PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, APPIL 1, 1937 Comment A Promise, a Regret The Daily Kausan promises impartiality in the campaign for M.S.C. offices just beginning. It believes that party platforms at present mean very little and that the value of the Council depends very largely on the intelligence and the conscientiousness of its members and their actions. The fact that Fachacumac and its majority on the Council blocked, for this coming year at least, any chance for rectifying notable imperfections in the Council set-up, will not bias the Daily Kansan. To be sure, it is regrettable that some plan for Council reorganization cannot be put into effect with the seating of next year's councilmen. Members of both parties and the incumbent Council have showed themselves fairly unanimous in the belief that something should be done to make the Council more effective and representative. Although the Council majority does agree that men's government should be made better, it decided on the basis of some vague reasoning that it shouldn't be made better this year. Anything that may be done to better men's government now must be in the form of amendment which can't go into effect until the 1938-39 school year. Good platforms could bring substantial betterment to existing conditions if they were carried out. It's quite a difficult job to lift a boulder with tweezers. It's quite a difficult job to carry out a good platform with an inefficient Council. Raving Rhymes "One steak is lying on the floor. The one stool is lying on the floor. The next a cat is pawing o'er. The butcher-Jew finds that okay —The dirtier, the more they'll weigh. Such filthy things Phew! Pec-ow! A Jew, and Jew alone, can do!" And the recent addition to Nazi children's literature contains many other verses, illustrated by colored pictures, depicting the Jew as a sort of new monster. The book contains 21 brightly colored pages showing villainous looking Jews cheating, betraying, seducing, or in other ways harming clean, upright Nordics. Across from each page in a simple, understandable verse, printed in letters a half-inch high, Hitler's anti-Jew doctrine is given. The book was written by a school teacher and printed in the Third Reich. It was released shortly before Christmas, at such a low price that mass circulation was assured. "Trust Not the Fox by Field or Pond, Nor Any Jew Upon His Bond!" the book's title, is printed in a large, child-like letters on the red, yellow, and blue cover, underneath the drawings of a fox with his teeth bared in a snarl, and a Jaw, raising his right hand to take an oath. The whole thing makes us curious. Can it be that there are no Jews who are upright, no Nordics who are despicable? We always thought all peoples were alike in that they were composed of some good and some bad individuals. But of course we must take the Nazi's word for it. The trouble is that if what the Nazi say is true, nothing can be done about it. So why do they have to rub it in? Surely they're not conceited! It looks as though Americans can't equal the Germans, either. Remember the luscious phrases the Nazi press directed at us? The nasty things they said? Bouquetless Russia No more flowery phrases for Russia, says Stalin. All this praising of anything Russian, whether it be a project or an official, must lessen. So directly a group of workers called upon their boss and told him he was an incompetent bum. When the boss agreed, saying that they were certainly correct in calling him an incompetent bum, the workers cheered lustily and all was fine. Ah, you've got to hand it to these Russians; they know how to handle delicate situations. And that's probably why no one has told Stalin that he was anything but a very fine man, nor has anyone criticized a pet project of his. It's all a matter of strategy, you see. This criticizing can go too far after all. Everybody else took to the idea, gave vent to their feelings and were pleased with the result. Never- The Kansan Platform 1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program. 2. Retention of student work and achievement. 4. An adequate building program, including: a. Construction of a medical science building. B. Betterment of student working conditions. C. Establishment of a cooperative bookstore. b. Addition to the stacks of the library. 5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries. theless it was deemed wise to let Stalin go unmatched—at least to his face. Clever people, these Russians; they know what's what. Page LaGuardia What can students do about this consistent chatter and blatant blab that goes on across the tables in the library? Get up and move, you say? To be sure, that's been done time after time but one is pestered again by the billing and coining of a pair or two of adolescent love birds or an "official meeting" of a quorum from some fraternity or sorority. Students should, in all respect to their fellowmen, get off in a corner by themselves, go to some "coke" parlor, the Union lounge, or somewhere besides the library to chat and visit. If necessary, as a last resort, negotiations can be made to include students who talk in the library in the "chamber of horrors" provided that Mayor La Guardia will approve it of Campus Opinion My, We've Been Naughty! I have been interested in the attitude of the Kansan toward student government. Throughout the year the columns of this paper have consistently conveyed impression that council-members are schuming politically against students. The stance with stomach if they could gain the council majority thereby. (What to do with the majority once obtained is a thing not considered.) In fact, the situation was described as "the nadir of student govern- And then came the issue of *March 23*, with a front-page editorial praising the "Hill political parties" for drawing up a re-organization plan, saying, "His passport is an illusion only a procedural measure." Such an antithesis is only a procedure lauded a far greater degree of party politics than was condemned in all times previous! Whether the measure is good or not is beside the point. The fact reiterates that the authorities are in crediting the council with such political observance. It is enlightening to note further that the Kansan still cannot believe it possible for any action of the council to be untainted with political motive. Hardly did the state act as a victim of the re-organization plan was separated into two parts. The point is merely this: the Kansas has a large amount of spectreus at hues and times ranging from an allys to an adversary. The Kansas apparently depends on the mechanical; working of the gun (fault) and the state; the author's stupefy (gust) with the state; William Zinn Jr. Official University Bulletin Vol. 34 Thursday, April 1, 1937 No. 123 --from their tenants on April 1, the first day of the new year. When the French calendar was changed in 1563, the new year fell on Jan. 1. Tenants refused to pay tribute on Jan. 1, saying they had paid in April for 12 months. The courts upheld their decision, but the landowners then demanded tribute on next April 1 for the three months they had missed. Again the tenants refused and the landlord ceased to work that time. Since then the tenants have celebrated April 1 by doing foolish tricks to mock their landlords. ASME. ASME will meet tonight at 3 o'clock in 210 Marvin. An interesting lecture on refrigeration will be presented. All mechanical engineering students are urged to attend -Milton Russell, Vice-Pres. EL ATENEO: There will be a meeting of El Ateneo at 4:30 this afternoon in 113 East Ad. It will be delivered by Elisabeth H. 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 are due by April 30, before April 3—William Zunonoc, Secretary. KU KUS: The April 5 meeting has been postponed to the following Monday, April 12—Frank Warren. Secure the file. 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 Ullerton, President. M. Y.C.A. CABINET. There will be a meeting of all 30 in the Y.M.C.A. office, Harold E. Grege, President University Daily Kansan QUILL CLUB. There will be a meeting of the Quill Club at 7:30 this evening in the Pine Roof of the Quill Club. Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS ASSOCIATION KANSAS PRESS MEMBER 1937 Loriaria Story INSTUDIO-CHIEF ASSOCIATE EDITORS INABEL YUGO and VIGORIA WAITFORD MANAGING EDITOR CARL W. SMITH CAMPUS EDITORS MARY RUTTER and MOREN THOMPSON FIREFIGHTER MARVIN GOLETT SOCIETY EDITOR ALEXANDER SPORTS EDITOR HIGH WIRE TELTELEGRAPH EDITOR MANAGER CAREX MEDIA ADMINISTRATOR BILL TYLER and MARGARET WUNDAY EDITOR DATE PRESENT PUBLISHER ... News Staff FEATURE EDITOR... Kansas Board Members KEN PETTIFWITHER BIRD HALDEMAN-JULIUS BRIAR JACK BROWN BROWN VILLANO WILLIAM K. DOWNS PIECE STRATTON J. HOWARD RUSGO RICHARDSON DEVIN HARLIN DANIEL HUFS JAMES HUFS Did you awaken this morning to the shouts of "Fire!" rush out of your room only to have someone cry "April Fool?" Was your tooth brush covered with mercurychrome and your tooth powder can filled with alum? Or did you arise early in order to play some practical joke on your room-mate? If so, you are following a custom which has been practiced throughout many countries for countless centuries. April Fool's day is not an American custom, as is generally believed, but can be traced far back into antiquity ... so for that its origin is not certain. Many theories of the origin of this day of foolery have been advocated, but the general opinion is that it is a survival of the ancient practice of celebrating the period of the Vernal Equinox, in the period in which the sun enters the sign of Aries, the new year. April 1 marks the first day of the new year for the calendar of Persia. 'April Fish' Day The ancient Hindus celebrated the "Hul Festival," an age-old custom, in which the chief diversion is to send foolish people on errands and expeditions which end in disappointment or laugh at the expense of the victim. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Services, Inc. 420 MAIDEN AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. BROOKLYN BISTROUTE, BOSTON MAKINGS BISTROUTE, BANSFORD In France the custom has been traced back to 1564 and is called "April Fish" day, Landowners of ancient France demand tribute Beware of Your Friends This Day Or They'll Make An April Fool of You BUDENESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. The season of the Vernal Equinox has long been celebrated in Britain as one of sports and general festivity, but it was not characterized by the performance of foolish deeds until the latter part of the seventeenth century when it is believed to have been introduced by the French. **Scotch "Cuckoo Day"** April Fool's day was known to German antiquity, but has been introduced into Germany in modern times by the French. Scotland took up the custom from the English and named it "Cuckoo Day" or "Gowl's Day" when they delighted in sending silly petitions in search of the gowk or cuckoo. 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