PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 27,1935 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEIF ___ WESLEY GORDON Julia Markham Charles Brown MANAGING EDITOR CAROLYN HARPER Campus Editor Harry Valentine Make-up Editors (General) Herbert Meyer Sports Editor Robert Patt Sunday Editor Eleanor Jones Society Editor Shirley Johnson Society Editor Jerry Frye Exchange Editor Richie Stolland Alfred Roland Business Manager ... F. Quentin Brown Astt. Business Manager?... Eton Carter Leena Wyatt Dr. Iliou Macdon Mary Macdon Mary Macdon Lewis Miller Rutherford Hayes Wesley McCalla Lisa Markham Carolyn Harper F. Guillem William Winn Joseph Docto Business Office K.U. 66 News Room 701KL Night Connections, Business Office 701KL Night Connection, News Room 701KL Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of April 12th School officials by submit to the department of Journalism of the University of Wisconsin. Submission period, per session: 9am-5pm. Single copy, per session. Single copies, Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935 JUST ANOTHER PARTY? As Lloyd Metzler so aptly points out, this new body which calls itself the Progressive Student Government League is the fourth opponent the Pachacamas have had in eight years. In spite of its impressive name and ostensibly idealistic policy, if it may be said to have a policy, the fact remains that to become the campus power it hopes to become, it must defeat the Rising Sun party in the spring elections. But is it just another political party? On the party roster appear the names of former leaders in both factions; and more impressive yet are the names of two leaders who have so far been aloof from student politics. They have pledged themselves to promote unselfishness in politics. The individual, rather than the machine, is to be the root of their party. With these idealistic views, one cannot help but think, "They might as well give up right now and not waste time and money on a campaign they cannot win." With Hill politics running the way they have in the past, it will be necessary to form a machine motivated by the passing out of political plums after elections. To defeat the present party, the Progressives will have to offer something to draw fraternity interest, and to draw fraternity interest, they will have to put fraternity men into office to get their support. And all the high ideals in the world will not keep their party non-political if they are forced to trade offices for votes. If there is anything that is needed on the Hill, it is a new deal in student politics. At present, representative student government is a joke. The politicians get publicity and entertainment, and the student body gets nothing. Those who hope to see some sort of change made for the better, may ask themselves if this new party is the answer. If it is, then more power to it. If it is not, then one hopes it will die before it is well started. WHY NOT WAIT? The activity shown by the M.S. C. concerning the changing of the enrollment scheme is commendable. It shows that it is at least alive to campus problems. As long as it just suggests that pre-enrollment be established, and does not try to take action to have such a scheme put into actual practice, let it go ahead and suggest all it likes. It may be it will some day alight on a system that will abolish all the evils of enrollment. But at present it has suggested something that is neither popular with the students nor the faculty. To students it would mean endless confusion and worry. To the faculty it would mean many hours spent in private interview that could be better spent at something else. Pre-enrollment for seniors and working students is a fine thing. The reason for it is that it gives them privileges to which they are entitled, and those privileges outweigh the slight inconvenience the procedure causes the advisers. But to give pre-enrollment to all would be to rob of its advantages those who justly deserve it. After all, it is not so difficult to enroll in the University. A couple of hours is usually sufficient to enroll most students, and the faculty is not a great deal inconvenience. We suggest that the whole matter be allowed to wait for a while, and let the enrollment committee continue to improve, as it did at the first of the present semester, the system. HONORS AND ACTIVITIES About this time of year junior hopefuls begin to take stock of their accomplishments in the activity field, and with bated breath await the fateful day next spring, when a select group of men and women will be chosen to carry on the traditions of the two senior honorary societies, Sachem and Mortar Board. Some will breathe easier, having compiled what they consider a long enough list of activities, while others will start a frantic search for something to add to their prestige. It might also be well for these junior men and women to consider seriously the question of whether all the time and energy spent on activities has been worth while. Of course those who are disappointed will probably have many regrets. But for those who attain the so-called heights, the question still remains--has it been worth the penny, or has another whistle been purchased? There is no denying the value of many of the extra-curricular activities. It would be ideal if every person in school could place himself in some line of endeavor outside of his regular school work. But to place them above all else is sheer folly. COMMENTS CABBAGE OR ROSE? Our predictions were not so far wrong when we suggested some days ago that a new political party was soon to appear on the Hill. It looks like a good party in many ways, and then again it may be just a masquerade costume for them to represent the crowd. This is one time you can't tell which it is, a cabbage or a rose. AESTHETIC Tonight Ted Shaw will lead his muscular troupe onto the stage in one of his great performances of entirely masculine dance. Torsos will bulge with mighty knots of rhythmic muscle; Greeks will come to life and dance graceful hips, while Bali bumps the triumph of physical beauty over brute strength. Many of us will learn a little about an art we have hitherto much pretty much ignored. PLAY ON WORDS The American press constantly denies that it deliberately colors the news, but we have always wondered just how important the "brain trust" might have become in American political life if it had not been dubbed so ignominiously. For instance, it might have had great possibilities with the title of "Commission for the Aid and Relief of the President." From the Daily Northwest we have clipped the full context of Dave Lois' youth movement. It made, you remember, the pages of the Kansas City Star, Dave, from his position as editor of Northwestern's humor magazine, stresses that what this country needs is a freedom from all radical policies, and he proposes to get out twenty million youths in support of his program. He says it will take the combined power of every college daily to make it work. We have a new nomination, not for the meanest man in the world, but a very similar one, the most student in the world. What can be done about the person who, at the first meeting of the beginning Philosophy class, takes the entire course against the most automatic constant and the "cautious relationships"? To make it even worse, he kept the class ten minutes overtime. THE MEANEST STUDENT IN THE WORLD NEW DEAL PARTY LIFE His program lists such idealistic subjects as the abolition of crime, the uping of politics, the establishment of a party called the New Dealers, aiming at a more equal distribution of wealth. We wonder what the various political parties have been trying to do all these years. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN On Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4:30 p.m. Dr. Guido Beck will speak before the Chemistry club on "Artificial Radio Activity." All who are interested are cordially invited to attend the meeting, which will be held in room 201, Chemistry building. ELVIRA WEEKS. Notice due at Cancellor's office at 8 a.m., preceding regular publication days and 11.30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues. Wednesday. Feb. 27. 1935 No.102 CHEST CLINIC. Dr. C. F. Taylor will hold a chest clinic at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, March 5, for University students. Those wishing to attend the clinic should report to the hospital at once for preliminary examination. CHEMISTRY CLUB: CHEST CLINIC: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: There will be a meeting this afternoon at 4:30 in room C, Myers hall. MAURINE JESSEE, Treasurer. R. I. CANUTESON, M. D. Miss Myra Hull will speak on "The Traditional Folk Songs of Kansas," Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4:30 in room 313 Fraser. ENGLISH LECTURE: NELLIE BARNES, Chairman, Freshman Lectures. INTERRACIAL GROUP: There will be a meeting of the Interracial Group of the Y. W. C. A. at Heyleen house at 7 o'clock Thursday evening. Dr. R. H. Wheeler, of the Psychology Department, will speak. MARTHA PETERSON, ANNA MARIE TOMPKINS. Rehearal will be held this afternoon at 3:30 in room 304 Administration building. KARL O. KUERSTEINER The members who took the week's trip will meet at 6:30 in front of central Administration building this evening for a trip to Topeka where the club will sing before the legislature. Transportation will be furnished by the Chamber of Commerce. We will be back in time for most of the Ted Shawn program. Wear tuxedos. If unable to go, notify the undersigned. MEN'S GLEE CLUB; *Regular mid-week dance will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom.* **BILL COCHIRANE, Manager.** ROCK CHALKLETS Conducted by R.J.B. MID-WEEK DANCE: WALTER LAPHAM, President. Mr. Ratcliffe told the English department that the modern language is mak- Applications for appointments to the Jayhawker News staff, the School of Business annual publication, will be accepted at Dean Stockton's office until Wednesday, March 6. Address Walter Lapham, editor. Selections will be announced in the Kansas. WALTER LAPHAM, Editor. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDENTS: There will be a rehearsal of the Women's Glee Club today at 4:30 in Marvin auditorium. AGNES HUSBAND, Director. WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB: TED SHAWN DANCE RECITAL: Activity tickets can be accompanied by identification cards for admission to the recital. Faculty activity books do not admit. General admission, 75 cents. Students Set Up Apparatus in Blake To Check Fluctuatios in Light Speed The weird, blush glare of a mercury are faintly illuminates a room in the basement of Blake Hall, where two students experiment on the speed of light. The old "die hardes" of this campus are the same type that are found so often in the archives of state and national politics. If this new movement has something constructive, it let it so prosper. If it was built on the liberal minded students of this University; if it has no program let it be branched, but I say give it a chance. A few years ago, several California scientists, headed by A. A. Michelson, set out to determine conclusively, once and for all, the speed of light. Widely varying values had been obtained in different experiments before, but these men, believing some controllable influence to be responsible for such differences, proposed to conduct the "perfect experiment." On a level tract in California, they built a tube, several feet in diameter, and a mile long, from which the air was removed. By measuring the time required for a flash of light to travel from one end to the other and return, which they found to be something like one ninety-three thousandths of a second, they were able to calculate the distance the flash would travel in a second. They naturally expected the value thus obtained to be constant, but for some reason, it varied as much as 10 miles per second in different tests. Micheldon died And as for lending our papers to any campaign to clean up the nation's illusions, we wouldn't. We would do any good. But hadn't we all better clean up our student politics first? The old political leaders of the campus are loath to give their positions which have brought them to the forefront of student life at this University. But they want to be succeeded by a newer and more progressive movement, nor is it surprising that they brand intrusion by unknown forces as an old order under a new name. Politics for politics' sake alone is prone to discredit any statement that is highly idealistic, even though its program is carried out. Campus Opinion From the story in yesterday's Kansan, there seems to be a new order rising up to take the place of the old and the old fighting back to hold its present prestige. Editor Daily Kansan: oostore the experiment was completed, and the question has never been settled definitely. Recently two university students, James Lawson, e35, and Guy Omer Jr. e36, set up apparatus for taking a record of any fluctuations in the speed of light, using a small motion camera run by a clock works. The instrument used in the experiment is an "interferometer," an imported device made up of two quartz plates, each covered with a thin layer of platinum. Light passing through the interferometer assumes a form somewhat similar to the annual rings seen on a tree stump, the diameter of these rings depending ultimately upon the speed with which the light travels. The film intercepts opposite sides of a particular ring, and the light is recorded as two parallel moving lengthwise of the film which moves at the rate of one inch per hour. The apparatus is capable of detecting a change of one part in 100,000. Lawson and Oner expect to make a continuous day and night, for several months. ing too many accessions to non-literary influences. He couldn't, by any chance, have been learning Holloway's column. To add to the evils of Red scores Long scores, post-depreciation politics Long scares, post-depression politica Try Our SPECIAL 34c You will be satisfied at the CAFETERIA rebellions, we now have Wiley Post dropping out of the air to frighten the citizenry out of its wits. Here we find that President Rosevelt has a tradition back of his Blue Eagle organization. Back at Harvard he was a member of the Fly club. A group of Indian girls from Haskell Institute made a tour of the Hill the other day. One of the "deeper thinkers" said that they were probably a psychology class visiting our Hill to see some of the queer specimens lodged up here. Back at Brown University the boys are complaining because Hall Week has turned out to be just Heck Week. If three fine days keep up, the workmen who are engaged in digging the new flower gardens over the campus will laying a side a few fish worm, tuna, Suggestion: Sour grapes ought to be changed to Sour Owl. PRICES SMASHED ON AUTO GLASS Doors $2.00 Windshields $3.00 CALL 954 AUTO WRECKING CO. 712 E. 9th St. BEGINNING FEBRUARY 23rd CHANGES IN SCHEDULE AND ADDITIONAL SERVICE BETWEEN Topeka and Kansas City Daily Schedule of the Streamline Attendance February 29 1:20 A.M. L.V. Salina Ar. 8:58 P.M. 1:20 A.M. L.V. 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