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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1935
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1935
OUT OF STEP
The University class schedule is just thirty minutes out of step with the rest of the world. Why should University people be forced to conform to two time systems?
Just because classes traditionally start at eight-thirty, and end at five-twenty, should we cling to an outmoded system which wastes our time?
The library, restaurants, transportation systems, theaters, the University business office, business houses, social functions—all these run on a time schedule and they figure time from the even hour.
Class work is naturally an important part of college life but only a few hours each day are actually spent in the classroom. The rest of a student's time is portioned out to other activities which vary with the interests and financial condition of the individual. Whether this time is spent in work, in study, in recreation, or in sports, the student has to conform to the even hour schedule in making the apportionment of his available hours.
Practically all the institutions which employ student help, the department of buildings and grounds, the library, and all commercial enterprises in the town must figure time with the rest of the world, from the even hour. Students who work, especially those who go to work at one o'clock, must either sacrifice an eleventh-class or take insufficient time for a lunch period. Many down town restaurants will not hire students because they cannot be on duty for the noon rush which begins about fifteen minutes after twelve. Every working student must sacrifice time, effort and perhaps his digestion in conforming to the double life he is forced to live.
The intramural football and baseball games are often called because of darkness and the RO. T.C. drill ends almost in the dark during the short winter days. Both of these activities would be greatly aided if they started half an hour earlier.
The faculty would have more time to prepare for the evenings activities if faculty meetings and other work could be set ahead half an hour. Those parents on the faculty who have children attending public schools can seldom eat with their family except in the evening because of the conflict in the time schedules to which they must conform.
Why then should we continue such a system that is so obviously inconvenient to such a large group of people. Any arbitrary schedule is valuable only so long as it is convenient for those who it serves. Might not our class schedule be changed if such a change would benefit a majority of those who must abide by it?
There are rumors of peace in Europe but the rumors of war still outnumber them.—Wichita Eagle.
THE OTHER MAN'S VIEWPOINT
"If Mexico raided over our Southern border just one-tenth as much as Ethiopia has into Italian territory, we would have gone to Mexico City, and in no uncertain manner put a stop to such activity."
These words of a free lance writer, Emile C. Schmurmacher who has just returned from Ethiopia, offer a startling contrast to the general feeling of American people in regard to the Ethiopian question.
But an even more surprising statement was that Hale Selasie, regardless of his cries to the outside world, actually wanted war, for in his role of the Lion of Judah, he was having considerable trouble keeping various tribes in his domain under control. He believed that a war with an invading force would be just the thing to pull these wild tribes together under the bond of a common hatred. But on the other hand, Selasie did not care to lose too much to gain this, so by the
most skillful propaganda, he has made sympta thief if not active allies of most of the world.
The third statement of this writer is that "whatever July does to the country, (Ethiopia) 80 per cent of the people have a sporting chance of being better off," for disease flourishes there, slave trade is carried on to a pitiful extent, many of the tribes are willing to kill each other as well as foreigners on the slightest provocation, and Haile Selassie is not strong enough to unite and control his people.
These are personal observations of a man who has first hand knowledge of the situation. He eliminated the possibility of censorship by returning to America to write. During his six months stay in Ethiopia he should have been able to sift fact from rumor and gather a large supply of authentic information.
The importance of Mr. Schnummaher's article is that it presents a side to the question that is seldom seen. His statements cannot be seized upon as absolutely authentic, but neither can the observations of censored news writers. We must weigh our so called facts, but we must gather as many ideas as possible to place upon the scale.
Italy is not entirely wrong, a nation seldom is, but in the rush of sentiment that accompanies forceful national action, we are apt to lose sight of the real issues. We find ourselves swamped by propaganda and blinded to all viewpoints except our own. But if we are to form a logical conclusion, we must base that conclusion on knowledge, not sentiment. The only way to acquire such knowledge is to consider every possible source of information then think for ourselves.
It is in this light that we must read Mr. Schnurmurher's article, but in this light must we also read any other story of Italy and Ethiopia.
Yale scientists announce the discovery of six separate "dynamics" in the human brain. Wait till the anti-utilities people get hold of that.
—Boston Evening Transcript<sup>i</sup>
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University's Daily Kaman. Articles over 200 words in length, are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansas;
The individuals responsible for the petition which is in circulation adding the Kansas Memorial Union to spend some of our money to hire orchestraes for the mid-week darness be recommended on taking the first constructive step toward settling the differences existing between the Kansas Union and the local Musicians' Union.
We were forced to pay seven thousand dollars for membership in the Union, and it is time we were getting something more for our money than a poor brand of clothing. We wore a jacket with 'wrappers' between ears at our mid-week舞会.
Yes, we love our posterity, and we wish to improve the Union building so that the students coming after us may enjoy it more, but we'll be damned if we will sacrifice our mid-week dances so that another couple of hundred dollars—a mere drop in the bucket—can be sewed away for future improvements to the Union building.
Every man and woman in this University should get behind this movement, and sign this petition, a copy of which is posted on the bulletin board in Watson library. This is the one way a democratic student body can voice its opinion. Let's show that we want at least one organization to make an effort to benefit. Don't put this petition at the first opportunity.
Let's be Men, not mice F.M
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Notices to Chancellor's Office at 1 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues.
December 11, 1935
No. 65
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Regular Visitation at d.c.0900 in C. Moyers, Burls.
FRESHMAN COUNCIL. The Freshman Council will hold its meeting this evening at 7 o'clock in room 10, Memorial Union building, this week instead of Monda on Friday. The Freshmen are invited. All freshmen are invited. Donald Henry, President.
INTEGRACIAL, COMMISSION: The Interracial Commission of the W. Y.C.A. will have a meeting at Henley House Thursday at 7 a.m. of clock. Miss Mary Larson will speak on questions to the prompt. Martha Peterson, Dorset Hodges
Keith Davis, President
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cerclé Francais se re-unira mercredi a quatre heures et demis la salle 306 Fraser. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites.
Brun Bouchard, Secrtaire
PI MU EPSLSON; Pi Mu Epius initiation and banquet will be held at the Manor Friday, Dec. 13, at 6
Co-chairmen
Ruth Brandt, Secretaire.
Gilbert Ulmer, Director.
QUACK CLUB: Quack Club will hold its regular meeting at 8 o'clock tonight.
Rachel Kiene, President.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY. The annual Christmas party of the University Women's Club given for the men of the faculty, will be held Thursday evening, Dec. 12, at 8:30 o'clock in the library.
WORLD AFFAIRS COMMISSION: World Affairs Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet Thursday, Dec. 12 at 4:30, at Henley house. All girls interested in social and economic problems are cordially invited.
Jane Thompson, Esther Anderson, Co-chairmen.
Mrs. Leonard Axe, Corresponding Secretary.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. Men's Student Council meeting will be held at 8:10 o'clock today. All members are requested to come armed with maximum prejudice for their party. Herb, Sizemore, Secretary.
MANY PRE-HISTORIC ANIMALS OF KANSAS ROAM ONCE AGAIN
"Come on in the office," invited Bernard E. Frazier, leading the way into his workshop in Dyce Museum. "I 'a clean house in here once in a while,' he added as he hurriedly dusted a chair for me.
Bernard "Poco" Frazier Reconstructs Unusual Models in a Series of Dioramas at Dyche Museum
By Hazel Binney, '37
Mr. Fräizer, or perhaps you know him as "Pooe," a nickname fami­
amily especially to his schoolmates when he was a famous two-mile runner in the University of Kannas some six or seven year­
age ago is engaged in a research department, it making a number of dioramas which will form a new and interesting addition to Dyche museum, now in the process of reconditioning. The dioramas are being financed by an annual grant from the University has charge. Mr. Fräizer's work is the first attempt to make a series of exhibits showing the development of animal life by this method. Whey the series is completed, animals from the earliest histo­
rical periods most recent perio­
will be represented.
"They are scenes all of which may have happened, at some time, in Kansas," said Mr. Frazier.
"How did you do it?" was my first question, when I had partially recovered from the breathtaking beauty of the scenes around me.
Having explained this much in his office, while attempting to light a stubborn gasoline stove, Mr. Frazer took me into the immense, cold, bare, and dimly lighted room which is the first floor of the museum. He turned a light switch, and I suddenly felt myself carried back millions of years looking at the prehistoric animals which attained the truth at that time, as I remembered from a brief study of them in a geology course I had in the University.
"By a bit of deceit, trickery," he laughed. "We use a miniature scale to represent the scale of our habitat group. Back of the animal, we present a scene with a very abrupt diminishing of the scale which gives the effect of looking into the distance," he said.
The ditchers are some four feet square and two feet deep. The corners are gently rounded so that the eye meets no sharp obstruction which recalls an abruptly hard surface with a gentle curve which, with the quickly diminishing scale, carries one into the realm of make-believe; and one gazes entranced at the pine forest in the distance, or laughs and rolls as the case may be.
The animals are modeled in clay, cast in plaster, then painted. Cloth, celluloid, and feathers are used in making the vegetation.
Mr. Frazier is aided in his work by Mrs. Frazier, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, who makes a great deal of the vegetation. Together, they work about two months on each diorama.
"Id like to know something about the animals that are represented here." I suggested rather timidly, for the scenes of the games had not yet worn off.
"All right," promptly replied Mr. Frazier. "Let's begin with the earliest group we have here. It is a scene of the Permian period which ended, we think, one hundred eighty-five million years ago. It was during this period that the red soil of Oklahoma and Kansas was laid down; Diedton and Edhahuron grew; early spikes like spikes with large fins on their backs. They were about ten feet long; here they are one-third of the original size."
A diorama of a Permanian group of amphibians (Erysops, Semoura, Caecips, and Diplocelus) is nearing completion. It represents a somewhat different form than the group Caecips shows the beginning of armory on an animal. Semoura is a primitive type of reptile. Some of the amphibians will be natural size.
"Here is a life-size Echippus = a four-footed toad high in height - the earliest known ancestor of the horse. He lived in the Eocene period, which ended
sixty million years ago," said Mr. Frazer, standing with his hands in his pockets, as he critically surveyed Eo-hippus.
Hoplophoneus, an early form to saber-toot牙虎, and Poeperhiemus, the ancestor to the modern llama, alpaca, and camel, represent the Oligoene period of some thirty million years ago. These animals are land very similar to our western plains. They are shown as two-fifths their natural size.
The room was cold; cold enough that as Mr. Frutier talked, his breath floated into the air in blue clouds. But I was reluctant to leave the beautiful scenes, and he was willing to talk about them.
The Woolly Mammoth, represented on a scale of one-fifth its true size, was a shaggy-haired animal with tusks sixteen and a feet long and was about the size of the modern Indian elephant. It lived in the Platycene
Mc. Fraider began work on the dioramas last January, coming from Chicago where he has worked, since his graduation from the University of Kansas in 1929, as assistant to several Chicago sculptors, among them Lorado Taft who is probably the known statues in the museum. He also did professional and commercial work under his own name.
In addition to the four dioramas already completed and the one of the amphibians which is now being made, Mr. Franzer will represent a group of fish from the Devonian period of two hundred million years ago. He is uncertain, yet, as to the exact number of dioramas that will be finished.
Ancient Antics
20 Years Ago
By D.L.H.
At the football smoker to be held soon, Coach Hamilich, director of Athletics, has arranged for two boxing matches to be a part of the program.
A girl student carrying her thread to class was disconcerted to see it running down the aisle and under seats. All hands, it is reported, helped her wind it up—(Probably sewed up her runs in class.)
"We have no recruiting system," says athletic manager Hamilton. "We depend upon the alumni to send us material." (Which makes if we can count, several thousands of silent saints or an efficient recruiting system.)
The Lawrence Municipal band which tots and belloons in the hand stand at South Park, has consented to pull on their boots, oil up the tuba and piccolo, practice at the corner grocery and render Christmas carols in a Lawrence Christmas program. Children of school age will sing with the band in a firework party before the Christmas trombone in Brick's basement—the slide trombone will give a red hot rendition of Diana while all the children of school age will swing it. Instead of dragging in a yule log, some arsonist will set fire to the building.)
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