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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 7.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
Wrong Bait for Adolph
The practice of setting a price on a head of a "wanted man" as an efficient means of bringing him to justice has been tried throughout the ages. King John placed a handsome reward for the capture of Robin Hood, the merry outlaw. Buccaneer Jean LaFitte came to terms when a like offer was made for his capture. Applied negatively, the same principle is used in the kidnapper's ransom. And it is the identical means employed by Gang Busters everywhere in bringing the criminal to justice each Saturday night over your favorite radio station.
But somehow one just can't imagine a battery of "soldiers of fortune" making a belated dash to take up Samuel Hardin Church's offer of one million dollars for Adolph.
While one is always ready to lend his moral support to the advancement of scientific criminology and he is aware that the capture of Adolph would be a prime example with which to uphold the adage that "crime does not pay", he thinks this idea is sheer impossibility. Unless the M.S.C. calls for a new election in District I, unless K.U. wins the Big Six football championship in 1941, unless the Chancellor decides to lift the smoking ban, and unless the W.S.G.A. produces another musical comedy next year, one can only guess that Church's group has about as much chance of snaring Hitler with a million dollars worth of bait, as one has of catching a housefly with a mousetrap.
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Best crack of last week: A Norse officer sorrowfully remarked that "It looks like the British will fight to the last Norwegian."
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YOU SAID IT
Those Evening Cokes
For the information of hill "hosts" and jelly-joint keepers, all students drinking bottled cokes after six p.m. are not drunks, and most of them resent being taxed a nickel extra for the left-handed compliment of being so considered.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Theoretically, the six o'clock deadline on nickle cokes was invoked by temperance-minded proprietor-reformers to stop "spiking," or at least, to compensate them for putting up with drunks. Actually, the levy hits the sober student more often than the drunk. For despite the opinion of College Humor and the Sour Owl most hill people do very little drinking.
The unanimity of the price hike shows that the move stems from profit rather than moralistic motives. The continued unrestricted sale of beer to minors bears out this contention. Any chance of profit absolves the host of illegal conduct.
This petty clipping will have adverse results if continued. Proof of this lies in the decline in popularity of one of the spots which pioneered this chisling last year.
SOBER.
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A bet that the University's Public Relations Council is over-looking: student dandelion brigades similar to the 6nes at the Topeka state house. The buildings and grounds crew have the dandelions practically exterminated but the brigade would make swell publicity. Imagine youth arrayed in battle against the dandelions? Magnificent!
We wish those who have been saying the United States were not going to stand by and see the allies take a licking would interpret the news from Scandinavia for us.—Topeka State Journal.
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Was his face red department—The medieval jouster who got caught with his lance down.—Daily O'Collegian.
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Kansas had 3 deaths at railroad crossings during the month of March. When crossing railroads remember that they have both right and might.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Tuesday, May 7, 1940 No.144
A. S.M.E.; A.S.M.E. will hold its last meeting this semester on Thursday night at 7:30 in Marvin Auditorium. Phillips Petroleum Company will sponsor the program. Upon the conclusion of the program the election of officers for the following semester will be held.-Spud Bunn, vice-president.
NEWMAN CLUB: There will be a discussion and business meeting this evening at 7:30 in St. John's Church Hall-Albert Protiva, vice-president.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cercelle Francais se reunira mercred le 8 mait a quatre heures et demi dans la salle 306 Fraser Hall. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invités.-Rosemary Jones.
JAY JANES: There will be a Jay Jane meeting in the Memorial Union tomorrow at 4:30.-Ruth Spencer, president.
RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi, poetry society, will meet tonight at 7:30 at the home of Professor Hankins. Pictures will be taken of the group for Campus Movie. The regular meeting will be held Thursday at 7:30 in the Union building. Mr. Humphrey will discuss S. T. Eliot. Election of officers will be held. All members please attend.-Gordon Brigham, president.
SENIOR RED CROSS: Senior life saving certificates may be obtained by calling at room 107 Robinson gym. -Herbert Allphin.
SENIORS: Seniors expecting to receive degrees this June or at the end of the summer session who have not filed application for degree cards in the Registrar's Office should do so immediately—George O. Foster, registrar.
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A Magnificent Obsession
Many of those who read "Magnificent Obsession" when was at the peak of its popularity probably felt in some way that there was a power to be derived from giving without receiving any tangible benefit. While not giving too much credence, Lloyd Douglass' thesis (a thesis which has paid Mr. Dougl plenty, if not his readers) it is possible to tell that giving to t drive for money to aid Chinese students will be repaid by so ineffable satisfaction.
In the main, our chief argument against contributions foreign charities is that "charity begins at home." Our charity should "begin at home." But isn't there something we can that will show a protest of American youth against the inhum crimes in Europe and Asia? So little is being done in t frightened world for the oppressed; so little can be done by thwould if they only could.
A way does exist, however, to aid those students who versities have been bombed and gutted by fires. True, it wo be much; it can't be—we're too poor ourselves. But we can go what little we can afford to show our appreciation of the valor those Chinese students who are managing to keep the light education burning in a nation overrun by invading hordes, donation of a little small change may keep us from drinking coke with the girl-friend or playing a couple of rounds or marble machine, but don't you think it will, in some way, worth it?
Life Begins---- At 121 Years of Age Negress Starts Manhunt
Thomasville, Ala—(UP)—Maybe it's spring, or maybe this balmy Southern climate. Anyway, Scilla Foreman, 1 year-old Negress, wants to get married again.
Skeptics doubt the aged Negress is 121, but members of family and white people who have known her for many deca figure that's about right. ___
She said she was sitting on a bench behind a cabin with her lover when the stars fell in 1833. One of her daughters was old enough to set the table at the Boroughs home when the Civil War ended in 1865.
She used to tell of coming to Alabama from South Carolina on a mule, and of being sold to Boroughs family as a slave, but now her mind is tired and cloudy and she speaks little.
Until she dislocated her hip in 1933, she was active, and until four years ago she had to thread the needle so
her 83-year-old daughter could a She is almost deaf, but in g weather she is up and about the he of her granddaughter, Leila B now that she has outlived her the daughters.
The few nickles or dimes visit give her go to buy snuff, tobacco a whiskey, and she likes nothing better than a good toddy.
Her granddaughter incurs wrath by telling her she's too old marry again, as she sits and dres not of the days to come but of th she has seen come and go for m than a century.
Dandelions Can Stay In Cages, Says Gardener
Andy Elson, the University's head gardener, hates dandelions. They may be all right for animal trainers, but not for the University lawn, says Andy.
For 18 years, weeds, especially dandelions, have flourished on the campus. Van Horbeek, the old gardener, liked them; they were as pretty as tulips or jonquils to him.
Then he died, and Andy Elson was appointed head gardener. And now, at last, the dandelions are going the way of all seed bothersome to gardeners.
Andy says there are three ways to kill dandelions. Iron sulfate may be spread thinly over the area, four pounds per 100 square feet to
smother them; gasoline may jected into each little plant; or be just dug, dug, dug.
Andy graduated from Ka State College in 1933 in lands architecture. For two years he employed by the State High commission, planting shrubs a state roads. He has been head gerner at the University for the two years.
Andy is very proud of the liblawn. According to him, prewatering can take care of any w situation. If thoroughly wetted de each week, a growth of grass soon be so thick that there i room for weeds to flourish.
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