UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
'HUMOR IS ESSENTIAL'
"Newspaper Public Absolutely Demands Funny Stories and Comics"—Gillilan
BIG CROWD HEARS AUTHOR
Writer of "Off Agin, On Agin," Speaks in Fraser
"Humor is a thing absolutely necessary to newspapers and newspaper making. The public demands it. When times are troubles they demand more and more of it. And when times are fearfully bad they demand the slapstick kind." If the address entitled "A Clinic of Humor," delivered before an interested audience this afternoon by Strickland Gillian of Baltimore, can be said to have a text, that gives him permission to bill, Mr. Gillain gave his hearswers a very practical demonstration of the fact that humor is a great newspaper asset; and they all went tentatively feeling for their funny-bone.
"Because I am too democratic to believe in foreign titles," said Mr. Gillian, "I have chosen one today that is not foreign to my theme. The Standard Dictionary, by long oposs, the most erudite of my many friends, tells me that it is "moral education" given at the bedside, or in the presence of the patient whose symptoms are studied and whose treatment is considered."
"Humor is the patient this afternoon. We are at his bedside, studying his symptoms and considering treatment. The chief surgeon has done as much expensive cutting-up as the Marae at Rochambeau, Mistra and the town of three thousand students surround the operating table. Humor is one of the most valuable hinges on earth, one of the things most constantly yearned for. Yet it is furnished oftener by people who know nothing about it than by those who do know. It is absolutely necessary to newspapers and newsletters when it comes to it. When times are more troubleous they demand more and more of it. And when times are fearfully bad, they demand the slap-stick kind.
"Almost every uman has in him some idea of making fun or enjoying the fun created by others. Even the men who draw pictures for the comic supplements are said, by those who write them, to have a sense of humor, though they, being men of families, do not dare let this sense of humor interfere with their work. If some of them were to let their sense of humor prevail over their families' hunger for even a week, they would be afraid of their own salaries, and the public would laugh itself sick over the blank space resulting.
"People with no sense of humor whatever know of the existence of humor and are interested in it as they are in the armadillo, the aard vark or the quagga. As an instance of this:
"Two years ago I was at Spokane, Washington, and spoke one morning to the live-wire audience of high school students in that marvelous Lewis and Clarke High School. We had a riot. After the riot, I was walking along one on the street when a man with a paintbrush, with a mask or a cash attached, to say nothing of his vanyke, approached me and told me he was "interested in my humoh." Now when a man says he is "interested in humoh," just like that, he is devoid. To him humor is not something that quivers inside him and bursts forth like a black miniorca from a new incubator. It is a bug to be pinned them to it as the second under a microscope. So I was alarmed but game. I thanked him for his interest. He went on to say:
"The other day a friend of mine said the most interesting and humorous thing. I called him on the phone, and he replied thus: "Good morning, you're looking well this morning." You know just as if he! He could see over the phone. Ha! Ha! he can see you usurped and lawfed heartily over it."
"I was hard hit. I knew that to reply to this I should have to be pretty when I wanted primitive. So I would just back my old archives of moldy memories and said:
"Yes, the first time I heard that I kicked a slat out of my cradle.'
"Really," said my new friend, "now that interests me also. Is it possible youhum developed so young!" "When you hout it? I did!
"I believe that when the Creator had progressed with the task of creation up to the point where you or I or any finite being would have thought it perfect and complete; when He had put the rose on the lacy bough of the thorn which had been lovely before the bloom burst; when He had let the ripple rise on the bosom of the stream which had been of mirror-like beauty before the killing song when He had the killing song into the gloriously burning throat of the which has been wondrous fair without the song—when He had done all three of these things that nobody except a Master artist, poet or musician would have thought of doing—even then He was not wholly pleased. There was a lack. He knew what lacked, knew what it was, knew how
to supply it as good enough to do so. The missing thing was humor or fun. He knew then as well as you and I have found out since that there would come blue Mondays—days when there was not pie at home, and plenty of pie at the office; days when there would be bolid dinners and the desserts wrong and some artificial means was needed to pontoon us over the stream of gloom to the land of real joy again. So He went about and into everything where it would not create a discord, he injected a bit of what we call fun. Then He looked over the job again, critically and said: "It is good." You'll find the last three words of his speech — "I am sorry," so. Many good things are omitted from even the best Book. And then He went on—for He is a progressive Creator—and He gave you and me and a few other special pets of His eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to feel and respond to this thing called humor. And He still went on, for He is a progressive that lasts through more than one presidential campaign, and makes them take themselves seriously. And that was the crowning work in supplying the universe with laughter."
The remainder of the address was given up to a copiously illustrated classification of humor into that of (a) Stupidity, (b) Rusticity, (c) Affliction, (d) Rebounding, (e) Femininity, (f) Childhood, (g) Foreigners, (h) Nonsense, and a summing up of the effectiveness of humor in fostering optimism, closing with a definition of optimism as that meant to put a ramble into any human every event into any human and designating as cheerful idioy that "humor pyrites" that makes people go grinning around like Cheshire cat and saying 'Everything's all right, everything's all right,' when more than half of the time, everything isn't.
Little poems of the speaker's own (he is the author of "Off again, on again, Gone again, Finnigin," as well as much serious and humorous newspaper and magazine verse) were inserted now and then appropriately.
Mr. Gillian is a past-president of the American Press Humorists and the star Iyceum humorist of the Rednath Lycmeum Bureau.
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E. P. Mickel Declares Old Time Newspaper Had Edge On Present Specimen
E. P. Mickel, Secretary of the National Printers' Club has been in the newspaper business for forty years and he says that the newspaper game was far better in those days than it is now.
"In those days we had better newspapers, better printing, and we could make more money than we can today. Then we had a more thorough press, and then was a finished product. He knew every step in the process of making a paper but now he is a machine or a part of a great machine. No, I think there was a greater field for newspapers than it still. The newspaper of today can hope to reach its greatest good through efficiency in service. There is a distinct opening for the country papers and they can improve not by trying to spe the city papers, but by giving real service to their subscribers."
When asked what he thought of journalism schools Mr. Mickel said: "They are the greatest things in the world and one cannot realize how much they have saved by having some one explain the technicalities of the trade to him. It's a thing that the older men have gotten through experience. Then, too, journalism at a school gives a man more facts about the bare fact that are needed."
The out of town women who are hearing the talks on the Hill this week, are Miss Alice Marble, Ft. Scott; Miss Anna Carlson, Lindsburg; Mrs. T. L. Thompson; Howard; Mrs. Clyde Nox, Independence; Mrs. Imri Zumwalt, Bonner Springs; Mrs. Glick Fockele, Le Roy.
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The announcement by Prof. H. T. Hungerford that all ministers and faculty were to take seats on the platform and leave the other sorts for the crowd, brought Guy Scirner and Lee Bryant both up on the stage. Lee didn't attempt to explain why he got up there, but Scirner insisted that as he was a minister's son he had a right upon the stage.
At 8:15, half an hour before the doors were opened, people began gathering on the steps of the Gym. At 8:30 over two hundred were waiting at the door, and at last opened at 8:45 there were over five hundred seeking admittance.
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