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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3. 1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASAS LAWRENCE, KANASAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ___ CHILES COLEMAN
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3. 1934
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
"I will read more good books in 1934." "I will give up smoking." "I will take regular exercise and keep myself physically fit." "I will study at least two hours every day, without fail."
New Year's resolutions. They are easily made, and just as easily broken. Often we make them in an effort to correct weaknesses in our character or mode of living which we have long recognized but have countenanced because it was easier than a change. And then, when we break them, as we do inevitably, we find ourselves right back where we started.
Human nature being what it is, New Year's resolutions can never be faithfully kept. We set ourselves to tasks which we know at the time we can never accomplish, yet we find hope in the somewhat obscure reasoning that this is a New Year's resolution and therefore we can keep it in spite of ourselves. Naturally, we never do.
So, if you haven't broken any of your resolutions yet, congratulations they are still in order. And if you have, remember that you would have broken them in a little while anyhow, and console yourself with the thought that there are literally millions of others who failed with you.
COLUMBIA THE GEM OF THE EAST
A howl rent the heavens when Columbia University was selected to play Leland Stanford in the annual Rose Bowl game New Year's day. It was not the roar of an aroused Columbia lion—their mascot—but rather the anguished wall of sport writers who could see nothing but a massacre for the eastern school at the hands of the Stanford Indians.
However, the Columbia-Stanford game was another "upset." (How familiar that word becomes during the football season!) All of the sport writers and radio announcers credited Columbia's heads-up playing for winning the day. On a wet and soggy field, the Indians' extra poundage should have proven an additional advantage, but the Lions came through to lend weight to the old saw: "Brains are superior to brawn."
The Columbia victory appears to be a popular one. Almost everyone likes to see the under-dog win, but it is an added pleasure to see the gridiron Solomons confounded. Many an astute sport writer came in the back way this morning and quietly went to work, happy that the treacherous football games were over for another year.
DESERVED RECOGNITION
For the second time in as many years a University athlete has been chosen to receive the highest honor in amateur sport, the James E. Sullivan memorial award. Glenn Cunningham, stellar Kansas runner, survived a weeding out process in which the leading figures in all forms of amateu
athletics were weighed and balanced against each other. The speedy Jayhawker's stellar performances in winning fifteen out of eighteen major events in this country and then marking up thirteen straight triumphs on his European tour was considered by the Sullivan committee outstanding among all other "simon-pure" achievements of the past year.
To say that Cunningham is truly deserving of the honor would be superfluous. Anyone who has followed his splendid career, who has seen the pure joy he gets from running, and who knows the fine sense of sportsmanship with which he wins or loses, realizes that no honor could come to him undeserved.
The distinction that Cunningham has brought to the University in being the second of her sons to receive the Sullivan award in two years is particularly gratifying. The musty tradition of the innate superiority of Eastern athletes still exists in the minds of many people. The mid-west has been gradually gaining recognition through the football prowess of Nebraska and the basketball standards of Kansas, and the achievements of Glenn Cunningham have been of measurable aid in further dispelling the old idea.
A little fellow who works on this sheet had a dream the other night. He dreamed that William Jennings Bryan turned over in his grave a couple of times, sat upright, and cried, "Hallelujah!"
Turning to discover the cause of this enthusiastic renascence, the young fellow saw a peculiar state of affairs unfolding itself:
There were four hundred nineteen carpenters and cabinet makers busily remodeling cash registers to provide adequate room for a flow of silver dollars which came rolling over the horizon toward them;
There were tailors and wives without number reinforcing pants pocketsto help sustain and hold the silver horse;
Everyone participating in this remarkable scene was bowed as if carrying a tremendous load. Close examination disclosed the fact that they were so heavily burdened with silver dollars that they could scarcely walk;
In the street there was a dreadful clatter. The dreamer saw an old car, drawing a trailer with sideboards, stop in front of an automobile dealer's establishment. The driver went in, and drove away in a few minutes in a shiny new vehicle. The automobile dealer came out in a few minutes, placed a chute to his cellar window, and began shoveling the silver dollars from the trailer into the basement;
All of the rose bushes were loaded with silver dollars, all of the carts were wheeled with them, and the beer trucks had a filigree of them all around the sides;
That was too much. The dreamer stirred and cried out in anguish. At the sound, all of the silver dollars took wings, like geese, and flew away.
Then it began to rain silver dollars.
The little fellow sighed in relief as he turned in half-slumber. He was back in a world he understood.
Will Rogers' "Mr. Skitch," showing at the Varsity for the last times tonight, is good entertainment on the whole; while she might easily pick up a number of weak spots in a scene by scene and character by character analysis. For instance, Zasu Pitts fails to register for a change. Perhaps she was misaseat, and perhaps she did not have much of a chance to do much with her part, but the fact remains that she didn't click.
"Happy days, Mr. Roosevelt," he muttered, as he turned over and vent to sleep again.
Current Screen
Then there are the first few scenes of the picture which make the audience breathe unlessly for Will and Zasu won't recite their lines correctly, or will get them garbled, or something. But this fault disappears after five
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J. C. McCANLES, Director.
Vol. XXXI
Because this is true, we are inclined to agree with Mr. Ford that "history is the bunk." Indeed, we would be inclined to emphasize his statement and say that "without a doubt, history is assuredly the bunk."
DELTA PHI DELTA
Of course, unfortunate as it is that the elementary schools impart to children knowledge of history which is deliberately falsified (usually with good motives) it is far more unfortunate when these same children attend institutions of higher learning and find the same thing easier to absorb in the sense of the personal bias of their teachers if defects inherent in the science itself of investigating the past.
There will be a short meeting of Delta Phi Delta in room 310 Administration building tomorrow, Jan. 4, at 8 o'clock.
KAY STEVENS, Publicity Chairman.
WAR TALK AND WAR DANGER
"History is the bunk?" Henry Ford's brief critique was repeated recently by H. G. Wells, writing in Liberty magazine to lament the teaching of doctored facts of history to school children, especially in modern Germany, Italy, and Russia. "Most history," he concluded, "is the bunk."
QUACK CLUB:
minutes or so, and therefore does not deserve too much emphasis.
The story: Ira Skiff, a "fk-i*it man", and his wife leave Flat River, Mo., after they lose their home through a bark failure. He has a romantic daughter of about 18 two younger daughters and a little boy. The family tours the in search of work. Their adventures make an interesting plot. Love interest is furnished by the heart affairs of daughter Emily.
Our Contemporaries
There will be a Quack club business meeting at 8 o'clock tonight.
CAROL HUNTER, President.
It's a good thing that movie audiences don't demand that their pictures contain the element of plausibility to any great degree. If they did, Going Hollywood, Bing Crosby's latest vehicle, which opened Sunday at the Patee, would be fairly sure to displease them.
"It is most emphatically true that there is danger of war because there is talk of war." So says William Norman Ewer in the December Current History, and he explains that the current war talk of European statesmen (or should we call them politicians?) is mostly for domestic consumption. This is all very fine, he says, but war talks to add war preparations—and then . . .
Marion Davis seems extremely implausible in the first scene as a teacher of French in a stuff-backed girl's school. The finale, in which Crosby, strolls on to a movie set crooning his song and takes his place in the scene being filmed without a peep from the director, the camera crew or the actor who had been engaged to take his place when he went off on his bender, is also a bit fantastic. And there are several spots in between of a like character.
But the facts of the case are that movie audiences don't demand or even ask for plausibility, and hence will be greatly amused and highly entertained by Going Hollywood. Bing Crosby is the only radio big name who has demonstrated any real acting ability, and his latest performance would be excellent even without his singing. Marion Davies, as the French teacher who follows Bing to Hollywood, is far more than adequate in the part, and Ned Sparks, Stewart Erwin, and Fiji D'Orsay, are all good. Really the best things in the picture, though, are a series of imitations of radio stars done by the Radio Rogues, and the musical numbers.
"War talk leads to war preparedness"; that is probably the worst aspect of the current talk of war. War talk should, if anything, lead to peace preparations, but it rarely does. Instead, disarmament conferences go smash, and building of armaments begins.
HISTORY IS THE BUNK!
Thus are the taxpayers of Great Britain about to be saddled with heavier burdens. But let's not laugh too soon; it isn't entirely improbable that our naval experts won't want to build a few cruisers to keep paralyze on the seas.
There's one bit of satisfaction to this naval building program, however, and that is that although generals die in bed, they can go down with the ship—Daily Illini.
Tuesday's Associated Press wires, for example, carried a story with a London dateline, telling of Great Britain's plans for a naval building plan. The London Daily Mail asserted that "the admiralty is insisting that the program to be announced next March include provisions for five and not three cruisers," and "that provisions for more air squadrons can be expected also."
Beyond the difficulty of ascertaining the historicity of a fact, there is the far more difficult problem of relating it to life today. Consider yesterday's meetings of the American association where-at a paper on "The Genesis of the First Triumvirate" was read. With all respect for the author of this paper and his scholarship, we would like to raise the question, how does this affect life today? Isn't the genesis of the first triumvate, as far as we today are concerned, the bunk?
We don't know the answer to these questions. May we suggest, however, that our historians, unless they love learning only for learning's sake, would do well to make a great effort in the future to connect the past with the present and future?"-Daily Illini.
WELCOME STUDENTS
We wish all a bright and prosperous New Year
And hope to welcome you
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WILL ROGERS in "MR. SKITCH"
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GET a LOAD of SONGS LOVE and LAUGHTER
Get an earful, an eyefull, a heart-
full of this tuneful combination of
MARION and BING. They sing,
laugh, dance and romance their
way to fame and fortune in movie-
land. Hundreds of dimpled darl-
al stars appear in the screen musica-
nificence make this a feesta of musical merriment!
BING CROSBY AND MARION DAVIES
“GOING HOLLYWOOD”
win
FIFT D'ORSAY - STUART ERWIN
NED SPARKS - PATSY KELLY
and the celebrated RADIO ROGUES
Their singing imitations just one of the highlights of this star-studded entertainment.
Hear Bing and Marion Harmonize the Latest Song Hits:
"TEMPTATION," "WELL MAKE HAY," "CINDERELLA'S FELLA"
"GOING, HOLLYWOOD," "OUR BIG LOVE SCENE" also
LAUREL and HARDY "Me and My Pal."
"THREE LITTLE PIGS in WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOOL?"
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"THE WORLD CHANGES"