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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TODAY, MAY 1, 2016
The Editorial Page
American Way of Rugged Individualism Is Slowly Passing Like An Ebbing Tide
A way of life is passing from among us. Like the ebbing tide, it is retreating down the sands of time with an occasional lash back toward the rocky shore.
Other ways of life have withered away like this; the thoughtful life of Athens, the patrician life of Rome; the ways of life of the nobles and knights of the middle ages, the monks in their monasteries, the serfs in their bondage; the lives of the bootmaker and the candlestickmaker, the blacksmith and the carriage-maker. A changing world has forced them out of existence or thrust them, like excess baggage, onto the rear of the stagecoach.
Another way of life is going the way of the knight and the blacksmith. The rugged individualism of the pioneer and the self-made man is passing into the limbo of what was. It is withering away like an unpicked plum, vanishing like hail upon a summer afternoon. We cannot see it, but it is going.
It is hard to see pass the most cherished ideal of the American people. But the way of the pioneer is gone. No longer can he build his cabin upon the outskirts of civilazation. No longer can he shoot down his meal from the front door of his house. No longer can he subsist with himself. Even the self-made man is going. There is little hope today for the newsboy hawking his wares upon the street corner to become editor of the paper. There is scant chance for the day laborer to rise much above the foremanship of the crew.
Rugged individualism is going, like the gentle aristocracy of the South. Our society is becoming more involved, more integrated. Forces have sprung into being that must be controlled, social forces, economic forces. Government cannot continue a philosophy of laissez faire. Each man is not responsible solely to himself; he cannot spend his money as he pleases, sell his products as he would like. For there are forces, forces we do not yet understand, that are waiting to be unleashed upon a world once more. Forces of depression, forces of economic slavery, are waiting to be loosed. And rugged individualism must go.
We shall feel sorry to see it go. It served us well. It made our land great and respected. And we shall dream of it, just as we dream of knights and blacksmiths. But evolution goes on.-J.G.
Juvenile Delinquency Problem Grows As Work Takes Parents
The wartime delinquency problem in Kansas City is like that of nearly every other city in the nation. In fact, Kansas City boasts of less trouble with delinquents than many other cities. Nevertheless, steps must be taken to prevent growth and flourishing of such action.
This problem of delinquency has been alarming in other cities. In Los Angeles, thrived a gang of boys and girls who had committed every kind of crime. After an investigation, 400 boys were in custody,28 indicted for murder. In Detroit, a gang of 100 boys and girls terrorized the population by destruction of public houses and buildings.
The war evidently has an effect on the increase of juvenile cases. In the first 6 months of 1942, New York City reported an increase
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in arrests of 14 per cent, Detroit reported that girl delinquency went up 43 per cent; in Niagara Falls area cases have gone up 58 per cent. In Los Angeles, arrest rose 35 per cent in the first 3 months after Pearl Harbor.
One important aspect of the problem is the increased number of young girls who go out with soldiers and sailors. The girls, usually between 12 and 15 years of age, feel that they are patriotic by going out with the lonely soldiers.
The wild tendency among the boys and girls can be attributed mainly to the lack of parental guidance. Many parents work in war plants, allowing their children to roam about as they please. In fact, many parents are so tired when they come home that they are glad to have their children gone. And they never know where. Judges have often said that juvenile delinquency was better termed parental delinquency.
The solution to the problem is simple enough. The causes of delinquency are always the same: poverty, neglect, lack of community facilities, and lack of good outlets for energy and activity.
What cities must do is to provide an outlet for young people's energy, imagination, their need of attention, understanding, and friendship. They must be busy, but at the right things.—B.L.P.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
NEWS STAFF
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Virginia Tieman
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Jimmy
Gunn, Maurice Barker
Managing Editor...Joy Miller
Sunday editor...Bill Haage
Campus Editors...Jane Miner, Florence
                 Brown, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports Editor...Matt Heuertz
News Editor...Phyllis Jones
Picture Editor...Bob Schultheis
Society Editor...Annie Lou Rossman
Wire Editor...Virginia Gunsolly
Feature Editor...Jane Miner
Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager ... Betty Lou Perkins
Assistant Advertising Manager .. Mary Eleanor Fry
Advertising Assistant ... Mary Morrill
BUSINESS STAFF
By MARY MORRILL
If you stand on the library steps long enough you'll hear everything: Bill McIntire and Joe Gray, Delts, met in jellyting territory before Watson. Gray's face showed definite signs of exposure.
"Hmm," said McIntire, "are you brown from the sun?"
"Well, fine," said McIntire, slapping his back, "I'm McIntire from 'Yeah,'" said Gray.
the Tribune. How are you old man?"
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The All-American sport: When played right, baseball can be a very satisfying game. The A.I.Ch.E.'s (Chemical Engineers) played it right on their picnic. No one worried about a home run. The best hit was a one-base hit followed by leisurely sneaks from base to base. There was a cache of beer at each base.
There was a cache of beer at each base.
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What comes of having women reporteds: Shirley Kelly, Miller hall, making her regular calls for social news had skillfully extracted from Al Derrington, Phi Chi, the information that the medics had had a speaker Thursday.
Shirley wanted to know his topic. Derrington seemed reluctant. But, as are all good reporters, Shirley was persistent.
After ten minutes of intensified coaxing, Derrington weakened—— "Well, all right if you must know, he spoke on 'The Sex Life of the Male!' There, now go on. I just dare you to put that in your paper!" Derrington taunted.
"Don't worry; it was just a movie"-nutz: Arising from the creative genius of Yogi Williams, Phi Gam, Frankenstein walked on the Hill Saturday night. Yogi made the mask and supervised the job of fitting it on Dick Shields--also of stuffing Shields shoulders.
The monster was taken to the Kappa house first and was introduced by Warren Bowman as Frank N. Stein, the new pledge. The new pledge roared acknowledgment and the race for under table positions was on.
Eight O'Clock Whistle Power Plant Pet
By PEGGY McCONNELL
Eight o'clock—the whistle blows; 8:20—the whistle blows again; and so on through the day, the steam whistle at the University signifies the beginning of class periods.
The regularity of this whistle is not appreciated by many students and teachers at the University. They depend upon its familiar blast, but do not think $ ^{ \dagger} $
familiar blast, but do not think of the intricate device which causes it to be always on time.
In the electrical department of the power plant, situated behind Fowler shops, is an automatic clock which is set so that when a little peg drops into place at 20 minutes past the hour, the steam is released to make the whistle.
This automaticity is characteristic of the whole power plant. The plant, running 24 hours a day with a full crew of nine men working in shifts, makes electricity, heat, and water for the entire Hill.
One hundred per cent efficiency with an economy of utilities at hand is the near goal of the power plant. Using steam twice, is only one economy.
Steam is made in six big boilers—two 300 horsepower boilers, and four 500 horse-power boilers. The steam is then run through one of two turbines, thus making electricity, and is then sent on through pipes to heat the buildings on the campus. To do this, the turbines must be run at 3,600 revolutions a minute to furnish the 60-cycle a second current necessary to keep all the electric clocks and apparatus running correctly.
Master Clock Is Set
To keep the turbine at 60 cycles, a master clock is set for perfect time with the Arlington time signal from near Washington, D.C., every day at
11 a.m. The master clock is really two clocks combined—one run by electricity and the other run like an ordinary kitchen clock. If the little gold hand of the latter clock is running simultaneously with the hand of the correct electric clock, then the turbine is right at 60 cycles a second exactly.
Every morning at 11, W. C. Sanderson, chief engineer of the power plant, receives the time signal over his radio, and waves his hand to an assistant standing by the clock. The assistant marks how slow or how fast the gold hand is on a calendar. With such system our heat, electricity, and water are supplied efficiently. Boilers Are Kant Coine.
Boilers Are Kept Going
Generally two or three boilers are kept going all the time, except in summer when only one is kept going to furnish steam for the hospital, the Navy quarters, the Memorial Union building, and the chemistry building. Mr. Sanderson, who has been at the power plant for 11 years, says that "no time in 11 years, 24 hours a day, has there been no boiler going."
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The plant buys electricity in the summer from the Kansas Power and Light Company, for buying it is cheaper than making it. Mr. Sanderson watches the weather closely with barometers and weather reports to know exactly how long to run the plant to save operation costs. Or
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