UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931 PAGE TWO IT University Daily Kansan OScial Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP JOHN MARTIN Elizabeth Moody ... Sam Shade MANAGING EDITOR... Markey Editor Philip Kearse Rachel Roberts Garrett Cordell Night Edition Robert J. Rabe Rachel Roberts Scott E. Rabe Pauline R. Rockefeller Telegram Editor Douglas L. Doucet Domino Lucas John G. Lovett ADVERTISING MANAGER IRIT FITSZIMMONS Assistant Advertising Mgr. Gerald E. Pumps Assistant Advertising Mgr. Robert B. Reed Frank McKinley Frank McKinley William Wilson Mary Payne Ivan Fordham Paul Cousill Paul Cousill Walter Woods Walter Woods Philip Kuster Philip Kuster Chrissie Frosty Chrissie Frosty Robert Reed Property Business Office K.U. 64 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection 2701K1 Purchased at the afternoon, five times a week, on Friday and Saturday. Appointed by the Jurisdiction of the University of Rochester, the Trust will be responsible for providing legal advice, high accuracy, 15 hours, high quality, 15 hours, high accuracy, September 17th, to the post office at Lawrence, Rhode Island, one hundred miles north. THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931 WATERWAYS AS A POLITICAL ISSUE There has been much talk of the construction of waterways in the United States ever since their decline with the advent of railway. But with the millions of dollars spent by the government for the dredging of canals and rivers, and the construction of new channels, there has not been any notable increase in their use. Private capital long ago found that it could not make waterways pay, and so it has abandoned them. Now annually the government is spending its money on rivers and canals, opening them for water transportation. A plan to transfer the system to private operation as soon as possible has been voiced, but to anyone who considers the situation carefully, it is possible to see that this cannot be done. Waterways transportation is too expensive, and too slow for the American people. Only the government with a great increase in taxes can afford to build sufficient canals to make it profitable. The people living inland would be forced to load their products on the rails to transport them to the river docks. The added expense of handling the goods when they are to be transferred to boats would be so great that, although the rates are lower, no money would be saved by the shipper. There is little hope that the waterways system will help the western states, although it has been talked of and lauded for years. Its only hope is a governmental control, and the expenditure of huge sums of money over a period of years. So far the construction of docks, and the deepening of river beds must fall into the classification of false political issues. “There, but for the grace of God, go L" it is said that David Newerowan sighed as he watched the induction of Russell Hawkins to providence of the Men's student council. FOUR BOYS AND TWO YEARS Two years ago four boys in Joplin, Missouri, formed a holdup syndicate, each agreeing to help the other in case he was arrested. Now two of them are dead, one is serving a 20-year prison sentence and the fourth is sentenced to hang. Youth, in deciding upon a “career” for fun and publicity, often chooses to follow the most dangerous and foolish of paths. There is little doubt about the mistake of these four young men, but it is too late to do anything for them. The time for prevention is past—the will never be reformed. Their lives have been sacrificed on the altar of ignorance. It is a system which could and should be changed, but which will not be so long as fear, hate, anger and revenge enter into the penal systems of the United States. Warden Milton F. Ammine of the Kansas state penitentiary has offered a possible solution in his suggestion for the innovation of a system of prevention whereby criminal tendencies in youth might be curbed before the commission of any crime by them. Such a plan would undoubtedly have had some effect in the case of the four young men of Joplin. GERMANY'S NATIONAL ANTHEM The University band recently presented "The Watch on the Rhine," as the German national anthem, which raises the question of just what is country's official song. Our friend, Dr Bruno Radke, exchange lecturer from Germany, enlightens us with the following: "The intricacy of national anthems is most surprising. Popular opinion in this country seems to hold that "The Watch on the Rhine" (Die Wacht am Hein) is the German national anthem. When Einstein left Passudena, and in many other places where they wished to honor him, this song was played and everybody stood up, which was against the German custom, because Germans only rise for the national anthem. "Before the war the official German anthem was "Hail Dir ius Siekermargen" (Hail thie in the glory of victory) adapted to the old Prussian tune "Preaslendan," which tune, by the way, is also used for the British national anthem, "God Save the King" and "America." "Since the war "Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles", has become the official German anthem. The words were written by the well-known Democrat and revolutionist, Hoffmann von Fallerschein, about ten years after the revolt of 1848. This song has often suffered from misinterpretation "Deutschland, Deutschland über alle"; is not the expression of mud imperialism meaning that Germany is or shall be the lord of the world, but it expresses the feelings of the Germans who love their country more than anything in the world. Most of this song does not even belong to Hoffmann, as he adopted many lines from a famous poem written by Walter von der Vogelweide greatest medieval German lyric poet towards the end of the twelfth century Thus it cannot be blamed as an example of German pre-war hybrids. The tone of the present German anthem is that of the former Austrian anthem "Gorah erhebt Franz den Kaiser" (God save Francis the Emperor), which was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797, and is nowadays also used for English hymns." THE GROWING BEARD The beard has always been a subject of much controversy. Some critics think boards adorn the masculine countenance and make it more pleasant in appearance than the natural man face typically is. Others see in beards only suspicious masks. The Greeks of ancient times were beards, competent historians tell us because the Greeks were householders with slaves to shave them, if they were shaved at all, and because the Greeks were afraid to let possibly jealous servants come too close to their jughur, with such dangerous weapons as razors. The history of the beard has been long, and its status has, until recently been honourable. But in the last half century that method of adornment has fallen into disfavor, and during the late war, the beard came to cannot treason on the part of its wearer and to cause a suspicious feeling in the hearts of all true patriot onlookers. To its defense only radicals of the reddest juce would rise, with perhaps the writer who contributed in 1918 to the New Masses that famous defense, "Pro Barba," the beard's most notable champion. There are still disputes about the beauty of the beard, but the hairy thing is loosening out. Razor companies and shaving cream manufacturers, by a campaign of inadvised propaganda, have almost destroyed the public's former healthy, pious opposition to the razor as an instrument designed to break down nature's obvious designs for growing hair on men's faces. The beard is "out," but all of the types of beards in the world, the growing beard of tender age is the furthest "out." The growing beard is not a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It is more liable to grow thickly in patches than to be even distributed; it leaves, as a rule, little spots of smooth white skin spread at odd spatial intervals about one's face. The short hairs of the growing beard describe queer mathematical figures, such as whorls, angles, curves, parabolae. The beard of one week gives to the onlocker the suggestion that the owner of the hairy growth has not washed carefully. The typical beard of two weeks is definitely a mat of course black hair, but only about the point of the chin, and the onlooker glances twice at the down remainder of one's countenance before he says joyfully: "And what is that upon your cheek?""—with no apologies to Dickens. The beard of three weeks is receiving, furzy reinforcements from younger, timid hairs heretofore afraid to venture out. The whorls and twists are filling in and slowly disappearing. Silly bystanders beared about this period of the beard's development and stop asking silly questions because they've been called the "darned thing." Perhaps some new object of the ridicule and contenuation of the crowd has arisen, and the beard no longer excites discussion. The fourth-week beard is becoming less unsightly and considerably less itchy, though, if one is still in the habit of sleeping on his face, it will tend to stifle him by cutting out the air. The owner looks at his fourth-week beard and says to his mirror, "Hm-m-m-, a couple of weeks more and I can trim it a little bit with my scissors. It doesn't really look so bad, does it?" This appeal to beauty is a fittle one. No beard of less than a year's growth looks anything but miserable--terrible. The bedrender will army his friends by asking them, "But don't you think it looks a little distinguished?" and it is not infrequent that he finds one rank and brutal enough to respond. It looks like Hell, if you really want to know." Of course he doesn't want to know. He prefers his illusions, and he wants his beard. Ulysses as it may be he and as it may be he and as it may be he would not waddle it off for all the war! (Editorial explanation: This intimate little note in the growing and caring or the struggling beard is the result of being in an institution or in our department. He wegged that the Pacachamacs would win the election. Already he has been pursued by members of the Lawrence police by a man who has invited Commis- tion appearances.) A KANSAS MERGER The recent marriage of Miss Katherine Klinkerberg, a former University student, to W. L. (Young Bill) White of the Emporia Gazette, and son of William Allen White, Kansas man of letters, brings a happy union following a long romance. Both are Kansas products and admirable ones. Our felicitations go to be young couple. GANGLAND'S DECLINE Throughout the metropolitan areas of this country the regime of gang leaders a being minimized. Chicago and Detroit are eliminating much of the underworld menace by legal steps, Chicago by the vagrant law and Detroit by a political house cleaning. At present there is a strong intra-gang conflict in New York City that promises to weaken the holds of the underwild. All this activity seems for the first time in a decade to assure us temporary peace from gang malice. FUL-VUE The Lingle case was a victory of law over crime, considering it was a Chicago case. The gangsters in the Windy City are now on the defense instead of the offense. The victory of Mayur Murphy in Detroit was a triumph over gangland and corrupt politics. And with Fred Burkok sentenced to life imprisonment, the law has struck another note of victory. Jack "Leps" Diamond, notorious new York gangster, was a victim yesterday of a gang war. If he dies, his death will undoubtedly cause a tanginary under-world battle perhaps discreditable to civilization but beneficial to the good citizen. With the law gradually clamping down from the outside and with constant conflict on the inside, the atrocious history of the underworld and its greedy leaders may soon play only a secondary part in our metropolitan activities. The Beautiful Frame in Pink Gold Optometrist 911 Mass. CHANGE IN SIZE OF DIPLOMAS: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Val. XXVIII Thursday, April 31, 1951 No. 167 Books for the county club work are being closed permanently on May 1. All money must be turned in by that time for high schools over the state, and students are expected to pay a $5 fee. COUNTY CLUBS: Juniors have not cast their ballot in the matter of changing size of diploma are urged to give this ballot important attention. GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar. J. R. MEEK, Chairman, General County Club Committee. INTERRACIAL-INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION The International-International commission of the W.C.W.A. will meet at Hoehne house the evening at 7 o'clock. Chunlih Leilang will speak on 'Xochitl' from 9:30 to 10:45. KAPPA BETA: KAYHAWK CLUB: All regular members and candidates for membership in the Keyhawk club will please meet Friday night at 7:15 in room of #4 the Union building. The Campus Muse MOTHER'S DAY BANQUET: THE HEDGE events for the Mother's Day banquet must be purchased before 5 o'clock Friday, May 1 at the business office. No tickets will be on sale Saturday. The old blac hedge still stands stanch and strong; In summer it straggles and spraggles along. In winter it catches the dead leaves Its branches stringed harps to the nerve winds that blow; But in April its fragrance is heavenly sweet, How wondrous like humans these lilac trees grow And its blooms fairer pictures than most eyes e'er greet. The straight and the crooked, the quick and the slow. The smooth and the gurled ones, the sturdy, the weak. sturdy, the weak. Some hugging the shadow, some sun- But when duty and law and occasion override Both lilacs and humans achieve heart's desire. Here's to the Hedge! Mayl its blooms never fail. May it round out in vigor its century to take. Bringing joy to the heart of the freshmen so gay. And thoughts poignant sweet to the From all the old days there's no object more dear. Binding them to the now, linking them to the here. And should I be so happy, when time comes for rest. To be chosen and guided to realms of the blest; When earth winters pass in the change of the years, of the years. And with springtime comes April, half laughter, half tears. From Heaven I'll surely lean over the To perchance catch a glimpse of the old lilac hedge. Organization of a permanent corporation to be known, as the University of Kiel Memorial Hospital, to control all matters pertaining to the collection of pledges, furthemore of the campaign and memorial contributions at a meeting of the executive committee. 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