1. 2. PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934 I University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSA LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief ... MARGARET GREGG Wesley McCalla ... Loreen Miller WEEKLY RECORD... Campus Editor... Stan Makeup Editor... Lenn Swan Speech Editor... R. B. Eyles Sunbury Editor... Wilhelm Pieser Sundery Editor... Iris Olsen Society Editor... Carolyn Harper Night Editor... George Lererrio Law Editor... Leah Wade Luxe Edition... Julia Markham Kansan Board Members Margaret Green Igloffrey Roe Korstmann Roe Jimmy Yorke Gretchen Oruphe Merle Harylord Paul Woodsworth Virgin Parker Advertising Manager Cileree E. Mundi Circulation Manager Willbor Lenthermar TEMPORARY TECHNICIAN Business Office K.I.D. 66 Clerk/Accountant K.I.D. 66 Night Connection, Business Office 2031K5 Night Connection, Business Office 2031K5 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday evening in the department of Journalism in the Department of Journalism at the Department of Journalism. $2.00 cash in Subscription price, per year, $3.60 each in价钱, $2.25 on payments. Single book, $15. Kretzied as second class master, September 17/1908) to the post office at Lawrence, Kansas FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934 IAS THE ACTIVITY TICKET IMPROVED? In the light of two recent decisions made regarding it, the student activity ticket plan at the University seems to have become just another of the so-called jokers of college life. With the relative merits of the project still a highly controversial topic, decisions by the student governing bodies to affix to each book next year the picture of the individual student, and the recent decision handed down by Attorney-general Boynton prohibiting any exemptions from the plan, have been severe blows to its popularity. Supposedly the pictures would act as identifications for individual students and would eliminate, at least in part, the crookedness and graft of Men's Student Council elections. Actually, they would probably be only another source of worry to the individual and a very inefficient means of checking on anyone. Pictures that can be procured for ten cents, the amount set aside by the councils for each picture, have frequently proved hardly reminiscent of the persons they were supposed to represent. The man who wears a mustache when he has his picture taken in September, and who shaves it off before the big game in November, is likely to find himself refused admittance because he and the picture are not alike. And the blonde venus who turns out in her we photograph to be a rather muddy complexion brunette will also have her share of troubles. The ruling that no exemptions can be constitutionally allowed, although not affecting many persons, has already found much ill-favor on Mt. Oread. Believing that every effort is being made to limit the free use of their books, students are verbally at least in revolt. The question of how the activity ticket may logically be classed with laboratory fees, as the attorney-general ruled, has arisen. Voted upon by the students, initiated nominally as a student project, and dealing with extra-curricular activities, the activity ticket certainly cannot be correctly classified with those charges which are made for the use of certain materials and in struments in classrooms. The question of how to handle the athlete, the bandman, and others who will participate in a number of the programs which they have to pay for under the plan still remains a hazy guess. Just now the activity ticket plan seems no farther advanced than it was a year ago. It is still full of flaws and undesirable features. IF WE COULD ALL GO For those who have a desire to speak better German and who are financially able to stand the expenses of a European tour, the plan for study and travel yesterday outlined by Prof. E. F. Engel of the German department will be a fascinating one. Sailing from New York on July 4 and arriving at Hamburg on July 12, the party which Professor Engel will conduct will begin its instructive trek over all those parts of Central Europe where the Germanic tongue is spoken. The professor's plan is to take American students, interested in German life and German people as well as their speech, for a glorious two months' outing which will end only shortly before classes are resumed at the University; to herd them about through Germany and down into the Swiss Alps, stopping here and there to permit the scenic value of the countryside to impress it self upon them; to go to Oberammer mergau where the Passion Play will be enacted again this year in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of its pre-session; and then to chase them back into the heart of Germany via the Black Forest for a final session where German lesson will once more be brought down to a school room basis. Professor Engel's plan, coming so closely upon the heels of a recent proposal by Professor Hungerford, who will conduct a class to the Pacific coast this summer to study marine life at first hand, makes the assertion that the day of popular education has arrived had to refute. The study and travel classes would no doubt be entertaining and highly beneficial, but a question arises—who has $457, the price of the European 'our?' One doesn't hear much about Hitler's persecuting the Jews any more, probably because there are not so many left to persecute. A STORY OF PROGRESS It will only be a matter of days now until a line of figures in black gowns wind their way down to the stadium to participate in graduation exercises. Among this group are many persons who have held offices of trust in the University. This includes officers of student governing groups, fraternities, editors of publications, class officers and other persons of high positions. The offices these persons have held in many cases have been important ones which have carried responsibility. They may seem immaterial to the outsiders, but nevertheless they have meant a great deal in student life and in many cases will help the individuals in later life. Next year these persons will have passed on out into the world and others will fill their places in the various offices and will conduct them just as capably, take them just as seriously, and spend the same amount of time and worry as did the graduating group of this year. This line resembles a parade, a perpetual movement forward. It is a phase of life. All over the world, persons are born, grow into maturity, do their part for humanity and then pass onward, leaving more youthful members of their tribe to carry on their work. It is a story of progress. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: Higher education—bah! Appreciation of the finer things—bunk! Never has such a travesty upon education, upon our university system in general, and our University in particular, been enacted as row after row of unoccupied seats yawning with cruel, sneering emptiness toward "Mac and the boys" at the annual spring concert of the University Band, Wednesday night. Had the billboards been plastered with gay, multicolored posters proclaiming in cheap gaudiness that "Bottle-Tooldoo, Great Prince of Jazz Makers, with twelve Hot-hip Toodlers will appear Wednesday Evening—and the price, ladies and gentlemen is only $1.50." every seat would have been full, and the S.R.O. sign out an hour before the concert began. But no. This is an institution of higher learning. This is a town of critical audiences. This is the Athens of the Middle West—and empty seats of soulless wood listened to a program of symphonic band numbers so stirring, so genuine, so rich, that one almost imagined the chairs themselves were breathing with emotion. It was such a concert as one cannot OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN COLLEGE FACULTY. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will have a special meeting on Wednesday, May 23, at 4:30 in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building. E. H. LINDLEY, President. Vol. XXXI Friday, May 18, 1934 No. 125 COLLEGE FACULTY: COLLEGE FACULTY: OFFICE Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days for Sunday issues. Fridav. May 18, 1934 MATHEMATICS CLUB: Picnic will be Monday, May 21. All members please bring 25 cents and meet front of east Administration building promptly at 4:30. Transportation is provided. ELIZABETH HINSAW, Vice President. MATHEMATICS CLUB: PI EPSILON PI: There will be a special Ku Ku meeting Sunday night, May 20, in Fraser hall, at 10:30 o'clock. All members please be present and in uniform for the ceremony to be performed. WALT, LYMAN, President. RHADAMANTHI: RHADAMANTHI: There will be a meeting of Rhadamanthi at 4:30 Sunday afternoon, May 20, in the Green room of Fraser hall. Election of officers will be held at that time, and dues collected for next year. MAURICE S. RICE, President. describe fairly. No really "high-brow" music was included, nor was there any stooping to the cheap and sensational. It was a colorful, well rounded program of the better descriptive music in well chosen selections fitted to the instruments and the artists. One of the outstanding features of the evening was the work of the clarinets. Never has a director had so little to work with. Seldom have clarinets been played as poorly as they were the selfsame instruments last fall. The mid-winter concert showed development, but still the section limped. Last night these violins of the band soared to heights seldom attained by wood-winds. Their performance alone spoke more for the mastery in band-building that is their director's gift than could a ream of comment. The brasses blended in well, and were kept in submission to the wood-winds and reeds throughout the evening, as is right and proper in concert band performances, but nevertheless sufficiently unusual to be worthy of special comment. When the last notes of the "Alma Mater" died away the players scattered slowly, their leader talking to them, and finally he turned to speak to his friends, his face lined with emotion as was theirs, and the players themselves, hardened, cynical, University youths spoke with husky voices as they talked of the evening's program. The audience felt that they had heard a good program. J.B. And so with some financial giants and --indeed many men of high station in the life of the Twentieth century, men like Warren Harding, Albert Fall, Samuel Josell, and now Luke Lea. Current Screen Thirty-Day Princess (Varsity) is quite the fairy tale the name implies, yet in spite of a manufactured plot, perfectly timed entrances, and easily anticipated climaxes, the picture turns out to be an entertaining Cinderella type of story. Although the plot is an old one, it has a sweetness and charm about it which are lacking in many recent pictures. And to those who have requested cleaner pictures, this one is highly suitable. Sylvia Sidney steals the entire picture as well as the admiration of the audience with her famous smile. She plays the part of two persons, jumbles the English language to acquire a quaint Taronian accent, and wins the heart of the inimitable Cary Grant, all to our desirability. Mr. Grant has little to do but fall in love with Princess Sylvia against his own convictions, but he is handsome enough for the part which is always a necessary requirement in a romantic fairy tale. The story concerns a New York stock promoter who, in order to put some European bonds on the market, brings the princess of the little country of Taronia to America for publicity purposes. No sooner does she land than she is a victim of the mumps. To save the Taronia bonds, the promoter searches New York for the princess' double, and finds her in the person of a jobless actress. Mr. Grant, a newspaper man, hopes to expose the Taroniian stock as worthless until he meets the princess. From then on the story becomes quite complicated but has a "happily ever after" ending. Their names and their ill deeds will stare at us from history books of the future, putting us in mind of their earlier fellows—the Benedict Arnolds and the Aaron Burrs of American history. Had Arnold been killed in one of the campaigns he commanded so brilliantly for the Americans, he would be honored today. Had Burr been stricken after his elevation to the vice presidency of the nation, he would be blessed, now insisted of scorned. From the pinnacle of power and position to the depth and ignominy of a prison sentence. Such has been the story of several famous men of our nation. In almost every case it may be said that, had these men died ten years earlier, their memories would be held almost sacred today. But they lived too long, and their sins caught up with them in their lifetimes. MEN WHO LIVE TOO LONG Daily Illini Our Contemporaries A native of Tennessee, Mr. Lea was known in the South, and before loathing throughout the country, as one of the outstanding young leaders of the nation. A newspaper publisher, he was elected to the United States Senate at the age of 31. He served ten years in the War, when the World war came, he was given a colony, and was later decorated for distinguished service in the Army of the U.S.A. Returning home, he soon assumed tremendous power in the political life of Tennessee. Indeed, so high was his position as governor that he was known as "broker of governors." And then came the depression, when financial and political giants' maneuvers caught up with them in the failure of banks and bond houses and corporations. In 1931, Colonel Lea was convicted at Asheville, alone with his son, Luke Leu, Jr., on charges growing out of the failure of the $17,000,000 Central Bank and Trust company. Since that time, he has been accused of appeals and writes in an attempt to sidestep the penalties of the crime on which they were convicted. They were "railroaded" because of prejudice, Colonel Lea charges. But the fight for freedom was lost just this week, and Colonel Lea is forced to turn from the life of a spectacular and glorified public servant to that of a common convict. He lived too long. SHAW ON EDUCATION Daily O'Collegian. In his old age George Bernard Shaw has been trapping over the globe making something of an ass out of himself on several different continents, but underneath his headline hunting, he can still express an idea or two. Recently he published an article, "Don't Go to University," and in it, said: "When your professor gives you facts you should say to yourself: 'Nothing of this is worth while being remembered.' Like the rappicker digging in the dustlines of history, you should appraise what you find, keep the good and leave the rest. . . A sound ideal! Of course Shaw must add, "I think all the universities in the world should be razed and salt thrown on the sites where they stood." That, of course, is excusable, from Shaw's point of view. He doesn't believe it, but it attracts attention. "Then you will be a cultivated man. You will carry about with you a few facts which are really worth while being remembered. The individual who stuffs his memory with the things he has learned will be the highest university honors. But the best thing we can do with him is to burn him as quickly as possible." The gist of his article is in the sentence, "Like the rappicker digging in the dustpans of history, you should apprise what you find, keep the $ p and leave the rest." But that cannot well be used as an argument against its authority. To teach the student self-reliance—to think for himself, is the ultimate aim of modern education, and gradually, we are drifting toward that goal. DICKINSON 15c Anytime 15c TONIGHT and SATURDAY Lane Chandler "LAWLESS VALLEY" Plus Choice Shorts Sat. Scores: 1:36, 3:30, 7, 9 OWL SHOW Sat. 11 p.m. Return Showing of his greatest picture Will Rogers in--- "DAVID HARUA" Any 15c Seat Also SUN. and MON. 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