THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AGE TWO
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1924
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Athletics as it is run in universities has been severely criticised because it provides active participation for so few students. Thousands sit on the sidelines and yell themselves hoarse while eleven men engage in competition with the same number from another school. It has been pointed out that the method is essentially wrong and that it would be much better if athletics were not so specialized but more general in nature.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1924
THINKING AS A SPORT
There is no excuse for it. The field of thought is wide. No certain number is required to make up a team of intelligent and deliberative thinkers. No strict rules bind the players. Sucierality of technique is not required; each is allowed to play the game according to his pretensions.
Life would be enriched if more people would enroll in the sport of free thinking. Accepting at face value the opinions of others has a deadening effect upon society; new opinions are invigorating and liven the daily task. If more people realized this the world would be a more interesting place in which to live.
Athletics, however, is not the only activity in which a few strong people participate to the consequent disadvantage of countless others. The field of thought is occupied by a few giants and the rest of us sit on the bleachers clearing wildly but neglecting through other carelessness or lack of interest to do our own bit of free thinking.
If Parley Sheldon's of Ames, Iowa, who has saved a fortune by not smoking, set an example for college students, universities would be depopulated for there would no longer be the need of learning how to earn money.
Organized opposition to the twentieth (child labor) amendment to the federal constitution comes from two sources, manufacturers and farmers. Of these two groups, one, the agricultural, is under a misrepresentation as to the purpose of the proposed legislation. Their belief is that laws passed under the new amendment will prevent a farmer's children from helping in any way with the farm work. The manufacturers, on the contrary, see exactly what is intended, and are fighting to keep their supply of cheap child labor.
CHILD LABOR
The limitation of federal power is a Democratic party principle of long standing. If the legislature of the state of Arkansas, representative of the Solid South and the old time Democracy, had believed the proposed measure to be an infringement of the rights of the states, would they have passed the measure as readily as they did? It is doubtful.
The two principal arguments used by opponents of the amendment are verts, that it gives the federal government power which should be exercised by the states and, second, that it is "the imposition of idleness by law."
As for the "illness" argument, that is best met by pointing to the child labor laws of the various states which now have them. In these states one does not see children prevented from helping aid on the farm after school or, from helping mother with the housework.
Kannas already has a child labor law as skingected as any which the federal congress is likely to pass. In the state of Kannas one does not see the terrible effects of idleness which are predicted by the foes of a federal child labor law. It is just
as unlikely that such effects will be produced by any probable federal legislation. These shoouters of the "ilfulness" shibbeth bolts confuse the probable with the possible; if they were consistent, they would paint the terrible effects of a federal law prohibiting children under 18 from putting on their clothes in the morning or from the manual labor involved in the use of kelife, fork, and spoon in eating.
The 1923 Jayhawk Yearbook that remarked about the Journalism students' passion for making money for the department, must have been a little disappointed at the time, because sales weren't going so well.
REFORM
If persecuted agitators had despaired of ever swinging their reforms and lapsed into passive eynicism, America would be behind the times. To quote instances of the works of reformers would bore you as much as the reformers bore you. They do not realize it, but in being so unsuccessful and so dull, they are martyr.
The exact docket number of the reform is not remembered, nor is the cell number of the reformer; the only memory of memory that remains is that reform was about the church, and that the reformer was finally burned at the stake. Of course that happened a long time ago. They've quit burning them now. They put them on an investigation committee. But this is digression. The point was, if you are a reformer and your duty you become unpolish. If you don't do your duty you lapse into passive cynism, and that sort of thing being more or less in style, you become popular.
If you're neither a reformer nor a cynic, you're dumb.
WHAT'S THE REMEDY?
What's the remedy for the unfavorable publicity that the University of Kansas is getting out of her light on liquor? In an attempt entirely to stamp out violations of the national and University liquor rules, more unfavorable publicity seems out over the state than if the violations were simply ignored.
Kansas is exceptionally free from such trouble, due to the efforts of the administration, but when a case or two does come to their attention, they are so frank in handling them that the impression comes out over the state that it is a common occurrence here, when the contrary is true.
Anyone who attended the football games in some of the neighboring valley schools this year, will quickly realize how free Kansas is from such violations, and should appreciate the school that much more, but that does not take away the sting from the criticism that the University is receiving.
The common attitude in most of the towns of the state is that the students at this institution are a carefree bunch. That's why Kansas supports so many small schools. People will send their children to inferior schools as long as they think the University of Kansas is that kind of institution.
What's the remedy?
It might seem presumptuous to suggest that a few stories be sent out over the state showing how few liquor cases have been to be handled here this year, and in years just past.
It may also be presumptuous to suggest that students be fined credit hours for offenses, unless they became too flanger, and thereby eliminate unfavorable comment on the ousting of violators. But at any rate, something must be done to put the school right with the people of the state.
"How many D's did you get?"
"Three hours. How many did you get?"
O, good professor, why make us wait?
How dare you linger and hostage?
Bow down thine ear and hear the whistle.
Not so bad. How many did you want?
"None, of course."
Then what are you growling about?
And know 'tis time for class dismissal.
The House Mothers will have their meeting at Wieseman's 3 o'clock
Monday, Dec. 8.
GERTRUDE PEAERSON, Secretary
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
HOUSE MOTHERS:
Copy received at the Charcellier's office until 11:09 a.m.
Val. VI, Sunday, December 7, 1924 No. 74
CONVOCATION. UNIVERSITY WOMEN:
A convocation for University women will be held at 4:30 Monday, Dec. 8, in Fraser church. All freshman women are required to attend, and all others are urged to be present except those who are members of the Christmas Program Committee, meeting at the same hour in the Administration building auditorium. The latter meeting should be given preference.
JONES HURDAN (Town of
CONVOCATION, COUNTY CLUBS;
The class schedules will be adjusted Tuesday morning, Dec. 9, no to provide the usual conference hour for county club meetings. 10:10-5:40.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB:
The Socioology Club will meet at 7:30 Monday, Dec. 8, in Westminster
that Miss Vern Mora will be the host. The subject for the evening is
"How Sociology Impacts Society."
GERMAN CLUB:
RALPH SMITH, President.
The German Club will meet Monday, Dec. 8, at 4:30, in room 313 Fraser
LBO BEURING, President,
GROUP LEADERS AND HOUSE PRESIDENTS:
GROUP LEADERS AND HOUSE PRESIDENTS:
There will be no House Presidents' Council meeting until Wednesday,
Dec. 17. The All-Group party has been postponed until after the holidays.
TRESSIE MAY, Group Chairman
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7:45 to 8:44
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You will find this line most complete. There are furs from least expensive to the most rare of the expensive furs. Due to the fact that we are taking a very small percentage commission, you may purchase the furs at practically the manufacturer's cost.
Furs as Gifts
We cordially invite you to attend this showing of beautiful furs on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Deliveries made at once.
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