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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY, 17, 1930
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1936
GO AHEAD AND WRITE
If you have an innate and rather provoking desire to be a writer, just go ahead and write; send your manuscript to a magazine and wait for the check. Really, the procedure is quite simple, according to Jerome Beaty, '08, who addressed journalism classes yesterday. And Mr. Beaty should know of what he speaks, for he is one of the nation's leading free lance writers, with articles and stories appearing almost weekly in Collier's or the American Magazine.
If you want to write a story, you must have a plot, Mr. Beauty said. But there is nothing complicated about this, in fact, the simpler it is the better. If you want your story to be sure-fire, just have a boy meet a girl, then let the boy lose the girl, and for a conclusion have the boy regain the girl. What could be easier to write? Yet hundreds of stories of this type have been chosen by magazines in the past, and hundreds more will be chosen in the future.
Or if this plot does not seem to have enough appeal, crag a likeable character out of your mind, make him want to do something, but have apparently unsurmountable obstacles in his path. Let him fail at least once, give him a page or so of dark moments, then have him try again and succeed. If you can make your character different from any you have ever read about, and if by some twist of your imagination you can have him turn a handicap into an advantage, then editors will climb over each other's shoulders to get their copy.
However, you should remember that everyone can use the simple plot outlines, and anyone can garnish them with some form of decoration. The thing that you really must sell, to be a successful writer, is your point of view. You must choose your plot, choose your decorations, then put enough of yourself and your originality into the story to make it different. But even this is not difficult. Everyone has a point of view, and no one lacks originality—at least not in his own mind.
Of course Mr. Beatty read enough books and talked with enough people to become almost an authority on jewels before he attempted to write an article on the Morgan collection. He spent an entire month with John Barrymore before he could get a suitable interview. He quite often re-writes an article or part of an article ten times or more, but such things are only incidental. The basic formula is as simple as a fire grade reader. Just go ahead and write your story.
Our Contemporaries
LET FREEDOM RING—THE CASH REGISTER SPEAKS
Of late the air has been rent with loud bellowing of
the American Liberty league. This group, clamitant to the
defense of American liberty, actually is a champion of the
"status quo." The League argues that the American people wish to return to the so-called "good old days" (of two cars in the finance company's hands and two chickens in every garage).
Let's look at the "Liberty" league. Least it received $483,175 and spent $389,973. It paid, among other things, a salary and expense of over $1,000 to its head, one Jouette Shouse.
Now where did all this money come from? Yes, of course it came from the pockets of American people who believed that their liberty needed defending. Well that's two points for our side, now let's play again.
As the League's publicity man, Al Smith, would say, "it's look at the record." Let's find out just who these stout yeomen, who rise in defense of their so-called rights, really are. Surely they must be honest farmers or factory workers who chase under the yoke of New Deal policies. Are they these people?
The record shown that 30 per cent of the checks contributed and amounting to $138,000 come from no less a group than the du Pont family. Other contributing women were Alfred P. Slouan of General Motors fame, our old friend
John J. Rackok, The Bankers Trust company of New York,
The Philippe Oilcompany and other financial groups
Here we have a delightful little group of people who attempt to give the impression they genuinely represent the voice of the nation. It is they who pay the expenses of American Liberty league. People who pay salaries usually are not interested in it; more fun well let you guess whose "library" is embodied in the American Liberty league—Daily Northwestern.
CUTTING AND POOR GRADES
The survey of the effect of cutting on grades just released by David M. Larrabe, assistant to the dean of men, is revealing. It shows that 71 per cent of the habitual cutters received grades lower than passing.
Such statistics are revealing, but they might be misleading. They are revealing because they prove so conclusively that cutting class is definitely linked with grades despite the liberality of the teacher. Only a very small percentage of the cutters knew how to study outside of class and how to make up work and cram for examinations. The others were just wasting their time in the University.
The figures might be misleading if the reader took the attitude that such a state of affairs is an indictment of the present non-compulsory-attendance system. For those 454 students who were habitual criers there were 8300 old students who did not abuse the system. They were often hostile from their freedom and some of them who might have been under the old system received high grades and were able to do more for the University outside of their classes.
Most of the habitual cutters would have been cutters under any system and those who wouldn't be, probably learned a valuable lesson in will power. The system is wise, the individuals are not—The Daily Illini.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG COMMUNIST
So you feel that you are going to cut loose, young man. Well, I knew your father when he and I at your age looked at a world full of injustices. In that day the world was rather more stuffy with injustice than it is today. Your father and I stuck it out. Possibly we were wrong. But two or three young fellows whom we knew and loved struck off across country to the rainbow that the world is better than it was fifty years ago. But I doubt it will be any longer. The resistive pressure of social forces in it edify us through the inventions of men and the slagfish but powerful moving sense of justice in men's hearts have made the world更 in these fifty years.
I would like to think that those dear, star-eyed boys and girls who started with us in the eighties accelerated the speed of human progress, but I am fairly sure they did not.
You have a gift for writing. You see things clearly and you are not mistaken about these cries, cruel and devastating injustices which fill your eyes with wrath. More people see them than you think. And so with glacier-like movement the injustices are ground down. The generations pass, justice is a little more nearly achieved in the passing century. But change that comes often is not change, but turmoil. I fear that you will be caught in cataclysm in Russia will have to back up two or three, in the next ten or fifteen years and then will not be abused than the order that is slowly changing so surely under our eyes in the democratic nations of the world.
In the world you are to enter the world. All kids in your heats should not try to point the way to a youth in your community that has made so many mistakes, and I have been myself that has a part or an indigner of many of those mistakes that it is grotesque to try to tell you what to do. One fact, however, may fairly well rely on. If you live until you are grown up, you survive into an order as changed and strange as this in the world when I look back on the days when I was your age.
You ask my advice about what to do in the changing social order in the world you are about to enter
The changes that have come to the world in my life have been mostly by mechanical devices. I think the changes your life will come largely through human attitudes to software and other mechanical devices that are vur unrealized.
What should you do about it? Rush out to meet the changes? Face them with急 impatience! Or sit by and let them see. I don't know. Of this I am fairly certain. That what you do will make no great difference. Whatever changes in the social order you may see will be more or less inevitable, a part of resistensocial time. I should not pull back when the machine is grindless and should not get out and push too heavily. It won't help me. And also, pushing so hard—you may fall and fall down, way you don't know which way the old bus is going as you push, and may steer it to a ditch. Mark Twain's boy on the Mississippi steamboat who burst into the salon where a lot of old ladies were knitting, and startled them with the cry of "the", probably was rebuked when one of the old ladies looked over her shoulder, somnolent, run and get your pants on and some tell us all that is the world's attitude toward those who crowd the hurriers for the old order, and there is something in it.
I suppose what I am trying to say is to save your enthusiasm, your energy, the dynamic illusions of youth for your work, and let it lead you where it will. Don't restrain it, and don't prostritate it. Whatever talent you have is your gift, your dearest treasure. Follow it, but cherish it. It will do the world no good to have your skills by a boys club or a gun-hut. Moreover as pernature you will miss a lot of fun, but maybe you will see a lot of girls.
I probably haven't helped you, and I am. But it always beighed to know your progress — William Allen Wilson.
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
--and highways has something wrong with its brakes.
JANUARY 17. 1936
AVAILABLE SCHOILARSHIPS. One gift scholarship of $50 for a woman student and several loan scholarships for men and women students, are available for award at the beginning of the second semester. Applications be made by Jan. 20. Blanks and information should be placed by calling at room 363 B Administration building.
Mrs. Flora S. Boynton, Executive Secretary,
Committee on Aids and Awards.
MEN'S PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL. There will be an important meeting of the Men's Pan-Hellenic Council at 10:30 Sunday morning, January 19, in the basement of the University of Pittsburgh. Cities will be assessed those fraternities not represented.
Lloyd Morgan, Secretary.
HINTS GIVEN TO AID DRIVERS;
CARELESSNESS CAUSES WRECKS
By Jim Clarkson, c'36
General Motors Company Pamphlet Claims Speeding and Faulty Brakes Are Forerunners of Many Accidents
"Honest judge—it wasn't my fault,
. really it wasn't. Is he hurt badly?
. do they think he'll live.
Oh, why didn't I go slower? . .
I might have known something would happen !!"
Poor boy—yes, he’s sorry . . . dreadfully sorry—but it’s too late now. Had he been half as careful as he is he wouldn’t have been punished. Many times it doesn’t make any difference whether you break traffic rules and regulations or not—but when you attempt to amend the laws of na-na, you’re really up against something.
Probably all of us at one time or another have moved over in the road to pass another car or string of cars—only to find that we had misjudged our distance and wondered if it was too late to get back in line.
The General Motors Company recently issued a small pamphlet entitled "We Drivers" a series of brief discussions on the "how and why" of driving. "We may all know these things," it says, "but we know them so well we're apt to get careless about them."
If we try to pass a car going forty miles an hour it's just the same as if we tried to pass a string of cars 126 feet long. In other words it里的 like passing eight cars parked bumpter-to-bumper. And think how long a string must have to be to compare with distanced cars that pass someone going sixty miles an hour . . . , usually a half a block—or the length of sixteen cars.
Aviators can bank their planes when turning with very little trouble—and in this way can overcome what is known as centrifugal force. Railroads and highways are banked at curves to overcome this pressure which tries its best to push us right off the road. To this, many people take advantage of a wheel brake to tempt them at "uncommonness" speeds. A 3,000-pound car making a turn of 500-foot radius, has to overcome a centrifugal force of only 156 pounds at twenty miles per hour. But take this same curve three times this fast and think of the 1400 pounds push it to its might against the side of your car before to get the best of the friction between your tires and the smooth road.
Have you ever heard the expression "over-riding our headlights?" Engineers often speak of this term in reverence. When we are driving, mean is "that the distance we can see clearly by headlights is, of course, limited and that we are apt to let our car speeds get beyond the point where we are likely to step within that limited distance."
And this calls forth the question of bringing our car to a halt. We do three things in stopping: first, we think of stopping, next we move one foot over the road, second, and third, we push down on the tire that those two steps take time. Not more than a second perhaps, but even in that instant momentum is working fast. With the most perfect brakes in the world, and under favoring conditions, it takes an alert person forty feet away, is going only twenty miles an hour.
As a matter of fact—night driving can be made just as pleasant and just as safe as day driving. But we do have to be just a little more watchful, a little more careful, and a little more considerate of other drivers.
"Every now and then mother Nature uses all of her devices to make us slow down, and there is none more effective than mist and fog."
Scientists who have studied "Mother Nature's smoke screen" say that it is composed of tiny particles of water, so they can be close and, together with light, penetrate them. They act as little convex mirrors, reflect the light back into our faces so that it seems like a window. We don't hang directly in front of us.
There's quite a difference from driving in a hilly country and driving on level stretches, especially if the altitude is high. For instance, a car that develops enough engine power to only 82 horsepower at an altitude of 5,000 feet, and only 69 horsepower at the top of Pike's Peak. So if we go on a trip and happen to get into what ourselves driving along takes for granted, and then all of a sudden we notice that our power is giving out and we're slowing down—then just as we decide it time to shift or we'll decide we are—stalled on v hill !!
It is very necessary to have lights adjusted correctly. See that the beams are directed downward so that the rays of light hit the road instead of back into the eyes.
Have you ever been at a railroad crossing or station while a train was stopping for water and fuel and noticed that there was always someone dodging in and out between cars inspecting the tracks. Nobody in the world knows better than you can actually solutely essential is it to be able to stop when you really have to. So watch your brakes. Of course, everyone knows how important it is to be prepared for a sudden stop, and yet somehow or other we're apt to be a little careless about it. We sometimes walk before having our brakes adjusted, and the point has been reached where we have pushed the pedal to the floor board. And the result of this is the fact that one out of every three cars on the streets
If we do find ourselves in such a predicament, there are two ways of escaping "between the horns of the dilemma." One school of experienced drivers use their foot brake to keep their cars from rolling backward, put their engine in low gear and accelerate with the hand throttle, gradually apply the Dutch and releasing their brake at the time. Another school of good drivers does the same thing only they use the hand brake and the foot accelerator.
Those who really know—say we should never, under any condition, disengage our clutch and coast downhill. It may be a lot of fun, and we may save a teapoonful of gas—but "Old Men" are always hitch-hiking right along with us just waiting for a chance to take the control out of our hands.
Have you ever wondered why cars are made to go so much faster than we ever care to drive them? Everyone knows what happens when we are going at high pressure all the time, either physically or mentally. Like anyone who has ever run machine-ready on a speedometer, going at top speed constantly—slower or later it goes to break down. And that's the way it is with an automobile. By building a car so that it will run at high speeds, engineers have made it practical to run it at a reasonable car can go to 80 or 90, or even faster. You don't have to strain to go 40 or 45. So we can sit along, day-in-day-out, at sensible speeds without overworking it.
No matter how much we dislike unpleasant driving conditions we'll have them just as long as we have snow and sleet. The business of starting on slick streets may be quite a problem—but they are, wayway, however, that is consistent with a satisfactory by most drivers. First of all, they say, you should begin to slow your car down at quite a distance from the place at which you want to stop. You can do this first and release it almost at once. Then press it again and do the same thing. By a series of brief, moderate, brake actions, instead of one continuous pressure, the car can usually stop without skidding.
So much has been written about being careful at curves and turns—that now most people take it with a grain of salt and forget about it. But, after all, driving in slippery weather is no different than walking under the same road or taking a tree-free single turn as though it were stop. In other words, they approach curves using the same short, moderate brake actions. Then when they reach the curve they are going so slowly that they can actually give the engine life gas and power turning the wheels they are not so likely to skid.
When you look down at city traffic from a tall building, everything seems to go so smoothly. You wonder how in the world all those cars can keep moving along, turning, passing, without getting all tugged out, without getting all tugged out. Occasionally there's a horn, accompanied by bhoning horns and screeching brakes—just because someone tried to make a left turn from the right lane of the street, or a carless pedestrian darted in front of you when your driver had to stop "on a dime." But part of the traffic that seems to simple twenty stories above—your whole viewpoint changes. Things can happen so quickly that you have drive along "with every intersection, every alley, every street corner." Experts drivers say that there is one fairly certain remedy for all driving lills — to give ourselves a margin of safety, a reserve of space and reserve of time. If we fail to do this it makes city life just one emergency after another, which takes all the pleasure out of it.
"So it isn't enough just to have our engine in good shape, and to watch our fuel and oil, or even to follow the rule of not driving too many hours at a stretch. Those things are highly important, but it is just as important to give our signals and to watch our signs and follow them religiously. Then we
can look forward to sending back that ever-welcome — 'Arrived safe after pleasant trip.'
ROCK CHALKLETS
Believe us--this is the time for students to know all the answers. Even the best of things must have an ending.
One thing we have never been able to do with any degree of nonchalance is to tie a loosened string while walking with the girl friend.
The best extra-curricular activity for students during these strenuous days of preparation for finals is sleep.
There's Danger in waiting too long-
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