PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1936 OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE. KANSAS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN PUBLISHER HERRY A. MEYER, Jr. EDITOR IN CHIEF ASSOCIATE EDITORS ROBERTSON EDITORS BON ROBBION MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUESTIN BROWN STAFF CAMPUS EDITOR PAT HARRIS MAKE UP EDITOR $ BILL ROOGERS SPORTS EDITOR DALLA O'REYNAN ASSISTANT JONN HEAU ASSISTANT RAY NOMIE NEW'S EDITOR JAMES POLOKINGHURST SOFTWARE EDITOR FRANCE WARE SUNDAY EDITOR JOHN MALONE KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS MARGARET BONNET HARRIET HAYER HERBERT HUVEVER F. QUENTIN BROWN RUTH STOLAND RUTH STOLAND SHIRLEY JONES KEEN MERRAMM KEEN MERRAMM HOUSE HOOKEY FRED MERRAMM TELEPHONES Business Office KU, 66 News Room KU, 25 Night Connection, Business Office 2701 K2 Night Connection, News Room 2701 K3 Sale and exclusive online advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. 1024 North Amsterdam Street, New York City 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. Entered as second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments. Single copies, 1c each. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1936 ATHLETIC BUGABOO The bugaboo of subsidized athletes still cling to American colleges and universities. With college athletics well established as one of the "big" businesses of the country, the college athlete is still expected by a large group of silly sentimentalists, to give his all for the old alma mater, and in return receive nothing except personal satisfaction. These same reactionists feel that to professionalize the athlete is to prostitute the great American collegiate ideal—what ever that may be. Such an attitude, in the light of present day facts, is absurd. College athletes must receive pay for their work. If they do not, they cannot remain in school. A boy who possesses only a limited amount of money, and who must practice four or five hours a day for the glory of his institution, has neither the time nor the incentive to earn his education by other work. He is an athlete. That is his business. The school profits, so should he. If this same boy gave up football, or basketball, or whatever his specialty happens to be and worked four or five hours each day waiting tables, no one would question his right to receive pay on the grounds that if he did not work for nothing he would become a professional waiter. If he earned his money selling papers, no one would condemn him for being a professional salesman, yet as soon as he attempts to earn money through his athletic ability, a great hue and cry is raised about professional athletes on college teams. There is nothing disgraceful about professionalism. In fact the very people who condemn the subsidization of athletes are professionals themselves in the sense that they receive money for their efforts. They would not think of working without pay for the glory of the grocery business or the garage business, yet they expect an athlete to work his heart out for his school then drag himself off somewhere to earn his education. Coaches realize that the college athlete must receive pay, and in most cases they see that he gets it. Of course they may have to deceive, he and cheat to take care of their players, but as long as eyes and cars are closed at proper moments, and too much is not known by the public, the athlete remains a shining example of collegiate sportsman. As long as the surface is smooth and the teams are good, the athlete is not a professional, regardless of where his money comes from. But let some school try to be honest in its dealings, let it admit that its tablets are paid, let the athletes themselves admit it, and a scourge of abuse sweeps down on the guilty parties. So apparently there is only one thing to do. Go right on subsidizing athletes, just as has been done in the past and will be done in the future, but don't tell a soul about it. Keep the facts hidden. Let old John Public revel in his dream of athletic idealism, and above all remember that the great sin is to be caught, not to subsidize. A RIDE THEY'LL NEVER FORGET From among the hundreds of fatalities resulting from automobile accidents over the Christmas holidays throughout the country, one among them stands out to University of Kansas students, because the name is that of a former University student whom many of us knew and loved. He was an attractive young man, - - - smiling and joking a great deal of the time, thoughtless with the reckless abandon of youth. One of his favorite stories concerned the time he came up here as a freshman, went to a varsity not knowing a single girl, and fourteen dates in the near future when he left the dance. He was eager ot know people and to have For him this holiday season must have been an especially joyous time. Next semester he was to return to the University, to renew old friendships and to form new ones. them like him. It wasn't a hard task,—he was essentially likable. People he scarcely knew he smiled at and called by name. When he left the campus he probably knew and was known by as many students as anyone here. Shortly before Christmas he bundled a crowd of young people into his car, promised laughingly to give them a "ride they'd never forget." He drove the car out into the country, where the road would be clear of traffic, and he could push the "feeder" to the floor-board. Sixty, seventy, eighty—almost it seemed they were flying! Then came a curve, a skid, a crash! Eighty miles an hour is too fast for a curve. The young man is dead, but he kept his word. Truly, he gave his companions a ride they will never forget. There are agencies enough to make evil attractive. War is dressed in gorgeous uniforms and the glamour of an exalted patriotism, drunkenness . . . in gaiety, and sensuality is disguised in people who rationalize it as self-expression.—Dr. Harry Fookick, New York. Our Contemporaries YOUTH AND AGE Frequently, we hear older persons, when discussing members of the younger generation who have come into positions of importance and responsibility, express the opinion that "she or she" is too young for the job. We have never been willing to agree that those more mature years have been the only fitted for the positions of leadership and responsibility. Why may not younger men be more so in this twentieth century, as the renowned writer Thomas Jefferson, despite the fact that he did not become president until he was 57 years old, never did anything to compare in brilliance to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, achieved at the age of 33, Alexander conquered Persia when Ne was 25. Hamish crossed the Alps before reaching the age of 29. Napoleon, whether we choose his victory at Lodi or his triumph before Antoinelier as his greatest achievement, was only 17 when he discovered the law of the penumbra when he discovered the law of the penthombus when he synthesized mauve, the first synthetic dye. At the age of 24, Newton worked the calculus of the Principia that was published twenty years later. Hertz was 23 when he discovered wireless waves. Already an assistant to the famous Sir Humphrey Davy, Fardany was well known as a science lecturer at the Royal Institute of London at the age of 13. Schubert was only 11 years old when he began composing; Mendelsohn wrote his "Overture to a Midummer Night's Music" and was one of the most artists we knew Michel Angelo, who, when 23, was appointed by the pope to decorate the Sistine chapel. "Thanatopsis," that masterpiece of poetry known to every school child, was written by a lad named Bryant, who was but 17 years old. At the age of 20 he wrote his equally famous, "To a Water Fowl". Surely, the young are capable. While experience may be the "best teacher", the imagination, the energy, the ambition, and the question, iconoclastic spirit of youth is the result of an unnatural environment, and are much to be desired—Kentucky Kernel. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 10 a.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. saturday for Sunday issues. JANUARY 14, 1936 --- CANDIDATES FOR TEACHING POSITIONS: All persons interested in teaching positions should attend a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, January 15, at 4 o'clock in Fraser Theater. H. E. Chandler. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Regular weekly meeting Wednesday morning at 7:55 in room C. Myers hall. Keith Davis, President. DRAMATIC CLUB: There will be a Dramatic Club meeting at 4:30 in Green hall. There will be a program. Attendance is required. Bob Cunningham. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB. The Home Economist Club will have a meeting this afternoon at 4:20 in Spooner-Thayer Museum. The meeting will be in charge of Miss Viola J. Anderson and Josephine English. INTERNACIAL COMMISSION OF Y. W. K. C. A.; Mrs. Joseph King will discuss some phase of "Personal Relationships" at the meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Henley house. Please be prompt. Evelyn Wallace, President. KAPPA PHI. The regular meeting will be held this evening at 6:45 am at 1209 Tennessee street. Miss Mary Huribul will talk on missionary work in Africa. Martha Peterson and Dorothy Hodge, Co-chairmen. K. U. YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be a meeting at 8:35 p.m. Wednesday, on the base-line at 10 a.m. Beulah Pinneo, President. TAU SIGMA: There will be a short business meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in Robinson gymnasium. AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS. One gift scholarship of $50 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 by calling at room 203 B Administration building. Mrs. Flora S. Boynton, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards. BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE OLYMPIC CONTROVERSY By C. P. Okes, Kansas, 22 SIGMA ETA CHI. The regular apper meeting is to be held tonight at five o'clock at the home of Perry Wheeler, 1024 Alabama street. Iris McDonald has charge of the program. Evangeline Clark, President. If Germany could only develop a Jewish track man good enough to make their team it would hush considerable criticism. But even in 1932 when Jewish elements were exceedingly strong in the German government not a Jew was allowed to play. In 1935 the same was true in England where certainly no anti-semitism exists. In fact, in the nine modern Olympics only one track and field athlete out of every 200 has been Jewish. At Los Angeles was represented by Jewish athletes, and both of these women have been invited to be members of the German team again this year. The head of the German Olympic Organization Committee is one-quarter Jewish. All of which are Jewish citizens in the state of Altenberg in Germany, a condition that does not make for championship performance. The still adequately financed boycott committee has changed tactics. They are going to try to bring influence to bear upon individual athletes, especially those who have turned professional or could not make the team anyway, to make statements fanning international hatred. If they can dismuse some athlete from giving him attention from going public, and they are more interested in that than in the success of the American team. But 140 athletes queried by the Olympic Committee voted in favor of participation 139 to 1. Armed with a list of former contributors influential individuals and groups are trying to block contributions this year. But if you convince them, either informing or convincing them, other members will be found. The American team will go. And it will once again win! Ancient Antics 20 Years Ago BY D.L.H. A freshman attacks the upperclassmen of his fraternity because they did not know anything about the subject, "intellectual curiosity", which the freshman had to写 about in his rhetoric class. Sounds like one of those things the student came to college for—it was pampered; now we try to learn how to be sophisticated and forget our intellectual curiosity. One senior in the college ships livestock to the Kansas City stock yards to make extra money for his college career. In Kansas City he picks up cattle from the KU medical school--That's working the animal rocket from both ends. Twenty years ago there was a heated campaign to get an electric light at the foot of the library steps—No evidences yet that they got it although the light has been missing, though promised, for a number of years—(We don't want a light now, all we want is some steps to come down, dark or otherwise.) In compiling the relative class attendance for the past year of all groups at the University it was found that the Phi Beta Kappa and medical students took as groups had the largest attenuation practically 100 per cent. The average was sustained by the Phi Delta therafrin therapy—Of course there was one lower group which was the specialized pharmaceutical group—but taking the mostorganized non-organized groups, the Phi Delta led with only 37 per cent attendance. College Humour: Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Bugging for his quiz, in the back in his thumb, and pulled out a tear. And said what a bright I is. 1936 version— Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, Drinking his shot gin fizz, and his tongue, his nausea, So smelly of rum, And said what a drunken I is. Bowtie, Teller and Company of New York offer apogee salts, undergarments, and that has that dash of college, as do collarls, as they so bushily state. Students who have clothes to donate to the Belgians and French should do so at Snow Hall as soon as possible, because a person who has any clothes to donate to the authorities that now by seeing anyone in the journal department or Abe Wolfson.) "The Witching Hour" a play given by the K.U. dramatists for the first time last night not with huge success—the first of many such plays (Probably just darn good publicity) The seismograph at the University continues to be shocked at the way the earth carries on in various parts of the earthquake. The seismometer in the government go was reported to come from My very obvious attitude on the subject is not to be taken as a defense of Nazi Germany. As one who has been in Germany 15 times during the past five years ferreting out material for my string of newspapers I believe I have a tough idea of what is going on there. The true picture is neither as bad as the anti-Nazi claim nor as pretty as the Nazis claim. I understood that I am considered by the Nazi press officials to be pro-Jewish and anti-fascist. I praise the good and condemn the wrong. I see it. Only a big-taken a pro or position on everything in an entire country or system. In this case I believe the anti-Nazi forces have adopted a wrong and foul course, and one that was often cause in the long run. Two of Kraków's leaders are quoted by rival factions. Curiously enough each is a typical representative of the group he supports. James Bauch, 1832 Olympic Decennial champion, now a professional and in the "enrolment business," says, "I the 'enrolment business,' said I, the American participation in the Olympiad." They are played in Nazi Germany. Such participation is a violation of American standards of sportmanship and I believe that every athlete in the country should feel the same way I do. "Glenn Burke speaks for the other group. I feel that we must avoid discrimination against certain athletes in Germany is greatly over-emphasized in the newspapers. In the summer of 1933 when I competed in Germany there was some talk in this country about discrimination there, but my personal object is to find any justification for such publicity." Monthly tagged at the rear of magazines according to popularity. (1936) —True Story leads the country as well as the schools—Collier's and Saturday Evening Post are still in the running Monthly Sunday and others haven't scored yet.) **Headline:** Short Quart in Kansas The story refers to the fact that the Kansas house frum buying strawberries buys them by the liquid measure quart and gets churned-The headline is pretty much the same. Kansas is short by several quarts. Italy. (That seismograph would get a hull of a shell if it could listen in at what is going on over there now.) The mercury hit 17 below today—a new record. The Kansan tells how one city thrown out the graffits and cheap politicians in that city. (The boys that wrote that article are probably getting their cut right now.) Kansas students read the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan the most, according to a recent survey made by NPR. 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