Baidu.com PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 30, 1937 Comment Congressmen's Free Mail The Post Office department had a reported deficit of more than 88 million dollars last year. Among the various items listed in the annual report as causing the deficit was "free mail." Last year the government spent $173,000 printing speeches in the Congressional record which were never delivered on the floor of either house. Now Representative Hobbs of Alabama comes forth with a proposal which will make him one of the most unpopular men in congress. He proposes to close the "Record" to all extraneous matter, and further, to have congress stop printing speeches for mailing to constituents. While Mr. Hobb's proposal would mean a considerable saving to tax-payers, think of the hardships it would work on the poor congressmen. When a man is elected to congress, he has visions of himself delivering a scathing oration denouncing legislative proposals or flowery eulogies supporting the same. Since there are 627 members in congress, and all have the same idea, some, in fact a great many, must be left out in the cold. Their only solace is to have their orations printed in the record or to have them printed and sent home to their constituents via the "free mail" route to show where their hearts lie. Representative Rich of Pennsylvania, in rallying to Hobbs' cause, said, "The bill should pass, but it hasn't a chance." Uniformity of Law A very sensible suggestion was made a few days ago by a New York judge of the Domestic Relations court. He advocated the enactment of uniform laws on marriage and divorce which would apply to every state in the Union. He held that the field of domestic relations should have an important place in the growing trend toward making laws universal for the country's social and economic betterment. The judge delivered the recommendation in a case in which he was forced to rule that a New York woman divorced in Mexico and remarried in Maryland was still the wife of her first husband under the laws of New York state. "The nation is now an entity," he said, "and people who can move through states so easily need uniformity of the law. It is too much to expect of a person to know the divorce and marriage laws of every state." The justice's only hope for the suggestion was that the Supreme Court of the United States might make a liberal interpretation of the general welfare clause of the Constitution and uphold such a law. But has the Supreme Court ever shown any tendency to give a liberal interpretation of that clause? The justice seems a little optimistic. Boner by Farlev The South continues to be enraged over the fact that General Sherman is one of the characters depicted on the new Army stamp of the Army-Navy series. To this, one of the many assistant postmaster-generals replied that the four cent army stamp would bear a picture of General Lee. This was supposed to placate the furious southerners. But why should it? After all, usually the four-cent stamp is least used of all; the three-cent one most common. Why, for that matter, put Sherman on a stamp at all? It is well known that he and his men caused enormous unnecessary loss of life and destruction of property. To hallow such a man is rather foolish, especially when it could so easily be foreseen that the South will object. But nothing can be done about it, and the South will have to put up with things. Perhaps Mr. Farley will know better next time. Division of Labor A Kansas City Star correspondent bemoans the fact that the United States senate is not living up to its tradition, that of being the most deliberative body in the world. The correspondent cites as evidence the fact that this austere body has been in session less than an hour a day on an average. At first glance it would appear that our upper chamber is shirking its duty, but it is not as bad actually as it looks. Most of the congressional legislative work is done in committees which meet apart from the regular Meetings of the House and the Senate, and to The Kansan Platform 1 A well-rounded varsity athletic program. 2 Betirement of student working conditions. 3 Increase in student enrollments. b. Addition to the stacks of the library. 5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries. 4. An adequate building program, including: a. Instruction of a medical science b. building which all bills are referred. Congress as a whole acts only upon the suggestions of the committees. The committees of both houses are composed of men who are regarded as experts in matters handled by the committees. These small groups of men are much more active than the house or senate as a whole would be, and, as such, are able to get things done much quicker and more effectively. Members of these committees do all of the research, investigating and discussion, changing a bill as they see fit or killing it if they so desire. When they are through they report back to the body as a whole either favorably or unfavorably, and the body acts on their recommendations. Maybe the senate is breaking a tradition, but in so doing they are saving a lot of time by not having to listen to long winded speeches and debates by 96 men on subjects about which they know little or nothing. The division of labor has come to congress, as it has to every other profession. Skeptics on Gas Skeptical Cambridge scientists have rather runied the enthusiasm the Britishers were feeling over such charming things as anti-gas and anti-raid precautions. Sav the scientists: 1. An average person could remain alive in the ordinary "gas-proof" chamber only about three hours. 3. The gas mask will give only a limited amount of protection . . . And that only to healthy adults with cool heads. 2. If the room were made gas-tight it would be too small to live in for twelve hours. 4. The cost of making buildings impenetrable by incendiary bombs is prohibitive and even an improved fire department could not cope with such an attack. The skeptical ones also ensured the idea of gas masks for baby carriages, maintaining they would have the same faults as the gas-proof room. All in all, it makes us feel pretty good. We'd been worrying about this all gas mask stuff and thinking that it was about time we got on some for ourselves, but if it doesn't do much good, why worry? Official University Bulletin Vol. 24 Fridav, February 28, 1937 No. 102 --tent of the story, has a number of variations or anti-distinctions: number of persons involved, prominence of persons involved, prevalence of sex, number of feet involved, footed, prominent of area affected and so forth. Using the same reader reaction as a vertical scale of his graph, the editor edit anus, using past importance as a guide, distracts the reader with relative value of the story at hand. ASME. The ASME will meet from 1:30 to 2:30 this afternoon in 210 Marvin, M. R. M. Maxwell, of Yale and Towne Manufacturing company will give a presentation to students at George Cobb, Secretary. FENCING CLUB: There will! be an important meeting of the Fencing Club on Tuesday, March 2, at 4:30, to discuss an all-school tournament. Everyone should interest ahead. Grace Pearson, Secretary FRESHMAN MEMBERS OF RELAYS COMMITTEE. Applications for freshman members of the Relays Committee must be filed in writing in room 105 Robinson Gymnasium on or before March 3. - E.R. NEWMAN CLUB. The Newman Club will have a meeting after second mass next Sunday, February 29. PETTIONS TO MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. The positions of representatives of the School of Engineering and Architecture, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been declared vacant by the Men's Student Council. In favor of the filling of these positions be held and must in my hands by 8 p.m., Monday, March 8. University Daily Kansan William Zupanee, Secretary KANSAS PRESS MEMBER 1937 ASSOCIATION Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS MANAGING EDITOR MARSON MOUNDS CAMPUS EDITOR DAVE PARTRIDGE and DIFFREW BRIDges NEWS EDITOR MARY K. DOSMAN SOCIAL EDITOR MARY K. DOSMAN SPORTS EDITOR FARR HARBS TELUGRATE EDITOR JAWE HARBS EDITOR J. HOWARD RUSCUS and KEN PONTLIMITE SUNDAY EDITOR KEN PONTLIMITE EDITOR IN CHIEF ANDICATE EDITORS: STEVEN DAVID AND CAREL SMITH MARK RUTTER News Staff PUBLISHER DALE O'BRIEN FRIEDA BAIR CARL SMITH MARION MUNGOS T. QUINN BROWN STEVEN NATHAN JOHN R. MAXWELL J. FURNER BROWN STEVEN NATHAN JOHN R. MAXWELL WILLIAM GOLL DALE O'BRIEN J. HOWARD BRUGO MELTON HAHLMAN DONALD HUA BOB RICHARDSON MELTON HAHLMAN DONALD HUA BOB RICHARDSON FEATURE EDITOR... REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. 420 MORRIS AVENUE. NEW YORK, N.Y. CAMDON. DISTRICT. BUFFETS. ADVERTISING COMPANY. Chart Made by Journalism Professor Shows Evaluation of News Storie Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office, at 1 Liverpool Street. By Jack McCarty, c38 A survey in the form of a chart, attempting to classify the mental processes by which a news editor arrives at a decision regarding how much space and display to give a journalist. Prof W. D. Aill of the department of journalism. Mr. Dill expects to use the study for demonstrative purposes in his classes. BUSINESS MANAGER E. QUENTIN BROWN Regarding the character of the event, M. Dill divides day-to-day occurrences an exilerence events—those regarding ownership, clauses and public affairs. He classifies the reader reactions to these events as rejection, indifference, acceptance, desire and demand. Picturing the type of scale and the type of event on a horizontal scale the editor has a graphic determination of where virtually any type of story might rank. Four considerations, according to Mr. Dill, determine the place a given story will have: character of the event, extent or scope of the event, certain abstract quality of news, and office consideration. As can be seen, the first three of these considerations reflect reader acceptance and willingness to watch the other. Under these four heads it is shown how, in the light of a given day's edition, a story under consideration will rank. The second consideration, the extent of the story, has a number of variations or anti-distinctions: number of persons involved, prominence of persons involved, prevalence of sex, number of feet involved, footed, prominent of area affected and so forth. Using the same reader reaction as a vertical scale of his graph, the editor edit anus, using past importance as a guide, distracts the reader with relative value of the story at hand. The same procedure may be followed in regard to the third consideration, abstract qualities of news stories. By such qualities are meant: proximity, structure, unusualness, vividness, attention and romance. Fast experience, of courses, must here again be the editor's guide. The final factor, office considerations, takes in a little different aspect in that reader acceptance is not directly involved. [Although] this can never be overlooked]. Policy and mechanical limitations are the main divisions of the problems and the reader responses are simply viewed "acceptable" and "always." Under policy in context is to ensure that readers write, literary qualities and so forth. By mechanical limitation in nature space available, time before edition and economy. Professor Dill admits freely that the chart contains many overlappings Old Man Winter holds no terrors those who travel by plane. She's a treacherous vine with its trouble, tremble-free atmosphere of airborne and incompleteness but adds that it serves its purpose well in demonstrating the factors involved in the creation process of news evaluation. Donald Tate 'cunel: "I like the heavy type, myself." Just an old device of Shakespeare. Round trip in coaches-6 month limit. Randall trip to Pelham-Tourist sleeper-6 month limit. $57.60 Question for the day: Do you look the light type of play such as "The Thing Called Love," or would you look for a more dramatic work? 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