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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY. MARCH 24 1933
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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1937
PLAGIARISM—DELIBERATE OR UNINTENTIONAL
On February 19, the following paragraph appeared in the Kansan editorial column;
'Another difference between high school and college is that the high school student says "I don't know" in answer to a question, while the college student says "I don't recall."
On March 14 the University of Southern California Daily Trojan carried the same paragraph, word for word, with no indication as to its source.
We do not like to believe that this was a deliberate bit of plagiarism. Rather we hope that the failure to give proper credit for the item was due to inadvertence either on the part of the editor of the Trojan, or the printer. If such was the case, we can forgive the mistake, realizing that we may be the victim the next time ourselves.
But if the Trojan printed the paragraph, and failed to credit it when it knew the Kansan was entitled to the credit line, then we feel that we have a just complaint. Plagiarism, or less politely, literary theft, has no place in journalism, and above all in college journalism. If the training camps, the proving grounds, so to speak, of future journalists are to be infested with this sort of thing, the passing of a very few years will find it a common practice among American newspapers.
A recent convention of the National College Press Association voted down a resolution binding the members to credit all reprinted matter. Is it possible that standards of college journalism are being lowered to countenance a practice as unethical and discourteous as deliberate plagiarism?
WHY NOT A CLEAN CAMPAIGN?
During political fights of the past few years, both factions on the Hill have voiced a desire to conduct the campaigns without mudaling and indulging in personalities. Each time, however, the resolutions of clean campaigns have been broken, and before election night, mudling, banding of personalities, and dirty politics in general were rife. This year each of the two main parties has announced that it will avoid mudaling.
Why couldn't a committee composed of representatives of both factions meet and draw up a clean campage code? Definitions of terms and agreements to abolish offensive dealing in personalities would be parts of the pact. Then the campaign could be fought out on the basis of the good of the University, the qualifications of the candidates, and the constructive betterment of student life.
Campaigns like those of the past two years make students the laughing stock of thinking people A substitution of mature political methods for the childish exhibitions practiced in recent campaigns will do much to put Hill politics on a plane where it will be of genuine value to students.
OFF THE GOLD STANDARD
that the United States has not abandoned the gold standard. Theoretically this is probably correct, but the reader misinterpret the meaning of the statement.
Numerous editorials in metropolitan newspapers have insisted
The country is definitely off the gold standard now. It is just as well that writers recognize the fact and inform readers accordingly. Most editors have begun by saying that the nation is not off the standard. To save themselves with well informed readers, they later changed the statement to read that we had not "abandoned" it.
A country is off the gold standard if its gold certificates are not interchangeable for gold, a condition which now exists in the United States. All available gold is being kept closely within the walls of the federal banking institutions. Why it should be so kept is not very clear to the hayman.
A large number of countries have gone off the gold standard in the past few years, but in few if any cases can it be said that they have "abandoned" the standard. They have apparently suffered no ill effects from the change. In some cases the country definitely does intend to go back on the standard in the future, but the fact remains that they are not on it now.
Those editors still insisting that we are not even off the gold standard will do well to inform themselves more fully.
THE STORM IS BREAKING
The big campaign for spring election is beginning in earnest. The first signs are in evidence, for the Hill's political party have been holding meetings lately.
Nothing especially starring him yet developed. Students are beginning to feel, however, that before long the political armies will begin firing their big guns at each other. Yellow "sheets" will appear on the campus. Accusations, many of them obviously false, will be hurled promucciously. A few current phrases will be "mud slinging," "rotten," "a new deal," and "dirty politics."
Although we are now in a period of comparative calm, the storm of political conquest is bound to break. It is to be hoped that once the tempest strikes, the best candidates, whatever their party affiliations, will come through to victory.
The three sheets of campaign material which have already appeared are the most part free from abuse. Denton's statement is serious and intelligent and the Oreard-Kayhawk News for the most part deals with significant matters in a straightforward manner. Its serious passages are its most effective ones.
The Kansan purposes to discuss the campaign literature in greater detail tomorrow.
QUIPS from other QUILLS
While we accept *without* question the statement of several readers that the name of Gen. Custer's horse now standing in styche by the Museum was not a mistake, it could be said to the belief that once there was a pretty important horse by that name. It couldn't have been the horse of Troy for obvious reasons. It must, however, have been the horse of Meridian, willow farm, through the Middlesex well, willow farm, the one on which Sheridan rode from twenty miles away, the mug that Richard III required for so violet, or the horse that used that he would to pull the ice wagon pass J-PHL in the Chantecule Tribune.
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Being as you might say right in the saddle of the horse in question, we should be expected to be able to settle down on us and for all. But sort of caught up in the messier examinations plaguing the life out of us, all we can offer is that we think the name of the animal is Commanche. However, not to put a damper on it, we will bet that if the horse wasn't named Commanche, he'd want his monkey to be a DJ.
Our idea of an optimist is a man with a pint on his hip who falls down, and feeling缸 running through his leg, because that is all blood-Purdue Exponent.
OPTIMIST
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
DRAMATIC CLUB TRYOUTS:
Tryouts will be held for the K.U. Dramatic club Monday at 4:30 in Green
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GENE HIBBS, President.
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication ds
and 11:39 p.m. for Sunday afternoon.
Friday. March 24. 1933
IATHEMATICS CLUB:
All members are invited to hear Prof. C. S. Skilton talk on "Mathematics in Music." The meeting will be held Monday, March 27, at 4:30 in room 211 east Administration building. OTIS BRUAKEN, Vice President.
Editor-in-chief
The Campus Opinion column of the Kanman is open at all times to student comment on any topic of interest to the campus. The school's merely attacks on personalities or contain libulous matter will obviously not be accepted. Owing to space limitations, Campus Opinion should conform to the guidelines 139 to 175 words.
PVM
The date for the initiation service for the new members has been moved to Wednesday, March 29. The time, 7:30; the place, 16 Fraser; initiates meet in 169 Fraser. Dean Schwegwer will speak following the initiation on "The Teacher on Main Street." MARGARET J. NOBELTS, Secretary.
There will be a meeting of Sigma Eta Chi in the chapter room at 5:15 Sunday. Louela Newell has charge of the program.
SIGMA ETA CHI;
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
GERALDINE IRION, President
There will be a rehearsal of the Women's Glee club on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in Maven auditorium to preparation for the spring concert April 5. Every week at 7:30 p.m. there will be a performance.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan;
Dolores Del Pozo
You have a worthy champion and I a doughty foe in, one P. K. I hope you are a student who, in the future, may have a yen for Campus Opinioning will profit from our mistakes. I have been told that there is no more effective way to convince students wiser as I say, for here I by have my blundering sluistered up a most veritable adversary. He employs all those weapons of verbal combat which are the common arms of journalists, and I, in my poor ignorance of the profession, do not know how to parry the thrusts from these keen-edged blades, irony, humor, and a lofty detachment—not to mention a certain amount of tickling.
I don't know how I could have been so credulous in my faith in the Alma Mater. I was wrong about that list of backers, but not that many in starred scientists but to John Happins, and then in percentage of bachelors rather than number. Weep with me, F. K., as our banner goes给训辞, a reliant admission of our inferiority.
Editor Daily Kansan;
I am confounded by this concept, “hot news.” It works and it doesn’t work. A new kind of mathematics, perhaps? Seemingly, two plus two make one. My non-journalistic uncomprehension prepares forty-eight hour old news to be hot when twenty-four hour old news is hot (however, reduction from a whole to a half-page lead was quite a concussion—even to time). In case you don’t remember, let me remind you that in question carried a four-column headline on Friday night. Then, there, don’t itify if you advance that other one, “deal news!” I shall be completely bewildered. And say, talk about hot news, was I reepeated? Send in an opinion on Friarly list of scientific names appear on Sunday, and my cowardly printed on Monday. HB. Journalism!
Sid Kross,
Managing Editor.
University Daily Kansas
B. H. seems to persist in his "fair" criticisms of the Kansan, and for this reason I am driven to write a short note to H.B., which is against my policy. I waited at one time that nothing would happen; I editor note after a campus editor's opinion.
I really am busy in the afternoon, but if you will come in some afternoon after 5.30 I will be willing to devote some of my valuable time to a discussion with you about how I wish I could肩肩 benefit more than I did from your written opinions. You probably have some opinions that you have not written as yet, and you can air them at that time. I am willing to learn, because I remember it, and I can tell you I took a year of high school journalism.
H. B. I first want to straighten you out on that list of scientific names. A Kansan reporter had been working on the book *The Science of Being Human* before you even wrote your first opinion. The Kansean cannot jump at conclusions; it must check every story, as you should.
Again I must remind you, as FK. K did the other day that, when a Kannas team of any sport win a championship it is not the difference of interest to the student body. It makes no difference whether it is a basketball debate, or ping pong championship, the honor that comes to Kansas in the press because of its worthy of a large head by the Kannas.
The
The Black Box of Silence
Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers
By Francis Lynde
(WNU Service)
(Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.)
Copies of the first chapters of the story may be had upon application at the Kaman Business Office.
FWNU Seroleal
THE STORY
CHAPTER I - Having demonstrated the power of an_extent_player,_Green_Lambies_had_the_perfected_Gwen_Lambies_young_investor, in_the_wild_agents_and_his chum, Wally Markley, that he fears the device, if exploded, might be_snapped_by_driving_machine, a black_box is stolen from_a_safe_in_the_house.
CHAPTER 11 - Landa tells Markham the only person, besides himself, knowingly owning the land of Betty Lawson, with whom the inventor was married to a woman's footsteps, found Mr. Landa a debtor.
CHAPTER 10—HETY, daughter of a professor, in writing, to warn Markham that he be above suspicion, but to assure him the cast to one of HETY's plays. They cast the act to one of HETY's plays. They cany, a stranger in town, who is posing home from the theater the previous day, markham does not need to dress in her cast. Markham does not need to dress in her cast. That the girl should have deliaed from Lauren's role is unthinkable, but from Lauren she was unthinkable, but to prove she was present at the time.
CHAPTER 19. IV—Markham, vaguely dressed in a suit and hat, his hotel room in his hideout. He finds a volunteer and a complete set of burglars with guns. The volunteers and the burglars hit to the hotel rooms in his room. That tight the site is in the date was shown upon and loaded, the door was closed. Surprised that the "black box" is in the locked room, the uses he feared, Landis with Markham, has been found.
CHAPTER 9. *At Particular Time* they find
their way in the city. They are strangers, riding in a Flowering, and
strangers, riding in a Flowering, and
ville, are the only possible successor,
they are the only possible successor,
there although from Lonolon,
then although from Lonolon,
of the three, at St. Joseph Markham
of the three, at St. Joseph Markham
Carnaby is Canada by travel, with
guests in the city. The Flowering,
"Somebody's done played a mighty mean joke on you, I conker. Their n’tn’t nothin’ the matter with old Doodle but some of them are down here yesterday to see if I wouldn’t drive the Lizzie to town and hit him out some more pics and maybe that diggin’ is only about six miles through the hills. He hints it burgee none. No! I reckon it’s a joke, and I’llay you know that all night!” You beam murmurr all night.”
CHAPTER VI - While he and Landis begin a soothing car ride in stolen vehicles they go on. On the road to the minibu
driedly, and hurriedly, Markham explained, and the gray-hired one laughed.
"A good part of it," said Markham, convinced now that he had been gotten the chance to spend time overhembed by a sudden realization of what the plot might mean not only to himself, but also to Landis and posse. "I think it's a way a bunch of crooks to get to me out of town and load in these bills, and you can go home with a hundred dollar bill to you to get me back to my car and give me gas enough to run me to Drewster. Will you
"If I had the gas I wouldn't hold you up for no robber' like that. But I don't get it; it don't reckon I got a bullet in my head where I knot borra enough to get in with. More'th that, I got to do a little tinkerla' on the Lizzie also she'll run. You come on in on we'll see what all you do with the ILF 'old busworm'."
CHAPTER X - *Returning*, with Iris from a dimened room, troops of Starry Leaf attempted to kidnap him. At the hotel they were arrested. The men from Louisiana are registered the same names as the thres who he met in Paris, and they certainly are not the same man.
Markham entered the cabin with his host and helped him cook a breakfast of bacon and pan-bread. He learned that his entertainer was a prospector, and that his name was Jackson Griggs; also that he know Stuart Well, who had been a part of the outfit but it "housed him when he used to pincushion in 'other end of the Park.'"
Before he could recover from the blow the cabin door opened and an unshaven, gray-hairied man came out to help him, augment at finding that he had a visitor.
"Well, well stranger! Where on top of earth did you tumble from?" he called out.
What had the plotters, who they were, been doing in his absence? What had they done to Lamis? That Owen, who could not doubt for a moment, could not doubt for a moment. That was the meaning of the telephone call which had raked Lance out of the hatch—a call doffless sent by the door, with no access to the Little Alice offices and had posed as the bookkeeper. Then there was Betty. Wau士 her danger girl, and himself. And herself! For she knew—she must know—that she was the one who, at Cain's installation, had opened Owen's safety for the abstraction of the hall.
After breakfast they fell upon the outworn dipper. The old machine was little more than a wreck; overlainling killed all of the foremen before it was compounded, a period in which Mark turned the dipper into a modelling thorn in the flesh.
At the long last the car consented to run, and the return to Brewster was begun. It was a slow business over the wretched road, and Markham's
need of sleep was so overpowering that he slept in his seat most of the way.
As Griggs had predicted, he had barely gas enough to enable them to reach the first house on the pass road; but he they borrowed enough money to pay for a hotel entrance Markham pressed a liberal reward upon the old prospector and hurried in. As he passed through the revolving doors a man crested with excitement before he smoke, Markham had read the story of noxious哭 in his face.
"Miss Betty." said the lawyer quickly.
"Do you know what has become of her?"
"I left her at your house last night about nine o'clock. Do you mean to say-"
"She didn't go into the house." Stillings interrupted sharply. "You didn't see her go in, did you?"
Stillings explained rapidly.
"No, but I saw her go up the steps to the porch."
"I had," said Markham shortly.
"We were out for a call on one of the neighbors, and when Mieset Bethe telephoned to say that you were staying there, she told them to look under the mat for the door key if she returned before we did. We were back by half-past it, and we were not in it and there was no one in the house but the servants, who had gone to bed. The natural supposition was that we were staying the night with the Simsit, and up and find out, we were told the line was out of order. Then we tried to get you here at the hotel, and were found in and had gone out again."
"Early this morning the Mirkman's showy "Early this morning the Smith's phone again and Mrs. Smith said that you and Miss Petty drove in between eight and nine o'clock last night. That rang the fire alarm right, and Ive been haunting the hotel ever since, trying to get track of you or Mr. Cameron, who you want at all to offer."
"Good Lord! Who are these gangsters?"
"Only this; that Owen disappeared last night at about the same time; and that I was going to the northern part of the Tianyuan on a trained-up story which was intended to be a romance."
"What was the framed-up story?"
Markham told us sincerely, beginning with the telephone message which he gave me in 1964, across the street to the Little Alice office, and teining his own expert assistance.
"Why, that would mean that you three were the victims of some extended organization." said the man. "I was incredibly, incredulously, 'How could that be?'
"You've said it. I markham snapped:
"I tell you that this 'organization'
tempts to murder Ladie and me, you
will understand how serious the air
"I wish I could tell you, but I can't. It principals do only one thing to help them tovolv him directly. He's a former citizen of years when you know very well the world."
Do stillmir frowned, "Indeed, we do killhim—to our cost. Loud! I need to prove myself," he said one man in Wrestler who could take this titing by the neck and choke the other.
And at that moment, as if Stillings' fervent wavet had evaded him, the excusewhom mine owner pushed this way toward me, involving devoting does and stood before them.
(To Be Continued)
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Candidate for
Mayor of Lawrence, Kansas
Primary, March 27 Election, April 4
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
Ernest G. Mason, Chairman
Mrs. Fanny Phillips Conley, Secretary
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Gen. Wilder S. Metcatt
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Gen. W. H. Sears has many qualifications to offer the voters of Lawrence and a record of past achievements in Business, Politics, and Public Life. He was graduated from the School of Law at the University of Kansas, received his LLB, and later the degree of LL.M. from the University of Michigan.
Here are a few of his many activities:
He will bring to the office of Mayor of Lawrence not only the fruits of many years of political and business experience, but also unusually wide and varied experience in public life.
Assistant Superintendent of Haskell Institute; practiced law in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington, D. C.; Secretary successively to Ex-Governor Charles Robinson, U. S. Senator Wm. A. Harris of Kansas and Miss Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross; member of Central Committee of the National Red Cross; Commander of the Kansas National Guard; manager of Sears & Nichols Co., cannery, Pentwater, Michigan; now majority owner of Pentwater Machinery Co., Pentwater, Michigan; stockholder in the Sears & Deer Co. Boonville, Indiana; and Trustee of the Magoffin Oil Syndicate, Salyersville, Kentucky. He pays taxes in Kansas, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and California.
You will serve yourself and Lawrence best if you vote for----
GEN. WM. H. SEARS for MAYOR
(POLITICAL ADV.)