PAGE TWO - UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1935 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHEM HERRERT A. MEYER Jr. EDITOR-IN-ChIEF BILL ROGGAN ASSOCIATE EDITORS MEYLIN HARLIN RUSSELL CLEIPZEM MANAGING EDITOR MARGARET BAST BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN Campus Editor ISAMS PARKINGHAM Make-up Editor ARCE CONSOLLER Sports Editor HIGHER HEADLEY Assistant HONORIE JASON News Editor DINALI HULA Switer Editor JOE MALONE Sunday Editor ROSNER SMITH Sunday Editor SIMONNE JONES TELPHONES KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS BUSAN, DONALD MEMMERT BUSAN, DONALD MEMMERT MARGARET MEMMERT HARRY MEYER F. 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WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1935 "LIP SERVICE" Now that the League of Nations, having failed in its preventive efforts to halt Italian aggression, has passed on to purely punitive activities, it must be clear to all who look beneath the surface of current events that Europe is moving steadily toward another general war. Prime Minister Baldwin says, "Not one country today, if war broke out, could regard itself as secure until that war ended. Even America, which has talked of isolation, is un against that peril." Italio-British relations are far from satisfactory because Premier Mussolini has shown no disposition to close his war, and Britain has shown no disposition to let it continue! Attention is now fixed on October 31, for then League states will fix the date for unleashing an economic boycott against Italy. The British, as yet, have not surrendered from their original intention: To thwart Mussolini's ambitions in East Africa. The British stand has a double meaning. (1) London is backing up to the fullest extent the convenant of the League. The League has outlawed Italy for its war of aggression against the Empire and empire against Ethiopia is something more; it is a threat against the British empire in Africa. Further evidences that this peace talk is only "ip-service" are: The English fleet is massed along the "life line of the empire," from Gibraltar to the Suez Canal, and its land and air forces in Egypt are strengthened. This offsets the troops Mussolini has concentrated in Libya, the Italian province bordering Egypt on the west. The proposed trade sanctions will not stop Italy because she can buy from countries not in the League all that she can pay for, since the Ethiopian campaign has stepped up production to prosperity levels in many industries, the government expects that big tax returns and stringent administrative economies will enable it to make both ends meet. Financial experts estimated the cost of the Ethiopian campaign at 10 million lira (800 million dollars), and with the funds already available Fascist authorities believed the premiums for conversion would enable II Duce easily to pay for his war. In Ethiopia, war materials released from other countries by the League of Nations lifting of the arms embargo show that Emperor Haile Selassie is concentrating for serious combat against the invading Italian forces. Ethiopia's tribal army is steadily growing. Unfortunately the situation comes hourly to resemble that of July, 1914, more and more closely. NO OTHER RULE we take opportunity hereby to warn the Italian forces that if they continue to use such ghostly methods (meaning gas bombs, dumfum and explosive bullets)—it will not be possible to restrain the wilder sections of the Ethiopian army from retaliating in some similar savage method on Italian soldiers who may happen to fall into their hands." Such an idiotic proclamation. War is not a chivalrous adventure. It is not carried on by sporting men. It is not a tea party where the king meets and discusses the best methods of wrist slapping. The very essence of war make in necessary to kill; to kill as quickly and effectively as possible. If gas will search out hidden warriors and strangle the life from their squirming bodies, then gas will be used. If dumdum and explosive bullets will tear the insides out of a man more effectively than slugs of hot steel, then dumdums and explosive bullets will be used. If prisoners must be tortured to instill fear into the enemy, then torture will be resorted to. Men in the field do not write notes to the enemy telling them they are a lot of meanies if YES. SIR, SHE'S MY BABY Fitzpatrick in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. they break the rules made by a linger or a president or a senate. They know that they must kill or be killed, and they will use the most efficient methods at their command. Why not gas and dumdums and torture against a baked enemy? The character of war cannot be changed. It cannot be fought on paper. It cannot be controlled by proclamations. Kill. Kill efficiently. There can be no other rule. Our Contemporaries BACK TO CONSTITUTION The Minnesota Daily St. Constitution. Ever hear of him? He is creeping increasingly into the news as Republicans and Democrats prime their guns for the 1036 warfare. Those reverting the saint think it outrageous to vote against constitutions that are the Constitution's simply claims. Recent news, for example, was made by a Minneapolis shocked because an EERA teacher remotely connected with the University was heard to express the opinion that the federal constitution is "rotten." Is the Minneapolis stand the proper attitude to take? We think not. The constitution is not an object to be halled merely because it is the constitution. It is not a goal toward which the American people must strive. Rather it is a means which must be used in attaining common good. If the constitution stands in the way of that common good, then it must be changed to fit the needs of the people. We must, therefore, allow doubters to shout "rotten" as much as we allow stand-patterns to reverve, else how shall we discover what the people conceive their common goal to be? "Back to the constitution and freedom," has become a political slogan. There may be a good deal of truth in the assertion that centralized power is dangerous. But back to the constitution is not necessarily a safe-guard for democracy. The framers of the constitution themselves had great fear of democracy and uttered slogans that would have caused them to show how a decision of any prevailing type could be set up in the United States within present constitutional limits. Back to the constitution, it is contended, will preserve the rights of states against federal encroachment and thus protect personal freedom. Surely the conduct of American business vitally affects each citizen. The constitution holds that the federal government may regulate only interstate business. But the effects of a huge modern business are not confined to the state in which it happens to be located. Allowing 48 entities to attempt solution of a problem now federal in nature and importance does not operate in the interests of personal freedom. People should govern industries, not industries people. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notice at Chancellor's Office at 11 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. October 23, 1935 35 October 25, 1933 A0. 32 EL ATENEO: El Atenco tendrá una sesión el jueves a las cuatro y media de la tarde. Margarita Osma, Secretaria. JAY JANES: There will be a meeting of Jay Janes at 4:20 in room 119 Fraser. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: There will be a meeting Thursday evening, Oct. 24, at 6:30 in the cafeteria. A general discussion is planned and officers for the coming year will be elected. N. Hardy, Secretary. K. A. C. E. The Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will hold its regular meeting Thursday, Oct. 24, at 730 in room 101 Chemistry building. Prof. T. H. Marshall will tell of the new changes and advances in the Chemi- Gordon Miller, President. NEWMAN CLUB. There will be a meeting on the Newman Club at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. All Catholic BETTY THOLEN, President. QUACK CLUB. Instead of the regular meeting tonight at 8 o'clock, Quack Club will hold a picnic. Pledging services will be held. All Quack members and pledges are to be at the gymnasium at 4:30. Katherine Aston, Secretary. Charles H. Bedingfield, Secretary QUILL CLUB: The second regular meeting of Quill Club will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Central Administration building. Attendance is required of all members and pledges. Papers will be read. Rachel Kiene. Charles Zeskey, president. IIHADAMANTHI. Rhadanamanthi will meet at 4:36 this afternoon in the Green Room. Bring several poems. MENS STUDENT COUNCIL The Men's Student Council will meet at 8 o'clock tonight. Herbert Sizemore, Secretary. Slang Threatens English Language: 'So What' and 'Oh Yeah' Seen as Menac America is reputed to be becoming a nation of fans. Cracker-barrel philosophy has heretofore signified that sage element in the national counsels which keeps up from jumping headlong into situations fraught with embarrassment and insuccerity, as the younger and more radical element would have us do. But cracker-barrel philosophy now assumes a more alarming connotation: that the party will have to remain in order which are easier to maintain than the word unrighteous of their forebears. By Hugh Hadley. c36 Such a situation should not be lightly overlooked, but another national sibloethole is attaining alarming properties. I refer to a cracker-barred melodic English language in a vast waterport of easily mouthed words and phrases. Many persons are rapidly sinking their identity, as well as their originality, in commonplace of expression, which although they serve the purpose, and are harmless, are yet threatening to reduce their personality to a state of intellectual intelligence. It is not given to every man to be entirely original in his speech, but how many persons of discernment must grind their teeth in impatient rage when an acquaintance greets them with that deceiving silence. The victim is stymied from the start. Shall he become an accomplice after the fact, and lend his assistance to this monstrous swiping of the opportunity for quiet discussion? Or shall he yield to his natural animal desire and cover himself with his discursiveody in the body of his barrser in the victoria? The question permits of no other course. Having embarked on a floppy discussion, each feels himself obliged to continue with light puffs of nonense and toniomythe which he will neither vary nor distract from the other cries, "Hold, enough." By the time the desire of each for a little surcease from the world's core is satiated, the vessel of conversation is far off her course and scudding for shelter in a weater of hapboard bots and mats and gossip of present typhoon of fluid conversation. are must choose one or the other, and it is to the everlasting shame of the American nation, that history records that most of the victims chose the former, career course, and reply with some stock nonnational quotation which has been effectively prevented further attempts at a some libiscion of mutual problems. A number of outworkers have been erected against this form of attacks. These include such garden variety responses, "Can't say it," "Too tired," "It's too hard," and others that lateness which prevents the accomplices from arousing himself to such an effort as would be required to meet and an align the situation and make an adequate and suitable reply. So these conversational ninepcops effectively barcode themselves against the interpersonal dillon du monde trivializes as these. These examples by no means exhaust the list of effortless, pointless comebacks, but they graze the worst on the listener's eyes. Other bits of ineffable nonsense include that scathing denunciation of "The Devil," the objection "Olay," that gusty insecurity "Aw gwen," and those geographic horrors, "Hawawaev" and "Abyseyaev." The person who habitually employs these slipshaped characteristics of speech is rapidly on the way to becoming a conversational nonentity. Everybody knows in advance what his opinion on any subject is going to be. His conversation, however well formed, to be expressed in more than a score of time-worn, utterly useless phrases. As his conversation gradually into a riot, Another menace is typified by that argumentative nadir, "So what? or "Oh Yeah." There was a time, happily gone by, when these expressions in the mouth were common. Some women, aroused some faint show of appreciation in an audience. But their utter silliness is manifest in a cartoon, which if it is not famous, should be, depicting two cigarette-smoking shop girls discussing the male problem. One of them is saying, "I come right back at him, I am angry," "Absurate! can go no further." It is time for Americans to arouse themselves from this conversational lethality, as it is well known that when a person replies with one of these absurdities, he assumes a bodily posture and a frame of mind compatible with his ignible defense against being required to express himself vigorously and well. Of course, in the case of the neurologist, he adjusts himself to the mode of speech he employs. Gradually the Jayhawk assumed some good traits along with its fighting spirit, and the term was added to popularity. E.H. S. Bailey. It consisted of "Rah' rabil" and Jayhawk, K.S.U." This has evolved into the row world-famous welf, chook kawk, Jayhawk, K.S.U.'s expression applied to athletic teams of the Univers- Slang is one of the brightest and witiest ways in which to express oneself, if the user will devise his own happy turns and cute expressions, or else select those which have not been hallowed by time and constant use. But it is far better to think straight and embrace yourself with well chosen words unfeathered by any haunting fear of unpopularity due to dizziness. his thinking will follow, and finally he has the picture of a person who will stand minutes of vtupetation and columny, and choosing his words with evee, like "You're going on like 'Oh, Yesh!' Or whose thinking on consequential matters is permitted to escape and be lost by forgery in a reply like 'Aw, norts,' Arrogant or Meek, Vigorous or Quiet. Jayhawk Always Holds Student Respect As a keeper of records on graduation classes of the University of Kansas, Fred Elloworth, alumn secretary, has come to know many of the departmental depts of the University for many years. To all of these graduates the term "Jay-hawk" has been attached at some time. Strangely, though, Jayhawk may call himself a professor in minds of different groups of students. Fred Ellsworth says that the Jayhawk has been a long-legged creature and a short-legged one. He has had shoes and has been shoeless, and he has been in turn fat and lean, vigorous and quiet, duck-like and hawk-like, arrogant and meek, but always dearly loved and respected by Kansas. By Dorothy H. Hodge, c'37 The term "Jayawker" was familia to inhabitants of the Missouri Valley during the days when Kansas was first being settled. When and where the term first originated in a debatable subject, it became an important rubber on their way to California called themselves Jayhawks. Most people believe that the word was really reined in 1856 when Patt Devlin, an Irishman, rode into the Free State settlement of Ossaukee for a miscellaneous nature. He replied, after being questioned as to the source of his new possessions, "Oh, I hane jayawkin' over in Missouri." The word is combined from two birds common to the Missouri Valley, the blue-jay and the geese birds. Because of the fighting and raiding nature of these birds, the term was applied, along with the nickname "red legs," to Col. Charles Jennison's band of free state fighters. By this time the word was used a hit derivatively, as the term "jayawkins" soeurans as that state's gurilla bands were in border warfare in Kansas. city of Kansas. No illustration had been noticed by the public, however, until 1063 when, after a Kansas football volee's death, the newspaper City Journal picture a bird, which he named a Jayhawk, as flying away with victory. This picture attracted attention but the character of the bird was based on the minds of the general public. "Off and on for several years," Mr. Ellsworth says, "Jayawacks appeared in various forms. No particular type is seen, but they are known by Henry Maloy, a student here, began drawing Jayawacks for the Daily Kansan. Maloy's bird attracted wide attention." The bird became familiar also through Malay's illustrations in the annual, which, after having borne a new name each year, became The Jayhawk in The imagination seems to be the chief and only source from which one can get a conception of the physical nature of the bird. According to some excavations made by an investigating group of Yale University, the head of Marsh in 1870, some ancestral bones of a bird which was hulled by a Jayhawk were found in cretaceous clalk rocks of western Kansas. The skeleton of the bird, Hepaemonis regalis (kingly Western bird), measured about six feet in length, showed clear imprinting of features in the chalk. At the time Maloy was a student at the University there was a very popular song called "You Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around." The dog applied to my coat, drew a picture of a long-legged, large-beaked bird kicking the Missouri hound dog. Such activity caused the Jayhawk to make his first appearance in heavy working shoes. Milton Nigent was the first bird in the plastered-wearing bird in plaster-of-paris. His statutes were from five to six inches in height and had the word "properity" printed on the base. They were copyrighted in 1914 by Squires Studio. The Alumni Association purchased some books for students when the studio went out of business. The toucan, a yellow and black native bird of British Honduras, resembles some persons' conception of the Jay Hawk. Chancellor Lindley possesses stuffed toon which was presented to him by Dr. Richard L. Sutton, who captured it on one of his many explorative trips. Perhaps the toucan does have a just claim to the Jayhawk ancestral timeframe in 1028 a tomentum was in place that is supposed to have died suddenly after supposed to have died suddenly after. smashing football victory by Missouri over Kansas. The humiliation evidently was too much for the bird's tride. was too much for the bird's pride. Nevertheless, the fact does remain that since the feats, traits, and virtues ascribed to the Jayhawk are purely structural in nature, they forming to the imaginations of various artists necessarily take different forms. Most of the present day Jayhawks have shorter legs than Malibu's. A family member of the late Jayhawks, like figure, poplar at this time, which was originated by James Edward O'Dwyer. in 1922 when they were sophomores in 1922 when they were sophomores game that year the cheerleaders exhorted the students to "go to the Jayhawkers and show them who we Jayhawkers are, even if you have to paint a bird on your ear!" This was an inspiration to G-Volterra. She taught her students how to build and design a Jayhawk. The business of painting the Jayhawk emblem on windchannels of bounce flowers was so lucrative it encouraged its continuation even after the game. This combination finally evolved into a Jayhawk Poster company of Chicago. The bird with the topknot and long curved beak, perched on the letters "K" U. is also familiar on official University material. The figure adopted by the Kansas City Alumni chapter exhibits, with legs apart and tail cooked up, a great deal of flightiness. But his success was not because he was designed by a student at the University of Missouri, the not of Maclay Lyon, the head of the chapter at Thus, one could say that there are as many Jayhawks as there are artists. The bird has been made into stickers, jewelry, watch chains, and stuffed dolls, and placed on posters, slickers, and matriony. The birds have been copyied out of images, but only one has been hide-marked — the one adopted by the Fritty Company. "There is yet to be drawn a bird combination all the qualities of a Jaywalk seemingly should have," Mr. Elkworth admits, "and when one is drawn and decided upon, it will be officially adopted by the Alumun Association." What is your idea of a Jayhawk? HOME TOWN SERVICE The best part about your telephone service is that it's home town service. The onsite touchscreen on the switchboard by people who live and work here. Experts on American Telephone & Telegraph Company's headquarters staff can develop better methods of giving you money to help improve the laboratories can contribute new inventions and scientific developments. Western Electric can buy and manu- alize them, and 24 operating companies of the Bell System. and all of these things can —and do help—use them by the job of giving a telephone service at a fair cost Yet not one of them could replace the qualities of friendliness and neighborhood which grow out of the fact that the telephone belongs to the telephones here belong to and are part of this community. You can't measure those qualities. You can't set them down on monthly reports. Yet they have a large part in your telephone service. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. ROCK CHALKLETS ROCK CHALKLETS The Collegian's Dictionary and Sisters. In the Apples - Apple fruit sold for five cents. Also part of a word which means to get a grade out of a course without doing the required reading. 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