PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1934 University Daily Kansan National Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief MARGARET GREGG STUFFS Campus Editor ... Stan Makeup Editor ... Lewis Tenn Sports Editor ... R. B. Hapes Social Media Editor ... William McGee Society Editor ... Irish Owen Society Editor ... Carolyn Harper Night Editor ... George Lererrie Legal Editor ... Keith Jenkins Luxury Editor ... Julian Mackman Managing Editor MERLE HERYFORD Lena Wyatt Wesley McCalla ... Loreen Mutter Marriott Smith Durchsieght, Smith Brownstein, Smith Jimmy Paterson Gretchen Group Michel Heyford Pawlous Wasserman Robert Smith Robert Smith Advertising Manager — Charrise B. Mandel Circulation Manager — Woolenthorpe Business Office KD-63 Nepal Capital Management Business Office 270185 Nepal Copper Corporation Business Office 270185 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday Saturday. Send a letter of congratulations to de- signs in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. Subscription price, per year. $8.00 each in incentive, $2.25 on payments. Singles copies, e.g., $10.00. each. learned as second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1934 STRIKES! Two killed as the national guard fires into labor rioters—how such news as this must please the Moscow correspondents! Major strikes in three sections of the United States; the federal government to let labor and capital settle their own strife—will European dictators accept this as evidence of a faltering democracy, a lack of co-ordination that can not be adjusted except by a mailed list of dictatorship? Two million dollars damage in the Pacific northwest due to strikes; heavy property damage in the Minneapolis and Toledo districts—would all this not be interpreted by the European gold bloc as evidence of a weakening economic and monetary system? Strife ends in Minneapolis, labor and capital adjust differences; peace—does this not imply to the American the power of democracy, the rights of men to settle their own discords without undue force or intervention? A commune might have crushed one party to save the other, a dictator would have taken arbitration to himself and the parties, still embittered, would have acquiesced even though results might have been satisfactory to neither; but in a democracy, even though human feelings may boil over for a few days, the results are more lasting, for the men themselves, and not the supermen, come together and arbitrate. NEXT YEAR'S LEADERS Even though the pages of the daily papers may record a period of strife between capital and labor, it is still recording the effort of Americans to exercise their freedom of speech, of conscience, by means of arbitration. Tonight at the Rock Chalk Cairn five men selected from the Junior class will be vested with the mantle of leadership for the coming year. To these men congratulations. They have demonstrated to the University the fact that they are leaders, and they are rewarded with the honors of Sachem. Eut with leadership comes a high obligation which will be fulfilled by this group next year. To them is given the honor of upholding the traditions of their University. TIME OUT FOR "BULL FESTS" Said a freshman at the beginning of last fall, protesting against the study hall requirement in her sorority: "Why, I can't possibly spend all that time studying. I have always been able to get my lessons in high school in an hour or two each evening." A month later found the same young woman staying up late night after night, studying hard and worrying for fear she would not keep up. Unwisely she had taken the maximum hours of work and had not planned her course so that she had vacant hours during the day in which to do library work or to relax. It is true that she had been able to prepare her lessons adequately in a short time while in high school. She grasped things easily, and had a reputation as a brilliant student. But the jump from a small town high school to the University is a wide one. In the University, students, particularly those of exceptional ability, find their tasks always enlarging, because the field of study is unlimited. Each new assignment opens another avenue for research. It is important that courses be planned thoughtfully with regard to time. A crowded class schedule will necessitate frantic last-minute preparation of some of the work, and permit no time for relief from the constant rush which is the life of every college student. A "bull fest" now and then is an indispensable part of campus life. PHI BETA KAPPA VS. HAMBERGERS Last Friday the Kansan, in an editorial entitled "Illiterate Phi Beta Kappa," made reference to a reprint "on this page" from the Oregon Emerald reviewing the career of an embittered young man who among other disasters had been elected Phi Beta Kappa. But the only reprint which appeared on this page was about eating hamburgers. Now the Kansan dislikes to own itself in error as to fact, but the truth is that hamster-eating contests cannot be proven to have anything to do with winning Phi Beta Kappa. It would be interesting if they did, but investigation fails to back the theory, and the Kansan can't let the implication stand that they do. It reprints today the editorial originally intended, in evidence that it values accuracy even more than reputation for infailibility. Current Book Review Social Disorganization, by Mabel A. Eliott and Francis E. Merrill. This is no book to read on a glorious sunshine, spring afternoon when you have that Pipa-like feeling that "All's right with the world." When the time comes, however, in which you feel that, after all, you have been leading a somewhat superficial life and feel the need of delving deeper into life and all its complexities, good and bad, then this is the book for you. It is no ordinary treatise on the woes of mankind told in a stuff and formal manner. The extraordinary fact is that, although you are reading of the gloomier side of life, it is discussed in such a manner that you do not close the book in disgust but read further and further to discover its true message. It is this style element which contributes most to the outstanding quality of the book. It has a subject approach which is truly unique. Countless examples of this may be found throughout the book. Perhaps the most striking is the manner the authors use in beginning a chapter. For example, the chapter dealing with the mentally deranged opens with a most vivid description of some such persons. In like manner also begins such other chapters as "The Juvenile Delinquent," "Mobility," "Adolescence," and "Suicide." They are artistic entities of faultless rhetoric and present the pictures of horror in a quiet but most convincing manner. One cannot help wanting to read further into the discussions of such conditions. In other matters of style it is also most readable. It is cleverly written, and explanations are made in such manner that they may be understood by the novice, although courses such as sociology and psychology might aid in defining to a fuller extent some of the terms used. As to content, the book is also noteworthy. There are, however, some criticisms which might be advanced in this respect. In most cases there is little solution for the problems presented. They are stated plainly and firmly, but as to prevention or solution there is little advanced. This is perhaps accountable to the fact that the purpose of the book is the disclosure of such deployable conditions rather than the settlement of them. As a textbook this volume should be the fulfillment of any student's dream. In many places it is much more like a novel. Reading does not become a burlesonse task at any time. Much space relatively is given to opinions of other sociologists. In some chapters there seems to be little else than an enumeration of various theories. If more space were given to the opinions of the authors themselves, it would be better. Repetition of ideas is also prevalent OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.ORGANIZATION: Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days Sunday issue. The Christian Science organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Myers, Ball, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited. Sunday, May 27, 1934 Vol. XXXI Sunday, May 27, 1924 No. 139 2 LUCIENE THOMAS, President. Kappa Psi, pharmacy fraternity, will hold a regular meeting Tuesday evening at 7:45. Actives and pledges会在 lobby of Memorial Union building. E.A.SCHWERDTFEGER, Regent. MEN'S GLEE CLUB: LAND OF SHAM There will be a short meeting Monday afternoon at 4:30 in Prof. Skilton's studio. It is important that every member be present. LAU NU TAU A very important meeting of Tau Nu Tau will be held Monday evening from 8 to 8:30 at the Theta Tau chapter house. Being the last meeting of the year, it is important that all members be present. TAU NU TAU: WALTER LAPHAM, President. Perhaps this is because of the close connection which must prevail between different subjects discussed. The causes of one are oftentimes auxiliary causes in some other instance. This might also be attributed to the thoroughness of treatment which is one of the finer characteristics of the book. Every phase is touched in a most adequate manner. The plan of division is logical and well-defined. The book is divided into four parts. The first of these is introductory, and deals with the concepts of social organization and disorganization. The opening paragraph prepares the reader for what is to come. It follows: "Life is dynamic. Life is ceaseless, becoming change, and man, armed though he is with the experience of the past, can never be certain of the future. He must recognize that his life is constantly changing frame of reference and that future problems are a matter of chance for which the past offers no sure panacea. With each breath that he draws, unforeseen event may present the comparative stability of his life scheme. Floyd Tillery, university graduate, writes for the current American Spe- cator an account of his college career— an account of a wasted four years that will make nine-tenths of his collegiate readers write because of its striking similarity to their own dabblings in higher education. Following this is a discussion of various sociological concepts which should prove helpful as a guide to the beginning students and as a comprehensive review for the student who has taken a beginning course in a social science. The remaining three parts deal with the phases of personal, family, and community disorganization. Each of these is all-inclusive, and offers discussion of such problems as adolescence, crise, drink, unemployment, mental derangement, divorce, the small town, leisure politics, and revolution. "Social Disorganization" should prove of unlimited value as a textbook because of its clarity of style and discussion, and to the general reading public because of its understandable presentation of problems about which everyone should think even though they are unpleasant. If only by thinking of such problems that any headway can be made in eradicating them. —LC Our Contemporaries Tillery went to his university almost LLOYD CHRISTIANSON, Secretary. Oregon Daily Emerald an illiterate, with one year of standardization preparation—but in that single high school year he had made the honor roll because, he says, "my Key to Cicero was the same edition as the teacher's," and there was a silent, scholarly understanding between us no longer on each other except for memorizing theorems from day to day, and his teacher couldn't solve the originals. When he went to the university he found it was just another "land of sham" and he conquered it by the same tactics he had adopted in high school. He memorized and blissed his way through. He majored in English, but never read one modern novel or current review. He never took a book from the library to读 at home. He used "keys" to Latin in Greek. He crammed for examinations, and thereby stamped himself as "a scholar and a thinker." In his Education courses he wrote "rems and reams" and got a high grade merely because of the bulk of the material. He used second-hand books that were "spotted," and he memorized the "spoils." He entered his university, he declares, practically an illiterate "and came away little better off." But he obtained an A.B. and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The point of all the foregoing is, to our mind, that Tillery really learned all he needed to know in order to get along. The particular brand of bluffing and cramming that he mastered so well in the halls of learning only needed to make a promise for himself in almost any of the modern professions. A very charming senior coed informed us yesterday that she had learned just two guiding principles of conduct in college. They were; First—I is wasteful to do anything yourself that you can get someone else to do. Second—It doesn't matter how much you know, provided you can make beoulie think you know a lot. A wretched doctrine, no doubt. A doctrine that stifles progress, originality, crudition, and self-contentment, and substitutes a goal of mediocritie and superficiality. That is exactly what the American university incubates in its average undergraduate recruits. Is the university therefore to be condemned? That is harder to say. For the most of us, that is just what we college to get at in modern social life, the standard of manners equivalent to that of the most respected leaders in our communities, and the tool for carving ourselves a living. The American university is indeed a "land of sham." But it fits us for living in a world of sham. Stores will be closed Decoration Day. 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