THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesday and Friday morn-
days by students in the Departmen-
t of Journalism from the Press of the
Department of Journalism.
Entered as second-class mail matter
September 17, 1916, at the postoffice at
Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of
March 3, 1872.
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Phones: K. U. 25 and K. U. 150.
Ben Hibbs Editor
Chester Shore Business Manager
Address all communications to The Summer Session Kansan, Lawrence
A laugh is worth one hundred groans in any market.—Charles Lamb.
INDEPENDENCE
The Fourth of July is America's Holiday. Ever since the Liberty Bell rang that July day in 1776, Americans have taken great pride in celebrating their Independence Day. The nation has grown from a group of insignificant colonies to the nation of greatest influence and power in the world. It is the richest country, the freest country, and one of the most lawless countries in the world.
In this year of the 147th anniversary of our independence, Americans are probably more "independent" than at any time in history. We are becoming so independent that religion, morality, law and order have small places in the lives of many Americans.
We boast about our independence, of our position as leaders of the civilized world, and then go out and hang a negro or burn him at the stake, or murder a group of men for wanting to work when work is scarce. A wife tire's of her husband, and, borrowing a pistol, she shoots him while he is asleep. Public officials steal from the public funds. Masked men rob banks, enter houses and hold up individuals and leave a trail of blood and murder behind them.
The ideal of independence as set forth by the American fathers in 1776 has been changed from an ideal of National independence to one of individual independence. For obedience to law we have substituted disregard for law. Instead of courts where justice was administered fearlessly and where offenders were punished effectively, we have a system of law and order which brings to trial only a small proportion of the criminals and which functions so imperfectly that only an insignificant number of these ever pay the lawful penalty for their crimes.
It is time to face these facts squarely. The eyes of the world are on America. Our civilization and our institutions of government are being tested. The "crime wave" is not abating. It seems to grow in strength. What will stop it?
It is a matter of individual morality. Let us begin housecleaning at home. The group mind is but a composition of individual minds. Where no individual crime exists no social crime can exist. While we celebrate our Nation's independence next Tuesday let us get a deeper feeling of responsibility toward our country and resolve to do our part toward making it a land where "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" shall be possible for every citizen.
Patriotism during the war was evident on all sides. The war is over—is our patriotism?
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THE SANE FOURTH
Fourth of July! What excitement it held in store for the kiddie of yesterday.
The average American child look on this occasion today as a day when dad stays home, a picnic is held or he is allowed to burn a few sparklers on this particular night.
He does not have the thrill of getting up early on the morning of the Fourth and rouse all the neighbors with his giant crackers, nor does he get to fire salute after salute on his toy cannon; nor, lastly, on the night of this great day does he get to send flashy skyrocks heavenward. No, he does not have these privileges. The
"Sane Fourth" his elders have decreed has put a stop to this.
The Fourth of July today has or should have the spirit which our forefathers gave it devoid of the noise which our fathers have done much to eliminate. The laws regarding a sane Fourth are the result of careful study. They are a means by which many unnecessary deaths and injuries have been prevented.
Still a noisy Fourth is not extinct by any means. Many communities and small towns throughout the country tolerate the use of dangerous fireworks. They too, in time, will follow in the steps of the more advanced localities and uphold the same Fourth.
The Kansas boy, whose parents proudly state he has never seen an open saloon will be able, in twenty years or so, to point with the same pride to a son who has never set off a cannon cracker.
THE TEN THOUSAND MARK
If the enrolments continue to increase as they have in the past ten or twelve years we may assume that in another ten years, at least, ten thousand and students will be attending the University of Kansas.
A survey of the enrollments year by year shows some interesting facts. The first year, 1867-6, had an enrollment of fifty-five, all of whom were in the preparatory school. During the following forty years, the increase was very slow, as in 1907-8 the enrollment had reached only 2063; in 1910-11 it increased to 2400. Since that time the increase has been almost as great as during the forty-four years preceding, reaching in 1921-22 a total of 4683.
The "Sane Fourth" is a fine thing, but isn't it going to strain a lot of boys to get their full share of narrow escapes without the old-time celebration?
LIGHT
"Something Inside I go
At night into my room
And press the tiny bum
That sets it all blown.
I think that when I pass
"Withisha's friends welcome
thank you." The narrator
than I have known before"
-"Lamented by William Wattie
by Willard Wattie
Campus Opinion
To the Editor:
Another thing that I should regard as a serious fault of the Summer Session is the discomfort experienced in attempting to study in the library. Lack of electric fans together with a summer sun beating down on a tile roof form a combination that makes studying within the library almost an impossibility. Electric fans would do much to improve conditions.
Atouch I have been enrolled in the Summer Session only a few days, there is one fault with the school which cannot be overlooked. I refer to the lack of library books. Hundreds of teachers being enrolled in educational courses, there is a need for a larger number of reference books than in the regular session. This need apparently has not been supplied. Instructors refer a class of as many as fifty people to the course, of which three are oblivious. The result is obvivious. Only a few have the opportunity to prepare the assignment and this results in loss of bota time and money to the student.
These criticsim may seem to be of little importance, yet these conditions do cause a great discomfort and inconvenience to the students.
Two Irish women in the market place of Cork were talking of the new curate.
“Arrah, Biddy,” said one, “did ye hear him last Sunday when he preached on 'Hell'?”
L. M. J.
"Faith an' I did that same, and shure he might have been born and reared there, so well did he know all about it."—Boston Transcript.
The first difficulty in securing sufficient appropriations was experienced with the legislature of 1888.
First Student: "The idea; my napkin is damp!"
Second Student: "Perhaps that's because there is so much due on your board." - Stanford Chaparral.
DAMPENING RETORT
Official Summer Session University Bulletin
Copy received by Florence E. Bliss, Editor, Chancellor's Office until
Munson and Thoreau.
FOURTH OF JULY VACATION:
Vol. I.
June 30,1922
POURCHE, there will be classes will be held as usual on Monday, July 3rd. There will be no classes on Tuesday, July 4th, nor on the following Saturday. It has been found impossible to dismiss classes on Monday and to make up for it on the following Saturday.
R. A. KENT, Director.
ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET "WHEN YOU COME TO K, U."
Students wishing a copy of the new University booklet, "When You Come to K. U." to use in interesting high school graduates in the University of Kansas may obtain one from Registrar Foster. Names of prospective university students may be left with the Registrar for his mailing list.
No. 6
COMMONS DISCONTINUES SERVING SUNDAY BREAKFAST:
The University Commons will not be open for breakfast Sunday mornings hereafter because of the small number desiring this service.
ANNA H. BARNUM, Director
Campus Pests
I am asked to name the worst of collge nests
they are none of them the best,
But the worst of college pests are
sure the profs.
MAYBE SO!
Mong the Seniors, Juniors, Freshies, and the Sophs
W. A. DILL, Chairman.
ICE CREAM SERVED AT COMMONS AFTERNOONS;
ICE CREAM University Commons will continue the serving of ice cream and sushi drinks just outside the building afternoons from 3 to 5.
FRIDAY
DUDLEY BUCK DISCUSSION The Dudley Buck Class will meet at 2:30, (instead of 2 o'clock) Friday the 14th Central Administration Building.
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION IN FRASER TONIGHT:
There will be an all-University Convocation in Fraser Chapel this (Friday) evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. H. H. Goddard, of the Bureau of Juvenile Research, Columbus, Ohio, will speak on some phase of Abnormal Child Psychology. Dr. Goddard is a noted psychologist and an entertaining speaker.
I can't tell about the rest.
H. L. BUTLER, Dean.
Professors Kurtz, Garrison, and Downing, of the School of Fine Arts, will give a recital in Praser Chapel, Monday evening, at 8:20. The program will consist of compositions by Louis Victor Saar, and Mr. Saar will play the accompaniments. The recital is open to the public and there will be no admission charge.
PUBLIC CONCERT IN FRASER CHAPEL:
MONDAY
H. L. BUTLER, Dean.
TUESDAY
Deride it not; this Jabberwock,
That takes the place of Art,
It May be that the creature hath
A kind and generous heart.
Then gently scans its freckled face
Where usefulness is seen,
Thank and forgive the generous soul
Of Class Nineteen-fifteen.
AMERICAN LEGION FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION:
Mistaken Generosity?
JOHN R. DYER, Chairman, Social Committee.
Why did they do it, I wonder?
The class of 1915, I mean. Why the squity mollith, with an inscription on two sides, and tacks on the other two, and four electric push buttons on the top?
AMERICAN LEGION FORUM
All summer School students and faculty members are urged to attend
the Fourth of July program to be given under the auspices of the American
Legion. There will be no other program arranged.
What is Art after all is told, but a means to satisfy the cravings of the human soul? If the cravings of the average student are better satisfied by the announcement that good rooms can be secured at two dollars per, or that a job is waiting for him at the "Y", then he would satisfaction by giving on the house by whiskered finger, by Michael Annelou, then the class of 1015 was right to provide for the perpetual satisfaction of that craving.
The ultra-artistic soul may look the other way when he passes the utilitarian attroche, and satisfy his artistic artificial glory of Wakara's hallway.
Was it Lowell who complained that the gift without the giver was bare? In this case the givers may console themselves with the thought, that the gift is given by the giver as bare as the general public would wish to see it.
But why be hyper-critical? Why object to the task-freckled biognomy? I am Wolfe. What biognomy are I meant to study today largely on account of the same infirmity?
After all, the idea of tasks driven promiscuously into a wooden surface may have its symbolic, as well as its utilitarian significance. Unless the Class of 1915 differed in their use, any Professor told us that you task the of driving ideas into a wooden block was not unknown in class annals.
AMONG NEW MAGAZINES
Have you met Mendel Marganz? If you haven't there is a treat in store for you. You will meet him in the pages of the June Pictorial Review, introduced by his creator David Freedman.
Mendel has invented a style of humor wholly his own, which is epitigmatic in nature, and supremely clever.
The following are some of the best examples:
"What is a habit A wife, easy to find, hard to lose.
What is fame? A ladder. The higher you climb, the more it shakes.
you calm, the more it smiles.
What is worry? A hair tonic. It
monkey you bald.
What is life? A theatre Different prices for seats, but the same show. What is society An exit. You can't enter.
What is love? A cigar. The brighter it burns, the quicker the ashes.
What is marriage? The ash tray.
What is a wife A dentist. She works on your nerves.
What is distance? An overcoat.
What's long for you, is short for me.
Governor Robinson vetosed a bill passed by both houses of the state legislature in 1861 assigning the location of the State University to Baltimore, which was vacant, without a contest, secured the location of the Agricultural College.
DR. J. R. PAYNE (Exodontist). Practitioner in oral and surgical lesions of the mouth. Gas-Oxygen and Conduction Equipment 201-368 Perkins Building. Phone 898.
DALE PRINTING COMPANY. First class work. Prices reasonable. Phone 228. 1827 Mass. Street.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
CHIROPRACTORS
DRS, WELCH & WELCH, CHIRO-
PACTORS, graduates of Palm-
road school. Phone 115. Office over Houk's.
THOMAS ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP.
Rubber heels in 10 minutes any time.
1017% Mass.
WANT ADS
DR. A. J. VANWINKLE, Your Osteo-
path. 1239 Ohio. Phone 1021.
BULLOCK PRINTING COMPANY. Stationery--printing of all kinds. Bowersock Building.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Exclusive Optometrists). Eyes examined: glasses made. Office, 1925 Mass.
ROOMS for girls. Large cool and newly decorated. Price reasonable.
Three blocks from campus. Mrs.
Turner, 1200 Tenn. Phone 2577.
Order a case of McNish Soda Water for the Fourth of July picnic. Phone 198. McNish Bottling Works—Adv.
Drink McNish Soda Water. Made with distilled water—Adv.
LOST—A pair of tortoise rimmed glasses. Gold temples. Return to Kanaan office call. K U. 150.
.OST—Kappa Sigma fraternity pin Initials R. S. S. Return to Kansan office. Reward.
.OST—Rimless glasses in black case.
Call 924. Fannie E. Burdick.
ROOMS FOR MEN—just off the Campus, Cool Sleeping porch. 1244 Louisiana. Tel. 1288.
Your Osteopath
Cold and peppy drinks are to be had at Rankins Drug Store.—Adv.
Dr. A. J. VANWINKLE is giving special attention to Hay Fever. Bring in that old cass and let's clean it up.
Office, 1329 Ohio St. Phone 1031
"Suiting You"
THAT'S MY BUSINESS
WM. SCHULTZ
917 Mass. St
Across Street Frem Courthouse
STUDENT
HOE
HOP
Shoe Repairs Shoe Findings
R. O. BURGERT, Prop.
1113 Mass. St.
When Down Town Take Your Meals At The
of
Supreme Cafe
EXCLUSIVE DISPLAYS
A Nice Cool Place
Meal Tickets, $4.40 for $4.00
$2.20 for $2.00
STUDENTS ALWAYS
WELCOME
Chinese Art Objects, Embroideries, Blouses and Linens.
530 Ohio
MISS LAURENE STEVEN.
You cannot afford to miss this opportunity to purchase these rare and unusual articles.
Tel. 2102
You will enjoy attending the
Epworth League Service
AT THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH
SUNDAY EVENING, JULY 1st
AT 7:15 p.m.
SUBJECT: "Things Worth While."
Open Forum Meeting Special Meeting Refreshments and Social Time after meeting
YOU ARE WELCOME
SPARKLERS PAPER BALLOONS and SNAKES at HOADLEY'S 733 Mass.
P. S. We can tell you where to buy firecrackers.
The Picnic Basket For the Fourth
Everybody's interested in it. And upon what goes into it really depends the success of the Outing.
So have your picnic baskets filled at this store — where nothing but the freshest and best groceries are ever handled. We carry a line of fruits, canned goods and bottled goods that are just the things to make any picnic lunch a delicious repast.
Olives Pickles Crackers
Deviled Ham Devilled Chicken
Piminto Cheese Cream Cheese
Boned Chicken Apples Oranges
Potato Chips
Watermelons
Cantelopes
Williams Grocery
Tel.212
1021 Mass. St.