PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1924 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of the University of STAFF Luther Edler Chief Ethan Edler Kathleen Edler Smart Editor Burt Edler Burton Edler Night Editor Bryan Edler Freshman Editor Joshua Edler Consultant Borrows, Dilwana George Church Curt Collins Carl Ferguson H. Wimberly Crump R. Wimberly Crump Bryan Brown Johan Jobach Corinne Adams BOARD MEMBERS D. Wihseger BOARD MEMBERS J. B. Emme J. R. Emme David Coffey Duffy Grace Young Peter Grosso Dipson Peter L. Hopkinson Mary L. Hooker Ruth Hillberg Hill Montclair Address, all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones FOUNDS Editorial department K. U. 75 Business department K. U. 60 PASSING THE BUCK MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1924 Every politician running for office can tell his harriers enough of the faults of congress to make their ears ring and make some of them wish they were able to take a cut of a congressman and then1 the ground with them. As if that would accomplish any definite goal. But a congressman now and then gets riled at getting raked up on the back. He turns and speaks a few dark words about the people he represents a Congressman Charles Brown does in Seaside's for September. Today the government is accused, and in a measure justly of being corrupt in its business. This same government represents a people that is lethalish in its responsibility to the government. It takes no special interest in what goes on in congress unless takes a decided jump or somebody uncovers a great scandal. Then society says oh! my! it's terrible! and stringaway forgets it. This people does not fire with an energy to get at the bottom of things. Congressmen need no one to carry their burdens of criticism. But the public must be awakened to its responsibility and must after being awaken, take an active part in making the government efficient, cutting cut the dead wood and placing in congress men who stand for the best that is in government, that they may truly represent the people. GETTING BY Charity may begin at home but it happens that some of our fellow students abroad need the charity a great deal more than we do. "Do you think it'll get by?" Well, what if it? Where does it get to you? Does it help you get on? Of course not. Anyone will admit that. It's just a temporary excuse, a boosting abend a few hours or days of the necessity for doing some real work. Maybe you even have acolonial enough imagination to believe you've accomplished something if you can saunter through college and get by with easy courses. But what are you getting that will help you get on? Yes, it's even possible to get by in a course. In fact it has sometimes been done. But what of that? If you ever want to know anything about the stuff you'll have to study it, and if you don't, what did you take it for? After all maybe we feel ourselves as often as anyone else when we think we're getting by. Women have one last leap before the new year comes on, and the opportunities of 1924 are gone forever. The poor fellow who sits at his this Saturday night may consider himself lucky or at least safe for a few more years. GETTING EDUCATED Pity the poor student. He is lectured to in class during the day. He is naked late in the afternoon to attend an outside lecture pertinent to the department. That night another lecture is announced by the administration. His own club is having an outside speaker for the evening. He likes the lectures. They permit him an opportunity to relax and forget for a period the enormous crest* full of activities that swing his existence. Occasionally he has a particular interest in the *sub* ject under discussion. Or the speaker may have a live personality that wakes a responsive note in the student. He becomes him: if more alive he resolves to become a little like that man. But at the end of his class room lectures long assignments have been given for library readings. The afternoon lecture cut into his time for outside study. The evening lectures were interesting, but the first occurred when he should have been busy pre-creating himself in line for reserve books; relating to his class assignment. The last lecture launced until library closing hours. The student learned some interesting facts at the lectures. His viewpoint was considerably broadened. But his outside reading was neglected. His study time was eliminated. His education was increased along one path - it was impossible at the same time to increase it along several. Some of the students in class, the next day may not have attended the lectures. They shine brilliantly that day in the classroom. A few of the students had paid no attention to either the lecture or the outside reading. They, like the student who had attended the lectures, remained silent. They are both the goats. Lectures on the Hill are stimulat ing. They are given from experience rather than theory. The student should hear them. But the student must eat. He must study. He must work problems and attend laboratory hours. He must keep up a percentage of his extra curricular activities. He is face with the problem of obtaining an education along several different line at once. He would like to attempt them all. It is impossible that they be accomplished. The student must choose. The lecture is the casiest skipped It is not generally referred to afterward by the instructors, while the class assignments are referred to ethically. The student will not see again like an accusing conscience the face of that particular lecturer whose displeasure he has incurred. He will not personally incur any displeasure by his absence from the lecture. Nevertheless the student feels that he is missing something. He would like to take advantage of all that it kindly University offers. He cannot Now that the Oklahoma game is over, let the same fellow who smoke t he weather man last Saturday, make a duplication of the order for the Thanksgiving day game. BALLOONS VS. PIGEONS BALLOONS VS. PIGEONS The stunts put on by the Oklahoma Jazz Hounds were clever and pretty, and yet many people would have enjoyed it more if the pigeons had not been used. Pitchably most of the birds rid themselves of the streamers before dark, but if they did, they were more fortunate than those released by the Aggie Wampus Catkinst year, for some of these birds were found the next day exhausted from carrying the ribbons. At any rate balloons look just as pratty and they surely cost no more. They are easier to transport and they are not left to shift for themselves behind a barren stadium through the winter. Why not balloons next time? The "defect list" shows that more students are suffering from fat feet and defective eye-sight than from anything else. The examination also proved that there had been a decrease of 10% in the number of smokers in this class than in the freshman class last year. The results of the physical exami- nation of freshmen at Syracuse, N. Y, show that 80% of the 680 men are physically fit. On Other Hills Nearly one third of the student ody, or 1300 students, at the University of Oklahoma received at least one condition or failing grade for the course, according to the leann of the liberal arts and sciences there. We all know that journalism students have high aspirations, still it hardly so necessary to put a sign "Presh Print, Please do not touch." Much enthusiasm is being aroused at the University of Oregon over the coming debate with Oxford. The question for d@athi is to be, "The Referendum is a desirable part of a representative government." The Oxford team is to take the affirmative of the Oxford team the negative side. Since leaving Lawrence the Oxford men have been working westward on their tour toward the const and will be in Oregon Dec. 3. At the University of Oregon a loan fund for freshman women was established this year which has already been utilized. The total amount of the fund is $50 and there is a limit of $50 for individual loans. The loans that have been made however are not limited. The loan fund is for freshmen women only and as yet no fund for freshman mea b can be established. A beauty contest for which Flie Ziegfeld, noted New York theatrical producer, will be judge, and in which coords of the Kansas. State Agricultural College will be entrants, is now being held at that school. Photographs will be made of each of the entrants and the prints sent to Mr. Ziegfeld for his personal impose and choice of the six most ones. The students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology can find no time to train for football or baseball teams, but in order to have a varsity crew they must spend time on the field, it sunrise and practice with light on their shell until after dark. The contest is being sponsored by the staff of the Royal Purple, the college annual. A series of tests to determine the influence of tobacco smoking on mental and efficiency, were carried out by Prof. Carl L. Hull of the psychology department of the University of New York, with significant tests, from an intellectual standpoint, were complex mental addition and rate learning. The evidence of the effects of smoking on a primary routine thinking is favorable to tobacco. Results in the case of rate learning are trivial to tobacco. 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