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SUNDAY, MARCH 12. 1933
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SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1933
LOCAL TALENT AT CONVOCATIONS
The action of the University senate in limiting the number of general convocations which can be held each semester to four will remove one more of the few remaining places where the entire student body can gather with a common interest.
It isn't so much the noted men who used to speak that the students are going to miss as it is the convocations themselves, the getting together in the middle of the morning, where you can meet your friends and relieve your mind for a restful hour.
The move was made as an economy measure, since bringing nationally and world-renowned speakers to the campus is expensive. This need for outside speakers will be met fairly adequately by the lecture course, it is true, but no function at which an admittance charge is made can hope to draw a representative group of the University.
There are speakers and organizations on our own campus which many of our students have not had an opportunity to hear or see and in which they have a direct interest. Surely there is something irrational in having professors whose superior knowledge places them in Who's Who, and yet who are not given an opportunity to address the students enrolled in the college where they teach.
Chancellor Lindley, who is much sought by cities and schools all over the state as a speaker, seldom addresses any general meeting of students at the University. The symphony orchestra and the University band both complain of waning interest, but it is because students are not given a chance to become acquainted with them.
Valuable speakers and interesting programs for the convocations could be secured from the excellent material around us if the time could be allowed for these get-togethers. Perhaps the pauses for enlightenment and entertainment would add some interest and pleasure to this serious business of education.
A New York Times editorial says that modern dang prefers the sophisticated "red apple" to the widely used phrase "apple polish". Why not go so far as to change the expression "crack a book" to "divide the leaves"?
Student ideas of preparedness vary. To some it means getting next Monday's lesson on Thursday, but to the majority it means preparing last Monday's lesson on Tuesday.
Since the campus sidewalks were torn up some time ago to allow campus workmen to place them so as to provide absolute safety while Old Snow Hall is being razed, students have taken it as their cue to walk just any where that fancy seems to direct them. The women with their spike heels tear across the lawn, digging up the turf under them like amateur golfers. The men
COW PASTURE
take their spirt a little more slowly, perhaps, but with just as deadly results. Constant wear of heavy feet will kill the hardiest of grass and leave a barren strip across a once beautiful section of lawn.
The few seconds that are saved by these short cuts could be conserved just as efficiently by omitting the friendly chats that are taken between classes on the busiest walks when fellow students are trying to make progress. If students would stop congesting the walks where they are full, and use them a little more where there is real need, the campus would cease to look like a pasture criss-crossed with cow paths.
KANSAS KEEPS ABREAST
Simultaneous with federal orders for the gradual opening of banks, the Kansas state banking commission and Governor Landon have issued statements that the banks of the state will be allowed to open as federal restrictions are lifted. State banks will not be discriminated against in favor of the national institutions. All banks will be allowed to open as their soundness is determined, in conformity, of course, with the national regulations.
The Governor and the state banking commission have been constantly alert to developments in the crisis, and this attitude has resulted in a fair deal for the state banks. Sound state institutions, in which many students and their parents have their money, now have the assurance from the federal government that they will be allowed to open on a parity with the national banks.
Students at the University who are dependent upon state banks for their funds will be considerably relieved to learn that they will be able to secure cash on the same basis as depositors in other banks. The progressive attitude of the state administration in dealing with this financial crisis indicates its faith in the soundness of the Kansas institutions.
ON FOOTBALL
The fact that Phillips University at Enid, Okla., has decided to abandon intercolegiate competition in football next year may be of great importance. The dropping of the game by a middle-western school may be evidence of a trend away from the "glorification" of football.
An interesting sideline of this announcement is the fact that officials plan to sponsor an intensive program of intramural athletics. This change of emphasis will, without a doubt, benefit the students as a whole. Money spent in providing a sport for a score or two of men will now be spent in letting all of the students play the game which they like best. Student participation in sports will be changed from a vicious to an actual one.
Officials of Phillips University have shown courage in making the change. If they cannot support both football and intramural sports they have retained the branch that will be of the greatest benefit to the majority of students.
FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENT
The bank holiday may not be disrupting student life, but it is certainly bringing about some startling situations. It seems that University women as a whole had more cash on hand than the men when the banks closed. As a consequence the women have been financing the men for the past week.
The old discussion about going fifty-fifty on dates has been dropped suddenly. Whoever has the money pays. It is becoming not uncommon to see a fair coed march up to the box-office of a theater and buy two tickets, one for herself and one for the hashful boy friend who sheepsily accompanies her.
Cigarettes have become luxuries. Those who must smoke have been experimenting with cutting them in two and using a holder. Those
ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION OF V. W. C. A.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXX    Sunday, March 12, 1933     No. 122
The Advanced Standing Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet on Tuesday t 4:30 at Honeyland House.
RUTH ROWLAND, Chairman.
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on request after afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues.
ALL WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY:
An assembly for all women of the University will be held at 11:30 Monday in the University Auditorium. HELEN LASTON, President, W.S.G.A.
THE STUDENT CONFERENCE Kansas students are expecting great things at Emporia this weekend and it is Emporia's privilege to give them a send-off. Students who are the proxies for students of our district need future vision to face this demoralizing crisis in their personal lives. Where there is no vision the people perish. If students don't get together and do some thinking adequate for these times they might just as well sink back and die and take the world with them. Students are eager for the challenge of these times. They are not to miss out on the students have courage and spirit but the confidence and enlightenment of their elders to help them see the way out—Emporia Gazette.
ENGLISH LECTURE:
Prof. R. D O'Leury will speak to English majors and others interested Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in room 2051 Brasser hill. His subject will be "The Stu-
diatricus of Jesus."
Dr. James Naismith, 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, g.15. Whether you are a follower of bassball or not, you will be interested in D. Naismith's talk to say.
ELLIOTT PENNER, Chairman
GRADUATE CLUB:
The happiest homes are those where the dining room table is still considered more important than the carc table. -McPherson Republican.
There will be a meeting of the Mathematics club on Monday, March 15, at 4pm in room 213 east Administration building Prof. E. D. Dade will讲课.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
RHADAMANTHI TRYOUTS:
Rhadamanthi tryouts will end at noon Sunday, March 12. Students wishing to turn in manuscripts of less than 20 lines of poetry should send or bring them to 940 Tennessee. Tryouts should be signed with a fictitious name, accem panied by the author's real name and address. MAXINE LUTHER, President
The greatest aid to progress in any community is the funeral of the man who blocks it.—Daily Trojan.
Rhandamantai will meet Sunday, March 12 at 4 p.m. in the Green room of Fonner Hall, to judge tryout manuscript. Members will please bring an original proof of the manuscript.
There will be a meeting in the chapter room Sunday afternoon at 5:15,
Marjorie Nelson has charge of the program. EVANGELINE CLARK.
OTIS BRUBAKER, Vice President.
SIGMA ETA CHI:
RHADAMANTHI:
QUIPS from other QUILLS
who are not so strongly addicted to the habit have stopped altogether.
Our Contemporaries
THE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Archie Highball claims that he saw two robins throwing snowballs at a bluejay yesterday morning—Augusta Gazette.
The Y.W.C.A. Social and Herley house committee will have a taffy-pull
Monday afternoon at 4:30.
Somehow it's gotten around that the title of the booklet that will shortly go to press at Vassar on advice to girls on house party dates will be titled, "What Every Girl Should No."-Michigan Daily.
The plurcats of the campus are those who can boast of a dollar or so in cash. Those who were fortunately supplied with large amounts have been lending it at usurious rates of interest. A few poverty-streifen souls have taken to the habit of sleeping all aftertown to keep from buying cokes.
Government should have no difficulty in locating fake bond houses. Just turn a sucker lose and follow him—Daily Trojan.
V W C A.
--ing Mr. Canby, What have you got on him, Wally?"
Up to this time everybody has been having a good laugh out of being poor, but a few students are beginning to wonder seriously when the banks are going to open. They are looking forward to that time when, having spent almost nothing during the first part of the month, they can cash their allowance checks and have a real celebration.
MARY SHRUM, LUCILLE WEISS, Chairmen.
The Black Box of Silence
By Francis Lynde
Illustrations by O. Irwin Myers
(WNU Service)
(WNU Service)
(Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.)
THE STORY
CHAPTER I—Having demonstrated the power of an extraordinary sleeper, the author, Eden Landis, young inventor, in 1964, staged a high-tech device for his clam, Wally Murphy, that he found the device, if exploded, might be used to prevent a black box is stolen from a safe.
CHAPTER 16. - Linda tells Markham only person, beside himself, knowingly. Betty Lawson, with whom the investor concludes, cast a of a woman's footwear found in the basement.
CHAPTER III—Betty, daughter of a character above suspicious, but to assure himself of the above suspensions, and to assure himself of the cost to one of the playwrights. They cast the cost to one of the playwrights. They cast the cost to another. Markham, a stranger in town, who in possession of home from the theater the previous evening, markham does not tell Landis how he will have deliberatelyilon the invention of the plaster cost case. The evidence of the plaster cost case at the time of the robbery.
Later that afternoon Markham learned from the room clerk of the Collier house, where Candy had his lunch. He was taken down to town, to be away overnight. Whereupon he took another lawiness step in the path which, up to the present, had bed nowhere. Ormishby, manager of the office, and friend, and to him Markham appealed.
CHAPTER IV
"You know me pretty well. John, and I'm going to ask you to break all hotel traditions for me." was the way he began on OrnSBurry. "I want to borrow the master key to the rooms on the door for a few minutes. Do I get it?"
"You've got your nerve, Wally!"
"Ungerbly chuckled." "What's your lily?"
"To me?" "She thinks thief?"
"And you are playing around as an innate detective?" Whose room
"Then you are sleuthing? Why not turn it over to the police, and say no?" I asked. "Why not suppose you know what will happen if you should be caught out between
"Can't we let the room number hang up in the air for the time being? I don't want to point a sauspier unless there is something to point it at."
“Of course. But I'm not going to be caught out. The rooms I want to break into are unoccupied just now because they’ll leave them exactly as I find them.”
"You've given yourself away," said the manager, with a laugh. "There is nobody onyway on the third floor except
"Nothing at all. I merely want to see how he lives when he's at home," she said. "I'll duceing the coveted passkey, 'Tit's smashing the traditions, as you say, but I'm banking on your discretion. Don't you want an authorized witness?"
"No; you'd better not come. What you don't know you can swear you don't know. If anything develops, I'll tell you first to know it. Won't that answer?"
"I guess so—for this one time. But, for the Lord's sake, be careful!"
With the pick-lock key in his possession Markham made sure there was no one looking on in the corridor when he entered. He and let himself in. The sitting room, bath, and the adjoining bedroom were all in order, and it took him but a few minutes to make a rapid but thorough search in every nook and corner. He scrolled LandeLand black box. He didn't find the box; he had scared hopefully to.
It was when he was shutting the doors of the clothes closet wardrobe in the bedroom that he made a disarrayed mess. He pulled his clothes had fallen from its hook, and when he reached down to prevent it from interfering with the closing of the door he found that the bottom of the piece of furniture was loosened.
Laying the fallen suit aside, he lifted it. It underneath there was an enclosed space of a few inches in depth. At least he could move it in contact with a leather bag lying flat. When he tried to lift it, it was too thick that he had to take both hands.
Taken from its hiding place and opened upon the floor, the case contained nothing to throw light upon it, but the curious surprise. First, wrapped in a chamosa skin, there were two large cutter automatics, new, well oiled and in good condition. Ridges. Next came a larger piece of leather which served as a wrapping for a set of tools, drills,丝, steel saft cuthers, pliers, a bunch of keys, a few wrenches, keys, and lastly a short steel bar drawn to a chaiel-end at either extremity and beautifully tempered; the rest was new and unused as the automatics.
Having, as he believed, plenty of time at his disposal, Markham drew up a chair and sat down to consider his prize thoughtfully. Of course, there was no doubt as to its nature, but the tools with the guns to back it up, a spare kit, as it appeared, since there was every indication that the tools had never been used or the guns fired. What was Canab, figuring as an energy young promoter intent upon making him a burglary's kit hidden in his wardrobe?
During the four days in which he had been quietly pursuing his investigations Markham had found the evidence revealed the morale following the robbery, gradually losing its hold. Apart from the fact that Bettie Lawry was the only one to demonstrate, her innocence of any part in the robbery, Markham was reluctantly compelled to admit that, up to the present moment, he had disdain for the guilty assumption of Canby's guilt. Moreover, if Betty were innocent, her acquaintance necessarily cleared the young man from the close of the theater performance up to and including the return to the Lawson house. Yet here was this burglar kit, cunning hidden in Canbury, to mould a pool of his thoughts.
Deep in a maze of dubiquity, Markham restrained the bag and returned it to its hiding place. Clearly, the first object he brought was his discovery. Possibly the hotel manager might be able to indicate the next step to be taken. In replacing the bag Markham found himself in danger. He found it, rearranging the fallen suit of clothes so that it might appear as if it had not been disturbed, and turned it into the lock of the wardrobe door.
Five minutes later he was handing the passkey to Ormsbury and congratulating himself upon an exceedingly narrow escape. For, as he emerged from the elevator he had seen the man with his own proper key from the clerk.
"If I had delayed a few minutes longer." Markham said to Ormsburry, "he would have caught me red-handed."
"The Devil You Say! Bert Canby a Burglar?"
Ornursky granted. "It would have served you right. I don't quite see how you could have ducked out of it." Neither DoL L. At the same time,
I found something that needs an explanation quite as much as my presence in Canby's rooms would have, I be had found me there."
“What was the something?”
“A pair of man-size automatic winches can be used to secure a burglar's tools, hide them in a board to hang in the cando wardrobe.”
burgaria" Ornisha exclaimed, "that's ridiculous, Wally. I grant you anything you care to charge him with in the blue sky; he is burglarizing your house." Ornisha queen's taste in the promotion schemes. But he doesn't need a cracksmack's kit for this job.
"It put it back where I had found it. It is up to you to rediscover it, if you warn to. I don't know how it got there. You must make it to make it, but it's there."
"See here, Wally; perhaps —"
"What the mourner was about to say was that she had moment the office door opened to admit the promoter himself; and the leather case he laid upon Ornambra's desk was there. And now lately restored to its hiding places."
"What is it? Ormsby asks,
"Search me; I haven't opened it.
Wouldn't you know, not without wit-
ness, that you are the internal mache-
form, for all I know."
"Hello, Markham!" Canby exclaimed cheerfully. "Glind to find you here. Two witnesses are better than one, any day in the week." Then to Ormus-stealing, he glanced at me, putting my grip away upstairs, found that thing hidden in the bottom of my wardrobe. It isn't any of mine, so I'm turning it in."
"Suppose you open it, John, and let us see what happens," he answered, gestured, basked the camera, spread the contents of the bag on his desk. Camry's astonishment was other than surprise.
"Well—I'll be d-d!" he burst out.
"Wouldn't that set your back teeth on edge? Who do you suppose planted that outfit on me?"
"Where did you say it was?" queried Ormsbury, sparring for time.
"Under the bottom of my wardrobe,
the holton board is loose, and when I
come in from school, I saw that one leg of the trousers had got caught under the loose board, and I could not untangle it.
The board came with 'em. And there in
one corner, was this thing. What is it?"
Markham was watching Carby narrowly as he talked, but his open-eyed frankness was as convincing as it was disarming.
"If it is a joke, somebody must have a badly distorted sense of humor." Markham put in. "It stitches me up. If you were to be hurt, would be rather hard to discover."
"Well, what do you make of it, Johnn?" Markham asked, after Canhy had gone.
"That is sensible. Meanwhile, I'll keep an eye out for the joker—if it is a joke."
"Oh, I don't know," Canhy returned, with an easy laugh. "There are still a few of us in the room who're calling me all the hard names they can dig out of the dictionary. I don't doubt some of them would be ready to answer. But I can't have caught with a burglar's kit in my possession. It's up to you, now, Ornssur. What will you do with the
"That would be the part of a good law-abiding citizen," Canby agreed. "On the other hand, though, it would be too much for me to win the hotel, wouldn't it?"
"Just what you did, I imagine. The fact that he brought the stuff here to me clears him. But that all isn't. All of it was about how bad last winter, don't you. At the
time they were going on, we had a man and a woman who was registered as his wife in Suite Three Sixteen—the town not desperate and called in a well-known detective agency to work with the local police, the couple vanished—disappeared between two days" the burrar?
"I've always had a smoking idea that he might have been—and had him sneak up on me," his knocks out the doubt, doesn't it? Still holding a mental reservation et two on his own pawn, Markham said, "I always get up to the mysters," and got up to go.
"Not quite," Ormsby smiled. "It doesn't tell me why you wanted to break into Cunby's room in his absence."
"I had a notion which now seems so foolish that I'd like to keep it to myself," Markham pleaded; and he climbed into his car and was walking out of the incident, the significance of which he had entirely missed at the moment, namely Cahy's mention of the fact that a trousers' leg of the fallen suit had been thrown over his loose head, and had so been the means of disclosing the bidge of the burglar's kit. "By George" thought Markham, "I wonder if that was his way of telling us, or not, that he was hiding around in his diggings. I wonder."
But the wonder became unimportant when, as he was passing the Landis house he saw Owen waving a newspaper as a signal for him to stop. "It's come at last, just as I said it would be made, pasting the newspaper to Maud. Markham read the news item to which Landis was pointing.
"At an early hour this morning the inhabitants of the quiet village of Portbaille were electrified by the discovery that their one and only bank, which had been wrecked, actually torn to pieces as to its interior, by an explosion which should have rocked the town to its foundations. A charge of explosives left on the road from the bank vault, to make junk of the fittings and furnishings and to shatter every window in the building had been fired some time during the night, the fire spreading away with cash and negotiable securities amounting to over $0,000.
The "singular thing about the hold robbery is the fact that the crash of the terrific explosion was not heard, even by pervious sleeping directly behind it. The effect, by either of the town's two night watchmen. The theory is that some new explosive, noiseless in its operation, was used by the robbers, and every effort is being made to ascertain what an explosive is known to science.
"Here's where we get ectillion?" Markham snapped. "Jam a few things into a grip and tell your family they needn't look for you back until they see you. I'll do the same and come around for you in a jiffy. If we spin up the room, I will perplex Perlur before dark. The malice explosion settles it, it doesn't it!"
"No question about that. These yegs had my box and used it."
And with a roar of its powerful motor the roadster shot away.
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