PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editor/booker Editor Lawncare Planner Editor/booker Joe McMillan Stew Editor Joe McMillan Night Editor Jack Macklein Tale Editor Jake Macklein Tabie Tale Editor Laine Cullen Evanshake Editor William Griffith Evanshake Editor Mary Griffith Mountain Magazine Editor, Mary Griffith Dorothy Taylor Joni Tucker Guy Graves Robert Miles Bernard Bailen Bill Murray C. Holman Crooks George Allen D. Grey Margaret Snider Margaret Ehrenford Advertising Manager Earl B. Birnbaum Acl. Advertising Marr. Tom McDonald Foreign Advertising Marr. Lou Binnington Foreign Advertising Marr. P. M. Dale Circulation Manager P. M. Dale Telephones Business Office K. 17, 82 New Room K. 17, 92 Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Amana, from the *Press of the Journals* department. both on Journals. Entered as second-class mail matter Sep tenber 17, 1910, at the post office at Law rence Kansas, under the act of March 2, 1987 FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927 HONOR FOR SCHOLARSHIP Once again the University has been privileged to honor those of her son and daughters whose scholastic achievements have been such as to entitle them to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. These are the highest scholastic honors that are awarded in American colleges and schools of engineering. Of these forty students we are justly proud. To those who were able to withstand temptations, to sacrifice pleasure for the sake of study, and to those who, without any special effort, were able to attain this honor, we how with appreciation. It is a reward of four years of concientious devotion to the cause of learning. It is an honor that will not be soon forgotten, but which will always put its members, wherever they may be, in a separate and distinct class. LEGITIMATIZED HOMICIDE LEGITIMATIZED HOMICIDE Eight miners were burned to death in a gas explosion March 30 in the Saline County Corporation mine at Lefford, IL. The same day four miners lost their lives and ninety narrowly escaped death in an explosion in the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company near Ehrenfeld, Pa. Middle west papers gave a scanty two-inch account of the first accident and a six-inch story to the second one. It wasn't first class news, of course, because readers are used to that sort of thing, and news is defined as being something out of the ordinary. On the front page of the newspapers are long columns of press dispatches telling of Chinese atrocities committed against American citizens. One day we read of 116 being ruthlessly killed, and the next day's paper reduces the number to one. A fleet of battleships and several thousand troops are rushed across the Pacific to punish the beheaded Chinese if they kill anybody else. Down in little Nicaragua 5000 marines are doing time "protecting American lives and property." Several gunbattles are ready to speak the voice of the omniscient Mr. Kellogg. Incidentally, no American has been killed—yet. It seems as if the extent to which murdering folks is wrong depends largely on the place and manner of killing. If a mine operator, through his carelessness and refusal to install protective machinery and devices, takes the life of an ordinary working-man, the act is called an accident. If a wandering missionary or an influential entrepreneur loses his life in a war-ridden country, then the whole American press and public rises up in its wrath and demands that the criminals be daily punished by the marines and gunbats. In the year of our Lord 1926, 2510 miners were killed outright. Thousands were maimed or crippled for life, or contracted occupational diseases. The Bureau of Mines testifies that most of the tragedies could have been avoided if the operators and owners had taken precautionary measures. But they preferred profits to human life. If the Silent One in the White House and the Nervous One in the state department are so intent on pro- acting American lives and property, it might be suggested that they extend the strong arm of government to the coal mining districts and punish some of the operators who are responsible for whiteface slaughter FISHIN' WORMS It raised yesterday and the fishing worme were blooming. The brick wallen were covered with nice big ones—the kind with which you used to catch goggle-eyes, sun perch, brim, and an unspectuous trout. Of course fishing with hook and line and fishing worms isn't considered the "sporing" thing to do any more, but just the same it's lots of fun. A fellow never knows just how big the fish is in until he pulled him in, because sometimes the little follows bites just as hard as the big ones. And don't they look big just as they come out of the water, flip off the hook and fall back with a aphish? Tot, as we were saying, the fishing worms were in full bloom yesterday. We used to have to dig up half a section of food and get a crick in our back and billets in our hands just to get a few little merely ones, and there were thousands of the nicest ones anybody ever saw, just going to waste. An economic loss, we call it. Somebody ought to start a movement for the conservation of fishing worms. It don't itquee the way fishing worms know to come up and take a bath when it rains? The way we understand it, rain patterning on the ground maker Mr. Worm think that it is the early bird come after him, and as everybody knows, the early bird always gets the worm. So up comes Mr. Worm to face the inevitable; but to his surprise趣味 he found a nice cool rain outside instead of being called on to furnish vitamins for the early bird. FORD CRASHES "Rich man, poor man . . . "" Henry Ford, billionaire, as well, as his poorer brothers in society, in sub-jet, in accident and injury. In an automobile of his own design and manufacture he trotted over after being forced from the road by a heavier car. Automobiles have taken an enormous toll in life and limb, and this has extended even to the billionaire manufacturer. It is reported that Ford is a good and careful driver, which naturally is to be expected since he is so thoroughly acquainted with his own machine. But the misjudgment of some driver, possibly through recklessness, led to his injury, according to reports. Recklessness in driving a motor car has not been curbed. It is this lack of care that is responsible for many accidents which occur daily. Few of the accidents have been given such wide spreadability as that of the automobile muker, but in all cases one who is responsible for death or injury through careless or reckless driving should be punished for a felony. NEWS FROM NICARAGUA For two weeks the newspapers have been crowded with news emanating from Chimp, while activities in Nicaragua have gone unnoticed with the exception of a few brief press dispatches. Wednesday a two-inch-Assess Press notice told of the capture of Dinotina by the Liberal forces and predated a battle soon at Matigua. A single paragraph the day before carried information to the effect that an American phine had been fired upon by a small army composed, supposedly, of Liberals. Contrasted with this situation, the press a few weeks ago curried long front-page stories on the Nicaraguan situation, with bold headlines telling of the Liberal-Conservative battles and American military and naval activities. Admiral Latmer, who was rushed down to "protect American life and property," was quoted daily. It is interesting to conjecture what actually is in taking place behind the scenes in Latin America as well as in the state department. If this scientificness of news is a result of deliberate suppression, then the American public is anxious to know the reason for such action. The fighting still goes on unabated, we know, provided, of course, the press reports are accurate. The murmurs and bluejackets are still on foreign soil. Secretary Kellogg has OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN The budget conferences scheduled for Saturday, April 2, are Business at 8:30 and Education at 10:30. E. B. LINDLEY. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. VIII Friday, April 1, 1927 No.117 BUDGET CONFERENCES: announced what most critics believe to be an aggressive foreign policy with respect to the little Latin American country. Yet, the editors and officials would probably tell us there is no JUST ROYS Again we ask, Why? With the string made fast by a navy rock anchor or perhaps a broken towbar driven into the ground for Although it isn't an airplane or a buoyant balloon it is in thrilling to the two boys navigators for it is just a kit without a tail. Lifting and falling with the strength of the wind it tugs impatiently at its string. It darts this way and that with the vagrances of the breeze in a cloudless sky. Tingling with the pull of the string adventurous thoughts wander through the mind of the boy with the grimy fists; he wonders about the prospects of the kite carrying him off the ground. Following with one's eyes the long black line which leads from the kite one sees the earthward end tight clutched in the rather soiled fist of a boy who gazes upward intently. His buddy is lying on the ground with his chin capped in his hands contemplatively appraising the kites good points. The spindle is quickly unreeded and the kite given a sickening little drop as the line is played out, but soon the breeze pikes it higher. Great quantity of string allow the kite such leavet that it seems only a small black dot in the blue of the sky, or almost invisible as it reflects the sun. The time comes for the release of the parachute, so laboriously constructed and carefully fastened to the kite. "Gee she sure 'comes down vetty. Just like a real un." that purpose, both boys sit down to write their kite and begin to philosophize about life in general. Who are these kids? Well, one is yourself and the other—it really doesn't make much difference, for spring is here and such thoughts as these have the center of the stage during the class hours these days. For after all, boys will always be just boys. 1 At the University of Colorado, dur- standing in education, the Coopera- cal sold at about the private stores near the campus, our students learned about the plex plates from its close connection with the university. Campus Opinion --fast and exhausted his stock of lecture notes, and still the bell hasn't rung—he still. Cooperative Store Is Favored Editor Daily Kansas In view of the letters that have been recently published in Campus Opinion doubling the wisdom of establishing a university, I believe it pertinent to write and say that I have attended two universities where this plan was in effect and giving At the Co-op Store of the University of Missouri the name was true of Mr. Worthington, who planned was followed and earnings were divided among buyers at the commencement of the new term on pro-activity salaries said Mr. Worthington received during the time I attended Missouri was 12 per cent, and I understood that it was about the average salaries in stores in these two schools I would heartily approve the establishment of a co-op store. Editorials From Other Hills B. A. K. Pedagogy (The Daily Cardinal) When a pugilist, battered, wobbly, defeated, can no longer stand up and trade punches with his opponent, he prays for the bell—and stalls. When a basketball team finds itself ahead by a couple of points with only a few seconds to play—it stalls. When a professor has talked to Some "profs" are no good at it that their class scarefully realizes that they are no longer saying much of anything. Others visibly bitray their counter- nation as they arrive at the end of the last card, with five minutes still to go. But they are all game to the last. To disarm the class and allow their harried discipline time for a few extra hours, they need a unscrupulous, unmegadvised, so they stugge on, rehashing previous remarks, burrowing like a member of the Wisconsin public. Many of the more enlightened members of the Wisconsin faculty realize it is only an act of charity to dismiss the clan and have it over with. They can make it up on some other occasion when they have move to say. The elasst folds up notebooks, wrigles into fur coats, hurls out compulsions to inspect noses for signs of obliviousness, studies hospice hopefulness. No one can help unless he responds, it, but his reputation for inexudability of wisdom is at stake. Any seeker after wisdom who has been kept listening in his 9 o'clock class in Baron until he has just cane and one half inch winturer in which to make a run through the hall, rehashes well they can make it up on some other occasion. Nineteen Cornell men have adopted a system which gives them their meals for $2.50 a week. Their motto is, "He who won't work, can't eat," and to follow out the system they have adopted two men to do the cook's tasks. The remaining seven of the remaining 17 men acts as an assistant to the cooks. Niles Lacold and Catarrb Compound Construction on a new gymnastium, exclusively for the use of women students, is now under way at Washington University. Never before have we shown such beautiful aultings as now. Stop in and look them over. will be needed if this weather keeps up. Suiting you is our Business. Stop in on your way home. 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Whatever the work to be done, whether it needs the power of an elephant or another animal, there is a General Electric motor that will do it faithfully for a few cents an hour. The elephant is man's most intelligent helper. But—consider this interesting comparison: An elephant is much larger than the electric motor of a "yarder" or logging machine. The "yarder" has the power of twenty elephants; it handles clusters of logs; it works dependably, twenty-four hours at a stretch, if necessary. Twenty elephants would eat daily 10,000 pounds of green food, which a corps of attendants must gather. A motor "eats" nothing but electricity, supplied at the throw of a switch. Power used in the modern industrial world is applied through electric motors—fireless "iron elephants" that are relegating antiquated machines to museums, along with such oldtime household articles as wash-tubs and ordinary irons—and stuffed elephants. GENERAL ELECTRIC