PAGE TWO FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1932 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAM. LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Daily Kansar OFFICIAL Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Paul Youngman Associate Editors Laurence White MANAGING EDITOR MARTHA LAWRENCE Make Up, Editor Latha Schulte Mailer, Editor Robert Wilhelmsson Sunday Edition Robert Wilhelmsson Night Editor Steve Toliver Sport Editor Allan Habeber Ticketmaster Editor Pamela Orsay Alumni Editor Fiona Gunn Alumni Editor Fernando Gunn ADVERTISING MANAGER CHAS E. SNYDER Advertiser Advertising Manager Mark Duncan Administrative Manager Marianne Jee Director Manager Director Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant Olivia B. Tawneyd Amaranth Johnson (2015) & Pilot Killer Joe Kurtz Joe Kurtz Roger Whitman Mildred Curtis Linda Hacker Lyla Hacker Luise Burger Farid Murad Farid Murad Sylvia Kirton Magazine Inc. Charles E. Snyder Transportation Business Office K.U. 66 News Room K.U. 75 Night Connection, Business Office 1701K Night Connection, Business Office 1701K Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kaysan, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions price, $10 per year, payment on 8d single copies, 5 each. Entered at ascent-clave matter September 17, 1939, at the office at Lawnier, Kansas. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1962 THE LAST CHANCE If students do not show enough interest in the enterprise ticket, they will be deprived of one of the best ways in which to gain an appreciation of culture. The students understand the deflated pocketbook, but that is not the only reason for the lack of support on the enterprise tickets. What we really want, we sacrifice to gain. The majority of students would rather spend their money for shows and cokes and in making a spread for several big dances, than to put that money into concerts. The student will not admit this; but if he does not purchase the ticket he unconscious spends the same amount on other entertainment, although he probably didn't intend to do so. The students of the University of Kansas can never speak of the great revision that is needed in our educational system if they turn down the enterprise tickets. We get what we want, and it is a disgrace that the majority do not want to hear artists of national renown when the opportunity presents itself. HISTORY REPEATS History is again repeating itself At the end of every semester for years instructors have been giving out assignments for book reports term papers, and long class assignments with the warning that they must be in on time. And just as surely as the instructors have been doing their part, students have been crying about the large amount of work they are expected to do. Nearly everyone complains about the number of assignments he is behind. A few have mid-semester flunks which they are making up in order to be graduated. Every semester for years the Kansas has printed editorials about these students and their late work, and the promise for reform the next semester. History is just repeating itself. FORMULA TEACHERS There are two types of university instructors. There is the type who admits his courses might well be changed and probably will be in the next few years. Then there is just the opposite type who insists that his course and his method of presenting it is right. He repeatedly tells his students that he has studied for years on his subject, and he knows that he is right. He teaches by formula. To the student who is lucky enough to draw a majority of the former type of instructors while in the university, there is the possibility of a future which will be worthwhile. He will be inspired to go ahead in his chosen line of work, and attempt to find the better method of doing that which interests him. He will never feel that he has reached the perfect solution of any problem. To the student who gets his degree from the second type of instructor there is the strong possibility he will continue doing things in the way that some one else has worked out . . . He will probably never do anything original, and will always be afraid to try anything which has not been tried by someone else. to both systems. The one who is always looking will never be entirely happy no matter what he finds. The one who follows will never have to worry about keeping ahead of the mof. His life will probably be much easier, and his chance of failure is much less because he is living by a formula. The curious may make a discovery which will make him great, but he may not. At any rate his life will be more interesting because he is living his own life and not living by a formula. MAY DAY We went in for May for baskets when we were young. It seems centuries since we sneaked up to the door of the girl whom we didn't like and hung a nice basket of mud. The memory of the baskets of flowers that we hung remains in the back of our minds, too. We also went in for iliacs. Theoor illac bushes certainly lookedare and naked after our visit onwe of May Day. None of the kids knew what May day really was, but it was to them another night to get off from the school studies and meet the gang under the street light. We enjoyed it; boy, the fun we did have! Now, we smile as we watch the younger generation hanging May baskets but we did the same. COUNTY EXAMINATIONS Speaking of the good old days, this time of the year brings certain fond memories and a certain feeling of terror. Those of us who attended a county school or went to a country grade school, well remember the county examinations that had to be taken when we were in the seventh and eighth grades. Several weeks before the day of judgment, the teacher cut classes short and held meetings after school, so that her pupils could be "reviewed." On Friday afternoon the luxury of a geography match or "spell-down" was generally enjoyed, but when the time for county examinations approached, all fun was put aside. Those Friday afternoons, when the little "kids" were dismissed at three-hourly, and the "big kids" had to stay, were shadowed by a tempestuous cloud of worry. Reminisce carries us back to the time when the mapie seeds were just right to squirt and the weather was almost warm enough to allow us to go barefoot. We forgot the terror we experienced before the examinations we took. We don't recall our angered jealousy of the "town kids" who didn't have to take the county exams. It is a comfort to have marred the memory of that first day when we walked into the huge study hall of the big high school, sat down and were handed a long list of questions printed on flimsy paper. Our schoolmates sat near; never before had they been so dear to us. Cribs notes were never considered. Mother made us put a bar of chocolate in our pockets to help "that gnawing in your stomach" which came about eleven o'clock; but we were too badly scared to eat the candy, for the supervisor might think we were cheating. There was only one comforting thought, and that was that when the examinations were over the whole summer was ours. Often the big "last day of school dinner" was past before the examinations of the second Saturday were taken. In a case like that, the seventh and eighth graders didn't take much part in the final program, and the smaller children had to take the parts in the dialogues. Certainly we have our troubles now. Students don't have jobs; but it is better to be a senior at the University and have to take three-hour examinations than to experience the county examination of our youth, when we took everything to heart and had no confidence on which to rely. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXII Friday, April 29, 1932 No. 168 Notices due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on request publication day CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURES: The Classical Association of Kansas and Western Minnesota will meet in Fresno hall on Saturday, April 30. All interested are cordially invited. Two addresses of especial interest to the public will be given in Fresner theater; "On the Trail of the Ancientists' Italy" (illustrated), by Professor R. C. Flickering, of the University of Iowa, at 10:30, and "Roman Cities in North Africa" (based on 'nast last summer's trip), by Professor D. L. A. leroy, of the University, at 11:30. The Cosmopolitan club will meet at 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, at 1335 West Cuney Road. Presence of all members and lodgings is required. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: S. MATSUMATO, Secretary. K. U. SYMPHONY AND LITTLE SYMPHONY. There will be an important rehearsal at 5:15 clock Sunday afternoon in the auditorium, on Monday, March 29th. MATHEMATICS CLUB: While several associations have been established for the protection of the public, their power is limited. Therefore, for his own protection, the American citizen must weigh carefully the advisability of purchasing any article. The Mathematics club will meet Monday, May 2, at 4:30 p.m. in room 211 East Administration building. HOWARD ABNEBERTY, Vice President. K. O. KUERSTEINER The rifle team picnic has been postponed because of weather conditions. NELL REZAC Claitian. RAILROADED JAILBIRDS RIFLE TEAM PICNIC: One of the prominent examples of persons being railroaded into jail is the one before the public now of Edward Walters. He was an exconvict who married and was conducting a prosperous barber shop in New York city. In 1927 he was convicted of stealing some second-hand clothing from a dry-cleaning establishment. During his trial, which apparently was unfair, he insisted on pleading not guilty to the charges. Throughout the entire procedure he was advised to plead guilty and to appeal for a degree of lenency on the grounds that the sentence was excessive. He refused to adopt this method, maintaining that he was not guilty. He is beginning to serve his sixth year on a conviction for a crime for which, from the amount of conflicting testimony that was introduced into the case, he appears not to be guilty. And there does not appear to be any immediate hope for his release. It might be interesting, if not surprising, to find out how many of the persons convicted of crimes and placed in jail today are serving sentences for crimes which they never committed. While it is true that we do desire swiffer and more certain punishment for our criminals, there are no adequate reasons for desiring jail terms for non-guilty persons. Whether these commodities which he is led to buy through repetitive advertising are what they are claimed to be is open to debate. Reliable authorities, upon investigating the claims made by many preparations such as tooth paste, mouth wash, patent medicines and food stuffs, have found that in most cases those preparations which cure anything from halliots to fallen arches are merely some concoction of lowly origin, dressed up and colored to suit the taste of John Public. The effect obtained is mainly psychological. Through the papers, the magazines and the periodicals, and by radio and personal solicitation, the American public is being admonished, and persuaded into buying this or that commodity because it is the greatest, largest or most efficient article on the market. In fact, the average American has become so accustomed to being constantly bombarded with extravagant superlatives that he is no longer affected by them. MODERN ADVERTISING Despite this developed immunity to words, however, the American is converted to the buying of certain products solely on the size of the advertising campaigns they are fostering. Constant repetition leads him to accept as facts the many claims made for various articles. He is led to buy not on the value, merit or quality of the article, but on the reputation made by the repetition of advertising. 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