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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAMBERTON, KYU
EDITOR IN CHIEF JOHN MARTIN
Markus Edelson      Joe Kruczek
Roberta Sorrentino    Barbara Riese
Pauline Edelson      Pauline Kruczek
Sarina Edelson      Pauline Kruczek
Sarina Edelson      Pauline Kruczek
Davis Edelson      Joseph Kruczek
Davis Edelson      Joseph Kruczek
Tolghigh Edelson      Dennis L. Lancaster
Dennis L. Lancaster
Dennis L. Lancaster
MANAGING EDITOR OWEN PAUL
Karman Board Members
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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931
THE GREATEST STUDENT FUTILITY
With the spring vacation over at classes re-convening, two months it might before another class is graduate. For many it will be the most memorable two months of their college career a period in which they will be ma waren, poignantly so, of the greatest of student futilities, the completeness with which college interests are lost; the life they are living in the press.
The student, sentimental if you must have him so, may look sadly upon the lessons he burgled, but most likely he is also thinking of what has constituted his life outside the classroom. He can't be blamed, actually, for he is leaving a life that suddenly has taken on new arcae. He sees now the beauty of morning and sunset, fall, winter, and spring alike on M. Orca, when he is so soon to leave it. And, if he is still the sentimental sort we have made of him, he might, before it is too late, walk once more through the coolness of Marvin Grove, tolling for a while on the fresh earth beneath the shade trees, or stand, mutely, and look from the rear of Ad to the twisting ribbon of the Kaw, the mills of the town below, and the fertile valley and plains beyond.
They are leaving, each class ease spring, a life that will never be quited equally by succeeding years. Some, the minority, of course, are sorry that they ever attended college. It has mortgaged their future financially; or it has deprived them of the years necessary for accomplishing what they deem more important. In a sense, these few believe that they spent time in college that could have been turned to better endeavor outside academic portals. They, too, usually better acquainted with their own natures years later–or, some of them, as commencement nears. Sentiment then becomes linked with their surroundings. The hash-singer, the mid-hand, or the scone of wealth, looks with a more discerning eye backward over the storehouses of riches that college is and always will be a lost mine, as it were, its riches too little explored to ever be fully appreciated.
It took two detective story readers to uncover a notorious killer—Know let Mother dare to take those magazines away!
MELANCHOLY WHISTLING
On those students who remained in Lawrence during the Easter vacation the melancholic whistling of occasional pedestrians as they sawtered down local streets after nightfall left its somber mark. A college town is ordinarily quiet with classes going on; but when the student body departs en masse, leaving only a handful of its members to inhabit the Hill, the silence is depressing. The echo of a trolley car's grumbling wheels reverberate loudly; footfalls are discernible far up the street, and a whistle is a shrill blast that goes wailing down into every alley and up into every lonely person's room. Whiiding, despite old adages to the contrary, spreads no cheer within the casual hearer's heart.
It may bolster a boy's courage who walks alone in the darkness, and it may soothe the nerves of a man who has been too much with himself; but
in each case the whistling must come from oneself to be truly effective. To all others the sound is only a dirge plaintive and funereal. Whistling once was an art in which almost all men were proficient, for they practiced it to call their sons and their wandering dogs, and they timed their whistling as they leafed on the back step.
There has been a noticeable decline in good whistling since the radio, photograph, and automobile horns invaded our hearing; no better proof could be offered than the tuneless noises emitted here during the vacation. It is a man's own business if he wants to whistle, but he would favor mankind if he could restrain himself until Lawrence is less empty and mournful before he purses his lips to harmonize. Like Rudy Vallee's crouning, whistling is apt to grow monotonous.
"Election commissioners expect little violence," says a news dispatch from Chicago concerning the race of "Big Bill" Thompson there today. We suppose that conclusion is due to gangland's chance low ebb of initiative.
One reads so much nowadays concerning nicotine and its attendant evils that it is of interest to know what was said eighteen years ago on the same subject by an educator.
THE NICOTINE EVIL YESTERDAY
George Frederick Gundlänger, Ph.D.
at Yale, wrote a book in 1913, of "certain
defects in the University World of
Today." Its title was "Ten Years at
Yale."
Concerning the nicotine the author said: "The lack of interest in studies is, of course, not always due directly to indolence. It is very often the result of the overuse of nicotine because it have been handicapped by this common and injurious habit, which has taken hold of them so viciously that their minds refuse to respond accept themselves for what they are and then only unnaturally and imperfectly. When a boy's hard trembles so uncontrollably that it can scarcely hold back his thought, expect his head to retain a thought?
"When I enter an examination room, complained a certain student, 'I forget what little I do know, and come out a nervous wreck.' He himself attributed the complaint to be a bachelor, but he never stopped to realize that every morning, when he rolled out of bed, he rolled a cigarette before he removed his night clothes. If the case is begun and continued in this way any wonder that his head is muddled?
"Between 1963 and 1912" quotes the Philadelphia Ledger, "the number of cigarettes consumed yearly has leaped from three billion to twelve billions." There is real cause of alarm in these figures. It has been said that Americans would rather lie down and do than think. This may help to explain
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"A great percentage of the men who inhulge in this habit, if they did not have a sign board permanently rooted in their systems during their stay there. A gigantic sign board, featuring a well-known figure on the roof, is erected on the top of a building at the corner of College and Chapel streets. "We hope that it will serve for the great purpose which its very prominence seems to guarantee; a danger signal for the property."
"Excessive drinking has similar results. Too much beer makes the mind just as flabby as the body."
Police Lose in Hold-up—Headline.
Most of us did until the time of the depression.
Being irresponsible and dapper—no matter how truly American it is—is not always the wisest of courses to follow. Especially is this true if an individual is mayor of a city the size of New York, as is Mayor James Walker at the latest report.
When news of ouster proceedings against Mayer "Jimmy" reached here the immediate conclusion was that the inevitable had happened. The murder of Vivian Gordon, an outgrowth of a Vivian investigation into corrupc police department affairs, served only to kindle further charges against Mayer Walker's conduct, or rather, his lack of it, in civic management.
MAYOR WALKER'S PLIGHT
And yet it is hard not to feel sorry for Mayor Walker. His official duties, so far as we've ever heard, have been those which other civic leaders would often shun. Whereas, in Kansas, mayors are more concerned over new paving, the ban on Sunday motion picture shows, and the slot machine gambling menace, in New York the greatest exaction of a municipal head is to play
the role of host to visiting celebrities.
Thus far Mayor Walker's job seemed to consist of just that—welcoming company to America. Undeniably, the role of host is not to be disregarded, but in the old, old days a court jester fortunately was handily obtinable for similar purposes—to amuse outsiders.
A thief recently robbed Tex Guinan's home to the extent of $4,000. It is said that joyauloy is a strong element even among the hi-jacking group.
ONE ASPECT OF COMPANIONATE MAREJAGE
The aspect of companionate marriage which would do away with the unjust matters of alimony and breach of trust is in itself worthy of attention.
Heart balm is a desirable thing a times in this country. Often it has meant that a woman, bereft of the love of a man, might obtain thousands of dollars because of alleged agony suffered by the lovely young person due to a broken vow on the part of a man. And it has been demonstrated, of course, by jury actions in the past, that the pretier the maid, the tIDer sum of money likely to accrue to her from the court.
In Europe the form of breach of promise known to America simply doesn't exist. In moneeyed America, where the tenderness of woman has caused something that passes for chivalry to spring up, is where the breach of promise "racket" is often worked to fruition in notorious cases.
PUZZLING RELATIONS
Those who browsed through last night's edition of the Kansas City Star doubledle were intrigued by that unique letter addressed to the "Chaperson" on page 12. It said:
"Dear Chaperson: My husband's stepmother's sister, who, naturally, is my husband's steppan, introduces my husband as her nephew, and tells all her friends he is her nephew. He is no blood relation at all, and he rather resents it. He says she should say 'my sister's stepson.'
"Who is right?
"Wondering."
"Chaperon" answered the query satisfactorily. But we could not help remember, reading "Wondering's" letter, of a little town down in the Ozarks where everyone is the kin of everyone else. If a social pancreas should hit that town, and some "Wondering" should inquire into all the ramifications of her relations, the result would be a letter stipulating in its scope. To tell the truth, the one quoted above had us bewildered.
A San Francisco woman is suing for divorce because her husband insisted that they play miniature golf. Often it is the little things that cause marital difficulties.
It is no secret that aviation has reached a critical point in its progress. Many improvements have been made, but there are still many to be found which will insure safety for people traveling above the ground.
AVIATION
The manager of the Cincinnati Reds says that with a few breaks the club should stay out of the cellar. Such opti- tions with a few breaks some students could pass in one subject.
Campus Comment
There are three principal factors to consider in judging where aviation stands today: the plane, the pilot, and air traffic. The plane is a nearly perfected machine. Current improvements are largely refinements and accessories.
One weakness of the plane is its insufficiency to fly slowly and to come under full control to a stop at the point of landing. The answer to this weakness is the invention of the autogiro. It flies on what is really a revolving wing, whose blades or vanes are air flow mills.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVII Tuesday, April 7, 1923 No. 147
There will be a meeting of the Botany club at 7:30 o'clock this evening at 1121 Louisiana Street. Mr. Mayberry will talk. All members are urged to attend.
ERMA MARZOLF, President.
BOTANY CLUB:
KAPPA Plu club will meet this evening at 7 o'clock at Myers hall.
Kappa Plu club will meet this evening at 7 o'clock at Myers hall.
MARGARET E. ROBERTS, President
KAPPA PHI:
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS;
Le Cerclé Français se reunira morderc aquarel a bourre et dousse dans
salle 306 Fresas hall.
RUTH BREEDENTIAL. Securitaires.
ing at sufficient speed to maintain flight whatever the forward speed of the craft. This machine can maintain a flight at 20 miles per hour and land at no speed at all while the best airplane must fly at 50 miles an hour or more and land at nearly the same speed.
There are five psychological types of dreams, but if you listen to modern music you are sure there's five million types of dream girls.
Campus Opinion
PROGRESSIVE PARTY?
Editor Daily Kansan:
from the position of an interested spectator I have watched the drama of 1940 police during four years in New York. In some ways, I'm gone like the forces of the movie world, but this year we have the most complex scene of any election in my life.
I gazed with approval upon the emergence of an alleged non-fraternity party with a policy which seemed to justify its existence equally as well as that of others of the one party. It seemed to fill a place popular in Hill politics.
Then, suddenly, my sense of humor was given a shock by the announcement of a second non-fraternity party. I wondered how it would try to justify this new plan if the party remained in vain. Since the new party remained in a veil of mystery, I bought the leader of the Progressives himself, the vice president of the secret. He told me that as yet the party consisted of a few men of the mystic inner circle, that information of party meetings could not be divulged, and no definite plans had been formulated.
As I went away shadddering with the increasing mystery of the whole affair, I wondered if this was simply a group effort to maintain the morality or if it was really a worthy organization. If the Progressive party is to gain the respect of non-fraternity groups, we need to advertise a definite function more attractive than that of the Kayhawks. Otherwise, why do they not ally them under the fraternity-fraternity organization? I don't know!
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STEPPING INTO A MODERN WORLD
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Basic technical knowledge, an appreciation of economic factors and the ability to cooperate are some of things that count in Bell System engineering. For men of this stamp, the opportunity is there!
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