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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
PHIL KEELER
MANAGING EDITOR JOE KNACK
ADVERTISING MANAGER ROBERT NEED
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Entered as second-last matter September 17, 1879.
Entered as second-last matter October 1, 1879.
Arrived at March 1, 1879.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931
THE FALL SUMMER SESSION
This morning we heard a freshman remark that today had certainly started the fall summer session under way, and we wondered how a freshman could be so astute. We wondered how he could know of the upperclassmen who, superior because they had not been compelled to attend the swinter in summers, were now wondering why the they'd back at all. We wondered how he knew that the weather wasn't like this all the time.
It's been hard on everyone. Every student turns into a twelve minute man, and the bathhitte work overtime. Shirt collars wilt in record time, and such a thing as a razor edge in a pair of pants is practically unknown. You're doing well if you manage to take fresh half an hour after you get out of the tub.
It's a good deal the same condition as exists in California; very unusual. Usually the first few weeks of school see torential rains, which dampen the freshman's enthusiasm and with his hat brim. Usually the ground weeps away into the gutters, and the Fourteenth street hill becomes a raging torrent. But not so this year. Instead, Old Sol is right here with us all the time, putting in his regular hours as if he were working on a time basis instead of a contract. Coats have been put away in moth balls and shirt sleeves never know the touch of a wrist.
The professors haven't been immune, either. Just a flipping glance over the enrollment tables revealed a constant flutter of white handkerchiefs over professional heads. Shining domes glinted with beads of sweat, and everyone was irritable, whether the question was dumb or not.
If things keep on like this the University should declare a holiday until the weather is cool enough for decent studying. After all, studying doesn't require conditions such as would be ideal for a picnic. What is really conducive to good, hard mental labor is a winter wind whistling by the windows, and snow piled on the ground. Let's all take time off and go swimming, or maybe fishing, in a month or two come back and really work.
Sweet young things that get in at the time our milkman makes his rounds are going to have a tough time explaining things to their parents. He usually brings the milk at ten in the morning.
THE PLACE OF THE FARM
A recent editorial in the Columbia Missourian argues that a definite movement toward the farm is taking place. Not an obvious movement, the editorial hastens to state, but a movement that is intangible because of its very slowness . . . plains the alleged shift by the fact that the country has so much more to offer in the way of sunshine, fresh air, and healthfulness than the city.
all of which leads us to wonder whether in these times of depression and panic the farm will hold the place it has made for itself in our economic system.
There has been much adobe about the farmer's lot. What with the low price of wheat, and the prevailing tendency toward subsidization of agricultural territory by corporations or would-be corporations, the economist has been seriously concerned as to the farmer's ultimate fate. But with all this furore one unassailable fact remains: the farmer, at least the wheat belt farmer still is eating his three squares a day, and sending his children to school.
The farming community is built on a solid foundation, the foundation of
common trust. For generations our forefathers' children and their children's children have farmed the soil for profit. They have established a felt in each community which is the essence of pure democracy. Perhaps the farmer has lost money on his wheat; perhaps he hasn't enough money to buy groceries for his family. Still he can go to the grocery store and buy on credit enough to see him through until times are better. He has a house to cover his head, livestock to supply his spending money, and schools to educate his children. For many it may be a long, hard winter, with skimping and saving penny pinching, neither he or his family will go hungry, undressed, or uncared-for.
The comparison between the city and the country is a decidedly unfavorable reflection toward the urban center. After all, the farm has many things to offer. Perhaps the Missourian was not 'a wrong.'
The Frivolous Freshman steadily efuses to believe the worst about all these paid athletes. They work awful ard, she maintains, so why shouldn't they get something for it?
WHAT PRICE NOURISHMENT?
We note by the papers that food staples are down 10 per cent in price. That is, the cost of buying such food stuffs has decreased ten cents on the dollar. The article in the paper seemed to be fairly clear, and written in such a way that almost anyone could understand it. It would seem, however, that we are mistaken. Either the restaurant owners didn't see the aforementioned article or they didn't know what it was all about.
Somebody should really put them wise. The other day they bought an egg sandwich on plain bread, the whole costing us ten cents. While we were eating we happened to think that we could buy almost a dozen eggs for the same amount we were paying for our sandwich. Naturally that sourced us on egg sandwiches, so the next morning we ordered a bowl of cereal. Well, that cost us fifteen cents, so we went down town and bought a whole package for the same amount and had cereal to eat for the rest of the month.
The price list on practically everything else seems to be graded in proportion. Anything you buy seems to run at least a third higher than the accepted prices on such things at all retail stores. Not that we blame the restaurants if they can get away with it; they're probably making money. It's the people who eat there that are to
Naturally, when they order their bowl of cereal they don't realize that it only costs the restaurant owner approximately four cents, but they should know that the price is too high. If that part of the public which eats in restaurants would exercise a little more common sense about the prices they pay they would soon force the eating houses to reduce their prices in accordance with the lowered cost of production and raw products.
Next time you are in a restaurant pick out only those things which look as if their price was somewhere near the general market price. Continue to do that. We'll wager that in a month the cafe will be forced to come down on their popular selling eatables to keep up their volume of business.
And now an alarm clock which awakens one with a gentle smile! Perfection will come when they make one that will go to classes for you.
GANDHI AND THE SIMPLE LIFE
Recently while Gandhi, in loin cloth and shawl, was being shown over London he chanced to see the floodlights of Buckingham palace; lights which were turning that staid old mansion into a fairy dwelling.
"What an extravagance," Mr. Gandhi said, "for a country that is trying to balance its budget!"
When it was explained to him that the brilliant lights had been provided by illumination congregations, which is not often in London, Gandhi was still dislaughed.
"I don't care," he said, "it's a ruinous extravagance just the same."
Simple Gandhi, with his goats and his loin cloth, flying in the face of a science which has even harnessed the forces of nature. At home in India he reads by the light of an oil lamp or a candle, the while squunting placidly on the
Used books may be bought at the WSCA. book exchange in room 5
for $10, or building 4 for $20.
day of this week from 9:00 to 4:00.
MARY IRENNETT, Manager
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXII Thursday, 17,秋121 No.6
BOOK EXCHANGE.
An "At Home Tea" will be given at Cortina hall for all University women on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20, from 3:30 to 5 o'clock.
CORBIN HALL TEA:
FRANCIS GOIN3, Social Chairman.
FACULTY AND EMPLOYEES:
Faculty members and University employees who have not yet turned in their information cards are requested to send them to the Chancellor's office as soon as possible, for an early compilation of the directory.
E. H. LINDLE7
MEN'S GLEE CLUB:
Men's Gloe club tryouts will be held Monday and Tuesday evenings in room 802 Administration building at 7:30 cwl. All men are invited to try out.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN:
A meeting will be held to discuss the W.S.G.A. afternoon tea Friday afternoon at 3:30 in the lobby of the Union building. All interested are invited in.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB TRYOUTS
Tryouts for Women's Glee club will be held on Monday, Sept. 31, inhalts A to K in undergraduate, Tuesday, Sept. 22, include L to Z in教室, in room 231 Administration building from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Any woman student is eligible for registration. Attendance hours are based on their names in the Dean of Women's office not later than Monday, Sept. 21.
*Tryouts for Women's Glee Club accompanist will be held on Wednesday Sept. 23, in the central Administration auditorium at 4 p.m.*
**Women's Glee Club**
*Dear Lady Beaver*
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB ACCOMPANIST:
AGNES HUSBAND, Director; ENTERPRISE KNOX, President.
floor. In England he ridicules a display of controlled force such as the world has never before seen.
Gandhi, the exponent of the simple life, the savior of India, looking on electricity and calling it "expensive"? As well might the cave man, newly returned to earth, look on the myriad works of man and say: "Poppycock! All a waste of time and labor. I got along all right without them. They must cost a mile of coast!"
Many an editor leaps before he books; but it isn't that which hurts. It's the hard bump after the leap.
Gandhi is a great man. He is brilliant, intelligent, and clever. But until he realizes that obvious displays of modern science are not merely "expressive," but a manifestation of man's climate triumph over the elements of nature, he cannot hope to realize his dream of saving India. What India needs is civilization, not simplicity.
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COLLEGES MUST HELP
DISTRIBUTION
Two thousand students will have registered in the university, many of them for the first time, by the end of next month. The process will be required from universities throughout the United States, by perhaps a million students. Teachers will work in universities, when 7,000,000 new jobs, the streets in search of work and then go home at night to hear their children sing or dance. Students will builbe of wheat rotting in plains—in these days, have college economics courses anything to offer to a start-up company.
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In these days of perverted morals, when the world's most powerful nation proudly boasts of spending $300-400 million on a criminal, while men of his stripe shoot down babes-in-ambs on the streets of the nation's largest city in these days, the government and religion courses anything to offer to a wicked and perverse world?
In these days of chaotic politics, when
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Phone 310
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two of the world's leading nations quake under the mailed fists of dictators, when century-old monarchies were thrown into chaos a laughing-stack—in these days, have college government politics and history courses anything to offer a gr�oogly
If the college can not train men who can lead this daisy world with unifamiliar majors, their purpose equal to its expense? *Millions of dollars are being poured annually into the coffers of American universities.* The college will institute legislatures and private philanthropists turn their paces inside out to give students more control. They can give no aid in times of stress and trouble.
For years the world has been looking to college products for the solving of problems. Now is the time of the curricula test.
(From the S. M. U. Campus)
in
The COMMON LAW
From the famous novel by Robert W. Chambers
EXTRA-Trials 3 big shows in one Chic Sale in "Cow Slips" Travel Sale and News
SATURDAY
RED GRANGE
"GALLOPING GHOST"
SPEED - THERILLS - STUNTS
STARTS
MONDAY
THE SURPRISE PICTURE OF THE YEAR
"Traveling Husbands"
Special
for Union Members Only
Toasted Cheese Sandwich and Ginger Beer 15c
Malted Milks
10c
To get these prices
Present Union Membership Card
at the
New Union Soda Fountain
The above is just one of the many specials which will be offered from time to time throughout the semester for those who have paid their $1.00 membership fee in the Union.
Besides specials such as the fountain, the union membership this year entitles you to the use of the following:
University cafeteria with private dining room for small groups, library and refreshment service. Boarding hall and university
observer board and university information bureau.
Weekly Wednesday evening one-hour free dances.
Reception room and lounge with magazines, radio, card games, thickness, and chest
clubs, and Guest
Men's lounge and smoking room.
Women's lounge and recreation
room.
Meeting rooms for student organ
ACCREDITED FOR STUDENTS USE
W.S.G.A. book exchange,
S.F.C. club, and
Objs of Men's Student Council
and Women's Self Governing
Association
Recreation room with pool and
billard tables.
Students danced during the semester as well as numerous game tournaments and
numerous guest tournaments.
Pay your Union Membership Fee at the K. U.
Business Office when you pay your fees.
New and Used Textbooks New Books Sold at Publishers List Prices
Main Store
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Annex
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TWO BOOK STORES Near the Campus