PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930 University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...CLINTON FEENEY Frank Colver Associate Bounders Liah Moe Kimmel Leah Mee Kimmel Leah Mee Kimmel MANAGING EDITOR - LESTER SUHLER Sunday Magazine Editor Mary Weiss Makeup Editor William Nebus Night Editor Wilton McCormick Night Editor Vince Worcester Supporting Editor Richard James Attention Editor Kenney Frost First Cover Altona Editors ADV. MANAGER BARBARA GLANVILLE Foreign Adv. Mary Fleet Network Assistant Adv. Mary Sloan Assistant Adv. Mary BJ. M. McKennon District Administr. Mary District Administr. Norbury Garrett District Administr. Norbury Garrett KANSAN ROAD MEMBERS Lester Woolley Cinton Perrey Mary Walter Cohen Peter Wilbur Moore Mary Ivanian Michael Barrion J. Barron J. Barbara J. Glavice Lois Fohlbald Telephones Business Office K, U. 66 News Room K, U. 25 Night Connection 2701K2 Published in the afternoon, few items a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the department of Journalism of the University of Chicago. Published in the Trees of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions prince, $1.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copies, be each. Entered in second-place prize at Lawrence and Lawrence at Lawrence. Knanus, under the art of March 3, 1879. A UNIVERSITY CLUB MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930 For the past two years the University students have had the Memorial Union building in which to find recreation. In this building the Operating Committee seeks to provide a place where all the students will go freely and find recreation. The Union is a memorial; and a good many students get about as much value out of it as they out of a bronze plate. They ought to enter its doors occasionally and find out what goes on inside. The Operating Committee are doing everything within their immediate power to provide attractive amusements within the building, so that it may really become a University students' club. With the aid of the students and alumni the facilities in the building can be greatly increased. Parts of the place are still unfinished, and will remain so until more money is provided, but the authorities are not in doubt as to possibilities. What they want is to see more students around. There are already *many* who 'have' come to realize the value of the place but there are more who haven't. When the cry, "Meet you at the Union," becomes common the financial question will be settled because there will be few students who will be uninterested enough to ask for exemptions from paying the Union fee. The boys' school over in Green hall is congregating on the steps these days to practice whistling. Too bad girls don't wear pig-tails for the little fellows to pull. THE STUDENT HOSPITAL. THE STUDENT HOSPITAL There is danger that lives might be lost if the present student hospital should burn down. As everyone knows it is an old dwellings house remodeled as a desk and dispensary. Now that a new coat of paint has been added to the outside through the efforts of those in charge, the building looks more inviting and makes a better appearance. But that doesn't supply the need for facilities with which the staff has to work. Recently a lavatory was added to the operating room which enables those working there to wash without going to the bathroom, a convenience which has long been needed. The hospital staff is doing efficient work with the funds they have. The hospital is the only self-supporting department of the University; it is made possible through the fees that students pay. Is it going to be up to the students to build a hospital which would compare with the other buildings on the campus? To the men's political party frantically looking for an issue we would suggest a fight against the dandelions that have been enroaching upon the campus. "A dandelion for every vote" is a fitting slogan. VISITING HOURS FOR MUSEUMS Hundreds of people visit the museums each Sunday; from different parts of the state they stop while passing through, to see these two centers of art a.i. culture. But many of them drive through during the morning, are unable to visit the museums, because the hours on Sunday are from 2 to 5 p.m. If the situation could be changed to include the morning, the number of visitors would increase and more people could be accommodated. These hours would not necessarily mean the entire morning; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. would be sufficient time on Sunday to serve the public need. The museums rank among the best in this part of the country; it is with much pride that we should display the collections that have been gathered by a few faithful workers and the friends of the University. As proof that the campus is dry we cite the many dandelions growing undisturbed. THE FRONT PAGE The sensational newspaper play in the Orpheum last week might well discourage one from choosing a profession in the field of Journalism. The scene was the Press Room in the Criminal Courts building in Chicago, the profanity and uncouth voices rushed ones nerves. The amateur cub who sat in a corner on a tipped back chair strumming a mandolin compelled one to hold tight his control. One sets a new value on "secoop after watching this play to its end. The way politicians engineer happenings about election time permits a glimpse behind the scenes. The kind of news that makes the front page keeps coming in over a half-dozen telephones while they loaf in the office waiting for some big news to break. Noise and confusion are the accompaniment to life lived in the press room. Such things are to be found in some newspaper offices, but it is no noise of business and work, and the romance that comes from such is the romance of knowing of work well and faithfully done. The news is the thing, and loyalty to one's paper and the boss are the worth while things is the life of the journalist. "This will be a great University if they ever get it built", says the Thoughtful Freshman. HOBBIES A brick—eighteen months—10,000 bricks—a three-story house. Such is the outline of a story how a North Carolina man collected enough bricks day by day to make a building. This man had a hobby of picking up every stray brick he saw and saving it. Sometimes hobbies are queer and the people having them are oftentimes laughed at. No doubt but someone chided this man for this unusual habit. Yet, look what it has done for him. The world is full of people who delight in gathering things together. The most common species there is, is the stamp collector. Oftentimes these collections become very valuable, yet the persons who have this hobby are oftentimes looked upon as queer persons. Whether it be postage stamps bricks, or what have you, something valuable might come out of it. Moral: Keep your eyes open and collect. You too, might have something someday Students at the University of Georgia, the co-eds in particular, are going in for walking. A recent ode to Georgia's culture makes it illegal for anyone to solicit an automobile ride within the city limits. Any speech, motion, or gesture to an autotaxi for a ride will be charged with a violation and subject to a $25 penalty. Read the Kansan want ads. $25 penalty. Frigidaire Hydrator before buying an Automatic Refrigerator Shimmons Bros. Plumbing, Wiring and Frigidaire 836 Mass. The following budget conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, April 8 in the Chancellor's office: 10:30–music; 2:00–drawing and painting; 3:00– BUDGET CONFERENCES; OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIIH April ,1930 No. 152 E. H. LINDLEY DELTA PHI DELTA: There will be a meeting of Delta Phi Delta in the exhibition room of the design department on Tuesday evening at 7:00. Attendance is required. Phi Lambda Sigma will meet Tuesday evening at 5:30 at Westminster hall. PHI LAMBDA SIGMA; MARGARET KILBOURNE, Secretary COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES; All college freshmen and sonomores are expected to consult their advisers during the April 11-14, regarding their milestone grades. PAUL B. LAWSON, Associate Dean. Plants Distinguish Color----and Choose Radiations That Retard Their Growth (Science Service) Washington—Although plants have to see with, they can distinguish between different colors of light, and they paradoxically indicate their choice by bending toward the radiation that they find hardest on their growth. This preference by plant protoplasm is being explored by scientists at the Institution here, as a part of a program of research on the influence of natural light things joined by Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the institution. The group immediately concerned with the work is led by Dr. F, S. Brackett, physicist, and Dr. E, S. Johnston, plant psychologist. In one of the laboratory rooms they have arranged a dark chamber with an electric lamp at either end, its light passing through ♪ through a color screen. A young person placed between the two, at a point where the energy of the opposing object is ultimately determined as being exactly equal. The plant thus finds itself in the position of the donkey exactly midway between two haystacks, which have argued about. Which will it choose? The way out of the dilemma is as though the doley had found a more fertile hay and one of closer. There is a alternative of choice. All kinds of visible lights seem to have a retarding effect on plant growth, but some have more growth retarding effects on the side opposed to the more growth-retarding of the two beans, and therefore grows toward it, being more rapidly growing wide. 205 W. 8th Red light, and the short-wave infrared, the Smithsonian experiments have shown, have very little effect on plants by affecting their effect, though more than red. The green sector of the spectrum has a powerful influence, and the blue-violet group of wave lengths are stronger in canning growing plant-tips to bend. The work, according to Doctor Brackett, is still in its preliminary stages, and only broad groups of wave lengths have been used so far. The experiments will enable the experimenters to split white light up into much more finely subdivided individual beams, and thereby make possible a much more test of the effect of each separate wavelength throughout the spectrum. some of the secrets of the mechanism leaves use sunlight to combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar. The barrow beginsings of an understory that contains complex living molecules have yet to be worked out, and while the attack by which t the chlorophyll of green on this stubborn citadel of mystery may have been like that of the effect of light on growth, can properly be undertaken. The research on the color likes and distikes of growing plants is only a small part of the large project the Smithsonian Institution has eventually the experiments home to get at. WEBER A good place to trade Pianos and Musical Goods. Piano tuning and Repairing. Piano tuning and Repairing. Piano tuning and Repairing. 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