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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1934
University Daily Kansan
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934
MERCY OR THE STERN ARM OF JUSTICE
The impending case of an escaped convict living an honest and good life for twenty-four years and then being apprehended shows an undesirable hangover from primitive days in our aims in treating criminals. Should men be incarcerated to be cured of their weaknesses or to be objects of revenge or retribution?
If the former is the aim, then the ends of justice have been served; if the latter, the victim should be taken from family and home that he has established by becoming a substantial and respected citizen, and be placed in a stupefying prison to be supported at public expense.
Should his life be sacrificed as a lesson to other wrongdoers that the United States will keep up the search for an escaped prisoner? It would be a travesty if a man who has proved his determination to go straight should be forced to serve a sentence, while gangsters run loose with protection or are punished only for evading their income taxes.
Even conceding that he is guilty, law enforcing officials should be satisfied with the mental anguish he has had as a fugitive for twenty-four years. It is not maudlin sentimentality that causes people to be merciful in such a case.
HEADLESS WONDERS
Five hundred students of Temple University recently signed a petition which indicated that they wished their heads chopped off, according to the Temple News, student publication which was responsible for the circulating of the petition.
Supposedly carried on to prove a faet that everyone has long known for a good many years, that some people sign papers without reading them, this stunt seems nevertheless to be just another public gag.
Many times in the past, similar statements have been issued from various parts of the country. A slightly original angle is added each time to the very trite story.
To say that college students, at whose doorstep is laid blame for most of the delving that goes on in matters that should not be delved into and who are daily called revolutionary, could so easily be duped is to admit that which youth rarely admits willingly. Students may well stop and reflect upon such occurrences as these. If they are so easily duped by mere tricks, how will they be able to conduct themselves when they begin to meet real competition and maneuvering that are not in fun?
A NEED FOR CONFIDENCE
It is that time of year when the college senior begins to wonder what is to come after graduation, and no doubt many seniors recall last spring when their friends predicted that they would be graduating at just the right time, for business will be back on its feet by then.
Such encouragement, indefinite though it appears, is exactly what college seniors need. The decrease in employment for the past few years has given job-seeking graduates a pessimistic attitude, and that attitude is carrying over to those graduating this spring.
There is no college course possible to teach a student how he can get a job. That is something he must work out for himself. His college education has offered him a beginning, and only experience can give him the rest. But where there is ability, eventually there will always be accomplishment.
There is more truth than poetry in a sign hanging over a downtown store: "Piano lessons. Special pains given to beginners."
NEXT YEAR'S FRESHMEN
The Golden Season is at hand for high school seniors who expect to attend the University next year. They are being feted and investigated, their records established and their financial status inquired into.
In the registrar's office selected names are being compiled into mailing lists for catalogs, and inquiries are being answered daily in regard to transfer of credits.
In the sorority and fraternity houses the names of the prominent students are already becoming familiar to rush committees, and the brothers and sisters are being called upon to display their most brilliant weekend smiles as they point out the beauties of the campus (speaking both literally and figuratively) to rushees thrilled with the excitement of college life.
Spring musical and debate contests and the participation of high schools in the Kansas relays also help to throw the talented prospects into the college gaze.
This year's graduating students will leave vacancies which apparently cannot be filled, but each year proves that always there are promising freshmen to step in and add new life and energy to the ranks. They will play an important part in University life, and it is desirable that they should thus be offered scholastic and social advice even before they complete their senior year in high school.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansas:
Do you not agree that our rather dull campaigns need a little more color?
With the best interests of the University
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXXI Thursday, April 12, 1934 No. 127
Thursday. Anril 12. 1934
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DRAMATIC CLUB
Because of the Cornelia Otis Skinner Recital there will not be a meeting of the Dramatic club tonight. GENE HIBBS, President.
PRACTICE TEACHING;
Students should make application for practice teaching in Oread next fall in the office of the Dean of the School of Education, room 103 Fraser hall, before May 1. R. A. SCHWEGLER, Dean.
at heart, I offer the following little gen to "The Party With Definite Principles." It really has possibilities. Think—The R.O.T.C., will gladly parade with Pachacama tags tied on the ends of bayonets in return for being allowed to use the intramural field to parade on every Wednesday. And the band, so questionably championed by the present council would join the parade playing "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain," hence to be better known as "The Pachacama War-woop." All men students will uncover and stand at attention as the parade sweeps past. And won't the fraternity basements ring with 40 freshman voices, under the direction of two Inner Circle men, chant, "For I'm on the great band hagwon." Well, here is the gem:
What is the use of O.K.?7
Their steal—it is a sin.
They bake this bread.
Will never cease to win.
When the tags come out on the campus,
Yellow tags are a pleasure to see.
Pachaacamane doesn't have any platform.
But what does that matter to me?
For I'm on the great band wagon.
The band wagon is where I don't think, but what does it matter?
I will vote for a Pach, victory.
The only possible objection to the employment of this classic would be for the band wagon to bog down utterly in the elections. Of course that would be just too bad. "A Well-Wisper."
ing the praises of Grey-
hound bus travel in the Spring. They must have learned their song from the passengers, for all America goes by. The praise of the Spring is one of the first Spring days dispsl the drabness of winter and stirs all nature to new life and activity. Let's all sing like the birdies sing—and let's all go like America's traveling millions are going this Spring—by GREYHOUND!
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