PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY. MAY 18. 1937 Comment Here Comes The Sun. Boys . Of the 150,000 old students who are to be graduated from American institutions of higher learning this June, it is likely that a majority of these young people will soon be seeking jobs. Just what their prospects are was estimated in a survey just completed by Investors Syndicate of Minneapolis and published in the current issue of Literary Digest. The results are decidedly encouraging, and seem to indicate that for the first time since 1920 college graduates are going to get some kind of a break. This year's graduates have employment prospects only a little less favorable than those of 1929 and substantially better than those of 1936. Engineering, business administration, teaching, and general business classifications are the fields requiring the most recruits. Students planning to enter journalism, law, and investment banking will have the hardest struggle, as these were reported last in offering work to aspirants. In estimating the percentage of June graduates who will be employed, 28 schools said 90 per cent, and 13 per cent of the schools estimated 85 per cent. Scholarship, personality, campus activity and popularity, character, leadership, and general ability are the traits most often sought by employers in hiring students. All in all, it looks as though the classes of 1937 will have few representatives on the bread lines for some time to come. Democracy Staggers On In spite of the fact that American democracy theoretically grants every citizen freedom of religious and political thought, when the theory is put to trial and practical application made, the principle of free thinking and free speech frequently is made to work against those who take the constitution too literally. Take the case of Mabel Eaton, who Joseph Lewis, president of the Freethinkers of America, believes is a striking modern parallel of the intolerance which led to the Salem witch burnings. Mrs. Eaton recently lost custody of her children in a divorce action in which two courts held that she was not a fit mother because she held Communistic and alibi beliefs. She is permitted to see the children only when the father or his representative is present. To make the story even sadder, Mrs. Eaton is a frail woman suffering from a heartilment which she fears will soon end her life. And in this country there are supposedly no religious or political prejudices! Italy Pulls a Peachy One And all this in the interest of Christianity, peace and culture. It is touching. Add Fast Ones: Since the non-intervention blockade has started in Spain, Benito, the apostle of peace, has been bothered about the condition of his "volunteers" in Spain. To get munitions to them he has evolved the following plan: Henceforth the Italian steamer Liguria is an auxiliary battleship. As such she can run into any of the insurgent ports without having to stop for observers or for search. The Liguria used to be a merchant vessel. Solid rumor has it that she was one of the main carriers of interventions between Italy and France's Spain. We wonder what she'll carry now? These Airplane Crashes In less than four months, beginning last December 15, 51 persons have been killed in six air-line crashes, and 14 have perished during this period in two transport planes, which were wrecked on other than regular scheduled flights. This appalling total of 65 does not include those who were fatally injured in the Hindenburg, and lists only the casualties suffered in airplane crashes. The New Republic in an article on "Why Do Air Liners Crash?" lists the following suggestions as possible explanations for the lack of success in air transportation: fault of airplane designers, lack of governmental aid, and fault of operator or pilot. Each of these suggestions is backed up with plausible reasons. However, none of these clues alone will give The Kansan Platform 1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program. 4. An adequate building program, including: a. Construction of a medical science building. 3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore. 5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries. b. Addition to the stacks of the library. satisfactory explanation for the large number of air crashes. Air transportation is in an experimental stage, and enthusiasts of this form of travel will in all probability continue to perfect these planes until the percentage of unsuccessful trips will be at a low peak. At the present time there is no solution for ending these disasters, but practical flying men will in the future adopt more safeguards and more satisfactory airplane machinery. Campus Opinion Humor, Pathos, Inventory Humor, Pathos, Inventory Karam Editor Daily Kansan: BOTTEN several centuries too soon: The leaders in the Spanish Inquisition. Those Spaniards could have learned a flock of the nicest tricks from our University torture court—simones known as the hostos. As though the ordinary devices—solitary confine-ments radios off at 10 o'clock, odoriferous floor wax, radio tubes—were the only tools we could use to make Christians out of viests, they've figured out a brand new one—creating scaffolded outside hall walls. I haven't taken complete inventory of the aliments of the hospital inmates, but there is at least one fractured skull with a few feet of the carpenter's' tattoo. The constant pounding is undoubtedly very painful. A cursory glance at the calendar reveals the fact that school will be out, and the hospital empty, in a couple of weeks. Couldn't this construction work possibly be postponed until then? Z. Z. Z. Elect To Sigh Kamari Lilly Kahn began for Friday for "Uttler" ducky in cast portions today, warmer in neither rehearsal. Low I. Q Wotthehell? Missouri Speaks... Missouri Speaks.. I'm a Missouri Sho-Me who is also getting it in the neck with the increase in fees, but I've examined this situation closely and can see no place where I have a kick coming. After all, I came to Kansas because I could get easier, because I liked the people here better and had more experience with them. The people here, speaking a different language entirely, and being much much farther from home, I suspect, Boston Salior, that my motives in making the pilgrimage were even more purely ulterior than I can also recognize the need behind the advance in fees—what this University needs is more money per capita, which means more money, fewer students and more instructors, and higher fees is the answer. MORR Thompson P.S. I don't imagine we hicks will miss you. Official University Bulletin Vol. 34 TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 No. 156 --- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: There will be a meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in Room C, Myers hall. Students and faculty members are welcome—Keith Davis, President. COLLEGE FACULTY. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in the auditorium at the third floor of the Administration building—E. H. Lindley, President. FIFESHMAN MEN: There will be a regular meeting of the Freshman Council at 7 o'clock this evening. JAY JANES: Pledging will be in the Pine Room at the Union building at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. All members are required to be there.—Roberta Cook, President. KAPPA PHI: The banquet will be at Evan! Hearth at 6:15 this evening. -Avis Peters. KU. CAMERA CLUB: The K U. Camera Club will meet the host of meeting this week at 7:45 in 210 room on Eastwood will speak on "Composition in Relation to Photography" selection of officers will also be held—R. S. Charlton, LL.D. MENS STUDENT COUNCIL. There will be a moment in the Pine Room at 7:30 on Thursday, May 29th. NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will not hold its meeting tonight-"Virginia Rodriguez." QUILL CLUB: The last meeting of the Quill Club for this year will be held on Thursday evening, May 29 at Room of the Room of the Union building. Election of officers for this year will be held - J. Hubert Anderson, Chancellor. UNION COMMITTEE. There will be a meeting of the in-230, the First Room of the Union building—J. PUBLISHER ... DALE O'BRIEN KANSAS PRESS MEMBER 1937 ASSOCIATION University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAN MANAGING EDITOR CARL W. SMITH CAMPUS EDITORS MARY RUTTER AND MONIE THOMPSON NEWS EDITOR MARY JOHNSON SOUTH EDITOR MARY JOHNSON SHOOTER EDITOR HUGHE WIRE TELGRAPHIC EDITOR BOOLEE BANKLE CAROUS EDITOR BILL TYTER AND ARMENE DEVRIES SUNDAY EDITOR DAVID PARTREE Editorial Staff FEATURE EDITOR JANE FLOOD News Staff EDITOR-N-CHEEP STEVEN DAVID AUDITOR EDITORS ISABEL VOSS AND GEORGIA WHITTON Kansan Board Members Neglect Red Schoolhouse Methods As Progressive Education Gets Spotlight In the present era of liberalism, progressive education is gradually coming into the spotlight and the educational methods of the little "one room red schoolhouse" have been relegated to the limbo of the krocene lamp, the village blacksmith, or among progressive educationalists. In the modern school emphasis is being placed on school work being put on a functional basis interprete- ting and learning up valuable fields of learning. ALICE HALDENMILL-JULIUS FRIAR JR. BLAIR CARL SMITH STEVEN DAVID WILLIAM R. DOWNS PIEH STATTON J. HOWARD RUCO WILLIAM GILL DALE O'BRAIN JOB REICHBAUM JOHN BAERHAUN In Roslyn, New York, a small eastern community, education in the grades has gone definitely informal with arithmetic taught by having the students learn to bake cookies, make pies, and Junior learns to juggle figures by adding three cups of nuts to a pound of flour and then placing the mixture in the oven, instead of by the e old-fashioned multiplication tubes. (If only calculus could be quite so easy and entertaining.) Another progressive educational-ist believes that unless the child is aspiring to be a stoneographer, reporter, or compiler of a dictionary, spelling is a waste of time. She states that as long as the word is pronounced correctly, who cares is spelled with a “e” or a “k”? By Warren Littlejohn. e'unel Students in New York City will bring home report cards beginning next fall featuring mainly personality and character traits instead of the customary three "Rs." In a high school in New Hampshire, students may take a six weeks course in skiing for which academic credit is required. In Boston, air minded students are asking for courses in aviation. 'Cat' Is as Good as 'Kat' F. QUENTIN BROWN REFERENCES FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Services, Inc. Publication Librarians' Reprintative 420 HOWARD ST. N.Y. CHICAGO BOSTON SAN FRANCisco N.Y. This process of streamlining education is not welcomed by educational conservatives and champions of the orthodox system who term informal education as "new-fangled education" and promote the program of modern education. Trailers Prove Popular Houses THE HIT PARADE The zenith in informality in college is seen as students turn to trailers for campus housing. At least four colleges have reported having students resorting to trailers as a solution of dorm rent. Colleges may now take their homes with them when going to college and park them on the historic grounds of their various alma mattes. GRANADA Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. Shows Continuous From 2:30 — 25c 'Til 7 POSITIVELY Your Last Chance Ends Tonite Now for the First Time at Regular Rates. Direct From Sensational Record Breaking Road Show Engagements. NORMA SHEARER LESLIE HOWARD "Romeo and Juliet" Also—Color Cartoon - News X-TRA SCOOP Recently Harvard started something new in education when certain courses in American government and history were offered without charge to interested persons not enrolled at the university. Examinations with prizes to honor students will be given over the summer because are no prerequisite or educational requirements for the courses. Climaxing the Coronation King George Broadcasts a Dramatic Message to His Empire. THE KING'S CORONATION MESSAGE! Will Continue Domestic Study Teacher and pupil alike agree at Vassar that the recently completed courses on marriage and domestic problems which previously never graced the halls of that institution were fulfilled with love and vouch for their continuance. Wesleyan College "studs" are agitating for a similar course in domestic relationships. The Life of George VI From the Cradle to the Crown Thru Saturday Also WEDNESDAY Thru Friday In some of our other progressive educational institutions, talking films are used as lectures. In others, classroom lectures are broadcast over the radio by professors for students who would rather take their notes at home in the luxury of an easy chair and a cigarette. Some The Life of George VI PATEE Week Days 10c Till 7 Then 15c NOW! ENDS WEDNESDAY You've Wotted a Long Time for Their Lips to Meet for the First Time! SATURDAY Four Days Everybody Who's Anybody--- Radio's Greatest. The Screen's Brightest. 3 Big Name Bands. ROBERT TAYLOR GRETA GARBO 2 BIG HITS! AND HUGH RAH! HUGH RAH! America Is Back on the Laugh Standard "CAMILLE" "That Man's Here Again" HUGH HERBERT schools offer courses in cosmetology for girls who want to wear the correct shade of lipstick, et cetera. The curriculum in the modern school is being revised to meet the current needs of the student. The "little red schoolhouse" has lost its association to an ever increasing demand for a new deal in education. ALSO Hindenberg Disaster AND COLOR TRAVEL Art Fraternity To Initiate Thursday Formal initiation of Delta Phi Delta, national honorary art fraternity, will be held Thursday night in the W.S.G.A. lounge in central Administration building. Robert Cooke, fa37, Charlene Forbes, ed37, and Helen Huffman, ed37, will become members. Bette Ruth Judd, fa39 Arlene Martin, ed37, and Wilson Fleming, fa39 are new pledges. W. H. Horr Returns From Collection Trin. W. H. Horn, professor of botany, returned recently from a collection trip to Wilson and Montgomery counties in southern Kansas, where he gathered about five thousand specimens of spring flora. While working with Dorothy Vaughn, gr, last Friday and Saturday, Professor Horr gathered some thirty species of flora. Your Favorite Theatre ARSITY home of the joymakers LAST TIMES TODAY Shows 2:30 - 7:00 - 9:30 Admission 10e - 15e Don't Miss Thot Big Bing Show BING CROSBY "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN" And "ACCUSED" Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Dolores Del Rio Wednesday - Thursday Bargain Days 1st—A Revel of Romance and Rhythm! "RUMBA" with Margo — Lynn Overman 2 BIG 10c TO HITS ALL LEW AYRES "PANIC ON THE AIR" BENNY BAKER SUNDAY — IRENE DUNNE "THEODORA GOES WILD" War Admiral Entered Chicago, May 17—(UP)—Samuel Riddle, owner of the Kentucky Derby winning War Admiral, nominated his 3-year-old for the $30,000 American Winner Walter L. Gregory of the Washington Jockey Club announced today. War Admiral is now at Belmont Park, New York, preparing for the Belmont stakes to be run June 15. Zoology Club To Meet Today The meeting of the Snow Zoology Club scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today has been changed to 5 p.m. There will be no meal served at the meeting Shows 3-7-9 25c 'Til 7 With Adolphe Menjou May Robson - Andy Devine Lionel Stander LAST TIMES TODAY! Swing Goes Crazy in This Joyous "Jammin'" "Jamboree" "TURN OFF THE MOON" CHARLIE RUGGLES ELEANOR WHITNEY JOHNNY HOWERS PHARIS WINNERS Kenny Baker - Be蓝 — Also — Music - Piano SUNDAY Claudette Colbert "I Met Him In Paris" Bob Young Yours, Dear Robt. 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