PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1927 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAB Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief Barrister Harold Taterson Editor-in-Chief Davidry Taylor Main Editor Lawrence Pierce Lawrence Pierce Night Editor Frank W. Johnson Francis W. Johnson Night Editor Frank W. Johnson Runday Editor Jennifer Tucker Runday Editor Johnson Mary Evanor FILIP Telegraph Editor Nadine Miller Sport Editor Joe McMullen Alumni Editor George Alden Business Staff Hirsch Charles Ehriger Johnson Russell Wintzheimbron Frank K. Tiffany Gerone Gorceau Gilbert Gudelman Gladys Filsen Vaikun Kliman G. Ishmael Urschek Catherine Culler Advertising Manager ... W. Morgan Co- Att, Advertising Mer.. Mr. R. John Moteet Circulation Manager .. James T. Nedal Foreign Airc. Mer.. Mar. Business Office Trespassers Business Office K. I. 88 News Room K. I. 25 Pollished in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Wisconsin Press at the Department of Journalism. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1903, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 8, 1902. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 192 SECOND WIND About what is the leading editorial to be today with everyone back and the new semester just starting! The only logical subject is wishing you luck for your new term and encouraging you to make this second start your best. But you say you don't want that kind of tooh? Sick of the this blah about making the most of the next semester; don't want to be toed that perhaps it is your last; or that you'd better study during these winter months because spring is so devastating? What do you want? The idea on breaking all the hidebound conventions like that. Certainly, you don't want a razz about how poorly you did last semester to be used as a big stick to spur you on. Surely you don't want a pessimistic opinion of your coming accomplishments. You want a new line or none at all. How about deciding to like the courses you are going to take this semester, not being bored to death by some and rating others as snaps and worthless? Nearly every student in this University this spring term is able to choose at least one elective class and the majority will choose all of theirs. If these classes are not liked, whose fault will it be? No one's except the student's. If he complains about it, then he is merely rating down his own judgment concerning worthwhile courses. Every class in the University is valuable to a certain group of students and those for whom it isn't should not be there. If that is what you think, get out and pay your fine for changing your mind, but don't growl all semester about that dumb course you are in at 10:30. Evidently the writer who said that applesauce was scarce never ate at a boarding club. That the Firemen's ball was the best party of the year is the general concensus among University students. THE TENSE SITUATION REMAINS An increasing number of anti- foreign demonstrations in China has made the Orient the potential dynamite in world peace and brought about a temporary hull in the humming of the cables between Nicaragua and the United States. The strained relations between the one-time moral leader of the western hemisphere and all of Central and South America, however, remains an tense as ever. Despite the assurances from high government officials that they had favored arbitration all the time and were only waiting for someone to mention it, there has been no marked change in the American policy. An aroused 'public opinion and a group of alert senators forced the secretary of state to announce, on January 21, that the United States would arbitrate with Mexico. Three days later, however, the White House Spokesman declared that he saw "no hope in arbitration, no question which should be arbitrated" and that "nothing helpful could be grained by a discussion of arbitration of a dispute." In this fight manner a great country renowned a policy which it has preached to other countries for a quarter of a century. Battleships still hover in Caribbean enters and American marines still patrol the streets of Managua and Puerto Coloncas, keeping in office by intimidation an unpopular and probably unconstitutional president, and the state department searches for new reason. Military intervention has definitely shattered for all countries south of the Rio Grande any faith in Pan-Americanism. The proximity of naval craft the 3ames of fear and hate among the small countries to the south, and align them in a unit against aggressive imperialism from the north. A united Latin-American press has denounced the United States; organized student groups from Mexico and all of South America have protested against its policy; Peru has balked at a settlement of Tacna-Arica; and the Latin-American Union is attempting to inaugurate a continent-wide boycott of American goods. It is too late for the United States to conciliate the aroused countries and regain immediately their good-will, but it can prevent further difficulties if it will. It will probably have to withdraw the antagonizing marines and it will have to respect the sovereign rights of Mexico—a revocation of the policy launched by the state department. But this is a critical time, and convincing action is needed. Five prisons have been closed in Belgium for lack of inmates. Now some Belgian officials might come over here and run for governor in some of our states. THE CRUSHING BLOW The Jayhawk's pride is injured. In fact, the bird is crushed. He had rather vainly thought that he was known throughout the nation, that his customs and traditions were studied in the elementary schools and that learning the location of his habitat was part of the regular curriculum. Not so, it seems. The other day the bird received a letter, containing some innocent looking blue cards. "How nice of the big school to send me its athletic schedule for next year," mused the fighting Kansan, "I'll have to look at this." But horrors, horrors, horrors Under the heading of "Track" the little blue card announced that the school would enter the Kansas Relays at Manhattan. That was bad enough, thought the Jayhawk, but Tll excuse it this time as a mistake. Then in the football schedule, the bird discovered that this same little piece of paper announced that on Oct. 6 the team would play Kansas at Manhattan. That was too much. A telling blow right to the heart of the doudy birdy. At Manhattan, indeed! Or on Oct. 6, either for that matter; "My life is ruined," the Mt. Oreadia mounted. "They don't think the game is important enough to give the correct date—Oct. 8—and they then accuse me of living in the Aggie territory, Oh, Wisconsin, my heart is broken. How could you? Oh, how could you? "Says Idlers Hinder College"—headline. On the contrary, it's generally known that college hinders the idlers. Hell week is beginning among the Greek letter organizations of the Hill Women's groups, being forbidden it, have probation weeks so that they obey the letter of the law. A few of the men's national organizations have come out of the stone age and ruled against it, so that some fraternities are compelled to call their torture weeks by another name. HELL WEEK But their purpose is the same. If asked the why of the proceedings any through-blooded Greek will tell you that it instils the fraternity spirit, it makes the pledges realize the significance of the secret society they are entering, it is the custom, and all in it makes better Alpha Beta Gamma Deltas of them. Yes, being forced to remain awake for nights at a time, to undergo pub- The concession committee will meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. at the chai vellor's office, JOEK R. DYER, Chairman. CONVOCATION COMMITTEE: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. VIII Wednesday, February 2, 1927 No. 98 OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. VIII Wednesday, February 1, 1927 No. 98 ile ridicule, to find oneself roped and placed writhing in a soerity hallway, to risk one's neck being pushed down hills on skis, to sample the night air and snowy ground scantily clad, and the proceedings to culminate in a stout oak clubbing line with a pile of broken paddles as a result; that instills fraternity spirit. that makes the pledges admire the greatness of their fraternity brothers. They appreciate the wonderfulness of the great unknown they are entering. Of course they do, it's been beaten into them. To climax the week a mock initiation is held before the true services. All the tricks which the fraternity considers best in its repertory have been saved for this last act—all done for the salvation of the pledges. In the frame of mind which this leaves them they go through the solemnities of the service making them actives. Naturally, the true significance of the rites is inspirational. At least there is no murmur of dissatisfaction or dissent; hell week has made dumb brushes of them. "Big Oval Is Home-Grown"—Headline in the Daily Kansan. What kind of a vegetable is an oval, anyhow? The three great forces of the world re the League of Nations, Soviet tussin, and the American dollar, according to a student in Brazil. Why light Tunney? BUILT ON A HILL The man who first thought of building colleges on hill has probably been forgotten, but at that, he has been one of our greatest educators. He probably had a bill in mind which was just about like Mount Oread, when he decided to perch his college on an elevated vista. No doubt he thought of some January morning when the ground would be white with snow, and a crystal frost would cover trees and shrubbery everywhere. 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