PAGE TWO MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1631 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEP PAUL FISHER® Elizabeth Monday MANAGING EDITOR Sandy Editor CARL COOPER Milford Currer Malayuk Edition Robertson Culliford Kobrinus Nilsson Edition Joseph Bashok Taligraph Edition Louis Carvalho Maurice M. Morgan Simon Carter Paul Kearney Patrick Kearney Kamian Board Members ADVERTISING MANAGER MARION PLATTY Ast. Advertising Mgmt. Irsr FirstSonum Frank McCafford William Nichols Voyenni Williams Moena Bairy Warren Joe Forrester Call Curtis Ice Forrester Green Park William Moore Telephone 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 California at San Diego, in the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $16 per year, payable in advance. Single coupon, ie each Entered an second-second multi member discount. Lawn care for Kentucky. Kaunda, under the act of March 3, 1970. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1931 THE MENCKEN DOGMA The sinner behind Menken's contention as to the absolute backwoodishness of midwestern dogma concerning liquor and religion is obvious; but like all sincerity it is highly coloured by the personality of Menken. Like the preachers and midwestern he attacks, Menken himself has a credor; the difference is that he believes in his larger beer and his whisky rather than the pursuits of God. The substance of his interview last week with A. B. McDonald of the Kansas City Star was a matter of difference in tolerance, a difference in belief, and like the ecclesiastical gentlemen from Arkansas and Missouri and Mississippi, his main irrelevance lays within his own mind, and his own destiny in the pursuit of happiness. THE STUPIDITY OF CRIME found after many days in isolated farm house. No clues of slayers." "Bank robbed in Breezeland, Bandits do job so thoroughly that no report reached police till morning." "Rich manufacturer kidnapped. Taken from his home at night. Kidnappers move like apparitions without awakening household." These are headlines representative of every newspaper we pick up. Uncanny shrewdness? A high degree of intelligence of a sort? After all, perhaps not. Perhaps Socrates was right, and all wrongdoing is the result of ignorance. Crime may seem profitable to the individual, but the race, through far greater experience, has pronounced all unvirtuous acts unprofitable, and virtue the highest good to the race as a whole and in a broad sense to each of its members. If every one knew what was best for the race, including himself, he would always act in a virtuous manner, and crime would be a real kind of stupidity. Much crime is undoubtedly due to lack of training in the higher values or life. Everyone must express the character which his environment has given him. A criminal, whose character is devoid of virtue, is the victim of very real ignorance. GREAT WOMEN The recent poll by Good Housekeeping to determine America's twelve greatest women, present several amusing sidings on the position of women in the United States. The readers of the magazine were invited to nominate women they thought worthy of the honor, and nominate they did, but it was a jury of men who did the final selection! One of these judges, Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, refused to vote for more than five women, saying that "there are so many half-baked reputations floating around that we are in danger of mistaking publicity for real fame." Bruce Barton, another of the jury, declared that he was opposed to all women politicians and refused to vote for any of them . . . So much for the chances of the fair sex in a trial by their peers. As if to avenge the slight that was cast on their representatives, the National League of Women Volunteers is unhappy. The women pioneers in the suffrage movement. ment. the names of Susan B. Antibony, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt belt the list, which will be given to the Shaw-Hinton house which houses the league. And Mary Roberts Ijhineart, whose name does not appear on the roster of the "great," is running the story of her life in the very same issues of the Good Housekeeping in which are recorded the biographies of the women on the chosen list! We will not be outdone, we women. FAT LADIES IN THEATERS The diversity of physique is a natural phenomenon, and no man has the right to attack a fellow being for possessing too many curves. But it seems to the causal theater-peer that ladies of rotundity should favor slighter hats and less vertical furs. There is nothing so wearying as the constant shifting from position to position, seeking a means of viewing a cinema as a spectacle, or wearing a broad-brimmed hat, but also has affected furs that stand robustly about her neck, and encoach upon all the distances about her. COLLEGE IN A MACHINE AGE In other days the student revered the teacher for his knowledge, and received from him simpathy and understanding. When this was true there was not so much specialization. The machine age and mass production were not great factors in the society of the world. Employer and employee worked side by side in the same shop and solved their problems peaceably. That day is gone now. Today the value of a person is judged by the amount of work he can turn out regardless of the effect it may have on him. The teacher is hired for the amount of work he can do. The student is graded on the amount of knowledge, on the number of facts that he can cran into his head in a given length of time. More and more students come to college, more and more get degrees, and more and more flunk out. A university is a culling house. That is what should be expected in a machine age. Business men do not hesitate to take a quantity of raw material, use what can be used, and throw the rest away. It is this in a university which makes it practically valuable to the greatest number whatever may be said of intellectuality. In a few cases one hears of great thinkers who praise their teachers for starting them on the road to fame, but in a great many more instances one hears of the self-made men who have risen because they wanted to rise, and who have attained success by no one's aid. College men in a machine age are self-made men. A. "TICKET" As yet there have been no casualties on the Hill this year resulting from automobile accidents. That, however, does not mean that everyone drives slowly and carefully. Quite the contrary is true, in fact. A professor on the way to his 8:30 class the other morning was almost run over by a student. The "almost" accident occurred at the corner intersection by the chemistry building when a student failed to pause at a stop sign. At all times of the day cars driven mostly by students travel at almost any speed on the campus. Fast driving is not so bad if people are careful drivers, but it is always a bad thing between classes, and there is a law on the Hill which prohibits driving at more than 15 miles an hour. A new traffic officer has been employed by the University, and for the past three or four weeks he has been trying to get acquainted with students. As yet no arrests have been made and very little warning has been given. Not all students are violators of the law, but many are included in the "speeding" class. If fines were imposed on a few students it might help to reminisce others that there are laws to observe. If someone were killed in an automobile accident on the Hill people of the state would wonder what kind of school Kansan is (after reading about the liquor problem) Perhaps little children might be at least present students a "ticket" hereafter if speeding is continued on the Hill. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Monday, March 2, 1931 No. 120 The Bacteriology lab will meet at 12:30 on Tuesday in room 502 Snow Hall. Doctor Wiedemann will talk **TRANK** D A LBAI, President All hand men expecting to play at the basketball game Tuesday (tomorrow) evening will meet in the Andorranium at 4:50 tide afternoon for a few minutes before the game. BACTERIOLOGY CLUB; ACTECHIOLOGY CLUB BAND: The Christian Science society will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 in room 50 sub-basement of the Union building. All interested are invited to attend. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY: J. C. McCANLES, Director. SEMINAR OF SOCIAL INVESTIGATION: SEED Sociology 201, seminar of social investigation, will meet in room 208, west Administration building, on Wednesday at 3.30. THETA SIGMA PHI; PROF. CARROLL D. CLARK, Short meeting Tuesday at 3:30 in the sky parlor of the Journalism building. Attendance is required. MARY BARTRAM, Secretary. WOMEN'S CONVOCATION: To provide for the special women's conventure on Wednesday, March 4. The 10:28 classes will be dismissed. This does not apply to classes in which only a maximum of ten students are allowed. FLASHES OF LIFE by the "Museeau Free Fresno New York, MA." writes *Annie Allen Whittan in New York University Daily News*, "the vast majority of parents who send their children to school send them there for the social advantages, hoping that with these advantages they will see the propriety of acquiring a certain veneer of manners, a certain sweet ingent of intellectual training." Campus Opinion By the Associated Press' The first communication of J. M. B. was written in long, and had to be typed before being sent to the printer. In the transcription the phrase "Freedom of opinion without freedom to express opinion is sterile" was typed "Freedom of opinion is sterile." The Kansas man regrets the error. Campus opinion Editor Daily Kansan: Naturally I am grateful to you for publishing my remarks on 'b tolerance' when I came across a book prising title one some I gave my effort, and I bravely blinked back the tears when I observed the have wrought so much mischief. But regarding one point I rise in protest. You make me say, "Freedom of opinion is sterile," which, so far as I am aware, is true. It it worth while, I should be glad to have you correct this. What I meant to write, and what I think I wrote, was, "Freedom to express opinion is sterile." Editor Daily Kansan: -J. M. B. Why, oh why in the name of the Auld Soul do you allow your paper to slander the Irish and cut reflections from it? Why are you the issue of your sheet a reporter hints that possibly Irishmen perpetrated the first Dove, considering the fact that it was a man with no religious background of St. Patrick what diabolical reasoning could make that numkillum numkillum write such a thing? And sure, you want to celebrate the arrival of twins unless there's treason in your blood and shades of aid Nigk niece you with a No violence is being considered at this time, but if ever again the writing of that willy-nilly, bombastic, half-cocked, wet-between—the ear-rug is wrong, we can't wait to tell you well for you to consider the wrath of him who drove all snakes from the Emerald Isle; and do not forget that fying shillars are only one of the possessions on the part of those who so fevovely sing. "The Wearen" of the Green." New Haven, Conn.—(UP) -Yale Uni- liver School of Medicine, 1983, 1988,385 students and is believed to be the largest university library in the country to a report by Prof. Andrew Kuehn. Among the 61,407 new volumes added last year was the James Campbell Wilson copy of the Tacitus opera, printed at Venice about 1473. The books have just been housed in the Sterling Memorial library, which toweres more than the equivalent of 18 buildings above the other campus structures. WALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BELIEVED WORLD'S LARGEST A Mick. LIBRARY BIENNIAL REPORT SHOWS NEED FOR SPACE London — (UP) - The historic Bow Bells of Dick Whittington fame are silent. HISTORIC BOW BELLS STILLED BY SHOCK FROM EXPLOSION Since suffering considerable shocks from the Silvertown explosion of 1017, the stubble and bells of the Church of St. Mary-Ie-Beow, Cheapside, have gradually become more dangerous. They are now known to them; their has been forbidden and an appeal has been launched for $75,000 to put the church in order. C. H. Baker, director of Watson linary, has prescientized his first biochemical research on the calculation totals for the four loan decks of Watson linary show a gain of 35,000 in the past year in the use of books in linary settings. A $1 million partiment has bound and repaired 2,157 volumes and is steadily reducing the amount of unbound material which was accumulated. Mr. Baker, in his report, has stressed the need for an assistant librarian to act as supervisor of student help, of branch libraries, and of the stacks. With the increased use of the reading rooms, even though a library is not necessary, it will soon be necessary to build a wing to provide more reading room space. ANNOUNCING A New Place to Eat That's Different. Open March 2. Brumfield's Lunch 714 Mass. St. --and Tuesday Special Liver and Bacon Veal with Vegetables Baked Beans Boston Brown Bread Attractive Salads Delicious Pies Noon PEWTER by WALLACE The Ideal Gift $1.50 to $50.00 Gustafson The College Jeweler Nothing is good enough but the best. The Cafeteria Fresh Strawberry Shortcake Have Your Tennis Racket Restrung Now. The flowers you take her are only the beginning of an impression that will be long sustained by a new Society Brand Suit. $40 and $50 Griffon Suits $25 to $38.50 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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