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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. APRIL 25.1932
University Daily Kansan
OFFICIAL Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Amniate Edition
MANAGING EDITOR - MARTHA LAWRENCE
Make up Editor - HILARY AHLBROOK
Designer - RALPH HAMILTON
Sunday Editee - RALPH WINTERSON
Nightly Editee - RALPH WINTERSON
Smart Editor - ALFRED CHURCH
Smart Editor - ALFRED CHURCH
Sensor Editee - MATT GRIFFIT
Managing Editor - MATT GRIFFIT
Tennis Editor - TOM EISENBERG
Election Editor - TOM EISENBERG
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Advertising Manager  Margeon F. R. DENNIS
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District Manager  Tim Mcdonald
District Manager  Tim Mcdonald
District Manager  Quirabon
District Manager  Omar X.
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Pickler Kyle
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Middletown
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Jake Harkey
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Sohar Koon
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Florida
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MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1932
COLDS
Spring is all right in a way, but a rainy spring has its drawbacks. Even rainy, dreary days might not be so unpleasant if a person could sit quietly at home and read books and magazines, but to go trudging up the Hill with water dripping off the end of one's nose doesn't do much to help one's disposition.
Colds make students miserable. They ruin the women's beauty; a bad temper results. Romance cannot flourish if interrupted by sneezes.
Whenever rains begin the Chancellor should declare a holiday and all students should be confined to their houses until the sun comes out again.
ANIMATION
What has become of the animated slickers that graced our campus in the past on rainy days?
One could, a few years ago, make a thorough study in distorted gross anatomy on a rainy morning. Now the most that you see on a slacker is a casual initial.
We love animation. Be it only a girl's face copied from a Barnie Google comic strip, we still love animation. We personally loved Tigers. We had harassed Tigers pursued by hungry looking Jayhawkins painted all over our last slicker. But that slicker is worn out, and our new one is unpainted.
We miss the pictures that once adorned the campus slicker. They often represented all the artistic instinct that was possessed by the owner of the coat, and at other times they gave us a directory of all the sororites on the Hill.
GROUP GOVERNMENT
Alas, the art of slicker painting is dead. No longer is found a man who with a few deft swipes of a brush can make a smiling lady peep out from the back of the raincoat. Can't the good old art be aroused? Perhaps someone can start a renaissance.
"The constitution," William Allen White once wrote, "has been supplanted, and we have two kinds of government—our political government, which is supposed to be in the hands of a majority of the people; and a group of organized minorities, sometimes working 10 to 68, together at each other's throats, making a vast, uncontrolled, but tremendously powerful invisible government—the government of the minorities.
"The Congress of the United States and the legislatures of all the states are used as Olympic bowls for these great contests between the powers of invisible government. And the legally constituted members of government are kicked out, trumped upon and sometimes thrown carelessly into the discard by the great unlegal forces that stage the attack.
Few Americans realize the parapley played by organized groups in framing the legislation which goes on in Washington and in the state capitals. These groups are drawn from all walks of life and their influence is tremendous. The latest display of their power comes in the demand of veterans for immediate bonus payment. Farm organizations wield a much-feared secrepte in the western states. The Anti-Saloon League is said by Frank R. Kent practically to control many state legislatures. Almost every branch of business maintains a lobby in Washington and demands its bit.
Group government is bound closely with the short terms of office so prevalent in the United States and with popular neglect of the ballot. Legislators scarcely take office before they must start planning for the next election, and their political usefulness would be short indeed if they antagonized the powerful organizations within their district.
Organized groups play an important and almost essential service in government by bringing forth new issues too dangerous for political parties to handle. Without them progress would be almost impossible. But the threat which is contained in the practice of government by minority as it now strikes at the very vitals of democracy. Groups must be publicly controlled and their growing power must be curbed if any vestige of popular government is to remain. The depleted condition of the national treasury reflects only too well one of the consequences of group government.
IT'S YOUR DUTY
Mother's Day is the eighth of May. The University, in cutting down its expenses, has eliminated the Mother's Day invitations. Parents are urged to come on that day, but they will not come unless the students do more than merely extend an invitation. Many mothers and fathers have not been able to come up as often as they would like; now is the time to urge these parents especially to try to visit the campus.
Programs have been arranged which will be of interest to them. Things have been planned which parents of former years have enjoyed. It is up to the student to make this day a successful one. The University will see that their parents are entertained after they are here; it is up to the students to get them here. It shouldn't be a hard thing to do.
AND NEXT COME FINALS
The spring rains this past week brought out the leaves on the trees and brighten the green of the grass, and also added showers of political handbills, along with the usual mud. It is hard to determine, but it resulted in a new council for next year.
Reunions of old grads took place while twenty-five heads of the leading schools in the country said that drinking was on the decline among college students and that scholastic standards were raised during the past ten years.
The business school settled its election peacefully. The old grads and the varsity football teams tangled in a pre-season game Thursday and the next day the high school athletes competed on the cinder path. Saturday brought on the long awaited Kansas Relays with its color and the thrill of watching nationally known athletes compete.
This coming week will see the election of a new Sour Owl editor and Friday will bring the last class party of the year—the Senior Cakewalk. The academic year is drawn to a close rapidly.
Speaking of dandelions reminds us of the time we volunteered to pick them for our good-looking young Sunday school teacher. After we had worked all one Saturday and cleaned up a whole half block her sweetie came over and borrowed them to make dandelion wine.
Only finals remain on the calendar.
The fiery Adolf Hitler failed to gain the German presidency from Paul von Hindenburg, but the Fascists became the strongest political party in four of the five German states where diet elections were held yesterday.
HITLER GAINS
The European powers, who were opposed to Hindenburg shortly after the World War, rejoiced when he defeated the leader of the National Socialists. France especially sensed the danger in the Hitler movement in Germany; she is opposed to any radical change.
The German people have remained remarkably sane and calm under the trying conditions which they have had to meet. If France does not try to meet Germany half-way in their relations with each other, it is likely that radical changes will take place in the internal political makeup of Germany, which will affect its international relations.
France is now just beginning to feel the effects of the depression. After she too has been "hit hard." France may see things as other nations see them and depart from her attitude of security, isolation, and irreconciability.
"NOW IS THE TIME"
For those who can afford it, attendance at summer school is a great way to grep old man depression. The cost of living in Lawrence and attending the University is lower now than it will be a year or two, hence, we hope, and the smart student will take advantage of this condition by obtaining his education now.
Then when prosperous times come back—again we are optimistic—the student will be ready to chat into a field of climbing prices.
There is another good reason for going to school now instead of trying to crash the business world. Unemployment already exists in tragic degree. If the thousands of students go forth either to get some one else's job, or merely to add to the number seeking work, they will greatly aggravate the situation.
By considering such economy measures intelligently and by acting to adjust themselves to the period of depression, students can aid materially in tiding the country through the crisis.
WHAT'S THE USE?
Since the arrival of the talkies there have been several pictures put on the market each year concentrated around that great center of noise and confusion known as the newspaper office. Dozens of other pictures have included somewhere in their stories short glimpses of the city news rooms. And all in they were, and are, all the bunk. If anyone in this part of the country can show us a news room of any city newspaper which works with such utter confusion and consequent noise as the ones portrayed in the movies then we'll set 'em up.
Of course it makes the story hum-
to have the city editor jump every time
the phone rings, to have the sleepy-eyed photographer be b in g rushed bodily here and there, to
have the glass in the front door fall out with the slam the door gets
every time a reporter dashes pell-mell out on a tip. Yeah, we even
like it ourselfs. It makes things look just like the way we've always planned them in our dreams
Our Contemporaries
But the trouble is that if these producers keep on making pictures like that this younger generation of grade and high school kids is going to grow up with a wild idea of being reporters instead of firemen. They're going to be sold on the idea that the newspaper game is a big thrill all the way round the clock. And that won't ever do. In the first place there are too darn many of us looking for a beat now, and in the second place when these youngsters find out what a comparatively easy man's job it really is they'll never give up the profession. We're sunk either way you look at it. What's the use?
A LEADER'S QUALIFICATIONS
Three things essential for a man to be a leader are:
1. A strong demeanor; he dent Bennett, are a good digestion, a thick skin, and a sensitive conscience.
2. An ability to communicate.
The Daily O'Collegian:
Read the Kansan wantads.
A man in public life has need of an iron-clad stomach. His health is a necessity. World problems are not set away, and the same people who friendships made, influence gained through a grumby disposition such as too often comes hand in hand with someone.
A thick skin may 'seem a little pro- for a public leader but for one who is constantly exposed to the criticism of his audience. He must our leader takes every attack which will come his way as personal he will push so much of his time fighting the enemy that he will be no moments left for the bigger, vital problems which confront him. A successful leader must be able to take on the chin and not go down for the
A sensitive conscience: here is the crux of the character. He must at all times be mindful of what all concerned are dealt with daintily with Personal prejudices, affiliations or friendships should not at any time demean someone else. The most恼羞地 he consistently feels is right. He must look at everything with the correct perspective, hoping (in the futuristic sense) to prevent actions without remove. Too many of our so-called leaders are endowed with the good digitation and thick skin that we need to maintain. The base of the triangle is missing.
Here's to our leaders: strong stomached, heavy skinned, and concietious!
Syracuse Daily Orange:
ABOLITION OF SENIOR EXAMS
the movement for the elimination of
The senior year is always the hardest year—the last few weeks being especially difficult. Under the strain of graduation, the student's ability to compete in examinations often is impaired. The value he places on a defense comes from worrying about tests and consider them as obstacles before his goal.
senior examinations prevalent on other campus has spread to Syracuse, and a student of the college is surrounded among senior students. From the upperclassman's point of view there are three ways to succeed in the acceptance of the year's work as the standard for grades rather than the lettered ones.
Under these circumstances, the value of the examination is lost. The justification of the quizzes lies in the fact that the student is forced to review and memorize material from perspective in viewing the subject matter. When the final is considered merely as a requisite of "getting thru", review becomes mechanical, the significance of the course being overhauled by the importance of the Jum event.
On the other hand, the acceptance of the year's standing as the final grade has a positive advantage. During the year, students vote himself to advanced courses where class-room relations are personal. The judgment of the professor on the year's accomplishment seldom changes and, in many cases, an exam is of little value in grading. In abolishing the final for senior students the administration would lighten the exam question and allow the student to stand on the merit of a year's work.
KFKU
Starting today, the KFCU radio program will be on a new time schedule broadcast at 11 a.m. m, and 9:45 p. m. They will also take the air at 8:18 p. m.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XIX
Monday, April 25, 1932
No. 164
Notice due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on recent afternoon public day
and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday buses.
GRADUATE WORK AT M L T.
At 2:30 on Tuesday, April 26, in room 113 Marvin hall, Dr. James L. Tryon,
Director of Admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will meet
any juniors and seniors interested in doing graduate work in that institution.
GEO. C. SHAAD Dean
MacDOWELL FRATERNITY:
There will be no meeting of the fraternity this week.
There will be no meeting of the fraternity this week.
RUDOLPH WENDELIN, President
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