PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY. MAY 13, 1924 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief MARGARET GREGO Managing Editor MERLE BERYFORD Campus Editor I. Lewis Watt Library Editor I. Lewis Watt Scout Editor William Decker Society Editor I. Lewis Watt Society Editor Cayen Harper Bureau Editor I. Lewis Watt Alumni Editor John Holmes Johnson Editor John Holmes Margaret Friel Green Marching Smith Jonathan Cowan Jinny Futterer Gretchen Ogrep Morie Heyford Paul Woodmanne Robert Smith Advertising Manager Clarence E. Moldi Circulation Manager Wolfram Leatherman Business Office K1-50 Night Collection Business Office 2791-6480 Night Collection Business Office 2791-6480 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday, Saturday and Sunday at noon in the departments in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. economics classes, per year, $3.00 cash in advisory, $2.25 on payments. Single copy, $6.00 Entered as second class alumna, September 17, 1910; the post office at Lawrence, Kansas SUNDAY. MAY 13. 1934 A DAY AT HOME Today will find many students away from the Hill, at home with their parents on Mother's Day. It is a day when most of us who often forget to write letters, and who, engrossed in the business of having a good time neglect to visit home as often as we might, endeavor to get away and spend this time with our families. Parents are inclined to feel that with the busy school life and the companionship of those our own age, our home does not mean as much to us as it once did. They do not complain when letters are few, and hesitate to say how much they would like to see us for fear it will break in on plans and engagements. Places and persons lose their hold on one when he has been away and finds new interests, but home seems to have an appeal which never diminishes. It is the place where one feels he always belongs no matter how far he has has gone or how long he has been away. And Mother—is there a one of us yet they don't turn to her when in trouble, or when socks need darning. VACANT CHAIRS Classes have been strangely vacated the last few days. The familiar faces of Jones, Brown, and Smith are missing when the roll is called, and the professor addresses his lecture to a straggling few scattered about the room. Cutting is certainly not an innovation, but at this time of the year it seems to become a common practice rather than an occasional fling indulged in by a few restless or careless individuals. To most of us it is difficult to get up any morning, and the more so when a solt, warm breeze is blowing in the window. It is also a temptation to throw off responsibility and wander from the path of Oread down across the campus by the stadium, or merely just to sit around and fool away the morning or afternoon. But cutting carries with it a penalty which must be paid. Professors have a habit, when the practice becomes frequent, of asking on the final examination for a comprehensive review of topics discussed in class. And regular attendance is not, without benefit. It has boosted more than one student through a difficult course. COURT TIE-UPS Court procedure, under precedents established within the court itself wander far afield. It has been especially slow and tedious in respect to public utility regulation. The large public utilities have, under the fourteenth amendment, been able on technicalities to tie up justice for many years by appealing their case first through the state system and then through the entire federal system. When a state commission would issue an order seeking to regulate the' utility, the utility officials would rush into the federal district court to get an injunction restraining the commission on the grounds that the fourteenth amendment was being violated. Within the past week, Congress passed a bill taking such jurisdiction away from the federal district courts in states where the law provides for a judicial review of state commission orders by federal courts. Judicial review and appeal are still maintained, but the appeal must now go through state courts to the state supreme court and from there to the United States Supreme Court, which is as it should be. Former procrastination will be done away with to a great degree. FOR SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING The world has become a small place compared with the world our forefathers knew. To travel in automobiles that go eighty miles an hour, to ride in airplanes that travel 180 miles an hour, to cross the Atlantic Ocean in five days are common occurrences. Some have even circumnavigated the globe within a few days. But, while nations have been brought closer together in sense of time, little has been done toward bringing them closer in understanding. Mussolini believes that Italy will attain her former power and glory; France believes she will hold the seeper; Japan has hopes of becoming a supreme influence. The Americans also dream of greater power, as does every country. As a result of this superiority complex, nations are antagonistic toward each other. Perfect cooperation between nations can never be accomplished until this conviction of superiority is relinquished. To do this, it is necessary to understand and to look with sympathetic eyes upon the virtues of the other people. Their good points as well as their bad points must be seen. When such an appreciation of the other fellow's culture has been created, it is then that peace will be maintained between nations. A good word should be said for the many drivers of automobiles on the campus. The popular belief among the older heads is that a young person behind the wheel is dangerous. The few accidents that have occurred on the Hill fortunately, have been minor. The only hope is that the motorists will keep up their good record and strive to be more courteous to pedestrians. AN INSURANCE FOR LIBERTY President Roosevelt yesterday assured members of the National Editorial Association and Missouri newspapermen by telegram that there has been no attempt to "gag" newspapermen or stifle editorial comment. The chief executive assured the newspaper publishers that the reports originating with the minority, saying that freedom of the press has been assailed, are unfounded. By making this statement, the President has assured the American people of individual liberty, for with a free press goes freedom of speech, conscience, and religion. It is in those countries where the freedom of the press has been taken away that self-government has disappeared likewise. The maintenance of the freedom of the American press is an insurance to the people of personal rights and protection against the dictatorship which so many fear. Campus Opinion Why not make the freshmen "walk the gang-plank?" Nothing could be more atrocious in hazing the new students. I cannot conceive of anyone gloating over the abominal practices of the so-called traditional spirit which is upheld by an organization of supposedly intelligent students. All of the larger public houses, all of the larger public hounds" receive much attention in our newspaper, stating that they will do bigger and better things next year. Editor Daily Kansan: Perhaps my point of view is too cynical, but I loathe to read, at any time, of some innocent youth permanently disabled by such meaningless and obnoxious practices. We come to colleges to acquire knowledge and should be received with hospitality, instead of juvenile conduct. It demoralizes our University and results in a twisted outlook on college purposes. It is quite obvious that any actions taken against these traditions are evaded, and when put before the administration they drift along and finally die out. What are we going to do about it? OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION Vol. XXXI Sunday, May 13, 1934 No. 149 Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11.30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. CHRISTMAS SUNDAY - Christian Science organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 Morning班会. C Everyone interested is cordially invited. LUCIENE THOMAS, President. COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING. the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tues day, May 15, at 4:30 in room 322 Amministration building. E. H. LINDLEY. FACULTY AND EMPLOYEES: The annual meeting of the Teachers and Employees association of the University will be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, May 14, in central Administration auditorium. All employees and teachers are urged to be present. H. LINDLEY E. H. LINDLEY. FENCING CLUB: An important meeting of the Fencing club will be held at 4:30 on Tuesday May 15, in the fencing room. All members please be present. KAPPA PSI: NORMAN JACOBSHAGEN, Vice President. Kappa Phi, pharmacy fraternity, will hold a regular meeting Tuesday evening at 7:45. Actives and pledges please meet in the lobby of the Memorial Union building. E. A. SCHWERDTFEGER, Regent. LECTURE. Rabbi Sammuel S. Mayerberg will speak on "Hitter vs. Civilization" in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15. Everyone interested is welcome. JULE PELOFSKY. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The annual picnic will be held Monday, May 14 at 4:30. All members please bring 25 cents and meet in front of east Administration building promptly. PI EPSILON PI: EPSILON 12 There will be a Ku Ku meeting Sunday night, May 13, at 10:30 in Fraser hall. Everyone is requested to be in uniform. WALT LYMAN, President. SCABBARD AND BLADE. Scabbard and Blade will meet at 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 14, in room 5 of the Memorial Union building. Full uniform is to be worn. SENIORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS: SENIORS AND GRADUATE A representative from the Gamble Stores will interview seniors and graduate students in the Business Place office on Monday afternoon, May 14. Interested students will sign the conference schedule in the School of Business office. Appointments are open to seniors and graduate students from all departments of the University. F. T. STOCKTON, Dean, School of Business. W. A. A.; LOUIS FORMAN, First Sergeant. W. A. A. will hold its spring banquet at 6 o'clock on Wednesday, May 16, at the Manor. Members who intend to go should sign the poster in the women's gymnasium not later than Tuesday evening. Suppose you do make the freshner walk on the south side of the street, restrict them to certain zones, require them "to button" whenever possible? In that way we will bring back "ye good ole college spirit," so say the "honored" members of the K club. To which I reply apprausce and baloney. These things if and when they existed were merely nebulous figments in imagination of the raih raih Joe College of several years ago. Those days are gone, and in the estimation of the majority of the students they are better so. What intelligent person gets any fun out of watching a few morons satisfying their sadistic impulses on some helpless freshman? Again I note that relatively few of the large universities of the country tolerate it any more. Have you seen an actor who will be any more imbued with college spirit than these universities? Our Contemporaries The old saying is that "you can lea borse to water but you can't make him drink." So it is with school spirit, if a student enjoys life at KU. he is much more likely to be loyal to it, than if he is beaten for some triviality by some bulleys, what wish to show their girl friend who big tough fellows they really are. It's about time the student body got next to themselves and put a stop qt such asinine behavior, before some poor freshman is permanently injured at our University.—A Freshman H.F.C. I think not; hazing has been shown to be a complete failure wherever tried. If hazing must be done, why not give the yearlings a chance to battle back, instead of merely smashing "show-offs", who want to attract attention? Los Angeles Junior College One of the greatest intellectual losses in contemporary American life is the conscious and deliberate effort toward being average. To use manners better than we know how to use them, for instance, to display any bit of finesse or intellectual ability in conversation, or to be at all articulate or the least bit self-expressive in speaking the English language—these perhaps are among our most supreme dreads. MARY ELIZABETH EDIE, President. THE WORSHIP OF THE DIVINE AVERAGE' Unfortunately this fear of appearing superior or "high-bat," as it is called, is not only robbing us of a great deal of happiness and spontaneous pleasure but is also deadening and corroding our minds. So many of us classify our friends, the books we read, the sports we play, and the plays we see according to a few slovenly expressions, using a true and listless slang — a slang wl is not even picturesque or to the point. To be more explicit, one is either a "great guy," a "dude," a "nice," "hot stuff," "keen," or "well." That is, for example, if you are of the "great guy" variety, you are mildly profane, know all the latest song hits, motions process and newspaper scandalous occasionally even when something extremely subtle by blurting out the latest Joe Pennermichael. If you are classified as being simply "nice," you may be sure that your realm rests on a pleasing absence of character. In short, you will always make an excellent fourth-hand at bridge. On the other hand, if you are known among your friends as the "hot stuff," "swell," or "keen" type, you may assuredly feel that you have mastered a both half-baked and ordinary sophistication together with something of a Mac-Westian mannerism and outlook. The fatal part of the whole matter is that all this destroys anything that might possibly be fine, original, imaginative, and really worthwhile within ourselves. If we can discover the causes of this now long and self-abnegating worship of the "divine average," we might find ways of establishing a more widespread desire for the true and essentially cultivated mind. But it must here be mentioned that the cultivated mind is first and foremost a discriminating one, an "intelligently skeptical" one—one which distinguishes between essential qualities and values and incessant ones. Students Collect Fossils KFKU Monday Students of Dr. R. C. Moore's historical geology class searched for fossils yesterday to complete their collections for that course. Many spots around Lawrence including the Haskell limestone near Haskell contain many forms of fossiliferous life. 2:30 p.m. Book Review: "The Life of Our Lord," Charles Dickens, given by Karen McNish Rockwell LET US CLEAN YOUR SHOES 1017 Mass. We tint or dye any color—Resilver, reqilt and shine Tuesday ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP 1017 Mass We Sell Polishes 2:45 p.m. Elementary French Lesson W K Cornell, Instructor 8:45 p.m. Provinces of Poetry. 2:30 p.m. Helping People in Trouble, Frank L. Rearick, Graduate Student of Garden City (Arranged by Prof. Seba Eldridge.) 2:45 p.m. "J. B. Priestly's The Good Companions," by Alfred Ames, Sophomore, Lawrence (Arranged by Miss Alice Winston.) STOP at the BLUE MILL 1009 Mass. 9:45 pm. 80th Athletic Question Box presented by Prof. W. R. Elbel. Wednesday 3:00 p.m. K.U. News Notes prepared by the K.U. News Bureau. 2:45 p.m. Elementary French Lesson, W.K. Cornell, Instructor. 2:45 p.m. Musical program arranged by Carl A. Preyer, Professor of Piano. 10:00 p.m. Question of Science, Dr. Dinsmore Alter—How are the daily weather forecasts made? What per cent of the time are they correct? Want Ads Twenty-five words or 1 | l a s p | two sections, 12 | larger and prater. WANT ADS. ARE ACCOMPANIED BY CASH B. FURNISHED HOUSE wanted during the summer session. Have children. Write J.E. Humphees, Ashland, Kansas, or call C. T. Hutcheson, phone 17888. — 151. FRESH FRUIT DRINKS 10C Lime - Orange - Lemon HOUSE WANTED-June 15 or July 1, near campus and in good condition. Two bedrooms and den or sleeping porch. Permanent. Address Box 3, Daily Kansas Office. —115. at your Sub-Basement Memorial Union UNION FOUNTAIN Of Advice to Those Students Who Desire a Good Term Grade OXFORD REVIEW BOOKS Personal Note! Aids Efficient Study Methods Not all review books are alike. Some are good, some bad, and some indifferent. On anything relating to your school work, you should always insist on the best. Oxford Review books are known all over the country. They have been widely acclaimed by both teachers and students as the most effective aids to systematic study and better scholarship. They are the clearest, most authoritative, and best organized review books on the market. Preferred by the wise student Recommended by all teachers TWO BOOK STORES 68c 1237 Oread We specialize in term report binding. Typewriting paper punched to fit. The Third Issue of The GALE Your literary magazine on sale on the Campus Monday, May 14. . . Price twenty-five cents. Fiction . . . poetry . . . articles by Helen Rhoda Hoopes . . . Allen Craftton . . Ray Miller and others.