PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS University Daily Kansar OFFICIAL Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR IN CHIEP JOHN MARTIN MANAGING EDITOR OWEN PAUI Makup Editor Jae Kwack Campus Editor Roberta Cohen Johnson Editor Jeffrey Johnson Night Editor Philip Kreider Sports Editor Robert Whitman Games Editor Robin Gates Exchange Editor Rajiv Gahua Firearms Editor Fawad Alam Album Editor Martha Lawrence ADVERTISING MANAGER 1RIS FITSZIMMONS Assistant Advertising Mgr. Gerald E. Papu Assistant Advertising Mgr. Robert B. Ried Frank McFallford Vaughan Williams Mary Burton William Nilesen Marian Beauty Barton Jack Jack Minick William Burton David Pyle John Marvie Business Office K.U. 68 News Room K.U. 25 Night Construction 7701K3 Published on the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism at the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions price. $4.00 per year, payable in all stores. Single邮费, $2 each. Vange, single upper. Vange, entered as second class mail matter September 15, 1940; at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under art of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, AFRIL 8, 1931 THE MAGIC OF SPRING The magic of spring weather came to the campus yesterday and charged students with the annual elixer which suddenly makes class work such a dreadful and fearful routine. It was, officially, the first day of spring. For spring simply can't be recognized as spring here without its accompanying features. Under a cerulean blue and a warm sun which made uncomfortable, athletics received a fresh impetus. The parade grounds were suddenly crowded; under stars disproportional on the track in the stadium; the spring football squad got its share of calisthenics on the green sward; golf and tennis players found their lik, and batters hammered lastly in the baseball corner of the field. Other sports were evident, too, although they could not be called incidental by anyone who knows K. U, Roadsters, their tomeaus filled with extra fares, crowded Campus drives while their passengers got their first share of the season's sunburn. Will Rogers' son goes to work as a reporter—and some people will insist he is carrying on Papa's funny business. BOYHOOD DAYS Of all our boyhood days those spent in Grogan's vacant lot were the happiest and the most memorable. Boys reared in a large city have not always the same opportunities for announcements that are offered youth in smaller communities, but they usually find substitutes. For instance we had Grogan's; not a wood area like those found close by the outskirts of a small town, but one of those vasant lots over-grown with high weeds—ideal spot for the play of boys. In those days there were "Snookis" O'Neill, "Dink" Powers, "Tuffy" Padgett, "Stubby" Ross, and Tommy Callahan. We had a grogan in Grougan his lot, supported by driftwood pillars we had obtained from the banks of the Kaw, and covered with a false roof made of galvanized iron sheets which we had appropriated from Finkelstein's Junk Yard without that worthy gentleman's knowledge or permission. On rainy Saturday, once the morning chores were either finished or avoided, we met there; and many were the exploits of utmost daring planned within the dim candle-lighted interior of the cave. We had good nickle cigars, too rank weeds which Tommy Calabash stone from Old Man Jenkiak's "Stable Grocery" on the corner. While the rest of us engaged Jenkiak in conversation at the rear of the store, Tommy played havciv with the grocer's eight-month-old tobacco, stock up in front. Gum, candy, tomatoes, and potatoes went the illegal way of the cigars. Yes, with it it was great sport, those ephemeral violations of the law which we all engaged in. And when we had graduated from the vacant lot we separated. One of the gang went off to college. And how about the others who didn't go to college, you ask? Really, they were quite conscientious; they went to work immediately and are enjoying fair success. OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD GERMANY Not so long ago when ex-Kalzer Wilhelm of the Hohenzollers reached his seventy-second birthday, we heard not so much as a news report of that fact. Yet little more than a decade ago the present em-experior of Germany was one of the most hate-inspiring of mortals; at least from the American stand-point. No one seems to care about all that new; the former ruler has been forgotten almost entirely, while Germany is rapidly regaining satisfactory and friendly relationships with other countries. The government propaganda which America swallowed at the time of the World War much as a behemoth does its food—not in bits, but in huge chunks—is no more; stories of the war in its true perspective, with attention paid to the sacrifice of society rather than of country, have aided considerably in healing wounds and obliterating bitterness which had ranked in many minds. The old popular myths at the time of $f$ the war which made German troops comparable in cruelty to the barbarian foms of several centuries ago, have org since been dissipated. German bay even has become accepted once more in this country as a day of recognition for those of German blood; and, ill in all, much of the hatred following the war is disappearing. What once was a bumper crop on the farm is now a bumper's cot in the hospital. THE HUMAN DYNAMO Dr. Donald Laird, Colgate university psychologist, has announced that most of our poor humans are wasting our time. It takes us three years, he says, to do what an efficiency expert could accomplish in one. We actually spend several seconds each day deciding what neckties we shall wear, and we lather ourselves with one cake of soap when two would be twice as fast. The learned doctor makes no such mistakes. He even keeps his reference books in a U-shaped bookcase so that he won't have far to reach. He has his office arranged so that he can watch the experiments he is supervising from his windows. As for letters, he writes no long, gossipy pistes to his friends; and he only eriblishes his answers on the margins of his messages he receives. This is, indeed, a far cry from the "ug of wine and leaf of bread" philosophy. Small wonder that the American business man is an enigma to people of other countries, where lensure is consciously cultivated for leisure's sake. None of the Englishman's quiet garden meditations will do, then, for our efficiency experts after Dr. Laired's heart; nor will the Frenchman's sun-bathing at Majore, or the German's sail-boating at Warse necessary appeal to his仁. Nothing will do save good old patriotic work, concentrated, continuous, and productive of more work and perhaps subsequent nervous breakdowns. Foreigners who are puzzled by inengrituates in our national life will find their explanation in the fact that the typical American likes to be an automaton. He doesn't know how to use his leisure time. And how can he when he hires experts to tell him how not to save any? Few, however, realize that America's great world position in politics is not really due to our moral peace-setting, but primarily to our great wealth and envious economic plane. If we were a poor and friendless nation, it is obvious that we should carry little weight with Europe. The fact that the eyes of Europe are continually directed toward us is perhaps the reason why some hold to the belief that America is a great moral influence on that country. AMERICA'S MORAL INFLUENCE? It was Owen Young who once said that America is too wealthy to be loved by her neighbors. And it follows that it is the power and not the moral beliefs of a man which makes that individual what he is among his surroundings. Naturally, in the first five years following the World War Europe nations—crippled and harassed—sought American aid; they took all pains not to offend the humanitarian nation across the Atlantic. The years since have changed all that, and today other countries are not even cordial to our moral doctrines. HE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEPRESSION Europe will not admit that we are any better than she; it takes much effort to get Europeans to concede that Americans are their equal in morals, in education, in civilization, or in government. Therefore, the Old country does not care for American moral influence. Henry Ford, whose name now is becoming a synonym for interviewers rather than the manufacture of automobiles, had this to say recently in a modest confab with the press concerning the depression: The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. Dishonesty caused the so-called depression. People inflate stocks—that's dishonest." Mr. Ford also pointed to the fact that his factories, employing more than 80,000 men, have had no wage cuts. He failed to speak, however, concerning the number of lay-offs he has made in his automobile production staff. Mr. Ford's belief that the depression is just a result of employing the wrong sort of psychology fills us with regret that we had not found such an easy answer long ago to the unemployment riddle. But then it's much easier to talk of the psychology of depression—or the psychology of anything else, for that matter—when one's own fortune could be cashed in for 300 million dollars, as Mr. Ford's could be according to the latest estimate of the Wall Street Journal. If such a state were our lot we admit that other people's depression wouldn't bother us even to the extent of an interview. AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT A glorious cloudless day, with worries over classwork at a minimum, made yesterday a perfect day for tennis. The courts, well-marked and smooth, beckoned students who were eager for activity on the first real day of spring. The courts were in good condition, the day was perfect, but one important thing was leaking. Four or five courts had no nets. This lack was due not to any nigelness on the part of caretakers, but to the conduct of some unidentified persons who cut the ropes and took the nets. Such vandalism is beneath contempt. The equipment is furnished for the enjoyment of the whole student body, and that a few individuals willfully destroy the nets. If the vandals were students their conduct is doubly contemptible. News from Chicago today indicated that things were unusually quiet—meaning there were no kidnappings or sluggages at the polls yesterday where "Big Bill" Thompson, former master of political voodsmack, was defeated by Anton Cermak in the mayoralty race. The victory of Cermak removes Thompson, a halking disgrace in the American political scene, from the mayorship of the second largest municipality of the United States. Chicago, usually landsliding to the Republicans CHICAGO LOSES A BLEMISH rollicking Fun Merry making never a greater off in the MMM Toothless tale. The cured, food and cremation of an uncle who was an avid author — a titanous love one — is a atrocious story for those marvage voyage. 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There will be a meeting of the Jewish Students Union this evening at 7:30 in the sub-basement of the Union building. Mr. Harry Friedberg, a Kansas City lawyer, will address the group. The public is cordially invited to attend. JEWISH STUDENTS UNION: Important rehearsal tonight at 8 o'clock in Marvin hall. ROBERT MILTON, President. MEN'S GLEE CLUB: NON-FRATERNITY PARTY: The first non-fraternity party, sponsored by the K-Hawks, will be held tonight at 8:15 in the Union building on the main dance floor. Every non-fraternity man is invited. EDWIN MARDIS, Social Chairman. SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB: --at the polls, had to switch to the Democratic flag to defeat Thompson. But for once, at least, Chicago voters have vindicated democracy. Snow Zoology club will meet at 6 o'clock Thursday, April 9, in room 201 Snow hall. Doctor Nelson, of the School of Medicine, will speak M. D. STAMBAUGH, Soerzfay. WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY; There will be the regular Wednesday night variety at the Union building DAVE NEWCOMER and FERN SNYDER OMEN'S RIFLE CLUB: Important meeting of the Women's Rilee club Thursday, April 9, at clock in Powder shops. Doors must be paid. FRANK H. LESCHER Shop Repairing 812% Mass, Phone 256. Lawrence, Kas. LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY Eye Glasses Exclusively 1025 Mass. To determine the consensus among editors of student newspapers regarding the popularity of the R. O. T. C. journal for war peace the editors for $39 leading college newspapers were requested to indicate their opinions and responses to this question. Twenty-five editors responded. Drill is compulsory at seven Quiz R. O. T. C. Popularity Billiards Snoocher BRUNSWICK BILLIARD PARLOR 710 Mass. St. New York University News Find Ninety Schools Require Training New York—(NSFA) Today military training in the B. O. T. C. is compulsory at 90 colleges with a total enrollment of 75,441. 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