of the chief art schools of Munich. He was well known and popular in artistic circles in Great Britain and the United States. But he was a Jew.
Being a Jew, he was, of course, unfit to hold this important position in Germany's cultural life, and early last year he was removed from the school. No one thought that such a distinguished and popular artist would have any trouble re-establishing himself. But the world is not particularly kind to 65-year-old men without jobs. And then Moritz Heymann was a Jew. Friends in London recently began efforts to enable him to open an art school there.
Some days ago, Professor Heymann returned to Munich from a visit to Berlin, went to his hotel, and threw himself from a window. Munich papers reporting the tragic suicide neglected to identify Professor Heymann. He was merely "a tradesman from outside Munich."
Official University Bulletin
NEWMAN CLUB. All Catholic students are invited to attend the breakfast next Sunday, Feb. 14, first mass. If you desire to call, come one of the officers by this evening—June Caps, Secretary.
PSI Chi; Psi Chi will meet Monday, Feb. 15, in room 21, Administration building, Henry Baker will speak on "Retroactive Inhibition." All members are urged to attend—Joseph Brewer, President.
Vol. 34 Friday, February 12, 1937 No. 92
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS; Students interested in general scholarships for the year, may apply to the following positions at Hydle Scholarship for a woman doing advanced work in science, the Edna Caberne Whitech杯 Scholarship for a woman majoring in English and interested in creative writing, the Emma Roberts Scholarship, should make application for same before Mar. 15, at 363 B Administration building—Mrs. Flora S. Boyston, Executive Secretary, Conference on Asia
WESLBY FOUNDATION: There will be a Valentine party at Eckes hall at 8 o'clock this evening. All interested students are invited to attend—Geneve Landrich, Social Chairman.
Lincoln and Green, Prairie Lawyers Live in Bronze in Works of French
By Marjorie Houston c 2014
Abraham Lincoln gaud and worm
is at rest after his Gettysburg address
"Unele Jimmy" Green, the magnetic and charming; stands beside one of his students.
Two prairie lawyers of a past age, they live so in bronze through the work of Daniel Chester French, sculptor—the first on the state capitol grounds at Lincoln, Iowa, and the Law School before the building named for him on the University of Kansas campus. Yet, more than shaped metal may ever signify is represented by the traditions they off-put legal profession, known for the nation, Green for the state.
"Uuncle Jimmy," of a later generation, is remembered chiefly for the classroom stories told of him. Kate Stephens, scarcely his ardent admirer, speaks of an enthusiast who aid:
"Uncle Jimmy Green is the most wonderful man I know."
"I see him on the campus every day. This morning I said, 'Hello Uncle Jimmy.' And he answered "yes."
"Whv?"
'Human Rights' a New Idea
It may have been that as the Illinois backwoodman rode his circuit he pondered the problems which were later to bring to his face the saddest smile those meeting him had ever seen. At any rate, when he left the West for Washington, he took with him a man he knew that justice must be tempered with mercy and that human rights must be supreme in a Democracy.
Uncle Jimmy 'Becomes Folk Tale'
More skeptical members of the student body sceeded—and were won.
In smart legal offices in Kansas City and Topteka, the old dean became a victim of the police who moved from anecdotes of that other
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
UBLISHER ... DALE O'BRIEN
EDITOR-IN-CHEF MARY RUTTER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
STEVEN DAVID CARL SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR          MARSHON MUNGNI
CAMPAUS EDITORS       IJAN DINEKRAT
NEWS EDITOR            MELVIN MOORE
SOCIETY EDITOR        MARSHON MUNGNI
PARK HARIS           JANE HAKER
TELLEGRAPH EDITOR     J. HANK ARMSTRONG
MAKEUP EDITOR         ALAN ASHER
SUNDAY EDITOR.
ROSEMARY SMITH
DEAR BEAR            MARION MUNDO
BROWN DOWN          JOINR I M. RALOSE
WILLIAM R. DOWN      WILLIAM R. DOWN
WILLIAM GILL        JAMES PORKINGHORN
ALICE HARDMAN-JOLLY  MARY KRUTTER
STEVEN DAVIS        DONALD HULA
STEVEN DAVIS        J. HOWARD RUNCO
STEVEN DAVIS        PHIL. STRATTON
Kansan Board Members
Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
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That man, too, was well on the way to becoming a legend. Books were written on the myths growing about him. Most of them had a basis in truth. Yet from the deserts he pardoned sprung an army, and the jokes with which he had infuriated his practical cabinet became thousands. So, the accused criminals he cleared by nomination wished he was invaded when he applied, and the wills he drew-up for the dying in the hospitals of Washington must have consumed most of his presidential time.
middle-westerner who put birds back in their nests.
It has been asserted by the wise that the gods of Greece began as real heroes, slowly taking on new aspects and losing their humanity. Were Americans in search of gods, the policy might be continued. From the time that the gods became a god, typifying the wiser peace French captures in his statue
Without the gods, however, the legend is part of a more virulent past. The sculptor creates a symbol, and behind it lies a frontier country rwness, and Indians, and the unknown.
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A few men live, and 1857 is a new world. They cannot solve its problems, but they made its men. Lin-chen, who does not stand at brome alone,
The Roving Reporter
Conducted by
I. Bradfield
It seems likely that the Kansas legislature will outlaw beverages containing less than one-half of one percent of alcohol. Since that would strike fairly close to our own door steps we interrogated a few house-builders as to the wisdom of such a course.
James R. O'Neill, c'unel: "It would be swell if it would work, but it won't. We're too near Missouri." Maybe Mississippi mad too.
Bob Lindley b'unc!: "Sour lives are better anyway." That is quite a thought. While we're coke addicts
ourselves, we'll have to try that some time.
Charles Loeck, C374 "I don't think it will pass, but if it should I can always use sugar and water." An ingenuous soul.
clayton Conner, c:39 "Bone dry,
nothing stronger than lime rickey."
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or vice versa.
Anonymous, c'unel: "I'spass will work a hardship on me. I will have to cap the homebrew bottles. You see my father makes it and my mother makes it. I'll have to stop it. I certainly hope the Sesame Stop it." Can we say more?
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Single 'Rope' was her first professional show, providing not only a livelihood but an excitement and excitement.
Melissa took her acting seriously. She saw the romance, the drama of backstage life, of being a trapper who lived true to the idea that no matter what happens, "the show must go on." The wear and grind that comes with a film often has a disillusionment of the bright lights of ambition were not yet hers.'$^{6}$
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After the first two weeks the performances had become
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courtied, Melissa doing her half hour bit with conscientiously good acting. She portrayed one of the suspects in a murder story, a minor part introduced by the author to further mystify and confuse the audience. Melissa entered the scene to be briefly questioned, fingerprinted, and dismissed. The whole weight of the plot, however, lay in her ability to instill doubt as to her innocence and credibility of the audience. Though her ability to poise herself calmly, and yet effectively display an inward excitement by the flick of an eyelash or the movement of her fingers,<sup>3</sup> Melissa always managed to impress the audience with her guilt.
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It's Almost Too Good to Be True
What a Screaming New Comedy Team
**Program Is Clue to Identity**
On the night of the fifteenth performance Melissa left her hotel in a taxi as usual and directed the driver to reach her destination, then reached her destination, for a truck, hurting out of a side street at
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brook-neck speed crashed into her seat. From the tangled wreckage Melissa and the two drivers were extricated. A the patrolman who reached the scene first called an ambulance and tried to establish the identity of the taxi's passenger. There was no one else other than a program for "Single Rope" which she carried in her purse. The driver was unconscious when the ambulance arrived at the hospital. Melissa was rushed to the
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