PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS WEDNESDAY. MARCH 17. 1937 Comment Originality Pays Originality is one of the key words to success. It is told of Heywood Brown that as a young man, weary of sitting in editors' outer offices in an attempt to break into New York journalism, he dejectedly sat on a park bench and wrote clever letters to the editors whose audience he had never been able to secure. He mentioned that he was sick of studying the wall paper designs in their outer offices and how about a job? The result was an immediate offer from three leading newspapers. Although there is a limit to such things, the unemployed young man who borrowed some eight dollars to have several thousand "gopher" match prints printed telling of his desire for work was on the right track. Upon distribution of the useful articles bearing his plea for a job along with address and qualifications, he is said to have received numerous offers of employment. Such practical and successful originality is an object lesson for aspiring college students. Originality coupled with necessity has produced some remarkable ideas. And strangely enough, originality is for no reason limited to a gifted few, but is anyone's for the acquiring. The World Today We are on the up-tide financially for the moment, but such voices of differing thought as "The Nation," "The Kansas City Star," and Raymond Moley have warned against the current boom. The justification for sit-down strikes that rings true now, will not be conducive to sane though if a crash comes. Steel and ship-building companies may well be happy, for they exercise once more the privilege of flourishing on nationalistic hysteria. Every major nation is piling a prodigious debt that its people may be prepared to shoot at others who are going hungry to be able to shoot at them. There is much talk of treason, but too little of governments which betray the populace they are supposed to represent. In the meantime the British officials booogle with the Spanish situation to avoid an after-effect similar to that of Ethiopia. Leon Blum, a socialist, arranges to buy iron and tomatoes from the rebel Franco. Germany is about at the end of her economic rope. The rest of the world is on unsound footing. What is needed is not hysterical armament, but international co-operation. The horse-and-buggy day is no more surely past than is the Yankee clipper era. Until the whole world is sane, no part of it may be safe. Taunts will not supply human wants. And killing people has not yet made Democracy supreme. What! No Exams? Students, particularly college students, will rejoice when they learn of a finding made in behalf of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. I. L. Kandel of Columbia University has concluded, after an extensive survey, that the old-style written examination is worse than useless, and that it should not be considered as a part of academic training. "The success of an educational system," says Dr. Kandel, "can or should no longer be measured in terms of the numbers who pass or fail in examinations, but by the degree to which it has been able to discover the abilities and needs of pupils and has provided for them the type of education from which they are capable of profiting." Before growing too optimistic, however, it might be well to warn that when our conscientious educators abolish examinations, they will have decided upon something to replace them. Thirty Days At long last Dr. Townsend has been sentenced to thirty days in jail. He's not there yet, but it looks as if he will be before many moons. He received the sentence for walking out on the committee from the House of Representatives when their question began to irk him. That he had good reason for leaving the investigation is certain. The committee was using him as a political football, attempting to discredit him in the eyes of the nation, for the election was just around the corner. They always choose the right time for those investigations. But on the other hand, Townsend made a martyr of himself and used his walk-out to The Kansan Platform 1. A well-rounded variety athletic program. 2. Betterment of student working conditions. 3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore. 4. An adequate building program, including: a. Construction of a medical science building. b. Addition to the stacks of the library. 5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries. good advantage. His followers were cheered found new faith in their leader. Very delightful goings-on. And so, as was inevitable, he was summoned to court to face contempt charges. His sentence he greeted with a crisp "Thank you." His lawyer will appeal the case. Said Townsend upon meeting the press: "The tide is definitely turning and my crackpot idea is becoming the idea which will save America from economic serifdum and will bring happiness and prosperity to our people." Curious thing: there weren't any quotes around "crackpot." Against the Law to Think It seems that knee action has taken a real hold in industry. One of the most appealing aspects, to American students, of German universities, has been the students' custom of wandering from one school to another at will. In this way they receive the instruction of the greatest authorities in Germany in any field which interests them. Herr Hitler has ended all this. From now on each student will be required to spend at least three semesters at the same university so that the school may have "a better chance to inculcate the Nazi spirit." But by bit, the very brains of the people are being plucked from their skulls. Freedom of speech and press and the right of assemblage went long ago, and now even the thought processes are being controlled by law. It is a rather horrible vet fascinating process to watch. What will the German people be like in 50 years if this rule continues? It is interesting to speculate. Strike Totals A large number of strikes have occurred during the present economic change in the United States. Rising costs of living and of manufactured products in general seem to have given workers in almost every instance "reason" for striking. No doubt labor union leaders agitate this feeling, but the result is that the workers strike, employers stand pat and business is paralyzed. From 1929 to 1932 the average number of strikes was 814 a year. The number jumped to 1,562 in 1933; 1,856 in 1934; 2,014 in 1935; 1936 made an increase over the preceding year and 1937 seems to be getting off to a good start with the popular "sit-down" strikes. During the last few months an unusual number of demonstrations have been made. Not only the numbers, but the reasons given for the strikes have become unusual. They have become almost a fad, with grown men tying themselves to radiators with dog chains in order to force girls to marry them. Every time March behaves like a lamb, we feel she's lion. St. Patrick, Hero of Emerald Isle, Is Honored Today by His Countrymen Official University Bulletin Vol. 34 Wednesday, March 17, 1927 No. 115 JAY JANES: There will be a meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in 212 Aad. Attendance is required—Beechum LECTURE ON CONSTANTARIES LITERATURE: M. Johnson will lecture to freshmen and others interested this afternoon at 3:30 in 205 Fraser Hall. His subject will be "The Constraint of the Real World" — W. S. Johnson, Johnson, Department of English, By Bob Evans, cunei. Every good Irishman she shunned today in honor of St. Patrick, yet few knew his story. Patrick was the early evangelist who converted the pagan Ireland to Christianity, and he was born about 372 A.D. in the British Isles or in Gaul. His father was a Colt in the Roman Civil Service, and young Patrick was kidnapped by a band of raiding pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland at the age of sixteen. He tended the sheep of his master, an Irish chieftain, and learned the language of people. After serving as a slave for six years, he escaped to the Continent where he studied to prepare himself for a proposed mission to Christianize Ireland. During this period of preparation, Patrick was appointed a deacon and ordained a priest. Finally he was conceived a bishop by the church and sped on his mission to Ireland. KANSAS PRESS MEMBER 1937 ASSOCIATION University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE The Fire at Tara Editorial Staff EDITOR-IN-CHEP ASSOCIATE EDITORS STEVEN DAVID AND CARL SMITH PUBLISHER ... Managing Editor MARCO MOUNDI CAMPUS EDITORS DAVE PAINTBACK and DRIVERD BRIDges NEW EDITOR MELVIN MOUNDI SOUTH EDITOR MAYK MOUNDI SPORTS EDITOR HUGH WIRE TELEGRAPH EDITOR J. Howard RUICO and KEN POINTWATERIE SUNDAY EDITOR J. Howard RUICO and KEN POINTWATERIE Tara in Ireland was the heart of Tara paganism. The city was near the abode of the Irish Gods, the burial place of the kings, and the site of important pagan festivities. The people had gathered at Tara to celebrate the birthday of the king. Part of the rites of the festival was to be kindling of a great fire by the monarch himself. This event ended until the fire at Tara blared forth. FEATURE EDITOR ... ROSEMARY SMITH ALICE HADLEMAN-HARRIS KEN PURSELITWAITE BROOKS CRAWFORD CARL SMITH STEVE DAVID MARY RUFFER F. QUINTIN BROWN STEVIE DAVID WILLIAM K. DRAWS PHILL STATTON J. HOWARD RUFO BOB RICHLANDER MELVIN HADLER DONALD HUBBS Easter Sunday, on a hill visible to all the surrounding country, Patrick defied the law and challenged the king. In addition, the king and his followers were astonished at the defence shown by Patrick. He was summoned before the monarch to explain his action where he pleaded the cause of Christianity so eloquently that his crime was forgiven, many were converted to Christianity, and he was allowed to continue his mission. Legendary Saint The man Patrick in history can not compete, however, with the legendary saint. Legend tells us that after Patrick's success at Tara, the jealousy of the Druids was so great, and their interference so successful that Patrick summoned divine aid. His miracles remind us of the plagues of Egypt invoked by Moses against the Pharas. He cursed the fertile land of Ireland, and it became a place of water; he cursed the streams so they would flow without the kettles so water would not boil; and finally, he cursed the Druids themselves, and the earth opened and swallowed them. College Advertising Service, Inc. College Publications Representation 480 N. CENTRAL AVE., NEW YORK, CHICAGO BOSTON PORTLAND FRANKLIN LOS ANGELES PORTLAND BEATLE BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING IN National Advertising Service Inc Helped by Angel Patrick and a group of faithful followers were marooned upon a mountain in winter. There was no fire to cook their food or warm their chilled bodies. The Irish Saint ordered his followers to gather together a pile of roses and flowers. He breathed upon the frigid pig. Immediately, a cherry fire was blazing. Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the govern- office at Lawrence, Kan. Helped by Angel St. Patrick is best known as the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland. Legend has it that he accomplished this miracle by beating on a drum. He beat so furiously that a hole appeared in the drum. Despite this the miracle did not fail for an obliging angel appeared to mend the tear. During this miracle, Patrick chained a monster repeller in the middle of a lake in the Gaulic Mountains, instructing him to remain there until Monday. Even today some of the inhabitants of the region maintain that if one listens closely on Monday they will hear the serpant call in Irish: "It's a long Monday, Patrick." The Roving Reporter Conducted by Ralph Bryant "Onions and tomatoes," pops up Betty Graham, c'unel, on the telephone. Hook goes down right now so that she won't change her mind about these onions. The truth's the thing, and even though it may look bad in print, she still likes her onions and detests tomatoes. There's something in it bested congratulations once a year for Bob Hampel, e40, who says his crowning desire is "corned beef and cabbage on account of I only get to eat it on my birthday." Four old friends from New York and former fan, it seems, for Bob adds, "I dialike my spinach because it let me down when I needed it for some 'extra special muskie.'" Cuisine and its peculiarities come to light in the answers received today to the query, "What is your favorite food? For what article on the bill-of-fare do you have the greatest dike?" Bruce Jackson, c'40, claims that mumps has its points and is evidently sorry that it may *recurrent* disease. He says, "My favorite food was treated cucumber when I had the mumps. My greatest dislike is a scarcity of ice cream and cake." Bruce is an easy man to feed—he has ice cream and cake around all the time. In chronological order, Dalbert Crabb, e.unel, indicates his favorite and his antipathy with "I. Orange" and "I. 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