PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief MARTRA LAWRENCE Associate Editors Amelia Beltz Associate Editors Marie Rieser Managing Editor IRA McCARTY Make-up Editor Arnold Accumann Night Editor Margaret Grego Night Editor Margaret Grego Sports Editor Chiolien Coleman Exchange Editor Madre Brown Sunday Editor Jessamine Jackson ADVERTISING MGR. MARCARTE INC Advertising Manager Jessamine Jackson District Manager Jake Gibbons District Manager John Robinson Board II Board I Members Robert Whitman Andrew Ingred Joecl P. Val M. Jim Ellibbush Silvae Sidney Kroen Bobby Millipore Ben Kelly Andy Walters Ira McCarty William Pratilla Business Office KU. 6 News Room KU. 2 Night Connection, Business Office 7021KU Night Connection, New Room 7021KU Published in the Afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning, by students in the De partment of Journalism of the University of Arizona, in the Truss of the Department of Journalism. Subscription pro, e, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copies, fc each. Entered as second-class matter September 19, 1916, at the office at lawrence, Kansas. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 19:33 YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND THEM No matter what the plan may be, one will always find members of the group who are opposed to any change. They are satisfied to keep on doing the same th. year after year without even so much as a thought to progress. The new activity book plan is no exception. Regardless of its advantages this group will have its objections to the change. Some may be well founded but for the most part these students will hesitate because of the principle involved. A change? For them it holds as much fear as the end of the world. It is a fortunate thing that the majority of mankind welcomes a change or this world would have had no development. After all, one can decide on the merits of any plan only after it is given a fair trial. SCHOOLS ARE SACRIFICED About three out of every four cities are attempting to operate on a smaller budget this year than last. This is the first time that school opportunities for American children have been sacrificed during a depression, according to the National Education association. All previous depressions in the United States have failed to damage the schools. Does this indicate that Americans have less desire than formerly to see their children properly educated? Or does it mean that they have less spunk to fight to see that their children can profit from education of the same standard to which they have been accustomed? Perhaps the general public feels that the extra-cultural advantages which children have been receiving in the public schools is not necessary. Some parents may feel that it would be a good idea to revert to the old time education of reading, writing, and arithmetic. STATIC ELECTRICITY Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's the electrified atmosphere Maybe it's the friction of the snappy dancing feet. Whatever it is, the peculiar condition apparent at recent varsity dances has students guessing and jumping. The guessworms come after an evening of shocks and cracklings like the sound of brushes on electric dynamos, and the jump is produced by contact with the bare arm or hand of other dancers. The sensation is something like that produced by scuffing the feet over a thick carpet and touching a radiator, a shock produced by static electricity, only stronger. Couples contact, vibrate with the stinging quiver and stop to shake themselves and laugh excitedly or sheepishly. The electric atmosphere pervades the whole dance floor and provides a convenient topic for conversations — conversations which are more than likely interrupted by a recurrence of the phenomenon. At any rate, it should be an interesting subject for investiga tion by the campus physicists and electrical engineers. Whatever the outcome, there is one thing certain already. It is a brave ... who will "cut in" any more. A CITIZEN APPRAISAL OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS The average citizen of today regards the university as the place where girls go to catch husbands and boys go to sow wild oats. Occasionally they bobs up in the back of John K. Public's mind the faint recollection of that terrible Smith boy who lived across the track and went to the engineering school and now works back East for $15,000 a year. Or perhaps he remembers that kid who swept walks and tended furnaces and then went to university and became a successful doctor. The university student who makes the impression on the average citizen is the one who comes back home and goes to work in his father's business. To all intents and purposes his four years in college have been wasted as far as the accomplishment of anything worth while is concerned. Public opinion of universities can not be changed . l it is no longer considered merely smart to take a four years' fling in the university town before setting down to the serious business of making a living. Farmers are finding new uses for their products all of the time. The continued low price of agricultural products will not permit the farmer to buy coal. So the farmers in South Dakota are turning to substitutes. OAL SUBSTITUTES Corn, wood, and thistle are being used. The heat value of corn is small but the price is cheap. The wood is secured from trees along streams and other places of natural beauty. The thistles are compressed in bricks. This brick produces a hot fire which lasts about half an hour. S o me ^*o *o - o periative system should be organized whereby the miners could exchange their coal for farm products. The miners can't use their coal for fuel. The farmers are producing insufficient heat with their farm products. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: This is the first time that I have endeavored to express myself in the Daily Kansasan's vox pop. Yesterday during convocation something peculiarly inconsistent was brought to my attention. A group of disenters sitting in the front row did their best to buckle the president of the Men's Student council. It was interestful and humiliating that the Socialist club was well represented among them. It has been my understanding that Socialist principles have always embodied the meat progressive doctrines. Among these progressive measures are chiefly to be noted ones which stress co-operation. Their principles are embodied in the slogm, "The greatest good for man is the best that the plan presented yesterday had all the earmarks of a socialist measure. However, it did not appeal to this group. They seemed to represent a group of so-called eternal objectors. My main objection to them yesterday was, however, their rudeness and extreme discourtesy was disgraced, 'ul since it evidently was deliberately planned, and discredit the group which they represent. Their cheap antiqueities, were unwarranted. They were plainly offered to say the least, disgusting and entirely an opportunistic act in order to order an orderly manner but apparently they merely wished to create a disturbance. The convocation was held for the purpose of a serious discussion of a subject vitally important to every member of the student body. We are sorry, Mr. Socialist, that you Editor Daily Kansan In the little handbook "Things to Know About the University Daily Kansan," a book laying down the policies of the Kansan, is the following statement: "Neutrality in politics, both on and off the campus, and impartiality among organizations and student and faculty groups should be strictly observed. Criticisms of organizations and groups, and even the administration, are not Tokyo Gets Geneva News by Radio Government officials in Tokyo receiving direct reports from Geneva concerned the status of the Shin-Japan question by means of the radio broadcast subsidized by the government. Newspaper editors protested this broadcast of news several hours before it appeared in their regular evening newspapers. denied, but they should be from an unprejudiced point of view." If yesterday's little feature story concerning Burton Kingsbury and his convoction speech is impartiality, then Webster is wrong. By an admission of Ira McCarty, managing editor of the Kansan, something had to be done to effect of Mr. Kingsbury's speech and that seemed to be the only way to do it. The truth of the story in the Kansan is emphatically denied by Mr. Kingsbury, who had not so much as planned to attend the conversation until a few hours before it, that I, too, was present at the "Hill hangout" all the time Mr. Kingsbury was there, and heard his entire discussion of the matter. Emphatically no mention of my psychology or forensic expertise was given to my lives, as do many others on the sum- pus, that a forcing of this activity ticket on the student body would be unfair to many, although a great advantage to those who can afford it. The Kansan naturally must stick up for the plan, since the passage of this bill decides that students have to wear pants, ever, it appears to me that a paper that cannot receive sufficient interest to support itself is a pretty poor example of reading matter — Lallabele Stehl. The Campus Pest And then on the morrow you are greeted with "Outline all the major engagements of the Revolutionary war" or "Name and illustrate the 12 laws of conquest." Or again, "reproduce the chart shown in chapter six of your text." The most aggravating pest is that professor who announces, "We're going to have a little quiz tomorrow, you won't need to study for it." To be sure, the professor stands stachily behind his opinion that if you had even looked at the daily assignments you would have been able to complete the quiz in 15 minutes; he would be able to do it in less than time that. He would be foolish if he couldn't be able to do it. The project for 15 years should be able to write two or three text books without too much study. Complete Service It is uzeeless to complain, for this pes ersists in his ways. We have a setup, unequaled here in Lawrence for servicing your car, can do a better job at less cost to you- Our Contemporaries. Carter Service CALL 1300 MORNING WAS MADE FOR SLEEP! I am still convinced that all activi- ties before noon is a disgusting and un- healthy way of spending time, and at last I believe that the time has come to say so. The one cry in the world at the moment is "overproduction." In other words, too many pea fruit. It's too much to eat so earl and catching too many worms. Firestone All right, then. Why not simply keep every office, store, factory and schoolhouse closed until noon. In two weeks not only would the problem of overproduction be solved but the world would find itself inhabited by the happiest, healthiest, most reasonable population since the invention of the alarm clock. Lubrication Brake Service Battery Service Tire Repairing Washing Domestic animals stir about and more shortly after daylight for the same reason that I do, myself—because human tyrants have taught them that humans are intelligent beings. Left to themselves, animals keep no time at all. They eat when they are hungry and sleep when they please. I have seen horses lying sound asleep in a feld long after daylight and heard the grass blow. We find that the hours of the average wild creature are just about those of a boulevarder. The early morning, for example, is the best time to catch fish, not because they are just getting up but because they are just going to bed. As soon as the serpent and pickled really understand that the dull ice will break, they keep their roars in the mud and stay there until the lengthening shadows of the afternoon signal that the cocktail hour's close at hand. Jayhawks Flown (Philip Curtiss in Harper's Magazine.) Arthur E. Mallory, 12, g23, is professor of mathematics at the State Teachers college, Greeley, Colorado. John M. Glendeming, a graduate of the University is secretary of the Family Welfare society, in Duluth, Minn. De. E. K. Musson, m28, has a fellowship of $220 a month from the Rockefeller Foundation, for one year and a University School of Public Health. William H. Collins, who received his A. B. from the University of Kansas in 1925, is librarian of the 'Akron Public Library, in Akron, Ohio. Only one city in which he served as county country ranked higher in increased reading circulation, than the Akron Public library, according to a report by the American Library association. The number of books the library showed was 1929. Virginia J. Nelson, fa30, is teaching piano and is director of the Community Chorus, in Victor, Cola. To eat good food. WHY? Join the Crowd --at Ethnologist Claims Discovery of Evidence of Pre-Aztec Race WHERE? THE CAFETERIA New Orleans, Jan. 12.-(UP)--D. S. Rose, who has made a study of prehistoric roads, today chimed to have written a book about the near Woodville, Mrs. Rose said he had found a rock "as big as a desk" carved with "writing made by prehistoric man" while searching for $240,000 and to have been hurled near Woodville. The writing, Rose said, indicated that a race, probably Mongolian, preceded the Mayans and Axites to the American continent. News From Home Hutchinson — (UP) An average of three automobile crashes a day occurred in Hutchinson during 1932, with incidents. There was only one fatality. Junction City—UP)—Eight junior and senior high school students here have been selected by the Kansas all-state high school choir and orchestra advisory council to participate in a concert at Wichita, March 11. The concert will be sponsored by Wichita University. Chanute—(UP)—The Chanute Building and Loan association paid its six-annual dividend computed at the rate of four per cent per annum this year despite the press of economic conditions. Richland—(UP)—The 75 students of Northeast Kansas Junior College, known also as Highland College, are co-operating in a campaign to raise $750 to keep the school open the remainder of the year. Each student has pledged to raise $19. Horton—(UP)—Preston Meyers, instructor of the Kickapoo Indian reservation, has received $500 from the Indian office at Washington, D.C., for relief work. The money is to be used for road improvements. Sencen—(UP)—Marrige licenses issued in Nemahua county by Judge L. S. Slocum have been gradually declining in number since 1829. From that year, when licenses were issued to 120 court cases the number diminished to 143 in 1932. Wellington — (UIP) — W. W. Gordon, Kansas City, Kan., director of the Modern Woodman of America, will be the principal speaker here on Monday evening. Jan. 16, when the local order will celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of its founding. Puzzles Aid Jobless Boston — (UP) — For many jobsz Bostonians, the jigsaw puzzle has helped solve the puzzle of how to get along without regular employment. Using saw supplies then by a manufacturing concern, many of the jobless have earned a few dollars a week by training the puzzles in their own homes. Man Prefers Jail to Home Portland, Ore. — (UPI) -Ralph MacKenzie favored jail to home life. Following a quarrel with his wife, he left THRILLS! Beautiful Flowers from a Cute Shop Produce Them! O O O "CORSAges in the Mode of the Moment Mode of the Moment" In Hotel Eldridge home in a rage and broke a grocery store window. "Anything to get away from home," he told the judge. Ancient Indian City Found Ancient City Found Tucson, Arizona—(UP)—An ancient Indian city has been discovered in the Rincon Mountain miles of mesas and canyons, indicated it is a large community of highly cultured Indians existing about 1,500 years ago. For Breakfast— Fresh Texas Grapefruit 10c the half Union Fountain Send the Kansas home. Sub-Basement, Memorial Unior Run-down Heels May Do for Hoboes but it Really Isn't Becoming for Students. Get a shine. ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP 11 W. 9th New Frocks $ 5^{95} $ for Afternoon Daytime and Informal Dance Silk Crepes and Print Crepes in New Spring Colorings Sizes 12 to 20 Bell System service must go on all the time. Day and night, Sundays and holidays, it must handle with speed and accuracy not only the usual traffic but also the unexpected rush of calls. 6 o'clock means nothing to telephone service! To meet this obligation, Bell System men tackle problems of many kinds. At Bell Telephone Laboratories, scientists develop new kinds of apparatus. At Western Electric, engineers find ways to make telephones, switchboards and cable more and more reliable. In the telephone companies, traffic engineers devise improved operating methods that make service faster, more accurate, more dependable. Result: at noon or in the dead of night, the public reaches confidently for the telephone, knowing that Bell System service never stops. BELL SYSTEM TELEPHONE HOME ONE NIGHT EACH WEEK . LOWEST RATES AFTER EIGHT-THIRTY .