PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP ... CHILES COLEMAN HIEF CHIL Carol Widen ... William Blizzard Campus Editor MacLean Robert Sue Sports Editor Martha Merla Heyford Spotify Editor Kate Merla Heyford Eachance Editor Margaret Mulholland Sunday Editor Gersten Ordiglio Sunday Editor Gretchen Ordiglio MANAGING EDITOR...MARGARET GREGG Advertising Manager ... Chrence E. Mundis Circulation Manager ... Marion Jeffery Margaret Gregg Chloes Collemann Arnold Kretzworth Jimmy Patterson Alice Woodmannes Virgin Farkar Robert Smith Advertising Manager Gregory Telephone Business Office K.N. 667 Business Office 3701 K. Night Closure, Business Office 2701 K. Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and on Sunday mornings except for Saturday and Sunday students in the department of Journalism at University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. discount price, per year, $2.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments, SINGLE enquiries, sales, etc. Limited to second class matter. September 19, 100 at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 THE BIG CAGE Lion trainer Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the congressional arena yesterday, cracked the whip a few times, and left no doubt in the minds of his charges as to who was boss. To the people in this territory who have recently been treated to the unedifying spec of a vacillating legislature in a neighboring state, the firm and forthright stand taken by the President in yesterday's speech to the 73rd Congress is more than pleasing. The President's attitude cheered those who desire to see a strong man bring order out of chaos. With the many critical and perplexing problems which face the present Congress, it is reassuring to know there is a man in the White House who can manage the legislators should they get out of hand. Judging from the tone of the President's speech, he feels secure enough in the popular favor to be heard the congressional lions should it be necessary. Whichever way this country is headed, there is no doubt who is running the show. Addressing the joint session of congress, Mr. Roosevelt pointed the way down the new road the administration has been progressing. But while his message was optimistic in the main, the President did not attempt to sugar-coat some of the more serious problems. EPIC Committing himself to the immediate adoption of socialistic relief measures if elected, Upton Sinclair, well-known writer, and in his own candid way, reformer, has announced that he will seek the governorship of California at the next election. For a campaign slogan he has chosen a happy word, epic, which he expands into the phrase, "end poverty in California." What this oft-sworn-at muckraker proposes to do if given a chance is to appropriate for state relief use all idle land in California, and he is confident that by this means he can fulfill the promise of his campaign slogan. He plans to enter the Democratic primary in the regular manner, yet he is making an open appeal for socialist and liberal support. His appeal is winning favor in the land of perpetual sunshine, and at present there appears to be a strong possibility that he may be elected. California could do much worse in the line of governors than Upton Sinclair. He is honest and utterly fearless in his opinions and policies. His open defiance of the temporal powers of politics and finance in his writings and his burning passion for truth have brought respect even from those who could not countenance his social viewpoint. In the opening steps of his campaign he has shown a political shrewdness not often found in men who have kept themselves somewhat above the maneuverings of ward heeler and bosses. Snclair may be a 'radical,' but at least he is an intelligent one. His policies may be revolutionary, but at least they are honestly conceived. And compared with California's present governor, he seems a man of destiny. AFTER VACATION Perhaps the most hectic day of the school year is the first one after the Christmas vacation, and especially if it is a gloomy cold day like yesterday and today. Students never have the lessons which they had planned to get each day of vacation. The professors are usually just as tired and unsympathetic as the members of their classes, and all in all everything goes wrong from morning to night. "I wonder if it really would matter if I cut class today. If I stay in bed I'm sure it'll do me more good?" "I wish I had my lesson; then it wouldn't be so hard to go to school today." "I've never felt so unintelligent in all my life." "I wish I were home where I could sleep all morning instead of here where I have to freeze to death in order to get to a class." "I don't see how I'll ever get all my papers and work in before finals." These are some characteristic first-day remarks. If there were only some way to make the first day after vacation interesting and cheerful instead of dull and gloomy! but as long as there are vacations there will have to be let-downs when they are over. At least one can be thankful af ter that awful day has ended. CONSOLATION At the last session of the legislature, a provision was made for a survey to be conducted concerning he advisability of consolidating he five state schools, the question whether graduate work should be imited to one or two state institutions, and the possibility of consolidating certain departments to eliminate unnecessary work at the various schools. The legislature neglected one very important thing, however. It failed to make any appropriation whatever to carry on the work. In view of this fact, the Board of Regents recently appointed the five heads of the state institutions to serve on the committee which will conduct the survey. But it is hard to imagine a college president arguing that a certain department or school from his own institution should be transferred to one of the other schools. It is still more difficult to visualize a member of this committee voting for a measure which would consolidate his school with some distant institution. Even though these college heads are well versed and well fitted to serve on this committee, they are placed in a very peculiar situation, brought about by the failure of the legislators to appropriate money for such a worthy survey. THESE LAST FEW WEEKS With the release of the final examination schedule students are beginning to realize the semester is nearly over, and are settling down to intensive work in hope that the much dreaded finals will not catch them entirely unprepared. After vacation, many find that those books taken home for study were merely taken for an "airing" and are still in the same condition as when the recess started, with the possible exception of a little wear from travel. Not even the book mark has been moved. The pages of the term papers that were going to be prepared remain just as white as the day they were purchased. Reports and innumerable other things were cast aside, and very little if any work was done. Vacation is a time for play; no one can be condemned for using it to its fullest advantage, as no doubt the majority did, but now that it is over good times must be forgotten and work must be accomplished. For those who are up in their work the job of preparing for finals will not be so hard, but for those behind, the job will be just twice as hard, and they may find the last few weeks entirely too short a time Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. There will be a short meeting of Delta Phi Delta this evening in room 31 Administration building at 8 o'clock. Thursday, Jan. 4, 1934 OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DELTA PHI DELTA: Vol. XXXI Speech and Scholarship No. 66 The Relation of speech to scholarship is being tested here at Illinois in a speech survey, launched recently by the College of Liberal Arts, Prof.W.P. Sandford, head of the division of speech education, at Columbia University, appointments with small groups of students who are being given the tests. The plan followed is to have each FRESHMAN COMMISSION: There will be a meeting of the Freshman Commission Monday, Jan. 8, at 4:30 at Henkay house. MURIEL WILLIAMSON, Chairman. KANSAS RELAYS STUDENT COMMITTEE: KAY STEVENS, Publicity Chairman. Freshman interested in membership on the 12th Annual Kansas Relays Student Committee must submit a written application to the office of E. R. Elbel, 15 Robinson gymnasium, before noon Monday, Jan. 8. The racial and nationalistic animo- ties reflected in all the "patriotic" ori- ganizations, in as well, the Ku Klux Klan—now rejuvenated the Khaki Shirts and notably the Silver Shirts are sufficient warning of the possibil- ities of Fascist suppression of these ministers in minority in the U. S. With no little trouble the Friends of the New Germany in this country say it "it is child's play to make good anti-Semitic out of Americans."—Syracuse Daily Orange. KAYHAWK CLUB; BILL HOWARD, Student Manager, K. U. Relays. KAYHAWK CLUB: Reason alone should be enough to destroy this ridiculous content, but Mr. Hoag, to clinch the matter, has issued a statement to the effect that he will in no event lengthen his Sunday programs. In the same statement he also points out that his supposed lengthening of the Sunday shows several years ago, when 11 o'clock permission was granted, is pure fiction. in which to accomplish everything necessary. If they succeed, very few idle moments will be in their schedule. Our Contemporaries There will be an official meeting of the Kayhawk club Monday evening Jan. 8, at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building. Fascistic America Race hatred, evidenced in the U. S. in diverse acts from the lynchings of Negroes and "Jim Crow" cars to the deportation of aliens and over anti-Semitism, finds its staunchest support in an economic system that finds it most convenient to "divide and rule." WOMEN'S HOURS SHOULD BE SHORTENED For the first time in its history the Board of Representatives will be able to have before it, when it sits down at the executive table, definite information as to what co-eeds want. Owing to differentiation in the voting between men and women it was possible to determine co-eed sentiment as well as all-camp sentiment, and it is now a matter of history that the undergraduate women of the university are in favor, by a three to one majority, of 1:30 permission on Saturday night, and by a five to two majority, of 11:30 permission on Sunday night. Today the Women's Board of Representatives will meet to decide whether or not to take action on the hour changes or the re-eeds have indicated they desire. A degree of student government supposedly obtains at the University of Michigan. The undergraduate council has done its part, in the matter of women's hours, by enabling co-eds to express themselves, clearly and authentically. The body which is to meet today knows the will of those it represents. It is to be hoped that it will act accordingly—Michigan Daily. Illegal seizures and precipitate deportation of aliens increased during this depression, aided materially by the Department of Labor, which sees in deportation and jail sentences of aliens decrease in the capital competition with American labor. The most concrete proof in the United State of racial hatred is the lynchings of Negroes, the mob-spirit behind which was recently condoned by an anti-working-class governor of a sovereign state. These almost always increase during financial disorder. . . It has been interesting to watch the arguments against the desired extensions as they have been brought forward and, one by one, defeated. The last to go was the one which held that, if an extra hour were granted Sunday night, Jerry Haug, manager of the Michigan and Majestic theaters, would immediately lenghten his attractions, thereby making it again impossible for a law-abiding co-ed to see a late Sunday night show. Why he should wish to transform his剧ets into stag establishments is a question which the proponders of this argument overlooked or at least failed to answer. ED. THOMAS, Vice President. student read aloud a 250 to 300 word prose selection (after having been allowed three minutes to read it to himself). A member of the speech division will record the vocal quality, rate of reading, force, pitch, physical expression, communication,unciation, appreciation and communication of reading. The student will then be given a short article from which he will prepare a three-minute talk. He may use notes, if he wishes to do so, but he will be allowed only three minutes in which to prepare the speech. Judging will be on the logical value of the ideas presented and the supporting material used, as well as arrangement, language, sentences and presentation. We feel that the survey idea is a good one, for it will put in some tangible form ideas as to the real value of effective speech in scholarship. Effective speech is one of the most vital necessities, not only in academic life, but in life after college, we believe. And so we have nothing but applauses for anything that promotes the teaching of it in any way, as we believe this plan will—Daily Illini. A Change for the Better The era of "fanning youth" is definitely gone. A radical and welcome change has taken place, during the last three or four years, in the men and women of college age in America. Whereas recently the college who wanted he was going to want wanted he was the exception, today nearly all have a driving purpose and a recognized air. Only yesterday the man who could make the most brilliant "wisecracks," who spent money most readily and vividly, who was, in short, the typical "Joe College," was the ideal of college men. Today achievement is the ideal, and he excels in scholarship and in leadership is the character for emulation. It is not unreasonable to lay this to what has received so much adverse publicity and assorted blame—the depression. The depression has been crammed down the throat of every able to read a newspaper or understand a present day conversation. Everyone, irrespective of age, has had it borne in upon him that life isn't altogether one grand bowl of cherries. All of which is a good thing, an excellent thing, perhaps not for the peace of mind of the individual, but for the welfare of the nation as a whole. 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