PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1929 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Louisville, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHEF W.M. A. DAUGHERTY Associate Editors Lela May Engler Homer Miller MANAGING EDITOR LAWRENCE MANN Runcher Editor Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Making Editor Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Marketing Editor Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Digital Editor Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Education Birth Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Bachelor's Degree Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Bachelor's Degree Elisabeth Meyer Wingert Knife Making Editor Nicolet Daneschi Knife Making Editor Nicolet Daneschi Knife Making Editor Nicole Flintsmith ADV. MANAGER MAURINE CLEVENBERG Adjunct Artist ALEXANDRA CLEVENBERG Ambient Artist, Mgr. ENRICH PACKARD Ambient Artist, Mgr. 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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1929 HEARST AGAIN Heart newspapers, notably the Washington Herald and the Chicago Herald-Examiner, are conducting an active campaign for the abolition of the federal prohibition laws, basing most of the arguments on the allegation that 1,200 persons have been killed through efforts to enforce prohibition since the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment. In the first place, authorities show a great lack of agreement in estimating the number of dry killings. The Heart figure is very high compared with other estimates. It is doubtful if as many as 1,300 persons have been killed. Admitted, however, that prohibition enforcement has taken a great toll of life, a fact regretted as much by supporters of prohibition as by the Heartst paper, we wonder if the law against daylight hold-aways, blacking, burglary, etc., also has not taken a rather larges toll. But even Heartst papers are not apt to advocate abolition of such laws. "Temperature by education," is the Heartset solution. But we fear that by the time education in that direction has achieved its purpose, many more than 1,300 persons will have been killed for lack of prohibition. Even if 1,360 persons have been killed in prohibition enforcement, the number is not large compared with the number of innocent persons killed by drunken automobile drivers and both men crazed by poisonous beverages, both before and after prohibition. The great campus problem of the hour is how to pay one's railroad fare home and buy the family Christmas gifts out of $9.67 when the fare is $6.15. Even the most concentrated math doesn't seem to help in the solution. AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Hiram Matherell, editor of the Trouble Guild magazine, and former newspaper correspondent, writing in the Forum, says, "The trouble with American imperialism comes from the fact that Americans have not the moral courage to admit that it exists." He thinks that America views imperialism as a sort of immoral political sovereignty which is won by conquest and oppression. And he says that imperialism is not only natural to a powerful country such as the United States, but actually desirable. The above is not calculated to make the moral invertebrates shudder, or the raw-baked imperialists to chuckle. It is probably fact without political embellishments. To those who are nausee, it will probably be a brass band, and to those who are in a state of continual alarm, it may be a dreamy waitz. But surely Americans have the moral courage to admit imperialism, if they think that it exists. Rather it seems that they do not know that it exists as imperialism. The author says, our government has for so long taught us to believe that its policies were not imperialistic but "humanitarian" (in a restricted sense of the word) that we unwillingly, per- maps hypocritically, are led to敢 ourselves. This, as was pointed out, is the most dangerous kind of imperialism, for it is in this kind that ulterior, or at least questionable, moves ordinarily are found to surround "hegemonous imperialism". The Intellectual K Man has observed that some explanations are so comprehensive that they are inconvenient. THE HIGHEST BIDDER Going — going — gone! And the highest bidders get the vacant Pennsylvania seat in the Senate. Because Vare spent approximately one-half million dollars in the 1956 campaign, the Senate denied him his seat. His opponent, Grundy, who belonged to the Mellon-Pepper-Grundy-Fishermachine, raised or contributed as much to this machine's two million dollar expenditure in this primary, as Vare spent altogether. Now Grundy has been named to fill the vacant seat. Perhaps next time Vare will realize one-half million dollars is not enough to buy a Pennsylvania seat in the Senate. Why Grundy, who committed the same act Vare did, or an even greater one, should receive a seat which was just denied because of the deed, is a puzzle. Even though he is well served on tariff legislation and has had a long experience in business affairs, he should not have been appointed. However, it is a known fact that politics in Pennsylvania are controlled by and are representative of the industrial forces instead of the people. Also it is known that Grudy has been a strong advocate of a high protective tariff. Draw your own conclusions. It looks as if the people of Pennsylvania would open their eyes, get their brooms, and clean up their politics. Such business doesn't go in a democratic form of government. The best recipe for success, advises the Thoughtful Freshman, is never to do yourself what you can get others to do for you. KANSAS DIDN'T SQUEAL Knowing all the time that Lee Derry, star Missouri halfback, had a criminal record and an undesirable reputation, the University athletic department might have kept the player out of the Missouri line-up in the annual Tiger-Jayhawk football game here last month. Since that time the tall halfback who in that game paired with Russell Dills in ripping off long runs through the Kansas线, he been arrested on a number of theft charges. He previously had served a sentence in the Kansas state reformatory after being convicted of robbing the sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity here in 925. The athletic department here remembered Derry. It might have exerted pressure to have removed one of Missouri's most formidable stars. But it refused to take advantage of a personal matter without technical grounds. The department showed a sportsmanship of which Kansas may well be proud. It is indeed a fine state of affairs when the University of Kansas is scheduled to meet another Big Six school in an intercollegiate contest, and no team can be found to uphold the Crimson and the Blue. Is school spirit dead? Has the plainive peal of the Rock Chalk lost its magic? Has the thrill of battle, matching man to man, the glory of upholding one's Alma Mater, been annihilated by the Carnegie Foundation. Or can it be that the hoary game of chess has died out as a collegiate sport? Several days ago it was announced that the K. U. chess club was scheduled to the chess team of the University of Oklahoma. Since that time a freerized search for the K. U. club has been conducted without avail. In view of all the time-consuming activities that exist on the Hill it seems strange that a chess club cannot be 'bound among them. A FINE BUSINESS Live and learn, says the Thoughtful Freshman, or die in the attempt. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVII Sunday, Dec. 15, 1929 No. 76 GERMAN CLUB: The German Club will have its Christmas Party Monday, Dec. 16, at 4:30 in room 215 Frasier Hall. All German students are welcome. GORDAN CLUB Constance Ross, secretary. EL ATENEO: La fecha de la fotografia del clara para The Jawkweren es domingo, 15 de diciembre, la once de la mesa y a lugar en Esquira. Myron Teyton, presidente. Thousand Million Meteors Each Day Collide With Earth's Atmosphere New York.—One of the oldest things on the earth, a small stone that started wandering through space some ten thousand million years ago, with astronomers, perhaps before the earth itself was formed, was exhibited here today. Dr. Schapiro is director of the Harvard College Observatory. Doctor Shapky gave the second in a series of five lectures at the College of the CIF. The stone is a meterite—one of a shower of "shitting stars" that traveled at a speed of 55 miles a second, and caught up with the earth's atmosphere in 1867. Though most of the members of this shower were completely burned by the friction with the earth's atmosphere, this one leaked in Poland, and was finally to the attention of scientists. "Prolonged studies of the numbers and motions of meteors (shooting stars) will contribute a test of the origin of the earth, especially to the microstellar hypothesis. The photoanomalies are one class of meteors." He particularly emphasized the importance of meteorites in revealing knowledge of the outside universe. In Doctor Shimpley's first lecture, given the previous week, he outlined a classification of material systems by describing the atoms of matter to the universe itself. His lecture tonight was devoted to the subclassification that he calls the Microcosmos, which in turn is derived from the electrons or the meteorites. The speed of the meteorite shows that it was moving in a curve called a "hyperbola." This proves that it is moving at the outer space, and according to Docter Shanley, such meteoric stones carry with them the story of the nature of the material universe in the earth and other planets were formed. "Our contact with the outside un- verse comes only through two media—light and meteors," Doctor Shapley said. "The meteors that filter sunlight are meteorites provide opportunities for significant chemical analyses. It is estimated that a thousand million meteoric particles collide with the earth's surface, about 24 hours, and are burned into clouds that are buried in the atmosphere. KENNEDY Plumbing Co. 937 Mass. St. Refrigerators General Electric "Studies of the brightness of shooting stars indicate that the earth's atmosphere fifty miles above the surface is of about the same temperature as at the surface itself. Further knowledge of the upper atmosphere provides theoretical studies and observations of the brightness of meteors." "There is a close connection between the clouds of meteors moving across the solar system and the great hurricanes that sweep Earth. The noobie are believed to be factors in the evolution of stars, and therefore studies of meteors will help to interpret the nature of the storms that sweep the evolution of stars and planets. Servicee) Remedy Is Discovered For Destructive Mildew New York — Strevenous efforts to save five important minnings in Ballina from destruction by mold may be one of the best ways of showing how mild can be effectively combatted in homes of the Canal Zone. A disadvantage of life in Panama has always been the mild overnight attacks white sheeps flea. Attention was called to the problem when five mural paintings representing the construction of the Panama Canal were threatened by spreader spikes apparently eaten even through to the canvas. 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