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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,1930
PROF. S. L. WHITCOMB
Perhaps only the students who have worked under Prof. Selden L. Whitcomb, whose sudden death occurred yesterday afternoon, will realize the less to the University, to the literature of the Middle West and to America.
Professor Whitcumb was a poet, an mention of Middle Western verse must take account of him. He was a teacher. Not a very large percentage of the students even knew him, except those who took advanced work in the department of English. For these learning of his untimely passing was a shock, none the less real because they knew it was not unexpected.
What his students and friends will remember of him was his ideals; his perception of the worth of literature, of the place of beauty in life. His vast knowledge of literature and his perspective gave him the deeper sense of the future of artistic values in America and the West. Literature has always been a real periphrasis that he could possibly ever make clear to his students.
In spite of his long term of service to the University, the number of students who knew him well was relatively small. He was a teacher in a specialized study. His contribution to the life of his time is great, not because of the extent of his influence but because of its worth.
PRISON CONDITIONS
The Ohio penitentiary fire, brings forcefully to our attention the situation in many prisons over the country. Most prisons are overcrowded, according to the survey of the National Society for Penal Information. And many are not fire-proof.
With such conditions to combat, the best of administrative officials cannot always prevent riotings and outbreaks on the part of prisoners, nor can they always cope with prisoners who seek to destroy property. The fire at the Ohio penitentiary was set by prisoners, firemen believe.
Let it be hoped that the investigation of the Ohio catastrophe will help to point the way to a solution of many prison problems of today, and will cause legislatures and others to accord accordingly.
The loss of cell keys was unfortunate. Someone was responsible for the loss of over 300 lives, but can the incompetence and negligence of one man, or a few, be an indictment of all prison administrators? It cannot. The prison situation is age-old; it is a problem that society has never solved, one that needs study and remedy. The loss of a key ring may cost 300 lives; the penal system is as tre-
The loss of a key ring may cost 300 lives; the penal system is as tremendous as the world.
POETS OF ENGLAND
Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England, died Monday after 17 years as poet laureate. He died marks the end of an illustrious brilliant career of a national poetist.
Who will succeed to this office, remains a matter of open conjecture. Not living English诗 is as nationalistic as Bridges was, and nationalism is obviously an essential characteristic of the poet to the royal family.
Yates and A.F. Housman are too dis-
inactively Irish for dominion purposes. tiplig him invariably laurenced his sidges leading to the laurentship by as seeming disrespect to the royal household. A. E. Houman, for all his in living, in an impossible persistence, while his pose over too narrow a range to make him suitable. candidate
The suggestion has been made that England could well do without a poet laureate. Surely some of the worst poetry of our great English poet has been written under the compulsion of a laureatehip. Wordsworth and Tennyson illustrate this in the later poems. If there were no poet laureate appointed in England it would mean the passing of another custom dating back to the days of singing bards celebrating ancient victories.
It would mean less forced verse from uninspired pens, and less bridling of self-expression from the poets. For greater freedom of expression in England's poets and for greater equality among them all we can not help but hope that this old custom will be abandoned.
HARMONY!
Monday morning is a low-water mark at best, and when the 8:20 whistle sends out its shrill reminder—and there is no time to swallow even a sketchy breakfast—well, life is hard. A dash up the Hill—and then a rush up several flights of stairs, only to find one's favorite seat occupied do not serve to lift the oppressive sense of the burdens of life. And so one sinks into the nearest seat, slumps down to a half-reclining position, and at length turns one's eyes towards the professor.
Let and behold! Life takes on a rosy color—the darkness begins to lift. The professor's beautiful blue tie just matches his eyes.
AGREEMENT AT LAST
President Hoover has at last found an issue upon which the recalcitrant senators seem to be fully in accord with himself. Except for some promises of mild opposition from the naval committee, most of the senators seem to be in favor of the naval treaty recently adopted by the London conference.
This unity of thought on the treaty does not necessarily point to the dawn of a closer harmony within the Republican ranks, but it does signify that our legislators and diplomats are thinking in terms of world peace as they have never done before. When political opponents can bury their differences for the advancement of international good will, prophets may well herald the down of a new era in the relationships between nations. Will other nations follow the American lead, and can the American senators remain in perfect accord through the debates which are sure to ensure on the senate floor when the treaties come up for ratification? Should these two events transpire, we shall at last be able to look on the future of international diplomacy with hope, perhaps even with confidence.
JUDGE PARKER'S APPOINTMENT
Labor unions and believers in racial equality all over the country are protesting President Hoover's appointment of Judge John Parker to the Supreme Court.
Labor unions fight him because he declared "yellow-dog" contracts constitutional. These contracts are those made between workers and employers in order to agitate no organization for their interests while in the employ of their companies.
But the overwhelming objection to Judge Pucker as Supreme Court Justice is that his attitude on all questions is not well known. How does he stand on property rights in general, militarium, individual liberty, the strict or loose construction of the constitution?
It seems to us that Judge Parker could be even radical and yet feel obliged, under the law as he sees it, to approve such contracts. Legally, they seem to us perfectly valid. He should not be judged altogether by this one decision.
Unless he declares himself on these points he should be withdrawn by President Hoover or defeated by the Senate.
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Mr. W. S. Johnson will not meet his classes Thursday and Friday, April 24 and 25. He will meet them as usual Monday, April 28.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol XVIIH    24, 1930    No. 162
NCUSH DEPARTMENT
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT;
MABEL BERTSCHINGER, Secretary English Department.
ENGLISH CLASSES:
All English choices will meet as usual Thursday, April 24.
MAELB TRUSCHINGER, Secretary Department.
ENGLISH MAJOR LECTURE:
Miss Sara G. Laird's lecture on "Present-Day Lord for the Student to
Understand" will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2014, in the
ball hall. MOSE ROGE, Chairman, Committee on Meetings.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB:
The Comptonian Club will meet at 7:15 p. m. Thursday evening.
JOIN HISVELY, Secretary.
KAPPA PHI:
Kappa Phi will hold initiation service and banquet Thursday evening a 5:15 in the Methodist Church. Please be prompt.
THELMA CARTER, Publicity.
KU KU MEETING:
There will be a Ku Ku meeting Thursday night at 7:30 in room 299 Frase for election of new members.
A meeting of the "Play Day" Committee will be held Thursday, 6:30-7:30 p. m. at the gymnasium. FLORENCE WONGWAI, Chairman.
PLAY DAY COMMITTEE:
OZWIN RUTLEDGE, President
WEDNESDAY NIGHT DANCE:
There will be a Wednesday Dance from 7 to 8 to be held in the Memorial Union building. UNION OPERATING COMMITTEE
QUILL CLUB:
There will be a regular meeting of Quill club in the woman's rest room of central administration on Wednesday at 7:30
ELIOT N. FREEMAN, President
SLIDING IN AMERICA IS EQUAL ONLY TO RECENT YO-YO FAD
Glider Carnival to Be held in New York: Manufacturers Increase Output Ridely
Washington—(UIP) - Gliding seems to be seizing America's interest with a speed and tenacity equal to that of a jetliner, asking questions and twerking of yoyos.
Almost simultaneously comes news that the commerce department's aeronautics bureau will hold a conference where pilots will be sponsored in New York; and that glider manufacturers daily increase their output of human wings.
Meanwhile gulf fan airs are organizing in nearly all the larger cities, both here and abroad. The advantage of expensive than airplanes, can be bought at local airports, but the glider carrier is built by airplane manufactures because they believe the plots of those motorcars are less expensive.
The commerce department conference on gliders will be held within the building. The various inspectors and engineering inspectors of the department from all parts of the United States have been invited to attend. Various types will be on hand for study and it is planned to "centralize in the subject of glidered data on the subject of glidered."
The "popular interest in gliding is spreading so rapidly that there is need for uniform knowledge and procedure in order to develop and expand this scientific sport to the highest degree of understanding," said in announcing the conference.
More than 160 pilots and 50 craft are to be entered in the New York Glider Association's Frank Hawks, Frank Hawks, America's premier exponent of gliding, is to make a new pilot program.
Klemperer, holder of the first glider license issued in Germany.
A dip into the history of flight shows that the glider was the parent of the airplane, rather than a by-product of flight. The gliders were generally credited with perfecting the first motored plane, used gliders extensively to learn the theory of flight before taking off.
A schedule of 14 competitive events in which both men and women holders and non-holders of licenses will compete, has been arranged for the car
Much earlier, fantastic craft, some of them with as many as five parallel wings, were tried with moderate success by European and American students of flight. Among them were Le Bri, Weenham, Chanute and Arcienda.
Their gliders were crude, frail affairs which stayed aloft only a few moments at the most. Almost invariably they fell down a steep hill or by a leap from a cliff or building. Frequently they instead was unexpectedly killing or injuring someone.
- Modern gliders, scientifically fashioned, are trim made of craft built with advanced materials. The intrinsic mimic qualities figured out minutely. The ancient method of launching them has never been extended, though many are towed behind vehicles or launched from a catapult.
Men win the edge on women as to mental capacity in the opinion of Prof. P. L. Palmer of the University of Chattanooga. He says that although women generally surpass men in college achievement, superiority is due to harder study.
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Don't forget the big party Friday night. Better come down early and make your reservation for one of our cars.
Moon to Crash on Earth
RENT-A-FORD 916 Mass.
Collision Will Be Deferred Till We Are All Dead
The two planets upon which man depends for residence and pleasure—the earth and the moon, will come into contact in the construction of both when the moon has completed its prodigal return to the earth. He is now surrounded by thousands of years ago, according to Dr. Harlan T. Steton, director of Perkins observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Further research on the magnetism of the moon, he said, may add materially to a knowledge of the internal structure of the earth.
The moon's destruction, even if the earth survived, would work a mammoth hardship upon industry and agriculture. The planet did not pluck the planets, by producing ocean tides, makes navigable many harbors which could not otherwise be utilized. In very much the same manner, he can now boast rains tides in the earth's crust.
Doctor Stetson, in a recent lecture to Doctor Sletson, in a recent lecture to group of laymen, mollified a collision of the universe, this collation will occur only after all living things have ceased to exist. Hypothetical inhabitants of Mars and Venus will be the only eyewitnesses,
On Other Hills
--a man who took one drink a month and declared himself to be of German descent was the only man who knew one was one who used two glasses of beer and one glass of whiskey daily" to be in the company.
There is less drinking going on at at the college, 1300. He told students to the evidence presented in the papers, according to a statement by Professor Irving Hill of the economists.
The national tournament and convention of Pi Kappa Delta, held revival meetings in 2015, will be held in Kansas, although the organization was founded at Ottawa University.
Gliding received the support of another school when about 50 students of school age entered Glider. The purpose of organizing a glider club, Officers were elected and plans for the organization had been drafted.
Recently a pretty Chicago woman visited the University of Wisconsin. She became acquainted with many of the students, and then disappeared. The police are now looking for her because she wrote several bogus checks, is alleged to have stolen a car from the rent-a-car company in Madison, and a $200 racoon cost.
Star gazers of Oregon State University will have an uninterrupted view of the celestial luminaries in a short while as the platform being built on the top floor of the physics building will soon be completed. Four telescopes mounted on this platform to which an iron starhouse and trailing will lead.
Announcement was made by the department of justice, of New York, that students are being trained in school in New York City to prepare college graduates for prison work. It is pointed out that prison students must be trained for the college trained men in Europe.
The Patee
THURSDAY—Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, and excellent cast in "The Night Bride." Also com- and Everyday News features.
TODAY— Host Gibson in "Trailing Trouble". Also comedy and Everyday News features.
One Way to an "A" in Economics
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last Monday. The ceremonies started with a dignified procession consisting of 250 illuminated professors, guests, and students from the university in their professional garments and uniforms. George C. Edwards, 78, the co-founder of the University, headed the ceremony.
The sixty-second anniversary of the american of the University headed the University of California was celebrated procession.
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