PAGE TWO THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHEEP CLARENCE RUPP Associate Editors Frank McCieland Sara Thompson MANAGING EDITOR - WILLIAM NUCHOLS Makken Editor Sunday Editor Sunny Kutte Kathleen Kutte Sparting Editor Schooling Editor Gordon Curtin Sussex Editor Jackie Hackney Alton Editor Hansenstein Alton Alton Editor ADVERTISING MGR. ROBERT PIERSON District Assistant Pitney-Shannon District Assistant William B. Smith District Assistant William B. Smith Circulation Manager Jack Morris Kansan Board Members Clarence Rupq Frank McClendon William Nichols Robert Pieren Virginia Willmons Mary Ruttenke Ice Flintmanns Bert Ritter Kevin Moore Dawn Paul Willer Moore Telephone Business Office K. U. 68 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2701K3 Subscription price, $4.00 per month. In advance. Single invites. In order to attend, referred an second guest at the system. Reserve a room at the office at Lawrenz, Kanana, under the net of March 3, 1976 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930 "WE HAVE OUR TEA" The Phi Bhi Kappa society will meet Friday to be talked on the subject, "We Have Our Ten." Now outdoubtedly that will be a most interesting subject, but it indicates a rather unfortunate tendency in the Phi Bhi Kappa society—the tendency to avoid any real issues in life. The withdrawal of intellectuals from the strife of everyday activity can only be deplored. Societies like Phi Beta Kappa have so much talent in their membership that it is great waste for them to do nothing--but elect members. There are functions which Phi Beta Kappa could perform. The bringing of lectures on cultural subjects, the organization of the teaching profession to guard academic freedom, the furtherness of research, of scientific discussions, the helping along of various other intellectual causes might all come within Phi Beta Kappa's earnest attention and intelligent supervision. MAYBE IT'S TRUE Doublets "We Have Our Tea" will be a charming and sprightly lecture by a learned, wise, and witty savant. That, unfortunately, is just where the waste lies. Well, if Kansas and Missouri have played their last football game, Kansas will have a much more pleasant recollection than will Missouri. Recently a woman writer in the Sun magazine of the Wichita Eagle set forth the statement that the changing styles in hair dress indicated that prosperity was just around the corner. William Allen White down at Emporia is being advising his fellow townmen to spend all the money for Christmas that they can lay hands on, because such a procedure will bring good times. If the defeated candidates would add their assurances we might be persuaded to join in the general feeling of confidence, although it still takes as much wheat as the average family eats in six months to get your picture in the Jay-hawk. And now President Hoover hulls the anxieties of Congress with a bedtime story, telling them that they needn't do anything about it because the producer and consumer have just about got things straightened out again. "AS THE ROMANS DO" In Germany, students scrape their feet on the floor to applaud their instructors. Men take off their hats and bow to the their masculine friends, and young women give their seats in the street cars to middle-aged men. Good manners, it is plain, depend on the social habits of the group. These habitats are usually serviceable originally, and as time goes on those which no longer have a reasonable basis gradually disappear. It was once good manners to take snuff, to chew tobacco. It was correct to say "he don't" and "he ain't" - Dickens did. Not so long ago society drank coffee from the saucer instead of the cup. Time passes, customs change, and every now and then someone gets excited over them. John Knox refused to take off his hat to the king. Dawes wouldn't wear knee breeches, and now some woman comes along who wants to go through the door first. Cheer up, Miss Reactionary, in another hundred years some man will be wishing the same thing. UP WHERE THE TALL CORN GROWS We wonder how many women at the University of Kansas were just the least bit envious when they read the account of the Iowa farm girl who won the national health contests of 4-H clubs. Perhaps a number of them inspecied her menu and health rules with an eye to copying the health champion. This girl who acquired her rosey cheeks from the bite of the winter wirds on her long trampons to school eats candy only once a week. That should be comparatively easy for lots of college women, especially if they are getting just a wee overweight. But look at the breakfast she catl! Cooked cereal, toast, eggs, fruit, and milk wouldn't ever do when one can't even eat an extra sandwich without apprehensive glances at the mirror. She sleeps nine hours a night. That wouldn't be so hard if it weren't for that 8:30 class every morning. But she weaned woolen stockings and low-heeled shoes; she's never been at a night club, up in an airplane, or at a ten dance, and doesn't care to go. Impossible for the college girl! And horror! she drinks a quart of milk a day with no stimulating drink of any kind, not even tea or coffee. Oh well, who wants to be healthy? Give me an aspirin. I've got a beastly headache. WILL KANSAS STEP OUT OF THE MUD? The federal government has money in excess of $1,000,000 ready to spend on road improvement in Kansas as soon as that sum can be duplicated from the state coffers. Thus far the state has been powerless to raise such an amount at one time because the State Highway commission is forbidden by the constitution to vote bonds for highway improvement. A suggestion has been made and is now being promoted by leaders in highway development throughout the state, that Kansas adopt the plan of Iowa. The Iowa commission was handcapped by the same constitutional restriction which exists in Kansas, but has now succeeded in uniting virtually all county seats and important cities with hurl-surfaced roads. There is nothing in the constitution of either state forbidding the voicing of bonds by the county commissioners. Under the Iowa plan, bonds may be voted by the county, which turns the proceeds from the sale of the bonds over to the State Highway commission to use for the improvement of the state and national highways. Payments on the bonds are then made from the proceeds of the gasoline tax. A four-cent tax on gasoline would probably be necessary to meet the payments on the bonds, but Kansas would be making appreciable progress toward the development of a state-wide system of hard surfaced roads, which is more than can be said for the history of road-building in Kansas during the past. When more than a million dollars lie idle because of the impotence of our present system, there is need for decisive action even though such action involves a change in procedure. Do college students think, or do they placidly accept the facts and theories of others? No doubt there are a few who really have some new ideas of their own, but the percentage is small. If they do they are usually shunned and regarded as freaks by their fellow students because of their unaccepted or socialistic ideas. CREATIVE THOUGHT AND COLLEGE CURRICULA And it is doubtful if their breaking away from custom is due entirely to some individual trait. Of course the individual will have to be so equipped that he will not hesitate to break away, but it would probably be safe to say that a great part of the impetus comes from the classroom and the instructor and the material imparted there. So the amount of creative thought put forth by college students doesn't seem to be great. John Jones, after being questioned in his psychology final concerning the influence of heredity and environment, gives an entirely original idea in accordance with the SUCH POOR ENGLISH He flunks. Inadequate preparation for college entrance appears to be characteristic of a great many of the schools from which Kansas students have been graduated. Partially in the case of mathematics, it is the institution and a general knowledge of rhetoric. Many of these same students presume to be preparing themselves to teach in the schools of this state and will doubtless teach young children all the things they don't know about the English language. Many students have not the slightest idea what the instructor desires when he suggests outlining a subject, and others are very apt at the new style of writing which includes a series of dots and dashes almost anywhere without apparent regard for the need of a subject and predicate. Obviously a more thorough preparation in the basic elements of grammar is indispensable to the completion of a liberal education and should be given more serious consideration in the requirements of high school and college. Our Contemporaries (From the Chanute Tribune) WHAT KEATS ARE "Because one of its bright young staff members credited Keats with having written the *stag at eve* did drunk his hair, complains old Marseille Jarrell of being given the razberry by the entire army of Kansas editors and columnists," complains old Marseille Jarrell of being given the razberry by the entire army of Kansas editors and columnists. Now you follow who are leading the pack: If Keats (pardon our intruding, Arch; but do you remember that old Marseille Jarrell didn't write these lines from The Lady of the Lake) by the way, Dr. Jarrell, did you know the French set-ter "Koala?" did not write these lines from the poem - Fumene du Lac)? what did he write? Quickly, now, speak up. What did Keats write? Hmm! Keats wrote—well, some immortal poems that诗境——the they-shi—they-shi— Decision Is One of Aids of Vocational Guidance "Studying the census report is a great aid to me in determining the fields of occupation open to women," he said. "The census speaker, said today in an interview." "Vocational guidance is not just telling persons what career they should choose but helping them to decide. It is telling them where to find information about the profession in which they are interested, and enlightening them how to do not select their work without realizing what is being undertaken. "My task as director for the department of study for association leadership of National board of Young Women is to provide vocational guidance and outlines --of study to all local workers in the branch units. Rings With Marcasite Sterling Mountings REAL STONE Located in Hotel Eldridge OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Thursday, Nov. 4, 1939 No. 63 A joint meeting of the Kansas City sections and the student branches of M.E. and A.L.E. will be held on November 6 at 7:30 p.m. for a lecture and entertainment. A. S.M.E: ROBERT D. SPENCER, Secretary. DRAMATIC CLUB. There are a meeting of the K. U, Dramatic club at 8 reckon this evening in Green hall. ROHERT HAIG, President. MACDOWELL FRATERNITY: MACDOWELL FESTIVAL Initiation for new members will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the rest room of central Administration building. A short social meeting will follow the invitation ceremony. WILLIAM VANDEL, President Fhit Signal will meet this evening at 6 o'clock in room 201 Snow hall. All members are urged to be present. IRMA CASEY, Secretary. PHI SIGMA: WHY CLUB: Why club will meet this week at 7 o'clock in room 4, sub-basement of the Union building, Roy Williams, news editor of "The Kansas City Call," will speak on "The Negro Press." The meeting is open to women as well as men in the University. GWEN PAUL PAYROLL: PA 7472 In order to secure salaries warrants for December before Christmas the regular payroll must be signed by the business manager. KARL KAOJ Kolar. KARL KAOJ Busher. "The best training for my work has been my general college course and my actual experience in meeting people through my different positions. The advice I received was to guidance at Harvard helped me to see the great need for positional gesture work and that it is, at the present, just pioneering a stage." McLeod said. --and they are not expensive Christmas Exhibition and Sale The Faculty Women's Club will hold its annual Exhibition and Christmas Sale at the club house. 1300 Louisiana Street, Saturday afternoon, December 6, at one o'clock. A great variety of hand work and imported articles will be offered. AFTER THE DANCE try our Hot Chocolate and Sandwiches HILLSIDE PHARMACY 9th & Hillside LADIES' HOUSE SLIPPERS Feltts 59c and 98c Salines and Leatherbatters $1.39 CHRISTMASSPECIALS Ladies' Pump, Straps and Ties Combination Trim $3.95 and $4.95 MEN'S DRESS AFFORES Bob Smart Shoes for Smart Dress. $3.95 $4.95 FANSHER SHOE STORE 832 Mass. --- East Side Did you read this in Last night's Kansan? A WORD TO THE WISE Once there was a university student who nat off his Christmas shopping until vacation had started. He had to wade through a maze of late shoppers and was driven almost to distraction by the hurried clerks who seemed unable to appreciate his wants. Stocks had been picked over by hundreds of hands, so the surf he picked for his brother was a riotous thing. He wanted to get a book for his mother, but the only ones available had been on the shelf since the close of the last century. Worst of all, the gift which he mailed to his sweetheart was delayed in the mans of Christmas mail and didn't reach her till after New Year's day. Do your Christmas shopping early. You will be able to choose from the merchant's best stock. Then mail your gifts immediately $\Rightarrow$ that Uncle Sam's hired men may also enjoy the Christmas holidays. Lawrence Merchants University Daily Kansan Christmas Lingerie for HER Without a gift of lingerie or a lounging pejama it just wouldn't be Christmas at all! Lounging Pajamas $5.50 to $24.50 Dance Sets $2.95 to $6.98 25. Next Door North of Blue Mill ...The Ideal Gift Nothing you select will bring a greater thrill on Christmas morning. No other gift could be more helpful to every member of the family throughout every day of the year, for years to come. Lawrence Typewriter Exchange 737 Mass. "Naught Can Compare With Gifts to Wear!" Some call it a guiding star, others intuition, but whatever it is the women of Lawrence always come to Obers to buy gifts for men. "Gifts to Wear Leave You Money to Spare"