PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1938 The Kansan Comments A Wee Bit Of Boasting Readers of newspapers and books, listeners of radio programs, and movie-goers who sit through commercial movies weep bitterly and long over testimonials, advertisements, and commercial spies that clutter up their entertainment. But we hope you read this in the spirit of forgiveness and excuse our wee bit of boasting. Known as an advertising "blurb" some of the statements printed herein may appear superfluous. Like the famed minute men of colonial days, however, we are prepared to back them up at the wink of an eyelash. Of events on the Hill, of convocations and concerts, of lectures and recitals, of football games and dances, you need not be in doubt as to when and where they will happen if you subscribe to the Kansan. By reading your student newspaper you avoid the nagging fear of doubt that you have missed interesting and important events. Timely and accurate, the Kansan brings you news of your University. The editorial columns of the Kansan will discuss other topics than local events that are important to students as students and citizens. In interpreting local happenings, we shall attempt to point out their significance and perhaps recommend suitable action concerning them. Your opinions are expressed in the Campus Opinion columns of this department and invite your comments on any topic. The Chancellor's Bulletin announces meetings of societies and organizations, changes in the schedule and curriculum, and contains other information important to your student life. Consequently, to be in on the "know," to be aware of what fellow students are doing and talking about, to know where they are going, to orient yourself in your student world, make sure that the Kansan is tossed on your door-step each morning. Congratulations, or What the Heil! If you are one of the new pledges whose name was printed among the many of the pledge list in Wednesday's University Daily Kansan, congratulations! After a hectic week of rushing in which you've acted your sweetest and demurst for the benefit of the various sisterhoods, it will be a relief to relax for a little while before the rush of registration and enrollment and the first week of classes. And if you have pledged the sorority that you wanted all the time, and if you just know that they are the best of the campus, and if you think that you'll just love being a sorority girl, the Kansan wishes to chime in with your new sisters, and your mother, and father, and the kid brother, and the older sister who (what a co-incidence) was a Kappa Xi too, and say, "Congratulations." If, however, you are one of the new students whose name does not appear among the many on the list, what the hell! After a hectic week of rushing in which you've acted your sweetest and demurest for the benefit of the various sisterhoods, it will be a relief, even to you, to relax for a little while before the rush of registration and enrollment and the first week of classes. And if you didn't pledge the sorority that you wanted all the time, and if you know that after all they really couldn't be as good as people said, and if you've decided that after all you think you weren't cut out to be a sorority girl, the Kansan wishes to join in with your mother and father, and the kid brother, and the older sister who wasn't a sorority girl either, and say, "What the hell!" But really you know it doesn't make a lot of difference. Because there is so much good in the worst of them and so much bad in the best of them, that it is hardly worth while for the disappointed rushee to worry about her college life being ruined just because a sorority house will not be home during the next four years on the campus. Caution Is The Keyword Following the hustle and bustle at the start of the fall semester, numerous perfidious robberies of rooming houses, sororities and fraternities heretofore deprived unfortunate students of clothing, money, jewelry, and other personal possessions. To be thus left destitute, facing the cold world without a stitch of clothing or a cent for food, means not only embarrassment, financial or otherwise, but may nip in the bud many embryonic, academic careers. Burdette To forestall a recurrence of such acquisitions of other people's property without their permission, precautions have been taken early in the school year by the Lawrence police force and its chief, Jude Anderson. Letters mended to all fraternity and sorority house presidents and proprietors of rooming houses suggest that one door be established as an entrance and exit for students and that all others be locked, that screens be equipped with additional fasteners, that each student be furnished with a duplicate key to the resident's entrance, and that all strangers be prohibited access to the house, unless allowed to enter under supervision. The Butcher Goes To School, Too Formerly the subjects of a nursery rhyme, the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker have yet to step up to the level of the college man, his sheepskin and white collar job. Opened this month in New York City, a new vocational school teaches the art of becoming a small business man. Although the four-year educational mill grinds out potential butchers, cafeteria workers, bakers, store clerks and tea room hostesses, many college graduates have been forced to specialize in similar subjects while training the mind in more abstract subject matter. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes said yesterday that America must "let our example as a nation pour forth as a soothing oil upon the turbulent waters of international relationship". On the same day, War department strategists revealed a $142,000,000 mobilization plan. Soothing oil or cold steel, which?—The Daily Californian. To Guide Wandering Feet Of Wondering Freshmen Beautifully painted in clear black letters on a white background are numerous signs, each bearing the name of a building are stored away and easily available for use on the campus. For previous gatherings of strangers and others who have never before trod the paths leading to the halls where education is dispensed, these signs proved useful and valuable. Such directions would be a life saver to the new students on the Hill. Furthermore, Georgia the Cop and many other's patience and time would be spared trying moments as innumerable questioners of directions increased their queries. There are five tests of the evidence of education—correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners; the result of fixed habits of thought and action; sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards; power and habit of reflection; efficiency or the power to do—Nicholas Murray Butler. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER ... Editorial Staff Edition Year EDITOR/CHIEF EDITOR/J R. TITE, KENNETH LAWRENCE, AND MUNGER FOREMAN EDITOR J. BURRIS, AND NUMBER News Staff MANAGING EDITOR LOIS R. FOCKELLE CAMPUS EDITORS DICK MARTIN and JEAN THOMAS NEWS EDITOR LARRY BEAIR SOCIETY EDITOR HELEN GILEN SPORTS EDITOR LENTER KAPPELMAN MARKET EDITOR TOWNSY HILL REWRITE EDITER STEVIE WJONES SUNDAY EDITOR ELON TORENCE BUSINESS MANAGER EDVIN BROWN BUSINESS MANAGER ... ADVERTISING MANAGER Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school year exce ment Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class master post office at Lawrence, Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1896. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Services, Inc. College Publisher Representative, MARTIN C. SMITH CHICAGO LOOK AT LAXELER, SAN FRANCISCO Saturday, Sept. 17, 1938 Notice due at Channelelle's Office at 3 p.m., preceding registration deadline on Monday, a.m. regarded for Sunday for Sunday. Official University Bulletin Vol. 36 Saturday, September 17, 1938 No. 3 The regular payroll is ready for signatures. All faculty members should call at the business office, 123 Frank Strong hall on or before Sept. KARL KLOOZ, Bursar 20. to sign payroll. 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 9 and 12 or between 2 and 4. Kindly bring transcript. 1 M BURHAM for the committee J. M. BURNHAM, for the committee (To be copied and sent to your best friend at home—not counting anyone in the summer romance category. If you'd like to know how to handle that first one just call the Daily Kanyan. If you'd rather do this with a post card, a picture postcard of the campus is suggested.) He's In College Now Lawrence, Kansas Sept. ... 1938 Dear Gus: When I saw the outline of the Campus against the sky for the first time I really got a thrill. I guess that's the way you're supposed to feel, it being the dear old college and the one and only from now on. I hope. Anyway, it was raining that day (Thursday) I guess it was. They rush you around so here you don't know what you're doing. I'm glad I got all that sleep this summer and have everything all organized in my mind to begin with.) and the sky was sort of gray so that the buildings didn't stand out like they do on a clear day when the red roofs make them look like dairy barns, they say. I didn't even see the smoke stack for a long time. Someone told me that it's supposed to be the best piece of architecture on the campus. Of course this isn't really a lot different than what I'm used to, there being bad points such as drinking boiled water and standing in lines. Somebody said they always start you out that way up here to get you in practice for bread lines when you're out of college. I guess that's an old joke but I'd never heard it before. Anyway I'm all registered and examined psychologically. Of course there's the physical examination at the hospital but I guess not many flunk that. There's talk around here about a few things that have been worrying me—mainly this Rhetoric Zero. Pretty tough, I hear. I've been wondering too, what kind of a football team we'll have around here. It would be tough to have Nebraska beat us with Bill there and all. You better come down for some of the basketball games. You know we're going to take the Big Six. I don't know what I'll take yet, but I guess it won't be so bad—outside of that Rhetoric Zero. I'll tell you all about how the campus looks when I know what's what better. There's a bed of petunias in front of the Journalism building. Well, so long, and go around and see my dog once in a while. The c'd high school will be pretty dull without us, won't it? YOUTH CRUCIFIES YOUTH As ever, Daniel. P. S.—Keep your eye on Harriet won't you. It would be pretty tough for a college man to have his best girl going around with some high school boy. By Ada Montgomery in The Topeka Daily Capital This is the time of the year when our boys and girls start of to college with high hearts and the feeling that this is their hour. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. It all depends on something over which neither they nor those who love them have any control. It seems a simple matter, but it isn't to them. It's vastly important and on this depends so much of their happiness that it is tragic to think that it can be so wrecked. It's the business of being asked to join a sorority or fraternity. There are many freshmen students, who, for financial or other reasons cannot consider joining and others, who freely die. The worst lodges as they have come to be known, but for those, who do want to belong and who have had reasons to believe that they would be asked, the matter of not being invited is nothing short of disastrous. We do not feel, as do a lot of our contemporaries, that fraternities are bad for young people. That everything worthless is encouraged and nothing worth while. That is why it is important to give prime requisites for membership, good sportsmanship is rewarded and good manners and good behavior It's no use for the elders to point out that Uncle John, who never joined a fraternity, is now the richest man in Pipiton and his wife, a college "barb," is president of the Culture of Die Club and leader in all the women's activities of the town. What does Daughter or Junior care about that? They are young and, secretly, they consider their elders fussy and dull. This their hour and they want to be happy. It's their hour and that it can be bwrecked by groups of their own contemporaries is one of the saddest things we know. It's especially tragic because it's youth crucifying youth. are promoted. Some of the finest girls and boys we ever have known are members of them. are members of them Your Rags Are Rated Your kings are the king. that seems to be cruelty that seems to be rampant at rushing time that we deplore. D Personal grudges rear their ugly heads the slightest bit of gaucheir is seized upon the wrong hairdress or make up is made a momentous mat- ure, and this is important a part in the choosing. It all seems so trifling and yet it is so very important to the hapless rushee. So important in many cases that feeling of inferency replaces that high heart and spirit of adventure with which out youth enters college. No matter what the system isn't any excuse for it. The system is bad and a number of sorority presidents have said as much. Let an No Greens in Ease This seems to be a good place to insert a paragraph of consultation to the unhappy ones in the East where exclusive schools for the East prepare their sororities and sororites are not recorded as evidence of superiority. In truth a good many of our fraternity girls and boys who go East hide their pins after they realize that not admiration, but amusement is in a good many of the glances directed at their beloved crests. Not so very long ago the Eastern fiancee of one of the state's most prominent men came out to visit her intended's family in Topeka and in later conversations confided that the funniest thing she saw in the West were engaged girls with their sorority pins linked with the fraternity emblems of their man draped across their chests. The walnut tree in front of the journalism building is unusually full of nuts this year. No Greeks In East Individualized Haircut Crown your College mind! The piano in Professor Wiley's Studio was tuned yesterdayft. 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