PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS MONDAY. SEPTFMBER 10, 1978. The Kansan Comments Listen who's talking! Listen, My Children And You Shall Hear “Another state tradition is slowly starving to death. Another one of the traditions that goes to lend zest and interest in college life is slowly dying from gross neglect. Like the old gray mure, the tradition of freshman caps on every first year man 'ain't what it used to be." "Is this condition to continue? Is this year's group of first year men to be allowed to forget their class consciousness—to drift into the drabsness of the everyday life—without a struggle? That's what is certain to happen unless the upperclassmen come to their rescue—unless the upperclassmen aid in warding off the attack of drowsiness that is slowly encoaching upon this year's group of freshmen." No, it isn't a pep rally of the "K" Club, or an indignant alumnus of the class of '04 talking. You'd never think the situation could be so desperate, would you? But— "Bright red top-notches, hardly given a chance to do their part in bringing group consciousness into a group that is perennially noted for its life-giving qualities to a campus are, one by one, being stuffed into dresser drawers this week, never to be salvaged again to adorn the top of what should be it's proud wearer. One by one this year's freshmen are casting aside their class spirit and slowly, but surely, passing off into slumberland with the rest of us." Ain't it awful, Edgar? But let's hear more. "Freshman caps surely could be made to be one means by which that drowsiness might be beaten back. They could be, that is, if the freshmen could be 'persuaded' to wear them Now, however, they serve only to give to the incoming students a feeling of contempt for our traditions." "Are these buttons of crimson to be worn? The question remains in the hands of the K club, an organization of athletes banded together to aid the spirit, the morale, of the campus. It is the K club that originated the idea. It is the K club that saw to it that the little freshman cap became a tradition of this institution. It is the K club that is now slowly letting it die. Let's stop the agony of a tradition's slow starvation." But maybe all hope isn't lost yet, for— No, this isn't a Kansan editorial, or a statement from the president of the K club, or the excited comment of an old grad. It's just our esteemed contemporary down the river—The Kansas State Collegiate—getting awfully steamed up about something that is old stuff on Mount Oread. The Kansan offers the K-State editorial as a historical document—an interesting item of collegiate americana—in order that University freshmen may understand that not so many years ago the Kansan used to get excited about similar "avil" situations. The Kansan passes the news on to the College for all it's worth. But with the passing of time, it slowly dawned on the Kansan and the faculty, and even the K club, that traditions which demanded paddling, hazing, and other embarrassments to new students to enforce, could be safely dispensed with; and believe it or not, the University did not suffer rack and ruin. And strangely enough, once the hazing was discarded, the freshmen gallantly offered to wear their caps on their own free will. the power of man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistance and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents. He is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power, just as a falling body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall.-Emerson. We Have An Even Chance Dispatches from the Sudetan "front" by American newspaper correspondents located in Berlin, Prague, Paris, London and other hotbeds of European news, intimate that the United States would be under "moral obligation" to side with France and England should Hitler suddenly order his Blackshirts to goose-step into Czechoslovakia. Already frequent predictions of the roles that the Czechs, the French, the Poles, the Germans, the British, the Hungarians would play have been printed if the clouds of war should settle over central Europe, covering England and France, as well as Czechoslovakia, with a gaseous for of destruction. Prognostication, however, even in the American press of what the United States might do have seldom appeared except occasional references to a "moral obligation." Since the President's speech in Canada on Aug. 18, and more recent remarks by Secretary of State Hull, the country has been assured by the President that these speeches did not imply a threat, or even a rebuke, moral or otherwise, of Herr Hitler and his threatening gestures. And as one Washington correspondent put it, considering the presidential purge, the attempt to solidify Democratic liberals, the affect of the last war on the Wilson administration, which took office with the halo of honest liberalism, and how it all ended with William Harding, this country should have even chances of side-stepping a future European fraces. Should Benefits Be Compulsory? There are certain definite advantages to this freshman student counselor system which provides upperclassmen to furnish the "facts of (college) life" for new students. First, the freshmen will receive authentic and indispensable information about the University. He will learn about its past, its present, and the official and unofficial aspects of its social and extra-curricular activity much more efficiently than he could hope to do by wading through the "literature" on the subject, or by begging knowledge piece-meal from harassed University officials during the hectic days immediately following enrollment. The student advisers will be relieved of stopping to answer the countlessly repeated questions which formerly harrassed him at his busiest period of the year. And the student counselor—in order to save face when questioned about the institution which he has attended during the past two or three years, and about which he is supposed to be an authority—will probably dig industriously into the "Student Counselor's Handbook" given him, and thus discover a considerable volume of new information on things he thought he already knew all about. Such knowledge is most becoming to a prospective graduate from any institution of higher education. The counselor will probably learn as much as the freshman. Under the circumstances, it is too bad that the first meeting of the counselor with his seekers-after-enlightenment should be tagged "compulsory"—that ugly word which every freshman learns to know and abhor before the end of his first month here. It's like compelling one to wear shoes when snow is on the ground, or making it compulsory to receive presents at Christmas. As the meetings were originally conceived in the minds of the official student advisers, there was to be no compulsory air about them. They were to be simply small informal gatherings where interested freshmen would ask questions and learn what they wanted and needed to know, and at the same time be making friends, with someone "in the know," who would be able to help them later during the year if new questions or problems arose. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS MARVIN GOELBUT INCUMBENT EDITORS | JOHN R. 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NEW YORK, N.Y. 812-365-7499 Saturday, Sept. 17, 1938 Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 a.m., preceding regular public day at 11:50 a.m., at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 245 West 67th Street, New York, N.Y. Official University Bulletin vol. 36 Saturday, September 17, 1928 No. by John Randolph Tye Vol. 36 Saturday, September 17, 1938 No. 3 Wender how loud certain gentlemen in the state would yell if they knew that the lounge in the Student Union where many of the forum meetings are held has been painted a brilliant red? Next to the talk about the senior who was asked twice in one day if he were a freshman, this week's saddest story concerns the rushee who wrote to her folks that she had lost four pounds since her arrival on Mount Oread. "Study too hard," she tersely explained. After warming up with Texas and Notre Dame, K. U.'s football squad ought to be in good condition against Washington against Washburn on October 8. ENGLISH MAJORS: Students desiring to enroll in Reading for Honors in English, especially those wishing to enroll for the first time, will place Miss Burham in 211 Fraser hall, or Sept. 20 or 21, between 8 and 12 or between 2 and 4. Kidry bring transcript. J.M.BURNHAM for the committee J. M. BURNHAM, for the committee . . . Looks like the second march through Georgia ended in a rout. And speaking of football, Bob Reed comments as follows in the Garden City Telegram: "Somewhere we had gained the impression K. U. is expected to have a strong football team this year, but our team has not yet made it today with the arrival of the years first issue of the University Daily Kansas, which devoted as much space to last semester's honor roll as it did to this fall's football prospects. That's the surest sign we know that this is likely to be one of the greatest games of 'too much emphasis on competitive sports' on Mount Oread." --ess atrocities and if they will be imbished in time for the class of '40 o enjoy. Somehow it's hard to get excited about prospects for world peace to follow the Hitler-Chamberlain meeting, since it was announced that Hitler served tea to the Prime Minister. The thought of leaving the fate of poor Czechoslovakia to a couple of tea drinkers puts us in a sweat. It sounds too much like an old maid tea-party where the unlucky neighbor who isn't present is torn to shrews between every "lemon or sugar, please." Beer. Wine. Tea. When coffee must be a worthy brew for two world statesmen meeting to plot the course of world empire. But never tea. No wonder Czechoslovakia started doubling her moments the first reports were flashed from Bergespersg. Many students are entering this school year in a serious frame of mind. Ready for hard work, they are losing no time in toughening their minds and bodies for the rigors of college life. No small number of the ambitious lads were seen waiting in line in front of the Tower in K. C, warming up for the task of enrollment and registration. . . . On the Shin-- Continued from page 1 Dick LaBan, editor-in-chief of the Sour Owl, is about to launch K.U.'s humor magazine. If the mag is as good as first reports indicate, perhaps Editor LaBan ought to print the thing in bold face to facilitate over-the-shoulder reading. Then an essay about it may be once without eye-strain and our Campus will continue to be a moocher's paradise. A local gal was being given a big rush by some early arrivals swains last week, they thinking she was a Pi Phi. But the gal was exposed when one of the boys discovered that attached to the arrow and on the other side of her pocket was a Parker fountain pen. Personal nomination for the most optimistic guy in these parts—Lou Fockele. Someone has offered to pay twenty iron men for Josephine, his recent model T *Ford phaeton*, who is known for finding Lout's ad in which he describes most fully Josephine's virtues and faults. Now You Know Theta pledged a cute miss name o' Doris Johnson, but oldsters will probably not confuse her with Kappa's Queen Doris the first. Qnothe the mighty Clem Fairchild of Sigma Nu. "I don't know whether to give the freshmen a break this year or date last year's pledge class and help them avoid that sophomore slump." That the University, provided for in the first constitution of Kansas territory, opened its doors to 29 women and 29 men on Sep. 12, 1888... That old North College, which stood over where Corbin is now was the first building, and that Fraser hill, now the oldest building or the Campus, was first used in 1872... That the Hill is just as high now as it was when we now approximately 81 times as many professors on the Hill as then... That vaccination against small pox, inoculation against typhoid fever, and the Wassermann test are given free of charge at the hospital... That the function of the "K" Club is to promote good spirit in athletic contests, to stand for clean sport, and to encourage and assist athletes to maintain a high standard of scholarship... That all courses in the Kansas Bible College are open without charges to students in the Univer- Rush week annually takes its toil of amateur orators and speech-makers. Only casually reported this year is that of Sifty Deming, Alpha Chi, who lost her voice ere the going got really rough. That four-fifths of the annual income of the University (more than a million and a half) comes from appropriation. The "University Fund," created by the pioneers of Kansas, takes care of the remainder. ...That the libraries have reached an accessible 300,000 volumes and over, and that approximately 500 of these will stray from their original home or receive such rough usage on their premises. The Daily Kansan is published daily except on Mondays and Saturdays. That Watkins Memorial Hospital Watkins hall, Miller hall, and Watkins home are gifts of Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins. That you'll have the opportunity to hear Gladys Swearthow, Will Durant, Guilla Bustebo, the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, even Mrs. Rosevelt in the auditorium before the year is over. . . That Kansas is a member of the Missouri Valley Intercollege Athletic Association, and has won seven Big Six basketball championships since its organization 10 years ago. .. That during the Kansas Relays last spring, a news letter in electric lights atop the Engineer's building at the University of Oklahoma at Norman glittered with the tidbit that the University of Kansas is at Ottawa, and that O. U. was sending up some track men to compete in the relays there. .. That the Daily Kan-san will not predict the opening date of Dyche. .. That the Memorial stadium, erected at a cost of $640,000, contains, in addition to the football field, a quarter-mile track, with a 220-yard straightway, an indoor dirt trap, training quarters for football, baseball, truck and wrestling, has a large electrical hub heated up by training units, a public-address system, and seats 38,000 people, it is believed. That this isn't the half of it. Wait until Sept. 22. Jim Robertson, c'40, after a few weeks spent in Mexico, says most henn tiles there are not behind the flat roofs, might expect, but on the flat roofs. Beat Texas! Pupils need the inspiration of pretty teachers, according to R. L. Eaton, school director at Swarthmore, Pa., in an article in Fie Destig. "I don't blame some children for not wanting to go to school," he remarked. "There's no reason why a teacher shouldn't be good to look at." Prof. Eugene A. Stephenson, chairman of the department of petroleum engineering, returned Saturday from a short trip to the Hugoton gas field. Thursday evening he and Imni Harris met with more than 200 land owners, royalty owners, and operators of the Hugoton high school, and devoted a full four hours to an explanation of the new commission order which has established a 640-acre precession basis for the gas field. 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