PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1950 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHIEP...FRANK MeCLELLAND Clarence Rupp Marrion Graves MANAGING EDITOR _ WILLIAM NICHOLS Commercial Editor Markie Strauss Sunday Editor Flinchard Moore Sunny Editor Flinchard Moore Sporting Editor Donna Carson Society Editor Matthew Hale Society Editor Milkward Curtis Alumni Editor Oliver Traversman Alumni Editor Oliver Traversman ADVERTISING MCR. ROBERT PIPERSON District Assistant ... Iris Pillimaughs District Assistant ... Martin Deyton Circumference Manager ... Jack Moore Clarence Rupp Kansas Board Members Robert McIntimid Robert Pillman Mary Bartrum Owen Paul Owen Paul Wilma Miller Telephones Business Office K, U. 68 News Room K, U. 25 Night Connection 2701KJ Subscription price, $1,099 per year, paper, digital, and photocopiable. **Entered as amended with mutilated letter** ber 17, 1913, at the post office at Lawners Kamma, under the art of March 2, 1979. Published in the afternoon, two times a week, and on Sunday morning; by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas from the Press of the Department. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930 PROBLEMS OF THE NEXT CONGRESS In some two or three weeks the com- position of the next Congress will be known; and possibly some starting tendencies in political align- may be revealed. Prohibition still interests the country. To find public sentiment Congress should provide for an adequate fairly-worded referendum on the subject. Unemployment is distressing. Senator Wagner's proposal for public employment bureaus and the pushing of governmental projects in slack times should be the minimum accomplishment. Congress should help to develop more effective organization and control of agricultural production, marketing, and transportation. Congress should consider the question of private or public ownership and operation of power resources. It should take definite steps for the conservation of all natural resources. The question of national security should be considered. Congress should realize that we are most secure when we are least aggressive. Congress should remember the struggles of this nation to establish itself and consider the recognition of the U. S. S. R. Congress should assist and encourage social work: child welfare; the problem of leisure, working conditions, and recreation; the race question; education; more adequately secure families; and provision for compulsory old age, unemployment, accident, and health insurance. Congress should take a progressive stand on our policy of intervention in weak foreign countries to protect capital invested therein. The intelligent congressman will have his work cut out for him. These are not subjects to be used as political footballs. NOT THAT WE CARE However this may be, it is probable that the Pan-Hellenic official several of whom doubtless are have their first experience with judicial ruler, have overlooked a number of factors in the situation potentially favorable to themselves, and consequently have jeopardized the possibilities of success for the Pan-Hellenic union in its impending litigation. First of all, the officials of Pan-Hellenic failed to have even an informal consultation with ex-judge Smart, the trial judge who sat in the Kappa Kappa Gamma case in 1914, where the Kappas were declared tax-exempt. The first and most obvious source of information for outlining a campaign was neglected. Second, the power of the Kanaas legislature to pass a specific declaration of tax-exemption, not subject to court review, has apparently been overlooked. Before the case of Pan-Hellenic cane reach the supreme court of Kansas, which is almost certain to be its destination, the legislature, with power to enact a measure over which the courts will reach. Instead of promising a law firm approximately $5,000 for handling its case successfully (which, by the way, should be enough to have secured the services of half a dozen firms) the Pan-Hellenic officials might better have used some of his money to keep a corps of lighthouse in the state house while the legislature NOTHING 'CONTEMPTIBLE Mr. Croft apologized last night for doing a "contemptible" thing. He had always thought it raider low, he said, for a college professor to write a play, direct it in it, and charge admission to the public who came to see it. He apologized for doing so himself and promised to behave in the future. Now it is to ! **ppected that he had** his tongue in **oek when he utserved the word 'compendium' for the slightest hit ablished on his performance.** And he had little reason to be ashamed of writing "The Marked House." If it was hocus-pocus, it was delightful hocus-pocus. If it was too absturd to be taken literally, it was too interesting not to furnish a decidedly pleasant evening's entertainment. And the rest is well known that it reissued us that respectability always triumphs over love, companionate marriage, etc. It was a good play, well presented. Whether it made any of us disciples of Conan Doyle cannot be said. This idea of spirit possession would be a wonderful thing if we could just find some means of getting an invitation to the spirit of Socrates, Aristotle, or Benjamin Franklin to came back and use this body of ours during mid-semester and finals. --b ============================== Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: Will the lady or gentleman who signed himself "Scoutner" in this collar be amused by your response to me as I am anxious to learn something about the technique of plays to play? Allen Crafton ditor Dally Kansan "No open drinking will be allowed a local football games. We really near it." So quoah the law, as reported in the Rancho of Oct 21. Now, you birds will not be allowed to disguise yourself, friends, and school, will not be allowed to obstruct the view of spectators when you quench that thirst. You must he yourselves and get off the stadium. It is enough to have the normally behaved individual in front of you while Bombardier Baun is tearing off 65 or 70 yards—plenty without having an arm upraised from the open to take that drink! Editor Daily Kansen: We read with considerable regret the comment on the play, "The Marked Man," which is based on a story night's Kaman, in which the play was condemned as being "name," "spiritualistic drive," and such distasteful exponents of the Christian tradition not the writing of a moron, as the content implied, **i** ore likely the mental strain of a troubled intellectual whose attitude toward the play was guided more by the reaction of a "colegiate" audience, than by the No matter how small or how large a shortcoming it was, we could find no trace of it in the performance of the second night. In fact, the audience was very eager to see what happened it literally gasped for breath at moments when the conversation and action were suspended, for breathing periods. The response, we emphasize, was neither forced nor periodic, but contrary, very sincere and universal. We have heard various reports on the opening performance. Some, of course, were unfavorable, but the majority—a large majority—were very envious. We had a few laughs; the laughter referred to in the engrossing writings of the "Scorner" was, as we understand it, the result of a flaw, an indefiniteness, in the first act and the ending. We saw that the audience in the wrong frame of mind for the rest of the story. The play was a distinct and effective relief from the conventional mystery play of gun-shooting and detective-solving proportions, in which auspense and the mind work in conjunction with the medium of nerve-shake explosions and sudden-appearing faces, arms and knives. The apparent breathless interest was created solely by the originality of this stage-play, with the almost irreproachable acting of the greater part of the cast. fault of over-acting on the part of uncer- per. Perhaps it was the result of minor flaws in the play itself—eliminated before the second night; that unavoidably put the audience in the wrong location. But with all of this taken into con- sideration, we cannot understand any justification for such vitriol outbreak as appeared in the column yesterday if you did not recognize its nuance. The author of "The Marked House" is to be congratulated; the author of the condemned Perhaps the attitude of the audience at the opening performance was the Editor Daily Kansan: It does seem too bad that we have a student in the University who is still so childish as to fly off and any ok, terribly mean things about a subject such as sex. We showed that by a legal criticism of the play last night. Maybe it's just a means of getting publicity, and maybe she has had a five hour beginning course in psychology. We refer students to "Sourter" for 10-22:30. A person whose mental age is thirteen should not have been at such a play as was given, because she would go home and dream bad, bad dreams, feeling auro of the destiny of the world; he would not be expected for the public faithfully to believe in, for the moral at the end and all that lot. Such a person would be expected A college audience is the only kind of an audience which can understand that the play does not mean to teach a moral, or to bias the minds of righteous, upstanding children and lead them away from the beaten path. We frankly don't know what the audience thinks, but the packed houses show something. if she will only stop and think, the phly was not meant to hold the audience battled as to the outcome, even if it was intended to propound the creed of spiritism. And even Doctor Mitchell was not a quack. And well let to laugh in the most dramatic moments, and at every other time she found it convenient to advertise her sophisticated outlook on life. And, of course, the plot of any play is everything, the acting, the drama, the suspense, and the secrecy are nothey. Why, of course not! Possibly it would be a good thing if "Scorner" would study up-to-date materials and, among other things, that two of the best plays of the reason are psychic plays. Maybe she would stop and think then before writing another such ar- And to spike any such retour from "Scourer," we can truthfully say that we do not believe in spiritism, that we do not belong to the Dramatic Club, that we do not belong to any church, and that we do not know the faculty of the dramatic department personally, but we do and we are not the author of the play. We might add the trivie advice, that if she wants better plays, nothing will hinder her from writing one--only a trivial matter—and we are sure that the faculty of the dramatic department must also to give her any advice she might need. Sorry that the little girl had had a tiff with her big moment, but why try to take it out on an innocent play? Tsk, tsk, tsk. "Tolerant' SEE BILL at Oread Barber Shop Open tide till 7:30 will improve your appearance A SHINE for the Hop Be at the stadium 45 minutes before the football game Saturday to sell proceeds. The picture will be taken then. SHIRLEY CASEBIER, President. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Thursday, Oct. 23, 1930 No. 35 KU KU MEETING: There will be a Ku Ku meeting tonight at 7:15 o'clock in room 290 Fresher DAVE BANKIN, President. --at WALL 31. There will be a Fornix roll, insult at 5 o'clock in the Little theater of Green ball. FREDERIC S. ANDERSON. JAY JANES: ATHLETIC ACTIVITY BOOK: For admission to the football games the students and faculty members must present their activity book together with the student. ATLITHEF OFFICE $3.75 oz Coty Perfume $1.98 oz 60c Djer Kiss Face Powder 39c All K men and Ku Kus meet at the Union building Friday evening at o'clock. Bring paddles. TOM BISHOP. Editor Daily Kansas: I am not a dramatic critics. I speak as a senior at the attended the press conference Marked House" in Krantz Theatre last night. If the plot of this play were to have been an excerpt from our practical, hard-baked life of today it would have been a drama in point of view, as a drama it was point perfect. Editor Daily Kansan: I may be a part of the 13-year-old audience that our columstiff of yesterday and the author was writing for, but if rising above that level will make me lose my sense of what I am tempt at burlesque I hope I may never reach the 14-year-old mental age. Although I have been a lover of drama all my life, I realize that I may not speak from the same background as the other actors in opinion criticizing this play in last night's Kaman. 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