PAGE TWO SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1930 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CIIEF ... CLINTON FEENEY Clarence Rupp Mary Bartram MANAGING EDITOR - LESTER SUHLER Runs monthly Editor Editor Marketing Editor Marketing Editor Looks Maximum Night Editor Night Editor William Kinsler Sporting Editor Sporting Editor Clifford Almond Editor Almond Editor Frank Russell Almond Editor Rob Townman ADV. MANAGER BARBARA GLANVILLE Assist. Admin. Mgr. Mgr. Assist. Admin. Mgr. Mgr. Assist. Admin. Mgr. Mgr. Assist. Admin. Mgr. Mgr. Assist. Admin. Mgr. Mgr. Assist. Admin. Mgr. Mgr. Nicole Wright Gregory Wright Kenneth Mowers Lawrence White Chris Ramsey Christopher Rapp Margaret Benner Marcia Benner Claude Groom Newlin John Newlin Arthur Clucker Michael Hale Carl Coupe Steve Connolly Evelyn Holla Hakimi Kashima Jonathan Kawai Jonathan Kawai William Moore Michael Johnson John Johnson Elizabeth Ellis Business Office K, H. 8. News Room K, H. 27. Night Conversion 2701K3 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of the Department of Journalism. to be submitted to the commissioners. Subscription price. 640 per year, payable Subscriptions received. Each new year, Entered at second-class mail matter Session 11, 1910, at this post office at Lawrence Road, Kansas City, Missouri. SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1930 INFORMAL THOUGHT One of the ways in which a university often defends its own purpose of developing constructive ability in students is the formality with which many classes are conducted. The University of Kansas is not an exception in this respect. Many of the departments here are pervaded with an atmosphere of silent formality which, by its very nature, prevents students from expressing themselves. This situation is contrary to the principle that self-expression makes for constructive ability, while more passive attendance of classes results in a stifness of thought. It is interesting, therefore, to find departments in the University that have an atmosphere of informality. In the School of Fine Arts, the department of design and the department of drawing and painting are managed with a rather charming irregularity. The absence of the more or less frilled order observed in many departments gives these divisions an artistic air quite in keeping with their purpose. While it is self-evident that many classes in the University could not be conducted with the same degree of lenency as those, still a moderate application of their example would not be amiss in any case. SENATORIAL INCONSISTENCY The proposal of Senator McKellar of Tennessee to recall the American delegation from London seems not only premature but also not justifiable. While it is not the policy of United States senators to supplement a destructive principle with one that is constructive, still if Mr. McKellar wishes to withdraw the United States from the London conference, he should at least present an alternative to which the government may turn. The senator from Tennessee can visualize no good that will result from the conference, but his personal opinion of the situation is not of enough import to defend his proposal. He only suggests that we set the question for ourselves, or enter another conference later. If the conference will be of no value, its postponement is merely the putting off of the inevitable. ASK DAD. HE KNOWS. Where does Kansas play basketball tonight? Ask dad, he knows. When will this term of school end? Ask dad, he knows. He'll be glad to, for the bills for the children's schooling are heavy. How much does it cost to send two children to college? Ask dad, he knows. Dad certainly knows a great deal about the affairs of school and college life, but does he know all that he should? Such was the trend of a speech broadcast from the convention of the department of superintendents of the National Educational association in Atlantic City. If you ask dad how much of the amount paid for taxes in the state goes to pay for the instructors of his children or how well they are being instructed, you will find that the average dad has given it very little thought. He expects the instructors of his children to have proper training, to wear good clothes, to read good books, to have traveled and to keep up with all sorts of educational problems, yet he seldom realizes that oftentimes the instructors' salaries are not much more than that of his private secretary, if they equal it; and still they are supposed to have much more varied interests. It is time that the students bring dad down to visit classes, as well as the big games and let him decide for himself whether he will remain uninformed as to things as they are or will try to do all that he can to help better conditions of instruction in our schools and colleges. THOMAS SOCIALISM Norman Thomas, speaker at convention Friday, brought to the University many ideas that have already been expressed in classrooms not often at general University gatherings. His illustrations and clear-cut definitions left no excuse for misunderstanding. As those who attended can testify, he did not ask for any new and startling changes; he merely asked us to insist on having what we think we have but don't. To many the speech was a revelation. Some were expecting a rapid-fire, tongue-twisting orator who would tell everything smart and point to the mess. Instead they found a man who took things as they now are and showed where illogical reasoning, bigotry and selfishness deprive us of many things we want—things we try to make ourselves believe we have but know we haven't. His illustration of hearing many speeches on patriotism, none of which ever pleased for the oppressed, or bound the speaker and others to pay more taxes to the government, points the picture of illusion. We lack an underlying philosophy and try to solve social questions in terms of incidental happenings. This is the ground principle of socialism as advocated by Mr. Thomas. Whether we agree with Mr. Thomas or not we must admit that a socialist of his breath of mind presents an analysis of problems that cannot be disregarded. FOOTBALL AGAIN The writer of a recent magazine article on "footballism" saw the athletic boom on a decline in the East, at its peak in the Middle West, and on the increase in the Far West. An incident at Stanford University this week brings his thesis to mind. Stanford's basketball team has lost too many games this year. No a petition was circulated among the students asking for the coach's resignation and it gained three hundred signatures in the first two hours, it is reported. It looks like very bad taste—the sort of thing only an alumnus occasionally feels entitled to do. And it comes of taking athletics seriously; possibly more seriously than we do now in Kansas. It reveals the spirit that makes their athletic teams among the best in the country, and the spirit in turn, perhaps, is a reflection of the "California virus" that energy of youthful communities. Such petitions might arise and get as much support in K. U., but probably wouldn't. It's really hard to see where we could get up the requisite enthusiasm for that policy. Cheering at the games—that's the natural thing. In cold blood formally to demand the resignation of a coach, and to do it enthusiastically, is a different matter. Athletics only become gentlemanly when they are no longer taken seriously. In an older day K, U, had its interscholastic wars and alternate exalation and debasement of its coaches. We still do, of course, but one who recalls the rough-houses and direct tactics of 20 years ago will see a distinct difference; a de-virilization, perhaps, but an improvement in manners. Judging from appearances it would seem that a great many coeds believe in the slogan, "Save the surface and you save all." CARRUTH POETRY CONTEST The campus bars again have no opportunity to put their genius to test through the medium of the William Hibbert Carruth memorial poetry contest, which will reveal the beat hitherto unpublished poetry produced this year in Kansas. Perhaps some advantage of this opportunity will be taken. At any rate, we assume that a few of the Hill intellectuals will seek the coveted honor. Of course, among the great majority of students the content will seem to be of slight moment, for it is somehow true that poetry and the personality of the so called "college type" just don't "connect". S seriously, however, we believe that among a small minority of students there still is a feeling for the higher modes of expression. To the few that can qualify for this group, the University, in both life and work, has offered excellent advantages for the development of poetic thought. This group, then should be representative of the highest talent for poetry in the state. The honor to be gained is a high one, and the prize is not intrinsically small. Is it not possible therefore, that one among us will bring benefit to himself and prestige to the University by producing an outstanding contribution to Kansas poetry? The Sophisticated Sophonore says that just because a girl plays violin no sign she likes to play second fiddle. Twenty-four hundred years age Heraclitus likened life to a flame. Was that the beginning of our slang, "burning up", our references to "burning up", our references to and the endearing term, "light of my life"? Plain Tales From the Hill --the faculty member to indicate the student's ability, industry and appearance. Other agencies request the professor to tell them confidently whether he thinks the student will be able to successfully the work necessary to do. A certain English professor was telling his class that any late-covers should be him after class in order not to be marked absent. "And what happens if you're marked absent?" he asked, "Oh, nothing. I suppose, except that you're marked absent." Overboard at a boarding club "What do we have for dessert tonight jella or jello?" Any women students deciding to be manager of the W.S.G.A. student exchange for the year 1950-51 should move their applications at the off-site entrance. TUDENT BOOK EXCHANGE: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVII March 2, 1930 No. 121 Plate Lunch WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB: Glee club recital will be at 3 Sunday afternoon, March 2, in Marvin hall auditorium. 35c Sunday Noon and Evenings. Blue Mill Sandwich Shop FACULTY KEPT BUSY WRITING LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION Education Psychology Philosophy English Sociology History Chemistry Language Books AGNES HUSBAND. Director Do you know that urging the sorority women to participate in the contest will further interest in music on the Hill, when there is such a wide, wide breach between the sorority women and the barbs? I do not. Graduate Scholarships and Teaching Positions Are Souught for by Applicants Faculty members have been busy writing letters of recommendation for students who wish to see them in college or for scholarships at other universities. Some professors will have written as many as 200 of these recommendations, while others may be responsible for a large number of these requests, but other teachers' reports which come from all part of the United States. Some request information about graduates of twenty-five colleges and universities, but most cannot possibly remember; some concern married women graduates who neglect to give their maiden names frequently write about the same per cent. REFERENCE BOOKS "Our Basement Bargains" Some of the persons requesting information furnish a special form for In a recent editorial you demand the reason for the lack of participation in the inter-sorcery swing symposium, and why it is because the "Greek" women have sensed the unfairness and injustice of the whole affair. Indeed, it is named "inter-sorcery swing," but if such a notion is correct, we cannot for the development of interest in singing and music, why not develop such interest among the barbies, too? You made the statement that only 425 women of age 19 and up took part in the content. Do you realize that the whole contest took in only 429 women of the entire 1650 enrolled in the University—that is, if it was only those who had the sorcery too taken part? Campus Opinion --the faculty member to indicate the student's ability, industry and appearance. Other agencies request the professor to tell them confidently whether he thinks the student will be able to successfully the work necessary to do. Editor Daily Kansun: 。 50% to 75% Discount Engineering Mathematics Home Economics Journalism Economics Botany Zoology Entomology Some faculty members who have a great many recommendations to furnish, have acquired the habit of writing two or three of them at a time, and of making carbon copies about their customers are requested by one person. A clock without works, that will over-water time signals accurate to a few minutes long, is built by R. E. Gould, chief of the time-section of the bureau of records. The University of Arkansas archaeological collection contains a human head vase from Fields Chapel, Yell county, Arkansas. A. G. ALRICH Engraving, Printing. Binding Rubber Stamps, Office Supplier Stationery. 736 Mass. St. Variety is the spice of life, and variety is essential for enjoyment in eating. You will have a wide variety of foods from which to choose your meals when you eat at New Cafeteria in your Union building Nothing is good enough but the best The New Spring Books are arriving daily. Among these are additions to the ever popular Modern Library and the Dollar Reprint series. You are cordially invited to come in and browse The BOOK NOOK Rental Library — Jayhawk Stationery — Greeting Cards The K. U. DRAMATIC CLUB A Successful Comedy Novel Entertainment New Faces in Cast Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday March 3-4-5 Tickets now on sale at Green Hall Presents "Love In A Mist" $1.00 Single Admission or Student Activity Ticket J. E. Walker Style Authority on College Clothes will be at our store Mon. & Tues. March 3-4 showing a wide variety of university type suits and overcoats, tailored by the makers of Society Brand Clothes --- also new imported and domestic woolens for the man who wishes his suit made to measure. 1