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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1925
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANAS
Editor-in-Chief
George Crawley
Bachelor in Computer Science
Adam Dickey
Associate Editor
David Mathways
Sport Editor
Felix Schlumberger
Grace Fisher
News Editor
Elizabeth Sanders
News Editor
Frankie Wickman
Alumni Editor
Prowek Wickman
Flan Tate Editor
Alive V. Monemel
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS
Eva Boffi
T. C. Rutherford
R. Robert L. Simons
Robert L. Simons
Louise Potton
Lucile Potton
Merrill Elswom
Leon Seagall
Steve Johnson
Jason Brown
Editorial Department K. U. 2
Business Department K. U. 2
Entered as second wailable wait matter Sep 10, 2014 at 9:58 a.m. on the morning of March 3, 2015, Kauai, under the act of March 3, 2015 week and on Sunday morning by students in an early-morning variety of Kauai, from the Press of the Island to New York.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1925
(This editorial was written by an ex-service man.—Editor).
AFTER THE ARMISTICE
Tomorrow is Armistice Day! Glorious day when the clouds of war were rift and hope lit up our faces again! Wonderful day, which we were told would usher in a new era of peace and wear throughout the world!
Armitage Day indeed! When we came back from a broken and war-torn land, we found that an armistice had been declared with lawlessness and vice. The war against falsehood and dishonor had been strangely called off. Youthful criminals overran the land which we had left in peace and safety.
Rottenness in the army we had seen and had been compelled to endure. But rottenness in high places of our own government was the pleasant gift which our home folks had prepared for our return from France. Profiteers were rampant. They manufactured munitions and army supplies, of course, but they also ran our railroads, our coal mines, our sawmills and our factories.
We even found these proffesers in our own home towns on the Kannas prairies. They sat in the tbf chair of the presidents of our home banks, they sold groceries and dry goods at the corner store, and we even found them farming our Kansas soil. Profiteering had become the style, and we were out of place with our silly ideas of a new world regime merely because we had compelled a far off General man general to sign an armature.
We, who had fought for these profiteers, were swarmed at and called leafers and "good-for-nothing ex-soldiers" by those who a couple of years before had majly cheered us as we marched down Main street oh our way to the battle field. The head of our republic thought so lightly of us that he appointed to high office a man who had waxed fat from war profit, and who accused us of attempting to loot the treasury when we asked for the aid which had been promised us when fear was in the hearts of the craven, and promises were cheap.
We saw this official—tux evader supreme and arch-professor—withhold from our maimed and broken comrades the medic'd and financial aid which he had repeatedly promised them. We saw government hospitals made the trough where the politically "right" might guzzle their fill at the expense of those whom the war had left mental and physical wrecks.
We found that those who had "Fought the War at Home" had won, but that we, who had left home and job and loved ones to risk our lives, had lost. We found bigots who railed at reason and denied the God of Truth who had upheld us in time of stress, and they went up and down through the land and called us heretics and claimed to hold the keys to Heaven.
Our comrades and brothers who sleep under the sod out at Woodlawn sleep there in vain, for the people whom they died to preserve have refused the sacrifice which they so freely gave, and have forgotten the principals for which they stood. We, who knew and loved the dead and the living dead, are in confusion, but hope still guides us toward the goa which we thought we had attained eight years ago.
We shall uphold the torch of Truth and Love against the onslaughts of biography and intolerance, and though the tide of battle rise against us, we will stand firm. The spirits of those who stood by our side will lift our hands against the wrong until the tide of battle turns, and the Armistice will truly be end in enduring peace.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN?
Manager Dickson has nothing to say, or perhaps it would be better to say he has nothing for publication. On two occasions the Kansas has sent a reporter to him requesting a statement for publication, but each time the reporter came away filled with beautiful statements that he was forbidden to print and a pass to the show.
It is a great thing to be independent even to the point of making the beat that the chief desire of one's life is "to make money rather than friends," but it seems that even one who has made such an eminent success of his chosen work should utter a few words of condolence to those whom he holds in the hollow of his hand. And yet why should he? As he modestly seems to feel, the students can't do anything; they may enquire ahead but they must go somewhere and Mr. Dickenson owns all the somewhere but one.
Yet he is not harshelled; he is perfectly willing to come to terms. Just as soon as the Kansan has reraised for one week from all complaint concerning the way he is running the shows he will be willing to tell the students what he has to offer through the advertising columns of the Kansan, as he has stated, and until that time he believes the students should have a great time trying to guess what is on at each show.
Neither is he unreasonable about the matter of giving out a statement for publication. Just as soon as the Kuman will agree not to publish any more pre or con, Manager Dickenson will publish his statement. This is really an unnecessary request, for all that is necessary is to publish a small statement in the form of a creed or catechism in this form, the answer being supplied by Mr. Dickenson.
1. Do you promise to give us the road that we show them even though it may hurt your pride to get along with the union, if the union is willing to meet you halfway, as other theater owners do? Answer: I do
2. Do you promise to charge a reasonable rate somewhere near what has always been charged for the use of the Bowersack for local productions? Answer: I do.
3. Will you give us equally good shows on the week ends or at least arrange it so that we may sometimes see the best features without neglecting our studies and going through the first part of the week? Answer: I will.
4. Believing that Ali Baba has been dead for several thousand years will you promise to make your prices for shows match those charged in other towns? Answer: I do.
Out in Colorado is being tried a criminal case which represents a problem as old as civilization. Dr. Blazer has been accused of poisoning his 34 year old ambecile and invalid daughter after she had been a burden upon him and his family since her birth. If he should be convicted of first degree murder, he will be punished by death under the Colorado statute lay.
IS CIVILIZATION KILLING ITSELF?
The question is no nearer settlement than it was ages ago. Outside of a few instances when some people:
But though the statute law makes murder a criminal offense, society has always been in doubt about the justification and muris of the case. Darwin stated that society places a burden upon itself as it protects the mentally incapable and physical unfit. Edward Wiggam emphasized this belief when he says that civilization tends to destroy itself by permitting the mentally deficient and physical unit to prey upon society, be a burden upon it, and to reproduce itself. But neither one of these men advocated putting to death these undesirable.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Enrollment closes tonight for the Festival Chorus, the Lawrence Church
All singers desire membership meet at Liberty Memorial High School.
Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 14:50 PM
Vol. VII     TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1925      No. 56
LAWRENCE CHORAL UNION:
Copy received at the Chancellor's Office until 11:00 a. m.
D. M. SWARTHOUT
Pen and Scroll will meet at 7:30 tonight in the rest room of central Ad administration building.
PEN AND SCROLL:
BERNARD BLOCH, Pres.
ARMISTICE MEMORIAL SERVICES;
Arnistic Memorial services under the auspices of the K. U. Christian Associations and the student organizations of 7 the Lawrence churches will be held in Praser Chapel at 8 o'clock, Wednesday night, Nov. 11. The meeting will be addressed by Prof. E. C. Bushler. The University and Lawrence prosecutions.
RICHARD HANSON, President, Y. M. C. A.
ANNA DOROTHY LESTER, President, Y. W. C. A.
SQUARE AND COMPASS;
The regular meeting of the Square and Compass fraternity will be held in room 140 Saw Hill, pt. 7 on Thursday night.
in room 310 Snow Hall at 7:30 Thursday night.
F. E. POTTER, President.
SPECIAL SEATING FOR FACULTY MEMBERS AT THE
INSTITUTE CONGRESS.
Gov. Bent S. Paulen has accepted the invitation of the American Legion and the University to address a convocation on Armistice Day. Attention is called to the hour of the convocation which is 10 o'clock, Wednesday morning. A block of seats will be reserved until 10 o'clock for members of the fac-
nibus:
JOHN R. DYER, Chairman Convocations Committee
LECTURE FOR FRESHMEN:
The next lecture in the course on Contemporary Literature will be give by Miss Barnes at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in room 265, Fraser hall.
W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman.
have destroyed the weak and infirm to preserve the food supply or to develop a race of warriors, society has never taken a definite stand on the problem.
this power has been considered too great for society to confer on any individual or group of individuals. But it seems inevitable that sometime in the future the problem must be faced squarely and some solution formulated.
It is a difficult question to settle. Even if everyone agreed that some method should be devised for ridding society of the mentally deficient and physical unit, there would still be the problem of choosing the judge who would have the power to say, "This person must die." Thurs far.
The American flyers in Morocco say they were never ordered to honeb towns by the French. No one can accuse them of not having any initiative.
Something to Think About!
32 Days
TINK of it! Only 32 more shopping days before the beginning of the Christmas holidays! These will be 32 busy days, too, because from now on there will be something doing every minute that will take up your time. Homecoming, parties, exams and a hundred and one other things.
How much better it will be to prepare now. Make out your gift list and each time you are down town shopping come in and check off one or two items. Save yourself the rush and disappointment of "last days" shopping.
Sit down and think it over. Think of all the ones you must get gifts for. And think, too, that you have only four days to shop after you get home.
Think it over! There are only
32 More Days
Innes Hackman & Co.
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Campus Opinion
I hope the Kansan won't think I am very bold for writing this little letter of love and hope—mostly hope but really and truly I wish to tell of all the hardships and only Robinson gymnasium where men are men—or should be.
Dear Mr. Editor:
To be entirely frank and overboard about matters, I must confess that I broke down and went up to the gym of my own accord last Friday afternoon to do a piece of work. Yes, I did it with a jazzy twist, and I am just as uneasy as any professor too.
Anyhow after going through the various motions which build up iron in the body without eating raisins, I decided to try to stop him from punishing the punching bag. Upon asking for a bag, I was told that there was only one that I could use because the others didn't have no swivels, and that I couldn't use that one because
Then finding another fellow, we thought we would try a hand at the game of hitting the other on the fist with one's chin. But it seems that the man is in some safe place—safe for the gloves and safe for the boxers. But maybe that is why I am still able to write—you see I might have hurt my hand. Well, unlike Diogenes, I gave up in front of them. There are 12 showers, but it seems
that is too many for such a little school as this; as only three of them have been in working condition for quite some time. Yes, it really is lots of fun for ten men to stand under the table and chat, but we will be done. Just think, we will be graduating a lot of contorticists in a few years. Really some one should take all the broken showers out, as some one might come along and fix them somebody, and that would be worth the effort of us might never get over the shock.
And the soap. I did not use any soap—there wouldn't any. There is a tank for liquid soap, but it was empty. It looked like a good tank, too, oil filled, and nothing. But there is always n hat strapped that breaks the camel's boot.
Now why doesn't whoever is supposed to take care of the gymnastm do a piece of taking care of, and- or, if you're not the mindual taking gym. With love.-L. S.
Plain Tales From the Hill
The following took place in a Logic class during a discussion of the freezing of water;
In a Logic lecture a student was asked whether being late to class would be an event, or what?
"A catastrophe," replied the truthful student.
The Freshman chap tips his cap Politely to senior friends, He likes to watch movies.
e used to rely on running away But they got him in the end.
irl: I'll be glad when Potter freezes so we can go skating.
Man: Powder?
Man: Powder?
Girl: No, Potter'
Man: Oh, I thought you said "Powder," and I was just thinking what a keen time we men have 'skidding' on the girls' faces.
Journalism Professor—What are the duties of Reporting I students? Bright student—To go to class.
Palmolive saves:
"Ask the Man Who Owns One!"
Keep That School Girl Complexion." Postum:
"There's a Reason."
A180:
"The First Cost Is the Last One."
But:
Student (trying to read add copy) :
"Help! Somebody give me some more ideas on how to describe the odor of a necker chest?"
Fond Roommate: "As moth balls are to the man's dress suit, so cedar chips are to Milady's garments."
Southwest Missouri Teacher's College is planning to bring Alfred Noves, the English poet, to that institution this month.
David Scriviner, c28, was called to his home in Larned, Sunday, because of the serious illness of his mother.
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