PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WESLEY, McCALLA Associate Editors Lena Wyatt Joe Docto MANAGING EDITOR ... Campus Editor Carolyn Harper Designer J. Browne Suits Editor Daniel J. Brown Night Editor Charles Brown Exclusive Editor Gavin Dean Vice President Stephen A. Brown Business Manager P. Quentin Browi Asst. Business Manager Elen Carie Kansan Board Members Leen Wyatt Iris Olson W. Michael Leen William Miller Rutherford Miller Wesley McCalla George Lerigic Darrell Macfarland John McIllan Willem Billard F. Quentin Brown Business Office W. K. 61 Health Care Office BK 52 Night Connection, Business Office 220 K1 Office Building A Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wed- nesday morning except during school holidays by au- dents in the Department of Journalism of the Department of Education, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash if advance, $2.25 on payments. Single copies, 16 Entered as second class matter, September 19, 100; at the post office in Lawrence, Kane- sau. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 SEEING IT WHOLE The flaws in our educational system are many—some obvious, others not so well realized, all crying for remedies. In the light of recent investigations of the learning process, the most elemental parts of our education may be wrong. The motives and methods for learning which are stressed by our systems may be far from the best. But reorganization of entire systems takes time—the public is slow to accept innovations. And in the meanwhile there is one defect which stares the most casual observer in the face—the lack of co-ordination between the various branches of study. From first grade to University this lack of organization hampers the development of the student, smothers natural interest in study and prevents the arousing of any. The child in grade school spends an hour on arithmetic perhaps, another hour on history, another on writing or physiology or music. Those "subjects" are made entirely separate things. They are not presented in any relationships which allow the child to see meaning or purpose in study. And this false isolation of "subjects" runs right through education, so that many a pupil never does gather up his scraps of knowledge and piece together real understanding. The study of mathematics is illustrative of the generally bad situation. The child grinds away at arithmetic, struggles with algebra as a high school freshman, and then more likely than not comes to a dead stop on geometry (which seems silly, for how can it help him in the cross-the-counter transactions which typify his use of mathematics!) He learns nothing about more advanced branches; often he does not realize that there is more than one theory of numbers. And as for the direct relationship of mathematics to physics and chemistry, art and music, philosophy and history—the average student has no conception of it at all. A few students may educate themselves to some unified understanding, outside the run of their formal "courses"; a few more may have the wider view pointed out by an exceptional teacher. But if we are to realize the ideal of liberal education of which we have boasted for so many years, then the broad field of human knowledge, which is now familiar only to a chance few, must become common to all. To tell the truth the first liar hasn't a chance. See Postmaster Farley, box 1, Washington. A RUNG ON THE LADDER Attorney General Boynton of Kansas has recently recommended that the state of Kansas install a system of state police. The suggestion, if carried out, is a distinct step ahead toward the goal of more safety and fewer kidnappers and bank robbers. J. Edgar Hoover, director of th bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice of the United States, declares emphatically that the war now being fought against organized crime in this country will meet with a surer and more rapid success if the Federal law enforcement bodies and those of the individual states can work together toward this common good. Local officers have means of obtaining information about suspects in their own regions of which Federal agents could never hope to make use. On the other hand, the Federal agents have the most modern equipment of scientific crime detection it is possible to obtain, and are all highly trained specialists in various fields of rime prevention. Most certainly two bodies of men such as these working together in perfect accord will do much to rid our country of the gangster, and the state of Kansas would do well to accept the Attorney General's suggestion. Morgenthau says the Treasury operates on "absolutely a 24 hour basis" and means they don't know what is going to happen next. That's tame. We don't even know when we will see the next dollar. THE GREATEST SHOWS ON EARTH "Barnum could have made Huey Long famous," says Senator Truman of Missouri after witnessing one of the Kingfish's shows in the senate. Senator Truman's remark seems a little superfluous considering how beautifully Huey gets along without the aid of Mr. Barnum, but it does bring to mind a remarkable resemblance between the two men. The term "great showman" can be applied to both Huey and P. T. Outstanding differences are that Barnum had to collect his freaks and care for them and hire a hall or put up a tent in which to exhibit them, whereas Huey carries his show around on his person and can give an exhibition anyplace, even in the United States Senate. Perhaps Huey could have made Barnum famous. It would be difficult to know which of the two was most abundantly endowed with understanding of human nature. Both have realized clearly that a man will will like the winter wind under the eaves if the price of bread goes up one or two cents, but will be glad to pay one or two dollars for what he thinks is a good show, and that the more one- and two-dollar shows he can see the happier he will be. The philosophies of Huey and P. T. are pretty much the same, because they are based on the same first premise, viz., "There's one born every minute." And both men, it might be noted, have enjoyed enviable success. A NEEDED AMENDMENT One of the major problems which faces the Kansas legislature when it convenes this week is that of the child labor movement. For months friends and opponents of the proposal have been marshalling political support to their respective sides, for the amendment is in a critical position. Twenty states have already passed upon it, while sixteen others are yet needed to make the legislation law. Kansas will be a part of the battleground for the latest drive of organized labor. Child labor has been decreased during the past year by NRA codes, but it is still in existence. In several states it is permitted among poor families in the hope that the children may add a few pennies to the depleted family treasury. Once out of school, the children seldom return to classrooms and grow up to find themselves unschooled and unable to cope with new situations. Continued numbers of unemployed walk the streets searching for the jobs held in many cases by children; small jobs, but jobs after all. The economic reasoning for child labor has certainly been done away with by the millions of adults seeking work OFFICIAL UNIVERSITV RULLETIN Those interested in positions on the advertising staff of the 1935-'38 K-book may leave letters of application in room 10 at the Memorial Union building on or before Friday, Jan. 18. Applicants should state qualifications, previous experience on publications, and university classification. ALL STUDENTS: Notice due at Chancellor's office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication day and 11:26 a.m. on regular afternoon release. VOL. XXIIH Tuesday, June 8, 1935 No. 70 FRANK HEADLEY, Business Manager. There will be a meeting this evening at 7.30. Right! —We're a bit snoopy about our drawing inks—choice of the best draftsmans for the last 54 years. Give 'am a tumble! Checks for work done in December will be available at the CSEP office on Thursday, Jan. 10 from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Those students who are unable to get their checks on Thursday may get them on Friday, Jan. 11 from 1:30 to 5 p.m., CSEP CHECKS: EDUCATION STUDENTS: MARY C. OLSEN, Executive Secretary. Students in the School of Education may enroll for the spring semester during the month of January. Please make appointment to see the Education adviser during the regular office hours. R. A. SCHWEGLER, Dean. EL ATENEO: habría una session ordinaria de El Ateneo el Juves, 10 de enero, a la corte y media (4.30) del tarde en la tala de la 113, adicto de administración. FLORENE BRISCOE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB There will be a dinner meeting Tuesday, Jan. 8 at the Cafeteria dining room at 6 o'clock. An informal discussion of the Saar question will begin promptly at 6:30. The meeting will close at 7:30. All are invited. ROBERT BRADEN, President. DRAWING INKS There will be a meeting Thursday night at 7 o'clock at Henley house. MARTHA PETTENSON and ANNA MARIE TOMPINKS. INTERRACIAL COMMISSION, Y. W. C. A.: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: There will be a meeting Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 4:30 p.m. in room 207 of the Electrical Engineering Laboratory. All persons invited in radio communication will be asked to attend. Le circle Francais se recuita mercouri a quatre heures et doit dans la solle 306 Fruier haue. Trans ceux qui parlent français en invites. CHAS M. HIGGINS & Co. In. NIX Tink N. Brooklyn, N. Y. HIGGINS' American LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: MID-WEEK DANCE: The regular mid-week dance will be held Wednesday night at 7 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. All students must present their identification cards. BILL COCHRANE Manager. MID-WEEK DANCE: PRACTICE TEACHING: Applications for practice teaching in Orend during the spring semester must be made in advance. Applications will be received in the office of the School of Education, 103 Fraser, until Thursday, Jan. 10. Dean. The identification card must be brought with the student ticket to all basket- ball games. DR. FORIEST C. ALLEN. SWIMMING TEAM: STUDENT BASKETBALL TICKETS: Please meet at the pool Thursday night at 7:30. Important practice, HERERT G. ALLPHIN, Coach The secretary of the local peace organization has voiced his disapproval of the pigeon catching activities of a member of the United Nations, about 68 birds to his credit so far. It was a Mae West New Year in Kansas City, Kan., according to Charley Simpson: One big bust.-A. E. Neale in Kansas City Kansan. The Acacia boys probably don't put much stock in the thought that "pro-esity is just around the corner. They are overweight, and they stand front of their mansion for fuel—D.F. Some people marry for love; some for money. Others just marry for awhile. — Car Whitson in Winfield Courier. We try hard to believe everything we read in the papers but the news that a college graduate and a newspaper reporter at that has won the New York City spelling championship severely taxes our creditability. Most college graduates we have known feel that possession of a degree frees them of all orthographical obligations. College men in particular would no more think of spelling corruptions; they would sign their names in such a way as to decipher them. As for reporters, their misspelling is just a deliberate effort to add more gray hairs to the city editor's heads. Maybe a college bird reporter is champion of New York, but what a reflection that is on the largest city of the land.—Jack Harris in Hutchinson News. We beg Mr. Harris to go into a huddle with his proof reader, as two words (now corrected, of course) in this dissertation on spelling were misspelled. They are kidding Warren Plaskett plenty over at Robinson gym. It seems that Plaskett, coach of the Oread basketball team, had to call up one of his men recently to find the score of the latest Oread contest.-D.F. Learn to Dance---- NOW for the SPRING PARTIES Special Attention Given MARION RICE DANCE STUDIO Advanced Dances-Private Lessons N. Y. Cleaners Bldg., $ 924 \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. Classified Ads Save MONEY Use the Classified Ad Section of The Daily. Kansan to get results from your sm a111 investment. 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We suggest you come early while selections are large — Wednesday Morning, at- CARL'S 17