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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FACULTY BELIEVE THE WORLD IS STILL SAFE
Agree That Civilization Is Too Complex, But Not Due For An Uphaval
O MANY LAWS—CHUBB
Average Intelligence in This Country is That of Sixth Grade Says Helleberg
The professors of the University of Kansas agree with H, G. Wells and Thomas Edison that civilization is becoming too complex, but they do not agree with them that on account of this complexity civilization is due for a great and serious upheaval. While they agree that this increasing complexity will still believe that it can be sainted. Various remedies are offered.
Professor Chubb says "Our uni-
versities and colleges, as well as civil
lization are becoming too complex
and specialized. A man becomes an
expert in some special thing and lacks the general background that he needs to make him well educated. But in the last few years our educational institutions have realized this need and are working overtime it by making each student take certain courses before he can specialize.
"The trouble with our laws is inefficiency in law-makers. They use the 'turn the crank' system and turn out streams of laws which may be either good or bad. There are so many laws on our statute books that all of them can not be enforced and a great many of them conflict."
F. W. Blackman, dean of the Graduate state, states his views thus: "No doubt Mr. Edison is right in regard to the increasing complexity of society. At present this is more or less of a burden because if the rapid increase of complexity, and a lack of time for adjustment, but proper adjustment will overcome cills of the present society without any upheaval, it would be hasteful to have a tilted life in which 'fear chenct.' A reaction is already setting in to give more selective trailing to the individual which will eventually balance the extreme complexity of so-called organization."
Professor Patterson states, "The great trouble is lack of co-operation. The League of Nations would have helped this lack to some extent, but the League of Nations failed. Any civilization, as it becomes more complex, needs some organization to further co-operation. I will believe we will find some method to supply this lack but it will take time."
Victor E. Helleburg, assistant professor of sociology takes still another view; "Mr. Edison is unduly pessimistic. In the last few centuries civilization has made remarkable progress in education. There is grave danger of a collapse but we will pull through, we always have pulled through. Our great need now is for education and development of the social sciences. The average intelligence in this country is sixth grade into ninth grade, and unwillingness to change is well illustrated in Sinclair Lewis's 'Main Street.'"
Delbert Mann, assistant professor who sociology, takes still another ankle. Textell recently the study of social problems and problems has not been woried on a scientific basis; that I think Cs2 one, we need to realize of civilization has become dangerous. Then too we are just intriguing to realize that the individ- iate should merge his ego into the group and through the group round out his fuller Life. When the study of social problem is more dense and the group can completely with the group a great step will have been taken in the right direction. The old cut-throat competition is giving way to so-operation. I think that these things will help avert the catastrophe predicted by Mr. Edison and Mr. Wallis and give state leaders the right solution.
Entertained During Vacation
Entertained During Vacation
During the vacation the Westminster Student Guild gave six parties for those students who remained on the hill. One of these parties was in the form of a reception to Miss Martinez, whose children later arrived in the Philippines Islands to study in the School of Fine Arts. The Filipino orchestra receded credible music.
Dr. B. M. Allen of the department of zoology was elected vice president of the American Society of Zoologists for a final meeting in Toronto this last week.
Captain Granata of the R. O. T. C spent his vacation in the East, visiting New York and Washington.
Kappa Sigma will entertain with house dance riday evening.
Dean Walker Leaves For A. S. M. E. Council
Dean Walker of the School of Engineering is leaving today for Washington, D. C. to attend the annual meeting of the American Engineering Council convening January 5 and 6. The Engineering Council is the controlling administrative body of the Federated American Engineering Societies. Dean Walker is on the Council as one of the representatives of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is leaving a day early in order to attend a meeting of committee on Committee as a member. This committee is acting in conjunction with the Bureau of Education on plans for a conference on business training for engineers and engineer training for the students in business. Dean Walker expects to return the first of next week, stopping at several places enroute.
PRAISE FOR AMERICAN WOMEN OF BUSINESS
british Delegate to Geneva Convention Says U. S. Has High-Type Girls
London, Jan. 3.-Business girls in America do not bob their hair no smoke.
That is, if Miss E. MacDonald,
British delegate to the International
Congress of Working Women at Geneva,
obtained the correct impression cf American business life from American delegates.
Miss MacDonald has returned to London enthusiastic over the American girl office worker.
"Many American women were at the conference," she said. "They struck me as being more alive than those of any other nation."
"The American girls, I was told, are very difficult to organize into unions because none of their intend to remain as routine workers. A girl in a uniform type and before long she is assistant to the head of the firm."
But it doesn't do for her to bob her hair or smoke.
"I was much impressed by the opportunities of promotion which girls have in America. They are better paid than the clerks here. Many of them come to Europe for a holiday. Their firms give them leave for the purpose—it is looked on as part of their business education.
"One girl I met, who is employed by an association which dismesses literature among the universities, had a girl from Europe come to Europe. The representatives of the waitresses of America told me that they are either very badly paid or very well paid. The two extremes often exist in cafes side by side."
*Miss Zung, the Chinese delegate,
told me that the Chinese suffragettes
have lately been fighting the police.
Some of the Chinese girls are now
ticket inspectors on the railways, and
many are typists.
La COSS TALKS TO STUDENTS
Former Student Tells of Experience in Mexico
Louis LaCoss, A. B. 111, addressed the class in comparative journalism today, telling chiefly of his experience with the crisp correspondent at Mexico City.
"Mexico City does all its work at night," he told the ciasa. "Official interviews are not given out until 7 o'clock, and as a result it is the morning papers that are the most important. There are four of these publications, and a large number of afternoon papers of a poor character. The reporters, even his assistants, are Mexicans."
After a year of graduate work at the University, Mr. LaCoss worked on Kansas City papers and later entered the Associated Press service and became an assistant in the Mexico City military service and after the war engaged in newspaper work in Omaha and other cities.
Two years ago he returned to the Associated Press service and for a time filled the South American cable out of New York, and fourteen months ago was made correspondent at Mexico City.
Mr. LaCose is spending the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William LaCose, in Las Vegas tomorrow for his Mexican post.
**Prints on Exhibit in East Ad.**
Increasing prints of chalk and charcoal are on exhibit in the third floor. These prints are the builds of Holbein, Raffello, Puntaure, Andrea de Sarto, Mille, and Correggio.
The drawing of these artists are reproduced in color. Reprints by Frank Brengwyn, Leo Pikz, E. Brenna and Cezanne are also shown.
Prints on Exhibit in East Ad.
Figure Representing Student Body Will Wear Regulation Sweaters Without Jacket
MAKE ALTERATIONS ON UNCLE JIMMY STATUF
FIRST MODEL TENTATIVE
Memorial Association Directs Changes Through Student Representatives in N. Y.
Clarence Oakes, c'22, and Karl Koerper, c'23, have just returned from a seventeen days' trip through the East, where they went in the interests of the Uncle Jimmy Green Memorial Hospital. On December 13 and returned to Kansas City, Saturday, December 31.
They spent five days in New York where they discussed with Daniel Chester French modifications and final improvements on the Green Memorial Statue, the plaster model of an sculptor recently completed.
"As representatives of the Association," said Mr. Oakes, "we directed the changes to be made from the platter model. The student will not wear a jacket over his sweater and a regular shirt. This is because the one represented in the model, in which the K was worn high on the chest, instead of the regulation position on the left side. An official K sweater
Mr. French made an explanation in regard to a misconception on the part of some who had seen the photographs illustrating the proposed statue. "I had not intended that the photos be publicly exhibited. The first model was simply for inspection purposes by the committee, being in plaster and other materials, when their decoral resemblance was not attempted. It was merely to convey the general motif—the pose and positions."
If the Association sends in the final contract to be signed within the next two weeks, the sculptor will go ahead if a life size model in clay in which facial resemblance and expression will be shown. Otherwise he will be unable to work on it this winter as he is now working on the design for a huge memorial monument to be erected in France in honor of Massachusetts boys who lost their lives in the war.
Mr. French was much pleased over the news that two landscape gardens were already at work on plans to further beautify the University cam-
will be sent to be worn by the living model when the final cast is made. The golf scoes will be retained."
Mr. French also discussed the suggestion of leaving out the figure of the student altogether. "Perhaps a statue of Uncle Jimmy by himself would be understood in the right way for a generation," he said, "but in years to come, students who never knew him would not understand his character and character of his greatness. With the student in the statue, it crystallized his close relationship and his love of the student body."
Cubs Holler Because Mistakes In Their Laboratory Work Get So Much Publicity and Comment
Two young freshman naturalists were busy engaged in the dissertation of a frog in the zoology laboratory. After an artery had been "chaosed" the students began "oblongata" of the frog's brain had been caught in a natural pose, the students had to draw a picture of the scene as they saw it, just as the naturalist had beautiful panoramas with the skilful sweep of his color giving brush.
"I can't say that it does," laughed the free-hand discipline, "it looks more like a dragon than a frogo. How do you like the effect of mine?"
"Oh well, what do we care if they are horrible caricatures. Let's hand them in anyway, no one will ever see them except the professor," they agreed. So the two pictures supposedly those of a frog were handed in for the daily assignment in zoology and used as a reference to the two students ever knew what crude figures were handed in for the day's work.
"There's not so much of a similarity between your cartoon and the amphibia, it is supposed to represent. That creature you have drawn has a head like a horse. Some froggie," jeered number one.
"Does that look like a frog?" asked cartoonist number one displaying the sketch which showed some litter between the drawing and the original.
One of the two embryonic cartoonists who were taking their design lessons in the zoology "lab" room in Snow Hall was attempting to get a life-size view of a most rare specimen of a beautifully warted frog; the other freshman was demoted because he was standing on the same model—both were using a rubber eraser more than they were their drawing pencils.
Over in the home economics laboratory ambitious housewives were trying out some new recipes. The results were not satisfying to the taste. The utter failures were thrown into the waste basket and no one was ever the wiser. Day after day some student makes a "fizzle" out of some dainty dish that she is learning to make in the "lab."
ANNOUNCEMENST
On the day that the two young freshman naturalists were taking their drawing lessons in Snow Hall, he felt a sense of missing the in.
precipients for a devil's food cake. After the baking of the mixture, she stressed the fruits of her experiment—the cake lived up to its name—she slammed it to the bottom of the garbage can, and started on a new "ibb" assignment. It was easier to make candy. anyway
While in Boston, Koerper and Oakes were surprised to find the unusually great eater in which Mr. French was held by the people in that town. He then asked one Harvard professor as saying, "Western people little realize French's greatness." In the East the men spoke of seeing his works in all the principal cities, among which are Boston, New York, Minute Man at Lexington, Emerson at Concord, John Harvard at Cambridge, and many others.
pas, since he was so disappointed when here that the natural beauty of the campus had not been more developed.
But in the department of journalism what becomes of the wonderful laboratory results. They are published every day in the journal *The New York Times*. Day兰 Kansas. Every baked devil's food cake, every distorted and
exaggerated frog and every failure of the student to make a brilliant dissertation of the news of the day is thrust before the criticizing public. There are many mistakes in the Kansan, just as there are many errors in journalism. You make mistakes; you do the freshman cartoons in zoology; so do all the fair ones in the department of home economics. If the laboratory results of all the departments were published daily as they are in the department of journalism, the humorous publications on the Hill would suffer the same fate that the wicked cake met in the department of home economics. "It's great to be a student," she said in print—but, oh, the criticism of the public does sometimes seem too severe on "lab" experiments., sing the K. U. scribes. Yet 'tis so. There is no secret in the laboratory work of the journalist
Doctor Green will start her series of lectures on sex hygiene to men by giving a free lecture Wednesday at 7:15 o'clock in Myers Hall.
Varsity Bowersock
At the Theatres
"The Glorious Fool"
COMEDY "No Parking"
Jewell Carmen in
Helene Chadwick and Richard Dix in
There will be no meeting of the House Presidents' Council this week. The regular meeting will be held two weeks on Wednesday—Jenice Glendening.
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FORMER INSTRUCTOR TALKS TO GEOLOGISTS
Oil Wells Must Be Big to Profit in Mexico, He Saves
Madeline Ashton, A. B. 161, who is teaching in Valparaiso, Ind, is spending a few days with her parents, and Mrs. C. H. Ashaw of Lawrence.
Dr. Haynes left for Mexico in November, 1920, spending all the time there except one month which he spent in the states. The time was spent in exploring geology for the Standard Oil Company.
Wintroph P. Haynes, formerly an instructor in the department of geology, spoke yesterday morning in the geology lecture room to the students of the department. Mr. Haynes told of his trip to Mexico from which he had just returned.
HAROLD LLOYD IN "HIGH AND DIZZY"
In speaking of the Mexican oil Wells Dr. Haynes said, "The Mexican wells must flow in great quantities before they consider it a well and worth punning. A three thousand barrel well there is considered a failure. The price is low and the expense very high."
Dr. Haynes said, "The Spanish are excellent workers and work the mines just as well as we could have worked them. Business on the west coast is very quiet. The families and landholders are in very poor condition, even worse than they were before the revolution.
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