PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS ASSOCIATE EDITORS PUBLISHER HURBERT A. MEYER, Jr. Associate Editors BOB ROBINSON JACK PENNEDO MANAGING EDITOR SHIRLEY JOYCE BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN CAMPUS EDITOR PETE HARMS MAKE-UP EDITOR $ BILL ROGERS SPORTS EDITOR DALI O'BRIEN ASSISTANT RAY NOLE NEW EDITOR JAMES POKINGERSON SOCCER EDITOR FRANK WATSON SUNDAY EDITOR JOHN MALONE KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS MARGARET BOYNT RUTHERFORD HAYES HERBERT MEYER F. QUENTH BROWN JOHN JOHNSON RUTH EWELS RUTH STOLAND SHIRLEY JONES ALKEN MERGAN HOUSE HARLEY ALKEN MERGAN HOUSE HARLEY TELEPHONES Business Office K/U/ 66 WK Business Office K/U/ 66 Night Communication, Business Office 2701 K/U Night Communication, Business Office 2701 K/U Sale and exclusive national advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday by the University of Texas Press. The University of Journalism of the University of Kansas at Fort Worth is the Free of charge publisher of the journal. Subscription price, per year, $1.00 cash in advance, $1.25 on payments. Simple credit, tec each. Entered as second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1936 RECORDS GO OUT Canned music at mid-week variates made its final appearance last night and no one was sorry to see it go. Since its initiation it has been the object of much criticism and controversy. Last fall the Musician's Union decided to require the Memorial Union to pay at the rate of three dollars per man plus a three dollar fee for the leader which would make the total cost of a twelve piece band, $39 instead of the previously charged $25. The Union Operating Committee refused to comply with these requests and instituted the records. Largely through the efforts of Joe Griswold and Louie Kuhn, the Musicians' Union offered to play for the variety at the rate of $30 for nine pieces. Three members were to be chosen from the bands of Red Blackburn, Wayne Wright, and Louie Kuhn. The Operating committee at first refused to accept this offer but due to the force of student opinion and a request by the Men's Student Council immediate action be taken, a compromise was effected. Kansas University students will appreciate the compromise of the two organizations—the compromise which doomed "canned music" at midweek varieties. It is creditable to both the Musicians' Union and the Union Operating Committee that they each conceded certain points to insure good music for the students at mid-week variates. The Operating Committee agreed to pay the $30 for a nine-piece band and the Musicians' Union agreed to permit Preston Anderson's band which was recently admitted to the Musicians' Union to play one out of every four mid-week variates. JUST BALLYHOO What's all this ballyhoo raised about the Supreme Court showing the New Dealers where to get off by repealing the N.R.A. and A.A.A.? What of it? It is time to erase them from the books. But what is the surprising thing, is that voters have forgotten what took place when Roosevelt met his first Congress. He asked for and received extreme emergency powers to wipe out the depression and unemployment. The clean-up campaign started. The New Deal was established. Jobs were created out of thin air; projects that had him idle because of retrogressive partisan politics were started. Hurrahs went up all over the nation. Unemployment began to decrease. Then suddenly the numbers of unemployed began to increase, and the cry, "The New Deal is a flop," was twice as loud as the previous applause. The fact overlooked in this instance was that numerous people had had private resources to fall back on. When banks began closing their doors (500 in a day in one case) these resources were wank without a trace. And hunger will over-rule pride any day of the week, "relief" offered three meals a day. And now the President no longer needs his emergency powers. Unemployment is permanently on the down grade; the banks have the credit of the United States government to back them; and the only way to eliminate the emergency measures is to declare them un-Constitutional. This fact was undoubtedly known to those opposed to the present administration, and what more subtle method could be used to eliminate strenuous competition in a future election than an eternal howl that the President is only two degrees removed from a dictator, that the New Deal is the center of nothing but unConstitutional bills taking the people's rights away from them. This would be quite naturally followed by "I told you so," when the Supreme Court did what had been planned and repealed the measures after they Llad served their purpose. One cannot criticise the Republicans for their tactics, the Democrats would in all probability have done the same thing. The lamentable part lies in the fact that many voters have forgotten Congressmen knew they were over-reaching themselves when they passed the measures. They can always be replaced was the general attitude. Thus it is, the requests are nothing more than what had been planned in the general course of events and is not a reflection on the present administration. The three inch headlines merely signal the beginning of the halfly loo that accompanies every presidential campaign. PRIVILEGED MINORITIES One of the inherent weaknesses of our type of government is the opportunity afforded to powerful minorities to wield great influence that may or may not be for the general welfare of the greatest number of citizens. These groups or lobbies as they are commonly known, are often able to force those who legislate to accede to their demands because they hold a balance of power. A striking instance of that may be seen in the present bonus legislation before congress. Without entering into the question of whether the veterans deserve cash payment at this time two questions lend themselves to a comprehensive analysis. First, it is significant that the greatest opportunity from the veteran standpoint to pass this legislation comes at the time of a general election. In studying the history of such legislation it might be noted that always in the years of elections some gesture is made to this powerful minority block. Undoubtedly the possibilities of a cash payment would be greatly diminished if the congressmen did not feel that they would soon have to return home and face a campaign for re-election. Secondly, congressmen in considering this bill show little regard for the measure in which to finance it. All deliberation that usually surrounds legislation is thrown to the winds in a general clamor for the bandwagon and votes. It is unfortunate that such conditions should exist in an intelligent democracy. Men in public office should have more regard for principle than re-election. But perhaps it is a case of a choice of being a martyr and on the outside or being diplomatic and in. Campus Opinion Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the authors and may contain opinions that length are intended to curtailing by the edition. Contributions should be made by email: contributions@microsoft.com. Editor Kansan: The Kansen is to be congratulated on the results which it helped to obtain in the mid-week varsity conflict. There can be no doubt that the Kansen was instrumental in bringing the matter to a head and getting a decision from the Memorial Union operating committee which met the approval of te great majority of students. The Kansan has also carried on several other campaigns which have provided it to be a paper with power. I refer to the Library steps and the K-men hazing trouble. Library officials admit that the Kansean editors and news stories are responsible for the steps being fixed up and getting a written statement from the state architect that the new steps would be in by next September. The Kansen's discussion of the K-men having controversy resulted in a good solution of the difficulty. While a great many people criticise the Kansas the move matters prove that the paper is a patient one and it doesn't make sense to give up. More power to it. A. Student Notes due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN A. S. M. E. There will be a regular meeting of A. S. M. E. Friday, Jan 17 at 8 p.m. Mr. D. R. Evans will speak on "Boulder Dam from the Engineer's Point of View." There will be election of officers. Vol. 32 JANUARY 16, 1936 No. 79 --that the cost of basketball and the other sports will be so much that all profit will be wiped out—One inter-session item in the disbursements is $40. The other, paying 20 years ago, $142.79. (What does scouting cost now?) Louis Benz AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS: One gift scholarship of $30 for a woman student and several loan scholarships for men and women students, are available for award at the beginning of the second semester. Applications should be made by Jan. 20. Blanks and information may be obtained by calling at room 503 B Ad- Mrs. Flora S. Boynton, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards. K. A.C.E. The Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in room 201 Chemistry Building. Dr Robert Tafttman will present "The Modern Photographic Enlargement." Everyone is welcome. KAPPA PSI. There will be a meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Union building, night off. All attendees are welcome. Katharine Aston, Secretary. NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will meet in the hall court at 4 o'clock tonight. All members please bring a water bottle. Gordon H. Miller, President, Charles H. Bedingfield, Secretary. In 1894, a Kansas High School Boy Predicted Advances Now Realized "Long before 1904 the journey from New York to 'London across the sea will be made between the sunrise and sunset of a summer's day." Those words, spoken in 1894 by a young high school graduate who later attended the University of Kansas, have come near to realization that the speaker probably had been born in a country an amazing, far-sighted prophecy that has come true in nearly all respects. The speaker was J. Ralph Ballinger, and the occasion his graduation from the Athetian County Community high school, the Athetian County Publication speech, as required by the school, was a treatise on evolution, in which he dwelled more on political than biological aspects of the subject. He spoke at the conference in the late 1800s for two years, going from here to the Rush Medical College in Chicago. At the present time he is a prominent Chicago physician and chairman of the Illinois State Medical If one should stop to visualize the United States as it appeared in 1884, then read through Mr. Ballinger's high school speech, a copy of which is now in the possession of John Coleman, c57, a nephew of Mr. Ballinger, the eldest grandmother of his visionary father, the world today is easily discernible. In 1894, it will be recalled, the first automobile was invented and the airplane had yet more than ten years of life in dreams. The telephone was a mere infant, and the telegraph and wireless were well established as the best methods of communication over a distance. Electricity was comparatively unknown in the smaller cities and towns, and was very rare during that time. At such a stage was science at the time the speech war made. "My belief as to evolution in a political sense is that man having conquered the earth and sea will complete his domain by subjugation of the atmosphere." Ballinger continued. "This will be the crowning triumph of the coming century. Long before 1994 the journey from New York to London has been made, and the sunrise and sunset of a summer's day. It will be as common for a citizen to call for his great balloon as it now is for his burgey or his boots." "Electricity will be the motive power and aluminum or some other light metal will be the material of the aircraft and the fuel for all of the sky. The electric telegraph will be supplanted by the telephone which will be so perfected and simple that instruments in every house and office will permit the communication of business with each other and the voice at will. Domestic life and vocations will be made easier, less costly and complex by the distribution of light and energy through the strong earth. In the field of politics he stated, "The attempt to abolish poverty, pay debts, and cure the ills of society by statute will be the favorite prescription of ignorance, for the next hundred years, from the beginning of civilization." One of Mr. Ballinger's propheies has yet to be realized, but it is easily seen that it should logically be realized. "Our greatest city will be Chicago. It must grow and expand circumference into which the wealth and population of the richest and most fertile area of the earth's surface is concentrating. When this anniversary returns Chicago will not be in the United States but in the world." DINNER PARTY Insure an enjoyable evening with a corsage styled by--that the cost of basketball and the other sports will be so much that all profit will be wiped out—One inter-session item in the disbursements is $40. The other, paying 20 years ago, $142.79. (What does scouting cost now?) While You're DANCING or at Your FLOWER 820 FONE WARD'S FLOWERS "Flowers of Distinction" This high school senior has seen many of the things he predicted would happen in the next century. The telephone is one of the most widely use communicative devices now in existence, while electricity is the principle source of the world's power. Transmission systems are more and more, with possibilities of a 18-hour flight across the Atlantic more and more real. Ancient Antics 20 Years Ago By D.L.H. They used to study in the old days —A survey by the Kanran of the daily habits of students brings out many things— One editorialist on the staff of the paper, smokes a half-hour a day, studies the health and studies the rest of the time. The Stubbs boys did not enter Princeton after all — Stubbay dropped around to the Kansa office the other day and said so. So our former governor has exonerated him—The novel "The Stubbs Boys at Princeton," he now, plays his politics better than that—He wouldn't send Peggy to Princeton.) Will the students who are wilfully and wrongly entering the buildings of the university and stealing rubbits, or will they learn to wear them—An editorial in the Kannan is so drastic, it will certainly make the cheap fellow that took them feel like Lest A> silver umbrella handle—Dec 14 —(Maybe one of the guys who stole the umbrellas mentioned above) Lest A> silver umbrella and only drew back the stub.) Due to football, the University of Wisconsin showed a surplus for the first time. Profits on that sport ran up to $18,000. (If Wisconsin could show a profit with only that much football money, why can't our university do the same with the money they take in every year? — Just think what Southern Methodist must have done this year by collecting, $85,000 on the Rose Bowl game alone—They should be able to declare a dividend.) The men's gym classes have a piano with which they keep time while doing their cute little exercises. The women took it away from them and then the men got it back after a very dicky little tug of war—They then found that they had no pianist—They learned to play piano, and after the first week because she could not stand to look at the bare knees of the boys—(Read your notes gal.) The music goes round and round, inside the box, not out in the ether). K. U. was located in Lawrence, 50 years ago when this mouth—Nothing is said about a special edition—(Nowdays, we'd try to make the advertiser pay through the mail for being established that long.) "It Pays to Advertise," is the current run show at the Bowersock—Agristotle Mr. Flint would currently appeal that to the Lawrence advertiser.) Kansas didn't do so bad at this foot-ball business either—They showed a profit of $12,000. It is stated however, - Have you used NANTEETT’s hawker? haven’t you know what you are missing. 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