PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHEIF CLARENCE RUPI Frank McClelland Sara Thompsox MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NICOLls Makeup Editor Mulled Carrot Hair Stylist Shawn Goff Sunday Editor San Bush Marketing Editor Kathleen Bessinger Shooting Editor Dennis Quarrington Society Editor Doug Quarrington Society Editor Lain Hanby Alumni Editor Heather Alden Alumni Editor Heather Alden ADVERTISING MCR. ROBERT PIERSON District Assistant. Irwin Pinnsum District Assistant. William B. Smith District Assistant. James Wade District Assistant. Jack Martin Kansan Board Members Clurence Rupp Frank McCoulldon William Nichols Rick伯顿 Peter Sawyer Virginia Willmoss Mary Bartram Iris Flossombain Darl Career Marc Moore William Moore Telephone Business Office K. U. 62 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2701K3 Folklished in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Kentucky FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930 Subscriptions price, $14.00 per month, payable in Advance. Single愈寄, or each entered in second-class, at court office at Lawrence Avenue at lawrence Kannau, under the onet of March 3, 1870 THE LAND OF THE FREE The American student has been taught since birth that his country is the sole perpetrator of liberty, individuality, and all other qualities which make for progress. But America's claim to liberalism and progressiveness is likely to be taken from her by the so-called conservative countries of Europe if she continues in her present way. In Germany, the debaters told us last night, 80 per cent of the students belong to the party of Hitler as a protest against the Varsity treaty and materialism. Practically all German students are actively united with a national political party. They are a real force in national situations, and in many foreign countries, students have been directly responsible for the rise and growth of major progressive movements. In contrast, the American student usually confuses his powers of contention to disputes on the date rule, professors who hold class after the whistle blows, extra half days of vacation, and professional athletes. If here and there an individual is so bold as to enter a discussion on a major political, social, or economic question, he is promptly squeezed by his elders. Young squints, they say, who are not dry behind the ears yet should confine their contensions to the college campus. There probably never has been any concentrated expression of student opinion on any major national issue in these United States of America such as the practice of the Student Union of Germany. The political concepts of American students lie dormant until they have been graduated from colleges. After graduation, students are individually absorbed into the national political parties of their elders. The result is the perpetuation of American conservatism with all for which it stands. IT IS MORE BLESSED Just so many more days until Christmas. Christmas to whom? Yes, probably a majority of the people around this part of the country, now, will have a Christmas of some sort or another. It's customary. But what about those who are too poor to afford a Christmas? There are lots of those, too. And right here at hand. There are plenty of Lawrence families to whom Christmas will be nothing but the twenty-fifth of December. Probably the head of the family is out of work and can't find any. To these people a basket of food or a bundle of old clothes or a bushel or two of coal would mean a lot in the way of a Christmas gift. Lots of them need all three. There are hundreds of students who could well afford to play Santa Claus to these poor families. Few students have to worry about not having a satisfactory Christmas. Some of their holiday festivities will be high marks of extravagance. There couldn't be a better time to remember the old adage of how it is more blessed to give than to receive than during the Christmas season of 1903. AN INFLATION TO KANSAS'S PRIDE AN INFLATION TO KANSAS'S PRIDE Whatever vexation most Kansans experienced following the Brinkley policy debacle, can be allayed by the optimistic report in yesterday's news telling of the selection of jurors for the Shepard trial in Kansas City, Kansas judge Richard J. Hopkins, quizzing the veniometer, had that a surprisingly large number had read the papers, knew the history of the trial, and an intellectual readers, had forged some opinion, one way or another. In view of the huge vote that Brinkley coined, we appeared to have been slipping toward an inevitable dissolution, a dissolution both masonic and gallible. We sat, Kansas, with our mouths figuratively agape, our eyes unblinking, our cerebrums uncreased. Obviously we assimilated news (and an extrordarily small bit of news) through only the radio, and somehow we it tuned in on Milford, Kansas, ready to drink in anything, whether it was a time by Steve Love or a glass of goat milk. Day by day we are gaining back our old state pride. Out of the thirty-eight even impanelled only twelve had overlooked reading or hearing of Major Shepard and his trial. We wonder if anyone has thought to ask them whom they voted for in the recent election. Our bet would favor that gailant but loses, Brinkley. FRESHMAN DESIRE AWAKENS The University Daily Kansan, Laramie, Kansas Gentlemen: Well knowing that ye editor is always full of knowledge and willing and able to answer any questions put to you, we again are making you the defendant in a questionnaire. While one of us was in a popular 10-cent store down town the other day we heard a fellow inquiring for mistletoe. He was unsuccessful in his quest. But the idea still remains and so we turn to ye editors, the all-wise ones of the campus, to tell us if and where mistletoe could be obtained. We could use it for decorations over our class doors. Hoping that ye editors will easily be able to answer this small question, we remain Sincerely yours. A group of K. U. Frosh By R. C. We editor is indeed mighty surprised that college freshmen of the year 1930 are forced to resort to such Victorian devices as hanging mistletoe over a doorway in order to find expression for their Freudian inclinations. We had entertained fonder conceptions as to their ability. In the second place, we are curious as to the location of the classroom door over which it would be pleasant and remunerative of one's efforts to suspend a twig of mistletoe. Thus far in our experience at the University we have seen no classroom whose occupants we should have deemed worthy of the mistletoe test. Should there be such a room of recitation, however, we humbly beseach the observant freshman to whisper information thereof in our car, that we might come and worship also. In such an event we should be glad to furnish sufficient mistletoe for our purposes. It has been rumored that a local seed company dispenses mitotene to the lovelorn for a small consideration. Should the projected plan fail of its intended purpose, we suggest that a hare's foot carried over the heart may often be conducive of amorous results. Syspathetically yours. The Editors. WHISKERS AND THE COLLEGIAN A style was introduced in yesterday's news whose kernel was startling to many of the University's young men From New York, it appears, there is a current belief that we are going back to beards. You cannot, as the metropolitan newspaper writer did, consider the re-entrance of long whiskers as aesthetic and beautifying. Facial adornment, from what we have been able to gather, is markedly individualistic; a man with black hair is as apt to be red-whitehued as not. Nothing is more electrifying nor obvious than a blond fellow with an ebony-hued moustache. Our generation has taken goatsees and their ilk as definite indications that the wearer has something to mask. Then, too, we have regarded hirsute faces as suitable appenders that gather with age and sophistication. You wore them when you became a grandfather or found that women, after all, had no place in your life. And most of us are a long way from reaching either of those states. FAIRLEY to ruling of Stute Auditor the December salary warrants will be available until Dec. 31. The payroll will close for climatement at room Dec. 17. *** DAVDOUT : OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Friday, Dec. 5, 1920 No. 67 PAYROLL: Economically such a remembrance, the old hirsute days is totally explicable. From all reports, ranging from the Liberty Magazine to the Yale Review, times are hard; we must do away with the unelemental things. Razor blades and the rest of the shaving ensemble cost money and it would aid the budget to find them ufft for service. But like the return of long dresses, beards would incribe a severe remonstrance among women, remonstrances whose basic argument were that whiskers, most decidedly, are atravistas to the Neolithic days, or the Middle Ages, or even back to those archaic days of Victoria. The debate last night was interesting not only because a fairly accurate view of the foreigner on American culture was developed, but because the opening teams ordinarily speak a different language. WHAT OF OUR CULTURE Although our idiom, and the position of subjects and predicates had them slightly puzzled, they showed a better understanding. They did not our own debaters. They did not say "to The German men displayed a remarkable power over the English language for a knowledge gained only in a German classroom, supplemented by a few weeks in the United States. At that, they probably would gain lilts by continued residence here. we' Americans" and "Mr. Blank and myself will prove—" On the other hand, America can be proud of the high compliment paid to our representatives by the men from Germany when they praised the confidence which allowed us to criticize the state of our culture without restraint. The refusal of various nations to criticize frankly the value of their culture is the result of an inferiority complex, they said. Although there are many crudities in American culture, such as our disregard for a proper use of the language, both sides were agreed that it can large potentialities which are not handicapped by the maturity and completeness usually attributed to European cultures. --students-- Be sure to stop for that not soup while you are on the hill. Of course it will help to wear warm on these cold winter days. $ .50 Brattleau Hair Oil ... 19c CAFETERIA $1.00 Listerine ... 69c $ .35 lb. Peanut Brittle ... 17c Rolls Razors --- $10.00 Useful Christmas presents Christmas articles are all useful Many other specials Rankin's Drug Store "Handy for Students" 11th & Mass "Handy for Students" Phone 678 will be the subject of the discourse Sunday at 11 at the Uitarian church, 12th and Vt. Sts. "Naught Can Compare With Gifts to Wear!" "Psychology and Religion" "Function" will be the subject of a student symposium at 7:30. ELECTRIC RADIOS Complete $59.50 Shimmons Bros. Plumbers and Electricians Repair Work. Especially. 836 Mass. Phone 161 Protect your Radiator! Important! Anti-Freeze Most automobile trouble in winter is due to a motor that stalls, because of dirt or grade anti-freeze will keep the water in your radiator at the correct temperature for months sitting on the coldest days. Firestone TIRES Let us service your car! Carter Service PHONE 1300 --- WE'RE OUT of TANDEM BICYCLES! The College Jeweler Drop In Today And Glance On Our Gift Suggestions Blue Moon Hosiery $1.00 --- And we haven't a single mountain cup left in stock. But, aside from these and other victims of obelehence, we have just about everything under the sun that you could want as Christmas taken. "You've made it." We have it assembled as a veritable Seventh Heaven for your Christmas shopper. --- GIFT SHIRTS Others $1.95 to $5 Dresses from our regular stock formerly prized to $19.75 —including the smartest fashions of the season—including all the desirable colors for all hours and occasions. Dress Sale, 845 Mass. A noteworthy selection of handsome Gift Shirts are here for your choosing now. —and what man ever had too many shirts —especially the kind you get at Ober's! $9.00 A great variety at $2.50 LISTEN IN Greatest Hits Greatest Hits Groebner Brewery Wednesday bill to 11 p.m. E. W. 730 a brief pause for station announcement Stand by everybody for Coca-Cola broadcasting a program of delicious refreshment from every ice-cold glass and bottle. Operating on a frequency of nine million drinks a day. The happiest, shortest cut to refreshment is the brief pause for Coca-Cola. 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