PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief Assess Editor Assess Editor Capsule Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Exchange Editor Exchange Editor Supply Management Supply Management Sports Editor Mary Keenan Filler George Bacon Dorothy Taylor Gay Graves Hugh Craws Flord Russell Charlie Adelson Charles Anderson William Gillippe Jacqueline McMee Lainley Cooke Chris Clifford Chilson Clifford Marina Gulliver William Gillippe Advertising Manager .. W. Morgan Co. Anst. Advertising Mgr. .. J. R. Mosewitz Jason K. Mosewitz .. Joseph M. Minnichus Circulation Manager .. James L. Foreign Adv. Agent .. R. D. Bald Telephone: Business Office K. U. 66 News Room K. U. 68 Published in the afternoon, two times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Trees of the Rights work of journalism. Entered an second-class mail matter September 18, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1927. NORMAN THOMAS TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927 There is no laboratory as trying on the social theorist as the labor strike. It is in actual controversy that theories are tested; it is there that the sponsors must undergo trial for their principles. Such texts have been weathered by both Norman Thomas and his Socialism; the Panxicite textile strike of the past year is one storm that proved to him the rightness of his beliefs. So it was not a man lacking the background for the point of view he offers whom the University students have been privileged to hear in the past few days. His plan that friendship be the basis for the society of the world, as well as for the other social groups, is founded on his firm conviction that it is a workable basis. His warning that such great national power as that possessed by the United States leads to danger by way of imperialistic treatment of other nations has grounded in fact, for as Mr. Thomas put it, that is but the point of view of the man with money toward his less fortunate neighbors. Condemnation is a danger that no amount of wealth and power can furnify friendship will possibly prevent the evils of undue success. Such was the message of Norman Thomas. As for the man, Norman Thomas is a personality that bells the popular definition of "socialist" and "radical." Since he professs characterization by both terms it is only fair to attempt once more to call attention to the nuance of those two words. If it takes a Socialist to win the nation over to a policy of friendship, and if it takes a radical to win for strikers from misguided policy and unfair employers, then it is more socialists and more radicals that are needed. THE YELLOW PERH. Under the ignominious catch phrase, "the yellow peril," the Western world has continued to strangle China for upwards of three quarters of an expedition. Excusing its actions under the gaze of protecting the uncalled civilized countries from the East there hirsisted a steady commercial exploitation of China. Some may object to the term exploitation, contenting that the advancement of commerce is as great a benefit to the Orient in this instance as it is to those directing it. That, however, is not borne out by the fact, why do the progressive Chinese protest Western control? They see the foreign powers profiting on their natural resources and internal trade while at the same time this commercialism is preventing their national development. The peril of the East will exist only for those who do not realize that the Chinese have the right to work out their own salvation, as have the Western peoples—witness the American and French revolutions. Potentially the East is very powerful; there is more truth than fiction in around the sleeping man of China, to those who by their exploitation invite his anger. But just as the West has forgiven its way to the front, the sake of the harmony of nations, it will be to the benefit, let alone the glory, of the West to leave the East, now that it is stirring to take a deen breath. It remains a remarkable through- deobligible fact that the West is not acutely enough to see that through friendship more can be done than through physical power. From every economic angle, nitrification need, it will be far better to cultivate the good will of China, yet we continue to good her on. If the percent of humanity will prevail, and if only for selfish reasons provided the larger vision is lacking, over the graves of nations there can be no "yellow peril." SPILT MILK The city of Lawrence, in prohibiting the large University coal trucks from hauling their usual loads, has taken one step of a dozen that should have been taken twenty-five years ago. The fact that the city administration now in power should see the crying need within the city for decent streets and should endeavor to protect what remnants of pavement are still extant within the city is commutable. The fact that one of the most harmful influences was first to be attacked is further evidence of the severity of the ruling powers. Yet what a crime has been committed for more than a score of years in permitting the miserable brick pavement, a vertibale highway of carriages, gulelees, dips and arrows to remain, a constant detriment and hazard to the town. Recognizing a combination logging road and rock quarry with perhaps a bit of frontier stump land thrown in for the sake of variety, the streets of the town have caused more silences, hailaches, rib breaks, and depletion of speech than a small town horse-dance tournament. Sunken, caved, corroed, swamped and warped, they have needed attention for many years. And yet they have been allowed to become worse and worse until they no longer bear the burden of busy traffic and the University is made to pay the price of the penalty for added transportation. Purchase the University can train it. Certainly the streets couldn't. They can't stand anything but a bouncing, rolling, hurling, jerking, swaying vehicle, and the University trucks are too substantial for that. How much better things would have begun and Lawrence began, years ago, to plan for replacing her mountain park paths with real pavement thereafter. Had the real seriousness of the sagged roofts and perilous crater in the pavement been realized when they were first developing, there would be no need at present to be worrying about K. U. trucks trailing up Lawrence's paved streets. ABOVE THE NATIONS, HUMANITY From harbours sanguage and misery, man has come down through the continents. Fighting, struggling, and contending untold burdens for what? Not for his immediate comforts alone not just for his family, or chan, or nation, but for something more subtle and undefined, a thing we know as humanity. Today we herd our children into schools and cram their heads with the glorious deeds of our national heroes and the treachery, cruelty and falsehood of our one time enemies or of those who are a different race from ours. We then throw them out with education completed; completed to such an extent that whenever the stars and stripes are unfurled they shriek with insanity; whenever you see another whose skin is not quite the color of their own, they turn up their moses in disdain. They strut about, illuminated by the brilliance of their own superiority, and blinded by that same brilliance to the sparkle of other men. Humanity, that divine relationship between man and man; between man and nature—it is mingled with love and sympathy, patience and tolerance, and is a thing still mysteries and quite often forgotten, especially in these and days of imperialism and of scramble for gold. Few ever learn that above the nations, within them and all about them is humanity, and that through the exchange or kindly deeds and the extending of sympathy and the sharing of love, alone happiness is possible. vot. VAIL Tuesday, March 15, 1927 No. 132 +++++++++++++++ MU TAU ALPHA: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN TWILA SHOEMAKER, Secretary. KAPPA PIII: Kappa Phi will hold its regular business meeting Wednesday, March 16, at 7:30 at the home of its sponsor, Mr. Edwin F. Prices, 1222 Ohio street. Election of officers will take place, and it is therefore requested that all members, he present. JUANITA KIRKHAM, Pullleigh Manager. SQUARE AND COMPASS; There will be a dinner for Square and Compass Wednesday evening, March 15 at 6:30 at the Colonial tea room. Initiation will follow at the Macon temple. Every member is requested to be present. HORACE W. WATKINS, President. PHI SIGMA: There will be In meeting of Phil Sigua Thursday, March 17, at 4:30 p.m. in room 304,雪球 hall. Doctor Stolon will speak. COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS; FRANCES DUNMIRE, Secretary There will be a meeting of the committee on relations to further educational institutions, in room 106, east Administration building, at 4 p. m., on Wednesday, March 16. They will meet to give further consideration to the proposed standards for four year colleges and to take up modifications of the standards of junior colleges. All members of the University senate who are 'interested are urged to attend,' U. G. MIPCHELL, Chairman. MUDDY POTTER Ker Zoon! Splash! Just another diver who has taken off the spring barrel and has plumed into Potter Lake. What's apart this swimming is what fun it is to have on our campu a lake in which to swim when warm days drive one to refreshing exercise if some sort. But notice. Right where the diver went from sight there boils up a muddy, dirty, black cloud which swells up and gradually sprouts out in ever increasing circles until a great block of ugly brown replaces the clear, greenish water that invited the swimmers. And with each succeeding dive the mud boils up ever blacker, ever thicker. Finally the entire lake is muddy, dirty and we look booking. The still waters paddle on and the divers continue their plunging, for where else could they enjoy the fun of a swim in Lawncrest? Since Patter seems to be the only places available to the swimmers, and since the mind in the bottom is so deep go ally and so oblivious, why not adopt some plan of cleaning or dyeing? Perhaps the water could be drained from the lake before spring maze set in, and the bottom washed clean or dig out. Or perhaps a dyege could clear the much from the lake's floor sufficiently to eliminate the evil of the present condition. Something should be done. A couple of thousand students will probably want to swim and many of them will probably not care to use Potter when they see the mud boil up. Located identally as the lake is, and with the possibilities for a clean, pleasant bathing resort that it offers, the University can hardly afford not to take high advantage of the situation and apply a real swimming place for the students. Editorials From Other Hills Measure Up to Your Citizenship (Indiana Daily Student) One criterion of college students as *whole* which, on the surface, seems to be well founded, is their indifference toward affairs which arise daily of state, national, and international importance. The student interest seems to be confined within the campus boundaries. How many students are familiar with the principles and conditions involved in the United States' recent international arguments? How many could explain the purpose of the Mercy Harraagon bill? How many could explain the action of the home of representatives in impeachment Judge C. W. Dearsh. If such indifference to comparatively important affairs follows steady after their graduation, stagnation of thought threatens the nation. A. G. ALRICH Printing & Engraving All year round cards. Memory books. Guest books. Everything in stationery line. 736 Mass. St. The College Jeweler Quality Jewelry--- Convenient Payments A country's educated citizens are its leaders, and the leaders must be alive in the country's problems. Just Arrived Our shipment of Easter Candies arrived yesterday. Buy that candy now and get your choice of the best candy in the world—Johnston's Chocolates. Jayhawk Jewelry Stop in on your way home. But as college students grow into college life from high school limitations, so will the majority of girls growing up at graduation they will face after graduation. Rankin's Drug Store 11th & Mass. Phone 678 On Other Hills After years of research, Dr. L. B. Ulman, archologist at the University of Chicago, has placed the date of the origin of the alphabet at about 3000 BC. This is considerably earlier than the predecessors accepted by most scholars. The oldest institution of learning in the new world is the University of San Marcos at Lima, Peru, founded under Pizzarro in 1551. After 16 months in the wilds of Dutch New Guinea, Matthew E. Stilling, University of California explorer, reports that he has pictures, data and records of a lost race of formerly believed to be extinct. Girls! Now is the time to let me alter your old suit to look like new. SCHULZ, the TAILOR 917 Mass. St. Suiting You—That's My Business SCHULZ The Tailor 917 Mass. St. CLOTHES Ready-made And Cut to Order ESTABLISHED ENGLISH UNIVERSITY STYLES, TAILORED OVER YOUTHFUL CHARTS SOLELY FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATE. Representative in Lawrence The character of the suits and topcoats tailored by Charter House will earn your most sincere liking. It's the DOBBS! "Cherrington" $8 You're Always Calling Attention to Your Hat! You bow and your hand directs her glance! You call at a business office. Your hat rests in your hand. The label catches the eye and is a part of the impression you make. A man's hat is too important a part of his ensemble not to have it just right. You can buy the "right" hat here for $5, $6, $7, $8 or $10.