PAGE TWO FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP...JOHN MARTIN MANAGING EDITOR OWEN PAUL Mikey Edison Editor Robert Kline Author Night Edition Larry Edison Scott Edison Jonathan Edison Pedrick Kline Catherine Lomner Liam Lamoret Alison Lynch Kanan Board Members ADVERTISING MANAGER IRIS FITZSIMMONS Assistant Advertising Mgr. Gerald E. Pips Assistant Advertising Mgr. Robert B. Kred Frank McCIliffand William Nibbs Mary Burrum Iry Forkins-McNamara Mary Burrow Gwen Paul Wilson Moore Jim Curran Philip Kuffer Clinton Former Philip Kuffer Robert Reed Business Office K.U. 66 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection 2701K7 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, a book by Margaret T. Rutherford, Jr., Honorary Professor of the University of Kansas and President of the University of Kansas Press, was published in August 1976, with eight copies, to 50,000 readers. The book, by Sarah, is written for young adults. August 1976, to the point at which the paper office at Lawrence, Kansas, received its first subscription. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1931 CHESTERTON'S MISTAKE Gilbert K. Chesterton, British author reporting to the Society for Preservation of Rural England, had this to say of his visit to America: "I've been in Tennessee, where if a man insults you you are expected to shoot him or you're not considered a gentleman. Call it barbarism or chivalry, the featal spirit full of fear." "There are no inns in America but there is plenty to drink—far, far too much. Alcoholism has never threatened disaster as it is threatening America today. It isn't normal that girls of sixteen should go to dances and drink raw alcohol." We're sorry that Mr. Chesterton has such an unbiased attitude about conditions in America. We could add that, while we have not ye olde ims of England, we have our speakences—no doubt cultural advantages that are denied to our friends across the seas. And, about our sixteen-year-old drinks raw alcohol? Surely, Mr. Chesterton is mistaken. For we've seen with our own eyes hukuy athletes try to drink raw alcohol. They just couldn't do it; they use either water or ginger ale to dilute it. America may be wild, but its wildness seems to have agreed with it in many ways. The Thoughtful Frehman, having seen a multitude of women with looks of the deepest despair on their faces, has concluded that they are seniors who are not engaged. BOYHOOD'S AMBITION Bryan Untied, the Colorado school boy here is visiting our President Herbert Hoover. He is an ambition denied many boys of his age. The president gave up a day's work—whatever his work happens to be right now—and entertained Bryan. The youth had his picture taken with the president, and dined with other Washington children who are somewhat different from his Rocky mountain small friends. It would be interesting to see how Bryan reacts when he is thrust back into the midst of his "neighborhood gang," the stories he will have to tell them, and the manner in which his buddies will revere "Me and my valer, Herbert Hower," Bryan may say. Car Dealer Turns to Oil—Headline. He must have been a slick car sales WE ALL DO IT Now that spring, with its various distractions, is upon us, there is one type of student heard continually—the one who talks eternally about how much he has to do. Perhap it is a term report that occupies the conversation, with all the details as to length, possible topics, and general requirements. Maybe the unwilling listener is regaled with a list of books to be read, outside reading reports to be made, and back assignments to complete. there is nothing to do when one of these appears except to start thinking one's own thoughts and listen as little as possible. There is one thing certain, and that is that those who talk the most about how much they have to do probably have done the least possible in the past and will continue to expand their energies in working up sympathy over how rushed they are instead of doing much work. Anyway it is a good little game, and when two of these people get together and start comparing how much they have to do, the fun wakes furious. ROUNDED INTELLIGENCE More than one hundred University students were named recently at the special honors convention for their outstanding z.aholarp. This raises the question of just what constitutes intelligence, whether it be mellow learning or slavish devotion to textbooks. In discussing such a question it would be well to state at the outset that there is no slight intended toward students named at the convoception. We envy their position and always have admired superior scholarship. The discussion is of those few who, one cannot help but feel, are missing the finer edges of a college existence. For example, is it safe to estimate that every scholar in this school has some time or other taken a nocturnal pot in Potter lake? How many of them have ever walked over the Hill's golf course by night, breathing deeply of the spring uprush from Mt. Orde soil; how many have been next to earth's own on a steak dry? Everyone has breathed deeply of the Hill's lilac, spirea, and Forsythia, but how many have actually been intoxicated by those springy scents? Glamor and romance are so much pother? Perhaps so, but it is far better to reap such free luxuries as those now presented rather than regret them the rest of your life—after K. U. has become only a memory in the retrospection of youth. THE OLD COMMUNITIES ARE GONE Modern transportation and communication facilities have completely destroyed the old communities of personal, face-to-face contacts. Many former lines of cleavage between branches of society have been wiped out. The heterogeneous society of the United States is bound together by communication, which consolidates individuals and makes for a certain degree of unity and stability. There is, however, an imperative need to develop this machine-made society into a great community, into a great co-operative whole. To create one great community, which will take the place of the destroyed local communities, associated joint activity on the part of individuals and nations is necessary. Students tend to remain self-centered in the face of changing times. They fall to look beyond their own little restricted groups, and do not try to co-ordinate their group life with that larger groups. The indirect consequences of the actions of only a few individuals are no longer restricted to a small locality, but may travel over the whole globe. What is happening in Spain, India, and other countries may have a vital effect upon every individual in America. The world has become smaller. All need to cooperate to meet changing conditions and to form one great community which will adequately replace the old, personal communities. The progress that the Negro has made in the years since he was freed from slavery is strikingly set forth by President Hoover in his speech last month at the fifth anniversary celebration of Tuskegee Institute. The Negro has been a citizen for only a little more than six decades. During that time his race has increased its wealth more than one hundred and thirty times, has reduced its illiteracy from ninety-five to twenty per cent, and has reduced its death rate by half. It has risen to the ownership of more than three-fourths of a million homes, and has accumulated property to the value of billions. NEGRO ACCOMPLISHMENTS "The progress of the race within this period has surpassed the highest hopes of the most ardent advocates," the President said over the radio. "No group of people in history ever started from a more complete economic and cultural destitution." Students make only limited use of the museum's collections, and them in New York are well acquainted with the popular-pired moving picture theater, according to the museum. Send the Kansan home OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Friday, May 1, 1921 No. 108 KAYHAWK CLUB: All staff members and candidates for membership in the Kayuhau district will please meet this evening; at 7:15 in room 4 of the Union building. FREE Our Contemporaries EXAMINATIONS A mania for measuring has swept the country. Everything is measured, labeled, and put in a pigeon-hole. Nothing escapes. In addition to human book-worms, we now have human book-weavers. There much out-numbering the former. But the measurers in their haste have made two mistakes. In the first place, they do not, as a rule, know exactly what is measured in. The second, they have failed to see the difference in effect between measuring and measuring a living person. When one places a ruler alongside a bar of iron, say, the bar is not affected. But it is the person who takes time to measure a person takes time, not only on the part of the tester, but on the part of the teacher, that while one is being tested, he does not learn much. Therefore too much testing of knowledge deflutes itself, for the teacher's time is left for learning, and both FUL-VUE The Beautiful Frame in Pink Gold Optometrist 911 Mass. Authorized Sales Service Expert mechanical and greasing work done on Fords and Chevroletos. Also washing, polishing and waxing. Best storage facilities. 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