PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP PAUL FISHER Mikayla Editore Joe Knauth Sunday Edition Katherine Martin Napoleon Edition Jeffrey H. McGuire Michael Editore Philke Rubin Sports Editor Robert Whitehorne Alexander Editore Richard R. Woods Alaina Editore Duncan Lynch Secretary Editore Ian Carroll Roger Edison Randy W. ADVERTISING MANAGER . MARION BEATTY ASS. Advertising Mgr. 1st Firefighters Kentan Board Members Frank McCaffield Virginia Williamson Mary Barrett Carl Caggar Cat Moller William Nichels Mariam Barty Jack Firthman Jake Morris Daniel Moore Paul Fisher Telephones Business Office K. U. 60 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2'01K Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Arizona, from the Press of the Jersey Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Simple enquiries, or each. Call 877-236-1950. September 11, 2018; at the office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1870. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 DEATH OF DR. DAVIS Dr. Ozra Stearas Davis, who died Sunday, was the baccalaureate speaker last spring. Those who heard him speak know his power and dynamic personality so well hidden behind a screen of charming manners. Doctor Davis received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Leipzig in 1896, and was a graduate of Dartmouth and Hartford Theological Seminary. Among his books on theology are "International Aspects of Christianity" and "The Gospel in the Light of the World War." He was a writer of depth and power. Carl Sandbrug characterizes the past as a bucket of ashes, but many a poam man, looking in his coal bin, probably thinks the description would be more appropriate for the present. BULL SESSION In one of those bull sessions that collegians have almost perfect in scope and range of mooted problems, a young man sat on the floor and spoke for some time on the loss of "a central goal." He contended that the twenty- century education so many varied things to be had that centralized antics lost their motivating power. Like a house divided against itself, so man is today: too many things clamor to be possessed. The collegial haranguing in the buil session blamed advertising, mass production, the Rotary, machines, standardized education. He blamed a lot of things. What he decried, he said, was not so much the appearance of luxuries that became so common every man, must own them, but he hated to see so many men with "sterling metal inside" looting sight of a goal or a dream they had in boyhood. Despite what Edgar Lee Masters has done to the life of Lincoln, the emancipator, in an age like this one, could never have handled the crisis that faced the country during the Civil War; Lincoln, the collegiate reflected, would have been immersed in having a Ford coupe or a washing-machine, or a portable typewriter. A languid youth, idly flicking on a table light as he rolled in his chair, yawned. Yes, he drawled, all that the first collegian said was true. Lincoln today would be "as Aiflana Bill" Murray is; respected for his courage, deferred for his old-school oratory, laughed at because of his apparel. The two argued. Their theories became blurred and indistinct, and after a time they grew tired and went to get a coke in the languid youth's Ford. Neither questioned but that transportation was switer on wheels than afoot. Nor did either mention a loss of a "central goal." Fashion notes state that Queen Victoria bonnets belong to history. In these modern times, the Victorian woman does, too. ANOTHER ANGLE Sooner and later the road back of the journalism building and library which leads to the campus will be paved. Sooner or later there will be an accident on that road because the turn at the lower street car tracks and the curve below that are dangerous. Sooner or later alumni and friends who are interested in the welfare of the University will ask that the street be paved. From every other angle to Mt. Orca the surface is cement, yet some think that because the road is down and back out of sight the expense of naving would be useless. Now that the University hospital has been started between the journalism and physics buildings there is another reason why the road should be paved. In the summer, spring, and fall when the wind blows from the south dirt from the road will blow northward to the hospital and into the various rooms. That of course will not be good for patients. Surely if Mrs. Watkins is kind and thoughtful enough to donate another gift, this time a hospital for the good of students and the University, then the school ought to pave the only road which leads to the campus from the south and protect the hospital. Los Angeles statisticians estimate that 50 per cent of that city's school children have never seen a cow. The animated cartoons must have more of an audience in midwestern cities' cinemas if that is the case. BAGNELL. THEN AND NOW BAGSNELL, THEN AND NOW Two days ago the town of Bagnell, Mo., was a booming city, not very large yet growing fast since the new 30 million dollar dam of the Union Electric company was started on the Oauge river just above the town. Now the town is a thing of the past. Fire swept the entire business district day before yesterday, and destroyed five residences, besides claiming two lives. There remain only ruins. People who have spent their lives in the town are left desolate, with poverty staring them in the face. And many who have homes now will probably be without one in a short time, for those who lost their business houses lost almost their entire fortune. The town may be built up. It may not. Just now it brings home to a houghtless public how deeply life is ooted in the soil, how it depends upon home and hearth. The Prince of Wales confesses that he "would very much like to learn to speak American." It would embarrass the Prince, once he became acquainted with our idiom, to find how many horses have, at one time or another, "taken him for a ride." THE PRISON SYSTEM OF TODAY THE PRISON SYSTEM OF TODAY To him who has read "The Ballad of Reading Goal" by Oscar Wilde, the recent outbreak at the Joillet penitentiary is not unexplained. The men and boys who are in the various prisons have the same emotions and attitudes which many people who are free experience. When Joseph Cookley died in solitary confinement at the Illinois prison recently, the reaction of the inmates was much the same as it would have been in a factory where a worker was needlessly killed. Few people think of the purposes of the prison. They are vengeful, and hold it's a good-for-them attitude. The majority who read about the outbreak regards it nonchalantly, but it must be a terrible goading factor which will drive men to revolt inside of a high brick wall on which machine guns are firing. This is not always or insanity must enter at some period in the revolt. In either case, there is something wrong with the prison system as it is today. Whenever in the past there have been a series of revolts in a country, or a part of it, a series of reforms have always slowly followed. Many probably ask, "Just what is the matter with our prisons today?" This is not an easy question to answer. For one thing, the penitentiary of today is crowded, and the appropriations for maintenance are inadequate. The inmates are idle much of the time, and the warden can do nothing to change the conditions, because he must wait on the public to provide for the reforms. Another factor making for a poor prison system is the throwing together of all the different types of criminals within the same walls. Desperate killers, criminally insane men, first offenders, habitual criminals, murderers who are more children, petty youthful chicken thieves, and a few fortunate innocent men are mixed together to while away their time, talking, bragging, and planning. When the convict leaves the guards OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVII Wednesday, March 18, 1911 No. 134 EL ATENEO: El Ateneo tendra au reunion ordinarie el juventu del presente a las 4:30. O. S. GABIACT. Providencia. DRAMATIC CLUB: There will be a meeting of the K.U. Drummate club in Green hall on Thursday at 8 o'clock. ROERT HAG, President. FRESHMAN LECTURE POSTPONED: Miss Myra Hull is unable to give her lecture this week. The date for the lecture will be announced later. lecture will be announced later: NELLIE BAINES, Chairman, Preshnen English Lectures. INTER-RACIAL GROUP: There will be a meeting of the Inter-Racial group Thursday night at 7:15 at Henley house. PAULINE PETTERSON, MILDIED BRYANT, CHAIRMAN. YE SENIOR CLASS PHI SIGMA: Phi Sigma will meet Thursday, March 19, at 6 p.m. in room 201 Snow hall There will be election of officers. All members are urged to attend. PRACTICE TEACHING: All students planning to do practice teaching during the fall semester 1021 must make application at the office of the dean of the School of Education 103 Fraser, from March 16 to 20. RAYMOND A. SCHWEGLER, Dean. Installation banquet has been postponed until Tuesday, March 24. FERN SNYDER W. S.G.A.： Professor Olin Templin will lead the discussion at the X club meeting Thursday evening, March 19, at 7 o'clock. The meeting will be held in room 4 of the new building on the second floor. Yesterday announcement was made that the first meeting of the senior class would be held next Tuesday evening in Fraser hall. That means that the various committees will outline what senior events will take place before and after graduation. tell them to hurry back. Usually the released convicts do come back. The contacts which they have been forced into making while they were in the penitentiary drive them deeper and deeper into the mire of the underworld. They are caught in a prison system which is like quicksand, and it drags them down. As time moves on a few restless souls form a parade and march lock- "Life," said the erudite William Lyons Phelps recently, "is full of perplexities. Professor Phelps must have been caught in the labyrinth of a miniature golf course. Many a bruised prizefighter, we suppose, who is in the set of receiving too many gloves from his opponent, has prayed for a troupe of Scandinavian bell-ringers to wander inadvertently 'into the hall. There is one way in which this could be changed, at least in a measure. Possibly those criminals who come from the underworld of the cities can not be kept away from the various influences of crime, but the clean youth from the small city and from the country could be saved if the penitentiaries provided for some means of segregation. Then the younger members of the criminal class would not make the contacts, nor acquire the desire to become notorious in the underworld. Prisons would become real reform-orders, and not colleges of crime. There is little time left for seniors. Some will attempt to work hard these last 10 weeks; others will enjoy "col-litch" as much as possible. Much time will be taken for senior activities the rest of the year. The time grows short —senior meetings are in the calendar! An outlier visiting our state legislature for the first time during its last session before adjournment, would careerize and increase the intent that legislative body. OUR LEGISLATURE If this outfielder was blindfolded and led into the chamber of the house of representatives he would be sure that he had been taken to a three-ring circus or possibly was attending the Christmas party of the second year class of some grade school. The meeting is opened in the parliamentary fashion, but from then on childish, almost barbaric, tactics reign. One man succeeds in getting the floor and moves that certain last minute kills be passed and sent to the senate. If his voice is heard at all it is over a roar of booe and hisses. He is then aided to take his seat by an orange or an apple thrown from the other side of the room and he settles into the chair in a shower of newspapers, magazines, and paper boxes. step about the room with waste paper baskets over their heads for protection from flying misiles. The parade ends on the other side of the building in the balcony of the senate chambers, with the restless souls beating time on the waste baskets in a futile attempt to arouse the "back to nature" blood in the more refined senators. The senate chamber is a little more friendly, possibly because senators are too dignified for the childish pranks. Instead they spend their time "pouring soft soap" on their opponents. This is the last meeting and a late little for much of a comeback. However, if the outsider were observant, after the meeting adjourned he might find several copies of the Alger Boya series, Diamond Dick, and Two Gun Jim, catered about the room. Campus Opinion Paddling for men may be going out of practice, but Miss Barbara Joy, who gave the camp course last week, taught the women how to use batchets. NO SMOKING, PLEASE Editor Daily Kananay Up at Lincoln, Nebraska, a bunch of old fogey legislators are attempting to get a bill passed that would prohibit schools from buying guns in their schools. These well intentioned but misgled hang-overs of another age are excellent examples of the so-called gun control laws. The nicks in the box at church on Sunday loud enough for all those in that half of the church to hear the clark, return to the church go marching on Saturday, day night bath to be disturbed, ever lamenting the laxity and terribility of the present generation, these dear children should never be inundated modernistic stage decoration, made by hand by the players for reasonable percussion, especially, gave no signs of having been hastily constructed since Friday. The audience has no time to admire Culib hangings or to fessure you eye on triangulations. A real Irish maid with a St. Patrick's day accent is provided in the person of Boydle Rich, fa 33. She is color-blind and wears brown dresses to between her mistress's red and green medicines; naturally she can't put the hair on, then either, Jack Feist brings in a pair of blue pants as a character as the brother who follows the races. We don't like to keep harping on Feiss' emunciation, but he really most esteemate on not nudging his words. At the Play The cuckoo clock also deserves mention—it has a surprising faculty for cuckooing just when it shouldn't. It was too bad our George fell a victim to gormz just in time to prevaile over his special act, but Craffon, we noticed, took his place suspiciously well. C. F. Costume Jewelry Rv. Sara W. Thompson --tion—it has a surprising faculty for cuckooing just when it shouldn't. It was too bad our George fell a victim to gormz just in time to prevaile over his special act, but Craffon, we noticed, took his place suspiciously well. Latest designs just arrived. Come on in. It's hard to say which was best night—Fraser Wilson's sudden meta-morphosis from a little gray dove into a flirt; Mary Matthew's expression when she sees how her girl, her husband, takes to the girl she has chosen for his second wife; Allen Crafton's drunk-around portrait; or Robert Calderwood's posture. Those who haven't made reservations for this last offering of the Kampala Muster, they've a preemption that tonight and tomorrow the house is going to be sold “Her Husband’s Wife” is funny enough to entertain even the most mature audience. 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