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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1930
Comment
Beaux Art Ball
Phi Delta Phi, national honorary art fraternity, in co-operation with the Memorial Union Operating Committee, is staging an event tonight at 10:30 a.m. to announce an annual affair at K. U., It is for Baux. Arts.
The first Beaux Arts ball was given in New York in 1912 as a means of obtaining money for scholarships for deserving artists and architects. The funds realized from the K. U. ball will go toward helping support the free art classes given in Lawrence in the summer and also to defray the expenses of the art convention to be held in Kansas City this year.
The tradition that the ball must be outstanding is being carried out here. Mural paintings, required costumes, and an art studio where patches will be drawn will emphasize the art note.
This is the first attempt at having a fancy dress ball on the Hill, and it is hoped that it may become a tradition. To stress the importance of the affair, a Kansas City costume company has come out to furnish suitable attire for the revelers. If this attempt to combine fun and an art education is a success, K. U., as well as other universities and large cities, will have a traditional annual Beaux Arts Ball.
Would some kind soul tell us where we can buy a fur cap (1900 model) with ear muffs attached, fur-lined gloves and a pair of old time red flannels?
Night Driving
Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey has been severely criticized for his recent activities in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, but the Governor deserves nothing but praise for his excellent magazine article, "When You Drive After Dark."
The astonishing facts he brings out, which have been overlooked in most of the safe-driving campaigns, are that over half of the motor fatalities occur in the after-dusk rush hours when drivers are tired from a day's work and that the fatality rate of night accidents is 26 times higher than the day rate.
As the article wisely points out, better headlights won't solve the problem. The only solution must come through a realization by drivers that a safe rate of speed during the hours of daylight becomes dangerous at night. Let's face the facts with Governor Hoffman and remember to increase our vigil while driving at night.
Always Late
Kansas University's large number of basketball fans have become divided into two groups, which could aptly be named the Majority and Minority. Both teams have a common affiliation; they both miss part of each home game. However, there is one point of difference in the two parties. The Majority group robs the Minority group of a chance to see the spectacle.
The situation is this. A few enthusiasts come early, or at least before the starting time, find their seats, clap with the band, and perhaps discuss the outcome of the big event with their neighbors. The Majority group waits until play has begun, then straggles in, one by one. They either become a continual obstacle for the spectator, causing him to give up trying to see the game, or else they march in front of him, then hesitate to watch a play, and as a consequence gave the seated on-looked a stiff face. Not only does the Majority party block the vision of the prompt fans, but the members insist either on crawling over the Minority, pushing them into half the seat allotted them and gaining for themselves the other half, or trampling on the Minority's feet, in order to crawl up the stand.
This party division causes a sad state of affairs. However, the entire audience at games realizes that one group is exhibiting poor sportsmanship. Pretty poor stuff for lovers of sport!
The faculty at the University of Toronto passed a law prohibiting students from bringing stenographers to class with them to take lecture notes.-The Daily Princetonian.
Anonymous Gifts
Someone has forethought! Someone saw what dioramas — scenes made by a combination of sculpturing and painting—would mean to Dyche Museum of Natural History, when it is re-opened.
Someone gave an anonymous gift of nearly $2,000 January, 1935. He specified that he wished it to be used for the construction of dioramas by "Peeo" Frazier.
When the $2,000 was spent, this someone was so impressed by the pre-historic scenes of Kansas, vividly portrayed in the six dioramas completed, that he made another anonymous gift January, 1936 of $500 to continue "Poco's" work.
The museum was closed to the public Nov. 30, 1932, because the floors were not safe. Reconstruction is at a standstill. Lack of funds! To re-open the museum and again display specimens worth a half-million dollars, $47,000 is necessary.
A Costly "Ride"
The people of the United States have been taken for a 10 million-dollar "ride." Swift and Co., one of the three largest packing firms in the country, intends to pocket that amount it will receive back in processing taxes "because we were forced to pay the tax."
It was understood under the AAA that the company could not absorb the tax and that it would have to be passed on to the consumer. But the company claims it was impossible to pass the tax on because of "bootleg pork," that which was country killed and cured and on which no tax was paid, and the company had to pay it. The high price of pork during the life of the AAA indicates that the consumer did actually pay the tax, however.
According to the financial records, Swift and Co. in 1935 enjoyed a big business increase over the preceding year and stockholders in the company received the largest dividend on their investment since 1932. Would this have been possible if the company had been forced to pay 10 million dollars in taxes out of their own reserve? Common business sense denies such an assumption.
It appears that this sum of money is nothing more nor less than a gift from the government—and the taxpayer; unearned increment to Swift and Co. Undoubtedly, the same is true of large processors in other industries. Large sums are being refunded in the name of the processing taxes. Taxes not paid by the processor himself, but indirectly by the consumer through higher prices under the AAA. Thus the American taxpayer is finding himself paying millions of dollars in processing taxes which he has already paid before.
Congress isn't openly criticising the Supreme Court, but secretly it must be sorry it gave the court that new building—The Wichita Eagle.
Campus Opinion
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Editor Daily Kansan:
One gance at any of the college buildings along about 4 o'clock reveals a rather lamentable condition—sometime similar to the debris left by a tornado. Through the years, students have thrown candy wrappers, origami of paper, and other waste in every conceivable place, with a waste basket or container placed for its disposal.
Is it necessary? Or is it just collegiate to be non-chant and careless? It doesn't seem possible that these students treat their homes as they misuse the property of the University.
Too few students realize when they enter the Memorial Union that they are walking into a building dedicated to those men who made the supreme sacrifice for our country. Is it too much to ask the men of the University to remove their hats as they go into the Memorial Union? And it might be well for men and women to realize the importance of college so that visitors could see the interior of the University without having to make unnecessary detours.
N. M.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Notices at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m. preceeding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues,
Vol. 33 FEBRUARY 14, 1936
No.94
BASKETBALL STILLEM AND USHERS: Sillemon report at 615; ushers at 635 Saturday night at the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DER DEUTSCHE VEREBEN: Der Deutsche Vererbene sammeln sich mit Zeit den. February 17 um half hält
ENGINEERING BOOK EXCHANGE: The Engineering Book Exchange announces its pay-off date, Monday at 10 a.m. (US) on the internet.
Bernadine Berkley, Sekretauer.
ESTES REUNION: A chill supper for all students who have attended the Estes Park conference will be held from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Sunday. There will be a fifteen- to-under-six-hour session on Friday or Fred Meier by Friday night. Nancy Calhoun.
FIRST SEMESTER GRADES. Grades for the fall semester may be obtained from the Registrar's Office Friday and Saturday, February 14 and 15, by students unable to come earlier this week.
Howard Moreland, Manager.
George O. Foster, Registrar
MEN'S PAN-HELLENCIS COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Men's Pan-Hellencis Council Sunday morning February 16, at 10:30 in the basement of the Men's Center. Fires will not be represented. Lloyd Morgan, Secretary.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications for scholarships for next year may be made between the hours 3 and 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, inclusive, in Room 308B administration building. Applications must be filed by March 1.
Mrs. Flora S. Boynton. Executive Secretarv.
NOON LUNCHEN FORUM: A noon luncheon forum will be held today in the cafeteria at 12:30, Mr. C. A. Franklin will speak on "Negro Contributions to Culture." Harold Gregg, Forum Committee.
Committee on Aids and Awards
Frightful Ordeals for Neophytes No Longer Feature Mt. Oread's Hell Week
Hell Week is again in the offing as a part of pre-initiation activities for the nene too unsuspecting freshman of the nationally organized Greek letter societies. But Hall Week does not strike terror to the hearts of the freshmen as it did in years past. In former times it was done by nuns, then ladies, mike hikes beginning at midnight, guarding tomatobats, and hunting black and white striped cats. The sororities place lighter penalties on their freshmen, confining their activities only to the ridiculous. Many of the sororites began their activities this week. This accounts for the number of girls walkin' around with sandals and carrying such things as umbrellas, old shoes, empty bottles, and market baskets.
By Kathryn Cassidy. c'36
Hell week is an institution as old as organized houses themselves, and it is accepted as one of the most realistic traditions accompanying the wearing of a necktie and the nocturnal activities, have been curtailed by the police to such an extent that in 1928, the Men's Student Council went on record as favoring a bill embedding three departures from the old order mainly, the restriction of preinticipation and the confinement of all night maneuvers to the fraternity premises. Hell Week in the old sense of the word has really become a thing of the past as far as national social securities militaries on Mount Oread are concerned.
Thus nothing is left of "Hell Week" as it was originally, but the vestiges which have been renamed "Health Week" or "Work Week" by several orchestras are now invagued in several organized houses and affords the activities an opportunity to have their rooms cleaned, floors waxed, and closets and drawers straightened. The reason for the formlessness of the city and into the countryside it was very dangerous, due to the risk of their being taken for prowlers. It
--was not unusual for shots to be fired occasionally at a fraternity pledge proving through a barrary trying to find a cock of a certain size and color
Hollywood Film Shop
Hollywood—(UP) This giddy villaage has known many a two-fisted drinking man, but now comes forward with the appeal of attendance at the flowing bowl.
The accomplishment is purely professional, of college. That description sounds legitimate because it seems, after all, that anyone who performs naturally in such a role doesn't have time to blueprint the process.
"Now the often overlooked details of hiccups," he says. Paul Kelly, Arlington Judge, Mona Barrie and Gregory Katzer, both convicted of Trouble, Ernie could have them.
Ernie Alexander, who currently has appearing in a "drunk" role in the Township Century-Fox production of "The Lone Ranger," is the expert of professional technique.
He is a tectoaller - off-stage. However, Alexander takes his drinking, and its reaction, seriously when he imbibes before the cameras. In fact, he's taken it so seriously that he has broken down the state into fine points.
"Twe not only discovered them, but I weaved them and am able to pro-
duce a book. Throughout the course of OU course, the degree of intoxication an im required to portray is vivid in dis-
tinction."
"There are five distinct and separate varieties of hiceps," continued the expert after he had taken them.
"Then comes the molar hiccup. It doesn't sneak up on one. It telegraphs the punch, as it were, and as a result the victim has about an even break. He forces the explosion to ricochet from molar to molar and hurts the nerve.
"First, there is the plain bipeck. It is the first result of an attack by Demon Rum. It usually catches the victim unknowing, of course, with his mouth open.
"last but not least is what I have termed 'The Big Bertha.' It is the most dangerous because it attacks the victim after he has been led to believe that the such suspense force that it mimics a disguise a tonal or an upper plate."
"Thirthly, there is the silent variety It is complicated and sometimes can be concealed. That is, if no one is looking for you, you can body contour but no sound.
"Next is the motionless hicup. It may be described simply—it is the reverse of the third type. It is, however, all sound and no body movement. That is, no body movement but those of the epiglottis and diaphram.
When Alexander had concluded his scientific lecture, he smiled and relaxed in his chair. His mouth opened in a smile. Then he looked embarrassed. He hiccups. He closed his mouth as he checks puffed out his body. Afterward, he let it slide "Big Bertha" exploded. He ran to the water cooler and took ten hasty swallows. He finally went home for more water.
The name Hell Weak was very misleading and much of the feeling against the custom was due directly to it. A few years later, the old-fashioned Hell Weak instituted the old-fashioned Hell Weak period and substituted one or more days during which pledges were placed on probation. Fraternities are slowly following in the steps of the sororites and Hell Weak is becoming a "pantheist" fear which none of the freshmen fear.
The purposes of Hell Week may be to take down cocky pledges and to allow spiteful acts a last opportunity to humiliate a pledge. On the other hand, it is also a reason for these activities. It does draw the pledges together against the active chapter, and it does bring the active members together in a common bond. Remember, Hell Week is on and will continue until the young fraternity neophyte who are carrying shopping bags, and the sorority neophyte who insist on saying sly things to you and ask you to autograph an egg. It is a harmless noun used by the fraternity that result from its participation distrates from sliding down steps.
There is a popular notion that Hell Week is a period when the pledge is physically and mentally tortured, subjected to inhuman devices and beaten severely. The truth of the matter is that the hell Week they have 'o understee the loss of sleep.
Shanghai, Feb. 12. — (UP)—In a world in which the trend is toward greater concentration of power in the hands of governments, China steadily proceeds with a plan to return more and more political power to the people.
Two Principles Outlined
Carefully following the mandate of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, father of the Chinese Revolution, as expressed in his famous "Three Principles of the People," the head of China's political tutelage. In May of this year, China's constitution is to be put into its permanent form along the lines of western democracy and it will be adopted when the National People's Conference meets atanking on Nov. 12, 1966.
| Until! then every effort is being made to promote self-government in every district under the direction of Gen. Chiang T-oo-pin, former ambassador to Japan and recently appointed Minister of the Interior.
On June 1, 1931, a provisional constitution for the political tideupage was promulgated at Banking. It provided for rebuilding the Republic of China on the basis of two principles: First, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles," nationalism, democracy and livelihood of the people; second, administration of the government by five organs the Executive Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, the Judicial Yuan, Examination Yuan and the Control Yum.
The Executive Yuan is the highest executive organ and has direct supervision and general direction over the various executive ministries and committees, the highest legislative organ and has the power to decide upon general legislation, budgetary questions, amnesties, declaration of war, negotiations for war and other matters of affairs. The Judicial Yuan is the highest judicial organ. The Examination Yuan conducts examinations for what amounts to China's civil service. The Central Yuan is the highest supervisory body in China and powers of its impeachment and auditing.
China Proceeds With Plan To Return More Political Power to the People
Tutelage Period Closing
Among other things, the National Government's task during the period of political tutelage has been to train and guide the people in the exercise of the four political rights of election, initiation, recall and referendum. The Minister of Education and the Minister of the period and is doing all in his power to prepare the people for their new responsibilities.
In the past five years, the provisional constitution has been revised and the new constitution will amend some its final form and in November the people themselves will meet to adopt it. China's masses are nearing the end of their political schooling and with the final adoption of their constitution they are now more aware among the democracies in the world.
Monotone Lectures To Blame for Students Sleeping in Class
China Has "Strong Man"
The former commander of the Wham-
China Has "Strong" But during this transition period, China has been generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek. He dislikes and avoids the use of the word "dictator". The fact is, however, that the firm control he exercised over the recent Kuomintang meetings at the capital and the growing list of important post-secondary universities too weak to describe his present status. The former commander of the Wham-
"Hypnotism involves the placing of the attention of the subject on some object and holding it there. Anyone who has a knowledge of the principles of hypnotism and a little practice in the art can be a hypnotist."
The students who fall asleep in classes are not the ones to blame but the professors who lecture in monotones are to blame, says the Rocky Mountain Collegian. The students have been hypnotized.
TORONTO COMMUNIST CLUB
"When professors talk in a monotone voice and there is little disturbance in the room, the more susceptible are the students. I have done it myself," he continued.
These are the conclusions reached by Dr. Myron C. Barlow, head of the psychology department of the University of Utah.
It's hypnotism, pure and simple," said Dr. Barlow, waving a pencil in the air, "silent most of the hypnotists but one who is unmindful of their latest nouns."
Toronto, Ont.—(UP) The University of Toronto Communist club is operating on the campus without interference from authorities, and will continue to unless members fail to observe University doctor Dr. H. J. Cody has announced.
"I think we have adopted the wisti course," he said. "What students present most is to be treated as children. The organization will, of course, be required to observe all university regulations."
poa Military Academy at Canton, early disciple of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the only political survivor today of the triumvirate which carried on after Sun Yat-sen's death, is more than ever his keystone of the Kuomintang arch.
When he speaks of nation-building, Chiang thinks of many things. In the regions recovered from the Communists, where his word as the supreme military commander was the only law, the effort and money he devoted to constructing markets, schools and other facilities has been widespread in a wide attention. In the New Life Movement* he has sought to remold the character of the people.
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The make-up editor of the Kansan did not miss Miss Ehcel Barrymore Colt make up for the show the other day and have had it. He only makes up excuses.
Notice to Kanisan advertisers If you will take a lesson from Sally Rand you will be successful in your business. You will receive an access to a prudent use of white space.
One of the most surprising things about college which we learn while here is that the professors are able to take place throughout their own lectures.
The ice is 30 inches thick on some of the lakes around here. And when ice is that thick it is as hard to break as some lakes we know. Take it from us.
Now is "hell week" for a good many of the sororites and fraternists. However, because of the state of the sororities, I think that hell is just about frozen over.
We read in the paper the other day of a man and his family of 24 children, whose mother that's one of the causes of this hereb depression; to much over-production.
The Supreme Court has declared Huey Long's tax on advertising unconstitutional. The press is free. (The
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Ho hum. Thirty-nine more days until spring.
Ad in New York Times: "Associated Ghost Writers, articles, fiction, speeches, written for you; editing. 11 West $2nd." That probably means that you will be haunted, if you use their stuff. Anyway, we know where all those Rhetoric 1 papers are coming from.
We are advised that the Owl society will assist the junior class in sponsoring the Junior Prom. Let me see, not that doesn't give the Owl passes to the dance? You can't get around them guys for thinking up things like that.
We are told that midwife weeks after this are to have an "amateur nurse" night feature. But from the looks of it, it's a lot of the boys, that is nothing new.
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Sim Rafael Calif.—(UP) Two-year trees planted more than a century ago by Franciscan fathers, give every inch of sunlight to the crop this summer. For half a dozen years past, the "crop" of the ancient apple tree was harvested from four to six pears each year.
One of the trees still stands on the spot where it was originally planted in 1818, presumably by Father Vendru Fortuni, one of the founders of the Mission St. Pauwel Acamal. The sec. church was named an original orchid site to Boy's Park in San Rafael by the Women's Improvement Club.
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