PAGE TWO / UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1920 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ___ WM. A. DAUGHERTY Associate MANAGING EDITOR LAWRENCE MANN Sunday Editor Walter Moore Monday Editor Walter Moore Campus Editor Catherine Hummann Wednesday Editor Catherine Hummann Night Editor Robbie Solbin Tuesday Editor Robbie Solbin Sunday Writer Editor Niamh Dewarwick Monday Writer Editor Niamh Dewarwick Vice Chairman Editor Wendy Woolfe Weekly Editor Wendy Woolfe KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS ADVERTISING MGR. PLOTY NELSON Assistant Adm. Mgmt. Maurice Gourveau Assistant Admin. Laurence Hampson District Assistant Barbara Kenedd District Assistant Ebbie Malkenan District Assistant Kathy McKenna KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS Lawrence Mann Katharine Brown, Inville Larawne Arthur Mary Wearn William Winn, Linda Baldwin John McCormack Michael Clemente P.O. Box 10495 Business Office K, U, 66 News Room K, U, 23 Night Connection 2701K3 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by student in the department of journalism at the Press of the Department of Journalism. Subscription price, $4.00 per year, for advance. Single equine, double equine, pay beginning on September 17, 2016, at the past office at Lawners Kann, under the set of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1929 CYNICISM ON THE BLOCK In a recent magazine article, Bertrand Russell mackets the statement "At among many of the younger generation, despair has produced cynicism." The statement, of course, gains less from its originality than from its source. Nevertheless, it is a point that opens a great field for speculation, coinciding, as it does, with contemporary tendencies, and concurrent with present reactions. The college or university student today is notoriously cynical—or at least he pretends to be. Beliefs and traditions which now are handed him, he turns upon and threats inside often for good reasons, and too often for no reason at all. And we call it cynicism; for lack of better terminology. He blinds himself to things of value because he has seen the badness of other things, the good he tosses out with the bad because he does not know what to do with it. He hangs in a state of "mental equilibrium," unsettled, bitterly skeptical, and steered to everything. We cannot entirely blame him, nor should we call it praiseworthy—it is merely a phase of the reactionary. It must be admitted that this is not the most fruitful or healthful mental life. Incredibility and doubt are at once thought of as catalysts, without which development would hurt. In cynicism there is no stability, no finality or aim and nothing constructive. It has its value only when it reaches the mature stage of doubt. Few moments are more embarrassing than that experienced by the chamber of commerce speaker, who after orating, "New let's get together boys. Don't let things slide. Get behind and push," discovered that he was speaking before a convention of trombone players. A NEW MACHINE IN POLITICS When New York City goes to the polls to vote in a city election, Nov. 5, 3,500 voting machines will be on hand to register the will of the people. No paper ballots will be used in this, the first election using machines exclusively. Tammany has long fought the machines on the ground of their expense and the possibilities of corruption, despite the fact pointed out by others that if election officials do their duty the machines will eliminate all corruption and the result of the election will be known as soon as the machines are examined after the polls are closed. Corruption creeps into nearly all elections in large cities. Seldom are the election officials responsible. Ward healers and their benchmen, patrol the districts near voting places, intimidating those known to be of opposing political sentiments and extracting promises from those whose votes are doubtful. In the past they would require the voter to mark his ballot in some way so that party leaders could identify it. The machine will eliminate all this; but it will not eliminate corrupt practices on the part of officials. If they are desirable of stuffing the ballot box their desires can be satisfied more easily by merely moving a voting lever than they can by intimidating qualified voters. The machine will not eliminate unqualified voters, nor keep unscrupulous persons from voting in several precincts. On the other hand, the machine will eliminate all possible errors in counting votes, and will have the totals ready at the end of the day. This item alone will save much expense. Kansas and other states will watch the election with interest, not only because of the race which Jimmie Walker accuses to be already won but because of the use of the voting machines. Voting machines have been demonstrated over the state in most of the larger cities. Possibly Kansas will use them in the next presidential election if results elsewhere seem to justify their use. The Union building committee might use this fact in campaigning for funds; it is standing up under the variables pretty well. TRUCE IN THE MILK STRIKE Everyone interested is glad to hear that the milk strike in Kansas City has been called off and the warring factions have agreed to call in an unbiased authority to study the situation and make a report. The agreement to this truce shows that the old idea of violence in disputes is now regarded taboo. It is true that there was some sabotage in the recent trouble there, but such actions were in direct opposition to the spirit of the majority of producers. Whatever the final decision in the case may be, the producers are to be praised for coming to terms for the time being. They realized the situation in which the city might have been if the strike had continued. There is one thing, however, that distinguishes the strikes in this case from most labor strikes. They all are property owners, and the questions in the argument affected not only their jobs, but also their property. If property interests could be represented on both sides of all industrial disturbances, there is small doubt that arbitration in strikes would be reached with far less wrangling and violence. Nothing in America is more sacred than propriety—not even "rights." The Thoughtful Freshman says: "I see by the Kansas that Jayhawkers will fly here for homecoming. At last we will get to see some of those birds!" STOW YOUR ROLLER SKATES Twelve years ago he probably carenced down the streets of his home town on his roller skates. He would slide up to the back door out of breath, throw his skates on the sidewalk, and dart for the kitchen and food. In a few minutes the greener boy, arms piled high with his delivery, would turn the corner, step on an unobserved skate and "to the hauna peel sprawl." Today, this same individual pulls up to the campus curb at exactly 29 minutes after. Too late to make the circle, he cuts across the drive, darts the "has" into a wrong-way park, grabs his books and arrives one breath before roll call. Another driver, a professor or visitor, ready to drive off the Hill, arrives on the park scene to find that his car is "sweed" in. He backs his car, turks at the wheel, starts it ahead, and so gradually, inch by inch, squirms out of the pocket five minutes later, wondering if humanity is socially conscious after all. One minute gained, five minutes lost, all for the want of a parking rule. Surely, an echo of 12 years ago, when the grocer buys numb picked himself up from his fall, can be heard: "Why don't little boys put away their roller skates?" Ever ready to lend a hand in ath- letic activities, we suggest intramur- al horse racing, with odds not to exe- ced 10 to 1. A special steeple- cease could be held on Dad's day. Once I studied. Once I grew impatient when the class assignment was given out last I should not be released at once to hasten to out side readings, to advance preparations, to intellectual toll. Once I did ALAS. AGAIN Government Chemists Investigate Radioactivity of Patent Medicines (Coloman Regular) Washington, Oct. 31—With a market flooded with water, salines, hair bionics, tissue cernes, mouth wavers, healing pads and other preparations allowed to have great heating power because of their radioactivity, government chemists are working on suitable means of detecting the presence or At the meeting here recently of t Chemists, J. W. Sale of the U. S. Depa these things, and prided myself in my fondness for study and my enjoyment to stick my hand up in class to interrupt the instructor with answers before the questions were fairly put—but also, no more! I find myself slinking, anothering, deidening, under a burden of extra curricular activities. My classes must reliquish my presence that I may meet with a committee, that I may perform some particular task out- side an off the instruction course of things. For my ability to get around and know what is going on in the campus affairs, I am a marvel to my contemporaries. For my ability to forget assignments and doze prosecu- plyly through a 50 minute class session. I am a marvel to my professors. But mid-s semester approacheth to reproach me! My extra-curricular duties are hygenes. My membership on this committee and on that, my shoulderburd of this task and that in the round of student activities are erased by time. For standing out on my class records are marks of vivid red. Gone-ergs, absences, failures to report, tardies, notations for sleeping, all stand out like chiselled figures for all time. I am blotto. Dire predictions of my mid-senior standing weight me down. I am lost, sank marking time for my exit cue! Abe Lincoln secured his education under plenty of hardships, but at least he did not have to ride to school on cold mornings in an open air collegiate Ford. "Well, the Carnegie Institute at least not investigated to see who are not wearing their cap," mussed The thoughtful Freibmann. Census Taking Is Risky Occupation in Mexico Mexico City, — (UIP) — means had to save a cousin taken from a mob in the town of Kauai near Pahoa. She was mistaken for a tax collector. The census taker's questions regarding population and the amount of products grown in the region were asked to a government employee was attempting to obtain information on what taxes the taxes of the town's annual fund were. Within a few minutes the census collector found himself surrounded by a broadened Indiana crying "murica" as he tried to retrieve the police saved him from violence. Paris—(U1) The famous Long-champ race course has been the scene of some bitter disputes at the finish, so the stewards have decided to install a camera in the judge's stand and monitor every race will be photographed. The pictures will be developed immediately and can be studied by any dissatisfied plunger. Disputes Call Pictures of Horse Races Into Being the association of Official Agricultural partment of Agriculture reported on one method of testing radioactivity. He recommended further checking of the method by chemists, before official adoption by the association. The discovery of the creative properties of radioactive substances has resulted, among other things, in the development of liquid preparations which are being sold as possessing sulfonic acid rotatory polymers. A recent government survey of such waters and drugs revealed that their medicinal efficiency was 30 percent lower than those taken under the Federal food and drug act against uniliquids of the allowed radioactive substances which are transported under the terms of the law. Radium and radioactive substances have possibilities of great harm as they can be absorbed by tissue. Using them inminimally without adequate supervision is extremely risky. Yale Professor Says Market Strikes Bottom New Haven, Conn. — (UP) — The stock market has "struck bottom," in the opinion of Prof. Irving T, Fisher, Yale economist. "When the bears made their raid on the street last Tuesday they caught small holders of marginal accounts unprepared and precipitated a crash that has continued for the past week. The bears have been able to have the most wonderful bargain counter ever offered to the American people." "For the last week we have wived nessed an example of mob panic," Fisher told delegates to the New England national asociation of credit menn. Fisher said the inflated market had been unsupportable, pointing out that money was stable and that earnings from stocks tip up along with the prices of stocks. "Rosh dish"$^4$ is the newest day that the upper classmates of the University of Florida have of annoying the students. The university consel们 themselves every Wednesday day room behind the batches that command with their superior doors. He said credit had in some cases been "too lenient extended" and accrued the banks of "joining in the general safety to safety" in some cases. A. G. ALRICH Engraving, Printing, Binding Rubber Stamps, Office Supplies Catalogs, Cataloging 716 Mary, St. Freshmen at the Kansas State Teachers College are broadly waiting for the outcue of the Freshman-Sophomore football game. The team will play against them. They settle the argument as to how much longer freshmen will have to wear their caps. If the freshmen win the game they will get to discard their caps two weeks before Thanksgiving and lose, wear them and Christmas. SUITINGS AND TOPCOATINGS — $35 and up Try our remodeling and repair department. We also clean and press. SCHULZ THE TAILOR 917 Mass. St. Slightly Used Rent Tuxedos Close Out Sizes: 1-36, 1-37, 1-38, 2-39, 3-40, 1-38 long $15.00 9 Campus Opinion --to be sure to get to the Union Pacific Station in time for that early morning special morning at 6:30 o'clock. An Alumens Wants the Wind Editor Daily Kansun: Would just like to view an opinion of alumni of Kluwer located in New Brunswick who are planning on attending the gate at Lincoln. The only one must be disempowered that the University will not have its landlord. The only one that the University should be able to send the landlord to such an important position as the head of the homecoming. Isn't there some way that the band can be sent to Liberty? We are all pulling for Kansas and bone to see the hand Saturday, Loyal Albany Loathville, Nebraska. Call It School Loyalty Editor Daily Kannan; There are 4,000 of us in the camp this year. We should be overpriced for this year. Privilege it is to be one of the student body. The success of each individual student depends upon the students as a whole. These graft warrants an honorary degree and we are certainly depending on us to help keep up that old chatter, Fight! Fight! Fight! We are all nicely thrilled when news is given, won, win, win back to us, to the degree, I agree to an assessment of the very insignificant sum of 25 cents each and we will send the K, U, band with the eleventh, which will be the spirit band, back to us. This skin over the encrey's real line Lets go!! A, C, R. A. Student. Town Named by Dry Belliveau, O. (UP) — The only known village in the country that has been named for the probble of a temperate climate on the western border of Somerset township. Although weplication did not become law until 4018, this is the result of a misnoun because its founder, Robert Gallagher, so absorbed use of intercepting liquor that he thought he would be able to meet new demands on the new town to suit his belief. TAXI for the Nebraska Special Phone 987 OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIIH Thursday, October 31, 1929 No. 42 GUFFIN TAXI ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF GRADUATE SCHOOL: "The Old Reliable" There will be a meeting of the administrative committee of the Grad ute note released on Friday, Nov. 1, at 3:30 p. m. in the Graduate office. Nation's Highest Names Shorn of Their Honor At any rate the ranger curtly ordered the youths to obliterate their effort to preserve their names from the nation's highest point. But it seems that Udie Sime's front rangers occasionally stroll among the trees, sniffing and jumping, saw the painted names and grow wrath. The snow-capped peak, it seems, in in Sequim National Park, is a symbol of law against defacing property. Porterville, Cul.—(UF)—Six-Porterville youths whose names literally have been barber than any others in the city, now stand short of their "hoor." Leonard Longy, Rex Williams, Ruolah Limkey, Carrier Sanders, Worth Kramy, and Ivel Carrier more than twice on the blackest rook of Mr Whitney, 1592 feet altitude and the highest peak in the United States. For the past year the few hardy runners have been witness to the boy's foot, The youths were unable to arran- nce trips to the peak, an ordinary woman who was depicted two friends to do the job. They had whitewashed the names. E. B. STOUFFER, Denn. A junior police force of 40 boys is being used at Norman, Olden, to give greater protection to children near the city's ward schools during noon and evening rush hours. This police force is the major feature in a plan for protection instituted by L. S. Simpson, chief of police, Permanent classes will be offered at Oklahoma University for students in commerce who desire training and practice in permanent. The CAFETERIA With the Change in Weather is changing to attractive Fall Menus Try Them Nebraska Bound? You'll need one of the new deep pile Camel's Hair Obercoats Better slip in tomorrow and prepare— $60 and $85 --- The most popular cereals served in the dining-rooms of American colleges, eating culture and fraternities are made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. They include ALL-DRAN, Pep Bread Flakes, Rice Krippens, (Beast Crumbles, and Blueberry) and Wheat Biscuit. Also Kakeff Hag Coffee—the coffee that lets you sleep. THE matchless flavor of Kellogg's Corn Flakes has made it the world's most popular ready-to-eat cereal. It is enjoyed every morning on hundreds of campuses from coast to coast. Try it for breakfast tomorrow. Crisp. Golden. Delicious with milk or cream. Particularly tempting with fruit or honey added. CORN FLAKES .