PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6. 1932 Comment Hovels, Or Grade "A" Rooming Houses? What are the possibilities of a housing program in the University? That is the question now before the housing committees of the student governing bodies and the housing commission of the University. It is a question that should also be given serious thought by students in general. Conceived last spring, and in operation only this summer, a housing program has made marked progress . . . perhaps not in materially improving the condition of student rooms, but in laying the ground work and gathering information upon which to base a wider program. The housing problem in any large university is not one to be successfully met and solved in one year. Other schools carry on programs that extend over a period of years, usually five, during which the houses are first summarily inspected, as they have been here. This first inspection is followed by a survey of the conditions that need to be corrected. In most cases, the houses are divided into three classes in reference to their adherence to the standards set. Only a few houses are entirely eliminated, for the grading system stimulates landlads to the improvement of their rooms. The University needs such a program. The program also makes students room-conscious, and the gradual work of the combination of influences tends likewise to a gradual improvement in the rooms. No Devil For Ed Howe Eighty-four-year-old Ed Howe, Sage of Potato Hill, has achieved his lifelong desire to die after a long day of hard work. Like Mark Twain, Howe was an example of the good American culture of a past age. Himself a successful product of the opportunities offered by the America of the past, Howe defended and regarded business men as the true down-trodden class. But coupled with this faith in the accepted way of meeting problems he mixed the skepticism and open-mindedness so necessary to a stimulating personality. Of life after death he once wrote, "No one can convince me there is a devil after death to torture me for eating, drinking, loving, hating, venturing." His magazine, "Ed Howe's Monthly," became recognized throughout the world for its homely philosophy and piquant comment on the problems of mankind. His readers were found in every profession and of every political belief, from that of John D. Rockefeller to H. G. Wells. Rarely has one lived so intensely as Howe; to the day of his death the smell of printers' ink never left his hands. Hard though it be to lose one who has contributed so much to our cultural heritage, the picture of a life work, finished and well done, inspires an admiration which overshadows sorrow. Exchange Methods As Well As Men With the annual arrival of many foreign exchange scholars in this country, many contrasts between the university systems of Europe and America are revealed. The New York Times believes that the undergraduates who inhabit such vastly different structures merely symbolize the enormity of a fundamental gap. Europe's students are more mature than ours and they work or play in a different manner. Their work becomes specialized when they enter the university, for they feel that by that time they have completed their cultural education. A graduate school atmosphere prevails, with a special interest in political currents. There is no isolation atmosphere, for the students are always acutely conscious of their position among hotbeds of nationalism. Little attention is paid to athletics, and the football stadium and the campus, the architectural greenward of the American college, stand as strictly American phenomena. Although both systems are evolved from different social and political patterns, the American system could well profit by a closer scrutiny of Continental educational practices. A Change For the Better Commonwealth College, the bane of Mena, Arkansas' existence, has thrown away several of its old aims and broadened its scope by becoming a strictly "non-facial and non-political labor school, partisan only to the wider interest of labor." To this end a new plan has been formulated, by which "no political party, or political groups or factions shall stipulate either who shall serve on the faculty of Commonwealth or who shall be admitted to its student body." satisfied to its mission Long famed as a place where radicals of all kinds could work and study together at nominal sums, the College has made this new move in the interests of organizing the workers of the deep South. The new director, Claude Williams, is a fighting Presbyterian minister who has already done much for the downdroff Southern agricultural and industrial laborers. He hopes to draw most of the student body from the Southern regions, and thus establish, in conjunction with extension courses for those unable to attend, closer relations with labor organizations in an educational capacity. The Commonwealth reorganization and its new policy provide the type of work this region has lacked. Campus Opinion Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kraan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited. Fun Comes in Bunches Editor Daily Kansan Fun Comes in Bunches Editor Daily Kansan: It behoves this genetel student who loves his fun to write to the only instrument powerful enough to do something about things about which something should be done, namely the dance and football situation on the court. We, the students, get so little time and space for our favorite recreations that it is necessary to utilise them. We are encouraged to play pastimes. When football games and varities come on holidays and during vacations we feel like we are being used to it. In these times that we have to catch up on our fun and our studies. If approved activities are scheduled for these occasions There is a problem here and the Kanman should be able to come to the front for the students. Help us hold these forces back next year so that we may have more evenly scattered division by our force. A serious funer. Have Patience, C. II Editor Daily Kansan When the new directory appears, everyone will breath a sigh of relief. The old directory has had a certain value again this year but large numbers of new directories have been added, changing their addresses are difficult to find. Some system should be devised to make the directory quickly available after registration. C. H. Every year students are inconvenienced for a month or so after registration while one of the most vital health services is discontinued. Official University Bulletin Notices due at Chelsea Inn's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:00 a.m. on www.chelseainn.com Vol. 35 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6, 1937 No. 28 GRADUATE FACULTY. There will be a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School at 4:30 p.m. tuesday, Oct. 12, in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building — E. H. Lindley, President. QUACK CLUB. There will be Quack Club practice for all girls interested in trying out for final Quack Club tryouts at 8 a.m. today in the gymnasium. All who are registered may compete. In the gymnasium are urged to come—Betty Heitmann. **STUDENT FORUMS BOARD:** There will be a session at the room on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 4:30 pm. - Sun. Room 612. Students See Primitive Life On Expedition Into Old Mexico W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a W.S.G.A. tea this afternoon from 3 to 5 in the lounge of the Administration building. All University women are invited—Bette Wasson, Secretary. PHI DELTA KAPPA: Professor U. G. Mitchell will be the speaker at a Phil Delta Kappa meeting to be held on Monday evening, Oct. 14. A Oread Training School on also be a business meeting - Gilbert Urson, President. "Mexican natives will not steal from you, but watch out when you buy something from them, they will buy something out of your last nickel." So says Henry Thomas, gras, who with Philip Arbens, c40, and Octavio Urtilla, a student in Mexico Teachers College, collected more than 40,000 insect specimens in Mexico last summer. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS KANSAS PRESS MEMBER 1937 ASSOCIATION By Woodrow Lindsay, c'38 Thomas and Arbenz, who went to Mexico last June, spent most of their time in Chiapas, a Mexican state approximately seventy-five miles south of Mexico City. Excessive rains during June prevented them from catching many specimens of the fish they quartered near Mexico City. Later Thomas and Urilla returned to Chiapas for the rest of the summer. Editorial Staff EDITOR ON CHIEF INFORMATION: MORGAN THOMPSON ALICE HADSMAN-JOBS OFFICIAL ASSISTANT MORGAN THOMPSON VACATION VALIDATION PUBLISHER ... J. HOWARD RUSCO News Staff Chipsas Is Cleanest Town Chipas is, apart from the cleanest state in the Republic of Mexico. Although its towns are quaint, houses are painted white and are always decorated with bright patterns. The nurseries appear and dependable, traits which are said to have been derived from pre-Aztec trees, an industrious race of people who settled in Mexico centuries ago. Chianas Is Cleanest Town MANAGING EDITOR NILM SEG CAMPUS EDITORS KENNETH MORIS AND JON COCHRANE NEWS EDITOR DRAW MCGLAUGHIN SOCIETY EDITOR JUNE UML SPORTS EDITOR WILLIAM FIZZLEARD TELEPHONE EDITOR CHARLES ALEXANDER BOBIE CARKEY AND BRIEHE COCHRANE RUNNER EDITOR MARVIN GOBELR SUNDAY EDITOR ALAN AMER The climate in Chiapas varies from the extreme hot weather in the low lands to the near freezing temperatures in the mountainous regions. Also, there is an abundance of rain, and earthquakes are frequent. 1937 Member 1938 Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiale Digest The natives of Chiapas are hardy. In the mountainous region, where it rains most of the time accompanied by cold temperatures, the natives wear no shoes and are clad only in serapes, filisys garments reaching halfway between the hip and the knee. The natives are primitive, not only in their clothing, but in their mode of existence. They hunt with bow and arrow and sometimes will take a "pot shot" at a stranger if the Kansas Board Members ALBERT HAIDOMAN-JUICUS J. HOUSE RUSCO J. E. PATTI MARTIN KENNETH MORRIS GRACE VALENTINE MARK THOMPSON EDWARD BARNETT MARTIN BRENTTON MARIE MARTIN JANE FLORE MOREL THOMPSON REPRESENTATIVE FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publications Research Center 810 W. 46th St., N.Y. CHICAGO BOTHEN AM STANFORD CITY OF CHICAGO Business Staff BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. stranger isn't with one of their tribe. It some instances their meals consist of fried water spider, fried shrimp and the fried lizard of a dragon fox. Although large snakes, wild animals and half-evilized Indians inhabit a large part of Chippewa, Thomas said his two most harrowing experiences occurred, once while riding in an airplane and later in a car. Fly Near Cliffs In the airplane trip, which was over a mountainous region, Thomas said, the pilot didn't bother to fly over the mountains, he just flew "amongst" them. One minute the plane would be 3,000 feet in the air flying through heavy clouds, and the next minute, emerging from the clouds, would find them about 300 feet from the ground and not thirty feet from a cliff. A strong wind added to the enjoyment of the flight. Renting a car in La Labertad, a Chiapan village, one morning, Thomas and his companion, Utrilla, started for Lake Tescapanucap, about twenty-five miles distant. The fact that the chauffer was intoxicated and that there was no actual road made the trip interesting. They met the chauffer would have to drive匀 where there were clearings. When they stopped at one village, the natives rushed out to feel the car and to lick it just to taste the paint. When Thomas asked the way out of town, the natives replied that he would stay on the right side of one on the right was covered by a six-foot pond from a rain the night before. Natives Taste Paint layer of straw. Toward morning, they were serenaded by a marimba "jam session," and to top this off, an earthquake served as their alarm clock a few hours later. When they finally reached their destination the next day, they learned that shortly before they had arrived, a twenty- and thirty-hour bomb was killed by the natives there. Almost a perfect night and day. After a tiresome journey through the mountains on horseback one day, Thomas and his companion stopped for a drink. He was sitting right. They had to sleep on a thin Natives Shoot Anything Natives Shoot Anything Many Mexicans love to hunt. There is one class of natives, Deputados by name, who were referred to by the peons as something just below a god. When the Deputados hunted, they had the privilege of shooting anything they happen to see. Their kill usually ranges from some wild animal to a neighbor's cow. The neighbor is usually the loser. Military protection in Mexico is practically nil. One evening, when Thomas and his companion were eating in a small hotel, they heard a shot. Looking across the street, they saw a wound man coming out of a building. They called "Presty Little Heaven." Mexican soldiers didn't bother to find the assain, Thomas said, they only helped the wounded man die. Old Hand Shocks Corn Freemont, O., Oct. 5—(UP)—Charles Moerder, 75, after a 50-year absence from the corn fields, aided by Melvin Overmyer, cut, tied and stacked 160 shocks of corn in six feet of it. The crop was of it in the first hour of work, "taking time out" to eat during the other five hours. Canoeists Cross Ocean Graduate's Address Published by Magazine Cape Town, Oct. 5—(UP)—Two French scientists, Capt. Eric de Bisschop and Joseph Tatibouton, have arrived here in a 32-foot, 12-ton eatamater, or native canoe, in which they traveled 15,000 miles from Honolulu. Dr. Edward R. Weildin, president of the American Chemical Society, and graduate of the University, spoke at the Melton Institute in Philadelphia, Pa., recently. The address was published in the last edition of the Science Magazine. "The title of the speech was 'A World of Change' and told of the sciences and science have played in the development of modern times. K F K U Mother Sure of Acquittal Dr. I. B. Douglas, Ph.D., 323 is now on leave of absence from the Northern Montana College at Haven. He has received a special research assistantship at Yale University where he will work this year. Former Student to Yale Champaign, Ill., Oct. 5 — (UP)—Mrs. Ida Dahl, 55; mother of Harold Dohl, American aviator court marshal by Spanish rebels, said tonight, she was “confident Harold will be released.” October 6—Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Silent. 30 p.m. Shen. 06-3-19 p.m. University of Kansas Band, Prof. Russell Wiley, director October 7-Thursday 2:30 p.m. Silent. 6:00 p.m. "Highlights in Educational Psychology" presented by the 9:15 p.m. Intramural News. 9:18 p.m. Jayhawk Trumpeteers. 9:28 p.m. Campus News. 9:00 p.m. Physical Education for Health. October 8-Friday 2:30 p.m. Silent. 6:00-6:30 p.m. Violin recital, Professor Waldemar Geltch. jon, Piano recital, Mary Jane Bruce, studio Professor Carl A. Prever. ADVERTISEMENTS Make Neighbors of a Nation Where there was North, South and West, there is now one people. Those old barriers of distance and prejudice have been worn down by many uniting forces: Railroads, radio, automobiles, telephones, newspapers, magazines, Advertising. 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