PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HERBERT A. MEYER, Jr. EDITOR RUSS L. MATHESON Bob BORRINSON ASSOCIATE EDITORS JACK PENFORD MANAGING EDITOR SHIRLEY JONES BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUESTION BROWN STAFF CAMPUS EDITOR FRED HARDRIS MAKE-UP EDITOR BILL HUGGINS SPEAKS EDITOR DALK O'BRIEN AUSTANT JENNIFER HOLL AUSTANT RAY NURLE NEWS EDITOR WAMIE BRANDONHUNTER SOUND EDITOR FRANCES WATERS SUNDAY EDITOR JOHN MALONE KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS MARGARET BAYER MARCERT FOYD HAWKS RUTHERFORD HAWKS HERBERT MINTER QUENTIN BROWN HARVEY BURKE ROUTE SULLAND SHIRLEY JOHNS ALEN MERRICK HUGH HAGGER ALEN MERRICK JOHN HAGGER TELEPHONES Business Office K.U. 66 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 2701 R2 Night Connection, News Room 2702 R3 Sole and exclusive national advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC. NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings except during school holidays by student in the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments. Single copies, 1 each. Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 12, 1936 THE DANGER IN LOCKED DOORS A Kansas statute reads, "All doors to public buildings shall be unlocked and shall open outward." This lays down the law in black and white, but the University of Kansas is not observing it. There are twelve doors leading out of central Administration. Nine of these are kept locked during school hours. Three doors lead out of the Memorial Union lounge. Two of these are opened only on special occasions. Daily a great number of students congregate in these buildings. Daily they are endangered by an evasion of the law. Primarily, the open door law was passed to help eliminate fire hazard. Of course the Union building and the Administration building are fire proof, but this does not justify locked doors. For neither of these buildings are panic proof. Had class been in session when fire recently broke out in East Administration, students could easily have been turned into a mad, whirling mob, for when smoke is rolling through the air, one is apt to forget about building construction. Possibly the doors of these two buildings could stay locked for fifty years without any noticeable effect. Possibly tomorrow a situation may arise where students lose their heads. A wild rush might end against locked doors. Tragedy might result. After all it would be only a simple procedure to comply with the state law, and some day the difference between life and death might be those doors. The following delicate hint was sent out by a Missouri editor to remind subscribers that their subscriptions need renewing; “There $ is a little matter that $one of our $ub- $criber$ have $eminely forgotten entire. $many $pie$ but have not kept them. To u it $i$ it a very important mate- it—it's $nec$ $ary in our $bu$ce$. We are very mode$ and don't like to $peak about $uch remi- $cences". HOW WELL DO YOU SEE? The following editorial is submitted in the hope that some student will read it and think. Last week, while being interviewed for a job, we got the inspiration for such an editorial as this, because the man asking the questions, showed just how little the average college student knows of the school he attends. School, like the rest of the world is becoming too specialized. We, as students, are becoming too interested in our own lives and studies to notice just what is happening around us. This is not entitlement the fault of the educational system, the student, or the professor. The fact is all of us just fail to open our eyes and see ourselves in life. To test yourself to see just what you know besides your own narrow interests, the following questions about the University of Kansas are submitted. Study them. We could carry this further and include government, art, science and all of cultural life. When was the university founded? How many Chancellors have held office during this time? How many buildings are on the campus? Which building was the last one to be built? Tavern What opportunities do the university offer the student? How many separate schools make up the Kanoe University? How many of these have you looked into? How many of the officials of K. U. can you name? What do you know of these schools? Who was responsible for our hospital? How many of the campus buildings can you name? Who was responsible for our hospital? How many professional and social organizations are there? What publications are there on the Hill? How many of them can you name? What are the hoioryri fraternities for chemistry, commerce, medicine, physical education, business, art, debate etc. How many churches are there in Lawrence? How many churches are there in Lawrence? This list of questions could be extended into several columns. The main point is that we are intelligent students who every day are coming in contact with these things and should know them. We venture to state that the percentage of correct, and complete answers would be less than 50. The opportunity to know these things is ours. We would probably change our whole college life, yes our entire life, if we just would open our eyes and notice that which is ours for the taking. If there is anyone who doesn't know what the Dionne quintuplets had for supper last night, he will please step forward and receive the potted plant—Boston Transcript. Our Contemporaries WHO WILL DEBUNK THE DEBUNKERS? With the "great revelations" which have overflooded the book markets in the past five years—revealing what our financiers, exponents of "entrenched greed," have done to humanity; what our filthy and capitolistic-controlled press has suppressed; and what rats our politicians really are—we aresible that we are heapling calamny on innocent citizens? When Lytton Strachley published his "Eminent Victorians in the early 1920s he heralded in a new era of debauchesion. It was just the thing to do in debokh everything, and they were all about it," Strachley said and "eruditie" authors who were determined to give the American people the real inside on everything, Strachley, no doubt, was sincere, on the blowing mob that followed. Now that we have had many months of feriting by the attute Senate Nye and his committee on munitions, we are beginning to wonder whether we aren't the goats for a bunch of mountebanks Mmay, even probably, the munitions manufacturers are guilty of the many charges upon them, but it's not as bad as they say. We can't stand reading these astonishing revelations year after year and having nothing resulting but a full book-shelf. Perhaps this flood of "great revelations" will give rise to a new figure in the literary world, the "no-de-bunker," whose job will be to debunk the debunker—Michigan Daily. COMPULSORY DRILL Protests against compulsory military training in colleges have attained large enough volume to be deemed worthy of comment by the secretary of war. In his annual report, published last week, Secretary Dern scored such protests as "based upon the fallacy that such training instills a spirit of militarism in the youth of America." OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN --only the U. S. could keep Germany from winning the track and field meet, unless the Finns should take all 10 places on the 200-meter event Seventh. New York pounced on my discovery and additional conservation was evident in the hallways the next morning. There seems to be no question that opposition to compulsory drill is at least becoming more vocal among college students. At the recent Armistice day camp demonstrations against war, one of the four main issues urged by eight national student organizations was support of the drill. The military's response to the Training Corps optional instead of compulsory. This bill, introduced in congress and referred to the committee on military affairs has July, would affect 118 civil schools and colleges which now enrol cadets on a compulsory basis. A petition for the hill's pass, sponsored by 10 student organizations, has been sent and is intended for presentation to the president and congress before the committee's public hearing in January. Meanwhile the war department appropriation for 1936 provides a million-dollar increase for extending ROTC units in public high schools and colleges. It is estimated that 184,000 students would be graduated 148,000 now taking military training—New York Times. Notices due at Charles' Office at 1 p.m. preceding regular publications day and 11:30 a.m. on Sunday for tournays 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. GERMAN CLUB: The German Club will not meet Monday. Bernadine Berkley, Secretary. 4 HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The Home Economics Club will have a meeting Tuesday, January 14 at 4:20 in Spooner-Thayer Museum. The meeting will be in charge of Miss Viola J. Anderson and Josephine English. Vol. 33 JANUARY 12, 1936 Evelyn Wallace, President. K. U. PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE. The K.U. Peace Action Committee will meet at 4:30 Monday afternoon in room 10 Memorial Union Building. Everyone welcome. Alfred G. Annevare Formation Center. MATHEMATICS CLUB. The Mathematic Club will hold a regular meeting at 4:30 Monday, January 13, in room 213 Administration Building. Mr. John A. Poiw will speak on "The Calendar." Refreshments will be served. James K. Hitt, President. SIGMA ETA CHI. The regular super meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the home of Peggy Wheeler, 1024 Alabama, at 5 o'clock. Iris McDonald has charge of the meetings and accommodations with Margail Hearn (2840) by Monday evening. Evangeline Clark, President. BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE OLYMPIC CONTROVERSY By C. P. Dakes, Kauas, '22 W.W.C.A.: Advanced Standing will meet Tuesday at 4:30 Henley House. All advanced standing women are eligible. The number of athletes participating will be more than double the number appearing at Los Angeles in 1932. Reservations for spectators are going fast, Germany and three other countries having already exhausted their quotas. All of the 18 countries in which I have been this year are preparing to send athletes to Israel, where we believe there been serious protests against participation on account of the present Nazi government in Germany. Palestine, homeland of the Jews, and Soviet Russia, communist and in world, are not sending teams. In the United States a well organized and well financed movement is expected to participate. Arriving in New York I handed right in the middle of the scrap and viewed the A.A.U. proceedings from a rigeinde press seat. After talking with the leaders of all factions, gossiping with the New York sport writers, and talking with delegates in the corridors for three days I have pieced together the following behind-the-scenes analysis, most of which could not be printed by New York papers for reasons of policy. As far as could be learned all the dozen or more delegates who had been in Germany recently voted in favor of participation, although most of them had been typically apprehensive before being introduced to the A.A.U. was highly unnecessary, because a boycotter vote would not have stopped American participation. That had already been decided by the votes of more than 60 organizations, of which the A.A.U. was only one of the groups using a sounding board by the radical, Jewish and other anti-Nazi forces whose interest was more political than athletic. A prime mover of the Olympic boycott forces was a man who writes for the official organ of the Communist Party. The movement was heavily flavored with radicals, socialists, comrades and others who take at face value the atrocious stories circulated about Nazi Germany, just as I once implicitly believed during the war that Germans were cutting the hands off of Belgian babies. Operating behind a facade of resistance, they financed by large chunks of money raised readily among Jews and others, they had done exceedingly effective preliminary work. In corridors delegates whispered暗暗 to me of fantastic phone talks, of pressure brought out by officials and By a close vote participation forces carried the day and proceeded to nail down their advantage by electing Avery Brunidge, their leader, to the presidency that would normally have gone to the boycott leader. J. T. Mahoney, for a second term. Mahoney derived satisfaction from the fact that the votes of the district officials showed a majority in favor of the candidate he ceased to note that among the allied groups actually participating in athletics the vote was 15 to 1 for participation. Sharp differences of opinion flare in unisportaller reckentiment of the floor. Boycott forces resented the tabling of their anti-participation motion after it had been agreed in committee that Olympic admirers attended the influx of scores of new faces that had never appeared in amateur athletic circles. Avery Bründlage commented, "This opposition is a well-organized, highly financial movement, which sent delegates to the convention and delegates paying their expenses to New York. As a result the delegates in attendance were 263 instead of the usual 150. The regular delegates who attend the conventions year after year were saying, "Look what moved in on us!" Boycott's group, a group that has never before shown as much interest in amateur athletics as in the professional variety. The evening after I had been killed time by checking the 1935 foreign records from a new A.U. release, and I found that many of them were taking the first 5 places into account, All this fuss will only accentuate the inevitable kick-back that is coming when the American athletes return from Berlin. Instead of the terrible picture they have been taught by these elephants, the athletes will have found a smiling, hospitalized man many. The conditions there that outrage a believer in democracy do not show up readily on the surface. These campus heroes and their followers may never again have the same confidence in the integrity of the communist, socialist, liberal, and Jewish elements that caused this and other similar movements. By MARY FENTRESS United Press Staff Correspondent Paris Styles earlyhere. Madeline Vionnet takes a fringed crepe of a warm orange tone and uses it in the manner of a Spanish shawl to make an interesting evening cown. The gown is draped, but closely fitted, and the shawl-like scarf is brought across the front from the left shoulder and then is pulled across the back with the shawl and again over the left arm. The long fringe thus covers the entire gown. These same groups tried to head off the Baptist World Congress in Berlin last year, but failed. Returning editors of Baptist publications, not being under ordinary policy restraints, lashed out with such remarks as: "I went to Ger­many with my parents and we grotesque ideas about Adolf Hitler which had been furnished me by the American press. I came away convinced that the German people are good at heart, lovers of peace, responsive to the beaten hearts of the world," he loyal to their country and their President (Hilfer). Not willing to trust my own impressions I talked to several other Americans and their impressions were the same as mine." Again, "I am gravely concerned . . . about what goes forth, very evidently from amateurs and as evidently designed to foment strife among the three great nations of the world, England, Germany, and America. Behind the scenes moves some hand-singer—" And another. "I shall carry back to the four million Southern Americans who have ideas of Germany and the German people than America has received through our newspapers." The religious editors quoted above are to a great extent correct, and they miss the little tyrannies such as the one covered in my story from Heidelberg. And our athletes will be chiefly impressed by the tremendous strides German sport has made under its glorification by the Nazi government, so that from a nation that has never won a first place in any track or field events, we proceeding Olympics they have jumped to a serious contender. Paris, Jan. 9.-(UP)—The mid-season brings a modification in the evening silhouette, in that the complicated folds of drapery have given way to the illusion that they are part of work. Courttrusters have realized at last that women will not wear the flowing and elaborate gowns that were shown earlier in the season. In contrast is Paquin's new black velvet evening gown which is made with a slightly blossomed body above a tailored, tight belt. The long, full skirt has a loose pocket in front at the right hip and the bodice is topped by an embellished fringe (like a clown's ruff) or pink, light green and pale yellow velvet. Interested detail work is noted ev- Jean Patton makes a taffeta evening gown printed in multi-colored flowers on a background. The material is gathered to the back make the dress close-fitting in front although the skirt flares out in fullness in back. The gown is made of black velvet which tie it in a bow and streamers at the back waist. --reviews our past economic history; in the second part he writes a resume of our present condition; and in the last section he presents a program for rehabilitation. From Jefferson's democracy, Adam's realism, and Hamilton's banking theories Agr gleens the basis for his prograi. He praises the French instinct for property "as more real, more practical." France the instinct for property is strong enough to impose a restraint on enterprise. A Corner On Books By Charles Haward "Land of the Free," by Herbert Agar. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Dec. 1935. Herbert Agar is one of the few propagandists today that give Americans any hope of coming through the present economic and political labyrinth on our own merits. The Left-Wing writers of today are tirelessly repeating that there are just two ways out; facism or socialism. Agar has believed that "there is a third way out; the way which is in keeping with our American instinct and tradition, the way which involves re-creating our system of real private property." In the first section of the book, Agar He divides those struggling for Power in America today into six groups. He discusses how the plans of the last group, "those who believe that along with the true American system they are supposed to dom, save democracy, making America as good a nation as can be found in a not wholly satisfying world," could be effected. "To be a great nation," he writes, "we must have self-confidence, we must have will to sacrifice which comes only with a conviction of moral righteous." Although Agar's ideals and theories are praeworthy, he fails to set-up the effective practical, political maneuver that has proved decisive. He has not yet met his appearance. Resolve: To "Hang-out" at the BLUE MILL 1009 Mass. 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