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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1928
TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM
A historically correct presentation of "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" was given by the Kansas Players in Fraser theater last night. The drama of five acts with its scenes of drunken debauchery, murder, pathos, and comedy brought forth tears and then laughter from the large audience.
Scenery depicting both the exterior and the interior of an old bar room were arranged with the idea of reproducing the old play in its authentic setting. The characters with their clever acting and realistic costumes received generous and merited applause.
AVIATION
The Kansas Players under the direction of Professor Crafton are to be commended for their excellent presentation of this drama, which is of more formal type than we have today. The only modern note was struck in connection with the arguments for and against prohibition which were much the same as those used today.
Col. Charles A., Lindbergh will soon do another bit of pioneering in the field of aviation. The flying colonel will open a transcontinental passenger air-rail route from New York City to Los Angeles.
King Arthur's court may have been annexed by the Connecticut Yankee, but what would Arthur and Lancelot do if a hydraulic should glide down onto the smooth surface of the river at Camelot?
Tenyson predicted the conquest of the air, but little did he imagine to what extent it would be carried, and we ourselves hardly realize what the future in this field may be.
What would be Balboa's sensations if he were to come to this continent to re-discover the Pacific and were to be transported across the continent by an airplane?
What would George Washington think if he were to receive as a birthday gift an air trip over the country which has shown so much progress since his day?
To picture one's self in the plane of any one of these heroes upon his introduction to the airplane is difficult. The progress in the air is wonderful No one doubts that. We owe a debt to the Wright brothers and Lindbergh and the other brave men who are or have been leaders in this great accomplishment.
RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION
The state equate committee state committee has approved the Fess bill to permit con- solidation of railroads. The measure would facilitate unification of the railroads of the country into a few great systems, operating upon a basis of equal opportunity for fair profit and service to the public. A recent report just released intimate that the railways are losing trade envy. The year 1928 was a peo- one for them financially, for the number of passengers was smaller than for any year since 1906; the number of passenger miles was less than for any year since 1909 and the number of miles travelled by the average
rain rider (264) was the lowest since 1889.
The bill as amended in committee, directs the interstate commerce commission to prepare a tentative plan for consolidation, but the measure would not make execution of such a plan mandatory. Another amendment would give the commission power to permit petitioning railroads to institute condemnation proceedings against any line desired for consolidation when the price asked was deemed prohibitive. There are no hopes of passing the bill in the senate this session, but the primary purpose of the committee in reporting it was to bring the legislation before the country for discussion.
VANDALISM AGAIN
Vandalism has reappeared on the Hill. The Fine Arts bulletin board located between Dyche museum and Green hill has been bent backward and pushed to the ground. Along with this there are the usual number of losses of clothing, books, jewelry and other articles reported by the Hill students. However, it seems that little can be done with uch thievery.
It is quite a regular occurrence for the Fina Arts bulletin to be destroyed Only a short time ago one was taken entirely and the School of Fina Arts installed another one that was anchored securely to heavy iron pipes Even this did not deter the mischief makers.
Those who enjoy destroying property wantonly do not consider the value of that which they demolish. The mere loss of a bulletin board does not represent adversity criticism of the School of Fine Arts, but only the peculiar mental attitude of those who persist in such untoward actions. The broken board was used to announce recitals, practices, concerts and other activities of the School of Fine Arts, and was placed in a position where most students could see it as they come on or go off the Hill. Certainly no good was accomplished by this latest misremorse.
WEATHER
There ought to be a law against this kind of weather. Consistently inconsistent, it sweeps through one month without a day warm enough for thawing and then, when everyone has resigned accepted the ground-hog's edict, it raises sadly and battered and distillationned hopes by hanging out the sun and almost perusing the world it can hear the birds singing. Then when a fellow has left his coat home back come the polar breezes an grim reminders that the old ground-hog knew his weather. Such weather can no longer be tolerated. There ought to be a law against it.
The House cleanroom lunch counter has been banned as "the most unani-ary eating place" in the District of Columbia. Enter, the full dinner
—Springfield Daily Republican
A HISTORY-MAKING MAN
The death of Melville Ellish Stone 'father and founder of the Associate Press, the greatest news-gathering of the world, removes the most outstanding figure of American journalism.
Today's Best Editorial
His constructive genius conceived he great ideal that he directed into be incorporation and expansion of he Associated Press.
A HISTORY-MAKING MAN
For a quarter century he was the general manager of his creation and in his last lustrum was its trusted counsellor. For 30 years he was the penins and guide of the argy-oused letters which written the daily data if world history.
- Atlanta Constitution
His passing will have the effect and roft of emphasizing in the public and the immense influence he exerted, including his role in distributing science of journalism, or that achievement has brought into correspondence the current information of the world and increased the voices that tend to bind the nations together by raising arrests. In his death a history-making man went down.
resn an intimate and profound sorrow because Melville Stone, even in his '87 year, has his record closed. He's not the most likely to meet notably rites for all her children.
He commanded the full trust of his colleagues of the press and was called upon by all sides to take states and the controllers of other affairs for counsel and co-operations.
Sticking Pins in Bedbugs as They Climbed Wall of School House Was Pastime of Early Kansan
"It has been my pleasure and my privilege to study something of the life of the early pioneers in a community in west-central Kansas in Omaha. John Iacobi recently in discussing the life of he early Kansas pioneers.
"The hardships of these men and women are different. They mature in comfort and luxury. Their life was hard and mender almighty beyond belief." *paid Professor*
Some men found employment at a local bank, the year freighting to different parts of the country was terrific hard and a very poor way to earn money, but it was about $20 an hour.
Mcneey Was Scaree
"In the first place many of them, in fact, most of them, came to the new country with almost no money or supplies; they were so scared to scribe the arrival of some of the early settlers with large families and other families, that the condition of destination which resulted became it took several months or in case of crop failures, years to be recovered. Although there was a fine spirit of hospitality and neighborliness, almost everyone wanted to help much." There was but little work to be had, wages were puffy low, and often paid in coins. The men were also in some of the men went east to work where wages were better than they might send money back to their family.
Binim Crusso Existence.
"Witnessed that the settlers had to live in such houses that they could build themselves, furnished with such furniture as they could produce themselves—almost a Robinson Cruzo existence. They had to buy shoes, clothing—at least the cloth—and sugar. They produced every-
Robinson Crusoe Existence
"Almost all of the houses were ugoua, sod houses or combinations f these."
"The pioneers first job in the construction of his house was to dig three trenches. He was, of course, easier where there was a steep slope, and many of the buildings were built along the creeks or river banks. In some cases where the banks permitted, the entire depth of the canyon was opened out so that there was no necessity for building any wall and the roofs with such a cave entrance. The canyon is Arcadia, in Oborne County, central Kansas where Professor Ice lived and feathered most of his material for his work."
Ridge Pole Hoisted By Hand
Ridge pole is "the combination dugout and sod house or sod dugouts as they were called, the window or windows set, and walls of sod two or three times the digging was completed. Of course the gables had to be built higher, and then the ridge pole was put up. The ridge pole was large enough for a diameter, and sometimes it was so heavy as to be hard to raise to its position. One man tells of the time when he went to a ranch trying to get the heavy ridge pole of his house up but was unable to lift it high enough. Presumably two big men were seen passing through the ranch while help hone the pole to its position. It was sometimes hard to find a suitable pole and it often had to be baked under the creeck or river where timber grew.
"With the ridge pole up, cross poles smaller in diameter were laid from the ridge pole down to the poles and shepherds, sunflowers or other stakes were laid on top of the cross poles, then a layer of (sorbarum敲) straw was put on top of them. When the poles are removed the structure. A few settlers put gravel on the sod. Some with abundant means put cottonwood boards over the poles and then put sed oil over these
that father should put a floor in his house before he took the boy out of his bed and saw how few of the people had flores in their houses she felt that she had been very soft and extravagant. She had been very nice and warmed terribly. Mother was never able to put the bad crosswise brooms because they were so uneven.
"Most dugouts were very small—en by twelve feet, or periaps a little anger.
Owing to the fact that the steps of many of the diugouts were outside they frequently piped quantities of water, and because the heavy roofs have been known to cave in causing injury to the occupants. These digouts were usually made with a slurry, because the possessions of the entire family had to be grouped into the small space. The women did as much of their work out of doors as the men did.
"Washing is a real task in the days when water often had to be carried long distances or down from the house, so you had to wash them when soap was scource and expensive and when the common fuel to heat the water with was 'buffalo chili,' the first few years there were not, so many clothes to洗, but later, as the children, especially the girls, became an awful nightmare for the hard-pressed women. Styles demanded that women wear a skirt on Sundays, long skirts, wide and pleated; and when these women had to walk two or three miles or even four miles or literary societies, it is easy to believe that their skirts got sold very quickly because the book slowing wanshings to do."
Floors Were Lacking
"Few of the dugouts or log houses either, had floors at first. My mother still feels guilt because she insisted
Many of the dugouts were so poorly ventilated that the people slept out of doors as much of the time in the heat and smoke from the camp and the coolive oil gas was at a premium. Fleses were a constant misrance, constantly about, owing to the fact that zercons were unknown, and because the campers did not feel that these dugouts were so often infested with all kinds of vermin, fleas, flies, bed bugs, lice, snakes, rats, even skunks and other animals, and one man speaks of porcupines as
Prairies Alive With Fleas
"Almost every dugout was infested with fleas during the first few years. It seems that the prazines were alive with them although no one knows when they started to be released. These fleas stored neither man nor beast, and bed bugs were said to be nearly as bad. "One woman tells of teaching in a log cabin school house where children were dwellings where the pupils amused themselves during recess by sticking
pins in the bed bugs as they crawled up the wells.
"Rattle snakes were a constant nuisance to life, particularly up in the hills," said Dr. John Hale, one of the children who were of course out of a deer deal, and almost always bare-footed. The snakes were two feet long, but their bite was often fatal. One man killed 36 snakes in this area, many of them especially those baring cattle.
Red Ants Dangerous
160 Ants Dangerous.
"Red ants that used to have their hill, seemed all over the prairie were a worse danger to child life than maks."
"Perhaps the greatest fear of the prairie settlement was the dread of prarie fires and anyone can underestimate how dangerous of approaching fumes and has heard the crackling of the flames, the bellowing of the cattle, the snorting of horses and birds and beasts, the screams of frightened women and children, and the hoarse shouting of men as they were trying to escape them in their fight against this fleet-winged disaster. When fire so breathed threatening, it was every man's duty to protect himself with water, such barrels of water, plow or what ever was needed and failure to respond to this call was an offence most hostile in his community.
"To one accustomed to the comforts of more recent times, the life of these women is a journey of learning and ingenuity; yet some of them had been through wars before they came."
The Hawk's Nest
Four counts justifying homicide during this weather—
during this weekend
"Is it cold enough for you?"
"Is it cold enough for yuh?"
"How are you this bright and sun- hinny morning?"
"I hear a robin—spring is here!"
The simple for today: She was as cold as a bed in a fraternity dorm in the middle of February.
Professor: Define scandal.
Jimmie: Oh, I say, old smelt, you
gret I'm only a fresh.
We read today of the death of a Russian named Ivanne Kreenskas, Youn don't ttt sayyy soo! Yess!
"Did you hear one about the camp-fire girl who sang "Burn, Fire, Burn," to a bunch of old flames?" "Do you have anyone?" "Naw, they went out!"
"Say somehit' fomny," I asked a
say, "nt whad do yuh think o' sex,
o' sez "Life at K. U. Rah! Rah!
Wal!")
Well, Awk!! Haw! Haw!
Hugh Bently
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XVI, Wednesday, February 20, 1929 No. 169
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23TH BIRTHDAY.
Friday, Feb. 22, is a holiday. No classes will be held at the University.
E. H. LINDLEY.
NEWCOMER'S CLUB:
The Newcomer's Club will be entertained Thursday, Feb. 21, at the home of Mrs. J. P. Jensen, 600 Louisburg street.
MRS, S. A. QUEEN, Secretary.
MENTAL HYGIENE LECTURE:
R. H. WHEELER
Dr. G. Leonard Harrington will lecture on "The Mental Hygiene of the Child," in room 101 east administration building at 4:30th afternoon, September 27.
QUILL CLUB:
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB:
quilt Club will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the real room of the Administration building. NAOMI DAESCHNEER, Chancellor.
Snow Zoology Club will hold its regular meeting Thursday evening, Feb. 21, at 530 in room 304 snow Hall. Dr. H. B. LATINER of the anatomy department will talk on some of his own research work, "The Post-natal pregnancy," and give us some important business to consider. All members are urged to be present.
MEREDITH OLINGER, President.
The Label "G. W."
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The Ober label
in a suit
assures style, quality and tailoring which will bear the closest inspection for it is a mark of honor in tailoring!
Ever sigh for a little real action?
Piqued at his indifference, several citizens asked why, if red Gulch wasn't tough enough to interest him, he didn't go back where he came from.
The bard-looking stranger only yawned at the pa-day activities of Red Gulch,
"I cain't, the stranger dawed." "That place is all so hard fired, they kicked all its slaves out!"
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