PAGE TWO SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHETP...JOHN MARTIN sunday Editor...Payline Girl Storm Packitt Sunday #18 Liliana Sullivan Académie Franklin Anderson M.-M. Jacke Fraser Anderson M.-M. Jacke Jackson Jackson Louis Fearham Coleman Jackson Louis Fearham Sunday Staff ADVERTISING MANAGER IRIS 15TZIMSIGNOS Antiistant Advertising Mgr. Gerald E. Bpipe Antiistant Advertising Mgr. Robert B. Ree Frank McColliland Married to Nicole William Nicole McColliland Mary Barron Jennifer Flinn-Hammond David Paul Farley Walker Walter Walker Farley Walker Clinton Farnsworth Philip Kister Phillip Kister Leed Business Office K.U. 64 News Room K.U. 21 Night Connection 2701K1 Published in the afternoon, five times a work, and on a morning lesson, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Faculty of the Department of Journalism. 5 Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in Single copies. 50¢ each. Subscription number, not provided. Subscription September 17, 1978, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under act of March 1, 1879. SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1931 COLLEGE BORROWING College students are victims of the borrowing habit. One borrows money to go to school. Immediately, interest rates rise, and prices change so that your debt steadily increases. Borrow an editorial from an obscure journal and someone is sure to have read the original. Borrow another's note-book, and one is sure of a low grade. A girl lends one a book scrawled with names and pictures. One struggles through the semester, wresting what knowledge he can from amidst the scrawlings. Then, near the end of the term, someone takes it for his own. So a new one is bought, and when one apologizes for the misfortune, his sount is rent by an outburst of feminine sobbing. She feels terrible to have lost all those autographs, and one feels like a half-era autographed himself. One puts on his room-mate's suit and asks George for his car. One decides to take a drive into the country and to try to forget autographs. A mile out of town one runs out of gasoline. A walk to a farm house ensues. One pokes his aching head in at the door and asks to use the telephone. If all goes as usual, one gets the tank filled and then discovers a flat tire. After one has struggled with the tire for half an hour, torn his room-mate's trousers, and got thoroughly dirty, he heaves a sigh and hies away up the road. The speedometer reaches seventy, the motor starts knocking, and before one can stop, a connecting rod has gone through the case. In despair and perpiration, visions of angry creditors torture one's mind. One feels dazed. A reach is made for the door-pocket to borrow a friend's automatic. The gun is examined hopefully. Alas, no bullet! Congress has approximated more than two billions for national protection and expenses of former wars. Millions for defense and not one cent for prevention. MORALS IN COURT The minister who was accused of stealing a kiss from one of his flock has been cleared of that stigma by a jury which deliberated only thirty minutes and which took only two ballots. The decision of the jury is encouraging at a time when bread of promise suits, prosecution for alienation of affections, stolen kiss suits, and all that sort of drive are rife in this country. Years ago, before America had increased her wealth and the number of her juries, the idea of contending that a kiss, stolen or otherwise, was worth five thousand dollars, would have brought much laughter. Morals formerly were seldom talked about, and less court action resulted. Today the subject of morality is always with us, nauseatingly so, and more and more of the suits in the courts are the result of moral cases as against civil ones. We question Edna St. Vincent Millay's knowledge of "Fatal Interviews." A symposium by deans and student advisers would render better intelligence on the subject. THE AGGIE PARTY BLOW THE AUMNAT The Wampus Cats, members of a pop organization at the Kansas Aggies, have had their social privileges taken from them for one year because they violated a student council rule which forbade parties. The Wampus Kitties (trusting they don't mind such levity on our part) gave a "hard times" party. No erotic of the party was made other than that it was a party given in a time of the present deception. Such a strict adherence to the council ruling is more foolish. or what seems more foolish that there should ever have been such a ruling passed by the Aggie student council. And the difference we see between the Aggie situation and our own is that the University organizations are the wiser. We don't call our parties "tucky." They just are. We don't say "hard times" party; they just are! If all the radio announcers were placed in the middle of the Sahara desert it would be a good thing. A LOT ABOUT LOT An editorial quotation from the Kansas City Star reads, "This recalls the old saw about Lot who turned to salt immediately after he had "turned to rubber." We came to college to learn, but believe surely that it was in Sunday school where we were told that it was Let's wife who was turned into salt. Hay fever victims are to be pitied all the more now that plans are being side for the manufacture of sugar out f goldened. COMMENDATION Without being unduly optimistic, there is an encouraging note in the recent remark of an instructor who expressed the hope that the theories which she defended now would be completely revolutionized within the next twenty years. There is nothing as dangerous to real education as an instructor who regards the problems in his field as solved, as the last word on the subject. When theories are settled, there is no stimulation to debate, and little chance for honest doubt or conviction. A word of commendation is offered to a faculty member who, although she has devoted the years since her graduation to verifying the theories to which she adheres, is willing to welcome ideas and facts which will lead to an absolute refutation of them. He attitude is one which could be profultily imitated by students and faculty alike, by those who are more anxious to support pet ideas than they are to gain real facts. EMOTIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT In former times when a man was released from prison, he was given a yellow passport so that wherever he went he would be branded as a convict, a person to be feared. In those days persons were thought to be inspired by the devil, if insane, and so there was an astigma attached to insanity. In both cases the relatives were made to suffer. Today, although we pride ourselves on understanding society, and its effect upon the individual, we still maintain the same attitude toward the criminal and the insane. The public reaction to a crime is hatred, and desire for revenge. The unsocial individual is imprisoned, tried, and then sent to the penitentiary where, after a certain definite time, he will be cured of the impulse to break the laws; that is, if the present system of punishment is correct. According to Warden Milton F. A. Arine, of the Kansas state pentiary, this system is not sufficient. He would substitute for the present definite term of imprisonment an indeterminate sentence for the criminal. During the first few months of the convict's stay, a group of scientists would study the man's past, in order that the reason for his crime might be discovered. As soon as the cause is found it would be possible to take steps toward his reformation. Reformation is theoretically on the ideal on which the American prison system is founded, and this plan would make for the realization of the ideal. In the case of the youth who goes wrong, there are always people who know that he is bending his ways toward a career of crime before he actually enters upon it but the legal system makes no provision for his reformation until he has committed the overt act, and then it is often too late for anything constructive to be done. After that the emotional system of law enforcement takes its course, and another life has been ruined. To offset the Wardeen Amtree suggests that some provision for the taking in hand of young people who are slipping into the ways of crime be made. Then these youth could be helped across those pervious years when they have anti-social desires, and tendencies. There is food for thought in these conclusions of a man who has spent many years in prison work, and who is the warden of one of the most successful penitentiaries in the United States. The public can bans crime from society only when it bans emotion from its action against the criminal. A TRAGEDY OF SPRING Everyone smiles and often the skier are blue; all life seems to be in perfect synchronization with the cosmic tuning fork. But, despite the happiness in this Eylasian state of affairs, there is one element of anguish and desperate sleep that can make them look like snake-like. The angleworm, hapless victim of terrestrial spring rains, greedy birds, and covetous fishermen, is perhaps the only creature that does not welcome the coming of this joyous season. To him, the approach of spring brings dull fears and the outlook of a hopeless future. He is filled with morbid forebounds of a death by drowning on some flooded sidewalk. Visions of being abruptly exhumed from the warm, mealy earth, and gobbled into the maze of a hungry robin flash through his elastic mind. And then there is the horrible thought of being laced in wriggling frills on a fish hook. No doubt about it, the poor old fishworm has a pretty tough time BOYHOOD DAYS Members of the Knothole Gang were an unsympathetic lot. Youth, though, is that way by reason of age. We, who were unable to see far into things or grasp situations, in later years see all the emotional fervor that took place in distant photography. For instance, when Old Man Jenkins, sold his "Stable Grocery," none of us knew the suffering that the store proprietor endured. Old Man Jenkins it seemed, couldn't make a success of his old sawdust floored market; chain stores, or at least cash and carry markets, were coming into vogue and we was decided losing his business. The "Stable Grocery" store was a thing far different from the city stores of today. Old Man Jenkins, when he was not waiting on his fussy customers, was bent in perplexity over the figures in his own innate book-keeping. People were sick and couldn't pay him very often, but Old Man Jenkins continued to carry them on his credit system, giving them food and relishes and waiting in vain for his money. The same people were appreciative, but then there were many of those he had befriended who were the first to begin trading up at the cash and carry store a block away—more for cash. After he was forced to sell the "Stable Grocery" Old Man Jenkins seemed lost. To the rest of us, who went to play in the Square, the old groceryman's bight figure seemed just one of a man resting. Today we realize what was happening, how the Old Man Jenkins was shrivelling up after he had lost his one purpose in life, his sole obsession—selling groceries and keeping muddled figures in his old leather credit book. In the Square he spent day after day sitting on a bench under an elm tree. He seldom looked at his store, we can remember now, but kept his back turned to it. It was just across the street from the Square, and clerks in clean aprons did a thriving business inside where all cases and counters had been painted a gleaming white. Old Man Jennik lived with a daughter who had married late. Her husband was an idler, and together, the two continued to sap the final resources that the "Stable Grocery" had earned for Old Man Jenniks. Property which had been mortgaged heavily soon was foreclosed upon. The final act which should have shocked our sensibilities, but didn't because of our youth, was the daughter's attempt to send Old Man Jenkins to the poor farm. We remember, rather vaguely, the activity of neighbors about that time, how Old Man Jenkins was not sent after an appeal to welfare officers had been made—all of which was decidedly incompressible to our young elastic minds. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII SUMMAT. April 26, 1931 No. 162 There will be a short session of Joy Jones in central Administration real seat at 4:30 on Monday. NELLIE REZAC, President. The Fencing club will hold an important meeting at 4:30 Tuesday. The first knights will be created. CLINTON YOUNG. FENCING CLUB: The Mathematics club will hold a business meeting at 4:38 PM, April 27, in room 211 Administration Building 6B02. You will be invited to attend a discussion on STATEMENTS SURVEY. MATHEMATICS_CLUB: JAY JANES: MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GLEE CLUBS AND K.I.Y. SUMPHNY ORCHESTRA: An important joint rehearsal will be held in the University auditorium on Friday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. OSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan club will hold initiation tonight at 8:30. KANAKADHI RAO, Recorded Secretary. KANAKADRI RAO, Recording Secretary. And when we ran to his favorite bench one day to hide under it, as was our custom, Old Man Jenkins didn't rood and smile as was his wont. He remained on his chest. Later a crowd of people gathered, an important looking man arrived along with some policemen, and it was found that the Old Man was dead on a bench opposite what once had been the "Stable Grocery." Classified ad in the Kanan- Lost, one slicker, two blank- tie, two bathing suits someplace, Indiana Street Sunday night. Campus Comment It is odd how the outgoing party in changing administrations always believes that public institutions should be taken out of politics. We'll guess with you. My Experiences in the World War by by John J. Pershing 2 vol., $10.00 Nothing is good enough but the best The Cafeteria Girls! We Carry a Large Stock of New Heels. Let us take off the ragged ones. New heels make the shoes like dress makes the man. The Book Nook Electric Shoe Shop 1017 Mass. 11 W. 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