PAGE TWO MONDAY. MARCH 27. 193 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief PAUL V. MINER Associate Editors Chile Columbo Managing Editor Massimo Borgia Campus Editor Margaret Borgia Sport Editor Martin Borgia Arnold Kerkemann Society Editor Joseph Edler Summa Editor Daniel Serra Advertising Manager MARGARET INCE District Manager Jack Gallahre Robert Whitman, Margaret Povey Matthew Krosn Bert Millipen Alfreda Droesch Ira McKay Terry Smith Timothy Smith Muriel Kline **Termination** Business Office K.U. 69 News Room K.U. 27 Night Connection, Business Office 2701K Night Connection, News Room 2701K Published in the afternoon, by times a week and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Florida, on the Press at the Department of Journalism. MONDAY, MARCH 27.1933 Subscription price, $4.66 per year, available advance. Single copies, Se each. Entered as secondclass matter September 19, 14th, at the office at lawrence, Kannan. BEST FOR EVERYONE In the face of agitation to test the constitutionality of the act exempting the fraternities from the three years back taxes, X. J. Kennedy county commissioner, has taken the stand that the wisest thing to do under the circumstances would be to let the whole matter drop. In the first place, as the commissioner points out, the real thing the county has been fighting for during the past three years has been achieved. The organized houses have been placed on the tax rolls and beginning this year, they will pay the assessment. The county budget has not been made up to include the money that would be derived from collection of the back taxes, and there will be no deficit from this source that would require an extra levy on the tax-payers. On the other hand, if the county did win its point and collect the entire amount assessed during the three years, the part of it that would stay in the county treasury would hardly be large enough to reduce the tax rate appreciably. Then, too, in all probability a majority of the fraternities would be unable to meet the back taxes. In that case obligation for payment would fall on the mortgage holder of the property, and in almost every case that agency is one whose stock is owned chiefly by Lawrence taxpayers, so that the money would simply be going around in a circle. What is probably a satisfactory solution to the problem of fraternity taxation has already been reached. It is likely that the county can gain little by insisting on re-opening the case. The best possible procedure, from the viewpoints of everyone concerned, would be to drop the entire matter as Commissioner Kennedy recommends. Now that Senator Boehner has had his first conference with the President, we feel confident that Mr. Roosevelt will help us to recovery. SILLY TAX REDUCTION PROPOSALS Tax payers' leagues and organizations often carry their proposals for economy and tax reduction to absurd and ludicrous ends. They become so fanatical in their devotion to the cry of "cut taxes" that they lose their perspective and come to say things that are down-right silly. The recent statement of a spokesman for the Nebraska Federation of Tax Payers' Leagues is an example. According to this lobbyist Nebraska University and the state normal schools should be self-ustaining. All state appropriations should be eliminated, he says, and the schools forced to maintain themselves on their own revenues. The burden would fall upon the student should such a proposal be accepted. The schools would be forced to raise tuition charges and fees to such a plane that only children of very rich families would be able to receive the benefits of education. For others the cost would be prohibitive. Such a plan would be a reversion to educational conditions of fifty years ago, when children of wealthy parents attended school and those not so fortunate, situated had no such advantage. Then, people dissatisfied with this condition where only a few were favored, provided for education of all children, paid for by all tax payers. Under that system has been built up the excellent system of secondary and higher education that America enjoys today. Shortsighted educational proposals of this type should be laughed into obscurity. NEWS REEL PROPAGANDA During the past few years the companies issuing the so-called news reels which form a part of most motion picture programs have shown a decided tendency to enter the field of propaganda by presenting biased viewpoints as impartial observations. Often this is a result of more enthusiasm for a cause, but not infrequently it is the result of a deliberate attempt to trick the audience by imposing upon its child-like faith in the authenticity and impartiality of the "news" it sees on the screen. Just now there is showing a news reel containing views of the nation's naval forces. Accompanying the pictures is a monologue by an enthusiastic announcer, who deplores the weakness of the United States navy, telling in exact detail just how many battleships, cruisers, and so forth, are necessary for "naval security." Without attempting to debate the question of reduction of armaments, it is necessary to point out that it is hardly fair to force this sort of thing on an audience that pays its money to be amused. Penaganda has little place in commercialized entertainment. In the era of crossword puzzles people did enlrage their concerns in this period of big-sig population only then relevance develops. DEJECTION He sits on the back row, as far in the corner as possible. He seems almost to be trying to hide behind the steam pipes going up against the wall. He scarcely ever looks up from his book, but just sits there with his head down, a look of dejection on his face. He doesn't even move his feet when someone is passing, even though they're in the way. He looks sick. His hair is long and his clothes are worn. He never speaks to anyone. What has he been through? What price is he paying for an education? What does he think of life? Could I help him some by being friendly? CROOKED VOTING Every year in the men's election, there are crooked votes cast. Sometimes one party wins the election when actually the other party was favored by the votes legitimately cast. Often freshmen are sent to the polls to vote for someone who is out of town or who is in the hospital. The Council has just taken action penalizing students convicted of illegal voting by a maximum loss of five hours' credit. Both parties should co-operate to make this a fair election. The success of student government depends on the confidence of the students in their Council, and this confidence is in great part lost if students feel that the election has been unfair. Saturday at a meeting of editors of small Kansas dailies, the question was brought up, "How shall we make people appreciate our papers?" One suggestion was to declare a seven-day newspaper APPRECIATING THE NEWSPAPER Isn't all this worrying and stewing and fretting about getting people to appreciate the newspaper wasted effort? Wouldn't it be better for the editor to go ahead and put out the best paper he can, sincerely and honestly making every effort to be of service to the com- phinlay on the theory that if people were deprived of their daily work, then they would realize what a necessary and real service it was performing. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN No. 135 Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication day and 11:38 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. The Advanced Standing commission will meet tomorrow at Henley house at 4:30. RUTH ROWLAND, President. Monday, March 27, 1933 Vol. XXX Monday, March 27, 1933 ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION OF Y. W. C. A.: The hick may dress like a city man, but his uncrumpled fenders give him away—Daily Trojan. There is at least one difference between a preacher and a doctor. The doctor gets paid for it when he makes a special person—Greeley County Republican. The Kayhawk club will meet this evening at 7:30 in room 5 Memorial Union. All non-fraternity men are urged to attend. CONYERS HERRING, Vice President. KAYHAWK CLUB: PI LAMBDA THETA: The date for the initiation service for the new members has been moved to Wednesday. The time, 7:30; the place, 116 Fraser; initiates meet in 165 Fraser hall. Dean Schwegel will speak following the initiation on "The Teacher on Main Street." MARGARET E. BORETS, Secretary. RECOMMENDATIONS COMMITTEE The Recommendations committee of the Men's Student Council will meet at 9:30 in room 16 of the Memorial Union. Anyone having accommodation must be registered by 8:50. anu Beta Pi will meet in 115 Marvin at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. RAY HUNTER, Secretary. TAU BETA PI: THETA EPSILON: Important business meeting of Theta Epiphany will be hold at 7 o'clock to meet evening at 1124 Mississippi Street. All members to be提前会议 munity, and then, knowing that he had done his best, not care a rap whether or not he is "appreciated" by his readers? The feeling of having only performed an appointed job should be as satisfying to the ego of the editor as having a group of subscribers come in every night and pat him on the back. Our Contemporaries IN FEUDIAN FASHION Psychologists, particularly those who act as parrots for Freud, like to remind the world that women of college age are passing through an emotional turmoil. They will have difficulty and finesse on the part of their elders. It would be a great burden off the shoulders of these college women if they could believe that all their own petitions, stupid jealousies, insignificant hopes of each other were due to their age. The rapidity with which women undergraduates take offense and the duration of their antagonisms often make them feel uncomfortable on earth for inhabitants. Each one considers her own feelings of most importance, and it is rarely that a college woman will make a sacrifice to meet mental ease of a fellow student. Perhaps it would be better if the psychologists stopped attempting to teach immature minds mature facts. Perhaps it would be of more value to the student if he knew a little less about himself, and learned instead how to control his conduct. If the college woman were not quite so prominently aware of her own status, she would not indulge in the orgies of moods and impurity that she now seems to feel are necessary to her successful existence. RAY HUNTER, Secretary. Now is the time that all good mem count on the aid of the library—Oregon State Daily Barometer. Such a program of procedure might deprive the woman undergraduate of the knowledge she would learn how to. But in place she would learn how to, and which would not only be for her床 but also for her fellow residents. The psychological theories can be saved until the student's mind is open to understanding —Syracuse Daily Orange. Business Shows Burst of Speed at Banks Open—headline. By now most people have forbidden that business travelers go to in 1923 — A.R. in the Daily Cardinal. HORACE GREELY—MOVE OVER Auguste Picard says to modern youth "Go up--young man-go up." J. J. in the Chicago Daily Maroon. One suggestion to end the depression is that we put the farmers in the political offices because they don't know how to spend money, and put the polling machines to work. They don't know how to create a surplus University of South Dakota Volunteer. QUIPS from other QUILLS --anything else happen? Years we went on from Copah that night, and the following week was ahead of us all the way to Red desert. At a little village called Atropia, we had a fat tire; and after we had changed to the sparse, we found we were out of gas. We were delayed for two days and we went on up the mountain we ran into another of the mysterious robberies. The commissary at a mine had been booted and set on fire, and two men in the back hurried to payroll money were murdered. Of course, there was no evidence that the three men in the Flecwing had done it; but we knew that their car was stolen and Atropia just be fore we got there." The Black Box of Silence By Francis Lynde Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers (WNU Service) (Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.) THE STORY CHAPTER 1 - Having demonstrated the ability to silence a sneeze, the "Black Box" which he built, owen Landis, young inventor, in his room. A confessional, confides to his chum, Wally Murray, the device he learns, in exploded might be a black box is stolen from a safe in a black box is stolen from a safe in a CHAPTER II- Landsie tells Markham "The potato, beige inside him, knowing the inventor of the potato," in *Lawson*, with whom the inventor had worked. The footprint found beneath the window of the house beneath the window of the potato. CHAPTER II—BETTY, daughter of a Marsham, BHI and Markham, both he and Landa believe himself to have suspicion, but to assume the cast to one of Betty's roles in the cast to one of her role in him. Herbert Canby, a stranger in downtown, who is posing home from the theater the previous week, drives a car. Marsham does not tell Landis how he deliberately stole the inventor's socks; his socks are unthinkable, but the evidence that she was present at the time proves she was present at the time. CHAFTER IV, lv—Markham,芜湖. He got up from his hotel room in his hotel room, and he wandered a volleyer and a complete set of burglar's valves and a burglary kit to the hotel valves and burglar's kit to the hotel valves and burglar's kit in his room. That night the safe in his room was blown open and locked, the valves were bleached and loaded that his "black bag" is in the bank and he beared, Landis, with Markham, who beared, Landis, with Markham, who beared, Landis, with Markham, who beard CHAPTER V-At Partidale they find the Barefoot Boat, riding in a Flowering, strangler, riding in a Flowering, ville, are the only possible campuses, the only schools in the ville, are the only possible campuses, the only schools in the ville, are CHAPTER VI--White he and Ladies in the carriage, he boys another, and wrecked, he boys another, and huge town of Copah they get news of her house in the City they meet pretty, she lives in the house and her father's journey. Marshman by and the three Louisville men which marched to the train station TAPHID VILL - A M. Brewster they want. West on business connected with Weston, where she and her father are with his guests, as well CHAPTER 19 MIR-KEHAN and Lau- den wiliing. They find the commissary of wiliing. They find the commissary of and robbed and two men killed. Again At Brewster they found the arrival of a dumb boy in the river. Villiam Star- man is a dumb boy in the river. William as to Carrie's crookedness he evi- dges HAULTER IN —兰姆斯, dependant on her father, loves with Canye, is encouraged by her love with Canye, is encouraged by her investigation a burned auto, off the road, the driver of which she determined the shooters declare they shot them, while they were burial Evidence. In addition to that, the射击 was attempted. CHAPTER XII CHAPTER 6 - Retrieve, with Betta, Buffalo and Baltimore. Baltimore marshalled off two men who swapped their weapons. A man from Louisville are registered. And Louisville have been followed, and Landis, have been followed, and Landis, have been followed. CHAPTER XI. - Seeking Lands, Markham is decimated into taking a trip from Brewer, and gets back both Bettie and Landz are missing. Unable to determine from which of the confusing passages the sounds were coming, he found it at fast key. He slipped in the foot of the steep incline down which he aid, digging his beens in and clutching for hand-holds, the flickering light above. She stopped, a woman. She was sitting on the floor of the passage with her back to the walt, and she was crying. Quickly he moved over to the door, her "baby" he gasped. "What under heaven are you doing here? Tell me, what's happened? How did you come?" She pointed, and, following her gesture, he saw a mine bucket stanching at the end of the passage, with a rope wrapped upward in a chimney-like shaft. "that is the way I came," she said, "I was lowered in that bucket from somewhere up above. I'm glad I can see what they were doing with me." "You couldn't see? Were you blind- folded, too?" "hes; were you?" "I was, indeed." Then, "You're not there." "Yes; were you?" "No-not when I can reach out and touch somebody that I know." "All right; I blow the candle out and save it. It's the only one there." And with the pichie touch, "Now, tell me all about it." "You'll hardly believe me when I do, Owen. You knew that Wally and I had dinner with the Smiths at Hillcrest, didn't you?" "Yes; Wally got me on the phone at the hotel and told me." "Well, we left about nine o'clock or a little before, and were stopped on the way by two men who pulled Wally out of the room. We were murder him, I don't know which, Mr. Smith came up just in time. Then we drove on and when we reached the Stillings' the house was all dark and they had broken down, told me, when I phone了 to her from the Smiths', that she and Mr. Stillings might not be at home when I came back, and that if they weren't, and the girl was gone, I find a key under the mat." "You didn't find the key?" "I didn't look for it. The night was so still and pleasant that I sat in one of the porch chairs to enjoy it. Wally's five minutes when another car drove up. The man who got out of it had on a white uniform and said he was one man. When they arrived, and that daddy had just been brought in from the fossil beds badly injured, I didn't stop to think, just flew down to the car into the car. The man got in with me. "I just a few minutes the man抓 a bandage over my eyes and put it on me, then the story about daddy was just a make-up to get me away from the house and into the car. I tried to get him back, but he didn't do any good, and when it was over he had me tied and blindfolded and was threatening me with a pistol." "I don't think we'd been going more than fifteen minutes before the car stopped and I was made to get out and search for me. They were somewhere underground. When they finally let me stop, they put me into that wooden bucket thing, untied my hands so I could hold on, and low-key walk around there. What does it all mean, Owen?" "It seems to mean that somebody, or may be a bunch of somebodies, wanted to get you and Wally and me out of the way, for some reason." "You know how we-Wally and I came through from Carthage. There were roads on the way. We seemed to be close behind a gang of safe blowers. Since we were right behind them all the girls were out playing their quirks along the road. We soon learned that there were three men like us. They were nice mennesses menness menness them themselves; and from some suplelous circumstances we began to wonder if they would come back." "At a little town in Kansas Wally's car was stolen and run in the country as a robber, but we trained as far as Colly, where Wally bought another car. Nothing more important than this was Denver, when he found that we were just behind the three men. They were driving a Fleetwood car. Just before they drove into town, the car on the mountain road; and as we were running down the next loop to drive down the tumbled down and barely missed us." "Mercy—how horrible!" she shud- dered. "Did anything else happen?" He felt her shoulder as she said, "It makes cold chills run up and down my back! Is there any more of it?" "A little more. We came on, and we were driving down the mountain to meet some people who were something on fire in a deep gulch, and wondered what it could be. The next day, I saw that it was a mine." find out if the Fleewing had come in the night before. So far as we could learn, it hadn't. "We spent that evening with Mr. Starbuck, and on our way back to the hotel we were set upon by three men. We waited for them until they came but Wally hit them off and helped me to the hotel. The next day we thought we'd see if we couldn't find out what had become of the missing Fleetwelling boat, which was already down and had seen the fire in the gulch. We left our car and climbed to see what had burned. It was a big car, so badly wretched that we could hardly tell what happened, but I guess it was the Fleetwelling." "Another mystery! Is that all?" "Not quite. While we were looking at the wreck somehow been shooting at the gulch. We duck and climbed up through the woods to where the shots had come from. There were two men, and the shooter said they had been told there were beans in the woods, and we went for one. There was nothing to be done about it, so we let them go." When the candle was relicted it became apparent that they had as much more than an upper layer of the rabbit warren of bewildering passages and "Can you put it all together and make the pieces fit!" she asked. "After a fashion. Those three men we followed all the way from Indiana and the Ohio mountains, we've got something on them. That accounts for what's been happening to Wally and me; but it leaves you out." "Maybe," she said; but she added something else. "Do you know where this dungeon place is, or what it is?" she asked. "But see here." Owen went on, "we're wasting time sitting here talking about 'has been.' This kidnaping can mean only one thing—that the seconddren are going to pull off another of their robbing stalks and want to make sure they've done it well. We must get out of this and block their game, whatever it may be." "I'm an abandoned nine; abandoned a long time ago, at that. As to where you are, go there. You won't be afraid to stay alone for a few minutes, will you? I'm going to climb up and see where this bucket is located, and I'll tell you until you hear me lift the bucket and drop it. Then climb in and shake the rope when you are ready for me to climb. I don't know if you'll." "Yes," she agreed; and with that he laid hold of the rope and began to climb up. When he had wrigled out at the top of the shaft and found, by groping around, that it was capped with a wooden windlass, he was willing to rest for a few seconds and catch his grip, giving lettuce the agreed-upon signal. At once it was answered and he began to wind. In a few minutes he had drawn the bucket and its precision out upon the wilds platform. "Have you you any idea where are?" Betty asked. "Wait a bit!" said Landlady; and then "I've got it!" It wasn't Bert Canyb told you about his mine—the Quavapal? "Yes." "Well, there are two Qnavapals; the new one that is being worked now, and a much older one," and he repeated for her Sturbrich's account of the anatomy. "They were working with us; we are" he continued; "buried somewhere in those old workings. We'll keep on going while the candle lasts. There must be some connection between those old workings and the new. But not too tired to irror, are you?" "I not tired at all, now. And we must get out if we can. 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