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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1036
Comment
Education and Progress
In times of anxiety and discontent, when discontent has engendered the belief that great and widespread economic and social changes are needed, there is a risk that men or States may act hastily, rushing to new schemes which seem promising chiefly because they are new. People catch at expedients that have a superficial air of practicality, and forget the general theory upon which practical plans should be based. It is education and its proper application that people should look to.
Modern doctrines of equality have discredited the ancient view that the chief aim of instruction is to prepare the few wise and good for the government of the State. It is not upon this world but also upon the material things of this world, power and the acquisition of territory, industrial production, commerce, finance, wealth and prosperity in all its forms, that the modern eye is fixed.
Modern education should have three chief aims:
One aim is to fit the student to be at least explorers, even if not discoverers, in the fields of science and learning.
A second is to fit them to be leaders in the field of action, leaders not only by their initiative and their diligence, but also by the power and the habit of turning a full stream of thought and knowledge upon whatever work they have to do.
A third is to give them the taste for, and the habit of enjoying, intellectual pleasures.
Many moralists, ancient and modern, have given pleasure a bad name because they saw that the most alluring and powerfully seductive pleasures, pleasures which appeal to all students alike, were indulged to excess, and became a source of evil. But all students will have pleasure and ought to have pleasure. The best way of drawing them off from the more dangerous pleasures is to teach them to enjoy the better kinds. Moreover the quieter pleasures of the intellect mean rest and greater fitness for resuming work.
At the present time, however, there is a real danger — in some quarters at least — of unduly emphasizing the specifically vocational, or "practical" side of education. The man of affairs knows little or nothing of young minds and their limitations, or of the educational values of the various studies in a school curriculum. He is prone to choose subjects chiefly or solely because of their immediate practical utility. Thus in his view the chief reason for learning a modern language is that business communications will thereby be facilitated.
Strong pressure is being brought to bear to commercialize American education, to make it subservient to wealth and convert the students into a money-making mob. A nation cannot last as a money-making mob. It cannot with impunity—it cannot with existence—go on despising literature, despising science, despising nature, despising compassion, and concentrating its soul on pence.
The only explanation is that the weather this winter was determined to get as much publicity as politics—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The man who never locked the stable door until after the horse was stolen now has a son who thinks about the antifreeze after the car is frozen.-Kansas City Star.
A Racket That Pays
"POLice court news the other day," editorializes the Topeka State Journal, "told about the destroying of a couple of slot machines confiscated by the police. As the machines fell to pieces some forty nickels fell to the floor. Twenty dollars a machine isn't a bad return for a week—and it is likely the machines are emptied every other day. Say there are 200 machines in a town the size of Topeka, and the number is likely two or three times that many, it means $8,000 a week in this one town."
"Can you visualize the nickels from school children who should have spent it on lunch and the nickels from hard working people who could ill afford the loss? Eight thousand a week means $14,600 a year—just from 200 machines. Easy money and lots of it."
"If we must have such a racket why not the city or the government own the machines and raise in the enormous profits? Then the money would at least do some good in the way of reducing taxes or helping out in relief. If they can't be put out of business they should at least be controlled and made to work part of the time for something worth while."
Across the top of the Daily Texan front page is printed this line: "The First College Daily in the South."
Across the top of the front page of the Daily Tar Heel of the University of North Carolina is printed this line: "The Only College Daily in the South."
Looks as though the editors of the two papers ought to get together and decide just what is meant by "The South."
Borah's Chances
Over forty years ago a dynamic figure came striding out of the young state of Idaho to write his name among the records of the political greats. Now at the age of seventy that man stands as a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States Senator William E. Renah, the senator from Idaho, has truly accomplished what he started.
During all his long years in the public eye William E. Borah has met every political issue with a square and forceful stand. In both success and defeat he has remained one of our Congress' most dynamic figures. Now that he has proclaimed his desire for the nomination, his record will be laid open for all to see and judge. There are certain tests that that record must meet and pass and the following embody a few of the most important points:
He must have a record of having supported more Republican measures than Democratic ones.
He must stand for the open door of opportunity for industry against planned economy. He must stand for private industry as against government competition in all industry. He must stand for a sound money of stabilized value as against the managed currency folly or irredeemable paper.
He must permit a citizen to live his own life as against bureaucratic dictation from Washington. He must stand for increased purchasing of goods in order to increase the increased cost of living through secrecy.
In itself this is a pretty good platform but whether Senator Borah can come up to it is a rather large question. The feeling seems to be growing that the senator from Idaho, brilliant as he is in debate and despite his great intellectual qualities, can hardly be considered genuinely representative of those forces which seek to end the tenure of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House. His record of liberalism does not make him the logical spearhead of the Republican attack. Also Republicans are not likely to forget that four years ago Senator Borah refused to lift a hand in aid of the party's presidential candidate.
We can only be stating the obvious when we say that Senator Borah has a great many things to live down before he can command enough support for the Republican nomination.
Some students sow their wild oats—then pray for a crop failure—Daily Californian.
Kansas Is Ashamed!
Why does Kansas have such a high record for auto fatalities? There is little excuse. Although Kansas is not especially noted for its broad, straight, well-kept roads, carelessness and violation of traffic rules must be largely the cause.
Kansas is not proud of its record. Motor car deaths increased 13.2 per cent in 1935 over 1934, according to figures of the National Safety Council. Only five states showed a higher percentage increase than Kansas last year. They were: West Virginia, 21.8; South Dakota, 18.8; New Hampshire, 17.9; New Mexico, 16.2; and Virginia, 15.2.
The American Legion, Kansas Safety Council, Kansas Highway department and several motor associations are co-operating to reduce the toll of life in Kansas. The Legion will launch a 60-day, statewide safety campaign, today. This organization has nearly 20,000 members in Kansas.
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Let us all take part in the drive to reduce the number of auto deaths in Kansas, so that Kansas will no longer be ashamed.
Notices at Dacechallor 2 Office at 3 p.m. preceeding regular public days and 11:10 a.m. saturday for Sunday inns.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: There will be a regular meeting of the Christian Science Organization Wednesday morning at 7:55 in Room C at Myers hall. Keith Davis, President.
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COLLEGE FACILITY. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet today at 4:30 in the Auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building.
E. H. Lindley, President.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: There will be an International Relations Club meeting this evening at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Union building. The club meets on Thursday and Friday. "Don't forget the dinner prior to the meeting."
Russell Young, Treasurer.
ENGINEERING BOOK EXCHANGE PAY OFF; Call for your money at the Book Exchange today, February 19th.
Neal Hardy, President.
KAPPA PHI. There will be a pledge and cabinet meeting today at 6:45 at 1298 Tennessee street. Fledging service for new members will be held, active members are requested to be present for this service.
Beulah Pinneo, President
Marjorie Hornbaker. President.
K. U. DRAMATIC CLUB: There will be a meeting at 4:30 p.m. today in Green hall.
Various Jobs Occupy Yale Students As One-Third Earn While They Learn
Now Haven, Conn. — (UP) — From taking care of babies to baby训 club entertaining and working for an understaking establishment is the lot of more than 750 Yale students who earn while they learn.
The average student working his way through college could not be schooled better in domestic accomplishments. He handles a baby as nonchallantly and efficiently as he handles a car. He cuts a hedge, and a gardener makes a fence. He boots a rug with the stroke of a professional. And he's good humored.
In the end, these young men will come doctors, lawyers, engineers, diplomatics, and business process they are becoming alert American businessmen of the most practicable.
As for talents and abilities a student should be more than amidextrous. If he sings, he can be an entertainer at a night club. A few Yale students do that. If he plays, then there is the chance to perform. Or he can be a solo jazz artist.
Opportunities for Talent
If the music student's job grates on his artistic sensibilities, at least he has one comfort. He works with live people. He doesn't have to spend the night in the company of cadavers as they do, does who works for an undertaker.
There's a handsome young music student who sits up nights studying and planning a career as a composer. He dislikes jazz, but he plays a piano until the early morning hours at a night club.
They're a light-hearted crew, these self-effiring Yale students, no matter what their jobs. Being an understudy or an undertaker doesn't depress them, but being a rooming to a minor hushes that mother runs in the movies does not humiliate them.
It is a catch in a court to be affiliated as a stage-friend, but only picked men can fill the bill. They must look like movie heroes. They must dance superbly, of course. They are hired technically as "users." They are guests and can list up to them in see that dance or party is a complete success to every girl there. They introduce young men to young girls. They "cut in" them, they舞词 unwearfully from the end of the affair to the end. But the sessees are infrequent for the average Yale student. The majority who work get
"Ushers" Entertain Guests
H J L P D I G
Hollywood Film Shop
Hollywood (U.P.)=That individualistic settlement of the United States known as Brooklyn has sent another candidate to Hollywood and she bids fair to the borough honor as did Clara Bow.
The newcomer is Ann Loring. Her studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, says she entered the studio portals via the contest winner route.
The story of her coming to Hollywood is something to hear. As the plot developed, the movie moguls were left practically breathless by it.
That she was adjudged winner of a movie contest in Brooklyn isn't hard to imagine. But what happened after she was given the loving cup is what floored the talent scouts and their superiors, who knew her better than they really any other word opportunity.
The studio experts looked over her data and ordered key to report in Hangzhou. A foregone conclusion that she would be here on the next train if not on the plane.
campus tasks. Since the depration, the Yale employment authorities have pledged themselves to create jobs on the campus. They wish to withdraw Yale men from outside employment, which might be interfering with family men.
Ann had to attend the college classes six months more to win her degree. She had been an honor student, so the degree was almost assured.
It seems that when scouts uncover Ann's potentialities as a movie actress they discover she was a student, a senior at Brooklyn College.
"The way it turned out," she says now, "I am one of those persons who came here." The director Ann has been cast as the love interest of the studio's production entitled, "Robin Hood of El Dardo." It's some kind of shaggy glove on the characters wear period costumes.
Ann feamed them. She wanted to stay until commencement and come to Hollywood with her degree. The mendings could not understand it. To finish her job, she was astounding enough, to find one and then have her, a Brooklynite, ask postponement of the tryout behest and finish college was something she again.
It is this policy that is, in part, responsible for Yole's much discussed College Plan, which provides for the maintenance of each one of the colleges as a separate unit, with its own facilities, dining room and athletic facilities.
So Ann Loring remained in the world of books, in Brooklyn, for a half-year and then journeyed to Hollywood.
The College Plan presupposes a reorganization of college life on the Oxford idea, with students taking their meals at the college and in most instances making their home there. The plan was inaugurated in its fuller aspects last year and made possible the employment of around 300 self-impulse students, able to secure secretaries, historians, and in number of less specialized positions.
Perhaps the strangeness of it all won their consent.
Patterned After Oxford
These are called bursary appointments. To be eligible for these College Plan Jobs, the applicant must be a student of scholarship rank. The plan originated at Harvard and has been approved by the Board of Appointments with success.
However, she isn't entirely happy.
"I'm a bit hit someone," the say.
After all, Hollywood and Brooklyn are a continent apart and are different, but they have one thing in common — they're less than two individuals.
An interesting feature of the plan is the fact that an effort is made to place students in work as nearly allied to the subject matter of their major studies as possible. A man majoring in English may have a job in one of the English seminars. A business student may have a position as prospective scientist that speed his working hours in the Peabody Museum.
A total of $40,000 was earned last year by 266 men working in the student agencies. Thirty-five per cent of these students are registered at the university, represented by 1744 students, registered with the Bureau of Appointments for termite control, and 155 students registered for either termite or summer work. The bureau obtained employment of some form or degree for 74 per cent of all registered, according to Bureau data.
We Know 'Ts Cold'
Before Reading Morning
Weather Reports
Every day in every newspaper in the United States, country and metropolitan nike, appears at least one story that informs us. As if we did not know it was cold!
The average student, however, who is trying to earn his way with a hard time making ends meet, unless he has had to be the policy of the university to discourage students with limited means, since their proper maintenance at school becomes a serious problem, he must therefore our academic year is completed.
PROFESSORS DECIDE READER EFFICIENCY BY NEW METER
Layfette, ind. —(UF)—Some people can separate good readers from poor readers merely by watching how rapidly the pages of a book are turned, but a tachistoscope-chronoscope is used by we Purdue University professors.
Dr. Otis C. Tromble of the education department and R. R. Townsley of the electrical engineering school discovered that excellent readers absorb writing in the terms of phrases, good readers will often take 300 times as long as the highest classification, spell out each word, letter for letter.
When everyone arises in the morning and on stopping out of bed into his shiplers and dressing gown discovers that he is frozen stiff in an instant, he knows immediately that a cold day is coming. He asks for his newspaper. Imaging his joy and excitement when he discovers that the mercury sank to 54 below in Yukanet, Coronad "Why," he says, "it's almost unbelievable." But what good does that sheek kit of information do him. He knows that it is, in fact, he is probably even colder.
Of course, there is no denying that there is some educational value in the story we read every day about how we lived and worked in the world. But didn't we know in the first place that northern United States and Canada was the coldest region in North America, that it usually gets very bitter, even when more thermal statistics are of no value to us; we forget them anyway an instant after we read them. And we know that when one part of the United States is cold the other sections are warm.
So away with it all, we say! Cease to torment us with a constant reminder of our uncomfortable condition, and stop telling us how cold it is.
Blood Disease Again Threatens Spanish Heir
Once more the name of the dread malady, haemophilia, comes into the news as the former heir to the Spanish throne fights for his life against her case of the Spanish Bourbons. Her illness is "the king's disease," is one of the world's strongest malades. It affects only men, and is transmitted in hereditary cases by the woman who herself does not have the affliction. The slightest cut may cause bleeding to death because blood does not have cell-forming necrocytes.
In the case of the ex-royal family of Spain, Queen Victoria was not a hemophilic but she, nevertheless, was still infected with severe and recurrent bleeding. The youngest of these two sons died a few years ago from a slight cut received in an automobile accident and the other from a life attack against dread disease.
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The disease also existed in the late Russian royal family. In 1907 the only son of the czar, at the age of 3, fell while playing in the garden and his nose began to bleed. Court physicians tried to stop the flow of blood, unable to stop the flow of blood. Haemophilia, which caused the young czar's death, had been hereditary in the Russian family for over 300 years. In 1631 ex-King Alloson of Spain, his daughters to wed as he realized that light transmit the disease to their sons.
Although the disease in called "the
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The only way of telling whether the woman is a carrier of the disease is by the useless method of waiting until the sons and grandmothers have been produced. Science so far has searched in vain for some method of successfully treating the disease. Experiments being carried out by Dr. Curzol La Flour Illinois give some hope that a solution to the problem may be worked out.
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