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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1931
MID-SEMESTERS
It's a trivial little word, that expression mid-sentence, but there is a world of meaning packed into its four syllables. It spells achievement for some, disappointment for others, and for many it is merely a negative quantity, meaning something else to think about and forget.
They'll be on as onus in a few days, and Midnight Oii will go up another ten points on the board of trade. The dust of weeks will be shaken from notebooks, and study lamps long unused will be made bright again.
Professors will come on the Hill with a predatory smile on their faces, liking their chops in anticipation. Students, on the other hand, will be hard put to find anything at all to smile about, unless it be the thought of having fooled the instructor and gotten all the assignments.
Truly it's a nerve-racking time of the year, but there still is a silver lining behind the dark, dark cloud. Thanksgiving vacation is not far around the corner, just like President Hoover's prosperity, and then we'll have a chance to rest for a day or two.
Mid-semesters may not be popular, but they give us something to be thankful about at Thanksgiving. Contrary to ordinary procedure, however, the thanks is not for them, but for the fact that they'll be over soon.
The Kansas State Collegian gives the reason for the Aggie victory as being 24 pints of cream. The cream was fed to the Aggie football players. Perhaps Kansas should buy some cows.
THE GOBBLE-UNS 'LL GIT YOU!
Centuries ago an old Celtic calendar counted October 31 the last day of the old year. The night of this day was supposed to be a time when witches, evil spirits, and ghosts were abroad.
In the present age, October 31 is not the last day of the old year, but it is Halloween, and the legitimate time for all ghosts and evil spirits to come from their hiding places, or forever after hold their peace. Gates disappear from their hinges, and are found the next morning perched in the highest tree, and clothlines part company with their anchoring posts—all at the bidding of surprisingly lively ghosts.
Porch furniture perches itself with its bottom side up, and bird baths are found in driveways. Street lights are knocked out, and the landscape is blotted into pitch darkness, providing, of course, that it does not happen to be a moonlight night.
If it is moonlight, and one is no afraid to stray far from home on the night when evil spirits are abroad, the strangest sights may be seen. There across the street is a tiny figure in a huge white sheet, and peering from the bushes is a painy face on which there is a huge red nose. Peeking from the curtains of the house $ \mathbf{v} $
the right is a grinning yellow face with blazing eyes. Figures flit here and there, and vague moans and hysterical laughter fill the night with ghostly sounds.
Queer doings take place on the night of October 31. Even the shyst of evil spirits are about. Be careful and don't go far from home—for the "gobble-uns" *l'gill you if you don't watch out*
WOMEN DEBATERS
With the announcement of the forensic program of the year it has been revealed that women will have the privilege of trying out for varsity and freshman debate teams this year. Heretofore, men alone have comprised the debating teams at the University. With this innovation another step has been taken in the direction of greater liberality toward women and their participation in public affairs. The once popular theory that the "fairer" sex should keep its place in the background of masculine endearment is doomed. In Russia, it has already been demonstrated that women have as much brawn as men, and that they can endure physical hardships just as hardly. In that Soviet-ridden country, the brain of woman is also being used to promote the five-year-plan.
In this country, it is not generally conceded that women should have much to do outside the home, social organizations, and factory. She has her place in the workplace, but usually in a secret position.
woman in politics is still looked upon rather doubtfully. We have yet caught up with Europe, where half the members of the legislative bodies in some countries are composed of women members. Our intellectual institutions do well to set the example for the country at large. The speech department has done a noteworthy thing in including women on its debate teams.
CAPONE, THE SQUEALER
Stairface Al Capone, the world's most powerful gangster and criminal overlord, is now undergoing the greatest ignominy of his life. The great, the mighty, the invulnerable is in jail. What's more, he has no prospect of getting out. And what is still worse he stands an excellent chance of spanking the next eleven years of his bond prison walls in addition to poisoning him fines, and other penalties which will aggregate close to a million dollars.
For twelve long years Al Capone carried on his bootlegging, vice activities, and assorted criminal pursuits in Chicago with pomp and impunity. He was often suspected but never convicted. And throughout all those long years he thumbed his nose most insolently at the forces of law and order, daring them to convict him, and openly boasting that the "cop hasn't been born yet that can put me behind the bars."
But now, despite his bragging and threats, the gang chief is occupying a cell and faces a long trip "up the river." His defiant and boastful attitude has changed to one of whining and self pity. The food he receives in jail doesn't suit him; he whines about that. His sentence was twice as heavy as that of one of his henchmen convicted on a similar charge—he whines about that and protests about the injustice of such carryings on. Capone of all people whining and crying about justice!
Al has danced for quite a while at the expense of the decem, law respecting public; now that he must pay the fiddler he does not seem so blithe and chipper. Instead of taking his sentence as it is and thinking his lucky stars that it wasn't a thousand times as heavy, as it should be, he sits in his cell and squeals and whines about justice and jail food. It's bitter medicine for Al, all right, and he's taking it in a manner entirely compatible with his character.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXIX Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1931 No. 40
KAPPA BETA:
There will be a special meeting of active members at Myers Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Attendance is required. MAHIAN BILEY, President.
There will be a short meeting Thursday evening in the Union building at 7:30. All members are required to attend. DAVE NEWCOMER.
U KU MEETING
Le Circule Francaise se reunira mercereli, a quatre heures et domine, dans alle 356 Frescon Hall, tout ceux qui parient française sont invités.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS:
MAC DOWELL CLUB TRYOUTS;
All those interested in trying out for music and dramas are asked to meet in the central administration building at 7:28 this evening. Members of the club are urged to be present.
RUDOLPH WENDELIN, President.
Phi Delta Kappa will meet at 7:30 this evening in the Union building,
H. E. DILLEY, Secretary.
PHI DELTA KAPPA:
'AU SIGMA DANCING CLASS;
The Tat Symna dancing class will be held in the Union building from 7:
8:20 every Tuesday and Thursday evening, startling tonight. HAPPY
DEADNESS.
TALKS ON LITERATURE FOR FRESHMEN:
Miss Myra Hall will give a lecture on 'The Flower Chair in Contemporary American Fashion' at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in room 535 Flower Hall
NELLIE BARNES, Chairman.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY:
The regular mid-week variety will be held in the Union building from 8 to 8 o'clock Wednesday evening. NEWMAN REFLEY.
FOR CHARITY'S SAKE
All over the country, in hamlets and in the metropolis, is starting one of the greatest charity campaigns that the United States has ever known. It takes the form of tag days, regular relief drives, and even football games. Homeless and jobless are being housed in jails until the winter months are over.
It is all too obvious that the condition in America today with regard to the unemployed is at a critical point. There must be relief of some kind or we shall undergo a panic such as never before has been experienced. And in view of this fact the final analysis shows the people of America "coming through" with the spirit which has enabled her to attain her present place in the world.
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It would be highly illogical to grow sentimental over such a terrifying situation as this promises to be, but one comforting fact remains: as long as America has the faith in her heart to meet emergencies such as unemployment presents with the courage that has already been displayed we need not worry about our ultimate destination. Such a nation can never come under the thumb of capitalism!
THE DOG RACKET
Chicago may be the "racket town," with its innumerable Capones and illegal liquor traffic practices, but with all the corrupt underworld deeds, the gangsters of the Windy City do not pull on the heart strings of the innocent layman who is distinctly human and who has an interest in animal Kansas City is "doing the Chicago law," including federal laws, but by attacking a man sympathy and friendship—by stroying that warm tie which exists between a man and a dog.
During the past three weeks 100 persons have missed household pets which were valued for various reasons. "Lost or stolen" was the indictment given them until Friday, when a twenty-one-year-old youth was arrested for picking up the pets and selling them to a scrum plant, where many of them were found pining for their owners. The colliwhit licked Johnny's face was there the pup which leads Mary safely across the crowded boulevard was there; the sole companions of working girls, the prizes of animal lovers, the prizes of guardians of residence—the were all there, or more tragic still, had been there and were gone. Somebody's pal had been sold for the mere pittance of from $1.50 to $5. Comparing with Scafear Al the man who made a racket out of stealing pet dogs, seems to throw the evidence in the favor of public enemy number one. Af
INTERNATIONAL ORATORY
least the underworld magnate well recompensed the men who answered to his back and call those persons who were the victims of Al's bullet were usually in the liquor business along with him, and it was merely a matter of the survival of the strongest evil.
A kindly human feeling must be entirely lacking in the boy who had been making a livelihood by depriving children and sympathetic adults of their playmates and companions.
INTERNATIONAL ORATORY
The topic which was given Robert Reyburn of Newton, Kansas, as the subject of his extemporaneous speech in the sixth international oratorical contest held in Washington last Friday, undoubtedly was one of the major reasons why he failed to place.
He spoke well on his main topic, "The Tests of the Constitution," but his extemporaneous speech on "The Relation Between the Constitution and the Philippines" failed to impress the judges. Who could impress any impartial judge with a subject such as that to speak on? Who ever heard of there being any relation at all between the Constitution and the Philippines?
Henri R. M. Van Hool, of Holland, very likely deserved to win, but Mr. Reyburn was given an unusually difficult and touchy topic as the subject of his extemporaneous speech. But perhaps it was realized that the subject of Philippine independence is likely to be an important issue in the next session of Congress, and it was thought best to give the United States Congressmen some material for their arguments.
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Not that they were doing anything so daring in itself, or even out of the way, but the time and the place were hardly in accord with the action.
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All of which calls to mind that things which are no more than vacuaries in private become vulgarities in public, and that the numerous criticisms which fall upon college students are seldom caused by the actions of the average but rather by the poor judgment of the few in making insignificant displays of minor personal affairs.
No matter how utopian the theory may sound it is impossible always to draw criticism. As Viola Brothers Shore once remarked in the cold mediums of magazine type: "Unconvenient, disengaged and vulgarity is the unconventionality of our enemies." We might add to this statement that the University of Washington Daily
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