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MONDAY, MARCH 13. 1933
THE HONOR SYSTEM
For some time there has been talk concerning the advisability of setting up an honor system for examinations here.
The honor system is a project which requires whole-hearted and universal co-operation. Other schools which have tried it have found that a few students who violate the system can bring about complete failure. An example of this occurred at the University of Southern California. When three or four students turned in quiz papers which were "suspiciously similar" the honor system had to be abandoned and the student body again placed under supervision during examinations.
If the system could be worked satisfactorily, however, it would eliminate many evils of the present examination system. By abolishing cheating during quizzes it would enable instructors to make a fairer judgment of students' worth, and many unfair grades which are passed out under the present system would be eliminated. Furthermore, a successfully worked honor system would make for more self-dependence on the part of students. It would require them to use their own heads rather than the quiz papers of friends.
It is possible that the honor system could be successful on this campus. Many schools have obtained the co-operation of their students to such an extent that they have succeeded in putting it into successful operation. Others, however, have failed. In commenting on its failure at the University of Southern California Professor R.E. Davis of that university made this pessimistic statement: "The only way to prevent cheating is to place each student in a separate room deprived of all his clothing."
Whether or not this is true, it behooves the authorities to take plenty of time in considering the project before they attempt to set it up here.
News of the end of the bank holiday, and a confidence that spring really is here, brought a better tone to the market today, and resulted in a pronounced rise in Dan Capid, Preferred. Many investors who had been holding off because of uncertainty about the banking situation have regained confidence and increased activity is apparent. Some speculators who have been selling short in anticipation of a continued bear market due to depressed conditions were scurrying to cover today.
BULL MARKET
The spirit of optimism that is evident is affecting every speculator. Business is booming. Mergers and consolidations are being effected as a result of the improved tone of the market, with principals evincing every desire for co-operation. Stag Date, Preferred, was finding few takers today, and both common and preferred stocks were selling well, with preferred more in demand. Some reorganizations and re-capitalizations were announced. The ticker was swamped this afternoon, at one time being three hours behind in the record.
Market activity was dull during the morning hours, picked up during the afternoon, and was characterized by feverish activity during the evening.
Old-timers who have followed the market for years expressed the belief today that, though there may be temporary relapses, all stocks were set for a rise.
THE SO-CALLED SINGLE STANDARD
Long and earnest women have agitated for a single standard. Today the college woman drinks, smokes, and cusses whenever the spirit moves her. Those who have left college enter business, vote, run for governmental offices, and in fact do almost everything on a par with man.
It has not been without a struggle that women have been allowed to assume their present status. But at last every one seems more or less well satisfied with the idea of the single standard. There are, however, a few fallacies in the arrangement that can be considered as abuses of it.
One glaring example is that of economic responsibility. Many married women work, keep all that they earn for themselves, yet expect the husband to provide for both the household and himself on his own earnings. The argument is that he would have it to do anyway. True enough, but this type of woman is avoiding her share of the responsibility.
Then too, college women abuse the system. They have acquired equality in every thing except expenditure of money. They still expect the man who dates them to pay for the entertainment. And likeools college men went sentimental, pay the bill, and then listen to pleasant chatter—often on the single standard!
If women are so wild about this single standard idea let them come across financially.
AFTER SCHOOL WHAT?
When Johnny comes marching home from school this summer, he will toss his hat on the sofa, slip his legs under the table cloth, and settle down for a summer of relaxation? Will he continue to confine his labors to the manipulation of a knife and fork, with an occasional dance to keep in condition?
A, ghdy butterfly, the time have changed. Whether Joe returns home a graduate or not, die is sure to take a narrow-minded viewpoint on this business of pocket money. It is not inconceivable that Joe may be expected to earn his own living, and in almost unbelievable cases, to help out the family budget.
Soon, June, mosquitoes, and vacation will be here, and thousands of students will be worrying a million employers for jobs. To some of these students a job will mean whether they are to continue their education or not. Doubless the competition will be keen. The successful young man will of necessity be full of all of those qualities such as determination, perseverance, and ingenuity which he always suspects he has but seldom finds occasion to use.
The one sure way to get a job is to want one bad enough to go after it. Of course it is not to be expected that the applicant will be successful the first time; it may take ten tries or a hundred, but there isn't a strong chance that it will come without plenty of try.
RECKLESS DRIVING
In a recent issue of the Daily Kansas the careless driving which is prevalent on the campus was discussed. Reckless driving was called a clear evidence of either a lack of social responsibility or of normal intelligence.
The day after the editorial appeared, three automobiles driven by students came from different directions and barely missed hitting one another at the top of the Fourteenth street hill. Not one of them slowed down; they merely blew their horns, stepped on the gas and went blindly on their way. It is
The Advanced Stending Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet on Tuesday t 4:30 at Henley house.
RUTH ROWLAND, President.
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ENGLISH LECTURE:
ADVANCED GRANDING COMMISSION OF N.Y.C.
Our idea of the irony of life is a hitch-hiker thumbing a taxi driver—C.W. in Pittsburgh College.
Could Sen. Huey Long's vilence
Be cured by a good course in Political Silence.-Penn State Collegian.
A man often is financially sunk when his wife gets into the social swim..Indiana Daily Student.
If only people had a little fliveen sense to replace horse ache —McPherson Republican.
Monday, March 13. 1933
ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION OF Y. W. C. A.:
The bank moratorium has done some good for the nation; you hardly ever hear anyone discussing the weather.—Oklahoma Daily.
Prof. R. D. O'Lenny will speak to English majors and others interested Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in room 265 Fraser hall. His subject will be "The Student and His Reading." W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman.
There will be an important meeting of the Fencing club tomorrow. March 14, at 4:30 in room 2021 Robbin 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. RAPOPORT, President.
FENCING:
Dr. James Naimish, inventor of basketball, will speak at the meeting of the Graduate club in the private dining room of the cafeteria Tuesday evening. The meeting will begin at the regular time, c. 11.5. Whether you are a follower of bassball or not, you will be interested in Dana McQuillan's talk to say.
ELLIOTT PENNER, Chairman.
KAYHAWK CLUB
GRADUATE CLUB;
There will be a special meeting of the Kayhawk club tonight, Monday, at 7:30 in the Memorial Union building. Further discussion of the club's political agenda will follow.
There will be a joint meeting of all MacDowell and Delta Phi Delta members Thursday, March 16, at 8 a.m. in the central administration auditorium
MACDOWELL AND DELTA PHI DELTA;
It takes a lot of practice to make a saxophone do its worst—Daily Trojan.
PI LAMBDA THETA;
CHEVEY S. WHITE, President.
Pit Lambda Theta will hold pledge service at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 in room 161 Fraser. Women to be willed meet in room 103 Fraser.
It looks as though the mint is the only institution in the country that's making money these days.—K.S. in Michigan Daily.
TAU BETA PI:
Tau Beta Pi will meet Tuesday at 7:31 in 115 Mornay nail for the election of new men. All members must be present. RAY HUNTER, Secretary.
surprising that a crash was averted
THETA EPSILON
QUIPS from other QUILLS
College students are expected to assume responsibilities. Is careless and reckless driving one of the ways in which we show our responsibility? We might be thought to be old enough to realize the necessity of careful and cautious driving, especially at these dangerous interactions. A warning, evidently, isn't sufficient to tame us down. We will wait until there is a serious accident on the campus in which some one is injured, perhaps killed, before we'll settle down and drive more carefully.
Regular meeting of Theta Epsilon will be held at 1124 Mississippi street
tuesday evening at 5:30. **THELMA KRATCHOIVII, President.**
Which is it—a lack of social responsibility or of normal intelligence? We wonder, too.
CULTURE GOES BEGGING
Perhaps now that simpler pleasures are within the pale, students will become acquainted with Spooner-Thayer museum of art. Here on our own campus is a collection of objects of art that draws crowds from the entire state, but few students have sufficient interest to spend a few precious minutes in its halls.
MARGARET E. ROBERTS, Secretary.
Some students complain that they have to pay for everything they get at the University. They insist that few good cultural influences are available. That is because they belong to that self-centered, lazy, unambitious group of individuals so erroneously labeled students of learning. They neither want to learn nor live — they simply desire to drift through life with as little energy as possible
The Black Box of Silence
By Francis Lynde
Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers
(WSU Service)
(Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.)
(WNU Service)
Copies of the first chapters of the story which started in Wednesday Kanas may be had upon application at the Kanas Business Office.
THE STORY
CHAPTER I - Having demonstrated the ability to silence, aileen the black boot' which, oiled ten Loulia, young inventor, in his chair, Wally Markham, his chair, Wally Markham, that he used the device if exploded, might be used with a black boot' which, a black box is stolen from a safe, in this case.
CHAPTER 1V — Markham, hammie. He's the host room in his absence. Vaughan helps him hotel rooms in his absence. He juggles two volvers and a complete set of buggies for the hammies. He volunteers and tour guides' kill to the hotel room in his room. That night, the safe in the room was closed open and locked, the date was been opened and locked, the statement that his black box is locked to the most he treasured, Landside, with Markham's brains.
CHAPTER II-—Liam tells us only person, beside him, is the safe, is Betty Lawson, with whom the house cast a woman's footprint around it. She is Betty Lawson, with whom the house cast a woman's footprint around it. CHAPTER III-Betty, daughter of a Markham, both he and Landis believe himself to have suspicion, but to assert the cast to one of Betty's shoes. They Canada, a stranger in town, who is posing home from the theater, the previous Markham does not tell Landis that Markham does not tell Landis that Canada has deliberately, but undisturbed, have deliberately stolen the invention the evidence of her, the attributable, but the prove, she was present at the time of
CHAPTER V
Markham spun the wheels on the run to Portbroth to such good purpose as to have been able when the blue condenser turned in at the yard of the country-town tavern, bought enough to wash off the dust of the table, ham and Landis went to the dining room. There was little to be gathered there; the man had a mysterious bank robber. The majority opinion gravitated toward the man that some new and noless explosive
An Obstacle Race
"Everybody's up in the air, naturally. Markham commented as they were walking across the street and find somebody who don't too excited to talk sensibly; somebody who can give us a little real information. I'll tell you what. Stockwell, president of the bank, is our man; lives just around the corner. We'll go and hear what
They found the banker easily approachable—the more easily after Markham had introduced himself as the son of a banker.
"We saw the account in an Indianapolis paper, so Mr. Lancei and I drove over to get the facts at first hand." Markham explained, "If these bandits have got hold of something new, there ought to be a concerted effort to throw them down before they wreck us all."
"Give to you the facts, but they are mugger, thus far," she was the ready guide, one of our two town night watchmen, saw an auto come in from the east, and he supposed it was merely a belated tourist's car passing the street opposite the bank. Little later he saw the car standing in the street opposite the bank, and a man had the bood open and appeared in front of him. The next time he walked his best, which was about an hour later, the auto was gone and the bank was a
"And he had heard nothing in the meantime?" Markham queried.
"No a sound; and neither did anyone one else, so far as we can learn. An everyday that could to have around an everybody that could to have around town limits didn't dug anybody.
"It was the watchman who discovered the robbery?"
"Yes, Passing the bank on his later rounds he found broken glass all over the room. The door was been blown out. He gave the alarm and came and called me. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw an explosion that had built up in the building is a complete wreck, showing that an unconscious charge of explosions must have been used. Even though we didn't see any damage."
"This auto that the watchman saw," Markham went on; "has there been any effort made to trace it?"
"We have done what we could. Nothing definite has come of it. The roads are full of cars coming and going. We couldn't possibly well authorize indiscriminate arrests on a mere suspicion. All we could do was to try to trace a car which had, presumably, passed through the night. Such a car has been found and traced, but the occupants, three business men of Louisville, on their way to look at a western mine, would have a perfect clean bill of health."
"You say this car fitted the watchman's description?" Landis put in. "Where it was seen last!"
"At Terre Haute—passing through at about seven this morning. The
There Was Little to Be Gathered From the Excited Discussion of the Mysterious Bank Robbery.
three men had breakfast there, see,
that is where they were questioned.
As I say, they produced a clean bill
document and the documents it
show for it.
"Over long distance, from the shelf. He said the men laughed and invited him to search them and their car. Said they hadn't robbed n bank, yet, but they might need to before through with their mining venture."
"You got this by wire?"
"There isn't the slightest doubt, in my mind. Wally, I've simply invented a new horror, and these soundbounds a new horror, and these soundbounds only know what they'll do next!"
As they left the banker's house, Markham said, "Well, what do you think, Owen? Are we on the trail of your black box?"
—which seems to be no clew at all? “I’ve been thinking about that. While Mr. Stocklede was talking it struck me all at once that those three men might have been running a bald team.” And the last thing of throwing everybody off the truck,”
"What about this Terre Haute clew
which is the second largest lake in
"That's so," Markham aqueased; and then, abruptly, "Are you good for an all-night drive, Owen?"
"All right; we'll go. It's a long road, but we've made only one. We will take turns driving and manage a bit of sleep that way. It will probably prove a wildgoose.
"Anything to get action."
Accordingly, half an hour later, the blue car took the road again, follow Driving and sleeping by twisting up the Terre Haute early in the morning and Markham ordered all the morning painkiller went through them palmastaking, and found nothing. If the Perthale exploit had been reported elsewhere, the driver would have been
"Rather leaves us up in the air, doesn't it?" Markham remarked. "Assuming that the three men we have wounded are still alive, the wreckers—and that's stretching the probabilities a good bit—we don't know which way they went from here. I suppose there is nothing for it but to lie down and let the lightning strikes again somewhere."
"With the weapon they've got, the bandits who are using it won't stop with the housing of a single countrytown bank."
"You still think they have your black box?"
"There can't be a doubt. In the light of what we learned in Perthdale."
"We'll hunt up the sheriff who telephoned Mr. Stockwell. Maybe he can tell us which way the men in the black car toured car from here."
As it turned out, the shiffrant could test them the thing they needed to know. If he got a good response, give them a fairly good description of the three coupling it with advice of a friend.
"You didn't wire, did you?" Landis put in.
"You fellows are barking on the wrong tree," was the form the advice took. "I put those men through the mill yesterday morning and they came clean—clean as a hound's tooth. Why, they gave me the addresses of people in Louisiana, and offered to stop over while I wired about them."
"Sure," said Markham; then, "Did these men say which route they were taking to the West?"
"No; not wasting their time or mine. Those Perthidale people didn't have a thing on these chaps; nothing more than that they happened to be driving a car that looked like one somebody had seen through the window or twenty million cars cheating round over the country—"
"No; I didn't ask 'em. But if they're making for Colorado they probably took the National to St. Louis and Kansas City."
Entirely at a loss as to what to do, other than to wait for the news of unheralded mysterious robbery. Muthuram the foremost on making guarded inquiries at the various garages and filling stations in the hope of hearing from the forensic team direction taken by the black touring car in leaving Terre Haute, but black touring cars passing through, in all directions, making a plumful as failing leaves in autumn.
"Well," Markham announced, "I've got one more shot in the locker. We've got to go out and play a graphic editor of the Chicago Newsw and I'll him he to let me know if any answers are there."
Markham wrote his message and dispatched it, and within the next half hour he wrote a letter to a teenager too late in the news, to it get into the morning papers, a bank had been blown up in the small town. Smithkirk's nobody else to be trusted, nobody else to get involved.
A hasty examination of the route map located the small town three fourths of the way across Illinois, and a sudden drive driving the scene of the new devastation was reached a little before dark, and Inquiry proved that the Peridontis raid had been repeated, this time, however, with a murder added. The body of the town watchman had been found in the house, the bank with a bullet into his heart.
Again, as in Perthidale, the accepted theory seems to be that a hitherto unbeen employed. At this, Lands, with a growing sense of his culpability as the inventor of the box of silence, Inventing Lies, tells us that he should tell the story of his inception and its loss, rehearsal of his speech, this Marmelid obstructed sincerely.
"It wouldn't help matters in the least, and it would most likely mean all sorts of trouble for you," was his emphatic protest. "You are no more the inventor of the nitroglycerin or dynamic these yeas are using."
"But am I not withholding information that the authorities ought to have?"
"They would doubtless say you were—and give you the third degree to try—that we have the only clew that promises anything at all, and these city sleuths would only make a hit of it if we knew how to eat out and go on."
"Where to, from here?" Landis queried.
"I'll show you, after we get a lunch
put up. We can eat, as we go."
put up, We can eat as we go." It was still early in the evening, and driving out of town to the south, I noticed a group of tourists cutting all the roads leading to the westward. At each intersection he made inquiries at the nearest farm house, and it this means they were tourists touring car answering the description given them by the Perthdale banker. An early rising farmer had seen such a car; it had stopped opposite his car, but the very curious German questioned the farmer closely.
"How many people were in the car?"
"Couldn't tell. There was two men changing the tire, and another inside. That was all I saw."
"Could you see them well enough to describe them?"
"Not all of 'om'-just one. Tall fell leeched-smooth-faced, pretty well dressed. I never ear-looked like what you read about the price fighters' ora? I forget
"Cauliflower ear," Markham supplied. "What kind of clothes was he wearing?"
Markham let the clutch engage and the blue roadster sped on to the westward.
talked with one of the men, and he had said he and his companions were from Louville and were on their way. Asked if he was attacked, Askied if he had heard of the Smithbury robbery and murder, the garage man said he had; that the tire buyer had.
Here the farmer was at fruit; couldn't remember about the clothes except that they were neat and cliffed.
Throughout the evening they had little difficulty in tracing the black touring car. A garage keeper had
"Some nerve, and it chimes in pretty well with your notion of a bunk, and you can see how easy they drove on into the night. But new Landes was beginning to admit
"We are taking an enormous lot for granted, Wally, don't you think? The men are not acting like robbers."
"You may be right, at that," Markan conceded. "It is all a rare chance, on the way." He looked on the way, we'll keep going until we catch up with them and give them the runners-up trophy.
At Hannibal they learned the number of the black car with the Kentucky license plates.
"That car standing beside mine; who owns it?" he demanded.
"I don't know," said the garage owner; "bought it today from two fellows who drove through from Louisville. I got a bargain off 'on."
"Two, you say? Weren't there three?"
Their stop for the night was made at a late hour at Chillicothe, and as we got there we met the hotel he was assigned a space beside a dark-colored touring car, dusty and wayward. As he was giving the flight to us we noticed the blue roadster in condition for an early start in the morning he chanced to glance at the number plate
"No. only two. It's all straight.
They had a bill of sale, giving the motor number and all. To make sure,
i wired the Louisville dealer who's the car, and not his answer.
They gave me the driver's name and address."
"You say they took the train. Do you know where they were headed for?"
"Can you describe them?"
"Somewhere out in Colorado, they said. They took the four o'clock—or I gpose they did."
"Not exactly. But we are interested in these men."
"Probably not, since you have traced it to the Louisville dealer who sold it. Did the man have any hand baggage?"
"Why—I don't know as I could, nothing unusual about me except that I didn't have to ask the talking and a queer look building on one ear. Excuse me, but what are you talking about?"
"Suitcases—couple of 'em."
"No chance that this is a stolen car,
is there?"
suspects—couple of cm.
"No other baggage?" Markham pressed.
"what kind of a camera?"
"I don't notice, particularly"; only that it looked too big for a kodak and not big enough for a movie machine."
"Nothing but a camera. One of 'em, the short one was carrying that in a shawi strap."
As they left the garage Markham said, "Well, Ewell, maybe it isn't such a wild goose chase after all. What do you think now?"
"There have been three men in that car all along; I'm wondering what became of the third man."
"So am I. Also, I am wondering why they sold their car."
Landis was silent for a moment and then he burst our excitedly, "I've got it. Wally—I'm almost sure I've got it," he said. The way along these. These men are the men we want, and they're going to wreck them another bank! That's why the third man didn't show up. He was left behind to either buy or seal an annex.
(To be continued tomorrow)
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