PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 5. 1934 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper on THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...CHILES COLEMAN Carol Widen William Blizzard Associate Editors Carol Widen William Dilmore MANAGING EDITOR MARGARET GREENS VGING EDITOR...MARGARET GREGG STAR Campus Editor Robert Smith Sport Editor Merle Herfrey Sport Editor Merle Herfrey Technician Editor Margaret Melott Technician Editor Margaret Melott Sunday Editor Gretchen Group Sunday Editor Gretchen Group Margaret Gregoe Chiles Coleman Marcia South Rice Arnold Smith Jimmy Carney Gretchen Greenbush Larry Sterling Wesley Weisner Vivian Parker Julin Markham Rusty Smith Advertising Manager Chronee K. Mundi Circulation Manager Marion Beauty Properties Business Office --- K17, 66 Night Connection -- 2791 K1 Night Connection - Business Office --- 3791 K1 Night Connection - Business Office --- 3791 K1 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and on Sunday morning, meetings except during the debs in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the University of Kansas. Subscription price per year, $3.00 each in advance, $2.25 on payment. Single copies, ebooks, and other orders Entered as n second class master, September 17, 1910; the post office at Lawrence, Kansas FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934 LIQUOR RACKETEERING Repeal of the eighteenth amendment was expected to accomplish several fundamental reforms, including the immediate curbing and eventual abolishing of racketeering and gangster activities. There seems to have been an attitude on the part of those charged with the responsibility of law enforcement to take for granted the disappearance of these crime elements with the return of legal liquor. Such, of course, has not been the case. New rackets have sprung up in the legal liquor business that threaten it with the same fate which befall the noble experiment. Whisky which can be made—and is being made—for thirty or forty cents a gallon is being sold for $40, a price which, after an ungrudging payment of the federal and state taxes, still leaves a profit which could hardly be called legitimate. Many evils of liquor trade under prohibition are coming forth in new forms under repeal, and the situation is hardly more satisfactory than the rule of the bootlegger. Obviously, it would have been impossible for Congress or anyone else to have established at once a perfect system of liquor control for the entire industry. The danger in the present situation lies not in failure to find success at the first attempts, but in the tendency to let things stand as they are in spite of obvious flaws. Liquor control must be achieved if repeal is to be worth the effort. We were able to survive the marvels of radio, flying, and high speed printing, we displayed a slight degree of understanding of the NRA, plans for inflation, and the proposed silver coinage plan; and we were not absolutely bewildered by the talking pictures; but now that a woman has trained a canary to talk, the world has become too much for us. KNOWTHYSELF Modern collegians pride themselves on their poise and calm demeanor in embarrassing situations. They also boast of the freedom with which members of opposite sexes may discuss subjects which were a generation ago taboos. However, the present-day student is not as sophisticated as he would like to believe. An unsuspected modesty and sensitivity may confound him when he least suspects it. Asked to explain his alment to a woman doctor recently a supposedly worldly young man lost all trace of his proud composure. It has been assumed that men and women doctors were placed on the staff of the Watkins Memorial hospital for the express purpose of allowing students to consult physicians of their own sex. Such a system would show a nice consideration for sensitive persons, who revolt at discussing intimate matters of health even with a sympathetic physician. Perhaps the hospital staff will show more care in the future in assigning students to doctors for consultation. No one really believes that the hospital officials wish to disillusion blase college students, with the knowledge of their dormant modesty. WHAT, AGAIN? The majority of students returned from vacation fully realizing that semester examinations were in the very near future. Most of them came back with the intention to really "hit the ball" and do some "tall" studying in the few weeks before finals. This good intention still remains. However, many students now have another problem to cope with and to worry about. A number of professors have assigned hour quizzes in their courses during the next two weeks. With term projects to work out, with lengthy papers to write, with semester finals coming soon, the professors still give hour quizzes! Is it because the profs think they haven't worked the students enough? Is it because they are afraid the students will be idle the next few weeks? Or do they merely like to see the students filing in and out of the library? Whatever may be the answer, the professors have apparently forgotten the papers, notebooks, and projects which they assigned in the past. The last few weeks before the end of the semester are hectic days for the student without adding additional work. HOW ABOUT A CONDITIONING CLASS The season for sore muscles, sprained ankles, "charlie horses," skinned elbows and knees is here with as much interest as usual being taken in the leading intramural sport, basketball. A majority of the men playing on the teams go into the first few games without the least bit of conditioning. In fact it's safe to say the majority have had very little exercise since last year when the season closed. Many of the players go into their first game without even as much as having their hands on a basketball since last year. They are out to win at any cost and will tax their strength the limit in order to win the ball game. Such exercise is hardly beneficial. It is hard on the lungs and heart of men out of condition and sometimes results in a serious injury. If some sort of conditioning or exercise class were held before the season opened whereby the men who intend to play basketball would have to participate, the game not only would be safer, but the men playing would enjoy it more. Campus Opinion Would it not be a fine thing for the Kansan to call the attention of its readers to the fact that each Saturday at 12:40 the Jenny Wenr station is bringing to the people of this vicinity a complete opera from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Tristan and Isolde is to be given next Saturday, the 6th. The Wren station is bringing so many splendid programs to Lawrence that it seems to me the University paper should publish the whole Wren program every day—just students, and because of our music school. Most students jazz, no doubt, but surely there are many students who would enjoy operas and symphony concerts, if they knew when to look for them. Editor Daily Kansan: Very sincerely, John Ise. PLAIN TALES from the HILL It happened in Dr. E. F. Engel; German I class; The student's reply was in the dative case; it should have been in the accu- "That's wrong." Dr. Engel said; what "casque you love in?" "Mi" Dr. Engel asked, "how do you say "I love you"? The student quickly replied: "I love in all cases." Dr. Engel: "Continue with the translation." The Student: "Ugh, said the cat ." Dr. Engr. "Not ugh. It is 'ach'." OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN The Advanced Standing Commission will meet at Henley house Tuesday at 4.30. EMILY LORD. Notices due at Channel 3 Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11.30 a.m. a.m. for Sunday issues. ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION; No. 67 Friday. Jan. 5. 1934 CHEST CLINIC: Dr. C. F. Taylor will hold a special chest clinic at Watkins Memorial hospital on Tuesday, Jan. 9, through the courtesy of the Douglas County Tuberculosis association. This clinic will be open to both students and faculty members Appointments should be made at once through the Health Service. DR. R. I. CANUTESON, Director. The 'New Deal' FRESHMAN COMMISSION: There will be a meeting of the Freshman Commission Monday, Jan. 8, a 4:30 at Henley house. MURIEL WILLIAMSON, Chairman. Joseph A. Lee, president of the commission for the re-organization of student government at Temple university, says that American colleges and universities have indicated their willingness to fall in line with the Rooseveltian "new deal" through their own eradication of corruption in campus politics. He states, in part: KANSAS RELAYS STUDENT COMMITTEE: Freshman interested in membership on the 12th Annual Kansas Relays Student Committee must submit a written application to the office of E. R. Elibel, 105 Robinson gymnasium, before noon Monday, Jan. 8. KAYHAWK CLUB: BILL HOWARD, Student Manager, K. U. Relays. There will be an official meeting of the Kayhawk club Monday evening, Jan. 8 at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Student: Yes, but this was an Indian cat." ED. THOMAS, Vice President. The Mathematics club will meet Monday, Jan. 8, at 4:30 in room 211 Administration building. Dean E. B. Stouffier will speak on "Mathematics in Italian Universities." Visitors are welcome. ELIZABETH HINSHAW, Vice President. The class in Literary Criticism were talking about moral values of literature and about different standards of morals in various parts of the world. Professor Hopkins mentioned that the people in one part of the world considered it their duty, at one time, to rid themselves of their grandmothers and sometimes made a meal of her. He went on to say that the same question had been asked by a group of students in Princeton when he was a student there and the professor had said, "These things are, after all, only a matter of taste." --ness to fall in line with the Rooseveltian "new deal" through their own eradication of corruption in campus politics. He states, in part: Our Contemporaries Concerning Poor Exams A striking incident showing the chief drawback of written examinations as a means of testing knowledge and awarding grades occurred recently at Milwaukee State Teachers' College when a class of 53 revolted against a professor who accused three-fourths of them of cribbing. Rather than trying to evade accountability for their dishonesty, members of the class admitted that they had cheated and supported their actions by the argument that they didn't have time to answer so many questions in 45 minutes and that they are unable to do reflective thinking when they must run a race with time to get the answers written down. It is manifestly unfair to students to base the grades for a semester's work on one or two examinations. The present system of grading is an invitation to cheat because students realize that in order to succeed their work for the semester will be lost. This work is an example of what may be accomplished when the McDonald Observatory of the University is completed. The observatory will be one of the largest and best equipped in the country, and the staff in charge of its operation and study, programs will be of equal excellence. It is safe to predict that the advancement in the science of astronomy will find in the University organization some of its chief contributors—Daily Texan. Professors err in formulating ill-chosen questions for examinations, by making them too long and by placing too much emphasis upon them. Most teachers quiz students on small details of the course rather than on broad inferences; they should be expected to remember these important topics have left college. Too many examinations are memory tests rather than tests in thinking. If students do resort to cheating on examinations and if they attach the wrong importance to tests, the fault lies with them as well as with his students—Oklahoma Daily. Forwarding Science The work of two professors at the University of Wisconsin in developing a photo-electric cell has created quite a stir in the field of astronomy. This electric cell has proved conclusively that theories concerning distances in the universe were inaccurate, and has opened a new field in the relative measurements of other universes. It is due to the work of Professor Joel Stebbins, director of the Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Albert E. Whiford, assistant professor at the University, that this sensitive cell was developed. Research by these two men has placed the study of astronomy far in advance of its former position, and has resulted in their being credited with one of the outstanding steps in the forwarding of the science. "For years there hardly was a week when some startling exposure of graff and corruption in students' governments in colleges and universities all over the country was not made. All this was the counterpart of the larger-scale practices of government leaders. It was traditionally thought that our colleges ought to be the training ground for future political leaders—and that student governments provided the opportunity for the learning and practice of civic duty. But colleges had but a poor chance to serve in this way—having before them, as their const model, the governments we have known in the past years. And so our colleges were training grounds for small-time politicians whose sense of honesty and ethics was as lacking as their sense of service and citizenship." Members and advisers of the university Union board have an excellent opportunity to prove that they are willing to join the new deal." One of the ten students directors last week tendered his resignation, having withdrawn from school to join the diplomatic service in Washington, D.C. In his position should be placed, not merely a student of the same social fraternity or political faith and order, but one who has proved himself a capable worker. This is mandatory if the board wishes to continue to have a personnel that is able to maintain the fine work it has been doing this year—Indiana Student Daily. MILITARY DEPARTMENT HEAD WAS BORN IN THE SERVICE Mexico, Mo., Jan. 5—(UF)—Major Sam Fuller, new head of the department of military science and tactics at the Missouri Military academy here, by designation of the war department, was "born in the service." His father, the late Captain Ezra B. Fuller of Fort Riley, spent 57 years in the army as soldier and officer. Fuller left the University of Kansas to study for a commission as American entry into the World War neared. He served overseas with the sixth cavalry and in the inspector general's department after the armistice. 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