PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Papers of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEEP PAUL FISHER ACCOMMODATION Author(s) Frank McCillan Editor James Thompson MANAGING EDITOR Marken Editor Sunday Editor Eric Miller Kevin McMillan Night Editor Jennifer White Tailgraph Editor Low Carroll Literary Editor Mary Barrison Almanac Editor Mary E. Harden Kansas Board Member Nassau Island Member Frank McFaffi Robert Porter Carey Burtman Cary Burton Owen Pal Walsh Moore ADVERTISING MGR. MARION BEATTY District Assistant Ina ForNimmons Telephones airline Office K. U. n. News Room K. U. 28 Night Connection 2701K3 published in the afternoon, five then week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Arizona, from the Press of the Departure Subscription prices, 410 per year, payable in advance. Simple coupons, to be issued on May 31 each semester. October 17, at the office at Lawrence Kaiser, under the art of March 3, 1876. PEACEFUL GANDHI THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931 So far as the influence of Mahatma Gandhi is concerned, India's struggle for liberation will follow peaceful tactics. And if Gandhi feels that way, it is obvious, judging from the reverence of his people for him, that his race will follow his lead implicitly. Yesterday 100,000 natives stood silent, and listened while the 60-year-old Gandhi briefly outlined his plan. All the mysticism of the Orient was that in conversation; the crowd, their leader, and his words were dramatic and merged with the ineffable background of his recent imprisonment. It is not only the Indian people whom Gandhi's words say. The whole of British politics and government is enveloped in his movements. It is amazing that so much power and the fate of so many human beings should be vested in one individual. And fortunately, whether one is a pacifist or not, Gandhi's religion toward God and his own fellow men is one that will follow a nonviolent path, as he insists his people must do. FALLACIES IN OUR LEGISLATURE The good weather offers its compatiens to pedestrians. You can have the added second to escape from a charging car by its shadow. The only trouble is that the sun isn't always in the right direction. Recent negotiations in congress that have resulted in deadlocks over issues such as the cash redemption plan for World War veterans, the 25 million dollar Cross Cross relief fund, and the adequacy (or inadequacy) of prohibition have reopened arguments on the general stagnation and shallowness of American national politics and our present machinery of government. The United States government stands in almost the exact spot where it was devived 140 years ago. Henry Hazlitt contends, in yesterday's issue of the Nation, that our political system is hopelessly antiquated, and that "our discussion of fundamental issues is superficial and half-hearted because our machinery of government, as it stands at present, is unmeasably calculated to another living issues and to make genuinely responsible government impossible." Hazlitt suggests two ameliorations, both advocated by Senator Norris of Nebraska. Both would entail constitutional amendments. One, Hazlitt says, "should provide for the elimination of 'hame-duck' Congresses and, the other for the direct election of the President by popular vote. There can be no question regarding the necessity of these changes. That members of Congress can be repudiated at the polls and still continue to carry on their repudiated course for four months—which may often happen, as today, to be four crucial months—is preposterous. The that new Congress, unless an early session is called, cannot come into real existence until more than a year after its election is perhaps worse. Our present rigid system dispasses political responsibility and makes our government essentially inefficient and unresponsive as an instrument for carrying out the public will." Halit's suggestions are not reem- innovations. Any university student who has sat through a course in Ameri- can Government, no matter how detached his mind may have been from the instructor's lecture, has gleaned the suggestion that our government presents radical flows as it stands today. It is thoroughly infe触性; it fastens the conditions of governing that suffaced a century and a half ago upon a swift-moving, dynamic age; it venerates our pioneers and their constitution without conscientious regard for advancement, and it inflicte a painful, round-about legislation on an otherwise modern nation. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray raked over the Oklahoma legislature yesterday, substituting his voice for the old garden implement. He is alleged to have equal facility with both. THE EDITOR CONFESSES Every man must necessarily have his little vices. Mellow chaps occasionally deciper cress-word puzzles, others less mellew, play golf, while left-henders like the late Rube Waddell, he stretched in bed and eat animal crackers before sleeping. The most notable quality about such pursuits is their vast scope. They are as extensive as individuals themselves. Possibly it is admitting the public into a rare intimacy, but it should know the avocation of the editor. Despite current opinion to the contrary he is not flawless; indeed no more human is fellow ever walked. He has read extensively in S. S. Van Dine and Eleanor Glyn, and he has a passion for art as displayed by Covarubierbon and Peter Arzo. The pinnacle of good music to him is "The Song of India," "Mood Indigo," and although it is now generally obsolete, "Singapore Sorrows." All of these facts are stout strokes that paint him fairly well, well, but to know him at his best, he must be seen when he reads the "Personalis" column every night. Perhaps you may have noted shop-girls riding home on the trolley can just after "True Romances" has appeared at the book stalls. You plunge into the magazine, mouths agape in proof of its fascination. The editor is much like that with his personalities. He takes the whole column by a complete submission within it. Even here he has his prejudices; you can always tell when he has run across a good thing by the quirking of his left eyebrow. Suppose he is reading the Personals now. He darts defily in and out, and suddenly you see that his fancy is caught by some phenomenal element. It may be. "Mary.—Will be at Midland theater each nite for you. Don't fail me. Signed Harve. You can tell he is ruminating over the whole affair as he wades down through the less notable Ponsall. Will Harve arent Hairy down by the water fountain, or will he stand casually over by the parrot in its cage and study the attorn on the wall? And what if Mary is wearing a dilemma is too unrolling to consider. The sort of thing the editor likes best, however, is a clear metaphysical statement like the following: Infinite possibilities for reflection are incompassed in those lines. He pictures Verretta in his mind, of fine stature, with an alabaster neck, clear gray eyes, and molten hair. She does not lap. Sometimes late at night, she walks softly out into the night, thinking about Life. No one is sure, but several of his staff believe the editor has a secret ven for *verretta*. "My leader must be an excellent thinker, sincere, true, and sure his way is right. Signed, Vetett." But the thing that moves the editor's mind into excited contemplation is the controversial side as exhibited in the novel, which chances across a paragraph that says: "I am no longer responsible for debts contracted by anyone other myself after this date, including my wife Hatee. Signed, Joe J. Hooks," the editor fairly wrigles with delight. And if two persons farther down he has the extraordinary good fortune of seeing: "I have always worked and paid my own bills, despite my husband, Signed, Matsie H. Jooks" then there is no holding the editor. His gratifications are nated, and he puts the Personalis away, willing to forego them until the next day' edition will again engage him in his favorite practice. A headline in the Kansas City Star announces: "Religion a Serious Affair." Well, generally speaking, yes. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Thursday, Feb. 5, 1921 No. 99 --playing miniature golf, and attending all the current cinemas, no matter how insipid they may be. It is even said that a well-known Phi Beta Kappa of a few years bucked in the revelations of Maggie and Jiggs and Mutt and Jeff, and now at 26 he looks quite spry and hearty. Perhaps that is the formula. Yet, the editor, having reflected considerably on the subject, doubts its reliability, although he is in no position to say, since his mental manifestations have been slightly low during his tenure on the campus. BAND: Any hand men enter school this semester wishing to play in the K.U. band should see me at once. J. C. McCANLES, Director. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan club will meet at 7:15 tonight for appointment of committees and other important business. JOHN SHIVELY, President. MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL The Men's Student Council will meet tonight at 7:30 in room 10, sub-base of the Memorial Union building. KENNIGHT MEUSKER, President. **Picture for the Jayhawker will be taken at Squires studio. Friday, Feb. 6,** at 12:30. Please be there promptly. HEREBE E PRAT, Secretary TAU BETA PI: BOOK EXCHANGE: The W.S.G.A. book exchange will be open for buying and selling used books from Thursday, Feb 5, until Thursday, Feb 12, inclusive, in room 5, sub-basement of the Memorial Union building. Hours 9 to 4 daily. CONCERNING PRISE Remarque her novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," sold prodigiously in the United States, not only because it had merit but because of the advertising its publisher gave it. Everywhere were placards announcing its sincerity. There were written testimonials from our leading critics, hailing it in supersal praise. One extract especially is memorable: "All Quiet on the Western Front," the printed lines read, "the greatest document ever written against warfare. If every man would read it, no country would again be invulnerable." CONCERNING PRAISE So far that statement cannot be disputed. Except for skirmishes in Chicago and the Senate, life has been rather tran, cul. But not long ago a printed dispatch from Vienna announced that fighting had taken place at a theater where the film version of Remarque's novel was being shown. And again, only yesterday, several persons were injured at Sofia, Bulgaria, in a free-for-all fighting grow out of a performance of "All Quiet on the Western Front." We are beginning to think its inception, at least in European centers, is a stimulus for battle But then there is the chance that some continents haven't read it. Or perhaps they never saw the advertisements with all their gluing promises. LONGEVITY Dr. Albert Einstein has been visiting the studies in Hollywood regularly. It's time someone warned him that folks out there marry and divorce too often to offer clear illustrations on relativities. VADA MANNING, Manager. No concise *statistics* have been released concerning how University of Kansas students aged during finals, but Dame Rumor has been abroad, chuckling at bent beeds, stiffened backs, and fogged minds. Those things are generally conceded to be indications that your youth is slipping. If any formula is extant on the preservation of life, local students are not aware of it. There are a lot of old banial theories, like taking cold showers, drinking beer, not thinking, eating vegetables, reading College Humor, Indeed it seems the secret of attaining venerable years rests more in the individual than in pet beliefs. Billie the Kid was an example of that; he lived hard and fast for almost thirty years, and it is recorded in Western History (see Six Gun Magazines, Ranch Romances, or Argosy All-Story Magazine) that the Kid was much sought after by western gents with loaded guns from the time he first came into manhood on his 18th birthday. And there are other illustrations. Captain John Smith would not have given much for his old age that day when Poacanus encircled his neck. 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