UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official paper of the University of KARSE. EDITORIAL STAFF RICHARD GARDENBROOK Managing Editor J. EARLE MILLER Sporting Editor RUBELLE H. CLARK Ast. Sporting Editor EARL POTTER High School Editor BUSINESS STAFF E L. EARL, JAY Business Manager J LISNER Ast. Business Manager MILTON D. BABY Circulation Manager REPORTORIAL STAFF STANKEY PINKETON WARD MARSH RICHARD CAMPBELL Business Manager ROBERT SELLERS HOUGHTON Entered as second-class mail matter September 1910. at the post office at Lakeman, Kansas, under the act of March 5. 1879. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by address of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism. Subscription price $2.00 per year, in terms of subscriptions, $2.50 per year; one term $1.25. Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1165. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANBAN, LAWRENCE. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1912. THE JAYHAWKER Every student who has looked at the 1912 Jayhawker since it came-out at the senior play last night, and who has not already made himself the owner of one, has unfailingly declared that one copy would become his before the edition sold out. From present prospects, though, all must hurry or some one is going to be turned away. The annual this year is a University book that anyone ought to make a sacrifice to obtain. Nowhere else can such pictures, such a collection of drawings and photographs be found and the inimitable style in which the volume has been produced makes it the most attractive thing that has ever represented the University. The esprit de corps among the members of the annual board, and the co-operation between the business manager and the editor of the book account for its unqualified success this year. The two leaders of the staff were men experienced in the publishing business, who had ideas about the making of a good publication and who worked together in developing and in incorporating their ideas in their final effort. Mr. Cannon, the editor, is an ex-experienced newspaper man having served on Oklahoma and Detroit papers. He also spent one year as managing editor of the Kansan. Mr.Wallace gained his initial training as business manager of the tri-weekly Kansan and the Daily Kansan. Perhaps the attitude of the students toward the annual may well be expressed in the words of several of the members of former Jayhawk staff—"It is an honor to be in any way connected with a book like that." The book that these two men published this spring shows the results of carefully planned work along lines conducive to the best interests of the University. With the approach of examination week, "The Emergency Box," the faithful friend of the student, will be in need not alone in the Chemistry building. Perhaps individual emergency boxes would help some of the students in their last moments. No errors were recorded in the baseball game played by the newspaper men the other afternoon and some people think that very likely this was due to the fact that the proof reader in the Daily Kansan office was the cooler keeper. One of the pseudo-characteristics of the college man that was featured in the senior play last night was his inability to "pay up" sundry bills that he had been pleased to contract during the semester. Perhaps some of the students think too that their boarding-house keeps have a characteristic that is easily comparable to their's—an annual custom to become stringent on the quality and quantity of their table board during the last two weeks of school. Owen Johnson seems to have encountered trouble in finding a college student who is able to answer his list of catch questions "right off the bat." The trouble is that the ordinary student today has specialized too early in his college course, and is unable to answer questions in more than one or two of the departments touched in Johnsons questionaire. Students of music could easily answer all he asks about the Wagnerian theory of opera and many other things too, but their specialized work has not given them general cultural information in all the departments into which Johnson delves. Indeed, a rough guess would say that few professors on the "hill" could make a comprehensive reply to all of his queries. SAVE TIME—QUIT SMOKING SAVE TIME-QUIT SMOKING The professor of civil engineering in Harvard said to me the other day: "The best advice I can give to my graduates in engineering is this, let it be some other fellow." "In other words, is somebody must go through life carrying a handicap, let it be some other fellow. The professor went on to say that he did not consider the matter primarily from the point of view of hygiene or of good example, but from that of saving of time. The man who succeeds is the man who knows how to use time. Life is a bit short at the best, and it seems much shorter when you get on into the middle of it. Its effectiveness is measured in part by its length. Its length is measured not by years, but by that part of it which we use. We use only that part we spend in sleep, in training, in play, in effective help-fulness. Smoking does not come under any of these heads. Smoking is our disguise for idleness, "When a man smokes," says the professor I have quoted, "he does not realize that he is idle. He is putting in the time, the time that he might otherwise use in some one of the normal purposes of life. Daudet tells us of certain clubmen who meet and think not, neither do they speak—just smoke." One lesson of the college life is the value of training rules. If a man is to do his part in a game or a meet he must have every nerve free from prejudice. The effect of tobacco is to trick the nerves. It is a nerve irritant, and wears the disguise of a narcotic. But a narcotic is likewise dangerous. We ought not to be sleepy when awake. We have the right to sleep when we have earned trust in our abilities which demands nerve rest. To break the training rules is to lose the game, when the game demands accuracy of sensation and motion, absolute truthfulness of nerve response. But the essential purpose of going to college is to prepare one's self for the higher games, for the fine play in the noblest and most difficult of all meets, the fine art of living. In this game one has need of all mental subley, of all virile reserves. Every day the test is closer than in any athletic game. Every day more depends on one's being in perfect trim. Every man sooner or later, at some time in his life, is brought under training rules. If he is not he is forced out of the business. Most usually these come too late. Every enforced lie of the nervous system makes it harder for it to tell the truth afterward. Every strain in accuracy of nerve response makes the mind baffy—David Starr Jordan, LL. D., President Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Motion pictures of the recent Stanford-California track and field meet, ball games and crew races, are being shown at one of the nickel theaters in Palo Alto under the auspices of the Senior class. Arrangements have been made between Harvard and Brown whereby engineering students at Brown may attend the Harvard summer engineering camp without extra fee. In a bulletin issued by the University of Wisconsin, John Collier, of the national board of moving picture censorship, says that schools and social centers ought to make use of moving pictures as educational factors. Statistics compiled at the University of Cincinnati show that 75% of the students come from families whose income is less than $2,500 and 35% come from families whose income is less than $1,500 a year. 19% of the students are fatherless and are being sent to the University by their widowed mothers. It is proved also that 40% of the families having sons or daughters in the University live in rented houses and 60% own their own homes. DON'T FOLLOW THE LEADER OF A CROWD a Poor Man's Back, if He Does. Even a College Man Will Scratch HOW THE ANTI-DOG From "The Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son," by George Horace Lorimer. The owners suspected everyone who Now I know you will say that I don't understand how it is; that you've got to do as the other fellows do; and that things have changed since I was a boy. There's nothing in it. Adam invented all the different ways in which a young man can make a fool of himself, and a college yell at the end of them is just a frill that doesn't change essentials. The boy who does anything just because the other fellows do it is apt to scratch a poor man's back all his life. He's the chap that's buying wheat at seven cents a day before market prices rise, or he "the country," in the market reports, but the city is full of him. It's the fellow who has the spunk to think and act for himself, and sells short when prices hit the high Sea and the house is standing on its hind legs yelling for more, that sits in the directors' meetings when he gets on toward forty. It stated that the membership of the club had reached a working basis, and that active steps were about to be started looking to a reduction of the dog population of the city. It also demanded extreme measures, and would give the city council another chance to pass adequate dog laws. We got an old steer out at the packing house that stands around at the foot of the run way leading up to the killing pen, looking for all the world like one of the village sisters sitting on a cracker box before the grocery—sort of sad-eyed, dreamy old cuss—always has two or three straws from his cud sticking out of the corner of his mouth. By and by the boys drive a bunch of steers toward him, or cows may, if we can reenang, and then you'll see Old Abe move off up the run way, sort of beckoning the bunch after him with that wicked old stump of a tail of his, as if there was something mighty interesting to steers at the top, and something that every Texan, and Colorado raw from the prairie, ought to have a look at to put a metropolitan finish on him. Those steers just naturally follow along on up that runway and into the killing pen. But just as they get to the pen, Old Abe, someway, gets lost in the crowd and he isn't among those present when the gates are closed and the real trouble begins for his new friends. CLUB DID ITS WORK The Power of the Press Organized You needn't write me if you feel yourself getting them. The symbols will show in your expense account. Good-bye; life's too short to write letters and New York's calling me on the write. I never saw a dozen boys together that therewant'an Old Abe among them. If you find your crowd following him keep away from it. There are times when its safest to be lonesome. Use little common sense, caution, and conscience. You can stock a store with those three commodities, when you get them set forth. But you won't got to begin setting them up until you've carttaking you upon you扑上 a bit. Your affectionate father, JOHN GRAHAM. This notice provoked no comment. The owners of the dogs apparently did not notice it. But the second notice, longer and occupying a more conspicuous place in the newspaper, caused much discussion. The Power of the Press Organized Non-Dog Owners in a Crusade Against the Canine---Result: Large Death List. Prof. J. H. Canfield, formerly professor of political economy at the University and later president of the University of Nebraska, conceived a strong antipathy for dogs when he was living in Lawrence. The city at that time had a very large canteen pests and the professors employed "power of the press" to be rid of them. He induced his friend, the editor of a local paper to print the following news item: "Citizens owning no dogs, who are tired of the deprections of their neighbor's pets (or pests), and who are willing to take the law into their own hands—since the city council neglects or refuses to act, will meet this evening to perfect an organization which it is hoped will afford much needed equipment. They must be both strength and protection. For very good reasons the place and hour of the meeting are known only to those who are to be present." FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS harbored no animals, and their indignation grew with every disavowal of complicity in the plat. When the dog tax law failed in the council, a call to action appeared in the paper that was printing the news of the dog controversy. Books are not seldom talismans and spells. —W. COWPER. "The council offers no relief, members of the anti-dog club who have been assigned to active duty will therefore go to their appointed places at the hours named and carefully follow instructions. Remember that those on duty on odd streets move north and those on even streets move south. Midnight is the first hour, 3 a.m. the last. Shoot to kill but not on premises for pets or children. Guard against all possible injury to persons or property, other than dogs. Report results in detail, to the secretary as you meet him tomorrow." This is it. Many dogs were executed that night, and at a subsequent council meeting the question of a dog-tax was again raised. The answer was by the owners, killed the ordinance. The slaughter notice of the day before was there upon duplicated, and many more of the canine population met death. Public sentiment, both pro and con- dog was now thoroughly aroused. Letters to the papers poured in, and the council meeting was anxiously watched. when the council did meet it took but ten minutes to pass a "five and dollar" tax, as had been demanded by the mysterious Anti-Dog Club. One more story appeared in the newspaper that had published the previous notices, all written by Professor Canfield and their authorship known only to him and the editor. "At a meeting last night held after the council adjourned, the Anti-Dog Club was formally dissolved. There was much good feeling and mutual congratulations over the results of the campaign." Here it is. STRANGE NEW MEXICAN SPRING One of the most remarkable springs in the world exists in New Mexico. It is saturated with sodium sulphate. Distilled water weighs eight and one third pounds per gal; the water of this spring weighs three hundred pounds. The temperature of the spring is a little over 110 degrees Fahrenheit. THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES As the saturated liquid overfills and cools it forms a crystalline mass which in the course of ages, has spread into a white bed of solid sodium salts, miles in extent and as level as a lake. The warm brine, it is reported, is inhibited by a shrimp oil and its pH is about 8. It is found growing in the dry expanse of sodium sulphate—Harpers Weekly. I have been laughing, I have been carousing. I have had playmates, I have had companions. All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her,— I loved a Love once, fairest among women; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man. Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood. Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces. Seeking to find the old familiar races. Friend of my boson, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces. How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me, all are departed: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. —Charles Lamb. Summer Tourist Round-Trip Fares to the Pacific Coast FROM LAWRENCE TO CALIFORNIA AND NORTH PACIFIC COAST POINTS. FROM LAWRENCE TO CALIFORNIA ONE-WAY VIA NORTH PACIFIC COAST POINTS. FROM LAWRENCE TO CALIFORNIA AND NORTH PACIFIC COAST POINTS. FROM LAWRENCE TO CALIFORNIA ONE-WAY VIA NORTH PACIFIC COAST POINTS. City Ticket Office, 711 Mass. Street. E. E. ALEXANDER, No 5 City Pass Ac Standard Road of the West Union Pacific $75 New and Direct Route to Yellowstone National Park. Protected by Automatic Electric Block Safety Signals. Excellent Dining Cars on ALL Trains. 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