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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929
The wind blows cold on Mount Oread. Sidewalks have become imprumptu skating rinks and the streets serve as tobogan slides for *strings of sleds trailing automobiles*. The climb to the Hill is equally perilous for motorists or pedestrians. Even the street-car line is not to be depended on it seems, with the ice covering the tracks, and the cars inclined to leave the "straight and narrow" at times.
A very few of those who live on the hillside have been born blind enough to strew ashes or send upon the "slippery-slices" of the ice-capped brick and slices of the ice-capped brick and concrete walks. One Hill fraternity has made itself very popular by its careful attention to this detail. But many have expressed a desire to cast the unthinkings ones, undecorously down the ice-chute in front of Rowland's.
This Eskimauwen weather has been the source of perpetual annoyance to those walking outdoors much of the time. Some entirely new steps, glides, and dives have been noted. Particularly noteworthy is an entirely novel eyebrow glide, whose exponent believes himself incapable of repeating. Many report that they have struck rock bottom in their antics. The more conservative lovers of smooth ice are having their linings shaking and playing soccer. Skis, snowshoes, and sleighs allure even the most stand.
TURKEY EDUCATES
New Year's day, Turkish leaders instituted a daring plan for education of the masses. Public ercers summoned all persons between the ages of 16 and 40, to enroll in the national schools where they will be taught the new written language which makes use of the Latin alphabet instead of the old Arabic characters. The leaders expect that 90 percent of the adult population will be able to read and write in about four months time. Only those who can pass the required examination in the new language will be exempt from the course.
Repairs made in 1920 indicate that about 6 per cent of the population of the United States, over ten years of age, are illiterate. Facilities are available in nearly every community to teach all those who desire to learn the three “Rs.” In this part of the country evidences of illiteracy are not as apparent as they are in the eastern and southern parts of the country. This does not mean however, that it does not exist.
Democracy is not true democracy unless its citizens are educated to participate in its activities. "Knowledge is Power" and Turkey is striving even though it makes no pretense of being a democracy.
BUSINESS FAILURES
Business failure reports for the past year indicate contrasting ten trends: the number of failures increased while the amount of liabilities decreased. There were 23,842 failures in merchant business, this number being some three per cent higher than the figure for 1997.
However, there was a reduction of abilities over last year amounting to about six per cent, because the firms involved were smaller. This is a reduction of some twenty-two per cent over the 1921 figures.
Comparisons of the indebtedness indicate that business morality centered, more than usual, in the moderate-sized and small enterprises. The ratio of insolvencies to operating concerns remained practically the same as in the preceding year. Conjectures as to the cause for failure of the small concern, play up the tendency toward consolidation which has been a trend of the last few years. Chain stores offer stiff competition for the small merchant who attempts to sell only merchandise and not his store. If the small merchant is to survive he must combine shipping with better selling methods and the development of store personality.
The time has come when some sort of an understanding must be made concerning the status of the Rock Chalk. Some weeks ago the Kansan
AN UNDERSTANDING
evane dissatisfied with the condition
of the famous yell, and asked the
question, "Is it true that the Rock
halk is passing?"
This question was taken up, affirmed and denied by Kanae editors and interested alumni. The lengthy discussion seems to have taken almost entirely outside the Campus. A few on the Hill have felt that the classic cheer was being mistreated, but the most of the student body have evinced little or no interest in it. Even one of the professors stated that the yell would not die but that momentarily it has lost its popular-
In the light of all of the discussion the condition of the Rock Chalk simmers down to the following;
1. That numerous imitations are lessening its effectiveness.
2. That the cheerleaders are not able to swing the crowd into the excellent rhythm which makes it outwarding as a collage cheer.
2. That it is used indiscriminately.
3. That the present Kamans crowd, for any number of reasons either does not or cannot cheer in the proper spirit.
We'll bet the man that pushed an eauit eleven mikes with his nose has made a New Year's resolution menioning election bets. And it won't be roken!
Another headline: "State Police board Bill to Kansas Legislature." We'd send our board bill to the legislature if we thought it would do my good.
--of the 100-inch telescope share of the 25th magnitudes have been photographed, so that the 200-inch instrument may be expected to reach sizes of nearly the 25th magnitudes. In other words, stars start at their maximum illumination as compared with Sirius; it is less than that of Sirius as commented with our roar. $^{1}$
Today's Best Editorial
Southern women used to be fond of saying that they were twenty-one years old before they knew that damnawkee was two words. Yet the cogentness of the word seems to have lost none of its pungency, its power to goad, its quality of expressing contempt as deep as fear. The fact that in the recent unpleasant election, as some of our Southern friends might regard it, Virginia went for Tillman and he would argue
POLITICS ON THE GRIDIRON
"Come on, you Democrats,
Let's lick these Yankees!"
We hoped another spm might be thrown across the bloody chasm as one of the consequences of the national election, but now it would seem more likely. We asked a Southern gentleman a "Republican," but "Yankee"—the South, we fear, will now withdraw her political hand of greeting from us. Yet there may be a reason for that: as a convention of a third party, as it were, a common grievance and suffering; for the Southern gentleman in Mexico is just a plain "Yankee," and not a Southern gentleman. In addition to his protetations avail to rid him of the title—Boston Frasier
New Telescope Would Show Single Candle at One-Sixth Moon's Distance
New York, Jan. 7.—Once a candle 41,000 miles away from you at about a sixth distance of the moon. The light from it would be about the same as that of a twenty-fifth magnitude star, the faintest that will be revealed to astronomers with the new 200-inch telescope planned for the California Institute of Technology. At the meeting of the American Astronomical Society here this afternoon, held in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, some of the possibilities of the new instrument were explained in an address by Dr. Walter Adams, director of the National Observatory. The observatory is a cooperate in the California Institute, and the two organizations will cooperate in the building and use of the new telescope. As illness prevented an eastern trip for Doctor Adams, his address was end by his associate, Dr. Seth B. Nicholson.
"Inside Stuff"
--of the 100-inch telescope share of the 25th magnitudes have been photographed, so that the 200-inch instrument may be expected to reach sizes of nearly the 25th magnitudes. In other words, stars start at their maximum illumination as compared with Sirius; it is less than that of Sirius as commented with our roar. $^{1}$
"Well, if the editor doesn't do everything from what I tell you, then what does he do? "" inquires an interested person, after Insider's recent disinterest.
To which answer is answered: "So far our news is concerned, nothing." The editions are primarily, although indirectly, in responsible for the policies of he paper, both news and editorial; in the newspaper is cared by or subordinate editors.
Our Contemporaries
(Science Service)
ARUSING PRIVILEGES
Every freshman reads Newman's essays on university, and will remember his emphases on books, and students using them in Newman's classroom. Newman seriously, has constant recourse to the library and its books; but, certain experiences in the use of books and materials have given her a certain degree of irritation.
Cases like the following, while rare, are not unknown. At the beginning of this quarter a student wanted to help Leonardo the Florentine, but he was told that a faculty member was dead before it was possible to have it recalled. The student, desiring to make certain of having the book, asked to have it examined, and that would be impossible. Shortly before the month was over he applied for the book again
In another instance a student applied for a reference book in psychology, and learned that the book must not be replaced. To date it may not have been replaced.
There are minor abuses which still almost into insignificance when compared to the otherwise efficient service of the library. Nevertheless the persons responsible should in most cases be trained in student discrimination and lost books and see if a remedy cannot be devised.
Minnesota Daily
Riding Horses To Rent
Comes word from the University of California at Los Angeles that the traditions committee at that school, charged with the duty of enforcing this act, and the group itself advances the admission of its ineffectiveness and failure.
Send The Daily Kansan home.
FALSE TRADITIONS
Rather they are the natural result of a strong and healthy student spirit.
Traditions are wholly dependent upon student spirit, and their success rests with the acceptance and approval of those actually affected by them. Undesirable traditions can be upced upon a class or a student body.
Traditions policemen at a great many colleges are finding obstacles in the path of the fulfillment of their mission. There is no unwanted tradition and petroleum
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SUITING YOU that's my business
"The efficiency of such an instrument in rendering visible faint stars is extraordinarily," said Doctor Duncan. "It can be about one million times as much light as the human eye, and with all allowances made for losses in the telescope a factor of four." As compared with the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson, the new telescope will have four times the surface, and the aperture is relatively short focal length as compared with aperture. It seems probable, accordingly, that it will show stars at least five times the size, and the path may be even greater.
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With the massiveness and light-gathering power of the new telefence, it may prove of value in ways that cannot now be foreseen, he said.
"When the 100-inch reflector on Mount Wilson was designed, no one could foresee that by means of a mirror attached to the sensor at the entrance of its tube the first measurement of the diameter would be successfully carried on," noted the speaker. "In the one of the new 200-inch mirrors, we can dict that the brightness of the asther and planetary images formed by the 200-inch mirror will make it possible to apply methods and instruments of astronomy to the sun or to brighten sources of light in the physical laboratory. The possibilities in such directions from a most interesting field of study, both for the physicist and the physician, are vast."
The shiftb to gather more light than any other such instrument will shed new light on the spinal muscles, our neighbor "universe."
The Andromeda nebula is one of the two largest and presumably most visited objects in the universe, with millions of other spiral nebulae only three or four move can be studied in a similar way with existing telescopes. Because of their faintness, smaller nebulae are similar systems but more distant in comparison to their faintness, they require more ground, rests on a slender, foundation—our knowledge of start of known types in half a century may not provide sufficient new collector will add very greatly to these manager results. A conservative estimate is that it will furnish reasonable data instead of the present five or six, and less accurate values, but sufficient for statistical purposes for pos-
Other important uses of the telescope will be in the study of the spectra of the stars on a much larger scale than would be possible to heat from the stars, and planets. In fact, he stated, it will really be possible to make a "weather map of Mars" because of the measurements that will be possible of Martian temperatures.
But unless a good location is selected, the new instrument will be limited in scope.
As a result of the experiences o. observers in many parts of the world it is clear that the most favorable site in which the atmospheric conditions are very uniform, where abrupt changes in the atmosphere and where the average wind-velocity is low. Such conditions are probably more nearly fulfilled in those portions of the continents between latitudes 30 and 35 degrees, within which the so-called tropical climate is characterized. The climate is characterized by dry and wet seasons, with a long nearly uninterrupted period of clear rainfall, with a temperature unsettled weather with moderate or low precipitation. In the high veldt country of South Africa, in some of the southernmost regions of the ranean Sea, and in the extreme southwestern portion of the United States, including Central and North America, are probably the best locations which astronomers at present know for the most efficient operation of a large in
The Hawk's Nest
--by eating fruits and vegetables.
CORRESPONDENCE
Mr. Hugh Bentley
Hawk's Next
Well, Hugh! Actually!
But then, I might have known. You are surely a viking, but I don't. I conjectured and self-satisfied man. I wasn't so much dissuaded in your description of the world, its complexity and your beauty and condescending air. You did me a great favor, but why be so supercilious about it?
I think that an advice to the lovesthorn column would be to ask if you would like it. You would be doing a great service to others; that is why I wrote this message to pigeon. And that would be pathetic—a great loss to the reader.
I doubt if you will publish this—anything disparging to you, I mean. Now come on and snap out of it, Hugh, if it not too late, for I hate to see what I thought was a gift to give me, but given the ease, give way to excessive self-center.
And besides, you don't want to dislusion me, do you?
Henrietta
Dear Henrietta,
I read your letter, and I
must say that I found it (Ho-
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XVI Mon., July 1, 1929 No. 78
K. U. LITTLE SYMPHONY;
The Jayhawk picture of the K. U. Little Symphony will be inducted at 7 in the University Auditorium. Members are requested to wear a black hat.
K. O. KUERSTEINER, Director.
K. U. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:
The Jayhawker picture of the K. U. Symphony Orchestra will be taken tonight at 7:30 in the University Auditorium. Members are requested to wear formal dress and to bring their instruments. Rehearsal will follow.
K. U. A. FUHDRENNER Director
CHORAL UNION:
PEN AND SCROLL:
The chorus will take up study again Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in alarm at the High School auditorium. It will be followed by a lecture and performance by SWAIRDOT, Director.
There will be a general meeting of Pen and Scroll memoirs and photo-
tuesdays. Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the rest room of central Administration
building.
LYLE GIFFORD
You doubt if I would publish anything disparging about myself. Well, truthfully I wouldn't but since your better sounds like in B. I, L Menchen se articulate. C city噪音. City噪音. I thought it would be great fun for the kids. So stupid funny, don't you know. Now will
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You, true to your sex, are
pretty well aware of the
pression that you are being
noticed. Go right ahead;
humor yourself! The very
nature of this kind of
gives you that privilege.
You think that a lovelove
column would be good if I
could tell you. Well, I think that having
signed your letter I could
stand anything. —Even to
be around you for a few minu-
ters.
Lovingly,
Hugh Bently
there be anything else? Oh,
don't mention it!
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