PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, FEDRUARY 18, 1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEP PAUL FISHER Associate Editors Elizabeth Moody Lonnie Lynn MANAGING EDITOR CARL COOPER Makayla Editor Robbie Colburne Sunday Editor Mildred Carrion Ramona Editor Karen Robertson Night Editor Joe Kacka Joe Kacka Joe Kacka Telegraph Editor Lee Carroll Hilary Editor Helen Carroll Almanzor Editor Mary E. Hartley Matthew Editor Mary E. Hartley Kanian Board Members ADVERTISING MANAGER MARION BEATTY Assst. Advertising Mgr. Ivy Fioramomma Frank McClelland Virginia Williamson Mary Burton Joe Rivers Owen Pearl Wilson McKenna William Moore Moore Borer Lee Parkinson Lori Smith Wilson McKenna Business Office K, U. 6 News Room K, U. 2 Night Connection 2701K 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 University. Subscription price, $4.00 per month, payable in advance. Single copies, to each Entered on second-class mail matter addressed to the National Association of Lawyers Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 18. 1931 THE DOVE The Dove appeared today, refitting the current rumor that it has been dead and making only one comment concerning its long abstinence from Hill poletens. It has, it admits, been sleeping. Again re-swanked, it fluttered forth, its feathers a beautiful baby pink. its voice whispers in a quiet silence, none of its old deities, still intact. There is nothing leisurely about the Dove. If it were literally articulate, its words would press swiftly on the tympan of your ears; its voice would not droll amiably and softly on long, high-sounding phrases. Contending that it espouses no doctrine, it espouses many believing it is the collection of individual opinions on a wide variety of subjec- tions. It is the like identity group on a series of subjects that fall into one group. It is the voice, apparently, of the minority. And like the minority, it occasionally known whereof it speaks. To attack is a simple process. But even more simple is the attitude of many on the Hill when attacked; they snarl, shrug, and enmap themselves in some defense that allows them promptly to obliterate the criticism launched by the Dove. Save that it unlimbers its most rusty artillery on its feudal enemy, the R. O. T. C., and again regards athletes with a baleefy eye, it has soundly struck at most of the current problems facing the campus. Whether its opinions garter you or not, you will be struck by one fundamental note; the Dove, except for irony that is occasionally a bit dubious is sincere and honest in its purposes. REVIEW OF A DECADE The appearance of Charles Merg's "The Dry Decade" has been timed excellently. itself a factual presentation of the expenditures of the government for the last ten years on prohibition, the book has arrived at a period when it throws a penetrating light on prohibition, easily the major problem facing the American people today. Merz declares that the nation went into prohibition in good-feeling, and with the optimistic belief that enforcement could be adequately handled with $5,000,000. It was even believed that after a few years the $5,000,000 could be reduced; instead the appropriation expanded until in 1929 the government gave $12,000,000 in order to curb bootlegging. The chief cry today, uttered by both wets and dyes, is that enforcement is too lax—the wets believe it could never cope with liquor traffic, while the drys maintain that with sufficient policing and a greater budget liquor traffic could be stamped out of the country. In Merz's opinion, the most striking growth from the decade of prohibition is not the increase in money spent to halt the liquor violations, but the appearance of a sincere, large-bodied opposition. It is almost a certainty that the candidate for President who heads the next Democratic ticket will be a wet, Raskob, the financial backbone of the party, demands it. And with conditions as they are financially, a party's financier carries heavy weight with his opinion of the man to run. THE NEW CURRICULUM There is considerably ally humor and keen penetration in Stolberg's article in this issue of the nation called "Bally- hoo and the Higher Learning" Mr. Stolberg has culled through Fleisser's "Universities", and the lights he reflects are ironical. He says in part, "Our characteristic national vice is the assumption that life and behavior are synonymous, that the meaning of life can be gugged most accurately in terms of active and optimistic extravagance." We are not sure of the latter part, but two courses in the school of education convinced us that modern methods in learning leans heavily on the interaction of life and behavior. In proof of that, the university offers courses such as "Mental Measurements," "Educational Sociology," and their kind. Professor Flexner coined through American university catalogs, noting these courses offered at various schools: "Pupils Participation in High-School Control," "An Analysis of Janitor Service in Elementary Schools," "Vocational Activities and Social Understanding in the Curriculum for Stenographer-Clerks," "A Scale for Measuring Antero-Posterior Posture of Ninth Grade Boys," and "The Intelligence of Orphan Children in Texas." From all appearance, higher education has at last eluded the old curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic PROGRESS IN PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has advanced a plan for alleviating unemployment in its own zone that other cities might find wise to follow. The proposal has been made by the Allegheny County Emergency Committee for each corporation and business firm to contribute each an amount equal to the average day's payroll in that county as it was in effect in 1928. Moreover, full-time employees, whose salaries or wages have not been reduced, shall be invited to supplement this fund by contributing one day's pay each. The city of Pittsburgh, from all reports, is in a situation calling for such an emergency. Mines and steel mills have closed; employment is needed by many. Rather than burden the taxpayers with an added tax, the above plan has been outlined with favorable comment and advocacy from many of their firms and citizens. If successful, Pittsburgh has made a giant step forward in community construction, a step that other American metropolises, likewise hard hit by the present depression, would do well to follow. BUTLER'S PANACEA FOR HOODLUMS After his inflammatory caricature of "Mussolini, the hit-and-run demon," Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler last night appeared before a South Bend, Ind., audience to offer a solution for the disqualification of another Italian menace, Al Capone. "Al Copone," he said, "will go back to Italy when public opposition is aroused." That is a hackneyed expression; in fact too easy a solution for ridance of the Chicago gangster chief. We had thought, too, that public opposition was aroused long ago regarding the hapless state of the legal machinery of Chicago and other large cities where rocketeers hold sway over their victims. Intricate law procedure in American courts is not the only thing keeping Al Capone and his organization alive in this country. It is something so deep as to be lost to the majority of the thinking public. The public stamp Al Cappone, classifies him, and wishes to dispose of him, but that is where public opposition stops. Where are the leaders for a successful routing of hooligan gangs? The public officials certainly have not done much; the police are indifferent often, believing that the death of a gangster is riddance in itself and that soon there will be self-extermination between rival factions. But this is a fallacy, for there are new recruits always to be found for the criminal ranks. The racket offsprings of the prohibition problem, and the many business concerns that pay tribute to Al Capone's organization, much larger than that ever paid by seamen to the Algerian pirates, form a vicious economic circle. The citizen fills the coffers of the racketeer and is unaware that he is doing so. Added to this, the almost unbelievable attitude taken by some people toward a gangster chiefiefain. In Chicago, for instance, there are people who defend Al Capone for his contribution to unfortunate, needy people, when, in fact, it is gangster exactations that are raiding the resources of the people. No, the gangster problem is not to be dealt with so lightly, or in such a platinous manner, as that of the marine general. But, then, Butler is heading westward after throwing rocks at the armor of Massolini, and he will doubtless be asked to speak at many western and southern cities. RESEARCHERS OR TEACHERS The article in the Dove lent the "Wanted: Teachers, Not Research," brings up a number of problems. Chief of these is—what is education? Is it acquiring information upon which to teach? How can teachers locate research for ideas to consider? Agreed that any education should teach its seeker to think, or in other words, to have ideas. Then it follows logically that these ideas must be based upon something. To take a hypothetical case, we might believe ever so sincerely that red and blue were identical, but if we were ignorant of the fact that science had unmistakably proved that they were different, our discussion of the topic would not be of much worth. It is true that there are a number of courses in the University, some of them required in certain fields, which arouse little interest in students who do not plan to go on with the particular subject under consideration. Such courses, if they are to be compulsory, must be taught in a more popular way. Nevertheless, all informational courses cannot be abandoned. An educated man needs to know a great many things about his physical and social environment which he cannot learn by any other method than that of serious, sometimes tedious, study. And the curriculum is not the only thing at fault in this failure of ours to produce thinking graduates. Many of us, it must be admitted, are more concerned over sports, movies, parties, and dates than we are in "freeeing ourselves from herd opinion" or in developing a "capacity for self-criticism". What other course than examinations, minimum requirements, and marks is possible with such a group? Campus Opinion PHENOMENON OF THE UPTURNED COLLAR Editor Daily Kansan: We are deeply troubled. We adamate our navise but we would like to ask a question. This is a delicate and very personal matter vet from observation we would like to know this will be treated with the utmost candor and without reserve. Only from the masculine sex can we get our information and we desire a frank and honest answer. We no longer hide deep and vital problems. A clear and free-minded approach is the means of enlightening the hundreds of feminine listeners concerning the basic needs of women. Here is our problem. Why do college men wear their overcowl collars turned up above their necks on warm, sunny days? They should be phenomenal times. Most men poses overcooks, and all of those that wear them are likely the collar lift. In our opinion the under-side of collars are rarely finished in good material, yet even though it be possible to wear them, they appear with his collar lying smoothly down where it was designed to be. Astounded Duet 1. When coats first came into style women were more hardy, and often ruled their families with an iron hand. They were also very fashionable, Jewish, Scandi, Swedish, German, and Italian families. Often a housewife would dress marbles down under the street light at night, would catch him by the scruff of the coat-collar, and assist him in getting to work. The woreers were treated much the same fashion. As a result men grow so used to having their coat collars in contact with the ground that they are formed, and your discoveries with local phenomena are but vestiges of the service men once held for women's actions. Dear Astounded Duet: Delightful proof of your naivete is that you should have come to this department for advice. After contemplation, however, (not on your naiwers, but on your question) the following three hypotheses are advanced: street, among laymen and streetians, is simply called the "upturned collar". 3. Lastly the turning up of overcoat is important in privacy. Back in prehistoric days, women often wore their skirts so amazing high their knees were often in evolution rolled up their sleeves and kept in neck exposed in all sorts of weather. However, styles changed during the next few epochs; women affected long sleeves and fitted trousers of the bondage mentioned in Chapter One of this article, fell into a regression where they felt they must in turn hide their calves. The result is the upturned collar. Sometimes, Attuned Dust, if you want to see an embarrassment person, it can be kept down. It will not only amputee you to see the modesty of the victim, but you will observe that man, like a backpack, although it is ravely so evident. 2. Many men are beset by an evil dandruff. Dandruff is never so severe as a case of woolen materials; this condition is known as osoneic毛病 in Chemistry, and is also written in Journalism, Advanced Dandruff, Mental Tests and Measurement. Our Contemporaries "MECHANICAL SAUSAGE" The Editor. --- From week one this paper is to the alert for constructive suggestion with which to edify its readers. Our thought for the current week is that Captain Malechuk Campbell and his crew of 245 miles an hour—146 knots—is forthwith the thrill. The whole performance, by which the captain attained a speed of 245 miles an hour—146 knots—the nature, science, enterprise, or art, the car itself looks like a mechanical language; it is peeled so that it cannot travel at normal speeds when the watch and when the brake is released it shoots forward, in low speed, threatening to dislodge the neck of the unyielding occupant. In radiometry, we are able to observe the speed of a new set of tires after every trail. Captain Campbell drives it over a course twelve miles high—four and a half miles to slow down to a step. If there were any course sufficiently long and straight for an actual hour's run, it would be shaken to pieces in the struggle. What would happen to the driver we cannot even connect? Captain Campbell does not ride the least thrilled by the adventure, and is only curious of traveling at a speed of 209 miles an hour—for 12 seconds—before his racing days are over. He is always on his way, and even a personal thrill. And the all-spectators who "watch" the "narr" are rewarded by a fluid rescue and a blue thrill. At the end of the race, Tom Trumbul golf is intellectual exercise—the Nation. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1990 No. 118 The AIEE picture for the Jayhawker will be taken at Squire studio at 12:36 on Thursday. JACK WOINER, Chairman. A. I.E.E. There will be a meeting of the ASME on Thursday at 7:50 p.m. in room 210 Marvin hall ALBERT E. CALLAHAN, President A.S.M.E.: La elocución de edificios utiliza tendedores lugar 44 cuajete, 19 de febrero, o la cintura y media de la tranzo. Estimamos nosotros todos necesarios. EL ATENEO: There will be a meeting of the Graduate Research committee in the Graduate office today at 4:30 p.m. E. B. GROUPFELL, Chairman. MEN'S GLEE CLUB: There will be no reucharal of the Mesa Glan Club bounce. Be on hand Monday, Feb 28, at 4:00 or room 923 central Auditorium on bounce. MID-WEEK VARSITY: The policy of a nominal charge of fifteen cents per stage will be inaugurated at the mid-week event this afternoon at the United Building. PI DELTA PHI PL DECEMBER FIRM 14 INFO FIRM will meet Thursday at 4:30 in room 359 Furniture RUTH BREEDENTIAL Secretary. TALKS ON LITERATURE FOR FRESHMEN; Mr. C. K. Hyster will provide a lecture on herbal medicine in partnership with music, a 10th-anniversary Thursday, Feb. 16, in room 295 of FRANKLIN Hall, who will discuss his career and experiences as a medical student (NELLIE SCHULTZ) WHY CLUB: Chancellor Ferdinand of the Kaiser威斯特堡 School will speak on "The Steps in American Life" at 7 p.m. Thursday in the civil-enjoyment building. 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