PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1925 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Passer of the University of Kentucky Editor-in-chief Associate Editor Associate Editors News Editor Newspaper Editor Nation Editor Nation Editor Taperwriter Edition Taperwriter Edition Almanac Editor Almanac Editor Journal Editor Feat. Drummond Amanda Macmillan Mantl Chief Editor Grace Pope George Vernon Harold Vernon Steve Merville Steve Merville Jerome Bauer Jerome Bauer Dana Gosman Dana Gosman **Board Members** Carl Coffey Booth Halley Borth Willey William Coney Dean Palmer Douglas Johnson Mary Lee Humberstone Jamie Martin James Carter Janice Murphy Business Manager John David McConnell Assist, Bus. Mgrs. Carl Coulter, Robert Hilti Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KAISAN Lawrence, Kansas PHONES Editorial department Business department MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1925 Since the "world order" have missed their guess, we might as well settle down and prepare for three first quizzes. If the *Rowanwens*'s opinion of the earth's population in correct, most of us could not escape quizzes by the world's any way. We would be relegated to the sort of place where we might expect then daily. SONG CONTEST The University golf club will enter in competition tonight in Convention Hall, Kauzers City, with six other gcls clubs for the purpose of determining the Missouri Valley championship. Athletic contests between universities are usual; musical meets are not so much so. Two hundred and fifty young men from various schools will take part in the contest. Representatives from the University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of Oklahoma, Iowa Agnes, Kansas Aggies, Washington University, and the University of Kansas will engage in song. The winner will be chosen among these and will be declared inter-college song champion. The contact should be an entertaining one. The program will have wide appeal. Each club in addition to its contact numbers will sing its own school song. It will be a great moment for Jawahers in the audience when the good old "Almun Athena" is rung—almost as thrilling a moment as when the football team on the athletic field sweeps over the line to victory. For, after all, this is a centered in song. PUBLIC OPINION AND PROHIBITION At the time the Eighteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution, it represented, most people believed, the deliberate choice of the nation. Apparently no important change in national life had ever been made with more general approval. Now, after five years' experience with national prohibition, the citizen feels that it has brought him face to face with one of the major problems in the science of government. An attempt to study the effects of prohibition minutely will show that it is a singularly unweaving quest. This fact has led to a new mass of propaganda and counter-propaganda with the net result that hasn't impaired in quite the dark as to the extent of illicit manufacture of liquor, or the extent of smuggling. Extreme statements on either side of the question whether prohibition is a success or a failure must be sharply discounted. Public opinion is hard to measure and the prohibition question has brought to light another angle of the public mind, namely "non-rational inference." Which is another way of saying that it is not the objective facts, but what people think about the facts, which conditions public policy in the long run. One need not feel that the prohibition laws will be immediately repealed, but the danger lies in the possible falling into disrespect and disuse which is a more certain rejection. The apparent problem is not primarily one of building up a strong agency for the enforcement of law but rather of moulding public opinion in favor of the law. Some writedocumentation mistake the organization which has supported prohibition has been the assumption that there exists a long-term reach of public opinion. favorable to prohibition to guarantee its permanence. Only the coming years will determine the fate of this law. Whether it shall become more respected or fall into direproper will depend largely on the ability of these supporting it. They must make it a working plan before it can be whole heartedly supported by public opinion. INDEFINITE PROFESSORS Too many professors are too indefinite. They allow students to elaborate their courses. Reminder about for almost an entire semester, and finally, near the close, they state in an unmistakable term the exact requirements which must be met before credit is allowed for the work. This it seems, is doing business in reverse order. Most students when they enter a class desire to know the exact nature of the work which in it to be expected of them. They appreciate being informed as to whether the instructor parties to or fails to claim merit. It is often necessary to recall something concerning the plan of the curse. Rare is the elax, however, which is conducted on this basis. A list of required readings usually is the entire substance of advance information. More through emphasis of material assistance to students. THE MUSICAL EDITORIAL An innovation at WTAS, the Eligia, $I_4$, broadcasting station, which promises to be both useful and permanent is the musical editorial. Little children dying and crippled by automobiles—thousands of them yearly—have impressed WTAS with their numbers. As a consequence the musical director of that station will sing every night "Beware Little Children," which besides being real music is something to capture reflection on the part of parents of small children as well as by motorists. While this song editorial with its element of deep pathos is a great contrast to the usual lazy or funnaking numbers of WTAS it will nevertheless be greatly appreciated by all who value the lives of children. FOOD AND ROLSHEVISM "The most effective cure for bad sleepwould be plenty of New England pie and brushed chicken" in the belief of Mrs. Helen Norman, National English teacher, who is visiting the United States. Political observers have written reports on bedfellow and its enemies, but it took a woman lawyer and cook to figure out the real underlying reason for the "red mansion." Refractors and interpreters of events can easily get their hands on high into the clouds of theory or he come so entrapped in the wode of varying hypothesis that they lose all sight of such common and all important matters as for instance, home training, home owning, fried chicken and an occasional cut of cherry pie. The cook has pointed the way out of inefficiency. Long live the road! Students walk as far as eight and a quarter miles between classes in a day, in the estimation of an Ohio State student, who has been wearing a pedometer. He further calculates that he would be four to eight miles daily between classes. One hour of military drill registered from one and a quarter to one and a half miles. By a series of questions he calculated three quarters of a semester a student would walk 1,770 miles going to classes, and that the total distance he would cover by students enrolled in the University at time would be 10,530,000 miles. On Other Hills The oil wells on the Texas University campus are yielding about 250,000 dollars a year in royalties. The money is being turned into the University's permanent endowment fund. The interest received from the royalties will aid in the construction of new buildings on the campus. A change has been made at the University of Ohio in the eligibility rules for students participating in activities. New students are no longer required to attend one year before they are allowed to participate in college affairs. As McGill University finds that women enjoy most of the distractions in college Libraries. The information was compiled by the department of psychology of the school. The main compass note is "learn," and common sense, oblivious, talitative. long no a student is not on probation he is eligible. neighbors, and a few other minor things. Sigma Delta Chi fraternity of the University of Texas is planning a journalism meeting. Members are co-operating with Intercollegiate League officials in grading the editions of the newspaper to the journal conferences. YOU WILL LUAGH WHEN THE THREE WISE FOOLS sing an opera-eratic air YOU WILL ROAR WHEN THE THREE WISE FOOLS tell Sydney good night IN FACT YOU WILL LEARN to say goodnight properly from THE THREE WISE FOOLS BOWERSOCK FEB. 23-24 RESERVATIONS NOW! YOU WILL LUAGH WHEN As Lasting As The Memories of College Days- HERE is a pen as imperishable as thought—a fit companion of study hours—a ready tool for the brain that thinks and the hand that writes. And when these red-blooded days have long since dropped over the precipice of life into the abyss of time, your College Conklin Endura will still be for you—an actuality surrogated by a mellowed memories. $7.00 and $1.00. THE CONKLIN PEN MFG. CO. TOLEDO, OHIO TOLEDO BOSTON CHICAGO Red, Black, Mabagoy. Fitted with "the clip that can's clip" or grip on cap. Try one at your favorite supply store. 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People who buy without regard to advertising nowadays journey at high cost in roundabout ways, to make their purchases where dollars are dubious. For the shrewd buyer of anything, in our times, sends his money to market the straight, sure way, guided by advertising. All the risk these days is in going 'round Robin Hood's barn. Buying on the strength of the advertised promise is the way to buy with least risk of disappointment and greatest certainty of satisfaction. MAKE USE OF THE ADVERTISEMENTS!