27 (2) PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THURSDAY. MARCH 40, 1927 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief Gerttrude S. Bauer Associate Editor Amusee Editor Tucker Lawyer Lawrence News Editor Ernest W. Johnson News Editor Ralph Night Editor Robert Mite Night Editor G. Haltain Crane Telegraph Editor G. Halton Crane Editor Jack Stukenbuerger Examiner Editor John Stukenbuerger Sunday Supplement Editor John Banka Sunday Supplement Editor Mary E. Fillion Business Staff Dorothy Tawny Lawrence Pinter Flayd Russell Charles Hickerson George Albee Vannah Van Dyke BOARD MEETING Ladies Lulie Alice Gailett Alice Gailett Marjorie Stiffner George Albee Vannah Van Dyke Advertising Manager ... W. Morgan Coq Anti Advertising Mgr. ... J. Robert Moust. Anti Advertising Mgr. ... Jami E. Strimphio Anti Advertising Mgr. ... Jamie R. Strimphio Foreign Adv. Mgr. ... R. Dale Business Office Telephones K. U. 64 News Room K. U. 29 Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Department. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1897. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927 PURITONIC KANSAS Six days shalt then play tennis! And on the seventh thou shalt rest or be named among the wicked who game on the Sabbath day, Of course Sunday should be the day of rest, but not only constitutes restraint from work of the week; it also constitutes change or recreation from the usual routine. Just why tennis playing on Sunday on the University courts should be forbidden is still a mystery. Recreation of such nature is far from being demoralizing—much less so than some of the extra-curricular activities which are engaged in on both Sundays and week days. The Goddess state university as it is sometimes called is not so Goddess. Indeed it should not be. But it should be a least abbreast of the times. Tennis playing, golfing, fishing, even fishing are not looked upon with disfavor in most Kansas communities as Sunday diversion, but at the University they are taboo. In many cases of busy students, Sunday may be the only time that they may play. A few sets of tennis before church or after it, is certainly not to be looked upon as a form of debauchery. In fact it should be viewed as wholesome activity, relaxing to mind and body. Spring air, beautiful sunshine, surrounding verdant land and a few selected friends for companions in the game would have an uplifting effect rather than a demoralizing one, either to townpeople or to students. The University of Kansas is not a sectarian school which might even bun Sunday sports, but the working laboratory of the state for its youth to develop talents and intelligence, along with healthy bodies and sensitive minds. Any regulation which sets aside Sunday as a day of absolute absence from wholesome recreation is a hold-over from those good old Puritan days when even laughter and song were prohibited forms of expression of the sinful self. Surely University students should be allowed their choice in the matter of Sunday tennis. The courts are in splendid condition. Why not use them to the fullest extent possible for the remaining weeks of the semester? Governor Richards, the "Blue law" governor of Carolina, has nine daughters. At the present cost of rouge and lipstick, that is enough to make any man blue. STUDENTS AND CURRENT EVENTS An instructor found last week that only one student out of a class of seven knew anything about the fillbuster being staged in the senate. A further survey shows that that ratio is about right for all students of the Hill. Students read the Kansan and the sports and comics of the Kansas City papers with a fair degree of thoroughness. Sensational front page stories are read if convenient, but the more important news—especially news of government—is too uninteresting. The editors of the metropolitan papers are neglected entirely. If the ratio were the other way around it might be said that it is the fault of the students that they lack interest in important current events, but while the majority is not necessarily right, it must be admitted that it is conditions rather than individual faults which makes a ratio of 3400 to 1000 in the University population. A number of things contribute to student indifference to world events. First of all, the University is a world apart, complete in itself. Few things that happen outside the college room have any direct and immediate effect upon a student at Mount Oread. But the little world is big enough and diverse enough to furnish occupation, recreation and topics of conversation to fill a student's day. It is naturally much easier to discuss things having to do with everyday life than something that is far away and unreal. College life is full enough that students will never get so desperate as to read the newspapers simply because there is nothing else to do. Since the faculty controls to such a large degree the time and thinking of students, it seems to be up to it to direct student thought to desirable channels. This does not mean that the faculty is responsible for the present condition—only that it is in a position to improve the situation by occasionally holding class discussions of current events as part of the class work. It takes but a few minutes discussion to create enough interest to start students to reading. Time used in this way is well spent. LOTS OF TIME YET In Roman days, universities were called "stadium generale." Now it should be "stadium ponerale." Old Mother Earth has been examined by an expert and her health promoted normal—a good insurance risk, Maj. Willie Bowle, government scientist, after close scrutiny estimates that the world is good for at least 200 million more years, burning accidents. The news is encouraging. "If good use is made of the time several things can be accomplished before the temperature of the earth goes down too low for life to exist. Between now and now a few members of the permanent student body will have been graduated from the University and the Men's Student Council will have tried of making and changing election rules. The major diagnosis assures ample time for Kansas to decide upon a road building plan and many days and nights will be provided for senate filibusters. Before the end of another detachment of marines can be sent to China and yet another Central American revolution succeeded. Perhaps before the 260 million years have passed the Tiger and the Jay-hawk will be sleeping in the same tree and the 1927 student directory will be out. Who knows? The world moves rapidly these days. ANOTHER PLEASURE TABOO Another one of the bigger and better joys of college life has been taken way. It seems definitely decided that here will be no more politics at K, U, far as women are concerned. Never again will women be included in these campaigns for votes that were carried on in the fall and spring evenings preceding elections, and on the sidewalks between the campus buildings where the various polls were placed on election day. That is what the women of the University has done. They are now going to elect the vice-president and secretary of each clan in the women's spring elections. Men will have nothing to say about those elected, and the women will have no voice in the election of the offices filled by men. The women have rapidly become very serious-minded. Since the men will not agree to dignified politics, the women have withdrawn from their parties entirely. Are they a step ahead of national progress, or have they slipped back? Although the women of the United States have achieved the right to vote, they have not yet given up this privilege in regard to certain offices, while claiming others as exclusively theirs, to which they would choose one of their own sex without the assistance of men. There will be no party division among the women, no campaigning and no combines. Each woman nominated must stand on her merits alone, which is more than even the nominee for the President of the United States is expected to do. The two women elected to class offices will also be the representatives of that class to the Women's Self-Government Association, thus cutting in half the honors to be divided. Previously the class officers have been honored in name only, while the council representatives had real offices to fill. But all enjoyed equally the excitement of pre-election campaigns, and the winners will never forget that thrill of victory. Politics for the women is no longer a joyful affair. It is of a very serious nature, requiring deep thought and careful consideration. Only those who are willing to view it so may participate, yet it is doubtful if this new form of higher politics will get better results than the old method, which after all, had careful deliberation behind the surface of excited activity. Gladys, the office girl, says there is a light bulb in the flower bed and wants to know if the botany department is trying to grow a light plant. Editorials From Other Hills Kansas Is Mentioned (The Nation) There is a leaven in the university jump. Students are writing editors in college weekdays on free speech in and out of universities; students are writing stories and articles in college months which are frank in their treatment of love and anthodox in their treatment of religion. Students eight and left are champions unpredictably, and during one the sword of Danuces falls swiftly. Two students at Indiana University were recently expelled for an article in the Vargaband on juvenile sophistication. A sophomore at the University of Denver was twice kidnapped and flugged for arranging, as vicepresident of the Thinkers club, a group active in the University and in a Kansas City preacher. We have already commented on the perception of student editors at Kansas City Junior College, and we are glad to note that the "militant minority" at the University of Kansas is buoy at present in publishing four pages of refreshing impudence with not a few incidental ideas every week. Spring students go on a campusachieves goes on the Honor Roll with a ruling by the Advisory Council, including both faculty and students, to permit speakers, no matter what their doctrine or ered, to present their views before the student body. At Cornell University, Norman Thomas recently debated, defending socialism against communism. There are students who dare to think and argue that we permit them to do so, as well as those of both groups who do neither? "An English professor," and the Pitt Weekly, "in requiring his class to paraphrase, line for line, Kate's Odyssey, and Shelley's Odyssey to the West Wind." What It Makes It Go? (Idaho, Argnanu) "We look forward to the time when some class in the appreciation of art will be told to break up the original Venus de Milo in tiny bites, in order that they may find what kind of stone was used in making it." Students at the University of Pittsburgh are not the only ones whose professors think that they have not written anything on their books, that is not written in noncollegial. Everything, whether it be Chaucer, Shakespeare or Racine, must be dissected into component parts, while the entity is lost in the operation. Professors do not know that students do not want to know what each line of Shakespeare or Chaucer means. They would rather read on, merely to hear the music of verses as they fall in soft cadences. What if the passage is of importance? We don't understand everything that is beautiful. And it is not necessary to understand beauty to enjoy it. The physics department at Columbia University will give free eye tests to the students. It's Delicious If you could just cut a dainty slice of Mol's Butter Crust bread and taste it! How everyone has taken to this delicious bread. It is so light, so even in texture; it is crisp and brown. Why not phone 716 and have a fresh supply delivered? MOLL'S BAKERY 412 West 9th "Cordolette." A Bally Classic MADE IN SWITZERLAND Darling Originata in shoe patterning Combining Patent and Rust-Brown snake 10. 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