PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1933 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE. KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEIF ___ CHILES COLEMAN Carol Widow William Bizzare MANAGING EDITOR MARGARET GREEG MANAGING EDITOR...MARGARET GREGG Campus Editor Robert Smith Brian Ehner Brian Ehner Sports Editor Merle Heyford Prairie Sports Editor Rochman Editor Margaret Moullet Larry Fosch Gretchen Grulin Sunday Editor Robert Smith Marvester Gregg Chiles Coleman Chiles Coleman Jimmy Butterfield John Koeckmann Gretenhoffer Oelup Larry Sterling Paul Woodmanne Virgin Parken Kevin Smith 5 Advertising Manager Clarence E. Mendi Circulation Manager Marion Benett Business Office KIU. 6 Business Office K1U. 6 Night Connection, Business Office. 270K. Night Connection, Business Office. 270K. Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Monday of Saturday for publication by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. Entered as second class matter, September 19, 1910, to the post office at Lawrence, Kansas Subscription price, per year. $3.00 each vance, $2.25 on payments. Single copies, £1.99. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1933 KANSAS HAS A GOVERNOR At a time when democratic government is on trial throughout the United States, brought to a crisis chiefly by the breakdown in law and order in California, Kansas can be proud of the unsurviving stand of its governor. There was no equivocation in Alfred M. Landon's timely declaration that he would call out the entire state militia, if necessary, to prevent lynching in Kansas. America is no longer in a state of barbarism in which mobs of frenzied men are to administer justice. The actions of the governors of Maryland and Kansas have stiffened the backbone of the nation. MUSIC FOR PEP Where was the old basketball pep at the game last night? Like the proverbial "wooden Indians" we sat as calmly through the battle as if it had been a gym exhibition. For long periods of time, only the merry crackle of the chewing gum disturbed the profound silence of the bleachers. Here and there could be seen interested spectators dozing happily through the halves, and waking momentarily at the rest periods to inquire the score from their equally sleepy neighbors. It was a peaceful and quiet gathering of a weary student body who appeared to be saving its energy for the hours of studying to follow. According to some basketball enthusiasts and various members of the team, the lack of any school spirit whatsoever may be attributed to the absence of the band. We have come to rely upon musical stimulus to create an answering response in us. Without the music, we apparently have no incentive to clap or sing and the fear of a condescending look from a sophisticated neighbor makes us refrain from even the usual cheering. It's a sad situation! After the game, a player was overheard to remark that he expected basketball to die a natural death from lack of enthusiasm if the band continued to be missing. "How can we be expected to play a real game," he said, "without a band to pep up the crowd, and create that excitement and school spirit that is so essential to good basketball?" If we must have enthusiasm, and can't stir it up without music, then by all means, lets have some music. THE DAYS OF THE STREET CAR Asphalt covers the street car tracks which have, for almost a half century conducted car loads of University students to and from classes. In the days of our fathers, the top-of-the-hill stop marked the edge of the campus. Robinson gymnasium was, at that time, the only building west of the car line. Changes were made every few years in the kind of car which used the tracks. The bed of the tracks was gradually improved, and most of the traffic hazards were removed. The dress of the students who rode the street car changed radically. New buildings appeared on the Hill, and the edge of the campus moved westward. Now the western border of the campus is so far from the street car line that a bus line has been installed to take care of the students more efficiently. Where will the edge of the campus be in another fifty years? GROWING OR GOING? What is the future of religion? Is it going or is it growing? These are everyday questionnings of the laity concerning the changes that are evolving about the Christian religion today. If an answer could be derive from statistics on church membership, the student enrollment at the University would contribute the fact that this year 75 per cent of the students are church members against 73 per cent five years ago. But such statistics cannot be relied upon in showing stable steps of either growth or decay of religion in this age of change. Abbe Ernest Dimnet, distinguished French churchman, writing in Scribner's December issue on this subject has to say regarding changes which involves religion as well as evolve about it today: "If the teachings (of religion) were braver and more thorough, people instead of being shocked by religion development would expect it, for it takes place before their very eyes." No, the future of religion will not be disastrous because of changes, if the essential and the fundamental in Christianity are preserved. Paul, Luther, Wesley, proved this in centuries past. Dimnet has faith in it today, saying: "What is going is a superanimated concept of God which ought not to have survived under Christianity . . . As soon as the problem of Good begins to intrigue mankind as the problem of evil has intrigued it so far, nobody will hear a mention of the future of religion again. Religion will be consciously, what it is now only unconsciously, part and parcel of our thought and life." TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW Did you ever think about coming back to the campus 20 years from now? Have you ever thought what the Hill will probably look like? Can you imagine what changes will take place in the course of that time Of course you can't. But you probably could make a few pretty good guesses. The girls will probably be wearing leather jackets and boots and puffing on squat little pipes with their sorority crest stuck on them. As they drive along the campus with their feet cooked up on the dashboard of their cars, they can knock their pipes out by tapping them on the heads of startled freshmen. The men students will attend class in packs. There is safety in numbers. The little combs they now carry will have a vanity case attachment so they can duck into corners and take a few swipes at a shiny nose. But even if the students will have seemed to change inwardly they will be just the same. Shortened vacations, unreasonable quizzes, incapable professors, and the north wind will still be prime courses for gripes. Dances, dating and dishing dirt will continue to make student life worth living. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: No means am I in favor of war. I am just as afraid of it as the next fellow, and I can shudder as sincerely as anyone, when it comes to imagining bullets whizzing by whispering; "I'm onna get ya!" However, the editorial entitled "War" which recently appeared in the Daily Kansas served only to defeat its own purpose. Like the drama of Thomas Kyid, the bloody carriage was piled on the front of the wagon produced were applause in the reader. I have not read any grade school composition papers recently, but from the memories I have of them, they would seem to compare favorably with The annual A.S.C.E. banquet, scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 14, has been unavoidably postponed until Jan. 11. CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary. GO TO CLUB DIST. NO. 17 Vol. XXXII Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1933 No. 60 Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication day and 11:30 a.m. for Sunday issues. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN A. S. C. E.: There will be a meeting tomorrow evening, at 7:15, at 1609 Tennessee street Please bring a nickel. LILY B. CHECKLA. Habra una sesión de El Ateneo el jueves a las cuatro y media de la tarde en 113 East Administration. El senor professor Osma hablara en el sujeto de "La navidad en España". Que asista todos los socios. EL. ATENEO: PHI DELTA KAPPA; FRED W. JEANS, Presidente. Kappa Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa will be guests of Pi Lambda Theta in a joint meeting Thursday evening, Dec. 14, at 8 e'clock in 119 Fraser hall. There will be a short meeting of Phi Delta Kappa in 120 Fraser hall at 7:30. PI LAMBDA THETA: FRED W. JEANS, President. Gamma Chapter of Pi Lambda Theta will meet tomorrow, at 7:30 in room 119 Frezer. This is the beginning of a new series of programs. Members are invited to bring guests. ONA MAE LARNER, Secretary. OUACK CLUB. In the First Year Court: The case of U. B. Seller, appellant vs. E. Q. Owner, appellate. An appeal to the supreme Court of Kansas on an action for specific performance of a contract to sell land. Argument on three stated grounds of appeal. Hearing in the Court room, Green hall, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, before Davis, C. J., Caffin, Harding, CC. Of counsel for appellant, Marie Wachter and Darlene Anderson; for the appellate, Chesterman Lainley and Wm. Lewis. This will be the final argument for this year. Supreme procedure will follow. A. GLENWOOD GILLILAND, Clerk of Court. Quack club will meet tonight at 8:15. All members who have not yet paid their dues should do so at once. CAROL HUNTER, President. SCHOOL OF LAW. The next event of importance in the Swedish Christmas season is the promenede downtown beginning at four o'clock in the afternoon the first Sunday in December. From this time on the store-window displays are changed weekly and people walk for the sheer credible to us busy Americans. On the morning of Christmas we evergreens are hauled to the marketplace and as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but this huge vast forest of beautiful trees. As the trees may be purchased at only this one market-place, the effect of such a great number of trees may be easily visualized. Y. M. C. A.; The Y.M.C.A. Cabinet will hold its regular weekly meeting on tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in room 10 of the Memorial Union building. Every member is requested to be present. DOWDAL H. DAVIS, Vice President. STUDENT LOAN. the editorial in question. The writer of this editorial should be "discovered" by the Sour Owl editors, for he has a real genius for humor. Christmas in Sweden is a time of great rejoicing and much feasting. Following the opening carols, the group of singers disband into smaller parties to drink coffee and eat coffee bread called kattar, which is in the shape of cats for Christmas. They also shaped gingerbread cookies. Even the days intervening between St. Lucia's Day and Christmas are filled with gay parties of the same nature. Students who plan to apply to the Student Loan committee for loans for the second semester are requested to make application at least two weeks before GEORGE O. FOSTER, Chairman, Student Loan Committee Here is one of the laughs from the editorial effusion: "Shrapnel bursts overhead and a grey bearded man with a family of six falls with a splinter of steel in his brain." This is a truly devastating picture, only one wonders if the "family of six" were tagging along with pop, or whether this clause was merely inserted for explanation of the grey hair. There is something of a familiar ring to the following passages: "A ship is sunk at sea, and five hundred blame-less men have paid the supreme sacrifice. A cannon belches fire and lead into a forest; murdering more beaver the cream of the land." Lucky Strikes, eh? If one is seriously interested in spreading peace propaganda, a greater care should be employed in the sermonizing. The editorial "War" is good for a few laughs, but that could hardly have been the purpose of the writer. It smiles funny. It works in effective, insincere, effusive, and full of hokum. Swedish Christmas Is a Festive Season Aside from the above derogatory remarks, the editorial is very well done and worthy of any editor's wastebasket. Jensen B. Patterson. By Iris Olson, c'35 A beautiful young lady with long golden hair, attired in a flowing gown of white trimmed in silver and gold tinsel, is leading a procession of Swedish villagers in the small town of Upsala. On her head is placed a most unusual crown fashioned of evergreen and set with lighted candles for jewels. Following are six attendants dressed in similar attire, the only difference being that they wear no crowns. Suddenly the dismal quietness of the cold far North is broken by the joyous caroling of the townpeople. The occasion is St. Lucia's Day which formally ushers in the Swedish Christmas season on Dec. 13. Every year the "bride" of St. Lucia, the early church saint, is chosen from among the young ladies of the village and the carols of the followers welcome Christmas, the "coming of light." Christmas Eve celebrations begin with a huge dinner in the early evening which consists mally of lut-fisk, a type of dried cod, potatis-kor, rice with hot milk and a few almonds the receipt of which is said to signify an early marriage, and a baked cookie called kilner together with lingen berries and preserved cherries as a dessert. Following the dinner the guests leave the dining room to drink coffee. This custom is peculiar to Swedish people. Later they return to the dining room and the lighting of the Christmas tree takes place. One of the most beautiful of the Swedish yule customs is the early morning church service called Yd-taor which begins about five o'clock. This celebration has been brought to the United States and today all churches whose members are of Swedish descent observe this ceremony. There is something about the early morning Christmas day, adequately dressed candle-lit church, and the voices singing the Swedish Christmas hymns that is most inspiring and most impressive. Christmas day itself is a family day in Sweden and no one must leave the family group on this occasion. All parties are held on the day following Christmas at which time there are many dances around the Christmas tree and food is eaten three times during the evening. The sixth day of January comes all too soon and the joyous season must end. The last holiday act is the plumering of the Christmas tree to secure the choice bits of candies hidden in the decorations. The barren tree is placed to make room where it is placed so that it may live forever even though the happiness which it brought is gone until another year is passed. INTERWOVEN HOSE Make a Real Gift Wool - Silks - Lies Fancy and Plain Patterns 35c to $1 "By the Box or Pair" A red seal or 10 to 12 A real selection. Sizes 10 to 12. 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