A 1. PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIFF PHIL REEKER MANAGING EDITOR JOKE KNEEK ADVERTISING MANAGER ROBERT REED Kansas Board Members Phil Kelner ... Joe Knack Robert Reed ... Fred Fleming Robert Whinser ... Fred Murray Marcus Martin ... Melanie Macdonald Late Hutchison ... Laurie Lubard Telebegu Business Office K.U. 66 New Room K.U. 25 Night Connection, Business Office 2701K Night Connection, New Room 2701K Published in the afternoons. Eve times a week, at the library of St. Joseph's College, Palm Beach, FL. Published by the Department of Information Science at Florida State University. Book in advance. Single issue, 50 cents each. Mail to: Department of Information Science, Florida State University, Boca Raton, FL 33421. To the public office at St. Joseph's College, Palm Beach, FL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1961 QUIET PLEASE Last year there was a large, black and white sign in front of the administration building bearing the ominous command, "Quiet Please, Administration Building." Practically the only disturbing noises on that side of the building were—as at present—the clashing, jangling, often idiotic noises of piano and the screeching voices of would-be songsters. The "Quiet Please" sign failed to have any perceptible, diminishing effect upon the noises issuing from the music studios—much to the despair of some auditorially sensitive professors; so the sign was moved to the north side of the administration building, where a robin was raising its hungry truss in a nest built at the head of the steps. Of course the young robins made considerable notice; but not all babies cry more or less? The administration should not forget that they too were babies once upon a time, and anyway the little birds were too young to read the huge sign, even though they were hatched near an ever-flowing fountain of knowledge. The robins have long since left their nest, and very likely are now winging their way southward, but still the sh-shaig remains firmly implanted near the steps leading to the north entrance of the administration building, perhaps not without justice, for the administration is wise enough to see that the nut season is almost upon us. Imagine the terrible noises which would ensue if at the same moment two squirrels from Marvin's grove should happen to see a nut near the north steps of the administration building, and should contest each other's legal right to the anticipated addition to their commissariat. Those wild animals from Marvin's grove can be exceedingly noisy when a grim battle over a choice nut it in progress. We compliment the administration upon its far-sightedness, but have one suggestion to offer. The "please quiet" sign should be turned around so that it faces Marvin's grove, in order that those squirrels which insist upon gathering nuts at the steps of the administration building may be prepared to make their conquests in silence. In spring the sign could be turned back to face the robin's nest. According to a recent news story from the University of California a new date rule for week nights and week ends allows upperclassmen to entertain the boy friend as late as 2:15 in the wee, small hours. Fond mothers may send their offspring to Kansas now, where folks want a curfew at 10:15. A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Conditions existent in a University are not always of the best, and oftencites there is little or nothing that can be done about it. The step taken by the Men's Student Council last night with regard to the constant reading of textbooks by professors seems to be in the right direction. It is all well and good to keep in line with the times. The latest text-books are an asset to any course, but undue waste is never forgivable. The Men's Student Council contends that text-books are changed according to the whims of individual professors. This makes it impossible to sell a book after it has been used, and impossible to buy it second hand. Such a condition is deplorable, and signifies a lack of good management when it goes on in a wholesale manner. A resolution to put a stop to wholesale changing of text-books each semester should arouse comment and deep thought on the part of those concerned. Several suggestions have been made to remedy the situation, and some should be seriously considered. These are embodied in the resolution passed. A decisive step toward relieving the situation would be appreciated by the entire student body. They have made the first move. Will the administration follow through? A local business concern displays the following sign alongside the cash register: "We cash no checks and extend no credit to children under 85 years of age unless accompanied by their parents." ARE WE DEPRESSED? According to records of previous depressions, this one should come to an end sometime in October. Do you know what that means, folks? It means that in a month, more or less, we're not going to have a good old A-number 1, ring-tailed all wool and a yard wide depression to talk about, sleep on, and bewail our neighbors about. Give it a think, people. Do we want good times, with eggs back up to forty cents, a dozen and the subject of conversation limited to the world series or the war in Japan, or the same genuine depression and a chance to tell the whole world just how bad off we are? Think of all the "split-an-ange" clubs that would have to be disbanded, and all the gloomy economists who would be thrown out of a job just when they needed it most. Seriously, now, we'd better think this thing out with the utmost care before we go off half-cocked and take good times again. After all, this has been a pretty good depression. It hasn't been one of your old two-bit shimps where may be stocks take a little drop or the hop market in England falls off. No sir, we've had the genuine thing this time. Then too it hasn't been so bad when you think of all the progestiators who have had to work overtime to keep up their hard times predictions. They've all had work. And there's President Hoover. Look at the publicity he's managed to work out of the slump. So we say again, folks, let's think this thing out seriously. Depressions like this come only once in a man's life-time, and it would be a dirty shame to shut it off just when we were beginning to really enjoy it. Think of all the unfortunate kiddies who may never have a chance to see the real genuine article in the way of hard times. You'll have to give them their chance too, just as you are getting your now! It may be the press of circumstances but there certainly isn't any depression in the freshman cap business. ANOTHER BUDGET SUGGESTION The policy of price-cutting in times of depression is one that is recognized by most economists as beneficial. That policy has been adopted to a considerable extent on the Hill this year. The administration has made several steps toward lower prices in these days of depression. Some prices refuse to fall, even after huge reductions in other quarters. The Musician's Union establishes a minimum price which may be charged by the University dance orchestra. This year of all years, it is found that the price minimum for a dance band for a three-hour party is one hundred dollars. That one hundred dollars is worth approximately twice as much as it was two years ago. Fraternities and sororites, as well as other organizations on the Hill, are cutting drastically the number of parties which they will sponsor this year. If the musicians are far seeing, they would realize that they would profit more if prices were lower, and more parties were given. Cash is scarce, and luxuries such as dances will become more and more scarce. Hill organizations beg that consideration be given their purses in this matter. A reduction in prices charged by the Hill bands should come as a relief measure, and it should come at once. The two student councils acted in a manner beneficial to all the Hill orchestras when they made the variities limited dates instead of closed ones. That gave the musicians a chance to play at least three parties instead of one, as formerly. Where there's a will there's a way— especially if the estate was very large. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIX Thursday, Sep 24, 1931 No. 12 A business meeting of the A.S.M.E. will be held at 7:15 p.m., Thursday in the men's lounge, Union building. All members are expected to be present as plans for the current school year will be discussed. GEORGE T. FRASER. --students who paid the late registration fee will take the psychological examination Saturday, September 26, at 6 a.m. in room 9, east administration building. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The first regular meeting of the Compassion club will be held at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, in room 162, Journal building;召开第二轮会员会议 ALPEDRO BUANTAMAY K. U. BAND: The K. U. hard can use 7 or 8 cages, and persons who were members of the band last year, who wish to dispose of their cages are requested to sit me at the cage. PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION: KAYHAWK CLUB: 70 PER CENT. EFFICIENCY And as for being unique, there's a rumor roundabout that never has a representative of the "Fourth Estate" attended a conference here be apprehended in the act of imbibing, possessing, transporting, bartering, selling or giving away intoxicating beverages in violation of the eighteenth amendment. That rumor, if true, indicates that a A "C grade is often apologized for by the remark, "I'm not going to school for grades, but for an education. I didn't take that course to make a high grade, but in order to learn something about the subject." Some students even fool themselves into believing that one can make a low grade in a course and know more about it than an A student. The cases are few and far between in which an individual really thinks nothing of grades but studies for an education. In those few instances, the student who denounces grades for grades' sake makes high grades for study in order to learn, he necessarily knows more than the student who crumbs before every examination merely in order to impress the instructor. An A grade is the mark of efficiency. B denotes a little less efficiency and so on down the line. By making high grades in school, one shows that he is competent to master the set task before him. He will probably be A-1 in whatever he undertakes later. Sometimes, of course, a brilliant student is a failure in life, but not often. The Keyhawk club will meet tonight to complete its list of entries for intramurals. An non-fraternity men who are interested in athletics should meet with the club. A registration form is available at www.keyhawkclub.org. The student who takes courses and studies to increase his knowledge will make high grades, not because he is working primarily for a grade but because his efficiency will demand a high one. Those of us who do not like to study but who like to make high grades, those who like to get something for nothing, will have to find another excuse for our inefficiency. Out in the cold, cold, world. 70 per cent. efficiency just will not be stood for. A bank teller who is not 100 per cent. O. K is soon numbered among the unemployed. And he can't come back with the retort, "I wasn't in that bank to make good. I just wanted to see how those money institutions are run." On Oct. 2 and 3 the University will be host to a select and almost unique group, the newspaper editors from throughout the state. This group which will assemble in Lawrence for the annual roundtable conference sponsored by the department of journalism, is select because Kansas editors, like Kansas wheat, are the best in the world. Just ask any of them when they get here if you don't believe it Several high school boys were recently injured by a cyclone while practicing football. Which proves once more, we presume, that football is too dangerous a sport to be indulged in by high school boys. THE MIRACLE MEN first class, A-No. 1 miracle has been taking place annually in front of our eyes and escaped unnoticed. It is an unusual group that includes in its numbers alumni of the University, some of whom don't get damp or soared as for as their discretion and capacity permit, on returning to the scene of their education and youthful follies. If all this be true (and we've seen it happen) one popular illusion will have been shattered into infiniteal, finshed bisews. We have heard of members of the newspaper fraternity as hard drinking, hard boiled individuals who eternally worked with the stub of a black cigar jutting from their mouth, and who spent their time glowing at cub reporters if for no reason than the pure joy of glowing. Now if we find out that we have been deceived in our ideas, we'll feel as bad as when we were informed that "there aren't no Santa Claus." Clothes May Not Make the Man but Shoes Make the Feet. But wet or dry, the boys will be here next week to debate over the various phases of raising less Hades and more advertising revenue. The University should compliment itself upon its good fortune in playing host to these moulders of public opinion. Give 'em a big hand when they arrive! Here's a bit of interesting comment, for us Americans; they say the hop crop in England is unusually large this year Electric Shoe Shop Our Contemporaries 1017 Mass. Read the Kansan want ads. Let us keep you shoes repaired and shined for you. Write something like this to fill the hole—(From the Pleasant Hill, (Mo.), Times.) Having surrounded yourself with the implement and atmosphere, practise speaking to a class. Then men to come to the aid of their party* a few times to see if the typewriter tilt back. Light another cigar. Tilt back. Have a positive attitude. Go out and buy a coke. Come back and resume a persuasive tone to write—if you were permanently leaving town Skim through the exteriors and don't put in a day or so on working in the press so their sheets would be read in order to highlight copies for an editorial. Respect the man. The immediate necessities of writing an editorial are a littered desk, a bathtub typewriter, some copy paper and a letter to the editor. The writer it takes for an editorial of any length, depending on the size of the hole. Secondary items of some importance are a package of Luckies (or what happens when you write in the paper with a nice schedule of advertising); a stack of exchanges, seventy-five per cent of which are as doilong ding and the remainder finitely limiting; the dictionary is optional, but it is sometimes handy for any spellings the typotype operator may not know. It is sometimes helpful to use literary tone to your output by virtue of the list of "Foreign Words and Phrases" in the rear. 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