PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1931 University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR IN-CHEF Associate Editor Frank McClendon MANAGING EDITOR CARL COOPER Mikeyke Editor Melissa Editor Compan Editor Katherine Almoner Karen Harper Sparring Editor Karen Harper Sparring Editor Henrietta Almoner Mary E. Hawkins Almond Editor Mary E. Hawkins Kapan Board Members ADVERTISING MANAGER MARION BATTY Ast. Advertising Mgr. Ivan Fickinger Frank McCollated William Villanueva Warren Harrison Ink Pirkenton Gallcrane Owen Pearl Telephones Business Office K, U. 0 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 Chicago, with the Press of the Departament of Journalism. Subscription price, $1.00 per year, payable in Advance. Single copies, be required. Entrusted as secondhand mail matter September 17, 1950 at the post office at Lawrence Center. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1931 PAUL ROBESON Paul Robeson, noted Negro actor, singer, athlete and scholar, will sing at Convention hall in Kansas City. Monday night before a large audience composed of both blacks and whites. Some will be there to hear a great singer; others will go to see what a colored man can do as an attribute to a man who has won recognition at home and abrad on his own media despite his color. After the recent lynching episode which occurred at Maryville, Mo, it is gratifying to know that the public is to become acquainted with a black man who is neither a murderer, ruthie诉刑, or an abolitionist, who seems to get newspaper unbuffalo. Robeson, besides having won fame in London for his portrayal of Othello in Shakespeare's tragedy, won a Phi Beta Kappa key at Rutgers college in 1919. He was granted an LLB degree from Columbia in 1923. He was a "four-letter man" at Rutgers, being named on Walter Camp's All-American football team in 1917 and 1918. His rich harpian voice has enabled him to be known as one of this country's finest concert artists. He and Roland Hayes, Negro tenor, have proved that Negros can attain artistic prominence. Robeson songs only Negro spirituals on his programs, the songs made by his people while slaving under the chains of bondage. These spirituals have a definite place in the annals of American folk-loane. They are regarder by many as the only real native American songs. It will be well worth the while of anybody to attend the concert of this famous Negro bartiree. After this winter American tour, he will go back to England, where he is engaged to play in Othello for another season. An artist whose father was among those who told unwillingly in the days of slavery, promises an enjoyable evening to all who will lend him an audience. ANOTHER FLURRY IN THE LIQUOR MART Attorney-general Roland Boynton is acting wisely and unstentiously in announcing that he will permit Uni- torialism to be legal. He also liquor situation among students. There are several reasons, all sound, for the common sense attitude taken by Mr. Boynton toward the recent unsecessary publicity which has attended this school because of the arrest of several students on charges of possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor. First of all, it is universally known that the drinking evil exists in every college in the United States, its extent, of course, being determined by the size of the enrollment. A second premise is that students trafficking in liquor are caught only occasionally, as are offenders in other walks of life. The fact that college men are caught, with due humiliation to themselves and the names of their families, is also regrettable from the standpoint of the stigma that instantly is conjured up in the minds of citizens all over the state regarding their state institution where many of them have children of their own in attendance. student life is always interesting to outsiders. But outsiders are sometimes unjust in believing that colleges are not beset with the same problems that they themselves must meet. For this reason such news flares as the Missouri questionnaire trouble, the Baker scandal sedar, edor, and the more sordid and more celebrated Dr. Snork-Theoria Hix, receive an unfair degree of attention and lead to unfair conclusions among newspaper readers. For college news is vastly different and more interesting than reports concerning the drunken teenster or the murdering hoodrum. Yet the same human emotions and faults are responsible for law breaking everywhere. The fact that there is drinking here at the University is not one to become prostrated over, despite the fact that it is a violation of the prohibitory laws. The actual excitement should result when there are good indications that drinking is becoming widespread and uncontrollable in a country which has denied that franchise. Thus far there has been no indication that drinking in this institution knows no bounds, other than the arrest of the students recently. Such arrest surely cannot be considered true harbors of student shortcomings. Rather, they are thorny reminders that alcoholic tendencies still present their student social problems as they have through every age, even since the exiled student days in ancient civilized Athens. The subject of prohibition demands sane treatment, much more than has actually been accorded it. It was for this reason—although this in itself is disrupted by some—that President Hoover asked that the Wickersham commission be inaugurated eighteen By his announcement that he would leave the K. U. drinking problem (it is a problem everywhere) to school officials, attorney-general Boyton has acted courageously from a political standpoint. He has not succeeded to that ancient political superstition—never miss an opportunity to flap one's political wings and crow over the existence of a reputed evil. The attorney-general has acted intelligently. He has not seen the advisability of attempting a foolish cruxion of the mores of the majority of a healthy student body because of the extant follicles of a few. months ago. The commission's recent report, while analytical, is generally admitted to be nationally disappointing Ambiguous and costly, it is a report of 90,000 edd words compiled at an expenditure of $450,000. Just what it purposes to show, either for or against prohibition, is not for discussion here. Yet the fact that a Wickersham commission ever was organized is proof enough that the prohibition question must not be shoved aside, but must be faced sanely. It must also be kept, if possible, apart from the self-invested ends to which politicians might divert it. MANKIND VERSUS THE SENATE Ed Howe, the old sage of Potato Hill is in a quandary. He admits it. Saturday he wrote: I a newbie wonder why modern teach one thing and practice another. Senator Borah has long promised a reduction in taxes, yet in congress the other day he proposed an increase. I can understand no such reformer." We are too puerile and lacking from wisdom to suggest many possibilities to Mr. Howe. We have known for a long time that he was a keen, understanding student of humanity. But we can see no reason why he should forsake mankind, a field where he is a master as dissectionist, to wander over utterly dissimilar species like the senate. DETERRENCE AND CAPITAL. PUNISHMENT There are two commonly used arguments for capital punishment. Like a high school debate, the ordinary popular speaker on the crime situation clinks off these points and then adds his conclusion that "since first, I have shown by statistics that capital punishment does deter crime and since second, I have shown that society possesses the right to take human life in self-defense, therefore capital punishment is valid and justified and should be in effect in the state of Kansas." These threadbare arguments are old enough to be retired on a pension, and, like a favorite horse who has outworn his usefulness, they should be permit- OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Monday, feb. 9, 1921 No. 102 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY: The Christian Science society will meet Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7:30, room 5 sub-basement of the Union building. All interested are invited to attend. RUSSEL BECK, President BOTANY CLUB: The Botany club will meet at 7:30 Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 1121 Louisiana. Doctor Hungerford will talk. ERMA MARZOLF, Vice-President DELTA PHI DELTA: Delta Phi Delta will hold an important business meeting in room 4, of the Union building, Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 8. Prompt attendance is expected. JAMES PENNEY, President QUILL CLUB: There will be a meeting of Quill club Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the rest room of central Administration building at 7:30. KATHRYN HAYES, President. EL ATENEO: La elección annual de oficiales del club tendrá lugar el jueves, 12 de febrero a las cuatro y media (4:30) de la tarde. LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA GRADUATE CLUB MEETING: The Graduate club will hold its first dinner meeting of the semester at the Union building, Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served caféferia style. Dr. W. S. Johnson of the English department will speak on English posts. Comel LAVON KIESTER, Chairman Executive Committee. KAPPA PHI: Kappa Phil will meet Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 at Myers hall. There will be election of officers and plidging. THELMA CARTER, Publicity. MAC DOWELL CLUB: The picture for the Joyhawker will be taken Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 12:25 at Squires studio. Attendance required. WILLIAM VANDEL, President. PEN AND SCROLL: Pledging services will be held at the regular meeting of Pen and Scroll Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 8 in the rest room of central Administration. ELIZADETH BRANDT, President. PHI CHI THETA: There will be a meeting of Phi Chi Theta, Feb. 10, at 7:15 in room 1, Memorial building. ИНЕМА МАЛОНЕ, President. PREMEDICAL STUDENTS NOTICE: The aptitude test of the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given on Friday, Feb. 13, 1931, at 3 p.m., in room 101 Snow hall. This test is required of all students planning to enter the University of Kansas School of Medicine next fall and probably will be required by all other medical schools. A fee of $1, payable at the time the test is taken, will be charged each student. All preschool students who plan to enter medical school in the fall of 1931 should take the test when scheduled since it will not be given again this year. PARKE WOODARD Y. W. C. A. Very important meeting of all Y. W. C. A. members on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 3:30 in Praser theater. ESTHER CONGER, Chairman of Meetings Comm. Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. cabinet will meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the Y. M. Office. Pettition to fill the offices of the secretary of Men's Student Council, the School of Business representatives to the Men's Student Council, and Junior Prom manager must be in my hands by 12 o'clock on Wednesday. Feb. 18. KEN MEUSEI The Y. M. C. A. cabinet will meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the M. Y. Office. FELIX MANLEY, President. IEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL; tried to knock about without having any too much attention paid to them. The science of criminology long ago discarded most of its belief in deterrence. It was forced to do so because it found by careful case study that only in exceptional cases was deterrence able to deter. The four general successive stages in the thought of the criminological experts have shifted from vengeance, which was prevalent in primitive society and which is not yet faded, to a more sophisticated which was discarded by careful thinkers only as last resort, years ago, to reform, which is beginning to show signs of seediness, to efforts at prevention of crime by positive constructive supervision of children's errants. may start aimlessly enough, but perhaps desires adventure and thrills and so sooner or later antagonizes the police. The cops become the gang's natural enemies; perhaps some of the members of the group are sent to reform school, where they learn everything there is to know about crime. In the late teens, after frequent police encounters, the gang is led possibly by a member with an institutional criminal record. It becomes interested in bootlegging, becomes involved in politics because of its ability to produce a certain number of votes for the pre-court boss, gets political protection, becomes wealthy bootlegging, has nothing to worry about from law, and so grows in wealth and power until it has developed a series of racks, or organized crime. To such a gang, crime is not abnormal; capital punishment has no deterent effect because of the development of the "take-a-chance" attitude One of the most significant books on modern, organized criminal gangs is Thrasher's "The Gang," a study of the various adolescent groups in Chicago. A typical gang, one sees from this book. and the desire for excitement prevalent in the group; and the solution for the problem is not to be found in harsh measures but in individualized work with the individuals and the groups before they become such menaces to society as for instance, Al Capone and his henchmen. Even granting that society has the right to take life in self-defense, there are too many factors involved *for* any one to be able to say definitely that capital punishment in Kansas would lesson crime. The Campus Muse SOLUTION IN THE SONG Four negroes singing to four hundred white men, their voices, ch. mellow, clear. Four whites singing, agonizing, their black skin Of jazz, legends, Paul Revere, But tuneful melody to bathe them- selves within. An antitheses of the Caucasian din All the hand-clapping, all the ensuing huzzahs Four negroes lifting a triumphant merg'd voice, Will melt, be forgot one hour after they pause. Of other darkies, perhaps, sunning Their backs before any unshaded African Inn. One voice, laughing and running Thru white ears, over white cheeks and throats to rejoice Four singing negroes, recipients of white applause For the tune Warmly in their own dull Ethiopian choice Four warm-voiced negroes, keep singing That's your articulate way of bringing A civilization free from racial flaws P.F. Read the Kansan want-ads ADVERTISING POWER, Magic, Wizardry, Enchantment—to the amateur no word seems strong enough to describe the undeniable accomplishments of advertising. But from a professional viewpoint, advertising merits somewhat more sober terms. As a matter of fact the making of successful advertising is a difficult business, requiring both skill and experience. It is true that advertising will speed up sales and secure a larger volume in a shorter time for a manufacturer with foresight, courage and financial resources to carry definite business policies to completion. But no amount of advertising will sell a produce that cannot be sold without advertising. 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