PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1935 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ___ WESLEY McCALLA Lena Wyatt Associate Lauter Joe Doctor MANAGING EDITOR ___ MAX MOXLEY Campus Editor Carolyn Harper Historian Helen Harper South Editor Donald J. Epps Sunny Editor Charles W. Nationalist Charles Brown Society Editor Dana Pry Alumni Editor Virginia Park Business Manager F. C. Business Manager Elon Gartner Lea Watty **I**rkloon Marcus Mottion **M**acron Lorell Miller **R**utherford Hayes Wesley McCalla **George Lovings** Carolyn Harvey **J**ackson William P. Brown **Ciprinan** Business Office K.U. 66 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 701K Night Connection, News Room 700K Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Week sunday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday, the following Saturday by entries in the Department of Journalism of the Department of Journalism. Entered as second class matter, September 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kau- lifornia. Subscription price, per year. $2.00 cash in devices. $4.25 on payments. Single copies, bc SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1935 MODERNIZING THE KANSAS POLICE In accordance with the recent National Conference on Crime at which it was suggested that a broad system of co-ordination be established among the national, state, and local law enforcement agencies, a proposal is now before the Kansas legislature which would enlist Kansas in the determined drive against organized crime. Oxcart justice in America is pursuing sixteen cylinder crime, and the advantage which that organization has been increasing with each revolution of its well-oiled machinery is at last being reduced by the efforts of the federal Department of Justice. Since the enactment of the federal kidnapping law on June 22, 1932, the department of investigation has undertaken the solution of thirty-two cases involving either actual kidnapping or attempts to kidnap. Thirty-two cases have been solved. Seventy-four persons have been convicted and sentenced to an aggregate of more than a thousand years' imprisonment. Two committed suicide, three were lynched while awaiting trial, and two others were murdered by companions. Yes, investigation agents are getting results, but they are also suffering casualties. In the past eighteen months four agents have been killed, three of them felled by the bullets of a man who had twice felt the beneficent touch of clemency. When the character of these agents is considered—their integrity, their service to the country, and their sincerity in accomplishing assigned ends—it is no problem to decide which is the more important—their lives or a few years of a criminal's time. When Kansas legislators consider the importance of the enlistment of the state in the co-ordination of efforts against the gangster, the kidnaper, and the racketeer, they should not need much time to approve a plan for a state police system which will cooperate under federal officials in once and for all lifting the yoke of the gangster from crime - burdened America. SENIORS AREN'T SO BRIGHT We went up to enroll the other day for what, with the indulgence of certain professors, will be our last semester in the University. After eight enrollments we found ourselves still unable to make out a course without some conflict arising from our inability to read correctly the list of courses, prerequisites, hours, and numbers, without first having a disgusted adviser or two point out the discrepancies. Shame overwhelmed us. We know a freshman who has enrolled only once before, and he sat down the other night and mapped out his schedule with an alacrity that made us feel bitterly our own inability to translate words and numbers all corralled in nice little boxes for our benefit. The freshman thought nothing of it. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Sunday, Jan. 27, 1935 The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 4:30 in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building. E.H. LINDLEY, President. COLLEGE FACULTY, SPECIAL MEETING: W. S. G. A. BOOK EXCHANGE; The exchange will be open from 9 'til 4 o'clock daily until the close of the semester. EDITH BORDEN, Manager. However, we felt a little better about it when we stood in line waiting for Professor Smith to okeh our schedule the second time. Many seniors were having the same difficulty we had, and one, a girl, came back three times that we know it right and then did not have it right. About one in five, we should say, had to go back to their advisers and make corrections. If we wanted to carry it farther, we could possibly find out that railroad conductors have the same trouble showing people how to read timetables. This much is sure: when we ride on trains we never even attempt to find out from the problematic sheet we picked up at the station. It is so much easier to lean across the aisle and ask our neighbor, "Say, when do we get to Lawrence?" The answer, of course is probably wrong, but the conductor will always set us right. MANNERS MAKETH MAN We have frequently been appalled by the rudeness shown by many of our supposedly adult intelligent students towards their professors. It is remarkable how few students seem to be aware that the lectures are supposed to begin at thirty minutes past the hour, and unless the professor locks the door or makes himself otherwise hateful his students consider themselves privileged to wander nonchalantly into the classroom anywhere from one to ten minutes late. No matter how quiet they may be everybody is disturbed by the late entrance. Some classes seem to consider the entrance of the professor an intrusion and continue their conversation in quite audible tones for several minutes after he comes in. He is forced to wait patiently for a partial cessation of the din before he can begin his lecture. Then five minutes before the end of the hour everyone begins closing their notebooks, fastening up their coats, opening and closing purses, so that in a class of any size, the last words of the lecture are lost even for those who wish to hear them. SEMESTER WOES Of course, the professor can prevent this if he chooses to make a martinet of himself, but most professors prefer to be human and in return have every right to expect a little human consideration from their students. They are not kindergarten pupils and it ought not to be necessary to treat them as such. No one with an honest desire to learn will seek to curtail the lecture period by making unnecessary noise. The Campus Muse O you finals, O you finals Coffee in my dumkins mud All I hope is that when they're Over, I ain't fool. O you finals, O you finals With your trying hours When if ever come perfect days I like panpy flowers. O you finals, O you finals I think that T'll never see Old Casey at up at bat Because of many D's and C's. The world is too much with us In these hours of grief and woe, And departing leave behind thus Many friends we all did know. On Other Hills L'Enyoi L ENROL Good old semester quizzes Are twice as bad as Jan.'s frizes. A recent newspaper article informs us that the Aggies up at Manhattan have lost their mascot, Roscoe, to whom they give credit for their football victory over Nebraska. Quarterback Leo Ayers even made a mad dash in a taxi-cab before the team's special train left for Lincoln, so that he could rub Roscoe's kinky hair. "Roscoe, whose full name is Roscoe Pitts, a 19-year-old Negro youth, was sentenced yesterday to serve from five to 10 years in the state reformatory. He pleaded guilty to entering a bakery and selling 10 cents from the cash register." Maybe we should feel sorry for the Aggies, even after that 13-0 defeat they handed the Jayhawks, but the article was more humorous than pathetic, and it made me laugh. The really funny part was the last paragraph, which said: Greeks at Indiana are fighting a proposal to lift organization house tax exemptions. A Corner On Books By Mary Jule Shipman Current Best Sellers: The 40 Days of Mua Dags ... Frank Werfel Goodbye, Mr. Chips ... 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