1 PAGE TWO SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1029 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas FOTOR.IN.CHEFF WM. A. DAUGHERTY EDITOR-IN-CHEEP WM. A. DAUGHERTY Associate Editors Leila May Ensign ... Romer Miller MANAGING EDITOR LAWRENCE MANN Monday Editor Mary Wewer Tuesday Editor Adele Walker Mickey Editor John Winn Wednesday Editor Mary Barrion Thursday Editor John Winn Night Editor Kathleen Burth Friday Editor Kathleen Burth Saturday Magazine Editor Dan Muschke Sunday Magazine Editor Dan Muschke February Editor Ielco Flimestar March Editor ADV. MANAGER MARINE CLENVERGER Assistant Adv. Mer., Mgr. ... Bryanna Kennedy Assistant Adv. Mer., Mgr. ... David Kernberg District Assistant ... Robert Russell District Assistant ... Lois May Ronald District Assistant ... Bob McLeod Berry Herman Kappa Laurie Herman Bluestead Margaret Glimmer Kappa Charles Rempel Katherine Murray Susan Hannon Kenisha Murman Jason Hannon Kenneth Murman Telephone Business Office K, U, 86 News Room K, U, 25 Night Connection 2701K3 Policified in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Georgia, Freezes of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions price, $1.00 per year, payable in advance. Single application, be each. Entered in second-hand condition may be renewed at Lawnerville Kauai, under the net of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1929 A WORTHWHILE TRADITION The season of giving and goo, cheer is observed annually at the University by a particularly fitting tradition, a tradition devoid of any stigma or questionable utility such as may be ascribed to certain other traditions of the school. The Christmas Tree tradition, and the Christmas candy sale, together with certain other activities by which a fund is raised for a home or foreign student project, will be continued this year. The Christmas Tree committee held its first meeting Friday afternoon. The project for which the fund will be raised this year has not yet been selected. Three have been suggested: The International Student Service project, the University student loan fund for foreign students, and a new project, the establishment of a loan fund for first year students who find themselves in financial straits. In selecting the project the committee is faced with two problems: to select the one most fitting to the Christmas tradition, and to select one which will have a popular appeal, in order that liberal contributions may be encouraged. It is hoped that the committee will consider carefully the spirit in which the tradition was instituted. Its original purpose was to establish a cordial spirit in and among foreign lands by subscription to a worthy foreign project. It is well that students occasionally look beyond their own campus. "Sociology is Translated"—Kanus headline. Fine! Now let the goo work continue into the fields of di perennial calculus, ethics, child en and editorial writing, and perhu we can understand our courses. BRANDING THE INNOCENT You may read in the newspapers every day stories "playing up" children and crimes committed by their parents or other relatives. It makes good news. Oh, yes. Human interest and that sort of thing. BROKEN BY THE NUNCIER "Yes, that little girl certainly is smart, and cute, too, but you know that her father is a murderer?" But it is all grossly unfair, unfair to brand any innocent person with the crimes of another, and vastly more so when the innocent person is a child, sensitive, perhaps, and always defenceless and rarely able to understand. It is throwing additional obstacles in his way which already is best by trials due to misconduct of parents and probably disrupted home life. It is small wonder that he often may fail to surmount his barriers, and breaks under his vain butting against a stone wall. We have no right to say then, "Ah, well, like father, like son." Inheritance has not often been proved to have much to do with the characteristics of the child of a transgressor. Rather it is the environment and social pressure to which the child is subjected. And when he follows in his parent's footsteps, the fault lies at the door of the society which has branded a guiltless individual so that in the end he has no recourse but to be that which he is labeled. Anthony R. Francis, Trauss, Moss, a football player, catches wild deer by running them in the press and tackling them, according to a press dispatch. We'd like to see him meet the Rev. Russell Dillis, of Columbian, Mo. "SHARE MY CELL" Ex-victim 13104, Ralph Chaplin, who for four years was a political prisoner in Leavenworth federal penitentiary, describes in the current number of The Forum one day of his life in this prison. It is a rather gruesome story. The Good Citizen says the writer, is familiar with the policeman on the street corner of the home town. He knows of the jail back of the policeman and of the judge back of the jail. "But," Mr. Chaplin questions, "just what is the idea back of the imprisonment of offenders against the law?" He says the judge knows little about it, the Good Citizen less, and the newsmen seemually at all. The need of prison reform is emphasized, apparently without exaggeration. Conscientious citizens have been harping on prison conditions in various localities for a long time. This article, written as it is with the insight of an ex-convict, is a more effective argument than many that have been advanced. Mr. Chappin seems to have kept his mind broad and his views fair. The article is well worth reading. After this, radio stations must designate each piece of "canned" music with the words "This is a talking machine record," etc. All of which seems entirely superfluous to the trained ear. HIS VACATION Senator-elect Vare of Pennsylvania, despite a most touching plea in his own behalf last week, was denied a seat in the United States Senate Friday by the vote of 58 to 22. The sick man then adjourned to Atlantic City "for his health." But it was really for the health of the country that Mr. Vare was ousted. Now it is reported that Mr. Van will confer with political leaders in Pennsylvania as to whether he should not run again. It seems that he has not learned his lesson. Or, maybe he has repented of his wayward ways and will seek vindication. The political game, however, has been so polluted that many people have the idea, as ably stated by a professor on the Hill the other day, that "anything and everything is fair in love, war, and politics." The American public, however, is not wholly asleep, and does not condele illegal or unfair methods in politics any more than in any other public service. Party parties are broken at times when an ethical or moral question is at stake. And this speaks for the leaders of our government. Mr. Vare's enforced vacation from the Senate and his consequential loss of much power over his machine is not a surprise. It is the reward of too much bossism, too much overconfidence, and too much corrupt politics. MORE CHANGES The present administration's policy of reform and reorganization is being furthered by the secretary of the interior, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, an is shown by his annual report just made. The duties of certain bureau are on the decrease, the report shows, while the duties of others are materially increasing. He points out, for example, that the Indian service has the definite goal of working itself out of a job, while the administration of public domain, being of prime importance, is being emphasized, particularly regarding conservation. The department of the interior is of great interest to the average citizen. With a program of cleaning and rearranging, Secretary Wilbur will do much toward popularizing the Hoover administration. Such reforms, in addition to the crime commission, more prohibition enforcement, and the peace and industrial conferences, promise to bring noticeable and interesting results in the United States. Mr. Robert J. Allen of the department of English will talk to English majors and others interested, Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 4:30 p.m., in Fraser 205. His subject will be "London in the Literature of the Early Eighteenth Century." W. S. JOHNSON. ENGLISH MATORS: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIIH Dec. 8, 1929 No. 70 CHESTMAS TREE - GENERAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The General Program Committee for the Christmas tree will meet Mon- day afternoon at 4:30 in Room 5, Administration building. BOB MYERS, Chairman PHI LAMRDA SIGMA: Pii Lumba SIGma will hold initiation services Sunday afternoon, Dec 8, 4:30 p. m., at Westminster hall. MARGARET KILBOURNE, Secretary There will be an important meeting of Jay James Week, Dec. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the Administration building. ADELA HALE, President. JAY JANES: MATHEMATICS CLUB; The Mathematics Club will meet Monday, Dec. 9, at 4:20 p.m. in room 211 east Administration building. Mr. Ralph Sickel and Professor H. E Jordan will speak on "The Solution of Equations by Approximation;" ELLA RAKER, President. La fecha de la fotografía para The Thyjahwaker es domingo, el 15 de diciembre, la once da la manna, y la萤笑 le suprime Esquires. Es muy necessario que todos los miembros japoneses con cuenta pronta. Sivamane paparras durante la reunión praxima qui se celebra jubiléne, el 13 de diciembre, la cuarto fecha. MYRON PEYTON, Presidente. Farm Hands Look Forward to Banner Day, When They Are Sold at Auction EL ATENEO: Paris—(UP) — A labor market, where farm hands are auctioned off o the highest bidder still exists in france. Unlike the slave markets of old French farm laborers willingly take part in the annual auctions. There are no leasing rights to the sale of their own bodies for a stated period of toil, for they get the sale money minus a fee for the work. As witnessed at the annual "Forre aux Valets," or Workman's Fair, at Chateauroux, the farm hands consider it a banner day of the year because it brings new employers, new surprises—and often new challenges. The fair each autumn the laborers come in from the farms to the central town in search of new employees for the coming year. Except in the minority of cases where the workers are satisfied with their work, all work naps each week. Many of them are engaged before the actual auction starts. Others prefer to wait until they are placed on the auction block and the farm owners bid for their services for a fee, which is annually set at eight months. If the worker is young and physically well built he mounts the platen on the counter and presses the metal in a manner intended to impress the watching prospective employers. The worker is seated. The laborers, especially try to make an impression upon the farm owners, whom they know to be good people. They also favor of the farm owner who does not work his men too hard and who furnishes them with comfortable homes. The show of process is highly amusing to sightseers who gather in the square to watch the proceedings. The laborers are dressed in their uniforms, men, who feel the years slipping away as they face from would-be employers, dyne their hair and straighten up their shoulders to appear young and more powerful. If they succeed in impressing, they are sure to obtain a couple of hundred frances more for their services than they would otherwise. This year the auctions showed that the average high price for a period of eight months has advanced 3.5 percent, compared with previous year. Women as well as men are sold, although feminine labor brings only about half the price. A first class laborer, sold on the auction block for eight months toil, is worth about $120 or $125, while a second-class worker is slightly weak, old, or notoriously lazy, bring about $100 for the period. Master Shelterers are worth $300, and most have a price for male farm cooks varies according to their local population for good cooking. Farm girls, even the youngest, live for more than $5 or $60. Our foods are good food prepared under the most sanitary conditions by women cooks. If not a patron why not become one. On Other Hills The New Cafeteria A Few Christmas Suggestions A Victor Radio or combination An Atwater Kent Radio A Buescher Saxophone or Trumpet An album of records We shall be glad to pay the express to your home if you wish to surprise the folks with a Sheet Music Drum Sets Ukeleles Musical Christmas The Carleton Symphony band of Carleton College presents its annual concert at the college chapel before a concert over a great part of the country. A new inter-fraternity competitive event will be ushered in at the Vermont University fraternities when they will hold their first annual Inter-fraternity Singer contest. Each fraternity will sing its favorite song from the program. The Council will act as judges. A Silver loving curn will be given the winner, New uniforms of the semi-military type with a slonch military cap and white trousers have been voted for by members of the Congress, the Council at the University of Texas. Pledges of Sigma Delta Chi, hon- orable professors, presidents, university chairs, and members of Texas put out the Thanksgiving edition of the Daily Texan, university publications. The Acrn, publication of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, this year will have an enlarged feature seen on the campus as one of whom one has been chosen as the most popular, one as the most intellectually stimulating, one as the most collegiated co-ed on the campus. Six men will be elected president; one student to fill the same positions. One Gift That's Never Duplicated YOUR PHOTOGRAPH The Kind We Make THOMPSON STUDIO 829 Mass. Mid-Year GRADUATES A large manufacturer of high grade fire brick has an opening for two or three college men—in both Sales and Production work. Do an international business and offer training to young men. If interested, write for more details. A. P. Green Fire Brick Co Mexico, Missouri German Scientist "Snoops" Evidence from 5000 Year Old Beer Bottles Berlin. — When it comes, "sampling the evidence," one German scientist has hepten four ways from the area. With nothing more before him then an Egyptian bottle that has been drilled with urine and Dr. Johnesus Gruss of Berlin can tell whether the departed Pharoh in whose tomb it was found licked his beer light or dark, whether he favored a bree made of barley or corn, or whether his taste run more distantly to wine. It all turns on Professor Gruss's expert knowledge of yeasts. There are many different species of these native microbial plants that put the kick in home brew and raise the dough when the laker makes bread, and the bacterium specially trained in microbial technology can tell them apart. by microorganic examination of this material, the German scientist was able to tell what the Pharman's brower had used to give his stuff the requisite authority. The special kind of beer could be prepared with the yeast deposit, and wines were betrayed by the presence of characteristic acid crystals; That one batch of beer had gone sour was indicated by the finding of the skins of a number of "vinegar eels." Early Egyptian eyewear and wine-makers were not at all fussy. Apparently they didn't even take the vinegar out of their glass for Prof. Greues has found, mixed with his yeast cells, such things as tiny twigs and half fragments, bits of water weeds from the Nile, and wings, legs and hands of insects of various kinds. The amount of appreciable amounts of desert dust. about one thing, however, they were particular. They always used the same kind of yeast, and they applied it to a certain culture purity for over 2,000 years. Boys Conduct Dairy Read the Kansan Want Ads Bridgeport, IL., Dec. 6. — (UP) Boys in the local high school department of the local high school maintain a dairy business of their own, profits being used to carry out experiments and to test the milk selection select and purchase their stock, do all the work, and secure customers for their products. Christmas XCURSIONS between all points on Santa Fe in Illinois, Iowa. Mexico. (Magnificent and cast), and Texas. Mexico. for the round trip half fare for children FARE and ONE-THIRD Tickets on Sale Dec. 21, 22, 23, and 24, 1929 Final Return Limit—Jan. 6, 1930 W, W, BURNETT. Agent W. W. BURNETT, Agent Phone 32 Lawrence, Kansas THE KANSAS PLAYERS Present "FIDELITIES" By Robert Bracco MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNSDAY December 9-10-11 FRASER THEATER Reserved Seats Now On Sale in Basement of Green Hall ADMISSION $1 Single Admission — Student Activity Ticket Season Ticket THE FIRST TIME TO BE PRESENTED IN ENGLISH An Absorbing Character Drama Portraying Husbandly Jealousy