PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931 University Daily Kansan OFFICIAL Student Papers of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOK-IN-CHIEP ... PAUL FISH** Associate Enumer Sam Shrike William Nichols MANAGING EDITOR CAREL COOPER Mukesh Edition Bharat Bharat Michael Cox Corporate Edition Bharat Bharat Michael Cox Tilakpandh Edi Bharat Bharat Ranjeet Chawla Suntaj Edi Lakshmi Chowdhury Suviram Edi Lakshmi Chowdhury ADVERTISING MANAGER. MARION BEATTY Aust. Advertising Mgr. Iris Simmons Kennan Board Members Frank McCollatt Virginia Williamson Carl Goepfer Owen Paul William Nichols Mariam Berry Jim Forstomson Jerry Arroyo William Moore Paul Fisher Telenhones 139phones Business Office K. U. 66 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2701X Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Texas, in The Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance, only on order prior to publication. Mail subscription form to Mint Server, 17 Kansas, at the post office at Lawrence KS, under the act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY. MARCH 16, 1931 CONCERNING CONCERNING GOVERNOR WOODRING The administration of Governor Harry Wooding is still young, but already he has displayed courage and sincerity. His veto of the capital punishment bill was the act of an executive free from political genentructions to voters or fear from criticism from members of the state legislature. To have instigated capital punishment in this state would have been a barricade and unscientific return to primitive means of crime deterence. Moreover, such a practice is wholly out of line with Kansas traditions and Kansas thinking. Wooding's convictions on the question happened to differ from those of the legislature, and yet the Kansan believes he acted as the majority of the people in the state would have him act. His decision was courageous; the reasons he gave for it were intelligent, and in all matters, when an executive acts on those principles, he deserves the admiration and support of the people. CRIME NEWS IN THE MINORITY Clara Bow would like for everyone to understand that she is just a modern girl trying to get along. And so, for that matter, was Daisy De Bee. "Pick up the newspaper and you see nothing but crime and scandal," so the old criticism goes. It my be astounding to know that the amount of newspaper space given to crime averages about five per cent of the contents of the newspaper exclusive of advertisement. That was proved by the research of the University of Oregon, and Pennsylvania universities, Some of the dislubition in the minds of these persons can be attributed to the relative attention that is given various kinds of news. The fact that an article under the head, "Women Kill Husband's Caller", is devised and a book written by her goes by unnoticed is very often the explanation of the misunderstanding. Henry's Clothiers from Wichita won the National Basketball title. The well dressed men always get the breaks. AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT Under the inspiring leadership of Doctor Mieklejko, the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin has plied its education venture almost to the end of its original five-year plan. The experiment has been carried on under considerable difficulty. Those who oppose the institution have probably been responsible for the premature announcement of its abandonment. The Experimental College has by no means failed, and may very probably be continued on the same principles or under a modified plan after this year. Realizing the defects in our traditional educational system, we are all interested in learning the results of the Meklejko experiment. Undoubtedly the Advisers of this institution have made many observations which will be reinforced in reconstruction of college courses. In contact between the Advisors and students, new light must have been thrown on problems of instruction. As a recent editorial The New Republic points out, the ethics of the experiment itself forbids the publishing of premature conclusions, and so we must be satisfied to wait at least a year before the results can be appraised. It would be much better if critics of the institution would observe the true spirit of experiment and likewise suspend judgment until time enough had elapsed to view the results in their proper prospective. Berrand Russell believes all writers of first novels should be given six months in jail. Mr. Russell forgets, apparently, that jailing facilities cannot house fifty per cent of the population. MISPLACED IDEALISM Things as they ought to be are subtracted for things as they really are, specially in most books which have nothing to do with government. All national men are great, wars are always justifiable and the whole history of the nation follows the laws of the highest idealism—in textbooks. No educational history can believe that my nation exists with an unspotted but, under the plea of touching such books have gone largely mischallenged. The only result of such a gorging on inaccurate data has been to produce a complacent public, content that conditions are ideal because they read and were taught long ago that the United States has always been strictly honorable in her dealings with other nations and has always defended herself with defence only, and that her government had been as fair and humane as is humanly possible. All of this complacency makes people feel sure that the American Indian and the southern Negro have been given a square deal. It makes people willing to believe that our cultural standards and our system of education are the best possible. It makes average citizens give only faint credit to the statistician and his figures about the actual living wage of America and the terrible poverty of the submerged tent. Textbooks, magazines and all reading matter were designed to generate patriotism, and so we remain static in social ideas because we can not think critically. Jake-paralysis has hit California, but a yet no reports have come from the natives of the state pointing the disease out as an achievement of their wonderful climate. A cat lives only tine or ten years, but catty remark may smoulder for several decades. THE COLLECTING MANIA The collector's instinct seems to be a by-product of every sort of mind, from man to beast. When a dog makes a stove of bones, old and entirely fleshless, he is like the human collector who keeps obsolete things simply because they are obsolete. Yet there is more method in the human collector; rather than him the ideal of a complete collection, no dog ever thought of acquiring specimens of all the different kinds of bones in the world. The most perfect example of a collector is the one who collects articles neither useful nor beautiful to him, merely for the sake of collecting them. For him, collecting is altogether a game and it has the peculiar lure of being a game that can never be entirely finished. The learned Rupert Hughes thinks that the man who can sing in the bathroom ought to be able to wake his wife with a kiss. But when that happens, the husband sings a different tune later. Art needs to bear the brunt of this passion for collecting. It is well to treasure works of art for their beauty, and better still to enjoy them and use them. But it is not in the best of taste to collect them for the mere pleasure of collecting, as if they were postage stamps. Those who have an itch for collecting had better collect postage stamps than pictures, for no indignity is done to postage stamps when they are treated as more counters in the game. Pictures, if they are worth anything, deserve to be treasured for themselves. "The old lady made a gesture with her hands." Except from a story in Collin's. She might have wigged her ears. BELIEFS A great Chinese philosopher once said, "We see what we want to see; we hear what we want to hear; we beve-what we want to believe." Like the child who asked the teacher to let him go home because he had "some business to see" to, we go to a show on Monday afternoon to rest our over-worked eyes from difficult print and our minds from the week's study. We read fiction magazines to get contacts with "life." We practice basketball all week and then play golf on Sunday for the rest. We go to the library nights to study. We believe we should have the prohibition amendment changed because it is unconstitutional, since we are guaranteed the right to "pursuit of happiness." We believe in the turf because we fear the competition of the planet Mars. We believe in Hill politics because the tree need the protection of posters to scare away insects. Some even believe in a college education because professors have no uniem And so the habit of finding reasons to believe what we want to believe. We did not need a Chinese philosopher to tell us about it. Harvard men content that they lead the collegiate field in academic knowledge, but several other schools disagree. No one ever disputed a Notre Dame man who stated that his school led in gridiron tactics. The Irish give proof every fall that their boast is a truism. Plain Tales BROTHERS IN THE BOND BROTHERS IN THE BOND Baseball has not yielded as many顽固硬骨 as football and basketball, but one strange events have happened in the history of the Jayhawner ball club. The Kansen ninetail, at the conclusion of a national championship, gave the Larsing Prison team. Back in 1928, when "Punch" Livingston was captain, he and Coach John Burn took an odd turn. They held university times, and many of the inmates played, and battled the inacerated boys. It was Livingston's last season; he had been in the prison playoff games numerous times, and many of the inmates were during battling practice, "Punch" leaned against the pleachers and talked casually to the convicts. High above them was the jungle, where Livingston waved back, and grinned, "When do you'll get out schoo "This is my last year," Livingston replied. "What yo'all gonna do?" "I don't know," said Lavington. "Listen, the envoy's voice had the whim to sneak in it, 'why don't you come up here and take a post-graduate course?' Livington laughed. "Us state institutions," the darky cackled, "has gotta stick together." That same day Mol Kraemer, the hyderawaker catches, come up in batting stance and runs for home. He closes the prison wall in left field. A guard, marching slowly up and down, the blue wall of the room, shines. May sun, walked unconnectedly in the path of the ball. It zoomed by his head, missing him by inches, the guard, discharging. The crowd cried. Thousand prisoners there emerged a tremendous cheer, and at Kraemer's request they begged him to try his luck again. MARKSMANSHIP Finally, as they neared the showers, the collegian, not forgetting his fraternity training, held out his hand. "So you want to be back next year? I see you then." The game in 1925 ended affably. One of the Jayhawker outfielders walked by the prison pitcher, congratulated on the game he had pitched, and (ell-witness) toward the prison showers. The Larsing hurler was a great robust fellow, tight-mouthed, little grey around the knee. He barely bernched early in the game Livingston had said he was imprisoned for killing a man with a ball hit down in Chokecoe years before. The outfielder, trudging off him, was dildid and respectful. The big pitcher never smiled. "I hope to hell you don't," he growled. And the outfielder nodded, and mumbled to cover his embarrassment. MIKE CAILS ON THE NEWS ROOM Mike, maske of some Compositapatias, visited the Karasan News room yesterday. We were at a multiculturalistic friends. While they were typing out assignments with a preoccupied air, Mike, who is a nice shaggy old fellow, was standing in front of his sheep dog, sniffed all around and made friends with the women typists. He apparently wasn't looking when he signed up, but downstairs on the lower regions, while whispering set up when he found they were gone! "Silly pigs," one of the women remarked. "He might know which way we walked." "Why don't you go down, Mike?" Mike paid no attention. In great dis- There will be a meeting of the Bacteriology club Tuesday, March 17, at 12:39 in room 503. Snow hall. Dr. Stolward will speak. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Monday, March 16, 1321 No. 132 BACTERIOLOGY CLUB: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY: FRANK A. DLABAL, President The Christian Science society will meet Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in room 5, sub-station of the Union building. All who are interested are invited to join us. COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, March 17, at 4:30 in the auditorium at the University of Illinois. E H LINDLEY President DUCATION GRADUATE CLUB A meeting of the Education Graduate club will be held Tuesday at 1:30 week in room 115 Fresner ball. HERBERT G. ALLIPHN PEN AND SCROLL: There will be a meeting of Pen and Scroll on Tuesday, March 17, at 8 p.m. the rest room of central Administration building VIRGINIA RUFI, Secretary. PHI CHI THETA: Phi Chi Theta will meet at Herden house Tuesday evening at 7 c'clock IRENE MALONE, President. PRACTICE TEACHING: All students learn to do practice teaching during the fall semester 1901 to make application of the officer of the dean of the School of Education 1901. This is a very challenging job, and we recommend that students TALKS ON LITERATURE FOR FRESHMEN Missy Murray Hill will have a feature on "The Pioneer House in Contemporary American Literature" at 1:50 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in room 205 Fraser Hall. NELLIE BARNES, Chairman, Freshman English Lectures we he investigated every corner. In the end he set down his paw on a thumb tuck. Even the pain of pullnib hit out was not enough to convince Finally there were steps on the stairs and one of Mike's excursions poked his head under the railing. "Here, boy," he called. But would Make go down? No, sierie Mike is a wise dog and he keeps steps to himself so he doesn't mess-ments your paws stay on one to other and your tail stays up where you are. The men coaxed and pulled, but Mike was obdurate. He wanted to see what was down in the press room, and he hated to be left behind, but there were the steps, fifteen of them, and Mike never descends them—not if he Mike whined a little and crouched down when his master same near him. Then he stretched out determinedly as if to find a new door. He wait here until you come back." And wait Mike did. But when the reporters saw him last he was jogging out of the side door with his companion, his short tail high, anticipation growing. He had walked off of his cozy room house kitchen where there is plenty of delicious raw meat for a spoiled dog and no quack steps to go up or down. Campus Opinion THE KAYHAWK CLUB Editor Daily Kansan: As president of the newly formed Kayhawk Club, I wish to deny emphatically that the organization is out to maintain a culture that nurtures any animations toward them. On the contrary, the statement in Sunayk's Kawaiy was entirely contractione to the aims of the group. To the direct purpose of the group is to further co-operation among all non-traternity men in activities, political and athletic in their own lives, and to part in its activities, inasmuch as primary purposes of the body are to foster and promote the social and extra articular interests of non-fra The need of such an organization has long been felt by thinking non-fraternity men of the University, but little is known about the formation of such a group. At present however there is much enthusiasm am to its possibilities, and we feel that our membership should include all students in the student body as a whole. At the Recital Dean Chaffee. --in the Journalism Building—next door to the library Few, if any, of the past All-Musical Vesper program sponsored by the School of Fine Arts have offered the variety and interest of the program to students in its first one of the 1930-31 series. Eight numbers featuring vocal and instrumental ensembles introduced selections to the large audience that gathered in November 2016. An unusual feature of yesterdays program was the fact that during the afternoon the audience were given opportunity to hear a wood-wind quartet including the Orchestra and a student in the Fine Arts school and a brass quartet which took part in the closing Karg-Elert "Chorale" played by Dorothy Enlow. The program beamed from the Minor Suite' from Bach for string Quartet and flute, played yesterday for the first time in Lawrence. Another new work, the "State Brute" for two instruments, was performed by Roy Underwood of the Fine Arts faculty from which the "Bercuse" and Costume Jewelry "Air de ballett" were given fine performance and the "Meditation" and the "E Flat Major Fourteem" of Bach by the University students, Mr. Hirsch, Richard Porter, Glenn Morris, and Vernon Pice. The University's chorus with Prof. W. B. Downing presented the chorus from Gauls "Holly City." The list of the Churichet Holly Three were then miniatures from Frank Bridge played with fine effect by a trio consisting of Roy Underwood, piano; Thomas Swartouth, cello. An outstanding number on the program was a trio from the "Creation" by Hadyn, One That Echoes In Swarth Latest designs just arrived. Come on in. SMITH'S CAFE 1008 Mass. Good Meals 25e Steaks 25e and up Campus Comment The Chancellor says he has enough Irish blood in his veins to talk about St. Pat's day. --in the Journalism Building—next door to the library Tennis Rackets Restrung Promptly You'll like the Dobbs "Cross-Country" not alone because of its extreme good looks and comfortable light weight . . . but because the price is only--- Seven Dollars WANTED: Something that you no longer need and are willing to sell; something that you might get a few dollars for while there is a buyer for it. Apply Want Ad Department of the Kansan. 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