PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934 University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OLEMNIAN STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS -LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief...MARGARET GREGG Associate Editors General Editor MERLE HERYFORD Managing Editor Campus Editor Lena Watt Makeup Editor R. B. Hays Bridgetown Editor William Cohen Sunday Editor Iris Glon Society Editor Carolyn Harper Night Editor Geoffrey Gouw Account Editor Holme Exchange Editor Julia Markman Margaret Greer Dorothy Smith Jimmy Rice Jimmy Rice Gretchen Group Merle Horyrion Paul Woodmansee Virgil Shank Katie Wong Advertising Manager ... Clarence E. Mundi Circulation Manager ... Wolverthan Lestherm Business Office K1-16 Bussiness Office K1-16 Night Connection Business Office K1-16 Night Connection Business Office K1-16 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday, morning on Monday. In addition to the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas, Subscription price, per year. $3.00 cash is advance, $2.25 on payments. Single copies, 5. Entered as second class master, September 19, 1710, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934 FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING Ignorance of the difficulties confronting officials of the emergency relief program is responsible for much unrest that has been evident in Kansas and throughout the country since the discontinuance of the CWA program. Persons seeking relief through government agencies, often being in need of immediate assistance, become impatient with officials and jump to the conclusion that delays are caused by inefficiency or even dishonesty. Distribution of government relief funds in such manner that they will do the most good for the greatest number of deserving people is a tremendous task, and the public is not very well acquainted with the organization that is carrying that task in all its detail. John Stutz's bulletin this week proposing that a program of instruction and education in matters of relief distribution is a constructive suggestion for the relief of this condition of ignorance. The program would have the twofold purpose of improving the relief organization through instruction of its workers, and increasing public understanding of the aims and methods of that organization. If the measure for activity book pictures is passed, then in addition to the weekly beauty contests, the University of Kansas will be to photographers what a comb of honey is to swarming flies. FALSE ALARM The public has been viewing with some trepidation the drafting of theorizing college professors into the services of the New Deal. The brains trust, an anomaly by the way, has been popularly regarded as an unknown quantity in safe government. Even the explosion of the silly Dr. Wirt scare has not entirely erased the idea that perhaps there is something to be feared in the New Deal's advisers. Jonathan Mitchell, through Harper's Magazine, gives another view of the professors' capacities. He says the NRA, the AAA, and the Securities Act are essentially arbitrations in the old conflicts between debtors and creditors, big business and small business, employers and laborers. And the success of the arbitration depends upon the neutrality of the arbitrators. Some Wall Street men might be able to give better advice on money matters than Professor Warren, but a wall of distrust on the part of the public following such an appointment would have blocked any negotiations, however just and sincere. Even Lindbergh was by some regarded with suspicion as being influenced by his business connections in objecting to the air mail policy of the government. The country needed immediate action, and President Roosevelt could not risk splitting his support by showing partisanship. Furthermore, the professors can have little voice in passing laws. Politics simply doesn't move in that way. Laws are formulated from the pressure of many forces, factions and organizations which are out of the professors' reach. The scholars are necessary to the President's program, but the novelty of their position should not lead to an over-estimation of their powers, and resultant dangers. HOW TO SKIP AND WHAT TO DO A scientific analysis of the air of skipping begins with deciding upon an excuse. That must be done first of all, to avoid any further worry on the subject. An air-tight story is requisite so that if you meet the professor face to face, your explanation will not seem illogical. The second step is to determine whether the "skip" shall be for pleasure alone. This is perhaps the easiest part of the analysis. After you have found the proper companion, the question is where to go, what to do? The situation can be relieved by going for a "coke," by lolling on the grass, by playing catch, or, if you are financially able, by going to the show. The analysis clearly shows that the defect of the practice lies in the fact that it leads to slovenly preparations of lessons, and the tendency to increase the frequency of the "skips." The only remedy is strict attention to study no money, and no companion. GIVE THEM A WHIRL "Give Mother and Dad a whirl on Parents' Day." So reads the caption on the prize-winning poster in the recent W. S. G. A. contest. This is certainly what should be done. Show them the campus in a "big way!" Don't just point out the beauties of the flowerbeds or the distinctiveness of the buildings. Let them enter into the fun you have. Teach them some campus slang. Take them to some University activity. The object of Parents' Day is to show your parents a good time by making them feel young and collegiate again. They aren't so old. While they may have outgrown the years of their youth, down underneath you will be surprised to find they are still imbued with the spirit of youth. Help Mother to forget the cares of running a home and Dad to forget his pressing business matters for a few hours. In other words, "give them a whirl." You'll have a good time doing it too. Campus Opinion Motivated by the desire for action any sort of action, the Men's Student Council has approved the use of pictures in activity books for identification purposes, a move which shows lack of investigation and consideration Editor Daily Kansan; In the second place, the Council has made no suggestions as to the procedure of photographing the entire student body and getting those photos printed in the books in time to use the tickets. Perhaps a movie camera could be used to catch the students as they file through the registration line or on campus. What about a small, tin-type photos, but in that event who could recognize the pictures? In the first place, at 10 cents each for pictures it would cost $350 to photograph 350 students, which is a conservative estimate of the number that will buy the ticket. A liberal approximation of the amount lost through transfer of tickets this year would be $50. A person needs no economic investment to be a better, more economical way to prevent transfer of the books. The University has greater need for that $350 in other lines. And thirdly, how would the students regard the plan? How many would submit to such complicated methods for the sake of so small a sum of money? As someone suggested, there is some point to pictures on passports and commuters' tickets, but there is a difference in the amount of money involved. It has been effectively demonstrated that a sure test of ownership in case of doubt is the simple matter of having the bearer write his name on a piece of paper and then comparing it with the signature in the activity book. More paper is wasted every day than would be necessary to use under this plan. The Council would do well to re-examine the problem and go more OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days GERMAN CLUB. German club will meet Monday in room 313 Fraser. The German club fro Baldwin will give a program. The meeting will begin promptly at 4 o'clock. MARGARET WHEELER, President. Vol. XXXI Friday, May 4, 1924 Friday Mav 4.1924 GERMAN CLUB: KAYHAWK CLUB: KAYHAWK CLUB: There will be an official meeting of the Kayhawk club Monday evening, May 7, at 7:30 in the M.S.C. room, Memorial Union building. Election of officers. All non-faternity men are especially urged to attend. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics club will meet Monday, May 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Administration building. Election of officers will be held. All members please be present. ELIZABETH HINSHAW, Vice President. ORGANIZATION PRESIDENTS: non-traternity mth are especially urged JAY WANAMAKER, President. CHUP. ORGANIZATION Organizations wishing meeting rooms in the Memorial Union building for the building manager this week. 1 this week. C. OZWIN RUTLEDGE, Manager. STEEL KEY: deeply into the original matter of prohibiting transfer itself. Would the loss from transfer be sufficient to outweigh the cost of prohibition, and is there no consideration to be given to the athletes, who must pay to see themselves play, and to the working students who cannot attend the events? STEEL KEY: The regular meeting of Steel Key will be held Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock in room 110 Marvin hall. All members are urged to be present. The meeting will be brief. FORD DICKIE, President. The Council's approval does not mean that the measure will be adopted; it must go through the W. S. G. A. and the Senate yet. It is worth noting of what their representatives are doing and guard against mere politics. Our Contemporaries R. B. H. WITH A TWINKLE IN HIS EYE Thus, it seems that another campus unfortunately is being forced to the rather pitiful situation of instituting a point system with all the cumbersome machinery that goes with it. Another campus is being forced to put trade unions on hold "fractiously" politics in the background as students vociferously demand fairness in selection of members for the senior honorary society. Purdue Exponent Sam Insul must have a very subtle form of humor or else he still believes that people are still as gullible as they were back in 1921-29, when he was enticing their money away from them. On Monday he announced that "he had not run away from the church but he did not say any normal person would have done." Granted that Sam couldn't run away; his pudgy legs would not carry him very far. On Wednesday newspapers carries accounts of how Samuel Insull had fooled Athens police. "With eyes twinkling, Sam today related how easily and completely he fooled police and reporters in his sensational escape from Greece at the moment authorities wanted to locate him for formal deportation." With the aid of a little box containing some black dye, he colored his hair and mustache. Said Insult in a matter-of-fact way, "The only other thing I did was to remove my spectacles and walk out nonchalantly before the crowd. The make-up took years from my usual appearance." From way out west comes information that Blue Key, senior honorary society at the University of Southern California, has been placed under fire since announcing its new list of honorees. Evidently it is Insult's purpose to create an atmosphere of injured dignity and intimate conspiracy. With his talk about how he "master-minded" the police, he intends to make the public think that he isn't such a bad fellow after all, by letting everybody in on the secrets of his success. It seems that Sam is hoping for some special dispensation of Providence to let him off lightly. In spite of these expectations, we expect that Sam's twinkle will change to a look of sorrowful repentance when Chicago legal authorities start to work on him early next month, the date the former utilities maginate is due to arrive back in this country from his somewhat extended pleasure cruise. According to the Daily Trojan, campus publication, one or two bad selections would not have been bad, but a good share of men winning recognition on only one activity—athletics—was going a bit too far. Its survey claimed that only six of the new pledges had performed a genuine service to the university in other fields. In the words of the Trojan, "Obviously the election of the Trojan, to be selected by selective. It is unfair. It is not critical. Achievement, record, ability mean nothing when five fraternities get together, trade votes and elect nobodies." ANOTHER HONORARY PLACED UNDER FIRE Molly, Netherlands A point system, to be worked out by faculty advisers and members of the society, has been suggested as the remedy for the situation about to overcome Blue Key. The system had been used earlier in the history of the campus and Trojan campus sentiment indicates that it would well serve again. Daily Nebraskan Current Screen When the curtain rises in "You're Telling Me" (Variety) we see W. C. Fields. In the middle of the production we see W. C. Fields; and when the curtain falls we are tired of laughing at W. C. Fields, who is the last person to appear on the screen. Of course there are other actors, Joan Marsh, Adrienne Ames, and minor players who act their parts well, but the most enjoyable scenes are those which show the "Fields Sensation" alone with his low friends. You're Telling Me is not the type of picture that society ladies wearing the traditional pince-nez would attend and admit enjoying, but it gives the audience relief from the more serious cinemas and musicals that are dominating theaters today. The plot is not new. It concerns Joan --in a romantic hit filled with girls and tunes OWL SHOW Sat. Nite, 11:15 'The Witching Hour' Sir Guy Standing - Tom Brown - Judith Allen John Halliday! A Paramount Picture that will entertain! 15c Anytime 15c 15c Anytime 15c DICKINSON TONIGHT - TOMORROW Plenty of Action! TIM McCOY in VOICE in the NIGHT" "VOICE in the NIGHT" SUNDAY and MONDAY "The Witching Hour" and DIXIE LUMBER JACKS WHB Radio Artists on the Stage Sunday Marsh, a young girl, good but poor, who desires to marry a rich man, Buster Crable, who loves her but "lives across the railroad tracks." The mothers of the unhappy couple are about to come to friendly terms concerning the marriage in the Bixby house, when W. C. Fields, Joan's father, blunders into the room and "bets natural." It takes the time of the show to straighten things out again. --in a romantic hit filled with girls and tunes Fields stages several of his drinking scenes and hat juggling acts which have made him famous during his short cinemia life. He put on a golf ball driving act which surpasses his billiard cue record. The movie, which most amusing performances shows him trying to lead home a pet Ostrich that evidently doesn't know where home is. Want Ads WILL THE PERSON who took a white gold Cyma wrist watch at 4:20 p.m. Tuesday from the girls' locker room in Robinson gymnasium please leave it at the desk. No questions will be asked. -145 HOUSE WANTED—June 1 to 15, must be near campus and in good repair. Two bedrooms and den or sleeping porch. Address Box 3, Daily Kansan Office. 147 NOTICE: Men Students or Professors remaining for Summer School will find a desirable location at 1011 Indiana. You may make reservations now. Mrs. W. J. Wallace. —144 “TARZAN AND HIS MATE”—SUNDAY PATEE SATURDAY SHOWS Saturday SATURDAY SHOWS 1:30 - 3:30 - 7:00 - 9:00 ENDS TONITE "As the Earth Turns" From the great American novel by Gladys Hasty Carroll with Jean Muir, Donald Wood Chas. Chase Luff Panic Novelty - Late News ANOTHER BIG SPECIAL BARGAIN SHOW 10c TO ALL Mat. and Nite Attend the Matinee! Come early for seats! GEORGE BRENT • MARGARET LINDSAY Eugene Pallete - Hugh Herbert - Dorothy Burges Plus--Comedy Riot - Cartoon - News - "Mystery Squadron" K A Z A N The Wonder Dog "Jaws of Justice ATTEND THE 1:30 SATURDAY MATINEE AND SEED AN EXTRA PICTURE 2 Knockout Shows for One Thin Dime TARZAN AND HIS MATE Starts SUNDAY Johnny WEISSMULLER - Maureen O'Sullivan VARSITY Any 25c Seat Any Time TONITE and TOMORROW Here's one that REALLY has them in the AISLES W. C. FIELDS in "You're Telling Me" BUSTER CRABBE - ADRIENNE AMES - JOAN MARSH Get a date and be on hand, it's a week-end full of those good big deep belly loffs! Here SUNDAY for 4 Great Days Every one knows him, every one likes him! MISTER SPENCER TRACY Bottoms Up with' SPENCER TRACY "PAT" PATERSON JOHN BOLES Herbert Mundin • Sid Silvers Harry Green • Thelma Todd Change in Shorts See—Jack and the Bean Stalk Technicolor Cartoon