PAGE TWO SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1631 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PAUL FISHER Elizabeth Moody Louise Twain MANAGING EDITOR CARL COOPER Makeup Editor Roberta Culbertson Sunday Editor Katherine Morris Donald Whiteman John Mayer Jeremy Clarkson Jock Knack Jonathan Coulomb Airbnb Endurance Michael Schumacher Mary Brundon Mary Chaffin Douglas Brunton Matthew Bruton Mia McCarthy Mia McCarthy Shaun McCarthy Shaun McCarthy Kansas Board Members ADVERTISING MANAGER..MARION BEATTY Asst. Advertising Mgr...Iris FitzSimons Paul Fisher **Russell Board Members** Frank M.C. McClain Frank W. Villanueva Martin Barratt Carl Capper Jack Munker Telephone Business Office K. U. 68 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 Kansas, from the Press of the Department. Subscriptions price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Single coupon, $250 due by September 17, 1995, at the post office at Lawrence Kannus, under the act of March 3, 1870. SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1931 KANSAS AND ABOLITION The course of Kansas in abolition channels has been irrevocable ever since John Brown's fatal and questionably idealistic act at Harper's Ferry. The Puritanic stratum has outcropped repeatedly since then in the workings of its state legislatures. In a national light Kansas has been regarded as significant in history, but rather insignificant from a provincial standpoint. Now inconsistency is entering the scene with the report that the state legislature is looking favorably upon the Muir bill, which would re-enact the death penalty. A state, like Kansas, that forbids the showing of motion pictures on Sundays, and yet countens a vote on capital punishment after that single abolition on its part has been its most redeeming feature in the eyes of others, is an enigma. The argument for capital punishment, of course, is that Kansas offers a more practicable ground for criminals than do other states. Figures contradict the fact that the homicide rate is on the increase here due to the absence of a death penalty. THE WEATHER VINDICATES YE GROUNDHOG "Wales Fails to Make Hit in Buenos Aires." — Headline. Perhaps the fans were riding him so hard he lost his batting eye. The groundhog known, Cynics who sneered at the shadow he cast some time ago are hard put for explanations today; the weather has borne out the traditional prophecy of that burrowing soothsayer. Like black cats, ladders, and white horses, the groundhog, in his own fashion, inevitably delivers, no matter how dubious weather conditions are when he first appears. The sun may best down with a mid-summer vigor in February, but later developments vindicate the groundhog when he sees his shadow and, knowing wherehe acts, promptly disappears. The Jayhawker baseball team starts practice tomorrow, using snowshoes for spikes, ear-mufts for ball caps, coats for sliding pads, and snowballs for the old hordechase. Whether Coach Bishop will instill an anti-freeze liquid into his candidates is not known, but it is rumored that his outfielders will use windshield wipers on their sun-glasses. PROTECTING STUDENT LIVES At the summit of the Fourteenth street hill where it intersects Oread avenue a menace awaits every student in the University; not alone a menace to peace of mind and soundness of body, but a threat that may some day result in an actual fatality. On an average of four times a day this intersection is a whirlpool of headless cars and careless students. Owing to its position in relation to the campus it carries at least twice as much traffic as any other road, and the majority of persons entering or leaving the campus uses its walks. It is right, then, to let its menace go unregarded until a serious accident awakens the student administration to its shortcomings? At every other danger point on the University grounds the traffic committee has provided some method of accident protection. On Indiana there are stop signs; at the western end of the campus drive there is the flower bed; at Fourteenth and Oread traffic flows on with every one shifting for himself, though it would seem providence has so far been watching over it. Any sort of protection would be an improvement. For example, safety zones could be provided for students crossing the streets. To aid their work stop signs could be installed on Orand on both sides of Fourteenth. Better still a stop and go signal, operative between class sessions, can be set up. Any or all of these plans should be followed, or perhaps better ones evolved; at any rate something should be done about it. While committee wrangles uselessly over illegal parking tags and excessive speeds the situation grows steadily worse. Must we be warned by v death? It takes 64 muscles to frown and 12 muscles to smile. We suppose it is from that information that many novelists use the sentence, "He smiled luxily." STATISTICS The severity of the drought and agricultural depression is best shown by the number of hauls falling in farming regions. Of the 1,226 bank suspensions for 1350, 1,500 were in farm areas. And although the statistics are not analogous, some connection may be drawn from the fact that 21 persons were lynched in the United States the same year, an increase of ten over the previous year. The preponderance of drought in Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and Indiana, all of which are agrarian territories. There are two times in a man's life that he is aware of his ears. When he is a small boy his mother calls his attention to their amazing facility in becoming soiled, and when he is a man the cold weather calls his attention to their disempelling ability to react to the weather's sting. SHORTER HOURS FOR LABOR Many people are suffering because they cannot get work, yet on every side we hear the cry of "overproduction." They are almost faced with the bitter paradox of starvation because of too much food, freezing because of too many clothes. Some attribute these evils to the introduction of modern labor-saving machinery into our industrial world. They curse the heartless iron monsters that have robbed them of their livelihood. If we would use the "machine" to shorten the working hours of all the laborers, there would be work enough to go around with leisure of a welcome sort for all. With the advent of the shorter working day, those who had been accepting a bare subsistence from charity would be able to go into the market and help reduce the over-production of commodities. The greater demand for products would call for more labor and higher wages. Although shorter working days would not be a cure-all for economic maladjustment, it would help the laboring classes to benefit by the use of the "machine." True, the length of the working day has been on a steady decrease. It is a considerable jump from the bakeries of New York City, in 1854, who had to "labor on an average of eighteen of the twenty-four hours of the day" to the well-organized bakers of 1920 who averaged forty-seven and four-tenths hours per week. But why do the eight-hour day? Plain Tales Yesterday the weather man was soundly razed in all quarters for his prediction that the snow would cease by dawn. As it continued to fall, hardies sought out their high boots and joyfully slipped through the mud. The shelters were observed shaddadding as the snow crept past their rubbings into them. --in an older day, perhaps, superstition Was mailed firmly to constant repetition All black cats ... Snow Storm On Fourteenth street, a professor was heard making unsemely ejaculations as the wheels of his Ford, within three feet, drove toward him. He finally admitted defeat and backdown to Ohio street. just missing a coupe which someone had conveniently parked on the corner. When he turned speeding north in a snow of ice. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIIH Sunday, March 8, 1921 No. 125 The Ccoed club 1. will meet Monday evening, March 9, from 7 to 8 at the home of Mona Simons, 1825 Louisiana street. CO-ED CLUB No. 1: JOSEPHINE HENRY, Chairman. There will be a Jay Jane meeting at 4:30 Monday in the rest room of the central Administration building. SHIRLEY CASEBRIER JAY JANES: PSI CHI: A regular meeting of Pai Chi will be held Monday, March 9, at 4 in room 21. Administration building Dr. Maude S. DeLand, head of the women's division of the state hospital for the Mentally Deficient at Torrance, will speak. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 1931-32: Applicants for scholarships for the year 1931-32 should see the chairman of the committee on scholarships in room 310 Fraser hall on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week from 11:30 to 12 o'clock, or telephone on appointment. E. GALLOO, Chirman. WHY CLUB: Both men and women are invited to Power Hopkins' talk on "Nationalization of Industry" at 7 p.m. Monday, March 8, in the suburbation of the city where Power Hopkins is based. F. THEODORE PERKINS, President. Application for Book Exchange manager should be filed in Dawn P on or before Wednesday March 11. MVAD DAVANNING W. S.G.A. BOOK EXCHANGE: Cars stood by the curb, radiators pilched high with white bluff, patiently waiting for persons inside who were much too warm to come forth. Those who did venture out, usually from nearness, were booostful of their endurance. During the day, appetites and spirits picked up. By nightfall everyone had the feeling that presents should be urinating—as seemed so like Christmas. The Campus Muse PROTEST AGAINST WOMEN AND BLACK CATS Allowed them to run across one's path Called forth the hottest verbal wrath. Modernity created Greek letter groups That laughed at tradition with robus whoops. A young girl Will unfurl Old inhibitions to catch a black cat And reward him with an amiable pat When 14 girls in one sorority house Catch 14 black cats without a single mouse Man should try To deify But, anyway, let a black cat cross my path. Something else beside his old super- stition And the words I use will connotate wrath. Now joined to woman in thorough coalition. Iy superstitions are still shot with repetitions. P.F. Our Contemporaries FRATERNITY OR GANG? to set off your Prom Gown is found in CRYSTAL NECKLACES F. H. Roberts Jeweler 833 Mass. St. Lawrence Huegel, Jr., finds himself in the "dishonourable inlist of" his high school fraternity at deferson High School, where he "broken faith with a brother." And who is that brother whose trust Huegel is alleged to have violated? He is Rep. Jeb Bush, who runs a liberty under $1000 bond, scheduled to be tried in May on a charge of forging Huegel's name to a State law warrant the Republican elicit which the student did not accept. Fraternities at educational institutions set themselves up as a means of society into their members, and most of them live up to that aim. By its action this high school organization, which includes the principles of the underwound gang. St. Louis Post-Dispatch With an alumnus and a member figuring in a petty payoff raid which has scandalized the state, the Jefferson City police station was locked inside between them. It finds that the youth, who played the part of a responsible, conscientious citizen and performed a public service in helping extinguish a breaking faith. Factively it approves the actions of the man who is accused of attempting to use the student as his dupe, with a promise of "cigarette money" in order to put $1.35 into his pocket. Individual Jewelry A Distinguishing Touch Chicken Dinner 50c from Hillside Pharmacy The Blue Mill 1009 Mass. 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