PAGE TWO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEFF PAUL FISHER Associate Editors Elizabeth Moody Louise Tritch MANAGING EDITOR Markey Edison Matthew E. Moore Campus Editor Katherine Murphy Spiriting Editor Kenneth Hart Saucy Edison Huston Allen Almond Editors Mary E. Haskins Graham Edison Kantan Board Member ADVERTISING MANAGER...MARION BEATTY Artist. Advertising Mgr... Eric FireSummons Frank McCullough Vincent William Johnson Mary Erwin Ivie Franklinson Owen Glass Joe Montz Telephones Telephone Business Office K. U. 26 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2701K3 Pulished in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Ames, from the Press of the Departments. Substitution notes. $148 per year, payable in advance. Single coupon, one month. Subscription sent September 17, 1976 at the post office at Lawrence Kannos, under the act of March 3, 1870. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1931 WHAT WE ARE AND WHAT WE SHOULD BE The recent fall of the Spanish government and the uprisings in Cuba against a tyrannical dictatorship causes one to notice the important part young people, especially college students, are involved in. The US is an democracy all through the world. The Labor party in England, the Soviet party in Russia, the various movements that one sees all over the earth are filled with young people of enthusiastic and vigorous idealism. In our own country, in what is youth interested? Principally, it would seem, in motor cars and cinemas, in dancing and humor of a dourish sort, if one in to judge superficially. In our own country, what do college newspapers talk about? Principally about the decline of school spirit, about the various athletic teams and their fortunes, the necessity for whooping things up in general, if one examines college journals carefully. But the college press in this country, the thinking of American college students, the activities of associations of a liberal and intelligent nature are not yet of a significant sort, except as Upton Sinclair pointed out, for the yeasty minority. College newspapers in this country are not often quoted for their pro-fundity. The Literary Digest does not say: 'In the opinion of the University Daily Kramer' $ ^{12} $ Occasionally a university paper achieves a sort of local honor by raising a set of rash statements by callow student editors receive considerable attention. No one is to blame for the public's indifference to the rab-rah college boys and girls but the boys and girls themselves. To be sure, the cinema and novels about college have distorted its appearance; but fundamentally, American college students are still sheltered from the outside world. They live in a pleasant vale where epicramenism is king, and the functioning of the individual in society and of doing real thinking and real acting on real problems is far from their actual practices. Headline: "Pittsburgh to tees High School Pupils in Three States" Conscious, unconscious and sub-conscious states we suppose. WHAT PRICE EDUCATION? It is a debatable question how much a college education is worth in Dad's money, and it is even more debatable how much it is worth when the student himself has to furnish the money. An ordinary college curriculum, with only a minimum amount of time devoted to class work, usually furnishes a fairly full daily program with time taken out for sleeping, eating, and walking to and from classes. With a few social engagements, and an occasional extra-curricular activity, the schedule becomes still more complete. If outside work is added, some of the activity must be curtailed. The individual student must decide what to leave undone, but there will be some loss, in either scholastic standing, health, or social advantages. Summer work is usually poorly paid, and part-time jobs during the winter are more drugery, with the pay envelope anything but a source of rejoicing. Obtaining a formal education and paying the bill at the same time is a strain on the student's health. It usually fits his social and general activities, and cuts his class work to the essentials and nothing more. It is perfectly true that the student is getting valuable training in the school of hard knocks as well as a degree from an institution of higher learning, but that thought does not extend long hours or broaden her horizon. Footing the bill for a college education is a real job, and the student who successfully carries it through deserves more than casual command. He is worthy of deep respect and honest admiration. The Kanan reporter wonders how he would go about it to write something that would satisfy both sides in the fraternity tax question and still be an impartial news story. BLURB-WRITERS The more evident the country's dePRESSION becomes, the more superlative are the terms in which blurb-writers announce the coming attractions at theaters. Once early Americans might have searched California and Klondike fields for gold; now their granddresses diligently thru through bulky theatruses seeking golden synonyms to paint forthcoming attractions. Stout words grace their mourn phrase; muscular expressions of description spur burrowily over the screen, one after another. The once silent drama is an extra vagant, beautiful poignant depiction of life today. At least, one gathers that much from the "teens." A mystery will, according to the analysis of a blurb-conceptor, "force shivers and shakes and laughs and thrills that you will never forget!" A social film, portraying the life of a rich, eccentric family, is "mad, merry, modern!" See American dailings and their extra-daily revelations. Or an advertisement, giving you food for thought, may forsake the superlative terms for the moment, and ask one simply, "What Woman could say no to Heroes on the Brink of Hell?" One goes home, ruminating deeply on the various phases of this question, and inevitably returns (so the blurb-writes) to find if a woman could say no, and if she couldn't, then what actually happened? Appreciably no amount of economic depression dampens the fanatical benevolence with which cinemas are advertised. Prizes for starters and non-starters are given in the Irish Sweepstakes. The only sad note about the Celt's racing generosity is a failure to mention the "also-rans." HIGHER FEES AND SMALLER ATTENDANCE In the proposed bill which will raise the non-resident fee from thirty dollars a year increase over resident students in the college to 300, there are many facts to consider. It is a distinct advantage to have a liberal sprinkling of students from other states and countries. This institution is primarily a state school, but it is a part of the entire educational system. The non-resident fee already in effect is paid by out-of-state students, and besides paying it they purchase books, pay rent, and buy food in Kansas. In every except moment in paying it, there are Kansas citizens. An increase of something like $270 is an unreasonable one to exact in place of a school in which would be much smaller. The bill is directed against the group of Missouri students who live so near the state line that it is more convenient for them to attend school here than at Columbia. In excluding that group (which is what the bill would do), students from other states, whose expenses are already high, will be made to pay an exorbitant fee. The chin whiskers of goats in China are used to make fine brushes. Are there any other by-products of chin whiskers? Sure, goates. The passage of the bill would gain nothing for the state in dollars and cents, for it would simply exclude most non-resident students. It would reap a harvest of retaliating increases of fees in other state schools, and considerable criticism and ill will. For the good of the state institution it is hoped that the bill will not be passed, or will be modified so that the increase will not be so marked. War veterans and their families sat in the galleries yesterday and saw the House of Representatives rush the compromise veterans' bonus bill through by an overwhelming vote. HOOVER AND CONGRESS Warned by both the Treasury department and the President's threat to veto the measure should it be passed, the house, marvelously forgetting its usual habit of long hours of verbal controversy, swiftly voted the bonus into the senate, where it will be considered tomorrow. The passage of the bill marks the second time within the week that Hoover's opinion on a subject has been almost unanimously assigned by members of Congress. The Red Cross appropriation went through; now with the bonus expenditure (should it pass the Senate) a heavier taxation is in store for the country, and almost as important, a thick doubt as to the respect that senators and representatives hold for the President's judgment. "Theory Killed by Facts"—Headline London Times. This year will mark the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of basketball by James Naismith, professor of physical education at the University. Kansas is justly proud of the man who is responsible for a game which has given so much pleasure to people all over America, and a memorial honoring him has been considered. That's what usually happens when the two intermingle. A TRIBUTE TO NAISMITH Plans have not taken definite shape, but a statue, plaque, or other conventional reminder is generally accepted as a desirable form of expression. It is altogether proper that he be given recognition, but there are more fitting ways to honor him. Why should he not be consulted in the matter? He might like a trip abroad, or he might have a hobby or pet scheme which needs the support of funds. He might prefer to have his memory perpetuated by additional gymnasium equipment, by a student loan fund, or a library. A statue or a tablet is a lifeless thing, and the students of the University need no reminder of Doctor Naismith's contribution to the world of sport, for it will always be remembered. The best way to honor the founder of one of our most popular games it to put at his disposal a memorial fund with which he can further any scheme in which he is interested. We have read a lot about the Wickersham investigation lately. Finland, the world's only other Prohibited republic has also appointed a committee to investigate the liquid situation and suggest changes. Well, they have nothing on K. U. Once more we have been among the foremost to participate in a great and good cause. Headline: "Prepare Bill for Whipping Post"—Tough break for Bill. NOT A CHANCE The entire controversy, of course, has to do with Sunday motion picture performances. The only trouble with them is that they are not openly unified in any one hundred communities in the state and most i- consistently enforced in the remainder. The change would permit those com- munities that want Sunday perform- Governor Woodring has outlined a plan for improving tasion. Hope that outline gets filled in sooner than some of the History outlines we started last semester. In less technical language the change would substitute for the state's blanket permit in the case of a permanent local option in the matter. And that change, to repeat, is so common sense and practical that there is no need to remotest possibility of taking place. Although we are not familiar with the inner workings of the legislature at the moment, we suspect that the legislature is reeling over its sensatives to repeal the state's 62-year-old "blue law" hinted a chance of repealing it and its own sensitivity. The bill in question would repeal the ancient law on the statute books which required that "homebound offices of necessity, or other works of necessity or charity." In place of it there would be a statute imposing certain formidable bodies of cities and township boards of trustees to prohibit or regulate certain activities just as most just involves labor, on Sunday. Our Contemporaries The K. U. Band will meet for the basketball game tonight at 7:15 in full uniform. Band rehearsal Wednesday evening at 7:30. Members who do not appear for rehearsal, unless sick, will not be considered members any longer. J. C. M.CANLES, Director. La elección de oficinas muestra nuevos tareas lugar el jueves, 15 de febrero, a las cuatro y media de la tarde. Estares presentas todas nos interesan. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Tuesday, feb. 17, 1931 No. 199 EL ATENEO: BAND --any statutes and would permit those places that didn't to make just as strangle regulations as they wished against them. The revision of the statutes could be done in the same way as Sunday movie performances in Kansas than there are at present, but it would add considerable to the respect and appreciation of such performances in particular and all laws in general. ENGINEERING COUNCIL: There will be a meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in room 312. Poultry hall, Doctor Batikke will give a eastern latent heat in Bokmeng for Palmyra to reheat the meat. GERMAN CLUB Pettitions will be considered to fill the vacancy of senior representative in the Engineering council. Pettitions must be in hands of council by Feb. 25. GRADUATE RESEARCH COMMITTEE: ROSARIO TUGADE, President. ___ LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: There will be a meeting of the Graduate Research Committee in the Graduate office on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 4:30 p.m. WHY CLUB: Le Carcère Francaise se retira miracelé a quatre hirtes et d'une mmie a salle 290 Pranier laur. RUTI BRENTIDENTIAL, Secretaire. K. B, STOUFFER, Chairman, FLOATING BRIDGE Clement Bichardson, of the Kansas Vocational School, will speak on "The Nervous in American Life" at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the mid-nightness of the Clement Bichardson Community Center. Chanute Tribune. Playing bridge, contract and auction, night and day, taking off time only to the 250 disciples of Work and Whiteside, and beamed these days in search of vacation. Kindred bridge spirits were recruited all over the country for this cruise. The passengers took them at their word, and they could bridge they could possibly play. And t Delicate problems will arise on the cruise: what to do, for instance, with your boat's cabin doors. You yound the three-mile limit, an the novice who keeps asking what's trump off the Cape of Hatteras. On land, you must play dead. The players alive. At sea, the promoters many find it necessary to have a check on every night to account for passengers. 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