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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY.MAY 23.1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934
FASCISM AND THE STUDENT
To what extent college students are or have been connected with revolutionary movements abroad is an unsettled question. To what extent the American student will go in opposing militarism and war and oppression of liberties is debatable. Some writers in the wild-eyed radical press cry out so that all may hear, saying that expressions against military training, and that opposition to war are signs of restlessness, of resentment against the existing order, or are the direct result of the influence of agitators and minority groups.
Students in other countries have played important roles in revolutionary uprising in the past decade, notably in Spain and in the Spanish-American republics. But on the foreign front the scene is changing. Austria was not a student-aided revolution; neither was the recent Bulgarian change. These were militaristic coups, where the student as other minority subservient groups have suffered and probably will continue to suffer under the inflictions of crushed liberties of a mailed fist.
Students have played but an insignificant part in these changes, if our press reports that come through are unsecured on the European side, probably because students are idealists by nature, while militarists and Fascists are materialistic. But the American student looks around his campus, and wonders wherein lie grounds for the criticism directed at him by some writers.
To those who cry in alarm at the American student, who are said to be arousing restlessness by their reported signs of activity in regard to war, military training and socialistic tendencies, here is our answer: The American student is still idealistic following the teachings of professors; still pessimistic as he sees the world about him; still patriotic as he reads and studies and hears of the human sacrifices that have been made to attain liberties of unrestricted human conduct, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of life; but in the end, still sane.
OLD KING SOL
Daily the followers of the great prophet Mohammed bow their backs beneath a blazing Arabian sun to worship. They have nothing on University students, however, for daily the college men and women are bowing their backs and even going the Arabs one better by exposing them to that relentless monarch Old Sol, in an effort to obtain the brownish color of the skin known as sun-tan.
The painful process of becoming sun-tanned is indulged in for a reason, if you will believe those now engaged in the process. They assert that it is immensely healthy for the skin, that the rays of the sun are beneficial to the physical welfare of the body, and that it does improve the personal appearance.
So if you see your best friend
wandering over the campus with a visage of beautiful crimson hue don't go up and slap him on the back with a joyous "How are ya, old pal," but make your greeting, quiet, sympathetic and verbal, if you want to keep on being one of his very best friends.
INADEQUATE WEAPONS
The case of Dillinger is just one more example of the super-craftiness of the criminal mind. Time after time the fugitive has outwitted the law when it seemed that he was almost cornered. The breaks are with him, there is no doubt, but it takes rapid, sure thinking to be able consistently to elude his pursuers.
With such cleverness on the side of crime, enforcement agencies must have as good or better minds within their ranks before they can hope to produce results in the struggle against corruption
Men of the highest intelligence, men who can cope quickly and surely with problems which call for rapid decisions, demand and deserve good salaries.
At present the wages paid policemen in all parts of the country are far too small to attract men with logical, quick-thinking minds of engineers, lawyers, and other professional men. Their services have more monetary value elsewhere.
Perhaps the trouble with our methods of crime eradication lies in the underpaid and consequently somewhat indifferent forces with which we attempt to fight the craftiness of crime.
SEVEN YEARS AGO
After leaving Roosevelt field in his airplane, a young man began a lone flight across the Atlantic with his destination Paris. He had no other equipment than his instruments some sandwiches, and letters of recommendation.
The eyes of the Western world were upon the Spirit of St. Louis and Charles A. Lindbergh as "We" were making a memorable flight across the Atlantic. The engine of the plane continued to hum and the young pilot steadily guided his craft across the icy wastes. The nations were eager for a sight of the plane.
Late at night the plane landed on Le Bourget field just outside of Paris. Charles Lindbergh did not need any letters of introduction, for the public was well aware of his identification and of the great feat which he had just accomplished.
Now, seven years after his flight, Colonel Lindbergh is living modestly, doing his best in the field of aviation, and working with an indomitable will to make the air safe for the American people.
TO A LONGER LIFE
What a life the "Rock Chalk" has led in forty-eight years! It has a history that possibly no other college yell can equal.
Whether the one who has voiced the famous yell ever attended K. U. or whether his name is on the alumni rolls, there is a thrill all the same on hearing the Rock Chalk, and the farther away from Mount Oread, the greater the thrill of hearing the old yell, because of the sudden surprise of knowing a friend is nearby.
It has been on the battlefields in two wars. It has greeted the Statue of Liberty as the 89th Division sailed into New York harbor after being "over there." It saw service in the Boxer rebellion in China, it has echoed and re-echoed among the frozen hills of Alaska. It has carried on the Olympic fields at Antwerp, and to the diamond fields of South America.
Grades in themselves are of little value after graduation. High grades may be an aid to the graduate in getting a job, but even so, they are still of comparatively little value.
So here's to continued life of he famous "Rock Chalk."
GRADES AND JOBS
What is more important is the keeping of the job after it has been obtained; and, further, the
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXXI Wednesday, May 23, 1934 No. 156
Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues.
The Band will rehearse tonight at 8:30 in the Auditorium.
J. C. McCANLES.
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INTERNACIONAL
An interracial picnic will be held at Potter's Lake at 5:30 Thursday after noon. There will be a charge of fifteen cents. Please call Martha Peterson, 800, if you intend to come. ANNA MARIE TOMPKINS, MARTIA PETERSON.
INTERRACIAL GROUP:
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24, in the lecture room of the Chemistry building, Mr. Albert L. Maillard, consulting engineer of the Kansas City Power and Light company, will address the Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers with a well-chosen subject, "Applying for a Job." Mr. Maillard is an authority upon problems pertaining to employment. GEORGE W. EVANS, Chairman.
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
The regular mid-week varisity will be held this evening from 7 to 8 o'clock at the Memorial Union building. C OZWIN RUTLEG, Manager.
Rehearsal on Thursday will be held at 3:20 o'clock.
K. O. KUERSTEINER.
Symphony Orchestra
Rehearsal on Thursday will be held at 3:20 o'clock.
XAVIER CLUB:
The Xavier club will hold its final meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24, in the basement of St. John's church. All Catholic men students are advised not to miss this meeting.
T. C. LAWRENCE, Secretary.
Y. M. C. A. CABINET:
rendering of intelligent service so that promotions will be deserved. And, in that, grades are of no value whatever.
The Y.M.C.A. Cabinet will hold its last meeting of the year Thursday at *errance* at 4:30 in room 10 of the Memorial Union building.
The man who has learned to think will be best fitted for the rendering of intelligent service. If he has learned to think while in school he will have an advantage over the man who has to learn it after he starts his work.
WILFRED McCLAIN, Vice President.
The objective for students to keep in mind, then, would seem to be to learn how to think soundly, not just to store up a prescribed amount of knowledge so that they may write good examinations, be awarded high grades, and get jobs they haven't yet earned.
Heat worthy of August dog-days could not prevent the forty-second annual commencement at the University from being attended by more than a thousand graduates to see 530 degrees and certificates given in January, and the weather did not even prevent the marching of the reunited classes with their yells and songs.
Twenty Years Ago
By GEORGE LERRIG, c.34
(May 22-June 2,1914)
Charles Reynolds Brown, of the Divinity School of Yale University delivered the commencement address. The address was followed by a baseball game between the seniors and old grads. There were 105 players on the rest of the day was given over to a band concert on the campus and a reception by the chancellor.
A resolution was passed by the student council which resolved that those students who were caught deliberately cheating would be publically suspended from the University for the period of one semester. This resolution was put into effect after an investigation by a student committee committee concerning cheating in examinations. It was also recommended that the faculty give adequate but not officious supervision to the students who were taking examinations.
Alpha Chi Omega national sorority planned to start a chapter at the University the next September. Action was taken in organizing a local group, and it was planned to make further preparations for its installation during the summer.
John N. Edwards of Eureka offered the University $1,000 to be used in a state wide campaign for the better enforcement of the anti-cigarette 1 a w. Mr. Edwards was a former legislator and was the author of the anti-cigaret law which existed in Kansas.
Prof. W. A. McKeever of the extension division, who was placed in charge of this campaign says, " Its victims are numbered by the millions. Kansas is more nearly free from this blight than any other state, but the law is still ignored in some towns, and it is noted that the school efficiency in these towns is low. Many business men and firms are closing the doors of employment to young men who smoke cigarettes and we hope many more will do so."
A meeting of the presidents of the various classes and schools was called in Fraser theater to discuss plans for holding a general campus parade of all classes which might become a tradition University, as it is in some other schools.
The plan as suggested would call for all of the students to assemble at Fraser hall and then march to Potter Lake where they would hear speeches by representative men on the campus and also farewell addresses from seniors.
The matter was left for further investigation.
Our Contemporaries
THE "STADIUM SCHOOLS"
LOSE THEIR STANDING
Dale Blind
Daily Illinois
Action of the North Central association in dropping seven Midwestern colleges from its roster of accredited schools because of deficiencies in academic work or shady athletic practices shows that the organization is wide awake and determined to uphold academic standards, if some of its former members remain involved. This issue is one of the reasons Dr. George A. Works mentioned as basis for the association's action.
It is no secret that many a burry high school graduate finds several representatives of academic institutions bidding in cash for his prowess in athletics, particularly football. Nor are all the tender prizes fresh from high school. The traditional picture of the baldheaded professional college athlete is a joke with more irony than humor in it.
Too, there is the beautiful co-ordination of academic and athletic depart-
ments by which the college bruiser,
moronic, yet an invaluable end man
withal, remains miraculously eligible for
athletic competition.
If college athletics are to be toowed avowedly professional in nature, as some observants have suggested, that is a matter for mutual administrative action. But until that unhappy day it is the function of the North Central association to help other colleges meet neither pay money nor boost grades to keep their athletic standards high. The present action of the association is commendable in that respect.
THE WOMEN WANT SOCKS
Along with the rising thermometer an open rebellion among the women students against a ruthless Victorian rule of the University has arisen. The ruling, which prohibits women from wearing socks on the campus, has become increasingly unpopular with the growing use of ankle socks.
In the past few weeks a majority of the women students have at some time or other openly joined the agitation and worn the offending hose on the campus. They were, if not extremely lucky, reported and interviewed, one by one, and having their finer sense of duty to the University appalled—even though their better senses of economy and comfort were trampled.
The main objection to them, lack of formality, seems odd, when the most casual forms of dress are otherwise accepted on the campus. Socks themself, with spoon clothes and cause no comment elsewhere than at Washington.
The obvious advantages of comfort and far greater economy should influence the administration to recognize the women's efforts and help them to secure the privileges which is, to them, highly important.
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NEW YORK
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Three-Year Day Course
Four-Year Evening Course
College Degree or Two Years of College Work with Good Grades Required for Entrance
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Morning, Early Afternoon and
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For further information address CHARLES P. DAVIS, Registrar 223 Broadway, New York
Want Ads
Twenty-five words or less; 1 leng-
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ent WANT ADS ARE ACOMPANIED BY CASH.
FURNISHED APARTMENT. Modern, 3 rooms, bath, for married students only. Private entrance. Hot-water furnished on Wednesday and Saturday. Water bills paid. $16.00. Phone 1825W.
STUDENT wants to buy a used suit-
case for use during summer vacation.
Write Wray Chote, $7.1\%$ West 14th
street. — 157.
APARTMENT wanted by two students for next regular school year. Call 728J. -158
Plan to Eat Here Thursday
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for
The last time this semester
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Of course there will be many other good foods
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CAFETERIA
ROOMS ARE RENTING
THROUGH
KANSAN WANT ADS
1. Recover lost articles
2. Rent rooms
3. Sell books and instruments
4. Sell typing ability
5. Find room mates
6. Locate tutors
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25c for 25 words 1 time 50c, same ad 3 days
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If the job is possible in any way, Kansan Want Ads will do it.
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