PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HERBERT A. MEYER, JR. ASSOCIATE EDITORS MELIN HARLIN RUMELL CHEZEM MANAGING EDITOR MANAGER ROAD BUSINESS MANAGER E. 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Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrenson, Kansas. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1935 MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME Today the University relaxes from its academic duties to act as host to Kansas Editors and Kansas instructors in economics and business. As the official newspaper of the University, the Kansan extends a hearty welcome to these visitors. Both the editors and instructors are playing important roles in current affairs today. Both groups are vital to modern society. Without them, the society would not be as dynamic from the meetings to be held over the week-end. To the visitors we say; Make yourself at home. To the students; Make these visitors feel at home. KEEP THEM ALIVE Perhaps you will question the accuracy of this report, but a local K. U. alumnus called this office late Saturday afternoon to complain of a typographical error on the sport page and a bad one at that. "It says," he declared, "that Missouri won a football game." -Hutchinson News. With the passing of Sidney Smith, the world loses one of its most famous cartoonists and creators of comic strips. To millions of readers, of all ages and classes, the name of Sidney Smith is pictorially translated into the form of "The Gumps." Smith began his work on the Church Tibaneau in 1911, and in 1917 he created his most famous strip, depicting the life of an ordinary American family. Daily through the years the entire American family has pitted Uitee Bim, endured perilous experiences with Chester, and chuckled over the wranglings of Andy and Min. So humanly and vividly have these characters been portrayed, and so truthfully do they seem to exist, that readers can be inclined to imagine Andy and Chester, and the others morning for the loss of their creator. But what will become of the Gumps now? Chester, in the weekly strip, is lost in the darkening North, while the home life of Bim is at a critical stage. For many years now, Smith has had staff artists and idea men to collaborate with him in working out his stories, but he has closely supervised the entire work. Recently he stated that he had his dailies prepared for three months in advance, and now his men are begging for the chance to keep the Gumps alive after this period has terminated. Added to the pleas of the staff comes requests from the entire world to continue Smith's work, and keep the children of his imagination alive and active as he had created them. MAN OF MANY FACES General Hugh S. Johnson, first administrator of the NRA, and more recently administrator of the WPA in New York City, who, in the Saturday Evening Post under the title, "Think Fast, Captain," vigorously admonishes the administration to check its present course on vital matters and return to the sound fundamentals of the party platform of 1832, is to be the first speaker on the University lecture course. Born a poor boy in Ohio, he attended West Point where he earned a bachelor's degree in the cavalry. Later he graduated from the law school at the University of California and went into business, eventually he became head of the NRA, then administrator of WPA in New York City. The General seems to have a gift for character transformations. He can be any one of a half dozen people, depending on what seems most appropriate at the moment. Much of the time he is a lawyer. He is interested in the Army War College. He is the "minor industrialists" as he has called himself in speeches. Again, he is the theoretician planning for a new industrial order. Sometimes, in a single speech, he is seen in all of his roles. Equally conspicuous is his quality to charm people and get them to do things. He holds muttered conversations with himself, wrist cracks, aptly quotes from Scripture and has a slow sleepy smile. One of his favorite descriptions of himself has been, "a student of business affairs." He is an able, experienced speaker, well worth hearing, whether or not one agrees with his policies. Campus Opinion Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kauai. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited. Editor Daily Kansan: Yesterday freshman women convened in Praser auditorium to nominate candidates for the office of vice president. True to the precedent set in past years, the vast majority of the women present were pledges of organized houses, compelled by the upperclassmen of those houses to attend and see that one of their groups was selected to represent them at election ten, for the purpose of acquainting voters with candidates will be held. The same groups will be in attendance and will pass down a receiving line composed of the candidates who will wear their new uniforms and gratefully smiles on their pretty, painted faces. There will be approximately 40 willing and unwilling office seekers for the prospective voter to meet, and by the time she has said "how-do-you-die" 40 times and is able to recognize it as a license, the did not previously know. On the day of election each freshman will dutifully mark her ballot in favor of her pledge sister, and the groups that have the largest pledge classes will very likely vote for her. The women officers, of the freshman class will be elected. The importance of freshman officers in women's self-government is two-fold. In the first place, a freshman officer, if she has any executive ability and force of character at all, has just as much voice and a vote in council activities as any of the senior members, secondly, electing a freshman member to the council is putting her directly in line for a more important office as the major officers require previous membership in the co-ordinated system. If men's politics on the Hill may sometimes be accused of being too large of the "mud-slinging" variety, women's politics my certainly be accused of being of an entirely too passive and insipid nature. If unorganized freshmen cannot be interested in politics to the extent of putting a little peep and free thinking into the nomination and election of their officers, it would seem that sorority pledge might by some means be applied. For example, the university apparently foundering, waiting for some political-minded upperclassman to instruct them as to methods of procedure. If freshman women might be made to realize that their minds are just as capable of picking a candidate from the pool as those of the opposing voters and that more often than not the member of their group whom they are prevalent upon to support is hardly qualified to hold a classroom office, much less an office in the largest class of a great university; then with a few brains to guide it, the Women's Self Governation might become a vital factor in student life—LT. Our Contemporaries HOOVER "PREPARES Brown Daily Herald With the help of high-powered and high-scaled public advisors, ex-President. Hoover is looking forward to the possibility of removing the "ex" in the fall campaign. Mr. Hoover, who does not plan to enter the primaries, thinks that he has a possibility of getting the Republican nomination with such a plan, it is reported that ex-Senator Fees of Ohio is hard-picking the Republican nominating committee which will be instructed to start off by voting for former Vice President and to shift to Hoover at a moment of physical moment, if an An additional tremor is given Mr. Hoyer by the Idahan silence of Senator Borah, western "threat." Borah has announced previously that he will remain a potential candidate, as long as Hoover is considering candidacy. The chief objection raised to Borah's chances has been his unpopularity with western farmers because of his opposition of the AAA, which is fairly popular in some areas, and the fact that Borah is within the next month or two by drawing up an alternative farm relief program which is intended to pacify agricultural interests. And while the lame elephant fight it out for the nomination, a growing wonder fills the minds of some political observers. It becomes increasingly difficult for voters to why the Republican nomination is worth fighting for. But then, Mr. Hoover announces that he was defeated in 1932, not because of his policies or his personality, but because of "circumstances for which he was not responsible." Notice due at Cancellor's Office at 3 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. for Sunday issues. DER DEUTSCHE VERREN: Der Deutsche Verein versammelt sich Montag den 28 Oktober, um halb fußen im Zimmer 31 Fraser. Bernudie Berkley, Selstraten. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN No.34 EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING: The faculty of the School of Education will meet at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. October 25,1935 4 R. A. Schwegler, Dean. Y. W. C. A.: The annual membership ban will be held Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 6 c/clock, at the Memorial Union cafeteria. All new members may obtain tickets at Henley Box 1075. Tickets must be obtained for 30 cents. Tickets must be obtained by Monday noon. Nancy Calhoun, President. TYPE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY RECALLS EARLY ERA OF PRINTING Brevier and Bourgeois, Heavy Serif and Ornate Type Faces On Display in Journalism Building By J. Howard Rusco, c'38 by J. Howard Haskell, 635 An echo of an earlier catel in prints, the days of Frevier and Bourgeois, by heavy irons and ornate facades, from the nineteenth century types and electotypes that will be seen in the news room of the Journalism building during the Kansas Editorial Roundtables, this week-end. This display, leased to the department of journalism by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Vain Deunen, 1624 Tennessee street frontage, is owned by Charles Emerson Witmer, former Lawresident, in the publication of the Willem (Iowa) Review between the two. Included in the collection are electrotype typical of the typography of the day, such as the monochrome illustrations, and mottled border designs. In structure, these cuts differ very little from those in use today, the chief difference lying in their greater In this day of "natural" typography, with harmony of type faces and simplicity of design, it is difficult to appreciate fully the importance of electrosynthesis in printing. In those days, and for several decades later, elegance was the keynote, and no piece of printing was considered presentable unless it contained a half-dozen different type faces and was brightened by the variety of fancy "diagitals," or ornamentals. The type in the Wittman collection comprises, as might be expected, a wide variety of different faces, ranging from the severe lines of Gothic to the painfully elaborate faces, most of which are designated by number rather than name. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that the present trend of typography is returning to some of the styles of the 18th and early 19th centuries collection have almost exact duplicates in the latest designs of American type founders. This old type was cast in much the same way, and from a similar metal alloy, as that in use today; but in size it varies slightly from the present standard. Cast before the standard point system was adopted, its size was designated by name: for example 8-point, the size of the body type of the Daily Kansan model; for example 9-point, used sizes ranged from Pearl (5-point) to Great Primer (18-point). The present sizes are determined on a basis of 72 points to the inch. The original owner of this collection, Dr. Wuthin, lived a colorful life, of which his career as a newspaper publisher and a medical doctor in Born in 1830, he worked his way through the Eclectic Medical Institute, of Cincinnati, to engage with the Union army during the War. In appreciation of his services, attendants and patients of a hospital in Louisville presented him with a kit of surgical instruments, which, unused, 2 FEATURE PICTURES Lawrence's Bargain Theatre PATEE 10c 15c NOW! ENDS SATURDAY Hi No.1 The King of Cowboys A Fast Action Western JOHN WAYNE HE NEW FRONTIE are still in the possession of the Van Deusens. They also have a copy of "The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men," published in 1878, with a biographical sketch of Witam. "THE NEW FRONTIER" Hit No. 2 ROBERTY TAYLOR JEAN PARKER TED HEALY At the close of theDr. W. Drimow moved to Wilton, Iowa, where for about 18 years, he served as physician, banker, school board member and publisher. Incidentally, in Wilton began his friend J. ship with J. D. Bowersock, who later moved to Lawrence and founded the Lawrence School. Dr. Wrimow moved to Lawrence in 1883, and built the house at 1624 North Avenue where the Van Deusens now live. "MURDER in the FLEET" He resided here until his death in 1917. It is unfortunate that practically in records of his career as a publisher now exist. The type, electro, and other printing equipment, were packed, together with copies of the newspapers of his profession, found by the Van Deuzens, but the Wilton Review does not appear among them. There is, however, a copy of the "Carrier's Address," written by Mrs. Witheron on Jan. 1, 1832. This poem, in keeping with the custom of the time, was an annual plea to subscribers for donations to the Carrier, with great feeling the hardships and woes of the carriers, which were legion. But of the years that Dr. Witheron spent in the newspaper profession, the only tangible record exists in this collection DICKINSON TODAY - TOMORROW The Picture All Students Are Raving About "TWO FOR TONIGHT" BING CROSBY JOAN BENNETT MARY BOLAND Popeye in His Football Cartoon Here SUNDAY to Surprise You Greater Than Ever on the Talking Screen "WAY DOWN EAST" with Rochelle Hudson - Henry Fonda Stim Summerville Here's the Newest English TOPCOAT It fits loosely and easily. It has raglan shoulders and slash pockets. It comes in either fleece or camel's hair fabrics. $21. $^{50}$ Many other styles, too, at this price. The Palace of printing material. Apparently the feel of type and the smell of printer's ink did not wield over him the charisma that a century earlier, had impelled men to have engraved upon his皮革, simply "Benjamin Franklin—Printer". GRANADA Shows 3-7-9 25c 'til 7 NOW! ENDS SATURDAY "FRECKLES" The Greatest Selling Novel in the History of the World! Give Great Reads! 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