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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1027
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, Kansas
Editor-in-Chief Dorothy Taylor
Director of the News Editor Larry Pierce
News Editor Larry Pierce
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Editor Editors Ernest W. Johnson
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Editor Mary Fulton
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Other Board Members
Charles Kidderman
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Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Depart-
Entered as second-class mail matter Sep
tenember 17, 1910, at the post office at Law
rence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1891
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927
THE SILVER LINING IN THE BROWNING CASE
Future historians see in the "Peaches" Browning case one of the best things that ever happened to American journalism.
That statement, to those sickened by the smut which has poured from the courthouse at White Plains, may seem only cynically humorous; but like many events which seen a calamity at first this fifty occurrence gives promise of a bleaching, for it has forced attention of newspapermen and public to the pornographic news story.
Two New York papers have asked for newspaper censorship, and numerous daily throughout the United States have voluntarily excluded the story from their pages. Persons residing in the Kansas City territory probably have not realized what a vile stench the case has caused in the east, where the tabloids particularly have not only presented the details, which were flicky enough, but have elaborated on them.
The condition has led Editor Publishing, probably the most influential trade paper, to devote its most prominent space in the current issue to a discussion of the subject. The New York Daily News, in asking for censorship, confessed its own sins in the matter, although it had not gone as far as either of the other influential tabloids. The New World World also made a direct plan for censorship.
The type of work which created the present discussion of newspaper film is best illustrated in the New York Daily Mirror. A composite photograph (one made by pasting the head of the principal on the body of a model especially posed), showed a supposed bedroom scene in the Browning home, with a pajama-clad Browning and a half-naked "Peaches." The caption read: "When Peaches refused to parade Nude!" and carried added references to the testimony in the court at White Plains.
The Conden (N. J.) Courier and the Morning Post both refused to tell the story, and put the matter up to their readers, asking for letters commenting on the action. The Courier said, "The Courier believes should censor their news columns more carefully, else there will be a public demand for government censorship of the press."
A more list of all the other newspapers in the United States which refused to feature the case would fill over one half of these columns. In their comments many of the editors declare, with the editor of the New York News, "The censorship, of course, should extend only to matters of common decency. Free speech as to public affairs must be as free as now."
The editorial problem is to prevent unscrupulous members of the profession from using pornographic material, and at the same time avoid danger of censorship of free discussion of vital problems. The line is not always as clear as it is in this case; and hasasty action is to be avoided. But some action, it seems, there must be.
One solution is legalization of journalism as a profession. This could
not be accomplished at once, but when it was the enforcement of codes of ethics might be undertaken by professional societies as lawyers and doctors now discipline members of their own art. There are other solutions, but this one seems to hold the next bone.
It can't the "spring" in spring fever that hurts you. It's the impact when you find.
LAUGH IT OFF!
The Missouri house of representatives vote of the 20.92 refused late yesterday to align itself with Tennessee and other states to ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools. A large crowd gathered in the house chamber, larger than any since the question of prohibition was hotly contested. A joker sat in the balcony with a monkey for a museum, until he was requested to leave by the speaker of the House. Amendments, ridiculous and incongruous, featured the opposition's attack, calling down on the heads of the proponents of the bill the laughter and decision of the gallery crowd and the other听客 in the House.
The legislature was wise in laughing down this measure. Any attempt to prohibit the study of a subject in the search of knowledge, no matter where it may lie, is the last stand of ignorance. Such a measure as this bill was most effectively dealt with by laughing it off.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY
"Do you trust us?" ask the students. The instructors who dare to answer "No" are greeted with crises of horror. The instructors who dare to answer "Yes" are greeted with crises of "Then give us the honor system."
Yet in this request these students have no true connection of the term "boner" as it is commonly understood. Their demand calls for an examination room minus the presence of an instructor, in which they are free to ream about, converse, read text books, notes, or their neighbors' papers, and thus compile satisfactory answers to the questions asked in the examination . . .
The instructor who suggests that each member of the class be interested in the honor of the entire class, as well as his own personal honor, is met with storms of protest. "Tell on a classmate—never" they cry.
It is obvious that student responsibility is essential to a successful honor system, so far as real honor is concerned. This statement need not terrify students as it seemingly does. They appear to believe that at the end of each examination, each will be expected to go to his instructor with a list of names of those seen cheating. This will not be the case. If each student realizes that the other members of the class are responsible for the honesty of everyone in the group, their efforts to do their work alone will be increased many times over those not forth when an instructor is present. Although the student who cheats successfully under the eyes of an instructor may be considered "clever," and merely "unlucky" if he is caught, the student who cheats his chassmates is forever shamed. He loses self respect, as well as the respect and esteem of others.
There are advantages attached to a true honor system which should not be overlooked. An instructor, wandering around the room with an eagle eye, often hinders good students from doing their best work. They sense a feeling of guilt merely in being watched so closely, and this hinders careful thought and close concentration.
Then there are personal habits of certain professors which distract and annoy students while they are taking examinations. There is the one who pulls out his watch at five minute intervals and announces, "Fifty minutes to go." and another who walks among the students, answering the almost always unnecessary questions, in whispers.
Student responsibility can remedy these situations besides greatly reducing the present amount of cheating in examinations. The students would then have an honorable honor system, worthy of their participation.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VIII  Thursday, February 10, 1927 No
The Founder! Day program will be held this evening, at 7:45, in the Bethany room as Myers hall. There will also be a short business meeting, and a social hour.
RUTH SHAW, President
BETHANY CIRCLE:
MACDOWELL CLUB:
There will be a meeting of MacDown Club this evening, at 8, in the rest room of central Administration building.
"Kansas Rounds Love," reads one
Kansas City Star headline, and next
is it, "Maude Mudd Back Home."
Something it doesn't sound confluent.
Nebraska will elect their May queen Feb. 9 and 16. The identity of the queen will not be known until Kyay day.
GRADEs:
ANNA LOIS VOIGTS, President.
Grade will be given out from the registrar's office on Friday. Feb. 11 to students in all schools whose last names begin with the letter M to Z. If no student is assigned, a parent will be notified.
Why is America dashing into trouble, with apparently no more force thought? Why?
BOOK EXCHANGE:
AMERICA, WHY?
The book exchange will be open Friday and Saturday, from 2 to 4 p.m.
OLIVE FIGGs, Manner.
America, why go into Central America and strive to dominate the politics of one of its countries, Niracang? Why try to control its elections for men of office? Why uphold its president whom you placed in office by hurrying an election, over the one whom the Niracangs really want? Why follow in the footsteps of your predecessors, Mr. Coulard?
All of these questions might be asked by any thinking person in any other country than our own. And what can be the answer? Only this. We feel that we have to gain financial, by so doing. We feel that, because intervention has taken place before, it must be right. But is it? America needs to keep at peace with the world, and keep the respect which she needs. We condemn the British for their intervention in China, but we do the same thing in Nicaragua, ourselves.
A little more thinking on the part of government official and less draught action is needed in the present crisis. If Mexico wants to play up to Ni Narragua, let her do so, but let us hope that America will soon see the fall of intervention in Ni Narragua, by which she pulls, the wounds of both Ni Narragua and Mexico down upon her head.
At The Theater
BY JOHN SHUVELY
"Killed them all?" And she is such a nice girl too. "So spoiled Codcaden in one of the tense moments of the melodrama," "All Baba and the Forty Thieves," which was enacted last night by Tory Sarg's marionettes.
And so Morgiana proved herself to be. A little too ino--an slender to be beautiful, perhaps, but very brave and very clever, and very faithful. She kept up the ship. The crews in the built-headed boat nearly collapsed when she danced.
Selina also thought Morgiana very brave, and very clever, and very faithful. He also thought her very beautiful. He did not seem to mind her narrow waistline. And All Baba got away from his extremely fatalistic conquestionistic wife long enough to grant the savage great desire.
The plot seemed to be based on two problems. The first was how to allow龚氏 to rest in peace instead of its pieces. The second was how to tie the pieces together. I had no pieces. And despite all the wily Dummanchould could do, the brave, the clever, and faithful Morgans folded him. She did not even quail when the wails of the soiling thieves came from the house. She saw her duly and she did it.
The rush of the world was too much for Cedidau, and, much to his regret his drowsiness saved him for a life of labor.
On the whole the plot was good. A brifle overdrawn, perhaps, and not a brifle in action and expression of the player's pain so much so, in fact that the audience imitated on laughing. A very impatient thing to do. The players were embarrassed.
All parties were represented. Even the prohibitionists were dragged in. The Republican standard skitted across the stage in true elephantship, with some assertive and sometimes sarcastic. The first, Abou, was negatively positive. The second,
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mumu, was positively negative. The actions of the two were—oh—so natine.
Perhaps, after all, the chief merit of the performance was the unusual situation of the attention. It was an Al Mamouni one man goes to Baghdad on two days at the same time." The stiffness of the actors must be excused on the face that marionette have an entwined smile, or on their other actors. The theory of the school comes to be keep down in individual personality as far as possible. At that, the school seems to be more interested in the actor quite well. Very, very well.
Contributions to the student hospital library at the University of Minnesota, have disclosed the secret passages of the faculty members for such glamorous novels as those written by Harold Bedt Weight, and Oppenheim.
Fire at the Colorado Agriculture College at Fort Collins, Friday, resulted in the destruction of two college buildings and many expensive scientific instruments, with an estimated loss of $125,000.
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And they lived happily ever afterwards!
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a man whose life's ambition was to take unto himself a pipe. Time and again his heart was set on some particular pipe—but poor fellow, his dreams never came true . . .
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University Concert Course
Regular Attraction
MARIA KURENKO
Celebrated Russian Coloratura Soprano
Monday Evening, Feb. 14th, 8:20 o'clock
ROBINSON GYMNASIUM
Packed Carnegie Hall, New York City, last year at her debut. Selected from all the greatest artists by Mr. Atwater Kent to represent him at Detroit Radio Show.
A Sensation in Europe but America
Known throughout Europe as "The Russian Nightingale"—“A
New Patti.”
Seats Now Selling
$1 & $1.50
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Round Corner Drug Store Bell's Music Store. School of Fine Arts Office.