PAGE SIX EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940.
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What Does It Mean?
Circulation among men students of petitions seeking to bring to popular vote the anti-smoking ordinance has precipitated speculation by ill persons concerned, as to the probable outcome of the proposed action.
That a successful student election, resulting in the defeat and repeal of the Council bill, would serve only to clear the way for even tricter University regulations, is the contention of one faction. Supporters of this belief ay that University authorities desire unconstitional smoking limitation, and would sieze pon the opportunity thus offered them, by reeal, to impose an administration ultimatum rohibiting campus smoking. In such an event, tudents would have not even the dubious reourse of a student court.
Demonstrations of protestations in which students might indulge, these same persons point out, would avail little or nothing against tamant authority. The University of Kansas could be one more state school where the campus is free of fire hazard, where state buildings are clean of cigaret stubs, and where stunts are stripped, in large measure, of democratic government.
Were such powers assumed by the administration, the very ideas of material protection, student pride, and state-wide opinion, which were advanced as the bases of the original reliction, would be upheld only through the path of student government. That is the belief of those who wish the discontinuance of the institutions.
Believing thus, several students are seeking withdrawal of the petitions—whether of their own volition or through threat of more ingent regulation—in an effort to salvage the f-government that they do now have.
On the other hand, those promulagating the culation of the petitions feel that much stuart opinion is squarely behind them. They ant out that the majority of the student body upon the present anti-smoking bill as an trument passed without full consideration of, by, the students, and that opposition to the assure, at fever heat when it was passed, is I warm enough to cause the defeat, in open ction, of the ordinance.
Protagonists of the petition movement fur- r point out that the petition was instituted a test of the validity of student government. ey hope that strongly organized opposition any move for smoking limitation will indicate futility of seeking to continue the imposition hat restriction; they complain that if reco- nation of the measure by the student body is allowed, not only will student government
supports Wassermanns
our editorial recently entitled "Take a Wassern!" should serve as a challenge to every intelligent ent in the University of Kansas.
he Editor:
There is no more stupid person than he who has such opportunity as this presented to him and does not advantage of it. Wassermann examinations are a free at the Watkins hospital and require only a minutes. No one can afford to do without them. Is silly to say that they are not necessary, or to be ash about it. Veneral diseases which may be disd by the blood examination offerd all students be acquired in ways other than congenitally. A lie kiss may be a 'kiss of death'.
CORBIN GIRL.
thereafter be done way with in this regard, but also that student government will be a complete farce, and valueless.
Each side has taken a firm stand, and the issues are clearly defined. In any case, strong resistance by the reactionaries, by the "rebels", or by the authorities, can easily lead to much adverse publicity throughout the state and the nation, for the student body as well as for the school and its authorities.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Friday, Feb. 23, 1940 No. 97
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club scheduled for this evening has been postponed until next Friday night, March 1.—Ruth Yeomans, secretary.
FALL SEMESTER GRADES: Students who were unable to appear at the scheduled time may call for the fall semester's grades Saturday morning—George O. Foster, registrar.
FIRESIDE FORUM. The Fireside Forum will meet Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. Alice McDonnell 907 Arkansas, at 7 o'clock. Transportation will be provided for those who prefer to come to the Congregational Church. Everyone is welcome—Lorraine Polson, publicity chairman.
GAMMA DELTA: There will be a party for Gamma Delta (Synodical Conference Lutheran) at 8 o'clock this evening at the parish house, 818 Kentucky street. —Laura Holste, secretary.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOW-SHIPS: All applications and testimonials for Scholarships and Fellowships in the Graduate School for the year 1940-1, should be filed at the Graduate Office on or before March 1. 1940. Inquire at the Graduate Office, 225 Frank Strong Hall, information in regard to these grants.-E. B. Stouffer, dean.
KAPPA PHI: There will be a meeting at 7 o'clock tonight at 1209 Tennessee. All girls interested in the organization are invited to this meeting.-Mary Rohe, publicity chairman.
MUSIC ROOM: The music room will be open this evening from 7:30 to 9:30. A special program of vocal music will be played at 7:30—Ernie Klema, chairman.
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will receive Communion in a body at the 7.30 Mass next Sunday. All Catholic students are invited. Reservations for the monthly breakfast to be held after Mass may be made by calling 338 by 7 o'clock this evening. Students of other denominations are welcome.—Albert Protiva, Acting Vice President.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION: The make up psychological examination will be given Saturday morning. Feb. 24, at 9 o'clock in room 115 Fraser. This will be the last opportunity to take the examination this year.-A. H. Turney.
VACANCIES OF KANSAS RELAYS COMMITTEE:
Men wishing to apply for freshmen positions on the Kansas Relays Committee please address applications containing qualifications to Senior Relays Manager, Room 107. Robinson gym before Feb. 28. S. B. Sifers.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By HARRY HILL
Being the day after George Washington's birthday, today logically should see the opposite of traditional Feb. 22 truthfulness. Everyone is due to suffer a relapse. And as a result, there will be a high rate of prevarication. In case such a trend should appear, we already have interviewed the top-shots on the Hill, and have copied down the little words they didn't say but maybe would have said if they all went around talking in reverse of their usual opinions.
C. H. Mullen: "I don't think the smoking bill should be enforced. Hereafter, you can smoke where you please."
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Henry Werner: "Yesterday I went fishing and, by jove, I didn't even get a bite."
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Velma Wilson: "We all think Freddie Littoo is the nicest, kindest, fairest, squarre-shooting, and most adorable man we know."
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Fred Littioy: "According to a clause in our contract with Dorsey, everybody except the working press must be admitted to the Junior Prom on a pass."
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Miss Meguiar: "Why, everybody knows there is politics in the women's elections. These combines have got to go."
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H. R. Knickerbocker: "Hitler is to the twentieth century what A. Lincoln was to the nineteenth."
Richard McCann: "This coming issue of the Jayhawker is undoubtedly the worst in the history of the magazine."
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John Oakson: "I can say unreservedly that the present P.S.G.L council has done more for the KU. student than any other body in the history of the school."
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Dean D. M. Swarthout: "On the whole, musical programs this year have been on the stinking side."
Dr. F. C. Allen: "Kansas will win the Big Six basketball title in 1941, 1942. and 1943."
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Jim Robertson: "Don't buy the Sour Owl. It's terrible."
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Rolla Nuckles: "I think it cannot be undisputed that I am Mt. Oread's poorest excuse for an actor."
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Olin Templin: "We are planning a dormitory for men who do not have high scholarship."
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Bob Marietta: "At this University, without Pachacamac, the men students would be nothing."
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The Shinsters: "Our column is just pure drivel."
Clyde Smith: "I would nominate Dale Brodie and Clyde Bysom (in that order) as the best dance bands on the Hill."
I. Q.'s Inherited, Says Michigan Professor
(From the Michigan Daily, University of Michigan.)
Father's mental powers are so much like those of his college boy son that Prof. Walter B. Pillsbury, of the psychology department believes that University officials could just as well use the father's I.Q for an entrance examination.
Professor Pillsbury has made a statistical study of hereditary intelligence at the University, and he has discovered that there is almost as much correlation between the marks of father and son as there is between the marks a student receives in high school and college.
Because there is such conclusive evidence, "one night even use membership in a family with a good scholastic record as a basis of admission to the University," the Michigan psychologist concludes.
Professor Pillsbury also found a similarity between the intelligence of children in the same family. That is even closer than that of parent and offspring. He insists that his research shows that this correlation is mainly the result of inherited ability, and is not due to a similarity of home and school environment.
Conclusions of the experiment
are published in the current issue of the Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review.
College grades of 123 pairs of parents and children were compared in Professor Pillsbury's study. It was learned that in all instances there is a similarity which could be traced through the generations, and which was not the result of pure chance alone.
The study here was financed in part by a grant from the Faculty Research Fund, and tabulation was done by NYA workers. All of the grades compared were taken from records since the present marking system was established here.
Certain other factors which would tend to reduce the accuracy of the survey were discounted: including the tendency for parents and children to study different subjects and to write different types of examinations.
Summerfield's Meet Tomorrow
Summerfield scholars will hold their monthly colloquium at 6 o'clock tonight at the Colonial tea room. Jae Tihen, c'40, and Rodercik Burton, c'40, wil lspeak on "Fossil-Hunting in Kansas" and "Rational Pacificism" respectively.