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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY. MAY 26, 1933
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Editor-In-Chief ALFREED BROOKDEK
Associate Editors James Patterton
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Past Editor Paul Farnsworth
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Monday Editor Howard Turtle
Alumni Editor Jack Galbrith
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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933
NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK
The proposal of the W.S.G.A. to discontinue free passes to Varsities for former council members will undoubtedly meet with strong opposition in the form of protests from those directly affected by the measure. Retired councilmen and association women, enjoying this benefit—among others—for having served on the council, but not now doing the work required of the active members, can hardly be expected to give up their dance passes without a fight. Council members who retire this year will probably be loth to forego a privilege which saves them a tidy turn of money, a privilege that has been granted to their predecessors for many years.
But in spite of this opposition, the measure should be passed and put into effect. While incumbent council members may justly claim free admittance to Varsities in view of the fact that they themselves run the dances, they have little right to claim the privilege for the rest of their lives. Varsitories are supposedly all-student affairs, and as such should receive financial support from all students attending them, including those who wear council keys from previous years.
It was pointed out in the W.S.G. A. meeting, when the matter was discussed, that cash payment from only half of those using council passes this year would have meant the difference between profit and loss on the dances. Surely it is not too much to ask these students who have so faithfully served the University on the councils in previous years to contribute a little more to the welfare of their Alma Mater.
A DARNED POOR POLICY!
With the end of school rapidly approaching, some students who have run up large bills at downtown business houses are deliberately avoiding the merchants in an effort to avoid payment of their debts. They are trying to stall off the merchants until final examinations are over and they leave for home.
This is an extremely silly and short-sighted policy. Students of necessity must deal a lot with Lawrence merchants. Dishonesty of this sort which jeopardizes amicable relations between students and merchants is distinctly fule. It works a grievous harm upon future students and the merchants, who, cheated once, hesitate to advance credit again. Students have much to gain by keeping on friendly relations with business men. There is that matter of credit when the check from home is a bit overdue. When conditions such as existed during the recent bank moratorium prevail, students would be greatly handicapped if the merchants did not "play ball."
Of course, merchants have much to gain from amiable relations with students. They are dependent on student trade. Without student support, they would be harder pressed than they are now. They must realize that most students are financially embarrassed at the end of the school year. In most cases the merchants will gain nothing by an imperious attempt
at an exaction of what si due then,
because often the student is honestly broke. An understanding
leniency will be of more benefit.
Student debts are good in the
greater percentage of the cases.
It is that group of students who can pay, but who deliberately "beat" the bill and thus work real hurt to future harmony between student and business man which should receive the censure of every student and merchant.
THE RAILROADS WAKE UP
A recent announcement by the Union Pacific railroad company disclosed plans of the road to purchase a train which will be built on modern scientific principles, enabling it to attain a speed of 110 miles per hour. This is a step which the railroads should have taken a long time ago but failed to because they were afraid to risk the investment. Instead, they were content to worry along with antiquated equipment and watch business steadily decrease.
Now, with the two-fold factors of economic stress and the keen competition of the bus and airplane pressing heavily upon it, one of the major lines of the country has decided to purchase modern equipment to enable it better to compete with other transportation facilities. Eventually all railroads will have to install lighter, streamlined trains if they wish to survive. For a long time railroads have been at a standstill as far as their equipment is concerned, which fact was probably a contributing cause to their general weak condition the country over. The progressive step taken by the Union Pacific will probably point the way to better times for the railroads.
Nothing is as pathetic as the after dinner speaker who breezes through his best story to the end and then mixes his words in putting over the point.
IDLE THOUGHTS
The time is here when college students spend their class periods noting down all that has to be done before finals, and then tear up the notes and go to State Lake in the afternoon.
What is worse than a spring evening without a date?
The campus by-word—"You've made the Jayhawker humor section."
It will be interesting to note in 25 years how many of our friends have grown intellectually since they left K.U. and how many are still the same as the day they were graduated; deadbeats so to speak.
A bridegroom's car was stolen the other day just before he was to be married, and he went right down and bought another one. We like that in a man.
LET HER FLICKER!
In these four short lines, Edna St. Vincent Millay has epitomized the philosophy of life to which many of us give our allegiance. We who adhere to this doctrine are a source of worry to many who shake their heads slowly and say "Tsk! Tsk!"
These conservative heads warn us that we'll be burnt out like our candle as soon as the glamor and glitter of our mad pace is gone. But we answer, "We'll risk it! We have only so much time here, anyway, and we're not going to sit and wait for something to happen to us. We're going out to stir up something now."
"My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends it makes a lovely light."
We are called wild-eyed, and gloomy futures are predicted for us, but we go on "shooting the works" while we're young and healthy. At least when we have slowed down, as almost everyone eventually does, we can look back to the time when our light flared brightly and we lived unwisely but gaily.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
RAPTEST YOUNG PEOPLE;
BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE:
The farewell steak fry scheduled for last Sunday was postponed to this Sunday. These wishing to attend call Harold Wampler at 3088.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a. m., on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a. m., on Saturday for $1 Sunday issue.
Friday, May 26, 1933
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 $7.50 at the Business office by June 1.
GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar.
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES:
DELTA PHI DELTA:
Delta Phi Delta will hold its 25th founder's day banquet Saturday, May 27, at 6 o'clock at the Manor. Initiation will follow the banquet. Alumni are invited to attend.
FRANCES HAMLIN, President
EL ATENEO:
The annual picnic of El Ateneo will take place Monday 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 Ruf this week.
FRED JEANS, President.
GLEE CLUBS:
The combined Glee clubs are to meet in front of the Administration building at 4:30 Friday, May 26, regardless of condition of weather. Please convey this message to members of both clubs.
AGNES HUSBAND, WILLIAM PILCHER, Directors.
JAY JANES
Pledging services for new members will be held Monday at 4:30 in the central Administration building rest room, followed by initiation services for three former pledges. JESSAMINE JACKSON, President.
K BOOK:
Final deadline for calendar dates has been extended to Monday, May 29. All organizations are requested to take them to the Y.M.C.A. office, room 10 Memorial Union building, by 3:30 p.m. Please co-operate.
Examiners and seniors please call at room 105 Robinson gymnasium and
Life Saving Certificates. HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
MARGARET MELLOTT, MARGARET BEAUMONT
RED CROSS CERTIFICATES:
Y. M. C. A. LIFE SAVING SCHOOL:
examiners try-outs for M.Y.C.A. Examiners at Robinson pool Saturday s 3 p.m.
HERBERT G. A.LPHIN.
HUSBAND HUNTERS
HINT TO
Liberal News.
University women vehemently deny that they come to college to get a husband. Well, maybe not, but we'll venture that if it did just sort of happen that they did get one, it wouldn't displease them at all. But if that is their aim, some of them are proving mighty poor campaigners.
Man, whether or not he is particularly neat in his own personal appearance, wants woman to be. Evidently this fact is too frequently forgotten by college women. Buttons which have been pulled off coats are not replaced; safety or straight pins being pressed into service in their stead. Linings of coats, torn at armpits, are not tacked into place. Hose seams are not straight, but waver uncertainly up the back of the leg.
Just little, unimportant things Goodness, boys shouldn't even notice them. But they do, and if a woman really wants a chance to murmur coyly, "Oh, Egbert, this is so sudden," she'll watch those little things.
(Editor's Note: This editorial was written by a young man.)
No matter how much worse conditions get in the business world, the watch-makers will have to keep at least two hands at work.
Mah Jong, pee-wee golf, short skirts, Technoeracy, Jig-saw puzzles—what's next to pass out of the public fancy? We offer final examinations.
STILL RULES AIR
QUIPS from other QUILLS
A teacher in a Wisconsin college tells students to sing in the hath tub to develop resonance, projection and volume. People don't see how people don't set an education at college?
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Wedding Ring Long Used
A majority of students attending the economics forum last Friday were opposed to the inflation program. If inflation means higher fraternity bills, the students certainly are justified for their opposition—Calfl. Daily Bruin.
And while you are weighing inflation, there's that Akron pneumatic tire company that went bloicie—Texas Lass-O.
A North Dakota proposal would permit dentists to administer whiskey when drawing teeth. A weakness is that it limits a full-grown drinker to only 32 excuses—Oklahoma City Times.
Eugene Octave Sykes of Mississippi, whose fitness for the post of federal radio commissioner transcends all party lines, has been reappointed by President Roosevelt. He was first an assistant attorney general in 1923 when the position was first created, and was reappointed by President Hoover.
The island contained the first European settlement in the New World; it was the headquarters of a band of colonizers from North America, and it was defended against the British by the negroes under Toussaint 'Overture in 1758. Since then the island has had a variety of rulers, including a chief who raised himself emperor; a negro emperor, Christophe; two negro presidents of a republic; a third negro president manued Souloune, who declared himself king; and a number of rulers who have risen on the crest of more recent revolutions.
**Wedding king Lamp** A wedding ring is unknown. The Egprists were probably the first to use rings and in their biographics a circle represents eternity. The Romans used a plain iron ring, which was placed upon the finger of the bride by the bridegroom. Among them were pledges or "wed" to the bride at the betrothed and this pledge was a ring placed on the right hand. It was worn on the right hand until the wedding, when it was changed to the other. It is recorded that the wedding ring was used by Christians as early as 800 AD.
Paris Women Demand Lower Taxes
Some of the fashionable women of Paris, France, are here seen posting on the billboards their demands for lower taxes and full suffrage for their sex.
This Cameraman Got His Picture
When parts of southwest Philadelphia were flooded by the overflow of the Delaware river and Darley creek the news photographers had difficulty getting the pictures they wanted. One of them is shown above perched precariously in a tree with his camera in action.
New S. S. Washington Off on Trial Cruise
The S. S. Washington of the United States Lines leaves the New York shipyard, Camden, N. J., for a trial cruise to test her motors before entering the United States Lines passenger service.
Hail New Future for Corn Alcohol
Nebraska legislators and business men celebrated the arrival of the first carland of corn alcohol to be shipped into the state for motor fuel use. Prosperity is expected to return to the corn belt as a result of the congressional bill, making the use of corn alcohol in gasoline mandatory.