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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Louisiana, Kansas
Editorial staff
Editor-in-chief Gladys Fowler
Associate Editor Vanush Kishnai
Assistant Editorial Manager Sunny Maxime Editor, Gertrude R. Scurca
Technical Editor Helen Tatum
Teachernal Editor
SUNNY AUDY
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Kevin Browning
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Joseph Weiss
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Lou Betzinger
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1997.
Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Iowa. Published in the Press of the Department of Journalism.
SUNDAY. MAY 22,1927
WHAT EVERY STUDENT KNOWS
Every student who knows that the nearest approach to communism on the campus is the communal use of neckties by roommates is sometimes inclined to be disgusted by loose use of the term by outsiders. College students are accused so often by sincerely but misunderstood persons of being communists, "reds," and so forth, that they have come to pay little attention to the charges.
the situation is more serious than it seems. The persons making such charges are really interested in the welfare of us who are college students. They really believe that some of us are getting our room rent paid by the Third International, they cannot see things as we see them, for they do not live day in and day out on the campus. They cannot know that 99 and 44-100 per cent of us are more interested in the latest movie than in the latest news from Russia. (Not that being interested in movies is what we came to college for, but that most of us are more serious about movies than we are about any Utopian ideas for reforming the world.) As a matter of fact, no communists have as yet been unearthened on the campus, disappointing as it may seem to those who hope to find specimens here.
The Dove, of course, is responsible for most of our reputation, though the Kansan has been accused of having a pinkish tinge from time to time. Everybody in the state has heard about the Dove; but fow have read it. Naturally its reputation gets worse as it travels from mouth to mouth. Anyone's reputation does, in similar circumstances. Yet the Dove, so far an any student knows, has never advocated the overthrow of the institution of private property. The Dove members wear each his own clothes rather than having a common uniform. What's more, they shave each with his own razor. They pay for their board and room like other students; and if any Moscow money is floating about the campus they would probably like to know about it when rent comes due.
No, whatever other crimes we students may be guilty of, we are not communists. We are too fond of our own private property.
If all other means fail, says the Dodge City Globe, we might let Vice President Dawes dam the Mississippi. The Globe is all wrong. Jim Reed is the man for the job.
DON'T FORGET IT
Worse than the avalanche of snow cheeks which habitually hit Lawrence, there is the impending spring migration of students from town, and perhaps some leaving behind a collection of debts.
But the trouble is that some of them find this a convenient way of not paying for things. It is an awfully easy matter merely to forget such accounts and to go away and leave them. The local merchants are the ones who must suffer, either a loss, or a great deal of effort in collecting the bills. They are accordingly less likely to trust the next student who desires the deferred payment plan.
The merchants of the city are usually very courteous about extending credit to University students who find this a convenient way of paying for things which they probably could not buy otherwise.
The student, aside from the business obligation, should pay his debts promptly as a matter of courtesy to the merchant and as a self-respecting thing to do. He is not only injuring his own reputation when he fails to do so, but he is causing questionable reflections on the University student group as a whole, or on any organizations with which he is affiliated.
H. L. Mencken says that in reading the accountants of the 27,000 names listed in "Who's Who" he finds only 260 who have made any noteworthy contribution to civilization. One wonders if he found his own name among the 290.
BIRDS IN THE BUSH
A final attempt to collect a total outstanding pledge owed to the Y, M. C, A, has met with little success. Every student with an unpaid pledge was visited by a campaign worker but work and almost every student found some kind of excuse for net paying. A few of those still owing have left school; a few others have promised to pay at a later date. But the attitude of many, in some places of whole fraternity bounces, was "last try and get it."
Perhaps the fault has been with the Y, M, C, A. Perhaps the solicitors who secured the pledges had fail were too persuasive and certain students made larger pledges than they were able to pay. But whatever the reason, a large per cent of the promises made by students have been found to be valueless.
"The Y, he has done nothing for me this year," some of the campaigners have been told. But, directly or indirectly the Y, has nudged every student on the campus. The program of forum speakers of note, alone has kept the campus from becoming stagnant on controversial topics that should be considered by every thinking individual. It has furnished an employment bureau, given entertainments for the students and in always ready to give any help possible to any student.
One thing the Y, has learned: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Especially is this true when the bird represents a dollar paid to the Y, and the two birds, two dollars but have been promised by students.
NEW THRILLS
The world is ever full of new things, but the love of adventure is as old as the world itself, and as much courage is required for Cant, Charles Lindbergh to start out through the air above the Atlantic now as it was for Columbus to brave its mysterious waters in a small boat many years ago.
With the Spirit of St. Louis in perfect condition, Lindbergh started Friday night in the face of dense fogs and much uncertainty, expecting to reach Paris after forty hours of continuous flying. It is little wonder that he gained the title of the "flying fool."
Unless every detail of the journey is planned carefully any number of things could bring failure to the experiment, though Lindbergh has perfect confidence and a dauntless spirit. He feels that he will be able to sufficiently direct his way so that there will be little deviation from the course he has mapped out.
The first student in the University of Oklahoma to apply for a degree of doctor of philosophy is C. L. Coonan. The degree will be in geology. The degree will be in geology.
Students who have worked on term problems recently can appreciate giving forty hours without sleep. It is a strenuous effort, but his objective is a worth while one and more demanding than even term problems. But with the perseverance and courage of Lindbergh, it will probably be realized, and another new record will have been established.
Fraternities at the University of Nebraska which did not enter the inter-fraternity track meet were excused from their services, in behalf of their services.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VIII    Sunday, May 22, 1927     No. 180
NOTICE TO SENIORS;
Students who wish to receive the University teacher's diploma, and have met the requirements listed on page 62 of the general catalog, should make arrangements for their application.
Students who expect to receive a state certificate should fill out the application blank and file it, with $2 fee, at the registrar's office.
GEORGE O. FOSTER, Registrar.
ENGLISH MAJORS:
English majors and those wishing to declare a major in English should (see an adviser before the end of the semester). Miss Laird will be in room 305, Fraser hall, Monday, May 23, from 4:30 to 5:30.
W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman, Department of English.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
Several times in the last four or five years I have wished that some of the things expended or expressed concerning college life might be protested. Perhaps it has been lack of time, nihilism, or maybe it has been a secret inferiority complex that I hate. It was not my subject, that he kept me from "minddirecting" my efforts and making this protest.
There is but little question in my mind but that we, as students, understand that the remarks in the "Day of Confession" are all so far off that we can call it faint and all of us have laughed accordingly. To most of us in school, this section of the Annual could be called a humor section, but they would never have made five years hence is problematic.
What will Ma say when 10-year-old Jayhawk Jun pick up a 1927 Jayhawk and says, "Ma, did everybody get drunk and did all coe-mits smoke when you were in college?" Interpreting from the Jayhawk what Ma will be like 25 years from now, the girl asks, "Don't be an answer, 'Don't be an answer,' J. Jr. would then turn to father and say, 'Pa, what does muggin mean? Did some girls stay in the basement of fraternities house the times?' After Pa and Ma have fully answered the questions required by curious youth, inspired by the inspection of their old Jayhawkers, they will double-lay write the editors of the book "How to Be a Jayhawk," Thursday, a glorious book it is, and how it stands as a "glowing" symbol of good old college days.
That part is only a minute—even unlikely objection to the "humor" found in the Jab section as compared to others. Fond parents of this year's crop of high school graduates will look carefully through the Jayhawker
that many of us will proudly leave on the library table, to see pictures of some of the enchanting stories we have told them about college life and why we think that K. U. is the greatest Alma Mater in the world. Of course, they should be taught as much as they should about "getting hot," fire escapes, and so forth, even though their not college trained aesthetic sense cannot see the beauty there. Unfortunately for K. U.'s continued growth in enrollment they will not, in my judgment, be able to understand some of these remarks. Some of them may even be insulted and dismayed, and daughters will go to school encouraged by the village case. (Not Elmer Gartner in this case).
Unfortunately, many of the great metropolitan dailies of this country go out of their way to prove that the college youth are a bunch of delinquents. The news lines of some Chicago and great coastal newspapers during the past year, as well as to the more local papers. Most of you have read the "college kid" headlines "that were given a full page in at least three nationally prominent newspapers. We, at school, know how badly the facts were misstated, but who is going to tell Will Rogers how the newspaper to prove their point?
I, for one, am very sorry that the Jab section included some of the things it did. I am convinced that all of us do not approve of everything
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