Pleasantness: +1 more than 40 percent WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11, 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIUP... PAUL FISHER Elizabeth Moody Leslie Twain MANAGING EDITOR CAREL COOPELY Mickey Edition Robberia Carlsonville Cameron Edition Robberia Carlsonville Sunday Edition Robberia Carlsonville Jackie Edition Robberia Carlsonville Sport Edition Robert Whiteman Tiltograph Edition Robert Keen Dominion Edition Dominion Sacramento Edition Paintor Kiki Sacramento Edition Paintor Kiki ADVERTISING MANAGER, MARION BEATTY Astr, Advertising Mgr. Iris Siamsonne Frank McCutland William Nichols Virginia Williams Moorie Burr Mary Barron Joe Finkleman Carol Cooper Jack Minter Jack Karp James Curran Telephones Business Office K. U. 66 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2701K3 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 Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $1.00 per year, payable in advance. Simple option. Enrollment entered on the internet. Submit enclosed form to the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 2, 1875. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. 1931 THE COUNCIL'S STAND Misinterpretation has appeared and will appear among the people of the state concerning the refusal of the Men's Student Council to turn over information concerning university violators of law to the county officials. For years it has been taken as a matter of course that the executive branch of the council should deal with violators, especially violators in misdeedsmen such as drinking. In no sense was such a right regarded as an extra-territorial concession. Breaches of minor laws occur in all schools; they are not flagrant or important enough to warrant criminal prosecution and are, almost without exception, dealt with by student governments. The aim of County Attorney Harry F. Fraser in counting such information was to discover local sources of liquor supply. He is a commendable desire; but whatever amount of discipline and cooperation has been achieved between the student body and the council would partially dissolve should violators be subjected to both county and Hill questioning and prosecution. The council's stand may be mistaken as an open threat toward the recent pledge of the fraternities to co-operate with school and state officials toward solving the drinking problem. But this would be to misjudge it. There is no essential defiance in its stand, if Kansan understands that stand. It has the problem of fostering a spirit of cooperation on the Hill that might easily be destroyed by double prosecution. A same solution might be to turn over or Mr. Frazee those men who are caught offending more than once. Obviously a habitual drinker has greater access to a "source" than the student brought before the council for the first time. But policing by council members for the university is an executive power of the University to regulate itself in matters calling for punishment of midemonders. The Ohio Health News says the home is a dangerous place, and readers familiar with the Bennett trial will corroborate the statement. APPROACHING ELECTIONS “If Abraham Lincoln had gone to a state university he would have been ruined. He would have learned how to get grades by taking ‘pipe’ courses, and would have learned ‘dirty’ politics. He would have been standardized.” This statement was made by Professor Edward McMalon of the history department at the University of Washington in an address commemorating Lincoln's birthday. It is not a new thought in the field of education, but it is strange coming from one active in a major university. "A university education is an admirable thing in many ways, but often its standardization influence is disastrous. For the average man it undoubtedly is highly advantageous, but not for a great individual like Linda R. Sternberg. It has virtually suffers in modern education." So runs in part an editorial in the California Daily Bruin. We have two elections in the near future. One, that of the W. S. G. A., is to be held today, and the Men's Student Council election follows in a few weeks. Professor McMahon in his state- OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XIIY Wednesday, March 11, 1931 No. 128 AERO CLUB: An important meeting of the K. U. Aero club will be held Thursday evening March 12, at 7:30 o'clock in room 116 Marvin hall. JOHN A. LAPHAM, Secretary. BAND: The hand will rehearse in the lobby of the Administration building tonight J. C. McCANLES, Director. GRADUATE CLUB: The Graduate club will have its regular dinner meeting tonight at 6 o'clock at the cafeteria. Dean Stouffer will speak on his trip to Italy. QUILL CLUB: LAVON KIESTER. There will be a meeting of the Quill Club this evening in the rest room or central Administration building. Initiatives and new pledges must be present. SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB; Snow Zoology club will meet at 6 o'clock Thursday, March 12, in room 201 snow hall. Selma Gottlieb will speak. D. ST. MAMBAUGH, Secretary. SOUR OWL SALES STAFF: WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY There will be a meeting of the Sour Owl趴 staff on the Kappa Sigma house Thursday, March 13, at 10:30 p.m. All members please be present. The regular Wednesday night variety dance will be held at the Union building this evening from 7 to 8 e'clock. WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB: DAVE NEWCOMER and FERN SNYDER. Because of the lecture by Thurlow Lieurance at 3:30 Thursday afternoon, March 12, there will not be a rehearsal of the Western Gleave club at 4:30 for the lecture. nements charges all universities with dirty politics. Does this apply to the University? Whether the charge is justifiable will be shown in the coming elections. The W. S. G. A has made a sincere attempt to check unidealized practices, and the story of Wednesday's election will tell how successful the effort was. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY In an address to the Noon Luncheon, Forum, Powers Haggood, employee of the Columbia Conservative Company, Indiannaplants, stated that the experiment in industrial democracy being tried by that company is highly efficient. During thirteen of the fourteen years of its history it has earned a 15 per cent to 39 per cent profit. At the same time it paid its employees salaries 150 per cent above the wages paid by competitors. Armament may not be the aim of good diplomacy, but cadets in military schools still must shoulder arms to achieve their diplomats. THE ORIENT GOES COLLEGIATE Part of this surplus, he says, is saved in the system of paying employees. Each is paid on the basis of need rather than position, so that executives do not receive the excessive salaries paid in most companies. The chief source of efficiency, however, Mr. Happgood attributes to the reduction of the waste generally found in industry. The company provides for the needs of employees in the way of health protection, unemployment insurance, old age pension, educational programs and recreational facilities, so that an unusually high morale is maintained. Since the plant is being bought and operated by the workers collectively, it is to their interest to reduce waste to a minimum Realizing the superiority of their working conditions, the employees are ready to co-operate in making the plant a success. The results of this experiment should be a source of encouragement for other workers with higher ideals. That oriental country, Tibet, secluded within the Himalayan Mountains is faced with a social war. Again, as it is so often, youth is the cause; the Tibetan younger generation has indulged in razors, lipstick, soda water, and whisky, and their elders regard such innovations with opprobrium. For a youth to shave his face instead of plucking the whiskers out by the use of tweezers, as his father does, is indecorum—it shows no respect for traditions, manhood, or parental love. Young ladies of Tibet who carmine their lips are beginning a descent toward the doorway of iniquity, much like American women were who first painted their faces thirty years ago. The whole issue of morals and social rights is incubated in those innovations; but like the results in Caucasian countries, they are over-emphasized at their first introduction, and will eventually fall into a level where they are taken as a matter of course. Campus Opinion FRATERNITY TAXATION ditor Daily Kansan EDATEDNITV TAVATION The problem of fraternity taxation has, in my opinion, been discussed to a great extent. It is too little in terms of arithmetic. If the community, as a façal unit, decides to excuse a group of its members from contributing to the common enterprise, it will be neither some public enterprises must be cancelled, or the obligation from which the special group is excused must be removed, nor remaining persons in the community. Suppose for the sake of simplicity that taxes to be paid at the Douglas County Court House (exclusive of sponsorship) would amount to one million two hundred thousand dollars, and that of this sum thirty thousand dollars, or two and a half万 dollars in fines, penalties, mitigations and sororities in the county, as their contribution. If these groups fail to pay the thirty thousand dollars, that taxes would not be deducted from on the tax-tax, in addition to the ninety-seven and one-half per cent taxes, which necessarily fallon on those others. It should not be difficult to compute one's own share in this distributed additional burden. Take the case of a fraternity whose fraternities were honoring their assessments, would come to a hundred and fifty students, but no basis of the figures assumed, the extra amount he must contribute, in case the fraternities pay nothing, appears to him at some point or perhaps, but not trifling to those living on the scale indicated by taxes of his family, in a book for a son or daughter in college; that amount may purchase a necessary test, or tip the balance in deciding whether to graduate this year, or Junior a pair of shoes before the old ones fall off his feet. Suppose again, that in some state the fraternity has suddenly exempted. Such a small householder as we have in mind might very well, if he thinks out the mathematical steps necessary to go gives my subscription to the National Geographic Magazine; or "Little as it is," to give me permission to the storm windows myself this fall." In Kansas the same thing happens in a town with an excellent residence, hitherto a source of revenue for the community, passes actually or nominally into the hands of a fraternal benefactor. I see no escape from the deduction that if the organized houses withhold the taxes levied against them, they are easily passing the hat among the rest of us. Some weeks ago a writer in the Kansan suggested that we all "spend at least five cents out of every dollar for home-owner we have cited, a fairly typical citizen, juggling the coal bills and doctors' fees as well as he may, for example, but with such a much ratio of expenditure. The genuinely self-supporting student, in my fairly intimate acquaintance with the cultural opportunity offered by the Christmas vacation, said spending fifty cents for a movie. Often he decides that he cannot afford the cultural opportunity offered by the Christmas vacation. He cannot be afforded to go home even for the Christmas vacation. For the fraternities to spend five per cent of their income on parties (the estimate offered by the government) time to enjoy exemption from taxation at a rate of two or three per cent, is to have the struggle for existence caused matter that does not feel ill of me. When our typical citizen, whether home-owner or renter, gets a glimpse into one of the finer fraternity dwellings, he perceives that from some distance he can see the building and furnishings such as are entirely beyond his reach. A single rug, a dining-room set, may equal in value his whole domestic equipment. Arthritis may outlay for sumptuous fittings, and money is found to pay the taxes. It is asserted that they not it for the fraternity houses the state would have to provide more willingly contribute, if contribute they must, to the building of dormitories open to students as students on the basis of clothes, good looks, likeable personalities, or bank accounts. What of the fraternity member's side? I have been able to obtain it would appear that taxation of the organized houses would cast each member, on the annual annuum. Membership in the fraternity, if it is indeed so high a privilege, should be worth this amount. If the added cost of membership is a hardship undergoe, not for the sake of education, but for the sake of attractive surroundings, expensive enter- tance fees, and an annual rate, if this estimate is correct, it would seem to dispose of the argument that taking the fraternities would force them Why Drive a Mud Spattered Car Phone 433 Rent-A-Ford Co. It is asking a great deal of human nature; yet some sensitive mind among us can't help but look on neighbors with new eyes. There is hawaiian X, across the street; he certainly does not have his clothes on, and we can see that he covably the twenty-nine dollars a year I am holding back might have something to do with 19. Or with Jack Y's money. That way you get paid. That's a sweet little kid next door; durnight shame that her mother told her she couldn't afford roller skates. But I will pay them on their tax bill make the difference. Fraternity people are like the rest of us; passively good-hearted, but not so, and often even more. Once let them realize that whatever is given to one must be taken from another, and some of them at least will take a slight sacrifice for the general goal. when it is so easy to leave it at Householder. The Rent-A-Ford Company for a complete cleaning and polishing. Now that the storm is over protect the finish on the car by having it thoroughly cleaned at once. 916 Mass Ten Years Ago The faculty of the College passed on several new courses in the departments of journalism, mathematics and geology and school of medicine. "Fags are getting with the women. Twenty billion cigarettes were consumed by American women in 1920. That's a small percentage, yet is the time far distant when our girls will stroll down the campus with a big black Bobble helmet clocked cockpit and a car. They'll be sitting even a ripple of comment? Smoking is merely matter of custom; common usage will soon destroy the novice woman reign." -Editorial in Daily Kanoa The retaining wall which holds up the terrace between the Law building and the car tracks is to be made beautiful by the plant of shrubs and vines. Plants are also made to plant the slope of the south camp behind the Journals building down by the car tracks. The plan also involves a new Journalism building. City officials have decided to cinder the path through South Park which on rainy days has been the cause of much prolamity on the part of the students Dr. William A. McKeever is to leave soon for an extended tour through the east. 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UNIVERSITY CONCERT COURSE MAIER and PATTISON In a Recital for Two Pianos The Farewell Tour of this inimitable pair—the greatest two-piano virtuosos in the world today—the last word in pianistic ensemble. UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM Monday, March 16th, 8:20 p.m. Recent Press Excerpts "For sheet musical enjoyment, it was easily one of the season's high spots." — New York Evening World. "I the playing of Maer and Pattison has been for years the standard by which an two-piano playing is measured." — Ransas City Times. "They share audiences, they face the fascination of the multicolored touches that fazle, cherm, and move the listener, each in turn." — Omaha World Heald. Seats now selling at $2.00, $1.50, and $1.00 Round Corner Drug Store at Bell's Music Store Fine Arts Office "The playing of Maier and Pattison has been for years the standard by which all two-piano playing is measured." - Kansas City Times. V