PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR IN CHIEF Associate Editors Wilmington Waffler FRED FLEMING MANAGING EDITOR STACEY PICKLEE Make Up Editor VP. M. Venter Special Editor Roger Foster Night Editor Maurice Wilson Story Editor Alison Holder Talent Editor Alain Bouchard Talent Editor Alfred Rushoff Midnight Editor Matthew Edding Summer Editor Bill Schoenfelt Summer Editor Lillian Kettle ADVERTISING MANAGER - CITIE E. SNYDER District Assistant District Manager District Assistant District Assistant District Assistant Berrry District Assistant District Assistant AARON BOARD MEMBERS Khalil Kerer Robert Rew Gordon Martin Garden Marrin Harris Martin Maurice Lawry Luciet Bruder Stirley Pickall Mac McCarthy Fred McCarthy Transportation Business Office K.U. 64 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 270/1K Night Connection, News Room 270/1K Published in the afternoon, five times a week and distributed weekly. In lieu of Journalization of the University Kansas, from the Department of Business Administration, Subcription price: $4.00 per year; payable in advance on October 21. For second-after class materials, September 17-28. Mail address: 115 W. 6th Street, New York, NY 10017. FRIDAY,APRIL1,1932 YOU TELL US Is it the proper thing to do to come in late at a recital or concert. Perhaps we've been cooped up too long in a newspaper world where the motto on the wall reads "Be On Time." It's just sort of second nature to follow schedules for deadlines or sacred things. But maybe we've been wrong. At least when more than a hundred students, instructors and even housemothers arrive all the way from ten to thirty minutes after the program has started, it begins to look as if the time line on the printed announcements were merely for decoration. Are we out of step with the times if we go on time? Perbaps we'll try being late sometime. It ought to be a great sport to retaliate by stepping on someone else's shoe shine, borrowing someone else's program and talking unceasingly, except—do you suppose it would be courteous to the performart artist? ELIGIBILITY RULES The time rapidly approaches when we shall again hold election for the Men's Student Council. There is always the usual balloon about the candidates, whether they are fraternity, non-fraternity or machine men, but seldom is the factor of grades regarded. The council calls for much of the student's time if he attends to the business of the organization properly. Therefore would it not be a good plan to have a grade standard of near "B" for the preceding semester's work before a candidate is allowed to have his name placed on the ticket? Too often men who are good and will work for the best of the student government lack the time to work with the governing body. Acouneil made up entirely of Phi Beta Kappas is not wholly desirable but under the present system we not only endanger the student government by having men on the council who do not have the time to spare, but also we injure the student's scholastic records so that he may be forced to withdraw from the university A representative body may need the viewpoint of students of a lower grade standard than this, but it is not for the good of a successful student governing group. PROGRESS AND EDUCATION Kansas City voted yesterday to increase school taxes three mills If the bill had not passed, the credits from Kansas City high schools would not have been acceptable in any college or university excepting the University of Missouri. It is obvious that no college could afford to take students with high school diplomas granted for six months' work each year, which would have been the length of teran had the measure failed of approval. What chance could such students have had on entering college in competition with those who had been trained during nine- or ten-month terms? Kansas is not faced with the dilemma that was before Kansas City, but if it were it, is to be hoped that it would meet the situation as those people did. Education must go on regardless of any economic difficulties. Shortly after the war for independence education lagged and social progress was slowed. Now education goes on, come what may, and progress continues also. This attitude toward education must be fostered. LEADERS DESPITE COLLEGE TRAINING When the vocation analyst and personnel specialist, burdened with facts and figures from hazy research, entered American education they were welcomed with joy. We wanted to get ahead in the world just as our ancestors had fought and endured hardship in order to progress. If a job analyst or a vocational guide could figure out a system by which we could become big personages, doing things in a big way after spending four years getting so many points from so many courses taken to fill so many groups, we were ready to organize a cheering section to encourage him. In our haste to get ahead we forgot about the presidents of most of our leading business institutions today. We forgot that these men got to the top through heer common sense, native ability, and initiative. They had no college training. The vocational experts have been with us for several years. Our curriculum is dotted with vocational subjects. The fact that the American college or university is primarily for the purpose of training the mind broadly and deeply has been lost to sight except by a few students who are more interested in such training than in social contacts and athletic superiority. Now we are beginning to realize the fallacy of attempting to turn specialists in the shortest possible time with the least amount of energy. The supply of specialists far exceeds the demand for them. Unfortunately they have not been trained in a manner which permits them to solve their own problems. They are lost when confronted with a situation outside of their specialty. So education is swinging again toward the cultural objective We're learning. Our experiment with the analysts has been troublesome perplexing, and expensive. It has decentralized education and fogged the aim of education. But it has not done serious damage. Men are proving that they can become leaders despite four years spent in college. Economic boycott has been suggested as a remedy for the Sino-Chinese controversy. The theory is that Japan would be brought to her knees if the United States and other foreign powers dropped all trade with her. But it is quite probable that even if the United States declared an economic boycott, the other powers would fail to follow suit. ECONOMIC FALLACY Some authorities say that the declaration of an economic boycott would be taken as a declaration of war by Japan. If this is true, the advocates of the boycott are working toward war and not world peace. One great argument against the economic boycott is that it would be harmful to the now weakened industries of the United States. Japan is an importer from the United States. Most of her food must be brought in, and since she is an industrial nation, the stop- the prices of cereals, for examples. still lower in the United States. No Western nation can lecture Japan. She may have seized Manchuria by force, but the other countries do not have clean hands. England has India and the United States Nicaragua. Both affairs are far from clean and unsullied. The United States should do some deep thinking before declaring an economic boycott on the Japanese. RUSSIAN TRADE Hugh L. Cooper, president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, estimates that the decrease of sales of American manufactured goods to Russia, owing to the needless interference of the United States government, has deprived 100,000 persons of their jobs. Our loss of sales last year was unnecessary and not due to any depression. In 1930 Russia was our sixth largest customer. She was only then beginning to buy American manufactured goods. She was starting her plan to industrialize her nation. Then with the new tariff, goods manufactured with "forced labor" were restricted. Customs officers could hold goods under suspicion and cost the importers great losses. The stories of forced labor in Russia are only political propaganda. The dropping off of the Russian import business has influenced the export business. The attempts to float loans to finance trading with Russia have been frowned upon by the Federal government. What imports we do receive from Russia are not harmful to the home industries. They consist in manganese ore, furs, pulpwood, lumber, and sausage casings. The United States produce only 10 percent of the manganese ore that is consumed in making steel. Most of our pulpwood has to be imported from Canada. It would seem then that the government is doing more harm than good when it towarded Russia. James D. Mooney, vice-president of General Motors Corporation, says, "As traders, the complexion of Russia's political system, or system of government, should interest us no more than such complexions in any other of the many countries in which we do business." Campus Opinion JUST ONE QUESTION! Editor Daily Kansan: There is not one person Td like tlc that can tell you how to wear the wool How can they pull the wool over the barber" eyes with the slogan, "Beat the Machine" when the Oread-Okaybukwah For the benefit of the downtrottened *barbs* "eyes with the slogan" "Beat the Manus have so touchingly portrayed, corulation or single unit with a platform or policy it seeks to put into effect through use of the ballot. And no one will be able to ignore the chine." No matter how loft the aim or ideals of an organization, if it seeks to put the aim or ideals into effect it is necessary a political machine. J. A.C. Logically, Oread-Kayhawk is a bigger machine than Pachacamac. It defeated Pachacamac last spring; there must be more bigger as those who used the older model that action became party of the Oread-Kayhawk machine. Undisputed logic Some time ago an old grad returned to the University for a visit. He remarked that the various memorials reminded him of a cemetery. Wondered should they be painted on the patches of newly turned soil that decorate our campus now. April 1. 1917 15 On the Hill Years Ago A faculty committee has been appointed to devise a new system of enrollment and a call has been issued for suggestions from individuals or organizations. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIIK Friday, April 1, 1932 No. 144 Notices due at Chaucer's office at 11:20 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue. From Plain Tales: Sprig has cabe Bud ad slush are everywhere; Tooof by wilder fladdels, dwarfs that can fly. For days ad days, ad days, ad days, I've tried to blow by bloe. School of Education students may call at the Education office, 103 Fraser for their mid-seminar grades. RUTH E. UTCHEN. The laws will celebrate "Uncle Jimmie Day" with the twelfth annual banquet to be held tomorrow. The afair has been instigated to commemorate the birthday of the dean of the law school. DUCATION_STUDENTS: "We'll now have a bean" is the way a University student announces the arrival of the meal hour. High cost of meals and the phrase. So they ate beans, too! Uniform size paddles has been demanded by the men of the University; in a vote taken today, fifty per cent of voters said so. The adoption of the standard size paddles GERMAN CLUB The German club will meet Monday at 4:30 in room 131 Fraser. MARCHE ARIET MOREN, Secretary. GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE: Those who desire to register for the course and have not done so may obtain registration blanks at Henley house. It is greatly desired that all registrations be made before Saturday, April 2. WILLELLA CURNUTT, Chairman. MATHEMATICS CLUB: MATHEMATICS CLUB The Mathematics club will meet Monday, April 4, at 4:30 p. m. in room 211 East Administration building Mr.W.A.Luby will speak. HOWARD ARNETHVILLE Vice President SOCIALIST STUDY CLUB: The meeting of the Club for Socialist Study, postponed from March 21 will be held Monday evening, April 4, at 8 o'clock in the Journalism building. Professor Seba Eldridge will speak on "How Socialism Comes to Pass." The meeting is open to everyone. CARL PETERS. WATER CARNIVAL: AQ participants in the water carnival are to report Saturday, April 2 at the following hours: Floaters ... 9:00 Skint swimmers ... 9:45 Form swimmers ... 10:30 Racing ... 11:15 Diving ... 11:15 LILLIAN PETERSON March Additions to THE MODERN LIBRARY Faulkner-Sanctuary—61 Hardy-Tess of the D Urberville—72 Complete Poems of Keats and Shelley. G-4 Plutarch's Lives. Dryden trans. G-5. THE BOOK NOOK 1021 Mass. St. Tel. 666 Let's talk about STYLE at $25! Some men have the idea that good style and good value can't go hand in hand. But they're wrong = all wrong. Witness the smart, up-to-the-minute style as displayed in our Griffon suits at $25. Style scouts who observe fashion wherever well dressed men get together, keep the makers of Griffon Clothes in touch with the very latest developments. And these developments appear promptly in our $25 suits. So, Mr. Man, you pay no lux- ury tax for smart style when you buy a $25 Griffon suit! Here style and value are happily mated! ATTEND THE LEGION CARNIVAL to Campus Politicians NOTICE 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. Unless such reservation is made, acceptance of the advertising is subject to space limitations and volume of advertising already ordered by regular advertisers. Complete copy must be in the Kansan business office not later than 8:20 a.m. of the day of publication or 8:20 a.m. Saturday for Sunday's paper. 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