PAGE TWO TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1929 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Papers of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEFF WM. A. DAUGHTERH Associate Editors Willie Miller **MANAGING EDITOR - LAWRENCE MANN** Sunday Editor Campaign Editor Campaign Editor Night Editor Night Editor Kathleen Burke Kathleen Burke Sunday Manage Editor Neomi Dusmanovic Purchasing Editor Purchasing Editor Friedrich Kimball ADV. MANAGER ... MAURINE CLEVENGER Assistant Adv. Mgr. Mgr. Harlart Kennedy Assistant Adv. Mgr. ... Kenneth Paldick Business Office News Room Night Connectio KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS Lawrence Mann Marie Borth Barry Denton Dusty Denton Mary Ware William A. Dusenberg Linda Eckelbäuer Sarah Kearney Maurice Clevenger Business Office K, U. 64 News Room K, U. 25 Night Connection 2701K Follished in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kannan, from the Press of the Japans Subscription price, $10.00 per month, available in advance. Single coupon, one month only. Offer valid through September 17, 2015 at the post office at Lawrence Kannus, under the act of March 3, 1899. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929 SIX WEEKS TILL FINALS Any newspaper will tell you how many shopping days are left before Christmas. There are not so very many. Neither does one have to resort to higher mathematics to figure out the amazingly short time remaining in this semester. Three weeks until Christmas vacation; three weeks after Christmas vacation—that is all. Believe it or not, it must be true. The K book says so. Consequently it behoves students to start letting their work pile up early. If they are not farsighted enough to look beyond the holidays, they are apt to find the end of the semester upon them without more than two term papers overdue in each course, and without notesbooks more than three months behind. Such a condition would be a gross violation of school traditions. Do your neglecting early. There are just six weeks to go. "Allen May Succeed Good"—Kansan headline. Such grammar. We always thought that well was the proper adverb. CONGRESS BACK AGAIN The ability of President Howard to keep his campaign pledges and to maintain his leadership in Congress will be largely determined during the present session of Congress which convened yesterday. The special session which closed a short time ago accomplished little. Party alignment, especially in the Senate, is not as strong as it used to be, and the congressional fight is now largely around sectional lines. That President Hoover is trying to do the best for both sides has been indicated not only by his independent attitude toward congressional opposition but also by the conferences of business men that he recently called at Washington. Whether or not Congress will legislate according to the President's recommendations or will draw up a bill of its own, or instead of doing either, will quibble over minor points until the real issue and need has been lost, will be determined in the next few weeks. However, there are routine details to be settled before the actual business of the session can get under way. In the Senate whether or not Senator-elect Vare of Pennsylvania will be allowed his seat must be decided again. This case is a hangover from former sessions and began in 1926 primaries. Charges of illegal use of money followed an overwhelming election. The 1927 Senate denied him his seat by a vote of 55-30 and Vare is still fighting to gain his seat and secure full senatorial representation for Pennsylvania. About all the ease some profs make for students is the alphabetical kind. INCONSISTENT SANTA CLAUS In psychological research, a Kansan reporter recently was allowed to study a child's mind, and in the interests of the Society for the Maintenance of Fairplay, part of this child's thoughts are printed here: "Life is funny. Last week my ma and I went down to Kansas City and we saw Santa Claus and all the fairy and nursery rhyme folkes. And my mother had told me just lots of times before then that these folks weren't real. But there they were, And my mother used to tell me how Santa Claus was up at the North Pole and how he had a big telescope, one end like was as big as the moon, and he stayed up there with Mrs. Santa and looked through this and saw whether or not we children were good or bad, and he came out on Christmas eve and then gave little boys and girls that had been good lots of nice presents and left switches for the bad boys and girls, but, oh, he told us at Kansas City he'd bring us all something. "But be told us that he wouldn't be back until Christmas, and when I came home mom tuned in on our radio and we heard some more rap tap tapes and a voice and some letters SCNP—and what do you suppose? There was Santa Claus again, and this time he said he was going to be here in Lawrence Wednesday. Now he must have an awful poor memory and also he wants to fool us kids, anyhow I don't think he's肯请 hisPromise." And the eckipode raps on. Christ ins shopping is done early. This is the time of the year when tjohnny and Mary start being ood, and college students begin writing home offener. THE UNIVERSITY PREPARES TO ADVERTISE The annual organization of the county club program is too often no more than an advertising stunt to get Kansas high school graduates to come to the University. But is this the sole purpose of the clubs? If it is, one may legitimately question the use of such publicity by a state educational institution to induce young people to enter the School. The University must seek more than mere numbers. But the county club programs have a more significant mission than merely as an advertising scheme to increase the enrollment at the University. Each club represents the organized efforts of K, U, students to encourage high school graduates from their own counties to go on to college—no matter where. The club gives the taxpayers an opportunity to learn something of the work of the state university which they support. So, if each club functions as it should, it is an organization which is striving to emphasize the importance of a higher education, to create a desire to go to college among high school students, and to create a wider interest in the state educational system among the citizens. There is a definite need for this so-called publicity system of the University. The clubs, composed of home-town students*, can do far more toward arising an interest in college, because of personal connections, than volumes of treaties on the subject could accomplish. The clubs will be organized next week—and they deserve the support of every student in the University. Of course we all want to boost K. U, when we are back home but we must not do so to the exclusion of everything else. It pays to advertise—not K. U, alone, but the benefits of a college, any college, and the county clubs are one of the best organizations which we can utilize for that purpose. Keeping the date rule is one way of getting out of an unpleasant date, says the Sophisticated Sophmore. What is more digniting than to study for a quiz, only to have the professor not come to class? OVER THE BOTTOM To him who lamentes the passing of the pioneer spirit and the lack of daring in the present generation, the recent flight of Commander Richard E. Byrd in disconcerting. Byrd flew over the North Pole in 1926 and three years later flew the same plane over the opposite extremity of the earth. His daring was not of the type prevalent in early American history. Rather, it was a carefully planned and executed mission. Long months of preparation were used to get everything into readiness for the hop which listed only a few short hours. OVER THE BOTTOM Every known invention of science that would be of any use found its place in Byrd's equipment. Contrasted with the Kansas immigrant who crossed the prairies with a blunt dehnas, a yoke of oxen, some sail pork, a Bible, and a smile on his face. Byrd's adventures are decidedly different. Our critic of the present generation may point out that these differences strengthen his contention that romance is dead. There is but one answer. If romance was that thing which led people to privation and suffering because of lack of fore-sight, let it die. But that is no romance; that is foolhardy. Byrd combined as much daring as any man ever had with common sense, fore-sight and adequate provisions for unforeseen happenings. The result is reminiscent, daring, and contributory to the knowledge of science. Now that long skirts are coming back, there will probably be a wave of unemployment in the street-cleaning industry. Beg Pardon --and every day of the year The University Daily Kansan wishes to correct an error made on Monday's Kansan in request of Prof. H. R. Risee, a professor of civil engineering, to column. Professor Risee is head of the department of civil engineering, but he did not give the name by which M. E. Rise, an associate professor of physics and engineering, is familiarly known by the.edu. Measures Sign Clears Traffic Cowritten Falls, FLA. (UP) One woman in a windshield car with a number of small children in it, found plenty of room wherever she could move, and the windshield of the machine was a large black sign reading "Meesels." No one questioned who had the disease when she arrived at the hospital regarding it or who was affected. Read the Kansan Want Ads. KENNEDY Plumbing Co. 937 Mass. St. Phone 658 General Electric Campus Opinion Refrigerators Editor, Daily Kansan: --and every day of the year The question as the fairness or paying athletes in comparison with regular scholarships has, no doubt, occurred to a great many people. As a result, it is often the reason why a student should not be given money with which to gain an education because of his superior physical development and ability. It is in the result that I find the cause for the strenuous objections that up to the present time have been made by the paying or subsidizing of athletes. What is the purpose of coming to school? It must be admitted that we come to college for an education, for training and for something called life; for education is the requiring of a basis of knowledge, so that we may be able to carry out our work and profit by our experiences in whatever field in which we work. Scholarships are given to those who have shown promise and using and using this sort of an education. Usually there is attached to such a loan some requirement required in order to maintain and nor would anyone protest this stipulation. On the other hand, the athlete is also given money for training and in what? In profiting by his college courses? No, it is his ability in his particular sport. And that is at the beginning of the college education. I omit of course, the familiar arguments of the necessity for some physical (training, and training) or mental (education) work prove either the mind or the man. Perhaps, in the end, each gets what he came for—the scholarship student his education; the athlete the grind and glory of the field. But the fact remains that college is primarily a place where students come from books and intelligent association with people of culture and learning. And I maintain that the student who is kept at school only because of his athletic ability, who is hered through his four years in college or perhaps also through his five years in college, must matter but a decent showing in inter-collegiate matches, is not only out of place but constitutes an insult to his scholastic ideals of his institution. And by the way, while we are having so many comments on collegiate picture shows, with which both she and I have already satisfied an not being typical of real conditions, how about an opinion of her on "Erica Etta Ket" (or has she graduated?) -V. V. The finance group of Oregon Uni- grity suggest that there be no more workers provided for freshman at the. IT'S COLD! Why leave the Hill when you can get Good Food attractively served and reasonably priced at THE CAFETERIA Suggestions for CHRISTMAS Fountain Pens Penils Sets Desk Sets By Parker, Sheaffer, Conklin, Wahl, Carter TWO BOOK STORES Your name engraved without charge There will be an all-University conversation Wednesday morning, Dec. 4, at 10 a.m. in the Auditorium. Auditionist Catherine will be the speaker. ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVII Tuesday, D. 3. 1929 No. 66 Le Cercle Français a reçu mercredi, le quatrième décembre, a quatre dermes et demois, dans la suite 366 Parole. Tout un jour qui percut français a été récemment évalué. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: OPHOMORE CLASS MEETING: An important meeting of the members of the sophomore class will be held in Fraser chapel this evening at 7:30 o'clock. CURTIS SKAGGS; President. PEN AND SCROLL: Pen and Sorrell will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in groups, Group and room assignments are posted on the Pen and Sorrell bulletin in February. SQUARE AND COMPASS; Square and Compass fraternity will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 in Snow hall. All active members must be present. J. RAYMOND EGGLESTON, Secretary. K. U. BAND: J. C. McCANLES $ ^{4} $ Director. The band will play at convention Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock Members please come in uniforms without caps. ENGLISH MAJOR LECTURE; The English major task by Mr. Robert J. Allen which was to be given Thursday, Dec. 6, is postponed until Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 6:19 a.m. in room 230 of the Union Building. BOTANY CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Batany Club tonight at 7:30 at 1421 Loblans street. There will be initiation of new members, LUCILE CHRISTIE. PHI BETA KAPPA: The Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will meet in the rest room, central Administration building, from 4 to 6 c电梯 on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 5, 1928. A social half hour will be followed by the initiation of the hall meeting. The address is 210 H. F. Hodder. Of his address will be “Something about History.” VETA LEAR. EDNA TEETER. Secretaries TODAY'S VOGUE Pewter by Benedict Distinctive - Lovely - Enduring Christmas Gifts Don't Forget F. H. ROBERTS Jeweler — 833 Mass. That We Handle a Good Line of Groceries Oxford Grocery Phones 40 and 281 1339 Mass. St. We Deliver DICKINSON If You Gotta Die You Might As Well Die Laughin' At— THE GLEASONS in The SHANNONS OF BROADWAY Tonite and Tomorrow Thur - Fri - Sa "Naught Can Compare With Gifts to Wear!" It's Christmas Time at Ober's Maybe Christmas has caught you by surprise but it hasn't fooled us a bit. Last July, when you were at the beach, our buyers were busy helping you select "His" Christmas gift. Already we have sent out many boxes, tantalizingly labeled, "Not to be opened 'til Christmas Morning!'" It's Christmas at Ober's—and we have hundreds of fine gifts for men—at prices as varied as their shapes and hues—happy answers to every Merry Christmas quest! It is better to hurry to shop than to be forced to shop in a hurry. So—witness the windows—and dart into Ober's for "His" Christmas gift—tomorrow! "Gifts to Wear Leave You Money to Spare"