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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. MAY 4.1931
University Daily Kansan
Offical Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWENE, KANAS
EDITOR-IN-CHEF ELIZABETH MOODY
e Editors
MANAGING EDITOR...OWEN PAUL
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Published in the almanac, two times a week, and distributed by University of Illinois Press, and the University of Kansas from the University of Oklahoma. Published June 1948; Wright began work in August 1948; Wright leaves on September 13, 1950; the paper is sold at Lawrence, Ks. under the name University of Illinois Press.
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931
WHY THE "Y"?
To scaffold on the of the Y. M. C.
A. and the Y. W. C. A has become
the facilition. To question the value of
the work of the "Y" and its claim on
the support of the student body is both
beneficial and necessary. No organization remains healthy without the stimul-
of active criticism.
The "Y" organizations try to perform a socializing function by endeavoring in various ways to help all students, regardless of race or social affiliations, to become adjusted to campus life. It tries to bring all the students together in a universal fellowship, but the question is repeatedly put—how much does the "Y" accomplish?
The expression of student opinion seems to indicate that most students feel that the "Y" has failed in much that it undertakes to do. It represents itself as all an all-university organization, and asks support of the entire student body in the campus chest, but it benefits only a comparatively small group of students. A larger group could participate in "Y" activities, but there seems to be a definite lack of interest on the part of the students. The Y. M. C. A., and the Y. W. C. A. could be a forceful energetic body, but it is not now.
Destructive criticism is of no value, but both organizations should be willing to accept suggestions of how to make their work more valuable to the students they wish to serve.
"Lingle Asks New Trial"—headline on a news dispatch. We have heard of St. Peter coming back to vote, but returning to plead for a trial is something new.
GAMBLING
With the legalization of gambling in Reno, the sport, or as some prefer to call it, the vice, is making a last stand for a legitimate place in our social life. Regulations against gambling have been made on the basis of past experience. Games of chance and betting have always been the tools of unscrupulous sharper who have taken advantage of the all-to-human desire to get something for nothing. Towns which have introduced racing and the Casino type of amusements have been astonished at the undesirable class of sporting characters which the innovations have ushered in, and the pickpockets and petty thieves which followed in their wake.
In foreign countries which permit betting under government supervision, many thousands of pounds are lost every year by betting enthusiasts, including not only the moderately well-do, but the poverty-ridden. In England, families which have scarcely enough to eat will risk their last shillings on the win hope that their favorite horses will win and multiply the money their backers have ventured.
The government receives a large share of the purse through the application of taxes, and in some cases charitable organizations are also benefitted, but the principle of the game remains the same—to take money away from the man who has it and give it to another, with total disregard for the deserts of either. This is a most democratic arrangement, to be sure, but one which, for the love of reason, let us continue to avoid in this country.
More than 70 bushels of dandelions were picked recently by pupils at Cordrey school. That is all right, but the question is this—where did they pick them? A casual glance does not reveal a single one missing.
THE YELLOW PERIL
Rumor has it that there has been a contest held among various city schools to see which one can pick the most dandelions out of a city park. As suggestions go, that is splendid, and could be adopted advantageously by the fraternities and sororites on the Hill. In fact the whole school could be divided up, the medics competing with the laws, and the engineers battling with the students in Fine Arts and so on.
A few weeks ago the contest would have been out of the question because we needed the dandelions to match the flowers on the yellow shrubs, but the shrubs have stopped blooming, so the dandelions might just as well go.
Franklin D. Roosevelt has successfully defied Tammany, says an article in suggesting him for the presidency. To make the reward fit the accomplishment, he ought to be made an absolute monarch.
THE JOB OF THE FUTURE GENERATION
"And that remains to be accomplish loby of future generations." The quotation, in an idea at least, has been repeated in class rooms countless times. Whether the problem is prohibition, disarmament, capitalism or communism, the same procedure is gone through. The instructor gives a history of the development of the problem and presents the picture of all its complications, and then decides that it is impossible to reach any definite conclusions as to how to solve it.
The solution should be demanded of the present generation as well as the ones following, and that is the right and natural thing to do. There is subtle flattery in the idea that a few generations can untangle all the mass of conflicting factors that are handed to them. It is quite contrary to the generally accepted view that young people of the present generation aren't good for much.
If the world is depending on youth to solve all its problems, it must not have quite the low opinion it sometimes seems to have.
GOD BLESS OUR SNOBS
Snobs are specimens of the human race whom the Creator has endowed with an exaggerated notion of their places in this mundane menagerie. Whatever other divine characteristics they possess, they are without the virtue of fellowship.
Someone is born in silk pajamas and immediately he finds cause to snob all the little babies in flannel. Someone develops an unusual wrinkle in his brain and we have the intellectual highbrow. Someone takes a course in esthetics and suddenly learns that "Casey Jones" is not beautiful. Thereafter, his sacred duty seems to be to snub all the old gang who sing "Casey Jones" occasionally. If a man falls heir to a ratning good Fork, he thereupon has a right to snub every pedestrian. A name, a title, a pin of gold or even brass, identification with some group merely in the matter of an opinion, serves as an excuse for an over-developed ego.
But snobs are useful all. They co-operate like the insects in that poem "and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum." When one snob gets unbeatable, the best thing in the world to do is to bring a superior snob around, and then when the second one becomes unbeatable bring forth a still more efficient one, and so on "ad infinitum." If the contest is continued long enough, the participants will be reduced to an appearance of illness that will make the onlookers joke.
"What did you think about while you were touring the state prison?" someone asked "About the souvenir shop." "Answered the concierge's soul."
Our Contemporaries
PARODY
In summary of a long list of activities that may attract the interest of students, the Daily Mind of the University includes six advantages of participating
The hand will meet promptly at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening in central Administration building in full uniform. J. C. MCANLLES.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII May, 4月 1931 No. 170
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY:
BAND:
The Christian Science society will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 in room 5, sub-assignment of the Union building. Attendees are invited to attend.
GRADUATE EDUCATION CLUB;
There will be a meeting of the Graduate Education club at 1:30 Tuesday in com 115 Fraser. HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB:
The Home Economics club will meet Wednesday, May 6, at 4 c课时, in room 118 Miss Thompson, state supervisor of Home Economics voeworks. Mr. Thompson will be the host.
KAPPA PHI:
Kappa Php will hold a regular meeting at Myers hall at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening. A Mother's Day program has been planned.
PHI CHI THETA'
Phi Chi Them will have election of officers May 5 at 7:15 o'clock in room 4 of the Memorial Union building. IRENE MONK, President.
PI LAMBDA THETA:
PI LAMBDA THETA:
Pi Lambda Theta will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in room 119
Fraser hall, for election of officers. The program will be on professional magazines.
BETTY M. CORBY, Secretary.
Bhadamandhi will meet Wednesday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in the Green room of Fraser theater. This is a very important business meeting, and all members who can possibly come are urged to be present.
RHADAMANTHI:
R. O.T.C. GOVERNING COMMITTEE:
There will be an important meeting of the R.O.T.C. governing committee this evening at 7 o'clock in Fowler shops. CLAR WOOD, Chairman.
JOSEPHINE WHEELED.
W.S.G.A. will hold a supers meeting with the old council and the advisory board at 6 c'clock Tuesday evening at the Colonial tea room.
**President**
W.S.G.A.：
in extra-curricular work. They are:
1. Give ruling privileges.
2. Acts as an instructor to grades.
3. Form lasting friendships.
4. Provide professional training.
5. Trains for professional and prac
6. Shows way to live with the world.
Completing its editorial, the Daily Mail,
ability to keep up his studies and in work in activities, we believe that he is engaging a vital part of his life out of extra-curricular participation.*
An Oregon senior after reading the Illinois editorial found it subject for rather cynical comment. After four years in extra-curricular work, he was impressed more with its disadvantages than its strengths, and managed the six points to road in this manner.
Participation in extra-curricular work
1. Sets up false standards.
2. Acts as a preventive to grades.
3. Forms surface friendships.
4. Begins physical contact.
5. Trains for petty racketeering.
6. Shows way to appear to live without really knowing the score.
While these points may seem wholly coincidental, you can be said about the disadvantages that may come from participation in extra-curricular
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work. Often a student shows more real strength of character when he stays out of student activities. Many students participate in class that their class work is suffering because of lack of time to devote to these activities, politicizing the friendships formed are only surface friendships. Perhaps there is even a degree of "petty racketeering" in extra-curricular work without neglecting his class work, and who is working with the thought of acquiring practice skills for a life work, there is much to be gained.
The Oregon Emerald.
Five-Day Week at Armours
Kansas City-Armour and Company officials today announced a five-day work scheduling for the plant's 3,400 employees. They described this program as an experiment, having in place a commitment of employment conditions.
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