PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY JANUARY 11, 1938 Comment Smoking--- An Economic Hazard Editor Daily Kansan: Editor's Note: The following came to the Kansas as a Campus Opinion. However, it is felt that is so well-conceived and presented that it is being run as an editorial. It deserves careful reading and special attention. I have read with concern of the fire last Wednesday which destroyed an awning outside Fraser Hall. The individual who threw the cigaret that destroyed the awning will have cost the state of Kansas only $15 or $20. With a little different luck he might have destroyed the entire building and multiplied the loss ten thousand fold. Since smoking in our college buildings seems to be growing as a general practice, with a consequent increase in the fire hazard, a few well-known facts should be re-stated: 1. The state of Kansas carries no insurance on its public buildings. Hence, any losses by fire must be made good from the state treasury. 2. Most of our classroom buildings are not fireproof, and the oil-soaked floors make them even more liable to destruction by fire. The Administration building and Snow hall are supposedly fireproof; yet a fire in Snow hall several years ago caused an estimated loss of $20,000. Many students—and some faculty members—seem to feel that any comment upon this situation is actuated by prudish objections to smoking, on moral grounds. Such is not the case. Dropping matches and cigaret butts in a waste-paper basket or on an oil-soaked floor is like drunken driving; our interest is more in the damage which may be done than in the motives of the people who do it. Smoking is now a habit of such general prevalence that provision should be made for it. The short-sighted policy which forbids all smoking and makes no attempt at enforcement is itself a source of danger. The following modifications, or similar ones, might well be made: 1. Each classroom building should provide some place in which smoking is allowed. Usually a basement corridor or hallway can be floored with fire-resistant material and smoking stands provided, at small cost. Here the students could smoke between classes. 2. Faculty members who wish to smoke in their offices should be requested to provide ash trays, remove rugs or other inflammable floor coverings, and have their safety measures approved by the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. 3. All club rooms and committee rooms, where smoking is most likely to be desired, should be subject to the same safety measures. Especial consideration should be given to "danger spots," such as Fraser Theater and the chemical laboratories. 4. The janitors should be instructed to caution students against smoking in the hallways not designated for that purpose. If, through the carelessness of faculty and students, and through failure to take elementary precautions, the University should allow an extensive destruction of state property, we shall not deserve much consideration from the people of Kansas, who after all must pay the bills. Amusing, But Not Helpful It was a fine theme for humorous news stories in the neighboring press . . . it gave rise to some unusual and amusing complications . . . but it certainly wasn't a good thing for the dance situation on the Hill. . . this thing of having two bands and only one dance. Primarily because of an unwillingness or an inability to pay the price, the dance management has had difficulty in securing the "name" bands that make class parties so much more successful. In booking Ben Pollack it seemed there was an upturn in the quality of the bands engaged. It is hard to decide who is right and who is wrong in the controversy. However, it is evident that Simmonds will take his complaint to the musicians' union, that the booking agents will hear of the situation, and that bands will be even more difficult to book in the future. If one reliable agent had been allowed to book the band in the first place, he could have secured a good band and the dilemma might have been avoided. And, by the way, since when does the senior class present the Sophomore Hop, as advertised on the posters? The Owls Gaze--- 'Mid Must, and Decay The University has one of the most priceless and unusual collections of natural history exhibits in the nation . . . lifelike owls . . . prehistoric animals authentically grouped in their natural habitat . . . and many other interesting objects. But these owls gaze dolefully and mustily in packing cases under the auditorium . . . the exhibit, once so interesting, once viewed by hundreds of students and visitors to Dyche museum each day, now is scattered about the campus in dry attics and musky basements . . . the priceless pieces are mustering and deteriorating. It was more than five years ago that the contents of Dyche had to be "temporarily" stored because the building was condemned. Then, after four years, an appropriation was made for the restoration of the Museum. More than a year has elapsed since that appropriation was made, plans have even been approved and contracts let . . . but still no work on the building. So the owls dolefully and unlinkingly gaze in the must underneath the Auditorium, as their fine and nicely-preserved feathers become dull and time-worn by neglect. Unseen, a priceless treasure is being destroyed by delay. Campus Opinion Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited. Editor. Daily Kansan: While the column of "hay by Wire" seldom concerns the NEGra race, the unique way this race runs is that it is not necessarily be commented upon. It is not necessary to reiterate the whiskered" joke made below to the NEGra race, but only resent the statistical unfairness of the quip, but we also think that Mr. Wire should make apologies for the It seems to me that if Mr. Wire cannot find anything of interest concerning the Negro race of the present generation, and on this Campus, the leaest he could do would be to leave such remarks that he may be more interested in the university in the unique shop from whence it must surely have come. F. W. H. Official University Bulletin Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 13 p.m. preaching, regular publication day and 11:50 a.m. of the following: 1. A public notice of the Chancellor's Office at 13 p.m. preaching, regular publication day and 11:50 a.m. of the following: 1. A public notice of the Chancellor's Office at 13 p.m. preaching, regular publication day and 11:50 a.m. Vol. 35 Tuesday, January 11, 1938 No. 74 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in room Myers hall. All students and faculty members are invited are invited to attend—K黛狄, President. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The Home Econom- lism Club is a group of members of the Home Management house. Mrs. Carter Harrison will speak on "Home in Persia." Refreshments for members are urged to attend—Dorothy Boyle Haak. KU. CAMERA CLUB: The Camera Club will hold a joint meeting with the journalism lecture on photography at 7:30 this evening. There will also be a meeting Jan. 18. All who wish to be charter members must have dues paid by Jan. 19. Members is open interested in photography.-L. A. Podma, President. NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will meet at the church hall-hall "Joey Gover, Vice-President." SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SMOKER: The School of Business will have a smoker at the Colonial Tea room at 7:30 this Friday. Mr T. R. Bobb, statistical ad-hoc Fakelman, Bank of Kansas City, will speak—F. T. Stockton. STUDENT FORUM BOARD: There will be a brief meeting of the Student Forum Board on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 3:30 in the Pine room—Dean Moorehead, Chairman. TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will have a business meeting and program in Robinson gymnasium at 7:30 this evening. Attendance is required — Catherine Dunkel. W.S.GA: She will be a regular meeting of the WSA Guild at 10 a.m. on the clock in the Pine room…Bette Wasson, Secretary. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF STUDY MANAGING EDITOR CHARLES ALEXANDER CAMPUS EDITORS MARVEIL GUBBEL AND JANE FLOOD NEWS EDITOR WILLIAM B. TYLER SOCCER EDITOR NATHANIE DOWNSHIP SPORT EDITOR ELON TORRENCE TILEGRAPH EDITOR HASLED ADBINGTON MAKEUP EDITOR JULIE BANKS AND ARDRAIT CAULBE FASHION EDITOR LOUIS CHAUMBER PEATURE EDITOR LOUIS FOCKLE SUNDAY EDITOR ELTON E. CARTER EDITOR IN-CHIEF EDITOR IN-CHIEF MORRIS THOMPSON ASSOCIATE EDITORS JOINT JEIN AND DAVID ANGVINE J. Howard Rusco 1937 Member 1938 Associated College Press Editorial Staff News Staff Distributor of Collegiale Digest National Advertising Service College Publications Reimplementation 240 MAIDEN AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y. CHICAGO BOSTON BANSFARMACIO DUBLIN DAYTON ...P. QUENTIN BROWN Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. New York's Fiery Mayor Likes Fire Calls, Band Concerts, Baseball Not long ago the mayor of the largest city in the world stopped his car and approached with nervous strides a street cleaner who was taken ill while making his rounds, because she seemed unable to continue his work. By Ray Buckley, c'38 "What's the matter?" demanded the mayor. "I'm sick," said the street cleaner. "I've got spots in front of my eyes." It was only a matter of minutes until an ambulance was at the scene and the street cleaner was on the way to a hospital. There he was taken care of and all expenses were paid by the mayor. The son of Italian immigrants, La Guardia was born on Vickrick street on Dec. 11, 1882. His youth was spent in Prescott, Arizona, where he attended a business handmaster. This probably explains the mayor's devotion to his cornet. Pudgy Fiorello once wanted to be a jocky, but shortly after he left high school he entered the consular service. He was stationed for three years at Budapest and Trieste, then at Fluence. He was made interpreter at Ellis Island upon his return to New York. He is known as the writer and justly so. He knew it was Italian, German, Yiddish, French, Czecho-Slovakian, Serbian, and has a complete mastery of English. La Guardia studied law at New York University after leaving Ellis Island, and was graduated and admitted to the bar in 1910. In 1916 he was elected to Congress. The World War found "Little Fighter" at the Italian front as captain in charge of American forces. But the United-cede congressman was not to lose his vote in Congress. He simply sent a cable. By this means he voted Is Elected to Congress FOUNDED 1899 THE JOHN LAW SCHOOL AN ACCREDITED LAW SCHOOL TEXT AND CASE METHOD For Catalog, recommend list of pre-legal sub- jects, and booklet, "Study of Lawyer Proper Preparation," address Edward T. 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