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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . . . MARION LEICH
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MONDAY MAY 6, 1929
ORLIVIOUS?
"We Americans are living in a world of beauty to which most of us are totally oblivious." Lorado Taft. In simple words this self-styled "talking artist," the University's recent guest has depicted a situation aptly applicable to local circumstances. Visitors have often proclaimed the University campus to be among the most beautiful in the country. Beauty does aound upon it. Particularly, as spring comes, does the campus smile in welcome. Tulips bud and bloom, and the like hedge receives its old remown. Grass slopes grow green again and lavish nature is unrestrained as Mt. Oreodb lands in springtime. In the University student olibvious to this? Perhaps. At beat nature's beauty is but passively accepted.
But not entirely obvious is this student to beauty and art. The interest in music week which has just been concluded belies that possibility. Music week was a success because it resulted in wide participation. Even so, the occasion provided the scene for a most startling evidence of this obliviousness to beauty, when the materialism of a particular group sounded its unharmonious note and came near demoralizing the work of those in charge. Loranda Taft scarcely could have picked a more opportune time to speak of persons oblivious to beauty.
JUSTICE AND SENTIMENTALISM
A bag, 17, was convicted in a Kansas City court recently on seven charges of first degree robbery, and sentenced to life imprisonment as many times. Only a few days previous, two youths of nearly the same age were given like sentences. All expressed the same way when asked if they had anything to say, "I am sorry," or "What a fool I've been!"
Undoubtedly they were sorry. When one sees sheed of him a fatal life spent in a cold, hard prison cell, and freedom is only a matter of death both inglutious and welcome, there is no other reaction. And it may be the boys are genuinely grieved over the sorrow and worry they have inflicted on their parents and the wrongs they have committed against other innocent individuals. To the parent surely, it was "the unkindest cut of ill." It is they who must suffer by the misdeeds of their children, perhaps more than the children themselves. That is unfortunate, and in a sense, cruel.
But sentimentality is not the moving element in a court of justice. Nor should it be, apart from the fact that human beings should be judged as human beings, subject to varying causes and emotions. There is a fine mark of discrimination here which the court should and is expected to perceive. In these cases, it is not hard to agree that the court has acted wisely and swiftly. It is said that this method in the best means of discouraging crime and criminal tendencies; if so, we need more examples of it.
THE ABOUT QUESTIONNAIRS
Any question can be settled these days by questionnaires. Or can it? Edison has decided to pick his successor by this plan, and he himself will make out the questionnaires for the test. The best students, those with the highest ability in scientific subjects during the school year 1928-1929, are to be selected by the governors of each state school from the forty-five contests. From the forty-five contestants the one giving the best reply to Mr. Edison's questionnaire will be given four years free schooling in the technical school the student himself selects. This boy is expected to carry on in Mr. Edison's footsteps.
Mr. Edison is wrong if he believes that he or any man can arrange a series of questions that can definitely choose a man to fill a certain position. The power to answer questions of a sort includes does not mean that the one who answers them will be Mr. Edison's successor, or that he will be a great inventor. It may simply mean that this particular man has an excellent memory for facts, or that he has spent time and energy over that spent by others in learning to widen them.
The knowledge of many facts may se satisfy and valuable, but it is not entirely necessary, nor can it make the individual. The questionmire, as developed today, has scientific and practical value. It does determine to some extent and intelligence of the subject, but here it stops, t fails to test original, creative bility, leadership, or strength of personality of the student.
TRUCK FARMERS' PROBLEM
While the farm problem is receiving its share of attention in both houses of Congress, the department of agriculture issues a warning against unwise expansion of truck crop acreage. Increased area devoted to truck farming has resulted in long periods of low prices for these products. It would seem that vegetable and fruit growers would profit by the experience of the grain farmer. Wheat acreage was expanded so far that a wheat surplus developed which brought the price of wheat down, and which finally led to the "farm problem."
Truck gardeners are following the path of the grain farmers. Imperial Valley lettuce accrued was expanded from 20,000 in 1925 to 34,000 in 1927, with the result that growers received $4,790,000 in 1927 and $6,000,000 for the small crop in 1924. Strawberry acreage was doubled in Missouri from 1925 to 1928 with the result that yield per acre decreased and the average price declined.
Overproduction in garden products benefits no one. Last year 16,000 carloads of California grapes were left on the vines and thousands of acres of potatoes were not harvested because prices did not justify. There is no doubt but that the truck farmer has a problem of his own but it seems that he could profit by the grain farmers' experience. He could start by decreasing acreage and production.
What is this thing in the soul of Kansas that flowers in gigantic proliferation and audacity? The history of Kansas is a story of romance achievement. It is a story of repiration. It is flavored with a seven-dual hurt to thumb smoosh at the gods, a story of rhetorical proplication blend in a rhetorical cocktail that cheers, baffles, and astounds a
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OH KANSAS
Perhaps Kansas is Kansas because she thinks in images and acts in climaxes. Anyway we are inspired to cover the Kansas exchanges in the Gazette office. Here, for instance is a case point in the case *D尔腾 Colorado* that the Arkansas State begins to purr. The Arkansas City Travel snorts that fishworms do not purp but that they twitter like a bird. The Arkansas Alma Enterprise declaring that "the effeminate fishworms may be all right for the soft guys in Southern Kansas, but up here where men are men, for hind legs and growl like bulldogs."
Oh, Kansas! how much adder will be the weeping angels when the storm arrives? parchment ribbons above a withered world? — Emporir-Gazette.
When the meek inherit the earth they won't believe it.
—Ohio State Journal
Mississippi Valley Found to Be Home of American Indian Earth Monuments
Plains, steam shovels, and souvenir dealers are destroying forever the tombs and buried records of an ancient civilization that fault pyramids that rival those of ancient Egypt, Dr. Knight Dunlap, chairman of the division if anthropology and psychology, declared today.
Washington—the preservation of treasurable earth monuments built by Indians in middle western America long before the white man came will be urged at an archaeological conference called for May 18 at St. Louis under the sponsorship of the National Research Council.
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*Once the states and local communities of the Mississippi valley realize the value of those valuable habitats from the past they are sure to invest in them.*
*Caufi*
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan;
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The reason why Congress finds it so hard to agree on farm relief is that in our finances the private interests are mixed with our public interests.
It was the private interest that defied the currency in 1920. In order to make it acceptable, students acknowledge that fact. Why not take away the power from the Federal Reserve System by limiting its finances and establish a normal volume to be in circulation under public control?
Apportion each state its quota under state control, according to the decision in Kaucas State Guarantee Case.
Charles Ferm, LL.B.
Lindsborg, Kan
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Our Contemporaries
NO STUDENTS THINK?
Because of the earns of learning that apparently surrounds a college campus, people at large often fall into the error of believing that the college student is a thinking animal. The mistake is $ \frac{1}{2} $ a natural one to
It is true that the individuals who attend college are exposed to a large mount of material that might cause them discomfort. But after four years they emerge somewhat dazed from the long exposure. Although the process is very often harmless, it can be a poisoning of the mental mechanism that is difficult to cure. The reason is simple. From lecture room, textbook, and reference materials, we learn about the菩提现象 by being put into new and active combinations by the mind that receives them. The result is intellectual passions.
Do students think? If so, when?
One may enter the stimulating atmosphere of a library reading room to meet someone or two who have eyes glued on the pages of a book of assigned reading, the time not redeemed by so much non-vacant store out of the window. What happens if someone comes up with such hurriedly passed over? When come the hours of quiet meditation and intense thought necessary for actual mental growth? Possibly such time can be because they have a very been known.
—The Carletonian
MAN AND THE MISSISSippi Man, who is prone to take a good look at things, has always received the elements, received the severe jail to his self-esteem when the Mississippi water had flooded thousands homeless and infiltrated a large area of farm land. Within the flooded water has destroyed at a single sunew what it has taken men years to build
One is made to wonder how far, after all, has the struggle between man and nature favored the human side? It is suffered by the Egypians when the Nile was on a rampage are being closely paralleled with the struggles of other rivers in the same drainage system. The ingenuity of man has still to make living safe along the river.
And yet it is not inconceivable that the time will come when the technical skill of man will subdue even a bird of prey, and that he will be as obedient to his will as any domestic animal. The elements will rage, and man will suffer, but slowly he will learn the secret of their control. The bird will not always be an unbridled giant.
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dield of Missouri will open the May 18 conference and among the many speakers there will be Dr. William John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Education, Mr. M. W. Stifler, the United States Attorney for American ethology.
Many wild theories have been advanced for the Mound Builders. They were one of the earliest groups, as one of the Ten Tribes of Israel; as descendants of early Scandinavian or Welsh invaders; as a colorful and influential people in the American, or even as Egyptians, Chinese, or peoples from the "Last Atlantic Titans," who were American Indians, but this makes them none the less interesting, and thus it is possible that they were American Indians, but this makes them none the less interesting, and thus it is possible that they were American Indians on American soil, so much so that it is recorded as the development of an American civilization, built by th
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"Our scientists are making rapid progress in this study of the lives of the predicinctal inhabitants of America," said Dr. John Doerdnapd, who they can get." Doctor Dodernapd said, "Still the work of destroying the mounds and other remains of our ancient city is underway. Farmers plow the mounds down to make simple the tilling of their fields. Tourists arrive to see the marvelous arrowheads. Some have even been blown up with dynamite. Dealers in souvenirs exploit them indiscriminately. The number of 655 mounds and all but 50 have been looted. The contents have been scattered and valuable historical documents found."
"Most of this destruction has been done in ignorance of the fact that the water is very low and very small value in any other way unless accompanied by a careful record of the details of excavation and removal, the very important picture of the position and arrangements of objects in the mounds and the scientists. This is all lost when amateurs and not hunters rifle the sites, moving and breaking the rubble to restore the remains, or in the mucking of the sites useful as well as instructive to the states in which they he. When these cities are not so situated, they offer locations for outings and peninsis which attract not only citizens from outside the state."
Mr. Cochidice as the proximate father-to-law of a Governor's daughter could not well have been denied a fishing permit in the State of Confederation. Fishing permits, like kissing him, go by favor, there as close where.
Brooklyn Engle
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--to take some work in the Lawrence Business College. Special rates are made to K. U. students who wish brief courses in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and banking. We arrange "classes to suit your convenience."
Some college prof has discovered all over again that men are dumber than women. Well, they have to be in a generation for generation for generation.
"Postage stamp objection to come in or heavy federal probe!" says a bishop, who said the state of the politically right-minded to kill the pop to see whether it tastes good.
We bet a lot of women envy that aff that was born in Cusming, Okla. owns with five lower java and three ogues.
The principal of Wichita High School is taking steps to stop cramming. Now if the K. U. power system is ready, action to stop anytime for funds.
A guy killed his wife because he called his home a "dump." He was a little hasty. Dump is a refined word.
Anybody remember way back when May was considered a spring month?
Nowadays May is just the mouth when the Lawrence merchanto do their best to get their accounts with students collected up.
And now for the simple: As we welcome as the odor of banco and coffee about 8 a.m.
Hugh Bently
--to take some work in the Lawrence Business College. Special rates are made to K. U. students who wish brief courses in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and banking. We arrange "classes to suit your convenience."
As Others See It
--to take some work in the Lawrence Business College. Special rates are made to K. U. students who wish brief courses in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and banking. We arrange "classes to suit your convenience."
BRITAIN'S FAVORABLE REACTION
Britain's reaction to America's disarmament proposals voiced at Geneva important than that of all the rest of the world. For Britain has armed itself with nuclear weapons and Britain. Fortunately for the peace of the world the response from Britain has been proper, not improper or all three of Britain's political parties now campaigning for control of the House of Commons have failed. But in Britain as in the rest of the world there is a natural question as to whether the United States has just launched its expansion. In the press comment there is occasional reference to the fact that the United States has just launched its expansion. Fowler journal in Rome refuses to credit us with sinceency
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVI
Monday, May 6, 1929.
No. 168
--tion of 10.16-7 and rejects limitation of our foreign support for naval installation to land armaments. France sees our proposals as the lightest and most effective way to defend and hope that reduced armaments and debt conceivances will go hand in hand.
PHL LAMBDA SIGMA:
Pi PhiLambda Sigma will meet Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Westminster hall. All members are urged to be present. GLADYS SM, SECRETARY,
K U SYMPHONY:
The regular release will be held Thursday, at 12:50 p.m. in the Common building.
K. O. KUEESTEINER, Director.
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On the basis of what has already been said by Lord Cusundun and the leaders of British opinion it is evident that organized peace is being written.
The British Cabinet is considering Ambassador Gibson's statement of the Hoover Administration's naval policy on the events at Geneva in the House Chamberlain will make some comment on the events at Geneva in the House. A friendly cooperative statement.
Washburn Review
Anyone who considers himself as dissatisfied would find it interesting a book up the article on "How to be a President" in *The Annual Century*.
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