PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS --- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1930 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHEEP CLARENCE RUPP Frank McClelland Sara Thompson MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NICOLLS Makeup Editor Mildred Curry Sunday Editor Kevin Penn Sunday Editor Kevin Penn Katheen Kastner Sporting Editor Kenneth Ramsay Sports Editor Kenneth Ramsay Socket Editor Lute Hockey Alumni Editor Heatherie Allen Alumni Editor Heatherie Allen ADVERTISING MGR. ROERT PIERSON* District Assistant District Assistant District Assistant William B. Smith District Assistant James District Assistant Jack Martin Kansan Board Members Frank McClintock William Nichols Robert Pierson Virginia Williamson Mary Hartmann Iris Flushmanbiont Carl Cuffee Marte Moore Wilmer Moore Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Texas at Austin, in the Press of the Department of Journalism. Telephones Business Office K, U. 64 News Room K, U. 25 Night Connection 2190KJ TIDINGS OF JOY Subscription price, $1.00 per year, payable in advance. Single application. Entered in twentythird order at main market Sapphire. Received the post office at Lawrence Kauaus, under the act of March 3, 1870. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1930 Happy New Jersey? Or at least that part of it which is affected by the decision of Federal Judge William Clark, who yesterday held the 18th amendment to the constitution invalid. We toppers like what we like, and we like it of somewhat better quality than it has been for the last ten years. We look at the blessed countries lying about us—none of them cursed with such an exceeding drought, all of them able to take a little nip now and then. Of course, even if Judge Clark's decision should be confirmed by the Supreme Court, the Kansas dry law would remain. But what with motor cars and interurbaners and so forth, we can hope that our neighbor Missouri, not so conquered, will be able to kill its state dry law and quench the thirst of us who wish it killed. What a threat this is to Al Capone, who has an income of $00,000,000 a year, all started from prohibition! What a blast to the anti-salon officials, know no other way to make a living. Gloria, gloria, and boop-boop-a-doop! In short, whooope! THE SHEPARD TRIAL Mother of six children A married man is carrying on an affair with another woman. In the midst of things his wife dies. It doesn't seem so extraordinary. It has happened many times before and will many times in the future. But when the man is put on trial, charged with killing his wife, the whole world sits up and follows every little detail of the case. The trial breaks into the newspapers in such a large way that the really important things that are happening in the world are crowded on to the back pages while the love letters of the man to his sweet-heart are spread all over the front section of the paper. Maybe Major Shepherd did kill his wife. Maybe he didn't. Anyway, why should a murder trial get so much publicity? Because the public likes the stuff. Why such a large proportion of the public should get this murdish satisfaction out of reading this salacious stuff is hard to understand. We are accustomed to seeing it as stage of civilization. But such affairs show we still have a long way to go. The whole thing is rather nauseating, and is not only revolting taken on its own merits but is trivial and insignificant when judged in comparison with a multitude of problems that confront the world today. Yet the public literally eats up the news of the trial. No, the world has not gone forward as far as it has been leading itself to believe, THE GOOD OLD DAYS Westerday we suggested that the rural life of our fathers was at least more romantic than it is today; but now we are wondering if it wasn't better for all concerned, as well as more romantic. When scarcely a night passes in a small city like Lawrence without a robbery, and when men throw bricks through drug store windows in order to spend their time in a warm place with something to eat, there is something tremendously wrong with the economic system. This is especially true when the difficulty is not one of a scarcity of the necessities of life, for the complaint seems to be one of overproduction rather than under-production. People are suffering from lack of the necessities of life but we'll wager that plenty of capitalists are making a fortune out of this economic depression. The profit-system becomes a menace to any country when it allows individuals to accumulate a fortune at the expense of the mass of the people. Any civilization breaks down when a large prosperous middle class comes to terms. America has always been the land of opportunity; but it promises to become in not so very many years the land of millionaires, wage-slaves, and seasants, if the present trend continues. ON DERBY HATS If you are a native of the homeland of "Stockholm" Jerry and Curie Nation, and are returning from somewhere for the holidays, you had best write home and find what is being worn in the old Sunflower state just now. Kensans do not take kindly to the external signs of Easter sophistication acquired after a year at Hawdow, Old Elr n Nassau. Recently a graduate of the University, who had spent a year at an eastern school, returned to visit with his parents during the Christmas holidays. Most noticeable among his accomplishments was a derby in the latest eastern He visited a school taught by his sister the second day he was at home. On going into the cloak room for his hat and coat after spending an hour at her school, he found that the boys had tern his hat to shrades. At least until wheat goes up to a dollar a husbah used, Kannans had better wear felt hats when they come back home. Somebody should advise Arthur Capper, Charles Curtis, and the rest of our law-makers at Washington to that effect, especially if they can't put over a few of the bills which they promised to support in their campaigns. We wonder how the women with dates Saturday night felt the first time they were tagged and left standing in the middle of the floor. WE DOUBT IT We are flattered, but not convinced, by the reference to our column in the "Oregon Emerald," which is quoted on this page. If the majority of the students on the University of Oregon campus are seriously interested in questions which do not concern their own selves, they must indeed be very different from the general run of college students. We believe that it is perfectly natural for young people to think of their own affairs first; the danger lies in the consideration of these problems to the neglect of the opportunity that college offers for more intellectual activity. Would an investigation prove that most of us on the Hill have difficulty in finding time to devote to thought processes? No, we are still of the opinion that it nd discussion along broader lines? We are still of the opinion that it could Yesterday we mentioned that young folks of today, especially college students, have a positive thought about what was going on in the world about them than did their peers. On Other Hills Today comes the question from the University Daily Kansan: "Why don't American college students discuss vital questions more than they do?" MORE STUDENTS THINK From the Oregon Emerald The editor of the Kansas publication believes that the student in the American college has little time to devote to thought along the more substantial line. He believes that students' sociorities, student activities, parties, and dates for consuming so much time. Perhaps they use considerable of the student's time, but that the time wasted by their studies is sufficient to allow them to indulge in more outside their sphere is quite likely. The Kansan asks why "students are so provincial, so wrapped up in their own little campuses, their own friends, their own pleasure." It is highly probable that college men and women differ. A judge may be different on her cammi. Previously we have spoken in generalities—stated that college students and young folks in the modern generation work hard at the University center ourselves at the University of Oregon, which, in all probability, is somehow different than the University of Chicago. these divisions may be. Some students rarely read a state or city newspaper, and quite obviously, no basis for the stories they read. Most students find great pleasure in gleaning the newspaper for features, crime stories, and the comics, but seldom do so on international interest. Other students read on world questions, study them in their classrooms, and enjoy their discussion among friends. We believe the Don't condemn the pleasures of college because serious thought seems to fade. Just remember—there is still time for both. A definite division of thinkers is evienced, but it is impossible for anyone learn exactly what the ratio between NEEDED: A REAL COLLEGE NOVEL College would be a strange place it. We were really like the sort of thing which present-day novelists, who deal with the collegiate scene, depict more of this kind in their books and footnote bank clerks. For many years he was the custom of the popular novelist John Gould, who numbered Plot No. 6, and spinkle over it a good number of collegiate words, such as fiery, sweet, timid and alder mat museum. Even when a novel comes out with a degree of originality, the prime masters women and song—all calculated to send clandestine little thrills up and down the back of Mamie Smith of the Five The over-drawn "Plastic Age" started the avalanche of novels idealizing collegiate youth. One of the latest, "I Am a Shocker," was a shocker for the old folks; and "Big Business Girl" could never have been written by a person who had been to college and had a natural college life. And Lois Montros is unappealing. The American small town, the doctor, the prescriber—all have had their novelization and presented the world a clear, intelligent picture of their vices and virtues. A real contribution to America's culture is that the American college as it really exists. Our Contemporaries A SUBSTITUTE FOR MISTLETOE Kansas City Kansan A SUBSTITUTE FOR MISTLETOE The editor of the University Daily receive an inquiry from some amorous freedman asking where and if they can buy some museletier as the reason for it. He is surprises; he says that "college students are more likely to report to such Victorian devices as hanging mistletoe over a doorway in order to find expression for their Freudian fantasies." Of the 1,700 students at K. U only need aspire to be home-makers. The others prefer that the man do the housework. Well, we are surprised, too. Usually by Christmas time even the most timid of freshmen have accounted them for their late schooling andlegate activities according to our information give no prominence to the late education. It is deemed entirely superfluous. Evidently these inquiring freshmen are introverts unable to adjust themselves adequately to the life they would like to live at the University. If so, then the university editor has made a pertinent suggestion for their welfare: it is foot carried over the heart." may often be conducive to numerous results. Topeka Daily Capital Monte Carlo—At the quiet command, it even waves at Madame de Mirage, a French casino and gambling season of the Sporting club of Monte Carlo started today. "It is in world fart with the goddess of chance. The only sounds in the crowded room and karaoke rooms were the soft-soffees and the clink of failing thirsty piers" and the clink of falling thirsty pigs. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1920 No. 77 An all-University convocation will be held in the Auditorium on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. The Rev. Charles M. Slater, Ph.D., serves as adjunct professor. E H LINDLEY. ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION: Gambling Season Opens at Monte Carlo Casino WATKINS HALL SCHOLARSHIPS: There will be a meeting with the chairman in 210 Foster hall on Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 to 12:30. Appointment may be made by telephone. OMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: The committee on relations with other educational institutions will meet meet in room 263 cast Administration building Thursday afternoon, at 4-30 vclock. U. G. MITCHELL, Chairman. SENIORS AND JUNIORS; MEN'S GLEE CLUB: The picture for the Jayhawkner will be taken Thursday at 12:30 at Squires studio. B deressed in tuxedos. Rehearsal this evening will be in the central administration auditorium instead of Marvin hall. ROBERT MILTON, President. GRADUATE CLUB MEETING: There will be a dinner meeting of the Graduate club this evening at 6 'clock at the cafeteria in the Union building. The psychology department will have charge. All graduate students are urged to attend. Radhamani Christmas meeting at Mr. Crutton's home, 2202 New Hampshire street, at 7:30 Thursday evening. JOSEPHINE WHEELER, President RHADAMANTHI: ATHLETES AND COACHES: A. I.E.E.： All variety and freshman athletes and coaches are meeting to meet in Kolumn gymnasium at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18. The meeting is for: **Winter Sports** **Sports Indoor Events** winter season had started and before April 15, millions of dollars will have hanged hands. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers will hold their regular meet- Thursday evening, Dec. 18 at 7:50 in Marvellan Hall. A short inter- ing presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 26. DR. F. C. ALLEN, Director. 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