PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1925 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of the University n. Editor-in-chief Edward A. McKinley Autobiographer Bob Fennman Fellow Editor Mary Lee Hoppopuloff Night Editor Elaine Kinner Editor Larry Page Marshal Editor Peter M. Johnson Paperman Editor Petra M. Kahnweider Philippus Kutter Kohlberger Editor Gerald L. Levy BOARD MEMBERS Curt Collins B. Winterson Cooper Brown Brown Ralph Haber Nave Murray Grace Leary Todd Duncan Matt Claremore Dulcine Dulcine Matt Claremore Business Manager John Flournish III Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY RANCHER Lawrence, Kansas PHONES Editorial department E. II, 23 Business department E. II, 48 "I don't that a poor note?" remarked Gorgeph MeBass, as he received notice of a funk in music. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1925 Why don't they make to Perlian prince the hero, and call the picture "The Beef of Bagdad"? Now that they are getting the Hill out of politics, reformers might turn their energies to the Hill politicians. From the feel of the weather the sun has gone into a more permanentclipse than the astronomer seems to realize. Serratching on the plaster of a Kansas City courthouse ceiling belayed a torpedo's attempt at escape. And serrailing with a pen beeyaked his attempt to make money. HOWDY One of the greatest features of University life is the privilege it offers to make new acquaintances. It makes a feature which is neglected by many. It may be that students are more friendly at K, U, than at the average larger university that takes them always opportunities to make new friendship of which we do not take advantage. One need is better acquaintance with members of the faculty. There are some instructors who, without looking at their class roll-back do not know the names of some of their students. It is rather embarrassing to a student to call his/her hand to recite, and then have the folder call him by a wrong name, or stampm, "Mr., or Mr.,-" then look at the class record in order to get the correct name. This is explainable during the first two or three weeks when they are so many new faces and the usual additional difficulties which accompany the opening of a new emester, but there seems little excuse for continued mistakes until the end of the semester, if the student is regular in attendance. Part of the fault undoubtedly lies with the student. It may be he does not do his share in recitation in the class. This seems to indicate that something should be done by both students and faculty to make for better acquaintance. A certain student has enrolled in "radio theory" with the sole desire of becoming able to take the static out of his set. Civilization is largely a matter of prevention. Though modern man is no more able than was his prehistocratic ancestor to alter the working of physical, economic and social laws, he is able, by reason of a better understanding of these laws, to avoid their consequences. LAWS OF NATURE It is just as true as ever that a person struck by lightning will be killed, but modern man, through his knowledge of electricity, has learned to equip buildings with lightning rods and thus to prevent the accumulation of a charge large enough to do damage. The person of the present day who contracts the germs of a deadly disease is just as likely to die as was the inhabitant of Europe during the Black Plague. The impact of two swiftly moving bodily will cause just as much destruction today as it would have done in the year 2000 B. C. But man evolved means of preventing such impacts, as witness the railroads systems of block signals. A man of the present era is more likely to succumb to starvation than to the Neanderthaler, but today we have evolved gigantic methods of food distribution which take from the land and give to the place where famine rage. Runicuous tyrants are as prone today to a compulsive for themselves at the expense of their neighbor as weave the knights out. But they now have Most of our enderows up to the current time have been based on our knowledge of physical laws. With our compact of them, we thought about new social conditions which are not so easily understood nor so readily reminded when they go wrong. The enderows in this chapter are creatively devoted to discovering the laws of human intuition and human relations. Some students' grades are like submarines; they are all under "Cs." IMPOSING ON THE TAXPAYER The landowner, who is usually the farmer, pays the largest share toward the building of good roads. That is he pays the highest share in proportion to the extent which he uses them. The motorist pays for his auto license and thinks that he is doing his share toward good roads. The track drivers and bus drivers pay their fees and think that they are entitled to good roads 363 days out of the year. The farmer pays the same fees for running a car and farm truck over the public highways. But the farmer, the landowner, is bearing the brunt of the initial expense of a new gravel or concrete road and at the same time sharing equally with the city fellow on its upkeep. One hundred and alight acres in Cheekee county, Kannan, burdened by one-half mile of new city road, river-gravelled, costs its owner $600.00. This sum is extended over a period of twenty years or duplicated if paid in cash. The average farmer uses the road very easily. Preparing her drivers to town three times a week, a distance of a few miles. In the fall and spring months, he tilts his crops, but rarely turtle those beyond the first local suburb. Wholehouse houses in large and small cities are the chief users of trucks in distributing their goods to small towns. Each morning an array of trucks radiates from the city carrying fresh meat, vegetables, and supplies to nearby towns. Heavy moving trucks, oil trucks, coal trucks, mining trucks, fuel trucks, and produce trucks are now operating between cities. Thruddering and grinding along these three, five and seven truck are wearing and wearing out the roads. Another new road mnemonic is the heavy passenger bus operating between cities and grinding roads into dirt with its weight and speed. It is fair that these trucks and buses should wear out the roads and share their upkeep on the same basis as motor cars? Trucks and buses are dependent on the roads for their operation and income; they should contribute more to their upkeep. Trucks and buses are competing more than ever with railroads for local freight and passenger traffic. Railroads charter and build their own roads, maintain them, and pay taxes on their property. The taxpayer—the landowner more than anyone else—furnishes the roads. Trucks and buses use them without paying in proportion to their use and wear on the roads. Companies operating trucks and buses should either charter and build their own roads as does any railroad corporation dealing in freight and passenger traffic, or they should by law be compelled to pay a much higher license fee. Inspectors should be stationed along public highways to detect overloaded trucks for it is these that wear most on the roads. It is only fair that this new trend in modern travel and transportation be regulated and made to bear its share of expense as a business enterprise. Uniform regulation must come from state or national legislatures. For the New Semester Just good lines of standard, staple Student Supplies F. I. CARTER STATIONER 1025 MASSACHUSETTS ST. - Show Your Colors - The New Pin Red and Blue Enamel KANSAN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS DANCING CLASS Saturday Morning Ecke's Hall 9:00-12:00 Yes just in A big shipment of Crane's Chocolates The best candy in town $1.00 a pound in new and beautiful boxes Reese's Drug Store 929 Mass. Where should you send your skirts and waists to have them conditioned? ASK LITTLE BOY BRIGHT HE'S RIGHT! We pay particular attention to the cleaning and pressing of your clothes and you'll greet the springtime with a warm cup of tea. Simply if you phone us to call for your garments. Lawrence Steam Laundry PHONE 383 NEW HATS In each fascinating new colors are: Sunghoo, Bhutto, Metteem, Morning Green, Pablo, Tung Fung, Gris, Fochum, Sand and of course in White or Black. Just the right touch of straw and color. You will find here the small poke; the flower-toque; the simple hat with the bow; the draped turban; the faille silk and straw hat; felt hats to wear with kasha costumes; embroidered hats; hats with top port motifs. All express in some delightful Parisian way the vogue for the dimpled and crushed crown. FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR BOWERSOCK Tonight - Tomorrow Gay With The Spirit of Paris and Spring Tonight - Tomorrow VARSITY "Peter Pan" Monte Blue— Marie Prevost $10 "The Lover of Camille" ORPHEUM Week-End Show - - Tonight - Tomorrow Harry Carey in "Tiger Thompson" Douglas McLean in "Never Say Die" Coming Soon Constance Talmadge in "Learning to Love" HAVE YOU RENEWED YOUR KANSAN SUBSCRIPTION ?