PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEP ... CLARENCE RUPI Frank McClelland Sara Thompson MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NICHOLSON Makaye Editor Gordon Martin Nukuyi Editor Milford Martin Karma Editor Karine Walker Night Editor Lawrence Whitney Titling Editor Harold Harris Teligraphy Editor Larry Cavolo Library Editor Marian Brown Alzheimer Editor Rob Johnson Medicine Editor Mary Johnson Kansas Board Members ADVERTISING MGK...ROBERT PIRSON District Assistant...Iris Presthammer District Assistant...Mariette Routz District Assistant...Wendy Ward District Assistant...Jamie H. Kruse District Assistant...John A. McFarland Frank McCaffald William Nichols Rafael Parnes Virginia Williamson Mary Barnum Iric Forlhamness Cilip Cooper Jack Morris Michael K. Clarence Rupp POTENTIALS Business Office K. U. 64 News Room K. U. 2 Night Connection 2701K Pollished in the afternoon, five times week, and on Sunday morning, by students at the Department of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, the Trees of the Impact event of Journalism. Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copies, see each. Entered as second-class mail matter. Secu- rium 17, August, at the post office at Secu- rium, under the act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21, 1931 A NATIONAL REFERENDUM? The report of the Wickersham commission may have seemed unfortunate to a great many, because the evidence accumulated through the investigations and the opinions of the members were apparently lost in the official recommendations. Strict enforcement of the eighteenth amendment, and absolute opposition to repeal, modification, and the open banoon were voiced in no uncertain terms by the text of the report. But the individual opinions of the members showed that at least two favored absolute repeal, several favored government regulation of the sale of alcoholic drinks, and others favored modification of the amendment so that the sale of light wines and beer might be made legal—in fact, it seemed that a majority were of the opinion that definite changes in the amendment were necessary. Even though the text of the report did not seem adequate as compared with the evidence and opinions submitted by the members of the commission, one very definite good may come from the statement of the report in such unequivocal words. President Hoover has stated emphatically that he will adhere rigidly to the principles laid down in the text of the report. As a result, Hoover's candidacy for the presidency in 1932 will be in the nature of a national referendum on the eighteenth amendment. An election just now would be unfortunate as the reaction against prohibition has reached its height. But in the next year, the President should be able to show some of the possibilities of enforcement. Thus far he has concerned himself with the prohibition question. But after taking such a definite stand, it is obvious that he must show the potentialities of prohibition in a concrete way in order to win the approval of the people in 1832. Already new policies have been introduced by the department of justice in an effort to tighten up enforcement. In Kansas City the twirl wespons of injunction and padlockim were used on eight speakasies. Hover has committed his party to an unequivocal stand on prohibition. Barring a repudiation by his party at the national convention next year, the national elections in November of 1632 will be as true a test of opinion as any referendum. And now we suppose that Congress will spend the rest of this session and most of the special session trying to decide what they will do to keep their constituents from drinking. NEXT SEMESTER'S COURSE The second semester is almost upon us. At present we are all too busy thinking about escaping from this world. I am not ready to give up the on-seeing one much thought. However, it is important that some time should be taken in which to plan next semester's course. It is a simple task to learn something about a course and a professor from friends. It is not so easy to struggle through a course in which we find too late that we have no interest or ability. The day of enrollment is an extremely bad time to decide what to take. A well-meaning, but flurried advisor is likely to recommend taking some random course under any professor in order to get rid of you. He may even recommend a course in his own department, in which case the poor student is lost because he usually feels that he must accept this course whether he wants it or not. Plan your course carefully now so that you may enjoy next semester's work and really get some good out of it. We're optimistic. We don't believe the fact that more women are joining rifle teams signifies anything dissentous. LIKE GRAINS OF SAND It won't be long before we pay our fees again and it would be a good idea to ignore the Union exemption. This fee is so small that every student on the Hill can afford to meet it. A large number of these small contributions would help wonderfully with the present plan of completing the Memorial Union. During the semester which is about over several important improvements have been made. A ceiling has been added to the ball room which makes it look more attractive for parties and makes decorating more economical. Three thousand dollars has been spent by the Union building operating committee during the past week for additional facilities to be made available in the student center. This money will be used for pocket-billfold tables, a card room for women rooms for the men's Student Council, as well as other organizations. Soda fountain and additional facilities depend on the number of students paying the Union fee next semester. Even though the fee may seem small, the unanimous support this deserving enterprise merits would more than take care of the improvements which should be added to make the Memorial Union all its founders desired. An animal trainer gags concussion of the brain from an elephant bite. Any man that would place his head on a snake, like that that deserves to be gipped. PIPE HUNTERS The "Pipe" quest is on again. The catalog is being serviced for subjects with titles that sound as though they might be easy and everyone is offering advice about the best courses to pass. The terms "pad," "pipe", and "snap" have been used in reference to practically every course in the curriculum depending upon the person giving the information. Possibly we spend enough energy looking for easy courses to pass what is generally spoken of as a "stiff" subject. At least it is reasonable to say that the effort could be applied more effectively to learning the subject than worrying over how hard it might happen to be. KFKB will stop advertising Brinkley and go to Wichita to sell airplanes Our Contemporaries From the book *The British Colony*. One section of a recent report on Great Britain deserves special attention here, as a result of the lynching that has just disgraced the state of Missouri. A committee of the British house of commerce abolished the death sentence, was confronted with the argument that such action might merely lead the public to perform the execution in order to ensure it was correctly around. Abolish capital punishment for murder, it was contended, and we shall have lynch law in great Britain. The issue was not being ing, with the following comment: Such courses (lynching) are alien to the genius and habitus of the Brittany people, who were from 1920 to 1928,32 murders have been repolished, some of them guilty of the most horrible and atrocious crimes that have been committed. They always approve their revenge, never resorted to mob violence, even when it drew draws contrasts between these two classes. In other words, no matter how horrible the crime, even in those instances that were not fatal, a misdurge of justice through the use of executive clemency, it has never resented to mob murder. For this and many other reasons, the judge recommended the suspension of capital punishment throughout Great Britain for five years. It is significant that the judge Journal of a Christmas Trip to the South By Bruno Radtke MISSISSIPPI VALLEY by Columbus the Xth This is the second of a series of articles written by Dr. Bruno Ralphke, ex-champion professor in German, in which he relates the account and impressions which he and his fellow countryman, Johann Wiedemann, exchange scholar-patient, trained in a motor car trip during the Christmas holidays at The Sound. --nearly. Having left the Ozark plateau we now reached the Mississippi Valley, where we grew corn and earlier, while cotton predated. Here soil rich was covered either with the rotting stalks of last year's crop or with fresh shoots from a climate seemed to change gradually, the weather becoming warmer and warmer as we proceeded southwest. At Lake Village we reached it. Mississippi swamp with those expressions where the trunks came out of grow out of the mud. Lake Vanette is a charming place with a fine drive along the coast, and a quiet walking path to an airbath, Biting, or standard romance in moonlight, accented to teeming fish and birds. On sides, there is good opportunity for teenagers with picturesque small boats. Robert Milton sang "Eti Tu from 'Masled Ball'," a Verdi note. His singer was not fluent, even flow of breath is an asset. Leta Walker has a voice of very good quality, and the resonance in the lower tones of her voice makes her most pleasing. Maricie Sinneg had a very accurate presentation of "Lovely Plowers I Pray从 Faust!" However, her voice is so soft that Mariecie Sinneg gave it We were now right in the cotton region and confronted with two choices: the large Negro population and the district; the large Negro population and the poor aspect of the partly urbanized region. We decided to the whole country, one of the richest cotton district in the world, seems to We Visit the Cotton Fields According to the papers the whole cotton market is demoralized overproduction they say. Bankers and businessmen put every possible pressure At the Recital yelling and the absence of the legal death penalty in any part of the United States. Because that it is used for fear the prisoner might escape proper punishment, in the case of a violent attack. By Lela Hackney Fifteen advanced students in the School of Fine Arts are presented a splendid and most valuable program last summer. Recitals of this sort are most interesting in that they give the students a chance to gain points in appearing before an audience, and in that the participants themselves are accumulating. It is difficult to pick the understanding numbers. But if one were to do so, there is no doubt about the fact that she was in a double Spanish Symphony (Lalo) played by Helen Stockwell, should be included in her final triumph, craft work was excellent, and the tone quality was good at all times. Everyly the music she sings was her usual taste playing, her number this time being "Ballade in F Minor" by Chopin. Her technic was especially adept. The persons who appeared on the program last night were all well prepared and had considerable degree of natural talent. The numbers were chosen carefully to ensure that each selection to the performer Taken all in all, the recital was a great success. The program was opened with two organ numbers "Prelude from First Instrument" and "Introduction from herds in the Field" (Malling), by Charles Wilson. They were well done. The orchestra's name is "Caprice from 'Alacete' by Gluck" (Saint-Saure) played by Kathleen McMoran, Maurice Etsken song "The Alacete." The orchestra did not nicely, although there was not enough contrast in the number. The playing of "Tocata" (Debussy) by Vince Hargis produced some very lovely tone in her cello nummer 307. And the violinist Vieve Hargias produced sa Ruth Spindler did none very careful and difficult playing in the two Laset of the Grounds. "I was pleased of the Grounds," Miss Spindler's touch is beautiful, and she plays with the utmost good taste. Two Strauss numbers were played on her guitar, and she were nicely sung by Enterprise Knot Miss Knox had occasionally muxed in her upper voice, and was accurate for her performance. Katherine Kaull displayed excellent technique in "Tocaht!" by Saint-Saure and there was a wonderful performance and there in her playing. However, her talent is not noticeable and she was on one of her first plays as organ number, "Schehera in G'Monoe" by Bossel was nicely played by Raymond on the farmer to reduce his cotton acreage 22%. It is rather difficult to use wheat because it would be of advantage to consider the whole world as an economic unit, raise the standard of living in those parts of the world, and teach how "to do without." Why not by generous credit enable other nations to buy American raw materials? The question would avoid the confining situation that you can't have a silk, because there is too much cotton in the world, that people cannot grow enough wheat, that the richest continent in the world is shaken with the agony of slavery. At Eadron we witnessed a rather interesting spectacle: hundreds of nurses had gathered there to contract for the cotton season. All types and sizes of crops were used, seemed to be assembled there in front of the office of Mr. Schwartz, the agent and almost the only white man to be They looked quite plantainlike in their rather naughty edibles, most of them sour and corny, but the condition in the South seems to be bad. The Negro there, as far as he is not living in dingy villages or small towns, has even hat that tribute home of some farmers is being derided about, hiring himself for a season's work to farmers solely interested in his work, and lash to live on credit. They are also demanding the name of human dwelling-places. Lunch Under the Palms A palm always strangely appeals to a human being born in the North may be the most beautiful plant, who through centuries have glorified these plants in numberless poems. To the looker-on, of course, our touches are less spectacular than those of Actuated to long walking tours and living out of one's "Huckleberry" we carried in our car a little further, and out of our eating places and to prevent starvation. Thus we had huge slices of bread (about an inch thick) with butternut squash and out of our Christmas parcels from home (alter on its was boiled ham). For dessert we had plenty of fresh apples When we peeled the borders of northern Louisiana the forests began to assume more semantic clutter. There were even islands in virgin woods where the swamp ground refused admittance to the curiosity of explorers, and covered over the discovery of the first palms. We stopped there and had a most enjoyable person in a sunny spot. As we wanted to go to Batton Rouge, we had to cross the Mississippi. Learning from people that Matches was the most picturesque point we took that day, I headed on to the low west bank. With all the british architecture acquired many years ago by creating the Mississippi vemence behind it, I looked reverently at those majestic brown waters, heavy with fertilite to be deposited somewhere in the south, the greatest river in the world. I looked at the hundred feet above the water lay Matches, a heavy industrial and traffic cemetery, though rather small. An old-fashioned ferry with separate cabins dotted along its sides. Over to the other side. And here, standing on the height we experienced one of the most beautiful sights during my visit. We sailed with its sand and wooded banks, all colored by a magic sunset. It made me think of Kiew in Russia where the Duquesne made a similar impression on Picturesque Mississippi After a few miles we entered a forest as strang as it seems only to exist in fairy tales. Through the trees had been many rides with hung long gray beards of moss. They certainly would make a splendid scenery for the wolves' glen. We were there when they waded through a winding road over rolling country, through a silicon silent land lead us to Woodville, a gourmet backwood town where we saw birds and we found a large nail sticking upright in one of our tires. We feel inclined to think that some Woodville children were drinking our coffee, while we were drinking our coffee, to give us a chance to see some more of their charming little town. But the girls were both and clear that we even enjoyed work. It seems to be in the nature of "de- terriment" with their meanings that you always meet them after dark, especially when you are rather tired and in a hurry to reach your destination. We have also given you a known red light told us that we had to detour for a dozen miles on a rather unpleasant country road, at 8 p.m. At the airport we were passed a gigantic plant, belonging to the Standard Oil company. The illumination was so gooey that at first it was difficult to see. The atmosphere was filled with the smell of oil. Naturally, we thought to have met the great center of the Stand-ing Rock National Park, that there are similar plants in most of the states, a fine example of industrial and commercial concentration in this country, unaccentuated to the Euro- A Night's Rest at Saton Rouge There grow huge palm trees in the park, and not so widely travelled as myself, but so excited over them, that he drove us four times round the same block. And it was my business to find out the accommodation for the nights. I hurried on a little stalk to find the Y. M. C. A hotel, rather good. Unfortunately, I could not find it, and with unused air conditioning windows of which we got a fine view of the Y. M. C. A hotel, with a huge room. We were only about two hundred yards away from the Mississippi, whenen we now and then mysterious sirens ripped off the rooftops of the fashioned Mississippi tools with melancholy Negro slaves and elegant gamblers. It was a hard dislance when, next morning, I noticed that the sounds of the river were coming on the east bank of the river. Behind Italian Rage the blues seemed to unleash another change. Everwintered and still frosty, they gather with the glorious sunshine made in entirely frozen December. Never-yet warm and very pretty cold and shivering in their thick sweaters, they were astonished to see Baton Rouge has an interesting university campus where the architecture shows Spanish influence. A proud parrot kindly informed us that they were working with a local company which was going to be the highest building in the South. Southern dialect is supposed to differ widely from the language spoken in this part of the country. "Take you to test in the rooftop," said the kind man who asked me, "and my friends here insist, that is genuine New York cookney, I can't argue about that, but I noticed that the southerner's 'r's and 'a' come much nearer King's English than the substituting in western parts of the United States." Sugar Plantations Passing through the famous sugar bowl we saw for the first time in our tour, you were invited to taste fresh oweed. Here you frequently are fine minestones of the old time plantations. The Spanish influence is evinced in the lush and shaded flat roof, and shadowy galleries run round the whole building; fine old palm trees adorn beautiful gardens. But the tropical environment has a large number of these houses in a larger oilbidified condition. St. Charles Street at New Orleans will give you an opportunity to see wealthy hardy lives, who leaves his vast plantations to temples, who naturally, are not so interested in pruning. On our way we passed a surprisingly large number of sugar and oil refineries. Sugar is terribly depressed by keen competition from the West Indies, but it is impossible to export to many of the countries where people are unable to buy their products. For many miles highway 61 follows the dike on the left hand bank of the Mississippi. How often we stopped and climbed up the dam to glance at the lake. We saw people fishing in waters, fascinating and weird looking at the same time. What a gigantic fence this river must be, if his spring floods should break through the dikes. Rush On To Gulf Arriving at New Orleans we struck it by more chance, Carroll Avenue by which we reached St. Charles Avenue, to the city's grandest streets of the city, and surely, one of the finest streets in this country. Thus our first impression of the town was, I think, the best possible, but we were a bit surprised when your home always has been by the shores, you cannot help missing it very badly after four months confinement, however interesting it may be, to invent an escape straight on to the Gulf Coast and pay another visit to this most charming city on our way back. After a short drive through the most eminent parts of New Orleans, the Gentility read heading for Boca Raton. There is a marvelous almost unimpossible road between New Orleans and Louisiana, of each other, both in dangerous parts the shoulders are covered with white shell. This read leads through a most beautiful vista of three characteristic swamps of the golf region, with stretch vast areas of those characteristic swamps of the golf region, with crippled trees hung with moss Now and then we got a magnificent charnitum, both calm and shadow with no distinguishable shore; it is almost impossible to tell where the swamp The colours of the southern sky at sunset are simply grand, much more intensive and gaudy than those to which we are accustomed. No wonder, the races of the south are so fond of bright, loud colors in their dresses. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1951 No. 93 PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS? Second semester physical examinations for new students will be given as follows: men, Feb. 2, and 4. from 6 to 10 p.m.; women, Feb. 5, from 6 to 10 p.m. DR, R. I. CANUTESON, Director. BOOK EXCHANGE: LAW SCHOOL ENROLLMENT: SIGMA TAU: The W.S.G.A. book exchange will be open for buying second hand books at room 5. sub-basement of Union building, according to following schedule: Saturday, Jan. 24, 9-12; Monday, Jan. 25, 9-12; Tuesday, Jan. 27, 9-12; Thursday, Jan. 29, 9-11 and 12-3. VADA MANNING, Manager The picture for the Jayhawker will be taken Thursday, Jan. 22, at 12:30 at Squires studio. Please be there promptly. H. E. PRAETER, PLATTER. By vote of the law faculty, all students who plan to take work in the School of Law during the second semester, 1931, will be required to enroll on Tuesday, Feb. 3. All enrollment must be completed on that date. Classroom assignments for the first day will be posted on the Law School bulletin board. Campus Comment ROBERT McNAIR DAVIS, Dean. Once upon a time there were several studies who came in stewed and awakened the landlady and all the house at 10. No one minded; boys will be boys" "Not a true story." 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