PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... ROBERT WHITEMAN SUNDAY STAFF Alice Gill Betsy Millipone MANAGING EDITOR Alicia V. PUMER WINNIE Campus Editor Arnold Kotteman Walter H. Fitzgerald Tolphman Editor Howard Stewart Grandpa Frost Sussex Editor Marjorie Oppenheimer Alfredson Oppenheimer Marine Krueger Sunday Editor Maurice Lahore Glenwood Press George Penny Mary Arison Stanley Hoskinson E. L. Smith James Patterson Coral Wilson AUDIENTISING MANAGER Sunny KRUSK District Manager District Manager Hillston Milligan **Baird Hound** Mounds Robert Willett, Jr. Paul V. Miler Marcusavel Pernot Liliabah Stibb Jimmie Muller Alexandra Moore Ira McCury William Finch Equipment Business Office K. U. 69 News Room K. U. 27 Night Connection, Business Office 291KL Night Connection, News Room 276KL Published in the afternoon, a week a week and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University at Albany from the Front of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $40.00 per year, payable in advance. Single tuition, so each. Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1910, at the office of lawrence, Kansas SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1932 A TAX OR A PRIVILEGE? The decision of the Men's Student Council to submit at the next student election a plan for a combined activity and Jayhawker tax is to be commended. It is fortunate, however, that the word "tax" should be applied to the scheme. Men seem to be endowed with an unending opposition to taxes, or at any rate, to those that fall directly upon him. College students should be able to see that a just tax is an opportunity to exchange a small amount of money for privileges that are of much greater financial worth. Few students, even including those who ridicule college spirit and loyalty, really believe that concert and lecture courses and student publications are useless or trifling. A student refuses to buy a Jayhawker not because he disapproves of college annuals but because he feels that he has greater need for other things. If one hundred per cent student purchase of the Jahyawk could cut the price in half, it is possible that the entire "tax" could be an amount but slightly higher than the present price of the athletic ticket alone. To some students such a proposition would always be a detainable tax, but to the majority it should be a compulsory privilege. Why not call it a "student privilege" fee? Ex-governor Alfred G. Smith who is now adding to the meriment of the political circus in the East, has lately attempted to take a fall out of Senator Moses and William Allen White. Perhaps Democracy's "happy warrior" is working on the theory of the small boy who fights up a nest of bumble bees just for the sport. This is at best a hazardous experiment as any boy can tell you, so we venture the assertion that the "brown derby" will carry a few additional dents when the smoke has cleared away. THE DRAMATIZATION OF A FABLE At this time of the year the old table of the grasshopper and the ant is enacted for the benefit of the observent. In the field back of the Hill, near the intramural grounds, thousands of grasshoppers, half-frozen from the wintry winds, were observed yesterday morning hopelessly trying to prolong their short life a little longer. A nearby ant hill gave a contrast to the pitiful plight of the grasshoppers, and at the same provided the setting for the dramatization of the old fable. In their cozy little underground chambers, these ants have stored food for the winter. They will be well provided for when the snow lies deep over their home, while the grasshoppers that wasted the warm balmy days of summer in idle pleasure will have been dead many months. And, by the way, mid-semesters are almost here. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vd. XXX Sunday, October 30, 1962 No. 37 Noticees due at Chancellery's office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The Home Economics club will hold a super meeting at the cafeteria Monday, Oct. 31, at 5:30 o'clock. Meet in the Memorial Union lobby, Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley, Eddie Cox, and Laura Shankland. MATHEMATICS CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Mathematician club Monday, Oct. 14 at 4:30 in room 211 Administration building, Mr. Edph Scott will speak on "Mathematics and Computer Science." PHI CHI DELTA: III to IHCS, Phi Chi Delta, Presbyterian morality, has been postpone until Tuesday, Nov. 15, because of the W.Y.C.A. membership banquet. UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB: The University Women's club will meet for its November Tea on Thursday afternoon, Nov 3, at 3 o'clock in Myrmil hall. X. W. C. A. MEMBERSHIP BANQUET: The Y.W.C.A. annual membership banquet will be held at the Memorial Union Tuesday, Nov 1, at 6 o'clock. All new members are guests of the Association. Both new and old members may make reservations at Henley house before Monday evening. FRANCES BALLAID, Chairman WANDING COMMISSION The meeting of the Advanced Standing Commission of the X.W.C.A. has been postponed until Nov. 9. RUTH STOLAND, Chairman. Y. W. C. A. ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION: The Kayhawk club will meet Monday evening at 7:30 in room 5. Memorial Union building, CONVERTS HERRING, Vice President. RHADAMANTHI TRYOUTS: Tryouts for the poetry society have been extended until noon today. Any perons wishing to enter manuscripts will turn in 20 lines of poetry under an assumed name, accompanied by an envelope containing the actual name of the author, to 940 Tennessee. MAXINE LUTHER, President. There will be a meeting this afternoon at 4:00 in the Green room. fraser hall. MAXINE LUTHER, President. RHADAMANTHI: SILENCE IS, NOT ALWAYS GOLDEN Many students believe that the old proverb, "Silence is Golden," also applies in the college classroom. There exist the students who maintain silence because they believe that their ideas or opinions are not worth expressing; they take everything for granted that the instructor says to them. And there are those who have an inferiority complex, and won't contribute to the class discussion for fear of commanding unnecessary attention from classmates and the instructor. And there are a number who fail to establish a class-room union between student and instructor. Sometimes this is the fault of the instructor, who allows very little chance for classroom discussion, but in most instances it can be traced to the individual student. The modern class-room should be an open forum for the students, where they can be free to express their ideas and contribute their thought as long as it is relative to the subject under discussion. There is no teacher in any course who will not give proper recognition to a student if he deserves it. As long as the student keeps silent in the class-room, there is no opportunity for the instructor to know if he has the proper interest in his course. It is thought that the freshmen won't study if they aren't compelled, and so study hall are conducted for them. Upperclassmen need them too. WEAKMINDED UPPERCLASSMEN The freshmen are sent to study hall, and calm descends upon the house. The upperclassmen relax. A bridge game starts. The radio is turned on, quite low of course, so it won't distract the freshmen who are trying to study. Thus the upperclassmen loll away their evenings until the freshmen come up from study hall. After the freshmen are sent to bed a "bull session" begins. It continues far into the night. By the time it is over the upperclassman must go to bed. The only thing that is the matter with the upperschlassen is that they are weakminded and have no will power. They might profit by a visit to the study hall. STRAW VOTES A small college in Kansas recently attempted to get a student preferential poll on the presidential candidates. The balloting was made as convenient as possible, but at the end of three days only twelve per cent of the student body had cast their vote. The actual futility of the straw vote is perhaps the main reason for this meager return. But with a result such as this it is difficult to refute the charge made by an educator that college students are not interested in national affairs. With nearly one-third of the students at Kansas eligible to vote in the regular election, a similar ballot should get larger returns. These students, at least, should be public-minded to the extent of studying the issues and personal qualifications of the candidates in an effort to fully understand the problems of today. TAXI 25c The place to stop for a refreshing fountain drink or appetizing sandwich is our beautiful new Walnut Room. Jayhawk Taxi Ike Guffin, Prop. Just Phone 65 When Down Town--is furnished for the benefit of undergraduates in the regular course of study at Ohio Wesleyan. 835 Mass. Phone 182 Established 1868 Wiedemann's Campus Opinion Served Daily LUNCHEON Editor Daily Kansan; 11:30 a.m. to 2 p. m. Aloo 5:30 till 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday At all times within the memory of living Americans, the Eighteenth Amendment after its passage has been a problem. Before it flowered into a law, there seemed to be one saloon within a city block. Well, now how many speakeasies are there? Sorry, I am sure you have a scream. It is a scream. I am sure everybody knows Herbert C. Heaver is *It* is the president of the United States, was the great "humanitarian," and one time prophet of prosperity. While I was yet at home, he tried to decide to come over to the "mating pat" which does not melt, he predicted that prosperity was just around the corner. Now, let me tell you the story. When he turn the sharp curve. Why? What happened? Well, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in an awful hurry to catch the train. They asked the driver, "Depression," to step on the gas. "Depression" did it, but was so excited that when he turned the gas valve, the "Prosperity." "Prosperity" was badly injured, but "Depression" keeps on driving fast. S. V. Tolentino. So you see Herbert C. Hoover was right. Prosperity was just around the corner. Our Contemporaries A COURSE IN PROMPTION A COURSE IS PRODUCTION Because the direction of the path from one question to another is guided by the generation now maturing, an academic approach to the question "Prohibition as a *Governmental Problem* is offered for the second year in its political science department which stands alone among American colleges in offering opportunity for an intelligent study of the issue. In spite of the frenized propaganda in national affairs during the initial period of the pursuit of this study, the results were contrary to the general conclusion which the American electorator seems ready to accept. A strong minority of the course's enlightened flavor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment according to a poll taken at the beginning of the work. However, after an extended period, all but two students favored retention of the amendment. The value of this survey, which can go on as long as the course is offered, is heightened by the fact that the approach to the subject was many-ided, not of the common yes and no variety. Prominent men and women acquainted with the different phases gave lectures to the class and presented their favorite panacesis. Only after a thorough re-exam, reports and an evaluation of their worth was the class allowed to voice its opinions. This method is the only way in which an intelligent and honest stand can be taken. Educators, commenting upon this plan, promise to spread its use in the same manner in other colleges, saying that the liquor question is in the hands of students. The students are best prepared to rule tomorrow's nation, bona fide politicians are seeing to it that youth is correctly oriented for its future role. YOUTH FACES THE PRESENT —California Daily Bruin. Lately it has been the habit of many employers, particularly those who never saw the inside of a college, to value an education. They point with something like pride to the records made by many of their employees who were not college men. It is not the purpose of this editorial to debate the point whether or not university training makes happier plumbers, or better plumbers, or plumbers that a liberal education does not help in preparation for the technical trades. But to the man whose contacts in life are broad, a conception of the arts invainable. In the strictly technical world that a liberal education would not help the chemist. It is unnecessary to point out that only part of his life is spent in the laboratory. The rest of it must be lived as well, and whether or not he intends to spend it in a tatube or diversify his interest is entirely up to him. It is the fact that discouraging prospect that has fused recent college graduates. Reports from various universities show that from only 10 per cent to 50 per cent of last year's graduates have found positions. The encouraging feature of this situation lies in the fact that most employers have returned to college for further training, realizing the advantages of a liberal education. — Oregon Daily Emerald. --at Send the Kansan home. Stay on the Hill Where the Food Is Excellent. Plenty of Room Service Is Speedy Prices Are Right Cleanliness is Param The Cafeteria Nothing is good enough but the best Clothes Made for You Are Always More Desirable and Now the Prices Are No Higher Than the Other Kind. Why Take Chances? You Will Be Surprised at the Prices. SCHULZ THE TAILOR Suiting You, That's My Business Nine Seventeen Mass. --- WOMEN'S PICTURES Some Advertising May Need But there is one form of publicity that stands on its own feet. Want Ads Use No Display; They Are All Meat! Want ads sell books and instruments, find lost valuables, sell typing ability, rent rooms and apartments, bring workers and employers together, locate tutors. — or what do you want? at 25 words or less: one insertion, 25c; three insertions, 50c; six insertions, 75c. Over 25 words: one insertion, 1c each word; three insertions, 2c each word; six insertions, 3c each word.Call at the Kansan Business office.