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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1929
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASA Lawrence, Kansas
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MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929
A NEW NECESSITY
At this time of the year, new worries are confronting the harried student. Aside from the awesome figure of finals standing on his horizon, there is also the question of enrollment. While the student has a general idea of what courses he wants to take and the instructors he wants, he has no accurate means of learning the significant facts about them. He should know what is taught in the course, not what the catalogue says—if the instructor is hard-boiled, what the percentage of Thanks has been in the preceding semesters, how much work is expected and the best means of polishing the apple. If the student is not going to enroll blindly, he much knows these facts.
This being a scientific institution a scientific solution of the problem should be worked out. Instead of an proaching the question individually why not combine to compile and disminate the inside information or courses and professors? A book made up of statements of those who have taken the courses would be one of the season's best sellers on the Hill. At least four persons from each course should be questioned and a wide scope of grades included to meet every view-point. Both those who got an A and those who flunked the course should be given a chance to air their views. Such a publication would allow the student to go about choosing his courses and instructor with the accuracy and knowledge in keeping with a university mind. Let's have a "Class and Instructor' Blue Book" or "The Low-Down on the Profs."
THE NICARAGUAN CANAL
The Nicaraguan canal question has come before the Senate in the form of a resolution authorizing an appropriation of $150,000 to cover the cost of surveys. The United States has already invested $3,000,000 in a canal right-of-way through Nicaragua. Reports of the traffic through the Panama canal indicate that within a few years it will not be able to accommodate commerce. As a matter of defense, also it is argued that the United States should have control of another inter-oceanic canal.
Modern steanships, which scrape the sides of the present canal are another argument in favor of a new one. Of course the old canal could be repaired but the cost of installing bigger looks and cutting a wider and deeper channel would be so large that it would be better to add a small amount to the expenditure and have two navigable canals. The commencement of this country justifies the construction of a new channel to take care of ship tonnage and to protect our nation's commerce in case of war. By all means a new canal—build it deep and wide enough to take care of the traffic for years to come!!
With the peace treaty ratified, Secretary Kellogg is a great statesman. If it had been rejected he would have been nothing but a peanut politician.
"Phop" Allen is reported to have looked good in a basketball suit in 1904. He might still show some of the squad up for form.
The time is rapidly approaching when the students will be granted the privilege of returning to the professors the knowledge which the latter have passed on to them during the semester. There is one phase of the final examination system, however, which it seems could well be changed both to the advantage of the professors and the students. Not only this change be beneficial to these but it will also mark progress in the general educational system at the University. The idea of dispensing with finals is not a new innovation and it would seem that certain consideration of it is justified.
A JUST PLEA
in some colleges it is the practice to permit those members of the various classes who have made the grades sufficient to place them in the highest percentile of their respective groups to be freed from the finals. This does not mean that such a student would necessarily be freed from all of the finals because a student who is good enough to be the best in all of his classes is rare. If such were permitted, though many problems which now confront both the student and the instructor would be solved.
It is not likely at all that the conscientious student, who has made a good rating for the entire semester will fall down when it comes to the final. Nor is it to be anticipated that the instructor gets any great amount of pleasure from grading his paper. If this student could be excused from the final in those classes in which he was high, he would thus be given more time to study on the final in other courses, the instructor would have more time to devote to the grading of the other papers, and the results would be practically the same. Too much of the academic time is wasted anyway and this is one of the minor ways in which much of it could be averted. Instead it just to both the professor and the good student to eliminate the use of the final in the case of the latter?
THE DECLINE OF OWNERSHIP
American experience has tended toward the decline of ownership. In a generation the aspect of things has changed. The material things that Americans want are bought on credit or paid for on the installment plan. Living quarters are simplified, for the public ballroom and club-houses have taken the burden of social activities out of the home. The rental circulating libraries have taken away the burden of individual ownership of books. Rental services are being offered even upon such very personal property as clothes.
Such tendencies do insure a certain freedom of living and escape from trivial care. Ownership must always mean some support of responsibility to the possessor. While in many ways the new tendency to "travel light" may be a thing to be encouraged, in America it is going too far. Unknowingly, American people will become communists, and all individuality will be lost to people and to the nation. As America steadily witnesses the decline of ownership among her people, she sees her people falling more and more into types. Certainly that is to be discouraged.
Good places to get rid of your money; Paris, Monte Carlo, Chicago—and K. U.
Art: A mental picture with a line around it.
The difference between a defendant and a plaintiff in a lawsuit is usually about $10, unless the plaintiff happens to be a woman.
The big problem at this time of the year is how to keep those darn boots from wrinklin' down around the ankles.
Printing—The mother of progress.
Yes, another case where mother wants papa legislature to open his purse strings.
It's the woman who pays and pays, probably because she is the only one home when the installment collector knocks at the door.
Increasing Soil Erosion Impoverishes Millions of Acres of Rich Farm Land
Washington, Jan. 21.—Millions of acres of good farm land have already been laid water, and many other millions severely impoverished, by steadily increasing soil erosion in this country, of which we have taken little or no heed.
Testifying before the House appropriations committee, H. H. Bennett of the United States bureau of chemistry and soils made a strong plea for increase in appropriations for this work, stating that though the budget burden had been asked to slit $20,000 to the bureau of chemistry and $10,000 to the bureau of public roads, as increases, there had been no increases, excepting a little over $2000 for the bureau of public roads.
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MURIDO IN MANHURIA
The appropriations committee, however, did not allow any further increases. The kill is now before the senate. Reedt said that in the Piedmont region, extending from New York to Central Alabama, which has been in cultivation a long time, fully 60 per cent of the $7,000,000 budget.
So intricate are the hidden currents of Chinese political rivival that it is difficult to discover the real motive for the executive of famous generals, and by the young warlord of Manchuria. But the incident is disturbing for several reasons. First, it indicates that his father was Chang Tso-lin, to resort to violence to dispose of his political enemies. Second, it implies that he wanted to overthrow the Young General or ruler of Manchuria. Third, it means that the second of Manchuria's two really competent generals has been poisoned. Third, since Manchuria, having been killed with Chang Tso-lin when the latter's special train was blown up on an opening day last June on his retreat from Peking.
Yang Yun-ting was registered as one of the possible successors to Ching Tso-lim. In fact, there were rumors that he would meet his death, that Yang Hai the support of some of the Japanese government chose as Governor of Manchuria. Such a political malefactor of a prominent leader has nearly always in his career been seated unrest. For the sale of the peace of China it is to be honored that Yang Yun-ting agreed to co-operate with the Chinese Nationalists. If his latest political campaign for a test of the anti-Nationalists against him, Manchuria might again become a dwarf and in
- New York Times
Our Contemporaries
Our Contemporary
The window of arranging before the Student Council two faculty caught with the same answer in a chemistry examination, to oblige even if the council made only re-entry into the punishment for the offender.
THE WISE METHOD?
But betting follow students judge a case, . . . even recommend . . . that students offer offender. Although his sentence may be mitigated by the court, he is in danger of being sentenced to by a student group, with which he is not intimately associated, as out-
It was an attempt to set allow among the students themselves a non-treatment reacting against the wholebody of our population, and gross disobeyance of some university people, supposedly of good moral stock, requires the hardest preposition, and the faculty's desire to institute in student hinds a noteworthy.
Even if he did erib in a mid-commuter examination, he maintained the trust of his employer and was considered of a superior rank than him own, even the criminal court judge has a gavel, a ceremony, and a posthumous award. The punishment — from the students cannot command the respect of one Guehring — remains intact; remain the jury and judge.
Although trial had best be received, an education in keeping a high bono student in line with the students through the council Bringing the misfortune few who are caught, to judgment, and punishable for it is good. It is not a matter of retribution for our more or less sophisticated inmates, but the respect we can alone eliminate this man's poignant stealing of information and works, the cause of which lies in the
Students of the English language in England have been somewhat upset by a lecture recently given before the British Academy by Professor G. J. Mackay, and said that the language in turning into a string of monosyllables and is in danger of becoming as stancec as the Chinese. If he had put the same facts into speech, he would have implying praise there would probably have been no quarrel. But since
A freshman is satiated with ideas of ingenious verb cribs at the fraternity lounge, and observation of others in examinations. A product is the gift of a student; individual is at fault certainly, but so also is the whole university group.
What a difference there would be if only rigid integrity were presented to the newsmen by waved unceremonial—Daily Northwestern
SHORT, BUT NOT UGLY
About 10 to 12 per cent of the land has also 40 subdivisions, he said. "In South Carolina it is almost all cultivated and formerly cultivated have been permanently destroyed. The gullies ramify the countryside in all directions." In thousand-acre estates, he added.
*raising this area had its top soil. "This money" he declaimed, "that will grow for us," he said, which requires much heavier fertilization, about 300 to 500 pounds per year for cotton, whereas at 200 pounds formerly produced the same amount.*
"I so understand," he said, "agriculture has been almost driven out of the country. I have offered you from croton the farmers have been driven into the water bet-
In the Mississippi river bed, there are ten to forty thousand acres which have been permanently destroyed.
"Up in southeastern Kansas, the Missouri river hoofer lived in southern Nebraska, western down, and in eastern Texas, as a result of a single rain season, that to 10米 of soil had been removed per acre from numerous canyons."
"Gully erosion has destroyed large areas in this country, more than 160,000,000 acres. The really serious damage is slow erosion that we have trained on erosion, because it slowly takes off part of the top soil, the most fertile soil, during every water runoff, enough to cause water to run downhill."
"It is difficult to find places where there is no erosion" said Billie McIntosh. "I say the central states, last year, and found in many shores that have not even been built on." The soil has been greatly blimped down in many places and subsoil is
Gully Erosion Is Destructive
Experimental Station in Texas
There is a small state experimental
station at Spur, Texas. Bennett said
when he is dealing with methods of
combustion self-crosion, and the effec-
tiveness of treating, and are doing
 much good work.
"But this little station is the first comprehensive soil erosion station in the nation that have disappeared from the earth as a result of soil erosion."
Results of terracing at this station,肯特 said, had prevented 24 to 30 percent of the rainfall from being washed off, and the conservation of the rainfall and the prevention of the run-off, had increased the amount and affaiths by 14 to 42 per cent.
If farmers were taught to prevent run-off, Bennett believes, it would be a big step in food control, as the soil became watered, drain streams, increase the volume.
he turned his thought to condemnation, the tendency among English commentators has been to admit the blame on America. The least part of the blame on America.
"As things are going now," he declared, "in a little while, the bulk of it will be completed or so severely impoverished that they can maintain only a peasant type of living."
If it is a fault, it is a good one. If Americans are responsible for the use of more short words in place of longer ones, they are not covered, not retweeted. They have shown an inclination to contract long words for which a short substitute is not available. No doubt the professor and I will refer to them as "ridic" and "cirs" for ridicuaries and circumstances. They are not accepted as polite terms here, but when a musical ceremony heroine asks for a name, she must use the "ridic" and cirs for ridicuaries her meaning. Short simple words are as suitable to childish, fairy-tale entertainment as to the ordinary articles of everyday usage in Anglo-Saxon father-applied them.
Many people, even among college graduates who should have been taught better, seem to think that the writer of these poems has packed into a long word. Some of the little verse makers of this country and England have a love for long words only equalled among adolescent writers; some cannot think of a good long one they make up one. True poets have always varied the cadence of their lines, often using monophyllas to levy Latin words, chosen not for their gentility but for their rich thunder. Shakespeare how he employ both:
all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my
hand will rather learnoding
van narror
The multitude of incarnate,
Making the green one red.
The current Broadway drama is
of them. —New York Times
The Hawk's Nest
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NOTICE
While there is no objection to the part of one member, the remainder of the editorial staff at the Kainan office held a separate session, even by Mr. J. 917ly.
The Ed.
A startling place of warriors pre-
family from a member of our policy
groom attempt to save the tide in
the battlefield and keep the war
evenly. Fortunately the victorious
beyond the course of NAVY, THIEF
prefamily, "Aw, I." Who bother in
this world?
INFORMATION
1. On day of enrollment, find hardcover at the library. Please follow the directions to obtain a shoulder of name as he enrolls. Copy accordingly as he enrolls. Personal Acknowledgement
Due to the six suggestions on how to pass college exams, which were written in two weeks, a debacle of "Thank You" papers have flooded the department. In response, teachers have taken tips that have been formulated on how to pick sap courses. Read these ideas below.
3. Look up fraternity with
your student attending.
4. Request all "A" students
their course. Therefore learn to
sleep without noon; take off
those who do not attend.
2. Ask professor to outline snip courses. Prof. will be contrary. Will outline taught courses. Will provide of procedure as exactly opposite.
4. Make extensive research.
Enroll in all two hour lecture courses.
Learn to be the soberly,
selfish, and selfless student
your sole interest. Work is complete
in that course for someone.
5. Practice talking with much in
mind, even when not asked to
give fill schedule with German
and Greek courses. Will have perfect shmp.
Will pass with good grades.
Will participate and perhaps "tailor" lectures.
Hugh Bentley
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As Others See It
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INTELLECTUAL STOCK-TRAVING
What is the state of the western world in recent years, as described by the Philosophical society, the object of the scientific organization, functioning in this country, has appeared a new and interesting way of answering this rather tremendous question. The committee is composed of forty-two persons of diverse backgrounds, of abstract science, of scientific research, of invention and applied sciences, of business and the liberal professions. European participation
In a sense, intellectual stock-inking never ceases. Books are published every year on the progress of mankind's civilization, and on the relation that exists, or should exist, between thought and practical affairs. A few weeks ago an encyclopedia called *Mankind?" was published in this country with the central idea of uprising dominant temptation in the intellectual world and indicating the need to reassert the status of history and theoretical evolution. Despite such related activities, nowever, the enterprise of the Philomel Society is likely so yieldable results.
The committee may not agree upon a report or a series of reports; material to be presented; the public will form its own judgments upon disputed points. The questions to be addressed are the effects of increasing precisely formulated as yet, but it is understood that they will cover such subjects as the effects of over-increase in population and the science toward humanistic endeavor the future of civilization and method of popularizing knowledge. The imminent need for a three-hands need emphasizing.
Chicago Daily News
THE TIME CLAUSE
The stifl opposition to the Cruiser Bill will serve one good purpose if it induces the navy men to give up on the cast-iron time clause on which
recreasing JAHL SCHOOL CHRISTIES.
Nevertheless there is room for immune improvement in prohibition enforcement in the United States, in which the courts have failed in appealing to the legislature for a special enforcement fund of 400,000 recognized that there is need of jacking up officials and organizing enforcement and better observance.
His action will be overwhelmingly unforced by the opinion of this state, and it is likely to remain in timely. Nothing will have a greater effect in awakening general public interest from its apathy than such an appeal from the Governor of Kansas. What are the reasons? The question is not bow wet or dry Kansas is as compared with any other locality. What is of importance to the people of Kansas — Topoka Daily Capital
The committee on scholarships announces several vacancies in Watkins hall for the spring semester, and invites applicants to see, the chapman on Tuesday, Jan. 22, or Thursday, Jan. 24, from 14:30 to 12:06 h. 210 Fresher hall, or to telephone for an appointment.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XVI. Monday, January 21, 1929 No. 96
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
PROHIBITION IN KANSAS
EUGENIE GALLO6 Chairman.
For these reasons the chances are that there is no subject in the world so much exaggerated as the drinker of liquor under prohibition.
FACULTY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
If so, this country is not greatly affected by alcoholism. Persons evidently under the influence of liquor are much more likely to be longer motions town drunkards, and whatever the quantity of alcohol contained privately, it isn't noticeable in this country.
Those members of the faculty who have not yet reported their list of publications for the year 1025 are urged to send such a list to the Graduate Center.
A writer in Collier's Magazine reports Kansas as being as wet as any state and Topcake as wet as any state coal.
This poem by Edwin Marham for which he will share in the $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Florence Brooks-Alena for a new national anthem. The anthem of work. Nevertheless, we must ask one important question in contrast to the fact that it is wrong with the anthem we have got!. Having asked the question, we answer it at once. Nothing. "The anthem we have written for which way you regard it, is the one
they have insisted. Their program calls for the laying down of five rovers each year in three successive years. It would permit the stoppage of all rovers until national agreement for the further limitation of navies, but not in more participation of such a limitation. Mr. Hoover instructed on altogether his and Mr. Hoover's hands left free. This is viewable, and the bills' supporters will find the going much easier if they yield to the Administration.
One reason why the rigid time clause is objectionable is because it gives in a nuval program which can be very easily increased. The greater reason is that it may hamper our gaming with other nations and in touching a compromise—and the more representatives in Washington present the British elections, if not being allowed to accept the council acceptance of the bill in the form in which Mr. Coolidge asks it.
E. B. STOUFFER, Chairman., Graduate Research Committee
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perfect instrument that has ever been written. Words and music bleed perfectly, even though each had a different origin; they are marital, different kinds of pride of our country. Furthermore, such is the nature of the music, at any rate, that it can be degraded by someone else, and these them have to submit to it. It is in three-fourth time, so that you cannot march to it; hence it will never be played for a particular singer; hence it always has to be played by a hand, and we are sure that it will always be competently rendered, and not merely performed in loud singers' organizations. And since it cannot be sung, there is no sense in playing it twice, as the second verse must be sung over and over again. We get it over quickly and do not have to stand up with our hands unduly long. This is probably one reason why the American Nationalist's nation was proud on the earth. [4]
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In short, this author*s we have said, is perfect, having not a single flaw. Mr. Markham paid $1,000 for a courageous answer? If Mr. Markham has a grouse of the propriction, it seems to us that he will turn his share of the prize to the American Legion to be used to pro-
duce sticks for soldiers in the next war.
-New York World
LOOKING US OVER
Within a few weeks American will welcome a group of about thirty professors from the university and colleges to come and visit their gathered visitors are in to gather first-hand impressions of our country and also study certain features of our culture. We will send them an appraisal an excerpt of the recent adventure of our own arguments of unity under the leadership of Herbert Moore, and associations thus formed call for reciprocity and extension. An exchange of professors and students will lead us into the way in the world to promote friendship and better understanding. These nations cities and industrial centers of America and while their purpose is to gather information for them, we will be very much advantaged to both unions. We have been slightly misunderstood by the averse Argentine. Perhaps we will be more fairly interpreted and observed complete their mission.
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