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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MARCH 7,194
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Posted on March 7, September 17, 19, 160 at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Motion to Adjourn
Keeping in a comfortable state of mind is somewhat of a problem for any University student. Even the conscientious individual is always pressed for time. As it is, enough of this precious stuff slips through his fingers—having it wasted for him is more than he can take and still keep smiling.
And yet many times during the week, if he participates in any extra-curricular activities, he takes it. Inefficient student leaders, verbose faculty advisers, and guest speakers do the wasting while he squirms.
The job of any president or chairman should not begin with the opening blow of his gavel. It should begin days before that gavel descends.
In return for the honor of heading a group, its leader owes a pre-consideration of the problems at hand and a business-like presentation of them; he owes the prodding which keeps discussions going in a straight line, the administrative ability which winds things up at the opportune moment.
As frustrating as the inefficient leader is the guest speaker who considers his last two points much more important than the scheduled time to adjourn.
There are student leaders on the Hill who pay this debt to their organizations. But unfortunately the customary meeting opener is "Well, fellows, maybe we ought to do something..."
Falling into the same classification is the faculty adviser who takes much longer than necessary to explain a point—every point—and who stands to say, "Well, I know we promised this meeting would be over by now, but there are a few background facts..."
In a college community, if anywhere, individuals should be intelligent enough to avoid absolutely wasting time.
And the time we're complaining about is absolutely wasted.
Minutes spent over a coke, lying in the sun, or reading a short story are enjoyed, at least. But the hours consumed by ineffective discussions in campus organizations pile up to form literally a lost weekend.
Pro-Files
With a flood of four-week exams upon them many new students are wondering just what to expect. Having never taken a quiz at the University, or having been away from school for several years, these students, especially those who live in unorganized houses and have access to no quiz files, find it hard even to start preparing for examinations
Last year the All-Student Council appointed a special committee to investigate the possibilities of establishing a quiz file in Watson library. Letters were written to other universities to learn how they operated their quiz file systems, and interviews were held with faculty members to get their reaction on such a plan. The Independents backed the project and worked with the committee to help organize it.
But when many instructors voiced opposition to the idea, the Council decided to drop it. Most faculty members stated that the project would not help students because quizzes were changed and new questions would be asked, although others favored the plan as a study aid to students.
If the Council resumed the project now, it would meet new problems. With enrollment increased, the library is crowded at all hours of the day. Librarians are already busy; having to handle a quiz file would certainly be an extra burden. However, with the great addition of student help on the Hill this semester it does seem that something could be worked out.
Veterans and new students have converted into a project which was once looked upon as an "extra convenience" into a "practical necessity." Without some idea of what to study the individual who has been away from all scholastic work for several years is at an unfair disadvantage—especially when he competes with other students who have documentary evidence of every professor's examination habits.—M.M.G.
Santa Fe Engineer Retires To Stay Around Ark City
Arkansas City. (UP) — Richard Barrier, 65, retired today after 40 years with the Santa Fe railroad and after piloting Santa Fe trains over more than 1,500,000 miles of track.
Barrier, who was an engineer on the Oklahoma division of the railroad, returned to Arkansas City to live.
"There won't be any California for me now I've retired," he said. "I'm going to stay right here in Arkansas City where my friends are."
Rock Chalk
By FRANK CURRY
Watch the birdie, please. The Alpha Chi's are waiting nervously to see how their latest picture came out. It was an informal group shot of the babes enjoying a pledge party late at night. The cameraman was modest. He climbed the fire escape and raised the window without anyone seeing him, then hurriedly left, following the flashbulb explosion. Some persons would say he ran like . . . crazy.
Oh. I love the bearded lady, because her whiskers tickle so . . .
We'll wager three pages of schizophrenic doodlings that Sam Elloitt, of Spooner-Theayer, is the only housemother on the Hill capable of growing a real mustache.
The Royal Road to Romance. J. B. Halliburton, the married twin of J. J. Halliburton, Battenfield, remarks that he's met many, many girls since he came to the campus where his brother was already established. The Halliburtions are noted for their knack of making persons swear off strong drink.
It ain't necessarily so. A.D.P.I's Terry Norton and Pearl Geiger hurried out of a drug store with the pictures marked "Geiger" before they opened the envelope and looked at the prints. Terry and the rest of the Alpha Delt's sincerely hope there was some mistake. The pictures were shots of a baby.
The pedestrian hasn't a fightin' chance. Marian Minor, Tipperary, has purchased a car which, having been named "Snapper" after a deceased turtle, will soon be painted pink.
Marian bought the car from two guys who bought the car from the DU's who, so the story runs, bought the car from a guy in Kansas City. The title man at the courthouse refused to license plates, because somewhere in transactions the certificate of title for the T formation got lost.
Marion has had little trouble in mastering the ce.
"It's just like playing an organ," she says.
(If driving's so simple why die she jockey through the DU hedge?)
Henry's little helpers. Henry Pinault of the Jayhawk Co-op washed his clothes the other day. The rest of the fellas stood around and watched for awhile, then did their
Letters to the Editor
Fallacies in Repeal Movement Cited by Student Prohibitionists
Caldwell Burlesques Anti-Prohibition Points
To the Daily Kansas: Of course the prohibition law is outdated, antediluvian, anachronistic, moss-grown, and dust-begrimmed! All thinking men realize that this statute is Kansa's major obstacle to progress. Let us repeal it.
It is vital to the "well-being of every man, woman, and child" in Kansas to increase our consumption of ethanol. And it is so ridiculously easy. Simply open the gates of this fair state to the high-pressure advertising of our modern era; that's the way we've increased our consumption of everything from Lifeboov soap to Fords.
Assured that we can increase our consumption of this elixir of life by repeal of prohibition, let us enumerate thrilling benefits which would ensue.
First, we should rid ourselves of that cardinal sin, hypocrisy. What a tremendous advance in critical
bit. In the end all of Henry's clothes—including those he was wearing . . . and Henry himself had been scrubbed. Ah, cooperation!
The writing on the wall. The Phi Delt pledge class is well supplied with artists it seems. The other night during pledge meeting, Pete Guigan tried his hand at it. It seems that Ray Evans, now known as the "Chest," had just instructed the boys on the way things used to be done. Having finished his exposition he stepped out of the room and our little Pete went to work. Soon on the wall appeared an Atlas of a man with a wee small pledge pulling at his shoe string, but all our hero had to say was, "This is the way it was done in the old house."
But it wasn't a slip. In honor of the vice-versa dance the Delt's had cleaned house. They had done a diligent job, and they were pround. So it was only nature that Gary made it easier to juggle shovels. Chi's Jackie Logan, Nancy Trantum, and Pat Power around while they waited for their dates.
And was it also natural for a pain of pink—underdresses, to turn up in a supposedly neat drawer? Well? at least Gary tried to explain.
'238,000 Miles Is Not Far Enough!'
By DANIEL BISHOP
Cartoon from St. Louis Star-Times
standards. Huzzah! We could so ourselves shoulder deep like getopers without the slightest quip of conscience.
Then with bacchanalian gleam could careen down the highway and smash the daylights out of an approaching car. Still we'd have no qualms of conscience. Alcohol in the supreme virtue of releasing our inhibitions and easing our con science. Our conscience might be eased right on out of the universe is such a little collision.
Think of the employment which would be created by such an acci—I mean opportunity. We should employ more workers to build new automobiles, more linemen to repair telephone poles, more doctors to remove the slivers of car doors, an undertakers to do the rest. It woulu undoubtedly bring prosperity to nearly every fireplace in Kansas.
And what intelligent, well-in-
formed K.U. student is there who
doubts that booze raises the civic
intelligence of our populace?
Tank up our farmers, laborers,
teachers, businessmen. Then watch
them cast the money changers from
the wicked temples of Topeka under
the influence of this mentally-invigorating, God-given stimulant
(Some crack-pot scientists call it a depressant.) Marvel at the nurification of the body politic!
3. "You can't enforce prohibition so why not skip the whole business?" Granted, Kansas is full of bootleggers. GRANTed, you can buy liquor easily in almost any town. But just because there are thieves, would you repeal laws against stealing? Just because there are killers, would you legalize murder? Maybe we can't enforce the law against kidnapping either, but do you want it repealed?
Besides being altruistic and righteous, we should be practical. The added greenbacks from the taxes on liquor would by leaps and bounds improve our educational system (where the money would of course be spent). Let us hope that the students in every school get a jigger just before saluting the flag each morning. Then they can proceed to study the wonderful gift of alcohol to the health of mankind as well as the benevolence of our distinguished brewery magnates. After we have rebuilt every school in Kansas, many each teacher a millionaire, and bought new textbooks for every student in Topeka, we can spend the surplus on institutions for alcoholies.
2. "Oh, but the money," you plead, with tearful voice. "We need that money to buy textbooks for the destitute Topeka High school students!" Grow up, Mr. Naive! Any set of statistics will show you that the cost of repeal—increased police protection, skyrocketing crime costs, and social welfare work directly attributable to the liquor traffic—far outweighs the meager proceeds from the liquor tax.
The solution to Kansas' problem is not repeal, but a direct and honest effort on the part of enforcement officers. If the present officials "can enforce our laws, maybe the people in Kansas will discover some who can
1. "Kansas is old-fashioned—behind the times—mid-Victioran." O.K. chums, what's so new about liquor? The old joy-juice was fermenting gaily several thousand years before anyone ever heard of Kansas—or Victoria.
To the Daily Kansan: "To repeal or not to repeal"—that seems to be the $64 question. Judging from several recent letters to the Daily Kansan, we are separated from Utopia only by the narrow margin of one law—prohibition. Could it be someone besides Ray Milland has lost a weekend or two? Let's sober up for just a minute and examine some of these hallucinations in the light of reality:
Student Calls for Officers
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