11 PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1934 University Daily Kansan THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ------------ CHILES COLEMAN MANAGING EDITOR MARGARET GREES Campus Editor Robert Smith Makeup Editor Don Leach Artist Editor Meryl Heyford First Officer Night Editor Tiffany Owen Exchange Editor Margaret Melott Alumni Editor Geoffrey Leerpriest Government officer Society Editor Loren Miller Margaret Green Charles Coleman Darrell E. Samson Maurice Riese Jimmy Kellerman Jimmy Kellerman Gretchen Orelup Jerry Sterling Paul Woodmansee Vivir Pickler Martin Mackenna Robert Smith Advertising Manager Clarence E. Minnis Ceremony Management Advertising Manager ... Clarence E. Mundis Circulation Manager ... Marion Bentley Business Office K. I. 61 Business Office K. I. 61 Night Connect Business Office . 701K Night Connect Business Office . 701K Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and on Sunday at the New York Times, with contributions in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. Entered as second client matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanan. Subscription price, per year. $3.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments. Single copies, £6. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1934 ACTIVITY TICKET REVISION After a great deal of agitation, steps have been taken toward a revised plan of the activity ticket which it is hoped will meet with the approval of a greater majority of the students. Proposed by the Student Councils and backed by the vote of the majority of the students, the new activity ticket plan was launched last fall. Many difficulties arose as objections to various features were voiced. The chief grievance of the students, the non-transferable rule, resulted in a replevin suit. On no hand were solutions offered in place of these defects but the entire plan was "booed." The plans for such an activity book were proposed by the Student Councils because of its great success on other campuses. It appeared to the members of the Councils as a plan that would be of value to University students. The students should bear in mind that this was an entirely new plan for this campus, and that its defects were as vague to the proposers as they were to the students. The only way to discover the defects in the plan was to try it. That has been done. The two Councils are trying to work things out, trying to make the activity plan for next year the best one possible. They have proposed five new resolutions for next year's ticket in an attempt to remedy the faults that have become evident this year. They are trying to make the plan a success. It should not be condemned before it has a fair trial. TRAVELING BY AIR Students have more important things on their minds than the successful flight of the navy air squadron to Hawaii. They are worrying about the coming final exams or a prospective love affair. It is but a matter of course to them that this flight is a major step in the advancement of a form of transportation which is fast pushing ground travel into the background. Two other big steps in aviation are being made at the present. One is the building of floating landing platforms on the ocean, a sample one of which is being built in America and sponsored by the government. If successful, these platforms may be placed across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans making safe travel on the water. The other step is the construction of a fliver airplane, now being designed by the major plane manufacturers. It will be turned out on a mass production basis at a price of $700 or less, a price within the reach of the general public. Today dad cranks up the old bus, the family climbs in and they drive down to the Ozarks or out to the Rocky mountains to spend a vacation for a week. A few years from now, the man that was a college student in 1934 may also crank up the old bus and take the family for a vacation. But his bus will travel through the air instead of on the ground and the family will spend the vacation week in the mountains of Hawaii or the Alps of Switzerland. VHATS IN A NAME? Since the newspapers carried the story of how two twin girls in England had been christened Walter and Robert, it has occurred to some what would happen if the practice was carried over into this country. Possibly the adoption of such a custom would have amusing results. Imagine introducing your wife as "Jasper" or "Harry." It would not be necessary, however, to carry a separate bank account for her with which she could write checks to her heart's content, for who would cash one of them for her, if her name happened to be "Henry?" It would only be turn-about, of course, if young men should retaliate by adopting feminine first names. Probably, some degree of confusion would result, to newspaper writers, bill collectors, and others who are interested in knowing the names of persons. Imagine too the embarrassed confusion of the hardboiled sport editor forced to write the following line: "Louise carried the ball for three yards in a smashing thrust through center, but was stopped by Rosemary's well timed tackle." CONGRESSIONAL FIREWORKS "There will be no fireworks in Congress this session," said the majority leader in the news reel the other night. He spoke as if that would be unusual. Most sessions of Congress are scdull and lacking in action that were it not for the Huey Longs they would be no more than hours and days, and weeks of tedious dry filibustering. If by fireworks the majority leader means opposition to the constructive phases of the President's relief program, it is to be hoped that they will be lacking in this session. If, however, his forecast is accepted by the members of Congress as an endorsement of their previous amiably inocuous inaction, the least that can be hoped is that the session will be as short as possible. CONSTITUTIONAL CAPRICE The annual drive is on to revise the constitution of the Men's Student Council. Four members were recently appointed by the President to dig up all the laws, by-laws and amendments and arrange them in some sort of definite order This procedure is started every year and has very seldom met with success, but members are hoping this year will bring an exception. When someone starts looking for an amendment, he may find it in an hour or it may take him a week. When it is found there is usually another conflicting by-law and the searcher is just where he started. Everything is in a mess. Several years ago when a question detrimental to the political party then in power came up, all but two or three copies of the constitution disappeared and no one has been able to find them since. Although only two copies are now on hand, and those in such a tangled mess that probably only Samuel Insull could figure it out, we hope nevertheless the enterprise will succeed and that a satisfactory constitution will be in the hands of our governing bodies. Campus Opinion I am glad that at last someone has had the nerve to criticize your iron rule over the students. I am all for BES. You started giving commands last fall when school started and they grew stronger as the weeks passed by. At first I did not pay much attention to them but they became insulting and many of my friends as well as I have hurt deeply by them. Editor Daily Kansan: We students are young men and women and we know how to do our own OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXXI Rehearsal at 4:30 Monday on account of the concert Tuesday evening. All members are requested to be present. J. C. McCANLEN, Director. Fridav. Jan. 12, 1934 BAND: Our Contemporaries There will be a meeting of candidates interested in using the services of the Teachers Appointment bureau for the coming year in Fraser theater on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4 p.m. All persons who expect to enroll in the Teachers Appointment bureau should contact H. E. CHANDLER, Secretary, Teachers Appointment Bureau. Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a. m. on regular afternoon publication days, a. l. 11:30 a. m. for Sunday issues. The Kayhawk club has called a special meeting for Monday evening, Jan. 15, at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building. The club's plans for the coming semester will be outlined. All non-fraternity men are welcome and invited. The more the merrier. Come and bring your ideas and suggestions. ED. THOMAS, Vice President. CANDIDATES INTERESTED IN TEACHING; KAYHAWK CLUB: SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SENIORS: No. 72 thinking. Your paper has no right to tell us what we should or shouldn't do. You started last fall by telling us what seats we should sit in while watching a football game or listening to a concert. We are old enough to know what seats we should sit in. Washburn has always had a high academic standing among other colleges and universities and is fully accredited by the North Central association. Washburn credits have been readily accepted by graduate schools all over the country but this situation will not continue if the standards of the college are allowed to slide down. It might be inconvenient for a good many graduates, if a school should refuse to ac- Seniors in the School of Education may enroll for the second semester between Jan. 15 and Jan. 30. They should call at the education office to make appointments for such enrollments. A. H. TURNEY. And if you must advise the student why not print something which we do not already know. For instance a column of new cooking recipes would be excellent for the girls. A style column on what the student should wear would be very good for both the men and women students. I can't think of anything more exciting than finding out the type of cravats and muffers that are being worn by the best dressed students of Harvard or Yale this winter. And then you made fun of us for playing ping-pong. I want to tell you I enjoy a good game of ping-pong. It is a scientific game and is becoming more popular every day. Some day it will take the place of football and basketball. It develops one both mentally and physically. The day does not go by but what I play a game of ping-pong to keep myself in shape. WORKING IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT STUDYING You tell us when we should go to bed, how to study, where to walk on the campus, not to go to see Mae West and hundreds of other things that we already know how to do. Personally I like Mae West's pictures. She gives one that little touch which is absent from the class room. One of your greatest faults is your continual annoyance of the professors. Why do you always pick on those ever faithful workers for humanity who have given up the best part of their lives to the tolling task of educating the student. We, of the better class of students, realize their unselfish work in the university and we try to return it by some kind deed every day such as presenting a professor with an apple or running erands for them. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you would promote a similar attitude in all students, through the Kansas, instead of printing trash as you have been doing. Perry Winterbloom One of the prominent professors about the campus recently remarked that the students in the college this year are the laziest he has seen in 10 years and that, as an excuse for not having their lessons and doing the required work in school, they make the plea that they have jobs in which they must spend most of their time making money to stay in school. It is a commendable thing for a student to work his way through school provided he is also able to maintain at least an average scholastic standing. If his job takes so much of his time that he is unable to do justice to his college studies there is little point in his attending college. If the student's available time will not allow him to work and study too, he might just as well quit school and devote all his time to his job. Students complain about the professors giving hard tests and a great deal of outside reading and demanding quantities of work which the students are too busy to do because they are occupied with other activities. But the first object in going to college is not working at a job or participating in outside activities or entering into the social life of the college but getting an education. When the other phases of college life take the place of this primary purpose the student has no business being in college. The other phases of college are side-lines to the main purposes. apted more than two years' credits for a four-year course, for example. If the professors do not demand the kind of work from their students which they know is necessary to maintain the academic standing of the college, graduates of the college might find themselves in exactly that position, where their degree would fail to be recognized fully. Knowledge, perhaps unfortunately, cannot be poured into the student's head. After the professor has pounded as much of it into the student as he possibly can, there still remains the necessity for the student to dig for himself. Some students manage to work their way through school, make average grades, or even good grades, and perhaps participate in some extra-curricular activities also. If a few can so arrange their time as to do all those things, certainly the fact that a student is working part time is no excuse for failure to prepare college work—The Washburn Review. WANTED: JOBS University authorities last month, just before Christmas vacation began, applied to the local Civil Work Administration office for 65 men and women to do clerical and research work on the campus. The majority of these workers would be of the "white collar class" of employees and would be used in the library, the administrative offices and the University departmental offices. Fine! But why not employ needy U.C.L.A. students? Other universities throughout the United States are always alert to opportunities to help those students who are working their way through college. U.C.L.A. has missed a good chance. For example, Washington State college applied to the CWA and as a result some 150 men students and 450 women students worked on the Pullman campus during the Christmas holidays, 30 hours a week at 80 cents an hour; a large number of graduate graduates will be employed in technical positions by CWA funds; a large part of the $$. 30 alloted to North Carolina State college by the CWA will go to student workers in the form of salaries. U. C.L.A. is strictly a poor man's college. Because there is practically no nutrition fee and because they can live at home, hundreds are taking advantage of opportunities for a college education at U.C.L.A. Even so, many men and women students are barely struggling along. If these 65 CWA jobs were reserved for deserving U.C.L.A. students, applications would many times outnumber the quota of jobs. And, undoubtedly the students would prove much more useful than the general rank and file of CWA workers. Give the working student a break He needs lit--California Daily Bruin. Current Screen I AM SUZANNE Not long ago an unknown English actress named Lillian Harvey came to America and started making pictures. And each one she has made has met with success. Her latest picture, "I Am Suzanne," now showing at the Varsity follows the others and is the most outstanding of her career. The story is a sweet love tale with a Parisian background. Lillian is a ballet star in a Paris theater. Before becoming a star she was a tight rope walker in a side show and her theater act opens with a slide down a rope from the balcony to the stage. She makes this slide very gracefully until one day she sees the hero, Gene Rayner. 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