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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934
University Daily Kansan
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934
POLITICAL EDUCATION
"I never scratched a ticket in my life. I've had to hold my nose lots of times, but I always voted 'er straight."
Such was the proud statement of the chairman of a Kansas county committee of one of the major parties recently. It throws a little light on the questions of why men hesitate to admit that their chief interest in life is politics, and why no respectable student cares to undertake politics as his profession.
American politics at present is not a profession. It is a game, to be played for the excitement it offers. In rural communities it is played principally by old men, settled in their political habits and bound by those habits to the observance of such rules as "Never scratch a ticket!" In some large cities it is played by unscrupulous grafters, obviously, shamelessly and defiantly for nothing more than graft.
Politics could be made into a repeatable profession by the participation of young men and women motivated by a desire to improve government, rather than merely to get certain men into elective and appointive offices because they have been good party men for many years.
Universities are in an advantageous position to assist in this change. In the first place the university is the logical agency for the study of political methods and of ways in which they could be improved. To the university belongs the job of training expert career politicians. In the second place the university brings together young people of average intelligence or above, who, with proper guidance, could exert a beneficial influence in political organizations and relieve the word "politician" of its unpleasant connotation.
THE WOMAN PAYS
The Literary Digest, in a "review of wrathful editorials on the Dillinger fiasco," finds "unmitigated despair over the sorry mess of county jail management throughout the three thousand and more counties of the forty-eight states, with their army of political sheriffs and heriffs wives or widows, blonde or burnette, each with her star, her pistol and her vanity case."
If a great many women are elected sheriffs for sentimental reasons in rural communities, of course law enforcement in rural America will be weakened, but wrathful editorials on the subject sound like a man waiting over broken windows while his house is burning down.
The object lesson to be learned from Dillinger's career (in which his Crown Point escape is one of the less important occurrences) is that crime in America has become intolerable. The condition has been brought about not so much by such incidents as Dillinger's brightening of the deputies of a woman sheriff with a wooden gun, as by corruption in metropolitan areas.
The criminal is aided by political horseplay among high officials,
inadequacy and confusion in the law, uncurpulousus and unharmed criminal lawyers, insufficiently restricted sale of weapons, and other evils alive in populous centers, any one of which is more detrimental than inefficiency in rural jail management, which has aroused such unmitigated despair.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE ARMY?
To relieve anxiety over the comparatively small size of our regular army, a Texas representative has introduced a bill into the House to increase the strength of the army by 47,000 men and 2,000 officers.
In view of the failure of the disarmament conference and the recent flare-up in the armed camps of Europe, it is not difficult to understand why many contend that the larger army is an absolute necessity for national safety.
On the other hand, however,
the passage of the bill would be a direct affront to the movement
toward international peace and
disarmament which has a strong
foothold in this country.
This bill will prove a test of the sincerity of the United States in her former declarations to help further world peace and to promote disarmament. If Congress accepts it, Europe will know that we have been frightened by the first ill wind and are ready to retract reductions made by recent congresses and administrations.
The fact that the United States army ranks seventeenth among the armies of the world and that it is smaller than the army of Greece seems to concern the Congressmen more than the ominous effect such an act would have on the European mind and the attitude of the American public toward our peace policy which has been built up with so much care.
PUTTING ONE'S KNOWLEDGE TO USE
George Bernard Shaw once said, "If you teach a man anything he will never learn it." This means that we learn through doing, or that learning is an active process. Book reading alone does not give one the power to inform or advise friends if the material is not tied up to the rest of the individual's knowledge.
Many students make good grades without adopting the policy of applying their knowledge as much as possible. These students have overlooked the one great aim of all study, which is increased efficiency of thought and action through putting one's knowledge and skill to use.
Too many students, with grade records studded with aces, are not able to use their knowledge by reasoning, talking, and writing about the things they have learned. Ohters who are looked upon as backward might be able to use their knowledge in new problems in a much greater extent.
It is characteristic of some students to analyze, unintentionally, a person's knowledge and wisdom in the course of a conversation, but they neglect to checkup on themselves to see whether they have striven to acquire knowledge and methods of work that are useful.
It is a pertinent question whether one's first aim has been to think rather than merely to absorb facts, to seek to solve problems by a critical analysis rather than by rote.
Campus Opinion
After reading about Missouri University's non-flammable course plan for next year, I am wondering just what sort of students that school expects to get. It looks to me as if M.U. simply is increase to its rapidly waning enrolment and is opening its doors to students who really are unit for college work or who have no ambitions for a career. I will encourage enrolment somewhat with students with social ambitions only, but what about the quality?
Editor Daily Kansan:
Already M.U. has the unenviable reputation of being a place where social climbers thrive—a prize "jelly" school,
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
There will be a regular meeting of A.S.M.E, this evening at 8 o'clock in room 210 Marvin hall. Mr. Maillard, of the Kansas City Power and Light Company, will speak. Final arrangements for the Engineer's Exposition will be made. All mechanical and industrial engineers are urged to attend.
Noticees due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular publication days and
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Thursday, April 19, 1934
A. S. M. E.:
Delta Phi Delta will meet at 8 o'clock this evening in room 310 Administration building. All are requested to be present for installation of officers.
DELTA PHI DELTA:
ding. All are requested to be present for installation of officers.
KAY STEVENS, Publicity Chairman.
DRAMATIC CLUB:
There will be a meeting of the Dramatic club this evening at 8 o'clock in Green hall.
GENE HIBBS, President.
FIRESIDE FORUM:
FIRESIDE FORUM:
Fireside Forum will have a party Friday from 8 to 12 p.m. at the Congregational church. All Congregational students and others interested are invited.
GERALDINE IRION, Social Chairman
JAY JANES:
JAY SINES
Get your Relay tickets at the Athletic office Friday. Call for your activity books in room 107 Fraser, Friday afternoon between 2 and 5, or Saturday morning between 8 and 9.
EVANGELINE CLARK, Vice President.
KAPPA PSI:
KAPPA PSI:
Kappa Psi, Pharmacy fraternity, will hold a regular meeting this evening at 7.15. Actives and pledges meet in lobby of the Administration building.
E. A. SCHWERDTEGER, Regent.
LITERARY
Men please sign with Mr. Alphin, 105 Robinson gymnasium, for life saving
学校 startling Monday, April 23.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
PI EPSILON PI:
There will be a regular meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in Fraser hall for going over the constitution and for the nomination of officers.
PI LAMBDA THETA:
HARRY F. JOHNSON, President.
The meeting scheduled for this evening has been postponed. The next meetin will be held on May 5, for the purpose of electing officers.
Mr. H. C. President
QUILL CLUB:
QUILT CLUB:
There will be a meeting of Quill club this evening at 8 o'clock in the rest room of central Administration building. Will all members please remember the attendance requirements.
HARRIETTE SHERWOOD, President.
Regular meeting of Steel Key will be held at 9 o'clock on Tuesday, April 24 in room 110 Marvin hall. Import business meeting.
MATEEL RICH, President.
STEEL KEY:
105 Alphin, 105
Fifteen ushers are needed for Saturday afternoon. See Mr. Robinson gymnasium.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
XAVIER CLUB:
where fraternities and sororites rule with an iron hand, leaving the unfortunate "barbs" completely out in the cold. What will M.U. be like five years from now after absorbing all the inferior students to whom it now is opening its doors? Since students can take courses that they know they cannot flunk, many of them will go down to M.U. to have a hand in and plourious discussions. They never look at a book. Why should they? They have nothing to fear. What sort of a college will this be? What sort of standards does M.U. profess to have?
All, in all, M.U.'s plan is about as ridiculous a thing as any supposed intelligent group has proposed in some time. M.U. simply admits to the world that she must throw open her doors to any type of student in order to check a rapidly falling enrollment. However, among many people who wish to send their children to high grade universities, M.U.'s plan will do anything but induce them to send children there. If M.U.'s team, it will soon have them, and plenty of them, at that. In fact, M.U.'s student quality will soon be as poor as its recent football teams. Anyhow, I'm glad now that I chose KU, as an alma mater.
E. M.
Twenty Years Ago
About a half-ton of Yuca Angustifolia commonly known as soap weed was received by the chemistry department for the purpose of analyzing it to see whether it contained any value, such as fiber for rope-making and chemical properties for making some kinds of soap. The weed grows in Western Kansas, parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, and chokes all vegetation around it. If the government can find it a profitable undertaking they will make an attempt to weed it out for commercial purposes.
of 50 cent on every senior. An important part of the plan was that only seniors would be allowed to sit on it. The idea of "freshman cap night" was
(April 17-25,1914)
"I have not received any orders to proceed to Mexico yet, and there is no cause for alarm because it will take a little time to mobilize the army," said Captain F. E. Jones, of the local Kansas National Guard, concerning impending war with Mexico. "The Kansas unit should have about 105 more men in its ranks, and unless University students enlist it will be thrown open to anyone interested." New equipment was secured by Captain Jones, and preparations were rapidly being made for immediate service.
At a meeting of the senior class of 1914 it was decided that they would give a stone bench to the University as a memorial. The bench was to be eight feet long with a name plate on the back, costing approximately $100.
also advanced and adopted. This was to be a ceremony following the senior procession wherein the freshmen would form a舞 dance, and burn their caps sometime in the last week of school.
Six University students were hurt and two were arrested in a riot involving 1,000 students which occurred at a street carnival held in Lawrence. The riot started with the refusal of a carnival man to pay a student who had defeated the carnival wrestler. The wrestler had agreed to pay $25 to any person staying undefended in the ring with him for 15 minutes. The refusal of this payment enraged the students that they began a demonstration which ended with the disputed payment. They then tried to secure free admission to a carnival animal show, and on being met with denial started a fight which eventually involved all of the carnival men and a thousand students. The carnival men attacked with clubs and cavalry swords. Chancellor Strong condemned the demonstration, and refused to condone any other like it.
Modern Exhibit Shows Marvels of Engineering
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given. Color plates which exemplify the use of various chemical compounds will be displayed.
A cloverleaf intersection, a highway intersection where no two lanes of traffic cross, will feature the civil engineers' exhibits. The use of brick and concrete together will be demonstrated in the concrete laboratory. Various tests will be made in the testing laboratories. A model Boulder Dam will be presented by the water supply and hygiene department of civil engineering. Be aware that the dam will be gravity railway track and a miniature wind tunnel exhibit which will be tested for wind resistance on streamlined cars.
R. O. T. C. Features Bridges
The electrical department will feature a high voltage generator, a radio announcer killer, a high frequency surgical knife, and a high voltage tesla coil. The "electricals" will also floodlight the entire engineering laboratories and they will hang a large electric sign in front of Marvin hall.
The R.O.T.C. exhibit will include a large relief map displaying the organization of the ground for defense, a model 12 feet long of a standard A.E.F. timber trestle bridge designed to carry 43 ton tanks, a new standard trestle bridge designed to carry 155 mm G.P.F. gun, and an old look spar bridge based on this type. The several types of floating bridges will be shown including the new duralium-pontoon. This is a model designed to carry the 10½ ton Christie tank.
The many instruments used for anti-
aircraft defense will be shown. The
microcontroller is an intricate robot or mechanical integrator,
calling a data computer, will be on ex-
pibition along with telephone and other means of communication between instruments and plotting board. Wen-pi is used in R.O.T.C.camps will also be shown.
The Exposition will be open tomorrow night from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock as well as tomorrow, Saturday and Saturday evening.
Engel to Report on Texts
Professor Will Make Recommendations to State School Book Commission
Prof. E. F. Engel has been invited to appear before the State School Book Commission which meets in Topoka, Tuesday, April 24, to report on the status of German in the high schools of the State.
For 10 years Professor Engel has been chairman of a committee in Survey and Publicity appointed by the Kansas Modern Language Association and has, each year, gathered complete data on the study of foreign languages in all colleges and high schools of the State. He is also chairman of a committee which includes Prof. J. R. Thierstein at Bellech馆, at Newton, and Miss Kate Riggs of the Lawrence Memorial High School, for the study and recommendation of German text books for adoption in Kansas high schools. No State Library in Cincinnati has been placed ardent and the School Book Commission in considering making adoptions this year, is asking Professor Engel to give information on the number of high schools now teaching German, the number of students studying the language and the names of text books used.
Two surveys made by Professor Engel and his committee show a gradual increase in the total number of students enrolled in German in the colleges and high schools of the State; and a questionnaire sent to all the high school teachers of German in the State adds more information. If the Commission decides to make adoptions, Professor Engel's committee will have the big task of examining available text books and selecting the most suitable ones.
Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, has received several letters lauding the success of the New York chapter of the University alumni meeting last week. Jerome Beatty, famous writer, was toumast师, and Dr. F. C. Allen spoke to the assemblage of about 125 persons. A board of directors of seven members were elected to carry on the work of the chapter.
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