1 PAGE TWO 2160 SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE KANSAS EDITOR IN CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR JOE KNACK AVERTISING MANAGER ROBERT REED Special Stuff Kansas Board Members Special Staff Margaret Tice Dorothy Hunsicker Price Gill Schueh Krom Donald Dryan Robert Whitener Phil Keen Reed Bobber Reed Ruben Whiteman Gregory Green Lake Erie Luke Hurley Joe Knauf Fred Plantinga Martha Gurney Michael Rush Lucille Burtle Telephones Business Office KAU. 64 News Room KAU. 25 Night Commission Business Office 1701K Pollished in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of History at Columbia University Press of the Department of Humanities. Published by 193 per year; published in advance. Single copies, $6 each. Entered as second-class matter September 17, 1879, in the New York Times. Kramer,曼斯. *Metro* 1, 1879. SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 TO THE NEW CROP Greetings, the jayhawk! You're the life blood of the University, the transfusion of new material that keeps K. U. in existence. You may be timid, you may be green, but after all you're the "big shots" around this hill for the next few months. There'll be parties, receptions, smokers, mixers, innumerable festivities in your honor for quite some time in the future; all-in-all, you're the hero of the hour. You'll have responsibilities, too. On you rests the future conduct of student affairs, the name which the University will make with other groups of freshmen. The reputation of this institution rests on your shoulders for the next four years, and the entire state will be watching what you do. But don't get ideas. Ideas are the unapartheid sin in any group of freshmen. There are grades to make, custom to observe, traditions to uphold. There will be the paddle line for the few who presume over much. Your freshman cup brands you immediately for what you are—a new student. Upperclassmen, jealous of the exalted position which they hold, will seize every chance to make you realize what that cap means. So here's a tip, even though you are the lion of the hour, be a good freshman. You'll be an upperclassman some day. It may be beside the point, but we venture the humble suggestion that the Farm Board take this continued hot weather in hand. "RUSHED WEEK" Sunday will climax a week of feverish and hectic activity. To some it will mean the beginning of a new sort of life amid new surroundings; to others it will mean bitter disappointment and shattered illusions. The "fortunate" few will begin their university life amid the glamour of an organized house, the unfortunate majority will sink into the olacurity of a common rooming house. But just a word. Even you who will, or intend, to "pledge," should stop a moment and consider. There is more to a fraternity than a beautiful house, hearty handshakes, and a spirit of good fellowship. Rush week occupies but a fraction of the university year. There are long months stretching ahead. After the handshakes are over and the pledge button pinched on your coat;—what then? The pledge is pretty low in the scale of humanity. He it is who must wait on the actives. He must furnish their cigarettes, mow their lawn, call them in the morning in time for an 8:30 class. Lincoln emancipated the slaves, but there are some he forget, and the fraternities profit thereby. Now understand, freshman, the fraterrity system has worked for years, and still there is an abundance of eager material each season. It isn't a question of whether or not you don't like to work; it's a question of whether or not you enjoy being at the beck and call of from 20 to 40 boys at all hours of the day. If you can get a kick out of the sting of a barrel stave paddle in the place where it will do the most good, why, then you'll make an ideal pledge. You if you enjoy being routed out of bed at 2 in the morning to run some cockeyed arm for a bored active you'll still make a good pledge. Think it over soberly, freshen. It only lasts a year, and then you will have your opportunity on other incesses. On the other hand is: it worth the price? It's your own decision, but don't forget that if the bid doesn't come there are those who exist outside of fraternity houses. It's a grand institution which every year exercises the power to take the pick of the university enrollment for its very own. It's a wonderful system which further allows this institution to hold an almost despotical power over those which it choices. The only price they have to pay is a few gallons of gasoline, (probably dad's), some hearty handshakes, and an enamelled pledge button. Wives may rail at their husbands, but we venture to guess that a whole it of them wouldn't be any too hardy change places with Anne Lindherd. WE HAVE A GOLF COURSE This is for the benefit of the freshen alone. Its purpose is to inform them of the University golf course, where it is located, and what its purpose is, (if any). The University golf course is located in the wilderness immediately north of new Snow ball, and supposedly includes 15 holes. Its purpose is to provide entertainment for those who golf, or those who have hopes of golfing. There is only play one warning to those who would play this course: take along plenty of balls. Even then you won't have enough. Golfers have been known to go into this wilderness without a single ball to their name and come forth heavily laden with pellets which had once been the property of less fortunate men. Others have sailed well supplied, and then gotten only half-way through before their supply ran out. Thus you can see, freshman, that a fertile brain planned and executed this course. Not only are there the usual hazards such as bunkers, traps, and Pand tryouts will be held in room 107, Administration building, from 9:30 to 9:30 p.m. as follows: Monday, Sept. 14–Cornetts, bartrons Tuesday, Sept. 15–Clarinetists, pieces, clarinets Wednesday, Sept. 16–Saxophones, oboes, bassons, basses Thursday, Sept. 17–Trombones, harps, drums OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXIX Thursday, Sept. 11, No. 2 RAND TRVOUTS Second Week Phone 65 Monday, Sept. 21. Last tryout for city instruments not yet tried out. J. C. McCANLESS, Director. FACULTY AND EMPLOYEES: TAXI Faculty members and University employees who have not 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. The regular payroll is for signature at the business office, and must be signed by all faculty members not later than Sept. 18. PAYROLL: KARL KLOOZ, Bursar. The Ottawa Herald waxes punish with the observation that while Fred Ice is chief engineer of an ice plant at Manhattan, Dr. John Ise is an economic pessimist at K. U., who throws cold water on capitalism. Are there grandfather snakes? If so, there must be one of the critters down around Winchester. Either that or the stuff they make down there is unusually丰满. We've heard of pink alligators and yellow elephants, but never of a snake (at least in this neck of the woods), as big around as a barrel and 20 feet long. Grandfather saw it too, back in 1890. At that time water holes, but also fairways of long, waving gears, cute little gopher holes, and piles of brush, which lie in wait for the unwary hall. It's a great course, men, but it takes money to play on. As we have said, this information is only for freshmen. The administration wouldn't pay any attention to it anyway. They never have. SNAKES! SNAKES! Five and Seven Passenger Cars Call us for your trunk service Luggage and Passengers Insured Jayhawk Taxi Welcomes you all! it was a little follow, hardly 12 feet long, and able to crawl through an ordinary stove pipe, (providing the pipe wasn't too crooked). We'll bet that snake could tell some tall tales of the things he's done during the eight-old years of his life. Imagine the piecetalker he'd scored into convulsions, and the men he's made tootlotters for life. Even a snake may have a sense of humor. No one knows anything concerning the snake's birthplace, but he probably first saw the light of day through the mouth of a jug, and was weaned on a bottle. His mother and father may have been just little snakes, but this fellow grew up to be a big great boy. They do that if the jug is big enough. He grew and grew, until way back in 1860 he was 12 feet long. However he seems to have grown more in the fast few times than at any time during his life. And now he's being treated to death with a list of reporter, snake hunters and curiosity seekers. Why don't they let him alive? Hell probably go back to die in the same jug in which he was born. Phone 65 LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK Where Your Savings Are Safe For Your Party Our table decorations and party flowers are cut from our greenhouses each day and arranged by an expert designer. Phone 621 Ward's Flowers ONLY You Save 50c This Year on your subscription to The Daily Kansan $3.50 a reduction of 12 $ \frac{1}{2} % from the regular price See a salesman on the Campus or call at Kansan Business Office in the Journalism Building. (next door to the Library). Subscribe for your Kansan Today Just think: all those people on the Nathanian aren't worrying about the hot weather. However, as man to man, we just are as satisfied to be doing the worrying for them. And row that fall is here again we find that corn-on-the-cob is 10 cents at all restaurants. We're glad someone is doing something for the depression. Dav --- Service --- Night CHIRPING RATE OF CHICKEN IS ACCURATE THERMOMETER New York. The number of chicks a chicken makes in a minute is an accurate thermometer, provided there is no breeze. Scientists have long known that churning temperature makes the insects speed up and slow down their chirping rate, and now R. A. Allard, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has found another reason one can still atmosphere. - TAXI - PHONE 12 Hunsinger's Watch for our "Campus Comment" Is Very Essential to Your Happiness While in School. We Are Equipped to Give You Complete Service Tire Service Battery Service Brake Service Cas and Oil Storage and Delivery Washing and Greasing Electrical Service --: We Never Close --: -:- We Never Close -:- Texaco Gas Carter Super Service Call 1300 Tires WELCOME STUDENTS We want the New Students to make the Cafeteria the place to meet their friends and eat. 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