UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANS*
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
LORIS LOACS
Editor-in-China
EARLE MILLER
Shotting Editor
BARRELL MILLER
BUSINESS STAFF
IRE E. LAMBERT ... Business Manager,
J. LEWISMAN ... Assistant, Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
STANLEY PINCKETTON
L. F. MEISNERN
JOHN MADENN
ROBERT SELLERS
RICHARD GARDENER
RUSSELL CRLANK
WM. FERROSSON
EDWARD HACKNEY
Battered in second-class mallet mata,
and shot by law enforcement,
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TUESDAY. APRIL 9, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Pride that dines on vanity, sups or contempt.
THE LURE OF NEWSPAPERDOM
THE LURE OF NEWSPAPEROS
The Kansas paragrapher who said,
the other day, that in view of the
uncertainty of the financial returns
from the business, not more than
four hundred of the four hundred
seventy-five graduates of the University
this year were expected to enter
the newspaper field, overlooked
the fact that the state editorial association would hold its annual meeting here at the University. He should raise his estimates if he cares anything about his record as a forecaster.
Every University student has doubtless known something about editors, but few of them have had, before this week, the opportunity of seeing a representative body of editors together in state assembly as important as the one now in session in this town.
The judgment of the student can not be other than that he is meeting a mighty fine lot of men and women. They are men and women who bear public responsibilities—who regard their obligations seriously and discharge them faithfully. They are men and women who have learned charity towards their fellows by a long and thorough course in the observation of human frailties. They are people of genuine worth unmarked by the cheap label of ostentation. They are the sort of men and women whose faces and whose words bear witness to the genuineness of their lives and the worthiness of their calling.
No, if four hundred of us were headed into the newspaper game yesterday, there are a lot more moving in that direction today.
A LOAFING PLACE
Many of the editors who are with us now were doubtless, at some time or another, students at the University, and they all know some of the students who are here now. Some time when the editors hold their meeting at the University again, the Kansan hopes that they will have a common meeting ground—a loafing place where men can be at ease.
How fine it would be if all the old students along with the others who are guests of the University for the first time, could step over to the Students' Union building to rest and talk and do positively nothing for an hour or two. Sit there in the great spacious smoking room enjoying their visit in the large, easy chairs—the immense, luxurious kind with deep, soft cushions in which the tired sight-seer could lie back at full length and rest till "the cows came home." There he could brace his feet upon the fender of the fire-place, or if he wanted to go high while he is here, he could put them on the mantel piece. There would be books and magazines, papers—yes, solid comfort for the men, a place where they could bend all their efforts on the defeat of that fagged-out feeling.
Shortly before the Christmas vacation, a campaign for such a Men's Student Union building, was started
by the Student Council. The efforts of the entire student body were solicited and a report of the results of the work done during the vacation was promised, when the returns should be tabulated.
Nothing has been forthcoming yet. No financial statement has been published showing the status of the Men's Student Union fund—the plans that were so elaborate have not been developed—apparently nothing has been done. At least the silence that accompanies mention of the Union presses nothing and it grows not only monotonous but also alarming.
The members of the Student Council who are in charge of the Union fund could start now their campaign for the summer vacation, a time when a great deal of work should be done in the interest of the Union—when the students meet the people over the entire state and have the time to show them that such a building is actually needed on the campus of the University and that the people of the state should provide it. Is it not time to begin the work of the summer campaign for the Union and this time prosecute it to the fullest extent?
LOCAL HISTORIC SPOTS
Lawrence is a city of great histori interest. As the headquarters of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company and the principal free-state settlement, it became the storm center of the territorial struggle and as that struggle was the immediate prelude of the Civil War, it can scarcely be claimed that even Boston or Old Virginia were the sources of many of these events.
the scene of events of more far reaching and vital importance.
Some four years ago, under the auspices of the department of history in the University, assisted by subscriptions from leading citizens in the town, a woman was made matron with appropriate training and taught the points of more special interest.
Seven spots of historic interest were marked at that time.
A tablet at the office of the Pierson Milling Co., on Massachusetts street between Whinthrop and Pinkney designeated for the fin'f house built in Lawrence.
A marker on the west side of Ohio street, just north of Berkeley, locates the site of the famous Old Unitarian Church, where many of the free-state mass meetings were held and the public school in Kansas was opened.
A tablet set in the north wall of the New Eldridge House marks two events: the burning of the Free-State Hotel by Sheriff Jones in May of 1856 and another same site of the Eldridge House by the infamous Quantrill in August of 1863.
A marker about the middle and on the west side of the 1100 block on Louisiana street indicates the site of Governor Robinson's first house, which was burned on the same day that Sharon Jones destroyed the Free-State Hotel.
Two markers commemorate other incidents in Quartill's raid. One on New Hampshire street, between Berkeley and Warren, locates the camp of a score of unarmed recuits, mostly boys, who were shot down in cold blood by Quartill's band and the other on Winthrop street, between Indiana and Louisiana, marks the point at which Griswold, Baker, Thorpe and Trask were murdered. A marker just in front of Fraser Hall on the campus indicates the location of the Union camp in 1863 after the Quartill raid.
A handsome monument at Oak Hill cemetery, erected in 1895, marks the resting place of the remains of the one hundred and fifty victims of the tragedy. The memorial points will help to vivify the tragic scenes in the early history of Kansas.
On the Thacher property, south of the house recently built by Professor Kester, are the distinct remains, as yet unmarked, of the earthworks that were used as an outpost of defense both in territorial and civil war times.
A WAGGONER was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy way. At last he came to a part if the horse, and he half-way into the mine, and the more horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels. So the Waggoner threw down his whip, and knelt down and prayed to Hercules the Strong. "O'er Hercules, you are too distressed," quoth he. But Hercules appeared to him, and said:
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
'Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get in and put your shoulder to the wrist.'
The gods help them that help themselves
Courtesy of the Inland Printer.
THE HUMORS OF A PRINT SHOP
"By jing, that boy o' mine has the makin's of a great editor, hain't he?"
HOW TO KNOW THE CAMPUS
Directions are printed below that will enable visitors to find their way to points of interest in and around the University grounds.
The steep paved street up the hill runs east and west. The long cinder paved road along the crest of the hill runs north and south.
Contains on the first floor, the largest and most complete natural history panorama in the world. On the second floor is the collection of birds. On the third floor the great Snow entomological collection and the paleontological specimens are on exhibition.
Museum. First building on the west side of Oread Avenue the street that enters the campus from the north, on top of the hill.
Spooner Library. Across Oread Avenue from the Museum. Contains 60,000 volumes.
Green Hall. With the four tall columns. Law Building.
WOMEN WHO ARE IN THE GAME NOW.
Fraser Hall. Large stone building with twin towers. From the roof of this building, 300 feet above the valley floor, is the finest panoramic landscape view in Kansas. Chancellor's office and business office on the first floor.
Physic Building. At the south end of the campus, the building with the peaked roof.
Medic Building. Small stone building with the bright tin roof. Southwest and to the rear of Fraser hall. Formerly home of the School of Medicine, but now contains the printing plant of the University Daily Kansan, the largest college daily in the United States. Members of the staff will be glad to show visitors about the plant.
Fowler Shops. Long low building at south side of campus. Machine shops. Exhibition of work done by engineering students.
Women have taken a prominent part in making newspaper history in Kansas, and many of them are enlisted in the work at the present time.
Chemistry Building. Large building with the chimneys, first west of Green hall. Chemical laboratories.
Administration Building. Left wing of building to be erected in the next three years.
The women editors of the state on August 1, 1911 were:
Golf Links. Smooth green south of McCook field.
Robinson Gymnasium. On the south side of Marvin road, the east and west road across the campus. Opposite the Administration building.
Potter Lake. In the hollow north of Marvin Hall. Swimming, skating, boating. Annual regatta.
Anna Mallows, White Cloud Globe; Mrs. O. C. Kirkpatrick, Winchester Star; Miss Lizie Shafer, Meriden
Haworth Hall. Square stone building west of the Gym. Geological collections. Mining laboratory.
McCook Field. North end of campus. Athletic field. Here the Tiger's Tail will be twisted again next November.
Marvin Hall. Western most building on campus. Engineering classrooms.
Ledger; Mrs. Florence M. Hopkins, Leavenworth Home Record; Mrs. S. H. Hartough, Old Ladies' Journal, Leavenworth; Nanon L. Herron, Topeka Daily Legal News; Irene Mehl, Washburn Review, Topeka; Helen W. Ball, Indian Leader, Lawrence; Grace A. Wallace, Interstate News, Rosedease; Josephine Conger-Kancke, Progressive Woman, Girard; Mrs. Augustus Wilson, Wilsonton Journal; Mrs. W. E. Payton, Florence Bulletin; Bertha Lewis, Osage City Public Opinion; Mrs. L. E. Baldwin, Abilene Democrat; Pearl Barton, Herrington Times; Mrs. Alice G. Young, Our Messenger, Downs; Mrs. T. H. Shearan, Chapman Advertiser; Mrs. E. E. Shannon, Barnes Chief; Mable Wray, Norton H. S. Quill; Josephine Himes, Russel H. S. Bugler; Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, Kinsley Graphic; Mrs. O. B. Doze, Norwich Herald; Adna Palmer, Kingman County H. S. Oracle; Agnes M.Connell, Plains Journal; Mrs. S. R. Lyons, Sterling Kansas Bulletin; Mrs. Marie A. Murdock, El Dorado Republican; Anna M. Carlison, Lindsborg News.
Mrs. C. H. Nichols, Quindarro; Mrs. W. A. Morgan, Cottonwood Falls Leader; Mrs. Annie L. Diggs; Mary E. Lease; Olive I. Royce, Phillipsburg Dispatch; Mrs. M. H. Bishop, Abilene Democrat; Mrs. Belle H. Harbaugh, Erie Republican; Mr. Ira L. Klingman, Effingham New Leaf; Mrs. M. M. Buck, Toronto Republican; Miss Elizabeth Frazier, Eryentine Stent; Mrs. Jennie McMillan, Morrill News; Mrs. Emma B. Alrich, Cairck City Public Record; Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp, Our Messenger, W. C. T. U.
THE EDITOR
By John G. Saxe.
Who would not be an Editor?—To write The magic "we" of such enormous might;
To be so great beyond the common span It takes the plural to express the man; And yet, alas, it happens oftentimes - A unit serves to number all his dimes!
An earthquake lurking in his simple "we!
In the close precincts of a dusty room that owes few losses to the lazy broom. There sits the man; you do not know his name.
Scribbling away at what perchance may seem
But don't despise him; there may chance to be
Brown, Jones, or Johnson,—it is all the same,—
An idler's musing, or a dreamer's dream;
The "we" he writes seems very "wee"
indeed;
His pen runs rambling, like a straying steed;
Wrought by the Press in one eventful hour.
But mark the change; behold the wonderous power
To-night, 'tis harmless as a maiden's rhymes;
To-morrow, thunder in the London Times.
The ministry dissolves that held for years;
Her Grace, the Duchess, is dissolved in tears. :
The Rothschilds quail; the church,
the army, quakes;
The very kingdom to its centre shakes;
The very kingdom to its centre shakes:
the salt; the price of bread comes down.
Thanks to the "we" of Johnson, Jones,
or Brown.
EDITORS of KANSAS
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hour and 30 minutes past hour.
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Please note K. U. cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street five minutes earlier than old schedule. This change was made at the request of the majority of the patrons using these cars.
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