PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-Chief CLARENCE RUPP Frank McClendon MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NICHOLS Assoc. Senior Manager Sam Hammond Comp. Editor Jane Tennant Copy Editor Yasmin White Night Editor Lucas White Screenwriter Diana Hall Sweet Edition Henry Almond Album Edition Hayley Mackay Album Editor Mark Hankey ADVERTISING MGR ROBERT PIERSON District Assistant Jim Foremanauk District Assistant Brian Green District Assistant William B. Smith District Assistant Jorge Santos Corporation Manager James M. Walker Karman Powel Member Frank McCollard William Nichols Rachel Robert Virginia Nichols Mary Barron Ilex Friedmanns Catherine Carter Jack Moreau Gwen Green Jake Morrow Takshibank Telephones Business Office K, U. 68 News Room K, U. 25 Night Convenience 270131 Published in the afternoon, for five weeks, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Alabama, in the Tree of the Department of Journalism. Subservience prize, $10.00 per year, payable in advance. Single income. No津贴. Entered as second class, no津贴. Entrusted with dance, since at Lavreuse Kanaus, under the art of March 2, 1759. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931 SLIPPING BY The old axion, "one man's food in another man's poison," holds for college as well. Many in the class of 1931 will have benefited from their four year's training. They will be keener, smarter, more judicious citizens. But many, too many, will not have been bettered in comparison to the time spent. They will be the inevitable college leaders, who after loading through high school, have never been forced to exert themselves by the easy courses in college. Graduating at 20 or 21, these persons have a capacity that has never been touched and threatens to atrophy with persistent disease. They may still be the brightest in the class, and although they get straight "A" in every course, they still develop no initiative. The ease of getting by causes great numbers of these to drop out. An investigation shows the percentage to be 47 per cent as compared to 53 per cent who drop out by flunking. While college still presents the best possible preparation for job, it still fails to attract and hold those accomplishments would prove what college is worth. Passing requirements need to be tightened in every school. An increase in notebook work to keep students busy is foolish, and cramps the mind as well as the arm. The brighter students might pass along rapidly as they do at Chicago; at any rate they might be permitted to take more than 18 hours which is the absolute, arbitrary, and insulative limit here at Kansas. It won't be long until we will be unable to distinguish between Christmas and the Fourth of July. To quote just a few Dec. 26 headlines: "101 Are Killed in Holiday Accidents;" "131 Fatal Accident in Southwest;" "Holiday Crushes Take Five Lives at Memphis;" "Holiday Tdeil Tots in 13 California," etc., etc. PEONAGE FOR THE FARMER? The sympathies of the Kansas farmer were undoubtedly with Harold McGugin, representative from the third district, in his debate at Dodge City, Monday, with J. S. Bird, representative of the Wheat Farmers' Company which controls 100,000 acres, on the subject of corporation farming. Mr. McGugin, realizing where the sentiments of the farmer lay, had no other course to choose than attacking the principles o' corporation farming. Corporation farming is a fearful thing to the farmer, governed as he by centuries of traditional independence—an independence having him so completely in its toils that he is unable to co-operate for his own good. Undoubtedly, the purpose of corporation farming, stated by Mr. McGugin and implied in his watchword of efficiency, is "the production of the largest amount of farm products with the least number of people supported by the land which produces the products." No other purpose could be in harmony with industrial development which has always aimed toward increasing the output per individual. But such a program is horrifying to the small farmer who sees himself gradually shoved out of agriculture by the decreasing number of persons required to produce the world's food. The matter of profit and loss did not constitute an issue in the debate since Mr. Bird set forth that there could be no doubt but what agricultural profits could be increased by corporation farming, and Mr. McGugin tacitly conceded the truth of this assertion. "The vital issue is not the production of wheat or the makin of profits in Kansas," said Mr. McGucin. It is the money derived from the production of Kansas wheat in the hands of hundreds and thousands of Kansas farm people, spending that money in the towns and cities of Kansas for the necessities and luxuries which means prosperity for Kansas." Mr. McGugin closes his argument win the charge that corporation farming will mean peonage for the Kansas farmer. With centuries of tradition ingrained into our thought on any subject dealing with agriculture, it is difficult to succeed to any contention opposed to the principles laid down by Mr. McGugin. The legendary plenty of the farmer and the romance of the countryside have become so owed in our conceptions with the independence of the farmer, that it is difficult to see a solution to the agricultural problem in any other direction. And perhaps there is none. But the same argument of individual independence has always been advanced against industrial advancement. The craftsmanship of the eighteenth century protested vigorously against the spread of the factory system, but we should if anyone would care to see a return of early eighteenth century methods. Just now it seems impossible to find a place in the world for the thousands of farmers who would be displaced by industrializing agriculture. But the thousands displaced in the spread of the factory system found their niche in life. The possibilities of corporation farming seem cataclysmic, but as long as there are enough of the necessities of life in the world to support everyone, no one should suffer. With efficiency in agriculture increased, it may be that we can learn the profitable use of leisure and at last make a distinctly American contribution to the culture of be ages. Comparing the Colorado and Pennsylvania trips, Horace Gracey surely hit the mail on the head when he said, "Go West, young man." ONE DEPRESSION DISSOLVES The latter part of the year 1930 knew no alleviation so far as the depression of finances in our country is concerned, but it did mark a noteworthy unbending among our most publicised intelligence. We refer especially to the recent "Red" Lewis-H. L. Mencken controversy, Lewis it has generally been conceded, was in many ways an adopted brain-child of Mr. Mencken. The editor of the American Mercury found while still a young man that we were a nation of Baptists, Holy Rollers, and Nazarones; he exploited our fondness for literature as conceived by Robert W. Chambers, Harold Bell Wright, and Zane Grey. So far as music are used, we were sincerely anthropomorphic in our enthusiasm—a tune extolling the "Death of Floyd Collins," or a lyrical number making the most absturate statement that "Yes, We Have No Bananas" had, for us, some divine orchestration whose sheer beauty left us enraptured. Mencen mulled their idiosyncrasies over in his good Dutch mind, and we now have them elaborated and thoroughly dissected in several volumes travering under the title of "Projudes." Almost all literary critics united in consideration of them, and agreed, without much effect, that they were essays. Lewis followed the same plan. His only deviation was a matter of vehicle, and he chose the novel. The two got along famously; then the boy from Sauk Center, Michigan, won the Nobel Prize and delivered a speech in Stockholm. The artist, he contended, war isolated, persecuted, and denied at favor in America. There was an audible gap from the press. In due time came word from Mr.Mencken. "In America," he declared, "almost any kind of an artistic idea will get a hearing and a trial." And there began the schism that now separates Yet it is not only their difference that has served to dissolve the opacity of mental reserve that formerly fogged the two off from the layman. For now they both speak in an ain't that much as Smith Caster could easily comprehend. H. L. Mencken and his ex-sidekick, Sinclair Lewis. Gone are words such as "guestesqueries", coined and inflated by Mr. Lewis. Gone are the polysyllabic innuendures that dripped from the pen of Mr. Mencken. There remain only good, often abused-Saxon phrases. Possibly, now that we can get at their criticisms, our culture will stiffen its spine. It cost New York City $21,915 to clean up from the city streets the confetti and torn paper showered on the parade when the Byrd polar expedition returned. The old town evidently thought it would take an artificial snow storm to make the boys feel at home. Plato long ago characterized love and knowledge as being essentially the same. He may have been right in that day, but we know a lot of college students who have plenty of love but practically no knowledge. At the Galleries By Opal Bennett --- The exhibit of the Fifty Best Prints of the Year sponsored by the department of design is open to the public and free to the floor of west Administration building. These prints are sent to the department of design under the auspices of the American Institute of Graphic Art, Inc. Mr. John Shoan. His selections were made from 946 prints, submitted by 288 artist. In accordance with its rule, the Institute stipulated that in accepting his prints Mr. Shoan included one of his illustrations in the book. Some of the prints show excellent dreadnoughtship and are very satisfied. Others are wildly overkill and one wonders just what the real purpose that is accomplished by ceramic art is. Two dry point etchings which show excellent craftsmanship are "Manhattan tan old and Samuel Chamant new." By William C. Neubus, New York" by William C. Neubus "Inspiration皮甲" an etching by A. L. Groll, is conservative and realistically treated. Many of the prints are inspired by the modern tendency in a wholesale way. On the whole the collection is not so satisfactory as the similar collection of Prints at 1928. In some prints there are few differences, shown. Some are apparently extreme for the sake of being extreme. Many are same and sincere in conception and style. We can question whether they should be termed the Fifty Best Prints. Also we may question whether the one who is the author can Institute of Graphic Arts, namely to leave the choice to one man rather than a woman, good as an 'former plan where two or more men' "We bring them to show the tenacity of the times, but don't subscribe to the same shows," said Rosemary Ketchum and her department, in speakin of the exhibit. 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