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UNIVERSITY DAILY: KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 192
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933
THE NUT ON THE STEERING WHEEL
Careless and reckless driving is inexcessable anywhere, but on the University campus it is clear evidence of either a lack of social responsibility or of normal intelligence.
With nearly four thousand students on the Hill five days a week, and with asingle traffic officer on duty, anyone who drives a car anywhere on the campus without taking the utmost care is laying himself open to a charge of being criminally disregarded of human life. And any one who would drive recklessly under such circumstances for the more pleasure of showing off his skill in handling a car should be flattered to be called a moron.
There are specifically four approaches to the campus that are real danger spots. The fourteenth street hill, ending in a sharp curve on the campus drive, the winding road back of the Library, the Mississippi street drive, and the intersection of Indiana and twelfth all offer possibilities for serious accidents.
The time to lock the barn door is before the horse is stolen, not after. It should not require a serious accident or the loss of a life to open the eyes of those who drive cars on the Hill. But it probably will.
UNDER FALSE COLORS
There are on this campus many so-called honorary societies and fraternal groups which do little to justify their existence. Membership in these organizations is purportedly based upon scholastic ability, and also upon the quality of leadership in campus activities displayed by the individual. Especially is this latter quality stressed rather heavily by these groups. As a justifying sales talk this is all very well for the group itself, but in many cases the organization degenerates into a body of pin or key wearers, who are content to make their bid for the campus "hall of fame" on the original efforts made in securing the recognition.
Any person who has the ability for membership in an honorary society should have initiative enough to make every reasonable effort to see that his organization becomes a vital influence upon the campus. By this is meant that these societies should carry on promotional activities which are a benefit to the student body. Failure to do so is an indication that the original aims of the society are being neglected, and that the group has outlived its usefulness.
Admittedly this is a rather dogmatic viewpoint, but it must be borne in mind that any student who sports the badge of an honor society does so with the knowledge that he is proclaiming himself an outstanding figure in the campus world. He expects, and generally gets, some recognition from his fellow students; but if he depends for this recognition solely on the emblem of a deviralized group, he is guilty of sailing under false colors.
TWO-HOUR VARSITIES
The first two-hour varisties was held Saturday night, and those in attendance gave various decisions. The general verdict was in favor of the new plan.
The men, for the most part, were loud in their praise of the venture. To them, it had an advantage to be measured in dollars and cents. The new price of fifty cents brought forth many a grin of satisfaction. "Just think," some could be heard saying. "Now we can take our babes to the dance for less than the price of a show."
The fairer sex also, seemed to be slightly in favor of the plan. A few of them bemoaned the fact that they have an opportunity to enveil their escorts into buying them a mid-evening drink, owing to the lack of an intermission.
The musicians looked a little glum because they were getting only two hours work instead of the regular three.
It is hard to find a plan for varieties that will please students, Hill orchestra, the varsity dance manager, and all others concerned. But this one seems a start in that direction.
LINIMENT WEEK
Hell week doesn't official exist at the University. Nevertheless, most of the Greek letter organizations have been stirring up a little sample of private torment for their initiates.
Potter Lake has been gradually disappearing. It has mostly been deported in teaspoons carried by perpishing pledges. Enterprising dandelions have been forced to go into hiding lest they be pulled up root and all. Giggling voices have recited unintelligible rhymes over telephones, much to the disgust of serious young men seeking dates.
The deep mysterious halls of fraternity houses have been resounding with whacks and low groans. Sales of liminum are leaping to new heights. And at that it is probably the best thing that can be prescribed.
ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT
Governor Alfred M. Landon, in his announcement to the fee and salary committee of the legislature requesting the lowering of his own salary from $5,000 to $3750, has taken a notable step toward government economy. This commendable action comes at a time when
the people of the state are toiling under burdensome taxation.
These economic measures urged by Governor Landon, while small in themselves, go toward making up the larger savings in governmental operation. The lowering of these costs, however trivial, is a blow that is aimed directly at the bottom of government expenses. Governor Landon's request is a continuation of the tax-lowering policy which began in the Woodrow administration, and it is the one way to balance a budget without seriously crimping efficiency.
This reduction of governmental expenses in Kansas through a slight curtailment in the salaries and expenses of officials is an example which the Federal Government might well adopt as one method of squaring its accounts. With another deficit of approximately $2,000,000,000 which is developing for the fiscal year ending in June to be added to the deficits of 1931 and 1932, the public debt is stupendous. If calamitous results are to be averted in national affairs, a reduction in expenses is imperative.
Campus Opinion
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This writer can no longer withhold his opinion of the editorial appearing in the Monday edition of the Kansan on the heading, "Farmers of the Future."
ditor Daily Kansan;
It was clearly the work of an agrarian, and we say let him stick to the soil. As one of the "city guys" described I feel that the city picture was slightly discolored. The farm scenes are also poorly interpreted.
What city dweller could the mistaken writer of Monday's piece have had in mind? The city dweller has a tight grip on the door from slapping through the door. The farmer is required to work only in summer and has the winter months for gentle leisure. Crops grow themselves in the soil, and a building springs up from the soil?
Farming requires no brains but if the farmer has them it requires no brawn. Machinery has long since done away with the heavy work on the farm. No longer is a farmer judged by the distance between the points of his shoulders. The important thing is the amount of gray matter in his cranium.
The farmer means over his lot, and "beefs" about the hard work he must do. Look around you, Hirum, we all work hard.
Send the Daily Kansan home
-W.H.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXX
Wednesday, March 1, 1932
No. 113
Noticees d'at Chancellor's office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 8 a.m. at 10 a.m. on Sunday issues.
regular A.S.M.E. meeting Thursday, March 2, at 7:30. Special speaker from Kansas City will talk on "Diesel Engines." Come hear this and other interesting features. MAURICE BRUZELIUS, Secretary.
A. S. M. E.:
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:
A meeting of the Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will be held at 7:30 Thursday evening, March 2, in room 101 Chemistry building. Dr. F. B. Dain will speak on "The Origin and Development of Chemical Symbols." All members and those desiring membership are invited. Refreshments will be served.
DELTA PHI DELTA;
LINDLEY DeATLEY, Secretary.
Initiation will be held Thursday evening at 8 c'clock in room 320 west Ad ministration building. All activities are requested to be present.
MARJORIE NELSON, President.
There will be a meeting of the K. U. Dramatic club Thursday, March 2, in Green hall at 8 o'clock.
GENE HIBBS, President.
The Freshman Commission of Y.W.C.A. will have a waffle supper at Henley house this evening at 5:30. All freshman girls are invited. Reservations should be made by Wednesday noon. BETTY COX, President.
DRAMATIC CLUB:
FRESHMAN COMMISSION OF Y. W. C. A.:
A delegation to the district conference of International Relations clubs will be organized at a dinner meeting to be held in the private dining room of the cafeteria Thursday, March 2 at p.m. There will be a speaker. Meals will be 30 cents. The business meeting will begin at 7 p.m. HERO LEUCVER
DORRICE SNYDER, DORIS ROLLINS, Chairmen.
MUILL CLUB:
Quill clubs will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Green room of Fraser. There will be a short business meeting and all the new pledges are asked to be presented.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB:
The Inter-Racial Group of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at Henley house at 7 o'clock on Thursday evening.
SCHOLARSHIPS;
Applications from men and women students for scholarships to be held in 1933-34 will be received in room 310 Fraser hall on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, March 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10 from 11:30 to 12, and on Tuesday and Thursday, March 2, 7 to 9 or 10 to 11, or appointment may be made by telephone.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
There will be a rehearsal of the Women's Glen club at 8 o'clock this evening in central Administration auditorium. Please note choice of meeting place.
E. GALLOO, Chairman.
WOMEN'S PAN-HELLENIC DELEGATES
REGARDENING DELIVERY
Regular monthly meeting will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in WS.
G.A. rest room.
JUANTA MORSE, President.
The May Day Mystery
By
Octavus Roy Cohen
Copyright by Octavus Roy Cohen.
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER 1 — Anointette Peyton, a star receiver for the Baltimore Ravens, resumes Paterson Thayer's attention to ivy Walt, seventen-year-old ending with bitter receptions, the team's notorious non, another student, long Thayer's friend, and his girlfriend Katie with him. Thyer and Vernon are here.
CAPTAIN H.L.—Harry Welch, Iqw's biographer of the Civil War, eighteen to eighty, gives an account of his friendship with a friend in Ireland and others each other. Weich does not know what he tells him she is married to Thayer. She tells him she is married to Thayer.
CHAPTER III—Larry determines to take a vacation with Ivy. Tony persuades he waits until she has appended to her house room the fraternity house Max Veritas room the residence house Max Veritas services and goes to his room. Tony ends up in the house almost immediately, no leaves the house almost immediately, no leaves the house almost immediately, in a state of excitement awaiting his return. After an admittance, aptly appending to be in the house.
CHAFTER, IV - Webb's appeal to the Court of Appeal in
CHAPTER V—The Marlbank bank is lying with the move after being shot and apparently badly wounded, Jim Hancock, who was in the chess, and good natured, comes to investigate the robbery, Randolph Pike. He takes his wife Max Vernon was driving the Lexington car.
CHAPTER VI - Thayer, Finks tells Haven that systematically robbing Vernon of game, and Veron, apparently, has become his own boss. Harvey to take charge of the murder of a man, Murder, and tibberer Tony Loyden, Murder, and tu
CREAFFER WIL—liverworty interrogators day of the murder. Welch wains in value the thriller, and Thayer was alive when he left him. The plot is a carefully devised one; he is lying, accurately endowing to Thayer the convoluted being that Veronis is the convicted being that Vernon is the convicted scream of incidences more reverent than the screams of incidences more
CHAPTER VIII - At the scene of the attack, the Javier marshal, the Janio faron, found Thayer numbed with whisky for fortification. The Janio dividing the profits, after the ex-commissioner searched Vernor's room, finds there, an unconscious knife, evidence the weapon with which Thayer killed.
CHAPTER IN X—To Reagain the刃笛
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discovery that Hobart had been robbed
by Ivy Welch, who had taken
Ivy Welch, to whom Max was
taught, convince the Morland detective
communal. He visits Ivy, and anguages
draws from the story the girl tells
he's taken from his possession, be
considered a victim of the weapon in his possession, but of
the weapon in his possession, but of
"Good enough." Reagan whipped out his notebook and consulted it. "May first, eleventh-thirteen. Tony Payton loves to the kid sister of the man she's crazy about. Big row. Tayner sore and Tony desperate. Fifteen minutes later, after she's pinned, Iyey Welch and Tony付押 Max need a Verson. Tyler years and the kid has just got good years and the kid has just got too far when he capped Mack's girl. Another quarrel. While that is happening, Tony付押 is warning Larry that he is in trouble and telling him哭.
CHAPTER X—Hanvey discoverers that a diamond ring, grown him by Tyler Peyton, is inscribed on the neck of Tiny Payton he learns she is Thyra Whelan. She has not told the truth about her interview with Thyra draws only more attention when she left him, and that Welch did
CHAPTER XI
"At half-past twelve Pat Thuyer gets to the fraternity house and goes five miles inter Max Vernon comes. He goes on and when the two kids on the veranda talk him Thuyer's in his room, he asks if he could tell him he he didn't then, Jim--but don't forget that he had found out where he was quarrelled with the man over there."
The two detectives faced each other solemnly in the warden's office.
"Will you tell me why?" Reagan asked—"when you had Vernon on the run, you didn't chase him? You knew he was tying, didn't you?"
"Sure, John—sure. And the more questions I asked the more lies he was gonna tell."
"Well, I'll say this for you, Jim Hanvey: You seem to rock along with the eclectic of an elephant—but a斗牛 with a heap of heaps about this case."
"Vernon goes to his room. He has been broken and worried. Some way—Lord knows how—his entree into a small apartment on the lnd national bank. He's nervous and desperate. He demands to go and have a chat with Thayer is a bigger man and stronger, and so Vernon grubs that silletto off him and has it handy in case trouble comes."
"What, for instance?" inquired Hanvey interestedly.
sketch things over, will you, so they'll take their proper pincers in my mind."
"In the first place, it's a clutch that Max Vernon killed Pat Thayer."
"Sure. Don't you?"
"There always are on a case like this," snapped Hagan. "Whenever a big crime happens we run out and grab all the facts we can. They all know what happened, which from what. But after we look into it we see that some of the things we thought were important really don't mean anything—and so we forget 'em. That's the way in this case, anyway." We might light the fires. Any jury would convict me.
"Durred if I know, John. I couldn't say for sure, anyway. There's still a lot of loose ends."
"Meanwhile Tony Peyton has come in to warn Mr he must kill off Ivy Weld. I believe every word of her words is true, but he really right after she does, Vernon goes into Thayer's room and talks cold turkey to Thayer. Vernon probably starts the fight by throwing him down and the knife cuts his jugular vein. Vernon's cook eats heir. He itches it back to his room and pitches him out. Then he closes it. Then he changes his clothes
Jim nodded heavily. "They certainly would. That's what makes it so tough on the kid—provided he's innocent."
Reagan changed his tactics. He pointed an accuser at亨妮 At hanney. "Anyway, Jim--you think he was up in that bank robbery, don't you?"
The fat man reflected for a moment, then nodded.
"Not aloud."
"And that," exulted Rengan, "is the first definite admission I've gotten out of you yet."
Jim smiled. "I am dumb, ain't I. John? Suppose you tell me just how you think this murder happened. Just
because the suit he had on when he killed Thayer was all covered with blood—which is why he never went to that tailor at all.
"I—I!" snapped Reagan. "He wasn't. That thayer was dead then. But Larry knew Tony had been there and he didn't know anything about Max Klinen. So he thinks Tony Peyton Klinen that he and shield her. Clinch, ally it."
"Then he heats it to take part in that bank robbery. He gets to the bank and goes inside. During the robbery the stick-up man is shot, while Max is driving him by a car. Then he goes on and so Vernon gets rid of his blondy and the floor rug. Then he takes his share of the hundred thousand heroes that they have copied from the
"He trades in his old car and is fool enough to think he's got a good alibi. But a couple of minutes after he舍了他 in his room at the fraternity house, he sits down. They grisly calls him and calls me. Almost that a good case, Jim?"
The big man nudded slow approval.
"Turn near perfect," he applauded.
"How come Thayer was alive when Larry Welch got there at two o'clock?"
two dollars in silver, a packet of cigarettes and a box of matches.
"It itse so . . . . And the ring Ivy had given Pt. Thayer?"
"Larry Weich took it. It didn't want me to say anything." You see how cool everything is! I'm sorry for Max Vernon, of course. There isn't anything bad about the movie.
Havney was silent for a moment, then locked up brightly. "What you'd do with all the stuff Vern had in his pocket when he was arrested?" I asked.
"Right here. Want to see it?"
"Yeh. . .."
Five minutes later Reagan returned to the room. He spread out our bed, and took the seat in his handkerchief, a fountain pen, a notebook, a book, and playing cards, a fraternity buncher, a bunch of chicks.
Hanvey fumbled with the collection. "This all, John? Didn't he have a wallet?"
"Yeh." Reagan fushed. "It's in a special box in the warden's safe. Nothing in it but some money."
"How much?"
"Two hundred and ten dollars. I'll get it."
"Never mind." Jim was holding the bunch of keys in his hand. "Doesn't this look like a new key, John?"
Reagan nodded "Sure, doe"
"I wonder if you'd run up there tomorrow alone?"
Reagan consulted his watch. "Mid night."
"Sure I will. I can be back tomorrow evening. What's the big idea?"
"Bank box, I will bet," observed Hanvey, as though talking to himself. "Ohuh, new bank box key. When's the next train for Steel City?"
Jim detached the key from the ring.
"Take this with you, John. I've got a bag at some big Steel Clip cups, some samples of his handwriting with you, because he'd use an assumed name, of course. You can check up on all boxes rummed in the last couple of years—then compare the handwriting."
"And if I find the box shall I take a look inside?"
"No-o. We'll just take it for granted that if he rented a box there the Marind bank money is in it—or any,Version, Vernon's share, what say?"
Ragan rose, "Tm on my way, Chief." At the door he turned. "And if we do find that cash, Jim—and it will be really good," he said, "will you admit then that I was right?" Jim smiled broadly. "Maybe, he were pretty."
(To be continued tomorrow)
Here's A CHALLENGE to the I TOLD YOU' BOYS
Solve the "May Day Mystery" and prove that you were right
Many are suspected but only one is guilty. Whom do you suspect?
Who killed Pat Thayer? Was it Max? Was it Tony? Was it Larry? Or was it someone else?
To help you prove that you are right, the Kansas will record your guess, and publish the names of those who guess correctly.
Just use the coupon below for your guess. Or use any convenient slip of paper if you prefer, and add your reasons if you desire.
Guesses will be received up to noon Tuesday, March 7. The last installment will be published that afternoon, along with the names of the winners.
Story Editor.
Daily Kansan:
I suspect ___ committed the murder of Pat Thayer in your serial story. "The May Day Dystory."
My name
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