UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official paper of the University o EDITORIAL STAFF RICHARD GARDNER...Managing Editor J. EARLE MILLER...Sporting Editor RUBELLE H. CLANK_AMB..Sporting Editor EARL POTTER...High School Editor BUSINESS STAFF I. Kee E. Lankin, J. LeRien, A. Asst. Business Manager M. B. Boeckner, A. Asst. Business Manag REPORTORIAL STAFF BARKER FINESTEIN WARD MASIN JAMES MADISON JAMES MADISON JAMES HOUGHTON JAMES MADISON JAMES MADISON Entered as second-class mail matter Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March Published in the afternoon. Five times annually. Reprinted by department expense from the press of the department Subscription price $2.00 per year. In terms of your one-year subscription, $2.50 per year, one term $1.25. Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1165. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence. TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1912 THROWING LIGHT ON SOME POLITICAL QUESTIONS The progress shown in the art of debating in the championship contest held in Fraser hall last Friday night was a revelation to the ordinary student. As is well known, and in some quarters lamented, the ordinary student does not take much interest in debating. He is too apt to forsake the debating hall for the lure of the moving picture show, and leave the attendance of debates, he thinks, to the serious minded and be-spectacled library "licens" and seminar "sharkes." But if the ordinary student has heard the carefully arranged and well delivered efforts of the high-school debaters. Friday night there is no doubt that he would have been shamed into a realization of his atrophied ability that would send him to the next inter-collegiate debate, in order to find out just what the University debaters are capable of doing. To the thoughtful observer, there was another phase of the debating contest that means more to the cause of higher education in the state at large, and at the University of Kansas in particular. In every congressional district in the state during the past winter, a dozen debates were held under the auspices of the Kansas high school debating league. These debates were more helpful to the cause of high school and college debating than any other series of events ever held in the state. The association they are held under is an outgrowth of the Extension Department of the University. Thus the University has proved itself of definite and practical value not only to the thousands of high school students in the state, but to the people at large in opening up discussion of political questions that are before them at the present moment. HOW LONG DO YOU SLEEP? Recent reviews have had much to say about the amount of sleep necessary for the normal existence of a healthy person. It is a general opinion that the old admonition, "ten hours for a fool," was only incorrect in that it allotted a few hour's superfluous rest as the proper portion of an idiot. For idiots, eight hours, is the modern view, physical workers, seven and brain workers, six. Geniuses must get along on three or four. It seems to be a historical fact that many of the truly great have accomplished a tremendous amount of work with four or five hours of sleep. Perhaps, however, the quality of abstinence from sleep is a concomitant of genius that can not be acquired by practice, and the ordinary mortal must continue to "peg" along spending a third of its existence in a condition that is positively appalling in its resemblance to unending rest in the grave. But the modern investigators of the phenomenon have propounded the theory of "sleep concentration." They assert that the first two hours - sleep each night are by far the most refreshing and efficient in restoring the broken down nerve and muscle cells of the body and that all is needed after the first two are a couple more to finish up the job, and fill the remote interstices of the body as it wares with new tissue. Many students, inspired by the accounts of the short sleep hours of such men as Thomas Edison and Napoleon Bonaparte, have tried the experiment of cutting off their sleep. In most cases the experiment fails, probably because a young and growing body needs more time in which to build itself up, after a day's work, than the organism which instead of gaining in size and complexity of nervous structure, is losing a little each day. But, on the other hand, it is probable that most University students spend too much time in bed. There is usually a time in the early morning when one half wakes, turns over, sees the gray dawn, hears the birds, then takes a long breath and—goes to sleep again. This first awakening is the body's notice that it has enough sleep. A healthy normal student should obey it. To doze after it, dreaming and half conscious, is a slothful habit. NOT FROM BOOKS ALONE NOT FROM BOOKS ALONE It is significant that of the twelve hundred people that dared the storm to hear Jane Addams at Bowersock's last night, more than half were University students. This does not reflect on the people of Lawrence, however, because, being far removed from the influence of large cities and their problems, they are not intimately interested in settlement work. On the other hand, many University students are receiving now instruction and preparation that will best prepare them for social work in the large cities. Many students are taking special sociological courses that are especially designed for the training of settlement workers, and this is probably the reason why some students attended Miss Addams' lecture. But the majority of the students attended because they had heard of Jane Addams and her work, and because they are keenly interested in the sociological reforms that Hull House stands for', and the magnificent work it is accomplishing among the "masses" of Chicago. The "average University student" does not live in an intellectual world circumscribed by the pasteboard covers of his books. THE SCORNED ESSAY Evidently, the writing of essays is looked upon with scorn by the average student at the University of Kansas. Each year, advertisements of several national essay contests reach the University, and are posted in a wall case in a corridor of Fraser hall. Not a dozen students find the literature interesting enough to read. The result is, the University is seldom, if ever, represented in the essay contests which attract attention in other large American colleges and universities. There are about a dozen of these important essay competitions each year, offering something like $25,000 in fifty-five or sixty prizes; but if any students of the University submit manuscripts, it never becomes known on Mount Oread, and the list of winners never include the name of Jayhawk. To the casual observer it would seem that students here never think on such subjects as, "A Lumber Policy" or "The University States," or backwarded from the Industrial Awakening of Asia on the Economic Development of the West." Not only is it true that students of the University do not take part in national essay contests, but also they refuse to become enthusiastic over the simpler forms of essay writing. This term, the department English teaches, has usual course in the essay, for the reason that nobody enrolled for it. Hope springs eternal, however, and since the debate has shown a strong tendency toward popularity among the students here, its relative, the essay, surely will enjoy a return to favor soon. Wifie—George, before we married, you told me that you would go through fire and water for me. THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE Hobby—and so I would, dearie, willingly. Wife-Then go and discharge the cook. Dju see Chantecler? Yea, Dju? Yea. Whereduj sit? Why, in the roost, of course. Siblinx. Judge. Father—Well, my son, how is the world treating you? Son (in a moment of abstraction) —Oh, about as often as I could expect. "They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach." "What of it, Mabel?" "I'm making some fudge for Purple Cow. "Say, Doc, are you going to cut out my appendix?" "I'm making some fudge fo Ferdy." "Yes, my boy; but that's only a side issue." —Record. In the stricty decent days of old When New England all was new, They burned one day in Boston, A shivering witch or two. Patience—Poor Mr. Brown! He proposed last night and today he's insane. The coroner held an inquest And is was short and sweet, For the jury brought the vordict; "Just overcome" "The Missine-Ha-Ha." Patrice—Oh, then you accepted. "Is she proper?" "Proper? She's so darn proper she won't even accompany a man on the piano without a chaperon." —Princeton Tiger. UNCLE NICKELOUS SULFIDE SAYS "When a feller works on Saturday spadin' a garden an' gets blisters on his hands, nine times out of ten he'll tell down at the club he got 'em rowin' up to Cameron's bluff with a boat full of girls." "The man that leaves the rings out o' his notebooks," said Uncle Nickelous Sulfide, "and don't keep his shoes blacked, and has to borrow a knife every time he sharpens his pencil, may not think he's losing part of his college education, but he is, just the same." "These are the days when the University politicians git their fair young ears down to the grass roots to hear the call of the student-body, and there are some big healthy, horny-jawed beetles down in them grass roots that are just hankerin' to get a good bite out of them tender young ears." FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitie, illness, affection. The month to be saved is June, and you save for the good they impart. Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some important library, and if luxury should be sacrificed to this. BROWNING WAS BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY —DR. W. E. CHANNING. There Was No Starring in a Garret and Bitter Drudgery of Wage-Earning for This Poet Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Brownning, May 7, 1812, at Camberwell, near London. Today marks also, beyond the shadow of doubt, Browning's sovereignty in the kingdom of letters. During his life Browning waited long and patiently for such recognition as he knew was due him. Happily, even in his lifetime he received it in full measure. When Mahomet came to the mountain, he came humbly and prostrated himself before it. Fortunately for Browning, and for the glory of English poetry, he could well afford to wait for appreciation. There was no starving in a garret, no bitter drugery of wage-caring, no hungry mouths to feed. Browning was surrounded during his whole life, not only with material comforts, but also with tender and sympathetic care. His sister and her husband in his sister, in turn watched over him lovingly. No doubt it was easier to wait for fame in Desdemona's Palace in Venice, than in Grub Street or the East India House. It was this ease and security which permitted Browning to write, as professor Phelps of Yale says, "not to please the critics, an Tennyson often did, not to please the crowd, as the vast horde of ephemeral writers do, but to please himself." It is a matter of habit or monotonous whether or not Mahomet is愿意. COMPULSORY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION IN FORCE FOR 95 YEARS Nor must Mahomet be vexed if there are mysteries about the mountain, after he reaches it. Browning is not easy reading. He did not pretend, he himself said "to offer such literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or a game of dominos to an idle man." Hence, in an age that delights in moving-picture shows, Browning will still remain obscure to many. But this does not mean that Mahomet should despair. The mountain offers an infinite variety of entertainment. It is much the same with all the great ones. Shakespeare is "myriad-minded." Hamlet forwards us to pluck the heart out of his mysteries, but there is Rollingstone, up against Arden, promising to woo us with with "a more coming-on disposition." Milton threatens us with "Man's first disobedience," but invites us to trip it "on the light fantastic toe." or OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE I saw the mountains stand Silent, wonderful, and grand, Looking out across the river, Dark night was falling On distant dawn and spire; And I heard a low voice calling, "Come up higher, come up higher, From the mist of earth desire, From the vain pursuit of self, From the attitude of self; Come up higher, come up higher" (CLAREN) Students of Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, have been investigating the merits and defects of compulsory students' association membership. Return cards were sent to the leading colleges of the country that have adopted the compulsory membership or "The Single Tax," as it is called at Washington University. The conditions at the leading universities of the United States that have adopted the Single Tax or Compulsory students' association membership are tabulated. Reports were received from twenty-nine institutions altogether. JAMES G. CLARKE. The number of years that this system has been used varies greatly. At University of Virginia it has been in force for ninety-eight years. The most popular fee is five dollars and the average is $6.30. The question is one of the most vital among colleges. Practically all questions against the adoption of this method of getting money for student activities have been answered.—The Clarion. Univ. or College. Approx Enrollment Amt. of Tax. System Used. Satisfactory U. of Pennsylvaniaia 5,389 $10.00 Just passed No results yet U. of Pennsylvania 5,389 $10.00 17 yrs. Yes U. of Wisconsin 5,000 5.00 2 yrs. Yes U. of Virginia 790 7.00 98 yrs. Yes U. of Michigan 6,000 5.00 Just passed No results yet. U. of Kansas 2,500 3.00 5 yrs. Yes U. of Washington 2,400 5.00 ... Yes. U. of Colorado 1,300 5.00 2 yrs. Yes U. of Georgia 651 2.00 10 yrs. Yes Vanderbilt 1,200 10.00 Several yrs. Partially Brown 650 9.00 5 yrs. Very John Hopkins 790 5.00 5 yrs. Very Lehigh 600 10.00 ... Yes Baker University 650 5.00 2 yrs. Yes Washington and Lee 625 5.00 2 yrs. Yes Leland Stanford 1,500 3.00 10 yrs. Yes A Town the size of Lawrence with forty-two miles of brick paving and thirty-eight miles of sanitary sewers has a right to boast of its provisions for cleanliness and health. Lawrence has these modern features besides many others that contribute to its supremacy as a residence city. The Merchants' Association Lawrence SUMMER SESSION University of Kansas June 6 to July 17, and July 18 to August 7 Are you planning to teach next year? Are you to teach only those subjects which you have been preparing to teach? Some of you are finding that you have to teach one or more classes for which you are not prepared. You will have no time to work up those subjects next year, for even the well prepared teacher has his hands more than full, if he is worth his salt. The time to get ready is this summer. The place is the Summer Session of the University. Get a Catalogue at the Registrar's office. A Fine Line of SPRINGSUITINGS KOCH THE TAILOR. HARRY REDING, M. D., EYE, EARS, NOSE, THROAT GLASSES FITTED F. A. A. BUILDING Phones—Bell S11 Home S12 We have Gone Back to Our Old Prices Protsch Suits R. B. WAGSTAFF Peerless Cafe 906 Mass. Street. Colgate's Good Soap 10c Cakes McColloch's Drug Store Fancy Groceries LAWRENCE Business College Write for our beautiful illustrated catalog of school room books, shows students at work in classroom room settings and assists at small expenses for a good position. Lawrence Business College, Lawrence, K KANSAS CITY THEATERS FORNEY SAM S SHUBERT THIS WEEK LYMAN H. HOWES TRAVEL FESTIVAL NEXT WEEK Margaret Illington in Kindling WILLIS WOOD THIS WEEK EVA LONG Love Watches Next Week, The Warrens of Virginia Shoe Shop 1023 Massachusetts St. A Summer School Student Ed. Anderson's with experience as a waiter wanted at JAE CLARK, C. M. LEANS LOTHES. ALL Bell 355, Home 160 730 Mass. Summer Money. We are the man- ufacturers of the well known brand of "1802" ALUM I N UM WARE. Every summer a number of young men who want to run a company, take on new lines; capital is required in the form of line capital. Average average of a dollar an hour. Write in confidence to Doppe, SS, American Aluminum Mfg ED. W. PARSONS, Engraver, Watchmaker and Jeweler. 717 Mass. Street Lawrence, Kan Your Baggage Household Hand 1 Moving FRANCISCO & CO. Boarding and Livery Auto and Hakev. Open Day and Night Hairdle Painting and Trimming. Phones 139, 808-812-814 Vermont St. Lawrence, Kansas.