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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... CHILES COLEMAN
Associate Editors
Carol Widen ___ William Blissard
MANAGING EDITOR... MARGARET GREGG
Campus Editor
NBA
Robert Smith
Sports Editor
NBA
Heywood Heyford
Sports Editor
NBA
Margaret Mellot
Knighthood Editor
NBA
Gretchen Orden
Sunday Edition
NBA
Melissa Miller
Kansan Board Members
Advertising Manager ... Clarence E. Mundis
Circulation Manager ... Marion Benttay
Margaret Groeg   Chiles Coleman
Dorothy Smith   Pierre Rice
Pamela Patterson   Jimmy Carter
Grethen Group   Larry Sterling
Fuil Woodmance   Virgil Parker
Marin Marken   Robert Smith
Advertising Manager   Clarence E. Mundis
Crookston Management
Business Office KU-60
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Night Delivery Business Office.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934
earned as second a class master, September
17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas.
THE OLD VILLAGE STORE
In the good old days of which our grandfathers speak, the village store was the point of distribution for everything from leather punches to salty crackers. Then by a process of evolution a generalization of progeny grew up and there came hardware stores, grocery stores, ready-to-wear shops, dry goods stores, and by an intermixure of the old chemist's shop blood, the modern drug store.
But the return cycle is almost complete. The drug store led the procession, amid a deceptive flutter of fancy signs, and now a purchaser may find on its shelves and hanging from the ceiling butcher knives, face cream, breakfast, lunch, dinner, bathroom fixtures, soap, pocket handkerchiefs, cigarette lighters, and a thousand other essentials of modern life; and if he insists, he can get his prescription filled from a store of drugs in the back room.
Grocery stores, probably the most direct descendant of the old village meeting place, now handle everything from radiator alcohol and automobile oil to the hundred varieties of breakfast foods and soap flakes. Hardware stores can supply fine silverware, toys for the baby, or speed boats. Filling stations now have every convenience for the traveller except bellhop service.
In this return to the old way, examples of the period of growth are disappearing, however. Cigar stores are nearly all gone and the wooden Indians are museum pieces, leather goods shops are almost extinct, baker-confectioners' establishments have been pushed out by drug store soda fountains, and restaurants are feeling keenly the competition of soda fountains, snack shops, and church dimmers.
If the process continues, the cycle will be complete in a few years. So dust off the old pot-bellied stove, nail the lid on the cracker barrel, and notify the town big-wigs. No wonder the world has been in bad shape when all of its problems had to be settled in hasty trivialities over a "coke." When the old village store comes again into its own, there will be a bull session of the like of which the famous Paul Bunyan could be proud. Then maybe we can once more have a little common, ordinary horse sense applied to our perplexing problems.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
To the Biblical admonition that "there is no rest for the wicked" should be added, "and no seclusion for the famous." The privilege of having one's picture flashed across the continent or one's statements given front page significance demands, in return that private life he entirely sacrified to a story-seeking public which loves or hates passionately, which misinterprets continually, and which grasps avidly at any fragment of gossip about its idols.
On one page of a Tuesday newspaper it was noted that Greta Garbo took an extended automobile ride with a Hollywood director, thus bringing into world-wide discussion her marriage potentialities and possibilities; Rudy Valllee has resorted to dark glasses to avoid recognition while he travels to New York for a consultation about an unfortunate marriage, every detail of which has been table conversation in American homes for days; and finally, that Mae West, recipient of anonymous telephoned warnings, has beer provided with a body guard.
Day after day celebrities of every sort see themselves headlined all over the nation. It must be very annoying to have the privacy of a goldfish, without even the glass bowl to keep inquisitive admirers at their distance. Perhaps there is, after all, some consolation to be found in being only commonplace.
MENTALITY MEASUREMENTS
It may seem to the over-worked and much-abused student that examination time was devised by inhuman monsters for the sole purpose of torturing his small store of knowledge and trying his patience beyond the endurance point. Feebly he protests that merely to memorize a book or two and retain its main points long enough to scribble them hastily in a quiz book is not education and will not profit him in any way.
He is probably right. We are college students primarily to obtain book knowledge, but the part of education which will recompense us the most in the end is the training received in efficiency and resourcefulness; and examinations are lessons in both of them, unpleasant lessons, perhaps, but useful ones nevertheless.
To the student whose eyes and ears have functioned regularly in the classroom, and whose work has been kept up, finals hold few terrors. To the one whose days in school have been utterly wasted, they are a horrible nightmare. They will probably do him the most good, however, for they may teach him that a day-by-day method of attending to one's work, whatever it may be, is the only practical one.
With each individual lies the responsibility of making his college education repay him to the greatest possible extent. The opportunities are given him to develop a high degree of efficiency, to measure his initiative, to cultivate a social attitude and integrity which will control his whole life. Examinations are the means by which we test not only our literary knowledge, but also our progress in the art of living profitable and well.
The engineers must be a studious bunch. At least, there's a light in the library of their building until very, very late every night!
THE CLASSICS GO BEGGING
A recent advertisement in the Kansan by a Lawrence music store states that it is offering the major part of its stock of fine phonograph records at prices from one-half to one-fourth list price. But to jazz-mad collegians this offer goes practically unnoticed.
Students and student organizations spend a considerable sum each month for records; but they manifest no interest unless the recording was made by the Casa Loma orchestra or the Pickens sisters. Such records are popular for scarcely more than a month; then must be bought.
The resistance to cultural attainment put up by University students is amazing. Concerts are attended by but a small number, when practically all already have tickets.
Masterpieces performed by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and Rosa Ponselle are offered at prices even less than asked for current popular records—music that has lived through the ages and will continue to live through succeeding generations—and they beg for listeners.
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.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Heinz Puell, German Exchange scholar and graduate engineer, will talk at a regular meeting of the A.S.C. SEE, Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 in the auditorium
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1934
A. S. C. E.
BASKETBALL USHERS:
Need ten ushers for game Saturday night. Call at room 105 Robinson gymnasium.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary.
No.75
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES:
Students who expect to complete requirements for degrees at the end of the first semester must pay the diploma fee by the Bursar's office by Feb. 5.
CANDIDATES INTERESTED IN TEACHING:
There will be a meeting of candidates interested in using the services of the Teachers Appointment bureau for the coming year in Fraser theater on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4 p.m. All persons who expect to enroll in the Teachers Appointment bureau during the spring or summer are urged to attend.
H. E. CHANDLER, Secretary, Teachers Appointment Bureau.
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.
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.
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ENGINEERING COUNCIL:
PAUL B. LAWSON, Acting Dean.
There will be an important meeting of the Engineering council this evening at 7:30 in Marvin hall. Every member is required to be present.
FENCING:
CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary.
PAUL B. LAWSON, Acting Dean.
There will be a short meeting of the club on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4:30 p.m. to consider the proposal of the athletic department of Baker University. Members will please attend. P. RAPOPORT, President.
QUACK CLUB:
CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary.
CAROL HUNTER, President SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SENIORS
Seniors in the School of Education may enroll for the second semester between Jan. 15 and 20. They should call at the Education office to make appointments for such enrollments. A. H. TURNEY.
SWIMMING TEAM:
In our dark hours of intellectual famine, it is cheering to contemplate that perhaps, if we pound on our swaybacked Underwood long enough, we will wake up some fine morning with a real idea peering brightly at us from the page on which it has fallen.—Oregon Daily Emerald.
Meeting Thursday at 5:30 of all men eligible for swimming competition,
HEFREPT G. ALLPHN, Coach
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
The University hand is to be commended for its remarkable performance last night, but—the audience was a complete failure.
A band is a spirited, forceful thing It is animated and heightened in effectiveness by the enthusiastic support of a large audience.
The concert was presented at a very unfavorable time, and many of the students were justified in staying away because of the proximity of finals. How many have been many who could have spared a half for the enjoyment of good music.
A very small group of persons, the majority of whom were townspeople, sat in the back of the auditorium and heard a concert which had taken weeks to prepare. It must have been disheartening for the boys who had spent a great part of their time preparing for the program to play to row on row of empty seats.
The final selection "Play Bull" was the most rousing number on the program. Its vigor, I am sure, was prompted by the great respect of the boys for their bandmaster, J. C. McCanles. Such spirit might have predated the program had it been properly supported.
Let us hope that the orchestra will receive more encouragement in its concert Thursday night. —L.W.
Our Contemporaries
There is one silly statistic that we just can't seem to get out of our minds. It has to do with the fact that if six million monkeys were allowed to fiddle around with six million typewriters for six million years, what with coincidence messages and all, they would duplicate every volume in the British museum.
There is one silly statistic that w
Frequent and often unnecessary changes in college textbooks are to be the subject of an investigation to the University of California at Los Angeles. This should bring aplause from many students who have had just cause to feel that in some instances, at least, they have been on the paying end of what is really an organized racket. So bad has the situation become that this story is going the rounds of the various colleges and universities: It is said that, while riding in his automobile, a student at one well-known university was overtaken by a policeman. "What's your hurry?" the copper demanded to know—as was to be expected.
"I'm sorry," replied the student. "I admit I was speeding, but you, see, I bought a new textbook and I'm trying to get to class before it goes out of date."
Which is a story with a moral—an obvious moral—The Spectator.
SACRIFICING EDUCATION IN FAVOR OF ARMS
While arms appropriations pile higher and the navy asks for more ships the youngsters who may be called to take part in the war are being deprived of their education.
American cities are spending $133-000,000 less this year to educate their children than in 1931-32, reports U. S. Commissioner of Education George F. Zook. "Art has been reduced or eliminated in 113 cities; music in 169 cities; physical education in 109 cities; homemaking classes in 74 cities; industrial art in 82 cities." Although city schools have about 250,000 more pupils than in 1930, they are manned by 18,000 fewer teachers in that year.
A report of the National Education association shows that 110,800 children of school age are being denied education, 150,000 are being schooled in temporary shacks, and 250,000 more are receiving only part-time education.
It is no coincidence that schools are closing while more insistent demands are being made for increased armaments. It is one of those curious paradoxes of American life which lead us at times to ponder upon the futility of attempting to establish a balanced civilization—The Daily Illini.
With these in mind, it is worth noticing that the government is borrowing money for non-productive expenditures that leave these needs unsatisfied. The PWA has granted sums to the Navy totaling $275,618,024 and to the Army for military functions, $90,712,570. Last year the war bills of the United States exceeded the total federal income by $800,000,000.
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"LITTLE WOMEN" broke all our 1933 attendance records when it was shown during the Christmas holidays. So come early for choice seats.
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