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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR IN CHIEF ___ MARION LEIGH
Associate Editor Alice Schultz
Associate Editor Emily Jallieu
Editorial Writers
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Katherine North Rosemary Maher
MANAGING EDITOR  MILLARD HUNSLEY
Managing Editor
Mature copy Editor
Luke Palahni
Smart Editor
Walter McGarry
William MacDonald
William MacDermott
Junior Magazine Editor
Nathaniel Miller
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District Manager
Kenneth Padeck
Kansan Board Members
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Jenner Jahnik  William Gassman
Milburn Hirsch  Milburn Hirsch
Katharine Borth  Catherine Harper
Nathaniel Barth  Catherine Harper
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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929
K. U. WEATHER
It rains in Kansas; at times it pours like Morion's salt, and then an intractable fountain pen it floods. The result is an awful welt! The students raise a cry from the hilltop, "Flood relief." But, any way, it rains lots and too often. So often that an Orend climber necus an umbrella, a dicker and web wet. Even at that his cooks get scaked and his underwear shrinks. It is a fishy life—slimy! If Noah had been this no doubt there would have been a University Afloat. Rain caused most of the football defeats; mired the Relays, and has generally dampened K. U. spirit all year. Spring pipecies are on overcourt that no one can frolic. It makes one feel that if he is not now "all wet," he will be. Most every prospective week-end has turned into a mud puddle. The moisture is appalling. Who wants to go out in the binary out-of-doors, "hop around in an overgrown sliker, he hit his knock off or his eye punched out by a staggering umbrella holder? Students at K. U. are worrying of this life. Exit rain!
Surely it must have been "Silent Cal" who urged his son to give up musical aspirations for a business career. However, if John had begun at the right place in the bottom of the railroad business, he might have voiced his talents as a siren-like train caller.
FOREST FIRES
The cry of forest fires in the West is coming over the wires already this year. They seem a long way from Kansas, so most students merely glance at the headlines never thinking what that headline means. A smaller lumber supply does not effect the middle westerner who is accustomed to reading of millions of dollars in waste in natural resources every year.
A forest fire, however, has much worse effect than a mere waste of lumber. It means destruction of waterlands, and an increase of arid land which it will take nearly half a century even to start again. It means the loss of the American people's most popular playgrounds. If tourists from the plains and Middle West could be educated to realize the enormity of loss in only a small forest fire, perhaps they would be less careless travelers.
A recent law passed in Idaho prohibits the throwing of cigarette stubs from automobiles was greeted with a laugh corresponding to the greeting of the Tennessee evolution laws. The state, however, had to make stringent laws to preserve the forests with the increasing inpour of tourists every season.
The natives of the states with great forests are brought close to the scenes of the fire destruction each year. They give their best efforts toward preservation. The majority of fires are started by careless tourists and campers. When visitors from states
without forests can be prevented upon to take care of their summer playgrounds, which are other people's bread and butter, fire flashes of "Forest fires" will go over the wires much less often than they do now.
"To be or not to be—that is the question." Whether its better to be gloid or said that school draws to a close. Only grades can tell.
THE ORATORICAL CONTEST
The zone winner in the oratorical context from this section of the country was selected from seven participants for that honor recently. The winner will be the middle west entrant in the final elimination contest at Washington. This contest, to choose the best oration based on the Constitution, is an annual affair. High schools, large and small, all over the country have contestants entered. The aspirant, to be at all successful, must spend hours and hours, not only of his own time but that of coaches as well, in preparing his oration both as to content and delivery.
The question is whether or not there is value in a context of this kind. The subject itself leaves very little in which the student may be original. Even if it were possible to add original thought to such a subject as the constitution of the United States, high school students would not be capable of attempting it. Very little scope is given in originality of style. Each of the contestants spend many hours in organizing this reached material, using time that could well be put to more profitable par-
Marion Talley has not bought her farm yet. She is evidently waiting to see what Congress will do for the farmers before making her final plans.
THE FOLLY OF FAME
A small country cemetery about thirty miles south of Kansas City, where a number of Civil War heroes are buried has a number of tombstones bearing the epitaph, "Gone But Not Forgotten." Yet when one reads the names under these epitaphs he realizes that in most cases he has never heard of this "unforgotten" person. But fame does not endure throughout the ages. It will not last for Lindbergh, and it has already begun to wane for Lincoln.
Hoover is making an attempt to find Lincoln relates to put in the room where the emancipation proclamation was signed. This room had been a sort of guest room. Now it is Hoover's study. It is no longer a curio to be looked upon with awe and reverence. The people of America often put the great men of this land upon pedestals which no human could ever reach. And since nobody can ever reach them with anything in his own experience, these men are forgotten in spite of their past glory. Fame is fully.
A PACIFIER
President Hoover was drawn into the fight between the different factions in the senate over the debenture farm relief bill, whether or not he wanted to be, when he became the third party in the ring. Senator Fess of Ohio called Senator Borah of Idaho a pseudo Republican, and this did not suit the well known senator. Borah replied in such a way that was interpreted by some as forcasting a break in the Republican party that might be disastrous in the consideration of the farm and tariff bills.
President Hoover declined to let this quarrel continue when he heard about it, but invited each man to have dinner with him on different days. He forswarm if such a controversy continued to go on, it would mean a discard in his program in the special session. Senator Fees cannot see why this statement aroused so much indignation on the part of Borah, and in return Borah says that it was a personal view of Fees' and not an expression of very many persons. He says that so far as he is concerned, the case is closed. He may change his mind when Senator Brookhart of Iowa gives his speech on the same subject. Senator Fesa is to reply to it, and this may bring Borah into the battle fast and furiously.
Scientist Believes Radium Coruscation Not Due to Action of Cosmic Rays
Philadelphia.—Whatever it is that makes radium, and related elements disintegrate and give off the rays that are so helpful both to the physicist and the physician, the cosmic rays are not responsible. This has been found by Dr. Louis R. Maxwell, national research fellow working at the Bartol research laboratory of the Franklin Institute. He will report his latest researches in the forthcoming issues of the institute's journal.
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“But why can't you print it just the way I have written it?” is a question often asked, at least by implication. The answer is that it accepts items written by laymen.
"Inside Stuff"
The answer includes several reasons. In the first place, newspaper archives provide a record of space available on the day of the publication, making it necessary that the most important part of the story is available. Secondly, any damage may be thrown away if necessary.
Secondly, if a newspaper makes a practice of accepting for publication articles written outside the paper, it is going to have an impact on change, it is going to face difficulties in refusing publicity scandals and defaming the only defenses against such persons.
Still another reason lies in the matter of style. Each newspaper, for the sake of uniformity, has a set style in matters of punctuation of lists of names, use of capitals, titles before names, and use of apostrophes. Changes in conform to style will always be made in copy, no matter who writes it.
Oftentimes insider hinders to refuse to "run it just as it is" when he sees a paper or a newsletter item; but he recalls makes it necessary. Often he can reconcile his conscience and the demand of the item in short summary introduction and enclosing the remainder of the item in a more useful matter, newspapers are usually more than glad to have copy written by themselves edited by an expert writer.
--the earth from space, and were absorbed by certain elements. This energy, it was thought, might break up Earth's atmosphere again as rays of longer wave length.
But because of the peculiar conditions surrounding newspaper publication, every self-respecting paper will insist that all matter published they have written by a staff member or signed with the name of the writer.
Today's Best Editorial
GREVING THE LAWS
Shorter after the discovery of radium and its effects, over thirty years go, the suggestion was made that some highly penetrating rays bombed
Our Contemporaries
THE LEAVENING VIRTUE
A common complaint of college unregisters is that they are the victims of an oppressive intolerance or the part of faculty and administra
In his message to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, which meets in Washington to day, President Obama urged the president before the Associated Press members. Since "the alternative is anarchy," obedience to law is "the key to governing state." It must begin in the home, and be continued in the school." The growth of the federal infrastructure has "lower ascribes in large degree to " the belief of those that the people do not wish to have the laws offered; or that we cannot live without them; or that a citizen may choose what law he will obey." Manifestly the President has in mind the Volunteer Army, so it is probably some of the states. He wisely reframes from estimating the percentage of crime due to rebellion against government by stating it will agree that it is distressing great.
A chief Executive can do other than counsel obsession to law. But when a judge or prosecutor is unreliable by many millions of intelligent and well-behaved citizens that its enforcement is a blood-stained process, the court will make such an act enforceable by amendment. President Hoyer's prosecution will find its laborers largely harbored as result if it does not include, and trespass the study of such amend-
--the earth from space, and were absorbed by certain elements. This energy, it was thought, might break up Earth's atmosphere again as rays of longer wave length.
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And yet, paradoxically, the zealous collegian oftimes becomes the most intolerant of persons. He can never ignore a magnificent vision of a greater freedom, he overreaches himself in the zeal of his new found crusade. Accusing his teachers of being a moralistic and conventional and conservative he fails to perceive that he in turn descends to ever greater depths of intolerance and cruelty. In short, the crucasing collegian is sadly lacking in one of the greatest of human virtues: A sense of humor. He has no tolerance for harshitative gestures become great crimes. He adopts the sorber garb of the reformer and sallies forth like a gun-tote to battle imaginary rivals.
The eventual discovery of such highly penetrating rays by the Israeli astronaut Dr. Prashant Mulligan, of the California Institute if Technology, brought a renewal of interest in this theory. Though these rays were invisible to our eyes, they are completely stopped by a hickness of 225 feet of water, or equivalent amounts of other matter.
Despite this, the rate of decay of the potassium was almost exactly the same whether the experiment was done on the ground or in the mine, or whether it was on ice. That there is no appreciable effect of coarse irons on radio activity.
Doctor Maxwell took some polonium, another element in the radium series, and measured the rate at which it disintegrated on the surface of the lens. He then placed the lens over the surface. The mine contained a large quantity of zine ore, willemite, which is more absorbent of the rays than the other minerals of the experiment was performed, the material above absorbed as much as 100 feet of lead, or more than half a mile of water, so that it was certain that the rays could reach the instruments.
As a matter of fact, his calculations show that it is unreasonable to expect any such effect. Only once in the atmosphere, microwave ray be absorbed by a polonium atom, in the apparatus, so feeble are the rays. This would make it enitrogenous and toxic. The extent of the absorption of a ray by an atom, and also shows that the vastly more frequent breakup of the polonium atoms cannot be due to such an absorption.
Even if the cosmic ray is something like a bullet, and merely has to pass near a polonium atom to break it, they cannot be held responsible. Doeckel said that the collision of the polonium plate used, only two cosmic rays would reach it every second, while 3,000 atoms of polonium in it disintegrate every second. Thus less than a tenth of one per cent of the cosmic ray could be blamed on the cosmic rays.
HELAS!
To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play.
Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
Me thinks my life is a twice-written seroll.
ceremed over on some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Which do but mar the secret of the
Surely there was a time I might have tried.
The sunlit heights, and from life's dissionance
Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God:
Is that time dead? lo! with a little
--he word "Whoops"
Sandvicandian—Whooison,
Irish—M-Whoope,
English—Whooop, of been,
Russian—Whooipskiy,
Holcow—Whooipkiy,
Daily N-*
I did but touch the honey of romance—
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
—Oscar Wilde
The Hawk's Nest
Read the Kansan want-ads.
Various foreign interpretations of
Daily Nebraskan
--before: A newspaper is a fax dog
And he says, "Sh-h-h, I'm trying"
drown out the rain."
Joe was chewing gum the other day, and I says to him, "Say, why all the noise?"
Today's simile: As slow as the awrence telephone service.
Why do you call your friend "Old Sox"?
'Cause he's so strong.
Mother's Day: The Sunday when all the patrons drag out the old saying that "the foal that roars the claw is the hand that rules the state."
I pause to ask, are all altos supa pressed sombras?
And now Tl sing you that sweet little ditty entitled, "Oh, how I miss the sun when my shadow is away!"
Read This to Your Room-mate
To prove that a newspaper is a lazy
dog.
A newspaper is an inklined plane.
An inclined plane is a slope up.
A slow lap is a lazy dog.
Therefore, a newspaper is a lay
dog. Hugh. Bently
—Hugh Bently.
As Others See It
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WHICH IS THE FUNNY MAN?
In the House of Representatives the other day, Mr. La Guarda of New York asked a colleague friendly to the liquor interests in steady and persistent, encrapped his wet beetles with a series of statements which would be funny, except for the fact that he was not a member them. He declared that "n" was vast majority of them (i.e., young people) have developed an appetite for synthetic grain swallow or anything they get their way with. The accused attacked upon the prohibition law by saying that "a careful analysis of the figures will show conclusively that a majority of the voters did not agree were decisively against abortion."
We don't believe that Mr. La Ganador can get his fellow New Yorker, the Hon. Alfred E. Smith, to echo this last statement.
Presumably Mr. La Guardia was sorbid, even if a bishopial hypocrisy. He also another column of the paper from which these extracts are called, appalled by the use of the common man widely known as a humoist—Mr. Will Rogers. His communication
See in Washington dispenses that the Democrats are planning to take the wet side and make a direct issue of prohibition in 52. The governor is behind him three years before he is buried in almost unexplainable.
I spent three years in forty-eight
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVI Tuesay, M 14, 1929. No. 175
W. A. A. :
PI MU EPSILON;
W. A. A. will meet Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in the gymnasium.
This will be the last meeting of the semester.
FILAZERBHEER, PROSIDENT,
at the University.
There will be a meeting of Pi Ma Epillon, honorary mathematician,
in room 203 Administration building, at 3:30 p. m.
U. G. MITCHELL, President.
PL LAMBDA THETA;
KANSAS OUTING CLUB:
MRS. STUART, A. QUEEN, Secretary.
NEWCOMER'S CLUB:
The picnic to have been held at the home of Professor and Mrs. C, V. cent, Thursday, May 16, for members of Newsemeen's club and their families.
We Recomend
Christian Science Monitor.
LAMBERT HOME
A student will hold a very important meeting Wednesday at
unity, in room 209 Administration, building at 3:30 p.m. in Wednesday, May
A meeting for the nomination of officers for the Kansas Outing Club for 1929-30 will be held in the gymnasium on Wednesday, May 15, at 4:30 p.m. Members who are working for awards should bring in their points to be checked at that time. MARGARET BRAZIER, President.
We Roommnd
TAVANNES
Watches
The last meeting of the year will be held at 7:30 tonight in Wilcox museum in Fraser hall. A report of the national convention will be given by Ada Wiley, the delegate.
RUTH WARRIINGTON, Secretary.
starts each season kidding and joking on both sides of prohibition, and if you think this country is not you got a big city single on a Ni-Mo cell phone. The folks: "It's the only law we ever had where the small town and country know they hold the trump card, You can't change it without their help." They are just laughing at you. Apparently the funny man is the wise observer; the statesman for the moment plays the part of the fanny
The next state executive will probably be elected on a wet program. "Grow rice in Kansas."
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