PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CHILES COLEMA Carol Widen ... William Illzard MANAGING EDITOR MARGARET GRECC Campus Editor Bob Smith Make-up Editor Dean Landis Sports Editor Hercy Hayford Bilanz Editor William Hillman Exchange Editor George Lerickson Alumni Editor Vibh Gossen Society Director Gretchen Coghlan Society Editor Josephine Coghlan . Margaret Gregg Chiles Coleman Dorothy Smith Roe Lee Jimmy Mannan Jimmy Ferry Greghew Leland Larry Sterling Paul Woodmance Vigor Parker Phil Smith Smith Advertising Manager ... Clarence E. Mundis Circulation Manager ... Marion Beauty IT Services Business Office K.U. 6 Middle School K.U. 4 Night Connection Business Office 701K5 Health Care K.U. 2 Technical Support K.U. 3 Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednes- day morning except during school holidays by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kaunas, from the Press of the Shannon税率 per year, $14.00 ean in September. Entered as second class master. September Entered as third class master. September Entered as second class master, September 19, 1810, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash in advance, $2.25 on payments. Single copies, 8c WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6.1933 KING ON THE COURT After a fair to middling football season, sport followers on the campus will soon turn to basketball with justifiable confidence. The University may be pardoned for its pride in a uniformly good basketball team. There is a poetic coincidence in the fact that the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, should be connected with a school which shines year after year in this particular sport. The popularity of basketball here has always insured student support, as well as luring thousands of visitors every season to see one or more of the games. But if the Jayhawkers occupy an enviable position on the basketball court, it likewise is a difficult one. A mediocre cage team is not permitted at Kansas. The University squad must win the championship or it is considered a great disappointment. A year ago it was ... days till Christmas. This year it has been ... days till repeal. MEMORIAL UNION PROGRESS Within a very few weeks the work on the second floor of the Memorial Union building, which was started before the Thanksgiving vacation, will have been completed, and another step will have been taken toward the realization of the dream of those who planned a lasting and useful memorial to the University's war dead. It is particularly fitting that this latest improvement in the Memorial Union should be made entirely with student money. The Union management has fulfilled its promise to complete the ballroom if the student activity ticket was voted in by the students last spring. Only money from the activity ticket fund is being used in the work now in progress. As the Memorial Union is completed step by step, new advantages, new facilities become available to the students, who are themselves responsible for the progress that is being made. The Union is theirs to use, and they have the satisfaction of knowing that it is, in a measure, their memorial as well. GOVERNOR ROLPH'S RESPONSIBILITY Said the governor of California to the San Jose mob, "You will be pardoned." But of course the governor will not stop there. Being the kind of a governor that he is, he fully realizes the responsibility upon his shoulders. For in condoning the action of the mob in lynching two state prisoners, the California executive has admitted basic weaknesses in the judicial system of the state over which he has ruled so wisely and so well. He has all too clearly indicated that he is more willing to trust that the justice for which he so earnestly strives can best be accomplished outside the law at the present time. If democracy is to be preserved, then, Governor Rolph has, by his action, given to himself the task of providing an immediate and satisfactory remedy for the conditions which caused the lynching. With full confidence, then, we of America will watch as the governor of California with righteous indignation springs into action to correct the faults which he has acknowledged in his state's judicial system. We will watch him with eagerness as he deals with this case in the same clear-thinking, far-seeing, and just manner that has marked his treatment of Tom Mooney. We expect great things of GovernorROLph, and of course, we shall not be disappointed. "It is a funeral procession?" asked the catty Jayhawker root as he passed the slow-moving Missouri alleyway 10 after the game Thursday. A WORD TO THE WISE The turkey hash of Thanksgiving will scarcely be forgotten before Christmas turkeys will be gobbling from the front of grocery stores, so closely does this holiday season follow Thanksgiving. Students returned to their work this week absorbed in the distracting spirit of Christmas. And who can help it, when the cities breathe of pine decorations along their business thoroughfares and glitter at night in a multi-colored array of lights, when even Santa Claus comes to town, when school and community plans in the rural districts center around the theme of Christmas. The two and one-half weeks' interval between the two holidays will serve only to disorganize the student unless he remembers and wisely prepares for the fact that the first semester has a habit of ending abruptly soon after Christmas. All of a sudden, then, the mentally short-sighted are brought up against a high-piled wall of term themes, reports, exams, and back work. It will be well for them to remember this during these few days before Christmas. "A word to the wise is sufficient." Or should be. Current Screen Anyone who sees Margaret Sullavan in "Only Yesterday" and does not experience a catch at the throat or feel a moistness in the eye is not human. This is a powerful drama of a woman's unrequited love, and in it Miss Sullivan does a bit of super act which is strengthened by the fine support which she receives from John Boles, Billie Burke and the rest of the cast. The story is good, the photography excellent and the portrayal splendid. Several closeup shots of Miss Sullavan, a newcomer to the screen, make one appreciate her beauty and charm. She has a successful screen career head of her if the standard she has set in "Only Yesterday" is maintained. A girl of nineteen falls in love with a handsome young soldier who leaves for France before he has a chance to marry her. The girl goes to New York to have her baby and stays on there. She meets the father of the child does not recognize her. The way in which she girl deals with her problem makes a touching story. "Only Yesterday," which is now playing at the Varsity, undoubtedly deserves a place among the great pictures of the year. Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men, now playing at the Patee Theater, is not altogether what the title would lead one to suppose. Aggie does make one man and remakes another, but that is the extent of her operations. The procedure is not undertaken on a wholesale scale as the title would indicate. The story is brief this: A hard-boiled New York moll (Wynne Gibson) starts living with a distinct toughie (William Gargan). He soon goes to prison, however, for putting several cops in the hospital. Aggie, having no place to come into the Bon Ton Chambers where she sits with a sissy from upstate (Charles Pardon) who is looking for a "position." She takes it upon herself to make a man out of him, and succeeds. But when Red the toughie gets out of jail she goes back to him and to start to make a gentleman out of him. This plot has possibilities, but loses a large part of its effectiveness through OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN A. S. M. E.: Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1933 Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. for Sunday issue. All mechanical engineers are invited to the regular meeting of the A.S.M.E. to be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Marvin hall. The members of the A.L.M.E. will be guests. An interesting motion picture will be shown. No. 55 The material for the cold control tests has been received. All those who have offered to help in this test and any others interested, either students or faculty members please report to the Watkins Memorial hospital before Dec. 10. OLD CONTROL TESTS: DRAMATIC CLUB: FORD DICKIE, Secretary. The K.U. Dramatic club will meet Thursday night at 8 o'clock in Green hall. GENE HIBIS, President. ENGLISH LECTURE: We will meet from 7 to 8 o'clock this evening instead of our usual day, Thursday. Mildred Mitchell will acquaint the group with the lives of some Negro poets and their poetry. WANDA EDMONDS. Prof. J E Harkins will give a lecture to English majors, graduate students in English, and to others interested, today at 4:30 p.m. in room 205 Fraser. The tonic of his lecture will be "The Writing of Poetry." INTERRACIAL GROUP: W. S. JOHNSON JAY JANES: Jay Jones will meet at 4:30 today in room 216 Administration building Don't forget the bell. JESSAMINE JACKSON, President. MEN'S GLEE CLUB OCTET: THE TREND MOVES ON The octet of the Men's Glee club will meet tonight at 7:30 instead of 8:30 in room 32 Administration building. JOE BUEHLER, President. MINING SEMINAR; The Mining Seminar will meet jointly with the A.S.M.E. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, in room 210 Marvin. The feature will be a motion picture on the manufacture of cast-iron pipe. C. D. CANTRELL Quack club will meet tonight at 8:15. QUACK CLUB: Y. M. C. A. : The increasingly noticeable trend in American educational policies to place the responsibility for his own well being upon the individual student is exemplified in a recent step taken at the University of California. Quack club will meet tonight at 8:15. Attention will be directed toward fields of study, rather than courses and units. It is interesting to note that the matter of choice between the old system and the proposed system will be arbitrary with the student. The person who We must protect the legislators who vote the country into war, and the armament makers who insist on big armies and navies, and the officers who earn their money by ordering others into horrible deaths. Unless we protect and encourage such people, we will not prevent the battles warring, and nobody wants a world without wars—except the 'pink tea pacificists'—Minnesota Daily. The regular weekly meeting of the Y.M.C.A. cabinet will be held tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in room 10 of the Memorial Union building. Y. W. C. A. CABINET: he obviously forced attempts of the actors to stay in character. Zasu Pits, chambermaid at the Bon Ton Chambers and friend of Aggie, comes through with a number of wiscracks which provide comedy relief and constitute most of the good points of the picture. Y. W. C. A. CABINET. The Advisory board will entertain the cabinet tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Ford Motor Building, 30 West Fifth Street, New York, NY 10024. Our Contemporaries Generals, like presidents and senators and armament makers, do not have to go to war. They belong to the class of people who make wars, not fight them. Their place is a hundred miles behind the lines, where they can order the troops about without being in any danger. FRANCES BALLARD, President. Effective next semester, a plan for "credit by examination" without enrollment in courses has been inaugurated at the university mentioned above. The proposal as adopted by the Academic Senate of the western institution is considered in the same light as the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin. The present system at the University of Wisconsin follows to a degree the Oxford and Gerardian Professors. Prof Joel H. Hildebrand, a leader in laying out the plan, points out that "the success of this departure from educational precedent depends upon student co-operation. It can develop student intelligence, initiative, and responsibility, as well as aid educational improvement, and incidentally, economy." But now some impertinent French aviator comes forward with a plan to have the generals direct the battles from airplanes flying over the battlefield. His idea is that the general will be enabled to direct his troops to better advantage if he is able to see personally the comparative strengths and positions of both sides. But the suggestion is preposterous. The general might get hurt. A stray bullet might hit the airplane, or the enemy might even try and shoot it. The general might get a little airstick, or be frightened at being so high off the ground, or the plane to the plane in landing. Why, almost anything might happen! Our generals are far too precious to have their lives risked by any such scheme as this. They must be kept fresh and unworried so that they will be in condition to send them in just lots of battles. is unwilling to stake his chance for credit on a single examination may take the simpler and more definite "described" plan of study. Students wishing to concentrate their study in a field not now covered by the educational scope of that university will be allowed to follow their chosen specialty, with the one restriction that their choice must be academic. The move taken at California stands as another example of the fact that progressive educators are paying more and more attention to the development of student initiative and self-responsibility. That no perfect plan has been devised is witnessed by the multiplicity of proposals. The American universities will never present—this is especially true of the land grant colleges—a facsimile reproduction of the Oxford and German university systems. As educational democracies they must adopt their curricula and policies to the education of widely variant groups, whereas the German or Oxford student class may be more simply assigned to a definite category. The land grant colleges can never exist as educational aristocracies. On the other hand they should be, and now are, recognizing that student growth not best under conditions which smother the pre-graduation personal preparatio for technical, scientific, or intellectual careers -Purdue Exponent. REMEMBER, YOU'RE ONLY ONE OF THE CLASS "What time it is?" comes a much toed udible stage whisper from the fellow across the aisle as he yawns, looks bored and disturbs everyone around him when his class time is about half over. Perhaps this question gives someone else he polite inspiration to painstakingly send his words, adding to the proficiency. Maybe the room is warm. Maybe the professor is a bit tiresome and maybe you are not overly interested in the course. Remember, however, that even the brightest of students can undoubtedly learn something from the dullest instructor on the campus. Remember also that some of these their students around you may be vitally interested in this course. It may mean you are interested in one day-dollars and its value to them. Remember also that some of these other students around you may not be as fortunate as yourself. Many students staying by the heat of their now. They appreciate the chance they have to enjoy these classes that are such a bore to you. Well, be bored, but keep it to yourself—Iowa State Student. Hammond to Speak Here Harold A. Hammond of the Caldwell Daily Messenger will speak here Friday, Dec. 8, to the journalism students. His subject will be "A Survey of Reader's Interest." Mr. Hammond has recently made a study of which parts of the paper are most read by the general public and of the greatest interest. He will speak at 3:30 in room 102 of the Journalism building. The House of Pleasing Pictures DICKINSON TONIGHT and TOMORROW - A New Star - - A New Star - DOROTHEA WIECK "The New Thrill of the Screen" in "CRADLE SONG" Also Selected Short Subjects Til 7 - 15c — Then - 25c FRIDAY and SATURDAY LaVerne Kurtz FAN DANCER IN PERSON ON THE SCREEN "TEXAS TORNADO" Want Ads twenty-five words or 1,000 ; **l**: inscription; **3**: inscription; **large** ad- pronta; **WANT** ADS. **ARE** ACCOMPANIED BY CASH. **ACCOMPANIED** BY CASH. 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And this picture picture... wonder of all time! CHARLES LAUGHTON IN The Private Life of HENRY VIII Starting Tomorrow SALE of our Highest Quality SUITS $2950 Despite the fact that the suits we have already purchased for next season will be from $5 to $10 higher, we are offering these at the above low price for the simple reason that we have too many. This includes our entire stock of fine suits—nothing reserved. Sale of Cord Pants Thursday - Friday - Saturday Only 250 pairs in Blue, Tan, Gray, Brown Regularly $3.45 READY FOR CHRISTMAS BUYING