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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 1939
Kansan Comment
It's Up To Students
It is oddly coincidental that the Men's Student Council finally came to a decision on the smoking controversy at a time when the spirit of Halloween was stirring an already screwy collegiate world to achievements of greater insanity. But the fellows who decorated Campus trees and the mysterious assailants of the Jayhawk's martyr to school spit-"Uncle Jimmy" Green="stole no march on the politicians. Since the first wind of a smoking ban stirred the lazily drifted clouds of cigarette exhaust nearly a month ago, the legislators have been playing pranks with student government.
Removed from its ridiculous political aspects, however, the action of the Men's Student Council appears to be a sensible answer to a ticklish question. The amended smoking bill reflects what the M.S.C. honestly believed to be student opinion. Pacachamae proposed a measure that embodied the results of its poll of 1,000 men. Although P.S.G.L.'s majority vetoed this suggestion, the controlling faction pushed through a bill that was identical except for a prohibition of smoking on the first and second floors of Frank Strong hall.
The M.S.C. bill, of course, represents a compromise of the goals set in the original proposal. Obviously, the Council realizes this. In the face of probable student opposition to a wholesale ban on indoor smoking, however, it perhaps was more practical for the M.S.C. to settle the question temporarily with an amended bill. The fact that the restrictions on the men are identical to those W.S.G.A. placed on women, moreover, lends a desired atmosphere of unity to the issue.
With legislative consideration ended, the smoking issue now rests with the student body. As has been demonstrated vividly in national government—most recently by national prohibition—a regulation of public habits can be successful only if the public approves and cooperates. The M.S.C. made a thorough—if prolonged—investigation of indoor smoking and prepared a bill that supposedly is in line with student sentiment. In view of this, the students are obligated to carry the problem to a successful solution.
Englishmen with beards are at a handicap in this new war where gas masks are the order of the day. One woman from Cornwall suggests that curlers may be used handily by men who wish to preserve their adornment.
--of the mortar board chapter here.
A tour of the campus was made yesterday morning by Mrs. Stevens and several Mortar Board women.
We Want Hobo Day
Traditions are a sentimental but integral part of college life. Standardization of curriculum and sporting events may be the trend from coast to coast, but certain traditions are too unique a part of a school's history to be summarily dropped.
There seems to be a misapprehension on the part of many students in regard to the seventeen year old custom of setting aside a day when the Jayhawkers assume the attire of knights of the road and a mulligan-stew-atmosphere seizes the University. Hobo Day was held annually as a super-pep rally before the Kansas-Missouri football game until 1934 when it became a part of the regular Homecoming program. Why can't we resurrect the plan begun in 1923 for a Hobo Day and tiger hunt?
The Senate has stated that because of the holiday on Friday there shall be no Hobo Day on the Hill this year. Such an announcement may mean little to the freshman on the campus, for they have never experienced Hobo Day, but to upperclassmen the old order seems to be changing too rapidly.
The game with Missouri this year comes on November 25, due to the Republican-Democratic conflict in governors between the two states, so that leaves both Kansas and Missouri with turkey but no football game on Thanksgiving Day. Hobo Day could be held November 24 if the M.S.C., W.S.G.A., Senate, Jay James, Ku Ku's and student body want to preserve the affair.
Last year Armistice Day was a holiday, this year it is on Saturday, so the scholastic calendar would not be greatly upset by an extra curtailment in the interest of school spirit. Dismissal of classes would not be necessary, if the periods could be shortened and the professors persuaded to admit disreputably clothed tramps in the class-rooms.
How can we discard these rituals? The fall of 1939 will be incomplete without a Hobo King and Queen, a beard-growing contest, Duck races and mouse races and the tug-of-war at Potter's lake, the rally at the Auditorium, the co-ed touch football game, and the free swing session at the Memorial Union.
Hobo Day is one of the traditions of the Hill. Traditions change a mere group of buildings into an alma mater, and a mob of students into memory-laden alumni.
How about Hobo Day?
Halloween
Becomes Law Abiding
Halloween today is a stale and unexcitim occasion compared to the old-fashioned terrorism, considered an annual evil which every community had to endure. To the majority o minors of the past, such an occasion as last night would have meant cows tied to front porches all movable objects carted to some new location and property owners cowering behind soapec screens.
Modern Halloween festivities have undergone a distinct metamorphosis since modern police forces and metropolitan Chamber of Commerce have united to take the hoodlumism out of the after-sundown holiday. Instead of dumping trash cans, potential mischief makers are corralled by school, church, and other organized groups for an evening of directed fun.
Many Kansas communities have awakened to the fact that the way to prevent serious property damage is to offer an appealing substitute to the adolescent offenders. Emporia has a "Larkleen," Ottawa a "Hallowesta," and Hiawatha a "Halloween Festival." These towns have applied psychology to a social problem.
Such a growing trend in urban centers indicates that many cities will include such an idea in their future Halloween programs. The days of the hysterical mob out to break street lights and open fire hydrants will soon become a myth. The more-enlightened, hypothetical children of present-day college students will read about the old Halloween with a feeling of smugness at their controlled festivity and a tinge of inhibition.
--of the mortar board chapter here.
A tour of the campus was made yesterday morning by Mrs. Stevens and several Mortar Board women.
"The college student spends 25,000 hours on the average within the cloistered walls studying subjects that will be of little if any use to him when he faces life. He's going to be rocked to his back teeth when he comes out into the real world. Actual study is supposed to teach you how to live and how to make a living. College doesn't do either. It tends to kill the love and curiosity toward particular fields of study that every boy and girl naturally exhibits."—Dale Carnegie.
--of the mortar board chapter here.
A tour of the campus was made yesterday morning by Mrs. Stevens and several Mortar Board women.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, Nav. 1, 1939 No. 34
Noticees due to Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 4 p.m. on Friday of each month.
--of the mortar board chapter here.
A tour of the campus was made yesterday morning by Mrs. Stevens and several Mortar Board women.
CERCIE FRANCAIS Cercle Francaise will meet at the bursars and friends of the club who plan to attend are asked to leave their names in the office, 115 Frank Ball - Jessie M. Lemon, transportation chairman.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: Professor Springer will hire a student to serve as west rotor of the Memorial Union building. Each person will buy his own meal there. Students of all races, nationalities, and beliefs are invited to attend—Ruth
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting today at $43 per hour. Mr. Jamieson will be the last day to pay dues...Winfried Jammon, president
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. Dr. E Tennant, the autumn Memorial Hospital each Tuesday from 8:30 to 10:00, will address problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Workkins Memorial hospital—HALP.
QUACK CLUB. There will be a swimming meeting of QUACK Club at 8:15 sharp—Mickie Learner, president
RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi will meet Thursday at 4:45 p.m. in the Pine Room. Gordon Brigham will discuss the poetry of Robert Frost. All interested are invited—Gordon Brigham, president.
Y-M-Y, M-FREESHIAN COMMISSION. The Y-M-Y moon in the men's lounges of the Memorial Union building at 430. Dean Paul B. Lawson is going to speak freshmen and freshmen are invited to Hein Martin, publicist.
W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a tea in the woman's lounge of Frank强 Hall this afternoon from 3 to 4 o'clock for the purpose of meeting the candidates for Attendance. The woman is invited to attend—Ethnic Burns, social chairman.
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Toward a more scatterbrained speech: "He was one of those persons who hitch-hike to conclusions."
An hour spent observing students and directories has convinced us that a man always starts reading toward the beginning of a book but a woman always looks at the end first.
This department would add the name of Koe Postlisthwaite to the list of Mt. Oreand's immortals if it did not already appear that he were one. As it is, we shall simply honor him with this week's man of spirit of poetry by the poet Ellen Hill's poetry and the Shinster's adding with a broadening grim.
By Roderick Burton
One student has decided to gome this weekend. He figure it will take less money an i'll feel better on Monday.
War would be a lot more sporting if belligerents would fight under football rules—not forgetting the adage of "head-on" directly to "unnecessary roughness."
A student informed us yesterday that he had just had a revelation from prayer. He is carrying 18 hours, and the discovery that on Monday and Tuesday of next week he would have mid-seniors in all of his courses rather unnerved him. Although somewhat of a sceptic, he realized the seciousness of the situation and he decided to pray. "Oh Lord," he cried as he knelt, "I'm shivering all over at the thought of those mid-seniors next week! Every time I try to read a book the type blurs before my eyes. Every time I start to write my hand shake so that I spill ink all over the page. Oh Lord, those mid-senators have really got me worried What on earth shall I do?" And a reassuring voice from heaven answered: "Science, boy
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was pointed Agile way when a phone call from Manhattan this afternoon reported that a rumor was circulating that the University Campus has received a paint job and officials of the school desired to ascertain the damage.
Halloween Pranksters----
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In contrast to what has already happened at the University, Jude Anderson, chief of police, reported that this Halloween was no worse than any other law enforcement officers brought in three University men for disturbance.
Campus Opinion
The story which the Daily Kansan printed yesterday on the Dramatic Club productions was the most partial and unfair that I have read. Much has been said concerning newspaper "critics" who attempt to judge the arts without a vestige of knowledge; but when these so-called crites inject their own biases into their reports the result becomes all the more preemptive. The Kansan should scrutinize more careful ability of its reporters before allowing them to write articles which are obviously blamed and counter to the opinion of its readers.
Signed.
CURTIS BURTON.
EMPEROR JONES To the Editor
Signed:
But to top off a most ridiculous article, the reporter ended by saying that rather than to see the plays it were better for one to stay home and listen to his favorite radio program. I might suggest that that was just where he should have been Monday night—listening to "Lights Out" and concentrating on "ghosting" his stories. It's a wonder he'd have the nerve to sign his name to another article.
That a reporter should try to beate the stirring performance of an enchanting drama after it has been acclaimed by a large audience is both laughable and pathetic. His comment not only cast apperions at the director but the group whose efforts the play represented. If a comparison between the two plays needed to be drawn, the writer might at least have been fair. The audience by its interest showed which of the two plays it liked better. By no stretch of the imagination can the presentation of the "Emperor Jones" be discredited as an outstanding dramatic production.
New York City's four municipal colleges enroll more than 52,000 students yearly.
National Treasurer Of Mortar Board Ends Visits Here
Mortar Board, senior women's bon-
society, left yesterday for St. Louis
after making a two-day inspection
The Lawrence Alumnae Club of the society entertained Mrs. Stevens and the members of the active chapter at a dinner Monday in the Old English room of the Memorial Union building.
Mrs. Hamilton J. Stevens, of Pasadena, Calif., national treasurer of Mortar Board, senior women's hon-
Mrs. Stevens, a graduate of Pamona College, will inspect six of the 70 chapters of Mortar Board during her trip through the Middle West University and University at St. Louis, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska,
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