PAGE TWO 1 SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1957 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEF ___ FRED FLEMING ___ 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. EDITOR-IN-CHEK **PEDRILL EREAM** William Prairie **Associate Editor** Marla Liewerna MANAGING EDITOR **STACEY PICKLELL** Make Up Editor JD. Winnel **David M. Winnel** Night Edith **Melissa Winnel** Night Edith **Melissa Winnel** Telegraph Editor **Jean McCarthy** Survey Editor Alfreda Brooks **Alfreda Brooks** Technich Editor **Brenda Bly **Brenda Bly** 1000 North Avenue **1000 North Avenue** ADVERTISING MANAGER CHAR E. SNYDER District Manager Morgan Lee District Manager Margaret Jearg District Assistant Oliver I. Townew District Assistant Oliver I. Townew District Assistant Martin Foothill District Assistant Martin Foothill Phil Kieler Joe Kuech Brian Bates Brian Bates Roland Wattenman Milkfield Michael Giles Michael Giles Lahi Hickory Lucie Hickory Fernando Miles Felipe Miles Sukhon Kumar Margaret Jonsen Charles F. Snyder OFFICES Business Office KU. 66 News Room KU. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 1701K Night Connection, News Room 1701K Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by student in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions price, $4.00 per year, payable in ad vane. Single copies, 5 each. Entered as second class matter. September 17, 1910; at the office at Lawrence, Kansan. SUNDAY. APRIL 10. 1932 MORE POLITICS Yesterday the writer was asked to sign a petition, circulated by a man downtown, with regard to holding an election to change the present form of city government back to the city council type. He, being a citizen of Lawrence as well as a University student, signed the petition. Now he is trying to decide why he signed the thing. The cry is that the present city administration is costing too much money. Too many persons are on the payrolls of the city. The truth of this statement we neither verify nor deny. We are only University students and should not mix with the city politics, even though we do have to pay city taxes. We have seen, however, in our stay in this city, jobs which had been handled by one man split up and given to two. For example, the fire chief in past years was also city building inspector. Now the second job is handled by another individual. Has the city grown so large in the past few years that one man cannot look after both jobs? The population still stays below the fifteen thousand mark, so that the poll tax still continues. JAYHAWKS WET OR DRY? Perhaps a change would do the city good. The councilmen, or aldermen, will receive no salary. A saving can be made there, if the men are honest. If the students of the University of Kansas are typical of the average student in Kansas in their attitude toward prohibition, the drys must gaze at them in puzzled wonder and admiration. Jayhawkers do not drink, if one may believe what is seen at dances, athletic events, and parties. But does that mean that Kansens are dry? If a student wants liquor of any kind, he can get it. And why not? Topeka is twenty-seven miles west of the Hill and Kansas City forty-eight miles east. There are two concrete highways between which, so far, have never been absolutely closed to bootleggers. But does it follow that because the student has available a supply, he drinks? Roughly estimated, twenty five per cent of the students take a drink in the course of the school year. This includes that very small majority to which wets point with pride, the men who drink regularly and the women who drink to be good sports. And year after year the number who drink is decreasing. The wets point to the decrease as a result of depression. But in so doing they forget that long before Kansas wheat ever became a glut on the market, Kansas had made the initial move by which it was to emerge from a flood of liquor like a coral reef slowly building its way out of the sea. Slowly, but with increasing surety, that reef has been building until today the majority of freshmen who enter the university come from homes in which the use of liquor is unknown. When the freshmen arrive a the University they are confronted with a peculiar situation. If one of them develops a thirst, he finds that he can drink as long as he remains quiet and orderly and does not disgrace himself in public. When he does, it ceases to be the affair of the individual. It becomes the business of the students nearest the offender. Those students take steps to keep the performance from reaching the authorities. The erring youth is not lectured on the evils of drink or the hardships of living in an age of prohibition, but he learns that it is neither dignified nor creditable to drink. He knows that if he appears drunk in public more than once, he will be an outcast and at the mercy of the authorities. Strange as it may appear, that method has done more to make students dry than all the laws ever written on prohibition. SCARED! Strolling over to the book rack to pick up one of the assigned journals of public opinion in which college students are expected to find articles of great worth written by men of great note on problems of great significance, a college junior picked up a magazine of thought. Here's what he saw staring at him as headlines on the front cover: "What About Violence?" "FREE the Philippines," "The War in the Far East," "Must Japan Be Coeered?" Now, how do you suppose he reacted to that list of topics which fairly shouted forth the message that all was wrong with the world? He picked up the magazine and breathlessly read the articles. No, he didn't. He merely shoved the thing back in place with a groan and walked off muttering something like. "If some people would start to worry a little more about the things that are all wet around their own door-step, they might get over this idea that they were sent into this world individually to save the peoples and settle down to enjoy life a little." And off down the Hill he strolled to enjoy a walk—a breath of fresh air—and a moment of relief from these "I've got-to-save-the-world" instructors. GIVE THEM A CHANCE A great deal of criticism is being aimed at the government and the statesman by persons who believe that our present economic situation is due to mismanagement by misguided leaders. This brings up the question of the average person's knowledge of affairs in general. Is he competent to criticise? Does his knowl- makes it general, is he competent to criticise? Does his knowledge of events justify his opinion? There is no observable reason for their criticism. When even great men in a special field step from that field they frequently leave a trail of blunders to mark their efforts. We know of no student on the Hill competent to judge governmental issues in general. There are many who can talk intelligently on certain phases of a given problem, but none is so ably posted that he can discuss Much of the shouting, ranting and defiance found in Hill politics comes from sincere persons with small knowledge. They should not be criticised because their yells arouse sleeping students from a political lethargy. But we believe that if more people turned critical effort to constructive energy, progress from the present slough of unemployment and strikes and economic disturbance would be much more noticeable. After losing for more than a decade, the farm population gained in 1930. This definite per capita increase is due to various causes. BACK TO THE FARM W. R. Smith, president of the American Road Builders Association, believes good roads are in a large measure responsible for the movement. Undoubtedly good roads are luring great numbers to the country, for improved high- oiles at Chancellor's office at 11:39 am, on regular afternoon publication of the magazine and 11:39 am, on Sunday, April 10, 1932 No. 151 Vol. XXII OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN CLUB FOR SOCIALIST STUDY: We'd ply down on the grassy bank, take off our shoes and stockings and laugh happily as the grass tickled our feet. Into the water we'd go with a splash. It didn't matter how wet our dress would get, or whether our overall legs were well rolled up. They'd dry. Paul Poster, field secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, will address the Club for Socialist Study Monday evening at 7 o'clock in the Journalism building. The meeting is open to all. CARL PETERS. The brooklet was a beautiful place in the spring. There were falls inches high. There were pretty rocks forming miniature rapids. There were floating sticks All graduate students are invited to meet with the Graduate club Tuesday, April 12, at 6:15 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Union building. Dr. W. S. Johnson will speak on "Trish and English Poets." ROY L. NOBERTS. GRADUATE CLUB: SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NOMINATIONS: Nominations for officers of the School of Business will be held in room 210 Administration building immediately following 9:30 classes Monday morning. All students of the School of Business are requested to attend. FRED LOUIS, President, School of Business. Senior invitations are now on sale at the Business Office. Decline for order invitations is April 16. GEORGE MEPHILLAMEY, BEST WISHES TO YOU. A few of us can still remember when we shocked sun under the intense rays of a blazing sun while sweet poured from our faces, thistles clawed at our ankles and arms, and dusty chaff irritated our sweaty necks. SENIOR INVITATIONS; DOWN THE HILL TO THE BROOKLET When the sun had crept out from behind winter clouds, when the last of the snow had melted and the brooklets were running freely once again, all the children went over the hill and down the path to go wading. ways have broken down the isolation of the rural districts and have enabled the farm youth to enjoy the so-called glamour of the city. SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT: One of the most potent causes of the back-to-the-farm movement is the present depression, which has brought people to the realization that economically and also socially rural life is in many ways superior to that of the city. Farmers have done lots of "howling" about their deplorable condition—and not without reason—but there has been little actual suffering on the farm in comparison with that existing in the cities. We did not. Did we expect ice water with which to quench our thirst, seized liquid soap with which to wash our hands, and a neatly folded paper towel on which to dry them? Faculty and students of the Sociology department are holding a 6 cello dinner at the Hotel Wood Tuesday evening, April 12. Porter, 28, will be The present back-to-the-farm movement may be a temporary one, lasting only until the depression has been forgotten to some extent, but it will at least serve as a way by which many may adjust their scale of values and find a certain degree of peace and freedom. WE REMEMBER The luke warm water which gurgled from a gallon jug wrapped in a burlap sack tucked sweeter than the icy liquid which used to shoot out of the nickled spouts of Hill water coolers. The rough cloth towels, generally rather besmudged by the time it came our turn, not only served their purpose but soothed the itching irritations we had collected during work. If twenty degrees' difference in temperature, a barrel or more of liquid soap, and several cases of paper towels clipped from the list of University expenditures mean relief for Kansas tax payers, by all means they should be clipped. We'll manage without luxury because a few of us remember. When we grew tired of ending, we could throw pretty pebbles into the water and watch the rings come out from them. to race and down near the place where the brooklet twisted to right and left in a most amazing manner was a little foot bridge extending from a tree on one bank to one on the opposite. You're getting old if you can't recall with glee the mud oozing up between your toes. You are becoming antiquated if you don't remember searching for pretty rocks in the water. You are ancient if you do not recall sliding down the banks into the water. When mother called at dusk it was too late to stop to put on shoes and stockings. It was much more fun to walk home barefoot, happy and young. Our Contemporaries Emporia Gazette: AN EXPERIMENT Clarence Darrow is in Hawaii to try a sensational murder case in which rape, revenge and race antagonism play out. He will have to try an experiment. Apparently all the news associations are preparing to food America with the dirty details of the story. Is it said that newspapers give their patrons what they want? We shall try this experiment of printing only 500 words a day about this case and those 500 words under small headings until the jury comes in. The judge will come to court on the last day a decent position and both play as the verdict may deserve. So if you want to hear all about race and rape and last and revenge, just listen. You're going to take some other paper. We are anxious to see how this experiment works. It's a ticklish time to experiment and we want to get it right. We're gone nothin' and we all bust together! Coeds at the University of Nebraska declared that they wanted careers rather than marriage. But that isn't the case. Nebraskan came to college - Daily Nebraskan. A. G. ALRICH *Printing* *Engraving* Binding, Rubber Stamps, Office Supplies Stationery 736 Mass. Street BAND MUSIC BOLSTERS UP RESTAURANT'S DAILY SALES Don't Be Late! London, April 9 —(UP)—To make your customer spend his money, strike up the band. Restaurant owners in Brighton popular weekend resort, have found that music helps fill the cash-reserve. But it must be the right kind of You can ride a taxi for only Lively mortal music makes the patrong spend freely. Classical selections put them in a thoughtful mood, and their shillings stay in their pockets. Send the Daily Kansan home 25c PHONE 65 Published in *University Daily Kansas* April 10, 1922. A AMENDMENT TO BILL 1367 to the 1912 CONSTITUTION BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AND THE TENTH COUNCIL. BY IT EACH AMENDMENT MEDICATED MEN OF THE UNIVERSITY of KANSAS is hereby repealed. That all vacancies occurring in any year after the year of the Kansas State Council shall be filled by the elections occurring in any of the earlier days. Sec. 3. Vaccinations occurring in any of the earlier days of the Council after the opening of the semester; published on the official bulletin of the University Press, or on the university's website. Sec. 4. All vacancies occurring in any year other than a faculty member in any year two years earlier must have at least fifty (53) hours' study. An applicant is enrolled at the time of his election to Bill six. Sec. 6. (a) All positions, except parties positions, are reserved for the University of Kansas. Parties pay any Sec. 4 (a). All partitions, except party partitions, must be issued by qualified voters of the Apparatus Voter, must be issued by qualified voters of the Assembly vacant later for a two-year representative of legal age (100) and qualified voters (100) of each qualified voter. Partitions for any voter must have the names of not less than twenty (25) of the qualified voters in the College of Arts and Arts. (e) Had petition shall be accompanied by a one-horse horse. See 27. Had petition shall be accorded upon by the No. 7 - The said picture should be taken after the council lasted the second meeting after the council. No. 8 - This bill shall be in full force and effect first and then in publication as provided for Jayhawk Taxi Section (b) Party petitionis for any vacancies shall be signed by the President and Secretary of said political party. E. H. LINDLEY, Chamellow, RUSSEL STROBEL, Prex. M.S.C. MAURICE MEMANUS, Sec. M. 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