PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HARRY VALENTINE BILL GLEE ALIA FRATTER MANAGING EDITOR Fred M. HARRIS, F. BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUINTIN BROWN CAMPUS EDITOR BELLE ROOPMAN MARVEL UP EDITORS IHON HAWAII MAKE UP EDITORS DILLA ROWNEY NEWSPORTS EDITOR LOUIS COURTIN, JAMES BAUME NEWSPORTS EDITOR DIMONTE SHAW SOCCER EDITOR JAMES BEAHN SNOTCHING EDITOR JAMES BEAHN KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS BILL DECKER MARGARET BOSS RUTHFIELD HAYER HERBERT MURRAY RUTH F. 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Subscription price, per year, $1.00 cash in advance, $1.25 on payments. Single copies, lee cah. Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1936 CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY At a time when hairbrain plans for social betement, and crackpot schemes to uplift the proletariat can be had for nothing more than the asking, it is encouraging to come across an organization like the Consumer's Co-operative Association. Here is a group with a practical plan to help the common man; a plan that is being carefully and unostentatiously put into effect, a plan that is more than theory. For nearly a century it has been used effectively in European countries, but Americans have only recently begun to realize its value. The Consumer's Co-operative is based on the principle that no man has a right to profit unduly from the work of another. Through a system of organized groups the Co-operative returns to the consumer the profit that now goes to the middle men and the big business men. Under this system democracy still prevails, and competitive prices are not cut, but the benefits from work are more evenly and justly distributed among the people who deserve them. It is a plan to make the dollar go further—a great deal further. With fanatics shouting their "isms", reactionaries beaming the "good old days," and politicians threatening to straighten out our social system, but only threatening, it would be well for John Public to turn his attention to the Co-ops. They offer just what the old boy is looking for; an improved system of living. Vitamin H has been discovered, it is announced. One reason, perhaps, why the vitamins are not using up the alphabet any faster is because they use only one letter at a time, instead of three or four, as the New Deal has done—Kansas City Kansan. REPORT OF PROFESSOR DIGBOGGLE "I promise to make better grades next semester." "I promise to make better ---" "I promise to ---" Professor W. W. Digbogle, director of the University Bureau of Statistics Regarding Student Savings, in a recent article, discusses the number of times that a student will make this self promise in the two days immediately following the receipt of final exam cards. The Professor states that it is a simple matter to find out the number of times that each individual makes the promise and gives us the following formula to use in making the deduction: First, add to the number of hours flunked those hours in which a grade of D was received, multiply this by the average number of breaths the individual takes per minute, then this total when multiplied by two days less the number of hours spent sleeping and eating, will give the number of times an individual promises himself to make better grades. The Professor says that he is entirely in disfavor with any student who makes these promises and then fails to keep them. To enable all students to keep the promises they have made he has devided this rule—each time an individual starts to go some place or to do something other than study, if he will forget to go, and spend half the time studying that he plans to spend elsewhere, then he will be able to keep the promise that he made to himself. From the article written by the Professor, we find that he is indeed a wise and educated man, so if he will follow his findings and teachings we will be able to truthfully say "I promise to make better grades next semester." Some papers are publishing lists of eligible bachelors in their communities for the benefits of the girls during leap year. But it's not publicity that the harried males need; it's protection.—Kansas City Kansas. Our Contemporaries PROFESSIONALE PATROTS SPOUT UN-AMERICAN AMERICANISM What is Americanism? To professional patriots and politicians it is a rhetorical flag which they wrap about themselves to conceal a lack of logic and insure immunity from attack. Hysterical nationalistic organizations and pressure groups level a shaking finger at those with whom they dislike the magic term "Un-American" blast them in their tracks. If their foes are un-American, then the implication is that these nationalistic groups and individuals are truly American. Perhaps in them the essence of Americanism may be found. Americanism, then, seems to be a dedication of the past without regard for the future. It finds satisfaction in vilifying "foreign" countries, from whence the pioneers of America came a few generations ago. Americanism has a profound distrust of any "tilt" ideas, because it is an untraditional belief and management on a framework of "foreign" political theories alter the case not at all. It is this type of Americanism that often delights in forming vigilante committees and preserving the fair name of justice with a lynching or two. This amsus provincialism hardly seems a satisfactory definition of Americanism. Americanism is not the exclusive property of one group or class. It should mean not a blind pride in our country's past but a common pride in our culture. America's history tells us that our country can be a better nation, and it is the will to take part in making America a better and greater nation. If the pioneer heritage of America means anything it should be exemplified in a spirit of thoughtful, fearless action into the problems of today. That is the only kind of Americanism worth defining—and having—Minnesota Daily. DEFEATED? NOW'S THE TIME TO START FIGHTING By now many students will have learned of failure in one respect or another in the University. Perhaps you failed to make as many friends, to read as many books, to settle as many problems, or to answer as many questions, but you might you would have by February 1, 1896. Or you have had one course if not all of them to a greater or less degree. Perhaps you just feel whipped. You have decided your University education has meant nothing to you. Maybe you came here expecting too much. You were told that in these days a person must have a "university education" to go along; so you came here to let the University prepare you for life. There is one thing fairly certain. If you are one of these fellows, through the proper attitude you can make the University do more for you than for someone who has been getting along really. You can make up your mind now that you will never amount to a hill of beans unless you learn to overcome defeat. Better that education defeat should have come to you now while you are young and young men don't get that way without straining. "Before a man can achieve excellence, the gods have ordained he shall sweat." -Daily Texan. UNDERGRADUATES AND THE ACCIDENT PROBLEM Aggressive "safe-driving" campaigns are being in-studied by students of a number of American universities and colleges. The old idea of the average college boy, which painted him as a rip-roaring irresponsible, mischievous figure, was armcuffed a blonde and one hand held a flask, was doubtless much exaggerated; it but remains a statistical truth that the most dangerous drivers are those in their late teens and early twenties. If the menace of automobile accidents can be brought home to these drivers they have taken an important step in curing the problem. One of the campaigns is being conducted at Yale, where the Yale News, as distinguished an undergraduate newspaper as the country possesses, has issued a pledge for students to sign. Signers of the pledge agree to practice and to drive always at moderate speeds, never to pass on hills or curves, to stop at stop sign and not "jump" traffic light, and to be fair to all other drivers. Any driver, young, middle-aged or old, who follows these rules will be involved in a major automobile accident, due to his own ness. —University of South Dakota Volunteer. Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:39 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol.33 FEBRUARY 6,1936 --increase increases. The tueses caps are thought to be made up of large areas of snow and water which drain and transfer themselves through the atmosphere over the surface of Mars to the other growing vegetation to grow in their path. CO-ED CLUB: Co-Ed Club will meet Thursday evening, February 8 & from 7 to 8:35 o'clock, in the Women's Hall, 1206 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY. Grouel of, the Lawrence High School Home Economics department, will lead discussion on fabrics and styles. NEWMAN CLUB: Newman Club will meet in the Church Hall at 8 o'clock tonight. The members are reminded to bring their club dues of $2e and $5e for the subscription to "The Modern Schoolman." Catherine Holmes, Manager, Co-Ed Club. INTERACRIAL COMMISSION. The Interacritical Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at Henley House this evening at 7 o'clock. Martha Peterson, Dorothy Hodge, Cochairman PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION: The psychological examination for new students will be held Friday, Feb. 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the University Auditorium. All new students should come to the tests take these tests before enrollment is considered complete. Katharine Aston, Secretary. A. H. Turney. SIGMA ETA CHI: There will be a business meeting Thursday, February 6, from 7 to 8 m in the Women's Lounge of the Memorial Union building. This is important. Please, all members be present. W. S.G.A: There will be a special meeting at 4:30 Thursday in the Council room. Evangeline Clark, President. Julia Jencks, President. Y. M.C.A. CABINET. In room Calvin will talk at the regular meeting at 430 room in room 10 at Union University. A new discovery in photography as applied to astronomy recently was credited to James Edson, who received his A.B. in astronomy at the University last spring. Edson has been doing experimental work in astronomical photography at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Aziz. since last summer and has contributed to photographs of his work to Miss Lily Sonnery, secretary to Dean E. B. Stouffer. Do means the new process of photography, a composite method of super-imposing images on top of one another to a total number of as many as 30 greater clarity of planet images has been established. Photographic work on the planet Mars, which is nearest to the earth in the solar system, has presented many interesting correlations to present theories concerning the planet. A collection of the drawings and photographs done by the new process won third place in the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. A similar collection are now being pre- sent to be sent to the next Royal Astronomical Society meeting in London. E. C. Shlaper, a brother of Dr. V. M. Shlaper, director of the Lovell Observatory, which is a privately endowed astronomy institute into astronomy, has made nineteen drawings of the planet Mars, and these drawings, showing the polar caps, areas of vegetation, atmosphere, and surface features, have provided accuracy to composite photographs which Edson has been able to secure by combining a number of negatives of the same view of Mars including those during them as a single photograph. Former Student Makes New Discovery Bringing Stars Closer to Astronomers To those not familiar with astronomy a few words of explanation are necessary for a more improved sense of appreciation of the photographs and d drawings. Astrodomains hold the belief that planet Mars is about two-thirds the size of Earth and that its whole content of water is approximately to that of Lake Erie. Polar caps seem to alternate between the north and south poles of Mars, the one cap decreasing in size as the op- Lawrence's Bargain Theatre 10c PATEE 15c Shows 3-7-9 BANK NITE TONITE NOW! ENDS Friday The Grandest Hits of the Season. JOAN BLOENDLE GLENDA FARRELL "WE'RE IN THE MONEY" CORNERBOOK MONEY" Comedy - Novelty 25c 'til 7 --- Why Pay More? NOW! GRANADA The Man Who Defied the Underground to Get the Truth About the Shocking Snake Scandal The Whole "Inside Story" ENDS SATURDAY Martin Moneyn, crack reporter, who wrote this story, went to watch a video of the release of information! 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