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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHEEP ___ CHILES COLEMAN
Carol Widen ... William Dilzard
CHIEF  CHILI
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933
"GOOD WILL TO MEN"
At San Jose, California, two men are dragged from their prison cells by a shouting mob, beaten and hanged. The governor of the state voluntarily condones the action.
At St. Joseph, Missouri, a negro is burned to death by a band of lynchers, and the cumbersome wheels of justice creak under the attempt to punish the guilty.
In Maryland two more men die at the hands of enraged "defenders of justice" who stop not to ask for evidence or to insure fairness.
In Tennessee another negro is brutally murdered for an alleged attack after a grand jury had refused to indict him because of a lack of proof of guilt.
But America is not much concerned. The novelty of the situation has worn off. Newspapers no longer carry screaming headlines. The stories have lost their "news value," and harassed editors already are seeking new sensations. The last dying echo of indignation at these social injustices is lost in the rising tide of joyousness as the greatest nation on earth prepares to celebrate Christmas.
"Peace on earth, good will to men" is the message this holiday spirit brings. That message falls on receptive ears as America, blissfully oblivious to the presence of the grusome specter of lynching, sings its carols of worship heartily in celebration of the birth of One to whom injustice was to be despised above all things.
"Peace on earth, good will to men." What meaning can such a sentiment have to a nation in which men's hands are freshly stained with the blood of lynching victims? Can we reconcile civilized Christianity with the justice of the wild beast?
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
The R.O.T.C. marching in practice on Mt. Oread on Wednesday afternoons exemplified the study of military science at the University. But military science at the University of Berlin, according to the Literary Digest, is not taught to the sound of marching feet. For biological warfare is the course of study pursued here, it is learned. Dr. Ewald Banse, the new professor of this new subject at the University of Berlin, explaining it in a book he has written, says:
"We shall have recourse to the poisoning of drinking water with typhus germs, to the introduction and spreading of typhus by means of fleas, and to the spreading of cholera by artificially contaminated rats."
He justifies this warfare with the argument that while other nations are building up their military store with ammunition and men, desperation has wrought out this weapon for Germany.
Propaganda colors all controversial matters so that conclusions are based on uncertain foundations. But two questions arise as to the creation of this cunning weapon of warfare. Is it genuine
desperation? or, Can it be deepened hatred against nations who have bound it to conservative armaments?
The treatment of Germany as an adult instead of a bad child a decade ago may have prevented the germination of the present situation in this country. A show of such understanding may not yet be too late to bring about less disturbing and more normal feelings of internationalism in this country.
Why did the Missouri legislature argue so much about whether people should drink liquor standing or up sitting at down a table when the ultimate position will be beneath the table anyway?
"NOT A DROP TO DRINK"
Water is one of the very important elements necessary to sustain life. Yet modern civilization with its effortless conveniences has tended to obscure its vital value. Like many other things, water is appreciated only when "the well runs dry."
Since the city of Lawrence has been repairing the water lines, many students have had the importance of water forcibly illustrated. Sauntering to a faucet, they gave the nob a careless twist. Startled, they stared at where a stream of liquid should be pouring, but instead only a gurgling hiss comes out of the pipe.
Then, for one brief moment a mental eulogy was sung for modern plumbing, and a silent prayer offered for the hardy pioneers who conquered the Kansas prairies without benefit of water pipes.
The Greeks appreciated the wonders of water, but it was the Romans who immortalized it by their astounding aquaducts, radiating for miles from the "Eternal City."
Modern civilization has despoiled water from its rightful position. A clear, fresh flow of the life-giving liquid is now taken for granted as calmly as the rising sun.
OVER-STEPPING A BIT
Is it worth the money—the aristocratic atmosphere, the Park Avenue feeling, and the "grande dame" effect which a formal party gives? College students, as well as almost everyone else, love to dress up. But should they gratify this love at Dad's expense?
During the past two weekends seven or eight formal parties were given at an expense in all probability too great for the majority of the organization members. At least $200 is needed for decorations, punch, and the hiring of a jazz orchestra for each party. The cost of "tuxes" for the men, as well as new formals and corsages for the women brings the average expense per person to at least $5.00.
In most of the organized houses, this unnecessary drain on Dad's pocketbook comes twice a year. It certainly seems that one of these parties could be informal. Do college students simply lack the ability and ingenuity to have a good time unless they can dance in formal "duds" to the music of a $125 orchestra?
I say their ain't no Santy Claus. My mom and pop tell me that their ain't no Santy Clauses and that besides he ain't com' down to my place this year. Pop says he can't find his way down these here alley, and besides he couldn't squeeze in that there little stove pipe we got on our shack.
WHO SAYS THERE AIN'T NO SANTY CLAUS?
Of course I seen Santy Claus down town all dressed up, and ringin' a bell. They guys ain't foolin' me none, though. I know who that lug that looks like Santy on the street corner is. He's Spike the old man, that's who he is, and heain't foolin' me none with them whiskers an' red coat. He's in some kinda army. Shucks, I don't want to have no Santy Claus come down here anyhow. He couldn' bring me nothin' but a bunch ovs or somenin'.
Gee whillikens, there a buncha guys goin' in our shack now. Gee, I hope it ain't the bulls. Wait, I'd
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXXI
Alpha Phi Omega will hold a business meeting at 7:30 this evening in room of the Memorial Union. ROBERT L. DILL, President.
Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1933
ALPHA PHI OMEGA:
No. 64
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days
from 11/10 a.m., Saturday for Sunday issue
The Band will rehearse at 7:30 this evening in the University auditorium. J. C. McCANLES, Director.
COLD CONTROL TEST:
BAND:
Those students and faculty members participating in the cold control test should report at Watkins Memorial hospital for a supply of gargle sufficient to last them over the Christmas holidays. DR. R. I. CANUTESON.
FOOTBALL STILEMEN:
Checks are ready for stilemen who worked at football games. Call At ath
etic office.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
QUILL:
There will be a short but important meeting of Quill club this evening at 8 o'clock in central Administration building. All members are urged to be prompt. HARRIETTE SHERWOOD, President.
TAU SIGMA:
Tau Sigma will meet tonight at 8 o'clock. All members must be present.
RUTH PYLE
better scram over there and see what's happenin'.
W. S. G. A.;
There will be no W.S.G.A. council meeting tonight.
LILA LAWSON, President.
Hello guy. Sure I'm Spud McGaffey, an' sure these is the on'y cloes I miss. Whatta ya think I am, a dude? Huh, you say you got somepin' from Santy Cauley. Say, quit beefin' me. I know there ain't no Santy Cauley.
Gee, real clodhoppers, an' oh boy
s them soles thick! Goshee, a real
Christ tree; and golly, look at
hem packages! An you say I can't
pen 'em till Christmas? Gee, why
not? Santy Claus wouldn't like it
you say? Well what d'ya know!
Boy this is a swell coat ya give me
nister—an' you say o'l Santy sent
t too? Gee!
Say, mister, will you swear that Santy Clau's brush all these things? Well, it just goes to show you can't believe nothin' nowadays even if yer folks do tell you. So long, mister, an' tanks for bringin' all this down from Santy Clau's.
Say, you mugs out there, who says there ain't no Santy Claus?
Current Screen
--and
Fight fans should get a kick out of The Prizefighter and the Lady, now on at the Patte. As one observer remarked, "Their punches weren't so obviously pulled," referring of course to the fists of Primo "The Man Mountain" Carrera.
It's a good cast that appears in this show. Myrna Loy is getting better and better, picture by picture. She plays the part of an entertainer in a night club belonging to a gangster. The hard-boiled gunman (Otto Kruger) is in love with his singer, but, although she likes him a lot, she can't say it's love, (same old stuff). So they drift along until Max Baer drifts in, and then it isn't long until Max and Myrina have an early morning wedding.
About this time Max is coming up in the flatic world, and fame and women make him negleuctful of his pretty little wife. Many a night she wets the pillow with tears while waiting for her big handsome Max to come home. Finally, no longer able to bear her lonely life, she returns to her job in the night club, but it's not long until they're back together again.
Movie fans who like Lee Tracy will enjoy Night Mayor, now featured at the Varsity with SOS iceberg. The latter is an epic of the silent, frozen Arctic and, although it probably does not appeal to the popular taste, is a good picture in its way.
Walter Huston does a good job of portraying the part of Baer's manager. All in all, it's good entertainment and he's going goa gaga over the well-built hulb.
Our Contemporaries
It is impossible to make a just comparison between the two pictures. SOS Iceberg is built around the difficulties encountered by an exploring party off the west coast of Greenland. This setting makes possible a number of good shots of great glaciers, frozen mountains, and huge icebergs. To the lover of nature views of such scenery are alone worth the price of admission.
Night Mayor, on the other hand, has none of the sternness and majesty of nature in it, but deals with the ageless theme of love and romance. Lee Tracy, as the mayor of a large American city, likes night life, good clothes and the theater (Of whom does that remind you of the character of the girl and is about to be kicked out of office for this and other reasons. The girl gives him up in order to save his career, although she admits she fell hard. It all comes out right in the end.
Mental Beating
At nearly every street intersection and in nearly every creek bed one sees a group of workmen, 90 per cent of whom have had no college or high school training, engaged in some sort of labor. They are CWA workers. It requires no training or education to become a CWA workman. All that is needed is brawn. The salaries are the same—nearly $14 a week.
The college graduate looks at these workmen: "Here," he exclaims, "here are men with no training, no college education, yet they are drawing a bet against me. You must make these work help or hinder me? Was all my studying in college for me?"
Of course these thoughts give the graduate a dull outlook on life. He is
happy.
Despite the seemingly unjustice, the graduate should not be discouraged. In several years he may be a highly-paid expert; and unless the workman has had college training he will always be a $14 a week laborer.—Daily Texan.
An amusing and enticing common sense book on what every young girl should be acquainted with in
--and
"No Nice Girl Swears"
Alice Leone Moats
--and
Alice Leone Moats
And to All
May We Wish---and
A
Merry Christmas
A
25c til 7 then 35c
Happy New Year
--and
THE
CAFETERIA
--and
Union Fountain
Sub-Basement Memorial Union
We close Wed. 6 p.m.
for the Holidays
and open Jun. 3
Season's Greetings
LAST TIMES TONIGHT
"S-O-S ICEBERG"
VARSITY
The HOME OF THE JAYHAWK
Costs more,
and
STARTS TOMORROW for 2 Days
"NIGHT MAYOR"
A Naughty "Wife-Trading" Musical---
JACK BUCHANAN
in
"Yes! Mr. Brown"
and EDMOND LOWE in
"ATTORNEY for the DEFENSE"
Let us use this last Kansan publication of 1933 to wish each and every JAYHAWKER
a
Happy New Year
Very, Very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
The new year will bring to your most convenient and comfortable theatre such great pictures as:
WILL ROGERS in "MR. SKITCH"
WILL ROGERS in "MR. SKITCH"
LILLIAN HARVEY in "I AM SUZANE"
Fredrick March, Gary Cooper and Mitiam Hopkins in
"DESIGN FOR LIVING"
Want Ads
JOHN BARRYMORE in "COUNSELLOR AT LAW"
EDDIE CANTOR in "RMAN SCANDALS"
"FOX MOVIETONL FOLLIES OF 1934"
FOX MOVIE ONE FOLLIES OF 1934
Did we hear you say the Varsity really plays
the big ones?
Louis Hidden Manager
Louis Higdon, Manager.
Twenty-five words or less ! less! :
line three, line four, larger and
prestata. WANT ABS ARE
ACCOMPANED BY C A & H .B.
FOR RENT: A nice cozy apartment for couple; fire place and steam heat. Lovely surroundings. Call 1871. —67.
LOST: Blimpless glauers in gray leather.
-65
ette case, white silk sark with embroidered initial R, black leather lined gloves. Last week. Reward. Eddie Rice. phone 1638 or 203. —67.
FOUND: Near Administration building,
Autopot evershard pencil. Inquire at
Kansan Business office.. -63.
SEND GREETINGS to chapter alumni and home folks with a cheerful newsletter—and add color to your chapter house Christmas dinner with an attractive mimeographed program. Stenography Bureau, Journalism Building.
LOST: Dark blue Boucle overcoat,
Strabutry make, white scarf in
basket, at Kappa party. Probably taken
by Reward. Douglas Party.
Phone 253. - - - - in
WANTED: Will share expenses or pay reasonable fare to ride with some one going to Hutchinson or Dodge City, Dec. 20 or 21. Marjorie Brooks. Phone 2404. -65
APT FOR RENT -2 large connecting rooms. Warm and light. Will accommodate 3 people. Extra closet room. 1501 R.I. Phone 2541. -65
LOST: Dark blue overcoat at Kappa party. Black gloves, red ribbon, candy bar in pocket. Woolf Broth. label. Reward. A. C. McClure. Phone 957-66. CLEANING—Men's suits and O'carts 50c; Ladies' plain dresses 50c; Ladies' pleated dresses 75c; Fur-lined coats 75c. W. H. Walden, 117 E. 9. Phone 185.
JOURNAL-POST delivered to you each evening and Sunday 15sew week. Sports, news, comics, up to date pictures. Phone your order to 608.
We Wish You a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR And Promise You Even Greater Entertainment for 1934
ENDS TONITE!
PATEE WHERE THE
BIG PICTURE PLAY
SHOWS: 3-7-9
Myra Loy - Walter Huston
Max Baer - Primero Carner
Otto Kruger - Jack Dempsey
Plus—Another famous Disney natural colored cartoon "Old King Cole." Equally as good as "Three Little Pigs."
And news events.
25c Matinee and Nite, Kiddies 10c
"The Prize Fighter and the Lady"
Wednesday - Thursday
BY VINA DELMAR Author of "Bad Girl"
"Chance at Heaven"
JOEL McCREA
GINGER ROGERS
ANDY DEVINE
Plus—Zazu Pitts Comedy Travel Talk and News
HERE SUNDAY
LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S
"LITTLE WOMEN"
The House of Pleasing Pictures
DICKINSON
Tonight, Tomorrow and Thursday
Chester Morris Helen Twelvetrees and Alice White
'King for a Night'
--The story of a man who fights his way to the top—only to pass it by for one he loves—with an ending that is different. It's good diversion.
15c till 7 Then 25c