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WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 103!
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1933
Students, as well as other citizens, are looking forward to having money available on Friday, for they find that going without change in their pockets is an inconvenience, though in most cases not an actual hardship. Few students, if any, have actually suffered because of the bark holiday, for most of those who were caught with little or no cash were fortunate enough to have friends from whom they could borrow or creditors who would trust them.
WHEN WE HAVE MONEY AGAIN
Some students who thought that they could not possibly live without a substantial supply of cash found that life without money was not so hard as they had imagined. On the other hand, there are students who, habituated to being "broke," would not know that there was a bank holiday if they did not read about it in the newspapers or hear about it over the radio and in conversations.
In the early stages of the holidays, some storekeepers and restaurant proprietors were hesitant about cashing checks for students, but as they came to understand the situation more fully they were more liberal in cashing checks and extending credit. Credit was first given on food, then on haircuts, and finally even on cigarettes, although proprietors of Hill "hang-ups" hesitated to cash checks or extend credit for drinks or "smokes."
Although most Jayhawkers are getting along without money, they will feel more confident again when they have a medium on exchange. The date business will once more return to normal on the Hill and students will be able to pay their creditors, who will then be able to pay their creditors, and so on—ad infinitum.
ANOTHER MORATORIUM
As the gloom of economic disorder thickens, men and women on Mount Oread are beginning to forego their usual dates, with the excuse that they can't afford them. Beyond a doubt the excuse is legitimate.
But after all, we shouldn't allow the lack of money to distort a normal desire for the company of the opposite sex. A means should be devised that would eliminate the necessity of a bankroll for the continuance of friendships.
After prolonged contemplation of the problem, the Kansan takes the liberty of recommending that in accord with the trend of the times a moratorium be declared on the ruling that prohibits the entertaining of young men in sorority or women's rooming houses during the week.
To be sure, a "house date" has its disadvantages, but it would be better than nothing.
AN EXPERIMENT WORTH WATCHING
Greek organizations on Mount Oread who would like to try a cooperative buying plan in an effort to lower expenses to keep within reduced budgets but who are hesitating because they are afraid the plan might not work may point to
the system of interfraternity cooperative buying plan now in operation at the University of California at Los Angeles as an evidence of the plan in successful operation.
There various houses on the campus organized for specialized and standardized buying, and have expressed themselves as well satisfied with the co-operative service. One fraternity saved more than two-thirds on the original price on a commodity through membership in the group.
The organizations forming the collective bargaining group are given wholesale price lists, and make their selections of merchandise from them. A director of purchasing, designated by the member fraternities, takes care of the details of the actual purchase.
Hill fraternities may well watch this and similar experiments in reducing operating expenses, since they are going to have to exercise rigid economy to continue operation.
REASSURING HORSEPLAY
Silly as it was, there is something reassuring about those 100 business men in Battle Creek, Mich., who paraded through the main streets of town wearing skirts, as a protest against women wearing trousers. When business men can forget bank holidays, moratoriums, and the depression and indulge in a bit of tomboolery, it shows a spirit that will work wonders in bringing back national confidence.
VAGABONDING
Syracuse University has worked out a plan by which students may visit classes at certain times. Through the functioning of this system, students are given the opportunity to look in on any classes which interest them especially without enrolling or becoming regular attendants.
The most outstanding merit of the visiting plan is its aid in helping to solve the problem of vocational choice. Students are able to survey far more courses than they could possibly do otherwise. They are able to find out what interests them most, as well as that to which they are best suited.
On the other hand, men and women who have already decided upon their profession and who are well along in preparation for it are given a chance to broaden their education by occasional glimpses into other fields.
Such a system at the University might prove difficult to arrange under our present recording of attendance, but surely some method of checking could be worked out by which students might occasionally be allowed to do a little vagabonding.
PIDDLING ECONOMY
The latest innovation in a long line of a moratoria which has swept the country has been suggested by Senator Daugherty in the Oklahoma legislature. Mr Daugherty would call a mortorium on higher education for one year. He would close the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and half of the state teachers' colleges and junior colleges in Oklahoma. He would divert the funds saved to the common schools of the state.
Mr. Daughterh's measure is an example of a pretty sorry method for cutting governmental expenses. Let us hope that his fellow legislators will think so too if the measure comes to a vote.
This plan would bring higher education in an entire state to a standstill at a time when education is vitally essential, at a time when any small cut in its budget is serious. In times of unrest and depression it is more important than ever that young people shall develop their minds in order that they may be more able to meet the situations which will represent themselves.
By the time the year is over, Woodin, the cabinet musician, will probably have an orchestra made up of senators—but what a time he will have finding anyone to play second fiddle.
--the house, renowned queer by en-
 enthusiastic applause, the audience
eidentically taking the pantomime inter-
esting and laughing off the pressure
on the part of the orchestra.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXX
Wednesday, March 8, 1933
TO EXAMINE
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular interim publication days and
11:30 a.m. for Sunday issues.
A. I.E.E.
There will be a meeting of the K. U. Branch of the ALEE Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 in Marvin hall. The program includes an illustrated lecture on "Electric Are Welding" by Mr. Simson of the Lincoln Electric company. The attendance of all electrical engineers is desired. HICHARD FOOL, Secretary.
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A. S. M. E.
Band rehearsal will be held tonight at 7:30 on the first floor of the Administration building. J. C. McCANLLES, Director.
A. S. M. E.
A.S.M.E. meeting will be held Thursday, March 9, at 7:20 in Marvin hall.
There will be interesting talks to hear, and interesting literature will be passed out.
MAURICE BRUZELIUS, Secretary.
RAND.
Se celebraba una sesión de el AEIero manana, el muente de maroa, a las cusnos media de la tarde en 115 Al. Que todos han recibido el FEJED JAMES, Predicante.
EL ATENEO:
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
Which remains us that the day of the rubber check is past; rubber is a wondeful product, but it could never keep up with the pace of change in these days—Michigan Daily.
The regular mid-week vanity will be held at the Memorial Union tonight from 7 to 8. OZWIN RUTLEGE Manager.
QUILL CLUB:
Applications from men and women students for scholarships to be held in 1933-34 will be received in room 310 Praser hall on Friday, March 10, from 11:39 to 12, and on Thursday, March 9, from 10:30 to 11, or appointment may be made by telephone. E. GALLOO, Chairman.
Because of the recital, Quill club will meet at 7:25 tonight in the Green room of Fraser hall, and will close in time for those who wish to attend the recital. You may reserve a seat for $10 per hour.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
STUDENT ECONOMIC CONFERENCE:
MARGUERITE DAVIES.
"people must think I am just an old fool," says George Bernard Shaw. Aw, George, you're not so old—Michigan Daily.
RHADAMANTHI TRYOUTS:
Despite all rumors to the contrary, the Student Economics Conference will be held at Emporia as scheduled, on March 10, 11 and 12. All persons desire to attend are asked to communicate with Otis Brukaker or myself by Thursday evening, March 9.
HILDEN GIBSON.
The regular weekly meeting of the Y.M.C.A. cabinet will be held Thursday, March 9, at 4:30 in room 10 of the Memorial Union.
Y. M.C.A. CABINET:
It will be fashionable this year for men to wear light coats and dark trousers, style experts declare. This sounds like a new depression note for those whose suit pants have worn out—California Daily Bruin.
Rhadamarthi tryouts will end at noon Sunday, March 12. Students wishing to turn in manuscripts of not less than 20 lines of poetry should send or bring them to 940 Tennessee. Tryouts should be signed with a fictitious name, accession number, the real name and address. MAXINE LUTHER, President, RHADAMANTHI:
KEITH W. JOHNSON, Vice President.
Rhadamanthi will meet Sunday, March 12, at 4 p.m. in the Green room of Fraser hall, to judge tryout manuscripts. Members will please bring an original poem also.
MAXINELUTHER, President.
THEA DEE EONCH
American butlers must be easy going persons. American novelties have had them responsible for more murders than any other class, and yet there has been no revolon on the part of that much-maligned group.
ETA EPSILON:
The reason so many people favor the new deal is because they all expect a "cut." Personally, I am more interested in some change - Oklahoma Daily.
Theta Epsilon party scheduled for Friday evening will be postponed
'THELA KMATCHVIL', President
A safe rule to follow in solving these murder mystery stories is to suspect the janitor, provided, of course, there is no butler in the story.
We're almost tempted to think the brewing interests are responsible for all these bank holidays, from the way that word "liquid" has been emphasized.
QUIPS from other QUILLS
Now an economist proposes that the government issue "dirt dollars," cracked by government-owned farm land. It's too bad that the term implies degree of contamination — just when we'd be talking of blood of filth rice — scoop in the daily O'Clegall.
--the house, renowned queer by en-
 enthusiastic applause, the audience
eidentically taking the pantomime inter-
esting and laughing off the pressure
on the part of the orchestra.
Our nomination for an honor medal goes to the dog who refuses to come when called by its given name "Tootles."—University of Washington Daily.
Adolf Hitler, new "iron man" of Germany, intends to visit Premier慕穆liosoni then. That might be called a "pair of duces." -California Daily Bruin.
The University will know when the corner is turned. Requests will pour in for something to offace that wolf snake from the door—Minnesota Daily.
The king and queen of England saw their first talkie day before yesterday. Which shows that even royalty can't escape all the hardships indefinitely--University of Washington Daily.
Western college students pay their college tuition with sheep. Not much of a bargain—a flock of sheep for one sheepbak—Texas State Lass-O.
The legislature has repealed the law giving a bounty on predatory animals. Hereafter when you shoot a cigarette in your mouth, you're University of Washington Daily.
The Black Box of Silence
By Francis Lynde
Illustrations by O.Irwin Myers
"Wonderful!" Markham exclaimed, under cover of the resumed music. "As you said, Owen, it can be to be heeded if you didn't keep it up lil' better."
The Black Box
(WNU Service)
(Copyright by William Gerard Chapman.)
It was between the acts of the play, the orchestra of a theater in Garthage, a college town of the Middle West, was in swing with his band. He appeared to be an overgrown portable camera on the lap of one of two young men seated in the right hand prosecronium box of the violin, the cellos and the bass, the fingering of the brass and woodwind, the tapping of the padded sticks on the ketto-rums were merely so alarming, a pauntommal. All was dead silence.
CHAPTER I
Lands' shook his head. "I didn't dare to let it go on. In two seconds more there would have been a panic. And when he came back, Schomberg's men would go on bowing and fingering automatically—as they did. But when realization came, thered be chaos. I meant to antidote that. But the people were going to let it go over the brink, you know."
The two young men in the box who seemed to have precipitated this extraordinary state of affairs were both a brunette with an ear and roreed, and both graduates of the local college. But with these basic differences, Owen Landis, the one with the queer black box on his knees, was sleekly bent, with a skin, eager face that sparkled like a diamond. As a dreamer and enthusiast. His companion, Walter Markham, was the well-dressed, well-fed, yet not without a gilent of penetrative shrewdness. In his eyes to prove his right-claim to father, with his hard-skewed banker father.
"Black magic!" Markham commented. "Is this what you've been working on all these months that you've been held up in your laboratory den?"
"Well, now you've got it, what's the answer? I mean, how does it do it?"
As I've given you, it is simple enough to sound and make it do our bidding. My problem was to find a circuit which, instead of amplifying the received signal, did not affect them. Once my basic circuit was developed, all it asked for was a switch.
For an interval measurable in seconds the soundless antinode sequence had been no gap of silence, the various instruments入缸 into缸 tail. A vibration into缸 tail.
"Now you've found the answer to your problem, what are you going to do with it?"
"Come around to my shop with me after the play and TL talk it out with me." We need a person with venues and discoverers are short on practical sense—common sense—and I'm no exception. Maybe you can say what I'm lacking In that respect."
"What you've been saying is mostly Greek to me," Markham assured. "Just the same, I can surround the fact accomplished, all right—having had the practical demonstration. But how can it be?" "It can't be; it can not be an useful use?"
Two hours later the two young men were seated in Landis' workshop laboratory. On the walk from the theater Landis had tried to explain, as untechnically as he could, the successive development of his assigning invention.
"Possibilities?" Lands queried,
"They are almost unlimited. The trouble is that they are bad as well as good."
"Shoot," said the son of small-city wealth, "I'm listening."
"The circuit, or whatever you choose to call it, will operate at a distance—if the ground is not there, it will pass either through or around obstructions. Turn a switch, and you can sleep in silence as profound as you might. So far, as noises are concerned."
"Huh! sounds a good bit like Alice in Wonderland. But what else? If you stop the racket for yourself, you can everybody else, as well, don't you?"
"At short distances, as tonight in the theater, yes. Take, for example, a steam whistle a mile away: In the immediate neighborhood of the whistle a mile away, there is a listener within a radius of, say, a quarter of a mile would scarcely detect any mutting of the blast, though it is really mutated at its source. Beyond this inner circle the sound dimmer, but still quite audible, a mile it has vanished completely."
"In your demonstration tonight you connected the thing with the theater lighting circuit. Does that mean that it is going to electric power plants for its use?"
"Not at all. An automobile storage battery will operate the box for a limited time."
Markham nodded slowly. "Don't you know, Owen, it all listens a good bit like a nine dream."
"So it does to me. But what is worse, I needn't get away from the feeling that I'm in the fix of the man who invented the Frankenstein thing."
"Meaning—?"
"Meaning the frightful uses to which this convivence of mine could be put is obvious. The fire alarm say there is no end to them. Noise is the burglar's chief menace; with this box of mine coupled to a lighting fixture, you can see the smoke of a house or blow the strongest bank vault in perfect security, so far as they can hear it. You use the with the use of firearms. You see what I mean. In the possession of a criminal there is simply no link to the victim."
"How many people know about your invention, Owen?"
"Up to this minute, just two of us—you and myself. I haven't talked about it to anybody, partly because the whole thing was experimental and I didn't know what to expect from curious questions. But now, as I've said, I'm like the man who invented the Frankenstein thing in Mrs. Shelly's story. When I think of all the harm it might do in the wrong hands, I feel that it's going to the box and pitch it into the river."
There was a thoughtful pause, and at the end of it, Markham said, "You are quite sure nobody else knows about it?"
"Have you any reason to doubt it?" "Not what you could call a reason; no. But I have worked here in the lab, a good many nights, sometimes until quite into, and there have been more questions than that I was not alone; that somebody was spying on me. Pure auto-suggestion, I mess."
"I hope I am."
Markham madden. "We'll let that part of it rest and pass on to the man who is writing." He paid money out of this invention of years, don't you? Or are you too much of an idiot?
Landis smiled. "I'm not quite so much of a dreamer as that, Wally. If I could only be sure the thing wouldn't
be not to evil uses—"
"You'd like to see some hard cash results," Markmann finished for him. "That is right and proper—and human."
"I suppose so; while I was at work on it I did think that if it should prove a success it might help me find a place where I could meet one of the big electric companies."
"Too modest, as you usually are," grunted Markham. "There's a frilly fortune in that box if it's properly exploited. But to make money out of it, you have to spend a lot of money. Suspee you tell me talk dad-in strict confidence, of course."
"You'd do that for me?"
"Sure I would. Why not?"
Markham cut the protests short.
There was a moment of silent embarrassment, and then Landis said, half apologetic but not me day or night, half irritated. What? see if I n't fight down that feeling about the criminal possibilities. It's fearfully good of you to offer to step forward.
"It isn't late for me. What have I been doing that I ought not to have done?"
"Take as much time as you want, of course. And never mind the acknowledgements. We've been pretty chanying with you lately," Owen, and it would be a plum if either of us wouldn't give the other hand to play a game, but I have a glance at his watch. "If it wasn't so late I'd stay a bit longer and raywide you about another matter. But I won't."
"I was watching you tonight when Betty Lawson was on the stage. I guess you know good and well what I saw!"
"You didn't see anything more than you have known for a good while."
Landis flushed boyishly and looked down.
our cartridge. Colg make it another
Chicago overnight and all that.
He is rushing Beaty to a finish, and
she seems to like it."
Markham hunged. "Nothing more than all Carthage has known, for that matter. But, say, boy—what do you know?" I said. "You're a year and better you've buried yourself in this work shack of yours, and if you've thought anything at all about Betty, you've taken it out in thinking. I've seen her laugh. She sheds had to forage for in other directions—the amateur theatrical movements, for instance. I've clasped her about a little—not nearly so much as I was about to do with Lorean, you know you have."
The laggard in love spoke up quickly.
"You are not saying it all, Wally—not speaking for yourself, I mean. But you don't need it. I've known ever You are in love with Betty yourself. That is one reason why I've buried myself in my job here—to give you and her a chance to find out where she lives. It isn't mistake; it isn't any silly knightly chivalry on my part—just common decency. If I should marry, I'm not even sure I could feed and clothes a child, then poverty comes in at the door."
"Oh, shush! You needn't quote proverbs at me. Don't you suppose I know that I don't stand a Chinaman's foot? Or about is the way you scam your chances with her. There's another Richmond in the field. Did you know
Landis' face fell.
"No! You don't mean that, Wally."
"I do indeed; this new fellow, Cauy, who is cutting such a wide swath with his wonderful development scheme
A gridoning of fine lines appeared between Landis' eyes.
"I don't like Canby, Wally—what
Little I've seen of him."
"Just the same, he is exactly the kind of brunet to take a girl's fancy; good-looking, dashing, man-of-the-big-room; that sort. Betty is plenty sensible, but at the same time she is human. There I've said my say, and I don't want to do with this priceless casket of yours overnight—it to take it to bed with you?"
"Not quite that; I keep it here."
Landskirt before a small safe under the laboratory work bench, opened it.
The cabinet was inside and twisted the combination.
"Is that you, Wally? For heaven's sake, come around here to the house as quick as you can. My safe's been opened and the black box is gone!"
"I see; safe bind, safe fiad," said Markham, with a laugh for a went; pun. "Let me know when-or-if—if I am not sure about the financing. So long."
(To be continued tomorrow)
So much for the night when Betty Lawson, daughter of the physics professor at the college, starred in their Little Theater association's production of "The Lost Girl," the following morning, Wally Markham, getting out his roadster to visit the family's roomy rooms to be taken to the successful actress, was called to the telephone. A stimulated voice that he bared to her as Landslide came to him over the wire.
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HURRAH!
Good Ol'
PENNY
Who ever thought that of penny would amount to anything? Now he's a winner, a big shot, someone worth knowing! Why a penny today is important money? Sure. But what about the convenience and conveniences it buys in electric current. That's where he gives you the most for your money.
Your Wisest Cent For Current's Spent
You actually buy more for your electric penny than you get in any other commodity. You can do all the hard tasks about the house electrically—your cooking, dishwashing, washing, ironing, sewing, cleaning, you can cook everything you refrigerate and conditioning radio. It makes living more enjoyable. All for a few cents a day. Good of 'ol penny. Let's give him nine more "Rahs."
And don't stop with the cheering.
To know what a hero Penny really is you must put him to the test by utilizing electric fully.
On your calendar mark dates for the Relays April 22.
and the Lawrence Trade Fair.
The Kansas Electric Power Company