PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN.CHIEP FRED. FLEMING Jene Price Associate Editors Dick Jerny MANAGING EDITOR STACEY PICKLEB Make Up Editor Owl ink Night Editor Berry Paper Night Editor Malone Smart Sport Disney Moon Editor Danish Fane Savoy Editor Marianne Savoy Editor Marianne Fashion Editor Michael Fashion Editor Michael Elite Photographer Elite ADVERTISING/Manager CHAS E. SYNDER Domain Manager Manager Domain Assistant Officer Domain Assistant Pierre Gibson Domain Assistant Berry Milligan Domain Assistant Oliver Rainan Board Members Phil Kielder Robert Reeves Richard Westman Gordon Martin Rory McCaffery Sarah Pettick Frank McCollum Business Office K.U. 6 News Room K.U. 2 Night Connection, Business Office 270/1K Night Connection, News Room Published in the afternoon, five times a week, on Sunday meeting, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press at the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions fee, by mail. $40.00; by carrier. Lawrence fax 1931.132.1.350. Single app. $6.00. Entered as second-class matter September 17, 1910, at the post office in Lawrence, Kansas. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 JAPAN IS INDIGNANT Rear Admiral Shimada, Japanese chief of Stuff, protests that Chinese soldiers are violating "all the accepted usages of war and The Hague international convention" by sailing in Hongkew, a suburb of Shanghai. The admiral is rightly indignant over this outrage. It must interfere badly with his plans for bombing innocent men and women and using neutral territory for an army base to gobble up slices of China. Obstinate people, these Chinese. PANTS AND THE DEPRESSION A certain Kansas City advertising concern has placed about the city in various places a depression poster designed to catch the attention of passers by. The board bears in large sized letters the single capitation, "When your pants wear out the panic's over." That the depression hinged upon such a common-place thing as pants is a new angle. We had considered them as merely the most uncompromising of wearing apparel, always made from the same materials and cut along the same patterns. That these same little pants are holding up our financial freedom we hadn't suspected. Indeed we had rather treasured them for the convenience afforded in carrying our small change. And now we learn that by doing away with these same pants we can change our small change into dollars. Capitalists and advertisers have tried technically to show us that the buying of new pants will release a flood of coin on the markets, will start up the factories thus aiding the unemployed, will in short, put the world once more on a stable financial basis. And, though our pants are not really shiny yet and we do hate to throw them away, we'd like to hear once more the jingle of silvery dollars rolling against each other in our own pocket. OUR PRESENT REGIME Despite the advantages of the present day civilization, Clayton Hamilton, lecturer, seems to think that life in the days of good old Louis XIV or Queen Elizabeth would have been much more pleasant and exciting than life in the Herbert Hoover regime. According to him, we are living in a rather dry old world in which nothing of importance ever happens and in which the prospects for anything of the kind are "nil". Other than having a hundred Chinese killed once in a while, which is after all only a hundred out of several millions, Mr. Hamilton has failed to find any news or excitement in our present existence. He would go back to the strolling players and the first days of the Shakespearean productions; in other words, to the glories of real literary productions. His bit of homemade philosophy sounds rather depressing to us. Like Hamilton, we admire Romeo and Juliet and all the other old Shakespeare stand-bys, but we do prefer seeing them in a modern theater which is comfortably heated and has convenient arrangements and equipment. Just why Mr. Hamilton is so keen on the days of long ago we cannot ascertain. Let him take his Elizabethan life and his literary masters, but give us a bathtub rather than a stream, an auto rather than a carriage and Herbert Hoover rather than a despot. A NEW GATHERING PLACE The mild days last week started most students thinking about spring, which is undoubtedly the most delightful time of the entire year on Mount Oread. One of the most popular sports and pastimes of students during the warm weather is swimming. Unfortunately, there is no University outdoor pool. In the past, Potter lake was the gathering place of students on warm afternoons. The pool was dredged, and kept filled with pure water. Diving towers were built, and life guard's provided so that no student need take the risk which many did last spring by swimming in the "Brick Yard" pond, or in the Kaw. The city plunge is not open until late in the spring, and since the desire to go swimming isn't one that can be put off indefinitely when the breezes are warmed by a semi-tropical sun, most students find somewhere to swim. These places are dangerous. It is the University responsibility to furnish a place for your aquatic students. Potter lake seems the logical place. It is on the campus, and has a beautiful location. The needed work might be done at little expense, and help the unemployed. It would provide a democratic gathering place for students this spring and summer, and would give many an opportunity for some fine exercise which they are missing now. JUST WEATHER This weather could be termed most anything right now, but capacious is the word. Only last week spring breezes were tantalizing the students, blithely and inconsiderately leading them away from their studies and defying all those resolutions made during examinations last semester. Those ghosts rise up and haunt some people even yet. Then this week-end old man weather had a brain storm and sent snow, not just a small insignificant snow, but a fairly lasting one. Now, just to show what a variety of weather he boasts, he has favored this part of the world with rain, and then with an honest-to-goodness freeze. Time stands still. According to all the precepts which were drilled into our minds during childhood time goes on regardless of place, crowned heads, or big business men. All these demonstrations have been enough to satisfy any doubter as to his powers. If the weather man is fishing around for someone to tell him which kind is the best liked, a vote has been taken and it was highly in favor of spring. Now if he will just be accommodating again, everything will be fine. That well known fever is a rather pleasant disease after all. The only trouble is that an excuse for a second attack is lacking at present. TIME DOESN'T FLY But refutation of the statement is furnished by the clock in the reserve room of Watson library, which has been stopped for weeks. Being such a nice appearing clock, although quite as misleading as early school teachers, it is a fine example of time standing still. Now that the contention is proved, it seems that the clock has been stopped long enough. Progress can be made only in time; let's give time a chance and start it running again. PRICES AND PROSPERITY People who have the money to spend in these days of economic unrest are faced with many bargains, not only in real estate, but also in manufactured articles. A product that once sold for a dime may now be selling two for fifteen cents. The average purchaser thinks that this decline in prices is wholly due to the depression. In many cases, however, this is not true. Much of the price-cutting in commodities is due to the price wars that have been conducted by stores, (Blame it on the chain stores if you will). A certain standard article is offered by a store as an entitlement to purchasers. The store is really selling the article below cost, but it thinks that by bringing the customers into the store it can sell other articles. Other stores immediately drop their prices to meet the competition. The wholesale house is for a while prosperous. When the novelty of the price-cutting has worn off, the merchants find that it is impossible to raise the price to normal again. the article, but holds on because he must keep his factory busy. The cotton industry, for example, has been affected in this manner. The manufacturer in this case, however, has handed the problem on to the cotton producer. Cotton prices have dropped. Cotton pickers are now being paid 20 cents per hundred pounds for their picking instead of the usual dollar. To sell the article the manufacturer must take a cut. In many instances he is losing money on This condition prevails in other industries. While the consumer is benefiting from the price war, the worker and manufacturer are losing money. Occupations that once paid the worker an honest living are now paying only enough to keep him from starving. STUDENT APPRECIATION Rapid changes in weather conditions during the past ten days have sent an unusually large number to Memorial hospital for treatment of colds. The result is that students constantly voice appreciation of the new hospital, new equipment, and excellent attention from the staff. One said that had he known how much benefit could be obtained he would have gone to the hospital as soon as he felt the first symptoms of illness. Another, more inclined to look at the cost, said that his house physician charged him more than the total cost of his hospital fee for the semester for a treatment from which he secured no benefit. These voluntary expressions of gratitude not only tend to indicate student appreciation for the medical service rendered but also show that the standard of health on the campus will be raised, since students are now eager to accept treatment when they experience the first symptoms of illness. THEORY OR ACTUALITY Three University students set out for Europe and other points east a few days ago. They are bound for the gayeties of Paris, the glories of Italy and the thrills of the Orient. They are doing what the rest of us would so love to do leaving books, study halls, and assignments for foreign travel. Perhaps they were victims of the first touches of spring fever. Perhaps it got hold of them in the same way that it is seizing hold of us. We can't help wondering, however, just what our University would be if today all of us who felt so inclined could take to the open road as these students have done. We're willing to venture that the decrease in enrollment would be so great as to bring about the closing of the school. It isn't so much our dislike for classes as it is the wanderlust and the extreme restlessness we can only ascribe to the first spring weather. We envy the more fortunate ones their tours, their fun and their on- their tours, their fun and their opportunity. And while we sit thinking of them there comes to our subconscious minds the drone of the professor's voice as he goes on endlessly theorizing. Theory or actuality, we wonder—which is the better education? A.I.E.E.: A meeting of the ALEE will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the auditorium of Marvin hill. All electrical engineers are invited to be present. --- Vol. XXII Thursday, Feb. 18, 1932 No. 113 Notices due at Chancellery office at 11:39 a.m. on regular afternoon days xxvii-xxiii See Schedule for dates. All University women are invited to attend the Co-Eo-Bad this evening from 4 to 5:30 at the Union building. There will be entertainment for all. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN CO-ED HOP: There will be a meeting of the rife队 Friday evening at 7 o'clock in Fowler shops to make plans for the Kemper trip. NLEI REZAC, Captain. WOMEN'S RIFLE TEAM: --and Campus Opinion Naturally W. G. resents the bald implication of C. P. in his role of conlater, that he is one of those rare fortunate individuals taking life’s blindly” is eminently of “guten humor”, and who not only see red in the face of such humor but is so cruel as to “discourage” him. The author is a keen witness. W. G. feels added compunction when he comprehends what a sad thing it was to discourage one so sterling and whole-sweet as C. P., a foliage specifically of Emerson to whom he refers. Editor Daily Kansan: Because W. G., who takes "life literally," was reminded in the first paragraph of yesterday's Campus Opinion that C. P. maddenius to give him a "high and noble motive," he read on auscidially to seek the counsel. But if he bid thought for one instant that C. P. was not directed by excaled and admirable impulses, would he have read opinion? Dear me. Absolutely not! W. G. is penitive for his indictment and intolerance in using scurious words in obigurting D. S. J. when no principle in need of defense was in violation of the laws, that there was a principle in the matter, but it pernuisce was not stated definitely or was not as familiar as some of our old principles such as "Give me liberty or give me death." "Love will mislead you, those are principes, not they are C. P." W. G. does not have a copy of Kingmilla's Anthology on invective and Albus, and makes no pretense of being an author of the publication of ridicule. However, if there is another bit of "genuine humor" as putid as that of D. J. S., whether it was from Kingmilla's book or hasten to obtain a copy of Kingmilla. In addition he will tear to the hospital, not wholly for advice in "invecte," but to avoid trouble with the S. J. "humor"—a nain in the neck. The squirrel may very well scald the mountain for being a prig, as C. P. Wheeler said in his 1956 augment "the hunter (and putthus) of the situation," but after all, besides doing a lot of augmenting, doesn't a snake really recognize a nut when he sees one. W. G. assures "hopefully, C. P." that he had no feeling of intense dugout tension and was notlation (which really means as much he surmises, as does "pedantic peroration"), yet on the other hand he be- mannity. P. motticated in his humanity. W. G. INITIATION PRESENTS Your crest on Compacts. 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