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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1034
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. 1934
CWA AND THE STUDENT
Colleges and Universities are actually floundering in new found wealth—and debt—through civil and public works grants and appropriations.
But the students do not work. Labor that would have been possible under old campus improvement projects has been taken away. Instead, there is an influx of unemployed workers who range from those with no education to those with college degrees. But very few students.
Blanket elimination of all students on all other campuses from constructive public or civil work is an aimed blow at the student who must work to pay for his education.
On only one campus, the University of Minnesota, can a student, no matter how needy or struggling he may be, take advantage of government relief projects through such agencies as the CWA.
But that is gone! State money is combined with federal money. The student who must work, packs his bag and applies to charity for the right to work on his own campus. There is no other alternative; he must pack his bag and get out of school in order to work.
This is a discrimination that must be remedied.
Formerly, state appropriations were made to cover construction and repair on university and college grounds throughout the country. And students were employed.
POOR SPORTS
When the University basketball team travelled to Lincoln Tuesday morning it was greatly favored to win. Tuesday evening the Kansas team walked off the court on the short end of a 24 to 21 score. For the second straight time the Nebraska "dark horse" had downed a favorite, as Iowa State was defeated a few days ago.
Immediately cries arose around the campus. The team was razzed and generally condemned by the students. Kansas has held the Big Six championship for the past three years and many coaches and sport writers favor it to repeat this year. Undoubtedly the Jayhawkers were rather cocky about the game and thought they could win with ease. They lost instead, but this is no reason why the students should let them down. Several other years the Kansas team has started wrong but has topped the league when the final game was played.
By razzing the team for the loss of the Nebraska game the students are only showing themselves to be poor sports. They are so used to having championships that they cannot understand how the team could slip in such a game as this. The team will do as much as it possibly can and the students should do likewise. Give the team support—win or lose—and whether or not Kansas has another championship at the end of the season, at least she will have had good sportsmanship.
TEACHING INTERNATIONALISM
When representatives from many different nations and races can meet together in a fellowship hour to dine and hear non-partisan speeches as at the international banquet last night, the situation undoubtedly makes for a better understanding between persons of the several nations.
People must understand each other in order to get along together peacefully. In each nation or race there are certain characteristics that to the stranger seem to be mistaken for undesirable qualities because he cannot interpret them correctly by not having the same background as the persons of the race he is judging.
Especially in times like these, when most countries are dropping back into the old code of nationalism rather than progressing into a spirit of internationalism, is it important that groups of students associate with those of other nations to learn the advantages of working together rather than ignoring persons of other countries.
Foreign students may profit from such meetings and return to their nations to reach better feelings, not only between their country and ours, but between the many different countries.
PERSONAL PIFFLE
Hoping some of these days to be struggling for existence out in some quarter of this state of ours, we have a premonition that we will be under the all-seeing eye of the "Kansas Notes" column of our colleague, the Kansas City Star. Therefore we have begun our training in preparation for that contingency.
This morning we ate two great wheat cakes with sorghum. Of course we realize that two would be just a beginning for some of our future compatriots of this rolling grass land, but we are practically just out of infancy, being not dry behind the ears yet, and possessing an untried constitution.
But we have hopes. We are going to start practicing on spinach, and soon we hope to be able to spread the good word about its deliciousness. We'll have to wait until next summer to brag about the lusciousness of corn on the cob, but we have already had a little experience in that line, twirling the fastest ear in three city blocks last season. In the matter of fresh greens, we vote for young white mustard. And to prove the true lengths of our earnestness, we have been privately practicing dunking.
Current Screen
The eminent cast and the publicity the play received on the stage are doubtless the greatest factors in the drawing power of the show. There are some big names in the cast: Lionel and John Barrymore, Mary Dressler, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy and Edmund Lowe.
A fine picture, that's what Dinner at Eight is. In fact it's so good that people jammed into the Patee last night long after the SRO sign was hung out and stood packed together like cattle on a cold night for upwards of an hour and a half. That in itself is a tribute to the picture.
There isn't room to discuss the work of each of these players. Dressler pulls the most and best cracks, Harlow exposes the usual back, shoulders and legs, Billie Burke gives another sample of her fine work displayed in "Only Yesterday," and Beery makes the expected slips.
Lionel B. is the head of an old shipping line, hard hit by the depression. John B. plays the part of a movie actor, so-called, who went out when sound came in. Marie Dressler is a retired actress of the last century, now residing in England. Wallace Beery is an unrefined mining speculator from Montana, ambitious and crooked. Jean Harlow is the wife Mr. Beery picked up from Tenth Avenue. Billie Burke is the wife of the shipping magnate. Lee Tracy is the agent of the burnt-out actor, John B. Edmund Lowe is a doctor who is in the habit of having affairs with women patients, the current one being with Kansas City's platinum blonde.
A dinner party is, of course, the central event of the show. Workings of fate leading up to the party constitute the plot of the show.
The ALEE. branch will meet tonight in room 206 Marvin hall at 7:30 g.
clock. There will be election of officers. All members please be present.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days
A. I. E. E.:
Vol. XXXI
Thursday, Jan. 11, 1933
No. 71
There will be a meeting of the Dramatic club this evening at 8 o'clock in Green hall.
GENE IIIBIS, President.
Campus Opinion
DRAMATIC CLUB:
Our Contemporaries
A TREND IN EDUCATION.
The announcement yesterday that university departments would present work programs of talking pictures dealing with relationships and relating to the educational work of those departments in concrete evidence that Iowa has recognized the trend toward visual aids in education.
The Kayhawk club has called a special meeting for Monday evening, Jan. 15, at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building. The club's plans for the coming semester will be outlined. All non-friarship men are welcome and invited. The more the merrier. Come and bring your ideas and suggestions.
ED. THOMAS, Vice President.
KAYHAWK CLUB:
FENCING CLUB:
A TREND IN EDUCATION
Although moving pictures are supplements to classroom work are comparatively rare at the University of Iowa
The Fencing club will hold an important meeting today at 4:30 in the Press room of Robinson gymnasium. Examinations for now members will be given. Plans for matches with other schools will be discussed. Attendance of members is required. P. RAPPORT.
BOB OLIVER, Secretary.
Mrs. Don Carlos will speak at Henley house this evening at 7 o'clock.
Her talk will be about her recent trip around the world.
INTER-RACIAL GROUP:
Editor Daily Kansan:
K. A. C. E.:
The Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will hold a meeting this evening in room 101 Chemistry building. Dean Werner will speak on "Distillation Industries." Refreshments will be served.
There will be a meeting of Quill club this evening at 8 o'clock in the second floor rest room of the Administration building. All members are requested to be prompt.
HARRIETTE SHERWOOD, President.
SCABBARD AND BLADE:
WANDA EDMONDS
QUILL CLUB: .
G. L.
Regular meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Kappa Sigma house, 153 Tennessee street. Actives only. ARTHUR E. INMAN, President.
ALBERT COOK, Secretary
PLAIN TALES from the HILL
I am in every sense of the word a pedestrian. I was born a pedestrian and I shall die a pedestrian no doubt. In between times I have been known to drive an automobile, and then I forget that once I was a pedestrian, and so to laughingly remark to my companion, 'Bit I bet she told that fellow.'
Consequently, why not have the campus speed limit altered so that it would be obeyed, and the safety of the students considered by a special slow speed limit during the time when they are passing from one class to another.
SCABBARD AND BLADE:
I am also a law-abiding citizen of sorts. I obey laws as part of my citizenship, but still I have a tendency to glance into my rear-view mirror with a certain degree of anxiety if I use a circular vehicle approaching from the rear.
I believe that every care should be taken to insure student safety, and I also believe that the law should be obeyed. Therefore, if the law is to be obeyed let the law be a reasonable one, and it will be obeyed.
Until about Thursday every week it is interesting to watch the competition in Watson library for the combined files of the comic and rotogravure sections of the Sunday papers. Students may be seen near the possessor of the section in demand, pretending to read magazines, but all the time watching him from the corner of the eye. When he finishes the section there is a rush to get it and the winner is grudgingly congratulated.
One of the newest rackets that is being worked on various employees of the University and Lawrence people is one instigated by an old man from over in North Lawrence. He solicits the business of hauling wood or fertilizer and collects in advance, by putting up a hard luck story that ends with his bursting into tears. He then fails to deliver the goods. Someone mansaking an officer of the affliction that he carries an onion in the pocket with his handkerchief, which applies the necessary fumes to his eyes and causes the tears.
To wind all this up I am also a student on the Hill, who should by all rights obey the traffic laws on the campus. But when I am driving my car down an empty street, between our beautiful University buildings, I am very apt to be tempted to accelerate my vehicle above the speed limit of 15 miles an hour. This is apt to make me feel a certain amount of disrespect for the law, because of the laws obvious antiquity and needlessness.
The moving picture medium in education is scientifically sound. Psychologists recognize that the sight medium is the most easily approached and the most retentive of the senses. It is a scientific fact that "seeing is believing."
and a regular program is something new, many other institutions in the United States have used the silver screen for many years and with great success side by side with textbooks.
The success of the talking picture lies in the fact that it combines at once the psychological advantages of the sight medium with the possibility of explanatory lecture. Its value was experimented on by many students of Iowa with a program last summer.
A further trend in this same direction, in which the University of Iowa is pioneering in the middle west, is the use of television as an educational medium.
There is much to be done before this will be a practical possibility. But in view of the rapid strides which have been made in the last three years it
is not too rash to say that the time will be at hand shortly when children may sit in a comfortable parlor and "go to school" through the sight-sound medium as a supplement to their regular schooling—The Daily Iowan.
Modern newspaper publishers, as a class, have betrayed some of the finest traditions of journalism.
The great heroes in journalism were those editors, who suffered imprisonment, obeyage and financial ruin in their efforts to defend the rights of the people. But there are few such editors today.
Publishers have thus far evaded enforced adoption of a labor code and a fair competition code of shouting that any such regulation of newspapers could be in violation of the constitutional rights of freedom of the press.
They are fighting the Tongwil bill which would provide for regulation of advertising to prevent fraudulent and exaggerated claims.
Of course, if minimum wage levels were provided for underpaid editorial workers, the publisher would not be able to make so large a profit. If the Tugwell bill were passed, advertising image would drop.
In losing the good opinion of the people, newspapers are hurting themselves more than if they lowered the margin of profit. Publishers fighting the newspaper code and the Tugwell bill are not revealing very much sagacity.-Oklahoma Daily.
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