PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEP CLARENCE RUPP Associate Editors WILLIAM NICHOLS Marketing Editor Managing Editor Foreign Editors French Editors Spain Editors Switzerland Editors Swiss Editors Senior Editors Executive Editors Legal Editors Almanac Editors Museum Editors Kanman Board Member ADVERTISING MOR ... ROBERT PIERSON District Assessor ... Joe Pirkleman District Assessor ... Steve Waddell District Assessor ... William B. Smith District Assessor ... John H. Krause Civil Advocacy Manager ... Frank McCalland William Nichole Frank Pierce Virginia Williams Mary Birtain Jeeve Parkinson Cai Cui Jack Merritt Oscar Oman Jack Merritt Telephones Business Office K. U. 46 News Room K. U. 23 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 Iowa, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. **Subscription price:** $1.00 per year, payable in advance. Single coupon. Each month. Entered as second email mail master. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence. Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931 The popular desire to "make things hard on the criminal" usually follows on the heels of every crime wave and is a natural reaction. A manifestation of this reaction is seen in the move of the Kansas House of Representatives toward restoring capital punishment. It appears, however, that the bill will not pass the state senate as easily as it passed the house. There is determined opposition from many sources, including not only the women of the state, but also the men charged with the care of the state's criminals. Whether capital punishment acts as a deterent against crime is a most question. The protests of sociologists against its use have been generally considered as coming from the aberrations of radicals and abstract theorists. But no less an authority than Warden Laws of Sing Sing prison, a man who has dealt with capital punishment in its practical aspects as has perhaps not the man in its practice which he initiated in a study which tends to show quite decisively that capital punishment is not a deterent. And one thing remains certain. Even if capital punishment as such is an effective deterent against crime, it will have no appreciable effect on the crime wave unless enforcement in general is tightened up. The criminal carels little what the penalty may be, if he knows there is little prospect that he will ever be apprehended by the officers of the law and convicted by the courts. Men who read that they will have to be content with the usual light grey, blues, and browns, while Parisian designers are making elaborate plans for dressing the bride in lace from head to toe, for furnishing pajama ensembles for almost every occasion, and for featuring blossom-like creations for spring, can console themselves with the reflection that they don't need such disguises. A NEW FIELD IN RADIO Since its invention about the beginning of the present century, the wireless and its offspring, the radio, have been making one of the most remarkable advancements in the history of civilization, comparable to that of the automobile and the airplane, although it has not made quite such rapid strider because it deals with a natural phenomenon that man cannot, even today, explain. One of the first inventions in this field was the telegraph by Samuel Morse, which was followed about 30 years later by the telephone, a product of the mind of Alexander Graham Bell, and then came wireless communication. These three stages developed at regular intervals in the past 90 years. We are now in the fourth period of developing the transmission of information by electricity—television. To the practical mind it seems a toy, something to play with. But Morse had a difficult time convincing the people of his period that he had something more than a plaything. Bell amused his generation before it discovered the value of the telephone, and Marconi was greeted with sarcasm and incredulousness. Perhaps we shall never the process of sending pictures by radio- graph worked out for the use of everyone, as the radio is used now with sound. But rapid strides have been made during the past year. Every day someone is ironed out, known, some defect is ironed out, the whole process is more practical. We have been promised transmission of football, baseball, and other activities within two years. Philo T. Farnsworth III, technical head of the television laboratories in San Francisco, says it is probable that we shall have the transmission of talking motion pictures within a year. It remains for the skeptics to sneen and joke, just as they doubted earlier inventions in this field. The rest of us, knowing little or nothing about the technicalities, will watch the progress and take it up when it becomes practical. And it is arriving rapidly, perhaps within a year. In spite of favorable weather and unfavorable professors it becomes more evident every day that there will be enough students here next semester to keep the university going. COVER YOUR MOUTH Now is a good time to bear in mind the ease with which a cold may be communicated. Dozens of students are exhibiting downright heroism in going through final examinations with colds which obviously give them real suffering. The most of them protect their classmates from danger of infection. But a few cough and sneeze away with no shielding of their neighbors from the dangerous spray; and those few will bring any number down with a painful and expensive malady to which they ought never to have exposed. If you have a cold use common sense in both your own behalf and that of others. Bear in mind that an epidemic is abroad which may become even more dangerous than it is. Shield your mouth when you cough and sneeze. Take things as easy as you can, try to get some rest between vacations, and have a doctor on the job. And once again cover your mouth when you cough! "Cotton Back in Style"—Headline. And we've been saving six weeks to get a pair of pure silk sox, too. A DIVINE'S SENSE OF HUMOR We note in this morning's paper that our humble adoration of "modernistic art" has been pretty well rumpled by the strangest of all ironies, a minister with a sense of humor. For some time, Bostonians have flocked to their art galleries to gape at Pavel Jordanewitch's works. Hailed as the founder and master of the dismebrationist school of painting" Jordanewitch was offered $1,500 for his paintings. They were done in the modern vein; that is to say, they portrayed with a severity of lines and colors such a scene as a drunk man staggering home with the caption "breath." "Illumination." Men taking the Keeley cure will be astounding at this artistic conception. But connoisseurs of art wren't; indeed they acclaimed the canvases as "utramodern." Then, with the art world of Boston a bit agog, Jordanowitch umben, and admitted he was just plain Paul Smith, a minister from Los Angeles. His wife, he thought, was a good painter, but California critics disagreed. Paul Smith, alias Pavel Jeudauwoch, was a divine, and so far as we can gather, an eclectical sense of humor has been displayed in AM. It is proof that ephemeral things like the modern trend in art are easier for humorists to parody than the muscular landscapes that once drew admiration. Perhaps that is a ministerial way of getting back to simplicity and away from Bohemianism. We see where Dr. J. R. Brinkley is moving his rood, staff, and pastureland, hoping that his herd will drive under the warm Mexican sun. If we fail to register a shock at the present weather, we shouldn't be surprised if it snowed in June. The news that the literary society and pie supper are again flourishing in country districts of western Kansas will recall to many country boys the night they paid $3.75 for a cherry pie which looked as if it came from the home of the one and only, only to find her mother's name lying on the upper crust. Journal of a Christmas Trip to the South This is the last of a series of articles written by Dr. Bruno Radice, ex-charger professor in German, in which he relates the account and impression which he and his fellow countryman, Johann Wiedemann, exchange on his career, gained in a minor car trip during the Christmas holidays to the South. COMING BACK by Columbus the Xth Jackson the capital of Mississippi showed all the sponsors of a brilliant Christmas illumination. Though the Capitol building was blocked with a comparatively enormous traffic. Europe cowardly wandered in the usual traffic patterns to the large and small towns. Perhaps, this phenomenon is caused by the constraints imposed on architecture and the result of tendeny in architecture, the sky-scarper. As you can't build coasty sk-scrapers in unexpected places, the main street, especially in smaller towns, than attracting the whole traffic. Perhaps American architects will in some cases bring about a decentralization; especially if the numbers of motor vehicles are increased in Berlin with several business centers in a very good example for decentralization of traffic. Though American cities have received the height of their buildings, they has restricted the height of its buildings. By Bruno Radtke Reckless Drivers Skill in motoring seems to differ widely in different regions of the States. The drivers in the middle west, (even college graduates down hill) are much more cautious than people in the south. There you have to pay more attention to your antagonist than to your own car. Memphis, Kansas, has a very strict driving law. It was very unfortunate, that we had to witness the truth of this statement. A few miles before we arrived, two cars yawed ahead of us, two cars dashed into each other, apparently at full speed. A lady and a boy of about 11 were driving on a road that was too poor child hysteria on the ground, the blood from his face staining the grass. Somebody asked me vague questions. When I knelt down to feel his pulse and heart and watch his breath, all the tormenting memories of a war suffocate me to me, haunting my mind for days. In order to see as much as possible of the country we chose a different route for our way home. On highway II, we passed between Lake Pontcherran and the coast where it is a dam through a vast area of wooded swamps. One wonders why Louisiana does not help unemployment and drain them and thus win a prize. It could be that there is a fine coast drive around Lake Pontcherrain, where at present you scarcely have any access. But, I fancy, that must not be done. It would in turn increase the revenue and increase which have to be reduced. Are they, perhaps, moving in a circle? The Traffic Situation The accident seemed to have haunted ever a dog, because a big German shepherd entered between the front wheels. The sight of such accidents makes people nervous thorrorlore; after a few miles we found another dog who would swirl heels smashed and several people hurt. The virgin woods round here were so beautiful that we wished to have them as a gift, but they are welcome souvenirs. With a camera I tried to penetrate into these almost impenetrable woods and experienced the joy of being close to the new must have undergone when they hud to fight their way at a rate of four or five miles. Our curiosity feels a hit inclined to think that the reports of those days are overdue for hundreds of miles. Our curiosity carefully jumping from root to root with your hands and face scratched, beaten by thorns, your head bumping again after you have all that to advance less than a hundred yards from a highway to take you through the woods, was rewarded, the pictures came out very well, and the palm-leaves made us expected deep impression on our skin. What can be done against this?* one may ask, Well, safety first! American roads are by far better than any roads. I have seen in other countries, with many of the worst-correlatedcellent road signs. The law lies less obviously with the driver. Of course, Though in the first accident sentimentality over a dog may have caused my heart to race, also see a driver of the unimaginable kind. A fine Peardkard, driven by a lady, after running over a huge dog, but it only succeeded in darting near us into the ditch on our side of the road missing us by half an inch as high in that Memphis people pass oblivion on the right side. No wonder, we got frightened, and I soon insisted on leaving with the dog, for its wise reservation during four years of war at the front I had been lucky to preserve for my grateful owner, because there escaped some danger when we had reached the other side of the river, where a big bus lay badly wrecked the shoulder of the road, run into the poles. there is no help against the reckless "rod juggernaut," you are simply at his mercy. But would a rather elbow-around driver from the road. We have acquired in Germany, not keep the incompetent driver from the road. We also have drivers who read are mostly lined with bulge old trees, which add so much to the lowiness of the landscape, but give the driver a great headache. A Narrow Escape What sympathy for Memphis could you expect after all that had happened? A city that was once an irregular town planning. As a business center, the financial, commercial and industrial capital of the lower Midwest has been divided halfway between the Great Lakes and the Gulf it plays an important role, especially as a cotton and lumber marina. A Wonderful View South of the city, on the elevated east bank of the river lies the beautiful Riverside Park, from where you can overlook many miles of the Mission Island from view. Here we had to take leave of this wonderful river, which once more revered all its charm with its wined banks, shining sands and troubled melancholic waters; all cullion and the hue of an enchanting sunset. Near Jonesboro, we intended to spend the night, we gave a young man a lift for a few miles. I think he was ready to leave, but it is very democratic and in accordance with the ideas held in this country, though people very often warn you to take your shoes off when you young man showed affable manners, but he insisted on sitting on my lap with his 150 pounds, though he had more than his due share of the seat to Southern Missouri How different their fundamentalism must necessarily be from the sophistication of the large cities. On these charming hills we found the first snow, and even before that we had entirely forgotten. We found still more snow while driving at night from Rolla to Jefferson City; the magic moonlight changed the dark trees and the white ground into a vivid landscape by frozen rivers with dim reflections. We rescued Jefferson City after 10 p. m. This town seems always to be preoccupied with the business produced by plants close to the state capitol, which otherwise is ideally located on the south bank of a river that provides our own趣趣 about our trip, that I had to add a couple of hundred miles to our day's itinerary. We saw the woman who loved my so much, that I obliged him with some more creations of my unbridled imagination. Why should we ville, took us through a fine district of wooded hills. On winding roads you could walk on the forest floor sometimes for 15 miles without seeing a human being. Only little brown fat was present in the rich crop of oatme. We often wondered whether these animals were wild or belonged to one of those many farm animals. It wasn't possible it unattemptable for cereal culture, lumber is the only product. Only a small issue can not help wonder that in such districts there exist rather peculiar ideas, especially concerning re True to an old German eustom, next morning. I went out to buy picture frames. When I arrived in these places it is impossible to find any decent postcards, and you have to buy these notorious cards with imprints. There are no compliments to the American taste. Perhaps picture postcards might become one of the new industries this summer. In Missouri, state highway 17, be delful exploring tour had come to an evenen Mountain View and Raymond, end at last. Having covered almost 3,000 miles on our trip, the following day we returned to the cabin and reached the town we could distinguish the harmonious silhouette of the hill against a sky of bright blue, and we saw the dog's head in anything we had seen. When we bumped over the fainted path in front of us, we felt at home, home on the hill though we were sorry that our wonderful exploration tour had come to an end. Let Us Dye for You! We dye slippers 72 different shades. 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