1 PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief ... MARTHA LAWRENCE Managing Editor IRA McAFTY Make-up Editor Arrol Kraemerman Campaign Manager Andrea Mackenzie Night Editor Margaret Green Teleborg Editor AlPresh Broedick Society Editor Margaret Beumann Society Editor Margaret Beumann Admium Editor Jane Dilley Junction Editor James Dilley ADVERTISING MHR MARGARET INCE Foreign Advertising Manager Sidney Kroen District Manager John Lenhon District Manager John Lenhon District Assistant Jack Profie Robert Whitman Hassan born in Boca Raton, Florida Robert Whitman Margegard Stahl Vice P. Minor Liliebelle Stahl Kristen Krose Ivette Milligan Martha McIntosh AlFredo Reilly Ira McCarty William Prally Business Office ... KU. 4 News Room ... KU. 2 Night Connection, Business Office ... 270KI Night Connection, News Room ... 270KI Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Chicago, in the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copies, for each. Entered as second-class matter September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanaa. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13.1933 MASS EDUCATION No one is quite so well able to fully appreciate the effect of mass education as that young person who is just about to graduate from any one of the numerous large universities. The University graduate of June, 1933 will be in that proverbial state, "all dressed up and no place to go." After spending several thousand dollars and some four years of time, the university graduate has acquired, in most cases, a very credible beginning in anyone of a number of endeavors. He has acquired that much and very little more. Educational leaders have been stamped into arranging college courses not with the idea of rounding out the life of students but rather with the idea of concentrating all efforts on the technicalities of one particular industry or profession. University graduates of today are reminiscent of those three blind beggars who went to inspect the elephant. One seized the elephant's tail and declared that the elephant was like a rope. Another seized the trunk and declared that the pachyderm resembled a snake, while the third begged felt of the animal's side and declared that the beast was like a wall. In other words, our highly specialized educational system has failed to supply the student with the ability to comprehend problems as a whole. The student has been taught one thing well, and he very naturally does not venture beyond his own experience. To be sure, a man must be very well trained along one line, but somewhere along the way our modern education system should attempt to give the student a basis for life outside his actual profession, not only social life but mental existence. RACKETEERING A four-months old baby was found in New York City recently with a stiltle through its heart, presumably the price which the father paid for not donating $2 a week to racketeers. Aside from the cruelty and heartlessness of the deed itself, the system of government which makes racketeering possible is lamentable. Under present conditions a boss is often allowed to get control of a city because the people, who are supposed to be the governing force, either do not evince sufficient interest in politics or have not the time to study the qualifications of the numerous candidates in order to get strong and responsible men into office. Hence some politically minded man, seeing a chance to get control of the city, establishes himself as boss, and, being often in the game for financial gains, allows such vices as racketeering to flourish. A short ballot would do much to remedy this situation. It would give the people greater opportunity to study the qualifications of the candidates and therefore result in the selection of more responsible city officers. REDUCED LICENSE FEES From the general atmosphere surrounding the legislature at Topeka, it appears that a bill reducing the cost of automobile license plates will undoubtedly be passed. The main difficulty which will be encountered is that of agreeing upon just how the reduced fees shall be made to apply. Four different bills have been presented by as many legislators, each presenting his fee plan, and proposing sweeping reductions. Gov Alfred M. Landon has announced that he will send a special message to the lawmakers next week explaining his proposed scale of fees, starting from a 60-cent minimum. If such a bill is passed it will meet with the hearty approval of practically every Kansan. Tax reduction is the wish of all, and this is one means of reduction which will be felt by a large percentage of tax-payers. DEMOCRACY IS DEAD No one seems interested in having this country run by the will of the majority if that will is in conflict with the opinion of that person. Law breakers of today excuse their actions by saying that they did not believe in the law that they broke, therefore they did not have to obey it. Leonardo D Vainci once said, "If one fool say a thing he is laughed at, but if twenty thousand fools say that thing kings tremble on their thrones." When even the wisest economists are fumbling in the present financial crisis how can any sane person expect laymen to vote intelligently on the many proposed remedies? When one accepts a majority opinion in politics he is accepting an average opinion. It is foolish to presume that the ordinary, the average of opinions should be the best solution to any problem. THE KANSAS NAVY If all government officials could be selected on their capabilities, if we could put experts at the head of our government, we might hope for a brighter future. The dead flesh of democracy should be cut away. Economy, we read, is not to be so rigidly enforced as to deprive this state of the services of the admiral of the Kansas navy. Governor Landon yesterday appointed a Topeka man to hold this office until 1937. No statement was made as to the official's salary. Taxes may be heavy, but the state's navy must be maintained. Only a million, or was it a billion?, years ago the entire state was under water, with all the inhabitants of the territory living on Blue Mound and a few other islands. Despite the fact that the rainfall has been below normal the last two years, another million years may make Kansans a maritime people again. We must be prepared for such emergency—above all let us keep brightly polished the gild buttons on the admiral's uniform. SELF POSSESSION Seventy-five students at the Kansas State School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kansas marched out of the school building in a few minutes when a fire was discovered night before last. Although the fire did no damage and there was no particular danger at the time the students left the building, it is easy to believe that their states of mind would be far from calm at such a time. Nevertheless, there was no panic or confusion, as is the case so often when persons supposedly normal in every respect find themselves in similar situations. Without intending to be moralizing, there ought to be a lesson in this for a good many of us, especially now that final examinations are "just around the corner." Browning-King Store Burns **Browning:** Birth of Carmen, 13—(UP)—Carmen was killed and three badly injured when fire destroyed the Browning-King clothing store in the heart of the town. Karen Kwens, 63, battalion chief, was trapped in the basement of the building. Chris Cagle, former West Point half-back, is now playing with the New York Giants, professional football club. His salary is $650.00 per game. Figuring the ball is in play seven minutes each game, Chris earns $22.86 per minute. For college has gone of your friend's head. He is most frightfully aware of the fact that now he is a big college man, somehow on a higher plane than you are. You can only port himself in the manner approved. So you are greeted with an air of condescension, your conversation—if, of course, you are permitted that awing privilege, in heard with an amused toothed grin, for dates and frat, rat races, and hams. The old tradition at Leibhau University which prevents freshmen from wearing mustaches was enforced here last week when several students removed one from a freshman who despite several warnings still insisted upon appearing on the campus without his upper lip clearly shaven. Despite this depression talk, we can till keep up the "ole front" as the latest fashion note says that men's pants There will be a meeting of all persons interested in securing teaching postions for the fall of 1833, in Fraser theater at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 16. All persons who wish to make use of the services of the Teachers Appointment bureau should attend this meeting. H. E. CHANDLER. Secretary. UNIVERSITY Friday, Jan. 13, 2015 But don't let this particular type of nuisance bother you too much. The next time you see him sweep by in his shiny new campus cards—oh yes indeed, the ones with the new fangled zipper fastener!—not plausely, give him a cheery hello—then worry about something really worth the effort! If You Get What I Mean The way to love is not to think For when you do you use the things You like. For when you hate. Lose the love you thought you felt For her, the one you felt you loved Before you thought. This pest is the boy or girl from the home town whom you've known for years and with whom you've always been on fairly friendly terms. But since those haley days of yore, poetically speaking, you're both come to college—that is, you're come to college und he has "gone college." EDITOR'S NOTE The Campus Muse This campus pest is hardly worth bothering about, but sometimes he is agnagivating. Especially when you speak to him, and he doesn't even give a nod of recognition in return. Or perhaps you say heartily "hello" and call him the first name you'd have written "H" and your last name. A number of campus opinions concerning the proposed compulsory activity ticket have been received at the Kansas office yesterday and today but due to the extreme length of these communications we have not been able to print them. Readers are reminded that campus opinions should not exceed 150 words in length. If you turned in a campus opinion and it has not been printed, please call to the editorial office for your communication and cut it to the required length. Shortened communication is the only way in which we can give space to each every student writer. If You Get What I Mean The Campus Pest Priceless manuscripts of George Washington have been found in Lee chapel at Washington and Lee University. They were in a box which had been unopened since the death of Miss Lewis in 1940, and were kept under general. The last of the undiscovered accounts of General Washington were found among the papers. *outside due at Chancellor's Office nt 11 a.m. on regular afternoon public days and 11:08 a.m. on Sunday for Sunnies.* Elliott Penner. On Other Hills PERSONS INTERESTED IN TEACHING POSITIONS: A class in irrigation work has been formed at the Oklahoma Agricultural college at Stillwater, Okla., and has begun on its second semester work. The class will plan practical problems and exercises, and then presented to the class involves calculations on a plot of ground which covers 20 square miles. The part of the course teaching drainage, which has been completed, included a high percentage of practical detail. The irrigation work will be concerned not only with distribution, but also water carriage in enclosure, and pipe lines. BULLETIN Three men in New England suffering from eye strain after looking at the eclipse of the sun without smoked glasses have been found to have the sun's crescent clearly outlined on the backs of their eyes - Uthach Chronicle. will have the same size pocket this year. University of Washington Daily. Oklahoma University is planning to abolish fraternities. Last week they contemptuously elected a president and a dean, both in the work—The Daily Nebraskan. At the University of Berlin the students are permitted a period of six weeks in which to analyze and select materials, according to the Ursula Gaette. Women should pick their mates for happy marriages. E. Lyman Cornell, assistant professor of obstetrics at the Western University, declared recently. If Socrates was living in the United States today and they handed him a cup of hemick he'd probably made, "Okebee to the ginger ale."—College of Pacific. The youngest college freshman in the world is an eighteen-month old baby registered in the nursing school at the University of Alabama. More college graduates among organized nudists claim Harvard university as their alma mater than any other institution. Stanford students who are unable to pay their speed fines are required to wash windows and generally clean up the Palo Alto jail in lieu of fines. Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentation, Chicago's "Beer College," has opened for the first time in 17 years. An original manuscript of Walter Scott's was stolen recently from the library at Columbia University. A 163-piece band has been organized at the South Dakota State College. Program to Be Cancelled Will Be Replaced by Broadcast of Meropolitan Opera Over WREN The regular Saturday afternoon program broadcast by station KFKU will be cancelled tomorrow, Jan. 14, and continuing throughout February. This will be done to allow Wren to present a complete broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera, which comes over the NBC chain from New York. The Saturday afternoon program has been given medical talks, prepared by the nation's top mental health professionals and presented by Carroll Skuhrs, gras, as well as British travel talks. The Music Memory contest, at 6:15, will continue as scheduled. Berlin, Jon. 13- (UP) The former kaiser has called on all members of the Hohenzollern family to leave Adolph Hitler's Nazi party. Kaiser Deserts Hitler IT'S SERVICE AND SPEED you want in a TAXI You get it when you Phone 65 and for only Ann Vickers by SINCLAIR LEWIS 25c JAYHAWK TAXI To be published simultaneous in 15 countries on Jan. 25. Price $2.50. Let us reserve a 'first' for you The ---- Book ---in the 1021 Mass. Tel. 666 Printing Committee Meets Nursing Division and Geological Survey Bulletin Are Authorized At the meeting of the committee on Publications and Printing yesterday at 4 p.m. in East Administration, authority was given for the printing of a bulletin for the department of nursing in the clinical division of the School of Medicine at Rodeoel. The printing of a biological ecological Survey was also authorized. The committees which were appointed by the University Senate early last fall were organized with two sub-committees, and chairmen elected. The committees which will serve this year are F. Nlint, chairman; Karl Klooz, secretary; F. H. Guild, A. W. Davidson; J. Jensen; I. H. Hodder; B. H. Hungerord; R. C. Moore; R. D. O'Leary; O. O. Stoland; J. D. Stranathan; A. M. Sturtevant; T. Phyler; G. A. Walker; Dean E. Goster; G. I. Ingham; and M. E. Baker. The following sub-committees were established: Science Bulletin; H. B. Gungerford, chairman, A. W. Davidson, R. C. Moore, O. O. Stoland J. D. Baker, Humanistie series; F. Baker, chairman; Humanisticie series; F. H. Hodder, chairman; F. H. Guild, R. D. O'Leary, A. M. Sturtevant, and A. G. Walker; executive, L. N. Flint, chairman, Kai Kluzn, secretary, F. H. Woodward, G. O. Foster, and C. M. Baker. MacDowell Initiates MacDowell, honorary fine arts fraternity, held initiation for the following students at a meeting last night: Rola Gibson, Nate Johnson, Jane Harrison, c'34; and Dick Wickel. Plans for the coming semester were also discussed by the members of the fraternity. BREAKFAST Suggestions Texas Seedless Grapefruit 08c Buckwheat Cakes 08c Coffee 05c THE CAFETERIA --in the THRILLS! Beautiful Flowers from a Cute Shop Produce Them! "CORSAGES . . . Mode of the Moment" The Virginia May Flower Shop In Hotel Eldridge Money Loaned on--- Watches, Musical Instruments, Clothing, Guns, and other personal valuables UNREDEEMED PLEDGES For Sale at Very Low Prices ABE WOLFSON 637 Mass. 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