PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY, MAY 16. 1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITOR IN CHIEF Associate Editors OTTO EPP Robert Whitley Dick Jones MANAGING EDITOR MARTHA LAWRENCE Make Up Editor Lindsay Smith Campus Editor Pam W. Moore Alfredson Editors Alfredson Dobson Night Edition Albert Dobson Teleport Universe Donald J. Lewis Teleport Universe Donald J. Lewis Alfredson Editors Josephine Jackson Alfredson Editors Josephine Jackson ADVERTISING MANAGER CINA E SNOYE Advertising Manager Marina Advertising Manager Megan District Manager Maya District Manager Market Point Fwd District Manager Owner District Admin Owner Owner J. Townsend Phil Kyleer Assistant General Manager Robert Kyleer Director Robbie Whiteman Associate Director Lyle Hickey Director Linda Hickey Executive Vice President Silber Kristin Associate Director Mary Kristin Assistant Vice President Charles E. Snyder Folselehrens Business Office K.U. 61 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 170 I.R. Night Connection, News Room 470 I.R. Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Saturday morning. By invitation in the Department of Law, Washington University, from the Press of the Department of Homeland Security. Substitution price, $4.10 per person, payable by mail. number. Single apartment. Branch. Entered as second officer September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, KS. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1932 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Students will be given an opportunity to witness, for the first time in Lawrence, a political convention. Students read about such conventions and study them in certain classes, but seldom do they have opportunity to attend such a meeting. Many politicians may think that there is no interest among the students of the University in a political convention. They may think that the students look upon the convention as merely another series of speeches which they do not wish to attend. Despite this belief, there is a great deal of interest being evidenced by students. Some have never before seen a political convention of any kind in action and others have never seen a state political convention. Many students will attend the meetings of the Democratic convention today. Grouping all these factors together, it can readily be seen that students will turn out in large numbers for the meetings of the Democratic convention and will probably be the most attentive group at these meetings. Then there is a group whose parents are Democrats and who are interested in Democratic clubs, who will show interest in these meetings. There are also many who will be watching to see what presidential candidate the Democrats will instruct the delegates to the national convention to support TRAFFIC PROBLEMS The city officials are seeking means to improve traffic conditions in Lawrence. So far they have concentrated on student motor car drivers and the roads in West Hill. In the course of the school year we have found Fourteenth street at its entrance to Massachusetts with cars parked along both sides, leaving a one way passage marked with a stop sign. That could be remedied by a parking rule. We have seen stop signal standards left in the middle of the street in school zones long after the last pupil has crossed the street to get home. We have observed several taxis coming out of the entrance to the only one-way drive on the Hill. We have observed these same taxis running between fifty and sixty miles an hour on Massachusetts street between the hours of two and six o'clock in the morning. We have waited in our car for more than thirty minutes because someone thirty placed his car behind us and went on a neighborly visit and shopping tour. We have observed that one half the drivers think a stop signal means slow while the remaining half stop; that there are numerous stop signals at points where slow signals would serve as well. With these observations for investigation, why doesn't the officials observe traffic in a scientific manner and then start corrections? LAW ENFORCEMENT The Lindbergh case has focused attention on the question of law enforcement in the United States. As usual, the press, serving as interpreter of public opinion, is loud bouncing shouting for something to be done to enforce law and reduce crime. But while the press shouts, it offers no solution. The citizens of the United States have never been able to see the connection between enforcement of law and themselves, not as a body but as individuals. If a murderer seeks refuge in the home of a citizen, that citizen will offer the criminal protection in place of turning him over to the law. Hundreds who have a batch of beer or a jug of wine fermenting in the basement of their homes cry for law enforcement and never realize that if the law were enforced, they would become offenders bailed into court. Motor car drivers with a copy of a newspaper in which is written an editorial demanding enforcement of law to check crime will speed along highways, endangering life, breaking law, but never thinking that they are offenders. Is the desire to check crime in Americans to strong that citizens will sacrifice a few of their own personal wishes which break law? Will they not only stand behind the cop on the corner, but let him know that they'll help enforce the law when needed? THE LAST PUFF We're off! The last full week of school loops ahead. The cinder track is not smooth. There are ruts where we've let weekends run across the track; there are holes where book reports are yet to be read; and small craters mark spots where the term papers and the thesis have blown up. The tape at the end of the mil shows up in a straight, white line. The track gets rougher, and the seniors are panting for breath. Only the spectators would cheer, the end could be reached in record time. The race is nearly up, courage is lacking, the stride has been broken, and regret for the things we meant to do is showing our pace The cad will soon be reached, but the struggle does not hold the exhilation it would have had if the last mile had been a race inspired all the way by sure victory LIBERALISM President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin denounces the attack make on that institution for the fostering of communism, atheism and immorality as a personal attempt by individuals to further their own personal or political interests. This is undoubtedly not the first attack to be made on this institution. Almost all of the universities are thus attacked at some time or other. Sometimes the attack is dramatic. If people in general take a small part of a University course they may jump at the conclusion that universities are terrible, wicked institutions. This is, not true where courses are viewed as a whole, with their true essence and purpose considered. OUR MUSEUM The university is the logical place for progressive, forward or radical proposals and ideas. It is better for students to meet these radical ideas in school than to encounter them for the first time after they have been graduated. It is the function of the university to teach the students how to evaluate the ideas correctly instead of swallowing them whole. A part of their training is to think things through to a logical, same conclusion. They are less likely to go "hay-wire" if they are taught in school to meet and attack wisely all kinds of problems. About two or three times a week the Kansan carries a news story about some new addition to the museum, but few students go to see the treasures stored there. Visitors come from many miles to look at the exhibits in Spooner-Thayer and in Dyche museums. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIV Wednesday, May 16, 1923 No. 182 Notices due at XXIV's office at 11:29 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday hours. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, May 17, at 4:38 in the auditorium on the third floor. E H LINDLEY In the first place, a bike of $22.00 in does annually for each fraternity and security member is not an excessive amount. If it isn't worth $22.00 more than it is worth, then the brothers of dear old Rho Rho, who fight for an organization to which already has been given so much time, effort, and money? From all observations, we find that more than to that to belong to the higher strata of university life. COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: I am interested in the welfare of the University, and do not wish to see it left "with an acute problem on its hands," such as the president of the Pratermacy President's association described in Sunday's Kansas; consequently, I have given the problem a study, but I am about to conclude that the University's fertility taxation have been greatly exaggerated. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: "There will be a short business meeting at 4:30 Wednesday, May 18 in room 250 Bruner Hall. After the meeting there will be a MAGAHEF FARE, President." The last meeting of the year will be held at Myers hall Tuesday, May 15 (6:30). This is the senior farewell. All members should be present. KAPPA PHI: EVELYN WORDEN. Publicity Chairman The election of officers and business meeting of MacDowell fraternity will be Tuesday, May 17, at 7:45 in the university auditorium. A sponsorship event will take place on Thursday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. RUDOLPH WENDELIN. Plu Laibmie Theta will hold its annual "Strawberry Festival" Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 at the home of Betty Harper. 210 Massachusetts street, Boston, MA 02118. **Secretary:** PL LAMBDA THETA: Editor Daily Kansan: SENIOR INVITATIONS: SERVICE INITIATION Senior availabilities are now available at the business office. GEORGE MCPHILLAMEY. CLYTICE WILEY NICHOLS, Secretary. IGMA GAMMA EPSILON: A smoker for all active and pledges of Sigma Gamma Epsilon will be held at the University Men's club, Tuesday, May 17, at 7:30. EDWARD HATTON, President. Farwell meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Frank Strong on Tuesday evening at 5:30. Initiation service will be held. THETA EPSILON: They invariably express delight and surprise at the things which they find there that are of vital interest to them. Even Dr. Paul Dengler, who visited the campus this spring, was surprised at the things he found in our museum. If a man who has access to the famous art galleries and treasure halls of Europe thinks it worthwhile and of value to visit our museum, then surely we should be more appreciative of what we possess. Our museums should be more than places where we can take our parents or out of town friends when they unexpectedly drop in on us. Museums should be places of study just like our libraries and means of entertainment like the theaters. Campus Opinion THE HOUSING PROBLEM Editor Daily Kansan: Since Special Judge Vance has returned his decision on the fraternity taxation problem, Greek men and women on the Hill are facing for the first time the realization of just what it will mean to meet the tax requirements. Some groups on the Hill will require that the Court houses should this recommendation of the judge be accepted by the supreme court of Kansas. Douglas county is perhaps, somewhat in the right in demanding taxation from the organized houses on the Hill, but it has picked a rather poor year to continue the trend. Because of the compass are in worse condition financially this year than for several years previous. Should a number of the houses be forced to close because of this tax assessment, Lawrence will have to make a larger housing problem on its hands. It is estimated that there are twelve hundred men and women in organized houses on the Hill. Should even one fourth of these, or three hundred structures be in the house it is doubtful, if the city of Lawrence would be able to house them agreeably. What then, is to be the effect on the University itself if the situation turned in by its specially appointed judge? A Jayhawker. THELMA WILCOX, President Furthermore, why should the University be left with a homing problem "on its hands?" As soon as the bovies house, which is assumed, will be closed, the houses he deftly destroyed after them? Will they be no longer habitable? Wont the same heming capacity exist in Lawrence as for If the organization houses were disbanded, what essential difference would it make in University life? For their members are interested, according to all testimony, primarily in getting an education. Surely the group which leads in scholarly (2 of a point or such a matter) and in the avoidance of notoriness for K. U. would not be disengaged in their intellectual pursuits. Why should students that they live in ordinary houses. Why, the saving in house bills could be used to pay the hotel bills and room rent of their visitors. Of course, the democratic spirit which prevails on the University campus might be impaired by the closing of the fraternity and security houses; and the wholesome fellowship of the barb and the Greek, who share alike in their friendships, social life, and the political affairs. If they vote (election time) at the University might be dissolved. A dissolution indeed is to be fought against, for as it is now the spirit is of a kind that the bach, who is deliberately snubbed about nine-tenths of the time, feels a response to give his "immediate attention" which the president of the Fraternity President's "association has urged action." Interested Reader And the problem is a vital one, for if it is not served in the Greek's flavor, it means the closing of houses, which are built to house a group of all sorts—houses, which serve is literary halls and dormitories and always for the promotion of the better books. 15 On the Hill Years Ago May 16, 1917 Hot days are coming and with them the desire of many students to go swimming in Potter lake. At the press conference there is very little water in the lake. "If you are too fat for the military requirements and wish to get thin—just worry about it and the results will be gratifying." said C. B. Harrison of the department of physical education this morning. Carrie M. Watton, fondly remembered by thousands of K.U. students as "Aunt Carrie," has just celebrated an anniversary at the University Librarian. Chewing gum, having had proper mastication, can be substituted for glue according to a prominent Hill student. Stores downstairs sell three packages of gum and there are fewer Gum. It is cheaper and far more pleasant to use, small, and taste. Signa Xi will meet Thursday evening in Blake hall. The following will be initiated C. W. Sobel, P B. Lawry, R. Reynolds, Raymond Beamer, and O. L. Maang. "Made-to-measure" service for business Whether the business is small or large — the corner grocery or the refrigerator factory — requirements for telephone service vary. So, to meet special conditions, Bell System men custom-fit the service to the subscriber. They worked out a telephone conference plan for a large manufacturer. Every Friday, at specified times, each district manager calls the home office, where telephone facilities are so arranged that the chief sales executives are on the line simultaneously. Problems are discussed, decisions given. In minutes, the executives cover the country. This plan lowered selling costs, raised efficiency, helped the user to increase profits 31% in a year's time. By making the telephone more useful, Bell System men contribute to the success of many industries. BELL SYSTEM V NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES Welcome DEMOCRATS While in Lawrence Call 75 for Prompt Service in Cleaning and Pressing After the hike or that fast game of tennis, what could be more refreshing than a shower and an hour with a good book? You'll find those books that you have been wanting to read in our rental library. Come in today and get one. THE BOOK NOOK 1021 Mass. Tel. 666 TAXI 25c 12 HUNSINGER Plymouth and Chrysler Cars THE DICKINSON THEATRES, INC. THE REAR CAR Tonight and Tomorrow Night ORPHEUM THEATRE 16 17 Mav 16,17 at 8:15 A Splendid Cast from the Hill and Town. Adults, 50c --- Children, 25c Tickets at Box Office or from members of the American Legion Drum Corps