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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4.1931
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief ___ GORDON MARTIN
Associate Editors
**Otype Tree**
Managing Editor STACE PICKELL
Make Up Editor LOWE WICKLE
Campaign Editor MARVIN LAWRENCE
Spider Editor MARY LAWRENCE
Spider Editor HAMILTON KROHN
Security Editor FLORELL MILLigan
Exchange Editor FLORRELL MILLigan
Exchange Editor MO CATMAN
ADVERTISING EDITOR ROBERT REED
District Assistant CHRISTINE CHRISTIE
District Assistant GREEN GUILD
District Assistant MARK LEAVEN
Kansas Board Members
Phi Kai Lee **Joe Krusk**
Robert Reed **Fred Flaming**
Robert Whireman **Midnight Carry**
Gerald McMahon **Michael MacDonald**
Linda Hikari **Liam Blandin**
John Martin
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Published in the *Ames Journal*, five times a week, and in The New York Times and National Association of University Presses from the time of publication. Also published in the *Lawrence Journal* (1853-1912), 51st ed., at Lawrence University Press, 1904. Are most of the articles written by Lawrence, Kansas, author of *The Lawyer*.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4.1931
REAL CO-OPERATION
A recent edition of the Purdue Exponent, student newspaper at Purdue University, carries a story of a forthcoming event at that University known as the "Riveters Rassle," which we gather will be a dance.
The feature of the party, the Exponent says, will be a "best beaver" contest, the winner to be awarded a prize for the best beard at the party. Such an important event is this that the Mortar Board, senior co-ed society, will award the prize to the gent on whom the gods have seen fit to bestow the most superfluous and best bunch of whiskers. A novel event, to say the least.
It has been said that the University of Kansas gives too much attention to Hobo Day. Well, listen to this. Even the Purdue military department has conceded the importance of the "whisker" contest by announcing that no student soldiers will be penalized for wiray
when a military department makes a concession like that, it's something. All of which would seem to indicate that too much attention is not being given to things playful on Mount Oread.
THANKS!
To this person we shall be grateful until our dying day. We shall remember him as the first to slap our liver-worn shoulders as we embarked on our editorial career. There is a man who some day will say he had a part in whatever may be our ultimate fate. Truly, there is a pal.
Into the drab life of this plodding editor there has come a ray of sunshine which has put more snap in our galaxies than a shot of pre-war hooch. A fellow we know read the editorial page. He told us so.
A NEW RUSHING RULE
The Woman n's Pam-Hellenic Council is considering a new rushing rule by which all sororites will be required to mail or give "rushes" date cards to rush parties only within a limited time, probably between June 1 and September 1. The sororates will not be allowed to make rushing engagements before or after those dates. The "rushee" will hold all date cards until a given day, when she will mail them to the office of the Dean of Women.
The purpose of the propose rule is to give all sororites a chance to make dates no matter how late during the specified time they receive the name of the rushee. It will prevent the student making the excuse that she is all dated up because she must fill out all of her date cards with the names of all sororities inviting her, at the same time. The sororities will then know where they stand with rushees.
The rule is in force in a number of universities and is functioning well wherever it is being used. It is now before the sororities here and will be discussed at the next meeting of Women's Pan-Hellenic Council,
FOND MEMORIES
About this time every year, seniors and juniors are besieged with telephone calls reminding them to get their pictures taken for the new Jayhawkher, that grand old book of memories. There's something more in that "memory" gag than just ballyhoo. Last Homecoming we saw a prominent graduate of this University through our friends while Little Roger, Jr., hung on his arm and made mugging noises at the out-of-date pictures of his illustrious nana.
Someone has said that after the ripe old age of thirty years, we resort mostly to memories for real enjoyment in life. Well, there are times like that, and then again there aren't. Personally, there are plenty of things which have happened to us here which we'd like to forget, but there's just as many more that we'd like to remember. Your picture in the Jayhawker now will probably mean a few laughs later. We're going to have our own mugs printed therein as soon as we amass enough coin of the realm to pay for it. And when you're out in the cold cruel world slaving at your first job, you can go home nights, haul out the book and ponder over the cruelty of fate. After all, life was really soft—more!
PRAYERS AND WAR
General Chiang Kai-Chek Christian president of China and commander-in-chief of its armies, has summoned leaders of the churches and the Y.M.C.A. in Peiping to assemble with him in prayer meetings to consider the Manchurian situation.
The Chinese leader's motives may be entirely sincere, but his action will meet with suspicion throughout much of the Western world. Except upon occasions extraordinary, prayers and warfare are strange bedfellows.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Public opinion, that most field of all our social institutions, has once more demonstrated its utter inability to function properly in the reams of the aesthetic. The general public and the artists in almost any field simply do not mix. The artist's clientele, therefore, usually must be confined to the selected few, capable of understanding and appreciating his art, while the gawdy populace faims its favors upon so-called second-rate men whose creations appeal to the emotions of the common herd.
This quite notorious sense of the artistic long has been associated with Mr. and Mrs. Average Man. Their tastes just don't conform. The repeated buyings and sellings of Constance Bennett and the hair-raising offerings of Tom Mix lead the motion picture in their box-office power. Frederick Chopin doesn't stand a chance with Irving Benton's Schipa with Russ Colombio, Zane Grey and Elnor Glyn are far ahead of a whole flock of dry old masters.
It was quite understandable, then, when a ballot on the most popular entry at the recent Carnegie art exhibit completely disregarded the opinions of a distinguished jury of international artists and critics. The jury had selected a symbolic painting, "Sulphur."
"Susanna" was merely the picture of a girl. "Suicide in Costume" represented a gorgette clown in the act of killing himself. It contained all the merits of modern painting. Sound critics decided it symbolized current economic conditions. Others, it is rumored, interpreted it as representing the charge of the old guard at Waterloo and the Chicago fire, while still others couldn't quite decide Its theme, too, was a popular one. What semi-
hibition. And then the public with its characteristic imperitine, rose up in the popular selection and chose a simple, old-fashioned picture called "Susanna." The jury's choice received only a few votes.
too, was a popular one. What sensible man in this era of strife would pass up a good suicide for a mere woman?
Yet with all these qualifications and the additional prestige of its being the choice of such a group of experts, the public preferred the portrait of a girl, and one who probably wouldn't even get to first base out in Hollywood at that. Its choice is another testimony to the ancient truth that public favor and artistic achievement aren't exactly in harmony.
OUR VOCABULARIES
The average American's vocabulary is indeed small. A recent survey investigated in New York by investigators of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company showed that the average vocabulary used over the telephone consists of 737 words. Telephone officials and operators in Chicago thought that this figure was too high. A typical conversation which goes over the wires is likely to consist of six to a dozen trite phrases.
The paucity of words in our vocabularies may be due to our efforts to be democratic. We want to be understood by all. We dislike snobs and braggarts, and some think that when a man uses a number of uncommon words he is trying to make an ostentuous display of his knowledge and is trying to "high-hat" us. However, the real reason why our vocabularies are not larger is that we are too indolent to make the small amount of extra, conscious effort which is needed to increase our stock of words.
Pose hands a practice of never passing by an unfamiliar word when not looking it up or jotting it down. A vocabulary will soon grow materially. Once the meaning of a word is learned, it should be used; for if you use a word three times, it is yours. A large vocabulary is difficult to gain, but it does require a little thought and effort.
Free speech in schools is essential to successful, progressive perpetuation of the desirable qualities of the existing civilization. The American Association of University Professors took due cognizance of this fact and recently voted to boycott colleges and universities which curb the right of free speech.
The successful pursuit of truth and enlightenment presupposes liberty. The main objective of any school should be to teach young people how to think, not what to think. The true aim or purpose of the school will be thwarted, if the freedom of speech is abridged. Free, examined thinking is indispensable. Socrates maintained that the unexamined life is not worth living.
It is much better—more safe from a social standpoint—if students bump up against all kinds of "isms" and radical theories in school, rather than in later life when they may have extreme difficulty in arriving at a true and just analysis of these movements and opinions. Impulses and uncriticized opinions are dangerous. They require developing into rational, sane concepts, and this is possible only by means of free, unhampered discussion and teaching. The Association is justified in the stand it has taken. It bodes ill for the permanency and welfare of our nation, if teachers in schools, especially in universities, are denied complete freedom of speech.
Our Contemporaries
Too Many Laws—No Law.
When mother and father send son and daughter to be old enough and well versed in the ways of the world to be able to at least partially look into their life, the deans in those colleges often like the ideas. They take over the responsibility of these sons' and daughters' welfare. Rules usually much more complex than rules. Rules unnaturally down by the parents at home. As a
Too Many Laws—No Law!
Dr. Allyn K. Foster, New York City, will be here on Monday and Day,
Dec. 6 and 7. He will speak at the church at 9:45 and 11 Sunday morning, and
at the Congregational church at 6:30 pm. There will be no Saturday meeting.
Arrange for personal interviews at phone 1429.
The band will meet in full uniform at the gymnasium Saturday morning at 11:45. Have lunch before starting to Topeka. J. C. McANEES, Director.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol, XIIX
Friday, Dec. 1, 1951 No. 69
BAND:
BAPTIST STUDENT GROUP:
EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR M.S.C. VACANCY PETITIONS:
CHARLES W. THOMAS, Director
GRADUATE CLUB:
All graduate students are invited to meet with the Graduate club on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 8:15 p.m. in the cafeteria at the Union building. Allow the evening most which will be served cafeteria style. Dr. H. L. DeSilvio, of the paymaster's college, will speak on "Student Life in a University" (ambridge and Berlin). IOY L. ROHEMTS
There will be a Joy Jane meeting Monday afternoon at 4:30 in centra
Administration rest room. Please bring athletic shoes.
The deadline for petitions for filling the vacancy of College representative in the Men's Student Council has been extended to 12 c'clock noon Wednesday, Dec. 9. Petitions must be filed by that time, accompanied by the used $1 filing fee. MURACE J. F. MEANMAN, Secretary.
JAY JANES:
NELL, REZAC. President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
The problem of living, of forming life time habits, is one which should be solved in colleges and universities. How is any student going to be able to figure out his mode of living and carry his ideas, if others lay down the rules?
The Mathematics club will meet Monday, Dec. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in room 211 east administration building. HOWARD ABERNIE RYDER, Vice President.
RHADAMANTHI;
On the Air
The result is far from pleasing-
Kansas State Collegian.
Bhadamathi will meet Sanket at 4:30 in the Green room of Fraser hall ach member is to bring a selection of his work, unsigned.
result the sons and daughters either brow down in submission to those little boys, or they step forward as they please until they are found *u* be disobedient by the authorities higher
He won't. He'll go out of college with a degree and start hunting for someone to tell him what to do next. "I don't know what that he has never allowed to do."
Most students come to college to get an education. Otherwise they certainly would bother themselves to crawl up stairs and take the first day, all study half the night, and then get up the next day to repeat a similar lesson every day. The nature of time is naturally limited, are necessarily kept in at nights because they want to be kept in. But if for some reason you have to leave the side of the rooming houses or sorority houses or dormitories they want to do, they should be allowed
How is the young man or young woman, graduating from college after graduation, able to meet the rules are cut and dried, going to compete in a business world where each man is his own boss, and only he can do so. How can he be able to cope with a situation in which he has never before been placed? How can he take care of himself after having that responsibility fall on shoulders of those who thought themselves more competent?
FREDERICK F. WIRTH
The fifteen minute radio program has taken the public by storm. Tenoria, a longtime vocalist and taking their turns at the microphones in rapid succession. Some even called them "Downey," "Bing" Crosby, Kate Smith, Alice Joy, Jack Miller, Ruth Columbus, and Jeak Miller.
We give first honors to the Street Singer who appears over the Columbian chain. He gives a varied program of songs and selections to sentimental jazz medies that it is accompanied by an accordion player who is a star in his own right.
Coen-Sanders, who were once students in the University before they were lured away to create sweet music.
are now panicing the New Yorkers with their music in the hotel New Yorker. They are also featured on a podcast and on programs over the National network.
Wayne King and Ted Weems, of Chicago and national fame, are at their usual winter stands this year. Wayne is still making his usual wise-cracks and he brings his boys at the College Inn. King is featuring his famous waitresses and saxophone, while Weems has a whistler and sweet music; we sweet music like nobody's business.
Cab Calloway, who has been teaching Harlem_how to play hot music, is again playing "Minnie the Mooch" and other sweet and low down music from a duet he did "dirty trumpet instrument can make his instrument do anything but fly.
If a person is searching for a little drama, he should tune in to WLW at 10:30 Wednesday night. The Radio Guide is still giving its show on Fri nights, and the movies on the move serious types of plays putting on some Iken and early drams.
A station in Mexico is running a lottery over the air for the benefit of the people in the United States. They take time out between numbers to talk about the attitude of some ministers who aren't in favor of their plan.
Brinkley is on the air, try and keep from hearing him, he is conducting his usual medical question box and advertising for a so-called fortune teller and answerers of questions. The fortune teller's racket sounds like a darn good one.
With the coming of cold weather the number of international programs will probably increase. Columbia broadcasts a London program every Sunday and that program is broadcast by the various programs are broadcast by the various chains during the week also.
If you like Irish yarns tune in on the feature "Tales of Old Ireland" that is through the WEAP division of the National network. "Maineshore and Honestly," said a fellow same network in the afternoon. This radio serial has been going on for more than a year.
TAXI 25c
PHONE 65
JAYHAWK Taxi
DR. ALLYN K. FOSTER of
North Wollongong, will be in Lawage, Sunday and Sunday.
Dec. 5th and 6th
Dran R. A. Swieregge says of him, "In my opinion he is one of the outstanding men interpreting religion to the 20th century. Every K. U.
YOU MAY HEAR DR. FOSTER----
Sunday · 9-10o · Radio Station WREN
Sunday · 9-14s · First Baptist Church (8th and Ky. Sts.)
Sunday · 6-30o · Plymouth Congregational church, 925 Vt.
Monday · Several K. U. classes (see Sunday Kansas)
Students and faculty members welcome at every service
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