PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN University Daiy Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Editor-In-Chief Borelys Taylor News Editor Larry Jones News Editor Lawrence Pinew Editor W. Johnson Ernest W. Johnson Nathan T. Editor Sunday Editor Javier Guzman Sunday Editor Justin Hunter Sunday Editor Ellen Other Board Members Mary Eleanor Dillen Sport Editor Joe McMullen Alumni Editor George Alden Charles Edgerton Russell Wintershall Frank K. Tiffany George Horse Susan R. Hunt John McCormick Glavay Filson John Sankas Vaughn Killen G. Hatcher Crudbeck Richard Culley James Business Staff Advertising Manager ... W. Morgan Co. Assist. Advertising Manager ... John R. Monett Circulation Manager ... James T. Nevlin Foreign Adv. Mgr. ... R. M. Dale Telephones Business Office K. U. 66 News Room K. U. 22 Published in the afternoon, two times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University, from the Press of the Department of journalism. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kanasa, under the act of March 3, 1897. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927 AN INTELLECTUAL BARGAIN The Y. M. C. A. forums are recognized by many department heads and other HIL leaders as an institution having a most enlightening and liberalizing influence on the campus, a very important part of our educational machinery. But although the forum is one of the most profitable types of extra-curricular activity, the students have neglected to them such an extent that the evening groups have had to be discontinued. In place of these a series of ten noon luncheon forums will be presented in Myers hall from Feb. 11 until April 13. A good substantial lunch will be served in caterer style at a minimum cost, and a season ticket can be purchased. Five of the speakers, all of whom are authorities of national repute, have already been chosen. To have direct contact with these speakers of varied religious, economic, and political faiths and to discuss with them the issues that they raise is an opportunity that should be appreciated by everybody on the campus. One entire fraternity, it has been announced, recognizing the value of the forums, has determined to attend the first luncheon as a group. Speakers of such prominence as those who have been invited cannot be expected to travel half-way across the United States to address an audience of thirty. The Y. M. C. A. asks that the Forum be guaranteed by the advance sale of one hundred season tickets. Myers hall ought to be filled at all ten meetings. Coneicted indeed must be the woman who retains her self confidence after walking down a Lawrence street where twenty houses bear the signs "Rooms for Boys" and only one suggests "Rooms for Girls." OUR DEFORMITY This hill needs plays. While students at the University receive education physically, intellectually, and socially, the aesthetic phase of their development is neglected. Graduates will go from the school with little practical education in drama. Not even an introduction to plays, both as drama and as literature, is provided by any outside source and the local company is unable to function to its greatest capacity. Why the students do not do something about it might be the expected question. Never having had good local drama they are unaware they are not receiving it now. To most student motion pictures, a production staged on the make-shift gymnastium stage, and a ninth rate road show are the nearest approaches to drama they have found since coming to the University. We have on our campus under the direction of the head of the dramatic art department, a group of non-professional actors which is doing such worthwhile work that it is receiving recognition outside its own community. The Kansas Players, functioning here during the past summer session, have made a name for themselves. Why do we not make use of them to get a taste of worthwhile drama? He died of nothing, Life's full cup he dared bat him, sip, lie it should spill, Death dashed it down into the dork; And he is nothing still. A NOBODY Why do we not actively attempt to have presented for us plays which are dramatic literature? By Lizette Woodsworth Reeve. The Players are laboring under the handicap of having no theater in which to work, no auditorium to which to invite an audience. So long as there is no demand for good drama this group will remain without a theater. The student will go forth educationally deformed and having missed some of the most enjoyable hours to which he had a right during his four years of college. Land tax, gas tax, road tax, cigarette tax, and now Dizzy Dan is advancing the return of the syntax. SUITED FOR LIFE A news item from Mexico, Mo. tells of a 65-year-old man who is still wearing his wedding suit, purchased forty years ago. One's first impulse would be to make some remark about the influence Coolidge's economy program is having. But Coolidge hasn't been president for forty years. The queer part about it is that the suit "is not a bit worn." Just what did the man do when he was wearing this suit? If he sat down in it for forty years, it must have become shiny. If he stood up all the time, the trouser cuffs must have become frayed. If he wore it to ball games it must have rained on it and eventually ruined it. If he wore it to church the pockets must have become frazzled from his reaching into them for collection. We believe that the only time he ever wore the suit was to the annual father and son banquet, and that he kept it well protected with a linen duater. The beautifully worded lecture that a neighbouring sentire read to the medious cut in our back alley one night at two scenes to have been mistaken by the feline audience as a compliment. RESTORE THE "STOP" SIGNS Why break a good habit? By modifying a good traffic regulation the city of Lawrence has made ineffective one of the best traffic laws it has passed. At the intersection of Ninth and Indiana streets, there used to be the order to stop when traveling east. A very needful and wisely placed rule. But as soon as the people been trained to this order, the law is changed and now the command is "slow." This corner is one of the worst in town. The Arnold grocery makes it impossible for one traveling south on Indiana to see cars coming from the cast. Also the view is obstructed by small trees to the motorist traveling north on Indiana, while there is the bill to climb going south, which most cars speed up to make. The order for cast-and-west traffic to stop did away with the possibility of wrecks on that corner, but as it now stands a car can still be going slowly and yet too fast to stop in case a car suddenly appears from the north. "Slow" is not a definite command as to speed, but the order stop makes caution certain. It would be better for all concerned if the city commission would reconsider this question and again safeguard traffic by putting the STOP law back in force. The scarcity of practice rooms of the School of Fine Arts is a recognized problem. Another equally evident, but more easily solved, is that of the person who disturbs the music during the few minutes he has in the room. This situation is much more common than is realized. Students unconnected with the School have formed the habit of going into the rooms, at any time, until the problem has become acute. BUT HE STILL PAYS The varieties of the disturbers are many. There is the one who enters the practice room merely to listen. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY RULLETIN Graden will be given out from the registrar's office on Thursday, Feb. 10, to students in all schools whose name begins with the letters 'P' in L. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: GRADES: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet tonight, Wednesday, at 7:30. J. CLIFFORD JONES, Secretary. --the musician has not come to play before an audience. Rather, indeed, it is his period of preparation just before he studies for the students in the College. MacDowell Club will meet Thursday, Feb. 10, at S p. m., in the rest room of central administration building. ANNA NOLA VOIGTS, President. MACDOWELL CLUB: Habrá una reunión de El Ateno Juves, al 10 de febrero, a las 4:30 el 30 de Abril 2015. ES importante que todos presentan las obsequios necesarios para su presence en la reunión. EL ATENEO: The K. U. History Club will meet Thursday, Feb 10, at 4:30 p.m. in room 109, west Administration building, Prof. F. H. Holder will speak. HISTORY CLUB: The Founder's Day program will be hold on Thursday evening, Feb. 10, at 7:15, in the Heinrich room at Myers hall. There will also be a short biography session and a lecture. RICHARD W. BAKER, President. BETHANY CIRCLE; The teacher does not want to play a program. He wants to center his attention on some harder passage of a composition and to repeat that portion until his performance assumes a greater perfection. The realization that a critical person is unaware will probably serve him from his purpose and force him, however unwillingly, to play a known selection to the best of his ability. A certain amount of time is naturally lost before real, concentrated work can be done. Each disturbance, no matter how slight, distracts the player's attention, causing him to lose the interrupted interval and making it less easy for him to return to the object at hand. "Just poked in to say hello," another variety announces. But he stays to chat while the pianist hops to toss him bodily from the room, and to run a few steps with delight at the accomplishment. The library has its takers, but it also has its supervisors who will quiet any undue noise. In the practice room there is no much safeguard. "We have to eject intruders by force." a Fine Arts student said, "or listen to their ravings, while our precious time is wasted." The students are paying for the practice period, but in addition to the expense, there is added the difficulty of obtaining a vacant hour. There is a shortage of practice rooms on the Hill, making every moment in one all the more valuable. As a result of the numerous interruptions one student reports that frequently only 15 or 20 minutes of actual work may be derived from an hour. Pity the poor musician who pays in money and time! Phone 420 1107 Mass. Suits - Overcoats - Dresses Cleaned $1.00 KIRBY the cleaner Good material for the Oklahoma U. Follen Chorus was so plentiful that the director was unable to make final decisions and their try-out is scheduled for this week. A certain K. U. fraternity house recently entertained a 150-pound dog in its basement. Three of the dogs night to night应能 a pig to roast. They were forced to roast it to its rightful owner, however, by the indignant chapter. Moral—Pigs is pigs too; it is too much for any fraternity. Plain Tales From the Hill I park my car on the campus; I park my car on the campus; I don't pet tagged as a rule. The reason is easy and simple— I never lay trapped out school. The story is told that two fraternity freshmen left their clothing in the same backer at the gymnasium, Later, one of them left to go to town, taking a train to his him. And the other freshman played basketball until rescued at 6 o'clock. Let Schult do your repairing, remodeling in ladies as well as men's suits, and also cleaning Dog-collared, padlocked and leashed Freshman co-eds of Tulane University were recently placed in front of the main building by upperclassmen. 917 Mass. St. No use trying to rie and shine while you’re keeping yourself half-dead from self-generated poison. Put your system on a paying basis. Keep your digestive organs functionally proper. Make an attempt to balance your daily diet. SHREDDED WHEAT BRAN, SALTS, VITAMINS, PROTEINS and CARBOHYDRATES are all contained in Shredded Wheat in appetizing and digestible form. Crisp, delicious shreds of vital body-building nutrients. Two ingredients of Shredded Wheat eaten regularly will make you fit and keep you fit. Begin now and see! WARD'S FLOWER STORE Phone 621 931 Mass. St. Valentine's Day Feb.14 Make it a daily habit A beautiful Colonial Boquet. An assorted box of cut flowers make ideal valentine remembrance. Flowers carry the message. TONIGHT Tony Sarg's Marionettes -- Robinson Gymnasium -- 8:20 O'clock “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” and Numerous Sketches See This Marvelous Performance by These Extraordinary Dolls The Most Unique Attraction Brought to Lawrence This Season AUSPICES UNIVERSITY CONCERT COURSE MANAGEMENT Prices—Reserved Seats at $1.50 and $1.00 Innes Hackman & Co. Country - Quality - Value We know everyone will be pleased that sweaters have returned to favor and especially when they see the collection we have just received. Clever new styles and a multitude of new colors and many of them are priced as low as Sweaters---Come Back Again $4.00 - Second Floor -