UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXII
1
on the SHIN
By JOE HOLLOWAY, c'35
The boys who put the so-opportune valentines on the Fine Arts bulletin board a few weeks ago received some fan mail this week, apparently from some one who thinks that their artistic talents might be put to some good use. The mail referred to is a letter from a young lady named Jacobs who is supposedly a student in the Continental High School in Pueblo, Colo. The letter asks the aid of the School of Expression lads in formulating a program for May Pole dance. "The lady apparently knew she addressed all as a 'School of Expression' or else she may have been told about the valentine which portrayed Josie Dunkel and his light feet.
We Have a School of Expression
... That Blowers Again ...
Kipp Inspires the Actors ...
Meat-Load Sings ... the Gals
Smoke Hods.
We hear that the boys at the Delti house are getting along very swelw under the new management of "Mother" Ash. Note (Blowers asked us) to put this in-the-wants the Delts to get some publicity.)
We've found out just exactly how the musical comedy directors instil the noble art of acting into their subjects (we posed as one of those awful seats in Fraser theater, and although we suffered, we got the story). It seems that the lady in the lead, Miss Dorothy Ann Martin, goes with a Woo迪 Woo, answers to the name of Woo迪 Woo, and to help Martin needs must inure the comedy in some woo exchanging with Paul Hammond. Well, Woody brought his light of love to rehearsal the other day and while she was rehearsing, he sat on the front row so he'd see all that went on, thereby seeing that his gel conducted herself correctly and just on the side, taking in all the comedy so perhaps he wouldn't have to buy a ticket. But to get to the place came the time between Miss Hammond and Mr. Hammond, and brother Kipp acquired in his seat and waxed muchly indignant. Consequently, Mr. Hammond poured it on all the thicker and the directors of the business have decided to present Kipp with a free ticket for every performance so the actors will be sure to do their best.
We were standing in front of Ad. yesterday and Clyde Nichols walked past us, head bent, walking slowly, a picture of strong silent meditation. He was singing to himself "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream." Maybe the dog's getting too much for limbs too.
Perhaps it was upon his knowledge of the evolution of man that Wesley Gordon was elected to the job of editor of the Kanzen. At least he is some of his pre-election text writing: "Go to Spooner-Thayer. It will be worth your time to see how man has advanced from crude pots and other clay devices to modern delicately-tinted test sets."
These glee club trips really must produce some interesting things in the way of—well you name it, we can't. Here's a brain (!) storm of Henry Miller.'s.
"Stop eingeep me on. I am waffle fond of you and you butter hadn't do that because you symp something in me and I panalease it." We leave it up to you to decide what that's the height of.
How these local lads think them all up, we can't figure cut but one manages to come through in nearly every class at least once a day. In Shannon's accounting class yesterday, the Prof. asked Frank Affleck just how far the work had proceeded so far. Say Franklin after an interval of oh's and ah's "Well, do you mean me or the class in general?"
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935
The lads have given their gels presents and then again the lads haven't given their gels presents, (repeat this as many times as you like) but Fri Poole, that famous attorney from the Delt house broke his bank, has been a big supporter of his lady fair a small pipe for her birthday. She's breaking it in with Velvet. Not an ady.
Kansas State spring football practice started Feb. 26. The schedule for spring practice will include two full skirmish games. Coach Wes Fry said there would be no great changes made over last year's style of play.
Labor Must Rule America, Asserts Socialistic Lawyer
Capitalistic and Communic
istic Nations Make
Same Economic
Mistakes
"This stfire caused by the forces of production is evidenced by imperialism, or the struggle for new markets and the struggle of the workers to receive the benefits of their work," the author says. "The struggling Strugge for Flower." "Production now at a standstill is trying to break its bonds.
"The struggle for power in America is the struggle of the forces of production to free themselves from capitalist fetters," Albert Goldman, labor attorney, told an audience at the last scheduled L.I.D. lecture last night. Mr. Goldman was substituting for J. B. Matthews, who is ill.
"World economy exists as a fact, Capitalistic nations and Stalin's regime in Russia both make the same mistake in not recognizing this fact and in trying to justify their role in global economies. War is the usual result of these programs," the speaker said.
"The struggle of class is another result of the effort of the forces of production to expand. The working class or socialist movement aims to amish the lowest possible production and distribution of goods."
The speaker said that socialism was the only solution. "This will break the national bourbieres and will grant the ends of the class strife. However, labor alone cannot win. It needs not only the neutrality of the middle class but also its active support against the forces of the owning class."
Mr. Goldman characterized the present economic system as being "social production and private appropriation." "The mass of workers," he said, "is used to working together, but the fruit of the labor is appropriated by the capitalists. Labor will have to illustrate the advantages of socialism to the middle class before true production for use can be attained.
"Fascism and liberal democracy are the alternatives offered to us. Fascism represents all that Americans dislike. It demands a static society, and this is permanently impossible. Society must have an advocacy of regimes like democracy, after two years of Roosevelt, has shown itself to be in essence the insane limitations of production." Describing his work in defending laborers arrested in the strike last year in the Sacramento Valley, Mr. Goldman said that he not only had to work against the Hearst press, but also against the Communists. "Some of these arrested were too willing to do anything to get into jail. As a lawyer it was rather difficult for me to get them out," he said.
Marc罗蔼, publisher for Senator
Arthur Capper, has been added as an
extra speaker on the LLD. lecture
program, it was announced last night.
He will speak next Wednesday even-
ing at 8:15 o'clock.
PROBLEM TODAY IS LABOR
Goldman Says Students Must Study Social Topics
"Students have not yet begun to see that society has nothing in store for them," said Albert Goldman, Chicago Theo Forum today.
Harrison to Speak in Kansas City
The Rev. Carter Harrison of the Trinity Episcopal Church will be the guest speaker at 6:30 next Sunday before the Young People's Service League of the City, Mo., which is the church of St. Paul, Mo., of which Harold Coole, e35, is president. Harris has recently been appointed Lay Reader at St. Paul's, which is the largest Episcopal church in Kansas City.
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Following his address the speaker expressed his views on Communism in answer to questions and said, "Communism paralyzes the intellect of every human being in its sphere. Its danger lies not only in the seriousness of these ideas does it think for them."
Harrison to Speak in Kansas City
"Students in a university ought to study social problems in addition to required courses, and they should get some idea as to what the problems are and take a stand on them," he continued. "If students understand the social problem," he said, "they are in a position to throw themselves into the problem, and that problem today is labor." Mr. Goldman built up his arguments by explaining the recent truck drivers' strike in Minneapolis.
C. GRANT LAFARGE TO GIVE LECTURE ON ARCHITECTU
An illustrated lecture on "Architecture, the Industrial Arts and Education" will be given by C. Grant LaFarge, noted American architect, this afternoon at 4:30 in the central Administration auditorium. Mr. LaFarge is a representative of the American Institute of Architects.
Dr. J. M. Kellogg, professor of architecture, will preside at the lecture, which will be open to the public.
Albert Goldman, "Wobly organizer," jambletheater, traveler, *ex-Troxtotylla* Communist, now in the Socialist party, lawyer for the Milwaukee truck drivers in their successful artile last summer, and lately defended of Norman Mini, one of the nineteen Sacramento radiicals who is on trial under the California Criminal Syndicalial Law, finished a succulent lamb chop, and shaking his finger emphasized the need for a labor party in America.
Goldman Says Communism Kills Individualism
The country needs an amalgamation, on a minimal program, of the Socialist Party, Farm-Labor Party and other liberal and "left" groups in this country, Mr. Goldman declared. The Communist Party, regardless of Mr. Heard's fears, will never mean any difference among people who enter the Communist Party an invisible pledge saying "Lose all hope of independent thinking ye who become members." And that is bad. he stated. For a new party needs fresh ideas. Much of the trouble in Russia today, reflected in the recent Kirov assassination is due to a policy of prohibits clear, independent thinking.
By Sam Halper, c'37
"The shape of things to come? We must fight incipient Fascism. Coughlin's the main menace," Mr. Goldman asserted. "We must also fight the Communist disruptive tactics. You students must educate yourselves in Marx. And perhaps some day this country will want to change. But it doesn't, it don't want. Capitalism may force it on us. But I will not cherish illusions" he concluded. "Our American capitalist fights hard. He falsifies, he drugs red herrings in and he is ruthless. That is why we need a determined party, rooted in the revolution." How can we resist that so that we will realize its tradition and rebel against tyranny."
Kansas Debators to Meet
Faculty and Members of Debate Squad to Judge Speakers
CSEP Students
The various district winners in the state of Kansas high school debate tournament will compete for champion-1, and the team will be held March 1 and 2 in Frazier Hall.
The towns represented in the Class A division are: Topoka, Ottawa, Independence, Osage City, Clay Center, Wakeway, Kingman, Wellington, Ellison City, City of Chelsea, Pratt. Last year Topoka won the championship in this division.
UNIVERSITY DEBATE TEAM
At a meeting of the state legislature last night the University forense team debated whether the question, "Resolved: that Kanass should adopt the unicameral system of legislation, embodying the essential features of the Nebraus Plan." Kanass, upholding the negative side, was represented by James Mobly, 236, and Charles Hacker, 175. Robert Nieler and Robert Seiler argued the affirmative Missouri. It was a no-decision debate.
KANSAS LEGISLATORS HEAR
All CSEP students must call at the All CSEP office this week to register class schedules, addresses, and other information. Mation must be filed this week.
These towns competing for the Class B championship are: Valley Falls or Maple Hill, De Soto, Hamilton, Lebanon, Collium, Mullon, Canton, Haven, Grinnell, and Garfield. Mulvane and Canton tied for winners in this group last year. Members of the debate squad and facetious supporters were present. The contest for all league debates this year is "Resolved that the federal government should adopt the policy of equalizing educational opportunity throughout the nation by means of annual grants to the several states for the public, elementary and secondary education."
Senator Oscar P. May of Attichion acted as chairman. He introduced Chancellor E. H. Lindley who in turn introduced the University Glee club which sang several songs before the debate.
Ted Shawn Gives Dancing Program Of Male Vitality
Music Visualizations of MacDowell, Bach, and Brahm Classics Are Given
By Miss Elizabeth Dunkel
By Miss Elizabeth Dunkel
Ted Shaw last night gave an eloquent demonstration of his ideal for male dominance in the dance. The entire program carried a vitality, power, and infinite sweep that is impossible to achieve in women's dancing. Any disappointment at the lack of swirling costumes and dainty prettiness was in rapt interest during an evening which utilized masculine attributes to express robust themes.
Shawn's Group Perfectly Trained
The first group of music visualization from MacDowell, Bach, and Brahms was classical in its purity of movement and showed the plasticity and precision of a perfectly trained ensemble. Contrapuncta which follow Brahms' counter-motion gave a sensitive translation of harmony and melody, while the Brahms Rhapsecy which closed this group not only shared an unusual liaison between sound and movement but conveyed emotional suggestions that served to make it one of the most appealing numbers on the program.
Shawn's "John Brown" solo, created with his accompanist, Jess Mecker, demonstrated his skill as a choreographer and his knowledge of emotional and dramatic values. Centrally in this number he gave his audience something that no woman could ever
Audience Pleased With Dances
The second group was diversified, including light satire, burlesque, national, folk, and labor themes. As usual Shawn's Flamenco舞 delighted his audience. Unlike many purveyors of foreign art Shawn has studied native art at native thresholds and has succeeded not only in reproducing intricate movement patterns, but in catching the irresistible spirit which makes Spanish dancing universally appealing. Movement is the sharp staccato of beating heels and clapping hands, poise with restraint, all served to elicit enthusiastic admiration.
NUMBER 103
"The Worker's Songs of Middle Europe" and "Cutting the Sugar Cane" should be mentioned also; the first a delightful minier of European types, and the second an example of the rhythms inherent in labor movements.
Religious Themes in Program
The closing group devoted to religious themes was an inspired note on which to close such a performance. Shawn's St. Francis, the result of nine years of study and preparation, carried a message of such charity and generosity that the veneried tyre Henry Faedick once told of a friend who remarked to him, "I don't pray as you do—I pray on the piano." Through the last numbers of the evening's program those young men prayed in the dance, and to many who watched, it must have been unusually uplifting, a new door through which to enter the House of Prayer, filled with an inspiration that truly blessed an audience that had come with mixed and puzzled ideas to receive a message that proved to be new and thrilling.
Glemm's Race in News Reel
The entire race in which Glen Cunningham recently broke his own record will be shown in the newsroom at the Granda theater beginning today. This race was the 1500 meter feature of the National A.A.U. indoor track meet held in New York last Saturday.
Glenn's Race in News Reel
To Review 'Mary Peters'
Women's Swimming Finals Tonight
Pi Beta Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta,
Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Chi Omega,
the winners and runners-up of the two
competitions. Matches in swim
matches will swam tonight at 7:30
in the final meet.
Theta Sigma Phi, professional journal sorority, will meet this afternoon, at 4:30, in the sky parlor of the journalism building. Lena Wyatt, e35, will give a book review of "Mary Peters," by Mary Ellen Chase.
Huff to Referee at Drake
Harry J. "Doc" Huff, track coach at the University of Missouri, formerly Kansas track coach, has been chosen referee for the Drake relays to be held in Des Moines. Mr. Huff is the second Missouri coach to be honored by such an appointment. In 1927 C. L. Brewer served in the same capacity.
Who will observe the largest number of the earliest bloomings of different spring plants in Lawrence and vicinity? The Botany club is sponsoring the department's annual spring blooming observing contest and will award the botanist a plant that has the largest list of first spring blooms of the season.
Who Will Observe Most Spring Blossoms?
Asks Botanists
Both cultivated and wild plants will be eligible. The scientific name of plant, popular name, date discovered or introduced on a chart in the department of botany.
Wagner to Give Recital Of German Literature
Contemporary Pieces in Repertoire of Mexican Educator
Fernando Wagner, professor of dramatic art at the University of Mexico will give a recital of contemporary German poetry and prose tonight at 8:15 in Fraser theater. Mr. Wagner, who is a German, studied at the University of Berlin and has worked on the stage and in the theaters of Berlin. He came to this country in 1963 and lived in New York. He then went to Mexico City on business, and while there liked the life of the intellectual group of the city so well that he remained and became a member of the faculty of the university.
While German is Mr. Wagner's mother tongue, all of his teaching and all of the plays under his direction at the university are done in Spanish.
The recital tonight, which is under the auspices of the department of German and is open to the public without charge, will consist of poems and short stories of the leading modern German author. Mr. Wagner will give a short introduction to each piece in English before reciting it in German.
Hull to Give English Talk
Hull to Give English Talk
Instructor of English Will Speak on
Ballad Theme
Miss Myra Hull, instructor of English, will give the second of the series of talks for the freshman English classes this afternoon at 4:30 in room 313 of Fraser. The series of talks this semester are all of Ballad theme. Prof John E. Hankins will give the next subject this subject will be “Neog Polk Socials.”
Miss Hull will discuss traditional folk songs discovered in Kansas, all of which she has obtained first hand from the singers. She will trace the migrations of these ballads from England and from the Appalachian mountains to Kansas. She will have heard that women have been handed down for generations been handed down for generations, some of them not being written down until recent years.
WILL HOLD TEN-DAY COURSE FOR JOURNALISTS IN GENEVA
Malcoln Davis, director of the Geneva Research Center and chairman of the International Consultative Group, will lead the group.
There will be a ten-day training course for young English-speaking journalism students conducted from July 11 to 20 in Geneva, Switzerland, by the International Student Service. The program will also focus on a relationship with the League of Nations and the International Labor Office; a series of expositions on the more important national presses and press services; an examination of the problems and influences affecting both the newspaper as a factor in the moulding of public opinion and the individual journalist as the recorder and commentator on international affairs.
English language will be used throughout the course. Translations will be made for speeches delivered in other languages. Morning and early evenings will be taken up with sessions leaving the afternoons and nights free.
CONTEST FOR GOOD WILL DAY IS OPEN TO UNDERGRADUATE
The National Council of Teachers of English and the World Federation of Education Association have announced that they are sponsoring an essay content in celebration of Good Will Day, May 18, for undergraduates of colleges. The scholarship fund is paid off of $15 have been offered by Mrs. Zach Van Loan of Babylon, N.Y.
The subject of the essays shall be "What Can America Contribute to World Peace?" Entries should be sent to the regional director, J. Hal Connor of Northern Teachers College, DeKalb, III., by march 15. Further information may be received from the office of the department of English.
P.S.G.L. Proposes To Adopt Direct Primary Election
Would Be Inaugurated by Men's Student Council Expenses Paid by Parties
The Progressive Student Government League urges the adoption of a direct primary election as the first point of its program for constructive student government, according to Logan Lane, general secretary. In order to obtain its prime position the league must be the primary as essential.
The proposed primary would be inaugurated by the Student Council and held about two or three weeks before the general election, said Lane. The voting would be open to all male students. Also any man may file for any on party ticket. The voters will go to the polls and call for the candidates in the primary will represent their parties in the general election.
There may be objection to the holding of two elections because of the expence, Logan assured. The League advocates that the expense of the primary election be paid by the contesting political parties, as the primary serves the purpose of selecting their nominees.
"The history of student politics at the University has been conspicuous for its lack of active participation by the students in the nomination of candidates for the various political offices. Nominations in the past have been made by a small and secret party caucus of self-appointed 'big shots'. Lane continued. The student body is then forced to vote upon this selection of candidates. This system of nomination has been used exclusively by all the political parties which have herefore made their appearance on the campus.
"The Progressive Student Government League advocates the general primary election to abolish what it considers an unfair and undemocratic practice in student politics. The major objectives of the League can be attained only through a democratic process, as the official open primary election.
"Since the formation of the Progressive Student Government League, the question, "What is the program of the League?" has been frequently asked, Charles Anderson, chairman, said yesterday, "The primary aim of the League is, of course, to reform student government and give it a purpose for existence. How do we propose to do this? Our first proposal, nomination of student officers by official open primary is revolutionary in that it strikes at the very vitals of the old 'boss system.'"
MUSIC TALENT FUND AUDITION WILL BE HELD HERE FRIDAY
Contestants from a number of towns in the second district will be at the University, Friday, for the ninth annual Kansas Music Talent fund auction to be held at 1:30 o'clock in the Central Administration Auditorium with Dean D. M. Swarthout presiding. The audition is sponsored by the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Paul Hamm of Lawrence is chairman of the distribution committee, and president of the second district Federation, and Mrs. J. Abbie Cagle Hogan of Junction City, state chairman the Music Talent fund, will be present.
Those arranging for the audition will be glad to have as many University students as possible attend the contest to greet the young musicians and club members from out of town, of whom a large representation is expected.
Bookplates Exhibited in Library
An exhibition of bookplates from the Clark Memorial Bookplate Collection, the Larkwood authors, the larkwood authors and statemen, may be seen this week on the third floor of the Watson Library. A few of the best known plates are those of William Pitt, celebrated British statesman and debater; Horace Walpole, the greatest letter writer of his time; Robert Southout, poet Laureate of England in 1813, and David Garrick, the foremost actor of his day.
AUTHORIZED PARTIES
Delta Tau Delta, Lawrence Country Club, 12.
Varsity, Union building,
Pi Kappa Alpha, Eldridge, 12
Delta Tau Delta, House, 6-10
AGNES HUSBAND,
Dean of Women.