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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Dailv Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... WESLEY GORDON
Associate Editors
Joseph Pryor Margaret Boast
Campus Editor
Harry Valentine
Campus Editors
Gregory Meier
Herbert Mott
Sunday, Editor
Elizabeth Patt
Sunday, Editor
Elisabeth Jerry
Danny Fry
Exehance Editor
Joseph Fry
Exehance Editor
Business Manager F. Quentin Brown
Ast. Business Manager Ellen Carter
Lena Wyatt
M. Banks
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Ruthenor Hayes
Wosley McCalla
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Entered an second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 12. 1935
"SINE CUM LAUDE"
This is the story of a little boy and his subsequent rise to fame. He was a nice little boy, as nice little boys go. He didn't pull girls' hair, throw paper wads, "sass" the teacher, or play any of those pranks that delight the heart of a normal youngster. He was "set up" as the model youngster of his town.
In high school he continued in his capacity as a "nice" boy. He attended all of his classes, never missed an assignment, and was affiliated with practically every organization—all except those organizations where physical effort was needed.
In college he went the way of his training. He mixed in with the proper boys and sets. He was content to sit around the favorite student meeting place and sip cokes. He watched all that went about him—he even gripped with the students when the college authorities passed a measure that appeared too stringent—and talked of what he'd do if he were a member of the student self-government organization.
In time he was elected to that august body that has as its sole purpose the governing of student affairs. His lofty ideals were forgotten, his plans to bring about constructive measures for the students were thrown in the ash heap and he became a "yes" man that sided in with the majority because he lacked the initiative to buck any plan that was not of beneficial nature.
Moral: a little stubbornness or self initiative now and then isn't harmful.
So our little boy started out in life as a "nice" youngster, who did what he was told to do, and ended up in college doing what he was told to do.
To win the Big Six basketball title was big news to Iowa State students; but to Mt. Oread it is news not to win.
THE NEW DEATH HOUSE
Now that the Kansas legislature has voted away the old and somewhat conservative idea of life imprisonment and has substituted the more popular death penalty, there are but seven states to carry the old banner onward.
None of the seven states having life imprisonment as the penalty for murder has a serious crime problem. Maine has a murder rate of only 1.7 for 100,000 population; Michigan, 3.3; Minnesota, 2.1; North Dakota, 2.0; Rhode Island, 1.7; South Dakota, 1.9; and Wisconsin, 1.1. The three states having the highest rate of murder are Alabama with 34.0; Tennessee with 22.6 and Florida with 20.8. These three states all have the death penalty.
Just looking at the above figures taken from the World Almanac for 1935, does it seem sound to
conclude that the rate of murder will be decreased in this state by enforcement of the death penalty?
The next thing to do before planning the new Kansas death house is appoint a committee to look over the one at Alabama where the death rate is 34.0!
Some professors have the attitude that students should be seen and not heard in classes.
Now that the "New Deal" has been in vogue for two years isn't it about time the deck were reshuffled?
A RADIO PROGRAM
Wanted: A radio program with the marine band, and starring Huey Long and his stooges, the U. S. Congress and the new deal administration.
Can you imagine a better program? We have had our Eddie Cantor, Joe Penner and Will Rogers, but we are badly in need of an additional comedian such as the Kingfish.
Long has been entertaining the senators for quite some time. All the general public has been able to get was what has been in the papers, and these articles can hardly reflect the true spirit in which the speeches have been given, so the public has been missing out on some mighty good humor. It is up to some enterprising sponsor to put Huey on the air so that everybody can enjoy him.
As the Kappa told the Theta, "Mothers never know, but they suspect plenty".
We can guarantee that whoever does back Long will be amply rewarded. It will be a good show.
It may be an Intramural Carnival to some people, but to us it's just the "Hill Organization Follies".
COMMENTS
-By the Editor
W. S.G.A. petitions flew over the campus like so many handbills for a cheap picture show. Degeneracy had so set in that the girls had the men carrying their petitions. Just as if W.S.G.A.'s system of election were not bad enough without the men mixing in. Soon we shall have the first part of both sexes in the mixup.
One girl earned a petition for an office and either knowingly or unknowingly misrepresented the office for which she was trying to get simers.
Petitions bounced about the classroom, and apparently all of the names in the student directory have been used either with or without the permission of the owners. Now we are all ready for a nice clean election.
Editor's note. The Kansan will present in this column thumb-bail sketches of the members of the faculty.
We Polish Apples
Professor Frank Heykow Holder has been head of the history and political science department at the University of Kansas since 1908. He received his Ph.M. from the University of Michigan and later studied at the universities of Göttingen and Freiburg in Germany in 1890-91. He was an instructor and assistant professor in the history faculty before he came here. Dr. Holder has made important contributions to history through his books.
You will know him when you next meet him in the library because he will be the one man who is brave and independent enough to dare to talk aloud in that hushed haven (and get away with it). He likes to keep his courses right up to the hour, so this year's notes may not do you any good in next year's class. How can you prove him smart? (Or do you prefer dill, stap, camp courses?) He is one of a few professors who deny themselves the pleasure of giving out "catch" questions and contents himself with asking the important and essential things in his quizzes.
Now that you have been introduced to Dr. Hodder formally, wouldn't you like to meet him informally?
Frank Heywood Hodder
He was heard the other day to remark about his recent picture in the Jahwayh, "They ought to have a better one than that over there!"
We have discovered another human professor.
STEPHEN C. FOSTER'S FOLK SONGS WING WAY TO HEART
A group of Negroes, clung around a tumble-down shanty, softly croon "My Old Kentucky Home.' A moment's hesitation at the end, then they slowly chanted that sad melody, "Massa's in the Cold Ground." From the large house a hundred yards distract the strains of a radio drift across the air, and "Old Black Joe." is wafted to the now-listening group of Negroes.
"My Old Kentucky Home," and "Oh Susanna" Included in
Jamie Lill Collection.
These songs, together with a host of others written by Stephen Collins Fosse, explore the lives of hearts of young and old, rich and poor, with their enchanting plenitude.
Josiah Lilly Collection
For years Stephen Foester, also author of "Ob Suanna," 'Nelly was a Lady, "Old Dog Tray," and 'Willie Hes Gone to War,' has remained comparatively unchanged in receiving the credit due his prolific folksong writing. No little of this is attributable to the diligent research of Mr. Josiah K. Lilly, of Indiana, Indiana Mr. Lilly set about collecting the works of this American folk-song author, and today, in the quintain stone house on his estate just outside Indiana, rest the books.
today, in the quaint stone house on his estate just outside Indianapolis, rest the collections. Mr. Lilly erected the little house, and named it Foster Hall.
Mr. Lilly was not content with merely collecting the songs. He resolved that America should more fully know the man from whose pen these fascinating folk songs flowed. He had reproductions made of his collection of over 200 Foster songs, and distributed them to one thousand universities and libraries in New York and Chicago. The University of Kansas received one of these gifts from Mr. Lilly, and the songs, in three fine buckram cases, are now on display in Watson Library.
Josiah K. Lilly comes from a musical family. He was first impressed by the Foster includes as a boy, when students came to his home in Greencastle, Indiana, and sang the haunting Foster songs. Later he moved with his family to Indianapolis with his father, Ely Lilly, founded the Pharmaceutical Laboratory of which Mr. Lilly is now president.
These songs are the result of years of
ROCK CHALKLETS Conducted by R.J.B.
The fate, well-being and well-smell-ing of good old "Mulligan Stems" hang at balance. Cornell university scientists have perfected odorless cabbage flavor thing you know they'll be extracting delicate perfumes from garlic.
A certain young cat called Hortense,
Sang alone at night on the fence;
Till a person named Munn,
After all Kansas isn't such a dull place. In the last two weeks we have had several tornadoes and an earthquake. A bunch of the heathen are attending church more regularly now, too.
Small fry—the amoeba.
Flattery is soft soap and soft soap is 90% lye—Clipped.
Took up a large gate.
And put dents in the side of Hortense
Item showing the Immense Vocabulary of the Sigma Nu's: The other day someone called up the Sigma Nu house, and asked to speak to the house mother.
painstaking research of Mr. Lilly. He has now more than 100 records of Foster's works, issued by various companies. When he began the collection, he found that the original songs were scattered throughout the United States. Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., a bibliophile, suggested that his father communicate with a Boston publisher and write with other collectors, Mr. Lilly has built up his collection until it is probably the most complete in the United States.
The songs, together with the history of Foster's life, and pictures of the author, repose in his Foster Hall. The little building is constructed of rough-hewn granite and brick, with a slate roof, and French windows. It resembles the houses of the city on the river in the midst of orchards and gardens in the suburbs of Indianapolis.
On the University of Pittsburgh campus the citizens of Pittsburgh are building an impressive library which will also be named Foster Hall. Stephen Foster was born in Pittsburgh and his body rests in that city's Allegheny Cemetery. He will be remembered by Lilly will present to it his entire collection of Fosteringa. It will thus become the official headquarters of all of Foster's material.
Writing of Foster, John Taska Howard,
well-known music critic, is in "Our
Music."
"Today he could offer his work without apology or without reservation, for time has proven its worth. Foster was one of the greatest melodists we have yet produced and some of his simplest songs are among the most beautiful that have been written anywhere. He accomplished what many a better trained musician has failed to do. He wrote melodies that can be understood by everybody, so poignant, so direct in their imagery, so our affair (tore the more we beat them)."
Over Foster's grave a tombstone bears the simple inscription:
Stephen C. Foster of Pittsburgh
Born July 4, 1826
Died Jan. 13, 1864
A pledge who had answered the phone calmly replied: "I'm sorry, but she's inexposed today."
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kaiunan. Articles over 200 words in length are not invited to contributions on any subject are invited.
CAMPUS OPINION
Politics on this campus can be summed up in the one little word farce. With all its pomp, ceremony and self-spirited crusading for the welfare and enlightenment of the students as a whole and the student as an individual, it is nothing but the merest shell; a sham behind which certain eager pseudo-politicians make a futile attempt to conceal themselves and their purposes in their efforts for some gain which may be either in a formary form or in social practice.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Ostensibly an office holder never considers his office in the light in which it itmes consideration, but rather he sees in it a tool by which he can pry his way up in the minds of the doce lamle which follow the dictations of these social aspirants who label themselves "politicians."
The trickery, lies and wholly uneth
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Vol. XXXII
Tuesday, March 12, 1935
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION:
An all-University convocation will be held in the University Auditorium or Wednesday, March 13, at 10 a.m. Judge George T. McDermott will speak.
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The Botany club will meet this evening at the home of Dr. Mix, 1134 Louis-
iana St.
FLORENE BRISCOE, President.
BOTANY CLUB:
The meeting planned for March 15 will be postponed until Friday, March 22 JOHN BEKKER.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB:
Le Cercle Frances se reunira mercredi, a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 306 Froner la夜. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS:
There will be a meeting this afternoon at 4:30 in room 213, Administrator building. Prof. H. E. Jordan will talk on "Nomographic Charts."
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
FLAVIA HAY, Secretaire.
The regular mid-week dance will be held Wednesday night at 7 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. All students must present their identification cards.
BILL COCHRANE, Manager.
MARLOW SHOLANDER, President.
MID-WEEK DANCE:
PHI CHI DELTA:
Phi Chi Delta will meet this afternoon at 5:30 at Westminster hall.
FLORENCE DILL
PI LAMBDA THETA:
P1 Lambda Theta will hold pledge services Thursday at 4:30 in room 11 Fraser. To be pledged please meet in room 103 Fraser.      B2 Lambda Theta, Secretary.
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB:
Snow Zoology club will have its regular dinner meeting tonight at 6 o'clock. Miss Mary Larson will speak. HARRY PETERKA, President.
Tau Sigma will not meet tonight on account of the Musical comedy,
RUTH PYLE.
ical procedure used by the political parties and their supporters are conducive to anything but fair and unbiased opinion in the minds of the voters. These voters, the common students, are mised and persuaded into vitting according to the dictates of a party. All individual thinking is lost in the mealstom of the campaign. And then comes the final judgment. A student sentiment, drawn up by the party and inflated by unintelligent voting.
So the whole realm of student politics defests its own purpose and reduces it to an absurdity. It utterly fails to furnish any worthy reason for its own existence, and the explanation for why its feeble structure was ever instituted in the first place.
We want student government without politics—a democratic voice of the student body met en masse to select its most worthy candidates for the offices which should carry an atmosphere of responsibility rather than being a rung in the socialadder, and a weak one at that! —D.L.
If the whole affair of politics on the Hill consisted of two distinct forces aligned against each other and separated by a definite line of demurition laid down in the Constitution, would not appear to be quite so thoroughly childish. But there is not any such condition existing. The truth of the matter is that they are two parties, both working for the same thing but in a different manner. Their respective leaders must succeed in the end the result will be the same and the common interest will be fulfilled.
Editor Daily Kansan:
The following information was recently barred from the news columns of the Kanan on the grounds that it was not news. Be that as it may, there can be a question that it is compulsion opinion of a number of prominent campus futures.
The following individuals have all signified their approval of the Progressive Student Government League's plan to further stimulation and expression of student thought by instituting official frequent discussion and lecture meetings; Harold Dyer, president of the Y.M.C.A.; Robert Braden, president of the International Relations Club and cadet major in the R.O.T.C.; Fred Gemmil, chairman of the Y.M. Social Relations Committee; Glenn Austin, president of
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