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THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1933
THOSE NASTY COMBINES
Today was the day when the fates of the candidates for W.S.G. A. were decided. With each of the Australian ballots that was dropped into the box, the voters elevated the most competent candidates to the heights and dropped the others by the wayside.
It was an easy matter for the voters to make their choices, for yesterday the candidates were on display at the tea in Myers Hall, and the women were able to appraise them before coming to their decision.
One of the topics of conversation at the tea was the funny editorial that appeared in Tuesday's Kansan. It was decided that the writer of the editorial must have been a dumb bunny about the chances of a bard girl becoming president of the W.S.G.A. Didn't he remember about three years ago? We're still standing stumph in our contention on that point. A barb girl doesn't have a chance.
Of course, we were only joking about the combines and vote-swappings. We knew all the time that there were no such animals at Kansas, for didn't we have it, straight from headquarters that those terrible practices had been discarded?
So, we congratulate the new officers of the W.S.G.A. and hasten to assure them that the Kansan will continue to print editorials about feminine politics.
THE VACATION BILL
The action of the Men's Student Council last night in formulating a bill for combining and transferring the Thanksgiving and various other holidays throughout the year into a longer Easter vacation will meet with the approval of most students. A breathing spell in the spring semester has long been a keenly-felt want.
From Washington's birthday until Commencement the spring term stretches uninvitingly without a break. On the other hand, the fall semester contains both the Thanksgiving and the Christmas vacations. This proposed change will even things up. Then too, both the plenitude of holiday periods in the one semester and the dearth of them in the other, interfered with the student's doing his best work. In the one instance there were too many distractions, in the other, not enough.
The bad feature of the proposal is that students, unless they live close enough to Lawrence that they can make the trip in one day, will not be able to be home for Thanksgiving dinner. In some cases this will be a real sacrifice, for some families follow the tradition of making Thanksgiving the time for family reunions. With the student forced to stay in Lawrence this will interfere with the practice. Of course, to be weighed against this disadvantage is the fact that under the new plan students who live at quite a distance from the campus may be able to return home at Easter time, where now there is not enough time. To be considered, too, is the fact that the tradition of playing the Kansas-Missouri football game on Turkey day is to be revived next
fall. Under the present plan of the long Thanksgiving recess, many students would not stay to see the game, and attendance would suffer.
Without a doubt, the provision of this same bill that there be a day's interval between the last day of class-work and the beginning of semester examinations has the hearty support of every student. The one-day respite will give students time to gather up the loose ends of their semester's study and prepare themselves for the grind of examination time.
Girls must be girls at the University of Oklahoma, rules the dean of women there. Perhaps the fears a duplication of her position will lead to the dean of men she permits women to wear tractors on the campus.
DYCHE'S CHAMPION
The senate yesterday objected to the house disallowance of funds to repair Dyche museum and in so doing held up the educational appropriation bill pending conference.
The bill, originating in the senate, allowed an item of $57,590 for the rejuvenation of the condemned museum, but the way
decided to cut out the appropriation. Unless money is granted now the repair work must necessarily be delayed two years.
Dyche museum is too valuable to the University to be closed to the public for any lengthy period. The natural history exhibits attract visitors from all over this state and neighboring states as well. Before the museum was closed by order of the Board of Regents, scores of people would spend Saturday and Sunday afternoons viewing the displays. No further proof is needed to show that Dyche is one of the greatest drawing cards to the University campus.
The final action on the appropriation bill will be awaited with in interest that is state wide.
Do bankers ever catch cold in bank drafts?
RATS IN THE HOLD
"The money changers," said the President, "have abdicated." But this is like saying that rats have left a sinking ship. Once the government puts the banking system on its feet, the money changers will come stealing back. So if the sinking ship were salvaged and rebuilt until she were sea worthy it would be only a matter of time before the rats would come scurrying back aboard.
Every precaution must be taken to put off as long as possible the return of the rats. Guards must be built to place upon the lines which are put out from ship to shore. Port openthorses close to the rats' habitats along the docks must be secured; the holds of the ship must be aired and kept clean; and diligence must be maintained.
When this diligence lets up in the least, the biggest and boldest of the rats will leap back aboard the ship, the others will follow, and our troubles will begin all over again.
A cood gives as her reason for disliking jig-saw pizzle the fact that now her mother is always up no matter how late she gets in.
A COMMON CURRICULUM
University students who gorom over the subjects forced upon them by the prevailing group requirements have cast a wary eye at Penn State College where a dean recently prophesied that "present educational trends will eventually lead to a common curriculum for the first two years, with specialized work to be offered in the junior and senior years."
The subjects to be offered in this standardized first two years would include mathematics, English, composition, chemistry, a science and a foreign language. The Penn State prophet believes this plan may spread all over the country, and outlines its benefits as aiding a student to find the line of work
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
BAND:
No.126
Thursday. March 16, 1933
The Band will meet tomorrow, Friday, at 12 o'clock on the steps of central Administration building in full uniform—caps, props, carpet. Photos by: C. McANLANDS, Director
tiones due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication di-
and 11 a.m. and 3 a.m. for Sunday lessons.
If coords were permitted to do as their social and intellectual beliefs dictate it is likely that many would stop smoking, and there would be no increase in smoking of coeds because those who want to smoke do it anyway.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS;
The regular meeting of the Kansas Acquisition of Chemical Engineers will be held at 7:30 this evening in room 101 Chemistry building. Dr. K. K. Landes will speak on the subject "Diamonds." Regular members and those desiring membership are invited. Refreshments will be served.
This adverse attitude, which practically amounts to a ban on smoking, makes the actual deed all the more attractive.
LINDLEY DeATLEY, Secretary
DRAMATIC CLUB:
JOHNSON UNIVERSITY
The K. U. Dramatic club will meet in Green Hall this evening at 8 o'clock
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GENE HIBBS, President
ENGINEERING COUNCIL:
There will be a meeting of the Engineering Council this evening at 8 o'clock in Marvin hall. E. B. YOUNGSTROM, Secretary.
GIRLS RESERVE TRAINING COURSE:
It seems ridiculous to encourage deceitful and hide-away methods.—Iowa Student State.
Will all seniors who plan to take the Girls Reserve Training course to be given by Miss Florence Stone, state executive secretary, on March 24 to 26 please register at Henley house by next Monday if possible.
rose register at Honeywell MARGARET ROBERTS, Chairman of Committee.
The Inter-racial group of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at Harley house this evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. Pdf. Wheeler, of the psychology department, will attend.
INTER-RACIAL GROUP OF Y. W. C. A.:
DORRICE SNYDER, DORIS KOLLINS, Chairmen
MACDOWELL AND DELTA PHI DELTA:
If the administration wishes to reduce the number of women smokers on the campus, it has taken a poor method of going about it. For when the college attitude is such as it is-it virtutally amounts to a rule against smoking—there is a stronger desire to smoke. So if the college accepts the practice as the social world off the campus accepts it.
There will be a joint meeting of all MacDowell and Delta Phi Delta members this evening at 8 o'clock in the central Administration Building, with the Honorable S. John Kershaw, President,
PHI CHI THETA:
Phi Chi Thiata pledging services will be held this evening at 8:15 at Honeyhouse.
JUANITA MORSE, President.
he is best fitted to do and enabling he school to make a better selection of its students at the end of the two-year orientation period. Granting these benefits, there is surely something to be said on the other side of the question. If high school training is correctly accomplished, a student should enter college with a pretty definite idea of what he wants to do, and a moderate familiarity with the subjects included in the suggested course. The common curriculum plan would probably succeed in adding another year of specialized training; in fact, the Penn State dean adds that it would "pave the way for graduate instruction during a fifth year in highly specialized fields." This would add another year to the age of the college graduate, who often, even now, is discouraged at the long period which passes before he can obtain the practical experience needed
The Student believes that this attitude should be amended and that smoking for women be made as easy as good taste dictates.
This attitude and what goes along with it, strictly speaking, has made lions of many co-eats. It has bred secrecy and decel. It has driven coeds to attack them. In other places where they feel free to smoke without fear of surveillance.
ENCOURAGING HIDE-AWAY METHODS
Our Contemporaries
The Student, however, is not concerned with defending the smoking habit. Its chief quarrel is with the attitude the college has taken of not recommending for jobs the women who they know smoke.
Do Iowa State College co-eds smoke?
The answer, of course, is that those who want to smoke do.
Smoking among women, a fad in its beginning, has increased enormously in the last 10 years. Many have vigorously attacked the practice on the grounds that it impairs health. But science has yet failed to prove conclusively that smoking is harmful to women, doctors say.
Black Box of Silence
The
Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers
(WNU Service)
(Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.)
Copies of the first chapters of the story may be had upon application at the Kansan Business Office.
CHAPTER VI
What Lands' might have answered was lost in the limbo of things unsaid. As they rounded a "hairpin" curve and shot away down the succeeding slope, the rocks fell below standing behind a row of bighorns, above standing behind a row of guard to guard the down-mountain side of the highway. All at once one of the hinge guard rocks hewed itself from its place to come tumbling over and down the declivity, timed as if by some calculating agency to reach the roadster.
Fortunately, Markham was one of those drivers whose reactions in an emergency are so instantaneous as to seem purely automatic. He did the same while working on the newspaper, and the others, the tail man and the sandy-hairened one—the one who had bought the new Fleetwailing in Chelcothe—were smoking. There was nothing suspicious in the scene. "Well," said Landis, "Where do we
"I'm waiting for Canby to show up," was the jow-toned answer. "I'd like to find out how he is linked up with these people."
"You're right; we'll take the mezzanne. We can look on as well from there."
They had secretly settled themselves when a surprised voice behind them said, "Well—of all things! You two out here?"
"Well?" said Landis, "Where do we go from here?"
"In that case won't it be better if we don't let him see us first?"
"When do yell Peach Copenh?"
"Oh, quite a little while ago; about two o'clock I think it was, about three o'clock. It was bait and change and get to the solarium in time to see the sunset over the Red desert. It was simply gorgeous!"
"Part of the way," Markham qualified. "But again I ask, why not? Why shouldn't we take a few days off and—"
"But you never said a word to me, either of you, before we left Carthage! How did you come—by train?"
"When did you reach Copah?"
"Betty!" Landis exclaimed, springing to his feet.
Markham drew up a chair for her. "Sit down and we unravel it. Owen was needing a rest and a change of secon, so it took him by the neck and pulled the cord out. What then? And how you come to be breaking your journey in Cospah?"
"I know; but it's perfectly wonderful that we should meet here this way."
"Oh: so you're driving?"
"Daddy is around, somewhere; and we're not breaking our journey. We're leaving presently—going on to see the Red desert by moonlight."
"Yes; with Bert, in his stuffy luxury car. At the fast minute after wed all went along, you know—he said he'd like to put it back and came in the car!"
"But you took a drive after that, didn't you?" Landis put in.
"Had a good trip this far?" "Glorious."
"Daddy and I? 7. Oh, no; we just rested, until dinner time." But when did you two leave Carthage?
Markham named the date, and she said, "Why, we must have been right along the road together? Or no? you said you came by train, did you?"
"I said, 'part of the way.' We got tired of the train, so I bought a car, and we came on in that,"
Thus dragged in, Landis played up as best he could.
"I don't know—any more than the cat, Betty. We've just trampled along from one place to another, never knowing where the next stop would be."
"It must be simply spiffy to drift about that way, with no responsibilities."
"It is," Landis agreed. "I'm—er— having the time of my life."
"You not like look it," asserted the fraternity, rising from an applique over his shoulder. He worried. You ought to stop over in the Timanfang and go fossil hunting.
Markham had been keeping an eye on the group of three belts and now was preparing for a bouttatrade. For Cahy and joined the three, and was giving one of them a
Markham excused himself and caught a descending elevator, and when Candy and the three moved to follow without being seen. The chase was a short one, ending at the hotel garage, which the four men entered together. Markham, slipping in under the four, was able to myself climb.
In a few minutes a handsome Fleetwing Eight came rolling velvet-footed to pause with its front wheels on the side of the car, then the car came to a standbend got out.
"As I've told you, you'll have to use your head," he was saying to the man behind him. "You're going to sketch-map layout I gave you is the best I could do. Your rounds book will be your best."
"No chance for a break on the date, the brakes and jammed the foot throttle on to its limit.
It was all over in a moment. With only a fraction of a second to spare at the point of intersection, but that fraction on the side of safety, the flying car shot fairly under the hurtling windshield and onto to the next double curve.
It was not until the car shot out upon the valley level that Landis refused to allow it. "I'm handing it to you, Wally. You've a lot better nerve than I have. I should have tried to stop if I'd been in danger. How do you suppose it happened?"
"One guess is as good as another. Mine is that whoever was driving that car would have been the wheel on the rock for safety, Natural thing to do on such a stiff surface."
Silence for a speeding mile, and then Landis fairly shouted.
"Say, Wally! We've been asleep at the switch—both of us! Think back a minute; didn't you notice that maybe any noise coming down?"
"What's that?" snapped Markham, breaking the car to an abrupt stop. Then, "I knew there was something queer about the thing, but I was too busy just then to figure out what it was. But you've put your finger on it. Then tumbling rock ought to have done something that he dead sounded never a 'sound.'
"Well, you know there is only one way to account for that, don't you?"
"You bet your life I do! That stopped car had his infiltration machine in it—that's what. Were in luck at that, and he began to back the car for a turn.
"Hold on," Landsis broke in. "What are you going to do?"
"Go back up the bill and have it out with that bunch, whether they are."
with that bunch, whoever they are!" "Listen to reason a minute, Wally," Landis said quietly. "If they are the men we've been trying for three days before, don't worry, we're have in a road scam with a carload of yeggs most likely armed to the teeth? Besides, we haven't lost 'em. They can't go on to where they're going without passing us, and they're going to pass us, and in sit on their tail, can't we?"
"Ump! You're too d--d sensible for any use!" Markham grunted. "It gets on my the raw. I'm not used to being stood up as a mark for a bunch of others." I looked at him before the thing came off. I was asking you if the car wasn't a Nordyke. Was it? Or was it the Fleetwing?" I couldn't say. All I noticed was
"I couldn't say. All I noticed was that it was a closed car."
"No matter; we'll find out in a few minutes what it was—or is."
They were entering Cochah. Markham steered into the shadows and turned off the car lights.
They had not long to wait before the headlights of a following car appeared and the door swung open as they passed!" Markham rapped out; and so they did, both of them. What they saw was a mere thickening of the myriad buildings on the town speed as it entered the town street, was no other than Canby's limo-cine, with Canby himself at the entrance.
minds—" Markham began. Then, "You saw them, didn't you?"
"If I wasn't reasonably certain that we're both fairly sane and in our right
"I saw Canyon, yes.
"I saw he wasn't alone."
"No; there were two people in the back seat."
"Exactly. Betty and her father, of course."
"I suppose so; though I couldn't make them out very well."
"D-n!" gritted Markham imptently; and then, "Owen, this thing is getting too many twists and tangles in it—alogether too many. I can't understand how Canby can't behind me." Landis shook his head. "Let's wait until you see the one that turns up," he suggested. "There must be another one, you know."
"But, see here; Coby was an hambed shee of us at the last place we lived there," he said. "And back, his car couldn't have been the one that stepped up there on the roof."
"Of course not. The people who were in that car pushed a rock over on us. Besides, Canby hasn't my black box."
to sit down and wait until the nursery was over. And all your kid was to tell for help! But that's a back number. Let it go and get out of here. And don't fall down on this business when you meet us in arranged. Get a move!"
They had eaten dinner in the dining room without seeing anybody they recognized, and were making inquiries at the desk for the Canby-Lawson party.
They waited for half an hour or more and nothing turned up. "It's no surprise," Markham said at it. "We may drive on and get something to eat."
"Nobody of either name this evening," and the clerk, that but doesn't necessarily spell anything. If they are merely motoring through, they may be leaving their tickets at the cashier's window; in which case we have no record."
"I see," said Markham. Then he took from his pocketbook the slip upon which he had been copied the names of the three Louis-Virginie men, and handed it to the clerk.
"Why, yes; all three of them. They came in this afternoon. There they are now—" pointing across the lobby.
"Thanks," said Markham, and the two crossed to the neighborhood of the house where we stayed. "Know us, so we can into a good look at them for whatever that may amount to," he continued. "With chairs a short distance from the three where they could sit and smoke."
or a time the espial vent for nothing. One of the trio was reading a is there?" came in low tones from the interior of the car.
"I don't make breaks," the wrist retort. "You've got a monopoly in that field. Among you, you've halted things up beautifully."
"The h—I you say!" growled the voice in the interior darkness. How could we know—"
"It was your business to know! You had the whole thing in your hands three days age; all you had to do was
The big car rolled out across the sidewalk; and Caruba waited quickly. Then he headed to the hotel. Marlburn followed, but not directly. Beyond the hotel hostel he found a hardware mirror just close enough to allow him to man to go back and sell him a couple of serviceable automatons. Then he found a dog waiting for him.
"Enough to warrant us in getting much action," Where is Betty?"
"What did you find out?" Landis demanded.
"No; I keep out of his sight. But no doubt he knows we are here." "Natürlich, Betty will tell him if he boasts fortune or other man."
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"She said it was leaving time for her and her father and went to get ready. Canby went up in an elevator."
In rather less than five minutes, the kidan was placing the pondster at the end of a trench and stewed the suitcases in the rumble and climbed to his place, saying, "Can't
"Wait until we get out of town." Landis waited, and he was still waiting when the roadster bumped over the final railroad crossing in the marsh, and shot out upon the brood, silent expanse of the Red desert.
(To be continued tomorrow)
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