1 PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSA EDITOR-IN-CHIEP WILLIAM BLIZZARD Associate Editors Wesley McCalla Loreen Miller MANAGING EDITOR ... LENA WYATT Campus Editor • Max Molek Makeup Editor • Bathered H. Harro Designer • Caren Harper Sunday Editor • Caren Harper Wednesday Editor • Caren Harper Night Editor • George Levine Quarterly Editor • George Levine Business Manager ... P. Quentin Brown Ast, Business Manager ... Elton Carter Leena Wyatt Irl Oslo William Decker Max Moule Lorenzo Millo Max Robertson Hewitt Walter Weidner Carlina Harper Julia Markham ITS Department Business Office K.U. 6 News Room K.U. 21 Night Connection, Business Office 2703K Night connection, news room 2702K Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday for publication in newspapers in the Department of Journalism of the University of Tennessee, from the Press of the University of Georgia. Subscription price, per year, $3.00 each in advance, $2.25 on payment, Single copies, to be sent. Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1934 WAS IT WORTH IT? T. O. M. Sopwith, the British challenger for this year's American cup race, sails for England the end of this week declaring bitterly that he will never again challenge for the "battered old mug." For a great many years the late Sir Thomas Lipton made valiant attempts in vain to take the America's Cup back to England. He was never successful, but the world has never seen and will never see any greater sportsman. The American yacht won the race, but the victory has been marred with the blot of unfairness and the question of unsportsmanlike sailing. We have won the cup; but what did we lose? An argument in favor of more than less vigorous hazing of Kansas freshmen is that a sophomore was caught reading the American Boy the other night. THE FACTS OF FOOTBALL BROADCASTS Big Six football games, except at Nebraska, will go back on the air this fall after an interval of two years in which broadcasts were banned to bolster gate receipts. Many persons may consider it a fine thing for the University athletics to be on the air again. But there are some facts underlying the situation which if they were known might alter their opinions. In the first place, the broadcasts will hurt the gate receipts. Dr. F. C. Allen, director of athletics, estimates that the loss will be $1,000 per game; if the weather is bad it may be more. Outside pressure has brought the broadcasts back. The chief argument for them is that this is a state university, supported by the taxpayers, and therefore the public should share all of its activities. But the athletic association is not supported by the state. When a drive was made to build the Memorial Stadium and the Memorial Union $287,000 was raised for the stadium. It cost $640,000. The state legislature cannot take over a debt, so a corporation was formed and bonds issued to insure construction. The charter of incorporation provides that when the corporation becomes cleared of indebtedness the property shall be deeded to the state. So the athletic association is just like any business concern. It stands or falls according to its own efforts, and although it seems the common practice of the times to let debts slide, the athletic association is trying to meet its obligations. In addition to the stadium and varisity athletic fields it purchased the intramural fields for $12,000. Principal and interest to the amount of $393,500 has been paid and $162,500 in bonds outstanding at 8½ per cent. Therefore, when the public asks for football broadcasts it is wanting something for nothing and is really postponing the time when it will acquire the excellent facel- ities needed for athletics at the University. Those facilities are being used by the students free of charge, but the operating expenses are not paid with taxes. Times have been hard, and with a payment of $30,000 on principal you can expect the company will make it increasingly difficult for the corporation to operate. There is as little point in asking the athletic department to surrender part of its income as in asking the directors of the Concert Course to lower their box office sales by broadcasting their programs. AGAIN, THE FORGOTTEN MAN A story that is perfect for the purposes of NRA's opponents appeared in Tuesday evening's papers. It concerned one Fred Perkins (even the name could not have been improved), who has built up a ten-man wet battery manufacturing business in West York, Pa., and who has been jailed for refusing to comply with code that he never sighed. Perkins is not increasing his personal income by paying only 25 cents an hour instead of 40 cents as the wet battery code authority demands. His business netted him a profit of $2,531, last year, part of which went back into the business and the rest for living expenses of his family. Payment of higher wages, he says, would put him out of business and on relief. The story, as told by papers definitely opposed to the New Deal, is touching indeed, but so laden with dramatic details that readers who seek to form a just and reasonable opinion of the various phases of the New Deal may perhaps discount this story too much because of its political ring. It illustrates what seems to be an organic defect of NRA, inability to understand the situations of the thousands of little ten-men businesses throughout the country which might make it impossible for those businesses to comply with codes. No organization, such as NRA and its various code authorities, which does not intend to take over a large share of the management of the country's businesses, could hope to have that understanding. In other words, the well-known forgotten man may look to some one besides NRA for recognition A STEP AHEAD The federal department of justice announced last Monday that a national school for police officers will be proposed at the crime conference to be held in Washington in December. The purposes of the school would be to encourage closer co-operation between local and federal officials in the detection of crime, and to gather data on criminals, for use by all police agencies in the country. It would be a national clearing house for crime, saves the announcement. Its establishment would be a definite advance toward the needed co-ordination of all agencies that have anything to do with crime and criminals. Such co-ordination has been urged by the country's leading criminologists for some time, and something along that line has been accomplished in a few states, but up to the present the federal government seems to have taken little interest in it. The present disunity of police courts, prisons and expert criminologists is one of the greatest obstacles to the solution of the crime problem. Sociologists look forward to a time when there will be state and national "clearing houses" made up of experts whose work would be to seek out information on the life history and personality of criminals in order to determine what treatment would be best in each case to serve corrective, preventive and protective purposes. These bodies would relieve the courts of their task of "sentencing" offenders without information to show what sentences would best serve the inthe American Society of Mechanical Engineers will hold their annual smoker Thursday evening, Sept. 27, at 8 o'clock in the mounte's lounge of the Memorial Union building. There will be entertainment and refreshments. All mechanical and industrial engineers are invited to attend. Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Thursday, Sept. 27, 1934 A. S. M. E: No.11 Vol. XXXII The great need is for impartial advice for high school graduates, COLLEGE SENIORS: College students who expect to complete requirements for the A.B. degree, the fall semester should fill out an application to the Registrar's office. The fall semester registration is **GBOGE O. FOSTER**, Registrar. LEWIS W. BENZ, Treasurer K CLUB: All K men report at North College Hill at 7 o'clock this evening. ERNEST VANKE, President. MEN NOT AFFILIATED WITH AN ORGANIZATION: Men not affiliated with an organization are requested to register for intra mural athletics at room 105, Robinson gymnasium. E. R. ELBEL PI EPSILON PI: All Ku Kua are requested to be at the North College Campus at 7 o'clock this evening in full uniform to assist in the Induction exercises. There will be a regular meeting immediately following the exercises at 8:30 o'clock in Fraser hall. WALTER LYMAN, President. RHADAMANTHI: There will be a short meeting of Rhadamathila in the Green Room Sunday at 4:30. Will all members be present? STUDENT AND FACULTY FOOTBALL RESERVATIONS: TAU SIGMA TRYOUTS: Students and faculty who plan to attend the football game with the University of Colorado on Saturday must declare their choice of seat location at the Athletic office not later than noon on Saturday. No holder of an activity book will be admitted whose coupon has not been stamped by the Athletic office. The important question is this—how many of those who would really prefer and find helpful one of these other methods, are struggling along in college, because of the ambitions of parents, the encouragement of teachers and friends, or the popular idea that a degree spells success. We swallow everything that we are told so unquestioningly. How many of us merely accepted, in good faith, the decree that we should "get a college education?" Tim Siah trays have been postponed because of the New Student Induction Training. Tryouts will begin Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 1 o'clock. Please bring a lunch. HENRY WERNER, Chairman, Activity Committee. inal Y. W. C. A.-W. S. G. A. LANTERN PARADE: terests of society and of the crim 'nnl the annual W.Y.C.A. W.S.G.A. Luntern Parade for all University women will be held on Saturday evening from 6 to 8:30. Reservations must be made at Hensley house before Friday noon. Tickets for the supper are obtained there. BETTY AN STAFFERJERRY JERRY Social Chairmen. REVISING IDEAS OF COLLEGE "Why am I going to college?" If every student would ask himself that question before setting out on the four-year course, answering himself in all seriousness and sincerity, and following his own best judgment, many wisted years might be saved. A "clearing house" to aid only in the detection of crime is, of course, no more than a short step toward the greater objective, but its importance lies in the fact that it is a beginning, that however small a stop it is, it is at least in a forward direction. The results of the December conference will be interesting to note, because they will indicate that federal government is looking. Heresy? Scrapping the great American ideal of education for all? Not at all. Anyone who stops to think of the problem must realize that a University, however comprehensive, can accomplish only a small part of the final aim, universal education. One has only to consider the range of one's own interests "outside of school" to see that millions of people may be attracted by quite different means of becoming educated men and women. and a revised idea of the value of "being a college graduate." Many an expensive and funtile year will then be saved to people who are not at home in the field of studies covered by the University. THE LITERARY DIGEST DEALS ITS "A.C.E." Guided by "master minds," students are going to learn how to think. At least, that is the substance of a story of the new organization of college editors that will appear in the Literary Digest in the Sept. 29 issue. The first publicity stunt is to be a poll. A poll that in itself reuses of the free thought of students—and the Literary Digest. The subject is going to be peace, the army and navy, and munitions, and the field of the ballot to be national. He will vote as he is told in the classroom and in the press. Or will he? At any rate, a national magazine will score another triumph. The fundamental of student-born thought behind the organization is good, if it were only a student project. Students can think; in fact, many of them show a lot more horse sense than their erudite elders who probably have forgotten the technique of study and analysis. But such a project cannot be whole-heartedly indoors if it is to be a stereotype for the policies of any national It is not our purpose to carry the anatomy too far, for the more decent type of upperclassmen it is enough to remind him that now we have on Mt. Ouread new Campus Opinion "Eggs in incubator" is the sign you are nipped to a door in Snow ball. seemed to a dude in blue hood. Obvious enough, the sign, the reason for it whoever notices the request will go into the Inculcer room quietly. "Don't slam this door! for the policies of any national magazine or the tool thereof. treated with consideration and the respect they would naturally command anywhere else, perhaps their incubation time at the University will be jarred. Hold on. What if you do slam the door? And if these new students are not |m Just this; that the new fellow will have his private opinion about you. Our Contemporaries --at the LET'S DO OUR PART FOR THE ACTIVITIES FEE Iowa State Student. Monday the general student body will have its first contact with the activities fee, in operation at Iowa State for the first time. With this contact will be realized the hopes and efforts of literally hundreds of teachers have been graduated for several years to become members, interested in the welfare of the student body in general, have also worked to create a little of their time, to this project. And since its approval at the all-college poll has spring a central committee of students and administrative officers to its utmost to perfect the initial plans. T. F. But, like all changes and innovations, it may not be perfect at first. We all learn by experience. And if a certain skill is too hard to master, the chemical details of distributing activities fee books Monday don't be too firm in your denunciations. You will be stepping on someone's toes who has been made to make the plan letter perfect. And with the same thought in mind consider the circulation problem of the Iowa State Student as well as similar problems in other institutions, tractions included in the fee. They have all laid plans which they hope will accommodate every possible situation. But again, nothing is perfect at first, and no matter what happens, activities fee the success it should be. It may have been an accident. It surely must have been. It is not easy to understand how it happened, but somehow three freshmen managed to get into the Freshman mixer Monday evening. The Upperclassmen Mixer There were several more outside, but they couldn't crush the gate. They evidently didn't know that they have been on their next year to attend this annual function. The Freshman mixer was almost exclusively an upperclassman affair. Tickets which the freshman had were taken from them by force or persuasion. The yearlings didn't have a chance. Upperclassmen must be starved for social entertainment if they feel it is necessary to make it impossible for them to function planned specially for them. Freshmen could do no more than be impressed by the example of leadership and bravery set by B.M.O.C. with the luxurious window to get into the dame. Those upperclassmen who couldn't crash the gate seemed to have a big time milling around the door and impeding the freshmen (of course that right, too, because what business did freshmen have come around anyway)? It has long been a tradition for the upperclassmen to exclude the freshmen from their own mixer, so it just MUST have all right. Short Shots --at the It must have been a gift from heaven, it has the Daily Texan that gave Professor Sleeter Bull to the animal husbandry department of the University of Illinois. The ElDorado Times says that they have a lot to worry them, but nothing like the fellow who is all bow down down and let him fall. The dofremill will go to Notre Dame this fall. The duPonts have modestly admitted before a congressional committee that they won the World War. One small question keeps their statement from being successfully challenged: If the duPonts didn't, who did?—Chante Tibure. About a dozen students at the big state colleges have been injured in accidents, and they have been in session only a couple of weeks, indicating to the Salina Journal | MAIN VARIATION AS GETTING BACK TO HOT STUDENT TALENT PROGRAMS PLANNED AT U. 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