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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY APRIL 2. 1937
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Comment
To Those Who Beef
Despite its genuine attempts at fair play, the Daily Kansan has been harshly accused of favoring the P.S.G.L. in the Hill political campaign yet in its infancy. It has been accused of suppressing the news of developments in the Pachacamac party and of giving unwarranted space to P.S.G.L.
The Kansan challenges anyone to show where it has showed favoritism for either party.
As a matter of fact, most of the beefing has come from persons who are disgruntled because the Kansan hasn't shown partisanship—for their party. Of course their objections to the Kansan's policy aren't voiced in that way.
It is the Kansan's duty to disseminate news and to promote the community welfare. In this latter role the Kansan has campaigned for a revamping of the antiquated and inefficient organization upon which the M.S.C. is forced to operate at the present.
Necessarily, therefore, it is and will continue to be the Kansan's policy to see that the plan for Council reorganization as passed by the Council last Wednesday is accepted by the voters on April 8.
It is and will continue to be the Kansan's policy to see that the best candidates are elected to office regardless of party affiliation.
No Hero Tbis
Favoritism? Yes-on the side of the students.
President Roosevelt's reported organization of a world peace offensive in an effort "to avert Europe's headlong plunge into a general war arising from the Spanish holocaust" has all the earmarks of a western serial, with the hero galloping in at the last moment just in time to avert catastrophe.
To the gullible mind this might sound like a pretty good idea at that; but viewed in the light of experience, which shows scores of peace intervention plans all downed by more robust motives, the proposal is as impractical as it is charming.
However, this is the third or fourth time that such a report has been given out, and each time the State Department has issued denials. In all probability, the president knows as well as anyone that he could do little or nothing to help straighten out conditions in Europe, and will not make a bad matter worse by attempting to do so. And so the galloping hero to the rescue myth may as well be discarded for good and all.
Men of Honor
The sudden flurry of dueling in Hungary that has received such publicity in American newspapers has made the out-worn chivalric customs of that country seem ridiculous to all, but it took a Socialist politician to put the cap on the whole affair.
One day this gentleman spoke rather harshly against the practices of a high police officer in Budapest, and that worthy, feeling his honor "injured beyond repair," and following the generally accepted custom there, challenged his attacker to a duel. And to his, and every one else's surprise, the challenge was accepted. But the challenged has the choice of weapons.
"Cannons." said the Socialist.
Which is about all that was needed.
His second gravely reported that he had been an artillist in the World War and was most skilled in the use of that weapon. They politely requested his offended opponent to borrow two large cannons from the army and set them up on hill-tops at the outskirts of the city. The duelists were to load up and at a given signal blaze away.
No Pipe-Dream. This
Perhaps Ponce de Leon's search for the fountain of youth wasn't such a pipe-dream after all.
Dr. James E. Kendall, head of the department of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, predicts that very soon persons past middle age will be able to add ten or more years to their lives by drinking "heavy water," a substance discovered in 1931 at Columbia University.
He says that "heavy water would slow the functional processes without appreciably impairing the faculties, thus reducing bodily wear and tear." In other words, a person drinking heavy water would be living only about half as fast as a person drinking ordinary water.
For the ordinary working man or woman,
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded diversity athletic program.
2. Betternement of student working conditions.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a social security system.
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
heavy water would be of little or no use, but to the person past middle age, who has done his work in the world and wishes to sit back and "watch the world go by" it would prove an invaluable boon.
It is Ponce's bad luck that he lived about four centuries too early.
Five of a Kind
Shortly after the turn of the century, nothing was so common as to take a collection of freaks and exploit them. Later, after Barnum, only one freak was necessary. Lindbergh, Gertrude Ederle, and Jimmy Walker although not all freaks are products of the ballyhoo of that period.
Every word they uttered was news and everything they ate or bought profitable returns to someone. Then the ballyhoo ceased and it quit functioning until it started anew in Callendar, Ontario. And all because some woman saw fit to give birth to a new record.
Since that day in 1935, the babies have made the fabulous sum of $543,000 from newspapers, syrup, cereals, and photos for the movies and the newsreels. And the golden hoard won't end until they are all comfortably rich.
It must be nice to be a quaint. You celebrate Easter and other holidays, weeks in advance, so that the newspapers and other syndicates who have bought and paid for their lives can have them seasonally for their clientele.
Maybe it's nice and maybe it's unfortunate. The character of the girls as they grow older will determine that. Right now the Canadian government is taking all the credit. While they are profiting handsomely, they didn't have to work so awfully hard to get it.
Since the babies have become public property and can't even celebrate holidays like other folks, and can't even live their own lives excepting in front of a camera, it would seem that multiple births were hard on everyone excepting the government, who is doing all right by itself. Surely the quints won't forever like publicity.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
An Unfair Advantage
A few weeks ago, when the appointment of an athletic director seem but a cataclysm, he had to deliver the Hilt that new director would be Lonborg, a friend of mine offered to wager with me (a malted milk) that Lonborg was good.
Having utmost faith in God and everybody, I
scrumped in the bet, and ...
The friend had been around here for several years. I am but a honoree.
He knew about the outside influences which permeate and gum up the workings of all appointments.
He knew that all action is slow, and at times there is no action.
He knew that the information which had reached the Hill, was probably let out by unauthorized parties.
He knew that no matter what the source, political entanglements might stop the appointment or delay it so long that all people connected with the deal would become disagusted, and possibly one would give
We all know the result—I buy the malted milk—the University gets no athletic director—the athletic board gets most of the blame—and Kansas prospects for football hit a new low. H.M.
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 34 Friday, April 2, 1837 No. 124 !
ELECTION OF NEW STUDENT COUNCIL. The annual election of members of the Men's Student Council has been set for April 8. Certificates of nomination have been submitted to the Office before April 3—William Zumwanzle, Secretary.
JAY JANES: There will be a pledge meeting for Jay Janes at 4:30 this afternoon—Beulah Pimno.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: The spring initiation dinner will be held on Wednesday, April 7. Please make reservations now with one of the officers or with Dr. Twente-Gilbert Ulmer, President.
KU KU: The April 5 meeting has been postponed until the following Monday, April 12—Frank Warren, Scranton.
University Daily Kansan
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAN
KANSAS PRESS
MEMBER 1937
ASSOCIATION
By Floyd Kelly, c.38
The month of April marks the emergences on the Hill of the political organizations and the always hard-fought campaigns that are certain to materialize before the spring season. This year, running every University man will have been introduced to campus politics by personal contact with candidates, by newspaper propaganda, and by bales of party literature. All this tends to confuse the average student for he has had little accurate information concerning the activities of the Council, relative merits of the candidates, and the history of student government on Mr. Orcadl, all so important to lone behez he votes.
The annual battle for political prestige in the Council and for class offices is by no means a new activity on the Campus. Student government was brought to Kansas University several years before the World War and the student council began as a new venture in 1912. Doubts was exacerbated by the inability of the plan in the beginning, but twenty-five years have proved self-government to be a desired institution.
Editor-in-Chief
EDITOR-IN-CHEF
ACCOMMISSIONS EDITORS Ivan Sons and GEORGIA WHITTON
STEVEN DAVID
ACCOMMISSIONS EDITORS Ivan Sons and GEORGIA WHITTON
MANAGING EDITOR          CARL W. SMITH
CAMPUS EDITORS         MAKY RUTTER AND MOREN THOMPSON
NEWS EDITOR            MARKIN GOOELER
SOCIETY EDITOR        MAKY RUTTER
SHORT EDITOR           HIGH WILE
TELEGRAPH EDITOR      MARGARET CAKESK
MAGUPIT EDITORS       BILL TYLER AND ALMA FRAZER
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The election of 1912 was conducted in a manner which would appear hapazard to the present-day politicism. The two-party system was not in existence. All one had to do to secure nomination was to submit his name, fifty cents, and a petition with 25 signatures. By this method the party lost. But outparty affiliation if he were popular and had a following.
Month of April Showers Campaign Spirit on Mount Oread's Political Rivals
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FEATURE EDITOR... JANE FLOOD
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Pachacamaca Society Founded
In the fall of 1912, a small group banded together, calling themselves the "half and half club" as a means of organizing a "Tafi" faction on the Campus to oppose the strong Rosevelt and Wilson groups that were existing during that national election year. When spring came, this same group organized and nominated candidates for the student council on the Pachacamaca ticket. With the founding of the Pachacamaca Society the era of party supremacy was born. It immediately proved popular with the student
BUSINESS MANAGER... F. QUENTIN BROWN
Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan.
body. With each party making efforts to elect its candidates by submitting workable policies that appealed to the voting students, the school's government has taken great strides towards better conditions for every individual attending the University.
Additions in membership were made in the Council before and after the war. During these years the governing body was enlarged to include 32 offices. A first and second vice-president were elected to the Council as all of the class officers. Two non-athletic members of the Athletic Board and the cheerleader election until 1230, when the cheerleaders' choice was placed in the hands of a joint committee.
Black Mask Party
In 1921, the Black Mask party was founded as an opposition to Pachacamac. The black-hooded organization lived until 1925, never having elected a majority to the Council. The next spring saw the rise of the Independents, a new political party with almost the same following. In 1927, the Independent renched their peak, electing all but two Council officers.
Organize P.S.G.L.
The Oread and Kayhawk parties, formed in 1931, united in coalition against the Pachacamacs and won 14 of the 24 positions. The Pacchamacs regained the political throne in 1933, and they whelmed victories in 1932, 1933, and winning all but two offices in the election of 1934. The Oread-Kay-
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In a recent survey of the buying habits of students in nineteen large universities, the J. C. Penney Company was proven to be a favorite with these buyers. Penny's operates on a compartmental basis in the survey.
The students, both men and women, were asked to tell where they had most recently purchased such items as dresses, shoes, coats, underwear, and all the other things students do buy. Fifty-one of these questions referred to merchandise carried by the Penney Company stores. The store or brand named by the most answers was given first place; the second most popular was listed second, and so forth. In the fifty-one questions to which Penney's was eligible, Penney's took sixteen first places; 6 second places; 8 third places; 2 fourth places; and hold two sixth places, one eight place, and one ninth place.
Pemney's took first place in the following lines of merchandise: women's dress coats, sport coats, street dresses, sweaters, leather jackets, slips, pajamas, raincoats and goleshes; also men's skirts, jeans, molksins, leather jackets, gloves, underwear and bathrobes.
Penney's came in close second in the following lines; women's blouses, lingerie and robes, and men's cords, sweaters and garter. We placed third in women's informal dresses, sport jackets, gloves, and men's raincoats, shirts, ties, belts, tie sleeps and collar pins.
Over 82,000 students in nineteen colleges were interviewed. The Penney stores patronized by these students are the following: Berckley, Calif; Los Angeles, Cal; (2 colleges interviewed there); Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colo; Boulder, Colorado; Moscow, Id.; Corvallis, Orie; Eugene; Missola, Mont; St Louis, Mo; Palo Alto, Cal; Pullman, Wash; Seattle, Wash; Abuquerque, N, M; and Manhattan, Kan.
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