. PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP PHIL KEELEY EDITOR IN CHIEF Owen Tipe Associate Editor FIELD HILL Kenell MANAGING EDITOR Joe KNACK Make Up Editor Sarah Pearce Monday Editor Luke Hacker Sunday Editor Rory Kearney Sparton Editor Sullivan Rozen Telegraphy Editor Margaret Gill Almana Gilbert Alice Karp Allison Karp AIDERWITTEN MANAGER ROBERTY REED ADVERTISEMENT Charles S. Sayer **Kennan Board Members** P.K. Baker 2nd Robert Reed 1st Roberts Whiteman 1st Garden Martin 1st Linda Martin 1st Linda Boulder 1st Telephons Business Office... K.U. 6/4 News Room... K.U. 2/ Night Connection, Business Office... 2701/K Night Connection, News Room... 2701/K Pulished in the afternoon, five times a week, and worked on both sides of the house. Appointed to Association of the University of Kansas at Washington (the University of Kansas), he wrote books for Lawyers (in 1973); A.I.L. Single Engine (in 1984); A.I.L. Single Engine (in 1984); at the age of 60, Lawyer, University, Kansas, under a $15,000 grant from the National Athletic Association. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931 ACTIVE IGNORANCE It was Goethe who said: "Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance." And although Goethe didn't realize it at the time, he might very well have been speaking of our modern college student. Just what did Goethe mean by "active ignorance"? Did he mean ignorance in general? Probably not. What Goethe intended to say was that while ignorance is not a blessing it is that ignorance which is unrealized which causes the ills of the world today. It is the person whose very ignorance is unknown to him who wrecks most of our homes, and precipitates most of our wars. Goethe was probably think- Are we of the universities "actively ignorant"? We devoutly murmur, "God forbid," but with that sinacious ejaculation we are branding ourselves with the very sigma which we wish to escape. We are "actively ignorant," and there is no escaping the fact. We spend, as some humor magazine has put it, "four thousand dollars on our education, and then use all our time hoping for a vacation which will fall on a school day." We are actively ignorant in believing ourselves to be educated when we leave the university; we are actively ignorant when we leaf through our four years and afterward bring about the grades we made; we are actively ignorant in filling minds with second hand knowledge and parading it for wisdom; we are actively ignorant in thinking that the college man is one of "God's Chosen." Our only salvation from the frowning horror of our academical "active ignorance" is the fact that the college doesn't treat everyone alike. For some it has proved the salvation from that same ignorance. And that, after all is the primary purpose of our institutions of higher learning. They strip us of some of, of our blinders of "pirb hole knowledge" and "active ignorance" and let us see some measure of light. The Sophisticated Sophomore remarks, rather bitterly, that the guy who pulled that crack about "necessity being the mother of invention" must have tried shaving in the mornings in the community bathroom at his rooming house. OUR "ULTIMATE CIVILIZATION" OUR "ULTIMATE CIVILIZATION" The other day, after a particularly enjoyable drive through a country side just beginning to show the autumn colors, on the outskirts of Lawrence, we noticed a sign. It bice a picture of a beautiful girl, a very beautiful girl, holding a cigarette in her hand and looking at it as if to say: "Look me over, folks. I'm the product of our civilization." Back of the sign board the valley stretches away for miles toward the hary blue of the hills, but one couldn't see that; one had to look at the beauties of the girl so temptingly displayed for the passer by. We are supposed to be a civilized nation, superior to every other country on the globe. And yet we plant in front of a view such as the one we saw, a picture of a girl, an amiably reminding us to "Keep huggable with Old Colds." Not only such things a danger to the motorist but they reflect very clearly what is back of the kind of civilization which we Americans so proudly claim as our own. THOSE QUAINT ITALIANS The Italian Olympic officials have decreed that there shall be no women's athletic meet at Naples as had been scheduled, on the grounds that in Italy women's place is still in the home. They also offer in support of their decision the argument that sports for women should be indulged in only when the participant is fully developed physically. Perhaps such a ruling is all right for Italy, but an announcement of this kind by American officials would auge laughter throughout the country. Any man who has had an opportunity to attend a educational school will attest the fact that the average college woman is more at home with a golf club in her hand than a frying pan. And what she doesn't know about serving, other than that related to tennis, would fill a book. She braps that he can swam farther, run faster, jump higher, and put better than her sisters in any other country on the face of the globe. eating one of her meals will convince the average male that at least she doesn't spend any of her time trying to break par in the kitchen, even if she can do so on the links. And as for the suggestion that our women should be fully developed before participating in sports—that's a bigger laugh yet. A woman nowadays just can't have the natural amount of upholstered on her frame and still fit into one of the silhouette dresses. The Hallans may be funny people and believe in some queer ideas, but as long as they fool the girls into believing woman's place is in the home instead of a football gridiron or baseball diamond the chances are that home-made bread will remain something besides a myth in Italy. Maybe a little dictating in the U. S. would do good. Statistics show that the United States consumes over tree-fourths of the tin in the world. After a trip on the highway last Sunday we are inclined to agree. AN INCONSTANCY Today, as everyone knows, we are in the midst of a depression. There are persons well supplied with this world's goods and there are others in debt. Yet, as the convention season nears, away will go the constituents of this national society and that annual conflict to distant cities. Nothing of a constructive nature will be accomplished during the sessions. For a week, delegates will be turned in a wheel of social events and will spend enough money to give fifty men breakfast for two years. And then, they will come back home and harp about the depression some more and bemoan the fate of the jobs during the coming winter season. Let's declare a gonorrium on conventions and give the hungry food to eat and the naked clothes to wear. The campus wall flowers, both masculine and feminine, turned out to the Tau Sigma dancing class to learn how to be popular with the opposite sex. You're truly turned in a body. FOOTALL FOR UNEMPLOYMENT The national relief commission on employment has added charity games to the list of forces which will be utilized in taking old man Depression down for the count, and restoring prosperity to this country. College teams throughout the nation have been asked to schedule post-season games in order that funds for the relief of unemployment may be secured via the sport fan's pocketbank. And the K. u. grid team, along with the rest, will soon find itself pitted against some worthy fee in the name of this great cause, if present plam materialize. Now this idea of having college teams taking the principal roles in charity games is doubtless a good one. And here is another idea: why not make up teams from the ranks of the unemployed themselves? The average team including substitutes, coaches, and trainers incorporates around thirty men all told. If five hundred games could be arranged between teams of unemployed men, a total of thirty thousand people, approximately, would find themselves at least temporarily employed; and this number does not include the referees, linesmen, or water boys. The possibilities of such a plan are practically limitless. And beside. The Cosmopolitan club will have a supper meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, at the cafeteria. Prof. W. W. Davis, of the history department, will speak. All foreign students are cordially invited. Call Alfredo M. Bustamante, 2183 R. for reservation. ALFREDO M. BUSTAMANTE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIX Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1931. No. 35 The Freshman Commission will meet; Thursday, Oct. 21, at 4:36 p.m. at Ienley house. ESTHER CONGER, SPONSOR FRESHMAN COMMISSION: Not only do we need stretches for our own injured players but it might be courteous to provide a stretcher for visiting teams. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: BROOKLYN PLAN CLUB I do not protrude to possess any knowledge of journalistic style, but I should be assured that the department voice the sentiment of a great many persons regarding this issue. A special meeting for initiation of new members will be held in room 5. Union building, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. All members are urged to attend. PATRICK J. McMANUS, President. KAYHAWK_CLUB: NOON LUNCHEON FORUM: Thursday noon Mr. G. A. Gedal, of Berlin, will speak on "Germany in the Present Political Economic Situation of Europe," in the private dining room at he cafeteria. Arrange for lunchroom ticket at 121 Fraser, or phone 398. 44742 TECNOLOGY Chairman MEN'S GLEE CLUB: WALTER TROMBOLD, Chairman. The Men's Glee club will meet tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Marvin auditorium. Please be prompt. MARSHALL SCOTT, President. QUILL. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE: The meeting of the manuscript committee which was planned for Thursday evening has been postponed. CLINTON YOUNG. There will be a meeting of Sigma Tau tonight at 7:36 o'clock in room 115, farvin hall. LOUIS M. FARRER, President. SIGMA TAU: WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY Regular Wednesday night variety in the Union building for Union members tonight from 7 to 8 o'clock. NEWMAN JEFFEHN, Manager. WHY CLUB: A Student. The Why club will meet Thursday at 7:30 in the central Administration building auditorium. G. A. A. Gledat, of Berlin, will speak on the German War II bombings and the Holocaust. WOMEN ATTENDING NEBRASKA GAME: Women attending the Nebraska game at Lincoln on Oct. 24 must observe the following rules: 1. Each woman must present to the dean of women the written permission f her parents. 2. Each woman must sign out in the office of the dean of women stating Lawrence address, telephone number, time of departure, time of return, means of transportation. MYRA LITTLE, President, W.S.G.A. Can't something be done about urging the athletic department to spend at least five dollars on a stretcher to protect injured men? It seems unfunfortunate that a department having as much income as the athletic department is requoted to provide for injured men, an education of the men who have given their best physical energy, to provide as much comfort as possible when they are injured. The shortest of criminal to see the suffering of injured players at the Milkkin game last week. I am quite certain that any injuries would be in no condition to limp to the dressing rooms not to be half-supported and half-carried by sympathetic friends who are bound to "tooite" him con- it would offer an opportunity for the unemployed to help themselves. That's something that few relief plans to date have incorporated. A contest featuring Hold Carriers versus Steam Pipe Fitters, or Insurance Agents versus Bond Salesmen, would pack anybody's stadium! Registration for rife club tryouts will continue the remainder of the week 1 the basement of Fowler schools. There will be two weeks of preliminary instruction and four weeks actual firing before first elimination. All women itested please sign up immediately. NELL REZAC, Captain. But whether the teams playing the charity games are composed of college men or unemployed workers, the fact remains that the average person will pay好 simoleons to see a football game when he wouldn't voluntarily give a like amount to his community relief fund. And if football games will bring about the desired results, at least one game should be played every day, and the rest of the holidays for good measure, until this unemployment situation is overcome. A young lady in the department of journalism refused to write a notecard on flies. When asked for a reason she replied, naively, that at Lindenwood college she had learned that flies are not written; they are drawn. The Southern woman who didn't know "damm-Yank" was two words has a daughter taking editorial I. The daughter写 "dear-old-K. U." Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: Our Contemporaries A Help to Education Now arises another crite to remind the world that education is "chance," not a prerequisite for pleasing renewal, albeit it is insufficient and impractical for other than self-education. The new prophet is Gamelain Bradford, popular biographer, who published his book *The certain amount of help.* I mean the clue of biography. Admitting his solution does not offer intellectual ducking but does provide an innumerable certain amount of help. Plain Tales —From the Daily Texan. One of the medical students is working on a problem that requires 20 cats. He is attempting to standardize them on a course for an investigation, and will bring great reknown to the University when concocted to park the cats. The animal houses is crowded and besides there is no place to pen up 20 cats. Thirty more will be added, and the staff further complicate the problem. Paper boxes were suggested because they don't sound so good. Besides, the landlady probably wouldn't appreciate having 20 large-sided boxes of mowing equipment in their garden that might well fit in a chicken pen, but there isn't any on the campus, and also they don't need a tree with his 20 cats, and all anyone has offered up to date is a lot of wise suggestions when investigating it. For Gifts or Personal Use BRUSHES The model is up a tree with his 20 cats, and all who have offered up to date is a lot of wine suggestions when the homeowner are needed. Why'll help the homeless? SPECIAL WHILE THEY LAST A few dozen regularly imported 25c finger and nail brushes In Sets or Singly All prices and varieties and COMBS 10c Rankin's Drug Store 11th & Mass Phone 678 "Handy for Students" Special Ice Cream Molds Made for Your HALLOWE'EN PARTY Call Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Company Phone 696 --- The KANSAS PLAYERS Present The Rousing Melodrama THE SCARLET DOVE By ALLEN CRAFTON The First Hit of the Season FRASER THEATRE Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Curtain Promptly at 8:15 RAINBOW PHARMACY 1847 Mass. St. Single Admission $1.00 Season Tickets $2.50 Scan on Sale at Green Hall Phone K. U. 174 Fresh Page and Shaw Candies We deliver Phone 1100 A drum store at your door Campus Comment And here's a unique economic condition for discussion. 12 HUNSINGER This week the demand for chaperons exceeds the supply. Touch of the Season 'MUMS A splendid selection of large-sized ones just received in YELLOW, WHITE, BRONZE, and PINK Ward's Flowers Phone 621 931 Mass. Thursday Night We still feature Music Good Food Hot Biscuits Free Plan to dine here The Cafeteria Nothing is good enough but the best