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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934
Entered as second glass matter, September 19, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas
HOW MANY SENIORS KNOW
In refusing to join the Alumni Association the seniors have taken an unusual and perhaps an unwise course in trying to hold down the amount of their class dues. Only once before, in 1925, has a graduating class refused to pay Alumni Association dues as a body. Officials of the association are bitterly disappointed, and are confident that if members of the class had realized the worth of the association the action would not have been taken.
The Alumni Association works quietly, and the effect of its efforts is not realized by students while they are in school. But after they have been graduated they find that $3 a year is a small amount to pay for the services the association renders.
The Graduate Magazine, monthly alumni news publication, is send to all paid-up members of the association. It contains a great deal of personal news about University graduates which is welcome to those who have left the campus and have become separated from their college friends.
The association puts much time and effort into the promotion of good will for the University, protecting its interests and increasing its prestige wherever opportunity is found. It aids in the organization and planning of such campus functions as Homecoming and Commencement. It collects and publishes addresses and information about 25,000 alumni and former students. It stimulates and aids alumni clubs and meetings throughout Kansas and the United States. It fosters gifts for loan funds and scholarships, and recently the management of the employment bureau for men students at the University has been turned over to the Alumni Association.
Loss of the money that was expected from this year's graduating class is of secondary importance. One dollar of the $3 payment would have been refunded to make up the class memorial fund. The remaining $2 would not have paid even the cost of the Graduate Magazine that would be sent to each student. Rather, the Association's disappointment comes from the fact that many of the seniors will have no opportunity to become acquainted with its work, for any lapse of interest is extremely detrimental to the organization.
LISTEN AND CHUCKLE
The typical commercial radio program, which appalls some listeners to the point of violent railing, does not strike others in wholly the same ominous light. Many people get pleasure out of hearing the idiocies as one would enjoy listening to the comedians.
We must realize that competition is so strong that advertisers have to resort to cramming their advertisements with sentimental or foolish words, happy slogans, catchy phrases and extravagant suggestions and ideas. It doesn't seem sporting for us to take offense at the advertisers' underestimating human intelligence through the recitations of the an-
nouners, which strain our credulity in the ruthless determinations to make us buy what we do not need.
What is better amusement than, in the course of an evening of radio entertainment, to listen to the many tobacco, cosmetic, food, oil, automobile and patent medicine announcers spread on the superlatives and expect us to be gullible and stupid enough to act upon their demands?
It goes without saying that it is advisable to be continually on guard, for crafty are the methods employed to reach the pocket books.
SIZE VERSUS COST
Congressmen continue to worry over the fact that our standing army ranks seventeenth in size among the armies of the world. In presenting a bill for army enlargement to the House recently, one congressman advanced the fact that the United States army is smaller even than that of Greece.
A consideration that Congressmen and the people overlook is that although the United States army ranks seventeenth in size it is first in cost. We spend far more money for our comparatively small army than any other country with a larger one.
European countries usually obtain men through conscription. As a consequence, their standard of living is not so high. Their lodging, food, and clothing are in most instances of the poorest quality. On the contrary, the United States has well-lodged, well-fed, and well-clothed men in its ranks. European countries could adopt our army standards to their soldiers' good.
In the recent disarmament conference, an attempt was made to reduce armies by budget and not by men. The United States delegation objected at once, and rightly. Slashing our army through cost would make it very, very small indeed, and leave other nations singularly unaffected. They would merely lower their soldiers' standards of living a little more, while their size remained practically the same.
SLUM HOMES
A most commendable piece of social work was recently begun in New York City. The city is cleaning up a slums district which has long been a shame of the people. New York City plans to erect houses covering 25 blocks in the slums district.
Heretofore these spots have served as breeding places for crime which today is overrunning the country and will soon bring it to destruction unless it is checked. The unfortunates of the slums, of whom the most of us know so little, are forced into crime because they have no true home, no family life and no bonds of friendship such as we have. The children in these districts run wild, gangs are formed, and from these gangs criminals eventually arise. They are not wholly to blame for the type of life they follow; it is their only outlet. They are the forgotten people of our society.
The rebuilding of the slums will materially assist this class to help themselves. There will be homes enough to house from 18,000 to 25,000 persons at rentals of $6 and $7 a month. This will enable many of these children to have real homes for the first time in their lives. The homes, of course, will not be as elegant or comfortable as the ones to which we are accustomed, but to these unfortunate they will be castles.
This movement is the best step yet taken toward reducing our criminal element and at the same time lending a helping hand to the less fortunate.
Current Screen
As the Earth Turns (Pates) is a different picture, one which will appeal to movie-goers because of its difference or will fail to appeal for the same reason. The entire picture has a gentle tone, and ordinary picture audiences today are accustomed to pictures with
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
ED-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION There will be an all-University convocation Friday morning, May 4, at 10
clock in the University auditorium. Mr. Roy Roberts, of the Kansas City Star,
will speak. E. H. LINDLEY.
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION
Vol. XXXI Thursday, May 3, 1934
No.142
Notice dus at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:20 a.m. m. saturday for Sunday issues.
A. S. M. E.;
There will be a regular meeting of A. S.M.E, this evening at 8 o'clock in room 210 Marvin hall. There will be an election of officers. All members are urged to attend.
LEWIS W. BENZ, Secretary.
GERMAN CLUB:
German club will meet Monday in room 313 Fraser. The German club from Baldwin will give a program. The meeting will begin at 8:00 p.m.
**CARL WHEELER**, President.
HI-HOME NIGHT BANQUET:
HI-HOME NIGHT BANQUET.
The annual Hi-Home Night banquet of Oread Training School will be held Friday evening, May 4, at 6 o'clock at the Memorial Union building.
F. O. RUSSELL, Director
INTERRACIAL GROUP:
Two hundred and seventeen merchants enrolled in the school for mer-
INTERNATIONAL Group of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at Henley house at 7 o'clock this morning. Plans will be made for a picnic.
MARTHA PETERSON, ANNA MARIE TOMPKINS.
KAYHAWK CLUB.
KAYHAWK CLUB
There will be an official meeting of the Kayhawk club Monday evening, May 7, at 7:30 in the M.S.C. room, Memorial Union building. Election of officers. All non-fraternity men are especially urged to attend.
ORGANIZATION PRESIDENTS:
ORGANIZATION PRESIDENTS; JAY WANAMAKER, President
Organizations wishing meeting rooms in the Memorial Union building for next fall please see the building manager this week.
PARENTS' DAY DINNER TICKETS:
Tickets for the Parents' Day Dinner on Saturday, May 5, must be purchased at the University Business office before 5 o'clock Friday afternoon, May 4, as they will not be available after that date. AGNES HUSBAND.
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE:
C. OZWIN RUTLEDGE, Manager.
On Tuesday, May 8, Dr. C. F. Taylor will hold a special Chest Clinic at Watkins Memorial hospital for students and faculty members. Those who wish to see him must report at the hospital before Friday, May 4, in order to complete necessary preliminary observations. R. I. CANUTESON, M.D.
W. A. A.:
XAVIER CLUB:
N. A. A.
W.A.A. will have a picnic Friday, May 4, at Walker's cabin. Cars will leave the gymnasium at 4:30 and the assessment will be 10 cents. Members who expect to go should sign up at the gymnasium immediately.
A. I. E. E.
XAVIER CLUB.
There will be no meeting of the Xavier club this evening because it precedes a First Friday and the Spiritual Adviser will be occupied hearing confessions.
T. C. LAWRENCE, Secretary.
MARY ELIZABETH EDIE, President.
brilliance, dash, and snappy dialogues. Therefore, this movie is not likely to keep their interest at a very high pitch.
There will be a meeting this evening at 7:30 in the Marvin hall auditorium. Mr. Kelley will discuss "Cathode-Ray Oscillographs." Mr. Edson will discr "Single Tube Inventors." JOHN VAN BONDURANT, Secretary.
Jean Muir as Jen, the farm girl who,
as the saying goes "is a born daughter of
the soil," has a freshness and sweet-
ness about her suitable in this type of
story. The character she portrays is
the woman who finds happiness in doing
all she can for others, who makes
drudgery easy by being cheerful,
and who sees a difference in falling in love
and love.
Others in the cast are not as convincing as Miss Muir, with the exception of Dorothy Appleby as Doris, the girl who can't be content with life in the country. The children act stilted and unnatural at times and do not always remind one of farm children.
Dressed in their oldest clothes and in costumes of all types ranging from the highlander's garb to the dress of a Lawrence wash-woman, the engineers celebrated their annual field day. The festivities started with a big parade composed of floats, and all of the members of the school, including the faculty, marched down the campus, stopping to sorenade the Law School, and adjourning at McCook field for the purpose of playing games.
Many devices were worked out for representation of the various departments in the school. The floats ranged from a flat truck which held only a washing machine with the inscription "The Pearley Laundry, We Remove all Greenness" for the freshman engineers, to a float completely equipped with a wireless telegraph set, which supposedly was receiving messages from Mexico concerning the war, by the Junior electricals. The day was considered a complete success by the Engineering School.
As the Earth Turns has a wholesomeness and cleanness which should please those who have grown tired of musical comedies, of pictures concerned with the woman who sinned, and other types of pictures which have been the subject of much criticism in recent years.
Three Kansas records were broken at the meet. Captain Hazen of Kansas clipped a second off on the 120-yard hurdles with the time of 15 2-5 seconds. Bonnie Reber, another Kansas track star, shot put mark of 42 ft. 3⁵⁰ in., by 2 inches and adding 2 inches to the discus throw record of 117 ft. 6 in.
Twenty Years Ago
By George Lerrigo. c'34
The K. U. Jayhawkers run away with a track meet against the Nebraska Cornhuskers by the score of 67 to 42. The meet was Kansas' all the way but the Nebraskans put up a stiff resistance, and there were no events, in which Kansas was weak.
cnants which was featured during the University Merchantmen's week. The school was designed to help merchants in coping with merchandising problems that might confront them. All of the lectures, given in Fraser theater, were designed to meet the current needs of merchants in various lines of business. After the day's lectures were completed the merchants were driven for an hour or nearly an hour and then taken to dinner. Part of the time was allotted to them for the purpose of their obtaining a cross-section of undergraduate life.
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