PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief JAMES PATTERSON Campus Editor Staff Mercer Herbey Makeup Editor Lenn Waytt Nielsen Nigel Editor Loreen Miller Eachone Editor Hugh Randall Alhurri Editor Max Moxley Green Language Society Editor Iris Olson Margaret Grang Chiles Coleman Dorothy Smith Maurice Rieber Jimmy Hale John Wickman Grethes Group Larry Sterling Paul Woodhouse Vicki M. Hare Robert Smith Advertising Manager Cleraeer E. Mundis Circulation Manager Wilbur Le厚erman Telephone Business Office ... K1. 66 News Room ... 892 Business Office ... 20718 Night Connection, News Room ... 27028 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in the Journal of Journalism, except during school holidays by students in the Department of Journalism or the Department of Journalism Department of Journalism advance, $3.25 on payment, $2.00 each in advance, as second class matter, September 17, 1919, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1934 CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? Once again a co-operative plan has been conceived which will give students a chance to remain in school by offering them meals on a so-called ten-cent plan, although the actual rate this year has been increased by three cents. This plan, worthy as it is, has certain objectionable features so that some students, no matter how dire their straits, would rather pay the regular cafeteria (or boarding club) price, than to be subject to the conditions. It savors again of the well-known "Brother, can you spare a dime?" The co-operative plan calls for open segregation of those receiving the charitable good-will of the school and cafeteria, which is a stroke at pride and openly focuses attention on the recipients of dime meals. There is a wide distinction between charity and reduction of costs by co-operative action; the latter is highly to be desired. The well meaning authorities should consider the damage to the whole idea of co-operative meals by labeling them openly as "Tanks, buddy, for the dime." Many professors waste a lot of time telling how to save time in the classroom. IS IT SPRING? The college man takes off his coat, stretches his arms and years for the fishing pole, the old swimming hole and a nice, shady spot on the side of some lake. The college woman, too, feels the early spring air that has so suddenly descended upon Mt. Oread, and looks casually toward the skies for the big, full moon which is a full fifteen days in the offing. Even the professors become more and more absent minded as they drone on sleepily in classrooms, and in lethargic manner, assign long, tedious pages of abstract dissertations and tracts. Yes, spring is here, and the birds, bees, and even the trees are responding. CHANGES New faces . . . new voices . . . new manners . . . a new semester at college. All these seem many times to mean just one thing—the lonesomeness of reminiscence. The friends of three or four years who have left the campus, perhaps left our life entirely, take on a new and magnified importance when they have left the scene. Small incidents, even trivial ones, which were entertaining and rather valuable have lost their importance because the atmosphere is gone—there is hardly anyone left with whom to remember and laugh now. But every day some newcomer is having an experience which will be amusing and gain more importance as years pass, and is making new friends, some to be remembered, others to be lost. The scene has really not changed much. It is time which has colored the picture. UNDERCURRENT To satisfy a desire for something light and local to read while eating the Sunday morning waffles or with the first pipe of the day, we here and now offer this collection of trivia for your approval. If it please you, you shall have more. If it doesn't, give us time—it might get better. For no good reason in the world, this colymen has been called "The Undercurrent". You'll get caught in it if you're not careful. It is written for whatever pleasure you may get from it, and if you're not careful, you should Bill Ken, we have no apologies to offer. Like Topsy, it jest "grown." We'll try to guard against it as the be a Laent. Now that the eternal chatter of "What is he like? She looks like a grouch, I'll bet he's tough," has somewhat subsided, we recall an incident which happened to a local professor when he was teaching at Cornell. One day he was walking across the campus and overheard one of his students talking to a companion. It went like this: "Say, Pete. I'm in the craziest course this semester. "Yeah! Bibliography, it's called We've been in there three weeks now, and he hasn't mentioned the Bible once." To even up the score, there comes the story of the freshwoman who studied frantically for twenty-four hours on a make-up final. All pent-up and jittery, she arrived at the professor's office to go through with the dern thing. She waited and waited, but he never showed up. The last time she was seen, she was slowly bursting into a fine flame of fury. The KFKU staff is still chuckling over a break made by a freshman who spoke on the series of talks arranged with the assistants of her rhetoric class. The freshman rhetorician stepped up to the emotionless microphone and began, "After these few weeks at the University, we have saw-" - Wonder what he got out of the course? It took all the spare will power in our frail body at "Distant Drums" Thursday night to keep us from realizing a long cherished impulse. At the beginning of the last scene when all ears were bent in the direction of the valley for the cry of "Help!" we wanted to break out with a healthy yippie and gallop down the aisle. Wonder what would have happened? The height of something or other was displayed by a landlady on Tennessee street at the fortunate Kappa Sig housewarming Friday night. Approaching two of the down-hearted Kappa Sigs, she broke out with this sales talk, "Boys, I have some nice rooms over at my house. Won't you come over and look at them?" The fire also threw light on the present day collegiate scene, when one member of the unlucky fraternity rushed out with an armful of books he had snatched from the flames. Arriving breathless and choking on the porch of a building, he escaped from the student spectators, who saw what he had rescued. With a fine gesture of surrender, he turned and tossed the books back into the burning house. Now is the time for Mr. Tightwad to call the fascinating Kappa he has been longing to impress and ask to take her to a grand night club in the city. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: The Kanian regrets the fact that the above errors occurred in the book of Sandelius. Owing to the haste with which it was necessary to copy the manuscript, these Very sincerely, Walter Sandelius. Editor Daily Kansan: Much against my inclinations, I attended the initial performance of the Kansas Players' Distant Drums last Monday evening. As is my wont (yes, I own a dictionary) after seeing things like these, the following day I compared my opinion with that of both the Kansan and the Lawrence Daily Pest. Anytime I feel in the mood for a nice garbage man, I'll call up either of the two critics! OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. m. saturday for Sunday issues. Vol. XXXI Please report at the Auditorium for the basketball game tomorrow night as follows: stilemen at 6:20 and ushers at 6:40. HERBERT G. ALLPHIN. BASKETBALL USHERS AND STILEMEN; Sundav, Feb. 18, 1934 No.93 Any student who changed his address between semesters and has not reported the new address to the Registrar's office should report the change at once for the Directory Supplement. GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The Christian Science organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Myers hall, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 4:30 in 417 Snow hall. E. H. LINDLEY, President. LUCIENE THOMAS, President. FRESHMEN ENGLISH LECTURE: Miss Myra Hull will speak on "The Pioneer Theme in American Literature" at 4:30 on Thursday, Feb. 22 in room 205 Fraser hall. All who are interested may attend. NELLIE BARNES, Chairman. GRADES: Students may obtain first semester grades at the Registrar's office during the week of Feb. 19 to 24, according to the following schedule of names: Y. Marr and his guides will be at the scheduled time during the week of Feb. 19 to 24, according to the following schedule of names: Monday, Feb. 19 — A to G, inclusive. Tuesday, Feb. 20 — H to M, inclusive. Wednesday, Feb. 21 — N to S, inclusive. Thursday, Feb. 22 — T to Z, inclusive. Friday, Feb. 23 — Those unable to appear at the scheduled time. Saturday, Feb. 24 — Those unable to appear at the scheduled time. GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar. There will be a waffle supper and initiation meeting Tuesday at 4:30 at the Practice house. GARNET HUGHES, President. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cerule Francais se reunitra mercredi a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlant français sont invites. MATHEMATICS CLUB: MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics club will meet tomorrow at 4:30 in room 211 Administration. Paul Borel will speak on "Descriptive Geometry." Visitors are welcome. ELIZABETH HINSHAW, Vice President. RUTH BARNARD, Secretaire. Phi Chi Delta will meet Tuesday at 5:30 at Westminster hall. ELEANOR FROWE. President. At 4 o'clock this afternoon, in the Green room, Bhadamanthi will meet Please bring the last issue of College Verse for criticism. SELF-SUPPORTING STUDENTS: MAURICE S. RICE, President. A regular meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, in room 222 Administration building, at 8 p.m. A short business meeting will precede a talk by Mr. Ellsworth on the CSEP program. All students concerned with the CSEP are invited. Y. W. C. A.: DOROTHY JOHNSTON, Vice President. There will be a meeting of the new Industrial discussion group on Tuesday at 4:30 at Henley house. All those interested are cordially invited. Miss Elliott will speak. DORIS WESTFALL, Chairman. First, however, I feel that I should qualify my position. I am entirely disinterested, unbiased, unprejudiced—but I am sore anyway. The critic of the World, who is magnificently rewarded with two passes to the show when he gives it a flattering review, and who is reprimanded severely when his dull brain fails to see the beauty of it, said that he could have listened all evening to the duet voices of the ladies in the cast. The Kansas critic was more restrained. He did not give full play to his emotions. Aside from being sarcastic, my quarrel with the reviews is the obvious avoidance of a young man whom the program listed as William Bracke. This tall 'young man' played the part of Jay Pike, a farmer. I hope you're not looking for me to say that I don't presume to criticise anyone—for that is just what I am doing. I've seen enough good plays to know when I see a bad one. I was frankly bored with Distant Drums, and also with most of the actors in the cast. But Mr. Bracke (I hope I am not misspelling his name, as I haven't the program with me) did a capable job of holding his end up, and I suspect that he really looked the part of a Housier pioneer. The young man, who had quite an important part in the play, was not once mentioned in either review, for which I am inclined to blame the Kansan (it has always been my sincere belief that the World is a moocher, sponging off the Star for the news and off the Kansan for the Hill happenings). In closing, let me say that it is perfectly all right to compliment someone for doing a bit part in a production, but when it goes to the length of avoiding the one who does the only real, sincere job of acting—then it is only stupid. I hope you print this. Editor Daily Kansan: Sincerely yours, W.P. There can be no valid objection to honest propaganda, but we move to protest some of the statements made by Mr. Williams last Tuesday night. Speaking as an authority on the iron, steel, and coal industries of the U.S.S.R. Mr. Williams indicated that production is consistently falling. Facts refute this. The "Economic Review of the Soviet Union," Jan. 1934, p.17, in regard to production in the first 11 months of 1933 as compared to production in the similar period of 1932, says, "... Gross production of heavy industry increased 11 per cent, coal industry gained 17.4 per cent, coke 21.2 per cent ... pig iron 15.3 per cent ... steel 15.4 per cent, rolled steel 14.2 per cent." The "World Almanac" p.335, agrees with figures showing increases during 1930-32 in the iron and steel industries. For the former it was 4,987 metric tons to 6,370 and in the latter from 5,552 m.t. to 5,800. With regard to the workers' status in Russia, Mr. Williams stated that he received only 50 rubles per month and that the ruble was worth 2½ cents. In order to afford his meals, p. 712, the value of the ruble expressed in dollars was $51455. It is difficult to understand how Mr. Williams failed to gather this information for himself. While he was a tourist he had, of necessity, to exchange his American money for rubles at the U.S.S.R. state bank, where the rate of exchange would readily have been apparent to him. Furthermore the wage of the worker is not 50 rubles, but ranges nearer 250 rubles per month. Later Mr. Williams declared that the shortening of work hours and the employment of more men was only a policy of splitting the bread into smaller pieces. We needed to produce more. But what of the loaf that lies moulding by the side of a few capitalists? Stop the destruction of wheat, cotton, coffee, open the warehouses bursting with food and clothing to the ragged and hungry, operate the machines for use and not for profit. That may eliminate the hundreds of Williamsses whose incomes acrue from the sweat of other people, but then there will be bread for all, for there IS bread for all. The position of Mr. Williams became a little clearer when he discussed the United States. While he was discussing Russia, Italy, and Germany, one might have thought he was merely propagandizing for American capitalism of the old sort. But now he says, "No, we need a little [of—we presume] Hitler in this country . . . a combination of government and business." And so Mr. Williams is a bird of a different feather, not only the standpatter, the conservative who opposes all change! No! Mr. Williams is the exponent of Fascism; not strange at all for the ex-potentate of a steel corporation to advocate Fascism—he knows what class will profit and of what class he is a member. Now we can understand his questionable interpretations of Germany, Russia, Italy and the United States. Certainly—impress people with the goodness of Fascism, the badness of Socialism and Communism, and they will accept Fascism all the more readily. That Mr. Williams was paid to present such questionable statements through the medium of the University Lecture Series leads one to believe either that the officials who contracted him were in ignorance of his viewpoint, (which they shouldn't have been) or that by allowing him to speak they are giving tacit approval to his Fascist doctrine. Two who appeared Rather Bolshekish (if there is such a word). G. A., S.H. 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