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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1931
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Published in the alberesm, five times a week, and in the *Journal of American Studies*, six times a year. Published in the University of Kansas, from the Sociology Department (1932-46), and in the Travel & Tourism Journal (1933-50). In the *Journal of American Studies* (1937-40) he served as editor in reserve. In 1947 he was appointed to the position of president, 1950-1970, at the office at Lawrence, Kansas, where he served until his retirement.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1931
K. U.'S VICTORY
K. U. owns the valley. All is well; for the Missouri Tiger's tail has again been twisted by a fighting Jayhawker team. No matter which way you take it Kansas has had a successful season this year. "All is well that ends well."
The Missouri team showered flashes of brilliance, but could not compete with the steady, consistently hard fighting of the Jayhawkers. An early lead won by the Jayhawkers was successfully defended by smart, "heads-up" football, and in the later third quarter the game was stowed away by another touchdown.
Missouri tried desperately to avert the inevitable, but it was K. U's day. Kansas took advantage of the breaks and played real "hang-up" football. They deserved to win. Now we can all really celebrate, "Whopee!"
HOBO DAY
After all, what is Hobo Day but a chance for every student to "let off" the pent up energy and enthusiasm which is the product of weeks of academic labor? It cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called an institution, for its success depends not on some ruling by an all-high authority, but by the very attitude of the participants. Take away the thought from the students that they were doing something not strictly open and above board and the day would be an utter failure.
There's something about putting on the most ragged clothes you have and making yourself ridiculous before the rest of your fellow students that holds a vicarious thrill. Witness the mirages of students who did that very thing, and did it with a vengeance, Friday.
Personally we're emphatically in favor of retaining the custom of Hobo Day. What would the Kansas-Missouri game be without such a day to usher it in? It puts the students in that frame of mind which turns them into raving, cheering manias the moment the game starts, and whether you believe it or not, it's that kind of spirit that does a lot towards the winning of football games.
Judging from the conduct of the students Friday, they too desire the retention of Hobo Day, for they were extraordinarily well-behaved. Prospects are indeed favorable for its continuance. Long may she wave!
SHAKESPEARE
Veteran lovers of Shakespearean drama as well as the literary novices who have not had an opportunity to see in "the flesh" the real, human, lovable personalities created by the imitable pen of the Stratford-on-Avon dramatist are awaiting with eager anticipation the appearance Tuesday of the American Shakespearean Players who will present in Fraser theater the beloved comedy "The Merchant of Venice" and
the tragedy, "Macheth," that psychological study of two minds. Both plays will be cast with actors of such calibre that they have been Greet, Fritz Leiber, Mantell, Sottern, Mary Young and Margaret Anglin, all famous producers of Shakespeare's works. Pauline Crell, hailed by critics for her realistic portrayals of Shakespeare leading ladies, will play the Lady Maeabeth and of Portia, F. Mortimer Mitchell, a product of the Abbey theater in London, will play Shylock.
Shakespeare is a master of words and has a matchless understanding of human nature. His characters live. They possess the same traits that can be found in your next door neighbor. They can be loved and hated, just as the persons who live in your town can be. Shakespeare's people are real, not stilted characters that cannot be lifted from the page of a book. The American company is considered the finest on tour of the United States this year. The admittance prices for the productions are not unreasonable. It will behoove every student and faculty member who enjoys good drama to see those performances next Tuesday and to live for several hours with blood-thirsty Macbeth and symphathize with brow-beat Antonio.
MODERN YOUTH
He was just a little fellow, probably about eight years old. He was young, yes, but was he self-reliant? He stalked into the restaurant, plopped himself down at the counter, and in a commanding voice said, "Number six with sausage; milk to drink." The waiter looked at him in surprise, almost dropped a glass of water and then hurried off to fill the order. The little follow leanned back, pleasantly conscious of the impression he had made.
That's some more of our modern youth for you! Self-reliance, dignity, the ability to assert oneself that's a combination.
The young gentleman in question manfully tackled his order finished as soon as the student beside him, and walked out after paying his bill with all the aplomb of a captain of finance. What a man!
But this modern youth, so self reliant and so forth, is headed for no good end. What a pass this world is coming to when our youth has no more respect for its betters than to behave as this young fellow did. We tell you, this younger generation is going to the dogs.
REPARATIONS
A move toward better world economic conditions was made when Germany and France decided that Germany's capacity to pay reparations be investigated by an advisory committee of experts of the World Bank, created by the Young plan.
America strongly desires that Germany shall take advantage of this opportunity to gain much needed financial aid. The United States recognizes the fact that its financial recovery depends to a large extent on the economic recovery of Europe. France is beginning to realize that its welfare is intricately bound up in that of Germany. The world is becoming aware of the fact that if one nation suffers economically to an unreasonable, disastrous extent the rest of the world suffers also.
This step has long been anticiated and desired. The results of the Wiggin commission's inquiry stressed the necessity of new methods in view of the fact that the present situation in Germany has become intolerable. The agreement reached in Paris between France and Germany is seen as a direct result of the conferences which Premier Laval and President Hoover recently held.
ECONOMY vs. HUMANITY
The fact that such action involves the loss of thousands of dollars of the British taxpayers' money is in itself a fit subject for comment. But another point is indirectly involved which is of much greater importance. Why is it that Great Britain will sanction the dismantling of her ship as a matter of economic necessity and expediency when under no circumstances at the present time would she assent to a like action in a matter of disarmament?
Great Britain's decision to scrap the dirigible R-100 is a shining example of the inconsistency of a nation when it comes to matters of military policy. The R-100, sister ship of the ill-fated R-101 which plunged to earth on a French hillside, was constructed at a cost of two million dollars. Now, on recommendation of the sir ministry, the great dirigible has been sold as junk.
When public sentiment, aroused and inspired by unfavorable economic conditions, demands that Great Britain dispense with one of her costly war toys, she promptly proceeds to accede to the demands of the body politic. But if that same body politic or another nation had appealed to the air ministry to junk the dirigible in the cause of humanity and the abolition of war, it is extremely doubtful if any similar action would have been taken.
When nations are actuated by peaceful motives to destroy their implements of warfare instead of those of economic necessity, then, and only then, will world amity and disarmament become a fact. And in the meantime the taxpayers will continue to pay.
AMBASSADOR BILL
That "ride'em cowboy" Will Rogers must have a dynamic personality unmatched by any other mortal creature. All he had to do was intimate that he intended to go to the Orient and immediately Japan and China call a truce on the war they are waging on that part of the globe. One wonders what would have happened if he just gone on over there without warning them of his coming. When the soldiers saw him stand there watching them play with those guns the Japanese have hung it all and invited the Chinese to dinner or something?
We wish the imitative Mr. Rogers would decide to visit our campus. He needn't actually come. It would only be necessary to hint that maybe he'll drop down on Mt. Oread. Then, we wouldn't have to work about the settlement of Y. M. C. A. ness. And if he had only said he might come last week, we wouldn't have had the controversy over the decorations. The raternities and sororites would have agreed at once one way or the other.
TEXAS
One of the first things to which Congress will attend in the coming, session will likely be the enactment of tax legislation. The raising of taxes has been postponed as long as possible, but the huge deficit, which may reach the sum of two billion dollars before recovery has been effected, makes it inevitable. President Hoover has cut the budget $350,000,000, but this is less than ten per cent of the year's budget expense. The bond issues plan has also failed adequately to meet the situation. Since revenue legislation must originate in the house, and that body will very likely be controlled by the Democrats, the raising of taxes will probably affect the political fortunes of the two parties equally. The Republicans are thus not put in much of a hole in respect to irresistible tax situation. The increase in taxes will likely be on inability to pay and not very
space of insurance tax situation. The increase in taxes will likely be on ability to pay and not very materially on consumption; on higher incomes. A move for a tax truce was made when Senator
Watson told Representative Garner that the Republican majority in the Senate would be disposed to accept a "reasonable" tax measure framed by the Democrats of the house. The politicians realize that it is to the best interests of business to remove the uncertainty regarding tax revision by speedy enactment; therefore the truce is likely to benefit both the politicians and the business men.
Mile. Josee Laval found out what most Americans have long known. She said, "America is a magic dreamland." There was much that Josee liked in the United States, but she did not like the whirl that she was in, the "mad jumble of scenery gone crazy."
To many people in America life is a magic dream; but sometimes the dream is stripped of its glamour and magic and becomes stark reality, as is the case when final exams make their unwelcome appearance. Most of us don't know what it is all about. Some don't care; some do not want to know; they desire most of all to not wake up from their dreams. Others strive to ascertain the meaning of our magic dream and our mad jumble.
A DREAM
It is true that we are in a whirl, a jumble, which at times becomes irksome and dull, but as a rule we like this striving and chasing here and there.
The whirl in which most people find themselves is the mode of life which seems best suited to our modern national temperament. The difficult problem is to find the purpose of it. If there is none, we should wake up from our magic dream long enough to make this mad jumble and whirl serve some useful, legitimate purpose.
The Thoughtful Freshman says that his father's favorite quotation, "Came the Dawn," changes around the last of the month, to "Came the Dun."
THE SANCTION OF THE AGE
THE SANCTION OF THE AGE
Why is a Democrat not a Republican, a Methodist not a Baptist and a militant not a pacifist?
Is it because each person who holds to a certain principle has examined it and has found it to be the very thing for which he stands? In ninety-nine cases it is not.
A man is an adherent to a particular political party or church denomination because his father was a member of it and his grandfather before his father. He has been brought up in a certain environment and has absorbed the teachings and beliefs around him. If his stand is challenged, he justifies it by saying that his family has always believed in it and it must be so.
The sanction of age is too often employed to justify our beliefs, opinions and views. In our search for "good" reasons for what we are and for what we believe, too often we turn back the pages of history and cry defensively, "Fifty million ancestors can't be wrong."
The militarist defends his warlike tendencies on the ground that even in early Hebrew days, Jehovah himself urged the nations to fight for their rights. The pacifist contends that his beliefs are the true ones because Jesus of Nazareth advocated peace.
To look backward and say that we must do thus and so because it was so done in ages gone by is no evidence of intelligence. Even if one look carefully into the annals of history, he will find that views the opposite of his own were held even long ago. The rationalizer, however, stops as soon as he finds a reason which may or may not be a just one.
THE WORM TURNS
The sooner we throw off the shackles of age and begin critically to examine ourselves our beliefs and our own institutions, the sooner shall we reach the realm of intellectual freedom and satisfaction.
The down-trodden male, long a victim of woman's wiles and cunning, at his last achieved a coup d'etat over the daughters of Eve that will go far in helping him to reassemble his shattered pride and patch up his self respect. In passing judgment in a suit by a firm of French dressmakers to recover a bill from Gilbert Frankan, novice, in settlement of an account run up by his second wife, the learned English judge who tried the case ruled that "A husband can protect himself from dangers created by an extravagant mate by means of a fixed allowance to his wife."
Despite the outraged protests of women to the contrary, man has been always more or less at the mercy of their sex when it came to financial matters. He would labor long and faithfully in an effort to amass a few dollars only to find it appropriated by some of his feminine friends or relatives with such amazing dexterity and rapidity that he self-founded time to protest. An engaging smile, a few haling tears, or in some cases, a hurt clouding beautiful big eyes was enough to do the mischief. The woman in the case would find herself with a new fur coat and the man would have an empty purse to remind him of the little woman's ingenuity.
And so it has been down through the ages. The man works and pays; the woman works man and plays. But the decision of the English judge giving man the right to control his own purse strings by placing his friendly enemy on an allowance is a step in the direction. His decision will be hailed throughout the world.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XIIX
Sunday, 21. 12. 1911
No. 62
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MEETING
There will be a resting of the department of English on Monday, Nov. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in room 303 Praser. W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman.
The initiation for new members which was to be held Tuesday evening, Nov. 24, has been postponed until after the Thanksgiving variation.
RUDOLPH WENDELIN, President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
The Mathematics club will meet Monday, Nov. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in room 211 east administration building. Professor Kester will speak.
MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY:
Mr. Alexander Lentin of the American Association for Old Age Security will address a dinner meeting for faculty members at the University Catered Tuesday, Nov. 24, 6 c. 10am, on the subject of faculty annuities. Dinner reservations, at 50 cents, may be obtained from Gomnesia Garliardi or C. D. Clark.
ETITION FOR COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE TO M. S. C:
MAURICE McMANUS, Secretary.
All nominating petitioners for filling the vacancy of College representative to the Man's Student Council must be filed with the secretary by 12 clock noon, on or before Monday, January 5th.
PRACTICE TEACHING:
Students wishing to enroll in practice teaching during the second semester must make applications for enrollment at room 103 Printer before Nov. 25.
PSI CHI:
There will be a regular meeting of Pal-Chi on Monday, Nov. 23, in room 21 There administration building, Professor George Walker the chairperson, and ERIH BIDENDEM
SOCIALIST SYMPHATHIZERS;
STUDENTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES:
All these interested in the study of socialist problems are invited to meet Monday, Nov. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in room 162 University building. Organization
Abraham Epstein of the American Association for Old Age Security will address a joint meeting of social science students on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 11:30 a.m. in central Administration auditorium. His subject will be "Social Insurance." All who are interested are cordially invited to attend.
CARROLL D. CLARK.
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