PAGE TWO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Dailv Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAK BENNETHCK, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief PAUL V. MINE Assistant Editors Muriel Rose Amelia Bettle ... SUNKEY KROSS Manager Editor ... ARRON KERNAMM Night Edition ... CALVIN KERNAMM Night Edition ... VIVIAN PELATZ Sports Edi..t ... CAROL KERNAMM Society Editor ... MARGARET IMMUNE Society Editor ... MARGARET IMMUNE Alumni Editor ... JANE BURLEY Department Manager ... DOSELL KERNAMM ADVERTISING MACH ... MARGART INC (UK) Director Manager ... HICK Director Manager ... JACK COLLINS Katherine Joord Memphis Robert Hewlett Robert Hewlett Ridley Kline Ridley Kline Terry Milligan Matthew Lawrence Matthew Lawrence Allison Breuckle Arnold Kreiman Arnold Kreiman Jimmy Scott Jimmy Scott Business Office ... K.U. 6 News Room ... K.U. 2 Night Connection, Business Office ... 2761K Night Connection, News Room ... 2762K Published in the periodical, five times a week and on Sunday monthly in the department of Journalism of the University of Kansas from the Press of the department at Subscription price, $40.00 per year, payable in advance. Simple login, in each. Enrolled as second-class matter November 19, 2010, at the office at lawrence, Kansas. AN APPRECIATION OF THE POLL TAX With the abstinence of the poll tax, which seems certain now that both the senate and the house of representatives have passed a bill providing for that action, will go one of the real distinctions that came on a fellow's twenty-first birthday. For even surpassing the thrill of knowing that now you really could vote was the pleasure of having someone say, "Well, Willyum, ye'd better watch out now, they'll be a tryn' to collect that there poll tax on ye now." Somehow it didn't seem like a follow really was old enough to vote until that ceremony had been gone through. The reason was that unless a fellow was lucky, his birthday wouldn't be near election time and the necessity of paying the tax was the first tangible assurance that he really was as awfully, terrible old as he was. Paying the tax definitely ranked him as a man, made him feel one of the men-folks, gave him license to join in their political discussions and add his bit to the exhortations and expectations on the shaded porch of the general store. Reaching man's estate will lose some of its savior and picturelessness when the poll tax is no more. But it is a move for the best. The first thrill of paying the tax was the last. From then on it became a burden, and was avoided and evaded as frequently as possible. It was a thorn in the side of the collector as well as of the males who had to pay it. Collection of the tax became hapazhward and desultory and for the most port ceased. It was definitely a "misuse" tax, and its abolition is a step toward a better tax program. At last the height of Hill sophistication, or perhaps the supreme manner of insult, has been reached. A couple wandered into Fraser theater last night just before the last act of the play began. ARE GENTLEMEN BARE? It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity in itself commanding the instinctive homage of every mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth not on personal possessions, but or personal qualities. The real gentleman should be gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself, such as carriage, temper, constructions, aims, and desires. He ought therefore to be mild, calm, quiet, even, temperate, not harsh in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not rapacious, nor oppressive. Do we have one on the Hill? A new instructor on the Hill this semester is just about from one to five or six jumps ahead of his conferees of the faculty. He gave a quiz at his first class meeting yesterday. RULES FOR GIRLS There should be no reason for the modern young woman to be unpopular with men; she has only to conform with the rules they lay down for her behavior, it would seem. Of course, there is the matter of complying with the regulations, but that, the man say in effect, is her look-out; we have made the rules, the rest is up to her. The newest set of regulation was promulgated at the University of Colorado Friday, when six students announced the qualification specified for the co-ed to be chosen queen of the engineers' bail First of all, the boys said, ou queen must smoke mild, inexpen-sive cigarettes. Mild, evidently, the boys could smoke them toe and inexpensive as a concession to their own pocketbooks. For the girl niece buys her own. Then she must detest strong cigars and pipe and must not chew tobacco, the lads maintained. Well, that's right, most girls don't want to any way. At this juncture the student committee became very diplomatic and indulged in some delicate phrasiology. She must abhor al-coholic beverages, was the master piece that resulted. And finally the girl to be chosen queen must be susceptible to the attention of a man, whatever that may mean, and must be able to say good night graciously. Such sets of regulations show that it's easy enough for the girl to induct how the boys want her to be, but sometimes she is led to wonder if after all its worth while, or the upshot of the whole matter, elder sisters will tell her, is hat man sooner or later comes to greet with the standards she has decided on for herself all by herself, and gives them the stamp of its approval. Of course, he usually ints himself on the back because he has finally agreed with him on mat matter, but that's all right, man is like that. The Kansas yesterday carried a headline, "Dozen Ears Frozen" over a story telling of twelve students who had suffered nipped ears from the cold. Either that headline writer never learned to count, or some circus could pick up some darn swell one-eared side-show freaks here on the campus! And probably get them at a bargain, too! GALLANTRY Gailantry today most often consists in saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner. It is the sure read to the favor of women, and yet is really nothing more than the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in himself on the part of the actor as being able to contribute toward it. Yesterday this column contained an editorial pleading for a more adequate stream of water from the drinking fountain in the Kansas news room. Today the fountain will not work at all. Our Contemporaries Rationalizing college students all over the country are beginning their semi-annual enrollance against the examination system, if editorials appearing in other college papers are any indication of student feeling. Nebraska students have written to the university at some of the features of the educational system which stress to such an extent passing examinations and getting grades. DONT BLAME THE SYSTEM, BLAME YOURSELF Having themselves in mind particularly, perhaps, college editors point to the fact that with the stress put upon final examinations, students are prone to overfeeding on the major part of the studying done in the course is done during the last few hectic days preceding the final examination. The amount of value derived from a course in which the facts are known is not so, so is doubted, and we just think so. For those who think the examination system childish, we can only say it must necessarily be so. Some idealists point to the system in use in some European institutions where the student directs his own study activities largely, and uses his own initiative. He is not bound by the necessity of taking a periodical examination and is not forced to be studying for his own benefit and what he does or does not do is his own business. Here again, it may be pointed out that the final examination receives more stress than it does in American colleges and universities. A thoroughly comprehensive series of examinations must be passed before a student graduates from an institution of that type. And furthermore, the system is in use where most of the students in less numbers are being handled. It seems obvious that in a system of universal education, such a scheme would be unworkable. The system is criticized also because it, puts a premium on remembering facts and because it tends to evaluate a student's worth in the course by grading him on his remembrance of facts as set forth in the large big probe. In the last analysis, all of these criticisms are not faults inherent in the examination system. If a student so organizes his work that he has it all to memorize, then it makes that a fault in the majority of cases. If the examination is merely a quiz on facts, and makes no attempts to determine whether the students has gained a knowledge of the general principles of the course, that is primarily the fault of the instructor either in his organization of the course or his composition of the examination. If the grade in the final exam is poor, this part upon the results of the final examination, that is most certainly the fault of the instructor. The grading system and the examination system as used at Nebraska and other American institutions are far from perfect. The criticism that indulges requirements and preparing for examination is largely true. Learning for learning's sake is rephased by learning for the sake of grades. But bearing in mind that no one will be very versified are designed for large numbers of students with all types of minds and all degrees of ambition and intelligence, it is hard to figure out any other scheme which could be applied and still be successful in meaning anything but waited time. There are advantages to the final examination. Studying for it often gives a better perspective of an entire course than any other method. If the course is properly organized, the ability to select the significant features of the course is enhanced in the final examinations, is a valuable ability for students to cultivate. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXX Friday, Feb. 10, 1933 No. 99 It is a pleasant thing, no doubt, for those of us who have ill-used our time to sit and console ourselves into believing that we are the victim of a poorly ordered educational system, but it is not always the truth—Daily Nebraska. Ernest Vaughn, F32, was granted at C. P. A. degree at the state of Texas. He is the sixth graduate of the School of Business to receive the award. Vaughn is at present with the Eckhall-McCarty company in Emporia. Jayhawks Flown Laurence T. Greiner, b28, has been appointed advertising and sales promotion manager for the Goodrich Rubber company in Akron, Ohio. Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues. --- Burham Humphreys, 29, is a chemist in charge of the shipping department for the Barton Salt company at Hutchinson, Texas. Edward Doyle Kennedy, '70, is an officer in the government air service and will be sent to the Canal zone in April. J. C. Warner, 21, has been appointed vice-president of the R. C. A. Raditree company located at Harrison, N. J. There will be a Valentine party at the church this evening at 8 o'clock. Please bring five cents and a Valentine. --- SIGMA ETA CHI; rittition services will be held at the Congregational church at 4 a.m. Saturday followed by an banquet. Don't forget the guest meeting at 8:15 Sunday OLIVE DOUGLASS, Publicity Chairman. B. Y. P. U; EVANGELINE CLARK. The May Day Mystery Copyright by Octavus Roy Cohen. WNU Service. Octavus Roy Cohen SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I—Anomette Peyton, a former basketball player at Marlins, resumes father Thayer's attention to Ivy Welch, seventeen-year-old ending with bitter reticence, the second non-other, another student, long. Thayer's older brother, an old dame, a "date" with him. Thayer and Version GISAFFITT Lloyd. Last year, Wielson,Keys and Pitcher worked together to build a friendship with Trayner. With each other, Wielson does not what other men do. When he is married to Trayner, he will be married to Trayner. CHAPTER III—Larry determines to see *Chayer*, his sister and her association with the family, until she has appealed to her husband at a fraternity house. Max Verriess lives and goes to his room. Tony ends up leaving the house almost immediately afterwards, wishing in a statue of himself that apparently clothing to be tanned leave the house almost immediately. Rube Farum and Till Gleason were still longing on the veranda of the Palat Tsi Thea house. It was Rube who saw Larry first. CHAPTER IV "And now another," he drawled. "Here comes Larry Welch looking like someone and sucked him below the throat, and let out anything he's coming straight here." But even Farnum did not take his own words seriously, and so his jaw dropped as Larry passed his own treasury house and turned in at Tihu Tihu. "Pat Thayer in?" he asked. "Yeh . . . unstairs." "I'll say this much," commented Gleason after a five-minute silence; "Pat Thayer has sure gotten popular with a mixed crowd." Then, when he had entered the house, they looked at one another bewerbledly. The affair was too puzzling for mere conversation. Occasionally one would shake his head, but speech was so awkward that the other was thinking in circles. "Yeh . . .." agreed Rube, "Or unpounsi!" Wait, the prompt says "Maintain the original document structure and content." The word after "unpounsi!" is a comma. The word after "Rube" is a period. So it's: "Yeh . . .." agreed Rube, "Or unpounsi!" Wait, t For five minutes more nothing happened. Then at ten minutes past two o'clock, Larry Welch appeared in the doorway. He crossed the veranda with quick steps and descended to the walk in a single jump. The two boys stared into him, the two girls directed their gaze toward each other. "Happy lad," commented Glenson. "He looked almost scared." From upstairs in the fraternity house there came a wild shriek; and an old woman who was standing pause and then the howl were repeated and there was a sound of feet running heavily down the stairway, and on the floor lay a pair of shoes to the startled ears of the two boys. At fifteen minutes after two o'clock , and almost before the melow chimes of the quarter hour had died out from the tower of Old Main . something happened; something screwed terrible, something which jared their hearts to their feet and caused cold sweat to break on their foreheads. They recognized him instantly; Mike Carumiclo, junior of the fraternity house. He graduated Farnam's arm, he was a member of the cadets' cause; only the gibberish of terror. "Oh! G'd - d . . . oh, my G'd - d !" vermaura it a dissolved, wild-eyed figure which was making passionate gestures and struggling finally to say some Furum grabbed Carmelo by the shoulder and glued at him. "What's the matter?" he asked hoarsely. "Wh what's all the yelling about?" Carmicino covered his eyes with his hands. Carmelino gestured wildly toward the interior of the house. said it be grounded. "Somebody has murdered Mother Thyeer!" babbled, crouched, shaken, sobbing Jantler, the two fraternity brothers faced each other. Their eyes were distended with horror as they struggled to understand what Mike Carmelo brought to them. They led the Jantler to a chair, where he forward, his squirt, muscular legs were caught in the air, their bodies were badly shaken, but at least they tried to think clearly, and Farmun's voice, when he questioned the Jantler, "Meester Thayer!" he croaked— "Meester Thayer!" "You say Mr. Thayer is dead?" Cupcake shuddered. "Si-sl, signore. He is quite completely murdered. He is on the floor at her boes room. There is much blood. He does not breathe. Hice heart it does not beat. I am quite sure he is dead." "I see the door of Meester Thayer's room is not entirely shut. I look in the mirror, and there's no floor. I think that is very funny that she hasn't moved," and not move. Perhaps he is drunk "Good Lord. . . How did you find him?" "Somebody Have Murdered Meester Thaver!" So I think I will put him on the bed and shut the door so nobody will know he is drunk. I go in the room and then I see the blood—and—and— "I stand there for a minute. Two minutes. I do not understand that Meester Thunyer is so kind to me have come to a sad ending. Then I see he is dead and something grab me and run, then I feel with a dramatic gesture. "I cannot breathe. I cannot move. I am scared." "You=you mean someone really "You—you mean someone really grabbed you?" "No! Michele's eyes rolled with terror at the very thought. "I mean I feel as bad the somebody does that, and I feel as afraid the frighten. And I run downstairs." Gleason locked up. "We'd better phone the police, I hate. If we don't call the cops we get ourselves mixed up with people we'd better phone the dean, too." Glennson walked unnately into the fraternity house and called the Marland police station. Then he telegraphed to the dean and returned to the It was a ghastly thing—made even more glray by the perfect day; the sensuous, flower-scoured breezes of first summer; the carcasses, grooming habits and carefree vitality and carcass youth. And upstairs the body of a young man lying dead. Murdered. It wasn't believable. The two young men were appalled by their own knowledge of surrounding circlings. They knew which might prove damning. (To be continued: Sunday) IF YOU MISSED THE FIRST CHAPTERS of "The May Day Mystery" you may secure back copies of the Kantan at the Kantan Business Office. Look At Your Shoes — Everyone Else Does At Least Keep Your Heels Straight and Get a Shine. 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