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FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY,MAY 25,1934
A PLAN TO CURB CRIME
M. R. Amrine, former warden of the state penitentiary at Lansing, now warden of the federal jail at New Orleans, speaking to editorial writers of the Kansan yesterday outlined a plan to prevent crime, which coming from such an authority, is valuable for consideration.
Under our present system of punishment or reformation of criminals. Warden Amrine pointed out, courts decide that a man is either guilty or innocent; if guilty, the court further decrees that in a given period of time, the duration of the sentence imposed, the criminal will again be ready to take his normal place in society. The warden pointed out the fallacy in the present system by comparing it with the conduct of insane asylums. We do not foist our insane upon society after a given period of time, regardless of their mental condition. Then why should a criminal be returned to society if criminal tendencies are still prevalent in the individual? But a definite sentence of a given number of years and months is the way society looks at its penal problem.
Mr. Amrine's suggestion for remedy, although not now under general scrutiny, is one of value. If a person is found guilty by a court, he suggests, sentence him to a penal institution with an indefinite sentence. Let sociologists, psychoanalysts, case workers and professional students in the line of criminology study the individual case from the time of infancy; let them consider his antisocial traits and his maladjustments during his pre-criminal period as well as after. To support this belief Mr. Amrine holds to the theory that criminal tendencies in an individual never appear suddenly but, rather that they grow and ripen. After study, then, by scientific means, for science is applicable here, let the criminal's actions, conduct, life-story, as well as his response to punishment and correction, be the guide to determine the time it will take to send him back to society as a normal citizen than as an unreformed criminal who will continue to prey upon the unwary. If such correction can be a reality in six months, then the individual need not be confined for several years, but if the criminal is incorrigible, then he should not be allowed to return to society periodically, only to be arrested and re-sentenced each time.
Such a plan is visionary, but it is a worthy one for students to consider, for as the warden said, "Criminals are but a cross-section of all human-kind and from the prisons no one is barred."
MID-WEEK VARSITIES
Although the dancing lasts only from 7 until 8 o'clock at the midweek varsities at the Memorial Union ballroom, the many college students who attend seem to make the most of the sixty minutes, and everyone has a good time.
It is the opinion of many students that the mid-week variances
have been one of the best forms of entertainment provided by the University in the past school year. Everyone missed the varsities so much during the time of completion of the ballroom that the students came in even greater numbers during the second semester than the first.
Multi-colored lighting and new decoration of the floor and the walls and ceiling, plus the music of the Hill bands, added life, vigor, and interest to each dance. Of course the weekend variations were great, but there was a feeling of informality, of ease, and of honest fun at the mid-weeks which were sometimes lacking at the three hour parties.
ILLITERATE
PHI BETA KAPPA
An editorial from the Daily Emerald of the University of Oregon, reprinted on this page, reviews the college career of a young man who had made the statement that "he had come to his university practically an illiterate and was leaving little better off. But he obtained an A.B. and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa." These achievements were the results of apple-polishing, cramming, use of "keys" and "spotted texts." The illiterate Phi Beta Kappa and the editorial writer join in condemning the university as a "Land of Sham."
Evidently the young man achieved what he had intended to get when he entered the university, that is, an A. B. and a key. Now he is howling because the truth has dawned upon him that an A. B. and a key are empty rewards for four years of nerve-racking scheming. They are worthless in themselves.
But the fact that a young man got only empty rewards for his college work is no proof that the university had nothing else to offer him. The basis of an education was there, not in his examination papers to which he gave so much attention, but in the library, in lectures and discussions. The education itself would have come from the properly directed use o this own latent reasoning powers, and there were teachers to direct them if he had been willing to let them.
If the young man is still practically illiterate, which is not improbable, the fault lies in his own shallow thought, not in the inefficiency of the university.
BY THE ALPHABET
YE SHALL KNOW THEM
Excluding Greek letter combinations, honorary and social, which are legion in number upon the Hill, the alphabet combinations on Mount Oread are increasing in gigantic proportions. Every year a new one or two is added to the University's alphabet.
CSEP, NRA, CWA, and PWA are the most recent additions. Like R.O.T.C., Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. they are applicable to schools other than the University
For student organizations from the churches we have B.Y.P.U. Y.P.S.L., and W.S.F., the latter is the shortened form for the Presbyterian and Methodist organizations. N.S.F.A, and N.Y.M are comparatively new additions with other than local importance
W. S.G.A., S.S.S.A., W.A.A., P.E.P, O-K, M.S.C., O.T.S. KFKU are characteristic of the University alone.
What will be the next combination?
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With a sad but stirring opening "Manhattan Melodrama" (Patee) that creates a high tension in the audience that remains after the close of the picture. This picture, starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myra Lynk is illogical and absurd, but still it please the audience. Two young women exclaimed after seeing the picture: "Wasn't that a wonderful picture? We never stopped crying once."
The opening scene pictures a disastrous fire on a crowded New York excursion steamer in the year of 1904. Two little boys, Blackie and Jim, sided by a Catholic priest, swim to shore. But both their parents have been drowned
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FIRESIDE FORUM
Vol. XXXI
No.158
EVANGELINE G. CLARK, President.
MIX-TO-CLEAR. He will be a short meeting Monday afternoon at 4:30 in Prof. Skilton's studio. It is important that every member be present.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB:
TAU NU TAU;
WALTER LAPHAM, President
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.
It is the fascinating story of these men who worked and thought, who demeaned who worked and thought, who desacrived them—for the advancement of science that is vividly told in "The Story of the Elements," by Professor Weeks.
Powell is elected district attorney and finally governor. He continually fights Gable and his mob but remains his best friend. Gable, the woman's choice, might have lost some of their worshippers because of his part as a crook but he turns out to be a hero in the end by murdering the man who would divulge senatoral about Powell and cause him to lose power for governor. So Gable still returns.
and the boys are forced to go through the rest of their lives as orphans. Several years elapse. Blackie, played by Gable, has become a big time gambler while Jim, who was always a good little boy, stays on the side of the law and has become an assistant district attorney. Jim is played by Powell.
Powell and Gable play their parts fairly well, although both have done better in the past. Myrna Loy, who, in the picture, was first the sweetheart of Gable the gambler and later fell in love with and married Governor Powell, played her part very well and looked as beautiful as ever.
Among the high points of interest in the book several are outstanding. The tragic record of the men who gave their lives and of others who lost their health because of their determination to liberate and study fluorine, a deadly
Current Book Review
Chemists have not always been aware, however, of even the existence of these elements, let alone their exact natures. In the dark ages before the birth of Christ, the facts about these building materials of Nature were veiled in an inpenetrable cloak of mystery, while the greatest minds of that world indulged in speculation concerning them that to us today seems aburd. But from the moment they first found and fought to lift the cloak, to peer deep into the secrets of the Universe, that civilization might exist and be bettered.
Modern chemists tell us that all matter is composed of just ninety-two elements and their various compounds They tell us that anything, living or inanimate, can be reduced in the last attack
Beginning with the early Greek conception of earth, air, fire, and water as the four basic substances, Professor Weeks traces the progress of the "patient searchers in many lands" up through the alchemical period, in which men sought to transmute other metals into gold, and to discover the "philosopher's stone" which would give them power. Following this journey with the discoveries of Robert Boyle, up to the isolation of the last element of the ninety-two in 1931.
DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENTS By Elvira Weeks
The story she tells, however, is not one of cold scientific fact. It is a living, breathing drama of men. men whose intellects have brought order out of chaos, whose insight and perseverance have given the world every modern attribute it possesses. It portrays them as human beings, not as robots who with mechanical fingers poured liquids from test tube to crucible. It not only records what they have accomplished, but it delves into their lives, their environments, to show why and how they accomplished it.
LLOYD CHRISTIANSON, Secretary.
"The Discovery of the Elements" is not a textbook. Although written with the purpose of co-ordinating a heterogeneous mass of detail into an orderly and unified narrative for the chemist who desires a historical background for his work, it has nevertheless a much wider appeal for the layman who would experience the thrill of discovery and the satisfaction of achievement. Proof of this a remarkable collection of portraits of the great-men of chemistry, as well as a number of interesting photographs of their old manuscripts and letters, the book obviously represents an impressive amount of research.
poisonous gas, is only one instance in which the valor of the searchers after truth is revealed. The story of the Russian, Mendlelee, who classified the elements and was thus able to predict many of those yet undiscovered, is one of the most dramatic. This able discoverer vigorously upheld his own theories in the face of ridicule from his contemporaries, and loved to see not only the full acceptance of his ideas, but the actual discovery of several of the elements which he had predicted would be discovered and had even described closely. Gripping, too, are the incidents from the life of Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium and radioactivity, whose tireless work in a tiny, ill-equipped laboratory opened a completely new field of chemistry, a field which promises to yield developments of great significance in the future.
These are but a few of the stories Professor Weeks has presented. With the discovery of each element there comes a graphic picture of achievement, a story of triumph after continued disappointment. Well written, intelligently organized, "The Discovery of the Elements" accomplishes a difficult and comprehensive task, yet manages all the white to be fresh, sprightly, and absorbing. C.C.C.
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HIGHER EDUCATION
Going or Coming from the Show, Stop at the
The Detroit News.
In a hamburger-eating test, recently submitted to by students at Miami University, the young genius coming off with highest honors engulfed 15 hamburgers in 30 minutes. It was a college record. At about the same time students in the University of Pennsylvania held a competitive examination of the growing speed of their beard and a talented senior sent the chin hair shooting out of his cuticle at more measured millimeters per week than was ever before known in undergraduate circles.
Almost daily some achievement like these is reported from the colleges of better reputation. Has our own University of Detroit, well up in scholarship and athletics, but somewhat inexplicably dropped from the list of accredited schools, consciently asked itself whether it is keeping up to the standard in those other departments of higher education?
Minnie E. Dingee, 14, is Educational counselor at Westport High School in Kansas City, Mo.
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