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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1938
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... JOSEPH DOCTOR
Associate Editors
Julia Markham Charles Brown
MANAGING EDITOR CAROLYN HARPER
Campus Editor Harry Valentine
Makeup Editors Gina Green
Herbert Moyer
Sports Editor Robert Patt
Sunday Editor Eleanor Watson
New York Times Dawn Fry
Society Editor Shirley Jones
Editor John Terry
Alumni Editor Ruth Stolland
Business Manager . F. Quentin Brown
Asst. Business Manager . Ellen Carter
Lena Wray
William Decker
Walter Brown
Wesley McCalla
Wesley Wilhelm
William Blinder
Mia Ilco
Alan Moores
Ruthenberg
John Markham
F. G. Collins
Jephson Docto
Business Office ... KU 1 / 8
Middle Eastern Business Office ... KU 2 / 6
Night Connections ... Business Office ...
North East Office ... Business Office
Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. Special event for
educational holidays by students in the department
of Human Resources.
Presented by the Press of the Department of Journalism.
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Entered as second class master, September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935
THE CRIME OF PUBLIC OPINION
Eight men and four women, all good and true, have condemned Richard Bruno Hauptmann to death in the electric chair for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, and a big newspaper story is now in its final chapters. The death of the child of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, national hero No. 1, is about to be avenged according to the accepted justice of the land.
We do not wish to appear too critical, but we sometimes wonder if the fact that the child was the son of the national hero did not have something to do with handing down the death penalty on a purely circumstantial basis. We know that there can be no doubt that Hauptmann is guilty, because the jury said so, and the jury was composed of twelve unprejudiced men and women, who could not be swayed by public opinion. It's like seeing Bruno commit the crime to have the word of those twelve unprejudiced people.
No one can excuse the crime of murder, and no one wants to do so, but there is a question of doubt in the minds of many as to just what part Hauptmann played in the Lindbergh kidnap. Even from a prejudiced printing of testimony in many papers, there is left room for disbelief that he killed the baby.
The intervention of the press in making a juicy newspaper story of the whole affair, and picturing a cold and heartless Hauptmann, have made more acceptable the handing down of the death penalty. There are those who believe that Hauptmann was a condemned man through publicity alone, even before the jury brought out its verdict.
National heroes and public sentiment should have nothing to do with determining the brand of justice that is handed down in the courts.
Constant complaints come in about the Varsity dances. Most of them are trivial enough, but here is a suggestion that might warrant some attention. A young woman has said that a nickle's worth of ice in the fountain on Varsity nights would go a long way toward improving her evening.
LET THERE BE DIRIGIBLES!
It is unanimously agreed that the crash of the dirigible Macon was an unfortunate thing. It is also true that the cost, both in money and lives, in the crashing of other dirigibles has been considerable.
But that the dirigibles are practical and can be handled and used without misfortune is shown by the operation of the Los Angeles since it came into American hands, and by the fact that Germany operates her dirigibles with good results.
In every new method of trans
portation there has been a period when accidents occurred. During the period of improvement and perfection a great deal of money has been spent and there has often been scarcismic. But the railroad, the automobile, and the airplane have all come into popular use and have repaid in service far more than was ever spent in development.
Government experiment with dirigibles has met with some unfortunate accidents. The cost, although great, is small in proportion to the service that the dirigible will offer in return when it has come into more general use and has been improved.
There are always those people who cry out and denounce anything new. If they had been heard by the scientists we would still be living in the middle ages. The dirigible offers splendid possibilities in the field of future aviation and as it will probably play a large part in the future of the nation, experiments should not be discontinued.
During the past few days the ground in front of Watson library has been a sea of mud. The wall that runs from the Journalism building to the back of Common hall is rapidly being covered over with good Kansas loam. Perhaps we could interest some of the engineers in making a few experiments in erosion control to keep the soil of the fill-in from washing down over the walk and spoiling our Sunday shoes.
CAMPUS DUMP
A constant supply of refuse and trash is being carried to the "campus dump" along the west side of the golf course each day. Here it is burned (whatever amount of it will burn) or left to decompose in the elements and to blow away in the wind. The smoke drifts over the entire west end of the campus and lends its unwelcome odor to the beautiful surroundings of all the dwelling houses of that district.
There is no choice made as to what is burned. Everything from refuse from the medical school to trimmings from the campus shrubs goes into the smudge, each adding its own peculiar and disagreeable odor.
But, choice or no choice of materials to be burned, why burn any there? Can they not be hauled away to some other suitable spot? Must the University allot a plot of ground in such a choice location to convert into a "campus dump"? Why is it there? Why is it allowed to remain?
The most picturesque bank and foliage-covered slope on the campus and it is turned into a dump! Is that quite in tone and harmony with the rest of the hill landscapes? We ask, does that help make a beautiful campus?
COMMENTS
—By the Editor
WHAT ABOUT STUDENT GOVERNMENT?
In many major colleges the cumbersome student self-government systems have been abolished in favor of small councils which act as grievance committees and executive councils combined. They have little legislative power, and function in this capacity only on petition from students.
Yale, Syracuse, Princeton, and Chicago are among those governed in this fashion. The leaders have admitted that student councils have very little power, and such powers as they do have can be handled by a small group having the power to appoint committees for the carrying out of activity programs. One such committee is the annual council at all, only a senior class president whose business it is to see that committees are appointed to carry out student functions.
Under the smaller groups student under. aent functions with greater facility, unencumbered by the weight of political factions. The responsibility is increased in fewer persons, making for better understanding of student problems.
Cutting classes at the University of California has become a business. With the largest on-campus enrollment of any in the United States, it has extremely large classes.
CUTTING CLASSES
Inadequate Shelf Space Causes Chaos at Library
"The library must have more shelf space for his books." Charles M. Baker, director of libraries, says in his biennial report of 1832 to 1934 on the Watton Memorial Library.
without this relief it is rapidly heading into a chaotic condition that no amount of administrative skill can avert. Nowhere else on the campus is there storage space available. Books without shelves can neither be preserved nor found when wanted.
"The Watson Library stack, inadequate when built, can only hold 121,000 books. Shelving in reading rooms and makehift sticks in corridors bring the total book capacity of the building to 175,000. The branch libraries which are badly overcrowded and in need of re-credit, 73,000 volumes." The total
shaving capacity is超 28,000 volumes,
while the books on the campus total
28,700 volumes. To this overflow of
books, the library is adding an
approximately 6,000 each year.
To remedy this congestion and to take care of new purchases, Mr. Baker argues that at an early date the stack be extended 70 feet to the west, as provided for in the original plan, but with capacity with steel tacks, providing space for 210,000 vol-
It is not uncommon to have seven or eight hundred students in the lectures of sense of the more popular courses. Roll is taken by assistants from seating arrangements. When a student writes to his class, simply sends someone to sit in his place.
Recently authorities have discovered that many students were making a business of going to classes in the place of regular students. The substitute takes all the notes in short hand, types them on paper and gives them to the person enrolled in the course.
California has eight eclipse classes, and the chief offenders were indolents who loved to lie late abed. Under the home system such as California uses, a student group will pass judgment on offenders and recommend punishment.
HEARST STILL CRIES, "RED"
In New York last week a senator in the state legislature introduced a bill to refuse admission of students with Communicies views to the state schools. William Randolph Hearst gave the bill front page space in his newspaper, and a banner headline over the mast head. In carryout his determined war on Red activity Heart is taking no thought of our constitution which guarantees freedom of speech. And even if he could be students with Red tendencies from colleges, no amount of legislation can keep a man from thinking as he pleasures.
Dregon Students Petition for Coke And Coffee
On the heels of the "no-liver for college kidnief" epistle passed by the city council of Eugene appears a mysteriously hardened position that was circulated around the University of Oregon campus recently.
Below is inscribed the radical terms word for word, of the petition, as circulated:
WHEREAS, in view of the recent action by the City Fathers taken to restrict our guaranteed privileges as citizens of the United States of America, and
THEMEREFORE, LET IT BE RE-SOLVED, that we, bona fide students in the aforesaid institution, to hereby entrent and implore the body known as the City Council to continue to allow the sale of the aforesaid products, coffee (up to 3.2 per cent caffeine) and Coca-Cola between the streets of Nineteenth and Pearl, the city limits and he milrance.
to restrict and forbid the sale of these WHEREAS, action seems imminent aforeclosed products on the grounds that they promote immoral and lascivious living among students at the University of Oregon (sic).
WHEREAS, the products known as coffee and Coca-Cola contain few if any, deleterious, lewily immoral excitants to concupiscence and similar acts of debauchery, and
After many weeks of the Hauptmann trial which resulted in the newspapers being filled with columns of overly descriptive matter it will be a relief to read a long, dry political story from Washington .
ROCK CHALKLETS Conducted by R.J.B.
Add to the evils of the revolving door: Yesterday we were late to class because it took so much time to get out of Snow hall.
The other day O. O. McIntyre had a paragraph about "One Eye" Connell, the famed gate-crasher. McIntyre told about Connelly's new book in which he recalls some of his famous exploits.
report states, "I mean a person with an AB degree and at least one year of graduate training in an accredited library school. Such a trained person brings to his task a comparative knowledge of library methods." He also says that Mr. Baker says that our library compares poorly with other universities in this respect.
Next to the need of more shelf space.
Mr. Baker places the need for a trained librarian,
"By trained librarian," his
umes. The cost of such construction is estimated at $120,000.
"As soon as possible, part of the student assistant hours should be replaced by full-time staff members. Far too much staff time that should be devoted to technical work is spent on supervising untrained, ever-changing student help that works when class schedules run out."
Other things discussed in the report were the Administration of the Library, the book fund in relation to foreign exchange, overnight reserve books.
electric fans for use in summer school, the bindery repair department and the noticeable increase in inter-library loops.
Connell is now 60 years old and McIntyre wondered if the old gatecrusher was making any preparations for crashing the final gate which is supposed to be somewhat impenetrable.
In conclusion Mr. Baker states: "I desire to acknowledge the loyal support that I have received both from the regular staff and the student assistants."
According to a news item, paper underwear which may be discarded after being worn is now being offered by a manufacturer. Anyway that would mean you should have to do if you ripped them would be to paste them back together.
On Other Hills
an answer to the problem of providing student entertainment the University of Wisconsin has offered a unique solution. A student night club has been established by the University authorities.
Although, in the line of drinks, the night club boasts nothing stronger than 3.2, no other road house or night club in the vicinity has done the volume of business attributed to the University establishment. In winter evenings the night club has a floor show, lighting effects, and a master of ceremonies.
The University of Michigan lays claim to something in the way of a record as regards the age of living graduates. Dr. John P. Stoddard, of the class of 1859, will be 100 years old on February 22.
A disastrous fire at the University of Indiana destroyed the $87,000 Delta Tau
Delta house on the night of February 12. The structure housed 35 men, all of whom lost their belongings in the conflagration.
REFRESH Between Classes with
A COKE By "BARNEY" at the
UNION FOUNTAIN
Sub-Basement Memorial Union
The Interfaithity Conference at the University of Illinois has officially abolished Haitian Greek in an form of pre-immersion, and restructured the graternities at that institution.
Interschool Councilers at the University of Denver declared themselves strongly against all kinds of politics in connection with the selection of the editors for THE DENVER CLARION and Knewywhok.
The council declared that it would consider vote-trading combines as undesirable and such notions would be avoided and such indicators desist either by the editorship.
Gertrude Stein has been subject to criticism, both favorable and otherwise, as a result of her poetic attempts, but it has been left to her name solo, a medical student at the University of Iowa who studies an author of poetry to really accomplish something.
Preferring the opera to study for final examinations, the young lady
This in no way affects the scholastic standing as each of the other grades have received a boost of one honor point.
Avenues of Fashion
wrote on her final paper in philosophy, "I do not feel like a final paper in philosophy today." She then left the class room. The professor, who had that rare bliss of a sense of humor, mailed the young lady a card the next day. "I know just how you feel," he said. "I have often felt that way myself." In addition he gave Miss Stein the highest grade in the course.
The hard working D student has at last come into his own. Under a revised system of granting grade points at the University of Oregon, the student who makes a D is given a grade point for each hour's credit.
Peeves of students against professors have long been known but it has been left to an embryo journalist at Michigan State University to question the professors regarding their pet aversions. One professor in the history department when questioned concerning his chief annoyance where in members of his class were concerned, replied, "Taking notes."
by Esquire
The New Double-breasted Jacket Model: With the help of the Duke of Kent, and the Prince of Wales, the double-breasted jacket, that features a long rolling panel that buttons on the lower button of the double-breasted jacket is being swept along to national popularity at a greater speed than most rural models. This double-breasted jacket, with this new touch, first made its ap-
net slacks or linen beach shorts, e any of the other similar plain fabric that are used for odd trousers they brightly colored mudder prifoul puggaree belts serve a purpose and are a smart fashion.
Belts: To get that accessory touch of color with grey flan-
pearance in London's fashionable West End about a year ago. Its first public appearance on this side of the water was on the back, or we should say, the front, of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., last July. In detail, the lower button comes up a bit higher, about level with the picket line, and necessitates the elimination of any exaggerated waistline. It calls for two deep side vents in the back, although it is equally smart with a single vent.
Ties: For the last few years each spring season has seen university men
**Shoes:** The trend to both brown buckskin shoes and all-white buck鞋 demands some综合设计, while the coloring of hosiery. Particularly for the all-
but ties, either of
foulard or plaid wool
cashmere. This latter
fabric and pattern
seems to be set for
unusual popular-
ity this coming
spring.
white shoe, hosiery, no longer is tinted in pastel shades, but is either white with strong coloring as a decoration or plain. The shirt is worn along with the rest of one's ensemble.
down collar shirt has produced a lot of them that have no resemblance to this authentic and good-looking collar fashion other than that they have the buttons holding the collar down. For this shirt to be smart it must have that regligee appearance that comes from a collar that sits fairly high on the neck and has an added fullness between where it it joins and the buttons themselves, that give it a juanty roll between these two points.
The wide popularity of the button-
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