1 . PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY. OCTOBER 5.1931 University Daily Kansan UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PAPER THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEF PHIL REFLER MUSICIAN MONAUGUST Senior Editor Joe NACK President Linda Kushner Marketing Mark B. Kushner Competitor Editor Dawn Smith Supervisor Tiffany Hearn Supervisor Tiffany Hearn Senior Editor Tiffany Hearn Supervisor Tiffany Hearn Executive Editor Rachel Rowen Senior Editor Rachel Rowen Executive Editor Rachel Rowen Executive Editor Rachel Rowen AVENUE-MANA Robert Bued Kansas Board Members Phil Kraeter Joe Knack Robert Reed Fred Pleasing Robert Whitman Midwinter Curtis Mike Mackenzie Michael Hunt Lisa Hankison Linda Hunt Telebrane 4 Triage 1 Business Officer K.U. 66 New Room K.U. 29 Nighttime Business Office 250181 Nighttime New Room 270281 Pub, and in the University, five students a work, a研 society a Sunday meeting, six students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the State of the Department of Journalism. **Submission to** **v. 17**, by mail $4,000; by citation in *Lawrence* **v. 2**, $1,500; Swain copies $18. As ever, classmates matter September 19, 1873. To submit materials, Randle, kathee or of March 3, 1873. MONDAY,OC.OBER5,1931 SRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM Strange as it may seem (apologies to Hix) Ai Capone, scaeged gang chiefain of Chicago, will go to trial Tuesday in a federal court of the Windy City to answer charges of income tax violations. Maybe he will and maybe he won't. It seems reasonable to believe, in the light of past events, that AI will do just as he bade pleases about this business of going to court. Perhaps a big merger of Chicago speeches will push on to interfere, or then again some of a prescript police contain might have the audacity and ignorance to close a few of the king's favorite arms or joints. If so, AI will probably have to send the judge at the courthouse his regents at being unable to attend the trial and attend to business for another month or so. Ever since it was just reported the Capone had been indicted on charges of income tax violations the American public, with its eternal optimism, has anxiously awaited the news that Chicago's public enemy No. 1 was actually to face a trial court. Rumors have appeared from time to time that at last he was to pay the fiddler, but for some mysterious reason the rumors didn't materialize. They were always followed soon afterreported by reports that AI was delivering a brief sista from the strain of business at his luxurious Palm Island estate in Florida, or partaking of the hospitality of his good friend Mayer Whoods of Wimble City. AI couldn't let himself be worried by such a trifle as a federal indictment. What did he maintain a whole battery of lawyers? Let them do the worrying for him; that's what they were doing. And so with the thin amount of innumerable and seemingly endless dates and extensions of time AI Capone has, up to the present, succeeded in dodging trial. It is to be sincerely hoped that Tuesday morning will find the gangster facing a hard hearted, cold-blooded judge whose forbears were famous for their grouchy dispositions. It wouldn't hurt matters only if the judge should be suffering a touch of acute indignity, with a little chronic neuritis thrown in for good cure. Anything to get the scaffaced one before a jury of twelve good man and true. These rumors are growth, a bit borneose. "BEAUTIFUL YOUNG IDIOTS" Edna Forber returned recently from a trip to Europe and lamented that American students are "beautiful young idiots who never get beyond football talk and oh, yeah!" according to the Literary Digest of Oct. 3. She said that this is the most important time for young men—everything depends on them. Granting that Edna Ferber is at least partly right, whose fault is it that American students refuse to think except about sports? And even in sports there is a dearth of real thinking on the part of players and spectators, in the judgment of some football coaches. To a large extent this scarcity of creative thinking is due to faults in our educational system. The older generation has not adequately prepared young men for this "most important time" and its complex problems. Real, creative thinking is frowned upon in most of our grade schools. Students are expected, not so much to think as to give back alshaviy in recitations and examinations what has been handed to them by their instructors. Often if a pupil does not agree with the instruction handed out to him, me- grade is lowered. If he persists in doing some real thinking of his own, he is considered a misfit. American institu- tions of higher learning are breaking away from the idea that only textbook knowledge and that imparted by the instructor are of value. Students are being given more lee-way in thinking for themselves. They are responding well, but they still have much to accomplish in this direction, as is shown by the fact that many of them consider "playing up to an instructor" as c' vital importance in securing an education. SHADES OF LINCOLN Great statues of Abraham Lincoln and memorials to him have been erected in many cities in America and in some foreign cities as well. In Lawrence, nature has come to the aid of man and has created a living likeness of President Lincoln, a growing, perpetual memorial to a great leader of men. On the corner of Tenth and Tennessee streets, a guarded tree reflects a shadow on the sidewalk, which is almost an exact likeness of President Lincoln. An old, unused lamp-post stands guard over this living memorial to a revered President. The likeness is especially vivid and clear when the street light causes the shadow to appear on the sidewalk. MORE AND BETTER BEAUTIES Fozi Ziegler, in a recent interview, says that there are a vast number of girls out here in the "vast Middle West," cern fad beauties, most of them, that never have been and will never be discovered by the makers of Broadway's famous show because they have not the price nor the courage to make the long "sleeper jump" into New York. What a blow for Ziggle! It was thoughtful and considerate of Flo to give the Middle West a break like that. We'd always suspected that the girls in this section of the country were as beautiful as the average, but now that he says so—that makes it so, especially since he is supposed to be the final authority when it comes to formine pulchritude. Poor, dear in the Middle West. The unsettled step to New York might mean undying name and glory for them! But you can bet your last year's moth eaten suit that Mr Ziegfeld was looking out for the well known number one. Why should he worry about the corn fed beauties of the Middle west now? Such an article by him will make every girl in the Mississippi valley, be she eye cried, how跺ed, or knock kneed, rush towards New York to star in Foley's new show. They don't stop to consider that at the most their career would last three years, and short ones at that, while the average is one year. The pay is good, yes, but Mr Ziegfeld is not a philanthropist. Let their beauty or popularity wane and they're gone. And think of the one that never see the stage! KICKING THE TRACES A good many freshmen feel that when they go to college they must immediately "kick over the traps." This becomes especially apparent in their attitude toward church and church attendance. Haven't you often heard, "Well, I had to go to church at home every Sunday. Now I'm away at college, I guess I'm entitled to a rest from church." What should be the attitude of the really intelligent student toward the church? It is one of the institutions that has fostered us, and we owe it a debt along with the home, the school, and the state. Our debt should not be one of blind obedience. Our efforts should be toward the betterment and reconstruction of those institutions. College affords us an opportunity for intelligent study and appreciation of the church's contribution to society. Church attendance should be looked at in the proper light. There are no inherent values in mere church-going attendance should mean more than an end toward an end rather than an end in itself. The question of whether or not a person should join a church is of importance. However, it is one that only the student himself can decide. A fair trial should be made, and the decision should come only after actual contact with a church. OFFIGIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIX Monday, 04.秋, 1831 No. 21 There will be a meeting of Iota Sigma Pi this evening at 7 o'clock in room 222 Administration building. MARIEL MILLER, President. IOTA SIGMA PI: KAPPA PHI: Kappa Phi will have its regular meeting at Myers hall from 6:15 to 10:30 preceded by a sucer at the barncater at 8:30 on Tuesday, Oct. 6. RHADAMANTHI: Rhadammoth will meet in the Green room of Fraser hall at 8 Celosie Wednesday evening, Oct. 7. All members are urged to be present. SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON SMOKERS All actives and pledges of Sigma Gamma Epsilon are requested to be present at the smoker in the Union building Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 o'clock. FREDERICK E. WIRTH HETA EPSILON: Theta Episcopi will meet Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 1124 Mississippi street, at 6:40 o'clock. All activities and pledges are expected to take place on Tuesday, Oct. 6. WATKINS HALL SCHOLARSHIPS Several Walkins' hall scholarships have been resigned. Candidates are invited to telephone to the chairman for an appointment. K U, 20 or city 1834 W K. 72. DELORA KELLOGG, President. IT'S NOT MY FAULT A recent news story of a man in Puerto, Col., who was waiting on a corner for his wife and got mad because she didn't show up, reminds us of the human tendency to project to others the blame for our own short-comings. This husband had a date to meet his wife on a certain corner. He believed he would be beaten, he got mad and finally hisrage made him smash his fist through a nearby window. He found out later that he had been standing on the wrong corner. That's the way with us. We are always ready to use our unbumpiness on someone else without thinking that perhaps we have made a mistake and are in fault. The Pueblo man's case isn't so much different from that of the student who flunks a quit and blames the teacher's prejudice, or the unfairness of the test, when last night's date is really to blame. It isn't so unlike the case of the extravagant woman who accuses her husband of being unable to give her the luxuries that Mrs. Jones has when it is her own fault that she won't help him pinch pennies as Mrs. Jones once did. Nor is the case dissimilar to the business failure who "can't make the grade because of his wasteful children who will not economize," when it is his fault that he did not teach them in early years to spare the pennies that buy the bread. Me, myself and I are about the three persons who are to blame in nine out of ten failures, and the sooner we learn that the sooner we shall have more successes. JAIL A HAVEN We note by yesterday's papers that when a man in Cleveland, with no home, was sentenced $5 and five days in jail for intoxication he asked the judge for "some more." The judge consented and raised the sentence to $25 and thirty days in jail. "Aw, Judge," plenied the man, "that isn't enough; give me some more." "No, I can't give you any more," replied the judge, "the other boys might get jealous." That's a funny one, but a pathetic story lies underneath the humor. That man won't making a play for publicity, or he was just trying to be funny. He may have been so drank that he didn't know just what he said, but we believe the tale is different altogether. A warm jail where three hot meals a day were fortheming looked mighty good to that man who probably spent his time wandering around eating when it pleased the gods to send food his way and filling his stomach on cheap liquor when he did have money. We welcomed a rest in a bed after sleeping in park benches all summer. When we run across that sort of person, who probably got a bad start in life, we're glad we live in a country that can help them out even if it is only by confining them a jail. Coyotes and Cottontails Interest Kansas Editor A lone joe races down the main street of Tonganoxie Saturday morning, just a few leaps ahead of a pack of about eight wolf-hounds. Continuing his wild dash, he turned down an alley and headed to a mirror, Mirror, and turned at bay in back of the building. Pandemonium reigns with the hounds baying and barking, and crowds swarmed the townmen attracted by the turtul, crowding into the alley. The hullabaca brought a printer from the Mirror to the camera, where she attempted to corner the animal in an effort to capture it alive. The coyote promptly cracked on the head, the dawning blow. The member of the crowd is now safe in a cage at Tonganoxin. Send the Daily Kansan home. The story of the chase and capture was told at the editors convention Sat. March 16, 2005 at the goraxe Mirror. It immediately started a train of reminiscences from other editors present and tales, wild, fantastic, funny, and eccentric—were related. One of them concerned the sight of a cottontail rabbit unconcernedly hipily -hopping along the edge of the tallest building in town, and then leisurely making its way to the city, to say, the story was vigorously and indignantly denied by those editors hailing from Abille, and desirous of the metropolitan status of that town. PIES, OH MY! Have You Tried Those Good Ones FILM QUEENS CANNOT AGREE CONCERNING PRISON MOVIE The Cafeteria Nothing is good enough but the best --that some students got more from their college days than others. College life and training was much more than the contents of the text book to those who were active. The school paper was part of the life of this active group. San Quentin Prison, Sept. 29- (UP)—Louise Pazade, screen comedienne, has changed her mind about making a pricture museum. "I'd always wanted to do a prison part, but I was told that was 'out for me.' I understand now," she said after me. "I understand why it is no comedy in a penitentiary." Marian Marsh, however, one of the newest blonde picture stars, thinks it would be "brillling" to act in a prison picture. Furthermore, she prefers San Quentin should she ever have to serve a term. The two actresses were in a party of movie notables shown through the prison. "I ifere ever sent to prison, I hope it would be San Quentin," the said. "The women's department seems to be the one a clean, well managed girl's school." Send the Daily Kansan home. Monks Lived Apart From the World And Perhaps Were Satisfied Some students may do the same and leave K.U. with no more than book knowledge. If you haven't read the Kansan regularly you have lived in seclusion to some degree and have not lived K.U. life in its fullness. Being in closest contact with the eventualities of the day is not only a pleasure but an education. In Ten Years You'll Still Remember If you have not yet subscribed for your own copy of the Kansan, you'd better do it right away. 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