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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. 1938
Comment
Marihuana- Destroyer of Health
The distribution and use of illicit narcotics marhumna (marijuana or marujama as it is also spelled) is becoming a serious social problem which must be met and solved before it destroys the health and moral standards of many of our people.
Recently eight persons were arrested and more than 200 suspects were rounded up, charged with buying and selling marihuana cigarettes in Westchester county, New York. Among the suspects were high school boys and girls. Unsercupulous peddlers, in order to create new markets for their nefarious trade, introduce marihuana cigarettes to high school students.
The use of this drug or dope may have serious effect upon man. Clair A. Brown, associate professor of botany at Louisiana State University, writes in an article in the Nature magazine, "It appears that it (marihuana) is a distinct depressant of the brain and spinal cord activities. It acts slowly and continues for a long time. The resin has a stimulating and intoxicating effect, which is frequently called canabis intoxication. Small quantities produce a pleasant excitement, which passes into delirium and catalephy if the quantity is increased. Large quantities are definitely poisonous. Individuals react differently, sometimes periods of exaltation and hilarity are exhibited; at other times, hallucinations and premonition of impending death szee the victims. It destroys time perception so that a minute may seem as long as a day, or an hour only a minute. A continued use of the drug is said to produce a deterioration of the mind, and a weakening of memory."
Evidence shows that maribuna is a breeder of crime. "The stimulation from smoking marihuana cigarettes has led many individuals to take part in violent crimes," writes Professor Brown. "It apparently releases natural restraint and gives a false courage."
The use of marrhuna, either in tobacco or in drinks, should be discouraged and entirely eliminated since it destroys health, which is the most precious possession that we have.
Private Farms Are More Prosperous
That ownership of farms is a paying and successful undertaking has been demonstrated in Russia where private farms are bringing in better returns than the collective farms in spite of the fact that the government discriminates sharply against the individual peasants.
But Russia is not interested in the success of the individual. Since the individual peasants have fought ahead of the collective farmers, the government found it necessary to break the promise it made to the peasants two years ago when the government was convinced that the private peasants had been sufficiently discriminated against. At that time the government imposed heavier taxes on private farmers and gave the collective farmers great advantages.
Now since the individual peasants through their industry, initiative, and shrewdness have received larger returns from their little plots of ground than the collective farmers received from the collective system, the latter are discontent and dissatisfied with their lot. Since Russia will not abandon her collective farming system, she again puts a heavy burden upon the private peasants to satisfy the collective farmers and save her collectivized agriculture.
By discouraging initiative, personal freedom, and enterprise, of the peasants, Russia is breaking her own backbone and retarding progress. By following the example of the United States in helping peasants to become farm owners, Russia could become a prosperous and wealthy nation. As long as the individuals exist for the state instead of the state existing for the individual there is little opportunity for the welfare and happiness of the people. A happy and content people who has the opportunity and privilege to use their initiative, freedom, and ability in the pursuit of "life, liberty, and property" is essential to any nation or country that wants to advance and make progress.
For Success
Secret
you pulled through another semester last year, after worrying yourself into a mental and physical wreck and going through finals without time to review, for getting in late papers. You were saved by a thread and you slept a week afterwards to bring back prosperity.
Did you let work pile up on you for a big push at the end of the semester?
If you did, here's a good idea for a happy time next year. First make a sign reading:
"ITS EASIER TO KEEP UP THAN TO CATCH UP!" Post this on your desk.
"Now you are starting out again. Will the end of the semester find you burning 4 a.m. watts, living on cakes and coffee, and resolving never to let it happen again, and resolving
Then write a letter to yourself, seal it, and date it to be opened the first day of school next year. Write something like this:
"Dear Joe;
'Through the kind grace of Providence
"It's now the first of the year. Remember the possible end and renew the resolve now. Get in each assignment a day or a week before due. Motivate yourself if you have to set up both calendar and clock.
man to catch up. Seriously, Joe College."
"It's easier to keep up than to catch up.
If that doesn't work use the back of the letter for scratch paper, or mail it to us. We'll pay the postage.
Man Must Be A Thinker
The Baker Orange:
Almost every day everyone is confronted by some problem for which there is no set solution. The type of problem is such that the circumstances of the case and the individuals involved make this question slightly different from any other that has heretofore been experienced. There is no exact formula to which one may turn. Other persons cannot give an infallible solution, because they have not experienced the situation nor do they know the minute, underlying factors of the case.
Such problems as "should I crib to pass a course, the failing of which would keep me from being graduated?" "Am I justified in exceeding the speed limit to be on time for an appointment with a prospective buyer, my promptness perhaps being the deciding factor in the sale?" "Is it wrong for me to steal food or money for my starving family, if I have tried other means to provide for them and failed?" are samples of what has to be faced. Questions of this type will have to be met every day, and the intelligent individual will want to be able to answer them in the best possible way.
He may follow the line of least resistance and do what is easiest for him...or he may use as his guide the principle of bringing about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people possible. However, these all fall short in that we do not know exactly of what the greatest happiness consists, or if custom really is the best means of deciding. He does not know what he would want in a given situation if he has not experienced it, and he is not sure that the easiest means is always the best means of solving a problem. Each one of these solutions to the problem obviously brings about new questions. How then can the problem be solved?
... Clear, thorough, and impartial thinking is the only means by which these problems can be solved and the future values realized. To reach a sane solution of his problems, man must be a thinker.
'The Prairie Ever Hopeful' Is Third Prize Winner
Official University Bulletin
Wed. 75, Maypole J. August 1898 No.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular publication days and 11:39 a.m.
at the library.
Editor's note: the "Prairie Ever Hopeful" received
received critical acclaim from William Herbert Car-
rerton, printed in 1937-38.
NOTICE TO FACULTY MEMBERS. The regular payroll is ready for signatures. All faculty members whose appointments are on a nine-month basis are required to submit their signature by June 4 to sign the payroll. Karl Klooz, Bursar.
Vol. 35 Wednesday, June 1, 1938 No. 165
EDUCATION FACULTY: The faculty of the School of Education will meet at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, June 4, in 115 Fraser - E. H. Lindley, President.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Saturday, June 4, at 3 p.m. in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank洪长殿—H. L. Hindley, President.
By Roberta Hackman, c'38
--how the prairie, ever hopeful, spreads a lavish table
Trying to forget the ashen waste—
The ravenous loot hides of other years.
The bear has swum royal wheat
Running before the wind
Heels not the yellow withered ghosts
Of its forefathers
That once stood chattering in this field
Those great elms spread their fans
Delicate with a light new green
And spend no time in weeping
For the many limbs they lost,
For the numbers fallen in their ranks,
Dropped by the deadly fire of Drought.
See the pink frivolity
Of the peaches. They have forgotten
The sea and the tidal cheeks
Of the feet and fruits that managed to cling
To those branches before them.
At their feet the violets
Tiny purple knies.
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Sway in the sheltered halls of grass.
They, too, are fewer
But wise. They hire their plans
Of struts, reels
Ere the orces of summer
Advance upon them.
Across the creek
These foilish phiclid cows
With all the grass they want,
Cannot remember guant and shrunken flank
Soft musk turtured by the heat.
The little creek itself,
Both mammalian which
Repeating the secrets it will tell
To the great river.
Does it not recall
The days in which its bed was dry
And even the great river
Crept slow and painfully along?
He beamed up some recall.
From faded eyes the men's peers.
From twisted lines it ever comes.
They huddle together in their despair.
Rise, old men!
Go to the window and see
The prairie's shining answer to your fears.
Ichaband recorded no victories—allegats defends for 1987, including a decisive 25-2 beating at the hands of "inactive" Jayhawkers. Judy Eldison made her debut on the air last night when she took a
Thursday Is Deadline For Wassermann Tests
On the Shin-ble.
2:45 Piano recital, Mary Jane
Wednesday, June 1
K F K U
Continued from page 1
Jayhawk Trumpeteers — Bob Boyle, Louis Maser, Leo Horacek.
2.44 Nane flushes
2.4.4 News mistakes
2.4.7 Science news of the week
7:45-8:15 Joint recital by Olga Eitner, violinist, and John Moore, pianist
2:30 Manhattan Concert Band.
2:44 News flashes.
"The Winter's Tale. 7:15 Physical Education for Health,
Dispensary hours at Watkins Memorial hospital tomorrow will be from 10 to 12 o'clock in the morning. Patients should be handled in the regular manner.
Bloomington, Ind., May 31—Everett S. Dean, Indiana University basketball and baseball coach, is at Palo Alto, Calif., where he is being considered for the job of basketball coach at Stanford University to succeed John Bunn, former University Coach. Bunn will stay in California two weeks. Bunn was recently garned dean of men at Stanford.
7:15 Physical Education for Health,
Dr E. C. Allen and guest speakers.
Dr. F. C. Allen and guest speakers. 7:32 Jayhawk Trumpeteers.
Wassermann tests will be available to students at any time during regular hours until 5 p.m. on Saturday. The date for no more tests will be made.
SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FALL
ndiana Basketball Coach
Aay Succeed John Bunn
2:47 A Prologue to Shakespeare:
'The Winter's Tale.'
7:32 Jayhawk Trumpeteers.
7:43 Campus news flashes.
7. 45 Highlights in Education: "The Teaching of English," J. M. Jantzen, Oral Training School.
GOOD LUCK!
2.30 KFKU Instrumental Ensemi-
14.
7:45 Marie Wilkins, lyric-colora-
tion
2:45 Piano recital, Mary Jane Bruce.
O. Foster.
Saturday, June 4
8:00 "The College Campus," Registrar Geo. O. Foster.
BRICK'S "ON THE HILL" PHONE 50
2:30-3:00 America's Hour of Destiny.
part in Martin Malone's "Spot-
lighting the News." The chance
came so suddenly that Judy had to
call the folks back home via long
distance. She was the representative
of Miss Maddox, the author
who lived in the attic, all by herself.
7:45 Alumni program, Fred Ellsworth, master of ceremonies.
Marvin Goebel wins today's ticket to the Granada theater with a cheerful effort to emulate Grant-land Rice's poetry. "The Adventures of Robin Hood," starring Erfly Flolm and Olivia de Havillain is showing at the Granada. Kenneth "Flash" Morris, who should know, has been one of the world's best-breaker writer's heart to win a Dickie ticket today. "Holiday," with Cary Grant and Katharine Heepburn, ends tonight at the theater. At last Mr. Morris' writing ability has brought in some returns.
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