SUNDAY, MAY 20.1928
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Editor-In-Chief Dani Boulos
Associate Editor Leffler Primary
Senior Editor Martha Cannon
Short Editor Arthur Circle
Larev McCoy
Chairman of Fidelity
Clinton
Clementine Freeman
Marie Roe
Jacqueline Wilson
Betty Dusanne
Jane Weir
John Brennan
--himself-living as he did in a wheel chair, he laid little to grain from the wealth and fame that came to him—but for others, he labored.
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15, 1949, at the office at Lawrence,
101-273 East 4th Street.
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1928
IF HE'D ONLY MIND HIS BUSINESS
The ruling of the interstate commerce commission handed down last Friday on the numerous proposed Van Sweringen mergers thrust a lot of cold water on other excellent plans for railroad combinations, and will surely bring demands to let business take care of itself. The commission is inviting on a great deal of information to which it has no right. Why, for example, should the government of the United States be interested in the profit the Van Sweringen proposed to reap personally in promoting the merger? The fact that the public would ultimately pay that profit is totally beside the point; and it is ridiculous to think that because the government grumped the franchises which made construction of the roads possible in the first place, it should insist on having something to say about what becomes of them now.
Uncle Sam has been melting again and some of the boys are pretty sure to be sore about it. With Big Business telling us continually that it is quite able to manage its own affairs, it is a pity the government cannot let public utility corporations alone and attend to its business of collecting customs and entertaining diplomats.
The Wall Street Journal for May complains of asinine governmental interference, this time in connection with the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of national light and power corporations.
Viewing the matter seriously, however, we find the interstate commerce commission a standing barrier against excessive domination of the rails, and Friday's decision distinctly bolsters our confidence in the commission's integrity. It is in the direction of the power companies that the chief controversy will center. Control of power, says the Wall Street Journal, is control of industry. It is toward keeping such control in the hands of Big Business that the prepanda to keep the government out of business will be directed.
Now if Uncle Sam could be persuaded to keep out of such things, the Van Sweringens and their compatriots could go ahead and pyramid control of the nation's power and transportation in the hands of a dozen men who could water stocks and fix rates at leisure.
Veto Days at Capital—which is an innocent looking headline for all the meaning it conveys.
DYNAMIC
Over at Lonnieville, Ky., there died the other day a man who had never walked, who had lived for 57 years in a wheel chair, and yet who has achieved fame as an artist, an inventor, and a scholar, and has contributed to the achievements of the human race in all these fields.
He said that his aim in life was to learn more to help others. Not for
Such an aim provides a dynamic foe life that is care to carry its possession far on the road to human service. If a helpless cripple, with the spiritual dynamic of a desire to help others, can do so much, how much can we who are in possession of all our faculties do toward the advancement of human progress, if we can but catch something of the vision that beckoned him on!
THE CROCUS URGE
The effects of spring are all-embracing if the reader will permit one to make all-embracing statements. But why should not the reader allow one to make all-embracing statements? Readers, you know, pride themselves upon possessing a very wide range of knowledge. So again we can say that the effects of spring are all-embracing. Spring affects the stocky, dark-skinned inferior down on the siding whom we shall call Pedro for the sake of the story. It also includes those—including college students—who endeavor to write editors. The effects of spring and the effects of the editors' combine to make a very bad impression on the reader, leading him to rush out late at night and stand at the foot of fire escapes on certain buildings and sing in he never sang before—or afterward either.
At this time of the year, Pedro takes his guitar and stromes it as he sits in the nightlight behind a side-tracked box car. He smokes his cigarettes slowly and with enjoyment but he cannot remain sober under the influence of nights like these. The urge to do things increases with the increasing censure on the guitar. When the urge becomes irresistible, he gets up and searches for his best throwing knives which he throws at the box car door at twenty spaces, nit irregular intervals shouts of Carambu! Carambu! with a rising and falling inflection.
On the other hand, and usually in his own room, the editor writer (for the Kansan) sits before his typewriter and pecks at the keyboard without much purpose of doing anything. He pauses to wonder at the remarkable continuity of "Girl of My
Dreams," played by a photograph in the security arcrow the street, as it is continued by a photograph in the fraternity next door. Almost as perfect as the mechanical coordination of a Virtaphone production! Then there are the voices and other calls of spring, besides the frogs croaking in over Pitter Lake until we feel very much like croaking with them—but when we stop to realize that croaking in this case would not be the same as croaking in the frog vernacular, we grow a little hesitant and decide not to crank. We get real mad when we try to write a squib commending the intrepid fliers who battle the elements to find the warm welcome of Broadway. We begin to think that the Indiana primaries are mere kindergarten; that Al Smith will win because his name is Smith; that woman is a flood of loveiness.
Getting more terrible: Silent public, awake to the glories of your Alma Mater. Remember the speed cop, Finish the Union. Revise the song of the University to read: "Far above the Golden Valley Glorious to few-" and so forth and fifth and sixth. Silent public, you're a bunch of nonintelligent duiary dipigatls without mind since you had your census taken in 1910.
And so the writer of an editorial (for the Kansan) feels the urge to do things. We do not throw knives because we do not have any knives, and besides we do not know how to throw
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XI
Sunday, May 20, 1928
No. 180
EXAMINATION FOR PH. D.:
The final examination of Harold N. Bairtham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with a major in chemistry will be held on Monday, May 21, at 3:30 in room 101 Chemistry building. This examination is open to all members of the faculty and to students. The thesis of M. E. Bairtham, in the graduate office. E. B. STOUFFER, Dean
ENGLISH MAJORS:
English majors may consult their major advisers at the following hours:
Miss Laird, room 263 Fraser, Monday, 21 to 5 p. m.; Friday, 25 to 10 a. m.; Miss Morgan, room 201 Fraser, Monday, 21 to 30 to 12:30 a. m.; Tuesday, May 22, 8:30 to 10:30 a. m.; Lynn Lyon, room 201 Fraser, Wednesday, May 23, 1:30 to 3:30 p. m.; Thursday, 4:13 to 3:29 p. m.
SARA LAIRD, Chairman.
then anyway. So we sit down to our typewriter and turn out this sort of thing, which is, if you will read very understandably, far above the average and is the work of a master. We offer this epgarm about the season: Many have found that the end of spring is fall.
NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN
Prof. E. L. Thorndike, of Kansas City Teachers' College, asserts that adults of 25 to 45 years of age are better able to assimilate knowledge than are persons 20 to 25 years of age, and are much more capable of learning than younger persons. His conclusions are based on tests made with hundreds of persons of all ages in a number of places.
While the results of Professor Torridale's experiments may not be absolutely conclusive, it is a well-received fact that there are great possibilities in the field of adult education. For a person to say that when he has completed his college or high school work his education is over is to admit that he is ready to stagnate, and to die mentally, if not physically. Education must be a continuous process. Educators are realizing today that their duty is not only to teach
the young, but that it is also to help
in the continuous education that must go on with adults. It is a wise parent who helps his child learn.
ious education that must go on with adults. It is a wise parent who learns along with his children, and, by keeping up with new thought, joins sympathetically in the education of youth.
Our Contemporaries
The instruments for adult education are many; good magazines and books, lectures, discussions, formal classes, all are valuable. The principal thing is to keep alive in adults the fire which in youth inspired them to experiment and learn. Only by preserving this spirit of inquiry is a person able to live intelligently in this rapidly changing modern world.
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"Alumni Education"
The University of Michigan at the instigation of President Clerance Cook Little, is setting about to establish an organization that will which the new venture is founded is an old one, the fact that constructive action is being planned, distinctly.
The University is to extend its inference beyond the four year course in management and to graduate. It is to strive for life-long contact, offering continual encouragement and support.
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The "Alumni University has been defined as simply the University of Michigan itself with the alumni participating in its activities," said President Lille. "It has the challenge and fascination of nobility, and the attention to detail an institution to be up and doing always for a personal human being."
The time has come when an ever-growing body of alumni from American universities will no longer hold positions in the world. They will prosper but will not be dominated by their means of livelihood. Their minds will continue to be elastic, their interests fresh and energetic, their university's has every reason to prepare.
The Nebraska Daily
Why Husband Laughed
We had a good laugh Monday. We spent the day at home and one of our boys struck the Missus for a magazine subscription. He was one of those rapid fire workers with a hammer and a screwdriver and we got a big kick out of it. The Missus can't get a word in to explain why he young squirts sailing on his sea for
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Perhaps the "tired business man" of this civilization will soon ease to be a type. Possibly, instead of an amusement in the city by bright lights, perhaps it would be easier to independent lines of research. Perhaps he will no longer have to confine his associates to his business activities. He may be able to mix with scholars and talk with them on subjects that do not flavour of stocks and bonds and structural steel. Maybe the "tired business man" of these populations will become more human. Such an outlook approaches reality when an educational institution chooses to foster postgraduate education in colleges of Michigan offers will include the offering of scholarships, student loan funds, fellowships, scientific apparatus, museum collections and specially arranged chairs of special branches of learning.
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