PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 The Kansan Comments -decide that trying to get rid of dangerous aliens is too much of a mess to fool with. Public haggling is apt to produce public disgust. EDITORIALS★ Football Death Sentence DR. F. C. Allen pointed out one fatal symptoms in collegiate football, speaking in Kansas City the other night. Ten years to live, is the sentence Doctor Allen pronounced. Professionalism and the hypocracy that it produces in college football will cause the suicide, he said. Some persons will be likely to apply Doctor Allen's statements to the local condition, although they were made about the collegiate situation as a whole. Doctor Allen was formerly director of athletics at the University, and coached college football for 10 years. He is well informed on athletic problems, and probably knows whereof he speaks. Many persons are inclined to side in with him. Doctor Allen, University basketball coach, was attending the opening of the Naismith league in the Municipal Auditorium. The statement was made informally, not in the course of a speech. Doctor Allen is not now a football coach, however, nor is he director of athletics. The University of Kansas is now in the middle of a big football problem of its own. Perhaps Doctor Allen is dead right. How- over, even if future events prove his statement, in view of the local problem, it might have been much better if he had withheld his prophecy. BOOKS★ Congratulations Kansas "THE least governed are the best governed" THE least governed are the best governed has heard and heeded in Kansas. Since 1933, the Kansas legislature has tried to do its art in better government by passing fewer illconsidered laws. This is accomplished by previewing proposed legislation in a legislative council. The council is made up of 25 legislators who study problems before they come up for consideration by the whole legislative body. The council also serves as an administrative aid. last year the council saved the state about $100,000. Prof. F. H. Guild, of the University political science department, has been lent to the legislature to handle research for the council. The legislative council method of finding possible errors in proposed methods before they are passed, has gained much attention in other states. Eight states have adopted similar plans. More than half of the states have asked for information about the Kansas system. "Slowness and inefficiency" is one of the most serious charges that has been hurled against Democracy. In the present crisis we must have efficient and good government to meet the "blitz" actions of the dictator countries. Seven years ago Kansas began one innovation in legislative procedure which will be an aid to the country in getting efficiency without sacrificing democracy. Congratulations to Kansas! Two Heads Are Fine CHAIRMAN Martin Dies, of the committee to investigate un-American activities, is asking Congress to continue his committee when its present authorization runs out, in January. Chairman Dies and the F.B.I. have cross-criticized and cross-accused until the public is tired of hearing of their wrangles. The worst thing that could happen is that the public should LETTERS★ Two heads are better than one—but only if they work together. The F.B.I. has been training men for years to hunt down criminals. They go further. Every F.B.I. man is a trained lawyer. He knows how to gather enough evidence for a conviction before he makes the arrest. There is no doubt that the F.B.I. should be given every facilitation. If Chairman Dies can keep quiet long enough to give Federal agents a chance to operate, and if he is willing to cooperate to the fullest with all investigations by the F.B.I., his committee should be continued. If he is not, he should be cut off from public funds and gagged Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Gray Dorsey Editorial Associates: Helen Houston, Mary Meara-Nan, Pat Murdock, and Eldon Corkill Feature Editor PATTER NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Sun Stauffer Campus Editor Bob Trump Sports Editor Don Pierce Society Editor Amel Needle News Editor Virginia Gray Wire and Radio Editor Art O'Donnell Copy Editors: Orlando Epp, Russell Barrett, Margaret Business Manager Rex Cowan Advertising Manager Frank Baumgartner Marketing Assistant Rush Smith BUSINESS STAFF Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school period, and later as second class matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol. 38 Friday, Dec. 6, 1940 No. 55 Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union building. All students, graduates and faculty members are welcome.—Patricia Neil, secretary. NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Ralph I. Canuteson. NOTICES★ SQUARE DANCING CLASS: There will be no square dancing tonight, December 6.-Ruth Hoover. PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH: The second Proficiency Examination of the year will be given on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 8:30 a.m. Registration at the College Office, Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 9-11, is obligatory for all who wish to take the examination. Only juniors with credit for five hours of rhetoric may register.-J. B. Virtue. Y. M.-Y.W. COMMISSION ON CHRISTIAN EMPHASIS: The Commission on Christian Emphasis will meet Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 4:30 o'clock at Henley House. Royal Humbert will lead a discussion on "What Has Modern Religion Done to Christmas."—Bob Collette, Mary Helen Wilson. How To Observe 'Do Not Disturb' By RODNEY MORRISON These tea parties without the tea that sorority pledge classes give in the library during their study hours are a disgrace to the University. If the pledges only knew it, killing time without disturbing everyone else is as simple as a Sigma Chi. All that is necessary for this new way of killing time is a text book. Since every student is supposed to have at least one book— for decorative purpos, if nothing else—this should not prove a stumbling block. The sorority pledge, without uttering a single peep, can kill plenty of time with the Black-out method. All that she needs to do is to pick out a sentence similar to the following: Continued on page 7 ROCK CHALK TALK Drooped over the railing of the little archway looking to the west stairway down, Sigma Chi's Bob Beeler and Gene Miller were holding heavy chitchat with Theta Annabelle Fisher the other morning. Obviously between fires, the lady seemed to know her lines well Behind the scenes at rehearsals for "Cradle Song," cute capers are cut by Joe Nelson of the he-man bass voice. According to an unprejudiced source, he is leading man offstage as well as on. How, where, when, and why did Phi Gam Karl Hendrickson get that pretty shiner? We're sharp on the comeback, so don't try the door or fell downstairs gags. Santy Claus is coming to town! 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