PAGE TWO MONDAY, JANUARY 5. 1931 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHEIF ... CLARENCE RUPP Frank McClelland Sara Thompson MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NICHOLE Makeup Editor Mildred Caryton Sunday Editor Mark Raftery Monday Editor Gwen Patterson Ratings Editor Katrina Smith Superior Editing Kenneth J. Huff Social Media Editor Linda Hackin Society Editor Mary Hackin Alumni Editor Hercules Allan Alumni Editor Eileen ADVERTISING MGR. ROBERT PIERSON District Assistant. Iris Mustaphaunson District Assistant. David Keeffe District Assistant. William B. Smith Director, Office Management Circuit Counsel. Manager. Jack Mohr Kansan Board Members Frank McColland William Nicholson Robert Pierce Virginia Nicholson Mary Intrum Iris Fluximmons David Kurttwenge Paul Edward Wilmer Moore Telephones Business Office K, U. 68 News Room K, U. 25 Night Connection 2701K3 Published in the afternoon, two times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of New York at St. Peter's Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $4.90 per year, available in Advance. Single register, see each. Entered as second-class mail multiple orders. Invoice and payment to Lawrence Kanan, under the net of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, JANUARY 5. 1931 OH WELLS At no time does the college schedule seem so much a conspiracy on the part of the instructors to take the student at a disadvantage as when he returns from the Christmas holidays to be faced with the prospect of final examinations in less than three weeks. Wan and haggard from parties and merrymaking, jaded in spirit, and with stomach smacked from candies, nuts, and Christmas cookies, he is forced to listen to the usual remarks of the instructor about the glorious opportunities of the new year, and then have the fact once impressed upon his consciousness that the day of reckoning is not far away. Not content with assuming that a lot of work has been accomplished during the holidays, the instructor expects his students to be fresh and enthusiastic and just raring to get at those books. How much we would like to paraphrase Victor Herbert's "Sweet Mystery of Life" or quote Thomas Gray when he tells us that "the paths of glory lead but to the grave." But somehow, we suppose, students will be able to survive term themes, outside readings, and even final examinations, though just now the task seems positively hopeless. Anyway, there is at least one consultation, it will be several weeks before we will have to worry about the ground gog seeing his shadow. We notice that a clinic in Chicago is hiring persons who suffer from migraines (commonly known as a headache) for research of purpose. If someone would offer to hire a pain in the neck, we know a lot of men who might make the so-called better half of the family a profitable source of revenue. THE HOME STRETCH And here we are again. No more Christmas trees; no more presents; no more cozy mornings in bed, shades pulled down, breakfast out in the kitchen. School's begun! Hear the alarm clocks ring and watch the term papers and quizzes. It's enough to discourage the most energetic. But "are we down-hearted?" No! We sit a little tighter, urge our mounts on, and tense ourselves for the finish. Come on, comrades, keep your courage up, we're almost there! Perhaps the large enrollment in advertising classes at K. U. was explained recently when it was announced that the only American to make a success at the pastime of bull fighting in Mexico received his early training in advertising. OUR PRODIGAL OIL PRODUCERS As man has pushed civilization into the realms of barbarian and gradually brought the earth under his dominion, as we are told in Genesis that he would do, there has always been avoidable waste of natural resources. Land has been farmed to death in an effort to outstrip competitors, and mineral wealth has been wasted in the scramble to achieve quick wealth. The same thing is now taking place in the oil industry. Because of the intense competition between oil companies, and the opening of vast new oil fields, the big producers are paying light heed to the plight of 300,000 independent producers on southeast Kansas. producers on southeast Kansas. Doubtless the oil industry is suffering from overproduction. Just now it may seem that the loss from these strippers will be so small, that no future harm will result. But we once thought the same thing about our forests. Already various scientists have warned us that we must conservate our oil resources and the developments of history tend to prove that some day there may be a real need for the oil from these stripper wells. It is hopeless to leave the situation to the individual producers, because man is essentially a selfish animal whose first instinct is self preservation. Just now it may seem that the only course for the Prairie oil and gas company to follow in its struggle to survive competition is to abandon these strippers. The government as representing the interests of the people as a whole and with the future welfare of the nation at heart should take decisive steps to prevent the total loss of the 300,000 stripper wells in southeast Kansas. We vote to award the steel-lined bedroom slippers to the radio announcer who, in dedicating a number to a Kanae couple celebrates its fifteenth wedding anniversary, selected one by Rudy Vaillee. THE LAND OF PLENTY People who read of the food riot staged by farmers in England, Arkansas, may think of it as an isolated case having little relation to the total economic situation and their own welfare. Such is not the case, however. The event in Arkanas is merely a manifestation of a condition with national proportions. Thousands of tenant farmers in Kansas have almost every article of personal property that they own covered by mortgages. Many others have had their next year's crop of wheat mortgaged from the time that it was seeded last September. They owe bills for gas and oil, for last year's threshing, and for the things needed to keep their 'milies alive. The fact that a nation whose industries are suffering from overproduction has thousands of inhabitants in absolute poverty and want presents a paradox which amounts to a severe condemnation of our economic system. When the adopted daughter of Henry L. Doeherty has a coming-out party costing a million dollars, while thousands of her countrymen lack the necessities of life, there seems to be need for drastic revision somewhere. The picture 'Just Imagine' brings to mind that in fifty years women will still be using headaches for excuses. MILITARISM AGAIN? The reaction of the German people and their former allies to the filming of "All Quist on the Western Front" seems strange to us who had regarded the book and picture as an entirely fair treatment of the World War. Especially does it seem strange to us since the book was written by a German. A horse, so the papers say, was found drunk on the streets of New York City. New Year's night. The horse, being an egistic creature, naturally thinks he can do anything he sees his long-eared cousins doing. Perhaps the newspaper reports have been grossly exaggerated or distorted, or it may be that the riots are carried on by isolated factions discontented with the present state of affairs in Europe. Should the riots, however, represent the sentiment of the bulk of the German people, the inevitable conclusion would seem to be that the Germans and their former allies are still stirred by the old idealization of military power; that they still uphold the Fatherland right or wrong; and that they are still bent on aggression at a favorable opportunity in the future. ELECTRIC RADIOS Complete $59.50 Shimmons Bros. Plumbers and Electricians Repair Work, Especially. Complete $59.50 836 Mass. Phone 161 Students who read of all the reports that Caridade, Notre Dame's all-American querterback, had to deny after making a call on an old girl in the west, will have another thing to worry about after the social activities of the holidays. It is queer that those persons who always ruz someone else for listening in on Amos n' Andy seem to know so much about the conversations of these comedians. Our idea of the person who takes trunk home for the Christmas holiday is that he's just trying to show off. "Alalfa Bill" Murray, governor-elect of Oklahoma, predicts that the next five months will be the worst that the United States has ever known. If he would make it about three and a half weeks, we know a lot of University students who might agree with him. We imagine that the popular music about fireplaces and dream girls was not the inspiration of one who sat in front of a gas fireplace. Beware of English Lit professors, for we heard one say this morning that if he had a wife, and she wanted to reduce, he would run her around the block every morning. Since this young professor does not have a wife, the moderates if this is the first of a series of seasons before the approaching finals. Plain Tales Evidently one young professor had a good time this vacation, for his mind reverted to that much discussed book; he was most modest of the class hour this morning. --at these worthwhile reductions Get a gold or chromium wrist band for your watch $1.50 to $12.00 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY: The Christian Science society will meet Tuesday at 7:30 in room 5 sub-basement of the Union building. All interested are invited to attend. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Jun. 5, 1931 No. 78 K. U. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Important rehearsal for all members will be held in the University Auditorium. K. O. KUERSTEINER, Director. There will be a meeting of Pen and Scroll Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 8 p.m., in the rest room of central Administration building. PL LAMIDA THETA: Pl Lamidia Thelta will hold a regular meeting on Jan. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in room H1. J. W. Tewattle will speak. SQUARE AND COMPASS: W. W. LATTIMER, Secretary Square and Compass faternity will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 in room 214 Frasher hall. All members must be present. Campus Comment Off on a new year that's four days old. January 5, yes, but who remembers the first one? Start the New Year out right by EATING AT THE CAFETERIA The POLGA Welcomes You Back Sandwiches Plate Luncheon Tamales Chili 1103 Mass. The Perfect Gift F. H. Roberts Jeweler You'll know "happy days are here again" when we show you how fat your dollars in our January Clearance Sale. 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