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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
10. (a) 40 m/s²
(b) 60 m/s²
(c) 80 m/s²
(d) 100 m/s²
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1936
Comment
Flood Waters
It is hard for a native Kansan to picture a scene of swirling, rushing waters, relentlessly pouring into a defenceless city.
It is hard for him to imagine the muck and slime, death and disease that a receding river leaves in its wake.
In a disaster of this sort, there must necessarily be suffering and disaster, but aid can be given to make it more bearable. And the public is giving, generously, wholeheartedly.
he is giving general advice.
As University students, we pride ourselves on being more sensitive, more alert, more interested in the problems of humanity, than is the average person. We now have a chance to prove it to ourselves and to others.
A table in front of the Business Office in the Administration building has been provided so that students and faculty may answer the call of the Red Cross.
Stalin has been accused of making use of the trials to rid himself of personal enemies. But why should he take this difficult and public means when there are so many easier ways? Besides, many of the alleged conspirators were not his enemies but his friends; Radek, for example.
The recent Russian conspiracy trials have proved to be the decade's greatest paradox. The variety of "authoritative" opinion offered the American public by its newspapers has been bewildering.
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The Russian Mystery
Other theorists have advanced the idea that the little band of international revolutionists who made the November revolution under Leonin are being weeded out by the "nationalistic" Red army. These believe that Stalin will be the next to go.
Probably the only thing these various opinions definitely prove is that the several so-called authorities on Soviet Russia know no more about the affair than the average citizen.
Another theory is that Stalin, by means of those trials, is attempting to instill some nationalistic feeling into the "internationalistic" Red army. Take your pick.
Walter Duranty, who probably knows as much about Russia as any American, is convinced that the trials have been fair and the confessions authentic. We do not understand the Russian temperament, he says, advising us to read Doestoyevsky.
One thing is certain. The trials have done no one any good; Stalin least of all. They have had a disastrous effect on the favorable public opinion built up laboriously by American liberals throughout the last two decades.
It is one of the great tragedies of liberalism
Only With Thine Eyes
In re the newest fad—alcoholic lipstick—Mrs. Grant Forsyth, president of the Women's
Temperature Union, has this to say:
"Using lipstick is bad enough, but flavoring it with alcohol is a hundred times worse. Frequent applications might have an intoxicating
temptation in the way of young people of both
empires."
Hurrah for Mrs. Forsythe! She is most certainly right. We might go so far as to say that flavoring lipstick with that horrible alcohol stuff is a *thousand* time worse.
In fact the only good thing we can think of in connection with this dreadful fad is that it might prevent young girls from liking their lips for fear they might get drunk.
One thing, however, we can't quite grasp Mrs. Forsythe's remark about the new lipstick's placing temptation in the way of young people of both sexes . . .
Surely she doesn't condone kissing!
Mercy Deaths
A measure to legalize the "mercy" death of human beings has been introduced into the Nebraska legislature, but legislators are fighting shy of the euthanasia proposal.
The attitude taken by the senators is summed up by Dr. A. L. Miller, the legislature's only physician member, who states his opinion that the "bill has merit" but "comes twenty-five years too soon."
The Kansan Platform
Why the bill is a quarter of a century ahead of its time, the physician does not state, but if put into practice as intended, to provide a mereful death to those suffering incurable nil-
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Reopening of Dyche museum.
b. Construction of a medical science building.
1. A well-toured varsity athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
c. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
ments and only at their request, it would seem to many that the bill comes many centuries too late.
For years it has been the practice among civilized people to put hopelessly injured animals out of their misery; but with human beings the procedure has been exactly the opposite. The effort to keep the spark of life intact in suffering, pain-wracked human bodies for as long a time as possible is in many instances nothing more than a cruel prolongation of torture.
But no doubt Doctor Miller's statement refers to the belief that the proposed measure comes too early for human minds to accept rather than for the ability of humanity to benefit by it. Thus, as with so many other social betterment plans, with the goal virtually in sight we must plod along until the most skeptical mind has been convinced and what has been seen by some as inevitable for many years finally becomes an actuality.
Four cats inherited $25,000 in San Francisco, but it is not to be concluded from this that a good way to get in line for an inheritance is to go around acting caty.—Kansas City Kansan
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kaanu. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Campus Opinion
Tribulations of Enrollment
Editor Daily Kansan:
I don't believe the usual quota of post-enrollment grips has been filled yet this semester, so here goes.
I should have suspected something from the eax with which I obtained my adviser's signature who have into the long line leading up to the senior chairman. I went altogether too smoothy, it could be
I had arrived at the chairman's desk with comparatively little effort and only an hour's valuable time taken, when the bomb shelter dropped. The next day, I was asked if I'd been able to see the dean to have my senior classification okayed before they could sign my card. It seems that I've always had a chance to change on a junior's calling himself a senior, because, well, just because. So I paraded over to the wet room, where I saw a young man another half-hour or so, watched him affix his initials to my transcript; and lo and behold! I was a senior. Then he came in, and the senior saw it first, and eventually, on out.
Now what I want to know is, who in the (censored, cares whether I'm called a senior or not, so long as every course I'm taking is also open) school you are? Are they more likely to explain why don't they hire a couple of extra gals to take care of the matter before enrollment day? Considering the number of students enrolled at our institution seems to justify some special treatment.
The Effect of Finals?
Editor Daily Kansas
We have enjoyed your column very much during the past semester but we would like to offer a few constructive suggestions. There are certain conditions existing on the campus which we think should
In the first place certain individuals have cowardly attacked our football coach. This is unfair. Every day we see Coech Lindley in his office in the Administration building, having bent over to play a new football plays.
Another thing we resent is the erroneous publicity concerning the basketball games. Every night there has been a basketball game advertised we have no choice but to watch for several hours but no one has ever shown up.
Also we have Roy Noble's name in the starting line-up for the basketball games in the past; she is very well known and plays on his orchestra over the radio. How can this be? Either some cheap orchestra leader is using his name for the band or he just loves playing with her
Also, we wish to pass a few remarks concerning the controversy over the lack of school spirit at Kappa Upsilon University. We have been informed that if you that, Mr. Campus Opinion, have overlooked. Every day we have seen certain traitorous books on our bookshelves and buy stamps and mail their laundry. We have an excellent post office up here on the campus and we know that you use it for your local store. We ask you, do you expect the University to make any money and keep running if the student
We suppose it sounds like we are pretty mad at the University, but we don't see anything there. we much more care about it than we do when doing quite a bit of reading and studying up there and since they put the new steps in front of it we
EMPLOYMENT: Will women students interested in positions as swardesses of boarding clubs or tea rooms in Lawrence please report to the Women's Employment Bureau, 220 Admin Building—Marie Miller, Ward 5, Suite D of Women.
Thanking us for calling these things to your attention we remain.
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular publication days and 11:30 a.m.
Yours for a bigger and better University
W. W. R. and P. W. M
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 34 Thursday, February 4, 1937 No. 86
A. I.C.H.E. The A.I.C.H. E. will hold a smoker in the Memorial Union Lounge at this is an A.I.C.H.E. Lockett Key, Secretary.
AS CSE. Bill Brown, 37, and Claude Trotter, 37, will lecture on "insects and Public Health" at 7:38 this evening in 210 Marvin. There will also be election of officers - Viktor Knoerz, President.
SOCIAL SERVICE COMMISSION: The Social Service Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet with the Junior High Girls Club at the old high school building on Thursday, 3 o'clock this afternoon—Dorothy Brochier, Chairman.
Y. M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. CABINET Meeting. There will be a joint宴会 meeting of the Y.M.C.A. and of the Y.W.C.A. at 4:30 tme at Henley House. Chancellor Lindley will speak—Matthew Peart, Harold Grogg.
New Twist to Hobo Situation Is Given By Appearance of Feminine Element
Have you ever been asked for nickel?
Has a tattoo and frosted brittle man or boy ever stopped you on the street and said, "Buddy, how about the price of a cup of coffee?"
Probably you have heard both pleas, and you have no doubt dealt with the situation as you need fit and comfort. You know nothing about "those darn tramps."
But—have you ever been tapped on the shoulder to turn and find yourself staring into a pair of feminine eyes, hard maybe, defiant may, but still the eyes of a woman, and taken in at a place her rough and weathered skin, her fringe of struggling hair under a cap, her masculine attire, torn and patched, and heard, "Could you let me have a mickey and give it away? If you felt its antiseminism, you are accustomed to such situations and do not belong in this part of the country. Otherwise, you were startled and confused, even more so when you learned with the rest of us middle westerners that 20% of the homeless women are women who live the lives of tramps and hoobes, and who live it with equanimity. This condition is one that has developed as we result of the depression, that is a result of the depression of abating. It is deplorable, and it calls for treatment, but it is also interesting, and it is from its interesting standpoint that we shall discuss it.
Female Hoibes Appear in 1929
Back in 1928 when the business and economic world took a downhill slide, men who had never considered a life without the security they had known found themselves with only that life, no longer the security. Unable to locate even the meantime of positions, many of them at last severed their hands, so that their road, some to seek employment, some to enjoy their enforced leisure in the only way they could and others to leave behind them forever the scene of their disaster. As their hides increased they became aware of another sex in their midst, at first only a small number of that sex, and then more and more women and girls, who hoped for reunion, confessed the severest of privations, and who asked only for their companionship and the right to travel with them.
And thus it happened that women tramps came into being Perhaps they
had existed before. No one is sure. The depression gave them the right to exist and they took action. No one has given them an excuse to exist, and in many cases
they wanted only an excuse. Unhappy homes, poverty, dissatisfaction, disgrace, all were forgotten as they donsed boys' clothing and began a life that would take them over all parts of the country, into every situation, into narrow escapes, into adventure.
Don Masculine Garb
They lived with the men, like the men. They cooked the food their companions trusted or atole for them and mended and patched the clothes of the entire group. They housed all the operations in the "jungle," and their word was law. Unless they had a sweet-tinted throat, they made no discrimination about their sex relations and accordingly found themselves accepted
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