PAGE TWO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 TUESDAY, MAY 10. 1927 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Associate Professor Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief News Editor Sports Editor Night Editor Night Editor Tab Title Editor Sunday Editor Sunday Editor Editor, Editorial Editor-in-chief Globe News Vancouver Phoenix Florida George Smith William Gertler William Gertler Ian Invesco Invesco France France Editorial Mary Elaine Fritillin Paul Pierce John Starck Jordan Murphy Dorothy K. G. Haldeur Crooks George Aldon Charlie Ederson Charlie Maurice Stewart Jensen Advertising Manager ... Aard B. Striblem Ast. Advertising Mgr. ... Tom McVailbach Anst. Advertising Mgr. ... Leu Chuicheng Foreign Advertising Mgr. ... Hai Chen M.D. Advertising Mgr. ... R. M. Dale Business Office K. U. 8 News Room K. U. 9 Polluted in the afternoon, two times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism at the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Dept. of Entered as second-class mail master Sep ember 17, 1910, at the post office at Law rence Kansas, under the act of March 5, 1937 TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927 TRAGEDY UNENDING Following almost unbelievable disasters of seething floods and torrents, there swamps over the Middle West n series of tornadoes, adding tragedy to disaster. The horror of it all is appalling, and it is hard to believe that so many people are not only homeless, but cold and hungry and diseartened. The floods which have made the Mississippi valley the most fertile area of America likewise destroy the product of the fertility. The flood now ravaging the Southern valley states is the worst in the memory of the nation, and it has not yet reached its crest. The whole country is responding generously to the call of the Red Cross, as it has responded in countless other emergencies, and yet the $10,000,000 which is apparently to be the real goal of the call, will only inadequately appease the suffering and want created by the raging waters. But the Red Cross relief will balt the spread of disease and to some extent lighten the head of those who have lost most in the flood. It is of course, only an emergency relief and not a preventive of future disaster, but this is the time for relieving the dammages already wrought. Prevention can come later. The aid that the University can give is little, but the Mississippi is filled by countless little tributaries and as a whole they can help to alleviate the suffering. The benefit program being sponsored by the Kansas for Thursday night is a humanitarian project which challenges the support of every University student. Hill organizations have responded willingly and generously to the Kansas's appeals. The Jay Janee have volunteered to handle the sale of tickets. All that remains is the sympathetic and undivided support of the student body. One University professor, although unable to be in Lawrence the night of the program, has contributed $5 for a ticket. The Kansan feels confident that the students and the remainder of the faculty will respond in like fashion. Kansas City has announced the second week in May as "Clean-up week." But bandits have been cleaning up all winter. PREPARE FOR INSPECTION! The R. O. T. C. unit of the University is being given the "once over" by two regular army officers detailed here by the war department. The performance of the unit in all phases of training will determine whether the corps will be placed on the government's "Distinguished College" list. Since the establishment of the corps on the Hill it has been entirely voluntary. Time spent in training is one third that given in other schools. The unit is fortunate to have an excellent instructional staff. It also has a wonderful spirit de corps and has maintained the support of the University. Our volunteer Reserve Officers Training Corps was established soon after the war, at a time when people were war-sick. The corps has grown; it has functioned well. Many serve officers have been trained who in turn help form the strong backbone of our Organized Reserves on which our nation's defense finally rests. Scores of students have joined the local units of the National Guard. Scores have joined the National Guard units in their home towns. Scores of students have attended C. M. T. camps during the summer. We people here in Kansas have with us the indomitable spirit that made our state possible. We think our R. O. T. C. unit worthy of being placed on the "Dis ingrudished College List." At a banquet held recently one of the speakers, in beginning her close, said, "I have just read a book." She 'nd. GOODRYE MUD Under the new Kansas law which went into effect on Monday May 2, the surely needed state highway commission was organized. It has been a hope and desire for many years, of the people of Kansas, that such a commission would be formed which would remedy the deplorable road situation that now prevails. For over a period of ten years the State has wasted millions of dollars on its highway system, through the maintenance of dirt roads. Money has been literally washed away by the heavy rains which visit Kansas each spring. A dirt road is never dependable in any weather, for it is almost always dusty or too muddy. If one takes a look at the Kansas road map it gives the appearance of a huge cheeker board. For here and there a solid black line denotes good hard surface roads. The work that confronts this new commission is to connect these scattered surfaced roads into one huge system of good highways. It is absolutely fine to pump money out of the state treasury to keep up the unstable streets of dirt road connecting one fragment to another. It is not only wasteful, but it decreases the value of the millions already invested. It is a bounty fact that almost every state in the Union has already built or is in the act of building a length and width system of hard surface highways. As for Kansas the system has been mapped out and marked but there has been no mention made about the hard surfacing of these systems. The amount of money wanted in the last ten years on dirt road construction and upkeep would have paid for the paving of highway number 40 from Missouri to Colorado. The new state commission has now the chance to make a great record for itself and to reverify the prevailing situation. It is sincerely hoped that they will seize this opportunity and make the best of it. Now that athletic events can be injured against rain, it probably won't be long until students can take out flunk insurance. O democracy, where art thou! You say it is a free country where the gifts of God fall to us all in attendance and all things are free. You say that everything is ours for the taking and only love must come with patient waiting. O democracy, where art thou! This talk on flood control is just one dam thing after another. Four long years, and sometimes longer, we toil at this high institution of learning. It is a grilling piece you set for us, entailing the hardships of sleepless nights and many a lamp of midnight oil. We pay fees that make our wallets lean and our hearts heavy. We loose that school-girl bloom of youth and oftentimes fornake the pleasure of a healthy old age that we may live a bigger and larger life. We sell our souls that culture may live. O democracy, where art thou! And then, just as the coveted jewel of intellectual enlightenment is at our finger tips it is snatched away with a tantilizing grin. Seventeen dollars, please. Seventeen dollars, Skylock, for your skin. O democracy, where art then. SHYLOCK'S SKIN OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. VIII Tuesday, May 10, 1927 No. 176 TAU BETA PI: There will be a meeting of Tau Beta Pi jp Marvin full this evening at 9:30. Officers for the coming year will be elected. GEORGE W. TOMLINSON, Secretary. Professor Wilcox will be in the Classical Museum 908 Prenser hall, on Wednesday, May 11, from 3:10 to 4:20, and lecture on the objects on exhibit at the museum. (Jill Tebbutt) LECTURE: CHEMISTRY LECTURE: Dr. Gustav Eglof of the Universal Oil Prodress Company will speak on Wednesday, May 11, at 4:30 p.m., in room 305, Chemistry building. His object will be "Motor Fuels of the Past, Present, and Future." All who are interested are invited. ROBERT TAFT. ENGLISH MAJORS: English majors and those wishing to declare a major in English should use an advisor before the end of the course. Miss Lorna will be in room 2085 on the third floor. NEW ERA IN BROADCASTING W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman, Department of English. A new era in radio broadcasting is appearing on the horizon. Mr. M. H. Ayleworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company which manages or supplies material for more than forty leading stations in the country, has announced that his organization will promote discussion of political and social issues from every point of view, except, of course, that of the revolutionary anarchist. The only limitation imposed is that the speakers be competent and interacting. From another channel, comes the announcement that the new radio law does not give the government the right to censor programs in detail, but only to suspend operation of stations when public demand brands them as not giving service worthy of monopolization of air channels. These announcements are encouraging for a new way of public discussion, perhaps a better way. Persons who read only the headline of the front page, the sport page and the comics may, by their willingness to listen to radio speeches, be exposed to some ideas which otherwise they would have missed. Furthermore, it will not be necessary to subscribe to two or three newspapers to obtain different points of view. The radio seems to have a good field for giving information instead of propaganda, and with this announcement from a leader, may prove itself equal to the opportunity. Perhaps this liberal attitude will be a better solution than the attempts at freeing the press from the dissemination of ideas. Surely some of us can think of another excuse for vacation before final exams. Why not have a day to celebrate the fact that the second semester has fewer vacations than the first? Word comes from Hungary that legislation is now in force limiting the time and place at which women may lose their tempers. The street, the theater, and the home are now practically the only convenient places where tempers can be lost, since Budapest card clubs have been forbidden by the Hungarian minister of the interior. JUST SOME MORE LEGISLATION It seems that a free-for-all fight prompted this decree. The wife of a state official and an actress became excited over an error in the reckoning of a bridge score, and their disagreement resulted in blows and the pulling of hair. The persons concerned must have been very prominent, or one of them must have lost a great deal of hair in the pulling content, to have brought the matter to legislation. On Other Hills --presented to the legislature. It would exempt all fraternity property from state taxation. It might seem that the fight itself carried enough physical pain and loss of dignity, but in the future such careless conduct will be punished additionally, although whether the penalty will be fine, imprisonment, or death, was not indicated in the decree. There is just one concession that may be derived from reading this bit of Hungarian news. Europe has surely come to normal if its ministers have to interrupt the card games of perfectly normal women, to find some problem for legislation. Vacation courses are offered to Americans at Hamburg University in Germany, this summer, for $15. Twelve hundred girls at the University of Mississippi have agreed to wear only cotton clothes until the surplus cotton is used up. In Japan, college students are allowed to use their judgment in regard to cutting classes, according to Rev. H. C. Spansman, who is an instructor in St. Paul university Tokyo, Japan. "Campus Personality," a motion picture showing prominent people of the Iowa State campus, was recently nominated for an award, in view of the College of Engineering. During the A. A. U. W, convention recently held at Washington, D. C., the Michigan women attending met at a luncheon and plaged more than $1000 to the Women's League building fund. Four freshman women at Goucher College have been suspended for 10 days by the executive council for smoking cigarettes, the Charleston and radio have been forbidden in the dormitories. Strict Methodists and first Presbyterians predominate at Iowa State to the extent of 35% each according to estimation compiled from the registration catalog this quarter. There are about 14.9% who have no preferences. A bill drafted by law students at the University of Montana has been Stephen Miller, educational director of the American Institute of banking of New York, is being sought for the position of the University of Washington. Spring is the Season of the year when a man buys everything he needs from stores, and converts—from his hat to his shoes. And spitting of Shoes, Wine, or Food that is shown under the Sun, and they're not Style Fads, are the springs. Our Style Experts use the Factory go over the whole Style Story and separate the fiction from the nonfiction, including the Shapes and Lentacles in all the New Shapes and Shapes, in all the New Styles, and in all the New Style Facts. If municipal authorities have their wny, Princeton students will be barred the use of airplanes as well as automobiles. The city fathers contend the "sky traffic" endangers local chimneys. REGAL SHOES And the Big Receipts—Olive Prices, $60—for all Leathers in all styles, is now recognized from the New Standard Value in Standard Value in Leathers. On Display By Mr. John O. Young Alpha Tau Omega The University of Michigan will start next fall the publication of a weekly for the parents of Michigan students. It will give a resume of the news of the week on the campus. This experiment has already been tried at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois. Now Is Your Chance The plan for bringing high school students to Iowa State open house this year will include the giving of a silver loving cup to the organization and the most high school students as guests bring all or part of Vejaha. to complete your stationery needs. 20% discount, or more, on our entire stock. As soon as junior college facilities are adequate in California, Leland Stanford University will drop its Freshman and sophomore classes. This statement was made by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford and is a first step in conforming to a new idea in higher education. Also reductions on all gift articleon Annex 1237 Oread Store No. 1 1401 Ohio Have you seen the new "Him" book? ROUND THE WORLD Second Year COLLEGE CRUISE S. G. RYNDAM SEPTEMBER TO MAY TWO DATE College Cruise will be held in the U.S.A. A mail boiler with a faculty at each boiler will have a faculty boilerhead, balloon,舱 occupancy, with courses in the program A University Airlines for 30-12 yrs. of age or more. A variety of excursions including courses, meals of cooking, travel, visits, and so on. UNIVERSITY TRAVEL ADDRESS: 825 Madison Ave. New York City WHY NOT let one firm handle your dry cleaning as well as your laundry work and save having to be bothered with an extra call. If we can satisfy you with our laundry work we believe we can do the same with your cleaning and pressing. Why Not Give Us a Trial? Lawrence Steam Laundry 10th & New Hampshire Phone 383 We clean everything you wear but your shoes Phone 383 Money is needed for Mississippi Flood Victims Help The K. U. Relief Fund by Coming to The Benefit Show 50c Orpheum Theater, 8:15 Thursday, May 12 -:- Get Tickets Now 7