PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 11, 1876 Comment } Kansas' Catherines Russia and Kansas have a lot in common. Russell and Kassus have a lot in common. Time was, quite a while ago, when Catherine the Great decided to take a bit of a trip for herself. One Pettkin, hearing of this, hastened to have a lot of sham houses built along the route of her journey. Merry villagers were supplied, too, and dear Catherine returned much pleased and completely duped. Time was, and it wasn't long ago, when Dyche museum was closed for what apparently is to be forever. But, decided some, why tear the carned thing down? Let's leave it standing, and thus impress (more pleasing word than "dure") all and any visitors who might come to the camps. Russia had its Pretnikin villages, why shouldn't Kansas have its Dyche? Russia and Kamens have a lot in common. What Next for Britain? With the abdication of Edward a certainty, the question is: "What is the future of England?" Let no one take the superficial point of view that Edward's abdication was forced by the Tory Party on the more grounds of his intended marriages to Mes. Simpson. British upper classes objected to those characteristics of Edward not because of a moral point of view. This was but the camouflage. The motivation was much deeper and more worthy of crafty politicians. With a well-advanced working class, highly organized, England has always escaped serious labor troubles. The reason is the King. He is the embodiment of the whole British people and the upper class always takes refuge in his cloak. Just as the American upper class wraps itself in the Constitution when change is proposed, so does the English bourgeoisie wrap itself in the cloak of the King. only more successfully. The King has always been a sore point to the British upper classes. Edward had two tendencies which seriously worried the British ruling class. The first was his manifest sympathy for the working class, shown most vividly in his recent tour to unemployed sections of Wales against the wishes of the Conservative cabinet which wanted no great light shed on the miserable condition of the unemployed living off the government pittance. His second "falling" was his love of goy life, his desire to be ordinary and normal and take his pleasures where he pleased. Without the enormous prestige of the monarch class struggle would be far more virulent in England, and the Empire might have disintegrated long ago. The British ruling class feared that Edward by siding with the unemployment and by acting without the usual pomposity would provide poor refuge for them, for they needed a conservative venerable institution. Consequently when the Simpson affair came along to add fuel to their fears, they also improvised it to ease Edward out of his throne. They will replace him with some one more conformable to the idea of the traditional monarch. Should the Baldwin cabinet resign after the formal abdication what would result from a general election? Perhaps the return of Baldwin to office on a greatly reduced majority. But, supposing for the sake of argument, that Labor should win. There is small hope even in this. The Party is entirely without thinkers or leaders. At its last conference in Edinburgh its complete bankruptcy was revealed. Today it is in the worst hands it could have picked. Morrison, Atlee, Wedgewood—all unimaginative and without political acumen! Disorder will come in England. The Fascists must be watched. And if the disorders should continue for long, as is possible, fighting may break out between Laborists and Fascists. In that case the British ruling class may be trusted to back Fascism as the lesser of evils and as representative of wealth and property in the final analysis. Fairy Tales Hans Anderson and the Grimm brothers lacked imagination. At the recent joint council meeting it was suggested that thirty thousand dollars would have to be conjured from somewhere before a student book store could be established. Vassar and Princeton together began their co-operatives on less money than the W.S.G.A. book exchange now holds as a surplus. Slow The Kansan Platform 1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program. 2. Detailer of a co-operative bookstore. 3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore. 1. A well-rounded caring athletic program 2. A program that supports student working conditions 4. Revision of house government rules. 5. An adequate building program, including: a. Ducks museum growth is good business; the largest balloon explodes with the loudest noise. b. Construction of a medical science building. 6. Addition to the stacks of the library. 7. Restoration of faculty salaries. Heretofore an exaggerated initial cost was dished out to the public to hide the real excuse for the failure of the co-operative movement—underground pressure from its opponents. Unless the councils back down that excuse is dead. The thirty thousand dollar fashie has outlived itself. The University of Kansas needs a co-operative book store. According to the New York Times this assertion has recently been made. Virtual Illiterates "College graduates go out into the world virtually illiterates." As a student, your first impulse upon hearing this is to jump up indignantly and deny the charge. A few minutes thought may serve to make your denials a little weak and a few days of investigation may give you a different slant on the question. There are a number of places where proof of this illiteracy and abyssal ignorance is to be found in quantity. Go to your nearest professor and persuade him to show you his files of term themes with two syllable words so misspelled as to be almost unrecognizable, and with sentences either end dangling in midair or go on indefinitely for a third of a page. "The information was received from various sources" is a sentence that will give you an idea of the common errors made. For a good laugh at the end of a weary day, turn the leaves of a few quizbooks. Recently a professor asked his class to indicate the difference between sin, vice, and crime. Here is a sample of the replies to part of the question- (Before you allow the blood pressure to go percolating upward and begin to think murders thoughts at this traitorous attack, reflect that naturally you are not an average student and we are now dealing in averages.1 "Vice is a device used in holding work steady while working on it." Vice is a series of crimes committed generally by a group though not necessarily." As a rule, students sit in the classrooms in the comfortable knowledge that the professor will do all of the talking. Sometimes this is not the case and a student betrays himself wooled Recently a senior here in an R.O.T.C. class asked brightly, "Is there a secretary for the army as there is for the navy?" For further information on this subject of ignorance and illiteracy, one needs go no farther than the "Bones" trilogy, many of whose examples have been taken from college papers. For the information of the editor, contributors must sign their full names to their computer and have them stamped by the editors their initials will be printed. Letters containing more than 200 words are subject to cutting by the editor. Campus Opinion Ed'tor Daily Kansan. I don't claim to be a second Classroom Darrow or an Oliver Wendell Holmes, but I do know that to steal a lattice ticket you must have the money and the amounts to grand larceny at Kansas law. The point is that I sincerely hope that one of our students would win the trip. I would hate to see someone go to Lansing for stealing a "trip." Wendereacher Michael Brown told me to take two or three girls along to carry all their tickets and a corps of C.P.A.'s to check them would give if they were going on a trip to Kansas possession. Here's helping some shy, little, HONEST individual who didn't STEAL his coupon from some store. Editor's Note: H.C.C. is mistaken about the "lottery." Lotteries are prohibited by law in this article, but they may be used to change even indirectly through sales of merchandise or other means. Any person may have some of them for the asking. Guest artists: Alice Haldeman- Julius, c28, and Carl W. Smith, c27 There has been, and still is, a lot of mud throwing by the Kansans at the Athletics Department. If the Kansan can publish a (news) paper on their own house in order. At math a time as the Kansan can publish a (news) paper on their own house full of filled messages, misplaced types of type and even misplaced parts of code. The Kansan does this to the clump of the other departments of the University. Yours (Joyhawker Magazine) for less tempting contests. H.C.C. The Roving Reporter Conducted by Steven David, Esq. c37 Question: Would you like to set the Chicago plan—i.e., no compulsory class attendance and comprehensive exams—used at Kansas? Dellert, Barker n. 827, "Fundamentally, you come to school for an education, and you have to study once in a while. You'd feel more responsibility if you were on your own initiative." Good建议。 Editor丹妮卡姆 **Nancy Kutum**, people who have dirty back yards are not in a position to complain about the dirt in the house. An Outsider. V Joe Molina, c.198. "No, I'd play around to much and never get my attacking done." Wonder where Joe lost his self-control? Editor Daily Kanzan: Official University Bulletin Notice due at Classroom's Office at 1pm, pre- called regular publication days and 4:19am, rcm. Fochtie Epley, c'40: "I think you'd learn more at the end of the year if you didn't have to study for small quizzes through the year." "The more you know, the less you know, you know. Jean Wyatt, c. 29: "Yes. Maybe you could cheat on the exam and get a good grade for the course." You've heard, no doubt, about the student who cheated on the Ethics final? Emmet Park, c'40: "Good idea if you were going to have fun, but not if you came for an education." What. Emmet, no fun? Vol. 34 Friday, Dec. 11, 1936 No.64 Jack Laffer, "c39: "If a person is able to pass a course without attending classes, he should be able to take the exam and go on to another course he wants to take." Elemuntary, my dear Watson. An unidentified person was heard to mumble that if nobody went to chase, we might trade a few of the animals for pros in a couple of coaches. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club Christmas party will be held at Myers hall, Dec. 13, at 8 o'clock. It is an open session. Anyone interested in attending Bring a ten-cent gift - Louise Youssay Secretary. --announce Civil Service Exams The United States Civil Service commission has announced open competitive examinations to be held WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION. A Christmas party will be held this evening at 8:30 o'clock at Westminster Hall. There will be no charge—Eleanor Mann, Publicity Chairman. WESTMINSTER STUDENT FORUM: The regular meeting of the forum will be held on Tuesday at Westminster Hall after the University Christmas Vespers, Sunday evening, December 13. Elmerson Mall in the near future. The following positions will be open: senior medical officer, female (psychiatry), $1,-600 a year; junior medical officer (internum), $3,000 a year; junior medical officer (psychiatric resident), $2,000 a year; St. Louis D.C. and biological (wildlife management), $3,800 a year. 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