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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1934
EARLY ENROLLMENT FOR ALL
may enroll two weeks before regular enrollment, both avoiding and relieving the usual enrollment hub-bub, is regarded by the senior as one of his lucky break this year. The envy of under classmen has brought forth the question, why cannot a similar arangement be made for the enrollment of all students?
To cite a few important advantages, this arrangement would permit a more careful consideration, on the part of students, of the courses in which to enroll, thus alleviating the number of changes and "drops" that follow every enrollment; absence of the fatiguing and bewildering congestion which characterizes the present system; and a saving of time, besides allowing a more thorough check on student courses by their advisers.
Adjustments would naturally have to be-made for such irregularities as grades which are undetermined until after the final examination, and the like. But is it not possible that the advantages in this plan outweigh the irregularities that arises? The student has been wondering.
A bulletin of the biochemistry department says: "The glucose content in the blood of a healthy individual before breakfast varies from 85 to 125 mgm. per 100 cc. of blood." These people who go without breakfast don't know what they're missing.
GARBAGE IN THE YARD
A query expressed by a foreign student on the Hill a few days ago concerning outside discussion of the affairs of his country went something like this:
"Why should Americans busy themselves with something that does not concern them; why don't they confine themselves to their business at home?"
The answer to this attitude can best be explained by an analogy. In early stages of man's life in any particular part of the earth which he settled, there was usually a pioneer period in which the inhabitants were scattered. In such periods, each man could throw garbage into his front yard, or indulge in almost any sort of activity without affecting other people. In modern city life, he cannot do so because his neighbors would not tolerate any such breach of their well-being.
Likewise, in early periods of the world's growth, what one country did was of little consequence to another, because communication was slow, nations and kingdoms were isolated from one another, and the life of any one of them reflected but slowly, if at all, upon even its nearest neighbors.
But now, when it is possible to arrange facilities for spoken communication across the oceans in a few minutes, people are able to transport themselves to almost any part of the globe in a few days, and when the life or change
in life of any country is of almost immediate economic and cultura consequence to every other country, no nation can throw garbage into its yard (or out of it either) without at once incurring a reaction of one sort or another from its fellow countries.
The net of human life upon this world has become so tightly meshed that, no matter what dissentions and ruinous struggles mar the web, it cannot any longer be considered other than a single unit of existence.
FREE SPEECH IN A DEMOCRACY
"I value the freedom of saying and writing exactly what I like very highly indeed," writes G. D. H. Cole, in The Student Outlook for December, 1933. "But I recognize that this freedom belongs to me in Great Britain because I belong to a comparatively privileged group, possessing a reasonably assured economic status."
Mr. Cole's statement is as true in the United States as it is in Great Britain. Although we pride ourselves upon freedom of speech and of the press, there are minority groups in every part of the country which are not permitted adequate self-expression.
Laborers in the industrial sections of the East, Negroes in the South, and slum-dwellers in the larger cities have no access to the pages of the influential, metropolitan newspapers—except perhaps through the public opinion columns.
If it were not for the small, 'radical' papers and magazines which usually survive for only a short time and never become very influential, these minority groups would be entirely without a voice. It takes money and a certain amount of social prestige to make speech or the press effective. Without the means of making self-expression effective, what is the real value of freedom of speech and of the press?
A SNUB FOR RUM
Temperance advocates in the state of Kansas look at the University with mixed feelings of surprise and relief. The repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment has scarcely rippled the surface of the student consciousness.
Those who remember a few years back are amazed at the change in the student point of view. Liquor was then a fascinating forbidden fruit that captured the imagination of a goodly number of undergraduates. It was the same at every university
To return from a foreign country with a bottle of the "real stuff" was the coup de grace for a man - about - the - campus. He would set the highly decorated bottle up on his dresser, inviting his friends in to gaze at it in an awed silence. If he were particularly generous, he might, with an officious ripping of labels, pour tiny samples for the fortunate ones.
Now that all of the romance-
sounding beverages are on sale a few miles away, the glamour has been lost. Some students may entertain a mild curiosity about the relative flavor of some of the better known drinks, but they are in no hurry to make the experiment. Possibly they only wish to see if the writers of all those sophisticated novels really know what they are talking about.
If you failed to see "Little Women" when it was here during the Christmas vacation don't miss it now, on its return engagement at the Patee. It is easily one of the most important pictures produced in 1933.
Current Screen
There is not an ordinary thing done in the picture. It is simply a story of four good girls who do everything their mother tells them, but who have their own problems to work out. There is no villain, and there isn't even a real hero. And one is glad that they aren't in the picture.
The characters of the story and their realistic manners, created through the genius of Miss Alcott, are undoubtedly the qualities that have kept it alive through three generations.
With this great story for a background
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues.
Heinz Fuell, German Exchange scholar and graduate engineer, will talk at a regular meeting of the A.S.C.E. this evening at 7:30 in the auditorium of Marvin hall, Entertainment and free literature.
Thursday, Jan. 18, 1934
Vol. XXXI
A. S. C. E.;
CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary.
The Band will play at the Kansas State basketball game Saturday at 7:15.
Come in uniforms, without capes. J. C. McCANLES, Director.
BAND:
BAND:
All band members who have purchased tickets for basketball games call at the Athletic office for refund of the same. J.C. M.CANEAS, Director.
KETRALL, STILEMEN AND USHERS:
Stilem report at 6:30; usheres at 6:40, at the Kansas Aggie game Saturday night.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
COLLEGE SENIORS;
All students who are enrolled as College Seniors this semester will be enrolled for the spring semester during the period Jan. 17-23, inclusive. Appointments for such enrollment should be made at the College office.
PAUL B. LAWSON, Acting Dean.
COLLEGE STUDENTS:
All College students are asked to see their advisers during the period Jan 17-23 inclusive, to work out their enrollments for the spring semester. The advisers' office hours are posted on the bulletin board at the College office. Transcripts may also be obtained at the office and should be returned there immediately after the conference. Careful and unhurried advice may be obtained during this period as it cannot be on the enrollment floor.
FENCING:
PAUL B. LAWSON, Acting Dean.
There will be a short meeting of the club today at 4:30 to consider the proposal of the athletic department of Baker University. Members will please attend. P. RAPOPORT, President.
XAVIER CLUB:
Katharine Hepburn, the most promising of the new screen stars, portrays her greatest role, in the character of Jo. Jo is the 'tom boy' of the family. It is she also idealizes the conception of the home. She tries to keep the family together and puts up a fight when the other girls want to get married.
All members of the Xavier club are asked to be present at a very important meeting this evening at 7 o'clock in St. John's Parish hall.
Elmer Rice went to Hollywood to adapt his stage success, "Counselor-at-Law," for the screen. John Barrymore was engaged to play the title role which Paul Muni handled so capably in the legitimate theater. The result is a motion picture of far higher quality than most, a picture that is if anything more powerful and more gripping than the stage presentation of the story.
Not a character in the play plays his part poorly. Frances Dee as Meg is thoroughly a normal girl. Joan Bennett as Amy is proud and selfish but lovable. Jean Parker as Beth is an angel child who is really too good for this world. In three scenes she arrives near death and then in the last one of these scenes she does die.
US CALLED YOUTH
But the girls are not the only important characters. In fact everyone of the characters belong to the important group. Professor Bhaer, a professor who talks with a broken German acent and who finally marries Jo, is played by Paul Lucas. Marmee, the ideal mother who never fails to do as many kind deeds as possible, is played by Spring Byington. And Laurie, the boy next door who first falls in love with Jo and then with Amy, whom he marries, is played by Douglas Montgomery. If you have a couple hours to spare and want to see Hollywood at its best go and see "Little Women."
Barrymore, of course, could be expected to handle any role with a good deal of ability. His work in "Counsellor-at-Law" makes it one of his best pictures. To many he will appear more real, more natural than he has ever appeared previously, because he has given the part of George Simon, a Jewish law judge, his background. He ruins a brilliant career, the same asympathetic interpretation that Muni eavesdro
FRANK O'NEILL. Secretary
Other countries have youth movements in Germany, they are a potent factor—standing in the rain yelling support to ideas that were old and discarded even before they were born. In Italy, they also yell support—to a slightly superior cause. In Russia they yell for the support of the government while in Cuba and points south they yell for the downfall of the government—any government that is standing.
The story loses none of its force or effectiveness in the few changes that Mr. Rice saw fit to allow Hollywood to make in it. While "Counsellors-at-Law" is probably not the best thing the playwright has done, it is far better than the average run of stage productions, and has been made into one of the best motion pictures of the year.
Our Contemporaries
Between the self-consciousness of sixteen and the widening waistline of thirty is a period designated as your youth. Those that are between those ages represent the youth of the land—to sum up the matter with Brisbane clarity.
It is to this group that Secretary Henry Wallace appeals to form a youth movement in America. For he realizes that if a person is not saved at 30, he is doomed for eternity. To be doomed for eternity is not pleasant. The logical assumption is that young America should save itself.
Obviously, Wallace does not contemplate youth movements of these varieties. So that immediately stops all wits who would derive great joy at suggesting pink shirts and green shorts for America's youth movement.
America too has had youth movements. They usually move from the sticks to a central convention in New York and Chicago, pass a resolution condemning war, and then move right into thick叱驳. That round trip usually is the extent of their movement. Obviously, that too is not the kind of
What Wallace and other liberals hope is that youth will take an active and intelligent interest in government. Whether that activity is manifested in a separate party or through the present worn channels is immaterial. That there shall be activity is essential.
When America's chief problem was business, it mattered little that politics was left to worm-out lawyers and penny politicians who lived their lives with
be one idea to lean on, "Give and get
...n to." But rugged individualism
seems clearly in the discard.
The new order is socialized if not socialism. The sphere of government is all spheres. The importance of government is on the increase. If it is to be anything but the overgrown Frankenstein that it now is, it must become intelligent. That is fundamental.
It may be presuppetty to hope that we the youth can bring intelligence to government; but at least it is a possibility. And when government is at its present low intellectual ebb (Rolph, Long, Fish, O'Brien, Carraway, Brookhart, etc), and those conspicuous by their very absence)—at the present level, any possibility should be utilized.—The Stanford Daily.
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