PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER HERRERT A. MEYER, INC. Associate Editors Bob ROBINSON JACK PEYFORD MANAGING EDITOR SHIRLEY JONES BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUINSTIN BROWN EDITOR-IN-CHEF MELVIN HARLIN ------------------------what we know. When, for instance, only ten states have driver's license laws that are at all adequate; when at least six states have no minimum driving age . . . when in a city of 200,000, 40,000 tickets of traffic offenders are "fixed" through political influence each year, it cannot be said that we have seriously come to grips with the problem." 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Entered as second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office in Lawrence, Kansas. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1936 CUFF AND COPY Those students who are deciples of the cuff and copy art feel not the slightest twinge of conscience, nor do they suffer the slightest less of prestige in the eyes of their friends. They even go so far as to justify their acts, and attempt to convince themselves and honest students that cribbing is a desirable and upright method of examination attack. The final examination counts too much they say. If we fail that we fail the course. We have to crib to get through. Such an argument is nothing more than an admission of ignorance or a confession of laziness. Students who know their subject, students who have done their work as it should be done need have no fear of finals. If they have been slackers, then they do not deserve a grade. If some students crib, then the rest of us have to crib to protect ourselves. This is perhaps a logical argument from the student's point of view, but certainly it does not justify the principle of cribbing. People are no less guilty of a dishonest act simply because some one else committed the same act. But we are upset by examinations and cannot think. The student who is so effected usually has nothing to think about. If he actually cannot stand up under fire, he does himself a great injustice to lean on crib notes. All through the semester he has been free to study and play when he chooses. Let him face the music when the time comes. Let him face it fairly and honestly. The student who cribs to avoid failure, no matter what the cause, is only prolonging his eventual downfall. Regardless of the type of examination, regardless of the feeble attempts at justification, cribbing can never be placed on a just basis. Either examinations should be turned into open forum discussions in which the student may honestly get his ideas from any source he wishes, or the childish practice of cribbing should be done away with, making examinations in actuality what they are in theory—a test of the student's knowledge, not a test of the combined knowledge of the class. Hawaii's volcano, Mauna Loa, is quieting down. If eruptions like this continued long Mother Earth would have to do something about her complexion—Kansas City Kansan. AND SUDDEN DEATH CARRIES ON In an article, published recently in the Reader's Digest, the magazine says that since the printing of the story, "And Sudden Death," nearly 3,500,000 reprints have been ordered for distribution by individuals, corporations, traffic authorities and judges. Continuing, the magazine asks, "Can such a wave of universal response sweep the country only to subside without leaving constructive achievement?" In answering this question, the article tells how typhoid fever was reduced from a raging killer to a disease which is no more fatal than whopping cough. Deaths from diphtheria and scarlet fever in 1932 were less than one-fourth of what they were in 1912. These and other figures show that when the country is sufficiently aroused about some bad condition, steps will be taken to combat the menace. Such articles as "And Sudden Death" cause widespread discussion of the problem of auto accidents until there is a general reaction against such accidents. In stating the weaknesses of the existing conditions the magazine states, "The present trouble is not that we don't know what to do about automobile accidents, but that we have not yet used It is only by educating drivers and pedestrians and improving traffic conditions that the appalling number of motor deaths may be diminished. The driver should be made to demonstrate his ability to safely handle a car before a driver's license is given him. Safety campaigns should be carried on in the schools. A careful observance of traffic laws and a feeling of social obligation to the other fellow on the part of both motorist and pedestrian alike will decrease the number of accidents. Such articles as "And Sudden Death" help to cause such a condition to come about. Britannia rules the waves, Mussolini waives the rules—Washington Herald. Our Contemporaries WAR-CHRISTIAN? Make E-O-TX. Optional Until Peace Training We have got used to some pretty flimpy thinking on the R.O.T.C. issue, but岂不是 unfamiliar to the argument in a previous chapter? Those who object (to compulsory military training) on religious grounds might be interested to know that the Church is obliged to prevent all acts of pre-ventance to prevent all use of force by a civil government," as the Ro. John Mamme, Methodist Episcopal Society, wrote in 1895. The Church not only of the right, but of the duty of such a government to perform its proper functions, even when force is not used, for the protection of the state and the management of taxes, and by His own submission to crucifixion, even though unjust, just as Scorers similarly have been accused of doing so. Of course, children, just the fact that the reverend gentleman said it is so makes it so. Personally, though, we are not yet conceived that Christian ethics would approve "all use of force"—killing for instance. The Collegian and the reverend, we see, would include executions by the state, "even though unjust." And the question is evident that they also include "Mass murder of war, asChristian—probably even though unjust" too. And yet a man who said "blessed are the peacemakers" is supposed to condone all that. As a matter of fact, that paragraph proves nothing at all about R.O.T.C. It attempts to show that the force of war is justified, and from that we are supposed to conclude that training for war is justified—evidence again, of the state Still, the writer goes on to say that “R.O.T.C. is a training and not a state of mind”, though he himself clearly has a wrong sense of mind about it all, evidenced by his attempt to prove war Christian. Whether compulsory military training makes most of its students think war is Christian, we are not ready to say. But all of us can agree that it compels students to study war and pay of settling disputes. That, of course, is its purpose. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN We should have just as big a building and just as a staff teaching students to settle disputes in a peaceful, modern way—"preparedness," too. Until we have such a compulsory course, let's have only those who wish to study the military way take military training—Iowa State Student. Notices at Duncan's Office at 1 p.m. p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:11 a.m. saturday for Sunday issues. No.78 Vol. 33 JANUARY 15.1936 A. S.M.E. There will be a regular meeting of the A.S. M.E. Friday, Jan 17, at 8 p.m. in Marvin Auditorium, Mr.D. R. Evans, of the Babcock and Wilcox Co., will give a lecture on "Boulder Dam from the Mechanical Engineer's Point of View." There will be moving pictures to accompany the lecture. All Mechanical Engineers attend. John Grist, Secretary. AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS. One gift setup 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 should be made by Jan. 20. Blanks and information will be called by calling at room 383 ADMINISTRATION building. ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL. Regular meeting of the Engineering Student Council will be held at 125 Hampshire Street, London EC4A 3QW. CANDIDATES FOR TEACHING POSITIONS: All persons interested in teaching positions should attend a meeting this afternoon at 4 clock in Fraser Theater. Mrs. Flora S. Boynton, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards, INTERRACIAL COMMISSION OF Y. W. K. C. A.: Mrs Joseph K will speak on "Hawaii" at the meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Henley house. Be prompt, Martha Paterson and Dorothy Hodge, Co-chairmen. Russell Young. Seey.-Treas. H. E. Chandler. K. A.C.E. The Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in room 201 Chemistry Building. Dr. Robert Taft will give an illustrated lecture on "Modern Photographic Gordon H. Miller, President, Charles H. Bedingfold, Secretary. K. U. YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be a meeting at 6:15 this evening in the basement of Green Hall. TAX TOKENS CALLED MANY NAMES IN DIFFERENT STATES Katharine Aston, Secretary. NEWMAN CLUB. The Newman Club will meet in the church hall Thursday at 8 p.m., Jan. 16. Cursed and Joked About They Nevertheless Are Effective in Securing Additional Revenue Jobeed about, and peeringly calle cootie coins, boot-tanners, jigger chis, taxies, molecule money, chin money, dairy money, and tops, the nets sales tax takens are nevertheless raidy being put in use in seven state Marion Mundis. e'37 These big-little, round-square tokens are literally chips off the old block; the old block being the copper penny. They actually have no purchasing power, yet they can be secured only by some of some of Uucs' small tender. Within recent months many states were suddenly faced with empty coef- cations, but been cleaned out by the enormous rule levies. It was but one answer—levey a tax. As a result of this, 24 states in the last 24 months have levied one to three per cent. How to collect these taxes provoked another problem. Citizens protested against paying a cent tax when the waist in reality but a fraction thereof. The state of Washington solved this confusion by authorizing tux tokens, and was soon followed by Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Ohio resorted to sales roids, which are passed on the articles rolds. When the first three states had produced small coins for the collection of sales tax, Unea Sam began to frown. He, here thought, was an infringement upon his right to coinage. Something must be done about it. On July 24, of last year, Treasurer Secretary Henry Morgenthau burgundy state coinage, and In Washington the decision to use tokens came suddenly, so sudden in fact, that on the day in which the tokens were to begin using these bits of metadata from a computer supplied with them. This resulted in "minimony tokens," bits of paper used by the merchants that guaranteed to be so many tokens when they arrived. UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT KNOWS THE VALUE OF FREEDOM There may be charges of loss of freedom hurled across the political battle front, but one person in these United States has a conception of liberty as found here that only can be conceived in order to be able to iron the hand of foreign governments. She was expelled from the school because she would not separate herself from her family as she was mandatory to attend school. Any manurer connected with the church. Missouri also noted the Treasury Department's frowning attitude. As she had already had several run-ins with her Urile Sammy on such things as relief funds and the like, she took no chances on the token-coinage deal. Changing her "show me" attitude to "we'll show you," she introduced the bottle-cap token, which is original to the initial order was for the 40,000,000 "caps." The mill variety. These tokens, though bundles being, the size of milk caps, serve their purpose in collecting the one per cent tax. Mrs. Neufeld was a senior in medical school in Hallstadt, Russia, when the Soviet government by edict abolished all religion in the country in 1928. Being the daughter of a village mini-mart, her beliefs were more than skin deep. By Clyde Reed, Jr., c37 That person is Mrs. Anna Klasse, Neufeld, a graduate student in the University of Kansas, who knows what freedom means and appreciates it to the extent that she has learned from the tyratic strings of the Soviet cultures of her native land—Russia. Anyone Who Disagrees With the Government in Russia or Expresses a Religious Belief, is In Danger That was the beginning of a long, uphill struggle for freedom which climaxed when Mrs. Neufeld reached the United States two years later. Realizing that she might meet the same fate as that which befell her parents, Mrs. Neufeld persuaded a son to make a demand for freedom with her. The Russian government looks upon Mrs. Neufeld as a traitor because she revolted against the perceptions and values of her family during escape from her home country and make her way to the shores of the United States. But Mrs. Neufeld herself as an American resident and citizen will be arrested, so she will become an American citizen. Washington, the leader of the rumpus, uses aluminum coins, slightly larger than a nickel, to collect her two per cent tax. These tokens bear a close relationship with the middle quickly distinguishes them from the legal tender. Regardless of this, the citizens were quick to experiment with them in pay telephones, gas meters, and other slot machines. The state officers jump ahead of these "chilies," for they had the token so that it would not work it any slot machine. Soon after her expulsion, her father was imprisoned after being denied a passport. She persevered, the daughter turned her efforts to Moscow for a passport. She, too, promised to provide one-half cent and mill coins, when the states took up a belligerent attitude. His promises, it seemed, were just so many words, for they had not been consulted in the matter, and besides the cost of coming small coins would be prohibitive. It was up to the states, they said, to shift money from the treasury even when the Treasury Department continued to sewl, and threaten to sue. Illinois, however, was not quite s The weirside journey began, carrying them to the border of Russia on the Siberian railroad; then followed a long trek, afoot, through the interior of China and then the final boat trip, in stages, from Harbin to San Francisco. When the trouble began to breew with the Treasury Department, Ohio stieped the issue by bringing out sales tax stamps, a half billion of them to be shipped in cash to tax. These stamps are, in many ways, no more than the coin tokens. They are easily disfigured and high-toned, or rather "stuck-up." The perils of the flight, naturally, were great but never once did the fugitives have an incentive to turn back. After they were across the China-Russian boundary, Chinese soldiers robbed them of all of their money as a form of tribute to keep news of their flight from the proper authorities. During the next two weeks, the girls went out in uniform to swim in fish which they caught, and tea for nourishment. They were in a strange land, where no one understood their language. Finally, Harbin was reached and there they were among some of their own people—Germans, the girls having been of German descent—and they left the most dangerous part of their journey behind. "I did not relax until I reached the shores of this country," Mrs. Neufeld said. "Everyone is so free here. It's different in Russia, where one is in danger constantly if you disagree with her express or expresses a religious belief." Mrs. Neufeld, having obtained an A.B. degree in music from Becth college, Newton, Kan., is studying for a doctorate in German at the university. She already has fled her first citizenship papers and looks forward some two years hence when she will be a ledgered citizen of the United States. careful in designing her tokes. Her 15-mil aluminum tax token closely resembled a dime, and did work in some slot machines. As a result they sign changed so that they could not work in any machine. A total of 15-000,000 of these small aluminum pieces were made to collect the state's three bills. In Colorado ordered 5,000,000 two-mill coins to collect her two per cent tax law. In a contest held by Scripps-Howard's Denver News to secure an appropriate name for the states token, the "Snigdets" was deemed most fitting. New Mexico's one-mill tokens are the smallest issued so far. These aluminum chips are smaller than a dime. Oklahoma, the last state to take up this fad, was seemingly all set to collect her tax with 20,000,000 aluminum tokens of the one and five-nill variety. When it came time to make them were just the thing to operate a pay telephone. On Dec. 6, the state authorities, not wishing to put the telephone companies out of business, ordered the shape of the tokens altered in such a way that could not be used in an妙 slot device. They can be joked about, cussed, lost, tamed around in a disaffair manner, but these little brethren of our family already have been used as poker chips, tops, strung as necklaces, used for chips in "Lotto", games, and used as play money, but all of the time they play are used for tax. Although there are 19 states with sales tax who have not resorted to these "hostnannies", there will come a time, for already they are eyeing successful brother states with envy. Who's next, folks? WEDNESDAY SPECIALS Good Sausage and Fried Apples with Hominy A Winter's Treat at the CAFETERIA Lawrence's Bargain Theatre PATEE 10c 15c BANK NITE TONITE NOW! ENDS THURSDAY More Thrilling Than "The Trial Man" SPENCER TRACY VIRGINIA BRUCE "THE MURDER MAN" TODD-KELLY Comedy PAY NITE THURSDAY Everybody Gots Paid Ends Tonite 25c 'til 7 Shows 3 - 7 - 9 GRANADA THURSDAY For the Week-end LILY PONS "I DREAM TOO Much" With Big All Star Cat THE GIMME GAIS ARE BACK MISS PACIFIC FLEET JOAN BLONDELBELL • GLENA FARRELL Waghe Herbert • Alive Tillum For Laughs and Rows— For Howls and Screams- G hear the Gimmie Girls Tell to I the Attriaces! X - TRA - FRIDAY - SATURDAY The Hilarity STAGE SHOW of 1936 HAPPY GO of 1936 HAPPY-GO- LUCKY A Mile-A-Minute Melange of Mirth and Melody FEATURING THE OREGONIANS In Their First Appearance East of the Rappals 21 - PEOPLE - 21 Pre-Finals RELAX VARSITY COME!!! Have that Final Fling — That Final Relaxation WITH LOUIE KUHN and his Orchestra 75c SATURDAY, January 18th 9'til 12 Union Building