PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNE3DAY, MAY 11, 1929 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS MANAGING EDITOR MARTIN LAWRENCE Make Up Editor Liliana Ferrari Campaign Editor Allison Bradley Allergy Roads Night Edition Albert Green After Dark Alfred Rivera Tennessee Editor David R. Lee Editor's Note Todd Levine Editorial Manager Dickson James Editor's Office Jason Wood ADVERTISING Manager, CHAS E. SNYDER Advertising Advertiser Manager, Alison Kline Manager, Advertiser Manager, Alison Kline Director Manager, Bill Milesman Director, Bill Milesman Director Assistant, Bill Milesman Assistant, Bill Milesman Officer 1, Priscilla Charles E. Sayde Pirkler Harper Jon Kush Milton Franklin Robert Whitman Millard Church Lake Hewitt Late Hewitt Lute Holden Finnegan Hill Adoree Hill Marcus Inc. 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TRY TO STUDY WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932 Gentle winds, wrens, swallows and larks chirping and carolling in sheer enjoyment of spring— Ceruleum blue skies, dainty candy, loud dandelions, delicately violated violets and multi-lined circles and triangles of tulips Athletic figures bounding and swinging at white and red tennis balls, lithe, brown bodies running and jumping in the warmth of a sun such as the Aztees must have worshipped— ANOTHER WHITE ELEPHANT Girls and boys of carefree mier and wholesome appearance walking, talking and laughing as if they had not a care in the world. All these things whisper and shout to the student to quiz study, quitter worrying and go out into God's out-of-doors and really live. First the Altron, the navy's huge dirigible, sticks the ground and breaks off a rudder. As soon as it is repaired the ship has a close call in a storm. It looks as if the giant machine were another of its kind just waiting until filtred to capacity before crashing or breaking up in mid-air and killing all passengers and members of the crew. The Graf Zeppelin had had a wonderful record, but it is a unique record. The Graf has made many long flights without a serious accident, but the dirigibles of other nations have all eventually come to a tragic end. One disappeared from France several years ago and was never seen again. A little over a year ago, a British dirigible crashed, killing all passengers and the crew. The American ship Shenendoch which broke in half in mid-air. As soon as the navy's new dirigible, the Alron, goes up it has trouble. Of what use are these ponderous things? Their cost runs into an enormous figure and as yet they have not demonstrated that they are of any practical use. Nine times out of ten the money put into building them is lost when they are used because one lone fighting plane could easily draw a diribble down in flames. In peace time they are useless because they have demonstrated conclusively that they are not safe. The money would be far better placed if they were spent on fighting planes, and, if no more planes are needed and the navy department has so much is being thrown away, departments are open, but better be cut down by congress which is at this time looking around for places to cut expenses which will not cost votes. HUNGER the past two weeks or more have seen a decrease in the number of reports coming through the newspapers concerning the coal war situation at Harlan, Kentucky. Has every investigating agency been shut off, or was there really nothing in the whole affair after all? The latter assumption is difficult to accept in the light to be the case, however, of the organized antagonism toward earlier at temps at investigation. It is much easier to believe that more of the agencies, and all of them who have any sort of publicity available to the public at large, have been shut off. What has become of the group from New York that was going down to make a thorough survey? The socialists, regardless of the popular phobia of communism that rises whenever the work "socialism" is mentioned, were the only ones making a real attempt to find the true state of affairs. What has become of them? The newspapers were anxious to get a big story out of the affair, but when other opposition was choked off, lost their earlier enthusiasm. Have the workers finally given in and gone back to work in a situation that keeps them financially in debt to their employers all of the time for the barest necessities of life. Or as they still starving for food, or as they still starving for slow starvation and the diseases brought on by malnutrition? The American public surely has enough interest in the situation for it to be discussed on vital issues, rather than because so many newspapermen were ordered from town on a particular day or a number of students carrying a red flag were sent to the sheriff and told to saddled. Is there no agency in the country organized to investigate such situations and make reports in which people may have confidence? If so, why are not such reports available? If not, there ought to be such an organization. It is surely as important to discover whether people are sturdy enough to drink water and materials that America has as it is to find out how many people drink corn liquor in Kansas! BUSTED EARS Wouldn't you like to get hold of the fellow who always hangs up the telephone receiver with bang before you're re-though? An after having got a good hold on them wouldn't you just like to be his ear? Is there anything which is more downright mean, more aggravatingly contemptible, in ore outrageously despicable than the benging down of a receiver while one is still listening? Personally we've made call after call in which the courtesies thing for the person called to would have been to wait until we had closed the talk before jamming down the receiver, but students seem to make a game out of the pace for the conversation and By the way, interviewers are no better; in fact they are a little more inclined toward the true perfection in this act of receiver jamming than are the students. ficuit to accept in the light to be the case, however, of the organized antagonism toward earlier at- The Kaw Valley cemery is a work packing 10,000 cases of spinach. Pity poor Johnny. Perhaps there is the old reason that the buoy man has no time for wasted motions. And to which, all we have to say is, just give us a good hold on the guy that "busted" our ear yesterday, we'll show him some unwashed motions. TREES New York state is getting quite concerned about her forestry. Under the direction of Henry Morgenthal, Jr., the state is pluming in the nation of fauna lands which do not poke for themselves when cultivated. People from the East exclaim when they see the trees of northeastern Kansas. Many Easterners are still under the false impression that Kansas is a barren plain, scorched and flaming under a burning sun, and covered with roaring hens of buffalo. In Kansas, it requires years before a tree is fully grown. Because this makes the tree more precious, why do we not think more of our forestry and give time and thought to plan for more trees? We need organization to get trees planted over the state, but first of all we must see the beauty of our landscape. We are the appreciation of them into action. While New York purchases 100-000 acres of land on which to spend part of the twenty-million-dollar state fund to plant twenty million acres of trees in North America, sit by and let last year's maple seed sprout a new tree if it will. Where are there more beautiful or more stately trees than the elm, the oak, or the cottonwood against a clear Kansas horizon? AFTER FOUR YEARS We are now a senior. During our four years' training we have learned a lot of things. They are not what we expected to learn when we first enrolled in the University, but we do not regret the time spent here learning them. In fact, we know that K.U. and have a degree which we shall never use except to try to get a job with it. But of all the things learned, both good and bad, there is one thing which we regret most of all. We have learned to bluff. In high school, we either knew something well or not well, so about it either way, but especially during the last year of our University career we have bluffed a good deal of our way along. We have written exam answers for pages over subjects we had never studied. In the "shot guns" we have bullied along and we "got by." We have bluffed professors into thinking we know their subject and we have got decent grades. It isn't that our conscience hurts us when we receive it, but it has just occurred to us that something is wrong. Why do we need to bluff? Of course, we want to get along on as little work as possible, but there have been times when we have burned the midnight oil and still bluffed. Is it that we have too much work to do in too short a time? We are not expected of us and we merely get along the best we can? No, it is rather that we find that we can get away with bluffing. During our first or second year we tried it on something we bad meant to study and didn't. We got by with it. The next time it was a little easier, and still no one found out about us. And so it went on until now, by the time we are a senior, we can write whole book reviews over books we have never read; we can answer questions unknown subjectsfb and we have learned to recite in class for five minutes and never commit ourselves. Now we are getting to a point where we are bluffing ourselves. We are not sure whether we know something or whether it is just our "gift of gab." We are sure of one thing, that we skim along the surface and do very little real thinking. So it must be true here, as it is with so many American colleges that they prove the fact that the goes through a four-year mechanical process during which time he learns a few facts, makes up the rest, and is graduated a Bachelor of Arts. Our Contemporaries RUSSIA AGAIN Again Russia has been given a "black eye" by the press. Paul Doumer of France was assassinated by a Russian outcast. Dr Paul Gorgold, being a non-conformist, had been driven from Russia, but being a Russian he joined the White Army and a member of the White army. The terms were used synonymously in many papers. Correctly speaking, he was a "Green" Russian. He was a leader in the peasant party who wanted to put the control of the land in the hands of the peasants. The White army is also trying to overthrow the government from being the same as the party that Gargulov represented. People with average intelligence might know that Russia is not wanting a war. But still, Stalin and his associates get the blame, and our unthinking public still believes that all radicals are everything from single taxes to Anarchists. EDUCATION OR TRAINING? People seem to believe that every person who is a radical is a "Red." Being a "Red" he is a Communist, an Anarchist, a Boshevist, a Socialist, or any other kind of "int" that comes into mind. People are ready to believe anything that is not nice about the Russians. What would the leaders of the Republican party say if an exiled Anarchist from America shot the French president and the French called him a republican? They would be calling upon all the party saints to strike the Frenchmen blind. While spring showers, flowers, Juniper week-end, commencement and light houghtons on the May number of he Atlantic month brings a some- OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XIXM Wednesday, May 11, 1932 No. 178 Notice due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Sunday for leave. An open meeting of chemical engineers will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in room 206 Marvin hall, for the purpose of forming an organization of chemical engineers. Light refreshments will be served at a cost of $1.5c. All classes are invited. JIM NAISMITH, PAUL HANEY. CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: There will be an important meeting of the Companion club tonight at 1325 West Campus road at 9 o'clock. SISIRRO SISIRRO MUSAIMATO, Secretary. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: DRAMATIC CLUB: ABOVE THE CLOUD. There will be a meeting of the Dramatic club tomorrow night at 8 o'clock JACK FEIST, President. INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF Y. W. C. A.: The International Group of the Y. W. C. A. will meet this evening at 7:45 at Holley College, Miss Helen Weed. Weed will attend "Ten Years of Service" an all who are interested in her. DORRICE SNYDER, DORIS ROLLINS. KANSAN BOARD: rine Kansas Board will meet at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. OTTO EPP, Chairman. PHI SIGMA: Phi Sigma will meet Thursday evening, May 12, at 6 p. m. in the Kansas Union. After dinner the society will adjourn to Dyche Museum in Dr. Tracy will tell of his work on "The Biological Survey of the Mesentern Maine Coast." MRS M.NAIR. Sorry. Rhodamanthe will meet Thursday evening at 9 o'clock in the classical museum of Fresner hall. Besides the regular reading of original poems, there will be an election of officers for the coming year. All members are urged to attend. FREDERICK E. WURTH PHADAMANTHI: WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY; There will be a regular Wednesday night varsity at the Kansas Union tonight. Stags will be fined a dime. **NEWMAN JEEFFEY.** WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB: There will be election of officers Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in Powell shops. NELL REZAC, Captain. what heavier dissertation on "The University in American Life" from the pen of Abraham Flexner. For prospective graduates who have been paying out $2.85 three annually for the last four years in the interests of higher education, Mr. Flexner baddly says: "The over-crowded American college is engaged in making a necessary change in what girls and girls what they ought to have learned before they left their local high schools." Missouri defeated Kansas in baseball on McCook Field yesterday afternoon by a score of 7 to 0. The iconoclastic Mr. Flexner only enjoys in taking much of the joy out of approaching commencement exercises, but does so to the tune of highly conviving rhetoric. Witness: "the university cognizant of the past, grappling with the present, straining toward the future, is the only institution capable of maintaining intellectual capacity that cannot perform this task if it is used distract by the number and variety of the activities it sponsors." FREDERICK E. WIRTH. These distracting activities are, according to Mr. Flexner, all so-called "service" tasks in the form of professors' training. Training he points out, is not educational in nature; it involves different things without profoundly understanding the processes therein involved. Education is understanding the fundamental problems and processes, but also the status of students into the student parities of schools, maintaining only those by which a workable world scheme may be followed. The student therefore is ultimately the highest type of leader. This means that the education is not the function of higher education. With eight professional schools as her immediate pride and joy, the University of Oregon would seem to fit in well with Mr. Flexner's pointed conclusion that it should not be. In that case, too, Mr. Flexner would have to consider fully half of those expecting to graduate, not as educated men and women but as trained citizens all manner of sheep-sheep, trained teachers, cops and gowns to the contrary. Oregon Emerald 15 On the Hill Years Ago Two new Spanish texts will be published soon by Professor A. L. Owen of the department of romance languages. May 11, 1932 Advertisement for Redfern Corsets—"A 'Corset is no personal—so much a part of one's self—that it should be selected and fitted by a skilled filtter. *Redfern models enhance figure beauty and correct figure defects. "You will appreciate the value of a Redfern corset, and you will like the beauty of form and exquisite daintiness of the latest models." 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