PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief JAMES PATTerson Managing Editor ROBERT SMITH Campus Editor Matthew Hearford Basketball Editor Matthew Hearford Sports Editor R. B. Hayes Football Editor Mark Dutton Freshman Editor Hugh Randall Midfielder Mike Morse Sunday Tutor George Lorenzos Sunday Tutor George Lorenzos Margaret Grogs Chiles Coleman Dorothy Smith Maurice Rice Joseph Donahue Gretenek Group Larry Sigglefelt Paul Woodmassman Virgil Parken Advertising Manager ... Cheriece F. Mundle Ciremunation Manager ... Wilbur Lentherman Business Office X. I. U. 66 Business Office Night Connection, Business Office 201K18 201K18 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday morning except during school holiday by student newspapers. University of Kanaan, from the Press of the Department of Journalism (from the advance, $2.85 on payment), single copies, to each. Published as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas IN THE MODERN STYLE The Jayhawk has just made another campus appearance. The 1934 Jayhawkter is a financial success, and those who are in charge report that they are highly satisfied with the way students have supported it. They also say that the magazine-yearbook plan is commendable because of the number of students from all groups on the Hill who can be given an opportunity to perform staff duty. After glancing at the list of contributors and workers it seems possible to say that this year's staff appears to represent a true cross-section of the student body. The University of Kansas has been a pioneer in this new development of college annuals. Washburn College and a few others have already adopted the basic plan, while Kansas State and several others are seriously considering it for next year. POLITICAL RUMBLINGS There is hope that back-slapping friends will extend less vigorous greetings these warm days since overcoats are no longer being worm. Before many more weeks have passed the coals of rival ambitions will be fanned until they glow with hope, and Mt. Oread will again be the battleground of youthful Hill politicians. Even now one can hear the faint rumble of the mighty vote-getting machines as they are repaired and put in shape for the annual spring festival of filling ballot boxes. Both major parties are holding secret committee meetings to formulate their platforms and work out the intricate details of "big deals." While all of this undercover work is progressing, Dame Rumor spreads the story that both parties would like to move up the election date so that it will come before Easter vacation, but neither wants to take the initiative and do a thing that the other party also favors. All in all, it looks as if the students were in for another bigger and better show, and they should not kick; these spring elections do liven up a school term that otherwise might be dull. Critics will poke fun at the efforts of these future governmental experts, but time will turn the joke on them. The fact that men of the University do take part in honest-to-goodness elections proves that there is educational value in the practical field of politics as well as in the theoretical field of the classroom. Perhaps, some day, if our national life continues to be so materially affected by politics, the schools will offer credit for this interesting activity. Such a hope should probably be termed a pipe dream, but it is at least, an amusing thought. SNOW In swirling fury it swooped down on us in the middle of a series of balmy days and wrenched our thoughts from the lazy spring o the tingling, rapid activity that brings on. The ground is covered with an even mantle of white, which glitters in the light of the sun who has escaped the prison that the clouds had built around him. Shouts are heard as a bob-sled pulled by somebody's car speeds by, and shrill joyous screams arise when by a mischance the sled overturns. Icicles hang from the roof-eaves and form glittering turrets of beau----saay, who threw that snowball? But like all things that come out of season the snow is going away, and sloppy slush will soon replace its beauty. So perhaps all this rumpus was merely the March lion coming in a little prematurely, and perhaps we have seen winter's last aggressive blow at that dainty but persistent lady, Spring. It must have been Old Man Winter who was just around the corner. NOTHING EVER HAPPENS On the campus recently, the Kappa Sigma house was destroyed by fire; Rowlands book store was robbed; Norman Thomas, socialist leader, issued a challenge to students at an all-University convocation; Kansas assumed the lead in the Big Six basketball race, apparently headed toward a fourth straight title; Glenn Cunningham won honors in the East against the strongest track competition the nation could offer; the new ball room at the Memorial Union was completed; work on the grounds before Watson library transformed most of the front yard into a level plot; the work of filling in the old cisterns, at one time the chief water supply of the University, was begun; CSEP aid made it possible for 327 more students to enroll in the University of the second semester. In national affairs, America has been passing through a period of bloodless revolution the importance of which has been unparalleled in history, CSEP, CWA, PWA, NRA, and similar plans for recovery have been carrying America to a peaceful solution of the ills which have but recently convulsed Europe. Yet some complain that there has been no news. Seldom has the public been confronted with issues which have moved as swiftly and determinedly toward a definite conclusion as have the events of the past few weeks and months. News values seem to be like great men; they are not always appreciated until they have passed. UNDERCURRENT Not so many nights ago when the front porch of Arrow club was crowded with twosomes bidding their farewell until the morrow, the front door burst open, and the housemother appeared holding a vagrant feline by the nape of its neck. She dropped him (or her) on the porch, and as she whisked back into the house, a lad heckled, "Have you wound the clock?" The heartiest chuckle of the week comes from the Pi Phi house, and to the wit who was responsible for it we curry in our best dancing school manner. Alexander Wolcott, whose pleasures are either illegal, immoral, or fattening, said last week. "Young people are the only ones who suffer from feeling old." Think it over. He may be right. Last week he died from external injuries caused by the repeated smacks in the mid-section. Just another example of the cruelty of our speedy age. The family owned two dogs, a frisky terrier and a dachshund, one of those fellows two dogs long and half a dog high. The house was fitted with those pesky swinging doors, and to the terrier they caused no discomfort. He would dash right into them and scoot across the door to the door swapping back. The long dog wasn't so fortunate. Each time the door would crack him one in the middle. Foregive us this, but we can't stop the typewriter now—it insists on giving this to you. Do you know the deriva- This sad but slightly amusing incident comes as the truth, but if it is a lie, they've got us telling it. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Noticees due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11, 20, n.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue. Applications for scholarships for 1934-35 will be received in room 310 Fraser hail on Tuesday and Thursday, Feb. 27, and March 1, at 10:30, on Wednesday and Friday, Feb. 28 and March 2, at 9:30, or appointment may be made by telephone. E. GALLOO, Chairman. Vol. XXXI OPPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 1984-35: There will be a regular meeting of A.S.M.E. Thursday night, March 1; at 8 o'clock, in room 210 Marvin hall. A motion picture entitled "Welding" will be shown. LEWIS W. BENZ. Secretary. A. S. M. E.: SHELD KEY. There will be a meeting of Steel Key this evening at 9 o'clock in room 102 Marvin hall. All members must be present or be excused by the president. BOREBT M. ARMSTRONG, Secretary. Current Screen STEEL KEY: TAU SIGMA: THETA EPSILON: RUTH PYLE. Tau Sigma will meet at 7:30 tonight. Gracie Allen as she pretends her way through reel after reel of SIX OF A KIND, the picture now showing at the Varsity theater. Regular meeting will be held at 5:30 this evening at 1124 Mississippi street Guest speaker will be Miss Naomi Light. ROWENA KOEHN Undoubtedly the picture is all Gracie's. At every turn of the plot you just know she is going to pop up with an unusually bold remark about the situation at hand. in the word "postoffice?" No? Well, sit tight—here goes. W.A.A. will meet Wednesday, March 7, at 4:30, instead of tomorrow, Feb. 28. MARY ELIZABETH FUR, President. The "other five," however, do their share in making the picture a par excellence laugh-provoking comedy. There are Mary Boland and Charles Rugges, Way up in Alaska, a bunch of the boys around the village were putting up a totem pole in the middle of the circle of wigwams. They placed the pole in the hole (poetry, huh?) and began to push the other end into the air. But when it hit them it bended pendicular. But alas, alack, a fierce northerner bore down on them and blew it down, pinning them to the ground. W. A. A.: James Christv Fearing for their lives, one of the bucks screamed, "Hey, one of you squaws, come over here and get this water," to this day, we have had a postoffice. All right, all right—no need in getting surly about it. We were just fooling. A voice on the other end of the wire answered with "Kappa Alpha Theta You couldn't do better!" "I can't come and hang up. But "Izatz so?" says we, and hum up, as we forgive the boast—it's hell week. One of the fair hairied lads who were graduated at the end of the first semester owes the library twenty-five cents. So far he has received four letters reminding him of his debt. "As soon as they use thirteen cents more in stamps, I'm going to give up and send them the quarter," he confides. The lads in Public Finance report that much fun is had at the expenses of Rish安 and Bob Jones when Professor Jensen calls the role. So take heed, professors. Learn a lesson from Norman Thomas and your in- ternational friends. It goes like this—"Isham--Jones." Some day the two are going to break out in the chorus of "Wooden Soldier and the China Doll." Fortune may smile at us, but she seems to have laughed right out loud at Clyde Nichols. In the musical comedy rehearsals now holding forth in Fraser theater, the curly hairied lad is "forced" to kiss three of the Hill's most beautiful women. Unlike many of the actors in the show, Nichols has not complained about too many rehearsals. Campus Opinion I want to congratulate the Kansan on the fine way it reported the Norman Thomas speech. There was no ambiguity in the quotations, no misleading statements which left the reader up in the air as to what the speaker was trying to say. Everyone knows that the Kansan has frequently borne the brunt of fiery criticism from numerous professors on the Hill for printing alleged mistakes, false quotations, and the misuse of up to the dullness of interviews. Since I have had the doubtful pleasure of interviewing profs on current problems I am not speaking idly when I say that making a readable story out of a maze of ambiguous, redundant, tautological, "on-the-fence" material is no simple task. If those who are so prone to criticize would only go about their task of article-preparing with the scholarly decisiveness which is supposed to be an inherent characteristic of instructors, everyone concerned, even the reader, would naturally profit. I can well imagine that even the most seasoned reporter must have a point of orientation before he is able to write an instructive article containing a definite thought progression. trying to be happy with Gracie and George Burns around, and Alison Skippworth with her drinking spouse, W. C. Fields, running a hotel in Nuggetsville, Nevada. The story begins with Mr. and Mrs. Whimley (Boland and Ruggles) off for a second hourly masonry, a honeymoon to be as wonderful as their first. To save expenses (?), Gracie and George accompany them, taking Rang Tang Tang, Gracie's mastiff, along. One of Mr. Whimley's fellow bank clerks embezzles some money from the bank back home, and Mr. Whimley is the goat until W.C. Fields takes charge of the criminal investigation. The story ends nicely, with the Whitmiles finally left alone to continue their second hourly masonry. W. C. Fields offers a good characterization of a drunkard playing billiards. Luckily the scene ends in time to prevent serious consequences to the spectators. Wheeler and Woolsey seldom fail to get some laughs by their anties, and in the current Patee attraction, Hips, Hips, Hooray, they have about the usual batting average. The plot is so sketchy that it barely suffices to hold the various incidents together, but that all it was meant to do. By the way, do not take the title as a key to the show. No more limbs, and pitches; the camera displayed the picture than one naturally expects in the average film of today. The feminine leads are taken by Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee, Todd teaming up with Woolsey and Lee and Wheeler making the usual passable rule. Ruth Etting does a bit of singing at the beginning of the show, all too little, in fact. The show opens with Lee and Todd employed in a fashionable beauty salon (characterized chiefly by the abbreviated attire of its attendants) and Wheeler and Woosey as vendors of Dudley's flavored lipstick. Somehow the four get together and hold a party up in the offices of an investment company, which constitutes one of the better shots of the picture. Another good scene is that in which gangsters Bob and Bert jitterily play a game of pool with two detectives who are trailing them. Said gangsters finally get into a laugh-providing cross-country auto race and emerge as heroes. We are still wondering, as are doubtless many others who have already seen the picture, just what was cut out and how it came. That was just got interesting. Our Contemporaries ORGANIZATIONS WHICH TRY TO AROUSE STUDENTS Iowa State Student Organizations in the United States with the alleged purpose of speaking and fostering "student opinion" have a lot to learn of the art of persuasion. Each morning we receive enough pamphlets, letters and circulations from so-called "student leadership organization" almost to swamp us with high-sounding adjectives, idealistic phrases—and pure baloney. Especially are pacifist organizations seeking to influence the undergraduate editor. Although we do not believe in compulsory military training at any college or university, we are much repelled by methods used in such organi- ties. League for Industrial Democracy, and various socialist organizations. In their attempts to strengthen their cases these organizations set up a barrage of literature which boils down in the form of "let's-yeah let's raise Hate. Let's demonstrate!" Perhaps we may be accused of pr judice, lack of backbone, or undue conservatism. But we fail to become aroused by such prognazanda. The American college student may be going to the dogs if he doesn't organize to strike at this or that "menace to personal liberty" but we think that he'll have a lot better opinion of him than they do. He's probably self in check today—if he doesn't make a perfect ass of himself over something that he doesn't know anything about. Thursday "GOOD DAME" King of Theatres As we promised, its 100% NOW! Thru Wednesday "6 of a KIND" With W. C. FIELDS ALISON SKIPWORTH CHAS. 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