- UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1951 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEF PAUL FISHER MANAGING EDITOR CARL COOPEI Campus Editors Roberta Collierson Missage Editor Jake Knuth Night Edition Philip Kruse Sports Editor Philip Kruse Echange Editor Ralph Graben Fitchchance Editor Robbie Graben Demand Director Daniel Deering Album Editor Martha Lowery ADVERTISING MANAGER MARION BEATTY Assst. Advertising Mgr. Iris Furthmann Frank McClifford Virginia, Williamson William Nubble Virginia, Williamson Mary Barrett Tennessee, Dauco Dan Carr Pennsylvania Paul William Moore Telephones Business Office K.U. 68 News Room K.U. 19 Night Conversion 2701KJ Published on the afternoon, five times a week, and distributed throughout the country. An invitation to the University of Riverside from the late Sir Ian Russell, Vice-Chancellor, High Court, London, sought by the Royal Society, 19th September 1875, at the价卖会 at Lawnside, Riverside, until September 1876. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931 KNUTE ROCKNE Several weeks ago Knute Rocke came to Lawrence and addressed the football banquet held in honor of the Kansas, Haskell, and Lawrence high gridiron teams. Those who heard Rocke speak will not forget him. The vitality of his voice fixed his dynamic personality into the memory of that audience. What he said was clear, concrete, studied. It was the message of a brilliant teacher speaking on the subject he knew better than any other living man—a subject synonymous with his name—football. Yesterday death took Kruse Rocke. His was a swift and terrible death, in a tragedy resulting from the thing Rocke himself loved so well, speed No warning preceded to intimate the end was near a man in the prime of his life. Yesterday Rocke, of the vital voice, the keen mind, the intelligent understanding of youth, lived, and today the nation has only the memory of him to honor and to acclaim. The youth of the country know his story, how born, how in Novaye, he came to America and achieved fame as a great end on early Notre Dame teams, know how completely the destiny of those fine Irish teams went hand in hand with his understanding of the game, know how he respected courage, fleetness, and mentality. The youth of the country know all those things. They recall how he taught football to the Great Gipp, the fleet Miller, the sharp Studderer, the敏捷 Cannon, the brilliant Carideo. Those men were Rockne's pupils. It is with our youth that Rocke's death hurts most. Rocke and Notre Dame, Rocke and football, Rocke and youth. How intertwined those things are? Now Rocke is dead. Notre Dame must go on, football must go on, and youth must go on. But temporarily the loss is so sudden and so deeply pounded that the whole nation feels the tragedy, and halts to pay its respects to a brilliant mentor, a capable spokesman, and an honest gentleman. "An Indian Bureau Shake-up."- Headline. No doubt one of the chiefs must be looking for his collar-button. GOING HOME Back in our boyhood we remember an old darky who, at nightfall, ambled down the alley behind our house singing a song in a deeply rich voice. The tune never varied, nor did its words. He sang: "Some of dese days Wid a smile on mah face. To 'at shack An" 'at red headed hen." His melody was the glad joy of a man going home. We knew that. Whether he referred to a lady with abum hair or merely a chicken whose feathers were red, we were never sure; it did not matter. Someplace down that alley there was a home for him, a face that he loved and sang about, four walls over which he exercised his dominion. Tomorrow hundreds of us are leaving school with a "s smile on our faces" to go back to our own homes. Perhaps it is not down an alley, nor is it likely that many of us think of our people as "red-headed hems." But save for those little differences the feeling that homelove evokes has the same quality. We are going back to people whose blood is in our blood, and who regard our every thought and action with the sympathy and understanding that family engenders. It is a glad time. To go back to familiar haunts and familiar faces is always pleasant; when the two are merged with one's childhood, the feeling that occurs, we think, knows none other in the whole field of human emotions that is comparable. We bid you a good Easter. The Nation thinks wages should remain stable, but before that can happen employment itself must become more regular. THE SUN APPEARS The sun smiled again this morning, breaking a dolorous mood it has had for several days. No dark clouds hover in the background; the atmosphere has a fine clarity as though to prophesy good weather. The past week, with its snow and cold, took its soil in human life out in Colorado, and millions of dollars' worth of cattle were lost to owners in the western part of Kansas. But the wide grin the sun extends today takes no recognition of these catatrophes; it is as benign if nothing had happened. BULLETIN: TWO HOUSES LATER Since the editor sent down the above optimism two clouds have formed in the East, another frothers from overhead, and the slight wind has still wilted itself. A man is a damned fool to forecast women, politics, athletic contests, and depression cures, but he is more of a damned fool when he regards the weather with a prophetic blurb. A fleeing canine led a dog catcher into a house where four criminals worth $5,000 reward were harbored. It is to be hoped that the future biographer of that dogcatcher will not say that his hero's first success came through dogged persistence. FOR THE PREVENTION OF DIVORCES A new scheme has been advanced b Miss Portia Man士field, "creator of correctives in dance form", for averting divorces and leading generally to hapari family life. She and presto everything's lovely, she says. At first blush this newest of plans for the perpetuation of the family scene seemed most practically. The reader asked himself, has a more feasible and sincerse scheme been suggested by divorce doctors? But then came the reason why tha plan works：“Dancing increaser circulation of slaghug blood and freedor of movement which produces exhalation and a resultant change of mood. The scheme was merely disguised; it really is just a new manner in which to go about getting the husband o w to exercise and change his sulk mood. And the old manmer? It was no an invitation to dance, but a curt ord from the wife to “go chase yourselves out the block”! A man in Philadelphia was shot by a stranger when he refused to take a drink from him. Some fellows can take their own medicine all right, but would much rather give it away. Galileo watched a lamp swinging in a cathedral. We have our pendulum clocks as a result. Kepler took the observations of Tycho and formulated his immortal laws of planetary motion. Newton saw the apple fall, and gave us the law of gravitation. Watt's image of the bouncing tea-kettle lid developed into the steam engine. Immanuel Kant never went more than fifty miles from his home, yet he probably influenced thought more than any single philosopher since. Shakespeare studied the people of his time, and left us Hamlet. CREATIVE THINKING Most of us have observed many of the same simple phenomena form which sprang these great thoughts. Each new invention or discovery impresses us with its simplicity and the stupidity of our own observation. But undoubtedly, we could make our observation more fruitful if we would follow certain guide-posts, pointed out by a modern writer: The first is a speculative attitude of mind; consciously cultivation of the habit of looking at a subject from all Simply make a start holds up the most of us. Formulate your problem as nearly as possible and write down all the facts about it. One idea will suggest another. sides, and always being in readiness to cope with the unusual. There is an initial period of resistance. This sluggishness of mind at the start must be overcome if any pro-creative thinking is to be done. really productive thinkers record ideas. Rousseau always carried a writing pad. Ideas sometimes come when they are least expected. Mental relaxation is essential; we have all learned that after a period of concentrated study, suggestions often come only when we have become less tense. A Cornell professor likes raw nurserau, but most Hill professors show strong dislike for mutilated Gersan. And finally, there must be a period of incubation. A great deal of association seems to be unconscious. Keep going over the details, and give your ideas time to ripen into the worthwhile fruit of creative thinking. CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED INDIRECTLY Elderly gentleman and nice old ladies have many things to say about this generation. They depile their conduct, its ideals and most of its ideas. From general criticisms it is obvious that they have very little confidence in the ability of the younger generation. Expressions of confidence are rare, but quite often one hears, "That's the job of the present generation." Whether it is a difficult scientific problem, or a social one, it is left to the present generation to work things out satisfactorily. Our economic system fails to function, our constitution is inefficient, and there is an ever-increasing threat of war. What to do about it? It is a problem for the present generation to solve, say the older and wiser ones. An expression of supreme confidence! Plain Tales --where Society Brand Clothes are sold The first attempt at an April fool joke last night did not work so well. About 2 a.m. m. this morning, an急客 from his shop by the instigrant shack answered his house. When he answered, however, the party had evidently left the telephone. The operator remembered the caller, however, and called back. Costume Jewelry "Is this ___?" a masculine voice asked. Latest designs just arrived. Come on in. The College Jeweler CLOSING HOURS FOR WOMEN RESIDENCE: The closing hours for women's residences during the Easter vacation are as follows: 11:30, Wednesday; 11:30, Thursday; 11:30, Friday; 11:30, Saturday 10:00, Sunday; 10:00, Monday. MYRA LITTLE, President, W.S.C.A. INVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB the April 14th event, Women's Club in honor of the tenuree will be given Thursday, April 9, in Myers hall. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXII Wednesday, April 1, 1921 No. 146 CLOSING HOURS FOR WOMEN'S RESIDENCES: WEDNESDAY VARSITY: There will not be a mid-week variation this week. FEEN SNYDEL, DAVE NEWCOMP. "Yes," the instructor replied. "What is your view on prohibition?" "What is the purpose of the question?" "Oh, there is going to be a little publication on the Hill in the morning, and we want your view for the students before they leave for home." "I is that right?" Well, I think you had better wait until morning," the instructor said. "But that is too late." But the instructor was rather stubborn about giving his opinion on the conversation, so finally the conversation closed. The number which the operator called back for the instructor was that of a womponent fraternity house. Our Contemporaries ROCKNE'S PASSING Whatever happened is known only to the palet and to the gray overhanging walls, while a giant airway, west carrying the secret of the death of Knute Rockwell and his seven companions, rises from the rock. So died the great Viking of football at a high hill overlooking a prairie, at the stage road and the new highway of the air, and at his bier keeping vigil on the hill top stood not Dome, four wardenes of Notre Dame, but four summons in prison forcing back from the tangled wrangle—a gaping curious crowd. Swiftly and painlessly he passed from a land of far horizons into a horizon without bounds. -W. A. White. Picture Framing STATIONERY WALL PAPER Keeler's Book Store Campus Comment 939 Mass. Phone 33 Some pulled practical jokes on the profs today by pulling stake and leaving. Probably joke on the prof. though. GAS UP AT TAXI! TAXI! Prompt Service Firestone TIRES Phone 987 For the Easter Trip Handiest Place in Town CARTER'S Guffin Taxi Service Large Cars Trunk Trucks KENNEDY Plumbing Co. 937 Mass. St. Phone 658 General Electric Refrigerators Phone 590 Easter Vacation RIDE THE BUS Convenient and Dependable Service to All Principal Cities Low One Way and Round Trip Excursion Fares For details call Interurban Bus Depot 618 Massachusetts Phone 590 Before Returning Home for Easter Vacation Why not Secure Suitable Permanent Gifts for the Home Folks from F. H.Roberts PERMANENT WAVES Any Style — $2.50 and $4.00 Shampoo 25c Fingerwave 25c Special Sale of Cosmetics Snyder Beauty School 817 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kan. Phone 893 Our Nicest Packages of Johnston's and Whitman's Easter Candies Are Selling Fast. Johnston's Orchid Boxes of Luscious Chocolates Rankin's Drug Store "Handy for Students" 11th & Mass Phone 678 Whitman's special Easter boxes of chocolate eggs and rabbits. Also Whitman's Easter eggs in different flavors — fruit and nut, chocolate cream, tiny eggs. And Whitman's Sampler with an Easter wrapper. OUR EXPERIENCE in handling fine merchandise assures the correctness of style and value of goods shown in our store. Geo. T. Wetzel FOR FINANCE COMMISSIONER I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Finance Commissioner. It is not my purpose to make my campaign on promises, as observation has convinced me they are seldom fulfilled. "Tax reduction" as a campaign slogan sounds well, but too many use it without knowing just how they will bring it about. It is easy to say that taxes can and will be reduced. The important question is "How to reduce them without sacrificing efficiency?" Personally, I am for tax reduction, wherever it can be accomplished, and I have used every effort to see that all money was wisely expended that was levied for. As the management of our city is purely a business proposition, the application of sound business principles is expected from the Board of Commissioners. Experience and knowledge of the requirements of our city, gained by my three years of service should be worth much in the administration of its financial affairs. I shall appreciate,very much,your support next Tuesday, April 7 and pledge my earnest effort in the affairs of City Government. %%