PAGE TWO FRIDAY, APRIL 24,1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP JOHN MARTIN MANAGING EDITOR___ OWEN PAUL Makayo Editor Campaign Editor Night Edition Sports Editor Security Editor Sunday Edition Wednesday Edition Tuesday Edition Telegraph Editor Telegram Editor Roberta Calebumson Roberta Calebumson Roberta Whitman Lacie Bladee Rick Arnold Cynthia Daganen Cynthia Daganen Douglain Lyons Douglain Lyons Kansas Board Members ADVERTISING MANAGER IRIS FITZSIMMONS Assistant Advertising Mgr. Gerald E. Papo Assistant Advertising Mgr. Robert B. Ried Robert Reed TRAINER REFERENCE DATA Frank McClinton Benjamin Wilson William Villanueva William Nelson Greg Guerra Ian Fortescue James Cook William Miller Walter Wake William Moore Christine Fancy Philip Kuster Claire Parry Phillip Keiser Telephones Business Office K.U. 64 News Room K.U. 25 Night Connection 2701KJ FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931 FARM AID Construction work is to begin soon on eight new grain elevators with a total storage capacity of one-half million bushels. The elevators are to be built in south-central Kansas in readiness for receipt of the 1931 wheat crop, which is expected to be the largest in the history of this section of the country. The farmers seem to have paid little heed to the numerous warnings that the acreage of wheat must be cut down if the price is to be kept within a reasonable range. But each farmer seems to say: "Let the other fellow do it and then I can make my million." With regard to business principles, manufacturing and industry have progressed far beyond the farmer. When the motor car market becomes flooded, plants are closed down, or the output is reduced until the market is stabilized. But not so with the farmer. Here the cry is "gvernment aid." Then they continue to turn their land back into wheat in the face of the fact that the United States government is now holding more than 200 million bushels of wheat from last year in an attempt to hold the price up. The farmers do not seem to have done much toward helping themselves; but perhaps the latter comes from lack of organization. THE STONE-AGE LEGAL SYSTEM "Alifa Bill" Murray made history with a $250 debt he contracted for his campaign fund. But just think of the histories that have been made by x two-cent post stamp. The present jury system for reaching court decisions is out of date, and has been for many years. Although it is an old English principle that one should be judged by his peers, there is no reason for retaining a tradition that, in these days of psychological appeal, has lost its value. a jury of common laymen is summoned to decide cases involving facts about problems with which they have never been confronted, and about which they know nothing. A group of twelve men who have had no technical training are given the responsibility of deciding everything from the value of a painting to the extent of a man's insanity. Their judgment, no matter how much in error it may be, often is final. There has been agitation for the abolition of the jury system, and the institution of a different manner of ascertaining legal facts, but nothing has been done about it. Nothing can be done about it until the mass of people desire to drive emotion out of the courts. In a time when court actions are becoming more and more numerous, and crime is becoming more prevalent, as it today, it would appear that public opinion should force some change in a system which, though old and established by centuries of tradition, is inefficient and antiquated. Girls of Christian college cannot pace more than three minutes to talk to young men on the street. The girls believe the rule is designed in order to help them, but almost any can see where the benefit is all on his side. THE QUEEN PENCHANT Another king has abdicated. Sentimental royalists in this country no doubt are shedding tears over the increasing scarcity of royalty as republics grow in the popular fancy. but there is no need for worry by the curious in this part of the world who are perturbed lest they get through life without seeing a king or kissing the hand of a queen. For the fact remains that we have more queens in the United States than in all Europe. There were, for instance, eight queens presented at the pre-Reels Varsity last Friday, and a grand queen occupied a prominent place at the stadium Saturday. America crowned a dozen queens of something or other for every one abducting in Europe. We're at least thankful for one thing, however, and that is that there is no Maypole queen at this school. It Mahmoud Gandhi should decide to visit the United States at least hope he wears something other than his presen- toga-like apparel. Just think what our grasping souvenir hunters would do to him. SURELY NOT A BLUE LAW? A story has appeared in the newspapers of a California town's upper strata in its efforts to hone swimming within its city limits. The big obstacle in the way seems to be a law, passed by that city in 1881, allowing people to swim without apparel of any sort as long as the bathing was done between the hours of 3 p. m. and 6 a. m. The law is an expression of free-thinking and mental clearness on the part of the nineteenth century legislators who passed it. It is at least one heartening piece of legislation in the maze of ancient blue laws which clutter the statute books of many states. Headline: "A Dust Storm at Sea." We wiler want you know who a dust storm at sea was out of the twoble-mile limit. HAVE A CHAIR— Most school teachers, from the kindergarten to the University graduate school, strictly enforce the old pedagogical axiom that students must sit up in their chairs when attending class. Lounging in one's chair is not conducive to clear thinking, they say. One's posture in sitting in a chair, however, seems to be governed by the weather far more than by precept. Not much trouble is encountered with the loungers during the winter months. This is particularly true in certain storm-shattered buildings on the Kansa campus. No one can lounge in their classrooms in the winter, for it is next to impossible to shiver in a semi-prostitute position while wintry blasts whistle around one's throat. On the other hand, spring weather seems to lend atmosphere for better lounging. The student can at last be comfortable—and this seems to be in direct defiance of the old adage concerning the upright, attentive student. It is not unreasonable to suppose, too, that a student's mind would function more sharply if he were allowed to select his most comfortable position in chair—if such a position is possible—rather than be posed like a ramrod against his will, while pain permeates his body and soul. It is not hard to see why the champion endurance stars took to tree and flapboard sitting. It was comparatively easy when compared to that aightly monument of upright learning—the University classroom chair. But somehow some martyr will startle the world of admiring professors by introducing a marathon classroom chair-sitting contest. And if this contest comes to pass, let us hope that some kind soul will bring forth a new design in classroom chairs. Surely the inventor of the present framework never attended college and sat in his own furniture; at least not as the instructor would have him sit in it. An enthusiastic radio fan, who sat near the back of the auditorium during the Paderewski rectal the other night, confesses he had an almost uncontrollable urge to send a note by the usher up to the great master, requesting that he play, "Love for Sale." There will be a short meeting of Jay James in central administration six noon, 4:30 Monday. NELLIE REZAC, President. JAY JANES; OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Friday, April 24, 1921 No. 162 Regular meeting of Kappa Phi, Saturday morning at 6:45. Initiation and 10-cent breakfast. MARGARET R. EOBERTS. KAPPA PHI: CAYHAWK CLUB MEETING: The Kayhawk club will meet tonight at 7.30 in room 4 of the Union build all. Non-fraternity men are urged to attend. DEAN C. CHAPPEE. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics club will hold a business meeting at 4:30 Monday, April 27, in room 211 Administration building. Officers for your new will be elected as members. MEN AND WOMEN'S GLEE CLUBS, KU. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: An important joint rehearsal will be held in the University auditorium on Sunday afternoon prompt at 2:30 o'clock. K. O. KUERSTEINER. SENIORS: Will any seniors who expect to receive degrees in June or summer 1931 have not already applied for their degrees, please fill in an application at the following address: 601 Fifth Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 ONE POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR WAR Albough more than half of the Protestant pastors answering a recent questionnairme sent out under the auspices of the publication "The World Tomorrow," have said that they would not sanction the participation in either a defensive or an aggressive war, there is some doubt as to what they would actually do if confronted with the necessity of giving their advice to young patriots who were seriously urged to enlist. Probably more than half of the citizens of the United States has been struck with the Pacifian fad which is in vogue today. Urged by emotional appeals they have used little reason in reaching their conclusions which are consequently not very deeply ingrained in their minds. There can be little doubt however about the value of the attitudes of the pastors, however, if that attitude can be made the actual conviction of the mass of people. The religious leaders of this country, have a powerful influence on the thinking of the country. They are in a position to educate the people to the value of peace, disarmament and pacifism. They should do this not only in a spiritual but also a logical way lest the emotion overcome the season when a strained situation arises. Our guess as to the cause of the depression is the treasury department's shrinkage of the dollar bill. Farmers continue to put more wheat into the ground, while wheat puts more farmers in the ground. Dr. Issue D. Kelley, Jr., is reported to have been kidnapped in St. Louis Monday. That should bring a revival of the good old favorite, "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" When we read about the grecer who买 $37,000 in a swindle we give up the task of trying to remove the grating through which we recently dropped a quarter. Our Contemporaries AS THE GLOOMY DEAN SEES IT Having put in 40 years at the University of Illinois watching the papers of Thomas Arkle, a professor of Thomas Arkle is persuaded that "petting can't be stopped." Those who have been low dows down in Tennessee last week. Warning to his subject, he asserted "there has been petting ever since," and "will be." The stony silence in which his judgment was received must be construed. Hair Cut Mareel Finger Wave Shampoo (bob hair) Shampoo (long hair) Manicure It is of the melancholy acquiescence we would fail speak. It occurs to us that those corsets of the campus are called *the wrong shout*. It calls the wrong shout. It calls the treasured tenets of their philosophy, apparently, that the higher education should be a denaturing process. 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