PAGE TWO THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1928 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief Karl E. Sturmle Sunday Editor James F. Burke Sunday Editor Percy Heardman Crew Editor Lee Browning Crew Editor Lee Browning Crew Editor Mike Dallimore Alumni Editor Sergeia Palmieri Alumni Editor John C. Reisman Alumni Editor Jim Laird Friday Edition Ron Blumenfeld Friday Edition Ron Blumenfeld Editorial Editor Tracy Franklin Kathleen Frank Tracy Kathleen Frank Tracy Gerttrie Sewier Henry Talum Former Clinton Califdian State William Griffith Alain Winger Robert Mize Pauter Portor Jack Stukenberg Colin Clarke Telenphones Business Star Advertising Man. Loucile Reppert Aust. Advertising Mar. William Clark Aust. Advertising Mar. R. W. Hersom Business Office K. U. 64 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2701K Published in the afternoon, five times a week, the Department of Journalism of the University of Iowa and the Department of Journalism of the University of Iowa both matter-saving stamps. At 10 a.m. at the post office at Lafayette, Kansah, Missouri. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5. 1928 LEGAL MURDERERS The return of Bennet J. Duty, to this country after his desertion from the French Foreign Legion has brought to the minds of many the question of the justification of any such organization which hires men to fight in conflicts in which they have no personal interest. The chief justification of the legion, of course, lies in the fact that it is largely employed in duty of a police nature. In the last few years, however, this has ceased to be true to a large extent, inasmuch as the legion has been used to put down revolts of a people seeking freedom, who are quite as justified in that effort as were our forefathers in the Revolution. If we are to believe the reports which reach us through such romantic writers as P. C. Wren and his predecessors the Legion is composed of criminals, brutes, and a few heroic gentlemen of a highly sacrificial and romantic nature. In all likelihood the latter class should in reality be changed to a group of men unable to make a living except by fighting. War is a terrible thing even when tinked with the sugar coating of ideology, but when it degenerates into a group of bird fighters destroying the homes of those fighting for their freedom it is indefensible. SNOW FIGHT The snow of last Friday, dusted an inch or so with that which fell tomorrow, still lies in the streets. On the campus walks and streets are cleared as well as possible, considering the fact that the work was postponed until the snow had packed. Off the campus the streets are deep in loose snow which has been packed by vehicles to a tracheron nuth down the middle. Sidewalks are uncleared, either unkle deep in partly crested snow or beaten to a slippery uneven surface. Steps are in the same condition, with only a rough footprint to follow. Perhaps the fact that this has been the first heavy snow of the year explains the paralysis of the street cleaning department. At any rate some means of handling the situation competently should be adopted before the next storm. The present congestion of traffic ways is both dangerous and unnecessary, and a way should be found to prevent its recurrence. HOW ABOUT CHEERING? Kansas built a home basketball game to the Aggies recently, a thing which has not gone down in the school's annals in several years. The Kansas team had no rooters at that game, a fact which might throw a bit of light on the matter. to be sure, a large number of students were then on their way home, and those who attended the game were evidently at home in spirit, but such will not be the case when the Jawahawk team meets the quintet from Washington University Friday night. There is no excuse in the world for the Kansas roots to do anything except support the team every minute of that game. Cheering might be helped a little if the cheerleader were present to Some's my frame and cramped within From sleeping in a twisted twirl My feet are lame—I but begin My morning lane of my br. Now I wish I dress for my eligibility I count me over these hours long I count them over in accecnty dirty This is the burden of my mom. Upon a sleepy parch I sleep. These fretty light winter nights Winds that would rock the very deep hawl round my bed and fight their lights. Awny windy, not playful kreets, Winds that whip and lash each other And while my viagra vignes frees They quarrel and blow about my cover. This is Health? This purple nose These w术ed eyes, my stiffened hair Oh for a sweet, undressed knee, Whilst four white teeth are air! MR. MCCLELLA WORD! Who says this brings good health? they just my sleep would not help earth alter... With knees drawn rigid to my chest And arms erupted all my stretches. keep things going every minute. He was missed at the last game. Kansas fans should fill that auditorium to the brim Friday night and pack themselves with the spirit of the old fighting Jayhawk. Kansas always has a fighting team; support it. OPPORTUNISTIC INSANITY Instantly, as a plan for defense against charges of murder, has become so common that a doubt arises in the minds of some people as to its validity. Transitory, or temporary, immunity which allows a person to commit an atticous crime and return to a state of normal behavior, with knowledge that such an act has been committed but with horror at the thought of such a deed is a psychological development of which little is known by the average person. Since the time of the Leopold-Loeb murder trial there has developed a group of men, technically trained and expert in matters of psychology, who have confounded the less informed persons with the many possibilities of mental conditions that may exist. The theory of transitivity insanity first started the public at time, but since then it has been used successfully to free men of undoubted criminal tendencies from the penalty of their misdemeanors. Recently George Remus was absolved by an Ohio jury on such a basis. The defense of Edward Hickman is to be based on this same foundation of parental condition. Insanity of a transitory nature may easily be put to the use of the criminal by unsurprising men. As the criminal so desires to commit a crime just to often may be be adjudged insane at the time of the act but perfectly same afterward. On such reasoning the same man can not be punished for his acts. He must be freed under our present system of criminal law. Carried to its furthest possibilities it may be seen as a defense for a multitude of criminal acts. Extreme criminal acts will be difficult to punish and the law enforcement officials will be nearly powerless. If the expert psychologists who contend for the theory of temporary insanity are right in this development of their science, the whole of the system of criminal punishment must be readjusted to provide adequate care for criminals of this neurotic nature. The statutes of the several-states concerning criminal procedure must be revised to take into consideration this possibility of transitory insanity, and to safeguard itself against the misuse of it in criminal procedure as opportunistic. A MORE CRITICAL ATTITUDE We read much about the college student who merely absorbs what is fed him and is not actually affected at all by the supposed education which he is getting. Often it is said that a college education really makes a person more narrow than was before he went to college. In the educational survey last spring 371 out of the 451 students reached said that college had given them a more critical attitude than they ever had before. If the 371 who checked the statement that college had made them vastly more critical of life knew their own minds, they have been affected by their college experience. They have begun to challenge the bland statements of facts which are handed them every day and to think for themselves. There is little justification for the view that the average college student is not more critical than a person of his age who is not in college. The contacts the student has with men and women who make him think, even though he has an antipathy for that form of exercise, tend to make him critical of the present order while he is in college. The average college graduate is not trained to maintain his critical attitude once he loses contact with the personalities who have led him during his college experience. He is competent to follow, but he cannot lead, therefore he must yield to the forces of conservatism in his home community. He is dynamic only so long as he is near the dynamo. Get him out where he has to generate his own power and he is soon merely levitating with the crowd. It cannot be said with equal truth, however, that college trained persons are more critical as a class than their neighbors, once they leave college. It does not take long for the influences of conservation and love for the established order of things to conquer any liberalism and critical attitudes that the college person may have. Miss Maule A. Royden has been denied the privilege of speaking in Chicago and Boston, although her lectures were so posuely arranged for before she left England. America must not bear this great English preacher because it is reported that she favors companionate marries and recognizes that women have as good a right to smoke as men. This in America, where half the women smoke cigarettes, most of the women consider it their privilege to get drunk along with their escorts whenever they please, and companionate marriage is a fact, although without the formality of the law. DANGEROUS Thirteen women are enrolled in the University of Wisconsin law school this year. At The Theater By Jack Stukenberg How fortunate that a new member with some assistance from Josephine Dana, Helen Spence, and Madge Gaunt could keep the show from I am not going to say a thing about this recital for fear of a label suit, but if I were going to say something about it, I would first congratulate Tau Sigma on getting Virginia Allen this year. being an entire floor as it most certainly would have been otherwise. Virginia Allen with her Souvenir Evening whileJo Dana with her dance, Diana, came second, but admittedly, far behind Virginia Allen. Helen Spence in her Fairy Sola was fair but her best was Harriquette and Columbo's the rest of the show was a good joke. When the entire group got out there together to do a light fantastic it looked as if they were all mad at him. He was maniacally menopouse the attention of the audience with a solo舞. I never saw so many girls trying to do the same thing so differently in all my life. With the exception of a few, the audience did the dancing. The audience was so far away from the stage, however, that such trivial matters, for the costumes were trivial, didn't matter. They could be by any means and I should like to see the person that did all the lighting effects that I read were going to be so much. You can view on this subject I should like to make the comment that the stage manager and electrician of the auditorium stage are about as poor excuses for such as I have ever seen. They didn't seem Editorial of the Day Practice, girls, practice. --- The Nation The Dove is printed much more modestly, on paper which varies its degree of piharness with each issue, and the volume of its eastern contemporary. It is stimulating, however, from beginning to end. It loves fights and has an attitude that is not unique in its columns. For this reason, as well as for the reason that its editors are intelligent and unafraid, the writings are honest and true. We note with pleasure that our opinion is shared by the following whose letters are quoted on one of its pages: Ruth Sinclair, Upton Sinclair, Egmont Arens, Bruce Calvert, Sinclair Leigh, Bruce Bliven and Norman Thomas. This is a list of which any man should graduate. Our interest in college journalism is kept alive by new specimens arriving in the mail every week or so, we look at the learning of these students. We review what is required supplement of the New York University Daily News and which is constructed on what we suppose to be a fresh perspective. We give students on the list of contributors. Beyond this point we are not impressed. The mmeague is large and big-headed and insignificant in appearance from the Saturday Review—but with all its attempts at maturity it does not touch us as we are familiar with a friend The chief work that contruits educators is the problem of world peace according to President D. 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