PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HARRY VALENTINE ASSOCIATE EDITORS BILL GILLE AIMA PRATTER MANAGING EDITOR FRED M. HARRIS, INC BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN STAFF Campus Editor BILL RODRIGUEZ MARK UP EDITORS | DON HUELS BELL DOWNS | BILL DOWNS SPORTS Editor JASON CHOEHN NEWS Editor JASONOTHERS SOUTH EDITOR PREFERRED SUNDAY EDITOR JAMES POLKINGDOWN MARGARET BOYAT RUTHFORD HAYES HARLEN MEYER F. QUINCY BROWN HARLEN MEYER JULIEN BROWN RUTHE SYNDON SIMPLY JOHN HARLEN MEYER HENRY HADLEY HARLEN MEYER HENRY HADLEY KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS BILL DECKER Business Office RU 66 Night Construction, Business Office RU 21 Night Construction, Business Office 2701 RU 2 Night Construction, Business Office 3456 RU 2 Sale and exclusive national advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. (800) 261-3344 Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morning except during school holidays by students in the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, per year, $1.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments. Single coupon, tk each. Enter as second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at lawrence, Kansas. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1936 Superstitions, though age old, are still much in evidence today. THE MODERN SUPERSTITION The average individual of this modern generation merely scoffs at superstitious beliefs as being so much rubbish. To those who hold these irreligious beliefs, however, the superstition is something highly regarded and feared. The average individual is quick to report that ignorance and misinformation cause certain individuals to hold and fear superstitious beliefs. This same average individual who scoffs at superstitions, is the first to shudder with fear at the mention of socialism, communism, or fascism. These terms hold but one meaning—a Red element that is out to destroy and overthrow everything thus for created. To these individuals the Red element is something to be feared greatly. But why does the average individual hold this fear? Again, ignorance and misinformation are the bases for this fear. So, we find that the fear of the Red element is not unlike the fear of a superstition. Education and knowledge of a subject will remove much of the horror element, and for this reason the Kansan will present as clearly as possible for your information, the meanings of communism, socialism, and fascism. -Kansas City Kansan. At the center of the earth, says a scientific item, the pressure is about 22,000 tons to the square inch. Or about that which is brought to bear on political jobbholders in a campaign year. THE MUSEUM- WHAT GOOD WAS IT? The Museum of Natural History was to the zoology student as a library is to a lover of literature. The Museum was the point of contact between the University and the general public. Dyche Museum of Natural History served four classes of people, before it was closed to the public. Nov. 30, 1932. First, zoology students—the Museum housed a wealth of material for research study for the graduate student. The displays and specimens fitted in laboratory instruction to perfection. Second, Fire Art students—the Museum satisfied their aesthetic craving—to see the beautiful things of nature and to be closer to nature. They also sketched the specimens. Third, general students—the Museum satisfied their curiosity and aesthetic cravings. Last, general public—the Museum made it possible for the layman to understand better and to broaden his knowledge of pre-historic life as well as present life of our continent. Life in Kansas was emphasized; however, the specimens represented every mammal of North America. And the Museum will continue to serve those same classes of people. WHEN it is opened again. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING A solution for the much discussed question of compulsory military training in colleges has been placed Congress in the form of the Nye-Kvale proposal. If this bill, which has already been referred to the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees, becomes a law, it would do away with compulsory R.O.T.C. training in civil schools. The proposal is in the form of an insert into the bill of 1920 which established college R.O.T.C. units. This insert provides that no R.O.T.C. unit shall be established or maintained in any school or college "until such institution shall have satisfied the Secretary of War that enrollment in such unit (except in the case of essentially military schools) is elective and not compulsory." While compulsory military training is not required of Kansas University students, there are 118 civil schools and colleges in the United States which compel students to enroll in the R.O.T.C. These schools offer no alternative for conscientious objectors or others to whom military training is offensive. The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the right of land grant colleges to enforce the regulation concerning compulsory R.O.T.C. It does not appear that compulsory military training in colleges is necessary for the protection of the United States. The students who dislike military training and are forced to undergo it, wouldn't make very good soldiers. Compulsory military training is against the principles on which our Bill of Rights is founded. American freedom is not upheld or practiced when American citizens are forced to do that which is useless and contrary to their own sacred principles. Campus Opinion Article in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the authors and should be consulted when possible. Length are intended to convey by the edition. Contributions Editor Daily Kansan: Why should the North Carolina cribbers get all the publicity? Are they more clever than the local boys and girls who occasionally put their talents to the gentle art? Of course the Tar Tir bunch may have been a bit better organized but the business is here and after all they were caught and we haven't been, so how about it? Cribbing or cheating takes a number of forms on the campus. Every organized house and some unorganized ones have carefully kept files of old booksheets and quiz questions by which the individual may pass a course with a minimum of original work. Students who take an examination usually pass the questions on to others who will take it later. On notebooks which have received high ratingsworth a tall sum. Ghost writing is a thriving business. When it comes to actual embbling in a quiz, there seems to be no end to the originality of our local talent. In one course, memorized poetry had to be written in class. Some bright boy wrote his outread of time on three kinds of paper from the teacher and scribbled on it for a while, switched papers and got a top grade on the exercise. Notes written on the inner side of the shin, on the collar of the fellow in front of you, pinned to the toe of your shoe, or slipped inside a wide cuff are the favorite methods employed by many experts. Members of the father sex often skip notes inside silk stockings at the knee. You can also see these vital skibrillings can be easily read through the hose. Follow cribers, those North Carolina fellows have nothing on us; let demand our rights. We can be evidence of that. ... OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:19 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues. Vol. 33 FEBRUARY 9.1936 ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION. There will be an all-University Convocation at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, February 11. The speakers will be Justice Walter G Thiele and President L. D. Coffman. Betty Hanson, Chairman ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION OF W. Y.C. A: The Advanced Standing Commission of the W.Y.C.A. will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 at Henley House. All upper class women are invited. FIRST SEMESTER GRADES: Grades for the fall semester may be obtained from the Registrar's Office February 10-15, according to the following schedule of student names: Monday, Feb. 10-A to G inclusive Tuesday, Feb. 11—H to M inclusive (except during convention) FRESHMAN COMMISSION OF Y.W.C.A.: The Freshman Commission of the W.Y.C.A. will meet Monday at 4:30 at Henley House. All new freshmen women are especially invited to attend. Jean Russell, Chairman. Wednesday, Feb. 12—N to S inclusive George O. Foster, Registrar. Chas. Zeskey, President. Thursday, Feb. 13—T to Z inclusive Friday, Feb. 14 [Those unable] Friday, Feb. 14 ( Those unable to come at the Saturday, Feb. 15) scheduled time. FRESHMAN COUNCIL: The Freshman Council will meet Monday evening at 7 o'clock in room 10 Memorial Union Building. Plans for the second semester will be made. Donald Henry, President. TAU SIGMA Tau Sigma Dance meeting will be held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in Brownstein gymnasium. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The Home Economics Club has hosted the initiation and waffle supper from September 21 to October 3, 2015. KAPPA Phi: Kappa Phi will have a tea this afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock at 1209 Room Publicity Chairman KU KU MEETING: There will be a Ku Ku meeting Wednesday night at 10:30 in the Memorial Union Building. All members please be present. Eddie Rice, Secretary. QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet in the WS.GCA. Lounge Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:50 pm. All pledges are accepted. PHI DELTA KAPPA: There will be a short but very important meeting of Phi Delta Kappa at 4:38 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in room 115 Fraser. All members should be there. N. D. Ritzzo, President. MEMBERS OF STAFF. Tickets for the dinner Tuesday evening honoring Chancellor Lindley must be purchased by noon Monday. Committee on Arrangements, More Abundant Life Can Be Attained Says Promoter of Co-operative Plan Dorothy Smart, Publicity Chairman By Hugh Gordon Hadley, c'36 Admittedly, the movement has received greater attention and impetus due to the late economic unpleasantness, but when one contemplates the history of its consumers protest, exerting new demands for more evolving from an insignificant beginning to one of the greatest buying powers in the world, one is constrained to view it seriously, with an eye to its possibilities, both of the danger it holds for established business and the potential opens to us for a more abundant life. In a period of highly emotional appeals to the commoner, the worker and the great middle class, it is refreshing to come upon a movement which does not accept self-aggrandement or for undercover work designed to sway the public thinking. The Co-operative movement is such, and although its adherents admit a noble desire to convert the world to their way of doing business, they seem perfectly content to leave it to the commoner, who pouch onward to Elysia where no man shall profit unduly at the expense of another. Here they were beset by many problems of management. They were blazing a new trail, these Rochdale Pioneers, and the way was not always decided upon was that the organization should be democratically controlled. The few weavers who had contributed their money were entitled to some remuneration they reassigned, but they provided that no matter how many employees they had, he should have only one vote in the council. But they paid what they considered a fair rate of interest, since established at about six per cent, and thus eliminated any chance of profiting from simply a consumers betterment movement. The weavers of Rochdale, England, (twenty-eight of them), in the year, 1844, saw their lives being confined by their inability to apply their mass purchases to their jobs. They were bad, wages were low, and all attempts at betterment by such men as Robert Owen and William King had met a dimental fate. These weavers relied on labor and not capital, and signified to assure them the full benefits of their wages, instead of permitting a huge leak between producer and consumer. They pooled their resources, $140 it totalled after nearly a century, into a small store商店 in Toad Lane. In a speech on the student forum platform Thursday night, Dr. James P. Warbasek, president of the Co-operative League of America, scouted the idea that the co-operatives subscribe to Communicative Ideas. Dr. Warbasek proposed a debate about capitalism, but he does not propose to throw over the whole system on a moment's notice for some untried harebrined scheme. "The capitalistic system is a balanced account," he said. "It tells the milk bottle down at the kitchen door. It sets up railroad tracks across it." The unused slums and the Great War." In late years one feature of the Rechdale plan has been more widely stressed than the others, until many uniformed persons conceive it to be the best way to protect themselves patronage refund is an essential part of the plan, but by no means constitutes its whole program. This provides that each consumer shall be refunded a certain percentage of the amount of his purchases when the organization receives a bill for them finds that it has a surplus remaining. This surplus is the difference between what the co-operative paid at a quantity price for the goods, and what the consumers paid for them, after deducting insurance, tax, insurance and other charges. The Co-operative movement, while it does not work insidiously, is yet very effective in communities where the average citizen does not suspect its presence. It does not come with a loud huzzah and rolling of drums, but rather with some small number of neighbors that they could stretch their dollar much farther by co-operative action. In North Kansas City, Mo., are the headquarters of the Consumer's Co-operative Association, with 259 member Co-ops centered throughout several states. The Co-operative products, but has recently branched to include all automobile accessories and a paint factory. swered already. Co-op accepts the market price set by the leading producer in that field, except such instances as England, where the Co-op control a majority of the nations retail expenditures, and are thus able to set the price themselves. Dr. Warbzame explained the almost magical reduction in sales overseas foreign countries, with no actual cut throat competition. Some persons believe that Co-op products are inferior, but the young filling station attendant riddled that argument with the bland inquiry. "Why should we want to retail inferior product to our customers?" recompensated just as much anyway." An attendant at its filling station on the nearby highway, is smilingly ready to discuss with you the merits of the Co-op. He is a graduate of their educational school, and seemingly can communicate well. What are these attacks? One is the plan will dispense with the middle man, a large portion of the public. The Co-op answer this with the assertion that when a local Co-op is set up, the members are willing and anxious to retain the former manager to get the benefit of his experiences, and only then that he become a member himself. Dr. Warbasse explained that Co-op did not worry over their ultimate goal and denied that they were seeking to encompass all industry in the Government's effort to expand to gain control of sources of production and supply, and over one hundred million persons now buy from co-operative, consumer controlled stores, but Dr. Warbasse said the movement needed the stimulus of a competitive, profit seeking business that it up to its present high standards. The movement has been a hundred years in the making, and scarcely can prove to be a flash in the pan. Its goal is to make economic sense by the recent economic upheaval, but it offers the best escape from a money mad, materialistic, cut - throat, competitive system without going to the good side of idealism and hopeless Utopianism. Another person charges that Co-ops out prices. That charge has been an- A Corner On Books By Charles Haward, c'unel. My Country and My People, by Lin Yutang. (Reynal & Hitchcock, N. Y. a John Day book, 1835). One of the most important movements in China today is the discovery of new educational intellectuals. They are beginning to discover their own masses to find that life in the country side, in small towns in the country is the real and native life of China. Dr. Lin Yutang was reared a Christian; he now describes himself as a pagan. He has had a Western education; he is a modern. He is wise and penetrative in his understanding, for the Chinese have been all too po ples wise and penetrative in their understanding of the human heart. He is humorous, because humor is an essential part of Chinese nature, deep, melow, kindly humor, founded upon the great virtue of perseverance. Pearl S. Buck has written a sympathetic and appreciative introduction. In his preface he says, "I write only for the men of simple common sense, that simple common sense for which ancient China was so distinguished. To these people who have not lost their values, to them alone I speak. For they alone will understand me." He traces the Chinese ideals of life through Humanism, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. He praises the Chinese culture, the product of leisure; for the Chinese have had the inneneed of three thousand years to develop it. Dr. Lin Yuanyin divides his book into two parts: Part One "Bases," includes an introduction, a history of character, mind and ideals of life; Part Two, "Life," treats of the woman's life, the social and political life, the artistic life, the artistic life, and the art of living. He stresses China's sound instinct for life, a strange supernatural, extraordinary vitality. She has survived all the trials she has endured by her poor children and grandchildren. Merry Old China quietly prays her tea and smiles on, and in her smile she grins. In writing this momentous portrayal of China and the Chinese people, Lin Yutang finally looks at the pathetic equalizer of the country today. He concludes, "I ask for patience from the country," and he continues, "men, for they have too much of it. And I ask for hope from my countrymen, for to hope is to live." Fresh SILEX COFFEE An invigorating stimulant. UNION FOUNTAIN VALENTINES --- The Book Nook 1021 Mass Tel. 666 How to Dress Well PHONE US Any cleaning will make clothes look better for a while! But it takes really good cleaning to make them new. New York Cleaners ARE YOU HARD TO PLEASE? WE INVITE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER REARRING SATISFIED WITH THE ORDINARY SHOP REPAIRING ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP 10171⁹ Mass. W. 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