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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY. APRIL 4, 1939
Kansan Comment
Helpful Hints
To Vacationists
Getting the most out of a vacation is like getting the most into a suitcase—no one has ever done either and both may be accomplished only if problems involved are attacked methodically.
So when the whistle blows at 12:20 tomorrow afternoon, signaling the start of a five-and-a-half day vacation, several thousand students will set forth to pursue happiness haphazardly unless they adopt a few helpful suggestions and reminders.
Since the student will probably cut a morning class in order to get home early, he should bear in mind the necessity of having an excuse ready should an inquiring parent ask how he happened to get home hours before the rest of the college contingent.
The vacation should not be doomed to failure at the outset by the thought of study. Take home an impressive array of books but remember to forget your glasses. In case you don't wear glasses merely take home the wrong books.
Make out a list of the articles you intend to purchase while home. By using the family charge accounts to stock up on tooth paste, hair oil, stockings, face lotion, et cetera, the value of a few days at home is greatly increased. The price of a railroad ticket can be more than regained if you take home enough suits to be dry-cleaned.
Your mother will undoubtedly consider you a guest; so be a good one. Don't get up! 10:30 and expect her to get breakfast for you. Urge yourself to stay in bed until lunch time.
Before leaving for school again make sure you haven't forgotten something that your mother will have to send later. In case she makes good chocolate cakes this rule can be made an exception.
Remember that primarily you go home for a visit. Try to find time for at least a fifteen minute chat with your folks every day—they will undoubtedly appreciate it. However, ten minutes a day devoted to parents is considered the standard time by most college vacationists and will suffice if you are pinched for time.
Education Becomes More Practical
Two encouraging events in the trend toward practical education have taken place in the last week. Northwestern University recently received a $6,500,000 fund donated for the establishment of an Institute of Technology. It is to be a cooperative plan of engineering education in which students will spend half of their time in some industry while working for degrees. The plan provides for students to alternate three months of industrial occupation with three months in classes, an arrangement which will require five years for graduation. Correlation courses will link together the factory and class work. The plan is not a new one, having originated at the University of Cincinnati several years ago.
Another practical trend is the establishment of a new law course at Cornell University. Here students will set up a legal office and actually solve the problems of professional lawyers. Interest is heightened by converting the classroom into a law office.
These methods of practical training invaluable to the student, are helpful to the instructor in his judging of the students' ability. Actual work in business situations will undoubtedly help to dispel popular prejudice that the college graduate has nothing but book learning—and sometimes might little of that. Prospective employers will be more willing to hire students who have had practical work in their profession. Practical education has been so successful that it has become a permanent part of the educational system in many fields.
Liechetenstein Must Be A Strange Country
It's all supposition, of course, but we'll bet Hitler can't understand why ninety-five per cent of the voters of Liechtenstein have signed a petition rejecting the idea of union with Germany.
Liechtenstein, as surely it and Hitler realize the fact, would be benefited greatly by joining Germany. To begin with, it would have the German air force to protect its people from invasion by neighborly Switzerland. The world of today is a world of uncertainties; and European countries don't know whom to trust. While Switzerland has not, it is true, shown any aggressive spirit yet, it may not always remain a peaceful country. Suppose, for arguments sake, that Mr. Johannes Baumann, the president of Switzerland should call together the executive council and decide to take over the sixty-five square miles of Liechtenstein. Such an act would be a simple one: the several thousand
soldiers in the Swiss army would march in, and, since Liechtenstein has no military force, would take over the country in name of the Republic of Switzerland. To prevent such an occurrence, the citizens of Liechtenstein should obviously be glad to join the German Reich.
And the benefit of paying taxes should also be considered. The inhabitants of Liechtenstein do not have the pleasure of paying taxes. Their ruler donates $110,000 a year to the public treasury and the rest of the government expenses are born by the many international corporations that have established their headquarters there because of the low taxes. Such unfortunate circumstances deprive the Liechtensteiners of the happiness derived from loyalty supporting their government financially. A union with Germany would remedy this difficulty.
The privilege of saying "Heil Hitler" is another advantage that the Liechtensteiners must be overlooking in their hasty judgment. It is a real pleasure to walk down the street, to stick up one's hand on meeting acquaintances and to yell "Heil Hitler" at them. Just ask any German—in front of a Nazi official.
A union with Germany would be a time-saver to a lot of Liechtensteiners. Many inhabitants doubtless sit around, spending literally hours discussing the next political election, trying to decide which fifteen men they should elect to the legislature. And they also probably sit around discussing what the 15-men legislature did; and whether or not they approved it. Such time-wasting is characteristic of democratic countries; and Hitler would tolerate none of it. Liechtenstein would not waste it precious time discussing politics it would spend its time in useful pastimes—building military highways for example.
Hitler will not understand these citizens of Leichenstein. For one thing, they lack the proper Aryan spirit.
Does Dagwood Live in Kansas?
Who doesn't read Blondie in the morning paper? Who doesn't turn quickly to the comic section every morning to see what Dagwood, Baby Dumpling and Daisy are doing? Chic Young's strip is easily one of the most popular comic strips today—the story of a slightly dumb but thoroughly lovable family. Blondie and her family have captured the hearts of comic readers in the same irresistible way that Charlie McCarthy has gained the love of the millions of radio listeners.
Does Dagwood live in Kansas? It is somewhat of a shock to contemplate such a possibility, but a line in the second of the Blondie movies, which showed recently at a local cinema house, invites the query.
Mr. Dithers, Dagwood's boss, is flying to Washington. He tells Blondie, "It's too far to go to Wichita to catch the plane." Or maybe he said, "I'll go to Wichita and catch the plane." Anyway, he mentioned Wichita, and we could not help gaining the impression that Dagwood's home town wasn't far from Wichita.
We had always imagined that Dagwood lived near New York and commuted every day to the Dithers Construction Company. Perhaps the way he flies out the front door every morning leads us to such a belief. But we must now face the entirely possible fact that Dagwood might live in Kansas. Movies always have their humorous characters live in Kansas when they want a laugh from the audience. Could it be? ___
Kansas is willing to adopt the Bumsteads. They can even live in Lawrence if they so desire. We can't help but feel that they would make any community a brighter place in which to live.
Maybe the Bumsteads live next door to you!
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB. There will be a meeting at 7:30 tonight at Westminster Hall. Professor and Mrs Mix will show and explain their picture slides taken in the room of all races are invited - Ruth Yewman, Secretary.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on date of
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAN
Vol. 36 Tuesday, April 4,1939 No.127
NOTICE TO NY STUDENTS AND SuperVIPERS:
Time sheets for the week of April 3 to 8 will be due in the NYA Office on Tuesday, April 11, by 5 p.m. on Monday - Martha Tillman, Executive Secretary.
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darned if I can remember the rest of
this story.
As part of the entertainment last week when the Phi Dile pulled their annual "Walk-in-for-supper at the Pi PHI house," Col. George M. Chatham showed how a Missouri auctioneer sells a smooth-mouthed mare. For demonstration purposes he used beauteous Maxine Miller for a horse and described her as "a little puffy in the ankle, slightly cracked in the wind, and a bit bleached in the mane--but a fine all-round horse." She brought the fictitious but tidy sum of $435
KEEP POSTED ON THE NEW ARROW SHIRTS THIS WEEK'S POST
by DEMAREE BESS
TODAY the colossal poker game of European politics has a new player: Franklin D. K. and he says he'd like to seize it in h2! This new strategy keep us out of war? A noted European correspondent analyses a critical turning point in the global competition "Gambling With Power."
"If my son ever discovered the truth about me.."
What would be think, Johnny Kelsey wondered. He'd always been "the swellest guy in the world" to his son. Then one night Johnny got drunk and ran over a man. He knew his friendswould "fix"things, hush it up somehow. But there was one person Johnny still had to face—his own son . . . Read in your Post tonight this dramatic story of a father and son, by the author of The Late George Aley and Wickford Point.
A NEW SHORT STORY
"Beginning Now..." by J.P.Marquand
WICH KNIP Two twopeppers you offer the same job—and the same girl. In *Second Man*, you offer a triple-tender frame-up, a triple-tender frame-up.
HE COURTED HER WITH A SAND
IMAGINE MOVING A MOUNTAIN!
Rolling a giant river from side to side! Lifting an ocean liner over a 70-foot dam! When U. S. public works engineers push Nature around, they help Egyptians and Egyptians look like amateurs with Meccanos sets. Guret Garrett tells you the amazing story in *Great Works*.
AND The Great World Money
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standard crisis by Joseph Alope
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Enemy No. 1," by Arthur
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Why did a rubber-heel improvement make millions for an obscure cobbler—and an idea for gum wrappers lose a manufacturer $6,000,000? Here are fascinating stories about dozens of inventions. Clues as to whether your gadget may be worth money. You'll find how to protect your idea. How to know if it's worth patenting. And what to do if you think "That Idea's Worth Millions."
by FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST