SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1931
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1931
MOTHER'S DAY
Johnny is an ordinary sort of fellow in college. He gets good grades, but not unusual ones. He has some friends, but not many or informal ones. He accomplishes some things, but Johnny is not a personality on the campus. He could drop out of school and never cause a ripple of excitement. He is an average student with nothing to distinguish him from the crowd, and he goes along, unhonored. But there is one who sings his praises, and that is his mother. For a mother is funny that way. She needs little or no prompting from the world outside to discover all the good qualities that Johnny has. To her he shortcomings are excusable and all his faults are lovable.
Hundreds of mothers are with student sons and daughters on the campus today, and the reunions are joyous ones, for most of the mothers are not thinking what the neighbors back home think of the students on Mt. Oread; they are not judging by the harsh standards the rest of the world uses. They are enduring Johnny and Mary with all the qualities they want them to have, and they are not asking the world to substantiate their estimate of them. Mothers are funny that way.
With all the visitors on the campus today, there is only one thing to say. We are glad that, when the rest of the world is disagarding, mother approves and that when the world has nothing but censure, there are mothers who have the courage to believe. It isn't rational, but we can't help but feel glad that mothers are funny that way!
"Alfalfa Bill" Murray is "presidential timor," so his Blue Valley Farmer declares. Mixed figures, to say the least.
SOME ATTENTION, AT LEAST
Parents in the many towns of Kansas undoubtedly have looked forward with a great degree of expectation to Mother's day at the University.
For eight months they have to be satisfied with occasional letters from Lawrence, and perhaps a few hours during meals and between parties and other social activities during vacation
But now they are the chief attraction. They are being shown the University, taken to the play, fed at a banquet and entertained at different student residences. Sons and daughters may not be missing all their weekend dates. but their parents probably are getting better acquaintanceships with their prospective (at the time) "in-laws" than they have ever received before.
Perhaps this is one reason why fathers turn out so well for the occasion, rather than enjoy a few hours of renewed bachelorhood at home. Their check books run some risk, it is true, but at least they manage to get some attention, even if it is Mother's day.
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"A MAN'S A MAN—" "The prisoners seem to like you, Warden Amrine, someone suggested while a group of students were going through the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing. Mr. Amrine smiled, rather pleased, and said "Some of them do,—and some of them don't." The last was an afterthought, the kind of admission that few people like to make, but the wardens was honest enough to make it.
The ones who like him, the ones who co-operate with the prison authorities, are the majority of those who are confined within the walls. They are the ones who are working for promotion and by consistent good records earn privileges that make life in the institution more rewarding. The institution is called a promotion by merit system, and seems to have worked effectively in most cases.
As the visitors followed Warden Amrine from one building to another they were conscious of a spirit of fellowship which they had hardly expected to find in a prison. In the tailor shop, the shoe repair shop, the toy shop and the rope factory, the warden passed to bestowcommendation wherever it was merited; and the natural response of pride in work was obvious. The visitors saw the inmates as fellow-heights interested in the same things as themselves, and helped by the thing the sociologist tells us is vital to being—recognition. The authorities recognize the capabilities of the men under them, and give them just reward for playing the game fairly.
There is a hard side to the story, one that the warden suggested when he added “and some of them don’t.” For those who break the rules there is a jail with bread and water diet, and a pile of rocks to break each day. Unfortunately for their own good, some of them do break rules and defy officers, and they are punished, not brutally, but effectively.
Warden Amirne's system of promotion by merit seems to be a substitute for the old type of "treat-enough" administration and the equally bad system of the sentimentalist who puts all the blame for crime on society and none on the criminal. It is necessarily an unpleasant business, this punishing of people who break laws, but Warden Amirne is to be congratulated on the work he has accomplished in the Kansas State Penitentiary, where men are taught co-operation which is the most important requisite of citizenship.
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A FORGOTTEN HEROINE
Bryan Untied is in Washington visiting President Hoover. The President gave up a day's work to play with the boy and to hear him recite his story about the storm tragedy. Bryan entered visitors for half an hour with a harmonica concert. He saw the King and Queen of Siam, and his picture taken with the President, dined with children of notables, and received a column and a half in a newspaper in the middlewest. What about the heroine of the tragedy?
Clara Smith, about Bryan's age, helped him keep the children alive while they waited for help in the bus. Her picture was in the papers once or twice and her name was barely mentioned in connection with Bryan's. He received a trip to Washington while she remained at home and read in the paper about his pleasures. That's real heroism and unselfishness.
A fashion article makes the obvious statement that anyone appearing in grandmother's clothes would be laughed at today, but forgot to add that any modern who appeared in the midst of a gathering forty years ago probably have been put in jail.
BOYHOOD DAYS
When members of the Knothole Gang finally conceived the idea of organizing their sandlot baseball, the American "Eagle" was the fancy result.
The opinions of Stubby Roes, Snooke O'Neill, Tommy Callahan, Tuffy Padgett, Dutty Vandervee, and a number of other youths who cast their all into the questionable organization of the team varied as to its birthright. Dutch wanted to name the team, quite frankly, "The Scruise." Tuffy wanted
to play second base under the colors of "The Central Midgets," and it was Snooks who suggested the name that always goes good in handdoll baseball-"The Young All-Stars." A quorum of the Knothe Gang disagreed, however, on the names suggested by individual members, that is, it was idiom until Tommy Callaham submitted his brain-child. We were sitting on the curbstone above a paper-littered gutter at the time
Tommy, who always puzzel us by the way in which he could hit on to things picked up an old newspaper. It carried an advertisement with a fancy engraved American eagle. "There's your name," he puffed and nonhalantly went on puffing on his catula tree cigar.
Such was the dubious beginning of the American Eagles. Suggestions for the various positions on the nine were not hard; we had played sandhall so long before we decided to take on a semi-professional complexion that we pretty nearly knew who would fit in best and where. Snooks would pitch and Dutch Vandereve, we decided; could make pretty fair backstopping; often he could even dig Snook's ones out on the dirt with surprising ease. Yes, Dutch even looked professional at times.
Stubby Ross played third base. He was good, especially when his short legs were taken into consideration. He was cool and collected-like, too, a good boy to have in the infield to soothe the Snooks when that youthful hurler sometimes was exposed to ten hits in a single inning.
Yes, the American Engles were a good lot, generally speaking, and not being too specific about it. Members of the Gang had a time nursing the club into the ethics of organized baseball, and especially in teaching Tuffy Padgett to "hold his lip" in some of the contests we engaged in. In fact, the members of the gang blamed Tuffy for the disastrous and untimely demise of the Engles. The occasion was when the Engles took on the "North Side All-Stars, a tough nine. The All-Stars had a fast ball pitcher; he threw wide curves, too. Tuffy insisted that the All-Star was deliberately trying to hit him in the head. And the forcerunner to oblivion came when Tuffy arghly
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There will be an important meeting of the R.O.T.C. Governing committee on Monday, May 4, at 7 o'clock in Fowler shops.
Establishing an entirely new even in the Yale calendar, prominent leaders of the Yale class of 1844 have announced that plans have been cumpleted for a Freshman dance.
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threw his bat at the All-Star pitcher after he had locked at three strikes. The All-Stars, not a small bend at all, reciprocated. Shins were brushed badly, eyes blackened, and shirts form in the moles, with most of the casualties occurring on the Eagles' side. There was no denying the end of the Eagles, for the All-Stars were plenty victorious; enough so that the helpless Eagles had to endure the ignominy of seeing the All-Stars carry away our catches mask and bolly-protecter, the heritage of Dutch Vandevere and that lad's contribution to our newly-assumed professional air. That really ended things, for there was not a member of the Krohnite Gang willing to take a chance on catching Snooks O'Neill's sometimes erratic fast balls without some assurance that he would not be killed outright.
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