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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1935
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AND WE DO NOTHING
ABOUT IT
Frank Lloyd Wright gave us a glimpse into the future, and showed us what to anticipate by outlining the evils of our school system. It can hardly be called an educational system, be ca u se whatever education a person does get is acquired in spite of the system.
Historians many years removed from us will study the evidence left by this era and call it the business age; the age when inventions opened avenues to tremendous expansion and economic gain in through "straight-line" factories and all the other appurtenances of mass production.
They will see how that expansion was speeded up by the economic system which pyramidized control from the laborer up to the captains of industry; how the people, in their eagerness to seize the opportunities of climbing that ladder, accepted a school system which sends practically all the children through the same mill, regardless of individual traits.
This was to be a democratic country, so the people had to know enough to vote intelligently, besides learning their roles of producers. The 'sight-line' schools were set up to teach reading, writing, grammar, some history of wars, mathematics, a bit of literature, and the theory of democracy. The disastrous grading system was supposed to measure progress and provide incentive for more speed so the young generation should get through school and begin to work quicker.
All well and good in a period of unlimited expansion. It was the best system for expansion. But we have reached the stage where such high pressure methods are no longer necessary for our economic welfare. We are at the transition point between a period of scarcity and a period of plenty. Wright showed the way to get the most benefit from that plenty.
He may be called impractical and a dreamer, but he is a seer.. He is a pioneer, a man ahead of the mob. History shows how slow the world has always been to accept new ideas. And when our far-removed descendants read the history of this age Wright will be called a leader, although he has few followers now. Because, even though we recognized the truth of what he says, we do nothing about it.
A WOMAN AGAIN
The number of criminals who have attributed their starts in crime to women is almost as great as the number of men who have attributed their accomplishments to the influence of their mothers. But, the example of maternal influence set by "Ma" Barker has few equals in history, thank heaven.
And yet, though the thought of openly encouraging her sons to lead a life of crime would be beyond the realm of possibility to the average mother, without realizing what she is doing, many an American mother is indirectly doing just that. The mother who allows her children to take their entertainment where they can beat find it while she is concentrating attention on comparatively trivial things may be given them a substantial start on the road to crime, although she would be shocked at such a suggestion, and would vociferously blame some wicked female, whom her son had picked up without his mother's knowledge, for his corruption.
"Ma" Barker's crime was a greater, there's no denying the fact, but she paid along with the son whose life she had warped, while many another mother goes scott free for a sin almost as great.
LO. THE POOR TRADITION
The variety of operations that can be performed on college traditions continues to widen. Traditions have always been "revered" for their age, and "presented" for their interference with progress.
At Kansas this year traditions have been "created," "revived," "killed," and "discontinued." Now comes the institution of special court at Oregon to try all students
suspecting of "violating" a tradition.
DEPRESSION OR PLAIN ORNERY LAZINESS
You want a job. There is none.
Then create one. Find something
that needs doing and do it.
Most people think of a job as an opportunity to appear at a certain place at a certain time where you make certain routine motions until the whistle starts blowing. On a week they give you a pay check, which is the principal object of the whole procedure.
You will be graduating soon or leaving for the summer vacation. Naturally you'll want something to do so as to earn a bit of change for use at school or elsewhere. You will be in competition with a million or so others fresh out of schools and having the same idea in mind, however.
If others take all the jobs don't sit on the curb stone and bemoan your fate. Create a place for yourself. It's a big world, you know, and there's a place for everyone.
If you chance upon a bright idea for earning money, cherish it and enlarge upon it. They say that always in the words of geniuses we hear our own cast off thoughts. One man even started a laundry for baby's lingerie. The idea caught the fancy of the public and now he's well fixed. The idea was merely a stray thought that came into his mind and he went into action. He created a place in the business world for himself.
SPOONER-THAYER,
A GOOD MUSEUM
If a student were to reach his senior year before he discovered the interests of Sponer-Thayer museum, he would no doubt regret that he had missed it for so long, but his feelings would be somewhat relieved by the knowledge that he had finally made the discovery.
The trouble with waiting until the senior year to study the collections in the museum is that the student will not have the time to enjoy all of its beauties and historical background. There is hardly a piece of pottery or china there that is not rich with the lore of history. There is a piece of china that was used on the table of President Monroe, and some delicately colored Chinese that came down from the family of Miles Standish. In the collection is a china statue of Benjamin Franklin that has the name of George Washington below it. This piece was made by some old pottery baker in England who knew more about pottery than he did American statesmen.
The museum is as complete as a museum of its size could possibly be. Its collection of Colonial pottery with its vibrant blue shades, and story telling designs is only a part of its interest. There are old pieces of pottery there that came from the early day Indian
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts will meet Tuesday, Jan. 22, a
4:39 in the Administration auditorium. E. H. LINDENY, President.
PECIAL MEETING, COLLEGE FACULTY:
Sunday, Jan. 20, 1935
Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 1 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11 a.m. on 3 a.m. for Sunday issues.
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The regular meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. F. G. Hutchinson
209 Vermont street on Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock.
PEACE ACTION MEETING
The committee will meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the Book Exchange room in the library. Keoghan interrogated is welcome.
PEACE ACTION MEETING:
K. U. DAMES:
ELIZABETH CASWELL, ALFRED C. AMES, Executive Secretaries.
All Ku Kua's who desire a copy of the group picture taken for the Jawshaker should telephone me their order at once. WALTER LYMAN, President.
Dr. E. H. Taylor will speak at the meeting Tuesday night. Dinner will be served at 8 p.m. All members sign on bulletin board in Snow hall.
PI EPSILON PI:
tribes of this country as well as a very modern and beautiful piece of pottery that was made by the hands of a modern Indian woman. The completeness of the collection is again demonstrated in the representative pieces from the different Chinese dynasties.
"We use the telescope to get better visions of certain obstacles."
The Spooner-Thayer collection of China is one of the most complete and most interesting in this part of the country, bar none.
On Other Hills
A few extracts from examination papers of University of California students, casting some doubt on the value of a college education.
To the accompaniment of long lenghts from California college newspapers, a famous old tree on the U.C.B campus at Berkeley has succumbed under the weight of its years. Caretakers have chopped down the tree, known as Wheeler Oak, which has been a landmark for many years.
The Beaker of the Minnesota Daily presents a simile: "As cast down as the man who spent a year ridding himself and people out, and people out there like him anyway."
"I love to sit in a quiet wood and commute with God."
Quite a little discussion has been going on recently about beer drinking at Harvard, and a surprising statistic emerges from the welter, to wit: the average Harvard undergraduate concludes that the average wine weeks is A Washington Evergreen columnist supposes that it is just the principle of the thing.
"She was equally gracious to fools as to her own husband."
"Browning believes that one moment of real love is worth a lifetime of purity."
"The men were tossed and battered into unconsciousness."
ine earth is the body upon which we live and spend most of our time."
"Homo refused to fight because he had just been married to Tikayu's counsellor, Mr. Senga, an animal for a man to pick a quarrel or take one up after circumstances."
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Can a wife make or break a man? Mrs. Farham, the daughter of the eighty old editor of Atchison, thrashes the subject out in this Kansas tasting tale. New Concord, (up Leavenworth way) helps James Simpson grow up at its pride and joy and be won from his half-hearted love by a kindly conspiracy "for his own good." Married to Jane Northworth, he basks in the whole-hearted approval of the community.
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Until the war. It woke James up, put a bit of Stimson backbone into him, with which he walks out on the chilling Jane. Leslie Hairy re-enters the picture and a Stimson is once more headed for the governor's chair.
It's mighty fine. James is lovable and weak and blind—but so winning. Deep down, he's the stuff of which Kansas pioneers are made.
THE JASMINE FARM, by Elizabeth. (Doubleday Doran).
As in "The Father," Elizabeth makes a good deal of her characters. They live and love tragically here and we understand them. The middle-aged lover turns coward, his cheap little wife and her actress mother, are excellent types. And the proud old English Lady is superb.
This is the vivid story of an old, Englishwoman, whose moral standard was the bulwark of her position as leader in London society. Her husband's infidelities forgotten at his death, she is broken by the discovery of her daughter's intrigue. She retires, beaten, to her simple Jasmine Farm in France, the scene of her honeymoon, where she learns a new sympathy.
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