PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1933 University Daily Kansas Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Editor-in-Chief ... AL FREDA BROBDECK Associate Editors James Patterns Editor Charles Stuttmatt Manager Editor ARNOLD KRETTMANN Makeup Editor Margaret Greppes Creative Director Geertchen Grotlau Sensory Editor Gretenchner Grotlau Night Editor Gretenchner Grotlau Skincare Editor Paul Woodnassen Sunday Editor James Patterson Wednesday Editor Paul Woodnassen Alumni Editor Howard Turtle Advertising Manager MARGARET INCE Marketing Manager Kansan Board Member Robert Whitman Margaret Icce Sally Snail Kevin Kramer Riley Millington Martha Lawrence. Alfreda Bredough Arnold Kretmann Dorothy Smith Arnold Kretmann Virgil Parker Business Office KU 16 Coffee Shop KU 17 Night Connection, Business Office, KU 18 Train Station KU 19 Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Department of Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance, Single copies, 6 each. advance. Single copies, be each. Advance the bill on September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kannas. SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1933 MEMORIAL DAY Memorial day came into being during Civil War times, when some Confederate women decorated the graves of the soldiers from both North and South. It is now observed each year, but not altogether by decorating the graves of the dead. It has become little more in sentiment than just another holiday, to many people. Memorial day is an excellent time to attend a ball game or have a picnic. It is only natural that it should be so. A holiday means a chance for recreation to those who work. It is only fitting and proper, however, that we carry in our hearts some deep sentiment for the veterans of our wars to whom this day is dedicated. The soldiers of the Civil War are almost gone now, and those still alive are very old, but there are many men who fought in the Great war. All of the living and dead who risked life and health for their country deserve very special recognition on this day set aside in their honor. We must not forget the origina significance of Memorial Day. The Lawrence policemen are already worrying about the hot job they are going to have this summer riding around marking tires. There will be a suntan easily acquired! HAVE STUDENTS A RIGHT TO THINK? Should college students criticize the educational system, suggesting methods by which they think it can be improved? Or should they accept it just as it is, simply because it has been accepted in the past? Students are encouraged to think about economics, world relations, literature, arts, and every other field of study. Why then should they not be encouraged to study the educational system itself, to criticize it where they feel that criticism is justified and needed, to recommend even revolutionary changes if they feel that those changes are necessary and that they can defend their point of view? Students, as well as professors, should think seriously about the educational system, setting up what seems to them the ideal system and thinking in terms of approaching that ideal as closely as is practicable. If the present system, with its grades, its degrees, its inadequate advisory system, its compulsory class attendance, can be justified, its defendants need fear nothing from the advocates of progressive education. If it cannot be defended against recommended changes, then there is no reason for its continuance. If there is anything about which the student should think, and should form his opinions, it is the method by which he is gaining his education. He has a right to demand that the educational system be organized in such a way as to give him the best possible training to live his life more completely. He has a right to criticize, where he feels that criticism is justified, and when he can defend his criticism. KIRO DAM Native Kansans have not only looked the gift horse straight in the mouth, but have declared that they do not want it grazing in their front yard. The gift horse is the suggested Kiro dam, which is to control the ups-and-downs of the Kaw River. By driving 23,000 persons from their homes 15,000 persons could be given employment for 18 months. This project would cost the government the sum of $455-000,000 and the state of Kansas a good number of valley towns including St. Marys and Wamego. Some of the best farm land in the state would be turned into swamps in an attempt to avert floods and help river navigation on the Missouri river. There has not been a bad flood in the Kaw valley since 1903. In the thirty years since that time there have been high waters, but not bad floods. It would seem a waste of money to spend $45,000,-000 to avert floods that come only every thirty years. If success could be assured from this plan the objections might be overlooked. In flat country like Kansas, however, it has been impossible to stop floods. Oklahoma City spent $5,000,000 and suffered from high water less than a year ago. We can see no reason for an experiment that will cost many people their homes and millions of the tax pavers' dollars. It would be a better investment to attempt flood control on rivers like the Neosho and Marias des Cygnes, where floods are a yearly occurrence. After all, conservation work on these streams should necessitate the moving of towns. WHAT? NO CRAMMING? Along about this time of year the usual number of editorials and professorial extortions begin to appear on the evils of crammings and the great benefit to be derived from getting each lesson when due, thus eliminating all cause for last-minute storing of facts. How ridiculous this theory is can be realized by analysis. A person who has neglected his work all semester must necessarily cram if he is to have any facts for the examination. But take the case of the student who has conscientiously worked all term—do you suppose that that type of student would let the final fall on him without many hours of careful preparation? He probably far outstudies his less ambitious classmate. It simply isn't a final without last-minute cramming. It's like pie a-la-mode without ice-cream—extremely flat. It is about time for students to begin the annual game of dodging the merchants until school is out so they can escape paying their bills. Just an old college custom. Yes, millions of men have died in battle for no good reason. National boundaries and new territories have been defended and acquired at a terrific cost in human life. Lands and beliefs that in time will mean little or nothing have exacted the dying loyalty of mankind. THEY DIED IN VAIN And yet, knowing all this, men allow themselves to be coerced into war with all its attendant immediate miseries and that inevitable hangover that perverts the lives of those who live in the period after the war. We seem so little able to grasp the meaning of life. We fight valiantly for causes that ordinarily would not receive our attention if it were not for "pepped up" desires. We enlarge upon things that are so trivial if we could only see the whole of life. The answer apparently is that we are too easily led. We accept without question the opinions and preachments of leaders who, in many cases, have not attained their offices on true merits. We must be guided by reason rather than personalities. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Noticees due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:39 a.m. n. m. Saturday for Sunday issues. Vol. XXX Sunny, July 25, 1948 103, 116 Sunday, May 28, 1933 The University Bond will meet at Eighth and Massachusetts street Tuesday May 30, at 9:45 a.m. to play in the parade. Appor in full uniform. BAND: J. C. McCANLES, Director. Final sales meetings will be held at 8:30 tomorrow evening, May 29, and at 7:30 Wednesday evening. May 31, in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union Attend either meeting. Highly important. CLAYTON M. CROSIER. BEACON CITY WORKERS: CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES: All students expecting to graduate in June or to take part in the commencement exercises if finishing in summer session should pay the diploma fee of $7.59 at the Business office by June 1. GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar. The annual picnic of El Atenco will take place tomorrow afternoon, May 29, on the University Golf Course. We shall meet in front of 117 Administration building at 4 o'clock. All members of the club and Spanish faculty are urged to be present. Those who have not paid this semester's dues are requested to see Virginia Rufi this week. FRED JEANS, President. EL ATENEO: JAY JANES: Pledging services for new members will be held tomorrow at 4:30 in the central Administration building rest room, followed by initiation services for three pledges. JESSAMINE JACKSON, President. STUDENTS DESIRING WORK FOR SUMMER: If you desire lucrative work for the summer, either full time or part time, see me at once in room 10 of the Memorial Union. CLAYTON M. CROSIER. A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE The end of another school year brings again the usual exodus of many students to the small home-towns. By many this departure is regarded as a lark in which they can go back and shock all the "old fogies who don't know they're living." The great majority of them think it entirely in keeping with a college education to return to the native village and put on airs that will distinguish them from their less educated and less traveled friends. To be able to be pointed out as "the girl who's been to K. U." is an ideal worth achieving, but to be so indicated because of riotous and unconventional behavior is another matter. Nothing is so indicative of bad taste as the desire to show off. How much better to be able to return to the town with those same primary ideals and good manners strengthened and increased by the contacts made at college. Can't we go home this year and leave an impression of real education founded on worthy principles, bringing glory to the school at which we study, instead of leading them to believe that we really are the vulgar, uncouth, profane, lazy mortals they read and hear about? BE MORE CAREFUL Students do their share of singing the blues about the hard times, never realizing that they could probably cut down their own expenses and in a roundabout way help much to relieve their own hardship as well as those of their families. By being more conservative with notebook paper, and in the treatment of material furnished them, they could help themselves in the long run. With all the dogs which have taken over the campus, someone ought to be able to arrange a good old-fashioned dog - fight before school is out. Efficiency in school should be practiced with the same force as in large industrial plants. Remember way back when you used to get a thrill out of being able to have a banker among your list of social acquaintances? IN FLANDERS FIELDS By Lt. Col. John McCrae In Flanders Fields the pipelines blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark out place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, Fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sun glow. Loved and were loved, and now we Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you, from falling hands, we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though people grew In Flanders Fields. THE LIVING BUDDHA In Flanders Fields. The almost traditional figure of the Panchen Lama (or the living Buddha), has emerged from his seclusion in the fastnesses of his native Tibet and established the headquarters of his religion 'in the Tat Ho Tien. The hall in Peking where foreign envoys were sent to confer with the days of the Mongol dynasty. The above exclusive photograph is the first picture to be made of the man who rules over the religious fervor of approximately 500,000,000 people. "MISS HUNGARY" TYPICAL 1934 BEAUTY This favored young lady, June Glory, is said to fit perfectly the requirements hid down by beauty experts who attended the international beauty convention at Hollywood, Calif. Her measurements are: Height, 5 feet 5 inches; waist, 13½ inches; shoulders, 39 inches; waist, 25 inches; bust, 35 inches;hips, 30 inches; thigh, 20½ inches; and calf, 13¾ inches. > CNIC Miss Rose Tyndoe, eleventh-year-old beauty from Passaic, N. J., who was selected from thousands of Hungarian girls living in the United States as the most beautiful of all girls. she. Also, her prize that went with the honor is a free trip to the World's fair in Chicago. Italy Decorates American Doctor Dr. Chevillon Jackson, professor of bronchoscopy at Temple university, Philadelphia, was decorated with the highest honor medal given by the Italian government in recognition of his services to humanity through the branchoscope which he invented. A scene in the printing room of the United States bureau of engraving and printing, where the $2,000,000,000 in currency was turned out in a few days to supplement the currency in circulation before the bank holiday, ordered by President Roosevelt. This is one of the first pictures made in the bureau of engraving and printing in many years, and was made on the occasion of Secretary of Treasury Woodin's inspection of the new money. Turning Out Millions and Millions of Dollars Prehistoric Life in Kentucky Uncovered Here are some of the skeletons and relics brought to light during the excavations near Wickliffe, Ky., now being carried out by Fain W. King, retired Paducah lumberman, which archaeologists agree furnish the best pictures ever discovered of prehistoric life in the United States. From the great number of skeletons found, they believe this may have been the site of a metropolis 3,000 years ago.