PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1926 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief Dick Matthias Juniper Immediate Editor Gennaro Font Curtis Fond Granton Fond Sprint Editor Frederick McNeil Alumni Editor Robert McNeil Alumni Editor Roberta Tommy Plain Tables Editor Johnny Tutu Night Editor Emily Finder Night Editor OTHER BOARD MEMBERS George Carvey Ames, Scott M. C. Fitzgerald Alice, Susan T. C. Raftery Elly Rule Lawrence Haven Chire Clayton Finel Russell Haye Chinton Finel Business Manager ... H. Richard McFarlane Editorial Department K. U. 22 Business Department K. U. 60 Entered the逊達學院 mail matter master's degree in English, and graduated from Kawasaki, under the order of March 5, 1972. He is a graduate of the university and the Sunday morning by students in the Department of Mathematics at Kawasaki from the Front of the Department of Mathematics at Kawasaki. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10. 1926 THE STUDENT AND POLITICS From the undercurrent of opinion that is already sweeping across the campas, it appears that politics are going to receive even less student support at the spring election than they have ever received before. The Kanas has long opposed the system of party politics that exists on the campus and the students are beginning to take advantage of the campus opinion columns to show that they also are against this unviolence and ineffective method of electing student officers. The recent step made in taking the W. S. G. A. elections out of politics if sincerely followed out, in a guide in the right direction. By the work vote that has been recorded at the past four elections it has shown conclusively that student sentiment is opposed to the present machine system. There is every reason to change our system now. We should have done so long ago, but the fact that we have so long delayed is another reason for not delaying longer. The parties which now exist are the outgrowth of the days when mud sifting and underhanded politics were popular, and many of the dishonest and insincere practices of the old days still attach themselves to our present machines. Whether we go to a petition system of nomination or to some other method, it is time to leave behind the party system with the consequent control that falls to the inner circle. There are two classes of qualified voters, the fraternity and non-fraternity. There are qualified candidates in both groups, and qualifications should be the only consideration in the election of a student council. If the present fraternity alignment could be scrapped, and the voters of both classes be allowed to vote according to their own estimates of the candidates' merit, the result would be to the advantage of the fraternities as well as the unorganized. Some fraternities are beginning to see this fact and the movement will probably start there. The result of the withdrawal of a few prominent fraternities from the political mass would be the splitting up of one party and the death of the other from lack of any excuse for existence. Under a fair system of election, any fraternity could point with far more pride than it now can, to its office holding members as having been chosen from the Hill at large rather than by a fraternity league of pic-saliers. The final results would be far reaching. The vote would be wide and representative, and offices would mean more as the result of a desire to fulfill the obligations of an officer to the people who elected him—in this case the students at large. And one glorious benefit would be student support of the first student council to be elected by the students of the Hill as a body. The time is coming. Why not at once? "Please put your books in the well," says a sign at the delivery desk in Watson Library. Good idea! Some of them are pretty dry. EVOLUTION SLEEP Mississippi is talking and walking in her sheep. Monday the Mississippi house of representatives passed, by a vote of 76 to 32, a bill to prevent the teaching in state supported schools the theory that man deceived from a lower order of animal life. The threat of the fundamentalists is coming true. After The Scopes trial they openly avowed that they were going to invade several states with prospects of forcing the passage of anti-evolution laws, similar to the Tennessee law that caused such a turnoff. Mississippi seems to be falling for it. If the people of Mississippi in the situation clearly they might use an assault to their intelligence in being than chosen, for it means that the fundamentalists consider the state弱 fittef for the propagation of their medieval habits of thought, and that the chance of intelligent opposition is less there than it might be in other states. Progressive and wide-awake citizens will not admit success for the anti-evolution attacks. They oppose them. The wheels of progress are being slowed back by the reactions, and even threatened with being turned backwards for a time. The damage was done when the Tennessee law was passed. The time to kill such laws is when they are in the making. If the Mississippi bill is passed it will mean that an imposition of progressive thinking is being established. The fundamentalists propose, in this age of enlightenment, to forbid men to teach truth as they see it, and to prevent it by fine and imprisonment. The people are asleep, but let us hope that they awaken. They do not understand the situation. They do not believe that religion and evolution may reasonably be compatible. If they pass the bill they will be stopping work that has been carried on in the spirit of freedom to seek, to find, and to teach the truth. The people clamber. But the statu- is not responsible, she is talking in her sleep. A class observer during the past week has been recalled by discovering one new fraternity initiate who didn't go about with his coat unbuttoned to display his newly acquired jewelry. He left his coat off. THE GLEE CLUR VICTORY Again the University has been brought into public notice, not this time by the winning of some athletic contest, but by the Mobile Club. best, but by the Men's Glee Club. The winning of the Missouri valley contest is no small accomplishment, but one that required much time and preparation. As is sometimes the case with Macy's band, the work of the group of students who make up the club may be lost sight in our hante to pay tribute to activities of a more spectacular nature. Few there are who take into consideration the long hours of practice that these men have undergone that they may bring home added laurels for Kansas. Nor are there many who take account of the infinite care the faithfulness and loyalty that were required of each individual before the group, as a whole could fit itself for rivalry with like organizations in the recent meeting. But quietly and unassumingly these men went about their preparation, the successful accomplishment of which And now a much greater task lies before them—that of making ready for the national content to be held in New York. We want to see our representatives at the top again. It would be a wonderful thing if Kannaa could outstate clubs with already established reputations for excellence. Every member of the club will do his part, although it entails a vast outlay of time and infinite pains. But that is not all that is necessary. In a very concrete way student appreciation is essential. The glee club as much as any athletic team appreciates loyalty and support, and moreover financial aid is necessary if we are to enter the national contest. If Kansas cares to excel and to win reputation in the field of artistic achievement here is a chance to show it. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Conveyed at the Changqiao Office in 11:30 a.m. There will be a rehearsal at seven o'clock tonight in the auditorium of the Administration Building instead of at the Engineering Auditorium. UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA (continued) February 19, 1953 (408, 76) ENS CLUE CLUB. Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 11:50 a.m. N.Y. NY, Wednesday, February 10, 1995 N.J. 127 Our regular Thursday evening orchestra rehearsal will be held Wednesdays day evening at 7:30, in Marvall hall. Members of the Choral Union will be excused for this rehearsal. KARL O. KUERSTEINER, Director, SOCIOLYG CLUB: There will be an important meeting of the Sociology Club in room 203 west. Administration building, at 4 chelsea st., member number 1126. LOURS E. EVANS. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY: Feb. 22, Washington's Birthday, will be a holiday at the University, and classes will be dismissed for the day. E. H. LINDLEY. Editorials From Other Hills An Endless Paper Flood Pouring in overwhelming torrents, upon an unrestricted public, floods of printed matter bearing every convoluted word from a rate that taxes our imagination. It is gratified that mass production marks the age. But somehow the idea of producing intellectual food in great quantity goes against the grain o Even to cover current periodicals is beyond the capacity of any human. The result of this endless stream of words and pictures is confusion of the mind of the inveterate reader of the common variety of newspapers and periodicals. It breeds in him a suspicious habit, the trivial, and the didactic pill that fills the many columned pages of the daily press and periodicals. Fortunately there is relief for the discriminating. The false and the superficial can be neglected. However, it is a matter of regret that such a hopeless mess of the pseudo-scientific, the pseudo-philosophical, the pseudo-humorous, even, remains to biddle the minds of the unlightened. Still a Tank Town Our Contemporaries Lorain, O., proposes to purify itself. Its first step is to abolish all modern dances. Only Henry Ford's "old time" dances will be permitted. Not only are the dances not in the old one-step and the like are to be banned. One of the wile council defends this legislation by remarking that all modern dances are improper and augur. --- Now the year 1928 is young, too far, and it is impossible to force what it may bring forth; but even at this early date, it does seem as if it could be to possible to award first prize for immunity to the men who voted this The color of the 1874 tank town hangs over this little ordinance, shedding a mousy fragrance of forgotten roses and lilies from the cauldrons and crinoline, to the era of homepun clothing and wood-burning beetles. It is still the nine- Some smart salesman ought to go there with a new line of mustache cup. Probably he'd sell the whole consignment. There was a day when most good people in this country felt about moa- ern舞 just as these councilmen still feel. There was a feeling that all the "newfangled" dances—the waitte and the two-step—were morally wrong. Many good people devoted themselves to dancing, even to ways to come with the "dance cell." But we've outgrown those days. We have come to realize that dining is a splendid, tonic recreation, that the impulse to move in harmony with lively music is a good impulse, not a bad one. It is in other words, grown more civilized. Apparently, however, there are places where the old feeling still lingers. Plain Tales From the Hill --make it down to the police station and sit it. Unconscious of the actual contents of the bottle, he presented himself at the desk at the police station and announced that he was a bootleger desired to pedal his warres. He had not been warned of the joke, declared that it was the "real stuff" after testing it by pouring a little out on the floor and applying a match to it. The poor fellow went out a distress call by telephone but was unable to find anyone else who knew him. On his face a few hours later when several of the upperclassmen appeared and signed a fake bond for his release. He had steadfastly refused to tell who gave him the liquid, and the police arrived to the house by the officers when the aid arrived. Because of the "disgrace" which he had brought on the fraternity, he was forced to "assume the angle" and receive the customary chastishment. While his brothers still wandered what it is all about. One of the funny stories from hell week is about a very concise pledge, who was given a pink bottle filled with rubbing alcohol and told to Student translating Spanish: "He walker over with his eyes on his face." Professor (gesticulating wildly): "Carrumba!" On driving up to the University at the beginning of the fall semester his attention was attracted by the following sign: "Kansas University, drive slowly," and his mind was back in Colorado again. A K. U. student was motoring through Colorado the past summer and came across the following road warmer than usual. We drove slowly, you may meet a fool." Cooed (who nightly repeats the same remark at the dinner table): Yes, girls. I am really dictating to reduce. Voice from other table, in a quite bored tone: Reduce? Mentally or physically? Argument Student: "We don't now, then, that two times two units four?" Those big red hearts for Valentine Day—and full of the best Chocolates too-Schrafft's, Lowney's, Crane's, Morse's and others—1, 2 and 3 pound sizes—at OH, BOY! Professor Hopkins: "Why, yes. After we define two and four define we put two and two together." REESE'S DRUG STORE 929 Mass. St. Suggestions for Valentine's Day Fancy Layer Brick Ice Cream Heart Design Center Bricks Individual Heart and Cupid Molds and plenty of plain varieties. You never need a beautiful ice cream to your guests. It's beautiful and pure. Get your orders in early. Kaw Valley Creamery Final Three Day Clearance Thursday-Friday-Saturday --conducted a content, giving each student a vote. "Sleepy Time Gal" was predicted to be the winner. Coats Group at $9-$14-$24-$48 These include unbelievable styles and values but these also we will not carry over. The last includes garments valued earlier at $135. But we refuse to carry them over— Grouped at $5-$10 $15-$20-$25 Dresses--87 Dresses $15 - $20 - $25 24 Weavers Three Days Only No Returns No Approvals On Other Hills The men's quartette of Washington College will leave on Feb. 15th for a concert trip to California. They are making this trip under the auspices of the University of Washington Service. The quartet will make eight or nine stops between Topoca and the coast, ending at Los Angeles, where they will be gone two weeks and a half. When the producers of "A Beggar on Horseback," at the University of Washington, desired to find out the most popular song with students, they The girls of Wellesley College think that they need one "ppp" rally a week. College spirit has been missing from the campus for some time, and it is hoped that this plan will bring it back. Raff Campbell, speaking for the college, presented the plan to the representation of the college at their last meeting. --- Coeach at Midland College, Fremont, Nebr., are now offered a course in archery which furnished a long needl mode of recreation as they have never been allowed to partake in outdoor sports of any kind. Your Silk Dresses We are equipped to refresh the finest material. You'll have no fear of damage to that good dress when you Keeping a fresh and clean dress in the wardrobe at all times is a habit of the well dressed lady. She knows that it is economy to send them to a reliable Master Cleaner for "refreshment" once every month. We rent Tuxedos Choose Some Pretty Trifle for Your Valentine If you've never given Valentine gifts you don't know what fun it is. You just select a dainty banker, or a pair of gloves, some hose or whatnot for mother, friend or sweetheart, and having it tucked into a heart box without a card, you send it on its way. Of course the recipient always guesses who sent it. Sports Gloves, $1.50 up - - Chiffon Hose, $2.00 Handbags, $2.50 up - - Dainty Hankies, 50c LOOKS LIKE RAIN! Kinds looks like rain today. Speaking of rain remind us to tell you about the newest in collegiate rain protectors. No, it's not a slicker. You guessed pretty close, though. It's the SLICKEROSOL. Collegiate! Red hot! Just what you want. 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