PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 29. 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HERBERT A. MEYER, Jr. EDITOR IN-CHIEF HENRY HAMM ASSOCIATE EDITORS TASK PROFESSOR MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER E. OYEKEN STAFF CAMPUS EDITOR FRED TAKEN MAKE-UP EDITOR $ BILL ROGERS SPORTS EDITOR $ DALY O'BRIEN ABSTRACT ROY NAVLE NEW EDITOR WARN KINGHOOK SOCIETY EDITOR FRANK CLARKE SUNDAY EDITOR JOHN MAGNONE KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS MARGARET ROAST HARRY HAYES HARRY VALENTINE RUTH STOLAND ALLEN MERGAM JACQUELYN MURPHY FREDDOW HAYES F. QUENTIN BROWN SUSAN WILSON SHIRLEY JOHNE HOUND HAYLEY MORTISE MURPHY TELEPHONES Business Office K71 66 New Business K71 69 Night Connection, Business Office K72 03 Night Connection, Business Office K72 04 Sale and exclusive national advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC. Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Publical Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday message尝 during school holidays by students in the department of Journalism. University of Krasa from the Office of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, per year, $7.00 cash in advance, $2.21 on pay- ments. Single copies, 1 each. office at Lawrence, Kansas. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29. 1916 KANSAS DAY AND GOVERNOR LANDON The entire nation is turning their eyes and ears toward Kansas today. This 'interest' is not due, necessarily, to the fact that the state will celebrate its seventy-fifth year of statehood and forty-fourth Kansas Day anniversary. The expected announcement by Governor Landon that he is a candidate for the presidency of the United States completely dominates Kansas Day interests and activities. It is thought that Landon will eliminate the adverse criticism to which he has been subjected because he has, up to date, consistently refused to indicate his ideas and convictions on contemporary problems, by demonstrating his availability by a strongly-worded attack on the administration, and an expression of his ideas. This verbal attack, that is eagerly awaited by the public, will add spice to the program of Kansas Day; this year's Kansas day will be the first to see a presidential announcement of any consequence. The people of Kansas believe in Governor Landon. They believe in his sincerity of purpose and his application of common sense in attaining results. They believe in his sincerity of purpose and his application of common sense in attaining results. They believe that he can do for the United States the same thing he has done for Kansas—balance the budget. A few older persons remembered Stephen Foster last week. Mr. Foster was the musician who long ago predicted in a song not only the coming of the motor car, but also the fact that the young people would use it most of the time. The name of the song was "Old Folks at Home"—Topeka State Journal. WHY NOT A COURSE ON MARRIAGE? University and college students throughout the country are beginning to realize the importance of social understanding and compatibility between the sexes. They have shown this interest by demanding courses dealing with marriage and family problems. In all but the more reactionary type of institutions which have been petitioned, the students have been afforded the opportunity of open and enlightening discussions of problems that confront each individual. These problems are practical ones that materially affect the future life and happiness of every undergraduate. The University of Kansas has always been characterized as a progressive institution, and the inclusion of a course pertaining to marriage and family problems would be but a natural step to further entrench the University in its position as one of the leading intellectual centers. The demands by students for the establishment of such a course, although at the present time are not loud and vociferous ones, nevertheless are real. The need for the establishment of such a course cannot be overemphasized. John Jacob Astor, the third, who took a job at $25 a week a few months ago intending to learn the shipping business from the ground up, has resigned it. By careful management Mr. Astor, we presume, has saved enough from his salary to retire.-Hutchinson News. Our Contemporaries AMHERST GETS KIND-HEARTED If students at Amherst do not get their money's worth in education, it will be their own lookout. Amherst is not going to force them to attend classes. A radical change in the rules, just announced, is that beginning Feb. 13, all classes will be withdrawn. Each undergraduate will be placed on a system of unlimited cuts. It was reported from the college that the 600 undergraduate who heard the announcement gave it their approval. All of the undergraduates will be permitted to cut as much as they desire in all courses. The professors will not have to keep such a careful record of attendance. Believed from that chore, the instructors will be enabled to devote more attention to their lectures. Those students who are on hand will profit in that way and their examinations should be much easier for them. In other words the professors will be relieved of police duty. They will not be worrying about those who absent themselves from the classes. "If the absentees are needed to pass the tests, they must take the consequences." Theoretically, the liberal system is sound. It seems that those who are old enough to go to college and able to spend the money required should not be surrounded by government spending, because costing money to obtain, it seems that college authorities should not be bothered. However, fond and ambitious parents, who are paying the bills, may not approve such liberal rules. They must be taken into consideration, because from the practical business viewpoint—Pittsburgh Sun. MARRIAGE COURSE PETITIONS Student opinion has yet to endorse the suggested course dealing with the problems of marriage and family life. Today and tomorrow students will have an opportunity to voice their desire for such a course by signing up at the university or in the living centers, fraternity and sorority houses, and posted on the bulletin boards of all campus buildings. Without exception the faculty members interviewed have heartily favored such a course, realizing that education can teach one how to solve and avoid many problems of married life and can lower the divorce rate. Student and faculty discussion concerning such a course has dominated the campus for several days, though the subject has been considered for a period of years. This is the opportunity for which interested students have been waiting. Those who think such a course will be beneficial in future years have only to sign a petition. —Syracuse Daily Orange. DR. TOWNSEW—A GOOD CRUSADER, BUT A POOR BOOKKEEPER Among the many minority groups hinting third-party action or trying to cudgel plains out of the major parties is the clan headed by Dr. Townsend, creator of the $200-a-month old age pension scheme. Dr. Townsend claims to have 25 million signatures in the petition to Congress asking enactment of his plan. But biguages of the major parties who might like to use the plan as basis for political votes, are repelled by the smell of bad economics. The Townsend scheme, briefly, provides for payment to citizens 60 years or older, of $100 a month, on the stipulation that each beneficiary spend the entire amount within 1 month and give up all income-producing work. The Townsend scheme proposes a 2 per cent turnover tax—a tax upon each sale of a product, which differs from a tax on retail sales. There are about 11 million people in the United States who are 60 years or older. Townsend literature has viciously claimed 8 to 10 million persons would be pensioned upon enactment of the scheme. Thus the total annual cost would be between 19 and 24 billion dollars. Competent economists have computed that 1923 turnover transactions in the United States—the Townsend tax base—amounted to 400 billion dollars. A 2 per cent tax on this would yield only one third the necessary revenue. The statement has been made that a 2 per cent turnover tax amounts to a 10 per cent retail sales tax. Hence the Townsend plan would necessitate a 60 per cent sales tax, which would hardly invigorate business. Townsend literature pooh-poohs the statement that n 2 per cent turnover tax will not yield the necessary revenue. It claims that the increased purchases by the suddenly久留yield will shed the taxable base sky- The Townsend boosters forget that most of their money—coming from sales taxes—will merely transfer buying power from one group to another. In 1832, 32 million dollars were spent on wages, salaries and other labor income in the United States, and total retail sales of only 40 billion dollars resulted. On this basis the 19 to 24 billion dollars paid to 10 million people will not produce the 500 billion dollars required as necessary at a Townsend plan tax base—Minnesota Daily. SELF-INVENTORIES It pointed out that the average student spends almost as many hours in aimless occupations as he does in attending classes and studying. He uses about 6 hours of the day for leisure. Students complain that no matter how they conserve students, they never seem to have enough in to do a task. A recent New York Times' article "Undergraduate: A Case Study," treated on the subject of the student and what he does with his time. The article was based on collected from 700 students in a mid-western college. Out of 29 forms of leisure time amusements, those favored most by students are "sheer idleness, random conversation, listening to the radio, 'bull sessions', drinking, and cruising around campus in a car." Outside of dates, the average student uses three and one-half hours playing bridge. Contrary to popular belief, very little time is allocated to extra-curricular activities by students, the articles point out. As for cultural activities, such as attending the cultural events, they are often found in very little time for them in his crowded week. In a week of seven days there are 168 hours. Out of this total the average student uses 20 for class attendance, 54 for sleeping, and 21 for eating. This leaves 71 hours with which the student may do as he pleases. Out of the 71 hours, at least half of the time should go to resting and the remaining 31 hours may be used for recreation. When students were asked how they utilized their time, the answers were always vague. Many of the students did not know just what they had done with their time. Are students at Syracuse stereotypes of those depicted in the New York Times or are they different? DR. JAMES NAISMITH TO BE HONORED THROUGHOUT NATION These figures should start many students on a self-inventory to determine whether or not a proper balance between loafing and making the most out of college has been accomplished. In instances will be surprising - Syracuse Daily Orange. Summers on the farm, school in the covered that he reserved the front lumber camp, high school two and a rank for the more proficient of his pu- Summers on the farm, winters in thl lumber camps; high school two and half miles away' through sub-zero weather; games such as other boys football or basketball; be a minister that turned to physical education as a means of helping his Inventor of Basketball Spent an Uneventful Boyhood Marked by Fisticious and Winters in Lumber Camps fellows — these are fellows — these some of the points in the early life of the basketball team is to be honored by a basketball teams throughout the week of Feb. 7-15. Already in Kansas more than 60 high schools have designated the games that are to honor the ball by contributing 1 cent a person to a fund to send him and Mrs. Natsom to the Olympic games, and provide them an annuity. Before he was 8 years old, young Nismith went with his parents to a lumber camp some distance from his home. He lost the death of his parents, within a few weeks of each other, he returned to the home of his uncle between Almance and Benny's Corners, to commute to his schooling, and work on the farm. Learned Greek by Hymen. When he realized he was travelling, when he was travelling, he quit school, but later determined to finish his course. In the intervening time, while he drove the lead team from his uncle's woodlot, he did a lot of thinking on what he was to make his way back home. He conning over his Latin conjugations. It was well he did, for when he went to college, he matriculate, he found that his self-esteem is good in stead. Dr. Naiimah gives much credit to the high school principal, Mr. Hassan, a special interest in those of his class, preparing for college, meeting at the noon hour and in the evenings, with a whiz on grammar," says Dr. Naiimah. Uncle Aids in Schooling When the uncle discovered that James was planning a seven-year college course, four for his A.E. and three for the ministry, he asked how the young man expected to do it. "Oh," he replied, "you should have whereupon the uncle offered to provide the cost of college if Naisimh would work on the farm in the summer. The three years in theological studies will be taught by teaching the gym classes of McGill. As a boy, Naimith played such emotion as his fellows did "Indian in the rock," and "in the ice, on the rock, increase, and in the winter snow- shoeing and ice hockey, or rather "I had seven fights with one grade school boy," he said. "I licked him the last time." Upperclassmen Urge Gym His interest in organized athletics came in his first year in McGill. Two juniors came to his room one evening, and warned him he was not getting enough exercise. "I laughed them off—till they were gone," says Dr. Naismith, "but after they were gone, I gave the matter away and decided to go to the gym. I wore a pair of indian clubs and took a place in front of the instructor, Lester I dis- LET FLOWERS Express Your Thoughts Whatever the occasion, flowers can carry your message. We will arrange to their best advantage. Cut fresh daily from our own greenhouses. Flower Fone 820 WARD'S FLOWERS "Flowers of Distinction' Dr. Naimith played football six years, for there were no eligibility tests, and the team provided their own equipment, and because the doctors were busy卸 Prairie Pride together Lack of the ability to face and the rugby teams made it necessary for these teams to practice together, scrimmaging a day at rugby and the next at soccer. The principal opponents were Toronto, and Queens, with contests also with Montreal Athletics, Ottawa, Stittiana Athletic Club and Sherbrooke. It was in the second year at seminary that the turning point came in Dr Naismith's career. Something went wrong in a football game, and the guard next him began swearing fluoride in his mouth he stopped, and exclaimed "Fremont." "I hadn't said a thing," says Dr. Naismith. "In fact, I was hardly noticeable, for I had heard fancier swearing than that in the lumber camps. But made me think, and I talked with her about it. He told me of the Springfield school, and it was only on earnest advice of another faculty member that I didn't stop then and to turn the Y.M.C.A. I finished my course, but have filled a pastorite. I had a letter to other day from that former guard. Fresh SILEX COFFEE Dr. Naismah entered the Y.M.C.A. college in 1890, 11 alonzo Tauro, and they, because of superior preparation, completed the two-year course in a year, and Dr. Naismah was put on the Y.M. staff. The following December he devised the game that has made him famous. An invigorating stimulant. 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