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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1830
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...FRANK McCLELLAND
Associate Editors
Clarence Rudd
MANAGING EDITOR _ WILLIAM NICOLS
Campion Editor ___Merrie Straight
Sunny Editor ___Elizabeth Moody
Sunday Editor ___Kimberly
Sporting Editor ___Dustin Cookson
Sports Editor ___Milva Curredo
Society Editor ___Alain Crowd
Alumni Editor ___Olive Townsend
Alumni Editor ___Gary Mearns
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930
THE FUNCTION OF A COLLEGE PAPER
What should be the function of a college paper? To lead or to follow? To represent adequately both sides and then to expose the majority view? To be completely neutral? To be independent and try to stimulate its readers rather than to be an organ of the status quo?
There is a great deal to be said if *all these functions. The question is* means settled. But it seems so. If the reader tries only to make its readers think.
If the editorial policy tries to represent the majority, how can it tell what the majority is? On any controversial question, for most of us, we don't really know. Very generally, they
don't stand. They fall. Instead of having any organized, intelligent opinions, they have bundles of prejudices or absences of thought. A college paper should try to get them to consider certain questions; and if it does that, having faith in democracy, it may trust its readers to work things out for themselves in a comparatively intelligent fashion.
If the editorial policy is to follow, the paper is colorless, and no one reads it. If it represents one side only, it must neglect others. If it espouses the majority, it is liable to forget minority rights. The only practicable policy left is to consider itself a stimulus and that only.
Headline: "Daughter of Mustard King Defies Parents to Wed." The little puppy box believes a dash of paprika now and then adds zip to life, so pap should dry his tears or he'll get salt in the mustard. And why should she try to prevent them at this late day?
THE CALL OF THE WILD
Down Mount Orend in late afternoon. Across the valley the sky is junting to a pale pink against which the houses are silhouetted in dark outline. The tops of the trees in the valley look feathery and grey.
Shades are up and lights shine forl brightly from houses along the way The scenes within look peaceful someone is reading—a neglected shade in an upstairs room reveals a boy standing before a mirror tying his tie Victola music of the gay, jangling son is heard—somewhere also a line of a familiar tune is repeated over and over by an earnest student of the saxophone Someone brushes by in the dual whistling.
A dinner gong sounds. A slight breeze brings the delightful small frying steak and onions. You quake your steps and rush homeward. *r* a hour time counts for nothing in nortant matters can wait. It is...time on Mount Oread.
Charlie Chaplin is about ready to offer a silent picture, "City Lights", which cost more than a million dollars of his own money. He wants to find out if there is any truth in that "Silence is golden" motto.
"incidental music," a Kauan new story read, "will be furnished by a violin quartet composed of Lucile Thomas Dorothy Keursteiner, Sarah Burkarth Edna Hopkins, and Helen Stockwell. That's a full-measure quartet.
AN INVITATION
In view of recent charges hurries hither and thither by various colleges in the Big Six, we might very profitably derive some benefit by inviting students, faculty, and outside opinion on the subject of interrogate athletics.
With this as a premise, the Kansas asks its readers to write briefly and intelligently their opinions on college athletes, as now played. Since points
is the purpose of athletics? (2) How permanent do you suspect your present attitude to be? (3) Do interdisciplinary athlete or to unify college life? (4) What should you invest in, tend to disrupt or to unify college life? (5) What is recruiting from high school ethical? From other colleges? How much is it practiced? How far it should be practiced? (6) What effect do the reputations of athletic teams have on students, donors of gifts, and the general public? (7) What specific changes in the present system might be considered with some justification? The Kansan invite all sorts of comment. Letters must be signed, though the name of the author will not be used if so desired; and the Kansan reserves the right to condense any letter if
Rudolph Klandenstein, a stowaway will be deported by New York port authorities. In other words, Klandenstein was too clandestine.
WHAT COLLEGE PREPARES FOR
The question of how far one's college career should be strictly practical, and how far cultural, is one that comes up or settlement in almost every student's life. College in America has changed; where we used to study Greek, we now tudy engineering.
We used to attend college for culture; now we come for better jobs, for business contacts, and bigger pay afterward. We used to neglect practical hints; now perhaps we neglect education.
Engineers and doctors and other professional men almost have to neglect their training and knowledge in such things as poetry, history, nology, and art. They have no time. Journalists often learn a technique of writing news and editorials without doing the editing that gives them something to write about. Accountants neglect the economics and social science that gives them the proper social background for their later careers.
It is a hard problem to know how to balance one's college courses. One cannot act without knowledge and intelligence; and one should have a wide outlook but one should not by any means divorce his wisdom from its practical application.
Ready for Sun Eclipse—headline
Yell, it's a good thing, because if they
evern't, there isn't much they could
o. to stop it.
Jerome Davis, professor of Yale Diddle School, says: "We now know that we war cost love — million dead and at Germany was — obviously not much more responsible than Russia, but we lil cing to the rightness of the lied cause and to a 'bother than thou' titted."
Further investigation of the "World f Tomorrow" concerning the question f war guilt reveals a variety of opin- tions about the subject among prominent siege
WAR GUILT
Bertund Russell thinks that, although Germany is not solely responsible for the war, there is no reason why we United States should cancel war jobs. He also believes that the United States failed in its purposes of shortening the war and of securing peace without victory on either side.
Norman Thomas is of the opinion at all of the different nations were able in helping to bring on the war that the war was caused by imperialism rather than German imperialism. He thinks that the best thing to o with war debts and reparations is wipe the slate clean.
Mary McDowell, director of the niversity of Chicago settlement, says at our task is to educate the public believe in reason and not violence settling disputes.
In writing of the advisability of discussing the war guilt question, John
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVIII
Friday, Oct. 24, 1930
No. 38
All K men and Ku Kus meet at the Union building this evening at o'clock.
Bring paddles.
TOM BISHOP.
ATHLETIC ACTIVITY BOOK;
For admission to the football games the students and faculty members must present their activity look together with their received ticket for entry.
K, MEN. AND KU, KUS;
Lapp, former president of the National Conference of Social Work, says "The best time to discuss war is gilt the present. Why wait a century and then review it when the time for usefulness of the facts has passed?" On the other hand Lewis Guettel, editorial writer of the New York Herald-Trideau, says that he thinks the question of whether war is doomed to continue paying unless the change of opinion translates itself into a change of world diplomacy.
A generation ago the legislature enacted a measure making it illegal for various things to take place on Sunday. So why is it that we don't even have picture shows.
OUR BLUE LAWS
Old Man Weather is a great joker.
On Sunday or Monday he usually gets angry about something and he frees up and gives everybody the cold shoulder. At the least provocation he flies off the handle and storms and blows about.
We have a more complex civilization now. Sunday is becoming definitely a play day, a holiday for recreation. We
Watts 47 years for divorce—headline
If she'd waited three more years, she could have celebrated her golden wedding anniversary.
He remains in this mood for about three or four days, and everyone goes around shivering with apprehension. But on Thursday or Friday his mood softens. Perhaps it is the approaching football game on Saturday or the anticipation of some parties or perhaps he realizes that one should always be polite to guests which causes him to weaken. But no matter what the reason, he begins to warm up and smile happily on everyone for the week-end. But some day Old Man Weather is going to get very angry and will probably stay in a bad humor for a week or several weeks, and then no amount of coaxing will melt him at all.
OLD MAN WEATHER
Our law is a hangover from a time when conditions were entirely different. It was passed when Kansas had no automobiles, when life was predominantly rural and agricultural, when church provided the most important job of the zen, and when nobody wanted to work on Sunday anyhow.
take our autos out, or listen to our
roar, or play the bridge, or perhaps, if
we are inclined, have a party of some
sort or other.
In the University, Lawrence is so dead on Sunday that all who can escape go to Karma City for entertainment. The blue bass rumors would desire.
Our blue laws are out of date. They no longer serve their purposes. More nearly do they defeat the very ideals they were supposed to protect.
At the University of Illinois a few years ago it was found that opening movies on Sunday meant that the students employed their time considerably better than otherwise. Their recreation came in devious ways when they had no movies. Some played poker in a baze of smoke. Others did their drinking on Sunday. The opening of the movies furnished a natural and harmless outlet for their craving for entertainment.
The earth on a Missouri farm was said to be burning. Must be where Senator Jim Reed got his political ear too close to the ground.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansas:
"Tolerant" v. suggestion that my critiquation of *V.* the *Marked House* may have been a means of getting publicity force me to maintain anonymity, so that D. C. will have to take my word for it that I am tolerant of it. W. F. D. that I am良知 no my fault.
It is unfortunate that I fell inadvertently into a vitrurial mood when I first read the memoirs of fessors of dramatic art. I admire and respect Mr. Crafton, and here that he has given his life to battle against Mr. Kent. Nevertheless, I can apologize for my emotion, not for apologies only
Mr. Griffen himself admits that his play was written in only two weeks, so that I do not need to pose an expert in dynamics in order to qualify
As to plot, I would suggest that theomatic quality of The Marked Hooker would motivate me. The Marked Hooker had worked out the same theme on the basis of dual personality rather than spirit possession. In such a case, the third or fourth act instead of the first. The abnormal sense might have been the difficult for the normal heroine, until the dramatist, in his right as the invisible deus ex machina, came to her
Such a plot could have been made fully as entertaining. It would not call forth rabbid criticism from seersers. It would have provided situations calling
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Monday—CLARA BOW in "HER WEDDING NIGHT"
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for worthy exercise of the talents of the Kansas Players. It would be drama and not hokum.
Talkcomedy Movietone
"Neighborly News
Neighbors"
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Ralph Forbes, Charlie Ruggles, Skeet Gallagher
As to technique, I would suggest that much of the conversation contributes neither atmosphere nor action. The talk is probably done on boards in the first act, probably meant as a promissory hint of the future action, falls of that purpose. The question is whether the third act is not realistic. The last act is filled with dead weight to drag down our interest. Throughout the play, words and speeches could be ignored.
Mr. Caitlin accuses himself of doing a "contemplative thing" in presenting his own play anonymously. I cannot see him writing at all more time on it. Two weeks isn't enough to give to write a play, an essay or a receptive response that comes with rehearsals.
As I said before, I admire Mr. Crauff. Indeed, I think so high of his ability as a dramatist that I refute to him the Marked House" is worthy of him.
"The Faith That Builds"
The Faith That Battles Rev. George Lawrence Parker, of Toledo, Ohio, will speak upon this subject Sunday at 11 at the Unitarian Stu., as part of the program to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishing of the church in Lawrence.
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