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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrebe, Kansas
Editorial Staff
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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, 1897.
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1927
P. CONNOR, ATTENTION
Spring is here! At least, today is the day when spring arrives officially, but our friend, the weather prophet, does not know it. The whole event has been kept a dark secret and not a single inking of it has leaked out to the man in the high places of Kansas City.
We had a few warm days with sunshine and a light breeze. The birds of the campue foryritha opened and the grass turned a brighter green.
Then the weather man predicted warm, pleasant days with more sunshine. But he forgot to consult the being that manufactures the atmosphere and things went wrong. A storm came, a real winter storm with hall, sleet, and snow.
Now won't some innocent soul please tell Mr. Connor that the students on Mt. Orcad long for scighing and ice skating, that they will not be happy until a blizzard whizzes around the corner? Then maybe the weather maker will predict a week of winter—and spring will really arrive.
WHAT DOES HE EXPECT?
One of the new radio commissioners,
talking over the air Thursday evening,
was interrupted somewhat by static.
Wonder what the commission is going to do about that?
"What will he expect us to say?" This is inevitably asked before time for mid-semester quizzes. Students learn, memorize or cram anything into their minds in order to pass examinations. It is not what they do know, but what does the instructor expect.
The whole objective of a college education centers around the acquisition of grade; nothing else seems to be of consequence. There is little effort on the part of either the instructors or the students to develop original ideas, independent thought or habits of study.
There are only a few instructors on the Hill who encourage the formation of independent opinions, and in most classes, to express any ideas contrary to those of the powers that be is either to be utterly squelched or to ionearce one's grade.
Since it has long been known that most of the information acquired in school is forgotten, there must be other objectives in an education. Some of these things are ideals, attitude toward life, and permanent interest in the subjects about which the student has been most concerned while he was in school.
Among prominent educators there is a recognition of the fact that more than information should be tested in school work. Experimentation is making some progress toward this goal and when it is reached, our entire educational system will be on a higher level.
THE PARISIAN FASHION REVOLT
"Off with hard-boiled collar; they are the unhygienic and unesthetic invention of gentlemen who are interested in hiding红 or warty necks, and we'll have no more of them," announces the members of the "Anti-Punishment Society" of Paris. The society is an organization of bankers.
lawyers, writers and other notables including the president of the Paris Tailors' Association.
Many of the Parisians interested in clothing reform have been appearing nights without collars, but with shirts having high "glorified" necodhads which serve the purpose, news dispatches tell us. The same type of shirt is also made for daytime wear. Men students at the University of Kansas, influenced by the advent of spring, are seemingly in favor of the change in styles announced from Père fashion centers. The men of Mt. Oread have never favored starched detachable collars to an appreciable extent; they complain even when formal parties demand the wearing of tux collars. A small survey indicates that they would approve of doing away with collars and ties altogether during the summer season, probably much to the disgust of their women friends.
But while the ban on hard-boiled collars and starched bosoms is approved by university men, the third change advocate by the Anti-Punishment Society, the replacement of trousers fashions of today by short pants, fails to find favor. As a fair woman remarked last week, "A man must have IT to get by in knickers." No, Pari-nians, we cannot support your proposed changes in fashion to the limit. We like our idea of discarding starched collars and stiff-shooted shirts, but we, realizing that only a small portion of our male population has "IT," refuse to discard our treasured long pants for short ones.
Coulidge says we are not to assume a permanent protectorate over Nicaragua, but to keep Marines there only so long as protection of American interests makes it necessary. No, Cal, it will not be permanent; neither have our interventions in Haiti and the Philippines been permanent.
SPRING NEVER COMES TO THE MUSEUM
One wonders if the animals in the Dryhe Museum of Natural History know that spring is here. They stand or lie in the same positions day after day with the same unchanging expressions on their faces. And yet they can hardly help knowing that winter is fading away before the boisterous March winds.
The big black and brown bears seem now to love little of their fierceness now that the grass is turning green. The coyotes seem to be staring at something beyond the range of human aid. The buffalo stand stiffly and patently waiting for something that never comes. The white sheep with noses in air and with disdainful looks on their faces are losing a little of their haughtiness. The raccoon looks lonesome and pathetic. Moose and deer and all the other animals seem to know that spring is almost here. But the seasons no longer affect these animals. They may not even have one hour of freedom to enjoy it for themselves. If some magic power could only replace their sawdust stuffing with real flesh and bone and give them an hour's liberty, the animals would go out and run, romp, and bark and growl in the spring sunshine. They would appreciate it more than the rest of us; for we take spring as a matter of course without stopping to think what it would mean to us to be deprived of the pleasure of enjoying it.
"You can't give a boy or girl an education. They have to earn it, and win it by their own efforts," were the words of our chancellor recently in his libelary speech in Kansas City.
EDUCATED
And a great number of college students will agree, on the basis of their own experience. Sad, but cruelly true, not everyone that comes to college wants an education. Some come because it's a grand old tradition in the family; others because "son will be the first in the family to go to college."
And son or daughter comes to college mostly because someone wants him or her to do so, and it is easier to come than to stay out and go to work four years sooner.
After they get here they find it doesn't take an immense amount of work to "get by" so they daily along
There will be a meeting of all group leaders and board members in the rest room in Central Administration building on Tuesday afternoon, March 22, at 4:30 o'clock. It is important that every group leader and board member be present.
RUTH SHAW, Second Vice President.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VIII   • Monday, March 21, 1927     No. 18.
W, S. G. A. GROUP LEADERS;
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF GRADUATE SCHOOL:
There will be a meeting of the administrative committee of the Graduate
School at 1224 Louisiana street on Tuesday evening, March 23, at 7:00 vclock
F. B. DAINS, Chairman
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF CADUATE SCHOOL:
ZOOLOGY CLUB:
Snow Zoology Club will hold its spring initiation on Wednesday, March 21 at 5:30 c'clock in Snow hall, and if the weather permits bake to Skittles's temperature.
for four years, while the home folks blandly and expectantly wait for the process of education to take place.
Were men's minds governed more by reason, and less by passion and prejudice, they might be able to see that negroes are as much entitled to a fair trial as any person suspected of guilt, and that only by obeying the
But son or daughter isn't being educated, because he doesn't want to be. From various sources learning is
At the end of four years he has not really worked or earned anything. What he has acquired is merely by accident. But the home folks, after four years of sacrifice, are told that he is "educated!"
being thrust at him, but he doesn't respond by grasping it and making it his own. He doesn't want it particularly.
Only a deep-seated prejudice an rewardment toward negroes as a ruses and an arrogant sense of superiority could have led to such an outburst of mob passion. The attack upon the two white girls was not the reason for the antipathy of the crowd; it was only a provocation which, coupled with mob spirit, famed resentment into hatred and led to a necissane display of arms.
A CLOSE CALL
Kansas has barely averted a shining disgrace. Except for the alertness and courage of the sheriff of Lynn county and the ready response of the national guard, three innocent negroes might have been lynched by the mud mob which overran Coffeyville, and possibly a greater number killed or injured in the race war which threatened.
Constitution to which they pay lip-worship, do they actually domhage to it.
Now that the mob scene is but a nightmare, the citizens of Coffeyville may take a calmer outlook. And without doubt, more than one law-respecting citizen has quaked when he realized the nearness of his acts to murder.
KANSAS INTOLERANCE
In one Kansas town the book committee of the public library has refused to allow the Librarian to buy Elmer Gentry, Sinclair Lewis' latest book, although none of the members of the committee has read the book.
Such a procedure in a Kansas town makes one gud that the legislature has adjourned without an anti-evolution bill being introduced, for the action of the book committee in this particular instance indicates that enough intolerance exists in the state to pass a law similar to the one in Tennessee.
The members of the committee evidently have been reading something even if they have not read Elmer Gantry.
It is probable that they have read some reviews of the book or have heard some preacher express his opinion of it and thereason have decided that it is not fit reading either for themselves or for the town whose reading matter they select through the library. Either condemnation or commendation "without a reading is simple bigotry.
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An average man in the United States is worth about $20,000 in
The Week Before Easter--thousands of people will suddenly decide to buy dry cleaning—
Send us **your** work now so that we may have time to put forth our best effort.
wealth-producing capacity, according to the annual survey of the American Statistical Association.
The average woman, they say, is in worth only $15,000 to her country, but by what authority they justify the expense? The answer may not say in her statistical survey.
Being merely statisticians, these wise men probably would argue that dollars and cents do not enter into the art of running a home diplomatically, and keeping the master of the house happily deluded about his own capabilities as a wealth producer. The butcher, the baker, the plumber are not expected to add sympathy and affection to justify an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, but the woman in the home must bolster up the stronger sex in her household, as well as see to the mechanical details of home making.
She practices these qualities without exacting extra fees, but probably their value will always be beyond the measures of mathematics and statistics.
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Paris Says "It Pays to Look Well"
Under date of April 10th, the Paris Special to the New York World quotes Jane Mabilais in the Paris Milli as follows:
"American women are lovely, but the men are just as good looking. The American women are three times prettier than ten years ago, because sixty million of them have become patrons of the chironrot shops."
"Will all young Americans reach this standard of health and good books?" They seem to be determined to call their chironitors to the task of making good on their nation-wide slogan, "It Pays to Look Well."
Master Barbers have done more than any other organization to aid American Men's appearance
"But why talk always about American women? What about the men? There is likewise a category of superior being among them. You can see them in the advertisements brushing their teeth, fastening their ties or shoes, all complete athletes with faces like Adonis, and then you see them in daily life.
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