PAGE TWO --- WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7. 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR IN CHIP CLARENCE RUPP Associate Editors AUTOHORIZATION WILLIAM NICHOLS MANAGED EDITOR Makayne Edwards Smurfit Editor Simon Edwards Sparrow Editor Sparing Edition Sports Editors Senior Editors Senior Editors Harvey Moore Harrison Moore Almanac Editor Almanac Editor Mark Haskins ADVERTISING MIG. ROBERT PERSON District Assistant Joe FirstName District Assistant Morgan Boynton District Assistant William Wallace District Assistant Jorge H. Krauss Construction Manager Martha Frank McCaffall William Nichols Ruben Robert Virginia Williams Mary Barton Iris Fidhmannes Clay Carroll Jack Mackey Owen Avery Jack Mackey Telephones Business Office K. U. 68 News Room K. U. 29 Night Connection 2'01K3 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the department of Journalism of the University of California Press. Free of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptor price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copy, or as单独的复印件。Subscriptor September 17, at the office of the office at Lawrence Kanaus, under the act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1931 STUDENT GOVERNMENT EXPANDS With the two student councils becoming associated with the National Students' Federation of America and with the west-central regional office coming to Kansas, student government here should thrive. The new step means that the student body is affiliated with an organization which is international in scope and is founded not on the principle of bene-fit to the few council members, but to the entire student body. The local N. S. F. A. committee can do much to promote the work here. International debates, news releases, and radio broadcasts conducted by the committee should serve as important mediums in bringing the nations of the world together through their students and providing our posterity with a basis for universal peace and understanding. It is stimulating to conceive of a congress of undergraduates who will tackle crucial vital issues as the tariff, the world court, and prohibition; in fact the obligation of citizenship is founded upon an understanding of these problems. HUMANITY'S SURPLUS The men who robbed the Interstate National Bank buried their loot on a farm. Evidently they reasoned that a farm is the last place to look for wealth nowadays. Parole boards are notorious for their clementy in dealing with men whose records should be enough to establish them as dangerous criminals unfit to be let loose upon society. Undoubtedly, Nimerick and "Red" Alton would not have been free to aid in the robbery of the Inter-State bank in Kansas City last month had it not been for the lenient execution of court verdicts. But a permanent remedy for our crime problem must go deeper than effective and unrelenting law enforcement. Before we can call ourselves truly civilized, humanity must reach a point where men like Alton and Limerick shall never be born, instead of being forced by the thousands upon the attention of our departments of justice, as is now the case. Humanity is suffering from over-production quite as much as are the wheat farmer and the oil operator, with this difference, that the surplus is entirely in inferior products. Before man can possess and have domination on the earth and its resources in a way beneficial to all, he must gain domination over himself. Inevitably, progress will dictate that he must determine who shall and who shall not reproduce. Evidently Coaches Allen and McMillin believe that turn about is fair play Alien says that the Kansas Aggies will win the Big Six basketball crown; McMillin said Kansas would win the football championship. WE ARE PERTURBED These far see critics who have bushes themselves informing the world that college people furnish the criticism of sophistication are soon to learn that they have over-valued the subject of their enthusiasm. No longer may colleges monopolize individuality, for to all appearances the high schools have a prior claim to that distinctor We who pride ourselves on the flour with which we can light a Murra in face of most embarrassing circu- stances, were, during our vacation ram- bles, nonplussed as we observed the naive ability which numerous red lipped neophytes displayed in consuming cigarettes while on the dance floor. Our holiday spirits were perturbed by this advance beyond our own concepts of sophistication. To see a girl who could not stop smoking long enough to舞 had to blow smoke in her partner's eyes, left us appalled. But we are not discouraged. A mind with a college education is sure to think up something that these young things can not possibly invent. TOO BAD IT WASN'T The conclusions to which people will jump are often as amusing as they are surprising. In spite of ages spent in an attempt to attain a bask sophistication, a man still reverts to an elemental response when it comes to a show-down. Just because Jim Bauch ingered for a day or in two the land of sunshine and palm, and because some grappler who called himself the Masked Marvel was billed to wrestle on a Kansas City boxing program, a lot of people were willing to believe that the man of mystery was Jim Bauch. Anyway, it would have been a great publicity stunt. DANCING VS. FINALS Queer what a difference a change in environment makes! It is all very well to stay up all hours of the night during the Christmas holidays, going from party to party and dancing the shoes off. But just try to waive ice cream for those same hours cramming for a chemistry, or a rhetoric lesson; I would like to long to acquire a splitting headache, nodding eyelids, and cramped arms. Instead of the crouning, soothing melody of a popular orchestra, one hears the monotonous tapping of the typewriters. Long peaceful hours of sleep in the morning are replaced by buzzing alarm clocks and hasty breakfasts. Letters to the latest inspiration, full of endering terms, give place to closely written index cards and note books. Yes, it is queer how circumstances alter people. NO DEPRESSION HERE Lynchings increased last year to 21 which number exceeds all records since 1920 when mob justice wiped out 30, and is equal to the combined lynchings of 1928 and 1929. These facts appear in a report compiled by Robert R. Moton of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Of the 21 executions, 20 were of Negroes. As uncle, the South took the lead in arranging these impromptu courts of justice. Georgia was aband with six lynchings, while people in each of the Gulf states except Louisiana had taken the law into their own hands at least once. The only state north of the Mason and Dixon line to hold a lynching party was Indiana where two met mob revenge. Other states in the South where the legal course of justice was abandoned were Oklahoma and the two Carolinas. To say that these facts indicate little progress in the promotion of racial harmony is to state the obvious. Agitation, on the other hand, to give the arm of the law more power means little in the face of adverse public sentiment. Officers did prevent 40 lynchings last year, 35 of these in the South. In the end we must return to a new and stronger emphasis on the removal of friction between the races. However when lynchings take place, not only for murder and rape as is usually the case, but also for robbery and other offenses for which the death penalty has long since been abandoned, the task of reconciling the races seems almost hopeless. Plain Tales We feel it our duty to inform the modern, twentieth century girl that it is no avail any more to sit on the front row and cross her legs. We heard a young professor say this morning, while disasserting on high steels, that he not know if anyone in that class knew them or not, he had looked to see. --- FORMER STUDENT DISCLOSES GERMAN UNIVERSITY CUSTOMS Lee S. Greene, former student at the university, who is now attending Columbia University, also served as school leader between Germany and the University of Kansas, writes an interdisciplinary article on the universities and the life of the students who attend. Greene obtained a master's degree from Columbia. Forty-five Minute Classes Are Held and Professors Usually Arrive Later Than Students Kanalstrasse 2, 1. Leipzig-Gohls N 22 Nov. 28, 1930. To the Editor of the University Daily Kansan: I am perhaps presuming upon your patience and the limited space of the newspaper over whose deadline you are writing, one of my letters would be of interest to the K.U. students, but I feel a cer- tain feeling as a place exchange student by taking advantage of opportunities to speak of European conditions as I have been able to see them, especially in those connections between us, with the life of our own schools. If you feel therefore, that this letter serves any purpose or be glad if you would it published To speak first of the universities of Germany from the statistical standpoint only Leipzig University counts about two-thirds of which about five hundred are foreigners. A large number of these are students of German descent but foreign citizenship, and they naturally form a part of the political landscape from the political standpoint. I might say that Leipzig is one of the largest of the German universities, Berlin University being naturally the largest university in the best, or so generally thought to be. The fields which are offered here in Leipzig are medicine of various varieties, including veterinary medicine law, in which field there is a very great variety. It also attracts which also attracts a great many students; literature and philology (the passion with which the German students study philology is a bit beyond my comprehension, in fact); sociology, last but by no means less, thetheology. All the Americans whom I have met here, with one exception, are theologians, and when I state my American identity, I am a member. I also am a minister. I have no doubt this will occasion some amused comment from certain of my KU. acquaintance, who is an excellent subject here for five hundred years and a tradition of that venerability has naturally a stronghold yet, in the face of communist agitation. As far as equipment is concerned, I believe it is fair to say that the Americas have specialized equipment. It happens that Leipzig is very excellently supplied with libraries, and the seminar libraries seem also very com- mfortable in terms of equipment, buildings, and so on, the The customers of the University of Berlin are vastly entertaining. Classes are 45 minutes in length, but in a month's time I have as yet not found anyone who can be a great five minutes late, and a great many arrive ten minutes late as the usual thing. However, the students are very faithful, and do not eager watch the ten-minute period before making a class presentation. It is the general K.U. practice, I believe. In case a lecture lasts during two periods as is sometimes the case, a fifteen-minute vacation is taken because of a note-taking. It is customary to eat a sandwich during this time, if you happen to have a sandwich. (This is very common in German equivalent of the Coca Cola.) The lectures are very formal in comparison to our own. It is not unusual for the professor to appear at 8 o'clock in the morning, prepared to wrestle with the difficult problems of his science. Immediately upon his appearance, the applaud vigorously by pounding the hand which is repeated at the conclusion of the lecture, and which is changed to a scrapping sound if the teacher gives a statement whist does not please. I should particularly like to point out the advantage of this method; it enables me to talk directly with and who is not scraping. Outside of this, the professor has the field to himself and it is a rare thing to hear him speak immediately upon arrival upon the platform, and does not cease until he dissertation quickly to a close, bows, and retires amid the plaudits of the openers for him by the nearest student. The formality of the lectures is in direct contrast to the seminar, where the student must take part in the discussion. This means a piece of research work in his field. In this case, the students stand upon the entry of the professor, but the formality ceases at this point. Students are required to attend the seminars in which they have enrolled, but in regard to the lectures they may go or not as they please to any or no lectures. This academic freedom is one of the great advantages of the German student, and one which he would not willingly forego; the seminar, on the other hand, is distinctly a breach of this freedom, and as I understand, an invention born of necessity. In fact, an American university of importance is seldom spoken of here without the adjective "rich" being attached as an essential part of the deli tation of a restaurant, and the zing is to speak of the impossible, the only suggestion of the same being a very small inner court for the sake of supplying air and light. One cannot expect the room here which we have in the building may justy call the great open spaces. [American universities are distinctly superior. Social life as a feature of the University does not exist in the same sense in which we know it. The students at this university dance here is unthinkable. The student body as such, however, hushes itself with the economic problems of college life and finds itself in the managing of a student table at very cheap prices, loan libraries for books and museums, student laundry, a cafeteria, a student's department for providing for the needs of foreign students, and a national association of various complications. These political associations are not among affairs which can survive in the modern world. A minister society, but are associations which have a genuine political dignitary. The National Socialist party draws one of its main sources of strength and influence in Germany. It has students in the German universities. There are 3,000 National Socialists in the University of Leipzig, and in the University of Warsaw there have been sufficient to command the attention of the police in three cities; each of them is a major city. Main. In addition, the student body provides musical organizations, a choir and an orchestra for those students. For me, the most interesting and valuable student organization in the university is the Club. The Club, an organization where the foreign students from all corners of the city meet for lectures, dances, practices and other activities, good times. You can meet anyone there, from German to Danceman, from Spanish to Latin, generally spoken, but practically everything else comes in at times, and the cosmopolitan nature of Europe is The program of lectures includes addresses by German professors and students, an address by an Indian, by a French student, and by an Italian teacher. The entire organization furnishes a pretty fair example of the serious attention paid by the German student to international discussion of opinion between students. The expenses of the German student and the living scale are considerably below the standard set by the Americas. The students in these existences of the Messe, or student eating place, which is ridiculously cheap and often makes an unnecessary but the existence of dormitories or union buildings equipped with dance halls, billiard rooms, checker tables, etc., are not common in the German student beyond expression. The students here live mainly to themselves, and I am informed that they come from students, apparently excluding clothing, amounts to 125 marks, which has an average exchange value of about thirty dollars. In many respects however, two marks here will purchase what costs a dollar at home, so I think we can assume that this amount is in the neighborhood of 50 dollars. But no American student could live on 130 marks even here in the country. We certainly consider more than that because of the heavy items of entertainment music, books, and so on; but for the 129 marks they should fire up 139 marks too little. I have already spoken in passing of the number of foreigners in the United States who are refugees or welfare of these foreign students is the especial concern of the Akademie ausländische Auslander, a way to make them welcome, to better their economic condition, and to protect them from the grinding which is apt to be the stranger's law. The universities of Germany are faced with many difficult problems and the proposals for reform are a much more complicated task. An ant of all is the fact that the class of men and women who frequent the universities are finding increasing difficulty in making a place for them in the economic school of things. I have been told by students that it is a rather usual thing to find a well-defined field of study as a chauffeur in later life. The professors feel, at least to some extent, that university does not justify the strong age of so many students, and that the city is not warranted in supporting so many students when perhaps only a small percentage of that number will justify the expensive subsequent genuine scientific output. This opinion leads naturally to the proposal for the increase of technicien- skills in education. We say that what I have been able to learn seems to indicate that the sit- ups may be better. tutions is no better than that of the graduates of the universities. In fact, the problem is so intrintrically a portion of the entire economic situation of Germany, that it seems to me impossible to make a field without attempting at the same time to arrive at an entirely new outlook on the entire situation of ecological problems. This is the part of certain reformers to propose "degrading" the German university by making it a separate economic position of advantage meets with determined opposition on the part of professors who still hold to the ideal of labor and production. The problem is not exactly foreign to the problem of universities in certain features. It is perhaps too early for me to venture a criticism of the German university, but I am sure that such perhaps I may be permitted a few observations. In general I do not find the student's interest in being a student is apt to sign up for too many lectures. I know one student who is interested in conficting lectures, in order to make an impression. No check Where so many lectures are heard, I think not so much can be absorbed, particularly as the collateral reading is more focused. You can except insofa as the student attends a seminar, where also only a limited amount of guidance in matters of read- I frankly do not think the average person is capable of managing this devise of freedom, and I find the abuse of the abuse under our own inadequate grading system. The lectures are not to be somewhat sensational at times, particularly when treating upon political issues in a way that American professor applauded upon his treatment of a political matter; the result is I believe, a natural tendency to express the opinion of the expuse of the truth; I seen to detect at times a certain intrusion of jingoism in the subject matter. Waving the flag is not a practice trained to do it. I do find the German students rather arrest about their work and their problems; how hard they work in temperance with our own university. I do not believe it is a best questionable whether we work as hard. To our own loafers we have to place the German student dueling organization in the hands of the men themselves too much with labor of the academic sort. For all my misconceptions in these matters, I must ask indulgence, because two months is adequate time to group a new situation. The letter is to be taken for what's worth. At a later date, I hope to be able to send you a copy of my greetings to the University and to many people whom I count as friends. Very truly yours. LEE S. GREENE. Very truly yours. Beg Pardon The regular Thursday afternoon recital given by the School of Fine Arts will start at $3.30 in place of 4 o'clock as announced in yesterday's Karsan. --you will have a good habit to start the new year. Read the Kansan Want ads. ELECTRIC RADIOS Complete $59.50 Shimmons Bros. Plumber and Electricians Repair Work, Especially. Mary Loehmann 161 836 Mass. Phone 161 F. H. ROBERTS Optometrist 833 Mass. St. KENNEDY 937 Mass. St. Plumbing Co. Phone 658 General Electric Refrigerators OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVII Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1981 No. 81 3. AND; The K.U. hand will meet for practice this evening promptly at 7:30. It is very important for every member to be present. —are just a few of the punishments to which you subject your eyes. J. C. McCANLES, Director. K. U. SYMPHONY AND CHORUS in the University Auditorium on Thursday evening: 7-30 - Orchestra and solids; 8-20 - Orchestra and chorus. K. O. KUERSTEINER, Director. Help your eyes retain their strength and clearness by getting properly fitted glasses. PI SIGMA ALDHA GLARING LIGHTS IMPERFECT PRINT SMALL TYPE QUILL CLUB: STANLEY E. TOLAND, President. P1 Signage Alpha will meet Thursday afternoon at 4:20 in room 165 west Administration building SQUARE AND COMPASS: FRESHMAN COMMISSION: SENIORS AND JUNIORS Square and Compass fraternity will meet this evening at 7:30 in room 211 Fraser. All members must be present. W, L. WATTIMER, Secretary. There will be a meeting of Quill club this evening at 7:30 in the rest room in central administration building. KATHRYN HAYES, President. WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB: Freshman commission will meet Thursday afternoon at 4:20 at Holey house. DOROTHY JACOBSON. The deadline has been set for Jan. 12 on class pictures. Make your appointments immediately with Freaking's studio. A meeting of the Women's Rifle club will be held Thursday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. in Fowler shops. All old and new members are required to be present. Please report promptly. WILMA BRINK, Captain. 1931 JAYHAWKER STAFF. Campus Comment Lucky those bank bandis didn't say they buried the cemetery instead of on a farm in Grant county. Searching parties would have the campus in town, several places we could mention. CAFETERIA Nothing is better than to have good habits, and if you start eating at the FISCHER'S HALF 1/2 PRICE SALE $10.00 Peacock, black or brown suedes $$$.00 $10.00 Walk-On pumps $$$.00 $10.00 Walk-on, black pumps $$$.00 $18.50 Peacock patent pumps $4.25 $18.50 Peacock black satin pumps $4.25 $18.50 Peacock trumpet pumps $4.25 Our inventory shows that we have a number of lines of shoes that are broken in sizes. These have been placed on tables for convenient display. All sizes in the lot but not all sizes in every style. Men's Shoes 8.50 Walk-Over tum Oxfords ... $4.25 Broken lots of Children's High Shoes on the table at HALF PRICE Attend Our January Sales You'll Save Enough to Pay Your Fees for Second Semester See Our Windows 1931 finds many men wearing Derbies. We're showing two distinctive new shapes at $5 and $8 Also New Spring Felts at $5