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IT IS TO LAUGH
The most satisfying laugh of the month comes from the announcement that the approaching election of the W.S.G.A. is to be carried on without the aid of combines, vote-swapping, and what have you between the sororities in this beehive of politics.
It is not without some amusement that we receive the information that the W.S.G.A. has made arrangements for checking up on each ballot to ascertain the trend in voting of each sorochity. If an organization goes solidly for one candidate, the officials will smell a mouse and call for another election, or something.
The feminine ward-cheers would also have us believe that the ticket which came from the Gigantic Mass Meeting of yesterday morning was born within that meeting. Only a child of three could believe that the major candidates were not definitely aware three or four days ago that their names would appear on the ballot.
There have been combines and vote-swapping between sororites since time began, and they will continue to be the big factor in feminine politics. The same thing exists in male politics, but the men admit the fact and do not attempt to cover their actions with any fairy tales.
A barbess would have no more chance of being elected to the chief office of the W.S.G.A. than the proverbial snowball has of surviving in the fiery blasts of Hell. The non-sorority women are not organized, and the Greeks can ignore them as they go about combining their combines and swapping voices wholesale.
So we make a deep brow to the young lady who virtually became the new president several days age and pay a tribute to her competence and popularity by saying that she would have been elected without the assistance of the combines which do not exist in this honorable game of politics among our women.
A California professor says, "the only way to prevent cleaning is to place each student in a separate room deprived of all his clothing. Kansas student adds, "Yaah, and bain a bath after banded, too."
Wonder what the Kansas City night *night e c b m a n* who slept through a nitro-glycerine safe explosion uses for an alarm clock?
STUDENT INTEREST IN POLITICS
A University of Oklahoma sophomore has filed his name in the race for mayor of Norman. He is dissatisfied with the present government of the city and plans to reorganize it should he be elected. He is going to replace "old and fat" policemen with young, active men, and work for better relations between the university and the city.
His action is indicative of the interest young people in general and students in particular have in politics. For the most part there is a disappalow and distrust of present conditions and a sincere desire to improve them. Political theories and new trends of thought have
been absorbed in political science and government courses, and there is a natural desire to put them into practice.
The student interest in affairs or government is not generally recognized. Most people think of the student as a loafer, a waiver, a person who never thinks a serious thought and is interested only in gin, fat, and petting parties. And for some mysterious reason some students like to be thought of in this light. They deliberately foster this false opinion. But underneath it all, most students are serious, thoughtful, and intent on fulfillment of an all-absorbing ambition. Separated from the specialized atmosphere of college life, they become wholly different persons.
JUST CHILDREN!
What is it about college students that makes a suggested improvement of the campus unsuccessful as far as they are concerned?
Recently an editorial in the Kansan suggested that students give some consideration to the lawn by refraining from making unnecessary short cuts on the campus grounds. The suggestion was timely enough; the new grass is rapidly appearing and it needs encouragement rather than rebuffs. The department of buildings and grounds has discouraged this student meandering somewhat by placing it at several of the badly trodden grass spots. But don't students know what sidewalks are for? Must there be feences? Will these persistent short cuts lead to such childish measures as the placing of reminders on the campus corners reading, "Help to keep this corner beautiful!"
Evidently the only way to get students in the habit of walking on the sidewalks again would be to paint the sidewalk green so that they can imagine they are walking on the grass.
DEPRESSION EDUCATION
President Russell displayed two weeks of leadership yesterday when he wore wisdom-two words to ask congress for beer. Speak up and encourage making the same desire known to a half dozen work at the most.
Yesterday in Oklahoma Governor W. H. Murray finally got out his axe as threatened, and went to work. He ordered elimination of all duplicated courses at the seven state colleges and the University of Oklahoma. The University will lose its department of engineering and classes in education in favor of other schools, while the pre-laws and pre-medic courses at A & M. College will be transferred to the University.
Like most economy plans, the project has both good and bad points. The governor declined to estimate the saving possible under the new plan, but explained that three deans and all their assistants would be dismissed at each school. The weary, over-loaded taxpayers of Oklahoma will welcome this latter statement with a shout of praise. In the meantime the deans and all their assistants may quite possibly be added to the army of the unemployed.
Whether the move will not cripple Oklahoma's educational facilities is a serious question. Possibly the golden days behind us were responsible for an inflation in school facilities and management that will have to be dissolved with the changing times. On the other hand the governor seems to forget the immense increase in enrollment in state schools during these "boom" years, and the fact that memory figures remain about the same in spite of the depression.
It is a question that only time can answer adequately, but the governor's move is a possible trend in depression education.
GRIDIRON ASPIRANTS
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of—well, at least fifty-four University males are thinking seriously about touchdowns and goalposts, for that number have responded to
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There will be a regular meeting of the Botany club tonight at 9:40 o'clock at the home of Dr. A. J. Mayer, 1354 Louisiana street. All members please be present.
Vol. XXX
Tuesday, March 14, 1933
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS;
The regular meeting of the Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will be held at 7:30 Thursday evening, March 11, in room 191 Chemistry building, Dr. K. K. Landes will speak on the subject of "Diamonds" regular members and those desired membership are invited. Refreshments will be served.
Batts for 3,000 workers have just been installed at West Hartlepool, England for mine workers there.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION:
The regular meeting will be held at 4:36 Wednesday in room 32 in the
administration building. JESSE PICKELL, President.
LINDLEY DeATLEY, Secretary
Is there no end to this capitalistic torture of the laboring class?—University of Washington Daily.
Prof. R. D. O'Leary will speak to English majors and others interested Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in room 205 Fraser hall. His subject will be "The Student and His Reading." W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman.
TENING
There will be an important meeting of the Feninge club today at 4:30 in room 202 of Robinson gymnasium. Examinations will be given for advancement to the rank of Squire. All Knights and Squires are urged to attend, as their participation is necessary. P. RAPOPOT, President.
University students, becoming frightened by the threats toward boarders, rushed to the banks and deposited a check in the yellow coin - Oklahoma日报
Dr. James Naisimith, inventor of basketball, will speak at the meeting of the Graduate club in the private dining room of the cafeteria this evening. The meeting will begin at the regular time, 6:15. Whether you are a follower of bass or not, you will be interested in Dope's plan, the has to say, and ELLOITT PENNER, Catherine.
INTER-RACIAL GROUP OF Y. W. C. A.;
The Inter-racial group the W.Y.C.A. will meet at Hensley House Thursday evening from 1 to 8, Prof. R.F., R. Heweler, of the psychology department, will address them.
Le Corcele Francais se recuina mercredi a quatre heures et demie, salle 506
Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlent francais sont invites.
One reason why romance lasted longer in the old days was because a bride looked much the same after washing her face--Daily Trojan.
DORRICE SNYDER, DORIS ROLLINS, Chairmen.
LE CERCLE FRANCE:
There will be a joint meeting of all MacDonald and Delta Phi Delta members Thursday, March 16, at 8 o'clock in the central administration auditorium.
MARY SHRUM, Secretaire.
The regular mid-week variety will be held at the Memorial Union from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday evening. OZWIN HUTLIDEGR, Manager.
P L AMBLEA THETAK
MARY BUTCHER, MARJORIE NELSON, Presidents.
MID-WEEK VARSITY.
Pi Lamida Theta will hold a pledge service this evening at 7:30 in room 116 Fraser. Women to be bledged meet in room 116 Fraser.
MACDOWELL AND DELTA PHI DELTA:
There will be a joint meeting of all MacDowell and Delta Phi Delta group.
A worried gent advertises in the University Daily Kansas at Lawrence for the return of a "pair of full-view glasses", but we advise him to keep things neat and been practically nothing to see the pair anyway. J-PH. in Chanute Triangle
MARGARET E. ROBERTS, Secretary.
W. A. A.;
W. S. G. A. COUNCIL
Just Beta Pi will meet this evening at 7:30 in room 115 Marien for the elicitation of all members must be present. KAY HUNTER, Secretary.
THEA EPSILON:
Regular meeting of Theta Equation will be held at 1214 Mississippi street this evening at $30. THELMA KRATCHIVIL, President.
There will be no regular meeting tomorrow. The meeting will be held next week, at which time there will be initiation of new members.
W. S. G. A. ELECTION TEAS
Coach Lindsey's call for spring football practice. This is the largest group ever to turn out for the pre-season workout at the University.
DOROTHY LIGHTBURN, President.
W. G.A. Council meeting will be held at 7 o'clock this evening in the Meet building
HELEN HEASTON, President.
W. S. G.A. Council TEA:
323-896-4500
New men as well as old veterans worked out yesterday on a day made for baseball players rather than for football men. From the side lines it seems to be a foolish thing for those men to sweat through the routine of calaesthetics and signal drill when there are so many other more pleasant things to do.
W.S.G.A. election tea will be held Wednesday from 3 to 5 in Myers hall.
HELEN HEASTON, President.
But one must build for the future, and spring football practice sessions have almost become a necessity in producing gridiron teams that will function properly. Those men are working hard now. Next fall will bring to witness the fruits of their labors and an eleven of which loyal Kansans can well be proud.
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The Black Box of Silence
By Francis Lynde
Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers
Copier of the first chapters of the story may be had upon application at the Kansan Business Office.
"Too late to prove up on that guess tonight," Markham said. "We'll find out bright and early tomorrow morning if your gown is right."
(WNU Service)
(Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.)
CHAPTER V
"Never hid eyes on him before. He just blow in and said he wanted to buy a car. I showed him a new eight we'd just got in, and he counted out the money, climbed in and drove off, with "the trap," with a snap of his fingers.
"It is the cash that we are interested in," said Markham, with his most engaging smile. "Did you know your purchaser?"
"Do you mind telling us if you sold a car yesterday?"
They were up betimes to go in search of the proof or disproof of Landis' guess. At the place to which they went, directed they found the auto dealer just opening the door. Markham introduced himself and asked his question.
"I sold two of them; one on the installment plan, and one for good, hard cash on the nail."
he'd send my plates back to me when he got home"
"Yes, in a general way; medium sized and in height, somewhere along in his thirties, I'd say, light complacently, with some face, fairly well dressed. Not very handsome."
"Could you describe the man?"
"Well, where are we now?" Landis asked, as they returned to the hotel, "Up in the air again." Markham replied that there was probably another bank smash last night, somewhere; but if there was, it may have been either east, west, north or south. Were they not until we can get hold of a news wire?"
"Er-we don't know-yet," Markham said. "You say he drove away at once? How about the license plates?"
"I lent him a pair of my own—dealer's plates, you know. He said he be in his home state in a day or two," he told me. "I license for such a short time. Said
"Well, I guess that knocks the last, fingering doubt for the count," was Markham's comment upon the railroad telegrapher's story of the intestay. "The two who took the train dropped off at the agreed-upon place, freshly finished in a new Fleet-wing. Finish your coffees and well check up on the guess."
Lands' inspirational prediction of the night before had a startling confirmation. The night operator at one of the railway stations had just come in, and he brought the news. A bank in a small town some fifty miles west of the station had been locked up and again, so the wire report said, the explosion had not awakened people.
A ninety-minute run brought them to the scene of the latest raid, the market town of a farming community. At the railroad station they questioned Mr. Markham and confirmed Markham's guess. Two men, carrying suit cases and something that the agent thought was a camera, had arrived on the local train of the previous afternoon, and, instead of waiting, took a looking auto and drove away.
"This was late in the afternoon, wasn't it?" Markham asked.
"Along about dusk, Forty-three was held up by a freight wreck and she was away late."
They took their leave. When they were again whipping the miles to the rear, Markham said, "Simple enough, isn't it?"
"Perfectly. They drove away and waited until the town was sleep. Their Job done, they went on west—we were walking back home from footboring all along. We've been missing one bet as we came along; Wally; the names of these three men. We could have gotten them from the auto dealer in Chillicothe."
"Nothing to that. If they're the crooks we think they are, they'd use aliases, of course; and different ones in different places."
"No, you're wrong there. So far as we've been able to learn, they have been posing consistently as three ladies in the classroom from the beginning. And you'll remember that two of them gave the Chillicothe garage man a Louville
"That's so; I felt forgotten that. It's either a clean slate, or the nerviest bluff that was ever put up. Owen—and I'm still believing it as a bluff."
Impiring as they went, they heard no word of a Fleetwing Eight until they reached St. Joseph. But here the submerged trail came to the surface, and the crew of an oval carauna showed that a new Fleetwing Eight had stopped for gas. Driving on into the city, and to a hotel, they found that three west-bound tourists, halling from Louisville, had come in shortly after midnight and had gone back to their hotel. They had checked out after breakfast and had resumed their journey.
Looking up the names signed in the register, Markham made a note of them; and a little later a wire of injury went to the calfster of a Louisville bank. The answer was in the pocket of a bucketening of cold water.
"Here's where we get it in the nose," said Markham with a sheepish grin, as he handed the telegram to Landis.
Landis read the few typewritten lines;
"To Walter Markham,
"St. Joseph, Missouri,
"Parties named are prominent business men this city stop They left for Colorado, driving, some days and no stop at all. They are interested in Western mines."
He was watching Markham's grin when he passed the square of yellow paper back across the table.
"A. J. Westover."
"I guess that settles it definitely.
You said, in the beginning, it might turn out to be a wild-goose chase, and it has."
"I'll ask it has it!" therearm granted,
just the same, there are still "new
men" started in Louisville for Colorado;
why are they taking this
"There may be a dozen good reasons."
"All right; we'll cross that off. Next comes this shift bit of business in Chillicothe yesterday, selling one the pickup and at the town warehouse last bank was touched off. And, back of that there's the fact that we trailed them out of two other towns where they have a great record of coincidences, don't you think? We may have been chasing the wrong bunch; I admit it looks that way now. But the fact that we've had to deal with that has been raising calm with these country-town banks, and doing it with the help of something that blots out. And the last of these calislands — and hours — behind us right now."
"Well, where does that leave us?"
"Treatly well up in the air, I'll have to go out and do it, so pointedly upon these three Louisville claips that we haven't been able to handle."
A few minutes later, when they were settling their bill, the clerk said, "I bought this at Louiseville gentlemen who left this morning. Are they friends of yours?"
"Not exactly friends," Markham evaded. "Bid we are slightly acquainted in Louisville."
"I see," the clerk. "You may overtake 'om yet. Somewhere cast o'"
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"I see," Said the Clerk. "You May Overtake 'Em Yet—"
this their car gave out, and two of them decided to quit and to take the railroad. But the other was game; sold the disabled machine, bought another, and wired the train-takers to stop off at the kit pick up en-up which the adult
"That's that," said Landis, as they turned away.
"One little flaw in that story," Markham criticized. "It was the two train-takers who sold the disabled to the one who bought the new one."
"I noticed that; but I guess it merely means that the clerk didn't get the story quite straight."
They found chairs in a quiet corner of the lobby. After a thoughtful interval, Landis said, "I'm on the fence about what we've been right on the hoods of some bunch that is pulling off these mysterious burglaries—is the one fact that can't be explained. I don't want you to try it any time now. You turn me loose and go on back home. It's like this; these bankblasters, whoever they are, have my hands under their armpits. Chances are they'll keep on going west. I can quit while there is a chance of catching up with them; that's my responsibility. If you go
"Huh!"—disagreeably, "Think Id let you do that? Not much! We'll stick it out together, and, that being the ease, we may as well go get the car."
The gangs was at the rear of the car, and as they were turning the corner, an innuistle pull up at the hotel entrance. Markham caught a fleeting moment. Markham caught a fleeting moment.
"You go on, Owen," he said, "and let me go back and get some cigars. I forbid."
Lands walked on slowly, and in a few minutes Markham reappeared, and he drove back for. Did you see the car that
came up as we came out.
"I didn't notice it particularly. Was
it the Fleetwing?"
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"No; it was. Canyb's Nordykle.
Thought I recognized him as he got out and I went back to see if I was right. I was."
"Canby? What is he doing here in St. Joseph?"
"That's what I wanted to know. We was talking to the clerk when I alipped in, and neither of them saw me. Cainy has two passengers."
"Very much people from home; Betty and her father, if you'll believe it."
Crossing the river to Eiwood, on the Kansas side of the Missouri, they were more difficult because none was earlier in the day; also that a Norfolk limestone and followed limestone.
"What does Candy know about the Lonnieville man, Wally?" Landis asked. Okay, let me re-read it one more time. Owen. And, added to that, how he knew they'd been here in St. Joseph. Okay, I will do that.
Wait, let's look at the first word of line 1: "Lonnieville man." The second word is "Wally." So it's "Wally." Wait, the last word is "Owen." It's "Owen." Let's check the first word again. It is "Lonnieville." Then the second word is "Wally." Then the third word is "Owen." Then the fourth word is "Owen." Yes, that's right.
Let's re-examine the image for any other text. There's no other visible text.
Landis stopped short and faced about. He would have gone back to the hotel if Markham hadn't caught and held him.
So it came about that, later in the afternoon, three cars might have been seen speeding over the Pike's Peak Fleetwelling, with two men in the rear seat and w third at the wheel. Far in the rear were a Nordic limousine and a blue roadster. And though the two men in the blue car thought they were speeding over the roadster was reversed; it was the limoisence that was following the roadster.
Landis' eyes, the dreamy eyes of the inventor and research student, gave him an air of justification in on going." he said; and as, the blue car turned into the main wheel that landed, the fessor had turned that fellow down when he asked them to drive with her.
"No use; you're too late. They've been after Cunbury drove away, crossed the road for a match. He said. Why 'George!' you thought you and your friend had gone! I told him he just now sat in for you and then we not five minutes before. He said he was sorry, and then he asked about how long they'd been gone. I could have been around, but I didn't say anything."
(To be continued tomorrow)
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