PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS PUBLISHER HEARBAY A. MEYER, JR. EDITOR-IN-CHEIF MELVIN HAKLIN ASSOCIATE EDITORS JACK PENTWOLF MANAGING EDITOR SHIRLEY JONES BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN STAFF CAMPUS EDITOR FRED HAWKINS MAKE-UP EDITOR { BILL ROGERS SPORTS EDITOR DALE O'Brien ASSISTANT JIMMY JEAL ASSISTANT RAY NATLE NEWS EDITOR JAMES PORRINGTON SOFTY EDITOR FRANCIS WILSON SUNDAY EDITOR JOHN MALONE KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS MARGARET BOATTE RUTHERSON HAYES HERBERT HYTER P. QUENTIN WESTER ROTHEN ROWLE RUTH STOLAND SHIRELYN JONES ALLEEN MIRAMAN HOUND HARLEY JOHN A. BROWN MELISSA HARRIS TELEPHONES Business Office KJ U 66 View Room KJ U 66 Night Connection, Business Office 2701 KJ U Night Connection, Business Office Sole and exclusive national advertising representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle - 21 Staten Ave., Seattle * Lake City Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday noon except during school holidays by students in the department of Education. University Kansas from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on pay ments. Single copies, t/c each. Entered as second class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7.1936 RETURN TO LABOR After two weeks of quietness, the campus is once more swarming with busy students who have returned from their Christmas vacations. Yesterday morning there was a general attitude of drowsiness and indifference, tales of vacation revelries, and an apparent inability of many students to re-adapt themselves to the routine of classes. However, these conditions are rapidly fading away and work is being seriously resumed. The realization that only three short weeks remain before final examinations begin is a positive factor in the process of settling down. Term papers are coming due and the time has arrived when the postponing of work is impossible. The library will be one of the most popularly frequented places on the campus. Midnight oil will be burned and pleasures will be forgotten. For many, the next three weeks will be a hectic blur of cramming, the most serious occupation of the student. The finals must be "hit" so that creditable grades will be sent back home. All in all, it is not a very pleasant outlook for the student. However, beyond the period of cramming and examination, the second semester beckons joyously to the successful. Only by placing one's nose to the grindstone now, may these future pleasures be realized. REACTIONARIES CAN'T WIN Present day commentators upon politicians who get a chance to air their opinions every day sometimes go in for lengthy spills. They average about one worthwhile statement in every fifty. If they slip, they can always make up for it the next time. On the other hand, you take a man who goes on the air about once a month and must write his views three months ahead of the time the public will see them, and you will see him making every word count—weighing every opinion against future possibilities before it goes into print. Take George T. Eggleston, editor of Life, for example. He gets twelve chances a year to have his say. And in a recent issue of that magazine he not only covered the "reactionary hangons on of our country" but literally smothered them in no uncertain terms. Yet he advanced a little warning which they, in their peculiar state of mind, will wholeheartedly disregard. "Dorothy Thomas has said that America possesses many reactionaries but no conservatives and the truth of that becomes apparent the more it is examined. With all the English protestations of individualism, it is obvious that in every case of importance the State comes first with our blood cousins. Whereas in this country, it is either a case of Business fighting the government or controlling it, in Great Britain the kninship between Business, State and Society is so intimate that there is no hesitation when the State is threatened—Business yields. The British do no more than they are compelled to do in such things as assisting the unemployed but they do them with their eyes open and with full recognition of the fundamentals in the case. "Our own reactionaries bear about them a touch of insanity. In a recent conversation with a Wall Street banker, a man of ability and supposedly good sense, we learned that: (a) If the government would keep its hands off business, prosperity would follow immediately. (Business once did so well for itself that all the banks in the country closed and would be closed now if the government hadn't placed its own credit behind them in the way of guaranteed deposits.) (b) The way to cure unemployment is to stop giving relief. (The way to cure hurricanes is to stop issuing weather bulletins.) (c) Such things as A.A.A., the Guffey Coal Bill, the Wagner Labor Bill must be abolished and the industry allowed to function freely. (With the exception, naturally of the R.F.C., which furnishes help for industry.) "In short, the reactionaries—whether Democrats or Republicans—are reverting to their old policy of taking all the benefits and accepting none of the responsibilities. A true conservative accepts responsibilities because he wants to continue receiving benefits. There is one axiom in history: the reactionaries always lose and when they lose, they lose for keeps." And now the "Gentleman from Congress" rules against the Literary Digest poll because it shows a minute disfavor for the New Deal—wants them barred from the mails. Last year he was giving Farlay cigars because the same mails brought in such good returns in favor of the New Deal. We haven't heard the last critic on the radio broadcast last Friday yet. The Normandie is almost as big as the May- flower must have been - Bay City Mich.) Times. Our Contemporaries LIQUOR ON THE HIGHWAYS The New York Times, an davocate of prohibition repellent, points to the serious situation that is presented to the American public by the drunken driver in the following editorial, which it would be well for many motorists to clip and paste on their windbreaks today as they start out on a Sunday jaunt: The drunken motor car driver looms bigger and bigger in the routine death roll which prices the price by the American people for its week-end holidays. It is stated before a meeting of police and fire surgeons that the drunken drivers have increased 45 per cent since rebel. This we may very well believe from the fact that 1934 witness 40 an increase of nearly 30 per cent over the preceding year in accidents advisable to alcohol; yet by 1934 the first exuberant reaction against the trend of things in the current year there is every reason for fearing that 1932 will show a further increase in this most inexactuous of a³¹ forms of reckless driving. A 5-year campaign to cut down motor deaths by 35 per cent is announced by the National Safety Council to begin with the new year. It is a striking thought that if the drunken driver could be eliminated from the situation the National Safety Council would be able to deal with a big City and state reports for 164 show that six per cent of the drivers involved in accidents had been drinking. That this is a charitable undertreatment is plain from a special inquiry made in one small Pennsylvania region where, out of 119 accidents, no less than 60 per cent were attributed to alcohol. The study also found that drinking responsible for half the deaths which the National Safety Council hopes to abolish in five years. TAKE THIS PLEDGE The Hartford Times, Hartford, Conn., last summer started a campup to put an end to reckless driving in The paper first started by asking all its employees to take a pledge. The pledge was printed in the paper and thousands of people in Connecticut took it. An improvement was immediately noticed. The pledge has since been adopted in toto by numerous other newspapers in the United States. We print the pledge below and suggest that you have cut it out and paste it on your windshield as a memorial. "I am making the following pledge: 1. To drive at a moderate speed in my proper traffic lane or on my own side of the road. a.运 to pass car or other vehicles on curves or hills. b. Stop to act stop signs. 4. Not to jump truffle signals. 5. To be particularly watchful for pedestrians stepping into traffic from parked cars or from behind parked cars. 8. Always to hand signal showing intention of turning left, right, or stopping and not to leave curb without leave. 7. To refrain from reckless driving. We wonder how many auto fatalities there would be if police were constantly kept in mind by drivers? If bledy was constant, why not? OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 5 To be fair to other drivers in all respects." Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., precedes regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Regular weekly meeting Wednesday morning at 7:55, in room C, Myers hall. Keith Davis, President. No. 72 Vol. 33 JANUARY 7,1936 MATHEMATICS CLUB. A special open meeting of the Mathematics Club will be held in room 213 Administration building at 4:30 this afternoon. Dr. Arthur Haas, visiting professor of Physics, at Bowdoin College, forms the University of Kentucky on an ontological Problems in Physiology*. The public is duly invited. James K. Hitt, President. SENATE MEETING: The University Senate will meet at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in central Administration. RHADAMANTHI: There will be a meeting of Rhadamanthi tomorrow at 4:30. KAPPA PHI. There will be a supper meeting this evening at 5 o'clock at 1200 Tennessee Street. Please call 412-348-6872. Alfred C. Ames, President. PHI DELTA KAPPA: There will be a regular meeting held at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, Jun. 8, in room 115 Fraser hall. The meeting will consist of a discussion of the new reorganization plan as passed on by the National Council and the appointment of committees for the new Phi Delta Kappa project. N. D. Hizzo. President. Beulah Pinneo, President. DEPRESSION FORCES COLLEGE STUDENTS TO THINK SERIOUSLY Greater Maturity of the Undergraduates Is One of the Causes of This Transition Bonnie Jean Daniels, c'36 "The essential truth of the adage about every cloud and of that other one about an ill wind seem to have been demonstrated by the results of an investigation University of Michigan by the University of Michigan. The depression, however calamitous its other effects, does seem to have put college students into a more serious frame of mind and led them to points of view and values considerably more mature than those which they held in 1925. This, according to the professor of scolarly at the University of Michigan. MILITARY BAND MEMBERS: The Military Band resumes its rehearsals Tuesday morning, Jan. 7. Thursday afternoon rehearsal is to be held in Marvin hall. James Van Dyck, Director. Dr. Angell believes without doubt there is a trend toward greater maturity among undergraduates due to the depression. Before going into the results of this investigation some of the necessary changes will be given that has happened in college and that could lead to Fred Turner, Dean of Men at the University of Michigan. People like to ask questions about students. Are they discouraged and hopeless? Are many of them starving or having no food or relief? Are there many suicides among them? How many fraternities folded up and silently disappeared? Are there enough students left to keep the university going? And other similar questions. "Certainly there are enough students left to keep the universities going," says Dean Turner, "1927 to 1929 were high years, and then came the slump. The slump stuck its lowest in 1933-1934, but the fall of 1944 started the unturn." What has happened to the cost of living in a college community during this period? In the hey-ey hays $3 a month was a fair price for board and room, but competition drove the price down until room and board could be secured for lower than $2 a month. Now the prices are higher, and the average is slightly above $2 a month. "Many loans have been made to students who did not have sufficient clothes, but the general run of students seem to Ancient Antics 20 Years Ago By D.L.H. Eight Kansas students while making an inspection trip of the state prison at Lansing became involved in a plot by the prisoners to escape their unhappy life. The students with a professor, had intelligence and had luxury by the prisoners working there. Armed with pick handles, the prisoners escorted the students to a safe place then called a strike at the foot of the mage cage. The students being great diplomats, quickly seized the prisoners and held them against the prisoners. (They were actually cigarettes of a popular make. But you can't use anything like Chesterfields or Camels in the news columns unless you get paid for it). By passing these cigarettes that the prisoners were happy, and don't allow indicate coughs, they become great friends of the criminals. From that time to the end of the term as prisoners of the prisoners, they were treated with courtesy. (Instead of stepping in and savaging the prisoners, they did a Dick Trie? what do they do but pass out cigarettes and evade the issue.) Lean funds have been used to capacity, although many students refuse to get in debt. However, Turner found that they would not go on average months on repayments since he had been handling loans. The FERA has helped the situation much. It began in 1944 and the students to qualify were offered their educational work without aid. Sorority women on the Hill made a higher grade average recently than did independent women. The reverse was true in regards to the fraternities. The women of sorority have been less than the frat boys. (Since fire-prevention week is coming up soon, it might be well to slip in a little reminder and suggest that the higher grades are more likely to be the fast that back wall fire escapes had not been installed at that time.) Many county clubs at the University gave dinners for members and alumni members during the holidays—Many University students got hitched over the Yuleide season—One such student was Terry Golearsen (Our own Iabelle Perry positively did not get hitched during the holidays.) be reasonably well-dressed," says Dean Turner. What has happened to collegiate social functions during the past few years? Ten years ago the tickets for the Junior Prom in most schools sold for about $5. This year the average is about $2.50. Will the quality of the prom be seriously affected by the same features—a nationally known orchestra, decorations, glam, etc. The Kansan asks that all students make their New Year resolve to become Phi Beta Kappas in 1916- (With 200 keys running around the hill they would have to give some other award to make the getting seem important. They may also be given to one who passes the bar—and I don't mean exam.) Dr. Angell in commenting on the study of his sociology class says, "There is no marked evidence of an alteration of character of matriculants because of the depression. Therefore, we may assume that the phenomenon (that of the greater maturity among undergraduates) is due to changing attitudes." Activities show slight change in desire but a great change in overt activity. In other words, students must change their activities to fit their pocketbooks. All evidence seems to point to a more serious interest in academic work. The depression seems, oddly enough, to have had little influence on the number elec- tiving courses in particular departments. The social sciences have continued to grow, and the literature depar- tments have continued to develop. The natural sciences have remained very steady. The only real change is in mathematics and philosophy. The former gained until 1930 and has been losing since, while the reverse is true of the latter. This seems to lend weight to the notion that students appreciate the value of a degree in these trichothemes. The general picture, however, is one of cultural inertia. A club house is planned for the Kansas athletics on McCook field—Exams are coming—no basketball games have been played yet—they haven't even selected the team. (Allen has selected the team, played about 10 games and is grooming the boys for the Olympics already in 1938.) ber of student engagements has fallen off too. The increase in sports may not be desire but because of great improvement in facilities. There seems to be less interest in these activities as musical clubs, publications, etc. There is little doubt that "dating" among students has declined. This is undoubtedly because of unwillingness of students to spend money or cannot spend money on them. The num- The popularity of women with men seems to be much less dependent on clever repetition, dancing, collages, memoirs and family. Intelligence, sincerity, good character, and oddly enough, wealth, on the other hand are more important. The popularity of men with women has changed in that intelligence, good character, the ability to talk interestingly, intelligence, the ability to rate more highly, while clever repetition, being a "big shot on the campus," wealth, clothes, and being a fraternity member are considered less important. It is significant that beauty in the case of women and handiness in the case of men is not greater in terms of two more items tending to show a greater degree of maturity remain to be mentioned. First, there does not seem to be the same degree of snobbery connected with fraternity and sorority membership as formerly. "Independence" is a term for social class, Sociality. Fraternity and sorority membership. Self-storing less desirable. Second, self-supporting students are subject to much less condescension. If we can believe the findings of this study are accurate, it would appear that such characteristics are some of the most glaring weaknesses of some of the college好朋友 will become more mature points of view will become well established as to be embodied in structures and traditions which will endure beyond the period of the century. 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