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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920
University Daily Kansan
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WM. A. DAUGHERTY
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23,1929
DISSENSION IN THE RANKS
Street corner and boarding house diagnostics are bringing forth a multiplicity of reasons for the Kansas defeat at the hands of the K-Aggies Saturday. One of them is reasonable, probably, and evidently based on fact. There is dissension among the members of the team. This dissension has grown since Saturday's defeat. Six players practically came to blows at practice last night, it was reported.
The reason for it all seems to be that there is personal animosity among most of the players toward an individual, who they fear, is apt to absorb too much of the glory of the accomplishments of the team. It is said that this player, after having placed the ball in a scoring position numerous times in a previous game, was not permitted to make the touchdown, the honor going to another.
It is further understood that this player was out of the line-up most of the game Saturday, presumably because he was not in condition to play, due to injury sustained in practice. Some believed he was laying down on the job. At my rate, dissension has grown in the ranks. If it is not allayed at once, the chances of showing a successful football team are infinitesimal.
It is difficult to say just what has led to the situation, and whether either side is justified. It is easy to realize, however, that if the members of the team have at heart the best interests of the school, they will forget personal grudges and jealousies regardless of their causes, and work together as good sports in the games to come. Their chances of winning will be much better, and win or lose, their efforts will have been worthy of commendation if they have done their best.
CRIBBING
"Cribbing is worse in the University of Kansas than in any other University where I have ever been," said a member of the medical faculty recently.
Perhaps it is worse here than a other schools, perhaps not. The point is this, and students know it; it is bad enough everywhere, and Kansas it no exception. Legislation and class-room policing cannot prevent it; punishment cannot scare it away. At least, they never have done so. And cribbing means turning out graduates who are quacks, whether doctors, lawyers, teachers, business men or newspaper workers.
It is a sore spot in education. Nothing but a sense of honor will clean it up. Students are demanding more and more freedom. It is about time they assumed more responsibility.
LOANS FOR WHEAT
The federal farm board is preparing to help the wheat farmers, through the system of federal loans. Huge sums of money will be distributed among the farmers who have wheat in order to enable them to hold the commodity until the demand exceeds the supply and the price level rises. The board will not attempt to set prices or to buy large quantities of wheat in order to get the desired result. Instead, it expects the farmers to whom it lends money to keep the product off the market until the demand increases.
The wheat farmers have always practiced disorderly marketing because the grain is harvested only once a year and practically at the same time all over the country. Naturally in the production of the crop, many farmers incur debts which must be met and their only income is wheat-raising. The result is that millions of bushels are thrown on the market within a few weeks. The demand undergoes no such increase and the price level falls.
Government loans will enable the wheat growers to market their product more evenly through the year and secure an average price for their whet—but it will not raise the maximum price levels.
Under the old system of marketing farmers could borrow money from banks to enable them to hold their wheat, if they really wished to. Or, if they did not wish to borrow money, they could sell their cash wheat and buy an equal amount in the future markets at about one tenth the price they received for their grain at the time of selling. Thus, they could hold their futures and spend nineteenth of their money to meet obligations if they needed to. Why should a system of federal loans be established when the other methods could obtain the same results that the board hopes to? With the added expense of creating this new system plus the possibility of minuse of the funds through graft and political pressure, it will probably do the country more harm than good.
MEXICO'S EXPERIMENT
Mexico has recently stepped into the limelight by giving to the world a new piece of experimental legislation in penology. This new penal law, which conforms to the modern viewpoint of leading sociologists and criminologists, revolutionizes the punitive system of the country by abolition of capital punishment and the jury system. The new system also marks a change in the social attitude toward the criminal. He is no longer looked upon as a dangerous person upon whom society must wreak revenge. Instead, he is treated as an informal, whom society must reform by giving his environment and eliminating the original cause of crime.
Whether or not the experiment fails it is a contribution which may prove to be of vast importance in the field of criminology. The United States has failed—either by the poor administration of its penal laws or because its codes have not kept pace with modern civilization, and endeavored to cope with its corrective problems. Our juvenile criminals, pleniant crime, excessive crime waves and the inability of many jurors to arrive at a verdict all are indications that something is wrong with our system. The Mexican system marks a changing viewpoint which may lead to a better understanding of the merits and weaknesses of our own penal laws.
TWO EXTREMES MET
"We are out to transform capitalism into socialism," said Ramsay MacDonald shortly before he was chosen Prime Minister of England for the second time. What success could such a man—a pacifist, a radical, a
Dr. E. E. Slosson, Noted Alumnus, Could Trace Ancestry Back to the Mayflower
Washington,—Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, Director of Science Service, widely known as chemist, writer and lecturer, died at his home here on 6:55 Tuesday evening, Oct. 15. He had been suffering from cardinal trouble for some time, and an acute attack about a week previously hastened his end. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. May Preston Slosson, and one son, Dr. Edwin Slosson, who is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan.
Doctor Stisson was born in Alhany, Kansas, in 1855. His father, one of his earliest setters of Kerns, was a pioneer of old Colonial stock, who purchased the land from the French and became a farmer.
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Labor leader, and a proterinist revolutionist—have had in conference with the President of the United States, elected partly because he termed some of his opponent's planks "State Socialism"?
It would hardly have seemed likely to the couse observer that Hoover, an American individualist, and Macdonald, a believer in socialism would come to conceive on the questions troubling their two administrations. But they have done so, and they will further, in the naval conference they will call for next January, unless all signs fail.
Naval reduction, freedom of the seas, the right to pursue rum-runners beyond the 12-miles limit; these are some of the questions the conference must face—and squarely, without hedging.
It is not socialism or individualism, acting as formulated deocrines, that will reform the world. The revolution in the feelings of the human heart is the only revolution that ever accomplished anything, and a spirit of good-will and understanding brought about between England and America will do infinitely more toward peace and progress than any specific agreements which give countries the rights to build only so many cruisers, so many submarines, and so many destroyers. That is how MacDonald and Hoover will accomplish something, if they do.
"All this silly talk of war between the two countries must be stopped," said MacDonald in "The Nation" shortly before the last British election. Such a statement from both leaders and from both countries is what we want, and from all the five powers that will attempt to effect naval agreements in January.
And, indeed, that is what we want from all the people of the world.
Slosson attended the University of Kansas, and when he graduated was elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. In 1891 he went to the department of chemistry, and he also conducted chemical research for the Wyoming agricultural experiment station. He married Dr. May Praeton, the first woman who graduated from Cornell University.
The most successful of Doctor Slosson's books has been "Creative Bodies," a book that he held in his own among the best sellers. Among his other works are "Easy Lessons in Einstein," "Science Remaking the World: Keeping it Real," "Scientific Tales," "Sermons of the Chemist," "Great American Universities," "Plots and Personal Information," "Scientific Application," and "Six Major Prophiles." He contributed prolifically to magazines, newspapers and reference works, including the new edition of *Discovery*. During his eight years as director of Science Service he trained a group of young writers in the ways of pop-lyric writing. These will now carry on his work.
In spite of his manifold teaching and research duties, he found time to work toward his own doctor's degree during the summer and into college at University of Chicago. He also found time to write numerous little essays on scientific subjects, which because of their length, were often selected out of ideas in ordinary English rapidly won him a wide audience. In 1903 he was invited to become literary editor of The Independent, a position he held for many years. He was asked to become director of Science Service, then newly organized as an agency for the dissemination of popular knowledge about scientific findings, later this latter post upon his death.
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"Attendance Records Smashed at Ku-Ku Jay Jane Variety," read the headlines and further in the story it was brushed stated that everyone attended the party, an hour or minute of the party. Could the author have been possible there and still have been able to say that? Most of us who were present heartily agree that the records were smashed in the statement concerning the good time.
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Editor Daily Kansan;
The party was certainly a great success for the hosts but how about some fun? They got together what have you? No person can enjoy himself when packed into a room of 600 capacity with 1149 other hostesses, pushed, stepped on, and otherwise hindered. If there are those who can, let's give them a moral and send them home.
I think we should be sensible about these all-school parties so that they would be enjoyable occasionally. We also have a free classroom, up for free-for-all. Two bands were hired for Saturday nights' affair and with just a few dollars extra, Echo's hall or some other could have been rented to perform at the work, and twice as much room provided for the enjoyment of the crowd. In the old days every Varsity was handed in the same way, and it is unclear if an the practice should be continued.
-A. L. C.
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XVIIWED, October 23, 1929 No. 35
QUILT CLUB:
Quill club will hold initiation and pledging service tonight at 8 o'clock in the rest room of the Administration building.
PHI CHI THÉTA:
COLENE SERGEANT, President.
Flecher services for Fiji Chi Thua will be held at Honley House Thursday at 5:30 p.m., followed by a waffle supper.
KAPPA PHI:
CLYDE F, SNIDER, President.
PI SIGMA ALPHA:
Kapu Paci, Methodist Women's club, will meet at Myorsh Hall Thursday evening at 7 w/clock.
IHIS FYZTZIMMONS, Publicity Chairman.
P. Siesta Alba will hold a short business meeting Thursday at 4:30
p. m. in room 106 west administration building.
EL ATENEO:
El Atenco se acoma manana a las cuatro y media de la tarde en el curo 133 est Administration.
MYRON PEYTON, Presidente.
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