PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS Editor-in-Chief MARGARET GREGG GEOLOGY EDITOR MERLE HERYFORD Managing Editor Campus Editor Leon Wattley Nebraska Editor William Decker Sports Editor Bob Owens Society Editor Carsay Harper Technology Editor Joe Rizzo Alumni Editor Holmes Rowe Journalist Julian Holloman Margaret Grego... Chiles Coleman Dorothy Smith... Helen Hite Jimmy Fargo... Jimmy Fargo Gretchen Grup... Merle Heyrford Paul Woodhouseman... Ergil Parker Ruth Lester... Ergil Parker Advertising Manager ... Clarence E. Mundi Circulation Manager ... Willem Lutheren Telephones Business Office K11.6 K10.8 Light Night Connection Business Office 27.9 K11.6 K10.8 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday on Sunday at 10 a.m. and by email to staff and members in the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. each. ascribed as the second class matter, September 17, 1910; the n post office at Lawrence, Kannas. Department in co-operation with company, year, $0.00 cash in advance, $2.23 on payments. Singe books, or copies. SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1934 TOO MANY ELECTIONS It is generally conceded that if so many congressmen had not been considering the November election the independent offices appropriation bill, which disrupts the administration's budgetary plans through the increase of veterans' allowances and government salaries, could not have been passed over the President's veto. Passage of this bill calls attention to a defect in the American governmental system that has accounted for the enactment of many harmful laws. That defect is the brevity of elective offices, which, by reason of the frequency of elections, makes the officials give too much consideration to their re-election and too little to the benefit of the nation. The congressman no sooner arrives in Washington than he has to start plans for his next campaign, and consideration of those plans occupies his mind throughout his term. A longer term would free him from fear of defeat a greater part of his time in office, and would deprive lobbyists, who represent selfish minorities, of their most effective threat. A leading psychologist says that man is not born human but develops his so-called human traits through environment. This leads one to wonder concerning the nature of the environment. TIMES CHANGE The reported anti-war movement on Eastern college campuses takes on a new light with the recent riot in New York launched by students in a so-called "peace" drive. Students who said they were from Columbia, New York University, Hunter College, City College, and other institutions, met to plan meetings at a later date. The Student League for Industrial Democracy and the National Student League sent out the call for the "strike." Protests against war also took form at Massachusetts State College, Smith and Johns Hopkins. In the years following the World War even to talk of averting war, or to say that war was wrong, was considered unpatriotic and radical. The law would not have hesitated to interfere and put a stop to such a student demonstration. Undoubtedly the attitude of the American people toward war has changed as the years have gone by. Perhaps if the people actually must face another conflict, their attitudes will revert to war psychology again, but now we are more conscious of the dreadfulness of war than its glory. A HIGH SCHOOL EVENT In scarcely more than a week high school athletes from all over Kansas will convene at the University to vie for places of honor in the annual track and field meet held each year in conjunction with the Kansas Relays. On two other occasions this year high school students have gathered here; to attend a convention or to seek honors in other fields. Each time they have left memories which make their welcome to the University next week a sincero expression of the feelings of the student body. Outstanding competitors will be among the entries who will attempt to lower the state records which have already reached a standard almost unparalleled among students of under-college age. Many of the young athletes will be seniors who next year will go out to begin blazing a long trail along paths of athletics fame. Only a few years ago Glenn Cunningham, Elwyn Dees, Clyde Coffman, and others who now compete under University colors, were representing Kansas high schools, setting records that still stand. The high school section has come to be one of the most popular spring events among high school students. It furnishes an opportunity for them to get away from classes for a day and to see how life is carried on at a University. It is a happy day for the collegian, too. It is the one time each year when he can carry an air of sophistication and importance and still have it duly appreciated. BIRDS AND GREEN GRASS The grounds between the Administration building and the stadium are dotted with the blooms of dog tooth violets. In late afternoon the clear notes of a meadow lark sound again and again, interrupted by distant shouts from the football field. The tennis courts are alive once more with active white figures. The air is inviting to strollers, and frequently they may be seen moving slowly down the paths near the stadium. Sometimes one's foot sinks into the loose ground left in the path of a mole. Moles are destructive little animals, but they are responsible for a certain sense of satisfaction found in the feel of soft earth giving beneath one's foot. It it good to get away from printed pages and weighty wisdom forms while, and to find enjoyment in such everyday, simple things as birds, green grass, and sunsets. It is good just to be alive in the spring. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: "Kibitzers versus nitwits." That's my impression as a foreign student on our election last week. And why not. Politicians had been "bweedling and coaxing, damming and denying, filling the air with loud whispers," for the men to go vote for their choice of candidates for Student Council positions. And why should they? Is it because that responsibility of voting and the result of it is not yet fully appreciated by University students? If so, then it is a sad thing, for instead of the far reaching significance that these yearly elections on the Hill should bring, as the Daily Kansan said editorially, "They merely furnish a medium for student expression, an excellent means for the publicizing of individuals and securing for the successful candidates of gold keys which are ornate as well as a source of pride. And they furnish topics for discussion and reflection within our community, but be dull." UNDERCURRENT If this is the only goal of such activities then its "Kibizers versus Nitwits." A. A. Alcid. Rummaging around in the attic last night, we ran across a bound copy of University Courier, a Semi-Monthly Publication Devoted to the Best Interests of the Students of the University of Kansas, our volume containing the issues for the year 1883. Faculty members and students made up the staff of the publication which contained both literary articles and news, with a bit of verse here and there. Thumbing through the pages, we ran across a section called the Corridors which must have been the great grandfather of the Sour Owl. It was edited by Mike Kearns and Nettie Hibbard, 88. Here are a few of the husband, 88. In that section: "Something 'dropped' at the Oread's last Friday." 1. "The petitioners who did not get Sigma Chi are said to be trying Delta Tau Delta. Poor Delta Tau!" "Glen Miller patronized the 10 cent OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN The Christian Science Organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Myers hall, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited. Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. for Sunday issues. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: No.129 Sunday, April 15, 1934 COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, April 17, at 4:30 in Fraser chapel. E.H. LINDLEY, President. DEMOLAY SMOKER: DEMOLAY SMOKER: The Smoker originally scheduled for April 12 will be held at the Delta Sigma Lambda house, 1137 Indiana, at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, April 17. All DeMolays are invited. Mr. Louis Leuer, of Kansas City, will speak. LAWRENCE E. WOOD, Chairman. KAPPA PHI: Kappa Phil will meet at 6:30 at the home of Mrs. Edwin Price on Tuesday, april 17. LUTY LEEN ENS, Publicity Chairman. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Certele Francais se reunira mercredi a quatre heures et demie dans laalle 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parent français sont invites. alle 306 Fraser han. Tous ceux qu'il parvient à RUTH BARNARD, Secretaire. PRACTICE TEACHING: PRACTICE TEACHING: Students should make application for practice teaching in Oread next fall at the office of the Dean of the School of Education, 103 Fraser, before May 1. R. A. SCHWEGLER, Dean. Examiner appointment cards are here. RED CROSS LIFE SAVING: SCABBARD AND BLADE: There will be a meeting Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m., in room 5 Memorial Union building. LOUIS FORMAN, First Sergeant. Y. M. C. A.: Y. M. C. K: Installation of new officers, cabinet and board members will be held at Westminster hall at 4:30 this afternoon. All members of this year's cabinet are urged to be present if possible. OTIS BRUBAKER, President. Y. W. C. A.: Miss Ruth Black, ed'35, will speak on "I Went to Pit College" by Lauren Gillifan at the meeting of the Girls Industrial Group on Tuesday at 4:30 at Henley house. DORIS WESTFALL, Chairman. store to the extent of a bottle of hair oil. This made him slip through examinations." "The Betas had a large group photo taken of their chapter last week. Two dogs are the leading figures." "A Freshman remarked the other day on seeing some hunters going out after geese, "The Sophs had better lay low." HERBERT G. ALLPHIN. Although Cornelia Ois Skinner used no scenery to assist her in her superb character sketches last Thursday night, she did have some off-stage noises rung in on her. In the sketch of the middle-aged woman enjoying the beauties of Venice, she had one line at which she leaned over the gonda线 with an attentive ear to hear the beautiful music—"Oh, listen. Herb. Isn't that music wonderful?" At this point, the ventilation system in the basement was turned on, and the "beautiful music" groaned and roared out of the gills on the wall of the auditorium. She probably believes that one of the lads was trying to be funny! We always realized that Keane Tilford was a big lad, but we never knew that he packed a tremendous "right" until Thursday night when the votes were being counted. He was standing in the pool room with a companion for a moment, and the friend wondered if a fist would go through the double-thick beaver board walls of the room. Without so much as a preliminary wind-up, Tilford gave his fist a six-inch run and punched it through both layers of the wall. The boys on the other side of the wall said that it looked like a horse's hoof crashing through the barnyard. Nice guy, Tilford! Loafers in the rotunda of the Administration building report with amusement that no matter how short the students are who walk under the painters scaffold which is placed 10 feet above the floor, they all duck when walking beneath it. We take our hats off to Purdue; they're real men over there. You remember a few weeks ago that they were against founding a chapter of Phi Eta Sigma because that would make too many organizations, but were all for such things as new forestry and military drill squads as honoraries? Well, now they have a new fight. It seems someone suggested an Honors Day such as we have here. But Our Contemporaries NO HONORS DAY FOR Daily Illini. Purdue is a man's school—and they're against it. No parading around for them. As one writer there says: "It will indeed be an enlightening spectacle to see the superior students of the University, or that class of them that will be present, exhibited to their fellow students and the general public for approval. Much of it probably self-approval. The plan might be carried further and modeled after a live stock judging contest; some basis of award being determined for pinning ribbons on the superior members of this already superior group. Inasmuch as the proposal seems to be a lamentable revision of grade school days, a nice lively spelling bee might be an appropriate method of selecting the blue ribbon men, or women." Very nice, Purdue, very nice. Of course we feel exactly the same way over here. That's why we've abandoned it ourselves. (Surgcasm). 1021 Mass The Purdue Exponent has led a fight, just as The Daily Illini has here, against too many honoraries. Phi Eta Sigma, to them, was much less necessary than chaining a military drill company to an honary, so they fought valiantly against it. Someone somehow obtained a copy of our editorial on the matter and asked them to reprint it. They said "yes," but didn't. When the matter was finally turned over to the Sisquam (Sacramento) University and passed (15-12), the Exponent had not a word to say about it. Not a word. And even yet Phi Eta Sigma is on the fire. The faculty Executive council must approve it. That seems likely, now—but the other, the Honors Day? We wouldn't bet less than 1,000-1 on the chances. The men don't like it. Too sissified and pedestalish for real MEN! Gladys Snyder, '24, is conducting a conference for chiefs of the Campfire Girls in Oakland, Calif. She is the Campfire Girl executive for Oakland and Berkeley, Calif. Take Those SNAPSHOTS NOW! EASTMAN KODAKS —A size and style to please— FILMS On Our Way—Franklin D. Roosevelt The New Dealers—The Unofficial Observer The Choice Before Us—Norman Thomas The Economy of Abundance—Stuart Chase RANKIN'S Drug Store Across from Courthouse Phone 678 THE BOOK NOOK Tel.666 at the BLUE MILL 1009 Mass. The Popular University Hangout DROP IN any afternoon or evening for a refreshing drink or bite to eat. You are sure to like it. "MEET and MUNCH WITH FRIENDS LET US DE L I V E R Your Fountain and Drug Orders RICKERD-STOWITS Drug Co. Want Ads 847 Mass. 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