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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937
Comment
The New Patrol
As the reorganized Kansas Highway Patrol gets underway on its ambitious program to reduce highway accidents in the state, it is to be hoped it will not neglect to make adequate provision for the suppression of crime, an activity which gained considerable renown for the original organization developed by Col. Wint Smith.
Few Kansens know what valuable work Colonel Smith and his men did in suppressing crime during the three years they served this state. Limited in number and lacking extensive equipment, they realized that it would be humanly impossible for them to make a frequent and complete patrol of state roads, and that function necessarily received secondary consideration. It so happened, however, that another situation demanded their close attention. For in 1933, when the patrol was organized, exactly 66 Kansas banks were robbed.
The patrol was given complete police power at the beginning of 1934, and started a war on bank bandits. The patrolmen did their work so well that 1934's total of bank robberies dropped to 24. By 1935, the underworld generally was beginning to realize that Kansas was a bad spot for any type of criminal activity. And this realization was reflected in the bank robbery for 1935, just six. Six more Kansas banks were robbed last year, but three of the six hold-ups were committed within a few weeks by criminally insane convicts who had escaped from a Minnesota institution.
Up until the patrol was reorganized early this summer, only one bank robbery had occurred in Kansas in 1937.
And thus it would seem that the new patrol under Jack B. Jenkins has both a legacy and a trust. If it can convince criminals that it is every bit as tough and efficient as its predecessor, then Kansas bankers can continue to breathe easily. But if too much emphasis is placed upon the highway patrol angle in proportion to the energy spent toward preventing crime, Kansas again may lead the nation in bank robberies.
These Kansas and Colorado farmers who are having so much fun with grasshoppers should get their heads together and hire out their unwelcome guests for a motion picture sequence like that in "The Good Earth." That would be a swell way to throw two stones at one bird.
Current etiquette permits gentlemen to wear their hats in the lobby of the library, there being a very real danger of absorbing paint in the hair otherwise.
LETTERS to the EDITOR
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
There is an indubitable dearth of dogs on the campus. Maybe you hadn't noticed. I like dogs, and all that. I wouldn't have given you this. How are you? All of us is a university—But still, I think there are too many dogs.
The German shepherd hazard over in front of Ad has a new racket. He meets the incoming cars at the parking drive between Snow and West Ad. They can't get away from him. He barks and bites the tires. You know how they do.
Rather disconcertin' to say the least, along about 7:29, and very few parking places left anyway.
There are also many nice, kind, gentle dogs on the campus. The little Scottie with the bobbed hair, and the collie with the lion mane and tail, and the waggle-tail hounds that hunt rabbits in the shrubbery
—they are all assets to any community. I don't want to hurt anyone. In fact, there are a lot of dogs—it just that maybe there are too many.
Please see what you can do about this-D.L.
Contributors' Column
Fourth of July
Fourth of July A little boy
A little boy,
Explosive things,
An accident-
A pair of wings!
-R.L.Y.
Slats
Slouching along through the crowd, he must have been several inches taller when standing erect, yet even so he walked head and shoulders above those about him. He was gangliness personified. His long, slender, peaked nose, half again as large as that of the average man, was still in good proportion to his face and figure, and his hand, as he raised it to secure his great hat against the wind, was huge and flap-like.
Wrestler
The hair on his keg-like chest was thick and bristly, almost concealing a great, many-colored wind-jammer tattooed there. On each biceps was a hideous, gaping-mawed dragon, which rippled terrifyingly as he flexed the bulging muscles. The lumpy ears on his smallish, close-cropped head gave mute testimony to his calling as he stood on the athletic arena platform, bellowing "Come on, you tank-town toughs, I meet all comers," into a dilapidated megaphone. His partner, every bit as burly and forbidding in aspect, meanwhile rubbed a piece of pipe vigorously up and down the close-set rivets on an old bathroom
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heating tank, until it seemed one's ears could not endure the din another minute. A crowd began to gather, with that interesting cosmopolitanism one sees only at a carnival.
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Near the fight arena, a side-show barker, with derby, many-colored necktie, checkeded suit, agile cane, and all, spieded his practised line. One had to admit the man had charm, even if it was so obviously rehearsed. —A.R.
I didn't go to the spook meeting Wednesday evening-I went to the library. There were three people in the periodical room, seven downstairs, and two in the education room. On the way home I met all the folks coming out. Here's what I heard as I walked along;
Barker
"And the guys say all held their hands on the table like this—once in Kansas City I saw—and the woman held the pencil and it wrote—I was scared, I kept hold of Mary's hand all the time—Aristotle, huh!—Whohoel don't come up behind us like that—we have leprosy—my grandfather—one knocked me down once. I was brave. I just laid there."
And then as I passed the engineering building I heard strange tappings.
I didn't go to the spok meeting, but I got all the thrills—as I was running home--LG.
To Return Soon
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nichols, who are visiting relatives in Larned, are expected to return to Lawrence sometime this weekend. They went to Larned last Saturday. Mr. Nichols is executive secretary to Chancellor Lindley.
More than 500 students were registered in almost two classes apiece in freshmen colleges conducted this past spring by the extension division of the University of Kansas, in co-operation with the adult education division of the WPA. Miss Ruth Kenney, secretary of the bureau of correspondence study, handled details from the University's end.
University Lists 500 in Extension
Classes were organized in 19 different cities of Kansas, mostly in the northeastern part of the state, and in these cities, a total of 108 different classes were conducted, with 41 teachers and a total of 523 different students enrolled. Of these, 269 were men and 254 were women. Since practically all students took more than one course, the total class registrations was 987.
Classes were conducted on the college freshman level, with a few in high school subjects preparatory to college.
Nearly all the centers had classes in rhetoric, many had classes in English literature, and a lesser number in German and French. There were other classes in many other subjects, including Spanish, history, speech, elements of economics, economic history of the United States, and other subjects.
One project at Ft. Leavenworth, and one at Kansas City, are not completed. Cities at which classes were conducted and the number at each, follow:
Atchison, 7; Belleville, 1; Coldwater, 3; Columbus, 6; Effingham, 3; Ft. Leavenworth, 19; Garnett, 7; Herington, 1; Hiwatha, 3; Horton, 8; Kansas City, Kan.; Leavenworth, 10; Lone Star (CCC), 6; Olathe, 6; Osa-
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watomie, 2; Oxford, 3; Paola, 7; Seneca, 4; Topeka, including Kansas vocational school, 7.
Remodeling Adds New Rooms In Chemistry Building
Workmen are busy remodeling the west end of the chemistry building to provide additional room for chemical engineering classes.
What was formerly the basement floor has been ripped out and excavated down several feet providing a new floor level and about four new rooms.
This additional space will be used for storage rooms, the combustion laboratory, graduate laboratories, and classrooms. The work should be finished by the fall term and will provide much needed room for chemical engineering students.
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Condensed Statement
Lawrence, Kansas
At the close of business, June 30,1937
The Lawrence National Bank
RESOURCES
Cash and due from Banks $1,339,419.94
United States Bonds 512,740.49
Municipal and Other Bonds 315,390.89
Banking House ... 23,000.00
Furniture, Fixtures and Vaults ... 4,600.00
Other Real Estate ... 14,003.00
2. 167.551.32
Loans
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Account
Total
$2,832,472.22
LIABILITIES
Capital 100,000.00
Surplus 58,000.00
Undivided Profits and Reserves 127,435.76
Deposits 2,547,036.46
Total ... $2,832,472.22
Above statement is correct GEO. W. KUHNE, Cashier.
Deposits insured under provisions of the Federal Banking Act of 1935.