PAGE TWO FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1932 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CILD Associate Editors FRED FLEMING MANAGING EDITOR STACY PICKLE Make Up Editor Xin W. Moe Magazine Editor Amy Tiongcoe Night Editor Matthew Forrester Sport Editor Alfonse Harrold Security Editor Alfredda Badra Exchange Editor Jeffrey Iverson Exchange Editor Jeffrey Iverson ADVERTISING MANAGER CHAS E. SNYDER Director Manager Director Assistant Naranjan Banerjee (born 1958) Park Keller Martha Ritter (born 1958) Rebecca Whiteman Rebecca Whiteman Lie Hacker Lie Hacker Patricia M. Miller Patricia M. Miller Silberne Kohn Silberne Kohn Marjorie Ingstroff Marjorie Ingstroff Transportation Business Office KU. 64 News Room KU. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 7001K Night Connection, News Room 3701K Polluted in the afternoon, $40 per week, work and meals were paid by the University of Missouri, from the institution of the University of Missouri, from the Pollutant Purchase price, $100 per year, primarily in labor, rent and utilities. 17, 910, to the post office at Lawson, IL 17, 910, to the post office at Lawson, IL FRIDAY.APRIL 8.1932 IS IT? Why is the graduation of the senior class always looked upon as a sad affair? Why is it always written of in such a serious, awe-inspiring tone? Columns are printed about the black robed young men an' women who march calmly across a platform to get their diplomas. Most of these men and women, the articles mournfully imply, will never return except to see an occasional football game or spend the week end. But is there anything disbawring about such a condition? By the time a person has been graduated from college he has spent approximately a third of his life. During that time he has been completely hemmed in with regulations, requirements, and rules of every variety. Upon graduation one is usually on his own. It is his life from then on, to do what he can with it. This is rather a glorious idea after years of subservience. Whether any jobs are available this year or not, it is still a pleasant thought. The yen for independence did not die with the men who fought in the Revolutionary war. This younger generation wants it as badly as their fathers did, even if it does mean hard work. How can people regard graduation as something sad when there is so much ahead for the senior? After the Commencement exercises he really makes his own life. People who have guarded him so carefully up to that point assume a hands-off policy. Regardless of what the senior makes of his life, it is still an adventure, and best of all, his own adventure. SO ENGLAND GETS MORAL! A London man recently took to a publisher several verses which he wished to have printed for distribution to his friends. Said printer found them obscene, took them to the police, and as a result the man was sentenced to six months in jail for "obscene libel." This procedure was based on an old statute which imposed a jail sentence for obscurity but which fails to define the term obscurity. Anyone who wishes may say, "This is obscene," and the offending author may forthwith be rushed off to prison. The entire law is absurd and should be revised to meet present day problems. The Nation suggests that Americans had best be careful lest they be punished for having evil thoughts. LIBRARY AND LOUNGING ROOMS With the approach of spring, conditions in the library are steadily growing worse. Students are no longer satisfied with using one chair but must drape themselves over one or two more. As late in the season as this, one finds the back work piling up rapidly, and only a great deal of swift, efficient study can bring the papers up to date. This is almost an impossibility in the library. Not only have the students a touch of "spring fever," but the usual percentage of visiting and borrowing continues. The majority of the University students are still in the latter stages of their high school period of frivolity. They have not accepted the seriousness of college as preparation for the future. We have our reserve rooms, but that does not seem to mean so much to the students except perhaps a chance to become acquainted with someone new or an excuse to have a date with the pledge of some fraternity. In the next building appropriation, we suggest a fairly large lounging room built on to the library for the socially inclined students. This would make conditions more satisfactory for them and also for the students who are seriously interested in their work. Let's build our library on the general plan of our collegiate system—the greatest good for the greatest number. He came down Tennessee street yesterday, a ragged, capped youngster with joy-flushed cheeks and blue eyes that laugh with happiness. In one grim, pudgy fist, tightly clutched the end of a string. On the other end of the cord, three little "mud cats" flopped in vain attempt to free themselves from their cruel trap. WHOPPERS "You bet," said the boy, in answer to a query, "They're bitin' fine. And say, he added as a look of wonder came over his face and a broad smile showed where two front teeth were missing, 'there's some whoppers swimmin' 'round. I just nearly caught one I'll betcha was four feet long.' This ragged, happy urchin, with his wrigling catch, is the type of boy that brings back to many of us sweet memories of halcyon days of our youth, days when we could lounge in the wilderness of river banks and fish for the hungry chubbs. Like the happy boy of today, we were always seeing "whippers." But though we spit frequently on our bait and threw magic spells over the books, we were never able to snare the whales of our boyhood fancy. Yet we were better fishermen then now. We were never disappointed. A single bite would thrill us, and a four inch catch would cause our cups of juvenile joy to overflow. Down on the river banks, time have not changed "Spike," "Rusty," and "Pete" are still fishing for the clover whippers. Still they are baiting the hooks with grimy hands as they spit artistically on the food for the fishes. Over their hooks they are pronouncing weird incantations in an attempt to win the flavor of the Goddess of Luck. Certainly we owe the many "Spikes," "Rusties," and "Petes" a great deal. Knowing their happiness, being able to feel that happiness, and seeing the jovial smile of youth spread over freckled faces brings to one the realization that the old world isn't half bad, and that the joy of success need not be measured by the number of "whopppers" we were able to string. Note: This editorial appeared in the Kansan of March 16, 1922. It was written by Hobart Curl, now associated with the Chanute Timesite. "What is going to become of opera in America?" people who care for this form of entertainment are beginning to ask themselves. Every year it has become increasingly difficult to finance opera, and only the largest of cities have been able to enjoy this luxury. OPERA IN AMERICA This year the Metropolitan Opera company faces a loss of $550,000 for the current season, and unless something happens to make the rich contribute to keep it going, it is hard to say what may happen. Not only that, but the entire organization of the Metropolitan has become so dead and old-fashioned that those who once supported it have been growing more reluctant. Just now the most wide awake opera company in America appears to be the Philadelphia Grand Opera company. It has behind it a The twenty-fourth annual banquet of the University of Kansas student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held in the University of Kansas, KS. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIX Friday, April 8, 1932 No. 150 Notice due at Chamwell office at 11:39 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days (7:30 p.m., 11:39 a.m.) A. L. E. E. CLUB FOR SOCIALIST STUDY: LOUIS M. FARBER, Vice President. Paul Foerder, field secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, will address the Club for Socialist Study Monday evening at 7 cakes in the Journal Building. KAYHAWK CLUB: The Kayhawk club will hold an open meeting in Room 10, Union building this evening at 7.30. All non-fraternity members are welcome. **Secretary** The only part of the work which more or less baffled them with the editing of the telegraph report and the lack of cohesion in their no means to their discredit. Both are "trick" jobs in a way. After a reasonable amount of practice, they can be handled with the greatest ease) but nothing can take the place of that act. RHADAMANTHI: Rishadamthali will meet Sunday at 4:00 o'clock in the Green room of Prafestra hall. Members will please bring poetry. FREDERICK E. WITFH. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NOMINATIONS: Nominations for officers of the School of Business will be held in room 219. Administration building immediately following 9:30 class Monday morning. Despite a certain inevitable bumps and confusion, nine journalism students from the University of Kansas will receive their first experience over the news and editorial functions of the Register staff last Saturday and getting to press a credible edition most remarkable record of achievement considering its age, and it has demonstrated the fact that there is still an interest in opera. This company has been trying to work with the new Radio City, and it may be that we shall have to look to Leopold Stokowski and his organization for a new era in operatic productions. In the matter of rucking up the news, and shaping it into readable news materials, they must take the factory evidence of the training they have received. With only the bridegroom's word, they are ready. Campus Opinion FRED LOUIS, President, School of Business. The editorial did not criticize these students for applauding in appreciation — it is being done—but it did object to the absence of evidence as were in evidence. Editor: Daily Kansan: Thank you, thank you, Mr. College Playboy, for your co-operation in announcing that the "Kanan has lowerer waistlines" and that he is as do "metropolitan scandal sheets." I should like to ask, was the production given for the entertainment of the audience or did that group pay it up? Can feel that they were appreciated? Concluding, the editorial said that it was optional to these students if they wished to appear at a public entertainment in the state in which the "Playboy" did appear, but it main topic of public—other than the five—something ought to have been done to prevent their spoiling the show. The "facts" as presented by the Kanman editorial are that: (1) Five men sat at the close of the first act; (2) they soothed themselves on the front of the building in an impassioned sumpion by the editorial writer that their physical state warranted the full release. The editorial went on to say that the action was well orchestrated, with men in motion and audiences by their coordination while at the performance as well as by their cashing in and out of the event. Our Contemporaries The facts as presented by "Mr. Editorial Writer"—who by the way is not a Mr.—could not be especially misrepresented, Mr. Playboy, for after all the editor's writing was sitting directly behind one of the offending group and in the row in front of the Dean of Women and the members of the W.S.G.A. count Iola Register: And may I add, that in spite of all this there is nothing wrong with the editorial writer's sense of smell—Editorial Writer. Editor Dilly Kishan: accept the challenge made by the Seymour society on the Kayhawk club as a flagrant insult,仁耻 in intent and character. The Kayhawk club is neither a pawn nor a creation of the Oread party, but rather it is an office for the individual who is for the non-frauntright man with the fraternity man in both society and politics. The winning of political offices is merely one of the steps which the Kayhawk club intends to follow in its intentional conditions on the campus...M.C.B. COLLEGE STUDENTS Editor Daily Kansan the various jobs to which they were assigned without fuss and without delay, pounding out their work in short order and in good spirit, familiarity with the town and its citizens, they neither asked nor required any assistance at all in hunting up the places they had to go and the people they had to see, but in gathering and knowing the facts that they needed. Their completed stories may be judged by Register readers for themselves because each carried a 'bay-by-line' and being young, it was hard for the student No editing was done except by themselves. Two very curious misconceptions about college students as a class persist in the popular mind. They are often accused of being frivolous and irresponsible, and along with it are generously accused of being rebellious and conceived of as villains. These accusations of the ordinary run of moons just because they have to college. Neither is, true except in the tiniest minority of cases. College students as a class are terribly serious—about twice as serious as they will be five or ten years after graduation. The same happens to seriousness sometimes earns them the reputation of being frivolous just because the things which they have to be serious about often appear to be so insignificant and inconsequential to outsiders. The "throwing of a good fraternity dance, for example, suggests nothing to the average person beyond having fun and debauch. But to the college student it is an event of major importance, involving the most careful and detailed planning and hours and hours of preparation. It involves every member of the fraternity cleaning up the house and arranging the decorations. When it is over, the chances are that a half hour will be spent with relief rather than pleasure. If they are especially pleased, it will be because of their satisfaction in having done a good job rather than because of good time they had at the party itself. But aside from his phase of it college students as a class are distinctly serious about their work. It might have been expected that those who came here Saturday to put out the Register would have regarded the occasion more as a lark than as an important event, but experience in newspaper work, but nothing could have been more evident than the fact that the reverser was able to change his work as if the holding of a lucrative job depended strictly upon how well he carried out his assignments. No Need to Put Up a Howl About Walking Just call 433 The idea that college students are so conceived and cock-sure of themselves just because they have gone to college and yet not a June goes by but what some 5,000 editors in the United States write their annual graduation announcements to students that life, after all, is no bed of roses and that they might as well start now as later to realize that their schools are no passports to $300 a month job! Which, after all, is just what college students are. This characteristic, too, was evident in the journalism students here Saturday. Do you suppose they came sullenly to class and showed us how we should run our newspaper? Far from it. They did exactly as they were told, eager to see if they could produce what was retested—a safetyfactor manner, slightly feigning an inability to ignorance of practical newspaper work, glad to accept criticism and have their errors pointed out to them. In other words, they acted exactly like a very well-educated group of young American men and women. Which, after all, is just what college Rot. Not one college graduate out of a hundred ever did have such an idea in his head. There probably isn't a bumber and more timid group of job seekers, but they are the crop of degree holders that issues from the doors of our colleges and universities. Ninety per cent of them are tackled to death if they can land a job at $23 week within a month or two and their heads off to keep from losing it. And get a car for every occasion. 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