X PAGE TWO THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1921 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansar Oral Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEP GORDON MARTIN Lola Hicks MANAGING EDITOR STACEY PICKELC Make Up, Editure Macro, Image Night Editor Florechiz Millennium Taperhour Edition Batty Hammerman Mahoney Edition Cimson Diverger Mahoney Edition ADVERTISING MANAGER REBERT RFD Advertising Ace, Mp. Charles E. Sender District Assistant Selene Kersen District Fice Fiona Mackenzie District Assistant Margaret Jury Phil Koehler Joe Koehler Robert Reid Joe Reid Richard Whitman Mildred Whitman Gordon Martin Marie Martin Raymond Taylor Raymond Taylor Stuart Patch John Patch Operations Business Office K.U. 60 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 2701K Night Connection, News Room 2701K — appointed to the afternoon. We visit work and school in New York, and we receive a letter from the Association of the University of North Dakota, from Dr. F. M. Woodward, formerly of Lawrence (notice 1931). Lawrence is president of Lawrence University (notice 1931). Lawrence, Kansas, under Mr. M. Y. 1879. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931 MERRY CHRISTMAS Today The Dale Kansan makes its final bow for 1931. This is the last edition until after Christmas vacation. Looking back over an eventful year, the Kansan finds that, even though its equilibrium has been assaulted daily with knotty problems and occasional viciousitudes, it has come through a year of progressiveness. Tomorrow students will pack their belongings and go home to their families for two weeks. In the meantime, The Kansan will lie outwardly dormant but inwardly alive, even now anticipating that awful Christmas aftermath. Christmas cheer, however, is everyone's theme song today, and The Kansan falls in line by wishing University students and employees—even professors—a most glorious Christmas and a hilarious New Year. Co-eds at the University of Wisconsin are complaining that men students there spend most of their time and money in Madison speakeasies, instead of supporting student dances, according to a news dispatch in The Michigan Daily. It looks to us like just more proof that a woman hates to be second to anything—even a bottle of beer. DISARMAMENT As long as peace hopes at the coming world disarmament conference rests in a broader version of the Locarno pact, under which the nations would guarantee each other against aggressive wars, they will remain dim and far-fetched. No nation ever thought itself to be the aggressor in a war. All wars are supposedly defensive. In the mind of Japan the Sino-Japanese conflict is a defensive one. Who will define aggressive战? When will the nations know that a state is the aggressor? What body will decide this question? France will submit to this conference a concrete political proposal to protect nations subjected to aggression. It will provide for armed movement against a warbent state, involving a modern development of the military sanction in Article 16 of the League of Nations Covenant. France wants security, before she will agree to reduce her armaments. Her plan advocates war to end war, which, after the experience of the World War, seems absurd. Germany is already disarmed to a high degree and wants equal security and the elimination of military inferiority. It can easily be seen that the results of the February Geneva conference will be negligible and visionary, unless the United States uses its available lever of dollars and sense. This country has the power to make Europe disarm. Foreign debts were due yesterday, but Hoover's moratorium granted the governments of Europe a day of grace. If America makes this the last year of grace unless Europe disarms, the nations of Europe may see the light and do some constructive work toward world peace. WHY WORK? With only day of school remaining before the Christmas holidays, there is a spirit of preinstigation among the student body. It comes every year at this time, the old feeling that studies can be put off until graduation time and then be made up satisfactorily during that period. There is nothing to condemn here; we think it a good policy. Procrastinate until Christmas, procrastinate during the holidays, procrastinate after the holidays—in fact keep on putting off until final examination. But if this is your policy, here's a word to the wise: be sure you have a unique system of apple polishing down. An apple a day helps keeps an "F" away. THE NEWEST RACKET Before we read an article in a recent issue of the New Republic which exposes the secrets of the beauty racket, we casually glanced upon the perfectly complexioned co-eds on the campus and took their good looks as a matter of course. Since reading "The Great Dame," I bought piece of copy, however, any admiration that we might have for these same co-ods has turned to pity. How do we know that Mary Jones, the youthful lass who has been the life of the party, is not old enough to be our grandmother? For Miss Winslow tells us that it is possible to change the countenance of a 60-year old woman until it resembles the blooming face of a "sweet sixteen." Plastic surgeons can alter everything from wrinkled burgers to pug noses, not to mention lopsided heads and baggy eyes. Of course, some women leave a face-lifting operation more disfigured than they are at birth and some "fountain of youth" seekers made the undertakers next on their calling list, but what are a few failures when so many become ray ivy beauties? Men who have been wonders why women are becoming more slender each year may as well know the truth. That fashionable diet gap is not a lot of hooey. Bread, butter and meat simply cannot be afforded when over $87,000,000 are spent yearly on cold-creams, face powder, and lipsticks. ILLITERACY In order to live intelligently and to be able to fulfill one's duties as a citizen of the United States, it is imperative that everyone should be able to read and write. There are 18,669 illiterates in Kansas; the percentage is 1.2 per cent; 10 years ago it was 1.6 per cent. The Kansas state illiteracy commission has started a vigorous campaign to reduce this figure. Plans for an organization in each county to contact persons who can not read or write—mostly adults—and organize them in classes, have been announced George A. Allen Jr., state superintendent of public instruction. In cities the procedure will be left to the school superintendents and boards of education working together with parent-teachers associations, the W. C. T. U., women's clubs, and similar organizations. This is a worth while undertaking. A sportman dropped a $10,000,-000 slander suit when he received an invitation to fish in the defendant's trout stream. The plaintiff was right when he said, "That's better than any award I can get from the court." He was a true sportsman. We need more people with his point of view. WHO WOULDN'T This country needs more invitations to fish and fewer court suits. There are too many "no hunting" and "no fishing" signs nailed up along country farms and in the minds of men. People would obey the law by inviting to invitations to fish to settle disputes. One cannot carrier wif putes. One cannot quarrel with a person while fishing with him. Nature demands that one be quiet and sane, if one is to catch fish. If people would allow others to dig and fish in their minds, many prejudices and disputes would be explained and wiped away. We need to see ourselves as others see us. It is essential that we get the other fellow's point of view in order to be fair, broad-minded, and considerate. WITH THE HILL CLIMBERS A. K. U. Student has had as much bad luck at contract bridge as Profiler Lenz. She held 13 clubs and lost 8. She went on to trump-bad. What luck! What luck! Vacation starts Saturday. We will all go home to receive the usual contribution of socks, neckties, and handkerchiefs. You can try to get a raise in our allowance. We now know what musicians do when they are taking a vacation. The teacher is often the driver rides with another driver and the musician sits in with another or two. The large Christmas wreath on the Theta front door has permitted several students to have an apparent misunderstanding of its purpose. Our Contemporaries From the Purdue Exponent: From the Purdue Exponent: THE FRATERNITY INITIATION THE FRACTURETEN INITIATION The first near-fatal incident in this initiative this year is reported from the University of Alabama where a nineteen year old freshman fell 100 feet to the ground from the top of a flagpole which he was forced to climb and "measure," probably recover in a few weeks. Fortunately a great deal of amelioration has crept into the fraternity rough edges of campus. In their words, there still persist many practices which are not a recommendation to the group which employs them. This is the time when freshmen have to cope with necrophytes through the pages, as a preliminary gesture to hell well before that date. Freshmen travel, even this time of the year, overtates groups of freshmen wresting their way back to campus. The alumnus who was a strong advocate of horse play when he was in school returns to the chapter house to practise his joke. He practices as a joke. "We really had 'hell weeks' in our day, and when we returned from a road trip, we knew that it was time for them." Then some of these active members of the chapter who don't know their own minds immediately begin to converse about putting "life" into the initiation. Freshman victims of these horse play devices do not suffer half as severe physical harm. They are lowerers of the chapter, who are lowering their bars of pride and dragging the fraternal standards of their organization. A probationary may be a good thing for the average freshman, but certainly a 20 hour probation is more important a morning does not exert such a great influence in making a better man of him. In fact, the converse is often From the Columbia Missourian: ACCIDENTS AND WAR Social fraternities, existing as they do at institutes of higher education, take pride in exhibiting themselves as a corps of men who are associated with them. They would give the impression that those men who are associated with them, designed toward the accomplishment of this end. The next time they design a road trip or some other piece of work, they would go before the public in some foolish or dangerous rule, let their more responsible members ponder for a moment on how to best exhibit it. An experiment is exhibited by the incident. The world has turned its attention to establishing a lasting and a permanent foundation for the survival of war will be forever ended. America has fostered and encouraged states to invest in infrastructure made little or no effort to curb the ever increasing toll of automobile accidents. During the first eight months of 1931, nearly 50 percent of automobile accidents in Missouri alone, an increase of 38.53 per cent over the same period, were due to the serious part motor vehicle se- From the Continental Missouri teachers and others daily remind the public and their charges of the heavy toll automobile accidents are taking each year. The public has shown that despite the peaceful slaughter of men and women, old and young, continues unchecked on our streets and highways. But when we consider that each year 40,000 Americans are killed and masimed in automobile accidents as there were American soldiers killed in the trenches of France, it is time that some organized attention be given to motor vehicle traffic and transportation. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIX Thursday, 17, 121 No. 80 COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The annual Christmas dinner of the Cosmopolitan club will be hold Mother Kell's place, 1325 West Campus, at 6 p.m. sharp, Thursday, Dec. 17. The club is also hosting a Christmas Party on Friday. There will be a group picture of the Dramatic club at 8 o'clock tonight at Perkling's studio. JACK FEEST. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: DRAMATIC CLUB: ETA SCHMA GIA will meet Thursday evening at 6 o'clock in room 219 Room There will be a Saturnula program. IRNE TOMLUNKIN, Secretary. MAC DOWELL FRATERNITY: MORTAR AND BALL. The Murter and Ball Jawback picture will not be taken today. Another one may be made after vacation. F. ANNERGY K. U. RADIO CLOSE: The K. U. Radio club will meet in Room 115 Marvin tonight at 7:15 p.m. Please be on time. William A. Beasley will talk and there will be election of officers. RALP AVYES, Chairman. K. U. RADIO CLUB: BAC DOWELF PHATERNITY: A meeting of the fraternity will be held Thursday evening, Dec. 17, at 8 clock in the rest room of Central Ad. All new members are especially urged o be present. RUDOLPH WENDENIL, President. SOCIALIST STUDY CLUB: Miss Parma Dixon Leimbach, fa 30 was married to Dale M. Kirkpatrick ¢30. Nov. 28 J. Clifford Bisset, e24, is an engineer for the Trinity Farm Construction company with offices in Fort Worth, *exus.* Arne Brouwer will speak on "The Communism of Trottoy" before the elbah for Social Study on Thursday night, 12 at 11, in room 102 Journal Building. (Meredith K. Schmidt) edients have come to play in modern life. Carleton M. Crick, 739, is connected with the law firm of Chauce, Hall, and Stewart of Boston. Crick is now living in Cambridge, Mass. Much has been done and is still being done to improve the roads of Missouri, as well as other states, but poor highway conditions create fatal accidents. Engineers who have studied the subject are of the opinion that 25 per cent of the motor vehicle crashes are due to mechanical failures. Faulty brakes, lights and stirring apparatus are particularly dangerous, not only for the occupants of the detached car, but for others on the road. Eustace Smith, fc 08, and Charles E. halfant, 727, have formed a law partnership with office in Hutchinson. Periodic inspection of all motor vehicles would lead to the correction of these faults. There is no doubt that a large number of lives would be saved in Missouri alone. If the state required a periodic inspection of its mechanical mechanism of oil automobiles. Genevieve Herriott, c28, last summer made a tour of the West that included Colorado, Nevada, and California. Jayhawks Flowr Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Ferguson (Elizimeth Mend, '20) have moved from their home in Pennsylvania to where Mr. Ferguson is in the cattle business. Their son, Merv Ferguson, lives in the state. Ray P. Lehman, c23, is doing geologic work in north-eastern Colorado for the Sinclair Oil and Gas company. M. ELIZAZBETH WEST. Howard Fireshaugh, 24, who is in the air service at Reno, Nev., recently suffered an accident in which he broke his leg. McCormack Discovered to Be Jolly Off Stage At least it seemed this way Thursday night to the cabi reporter who was reporting from the scene. The stage as a sort of body guard to prevent autoharrisons and interviewer intrusions. John McCormack, celebrated tenure, is an elegant, jolly, and good natured. He was a hard-working player, he jokes with the hybrids and has lots of fun giving vent to his native Irish. After his first group of songs Mr McCormack jokingly requested that more light be turned on in the hall. The room was dark, what did he Room co-inked like? The noted singer complimented the University of Kansas on having such fine midriff but expressed regret that they were played in the same building. Immediately after the concert Mr McCormack and his party hurried to his private car which was picked up a 14:10 pm by the Chinel, crumb from a FoS system, which was out through Lawrence, except for Mr McCormack. 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