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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1936
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Alaska Gets the Prize
Here in the United States we have our Townsend Plans and Share-the-Wealth clubs but according to the Ohio State Lantern, the prize should go to Alaska for figuring out a means of settling our economic troubles.
They have launched in that far-north region the V.F.W. plan, an offshoot of the bonuseseers. A group of youngsters is behind it. Of course you immediately ask how can youngsters be Veterans of Foreign Wars? They're not! They're the Veterans of Future Warms. And their platform: "Since we may get killed in the next war, we want our bonus now."
Another organization getting under way in New York City is the "Patriots Anti-Patriotic Society." It is a direct result of the recent congressional action to pay the bonus. Say its sponsors, "It is a colossal sacrilege against the word patriotism for groups to label themselves "patriotic organizations" and then insist—come Hell or high, water—on the bonus payment, whether or not the treasury can stand it." The organization, therefore, will battle the unpatriotic action of the patriotic organizations. Its motto will be: "Treasury Looting in the Name of Patriotism is Treason."
They are climbing stairs in New York, but they are not singing "Climbing Up the Golden Stairs" while they are doing it.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Attend Convocations
"How did you like the speaker at convocation this week?" Perhaps you aren't venturing an opinion if you're one of the throng that never gets around to lectures and convocations. The truth of the matter is that a pitifully small number of students attend the University convocations or lecture series. They are planned in order to help the student hear prominent persons. A well educated man is not one who can recite the content of a text book; he is one who had learned to deal with personalities and apply what he has learned to his life.
The University convocation and lecture series are extra-curricular activities that are arranged to augment the knowledge and experiences one receives in the class room. They provide an opportunity to see and do things that you may never have a chance to do after college years are over. We sit around in little two by four groups sipping cokes and talking, while we pass by one of the really worth while features of college life.
Marriage and Education
In years to come it would be nice to recall the time you heard Admiral Byrd speak or the Reverend Edwin Goodspeed, or any of the other prominent persons that come on lecture tours to the University of Kansas each year.
It is beginning to look as if girls come to school to get a husband. That seems to be the only prospect a college education offers a woman now.
A recent survey of a certain university showed that girls spend about $3000 for a four year education. On graduation, the girls end up by getting jobs and earning $575 a year as an average.
Really, at this rate, a girl going to school spends an average of $750 for nine months. She finishes school, works, and has to live for 12 months on $575, and work too. The simple solution seems to be to marry and though the girl may have to live on less, at least she won't have to work!
Now if girls all start coming to college to get a husband, the boys will want sympathy. Think of what it will cost them to support their wives. But who has been saying that is the only reason girls come to college? The boys would just be getting their due.
Courtship consists of a man chasing a woman until she catches him—Daily Illini.
In Defense of Luxury
The wealthy J. P. Morgan a short time ago told the Senate Munitions committee that if we did away with the "leisure class" we would do away with civilization. Whatever one thinks of Morgan they will have to admit this statement is true.
The brightness in our life doesn't come from work-weary men going home at night to rest. The discoverer of radium was a woman whose experiments were backed financially by the French government. The man who gave us electric lights had already commercialized his inventive genius until he was worth millions. The leaders in scholastic honor roars are not those who study conscientiously and continuously, but those whose leisure time allow them to obtain well-rounded educations.
It is wise that some people have much money. The people who want to change the system of government radically had best think first of such defenses of luxury as Cargene public libraries, the Rockefeller Institute, and other such institutions.
—Indiana Daily Student.
Students Rank Professors
Seniors in the liberal arts division of Michigan State recently received letters from the dean of the school, together with a list of professors and instructors in that division. Each senior was asked to check the names of those under whom they had taken work and to double check not only the names of those whom they considered most deserving of an increase in pay, according to the Michigan Daily.
The dean remarked that on the whole he trusted to the voters to be fair and it was probable they were. Students who have listened to professors for 50 minutes at a time, who are bored by them or interested by them, are probably better judges of pedagogical ability than faculty boards, which usually select men because of their records on paper. Students retain a definite impression of each professor; he is enlightening in his presentation of a subject about which they care little, he teaches in such a way as to keep them guessing and alert; or he merely mouths what he has collected from textbooks.
And when these seniors were asked to recommend these professors for increase in pay they probably felt a sense of responsibility. If the most popular teacher were to be given a medal, they would vote for him who was the most considerate, most lenient. If he were to be made a dean, they would probably favor him who had the most dignified appearance. But increased pay—that's something hard and serious with this generation.
Students will not be shaken by prejudice. Students often respect the professors who mark them down more than those who let them slide by. Having finished the course they can look at it more objectively, and they adopt a Kantian philosophy of approving what they think should be a general rule.
March came in like a lamb and may go out like a lion, but in between we probably will have a lot of weather that will remind us of Mussolini.
—Topeka State Journal.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kauran. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the edurer. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansan:
In this "time of the breaking of nation" it may not be amiss to note in the microcosm the operation of a general political law. I refer to Pachachean's most commendable incursion into the practices of democracy. The Rising Sun's experiment in a primary for the formulation of a platform is, it would seem, a direct imitation of PSGLS policy of a primary for the purpose of selecting candidates for office, and is an excellent example of the extension of reform, even in unpromising places. A liberal, progressive policy is infectious. ACA.
Editor Daily Kansan;
The University had the opportunity of hearing one of the country's foremost economists, Paul H. Douglas, speak on protection for the consumer, but a very few students out of the entire school attended this talk because they were probably required to attend because some speech teachers or economics instructor told them they had to.
Many times this year students have complained about the University not holding conventions instead of student forums for some of these well-known speakers who have visited the campus. And that more students would in this way be able to attend.
However, if the last convocation was a sample of the interest that the students have in hearing what prominent speakers have to say, it certainly proved that the University student body prefer to center their so-called interest on cokes at that hour and all this talk about how they appear in a University conversation is all "poppy-cock."
Mr. Douglas gave a speech that was interesting and understandable to all those present. It might not be a bad idea for more students to attend these conventions which the University officials arrange particularly for the student audience, but wait until a later date, and those attending the speech may greatly surprise them and enjoy the talk given.
T.C.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
BAPSTIT YOUNG PEOPLE. Fellowship banquet.
First Baptist church, 6 p.m., Friday for all Baptist young people and their friends. Phone Olive Doughs, 1400W for reservations (356 a plate). Keith Coch, Chairman.
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DER DERUTSCHE VEREIN: Der Deutsche Verein versammelt sich Montag den 16 March um half furf im Zimmer 313 Fraser. Bernadine Berkeley, Sekretär,
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MEN'S PAN-HELLENCIL COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Men's Pan-Hellenic Council on Sunday morning 35 at 10:30 in the bouncement of the Union games, will be an important event represented. Lloyd Morgan, Secretary.
--one marked quality of chivalry over their California rivals.
MARCH 13,1936
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL VACANCIES. There are vacancies in the Council now for the offices of representative of Pharmacy, School of Engineering, and School of Medicine. You will fill these vacancies may be filled with me immediately.
Herbert Sizemore, Secretary.
This compass has been the scene on at most unusual plague which has stalked the steps of our most illustrious students. Too many have fallen in the path of this agonious menace of disease. The common cold has been the foremost cause of many men and women alike in these days of ever-changing weather.
Pills and Coffin Measurements Await Flu Victims
Let us look into the Watkins Memorial hospital—the real scene of the plague. Here in the halls and suits of this building he members of the great fraternities, the Kansan staff, the Sour Owl, and even Owl society member are not impregnable against the onrushs of the vicious fit.
When a patient is entered, he is at once measured for his coffin. The other flu fictives have been very co-operative over the past few weeks. The patient next has his temperature taken and then he is given three little pills. If he does not die within the hour, he has a fighting chance of death. Sleep courses for hours at a time.
After the patient has shown he can take pills and still live, he becomes automatically a number of the fraternity and pointed name, such as "Ghandul," "Dee," "Dodee-ye," "Wimpy," "Pop-up." He is too numerous to mention in this space.
So really life is not so bad in the hospital as a fit patient. It is especially delightful when a football team has been organized for your pleasure. Radio and magazines help to pass the lonely hours very much.
The duties of the nurse, as we saw them, were to place a thermometer into the patient's mouth periodically, then give the victim the three little pills, and to serve as the waitress at meal time. And great was the rejoicing at the meals. Our appetites were encouraged by the owers which drifted into each meal, and our satisfaction was made complete with a cigarette.
And there is a slight pang of regret that one feels when he gets well enough to leave the portals of the hospital by his own power. An uncommon friendship is created and appreciated in those days in Walkins Memorial hospital.
Hollywood. — (UP) — Robert Taylor says his current motion picture role takes him back to college days.
He is playing the role of a doctor no, long out of medical school in "Small Town Girl," which stars Jaina Gaynor.
When Director William Wellman looked over the script he discovered that he had never seen any typical of life in a fresh-water college. He doubted the authenticity of some of his books.
Taylor was consulted. He declared none of it was improbable.
"When I was in school," he continued,
"I wasn't at all unusual for a car to change hands two or three times a month. I had one once that I traded for a date and within 30 days the car had been stolen so much time for a date with the same girl."
"Now take this one," he said. "A college boy is supposed to swap his ancient vehicle for a date with the campus belle. That has happened."
"That's the best part of the story," replied Taylor, "the fellow that finally acquired it went for the girl in a big way. He decided that the best way to assure himself of dates with her was to give her the car."
Director Wellman appeared a bit taken back when Taylor finished his story. He muttered something about "College kids are nuts," and then smiled.
"What finally happened to the car that was always being traded for dates?" he asked.
"Well, no," replied Taylor. "You see she had ridden in the car so many times that she knew it wouldn't run, and refused the gift and never would have a date with the fellow again. She declared he insulted her."
"Did it work out all right for him?"
asked Wellman.
Tullock, Calif. (UP)—Samuel Frank, now known as "Trauck's Postal Don Jum," who sent a letter to Gov. James V. Allred of Texas, says he wanted a Southern wife, now has no doubts that this is lean year.
South Replies
To Californian's Plea
For Dixie Wife
Frank received 81 replies to his request.
Mississippi bellies contributed 28;
Texas, 22; Missouri, 2; and Kansas, 1.
Californians, who could not qualify
as "Dixie bellies," were numerous.
There were eight from Turlack alone.
The Southern girls, however, showed
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