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VOLUME IX
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23, 1912.
GOV. WOODROW WILSON SPOKE IN GYMNASIUM
Ex-President of Princeton and Probable Presidential Candidate, Addressed Audience of 2,700 this Morning.
PRESENTED BY GOV. STUBBS
Says Universities Must be Source of Light that is Needed in the Politics of the Present Day.
Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey and a probable candidate for president of the United States, addressed an audience of over 2,700 persons in Robinson gymnasium this morning. Governor W. R. Stubbs introduced the former president of Princeton as the highest ideal of the American, and referring to the recent declaration of Mr. Wilson that "His hat is in the ring and his head is in it" stated that he knew the University audience would be pleased to hear him upon whatever subject he should choose.
Once again in the academic atmosphere, Governor Wilson appeared to appreciate getting away from political speaking and spoke as follows:
Surroundings Familiar
"It ites like old times to face a college audience. I was just thinking as I recognized the cheering and the kind of applause given by a university audience, of an artist, Oliver Hereford. At his club some man who just knew him gave him a sounding slap, and said, 'How are you?' Hereford writed and looked around.
"I don't know your face, or your name," said Hereford, "but your manner is very familiar." I feel that though I have not the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, your manner is very familiar.
"It is a very great luxury not to be obliged to make a political speech. I feel as if I would like to, just because I don't have to. I had a compact with my students that I could talk about anything in my class and that they were not to give me away. I have been talking politics ever since.
"I could talk in my classroom without it being reported. I never got into trouble until I got out of doors.
"A thought that is particularly pertinent this morning is, what we need in our politics just now is light and not heat. And the university of all places ought to be the source of light. I take no stock in a non-partisan man; we ought not to be non-partisan of the truth. A conviction held lightly is not a conviction at all. We ought to be ready to fight for a conviction either by argument or by concerted action. A university man should not hold things in a non-partisan but a judicial sense. He should not blindly take sides. A great deal can be determined only by the exercise of sound reasonable judgment. There is a great deal to be done and the only way is to choose between men and party, to make up your mind what there is to do, and who is best qualified in character and opinior to do it. That is all; but that's a good deal.
Fight For a Conviction
"There is a mistaken notion that our institutions are under indictment. The whole question we are debating is how to control by the common judgment of the nation; and how it can be prudently controlled and reformed. And in determining these things, we have to ask the question just as we would ask a question in a university class. For example: Can the tariff be based upon the relative cost of production in the United States and in foreign countries? The cost of production is something no man can determine Prof. Tausig's article in a recent number of the Atlantic monthly shows that the cost of production as a basis for tariff is a will-o'-the-wisp. That idea is a corpse, and it is worthless to delay the obsequies of the funeral. The cost of production is not the same cost in any two
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places, or any two mills or under any two superintendents. The cost of production is based upon the intelligence of the superintendent rather than the material elements involved in the reckoning. The business is to reduce the cost each year, and it is not the same from one twelve-months to another. Don't follow this will-o-the-wisp to old age and then find out that you should, as a boy have known better.
"The university man ought to know fact from fiction, reality from pretense. The truth should be laid bare to the bone. As old Dr. Holmes said, the truth is not an invalid, so do not be afraid of handling her roughly. In politics there ought to be reality and truth instead of pretense.
Hope in University Men
"The only hope is in this. Here in the West the more university men are coming more and more to the front in the daily affairs of their community, and this campus is the soil from which you are to derive the life of the nation.
"We hear a great deal about radicalism. We are all radical on the 4th of July but tend to be conservative on the other days of the year. In Virginia for example they experience a shiver when you speak of the initiative, referendum and recall. I take the liberty of laying before you the doctrine which was the soil out of which their constitution grew. the Virginia Declaration of Rights, always read on the 4th of July is that great commonwealth. It lays down the right of the people to control their own affairs; that public magistrates are the servants and trustees of the people and should be amenable to them at all times. You can't go further than that. The judgment of the people is the final test. Whenever they find their government unsuitable they have an indefeasible right to abolish it. Why the 4th of July and then draw back with a shivier from that July to the next July.
No Light Without Heat.
"These are the determining years years of your lives. If you do not see the point now you never will until some day when it is too late and you cannot 'come back.' Often the question is asked, 'what is the use?' "How will this study help me?" "What is the use of this gymnasium?" you might ask. Do you expect to do the double trappe with your partner in business? Do you expect to swing Indian club?
"We know there is no light without some heat, yet there ought to be some light without the heat of passion, the heat of prejudice. Discussions guided with a serene ray from the great unit versities. I am not one who considers a university education necessary for the salvation of the soul. I have met some as great fools within as outside a university. I know some outside that know more than some of my acquaintances inside. I do not believe all knowledge is found in the university circle. But to see the truth and follow it ought to be easier for a university man. A university man if he knows what he is in the university for ought to take a handicap against the other man. He has just that much start in training and experience. Most men do not know what they are in the university for. Once when I was discouraged I was comforted by a Yale friend. 'I have been teaching for twenty years,' said he, 'and I have found the human intelligence resourceful in resisting the introduction of knowledge.' A good many men think they are sent to the university by their parents for four years' of mental suffering.
Does anything in a gym like this strike you as particularly practical? You train you can stand the strain of life. You don't learn much. The amount of information you carry away from a great university negligible. Moreover, if it is science, it won't be in ten years. You are here in order to do the same thing for your mind as you do in the gymnasium for your muscle, to gret it in athletic shape so that any man who bumps into you had better look out. The strength and stamina of the athlete will enable you to do with you mind the tasks of life put on you. So with the morals. No man ought to stumble when a question of duty comes.
"I feel a great pleasure in coming before an audience like this. Why do you think of everything but your studies; everything but your mind, when it is the mind that will life Amerie? This country is not only factories and dollars. It is not what the eyes behold but what the spirit sees. Lift your eyes above the horizon of material things and then you will have seen the university vision and the vision of America.
BAND CONCERT IN FRASER WEDNESDAY
Thirty-ffve Members to Give Program of Classical and Popular Numbers
The University Band will give its annual concert next Wednesday evening February 28, in Fraser hall. Under the direction of J. C. McCandes the band has grown into one of the best college bands in the West and it exceeds in many ways the cadet bands of the Universities of Nebraska and Missouri.
There are thirty-five members this year and they will give a concert of classical, standard, and popular numbers. Mrs. Blanche Lyons, of the department of voice of the University, will be the solist for the evening.
The following program will be given:
March—Regimental Pride,
Overture—Plique Dame.
Mazurka—La Czarina.
Worstravski Minute by Paderowski.
Vocal Solo—Sevilla—Mrs. Blanche Lyons.
Overture—Le Lac Des Fees.
Selection from Spring Maid.
Selection from The Girl of my Dreams.
The Engineer's banquet has been changed from 6:30 to 7 o'clock and it is expected that when Taostmaster H. A. Rice rises to introduce the first speaker there will be at least three hundred men at the tables.
PROF. H. A. RICE A POET
There is a persistent rumor that Professor Rice became so inspired with the prospects of the banquet that he composed an original poem which he will read tomorrow evening. He intimates that there may be several things that are not all laudatory.
INFORMATION IS WHAT KANSAS NEEDS
People of the State Do Not
Know Their Great
University
SO SAYS GOV. W. R. STUBBS
Addressed Good Government Club
Last Evening—Judge Clark
Smith Also Spoke.
"I know, and you know of the great work the University is doing for the people of Kansas in the way of solving the practical problems of life, but four years of campaigning in every county in the state have convinced me that a great majority of the Kansas people are totally ignorant of the scope and extent of the activities that the University supports. To inform the people of the great work that is being done here, not only in a dollar and cents saving citizens, but also in making better citizens, is the debt that every student owes the state for the immense amount of money it expends every year to support the institutions of higher learning."
In these words Governor W. R. Stubbs, in an address before the Good Government Club last evening at the Sigma Nu house, referred to the relation of the University to the state.
The Governor's speech was entirely informal and after a few preliminary remarks regarding his attempts to infuse business methods in all state affairs, he said "the lid was off" for questions. Governor Stubbs is a firm believer in the doctrine that high school students should not be compelled to take classical subjects which will not be a direct benefit to them in solving the practical problems of life. He advocated more of the vocational subjects in our schools as a substitute for so much Latin, Greek, French, and German.
In closing he expressed a wish that all the members of the club would take a few days from school and investigate the various state institutions with a view to placing them on a more business-like basis than they are now.
Preceding Governor Stubbs' address, Judge Clark Smith of the Kansas Supreme Court made a short speech. He spoke primarily on the duties of a good citizen but took occasion to point out several of the fallacies in the argument for the recall of judges.
Blackmar Will Lecture Tomorrow Prof. F. W. Blackmar will lecture to men students in Myers hall on "The Prevention of Vice and Crime" at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, February 25.
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT
The average daily paid bona-
fide subscribers to the Daily
Kansan for January and Febru-
rary, 1912 are 1579
Exchanges, state and college
papers 710
Correspondent copies 66
Advertisers 75
Files for bound volumes 50
Total 2480
Press run 2525
The circulation of this issue
is 8,600 copies.
The Daily Kansan's circula-
tion books are open for inspection
of any bona-fide advertiser.
MILTON D. BAER,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to be
before me February 22, 1912.
My commission expires Dec.
26, 1914. E. B. CRONEMEYER,
Notary Public.
ELECT MUSSELMAN GLEE CLUB MANAGER
Position Placed on Honor Basis--Musselman Comedian of Trip
Special to the Daily Kansan.
Canadian, Tex. Feb. 22—John C. Musselman tonight was elected manager of the Glee Club for next year A rule also making the office purely honorary was passed. All the profits of the club will be turned over to the Student Council or student enterprise.
Graham and the Quartette were especially appreciated and were recalled several times. The real hit has been Musselman's comedy stunts which entertain the club as well at the audience.
In the concert here last night, the club scored a big hit. An excellent crowd was in attendance due to the good reports sent in from the other end of the division by train crews who had attended past concerts.
Professor Hubach has received news of the serious illness of his mother and is expecting to be called home at any time.
The Weather.
Mr. Thermometer and Mr.
Barometer were unanimous in
their opinion today that they
could not agree on anything
but unsettled weather. Mr.
Barometer said that there
would probably be snow
flurries tonight and Saturday.
FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN
A. M. Sturtovant J. A. Campbell E. M. Briggs A. A. Seipt H. O. Kruse Clara P. Newport W. H. Carruth Esther M. Wilson E. F. Engel Helen G. Jones Bruno Kiesewetter Alberta L. Corbin ist nicht dabei
DEUTSCHE STUDENTEN
GEBEN EIN LUSTSPIEL
Viele Mitglieder Des Turnvereins in Kansas City Sehen Auffuehrung
"DER BIBLIOTHEKAR"VON MOSER
Unter Leitung des Deutschen Departments der Universitaet Aufge-
fuehrt.
"Der DeutscheVerein," the German dramatic club of the University will present "Der Bibliothekar," a "a faree" March 28's theater, Thursday night.
Miss Patti Hiiatt who has had charge of many of the plays given here, will direct the play. Miss Hiiatt is a graduate of the expression department of the University School of Fine Arts and has had several years of professional experience in different cities of the state. Prof. A. M. Sturtevant of the German department will look after the pronunciation of the actors. The unique feature of the club is that it is the only dramatic club in its organization to the sole purpose of presenting to the German dramatic selections. Other universities have their vereins and these occasionally put on plays like the departmental plays here; but Kansas is the only university that has a club which hopes to put their play in the same class as the other dramatic productions with the same rules of eligibility.
The play has been arousing a good deal of enthusiasm among the large German population of Lawrence who are enthusiastic over being able to see an annual play in the tongue of their Fatherland. The management has received word from the German Turnverein in Kansas City informing him they will send a large delegation to Lawrence to witness the play. The Turnverein is a German society with chapters throughout the country and the chapter in Kassas City is one of the largest in the West.
"Der Bibliothekar," is a lively force that abounds in snappy speeches and quick action; and is known by many English theater goers under the English title of "The Private Secretary." The costumes will be furnished by the firm of Theodore Lieden of Kansas City. Edmund Doebhtold, the manager, is negotiating with the Shubert house to create the scenery. The garden scene of the second act will have to be built especially for this play.
The cast as finally selected is:
Marsland, a country squire.
... Homer Blincoe
Edith, his daughter. Vera Wessels
Harry Marsland, his nephew.
... F. Spreier
Lothair MacDonald, Harry's
friend posing as Dari Bil-
lothekar. ... Allen Wilber
Macdonald, Lothair's rich
uncle. ... Abe Goldman
Eva Webster, Edith's com-
panion. ... Rebeca Passon
Sarah Gilderm, governor of
Marsland's. ... Mildred Manley
Gibson, a tailor. .. Paul Schaefer
Mick.Dixon, Lothair's land-
lady. ... Mable Nowlin
Robert, the real bibliotekar
Edmund Bechtold
Jane, a maid. .. Beatrice Dalton
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