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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 17. 1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MARGARET GREGG
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934
OUR PART IN EDUCATION
A selected group of Kansas wo men chosen from the University glee club started Monday on their annual tour. They will appear in concerts in eleven cities in southern Kansas.
To them is given the charge of representing the University in musical circles of Kansas. They are trained to do their work well, good reports should and do come to the authorities concerning the glee club members after each annual trip.
Athletic prowess, scholastic standing, literary attainments and musical honor of the students play important roles in the makeup of any university, and bring recognition to the university as well as to the individual.
Each student has the opportunity to show where he can apply best his talent or ability, and regardless of what field it is, in doing so he is fulfilling an aim in education.
How about asking the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to avoid over-production by taking a hand in acreage allotments of dandelions?
"Play ball!"
BATTER UP FOR KANSAS "Play ball!"
Regardless of what thoughts this spring weather may bring to some students, to many it brings the word of baseball, not only those who listened to the opening of the major league season over the radio, or those who enjoy the intramural miniature of soft ball, but also to the three score men who have been warming up in the grand old game on the Kansas field.
Of course, baseball as a college sport has not been any too well supported during the past year or so, especially in the Middle West, and has been off the Kansas schedule officially since 1932. But with the coming of spring, the limbering up of muscles and a general uplift of the whole face of the people, baseball, too, is making its come-back.
Kansas may produce no "Forham Flash" or "Larripin' Lou." The adding of such stars to the baseball firmament probably is farther from the minds of both coaches and players than would be the desire to "Beat the Sooners," or to "Twist the Tiger's Tail."
Yet there are about sixty men out on the field, playing and practicing and hoping that this spring will mark the return of Big Six baseball to Kansas following the Relays. And there are many students, basking in the warm air of spring, who, too, would like to be on hand, yelling the Rock Chalk when the umpire should call:
"Play ball!"
UBRAN SOCIETY
By Nael P. Gist and L. A. Halbert
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
New York
Finding in modern city life advantages that the world has probably never known before and malignant conditions that may put an end to those advantages before they ever come to fruition in truly civilized life, Messrs. Gist and Halbert issue a challenge to the best intellects of the times, and advocate the "poly nucleated" city as the best
protection for the future, instead of the "mononucleated" metropolis which would be open to attack by both the "inside" and the "outside" enemies of society.
In six hundred ninety-seven pages, the collaborators discuss urban life from the standpoints both of the physical organization of the city itself and of the people in it, and go into all phases of metropolitan life with a thoroughness that sometimes tends to repetitions. Practically disregarding the small town, save for occasional illustrations which bear upon the discussion, and basing their final speculations concerning the rise or fall of future civilization upon the life of the world's great cities, they find that all human existence today is being shaped by the impact of these Garantian, man-made clots of beings.
Rural culture is passing, they say. With all of the facilities of modern life drawing people of the hinterland into close contact with urban dwellers, the glamorous aura of city doings is spread from these centers by magazines, radio, moving pictures, and other mediums to engulf and obliterate the old folk art and thinking. Urban skepticism is spreading into a broader block of many cities is驶 through "village-minded folk" who cling to rural mores, the metropolitan mind is outstripping the old beliefs of life.
The authors breathe life into their pictures of the city. Where most textbooks would stop, with the chapter on regional planning, intelligent zoning, and other methods of reconstruction and organization which the writers hold, are very good and necessary ingredients of a successful future, they add a chapter of speculations concerning that future.
ne statement which seems most completely to express their viewpoint of the situation is this:
"The city is a recent arrival in the world of man-made things. Consequently when urbanism burst upon the world in all its vigor it found neither the human organism not the social organization ready to meet its demands."
The book is a storehouse of quotations from other writers; sometimes too much so. On the page next to the last, these cheerful gentlemen, after expressing all of their hopes and fears in his book, are anti-viral anticlimax of Stuart Chase;
"Whether we save our cities by functional planning or continue somehow to exist in their ever grimmer canyons, there is always the possibility that on some fine morning a swarm of bombing planes will appear above the skyscraper tops, laugh heartily at the impotent clamor of anti-aircraft guns and, by means of a few judicious tons of radium atomite, poison gases, and, shall we say, typhus-fever cultures, dropped at strategic points, put an end to our hopes or to our miseries, as the case may be, and that quite finally."
As a textbook, the work is logically organized. All portions are clearly and fully discussed. The book distinctly moves away from the old "taken-for-granted" attitude toward evils and has no hesitancy in discussing the activities of gangs and political bosses, nor in saying that "the modern newspaper represents the glorification of gossip." The writers believe that big city life is the end and aim of all existence. The hinterland is but food and man-supplying area for the metropolis. The small town is not regarded as urban, but is junked into the hinterland. The authors' chief fault is in titling their work; it should properly be called "The Big City," instead of "Urban Society." They regard future civilization in the light of the big city only. It is true that they contend that all life will molded into big city lives before making large publications, however. It is sometimes hard to understand their terms. When they say, "The city is a recent arrival in the world of man-made things," it is somehow difficult to decide just what they mean by "recen." Men have found traces of cities in periods as far removed in time as have been found authentic remains of all but the most primitive forms of life, and Athens and Rome are not exactly grandchildren in the family of human ways of life.
The book is far more interesting than texts usually use, and it presents a picture of city life that unclatches all of the shrouded and little understood factors of living there. The authors strive to present an understanding view of both the opportunities and the dangers of urbanization, which can be a significant aspect of modern life. Whether or not you agree with all of its theories, "Urban Society" is a most interesting contribution to sociological literature.—E. P.
As far as can be ascertained it was the intention of the producers of "The Trumpet Blown" playing at the Varsity first half of the week, to establish in the movie public's minds the idea that George Raft is now ready to be our second Hudolph Valentino, whose name still stands out in the minds of some movie-goers as the perfect lover. In respect, however, to immortalizing the name of George Raft through this medium they have failed, but they have
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There will be a regular meeting of A.S.M.E. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in room 210 Marvin hall, Mr. Maillard, of the Kansas City Power and Light Company, will speak. Final arrangements for the Engineer's Exposition will be made. All mechanical and industrial engineers are urged to attend.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Tuesday, April 17, 1934
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION:
A. S. M. E.;
LUCIENE THOMAS, President.
The Christian Science organization will meet this afternoon at 4:30 in Myers hall, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited.
DEMOLAY SMOKER:
The Smoker originally scheduled for April 12 will be held at the Delta Sigma Lambda house, 1137 Indiana street, at 7 o'clock this evening. All DeMolays are invited. Mr. Louis Luer, of Kansas City, will speak.
LAWRENCE E. WOOD, Chairman.
Waldo Bowman, "23, member of the Kansas Missouri valley championship basketball team in 1923, is now associate editor of the McGraw-Hills Engineering News Record.
The supporting cast in "Ripide" is deserving of praise. Herbert Marshall as the English lord, Robert Montgomery as the playboy, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Aunt Hattie, share equal honors with Miss Shearer in many scenes.
JAY JANES:
There will be an important meeting of all Jay James Wednesday at 4:30 in room 216 Administration building. JESSAMINE JACKSON.
Kappa Phi will meet at 6:30 this evening at the home of Mrs. Edwin Price.
LUTY ENNS, Publicity Chairman.
K will come there. There will be a meeting of all K men in Robinson gymnasium at 7:30 this evening.
CLYDE COFFMAN, President.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS:
As in former pictures, Miss Shearer wears enough dresses for a fashion show, but she has lost none of her ability to wear them smartly and gracefully.
Le Certec Francais se reunira mercredi a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parent francais sont invites.
salle 306 Fraser hall. 105 ceux qui parlent du RUTH BARNARD, Secretaire.
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
MID-WEEK VARSITY. The regular mid-week varsity will be held Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 o'clock at the Memorial Union building. C. OZWIN RUTLEDGE, Manager.
PI LAMBDA THETA:
The meeting scheduled for Thursday evening, April 10, has been postponed. The next meeting will be held on May 3 for the purpose of electing officers.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING:
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION There will be a meeting of the faculty of the School of Education on Tuesday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m. in room 119 Fraser hall. E. H. LINDLEY.
not failed in turning out an entertaining picture.
TAU SIGMA:
Tau Sigma will meet at 7:30 tonight. I will work with groups which need help.
ELIZABETH DUNKEL
The story concerns itself with a Spanish planter, a gentleman of estate by day, and a thief by night, who decides to have his brother come home from his Eastern school and become a gentleman. The brother George Rafa returns and finds the house and female servants both very pleasing. Adolph Menjou, who plays the rich planter invites his rhumba dancing fiancee, Frances Drake, to visit him, and on her arrival she immediately falls for his irresistible romance from some sort of the story蕴含的 Raf's determination to be a bullfighter, to get away from the girl who after a short time comes to live with him, his injury in a bullying, subsequent fear, and brother's noble succumption in time of need, despite the chance that he might be arrested if recognized.
It really winds up into a pleasant story, which increases in speed as it progresses, with thrills enough so that even the most rabid fan could ask for no more. Though Raft is supposed to be the perfect lover, in the good old Spanish style he doesn't come up quite to par as is attributed to his "On your way baby, on your way," in answer to a girl's invitation to her boudour.
Mr. Menjuu represents a peculiar combination of the dishonorable and a gentleman of the old school honor. Because of this his character is hard to believe. He is greatly assisted by Sidney Toller, who plays his first lieutenant well, and provides a welcome comedy relief.
In "Ripide" she plays the role of a gay and sophisticated young American woman who falls in love with and marries an English lord. The nobleman has forgiven her somewhat free life in the past and for five years they are very happy and devoted to their little daughter. While business takes the lord to America, Mary's name unfortunately becomes linked with that of a playboy in a tabliol scandal. She is guilty only of a kiss or two, but her husband doubts her and starts divorce proceedings. Thereafter she does have an affair with the playboy. About the same time her husband discovers that she was not to blame in the previous escapade and wants her back. Mary decides not to tell him what has occurred, but he finds out. She gains his respect again when she refuses any claim to the child.
Norma Shearer returns to the screen, after an eighteen months absence, in a picture comparable to her earlier successes. No doubt that is why we enjoy "Ripide" (Patee), for it gives us the Norman we liked so much in "The Divorce," "Let Us Be Gay," and "A Free Soul."
Campus Opinion
--very sincerely yours,
N. M.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Why do the students of the University of Kansas think that a dance is time for everyone to step on everybody's toes?
At the Senior Cake Walk, when all the women were dressed in light spring formalms and the men in flannels and blue coats, the舞ers raced around the floor as if they needed to get somewhere. Can't students dance peacefully without running into everyone at the party?
We can see little excuse for the conduct of some students who seem to think that they own the place and thus take advantage of everyone. These rowdy Kansas boys will do well to come to themselves, calm down, and try at least to act like gentlemen for four hours.
The bands which the University employs would be smart if they played more slow numbers instead of marches to a fire.
If the hands would play soft music along with the soft lights, then the men and their dates would calm down and act like ladies and gentlemen, and a good time would be had by all.
Hoping this does some good, I am.
Our Contemporaries
RACIAL INTOLERANCE
The significant thing, however, concerning the policy of treatment of negroes in the house restaurant is that the racial issue is far from settled and may flare up at any moment, and furthermore may cause no little embarrassment to congressmen.
Whatever your attitude may be regarding racial tolerance or intolerance it may be safely said that Oscar De Priest, Negro representative in congress from Illinois, made nothing short of a monkey out of Texas' Blanton.
The Oklahoma Daily
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It will be interesting to note what action may follow. It is possible that the house vote will not suffice to bring the issue from the committee and that the resolution may die there. Then it is possible that the committee would investigate in the subsequent vote should it be brought to the floor of the house.
De Priest has obtained the required 145 signatures to insure a vote on bringing the resolution for an investigation into the affairs from the committee to the floor of the house.
It is assuredly a most tickish issue for congressmen and if it be in the power of De Priest e will force it to its logical conclusion.
Congressmen might usefully adopt the policy of De Priest contained in his following statement:
"I did not start this, but so help me God I am going to stay to see the finish . . . I have been informed that if I insisted on pressing the issue I might hurt my usefulness here. If I did not press it I would not stay here long . . . The people who sent me here would rightfully retire me in November."
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