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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Editorial Staff
Editor-in-chief
Lawrence Presser
Newswriter
News Editor
Jeff McMullen
Telegraph Editor
Paul Patterson
Night Editor
Jack Bickford
Night Editor
Jack Bickford
Alumun Editor
Allan Goulden
Sunday Magazine Editor, Gertrude S. Nutter
Sunday Magazine Editor, Gertrude S. Nutter
Dorothy Taylor Jessie Snellen Robert Mite Young Kimball Robert Mite Young Kimball C. Haldane Crews George Alpine Charles Johnson Marjorie Stuart Carter Johnson
Advertising Manager ... Earl E. Stirpmei
Ast. Advertising Marr. ... Tom McFarlandy
Ast. Advertising Mgr. ... Leo Inchison
Ast. Advertising Manager ... Katie R. Dale
Circuit Manager ... E. M. Dale
Telephone
Business Office K. U. 66
New Room K. U. 25
Published in the afternoon, two times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Anneuze, from the Press of the Depart
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 5, 1997.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927
SHALL WE HAVE A BOOK STORE?
STORE?
Both Hill politician parties are to be complimented upon keeping the proposal to establish a student book store here a non-partisan issue. No matter what may become of the proposal the merits of the case could only be clouded by injecting it into politics.
No plan can be assured of success before it is tried. Those who oppose the establishment of a book store merely because it might fail have no argument. The College Bookstore Association found that out of 150 representative bookstores located in 40 states, 51 are privately owned. The remaining 69 have been for from five to over twenty years, and each is proof that such enterprises can be operated economically. In the reports collected last spring by a student committee at the University of Kansas, failures of college book stores are attributed almost solely to mis management. For instance, at Missouri one young and inexperienced manager during an 18-month period caused the store a $21,000 loss from which it took five years to recover. Nearly every report shows that where success was attained it came through employment of an experienced, full-time manager working under the supervision of a board composed of faculty members and students, or directly under the supervision of the college authorities.
The benefits to students arising from a student store depend entirely upon the plan adopted. In some cases profits are returned to purchasers on a pro rata basis; other stores use profits for athletic funds, endowment of scholarships, library books and what not. The per cent of purchases returned under the first plan varies up to about 15 per cent.
Few stores report selling text books at lower than list rates, because the publisher leaves the retailer only a small margin. On other articles, however, prices may be materially lower. The manager of the University of Georgia store reports, for instance, that the profit on felt goods is 100 per cent.
The question on which students here are to be asked to vote next Tuesday is whether some student store plan should be tried at the University of Kansas. If the proposal carries, there will be further need for student endeavor; all will not be settled by a favorable vote April 12. Then the problem will be to see that the plan adopted is the most practical one under the circumstances.
No one believes that the benefits of a student book store will be as great as some propositions claim; neither does anyone believe that it would be as dismal a failure as some predict. The question is not, "Will a student book store fail or succeed?" It is, "Are you willing to make a student book store succeed?" If students are, the plan can be made to work here as it has worked elsewhere. If the benecies are worth the effort, the plan is worthy of a "years" vite. If they are not, "no" can be the only answer.
Sam, the printer, says that if the present plans go through, the new science hall will be one "L" of a building.
MID-SEMESTER GRADES
Nothing is so sure to spoil the bliss of a joyous spring day as a notice from the Dean's office for a conference over mid-seminar grades. Ask some unfortunate freeman, for an always the notices for that class go out first. No doubt it is just one of the disagreeable things of college life to be bothered with quizzes and grades. But under present systems where grades are the only method of determining fitness for a degree such will have to be our lot. Perhaps in that for distant day when all students who gather at universities come for an education only grades may be dispassionate; but not so today.
every time grades are checked up, there are sure to be casualties. A certain percentage seems over to fall below the minimum standard of requirement. But it is particularly unfortunate that so many of those who fell below the line at the end of the first semester, and were given grace, again down on the rocks. Lenency should be practiced, no doubt, by the powern that be, but likewise industry should be practiced by those who have been so favored.
If students are unable or unwilling to show by their industry that they want an education they should direct their efforts in other channels. It would be a service to them to send them home. Moreover, it would clear the way for others to obtain an education who are now being denied the opportunity.
An insignificant match won a heated argument over de Pinedo? round the world plane.
A POLITICAL NOCTURNE Blake Hells' oak call midnight, if it could have been seen, but still there were murmuring voices along the campanula which ceased as the night watchman scrawled easily from Dyche to Green. Something was peculiar about these voices which rose angrily now and then. No moving figures were visible and yet the same voices seemed to be proceeding up the hill and on toward the west.
And then—one of those familiar voices came from across the campus street and was answered by its counterpart right near a snow hall! Rather spoooky, or is it an excelent ventriloquist hidden behind some bush to startle the traversers of the campus? Gradually the voices increased until the whole street murmured. It seemed that from each tree and post came unintelligible voices of irritation. And strangely through it all there were just four different voices, but each one repeting itself many times from the Union building around to the engineer's abode.
Louder and more furious came these muscine rumblings until one set could be heard shouting above the rest, "I tell you my qualifications are the best."
The watchman, coming out of Fraser on the west, stopped suddenly
RENT-A-FORD Drive It Yourself
916 Mass.
We invite comparison
Quality — Finish — Comfort
Prices no higher
Phone 653
J. B. Lowell Shoe Shop 17 West 9th
You can eat your 50c
Sunday Chicken Dinner
here and then take along enough sandwiches for the afternoon's hike.
We specialize in "to go" orders.
Yes!
HILLSIDE CAFE on 9th between Louisiana and Indiana.
Regular Meals 35c
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Sci. Vid. Prody. Agr. 8, 1971. No. 153
The budget conferences for Saturday, April 9, are scheduled as follows
9 - Physical Education; 10:30 - Philosophy and Psychology.
E. H. LINDLEY.
The Women's Glee Club will meet for rehearsal on Monday, April 11, at 4:30 p. m., in the auditorium of Marvin hall. All must be present.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
BUDGET CONFERENCES:
The Mathematics Club will meet on Monday, April 11, at 4:30 p.m. in room 201, east administration building. Professor JORDAN will speak on "Nomographic Charts." Members are requested to bring money for pins at this time.
MAREL HERTZL, President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
BETA CHI SIGMA:
Dean J. G. Brandt will have charge of the meeting April 11, and assisted by Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler of the department of psychology, will lead discussion of the subject, "Application of Feynberg's Higher Education Model to meet every Monday at the Administration building."
to listen and the silence was heavy with suspense. Scratching his head he started on thinking surely he had heard human voices.
“Well,” he mumbled to himself as he passed the many posters along the walk, “these political candidates stuck on these trees here must have been haven’t a friendly argument.”
The Star requests a motor cycle escort to prevent interstate bus smash-ups when the Tarahumara Indian runners take to the Victory highway at Kansas City bound for Lawrence April 23. Why not give the buses a shot at the dirt road and enjoy a mutual exchange of experiences with the Indians?
“What in heck’s it? use of our grown?” moused Bill, our roommate. “They ain’t no fun in it at all. You walk around in a carpet and sober man.”
WE USED TO—
ner and do the same old things over
and over and if you play at all it has
to be some fool organized game with
a bunch of rules and regulations.
"Now I remember when I was a kid, a gang of us used to go over to a barn every Sunday afternoon. The barn had a big loft, full of hay. We choose up and half would go up in the loft and half would stay on the ground. Each side got plenty of cornroots and the war started."
"The big idea was for those on the ground to capture the loft or for the fellows in the loft to run those on the ground plumb out of the country. One big fellow named Charlie could throw a like ball, and the side that got him had to give the other side two extra; little fellows like me.
"Oh, baby, how these eels would buzz around your head, and when one hit you, sowie, how you did yall! Course, the ones up in the loft had the advantage, but sometimes the ones
for your Easter Drycleaning
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UNIVERSITY
TRAVEL
MUSEUM
220 Madison Ave.
New York City
Attend the Kansas Relays
Sportswear
on the ground would charge up the ladders like maracas, yelling and cussing when they got hit.
Separate little cardigan jackets of flannel or knitted fabrics are especially priced at
Dominates the Spring Mode
$16^{75}$
The newest note in sport-
wear modes for spring is the
cardigan—a short jacket.
It has a very flattering
distance of these clever little
tailored jackets in all sizes
that are very smartest
spring colors.
"And the next day at school about half of us would show up with skinned faces and peened knees and some arms. "Man, man, them was the days," said Bill. "What did you say the atmosphere y lesion waa?"
Over one-third of the professors of full professional rank in the University of Nebraska include in the 1927 Who's Who.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H. J. K. RUSTACE
Detectable family physician. Call or e-mail
Bess, John Mass.
Office 417 Mass.
Phone 843
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY
Eye Glasses Exclusively
1025 Miss.
DR. K. HUENG
Oculite. Fitting glasses a specialty. Teach
the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Phone 812.
F. A. U. Buildins
40
Wont be long now
Hub Clothing Co.
820 Maxs.
Why not take that well-or-narrow go-round out of town, where you can forget about school for a bit? Soon you know, the old grind begins all over again. Coaches every hour for Kansas City. Topeka
Leavenworth
Easter Holidays
Plenty of coaches for all.
Shirts—comfortable as a summer sweater and as welcome are these shirts in collar-attached and neckband styles—
Student Special Leaves
$1.25—$1.95
—Fancy Ties—
65c—95c
Correct
Leavenworth for Lawrence
6:15 p. m. every Sunday
Round Trip:
Kansas City, $1.80
Tampa, $1.15
The Interstate Stage Lines
Phone 363 Bowersock Bldg.
TWO BIG EVENTS Saturday
In the Afternoon:
Our feature display of Easter Suits, tailored for us
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Simple Trouser Suits $35, $40, $45, $50
Two Trouser Suits, $40, $42.50, $45, $50
"And They're Cool."
"And They're Good"
In the Evening:
at the K. U. Karnival-
"Prof, George Powers"
Harmonica Entertainer"
"And They're Good"
at the K. U. Karnival-
Vol. II
A GREATER TELEPHONE SYSTEM FOR KANSAS
A Journal of Telephone Information Published by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
No.
MANY TELEPHONES MOVED IN APRIL AND MAY
CONVENIENT
An extension station is a telephone bridged on your main station and is usually located in another room, or on the second floor in a two-story dwelling. It costs but a few cents extra per month, and it saves hundreds of steps in answering your telephone.
WELCOME
You are always welcome at your Central Office. Drop in there some afternoon and see how telephone calls are handled. You can get a better understanding in an hour spent this way than we could give you in a volume of printed matter. You will find the chief operator willing and anxious to show and explain to you the many features of, telephone operation, and we can promise you that your time will be well spent.
Spring Moving Season
Spring Moving Season Means Big Task For
Telephone Employees
With the coming of spring come one of the peak periods of moving, the housekeeper's dread and the moving man's delight. This moving period also means considerable extra work for your Telephone Company.
In Kansas last year, 2191 telephones were moved during the months of April and May.
To facilitate this work, if you contemplate moving this spring, let us know as far ahead as possible. Arrangements can then be made to handle your telephone move promptly and insure you almost unbroken telephone service.
The moving of telephone is a technical task and cannot be done by temporary employees. The regular employees must do it.
TREE TRIMMING
Branches of trees, rubbing against telephone wires, will in time rub holes in the cable or break the open wires. This will of course impair
your telephone service. With the permission of the owner of the trees, these overhanging branches are trimmed by a telephone employee who is an expert at such work, and whose work benefits rather than injures the trees.
REDUCED RATES START AT 7 P.M.