UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
Earl L.Coop
Educator
EARL POTTER
High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
IRE E. LAMBERT ... Business Manager
J. LEWIS ... Assistant Business Manager
BARR ... Banker
REPORTORIAL STAFF
BRANDEY PENNESCO
RICHARD GARDNER
JOHN MADDEN
ENSWARD HACKEYNE
JOHN MADDER
ENSWARD HACKEYNE
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910 at the post office in Kansas under the act of March 3, 1879.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.
THE ALUMNI
The first class graduated from the University in 1873 and it numbered four students. Now nearly four hundred young men and women of the state receive their degree at the close of every year, and yet the University is but half grown, the work that the University can do for the people of the state is by in the embryo. However, it is with such spirit as was displayed at the banquet of the Kansas City graduates last week, that the members of the Alumni Association meet at this time of the year.
The alumni of the University may not yet be strong enough to control the vote of a national congress, as some of the older Eastern universities may boast, but, for a young state university, the roll of the Alumni Association shows names of no little importance both nationally and in the state. And in nearly every great city in America, at some time in the year, the banquet of the Jayhawkers is held in the best hotel. Two such Jayhawker alumni are state governors now and one recently declined the offer of a candidacy for the vice-presidency of the United States; another has acquired fame in the field of municipal government reform, and the latest man to rise into the ranks of the truly great men of the country is the Kansas engineer who was taken from a construction job in Kansas City to the East to direct one of the largest construction companies in the United States.
They are found everywhere, these alumni, the mailing lists of their magazine give a small idea of the numerous places in which they are working, and it is a safe guess that all are making good.
Melville E. Stone, who has seen the rise of the American newspaper profession, says that as far as money is concerned there is scarcely a worse paid profession in the world than journalism. Nevertheless, he remarked that the reporter who succeeds is the man who is literally a walking encyclopedia and there is much solace in that for the "cub" reporter.
PHOSSY JAW
Two of the leading magazines have taken up a campaign against the evils of the white sulphur match. It is one great industrial evil of the day. The making of this white sulphur match has the honor of exacting the highest toll in human lives of any of the occupational diseases. The vapors and fumes from the phosphorous that is a constituent of the white sulphur causes the bones of those who come in contact with it to rot away; whole pieces of the jaw come out, this is only one of the terrible effects of the poison, the one from which the evil is named.
It is the cheapest match that can be made and that is the reason the manufacture of them continue. Chemists have found many harmless, though more expensive substitutes for this insidious poison, but the
manufacture of the white sulphur match will be discontinued entirely only after the passage of a bill in congress providing for its end. Although the white sulphur variety may be comparatively harmless to the person who uses it, it is for the good of those who are forced to aid in their making that such a bill is beneficial, and University people should do all in their power to aid such legislation.
NEWSPAPER ENGLISH
Good expression implies thought, thinking is a product of experience. The use of many words points to lack if organized thinking or to lack of experience. Big words are used only; small words are used when he wishes to mystify his hearers.
Language that appeals to the masses of the people must be that which goes without embellishment directly to the point. It is the function of of the newspaper to inform the people, to get them to think. To get these results the English of newspapers must be simple, concise and direct. This sort of clear, forcible expression is what is meant by newspaper English. Newspaper English, so called, is too often confused by the popular mind with that which is poorly written or ungrammatical. That newspapers are not faulty alone in this respect can be shown by comparing the manuscripts of writers for journals and papers with those not trained for this specific sort of writing. The comparison reveals that while the better newspapers have definite standards by which matter submitted for publication is gauged, writers in general have no such standards.
Taking into consideration the purposes for which it is written, newspaper English as used by the better writers of pure English.-University Missouri.
BENEFITING HUMANITY
One of the most important feats ever accomplished for the uplift movement has just been performed by Prof. Reinhard F. Wetzel, of the College of the City of New York, who after years of study and patient experiment announces to a breathless populace that he has ascertained the weight of the world to be 7,000,000,000 tons. Nor is this all. Not content to rest after these labors, as a less restless genius would do, Prof. Wetzel is going right ahead to weigh the sun, and after he has put that on the scales, his purposes to tackle the moon and a few other important planets. Meanwhile he wants us to help hang around and await the outcome of his epoch-making experiments with what fortitude we can command, and get along for the present with the knowledge that we now know exactly what the earth weights.
It is a great comfort to feel that the earth weighs an exact 7,000,000,-000,000 tons. It is a good number, easily remembered, and the most scatter-brained can roll it off the tongue with that feeling of confidence which comes of having an indisputable fact well in control. We shudder to think of the frightful consequences which would have resulted had Prof. Wetzell placed the weight at, say, 7,685,237,479,643 tons. Such a discovery would have mowed down civil service candidates like delegates before a steam roller, and would have brought misery and distress to innumerable happy homes and created no of barroom arguments. Prof. Wetzel is to be congratulated. It is such a discovery at which eleven education and places all mankind in its debt.—Washington Post.
A MOOD
A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness—
Someone has touched the touch of sorrow, or of madness?
A fear that is not pain, a fear that has not pain's insistence;
A sense of longing, or of loss, in some
A subtle hurt that never pen has writ
nor tongue has spoken—
Such hurt perchance as Nature feels when a blossomed bough is broken.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A DOE had had the misfortune to lose one of her eyes, and could not see any one approaching her on that side. So to avoid any danger she always used to cliff cliff sea with her sound eye looking toward the land. By this means she could see whenever the hunters approached her on land, and often escaped by this means. But the hunters found out that she was blind of one eye, and hired a boat roost under the cliff where she was cried to speak with her from the sea. "Ah," cried she with her dying voice.
"You cannot escape your fate."
WHAT IS EXPECTED
OF A YELL LEADER
Hs Is a Peculiar Psychologist and a Born Leader of Men----Few Men Want His Job
'from The Portland Oregonian
Get together a few screaming steam callipopes, corral an assorted handpicked gross of howling drunk Comanche Indians, turn loose seven brass bands of the most demonstrative type in a building with a tin roof and you have a vague idea of the amount of noise required to win a modern intercollegiate football game.
From the very nature of the thing it is evident that there must be some one in control of this volume else it might go off at the wrong time and blow the opposing aggregation over the goal for a touchdown and victory. Desperate characters have been tried out at the position of yell led by agonizing student bodies, but not even a train robber has had the nerve to face that tremendous song of victory that college men are wont to sing at each thud of colliding bodies.
SOME OF HIS QUALIFICATIONS
To hold down successfully such a job as this, a fellow must first be a college man in the strictest sense of the word, and he must further be capable of getting down on all fours, looking like he could bite a tenpenny nail in two, and of convincing 2,000 blood-thirsty undergraduates that their only hope of victories in throwing wide open their turtle valves and spreading their mouths until they look like caverns in the side a black mountain. He must be a black guardian to give forthounds that would make the leather-bound, hand-engraved pocket edition, wild West cowboy yell seek shelter under the nearest spreading chestnut tree or such a volume that the suffering spectators who had been cajoled by the football game to come and hear the yelling, could not distinguish it from the mass movement.
FEW DESIRE THE JOB
A yell leader bears the same relation to football that a pig does to its squeal. No pig, no squeal. No yell leader and no football worthy of the name. It takes the heart-rending, piercing, sympathetic cry of the hardened cheer czar to awake in the thousand frigid college men perspiring enthusiasm over a near-deafed gridiron contingent. Irony, pathys, humor and tearing satire must be playthings for him as he feels the pulse of his mighty throng, to catch the slightest whim, and at the same time watches the visiting team tear the home players into digestible chunks and kick them over the field fence.
Few men hanker after the position of yell leader unless they are preparing for a job as train-caller or sergeant-at-arms in a waterfront saloon. However, yell leading develops long distance runners, comic vaudeville artists, ward politicians and glee club members. It also develops a public that could stand all day on a railroad track listening to the whistle of a wreck train and enjoy it.
That there is a science to yell leading was attested at the Oregon-Washington football game played in Portland, November 18. The rooter king who cannot get the crowd to go with him is lost. He starts a yell, has to finish it himself and is in the air. He gets the big laugh and his control over the rooters for that day, at least, is gone. Or it may be that he tries to continue a yell too long and disgusts the fellows who wish to watch the game rather than his waving arms and legs.
In a word, a good yell leader is a psychologist and a general. He is able to devise ways of getting several hundred poverty-stricken college men to raise $50 in 10 minutes to send the band with the "team;" he knows how to guide a half mile of reeling serpentine through the crowded streets of a metropolis without breaking any windows, raiding theaters or dumping street cars off the tracks. He has in mind the every movement of a large band that must be kept organized else it will break up. His importance cannot be overestimated, for while a struggling team may not hear the yells of the roots it very quickly hears the absence of them and by the testimony of veterans of the moleskin, silence has a disheartening effect on men under such high tension.
From a minor result of a victory or a good play, organized rooting has come to be a cause and a part of the game itself. Men once cheered good plays from enthusiasm over them
PECULIAR PSYCHOLOGIST
and from admiration of the player. When "college spirit" came into vogue in its new meaning followers of football, crew, track and baseball began to cheer because of loyalty to their institution and it soon became a matter of good form to cheer louder than the man under opposing colors.
HOW BOY SCOUTS LIVE
Club houses or club rooms for the different troops of the Boy Scouts of American are now coming to be a much desired part of scout equipment, and all over the country the boys are out going for suitable homes for their troops.
Some of the club houses which have already been erected are in fine buildings and beautifully equipped, as the club house built for its boy scout troop by the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in St. Louis, Mo. This building, only one story in height, is built of brick along military lines and has a hall suitable for drills. The various patrol rooms encircle this center hall.
While there are many handsome club houses of this kind or similarly well furnished and equipped rooms for the different troops, even more popular are the cabins which the boys themselves build and furnish in the simplest manner. Many of these are built at some point in the woods, so that during long hikes in the woods they can be warmed up and warm up and even cook themselves a meal.
In other places the cabins are built in the suburbs or on a vacant lot which has been lent to a city scout troop. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, the various partlets have each built a built on the hills over which the hikes extend. How to build a log cabin is one of the things which a good scout is expected to master, and the necessity for winter quarters has given many of the scouts experience with building their home; otherwise never have obtained. All that is required to equip a scout club house or cabin properly is a store, a few simple cooking utensils, a rug or two and some pictures. That makes a cozy interior, whether there are such conventional things as chairs and tables or not.
All true scouts can sit on the floor with perfect comfort and none of them demands that there should be a table at which meals may be served. But a stove is necessary unless the club house is a grand one and has an open fireplace, because a club house or rabbit without any cooking arrangements would be a most disappointing place to a hungry snug—New York Herald.
CHINESE CALENDARS OUT OF STYLE
AS THE Chinese new year season approaches, the desire of the Chinese to obtain one of the pictorial calendars with some historical scene or other design becomes most intense, and they will use every effort and use every influence to abtain the coveted article. This year, however, there has been a slump in many of the productions which have been gotten out both by foreign and Chinese firms. The reason is, that, in accordance with practice, they placed their orders for calendars with lithographers early in the year, and the designs and emblems followed the conventional ideas.
They were not to know that a revolution would occur and would be responsible for a complete change of sentiment among the Chinese. Thus calendars have the "yellow dragon" in any part of their scheme are condemned, even if it be only on the flag of a ship shown in the picture, and those which represent men and women wearing queues are not in demand. The result is that a few firms have been told that the expensive pictorial advertisements which they had obtained at considerable expense are "no good."
Excavations have been made for the building of a $150,000 dormitory and dining hall, on the campus of Princeton University, the work to be completed by the fall of 1913.
THE DAY YOU CAME
Such special sweetness was about
there, and I knew it.
I knew the lavender was out,
and it was mid of year.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
Their common way the great winds blow
blew
The saws salted out to sea;
Yet ere that day was spent I know
Mine own had come to me.
So after song some snatch of tune
Lurks still in grass or bough,
So somewhat of the o' June
Lurks in each weather now.
The young year sets the buds astir,
The old year strips the trees;
But ever in my lavender
I hear the brawling reeves.
I. W. REESE.
AT THE
Friday and Saturday
A Big Special Four-Reel Program
A SPARTAN MOTHER
A THRILLING PRODUCTION OF THE CIVIL WAR
PATHE'S WEEKLY—No. 10
IRENE'S INFATUATION
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SPECIAL RELEASED ESSANAY COMEDY
The Aurora Always Good.
Everybody knows that fraternal orders perform an important function in society and that they are worthy of the encouragement that they receive. Lawrence has always been hospitable to such organizations and in return has become a large place on the map of fraternaldom. One of the most impressive Masonic temples in the West may be seen in this city. The Eagles lodge has a fine new building. The Fraternal Aid Association has its general offices here, housed in a magnificent three story office building. Other orders enjoy the prosperity that comes with large membership. The fraternal spirit is strong in the Athens of Kansas.
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KANSAS CITY THEATERS
WILLIS WOOD THREE NIGHTS
Beginning Thursday, April 18,
Charles Florham presents
MAUDE ADAMS in Chantecler
Next.week, Eva Lang in the Rose of
the Rancho
SAM
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AM 8 SHUBERT THE WEE
A Modern Eve
with big beauty chorus.
Next week Lew Fiedt's best show,
The Never Homes.
Protsch Suits
ED ANDERSON
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