PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY APRIL 4.1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEF FRED FLEMIN MANAGING EDITOR STACEY PICKLELL Markke Up Editor Carlton Editore Margaret Jones Maryanne Jones Sport Editore Albert Hobbs Sport Editore Allen Bradshaw Savannah Editore Allen Bradshaw Exchange Editor Brace 10 Exchange Editor Brace 10 ADVERTISING MANAGER CHAS E. SYNNY District Manager Mary Jones District Manager Megan Goffe District Announcement Pierre Ciesse District Announcement Owen Ciesse District Announcement Oliver Hillgren District Announcement Marie Gris John Marder Karman Boer Members Phil Kielter Robert Reed Bill Frost Gordon Marin Lake Hare Morton Lawrie Lucas Bluhld Stéphanie Rickard Fred Morton Talekhome Telefaxes Business Office K.U. 66 News Room K.U. 159 Night Connection, Business Office 2701K Night Connection, News Room 2701K Published in the afternoon, 6:45 times a week, and is available on all U.S. public libraries. Subscription of the University of Kansas, from the University Press, is included in the subscription price. $4.00 per year, payable in advance. U.S. addresses: 3819 N. Washington Blvd., Suite 17-18, 18:10, at the public offer price. MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1932 THE CIGARET "Necessity is the mother of invention," we often hear. The cigarette, which is so popular today, was just such an invention, and this year marks its hundredth anniversary. According to a French investigator who has traced its origin, it was first discovered by gunners besieging Acre, Syria, in 1832. A consignment of tobacco was sent to the soldiers with pipes for smoking it. During transit the pipes were broken, and when it arrived many of the soldiers found that they had no way of smoking the tobacco. The ingenuous soldiers pressed into service the little tubes of India paper ordinarily l o a d e d with powder for priming charges. They took the tubes and filled them with tobacco. So it was that cigarettes were first discovered more or less by accident; but it was a discovery that has grown into one of the largest industries in the country. Now that Andrew Mellon has sailed for the court of St. James, we're just waiting for the first picture of Sir Andrew wearing knee breeches. TALKIES AND PROHIBITION The movie-attending public is now in the midst of a series of "news" talks both for and against prohibition. These short talks have been made by our Congressmen and reproduced in news reels for the screen. The talks, instead of leading to constructive thought, are received with ridicule by the listening public. This may be due to dislike of the Vollead Act, but it may more likely be due to the impatience with the recurrence of the arguments at a time when the audience is seeking pleasure. Have the movies failed us in that they sodden offer anything that is instructive, or are the American movie fans seekers of pleasure alone, and do they forget the important problems which are facing the national government? SCHOLARSHIP AND ATHLETICS It is small wonder that athletics prove more interesting to the college student than scholarship. Why shouldn't they? A Pihi Beta Kappa gives $5 for initiation, $1 for the banquet, $6 for his key and four long years of study as opposed to a K club member who has no fees and who is presented with a sweater and a lifetime ticket to K. U. games. And when it is all over the K man is always followed by his fame; the Phi Beta Kappa is lucky if his name gets in print more than once. Universities supposedly stress the scholastic. Athletic organizations, offer more inducement to membership than honorary scholastic groups. Both should be given a place in our college life; but one so far outshines the other in popularity today that the balance has been upset. If the qualifications for membership cannot be of equal stringence, the rewards can be of similar value. Useful, as it may be, there are times when a 'phone is a darn nuisance. First of all, it is a most disheartening a nd disorganizing thing to arrive home and learn that "somebody called a while ago... didn't leave their number... said they'd call later... and I think it was a girl's voice." PHONE BELLS Now, there you are. It's news and yet it isn't news. For the next few minutes any normal human will walk around in a daze wondering, and then, if after a couple of hours the call does not materialize, there will be a sort of empty feeling hanging around for the rest of the day. And second, there's the telephone smart aleck. Among all the types of college upstarts who have been nominated for oblition he certainly should head the list. He's the fellow who, to save time, sends a pledge to 'phone his party and then makes said party wait on the other end of the line while he takes his own sweet time in coming to the telephone. In the first place, it's doubtful whether such procedure is courteous, and in the second place it is very doubtful whether it goes over as big as the caller thinks it does. ARE WE BOTHERED? Slavery continues in Liberia. The freed Negroes from America are treated with such violence there that even death sometimes results. Chicago has 1,439,894 qualified voters, it has been announced. What, don't gangsters vote? Although attention has been received from both the United States and the League of Nations, nothing definite has been accomplished. The usual procedure of reviewing the situation has been followed and reports have been found to be true. The next method was to resort to notes, which America, Britain, and France all joined in sending without any satisfactory result. White men are prevented from going to the region personally because of the yellow fever. Would even strong public opinion change any institution of slavery in this case? Public opinion thus far has made operations cease for a short time, while white men are intervening; but this does not prevent the resumption of atrocities later. An auction sale of the toys of the three children murdered recently by Harry "Bluebeard" Powers will be held this week. Presumably, this is the final echo of powers' outrageous crimes. WHY ARE WE LIKE THAT? Is the world helpless? Is it necessary to sell at public auction to curious persons souvenirs of one of the most gruesome crimes in American history? As long as these practices continue there will be persons who will spend their time and money at such an affair. We either have no more pride than to enjoy such horrible methods of amusement, or our curiosity is so great that we can not resist such forms of entertainment even when we do not approve of them. Within the past two months, vending machines which pay in chips or mints were placed in many cafes in Lawrence. They attracted a great number of customers who spent many nickels trying to beat the machine. But the operator was thoughtful. Something in the matter of injunctions occurred in Topeka which permitted him to restore the play boxes to their original positions. Daily they gather in the nickels. Of course, they are not gambling devices. They do not come under the laws which prohibit games of chance. The operator just took the machines out for a spring airing. Wednesday the operator appeared on a truck and gathered up the machines, which he carried away hidden under a piece of canvas. Many students who had a store of chips saw the machines taken out of play with regret. OUT FOR AIR 15 On the Hill Years Ago April 4,1917 In an attempt to co-operate with he United States government, a resolution has been submitted to the University of Michigan for graduation exercises and all the other factions of graduation week be abolished. The measure is in an attempt towards From Plain Tales comes a pathetic verse, an "In Memoriam" to a bar of It was perfumed and darkish green And it lasted fairly long. O har of soap! It gives me sorrow To think how hard I used you then How lavish I have always been My roomie's bar of soap is gone! But bush! I must not mourn for thee! I live all new, for hope goes far: Less yearning for the worn out bar Than some new soap ahead is to be. The front page of the Kansas today carries a copy of the two American patriotic songs of renown. Americas and the Stars Spunged Banner. It is sugared that they be clipped and taken to the student patriot meeting called tomorrow. To think how hard I used you then How lavish I have always been When you from off this shelf I borrowed! Campus Opinion STUDENTS WHO ARE CITIZENS SHOULD VOTE The students of the University of Kansas who are twenty-one years old, must be at least 18 years old who have lived in the State of Kansas six months and in their ward thirty days, and who consider Lawrence their residence and have registered, should The taxpayers of Kansas are spending millions of dollars in the maintaining of schools for the young men and women in order to aid them in becoming college students. University students are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in Lawrence. They depend upon the City of Kansas for their local government services. A large majority of the people of Lawrence welcome students not only as hard working men and women who are spending their money here but as hard working women in their duties here as self-governing citizens. Thousands of students have落地 cast their first ballot in Lawrence. The student's most valuable property is their party rights under his government. It is, therefore, not only the University student's right but it is the polling places in the city election. He the pollt Editor Daily Kansan: An exhaustive research of all available material on the subject brought a solution to the extremely complicated problem of finding an easily important and complex to implement an editorial in last Sunday's Kanent entitled "A Problem in Display. It is our judgment, arrived at by reading the article women who have earned Phi Beta Kappa keys can solve the problem which only a Kanental editor write for. It is not easy to solve by wearing a chain around their neck after all, isn't it? J. A.C "Says He Was Beaten By Men." —Headline. Nope. This wasn't in your territory. Tarzan. TUESDAY SPECIAL 28c Liver and Bacon or Roast Pork Mashed Potatoes Green Beans Rolls and Butter Salad Pudding or Pie Choice of Drinks --at EAT HERE The Cafeteria Nothing is good enough but the best. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XIIXM Monday, April 4, 1932 No. 116 Noble due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday hours. CLUB FOR SOCIALIST STUDY: The meeting of the Club for Socialist Study, postponed from March 21, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Journalism building. Professor Seba Eldridge will speak on 'How Socialism Carnes To Pass.' The meeting is open to everyone. CARL PETERS. IOTA SIGMA PI: The regular monthly meeting of Iota Sigma Pi will be held at 7 o'clock this evening in room 222 Central Administration Building. MARIE MILLER, President. KAPPA PHI: There will be a regular meeting Tuesday, April 5, at Myers hall at 6:30. Please be prompt, and bring your bundles for the rampage sale. EVELYN WORDEN, Publicity Chairman. GAREL GRUNDER, Secretary. KAYHAWK CLUB: The Kayhawk club will meet in room 10, Union building, Tuesday, April 5, at 7:30. All non-financial men are invited to attend. PACHACAMAC OPEN MEETING: DAVE NEWCOMER, Chairman. There will be a short meeting of Pachecaeum in the Union building at 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening. Everyone is invited. PEN AND SCROLL: JANET DAVIDSON, President. There will be a regular meeting of Pen and Scroll Tuesday at 8 o'clock in the rest room of Central Administration building. A list of the new pledges will be published in tomorrow's Kansas. PHI CHI DELTA The Phi Chi Delta meeting scheduled for tomorrow evening has been post-publication. 14. HRMA LOBEGETT, President. ITS A BARGAIN THETA EPSILON: Special meeting will be held at 1214 Mississippi street at 6:45 Tuesday evening. All members must be present. THEMIL WACO, President. UNION TOURNAMENTS: Our records show that some 20 people who have signed up for the Union tournaments are not members of the Union. A few days will be allowed before play begins for those people to purchase memberships, at either at the manager's office in the sub-basement of the Union, or at the University business office. Anyone who does not have a membership when play begins will be dropped from the list. NEWMAN JEFFREY, Manager. How could a few nickels be spent to better advantage than in catching up on... Scholastic Scandals N MILES AHEAD! Florsheim Shoes are Olympic champions in the race to give you money's worth and more—now at $8 they're miles ahead! . . . Back the nation's favorites—they're built to stand the modern pace and keep longer. Royal College Shop NOTICE to Campus Politicians Reservations of space for political advertising in the Daily Kansan should be made at the Kansan business office before 5 p.m. of the day before publication and before 5 p.m. Friday for Sunday's paper. 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