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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1935
AN AID FOR THE JOB HUNTER
Planning a life work is of such importance that four years should not be too long to devote to it. The freshman who enters the University now is assigned an adviser whom he, along with fifty other nephyes, consults before enrolling at the beginning of each semester. The over-worked adviser has his hands full simply seeing that the freshman is started on the way to filling his group requirements. This system is pursued through the sophomore year, and suddenly, at the beginning of the junior year, the student is faced with the problem of choosing his major.
It is assumed that by the time he is a college junior, a student should know what he wants to do. He does not, in the majority of cases. His life up to this point has been almost solely a process of being educated. He has had little contact with conditions and requirements of the business world for which he is preparing, and since the University has shown small coneer as to the profession he will choose—not from neglect, but from inadequate personnel—he is inclined to consider the matter lightly and select the first course that comes to his mind.
Educational experts recognize the personal value of a general education, but in the business world it means little without the accomplishment of specialized training. It is in the selection of the type of work for which they are best fitted that students face their most difficult problem. Many colleges with a smaller enrollment than that of Kansas have found it profitable to employ a full-time vocational guidance expert.
This expert goes about his job with scientific knowledge and as complete data as possible. In his office, records of each student from as far back as possible are filed. This trained adviser has not only grades with which to work but psychological tests and health reports. He is not able to deal with each student individually, but he works with the advisers and is available for consultation at all times. In most universities he fills the office of counselor, trying to discover the difficulty behind failures, and also solution to the problems of students who do not make the most of their capabilities.
If each student who is graduated were trained to his greatest ability in the work for which he is best suited, and in addition had a knowledge of another type of work upon which he could fall back, the problem of getting a job should not prove such an alarming one.
EXPLODING SMOKE RINGS
News of the Week carries a picture of Ireneen du Pont blowing smoke rings at the senate's investigation of munitions makers. The picture is in three parts: (1) the proper way to roll the smoke in the mouth, (2) the explosive puff—the du Pont touch, and (3) the
proper nonchalant attitude after the explosion. Mr. du Pont is an artist with smoke rings, and should give more of his time to puffing them and less to the manufacture of munitions.
There is much to be said for the hobby of blowing smoke rings. The equipment necessary is such that it can be carried in a man's pocket, and when he feels this aesthetic urge he can whip it out and swing into his pastime, satisfy his desire for smoking and amuse his friends. The proper equipment (of course other material may be used) is a pipe with a curved stem. The curved stem is important—we offer no less an authority than Mr. duPont's pictures. As to the kind of tobacco, we cannot be sure, but sooner or later it will be discovered, especially when some high-powered testimonial advertising man contacts the prominent explorer of smoke rings and munitions. If one is an artist, the smoke is very important, too, particularly the color. A smuggy sooty black is of course taboo among artists. The color should take on a little of the royal blue shade, but is mostly white—lily white.
The final and best argument for the hobby is that should a man tire of smoke rings, he can use the same equipment for blowing bubbles, which is another way Mr. du Pont might occupy his time.
Maybe the fellow was drunk,
but he wasn't far wrong, it seems,
when he said it was the stars of
oklahoma fell on Stanford New
year's Day.
PUTTING IT UP TO YOUTH.
The new generation may be "young," said Edward A. Filene, noted writer on social and economic questions, speaking before the N.S.F.A. conference last week, but it is socially more mature than the generation which preceded it, the generation which holds the reins at present. The speaker declared his faith in the ability of tomorrow's leaders to solve the great social problems that loom ahead. Young people, he said, have the "richest legacy" of mistakes to guide them that any generation ever handed down to another.
If awareness of a situation and a record of past blunders insured understanding of that institution, Mr Filene's optimistic prophecy might be more easily accepted. But history shows us people making their favorite mistakes over and over and over. And while today's young people may have grown up in a social crisis, their awareness of problems unsolved insures neither understanding of the forces at work nor ability to control them.
Glib prophecies of the younger generation's success in dealing with its problems can have little value in bringing about deeper study or more careful thinking. The fact that crises confront us is far from auguring our ability to meet them. Too many people already are content to blunder along in the old way, on the chance that
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
A. S. M. E. will meet this evening at 7:30 in Fowler shops. There will be a welding demonstration and motion pictures followed by an election of officers, the jury, and the closing remarks.
A. S. M. E.
Thursday, Jan. 3, 1935
No. 67
Sitlenen game at 6:38, unless at 6:40 on Jan. 7 and 8, for the basketball
gamenet report
BASKETBALL STILEMEN AND USHERS:
From The Oregon Emerald
The regular meeting of Quill club will be held this evening at 8 o'clock, central Administration building. All members and pledges are requested to tend. CHARLES ZESKEY, Preside-
QUILL CLUB
THE NARCOTIC RING
From the Oregon Emirates
you've bought Ford? Really,
now you should look into things before
you let that mouth of yours tumble forth
such witless Pandasloppy, blucoch.
Henry Ford and Vagrant Genius
things will turn out all right. What youth needs is not reassurance as to its ability, but a challenge to it. these fears of the sociologists that the homeless children of America may band in marauding wolf-packs, the postwar Beoprizriform - 750,000 homeless Russian children, many of whom lived in the old sewers and cellars of Moscow and Petrograd. Why, man, there are now only two or three hundred thousand wandering children in the United States! It's a glorious experience these homeless boys and girls are having. And he was only the pitiful exception that forlorn wail of twelve who was found after existing for months in a grimy subway tunnel, picking at peelings and refuse for his daily sustenance. It was for his soul and body's good, though. He'll do great things, for he has had the "best education in the world."
In a recent nationwide drive 765 narcotic ring operators and dope smugglers were jailed to await trial in less than a week, in a federal campaign that was very spectacular and effective.
Along with the arrests were reports of the dope peddlers selling to high school boys and girls and even younger children. The giving of dope in the hope of creating the habit among them and thus making more customers for the illicit traffic was the noreotic ring's main objective.
The narcotic traffic is one subject upon which there is little room for argument. It has nothing to recommend it. It has all that is unhealthful, immoral and anti-social to indict it. There is nothing to do with it but stamp it out, not only on a state and national scale, but internationally, as well.
The federal drive that has been staged ought to help materially, but the law is not enforced by drives alone. It can be enforced only by constant efforts of government officers and officials.
Sure We Do the Very Best Shoe Repairing,
Surely you knew that horrid man was going to publish those utterances, that folk the country over would cup eager ears when a man of your industrial star became oracular. You knew that Collier's weekly would give a big spread in its November 10 issue to your talk of the future, "This Is the Day of Opportunity." You know you could have kept quiet rather than exclaim: "Why those homeless boys, those boys riding around in box cars. That's where we are going to get the new inventions. Why it's the best education in the world for those boys, who spend their lives in poverty, experience in a few months than they would in years at school."
You are to be enwired, Mr. Ford. You can retire to your forest sanctuary, surround yourself with every intellectual pubulum, and tackle the problem with a scholarly carminess. Being an industructor of the matter than we are. In the rush of the times in which we youth find ourselves blocked, we must rely for our information upon periodicals, matter written passionately for the most part, statistics and such, and case records—dislocated stuff, too, that isn't comprehensible in our social scheme, lacking the knowledge that Dr. Pangloss would put to it.
Bear stories all, and so much bosh.
Men's Walk-Overs, $8.50 at $7.65; $6.00 at $5.40
Women's chiffon or service Dollar Hosiery 1 pair 89c;
two pairs at $1.75
Sure We Do the Very Best Shoe Repairing,
Shining, Dyeing.
Try our cement soles.
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OTTO FISCHER
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All Fall and Winter Shoes Reduced, nothing reserved—shoes, slippers, hosiery--and $7.65
Peacocks $7.65
Walk-Over $5.85
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Bartleys ___ $4.50
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Enna-Jetticks $4.50
ROCK --- CHALKLETS
Conducted by R.J.B.
Up until yesterday we thought the new book "Hands Across the Table" was the name of Ely Culbertson's new book, *The Fault in Our Stars*. Augusta Gazette comes out with the
Oh, spot of gravy on my vest
Mingled there with all the rest
Of memories of those former meals
of chicken, beef and pork and veals.
Nestled there above my heart—
How I hate to see you part!
But alas, it is your fate,
I have a most important date.
startling revelation that it is about a boarding house.
Automobiles are built almost entirely of steel and iron, and the drivers of them have plenty of "brass."
The frog he iih a funny bird.
He hath no wings to flee.
He thith to jump and pumps to thit
And he has no tail hardly,
And when he wailer in the mud—
Gee-Ain't I glad I amn' not tud.
Advice to Column Contributors
Putrid and moronic assinity
Are the stock and store of man into infinity;
So forget your cursed complexes inferior.
Incite the layman's guffaw's with your metaphors,
And proclaim your silly efforts as superior.
Just content yourself with saying nothing often,
And success will stay when you are in your coffin.
Down at Lawrence there are three prominent sororites. Each "lodge" is made up of fine, attractive, gracious and intelligent girls.
The Pause that Refreshes
A Topean asked a K.U. lad one day
the to "rank" the "three of the
third bishops."
The Pause that restores Stop and have a Coke
"Well, I'll tell you," he answered, "it is this way. If we want to take a girl out who wears fine clothes and whose uppity manners will knock 'em cold we date the Coupety-Oomp; if we want a woman to be cool we want a nice comfortable evening by the fireside we go to the Whatsit house." —A. J. Carruth in Topeka State Journal.
Gives you that added lift.
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