THE SUN PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief JAMES PATTerson Manager Editor ___ROBERT SMITH___ Campus Editor Merle Herford Make-up Editor Kyle Hess Media Editor R. B. Haves Media Editor Loreen Miller Exchange Editor Hugh Ellison Music Editor Max Mosley Finance Editor George Lerridge Society Editor Iris Olson Kansan Board Members Margaret Grace Grace Dorothy Smith Dorothy Smith Gretchen Group Gretchen Group Paul Woodcause Paul Woodcause Mila Mackenzie Mila Mackenzie Advertising Manager Advertising Manager Cerwinence M. E. Murdie Cerwinence M. E. Murdie Wilbur Leatherman Telephone(s) Business Office K-1-66 Berkshire Hospital BK-1203 Night Training, Teaching Office 21015 N Night School N Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Tuecyh and on Sunday December 17th. Send materials in the Department of Journalism of the University of Tennessee at Nashville to: Department of Journalism, University of Tennessee at Nashville Department price, per year. $3.00 each in advance, $2.20 on payments. Ring counts, 15 courth. accepted as second class matter, September 17, 1910; at the post office at lawrence, Kansas WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934 SEVEN YEARS Seven years ago Norman Thomas addressed a University convocation on the Hill. The gymnasium, where convocations were then held, was filled. Great numbers came because of the magnetic personality of the speaker, because they were certain that the speech would interest them. But great numbers of them did not recognize the theories that he supported as being tenable or safe. Their attitude toward Socialism was in large measure antagonistic. Since that time the world has gone through a period of terrific change. It reached the peak of prosperity, and then fell into depths of depression. Appalling economic reversals have made people study their surroundings and adjust ideas which have been outmoded. Today they are willing to admit any justice to be found in new ideas presented to them, and are eager to grasp at anything which may pull the world out of its depths. After seven chaotic years, Norman Thomas has spoken here again. Never had he an audience more ready to listen to him. Ideas of what is safe and sane have changed, and the audience to which he spoke this morning was present for something more than entertainment. The man who can cast any light into the fog of tomorrow finds respectful hearing today. Now that France and Austria have put on the preliminaries, will the audience care to choose up sides for the main bout? A SERVICE SLIGHTED At the first of this semester seniors were granted the privilege of pre-enrollment. Only two-thirds of the class availed themselves of the opportunity, however, Dean Lawson of the College reports. This is surprising in view of the many advantages of the system. "Pre-enrollment is a very good thing," said Dean Lawson, "but I don't believe that the students want it. This was evidenced by their failure to respond to the opportunities given to all classes to finish all but the mechanical part of enrolment. The seniors were granted the complete pre-enrollment. Only a portion availed themselves and finished the task before the close of the semester." All the classes were advised to consult with their advisers regarding programs for the next semester. Several days before the finals the faculty advisers were in their offices prepared to give this service, but many students failed to appear. The campus has taken on a new aspect recently since the CSEP has employed so many students from the University ranks. Almost everywhere on the grounds where something needs doing, there is someone doing it. Workmen are busy digging ditches, filling up cisterns, beautifying the campus. Inside the buildings, office work and other jobs are being done. In other American schools, similar things are happening. Notices in the Kansan, and posters, advised the students of the opportunity to have an unhurried conference that was impossible on the enrollment floor. Through participation in such a plan, the juniors, sophomores, and freshmen would have enjoyed practically the same privileges as the seniors. A FINE JOB What is the reason for all this? How has it been brought about? It all comes indirectly from an incident that occurred in Colorado last summer when two hitchikers, former students on their way to California, asked Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley for a ride. The Chancellor then conceived an idea which led to several conferences with other educators and men of higher learning. After getting the approval of Governor Landon and the Board of Regents, and after a conference with Harry L. Hopkins, Civil Works director, and a visit to the White House arranged by Ernest K. Lindley, son of the Chancellor and friend of President Roosevelt, the plan was put through. Students here and in other parts of the United States have one person to thank for making it possible to work their way through school with the aid of federal funds. That person is Chancellor Lindley. The new cut-your-own cigarets also introduces a new use for old razor blades. BE SELFISH WITH YOUR COLD! We laugh at the dramatic advertisements which portray the "common cold" as the demon invader of peaceful homes, whose power to create wholesale unhappiness may be checked only by drinking Whois Aspirin tablets dissolved in water or using the famous Nippy Nose Drops every hour. But as a matter of fact, the cold is a social menace which does not receive its quota of relief and prevention, in spite of enticing ads. This year, when so many deaths and serious illnesses have been reported from flu epidemics, it seems especially important to guard against colds. Now is the time when we are most frequently exposed to them. Pseudo-spring weather brings light garments out in the morning, and sends the wearer shivering home at noon with cold winds nipping at his heels. Warm sunshine finds the tops down on cars and ground-sitters parked around over the landscape. And worst of all, thoughtless individuals who are afflicted with cold insist upon spreading their misery by discharging millions of germs into heated classrooms through unprotected coughs and sneezes. The latter action is not only a breach of etiquette, but a real danger to society. The cold germs which you scatter so carelessly may mean an extended illness for your neighbor. Be public spirited and keep your illness to yourself. Watkins Memorial hospital has excellent facilities for the treatment of colds, and trained workers who devote their time to administering cold relief free of charge. Consult the hospital staff and see what they will offer for your cold. You may be sure no one else wants it! Campus Opinion I would like to ask W.B.e. as he signs himself in the Kansan, how come he sets himself up as an authority on acting? Does he think being in a few Orend high school plays and seeing several road companies in Kansas City gives him the authority to say what is or is not acting? In regard to Bracke, one denies that he did well in the part of Pike. But he does not deny that his part he can play. He is that type. He has appeared in two other plays on Fraser stage, and each time he has played a variation of Pike—once advantageously and once Editor Daily Kansan: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN The freshmen induction and election of new officers for A.S.C.E. will be held Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in room 210 Marvin hall. All new students are urged to attend. CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary. OFFICE Notices due at Charlevoix Office at 11 a.m. on regular publication days and 11.26 a.m. on m. Saturday for Sunday issues. A. S. C. E.: Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1934 No.95 DRAMATIC CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Dramatic club Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. in Green hall. GENE HIBBS, President. DRAMATIC CLUB: Habra una sesión muy importante de El Atenco el jueves, 22 de febrero, a as cuatro y media de la trade en 113 East Administration building. Que todos os socios asistan. FRED W. JEANS, President. ENGINEERING COUNCIL; ENGINEERING COUNCIL The council will meet tonight at 8:30 in Marvin hall. It is compulsory that member of the council be present. every member of the c. CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary-treasurer. FRESHMAN ENGLISH LECTURE: MISSENGER ENGLISH LECTURE Miss Myra Hull will speak on "The Pioneer Theme in American Literature" at 4:30 on Thursday, Feb. 22 in room 205 Fraser hall. All who are interested may attend. NELLIE BARNES, Chairman. GRADES: Students may obtain first semester grades at the Registrar's office during the week of Feb. 19 to 24, according to the following schedule of names: Wednesday, Feb. 21 — T to Z, inclusive. Saturday, Feb. 22 — T to Z, inclusive. Thursday, Feb. 22 — T to Z, inclusive. Friday, Feb. 23 — Those unable to appear at the scheduled time. Saturday, Feb. 24 — Those unable to appear at the scheduled time. GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar. The Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will hold a joint meeting with the Mining Engineering Seminar at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in the Physical Geology laboratory. Dr. Knight will show motion pictures on "The Story of Gasoline." ALBERT COOK, Secretary. K. A. C. E.: Mining SEMINAR: There will be a joint meeting of the A.S.M.E., the A.S.C.E. (Chemicals), and the A.L.M.E. Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in the lecture room on the third floor of Haworth. A moving picture, "The Story of the gasoline," will be presented. C. D CANTRELL. MINING SEMINAR: PHI DELTA KAPPA: There will be a very important business meeting of the Kappa chapter of Phi Delta Kappa Thursday evening, Feb. 22, at 7:30 in 115 Fraser hall. All members are urged to be present. FRED W. JEANS, President. PHI DELTA KAPPA: SELF-SUPPORTING STUDENTS SUPPORTING STUDENTS: A regular meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, in room 222 Administration building, at 8 p.m. A short business meeting will proceed a talk by Mr. Ellsworth on the CSEP program. All students concerned with the CSEP are invited. DOROTHY JOHNSTON, Vice President. WOMEN'S RIFLE TEAM: WOMEN'S RIPLE TEAM All women in the team assessed final elimination tests are requested to report imbedded at Sgt. Engle at the rifle range. ROWEAN LONGSHORE, disadvantageously. Pike is the part he can do. It is quite possible that the critics of the Kanan and Journal World have seen him in these other parts—they've been around here quite a while—and recognized that he was being his type part again rather than creating something different from his ordinary personality, and so were kindly silent on his work. It is quite possible that the critics know as much about acting in general and Bracke's acting in particular as W.B. does. B. S. Editor Daily Kansan: The campus opinion in your column yesterday written by R.E.S. was true. There isn't any justice when the library closes so early in the evening and also the Saturday night "no checking out" rules are unfair. Last night I made an attempt to use the library. At exactly 8:39, someone at the deck called that it was time to check out books for overnight, and the crowd began tramping over the room so that there was no chance for further study. Five minutes later, he shouted, "Closing time," and the confusion became greater. Even with the 9 'o clock closing hour, students get "gyped" out of 20 minutes of study. I was a victim of being unable to study late last Saturday night and Sunday morning, because I had no books to study. As I had to work until 8:30, I hurried up to the library to get some books, thinking that the Saturday night ban would surely be lifted, since the library closes so early on other nights. The situation appalled me. Now, I wonder? What employment is Buildings and Grounds going to give to the one hundred CSEP men who have been added to their list of employees? No, it isn't necessary that we know, though we are all anxious to know, and we do know that we would like to know why it wouldn't be a good plan to give some of the janitor's a break. Look around you - under desks, under radiators, in corners, near mop boards - the broom didn't just go there. Look out the window and you can fashion all manner of designs in the dust and grilled collected on the pane which hasn't had any rain to wash it off for a long, long while. We are always asking—why aren't our desks polished, our floors cleaned, our windows washed and so on is our answer? Just to let us do. Anyway, we need the janitor the benefit to do, and to like to see the floors, desks, chairs, and windows radiate cleanliness. Our office needs attention, badly. Spring is here, let's clean house. Get out the bon ami, the wax, the duster, and the polishing cloths, give the janitor some additional help and let's all have a new deal in a clean house! M.F. Why not use some of the CSEP laborers as librarians so all the students can reap the benefits from the federal assistance? Editor Daily Kansan: P. L. Our Contemporaries BOOK PRICES AGAIN The advent of each new semester brings its flood of protests from students at the apparently exorbitant price of textbooks. It is a severe blow to those who have been cutting their budgets to the bone to have to go on a spending orgy when it comes time to stock up with their new semester's texts. The subject is not a new one. Numerous ediators in many university and college newspapers have decried the costs, but the plea, a seasonal one, appears to have brought little prospect of relief. If the fault lay with managers of college bookstores it would be a relatively simple one to remedy. Much pressure has been brought on them and it has prompted them to a through such organizations as that of the Managers of College Book Stores. They are considering at the present time co-operative buying plans, and have registered their protests with the publishers; but their efforts have been to little avail as yet. to little avail as yet. One possible plan of attack remains. These publishers who insist on their oppressive prices are very solicitous when it comes to getting their texts adopted for classroom use. When the time comes for texts to be adopted for future semesters professors might inquire into the price schedules of those companies. Professors have shown themselves to be willing to help in the war against high textbook prices, and this is a possible avenue of attack—Indiana Daily. We greet with enthusiasm the news of the relief program which is being set forth to aid students during this semester. Under the plan recently made public 100,000 students, who otherwise would be unable to continue their work, will be financed by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. STUDENT RELIEF AT SYRACUSE The plan, a nation-wide application of the program carried out by the University of Minnesota last semester, will require the university to waive all tuition, registration and laboratory fees for the student who is accepting governmental aid. The purpose will, will gain the benefit of the stu- dium, be on the grounds, in the offices, libraries or elsewhere it can be seen fit to place them. A student who is chosen to work under the Relief plan may receive from $10 to $20 a month salary. It is possible under such circumstances that with very little help from home he may be enabled to secure an otherwise impossible education. impossible education. It is a credit to the Hill that during the past two years local attempts have been made to aid, but while they have done excellent work they have been limited by the lack in sources of relief. We feel governmental aid imperative if we are to progress through the training of youth—Syracuse Daily Orange. Want Ads twenty-five words or | *les* | i insertion, *lesse*, 35 words; i insertion, *lesse*, 35 words; i addraviant, *WAINT ADS BASE COMPACIENDED BY CAS H. A.* LOST: One large standard Delta Tau Delta fraternity pin. Vicinity of tee theater. 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Always the most entertaining short subjects SUNDAY for 4 Days of Belly Laughs THURSDAY FRIDAY Come early for choice seats PATEE Shows 3-7-9 W. C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Gee. Barus, Gracie Allen, Chas. Ruggles, Mary Boland ENDS TONITE ENDS TONITE "Fashion Folies of 1934" Wm. Powell - Bette Davis Frank Mhugh - Hugh Herbert 4-Star Natural Colored Cartoon "Lullaby Land." Charlie Chase Comedy Riot Late News Events Making love to George Brent, Philip Faversham, Johnny Mack Brown Gavin Gordon in a superb cast. Plus—Another popular Taxi Boys Comedy "Rumme." M. G. M. Novelty "Happy Warriors." Late News Events WHEELER and WOOLSEY Dumb-Crack their way to glory in a shower of pink chiffon and scanties while the nation cheers. SUNDAY HAVE YOU A ROOM FOR RENT UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WANT ADS Empty rooms cost you money . . . more than the cost of want ads. 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