PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS TUESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1036 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HERRERT A. MEYER, Jr. EDITOR IN CHIEF Associate Editors Bob Robinson JACK PERKFOLD MANAGING EDITOR SHIRLEY JONIS BUSINESS MANAGER P. QUENTIN BROWN CAMPUS EDITOR FRED HARISEN MAKE-UP EDITOR BILL ROGERSON SPORTS EDITOR DALE OBRIEN ASSISTANT JOHN HAWK ASSISTANT RAY NOBLE NEWS EDITOR WARREN KIRCHWOHN SOFTWARE EDITOR FRANZ KRÖHN SUNDAY EDITOR JONNY MALONE KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS TELEPHONES MARGARET BARNET MRISSY BROTHER HARRY MINTER BRIAN ROWE RUTH STOLLAND ALAN MILLEN ALFRED MILLEN RUTHHERD HAVES F. QUENTIN BROWN JOHN MONTGOMERY SHIRES JONES HOUSE HOILEY MURRAY HOILEY Business Office K.U. 66 News Room K.U. 21 Night Connectness, Business Office 2701 K2 Night Connectness, News Room 2702 K3 Sale and exclusive national advertising representative NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 07652 Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings except during school holidays by students in the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, per year. $1.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments. Single copies, to each. Entered as second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1936 JUSTIFIED CRITICISM The chance of a Kansas occupying the White House appears more nearly possible, at the present time, than at any other period during the history of Kansas. The "Kansas Coolidge," as our governor has been unusually called, is, however, coming in for his share of criticism rather early and, on the hide, the criticism appears to be somewhat justified. An editorial in a leading periodical adequately expressed this criticism, stating: The picture of Governor Landon of Kansas that emerges from Raymond Gram Swing's two articles is strikingly unhackneyed. Here is no reactionary nonentity and no incipient facist, but a sincere, mildish liberal who in some curious way has fallen among the Bourbons. Since Mr. Swing is writing as a reporter, his articles imply no political approval of Landon. We are glad to present the record as he found it, especially since it sharpens the issues of the coming struggle for the nomination. The Republican strategists are roaming about today like a nomadic tribu in desperate search of pasturage. Unless they are to become a permanent opposition, they must find someone who is not too tarned with reaction. Some of them are panting for Landon as Landon is no doubt panting for them. If Governor Landon is really a liberal, it is his ill-fortune to have been adopted by some of the worst elements among Mr. Roosevelt's opponents. The process of being a candidate is, at the best, not an ennobling experience even when it starts no more musciculously than as a companion-in-arms to Mr. Hearst. We call upon Governor Landon, is he in earnest in his liberalism, to declare himself more explicitly on utilities, labor, relief, and civil liberties, and to shake off the corrupting hand of William Randolph Hearst. There is an American heaven and an American hell, and I want to see them both.—Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, foremost Japanese Christian, waiting entry to United States. It is good to think that our own family of peoples is at peace in itself and united in one desire to be at peace with other nations. — King George of England. A LESSON IN DYING There are many ways to die fashionably now, folks. You can drink iodine — or, if the taste doesn't appeal to you, you can shut yourself up in the garage and turn on the motor of your car at full speed. Of course if you are one of those people who just can't stand the "unromanticness" of dying in the garage, there is always the river, cool and deep, in which you may forget all of your wordly cares. But folks, the really smart way to die, and the way chosen nowdays by the "man who knows" is to take a drink, get into your car and drive about eight miles an hour out on some highway where you will take a curve, or better yet, not take a curve. This is the way smart people are "ending it all" according to the newspapers which daily are full of colorful stories of smashups. Two o'clock in the morning is the best time to try this because at that hour no one is apt to find you and you can die slowly from loss of blood. It is always better to drive as fast as you can too—it's almost always fatal then. If you miss a curve going about sixty miles an hour, you may be so lucky as to get a broken neck or a smashed face and rate an inch in the "death" column—that is if you are by yourself -HOWEVER, if you have several friends with you and they are all killed you may even make the front page of the local newspaper. A sure way to make the front page is by hitting a train. It really isn't as hard to do to you as think, folks, and think of the satisfaction if you leave behind you a wife and six children. It would be quite profitable for all parties concerned if some local morgue would sponsor a "How to Die Fashionably and Still Make the Front Page" campaign. But since no one has thought of this we can only rely on the public's judgment and spread propaganda by little ditties like this! Business is recovering today in spite of the new deal. If it were not for the Supreme Court, we today would be living under an autocracy. Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago. A UNIVERSITY RACKET A group of local students have become banded together by means of a common racket, known as stealing. Facts show that these widely scattered, unacquainted members of our student body are actively engaged in one field of thievery, although statistics are not so definite or accurate to show whether these workers are interested in only this one form of the profession. The field centers in our campus library, and the common form of procedure is for a student to approach the checking desk and ask for a particular book, and on the accompanying card sign, "A Wigwam" or any other name, which is not his own. In days to come, or hours if the thief has chosen the reserve section of the institution, when the book has not yet been returned, a card, penalizing A. Wigwam, is prepared, but is not mailed for there is no A. Wigwam in the student directory. Several times this year the thieves have been caught by the Watson Scotland Yard, but in the In these, the last few very important days, these crimes, that are perpetrated by a few campus scoundrels and nit wits, assume colossal proportions and work a hardship on the whole student body that cannot continue to exist. Our Contemporaries THE PRESIDENT IS ON THE SPOT President Rosenvelt seems to have put his foot in it. The past two weeks for him have been anything but a bed of troubles. First was his annual message to Congress "on the state of the Union." This message, traditionally supposed to be an accounting to Congress of the domestic situation, turned out to be nothing of the sort. The first part of it was devoted entirely to foreign affairs, and the second part was of a political nature, praising the New Deal in generalities that were rather glittering. Nothing was said whatsoever about such pertinent problems as unemployment, continu- minded relief, government spending, business conditions and aid to the war effort. He was criticized on this score not only by Republicans, but by members of his own party and such allegedly disinterested parties as Walter Lippman. Then along came the Supreme Court and declared the pet Roosevelt farm recovery agency—the AAA—unconstitutional. Thousands of persons were thrown out of the farm as a result, which made more important, millions of dollars are still due on AAA contracts. The decision undoubtedly reflected adversely on the President, and its political effects cannot help but damage to the New Deal cause. The Supreme Court said that many Americans are almost incapable of error. And then, even as the high court was handing down its momentous decision, the President's budget message was read to the House of Representatives and the Senate. The message did not, as budget messages have in other years, transmit a complete budget. The President said he could not tell Congress how much he would need to run the government until he had more time to view the situation. Although he did approximate a deficit for the coming year—one billion dollars—he remained silent on the question of whether his budget. And what budget he did submit maintained its "irregular budget"—that account kept for recovery measure expenses—was in no sense of the word balanced. Poor Mr. Roosevelt. He certainly has not been getting the breaks. With an election coming up fast, he will have to do some mighty quick thinking. The country awaits his next move with as much anxiety as there is certainty that he will make one. Both politics and statesmanship demand it. This message also drew fire from all directions, and elevated none of the sharp criticism continually levied at the unmanly high governmental expenditures. It is also extremely doughtiful if the President's recent Jackson Day dinner speech will be received kindly by the nation as a whole. But whatever it is—proposal for a constitutional amendment, reduction of the budget or another appeal to the people—if it affirms the fate of the President's actions in this week's election and way. The President is on the spot—Midterm Daily. Noticees due at Chelsea's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. Vol. 33 JANUARY 21, 1926 No.82 OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN --for all occasions. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Regular weekly meeting Wednesday morning at 7:55 in room C. Myers Hall. Students and faculty members are welcome. COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet in Central Administration Auditorium at 4:30 this after-the-fire semester. The Group System will be a special order of the Group System will be a special order of the Keith Davis, President. Paul B. Lawson, Dean. Actors Can Relax in Green Room Of Fraser Theater Amid Old Scenery One of the most interesting and perhaps least known spots on the campus is the Green Room in the attic of the library. It is a world of the theater that every productive theater shall have a Green Room, a place where the actors can go to relax, to learn lines, in fact, to take a less luxurious room for the actors. Of course, the Green Room in Fraser is really too far from the stage to be a real Green Room. It is up and down, but it serves as a sort of store room for old scarcity, costumes, etc., that have been used in various Kansas Players' productions, and it happened to green, so it serves the purpose. It is there that the class in play writing meets on Tuesday afternoon. There the members of the mob scene in the fourth act of "False God" waited during the first three acts of the play. There is a piano in the Green Room. Not a real piano, to be sure, but it looks like a piano. A number of years ago a grand piano was needed for a scene in play. For some reason the department was not able to rent or borrow a grand piano, so the stage curtain was pulled back, which served the purpose admirably. A quaint old-fashioned love seat is in one corner of the room. There is a bit of romance connected with it. A woman who is connected with the University accepted her husband's invitation, and they were sitting on that love seat. An old table in the middle of the room dates back to the time when Spooner-Thayne Museum was the life-bearer. The museum was borneered for a play, and somehow never returned. A huge hue and red plush thrill, in extremely bad repair, was likewise "borrowed" from church in town and never returned. There are a number of queer look modernistic chairs which have been used in various plays. A fireplace in one corner was used in Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" many years ago. Just outside the door of the Green Room is an old trunk, 70 years old. It belonged to a former student who was always quite anxious to be in a play. He was finally given the part of the engineer of the train in "Berba," the Sewing Machine Girl," with one line to speak. His one line came immediately following a funny situation he always got a big laugh at the audience, and our hero was so xious to say his line that he could never wait for the lauter to die down, so no one ever heard his one line. There is an iron wheel, the only thing left form the production of "The Devil's Disciple", produced here in November, 1923, the first play Professor Crafton produced here. There is a tombstone from "The Ticket-of-Leave Man" which was produced in the old Bower-room Dicksonick. The tombstones in the gravestone that play had the names of members of the faculty on them. One could roam about for hours among the ancient pieces of scenery. The large attic outside the Green Room is more or less of a graveyard for old scenery. In a pile of junk to one side is a broken chair. Years ago when age was old, there were two nights in a Barroom," there was one scene in which one of the actors, Louis Peckman, was to pretend to hit one of the other actors over the head with chair. Peckman was the type of felon who would pass through the scenery at one time or another during the course of a play. But this time his blundering found a new outlet. He actually hit the other actor a violent blow over the head. He said one more time after the catastrophe dropped unconscious in the wings. The fatal chair still exists. Professor Crafton calls it the "death chair." There are many pieces of scenery that have been made over time and time again. For example, a bar that was originally made for "Cook Robin" has been made over and used three different times. The landscape picture that hung in the hall in the recent production "Ten Minute Alibi" has be any number of different pictures for the last ten years. Each time a new picture is put on some pains over the picture that was there last, leaving he frame the same. A full set of old-fashioned drop sceneries in the fly above the stage, are painted with elaborate scenes. A "wind machine" that never did work is displayed. There is something from nearly every show that has been produced at the University since Professor Crafton first came here in 1920. Old pieces of fur-triched knives and idols swords, thields, a Russian coat-of-arms, haws from a covered wagon. Ancient Antics 20 Years Ago By D.L.B. College Humor: "I an, I said, "Jump," will hold the blanket, "on gash I hadla daddle, 'cause we didn't have no blanket" (The origin of the little Audrey job.) "For the initiation of our university scheme and type, we borrowed much stimulus and some machinery from the universities we had acquired. New if there is borrowing in the future it will proceed in the reversed direction, by Europe from America." (This was quoted from a lecture by a professor at the University of California—where he did his dissertation or the subject of the quotation but economically it was 109 per cent true.) The Armenian still stare according to the Kanass—(Yeh, as only a good publicity agent can make them starve). The University of Kansas has a student newspaper that is received by the Kanass from an Ohio state paper—The Kanass hastens to add that the good lady was only 84 when the story started out from here last year. (She was just born thirty years too soon—Our present day moth-er.) Kanass wanted her look like Methuselah's wife before the story got to the state line.) GREETING CARDS THE BOOK NOOK 1021 Mass. Tel. 666 Fresh Fresh SILEX COFFEE An invigorating stimulant. at the UNION FOUNTAIN Sub-Basement Memorial Union --- ROCK - - - CHALKLETS Conducted by L.M. Conducted by J. M. After reading a book on Russia and the government of the U.S.S.R., we are tempted to want to know just how much of it is "Red" tape. Students should realize that just as no souls are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon, no good lessons are learned after 12 o'clock. May we just suggest that all professors be given memory tests so that they won't tell the same stories more than twice during a semester. Final examinations are like a trip to the dentist—the anticipation is far more painful. It can truthfully be stated that the library is now the most popular spot on the campus. Gathering material for a term paper is like eating popcorn—you can never get enough. The self-satisfied amniotes covering the faces of a few professors and which seem to say, "just you wait," are beginning to grate on the nerves. 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