PAGE TWO --- UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 15. 1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN CHIEF EDITOR IN CHIEF Annette Lauter, Literary Director P陪 Yourname MANAGING EDITOR MARTIN'S LAWRENCE Make Up Editors Paula M. Vine Make Up Editors Sunday Edition Jennifer White Saturday Edition Robert Whiteman Special Edition Alfred Hulshar Special Edition Alfred Hulshar Sisterly Editors Brianna Blondie Alzheimer Editors Paul Gelson Alzheimer Editors ADVERTISING Manager CHINE S. SNYDER Marketing Manager Kurt Koen Administrative Manager Mike Willey Mr. William Wilson District Manager Michael P. Colson District Manager Olivier T. Oller Karman Township School Phil Killer Jon Kawakami Jon Kawakami Robert Wienman Michael Curtis Linda Hacker Jake Hacker Michael Mimeno Fran Mimeno Sikoru Kondo Fran Kondo Maryann Kondo Mayor's Office reception Business Office KU 6. 2 News Room KU 6. 2 Night Connection, Business Office 170/1K Night Connection, Business Room 170/1K Published in the afternoon, five times a week, in Journal of the University Press, from the Journal of the University Press, from the Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in Dublin, Ireland. Received as earned paper from University Press, October 17 FRIDAY, APRIL 15. 1932 MEDIOCRITY OR DISINTEREST Many critics of the University assert that most of the instructors are not well fitted to teach, that they are, in other words, only mediocre. They do not take any interest in their students and teach only for the money and the opportunity to do research work, these critics say. Most of these statements are questionable. No doubt a few of the instructors are misfits. If they are, they do not remain long at the University. As a whole the staff is quite capable. If we are to put the blame on anyone, we must place it at the door of the students. After all, they come to the University to learn; the instructor is hired only to help them, not to do all of the work of finding an education for the student. The instructor doesn't have time to teach each student individually. The student must spend a little of his time in doing a little work on his own hook. A great number of the students are nothing more than parasites living off intellectual food that the instructors give in their lectures. The greater number of the students who are not satisfied with their instructors are those who are not interested in their classes. It would take a better story teller than Irving Cobb to keep them interested in their class lectures. If a student is really interested in his subject he can learn with only a small amount of encouragement from the instructor. And strange as it may seem, it is usually these students that make a success of a college education. Though Uncle Jimmie Green's student prodigy stands before the law building and though the law students worship him as their own, it must not be forgotten that he wears the clothes of an engineer. WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT Boarding-house debates rage far into the night and class-room quarrels wax loud when Paul Porter's recent talks on socialism are mentioned. One of the difficulties encountered in the arguments is that most students do not know the difference between socialism and communism. Present-day socialism and communism are based on the theories of Karl Marx, who advocated the abolition of a capitalistic system. The distinction between the two philosophes lies largely in the interpretation of his works, and of the method by which he proposed to attain the end. In view of Mars, capitalism would be supplanted only after the wage-earning class had organized, seized the means of production, and established the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Socialists in general advocate the more or less peaceful transformation of society through political and economic action by a self-conscious working class, aided by the more intelligent members of their group and others who will champion their cause. They propose an ideal economic system in which industry is carried on under social direction and for the benefit of society as a whole. Communists, on the other hand, urge the complete destruction of capitalism by direct revolutionary action on the part of the proletariat, to be followed by a liquidation of all other classes. It is their aim to establish a system in which private property is abolished and all, or practically all, goods are held in common, the needs of each individual being supplied from public sources. With the lowering of the salaries of University teachers next year, will the student dollar buy the same amount of knowledge? PADDED CELLS Music, the most abstract of all arts, presents itself in its most abstract form to the luckless stroller who chances to pass in front of the Administration building during practice hours. From these cells, padded for the benefit of the outmatches rather than the inmates, rushes a wild horde of notes: clarinet notes, piano notes, violin notes, soprano notes, bass notes, blue notes, good notes, bad notes, this goes on for hours and hours. A palpitating soprano in East Administration shrills, "Poems are made by fools like me," and the response comes back from a bartonite in the other end, of the building 'Thou knowest. Lord.' And while the piano student is hammering out the "Polonaise in A-flat," the sense-shocked passerby does a sprint down the street in "10-flat." In politics it isn't what you know that counts, it's who you know. PRIVATE LIVES Every night the old faithful who keep a diary ask themselves if it is worthwhile. Every six weeks the irregular diary keepers ask themselves the same question but they never quit. There seem to be a lowering of the morale when a diary is dropped. It is useless to ask if there is any value in keeping it. No one writes the events of his life without thinking that some day the leather-scuffed book will be used in the autobiography that is to be written when fame comes along. Years from now, when we have found our niche in the world and made our influence international, we can open the pages of the diary to find that the reason for our success lies not in the events of our youth. The diary reads as follows: "Am sick of college. Had quiz under old Bonne today. Flunked it flat. Sent flowers to Lucille for birthday. She's a sweet kid. Played pool tonight. Nothing exciting. Wonder why I keep writing in this thing?" At the University of Kansas we have government of the students, of the students, and of the students. Every University student seems to have lightened that well known cigarette and become nonchalant. Nothing, not even a cyclone, could shake him from his lethargic state. The Dove, with the most radical number in years, didn't so much as raise a comment among the deep thinkers of Mount Oread. To be sure this is spring, and in spring the student mind turns to other channels than school, but is spring the real cause for all of this lack of activity? Even the politicians are even greeted with a cold shoulder, and no one is interested in the "cracks" made by the Sour Owl. The seniors are not even interested in buying their invitations. Nor can all their lack of activity be laid upon the doorstep of the depression; they are just not interested. NONCHALANT Should we let them remain in this lethargic state? Why not? One of these days they will be waking up to examinations and the task of getting a job. Then and only then will they come to life. A FEDERAL WAGE CUT In voicing a strong protest against the proposed federal wage reduction, the American Federation of Labor has overlooked two important aspects of the depression. One is that the sweeping decline in prices has resulted in a virtual increase in wages which have remained unaltered or which have been only slightly reduced. The other is that taxation, instead of keeping in line with other prices, has been increased. It is difficult for the average man to realize that the value of money has risen considerably in the past three years. We look upon the dollar as the one stable factor in our economic life. The true value of the dollar, however—its purchasing power—is constantly changing, varying inversely with the general level of prices. From this arise some of the most glaring defects of our economic system. The cost of living has fallen considerably. The cost of government, on the other hand, is increasing. Taxes are becoming more and more burdensome, especially to the property owner. Governmental costs must come down, and a logical place to start is with salary reductions. Many government officials are well-to-do men, who would not be affected by a reduction in pay. President Hoover has set a note-worthy precedent by offering to serve for a salary of $1 a year. Most other high government officials could follow his example without stinting themselves. In many of the more poorly paid offices, cuts should be made scarily or not at all. A government wage reduction of this kind would do little to "lower the American standard of living," as is so feared by the Federation of Labor. It would, however, send off to a good start an economy movement which could do much to lighten the load of tensions now bearing so heavily upon the back of many a taxpayer. Our Contemporaries Daily Tar Heel: WATERING THE FLOWER OF MATURITY Editor Daily Kansan: President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard in his annual report to the board of overseers states that "students as a whole appear more mature than a generation ago, not only in scholarship but also in their outside and in the sense of proportionate values which is the flower of maturity." The general truth of his statement is obvious but we are inclined to doubt the great extent of this maturity. For instance, the authorities have had real success in training our students in class attendance. Would the university find it necessary to restrict absences to keep really mature students from flunking? Wouldn't mature students be able to regulate their activities to their best personal advantage? Such statements are probably necessary at periodic intervals but they seem very tenu. Millions have been poured into the colleges throughout the country and increase the size and efficiency of the plants. Running budgets have been over on an increased basis. The money required to run these institutions has been continuously before the state legislatures and have thus received a great deal of publicity. If the public were being improved, it could be improved and did not think they were being improved, would they have approved those increased expenditures? In these big institutions it followed that more education was needed more than in the smaller institutions of a few years ago. The contacts of the larger group and the necessarily inferior experience of the individual facilitate this. Campus Opinion 4 That this a time of violent moral crises, of tragic transitions, can no longer be doubted, when the political playboys acknowledge their own paranoia by showing up to mission to be coming from such a mercenary lot of nincompoons. Have they seen the light, or are they ingratiating themselves with a long-suffering audience? But to question their motives is being grateful. More fitting would be a devout thank-offering to the blind force that has led them to attempt to construct improvement. It is the only effort exacted by the position of dance manager is that of spending the laureus derived from that office. It has no use It is no secret that the only effort exacted by the position of dance man-ageman at this office was derived from that office. It has nothing but a nominal function. The actual result is a complete loss of job. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notices due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday issues. Vol. XXIX Friday, April 15, 1922 No. 156 COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan club will meet Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at 1325 West Campus Road. Presence of all members and pledges is required. On recommendation of the Chancellor and approval of the Regents, the diploma fee is reduced to $9.00 for the current year. Candidates for graduation in June and at the close of the Summer Session will be expected to pay this fee before May 25, without further notice from the Registrar's Office. DIPLOMA FEE: GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics club will meet Monday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m. in room 211 East Administration building. ORDER INFORMATION TO: **HOYD ADEWARD**, Vice President PREMEDICAL STUDENTS: Presidential students who wish to be considered for admission to the School Medicine should send their application to the office of the secretary, room 19 WILLIAMS HALL, 3028 S. BAY STREET, WASHINGTON, DC 20210. PSI CHI: A regular meeting of Psi Chi will be held Monday, April 18, at 4 p.m. in room 21 East Administration. Lester McManus will present the results of an experiment which he has been conducted. **ROBERT L. BRIGIDEN. President** SENIOR INVITATIONS: Senior invitations are now on sale at the Business Office. Deadline for ordering invites is April 15th. **HILMAMLEE, Chairman Invitation Committee** tions, is performed by the Union. The present set-up dissipates centralization and places a premium on feeble and wasteful management. It is a protrusion to partisan inefficiency, and an unauthorized robbery fostered on the students. To the pseudo-government crowd the relinquishing of dance management means a tautous ascendance. However, in the case of a political plum, which called political plums have usually been socialized when they were on the point of becoming magon-infested. If the variety dances constitute a vital problem for political dominance, down the extortionist superstructure with which they are burdened. For it is a notorious truth that any enterprise under political dominance functions as an extortioner relieved of that political dominence. Your for a reign of reason—and a crooked referendum. C.P. GEORGE McPHILLAMEY, Chairman, Invitation Committee. Editor Daily Kansan: During this political hub-hub in which everyone is running around in rinkets trying to confuse the men students, when both parties are slinging mud in the form of "inoney-waste" into the water, the university parties add this plank to its platform? "Since the University budget has been reduced so much that the secrecy and confidentiality of the men's rest rooms has been stopped. we pledge that with some of the money annually wasted we will provide towels and soap for the coming school year." "We have to protect our children not only soap in the man's rest rooms for two weeks." L. W. C. Read the Kansan Want Ads --fan! Just a few more weeks of classes so why not plan that group meeting in one of the private rooms and have a 35c Luncheon served--fan! Phone_2100 The Cafeteria Nothing is good enough but the best --fan! 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