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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1928
University Daily Kansan
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1928
MEXICO'S NEW PRESIDENT
The inauguration of the new president of Mexico which took place Friday, was significant in that, he pledged "friendship with the United States" the same as Calles and Obergeid did.
The new president, Fanny Porte Gil is not a militarist, but a scholar and statesman. He is thoroughly in record with the policies of the Calles administration, which were in return, a reiteration of the policies of General Obregon, who would have been his successor but for the bullet of an assassin. President Gil is a young man, believes in progress, humanity and brotherhood of nations.
FLOOD PROOF ROADS
An "above the water" policy wan-
would bring all Kansas highways
above the highest known water marks
has been adopted by the state high-
way commission recently.
The first contract under the new ruling will be let in Potwatatow county early in December, when one and one half miles of U. S. High way No. 40 will be brought to standard grade which is above the Kaw River's flood level.
The recent floods have undoubtedly brought about the notion by the state highway commission. It seems a same and sensible procedure to have flood proof reads which will be high enough so that they can be used under all probable conditions. During the recent Kansas floods travelers were held up for days because of the flooded highways, thereby causing inconvenience and in some instances losses. Highway construction is so expensive that it is the duty of the commission to foresee the obstacles in the future which would prevent permanent roads from being passable every day in the year.
RURAL DEPOPULATION
Young persons are leaving the farm for two main reasons, according to W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture. These reasons are that farmers have larger families than city folks and many persons do not live rural life. But the cityward movement of the American farm population has decreased considerably in recent times. The average loss of farm population for the past eight years is 400,000 a year. The net loss last year was only 192,000.
This state of affairs may indicate that the farmer is not so bad off after all. Secretary Jardine said, "I is an evidence of health and progress. Continuance of present tendencies in the movement of farm population may bring us within a few years to a point at which the annual loss will not exceed the proportion necessary to allow for draining off the excess in natural increase and for the drop in labor requirements."
Kansas is an agricultural state and depends on its farming for growth and progress. The matter of farm relief is particularly interesting to Kansans. Actual help for farming people would be acceptable, but Kansas wheat growers and stock raisers will not care for any half-done, high sounding, impractical plan of aid the rural class. Kansas farmers are hoping that congress will let quibbling alone on this farm relief question and get down to business.
With a decent chance Kanas is ready to show that agriculture can hold its own in the United States. The decreasing exodus of rural persons to the urban districts may be a significant tendency of this readiness that seems to exist within the farming areas.
OUR DEMOGRATIC COUNTRYMEN
Many columns of the coveted front space in our newspapers have been taken up the past week with the story of the marriage of an American girl to the nephew, second cousin, uncle, grandfather, godmother or what-have-you of the King of Sweden. "Then greatest matrimonial coup ever achieved on this side of the Alkine" the correspondents said, and the editors ranked it along with the stock market boom, the latest murder and Mr. Hoover's south seen trip as "top-head" news.
And the veteran new-bounds who handled the story did not base their actions on sentiment; they knew that millions of their subserviers would read eagerly every word of the marriage of Misa Estelle Manville and Count Folke Bernadotte. They knew that although the constitution may provide that "all men are created equal", it did not apply to women. Or perhaps they recognized constitution, or no constitution, is part of human nature to have idols to worship.
King George of England is ill. His physicians issue bulletins, several times daily to inform anxious subjects about his condition.
A. KING'S HEALTH
Kings of the present day have come to be more figuresheads on the ships of state than anything else. Today the illness and possible death even of so important a figure as the King of England does not have the political significance it would have and one hundred and fifty years ago. Then the serious illness of an English king could have held dire possibilities for the rest of the world. His succession might change established policies and form new alliances which would recreate the map of Europe or even of the world.
It is to be wondered whether the present situation might have more uneasy significance for other nations if a premier or some other powerful political leader were ill, instead of the hereditary ruler. It is, however, increasingly doubtful whether the world will ever again wait with hated breath for the next heartbeat of any one leader.
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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
It is not often that a total eclipse of the moon is visible in all parts of the United States and for as long a time as a full hour, such as was the case last Tuesday morning. And yet its advent was not looked for preparedness or expectations, because preparations or expectations, because the eclipse has long since ceased to arouse anything more than mild astonishment in the average observer, while to the astronomer it simply affords us a glimpse of the time of its occurrence, so as to help correct the equations for the motions of the moon and earth, and to obtain evidence with regard to a few other simple points of investigation which mean possess qualities of luminosity and heat radiations of its own.
Withal there is something fascinating about an eclipse, if for no other reason than because you can see wherefrom the ordinary individual only gain appreciation of the extent to which mankind has learned to job-carrying. We don't have None can observe an eclipse without realizing why the people of long ago were not looking forward to facing a situation. But today a child knows that it is simply an interesting incident without oocult implica-
A total eclipse of the moon differs from a similar event in relation to the sun, in so far as the moon is not completely dark when in an eclipse, when it reaches its closest point. Instead, a reddish blue distinguishes it, the earth's air giving it this sunset color, just as it does to the things on the earth at sunrise or at sunset. If the moon's face would appear completely black when ecliptic. In 1927 during a total eclipse of the sun, some observers at Belfast, Ire, fancied that the moon could be a huge tinge, possibly due to this same factor of the earth's air. Anyhow, an eclipse such as the one that has just occurred, in its length of duration was so small that it could be said to occur but once in a blue moon—Christian Science Monitor.
Puzzling Sickness in South America Traced Back to Blood-Sucking Gnat
New York, Dec. 4—Modern science has taken the final step in the conquest of a disease that affected the old faeces before the Spanish invaded Peru and that has persisted in that country until our time. The final work was done according to plans arranged by the late Dr. Hiroshige Noguchi just before he sailed for Africa where he died last spring, a victim of yellow fever which he was studying. The ancient disease, known as Goya fever or venom fever, had been a common but now peculiar to the locality where the disease exists, scientists from the Bayer fellow institute will report in the forthcoming issue of Science.
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The complaint that art—painting, drawing, design, and son on—does not get enough space in the Kansas building is foundation for the statement. Yet friend here publicly protests that it is not entirely the Kansas' fault, because it exhibits which are held on the Hill from time to time will realize that news is motion, action, change in the physical universe, some improvable events hanging on the wall is not particularly news. But the unpacking of those pictures, the hanging of them, the physical universe, all are news. Upon these "news pepa" as a basis it should be possible to hang all the secondary facts which are not news but which go to show how the facts required in viewing the exhibit.
Our Contemporaries
TUITION
There seems to be a rather concer- ploted plot on foot among the au- tories to make universities actual pro- vices. The university pro- posed plan of putting the Univ ersity of Oklahoma on a tuition basis has this view at least indirectly in mind it is said that too many of the idle students who study outside have an advantage of the nice big fraternity houses, the student council dances and the football games, and leave it with no contribution but a hound- ing. It is all in the table of one of the college shows.
May fate and the board of regents defer that either is put in force in this school. —Oklahoma Daily
This, one must admit, makes it rather hard on the taxpayers; one must sympathize to some extent with the students' spongers, and to limit those coming to the university to the individuals who are an education bad enough to pay死.
Every fraternity has some of these inactive members who spend little time on campus, in no way under the influence of authority of the fraternity, and who sometimes receive grades which are too high. In equity, inability cannot be imposed where the party in question had no responsibility which entailed that they were not eligible to then, are evidently being held for the scholastic attainment of those over whom they have little or no authority, and the fraternity low in scholarship might declare a defluent member inactive who must bolster up the chapter average.
Another movement in this direction is seen in the announcement that the Georgia has joined the ranks of those who will not all students above the sophomore year to make a B average. This is a horrible prospect. Before it, the student would have to present all these there are things to be said on both sides of both propositions; but on the present face of it, it seems that the student is still too ill-prepared and plans are too radical. The first fails to inke into account the student who is really to poor to pay tuition, but who can afford the college education, and the second fails to consider the legion who could not possibly maintain an average of B, but who need a college degree in their
WHY INCLUDE PLEDGES?
Scholastic deficiencies in fraternity groups have recently provoked much futtle discussion. The theory upon which every fraternity is held responsible for its success has the average of its members, is that the fraternity has supervision of and exerts an important influence over the fraternity. It is natural that such responsibility should be assumed by organizations possessed of so important a power over the fraternity that does the authority and influence of the fraternity extend? Certainly, it does the authority and influence of the fraternity. But does it embrace that often rather numerous members "who have not yet graduated"?
With pledges, the situation is not quite the same. Here, the influence and authority of the fraternity is used to the problem in that a pledge is on trial. Objections have been raised to counting his marks upon the general record, and publishing these yearly as reports, and pledge averages from that of the fraternity as a whole would relieve the fraternities of the low marks of his school sometimes during the freshman year, a class which the admin-
The investigators who have instilled the idea in the brain by proving that the aliens are the gaur are the late Dr. Noguine, Rayman Kawasaki Kevin B. Tilden and others.
The disease is characterized by numerous warts which vary in size from small red prominence to masses of large, dark red or purple vera, refers particularly to these warts. The aimment is also often accompanied by a severe fever and skin eruption.
During the last century scientists were not sure that the two diseases Oryza fever and cerevour were the same, because some patients had both symptoms and were fever with no wounds. To settle the question, a medical student, David Carson, insulated himself on both arm with tissue jace taken from the developed Queen Oryza fever and died, another of the martyrts of science.
An American entomologist, Charles H. T. Townsend, found that a goat called phlebotomus in the gulls transmiter. The Rockweller investigators later found two other species whose eggs are capable of carrying the egg.
Its circumstances is confined to certain narrow clefts in the mountains of Nebraska, where a railway in 1870 thousands of the workers died of the disease. It was noticed that only those who stayed in the house were sick. This led science investigators to suspect that an insect was carrying it, particularly an insect that had been infected.
THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION
Most people who profess to think at all have their own theories and superstitions. So a student coming to college, brings with him his proties and ancestral superstitions, and wants to question them, who thought that he had all great questions settled once and for all, finds instead that the teachings of the university come into conflict with, may raise, directly contrast some or even all of his grand dines
In this period of stress and conflict there separate out three main types of students.
First, a fairly large group with logic proof brimming, whom nothing can contain, to contend to their beliefs. Secondly there is a very small group, the intelligent, thinking men, who can reason and have the strength of reasoning, and not fail to formality with it. There are the ones to whom the world looks for progressive reform and upon whom adulthood comes. Then there is the third group, intermediate between these two, who the "solution" which they brought to this problem, somewhat illogical and antiquated, but they have not the mental courage or initiative to bring their views to the surface, to violate between desire and a feeling of impotence; they either wish that they had never come to college, or they could become ignorance, or else that they could join the ranks of those who are intelligent enough to recognize the truth and brave enough to prescribe
"How few think justly
Of the thinking few!
How many never third
What could they do?
—— The McGill Dairy
The words of Jane Taylor are quite
possible.
As Others See It
TO FROMOTE AVIATION
The first international Civil Aviation Conference, which opens in Washington on December 12, promises to bring together a history of aviation. Such a conference was first suggested by President Goddard in a fitting way to honor the legacy of the inauguration of the first flight of a power driver aircraft by the Wright brothers. Institutions have been sent to attend this conference in the session. Although none of the delegations has been officially omitted, many world-famous飞机会 be represented.
The main purpose, however, is no much to die upon the progress in aviation during the last quarter of a century as to "provide an inter-relationship between aircraft and industry." For the conference should provide an excellent opportunity for the discussion of aeronautical problems by the qualified commercial aircraft operators and the pooling of experience and ideas by world leaders in commercial aeronomies will benefit all the nations represented and may indicate a definite development of air transportation.
Philadelphia Public Ledger
BETTER CONDITIONS IN CHIN
NEW TREATIES WITH GERMANY and BELGRAF, the Nationalist party, reopening of the British and American covenants at Nanking, Washington's announcement of intention to the Nationalist Government are all indications that China is making rapid progress toward normality, which will be accomplished with a staff schedule to be announced. It is expected that we impose heavy traitors on luxuries and on each needy citizen in China while leaving a comparatively light burden on those necessary articles which the Chinese people desire.
Reform in administrative methods is only beginning. Those who expected that the conduct of Poker by American officials under China one regime would be followed at once by reform have been disappointed. The former term for grant, the tax-taker who collects what he can and gives up what he must, the undisciplined marshal who is not disciplined, are prepared. Recently a delegation of Shanghai merchants called upon the Minister of Commerce in Nanking to bring a long list of civil prevent statutes.
There reception was friendly and they received promises of co-operation. The Fifth Plenary Session of the National Budget party on Saturday morning also taken steps to exercise more effective control. Branwen political councils have been abolished and governmental finances have not been reduced as Finance T. V. Sooeng's radical financial reforms were approved. A National Budget Committee has adopted a new budgetary scheme. Military expenditures must not exceed one-half of the government income. The Minister of Communications has outlined plans for expansion in the military Chinese railways. The campaign to capture and disarm the remnants of the Northern armies now marauding near the Manchurian front is under way.
Nothing moves rapidly in China. The world must expect slow progress in all Chinese reforms. The Chinese
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol XIVY Tuesday, December 4, 1928 No. 66
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QUILL CLUB:
Quill Club will meet in the rest room of the Administration building
dnesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. NAOI DAESCHENE, Chancellor.
Kappa Phi will meet at the home of Mrs. Edwin F. Price, 1213 Ohio
street, at 7:30 Thursday evening, Dec. 6.
GLADYS BAKER, Publicity Manager.
KAPPA PHI:
K. U. BAND:
NEWCOMERS' CLUB:
The band will meet at 6:55 p. m. sharp Wednesday to play a concert over the radio. It will not be necessary to wear uniforms. All members are welcome.
J. C. McCANLES, Director.
Miss Margaret Lynn will be hostess at a thible party for the New comer's Club at 3 o'clock Thursday in room 124 Mississippi. MISS. START, MISS. START
Turkish women have abandoned their veils, without promise of any
people will be a long time catching up with the advanced political ideas of the Nationalist leaders. The essential thing is that reform is proactive, rather than being made. Fighting has practically ended. Nationalist China is being organized on a new and sounder base. This country's action in being the first to negotiate a treaty which grants China full control over its territories is favorable to the Nankin regime. Before long other countries will follow our example—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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