PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... WESLEY GORDON Associate Editors Joseph Pryor Margaret Boast EDITOR CAROLYN HARRER Campus Editor Harry Valentine Makeup Editors {George Moore, {Herbert Moore} Sports Editor Robert Patt Sunday Editor Eleanor Winter Saturday Editor Joseph Prey Society Editor Shirley Jones Executive Editor Joseph Pryor Senior Editor Stuart Johnson Business Manager...P. Quentin Brown Ast, Business Manager...Elden Carter Kansan Board Members Lena Wynn Mtl Oxen William Doctor Mtl Mooseley Wesley Long Rutherford Wesley McCalla Jules Marshman Katherine Downey F. Clairmont William Hilmar Joseph Doctor Business Office K.U. 6 News Room K.U. 2 Night Connections, Business Office 2701K Night Connection, News Room 2701K Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Students in the department school buildings by students in the department school buildings attend a lecture by the Press of the Department of Journalism, with advance $3.25 on payments. Single copies, $6. Entered an second class matter, September 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kans. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, $ 193^{\mathrm{F}} $ It must be said that the newly organized P.S.G.L. has brought forward at least one proposal which merits the consideration of everyone. It calls for the inauguration of open discussion groups to be held at regular intervals. STUDENT FORUMS These forums, which would be open to everyone, would provide a much needed element in our school life. In the first place, they would serve as a clearing house for those of us who were dissatisfied with some phase of school life. According to their proposal, anyone could say anything at these forums which he wanted to say. No one would censor his speech, nor would he be admonished by the administration. Secondly, the forums would invite well-known speakers from the outside to come in and discuss the subjects in which they were recognized authorities. The subjects of these discussions could range from eugenics to communism, and both sides of the question would be given equal attention. These discussions, if interesting subjects were selected, would serve a need which has not for some years been filled at Kansas, but which has been successfully filled at several of the leading universities of this country, including Iowa, Michigan, and others. Students would be informed on subjects of vital importance to them, and this information would come directly from experts. The real value of these forums lies in the opportunity they would afford for instituting action. They would serve as an indicator of student opinion, and would supply the student councils with a basis for action. They would not be merely a place to blow off steam, but would become a factory of ideas and would present the ideas of the entire student body and not those of a few party-selected bosses only. Fifty years ago this semester, the University of Kansas student publication which was called the Weekly University Courier had as its motto: Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken. There is entirely too much money invested in student self government on Mount Oread, and if the governing bodies of the Hill continue to waste money and live lavishly at the students' expense self government will continue to defeat its own purpose. The rumble on Mount Oread has grown until there are those who advocate the abolition of Self Government. LAVISH LIVING These people point to the figures that were published recently in the Kansan, in which it was pointed out that the men's governing body spent $89.00 for keys, and something over $250.00 on trips, and they wonder what benefit that is to the electorate who placed these members in office. It costs in the neighborhood of $1000 annually to keep the Men's Student Couneil on Mount Oread. Of this amount of money some $200 is spent in useful channels. Eight hundred dollars spent to administer $200 is entirely too much for a thrifty student to swallow without indigestion. The Men's Student Council cannot continue to be a social institution with no better aims than purchasing keys for its members, sending men on trips, admitting members to varieties and numerous other extravagances, and expect to be thought well of by the students. If the Council is to continue, it must become something more than a social institution for the squandering of student money. Student government is of value if carried on correctly, but it is something of a luxury on Mount Oread. After noticing the increase in the number of divorces throughout the world we're becoming skeptical about the infallibility of woman's intuition. FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY We have long suffered from the shortcomings of juries and the many pitfalls encountered by them in attempts to reach a decision. Now, modern science has come through with something which eliminates the human factor in reaching the "whole truth and nothing but." Various devices have been employed to determine whether the accused or the witness was telling the truth, but the immediate acquittal of these two men marks the first time that the decisions of a scientific discovery have been accepted without question. A "truth serum," discovered in Freiburg, Germany, has been employed in determining the guilt or innocence of two men at Bellefonte, Pa. The charge was murder, and after being submitted to the influence of the serum, a drug known as scopolamine, the men told the same story as when they were in normal condition. If this method proves successful, we shall at last have reached the point where there will be no doubt as to the fairness of the "unhuman" jury. From what we know of the average modern jury, we should certainly say that any device which cannot read the newspapers would be a much more fair and impartial judge. At least you cannot bribe a drug. We Polish Apples Editor's note: The Kansas will present in this column thumb-nail sketches of the members of the faculty. F. B. Dains, professor of chemistry, has been teaching on the Hill since 1911. He made his first appearance in Lawrence in 1893, when he filled the place of Prof. E. C. Franklin, now at Stanford University, who was on leave of absence in Europe. Professor Dains received his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1888. He is married, but has no children. F. B. Dains Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kansas. Articles over 200 words in length are not published on contributions on any subject are invited. Outside of the lecture room, he is interested in travel, the study of the history of chemistry, and all forms of chemical arts. He is the possessor of a fine collection of rare old chemistry textbooks, and has one of the largest collections of portraits of famous chemists in the world. He supplied the illustrations for the book, "Discovery of Chemical Elements," recently written by Mary Elva Weeks of the chemistry department. CAMPUS OPINION Editor Daily Kansan Student government is a fine thing. If we were denied its privileges we should feel the loss deeply and should become indignant that we had been wronged. We should denounce an absolute administration dictatorship. The ideals of Set of Dime Novels Are Included In Strange Spooner Book Collection By Ruth A. Stout A whole set of dime novels on this campus—yet many students are not aware of them, nor of the library which contains them. Thirty-two Beadle volumes of dime novels comprise a curious part of the 3000 volume gift collection in the Spooner Thayer Museum. In a corner room on the first floor of the building, accessible from the main exhibit hall, there is a wide, attractive and conventionally arranged. The public is free to use and enjoy the collection, though none of the books may be taken from the reading room. A wealth of material on costumes of all countries and periods is available in a large collection of colored plates, an almost complete series of Codey's Lady's Book beginning with 1830, and bound volumes of the Lady's Magazine dating from 1846 to 1850 of Julies David's Le Moniteur de la Mode, with large color plates illustrating costumes, also provide authentic material. One section of library shelves contains books on architecture; another section is devoted to lives and works of artists. In specially constructed racks on the opposite side of the room from the biographies are folio art works. Two volumes contain Rae-macker's war cartoons, supplemented with pictures by Billie Blake, the author. Another is a collection of etchings by William Blake. Five mammoth volumes on Oriental Ceramic Art display full page color plates. Thought to be the oldest book in the library is an edition of Homer printed in 1561. Bound in tooled pigkin, it contains both Greek and Latin versions in adjacent columns, of the Blad and Odyssey. The second oldest pub- A peek into the small cupboards where the "priceless" books are kept, reveals soiled but well preserved bindings. So tiny is the *History of the United States* by John Frost, published in 1838, that it looks like a conio to the pocket classic and is a pygmy in comparison with the giant history texts lugged about Mt. Orend today. Another, much larger than modern texts, was used as the first edition of the *History of England*, "including the history of the American War and Revolution," was compiled by Hume, Smollet, Goldsmith and Robertson. democratic government are deeply rooted in all of us. There is no immediate danger that we shall lose either of our student governing bodies. The administration has no intention of abolishing either council. Nevertheless we have gradually lost all semblance of a democratic Men's Student Council or a representative W.S.G.A. No one will deny that candidates for council offices are selected, every year, by a small inner group of self-appointed liberal organization. Usually the most important offices of both governing bodies are filled with students selected, not because of their qualifications for the position, but because they are members of some fraternity or political faction to which the party owes a political debt. Most students have lost all interest in such student government. The fact is borne out by the extremely small, unrepresentative vote which is cast in the elections. Students have apparently come to feel that they do not want to take part in student government which does not permit them to remain that they are in no way affected by what the councils do, and consequently refuse to vote. But this lack of interest on the part of two-thirds of the student body is the thing that is responsible for the wholesale usurpation of student governmental bodies by small cliques with selfish motives. To bring about better conditions every student must take a part in the elections. If the candidates and the programs of the so-called traditional parties do not satisfy us we would not have passed on our case we should give expression to our desire. Indifference is a greater sin than any of the present evils of student government. If we are given a student primary, as has been proposed by the Progressive Student Government League, we will Among the most cherished are three seventeenth century volumes from the Elzevir Press of Amsterdam and Leyden. The Elzevir Press is noted for its beautiful printing of classics, generally small volumes with neat fine type, a rare quality in publications of that period. An edition of Le Morté D'Arthur, also a highly prized possession, is a copy of a Caxton printing with the added interest of illustrations by Beardsey. lication, a small pamphlet in German which contains two highly illuminated maps of Europe, bears the date 1598. Curiosities from the corner cupboard are a first edition of Tom Sawyer, an 1845 edition of Sunder's Blue-Back Spelling Book, an encyclopedia once owned by Charles Dickens, and two Syntax volumes. The Encyclopedia Americana of Charles Dickens has his yellow book plate on the inside front cover. The humorous verses by Combe, with plates by Rowlandson, chronicle Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife and Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation. The museum owns a set of blue china which has been patterned from that depicted in Rowlandson's illustrations in the Syntax volumes. The cover of one curious volume indicates nothing about the contents except that the book is French. Its velum binding consists simply of one sheet from an old handwritten manuscript. The book is the New Greek Grammar by J. B. Gail, professor of Greek Literature in the Imperial College of France, and was published in 1869. It has state adoptions of today, for below its title is the subscription, "adopted by the jury of public instruction." Two books marked "priceless" are a copy of the *Acts of the First General Assembly* of the State of Missouri, for 1820, and Sutherland's and McEovy's Kansas City Directory for 1859-1860. The latter, in addition to its historical advertising to the knowledge advertising with its unusual layouts and type. Miss Minnie Moodie, curator of the museum, takes pride in showing the Thayer collection. In that the majority of the books deal with costuming, art, architecture, biography and local historical narrative, the representative of the interests and personality of the donor, the late Mrs. W. B. Thayer, according to Miss Moodie. have the opportunity of expressing our will. We should lend our active support to any such democratic step as this. Regardless of whether we believe in democracy, we should support any proposals which will tend to lift our student govern-ing bodies from their present low depths of uselessness. —J.B. ROCK - - - CHALKLETS Conducted by R.J.B. Ode to the "Please-Share-The-Glory League" When in the course of student life, Our names ne'er appearing in headlines bold, A political tyranny has let run rife, And we poor outcasts are left in the cold. That we band together all of our few And organize a party, almost new. It befits us as students and Jayhawkers, too. And see them before us grovel and cower. We'll tweak the noses of those in power, And (maybe) toll the Pachacamae funeral knell. And organize a party, almost new. We'll hoist our banners, and shout and yell. Direct primaries we'll use as a plank. And for better programs we'll ask point-blank. A better chance to every common guy To become a political power, by and by. A Kansas City City Dental College glee club gave a concert the other day. We wonder if the opening number was OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 8 p.m., preceding regular publication days. Vol. XXXH Wednesday, March 13, 1935 A. S. C. E. The regular meeting of the student chapter of A.S.C.E. will be held in room brin hall at 7 o'clock Thursday, March 14. No.112 Wednesday, March 13, 1935 PHI DELTA KAPPA Phi Delta Kappa will meet this evening at 7:30 in room 115 Fraser hall. Dr. O'Brien will speak. GARLAND DOWNUM, Secretary. Wednesday, March 10, 2024 JAMES HUGHES, Secretary. PHI DELTA KAPPA: Pi Lambda Theta will hold帮服 services Thursday at 4:30 in room 116 Fraser. To be pledged please meet in room 103 Fraser. PI LAMBDA THETA Add definitions: The ship of state—a boat manned by a bunch of "big guns" who are always "shooting off at the mouth." Neatest Trick of the Week - Thieves steal $107,000 in gold from Croydon, England, vault and leave no clues. Scotland Yard baffled. To the Pachacamaes PSGL means: "Politics Shall Go Lily." Schiller Shore: "I had carp for dinner the other night. It was like eating screen wire." RUTH BARNARD, Secretary SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Pottery Designed By Senior Students Now on Display Week's worst pain--dollar beauty contest candidate moans: "Oh, me oh, my, this suspense is Waring me down." that stirring masterpiece: "Pull away pull away, pull away, brave boys." The Sociology Club will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in room 208 Administration building. Mr. Fred Perry will speak on "Birth Control as a Population Problem." HENRY BAKER, President. A Kansas legislator sang his bill to the time of "Swanee River" the other day. Next thing you know they'll be calling it the "All-As." denomination of 1935. Freshman at Harvard University noting a bulletin headed "dates for English examinations;" remarked that the professor was the only which a fellow can no start airplane. A display of pottery made by the advanced students of the design department, is being shown in the Administration building. The pottery is made, glazed, and fired by the students. The clay is shaped into various forms, vases, tiles, pots, teapots, and other articles, and finished in various colors. Some dishes are finished in an artistic metallic black. Copper and pewter articles, designed and etched by the students, are also on display. Two large plates, about 18 inches in diameter, made by Betty Schwartz, fa35, are especially attractive. Other interesting work has been done by Robert Cook, who has designed two tiles in ceramic frames. Gene Schultz, fa35, has made modernist cigar holders, trays, and a lamp of copper and pewter. A set of candle sticks of hammered copper made by Cozzot Wilson, fa28, are also on exhibit. A large blue teapot and cups of copper made by Geraldine Remmert, 'fauel, show skill. CALL 954 Doors $2.00 Windshields $3.00 PRICES SMASHED ON AUTO GLASS AUTO WRECKING CO. 712 E. 9th St. All of these articles were made under the supervision of Miss Marjorie Whitney, instructor of design. Always a Big Bargain Show PATEE 10c-15c — Ends Tonite — LAUREL and HARDY In Their Parent and Fam- er, Don and Linda DEVILS BROTHER Song and Dance Revue Novelty — Cartoon 1 THURSDAY - FRIDAY Norma Shearer Robb. Montgomery Herbert Marshall ON THE STAGE 10 Big Amateur Novelty Acts ON THE STAGE Take Her To... 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