PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of the University Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Assoc Editor Editor Sunday Editor Night Editor Night Editor Guest Editor Korean Guest Pakian Guest Rain Tape Editor Bank Tape Editor Journal Editor Teacher's Edition Teacher's Edition Lettuce Editor Lettuce Editor Other Board Members Francis Deierli Elisbeth Ellis Vien Cam Mike Dawley Dick Matthews Mildred Cutter * Dick Matthews Jacqueline McNeil Marrith Levine Louise Sweig Mary Lee Lupin Hipolita Crone Mary Lee Lupin Business Manager John Floyd McCaffett Aasn. Htt. Migrs. Carl Coffelt. Robert Hill Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Entered as second class mail master Reporter on March 1, 2007. Under the orders of March 2, 1987 and March 2, 1996 week and Sunday morning by students in the U.S. Military from the Press of the Department of Aeronautics. HONES Editorial department K. U. 22 Business department K. U. 64 FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925 ПРОИЗВОДЕ Cheese and Hindenburg are still strong in Germany. The Prince of Wales recently wrote some verses. Heaven help us if he sets a style in such things. A bread knife is listed as a part of a down town clothing sale. Personal hardware, we suppose. Many a man does his best work when he is rushed to the limit. And many a girl is happiest when she in a tight squeeze. --- --will have to take charge of it, to make reservations for those who so desire. It is certain that when the trees and vines reach a stage of obscurity, those desiring the use of the bench will have to make arrangements several months in advance. Now they are transporting planes by air. Some fellow will be having his new car delivered by plane one of these days. President Coulidge says he does not enjoy fishing. Well, we can readily understand why: Most of the fun in a fishing trip comes from talking about it afterward. PLACING THE BLAME The new motor lawn mower is causing traffic violations a lot of worry. Its purr sounds strangely like an approaching motor cycle patrolman. Maybe if the operator had a police whistle we wouldn't need a traffic cop. Students and towns-people are occasionally guilty of ignorant and destructive criticism of the Lawrence police force through lack of understanding. If an officer is called to appear on the spot immediately and comes an hour later, the citizen expresses his feelings about the rotten service the police force gives. He ends by calling up the desk sergeant or the chief-of-fice and giving that gentleman a piece of his mind. Mr. Citlinson lets things go with that. He solidly thinks about the fact that there are a mayor and a city council back of that police force. He never says anything to jerk the council into action. He never investigates to find that Lawrence is not up to the standard of other towns of its size in police protection. The city now has eleven to do the work for which most cities of this size provide fifteen. The Lawrence police force is one of the lowest paid organizations in the state. Ninety to one hundred and ten dollars a month for twelve hour service 353 days in the year is not a very high price, especially when in the service asked a man must often risk his life. He does not enjoy listening to the sickening whine of a lead slug as a pistol barks. There is nothing pleasing to him in taking an intoxicated student in for breaking the cigarette law. But these things are in the line of his duty. After all, our attention might fittenly be turned to the way in which Lawrence citizenry handles its protective agencies. A little more cooperation on the part of students and citizens, together with better salaries and more men on the police force, would materially affect conditions in Lawrence for the better. Oklahoma City celebrated the anniversary of the opening of the "strip" by a miniature *run* for lots just outside the city. That's nothing we have a run for choice seats at every convoction. FAR-AWAY-ITIS For ten long minutes he sat in the library looking straight ahead and never moving an eye lash or a muscle. Before him lay a volume of Roger's Student History of Philosophy, but he stared straight ahead. Before his eyes passed pretty girls and comer 'bys; friends spoke and teachers bowed, but he looked straight ahead through them and saw nothing. It was doubtful if he would have noticed a passing fire engine or a cyclone. This poor student is only one from hundreds of students who are suffering from an epidemic of far-away itis. You can find victims of this disease all over the campus. They sit in the common weakly clutching a bun—yet looking far, far; away they sit in every class with their eyes on the window; porches are crowded with them in the evenings, and the library is always full of them. No one will ever confess what he no one does or does in these long periods of flight from this world, and a sympathetic friend should never press the question. It is just a bad, true fact, and no cure has yet been discovered. "African Chief a Repeater"-reads a headline in a recent paper. Hassar the old standard Big Ben gone one of date for early morning risers? Wristley might have been the man who put gum into "pumption," but these perpetual chewers have long since eliminated that quality in their methods. The whistle on the machine south of the campus certainly arouses a lot of false hope. HOPE DIES HARD The seniors of 1925 have been compelled to give up their most cherished dream. This dream was more important to them than senior exemption from final examinations, than a successful Cake Walk, or any of the usual entrusiasm of outgoing classes. The cap and gown tradition which the seniors of 1925 wished to revive and for them a spiritual significance. They looked forward to commencement night as one of the most important events of their lives. They want it to have all possible elegamity and beauty. For the faculty to appear in cap and gown was one way of accomplishing this. The faculty has definitely refused the senior request. The vote taken showed that more than half of the faculty desired to appear in the traditional garb, but a ruling made a two-thirds majority necessary. The motion was lost by sixteen votes. Not only have they refused to make possible the dream of the seniors of 1925 but they also announced that the question is settled for the two following commencements. The seniors of 1925 are sorry. They were not selfish in their desire. They wanted the tradition to become established for the sake of their junior and sophomore friends and all those who will follow in their footsteps. This year the faculty reconsidered the question however, after a vote had been taken. It is possible that if the seniors of 1926 are equally strong in their desire for the establishment of the cap and gown tradition, the many faculty friends of the movement may assist in bringing it before body again next year. The seniors of 1925 hope so. Automobiles are attacked as being undemocratic on the campus, but daily experience shows that both plebeian and patrician are flimble to be struck by one. FREE PARKING SPACE Vines and evergreens are being planted around the Pi Phi bench near Blake hall. Yes, the weather is lovely—balmy, mild, calm. The view over the Wakarusa valley is enchanting. In the far distance hills rise cut of the haze like bold shadows. Above, a pale moon diffuses her light over a fair earth, with a flaky cloud here and there obscuring the light. But evergreens grow slowly. It will be five years at least before they will be of any use, although they do have an ornamental value now. And this is the season when the bench is constantly in use. In fact some one In the moutheast, the tell-tale light at the head of the steps leading up to the south slope cuts a revealing glow for a radius of fifteen or twenty yards. How fortunate that the bench comes within this radius! Thus it goes in life. All advantage is counterweighted by some disadvantage, and all pleasure has its displeasure. But the bench does serve a useful function even now. The tired student resting the weary alpaca paures for rest. A strolling couple may stop to look in wrpt wonderment at the distant landscape, in spite of the efforts of some practical joker who transferred one of the "No Parking here" signs to the proximity of the bench. A Lawrence policeman apologized after shooting at a cook in a local restaurant. These little nictices gave a long ways in making life more pleasant if not more secure. --retraining him to my own. And your eyes, ah yeen, your eyes— Hew's vault is blue. And all my treasure, too, Is hid within the vault Of your blue eyes. Campus Opinion Editor Daily Kansan: In answer to the article by F. S, it may be pointed out that the writer has not taken subjects in all schools of the university and that he is as interested in the whole system as demos the whole system on his own experiences. I can name courses where originality is courted, where formulas are disregarded and where the outside problem the better the instructor is pleased. I can also point out courses where the term reports are simply a device of giving credit for individual and original ingenuity when text books are not used where text books are not used. With no intention of casting any personal reflections on the writer of the recent article I wish to suggest that after all he is speaking from a limited experience and is assuming a great deal when he purports to speak for the whole student body. I doubt that he would admit that he was attacking no problems except those for a course requirement. There are a lot more of us who have taken from musty text books, and originality-clamping formulas. But in a number of courses students can deal with problems which are bigger than the class room—and get credit for it. E. V. C. Perhaps, for the thinking minority he University curriculum is an "artificial environment"—and a an "artificial environment" is to be avoided in his treatment of mind. Some remedy must be prescribed for their bleeding souls. To suggest another university as a tonic for the cerebration of the free technicians is futile. But that "undoubtedly it is the same at most school!" (Ah, the injustice of it all!) Other remedies such as an alteration of the curriculum or an abolition of the curricula may be necessary. They may come later—they may! "E. S." wishes to tackle the "problems as problems, not as problems for a course requirement," or the "the curriculum" or the "technique of learning" to keep him from joking his hair from his scalp ever any problem seed planted in his mind by his instruction—one who cares to plant such seeds. If there is "too broad a chasm between our life and thinking inside the classroom and our life and thinking outside the classroom" there is too broad a chasm between labor and recreation that "there is too broad a chasm etc." TO GLADYS But "F. S." can have all problems he likes. He can steak them as if he expected life imprisonment if he didn't solve them. In fact nobody is excluded from the solving bee as long as the problems last. George, some problems for the gentleman! J. S.P. You are wholly lovely in my eyes, Dare heart The red gold of your hair ... And all my heart is yours. The white that roots so lightly on your brow A warm flame, in my heart. Book Notes Hazel Eberhart, c'25. --- In Numerous Treasure, Robert Keable has maintained the rather high level of writing and the unobtrusive philosophy; unduhdrusive because it is good and sound, that marks his earlier books. Numerous Treasure is a tale of South Sea island, a tale that is sincere, real, interesting, and above all enjoyable. In his characterization, not only physically and mentally, but morally and spiritually as well. NUMEROUS Robert Keable. Sena.) TREASURE, by (G. P. Putnam's On Other Hills Numerous Treasure, a native of Karna-karn, is a beautiful girl whose simplicity of manner and soul win the love of Ronald Herrick. Tony Vercles, George Quiney may not have been the most known direct from life and the dramatic values heightened just enough to make most convincing to us. It is remarkable that the modern literary world can boost of a man whose work is no contradiction in books is very near the others in literature merit, a thing to be said of few other novelists of the present day. By H. W. Fisk. THE RIDDLE OF THE SPINNING WHEEL, by Mary and T. E. Hemsham. (Doubleday, Page.) This is another term for the weakness of plot, and the immutable details so unsatisfactorily explained and the style. Someway someone is going to write a detective story that will have some really new idea in it, and not depend for post-mortem analysis of some mechanical marine and the mobility if a detective's face. THE SKYROCKET, by Adela ROGERS St. Johns (Commontial) This book will be read by the common crowd with great grit and rave enthusiasm. It is even slight powers of analysis will throw it away for what it is—trash. At Correll University somewhat of a unique party was held on April 16 when the members of the junior class attained those of the senior class. The champion interfraternity baseball team of Iowa State College defeated the university coaches by a score of 22—15. As a result of a recent argument at Oregon University the student paper has printed a list of the times wern traditions of that school. The paper lists how students are on the campus; and whenever you meet anyone say "Hello." Of 700 high school seniors who applied for entrance to the New York City College, only 252 had high averages of 75 per cent or greater. Two students at Creighton University have been expelled from school for alleged affiliations with Theta Nu Epsilon. John Phillip Souza has written a walk which he has defended to the students and faculty of the University of Michigan. It has been mined "The Co-eds of Michigan" and in now the hands of the printers. Playing in nine simultaneous chess games against nine opponents, a stu- oent at the University of California won six of them. The "Yellow Crab" is the name of a humorous publication at Depawe University. The stadium union memorial fund at the University of Oklahoma reached its halfway mark Friday, more than a half-million pledged. Notice has just been received by the officials of the Musonic club at the University of Arizona that their petition to Square and Compass, named favorably acted upon by that body, installation of the chapter will take place next Sunday. This chapter will be the forty-eightth one in number, and it is intended that the eighth national fraternity in the campus at Arizona. --the new four-bank office machine, that's portable. See it first. Plain Tales From the Hill A student with a sympathetic turn of mind suggests that when the ex- clamation mark is used in the words, "And now the me- ncholy days have come" he put at the top of the column. Will the "prepared" motion picture strip taken at the Kansas Rangers of the stadium spectators or their feet, where they were known as, "Tam go wild when Kansas Quarter-Mile League Team breaks World's record"? A visitor at the Engineer *E*ash. bits was calmly combing his hair to note the mirror in the "room on top" of the room labeled "How's Your Complexion"? Another visitor took one glance at his own glossy reflection and while heating a hasty retreat said, "Gosh, you're there long enough to comb my hair." To advertise her ability as an artist one young lady is going to paint Venetian water scenes around the village of Montauk in southern strawberry-colored" cocker." Because Professor Lehman, of the department of education, jokingly called the Prince of Wales "the Prince of Whales" he has formed the habit, and is now a regular member of their team from referring to the royal personnel as such a prince. Do you contemplate the purchase of a Typewriter or the rental of one? If so, see— CORONA Exercise your own judgment. We will stand hitched for time payments, low rentals or anything. F. I. CARTER Stationer 1025 Mass. Phone 1051 College Graduates The life insurance agent of today has the reputation of being the most efficient, the most reliable, the most dependable and hardest working man in the community. Is he well paid? Here is the answer of one young Missouri college man reporting on thirteen months' work: Calls, 1000; interviews, 700; sales, 229; commissions, $5258.76; average earned per call, $5.25; average earned per inter- view, $7.51. No capital required in this business except brains and energy. Several splendid openings in Missouri and Kansas, with coaching and training under experienced salesmen. Address W. B. DAVIS & SON 1321 Commerce Bldg., K. C., Mo. Always Ready to Serve Kaw Valley Ice Cream Sunday Special A two-layer brick of Vanilla and Cherry Nut; at the same price as a plain brick, any other day. Kaw Valley Creamery Manufacturers of "Kaw Valley" Ice Cream-"Kaw Valley" Butter "Pure, Body-Building, Delicious" Phone 820 2nd annual musical festival week in Lawrence Tickets Reserved NOW Round Corner Drug Store Bell's Music Store K. U. School of Fine Arts THE Messiah 400 VOICES LAWRENCE CHORAL UNION AND 50 VOICES BAKER UNIVERSITY CHORUS WITH UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND SOLOISTS Sunday April 26-8 p.m Robinson Gym. Prices 75c and $1.00 Fickets Are Ako Now on Sale for the Verdl "Requiem," Thursday, April 30, 8 p. m.