PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY. MAY 25, 1938 Comment Opportunities Await Knockers With the year ending seniors are looking with questioning eyes on their immediate futures, and undergraduates are wondering about summer jobs and out-of-school futures slightly more removed. Diverse reports forecast outlooks ranging from blackest ebony up through the shades of gray to an ethereal white. Actually, the fact is unmistakable that for the man with the qualifications, opportunities are wide open and provided with everything but automatic knockers on every side. The geographical frontiers which beckoned to the settlers of our country have given way to equally tangible ones—"frontier professors," as Harry Woodburn Chase, Chancellor of New York University, points out in Reader's Digest. "Youth should realize." Mr. Chase says, "...that although conditions have changed, opportunity has not lessened! ... The phenomenal advances of modern life are creating new opportunities unknown to the youth of yesterday. New professions arise, fresh areas of achievement open up... Our frontier... virtually limitless,... begins wherever young men and women learn to apply trained imagination and resourcefulness." Application of "trained imagination and resourcefulness" is this noted educator's formula for you to find yourself a job. He also stresses the role of education in helping the educator to find the job. The graduate will not "embark on an aimless, unfruitful voyage (aid by the 'fresh winds of opportunity blowing from all points of the compass') if educators consciously chart the newest lanes of opportunity, and devise a better system of vocational guidance which will enable young people to weigh their own interests and capacities in terms of modern occupations and opportunities that never before existed for the majority of mankind." Confessing that he is mentioning only a few of these "frontier professions". Mr. Chase proves his point with discussion of several fields replete in opportunity. Some which he lists are: retail salesmanship; industrial design; commercial design; probable erection of some six million new houses in the United States within the next 10 years; industries which "scarcely existed at the turn of the century"; moving pictures, automobiles, radio, air conditioning, and aeronautics; agriculture; new products such as tung oil or soy beans; three industries basic to American need: the "profitable occupation of preparing civilized food, ... the art and science of cookery,... lifted to the level of distinguished public service," skilled mechanics and car repairers, professional cleaners and dyers; social service work; police and criminology work; sanitary engineering; catering; costume design; pet-control; hotel management; laboratory technicians. And these opportunities, the writer seems to prove, are merely a few of those which actually exist. As Mr. Chase points out, almost all fields, even supposedly simple ones like cleaning and dying—"a fair-sized New England city achieves such superlative results that 2,600 out-of-town customers from 12 surrounding states take the trouble to send their clothing by mail or express to this establishment" where "specialists in textiles and chemistry examine each garment carefully and prescribe the treatment it should receive"—even these fields are rising as specialized professions, waiting for the man who possesses qualifications to fill the bill. The message of this college president to seniors and undergraduate of the University of Kansas is for each to discover for himself opportunities no one else has thought of—to apply two simple traits: initiative (or resourcefulness) and imagination. Dictatorship In Jersey City The dictator of Jersey City doesn't let trifles stand in his way. He has several methods of muzzling those who oppose him. For instance a man named Sylvester Adair, of Union City, neighboring community to Jersey City, has been making public speeches against Hague. Mr. Adair has been having his wife from whom he is separated, $30 monthly. One evening an anonymous person at the other end of a telephone wire asked him if he planned to keep on opposing Mayor Hague with public speeches. Mr. Adair replied that he did and within five minutes found himself arrested on the charge that his payments to his wife were $10 in arrears. A. M. Leporte gave him a year in the penitentiary. In keeping with the tone of this item is an article in this week's New Republic describing briefly, but completely and vividly, an incident of anti-semitism during the recent attempt by Representatives Jerry O'Connell and John Bernard to speak in Jersey City. The well-managed plan to keep the congressmen from speaking and its easy success fade almost into insignificance before the unbelievable Jew-baiting. A gang, some of them wearing sweaters with the emblem of the Jersey City Athletic League, beat up a small Jew. They chased him to the train. From the station came cries where other Semitic-appearing men were being attacked. Fascism in the United States? Anti-Semitism? What more likely place for it to be than in dictator-ruled Jersey City. Exposing Spiritualism Spiritualism has always had its interested believers and science has tried, often in vain, to debunk its theories with facts and research. Whether the realm of the unconscious is a world of its own or not mystical phenomena at least make fascinating study. London has a psychical research laboratory which tries to explain the various spiritual happenings by examining mediums and other persons supposedly psychic. The case of Mrs. Duncan who claimed the ability to exude ectoplasm from her mouth (ectoplasm is the medium's body broken down into a pulpy mass capable of being moulded into different forms). This ectoplasm is the mysterious substance which can knot handkerchiefs unseen, throw wastebaskets, etc. Mrs. Duncan defied all examinations for a long time. She would go behind a black curtain and soon come out with ectoplasm draped around her body and streaming from her mouth. It took an X-ray photograph to solve the riddle. Mrs. Duncan, whose great avoidurdupish had the fact that she was one of those rare individuals born with two stomachs (somewhat like the cows), swallowed a bundle of cheesecloth the day before the seance. Behind the black curtain she would bring this cheesecloth up from her second stomach (again like the cows), and drape it around her body. Ectoplasm thus came to the realm of the conscious. C. E. M. Joad, in an article in Harper's this month, describes Mrs. Duncan in detail and mentions other phenomenal persons whose spiritualism was found to be fraudulent. He also tells of various cases where science availed nothing and spiritual manifestations were the only answer. Official University Bulletin Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m., preceding registration deadline. May be attended by 4 a.m. Saturday for Sunday tours. Vol 35 Wednesday, May 25, 1938 No. 162 NOTICE TO FACULTY MEMBERS: The regular payroll is ready for signatures. All faculty members whose appointments are on a nine-month basis are invited to sign the payroll before June 4 to sign the payroll. Karl Klooz, Burst. University Daily Kansan Official Student Press of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASA LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER DAVID E. 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CYORCHIC BOSTON • SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES • PORTLAND • BEATTLE REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING & National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Retentionative 401 MAIDEN AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. 812-655-7030 We need a women's building because for individual and dual sports the department cannot handle as many people in the available space as desirable. The present gymnasium can accommodate no more time the enrollment was much less. Miss Ruth Hoover, head of the women's physical education department, believes there is a trend for individual and dual sports to take the place of group games. Tennis, bowling, archery, badminion, aerial darts, ping pong, tennis, and shuffle board are sports that the women will take part in after they have left the University. While, for the most part, hockey, basketball, baseball and volleyball are not. 'Women's Building' Would Relieve Congestion in Gym Earners's Note: This is one of a series of articles pointing out the buildings which were damaged by the collapse, which were available. The order of the articles does not necessarily imply the comparative severity of the damage. intered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. Miss Hooer says that men are incovenienced as much or more than the women because their intranural basketball games must be played from 9 to 11, or 10 to 11 and then from 11 to 12. For varsity practice in the afternoons from 3 to 6 except for one day a week when the women have the gym at 4:30 for voleball, deck tennis, etc. Two days a week the women have the gym from 8:50 to 10:15 and their games must be played then. Bv Mariorie Van Nice, c'40 "The time has come to talk of many things," not "of anes- and ships-and sealing wax—of cabbages or kings," but "plans for a plan." The present gymnastism is inadequate for use by both men and women. With the development of baskets, it is possible for playing a sport has increased. Our need is not for a new gymnasium to replace the present one but another gymnasium in addition to it as a supplement to the present one. There has been a good deal of thought and speculation about this matter in the physical education department. Jim Bounds, c.29, under the supervision of George Beel, has been building the cost has been estimated at about two hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The plans as they stand now include two big gyms, about 100 feet by 120 feet; a graduated swimming pool in the basement, about 75 feet by 35 feet; class rooms; offices; bowling alleys; and a rifle range. studio. At present there is no舞 studio at the University—all dancing classes are held in a bare gymnasium. The dance studio would have windows and drapes on the sides and a small stage at one end—giving a conducive atmosphere for modern dance. On the top floor would be a dance Roof space would be provided for such sports as badminton and deck tennis. The lounge room would be equipped with a kitchenette and all equipment necessary for teas. If such a building were built, additional facilities for additional sports could be offered—as for rifley, archery, and bowling. Before the depression, Crawlord said, "students adopted a somewhat free attitude about their living following graduation for they knew that jobs were available." Students More Critical However, when the slump came and the number of jobless ran into the millions, Crawford found that undergraduates "assumed a more political orientation and toward the things that they were fitted for. In all, they seemed to think a lot more seriously about equiping themselves to meet present situations than a few years ago. Publicity given to the dearth of jobs for equipped men caused them jobs." (Brown) They "self-selves and the business world."27 Four hundred and fifty women took part in intramurals last year and there will be more, and more, and more. With expansion in the department must come expansion in space and equipment. What have colleges done to fortify students against hard times? Crawford, as a general illustration. "There is a direct effort on the part Crawford, as a general illustration, explained Yale's experiences. Phone K.U. 66 (United Price Staff Correspondent) New Haven, Conn., May 24—(UP) —When colleges throughout the country pour thousands of graduates into the business world next month, most of them will be equipped to adjust themselves readily to prevailing economic conditions. That is the belief of Albert Beecher Crawford, who job as head of Yole's Personnel Study and Bureau of Appointments, is to help students "find themselves" while at college and university. 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Golf Tournament Scheduled For Commencement Week New Rockets Rally Prizes will be offered for low net, low gross and blind bogey scores. A golf tournament on Saturday morning, June 4, will be a feature of Commencement activities for seniors and alumni. LOST: May 16, cigarette lighter, initialized C.M.Y. Reward enough to pay for another. Leave at Kaiser office. -163 WANTED: Hungry students to tie a TOP. PER. The new hamburger with top hat, white tie, and Ai Touaen's (Wiley) across from the high school. -165 LOST: Student's rimed glasses in vis- ension of 14,900 Teen. Needed for finals. Reward: Andrew Hibbard, 1221 Teen. Pk. 1735 - +63 Shampoo and Wave 35c Complete Permeants $1.50 up Phone 333 941/2 % Mass, St. IVA'S ... SPARKLES ... For Evening Shampoo and hair style with lacquer and color sparkles...55c Oil Shampoo and hair style with Lacquer and sparkles ... 70c Revelon polish used on all manicures 941 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. Phone 533 7 experienced hair stylists IVA'S "everybody's doin' it!" TAXI HUNSINGER'S 920 - 22 Mass. Phone 12 . . . For all occasions they're riding the Streamlined K. U. Bus! The Rapid Transit Co. of the college to find jobs for graduating students and to encourage students to analyze themselves to learn just what they would be best fitted to apply for. A placement service has grown considerably during the past few years and has hone considerable fruit. This year the outlook for placement work is not as bright as it was in 1937, which was a boom year with more placements than any other time recorded. Soft and Midnight Lead "However, there are more jobs available now than in the years from 1933 to 1936. Calls for men come from all parts of the country, but the biggest demand is in Middle West. The majority are in manufacturing or productive lines. "Financial calls are quite secreta, and only a few of the larger eastern banking houses seem to be looking for men. And Wall street, once the haven for hundreds of college men is about dead. “However, if things pick up within the next few months we will most likely receive many more requests for graduates from all fields.” And, as an encouraging note, he added, "At present a good many firms notify us that they are in need of new help but are waiting for an upswing in business conditions before adding to their staff." Crawford's assistant, Prof. Stuart H. Clement, explained that "more jobs are being offered to technically trained than to non-technical men. This has been true for the past few years. At present 365 of the seniors are enrolled as applicants in the per-forming faculty. These are graduates. This represents about half of the senior classes of Yale's three schools." The problem of adjusting students to particular pursuits to which they are best fitted, Crawford found, was easily overcome. During the summer vacation periods they were taught to take higher grades before graduation, the student had a definite idea of his aptitude and registered with the placement bureau which contacted business firms and industries to solicit situations. Colleges offering vocational courses, Crawford and Clement agreed, probably would obtain better results in obtaining employment for their graduates in view of the increasing demand for technical men. Yale, they said, "is distinctly a cultural center and except for the Sheffield Scientific School, they are not part of it." The university equip graduates for special jobs." BRICK'S "ON THE HILL" Start the day right! Breakfast at Brick's! Prompt Delivery Phone 50 "...SEND YOUR VACATION BAGGAGE HOME BY CONVENIENT RAILWAY EXPRESS..." cost, high economy and one move: Merely phone our agent to call. No extra charge for delivery in all cities and principal towns. No waiting around, no dickering. 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