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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Editorial Staff
**Infield-Itch** Editor
Robert H. Skipkins
Robert W. Kielstraer
Sunday Binder
Bernard Lester
Nepa Editor
Jeanie Tucker
Gregory Boonus
Nepa Editor
George Boonus
Nepa Editor
Sport Binder
Josh Sainthoff
Plain Title Editor
Krisneth Murray
Alumni Title
Maryland Magazine
Vaughn Kimball
Charles Bidgenor
Joyce Russell
Joe Fogel
Jack Strangle
George Adeyne
Nathan Miller
Langer Harper
Frank K. Tiffany
John Shawley
David McKay
George Adeyne
Nathan Miller
Langer Harper
Business Staff
Advertising Manager ... Chaveen E. Mundell
Advertising Mgr., Advertising Mgr. ... W. Morgan Co.
Advertising Mgr., Advertising Mgr. ... John H. Monnette
Advertising Mgr., Advertising Mgr. ... John Hyerson
Circulation Mgr. ... Allergy ... Allergy
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Published. in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning by students in the department of Journalism of the University of Texas at Austin, the Press of the Department of Journalism.
Entered as, second-class mail matter Sep-
tenent 17, 1910, at the post office at Law
repech Kaapas, under the act of March 3, 1897
MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927
BACK AGAIN
"Hou. Hum! What in thunder is that? The 8 o'clock whistle? It can be—still I guess it may it is. Well, I guess maybe I'd better roll out. This is Monday and an eight-thirty. Gosh it's cold." Thus soliloquizes the student this morning as he rolled out of bed and a few minutes later the usual rumpus is heard from the bathroom.
The usual last-minute rush for breakfast, and that eight-thirty class, begins again. Have we all been gone for two whole weeks? Yes? No? I don't know. Well, I guess so.
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
But once back on the camps, the two-week gap in the usual rhythm of life at K. U. is very real. A glimpse of familiar faces and familiar surroundings is comforting. It's good to get back again to the old haunts just as it was good to get back home. To be here again brings clearly the realization that two weeks of vacation have gone.
The fact that nearly half the stu dents at the University of Kansas at self-supporting has brought about situation in Lawrence that threaten to drive many such independent stu dents from the University. Because the supply of labor exceeds the demand, the persons who employ stu dents have cut the wage scale to point where the time that must be given to work leaves the working stu dent no time for recreation and little time for study.
A typical example is that of the cafes. In most cafes and restaurants a student must work four hours each day for his board. Figuring board at a dollar a day, this is at the rate of 25 cents an hour. These students, however, take their meals where they work in other words, "take it out in trade." Figuring the profit of the cafe on each meal as eight cents, the student is actually receiving in money only 17 cents an hour. Such a wage suggests conditions in India or China. The students who work in these cafes must "crawl out" to 0.5 or 3.2 a.m., and cannot hope to get to bed early because they have lessons to prepare after their work in the evening. If a student should spend eight hours a day in attending classes and studying and eight hours in sleep each night, he would have four hours left, after counting out his four hours of work. Four hours is little time in which to attend University athletic events, to go to social events, to attend meetings, and forums, and to take part in other activities; yet these things contribute more to a college course than the text books themselves.
Wages paid for odd jobs are slightly higher, but the student has to be able such work and thus waste time that might be used for working if he had a regular job. The wage for skilled work, such as typing, is only 40 cents an hour. Workers in University offices often receive 50 cents an hour but they must work for many months in positions at lower wages. Only a few can be accommodated in such positions.
This situation has developed be cause those persons who employ stu
WHAT IF WE LOVE?
What if we love or do not love? No
stop
Will slip its white and fiery groove and fall
Hurtling in flame; this sun, this moon
and all.
Well-ordered worlds will swing on as they are.
What if we do not love—or love? No
flower.
Will let its fragrant petal drop too soon. Because of it, not any fragrant moom Shorten its glory by a single hour.
So little matter it, that while we hold
With fattie agony each other's sight;
The fremont rocks not; and black-
birds hold
Still sing . . . . . Only that lovely child Delight
Can dance no more but, prematurely,
old.
Drags, somewhere, weary footsteps through the night.
—Eleanor Chase in Harper's Bazaar
dents know that the supply of student help exceeds the demand. They see only the advantage to themselves of hiring cheap labor. They should also see the disadvantages of holding the wage scale down.
The more students have to spend in Lawrence, the more the town profits. Lawrence lives from the money spent here by the University students. Lawrence should recognize the fact that if the working students were paid more fair wages, they would have more money and more spare time, and would naturally spend more.
Final evidence of the American's vee of chance is the popularity of ash in the University Commons.
A RETIREMENT FUND.
Among the problems which Chancellor Lindley will place before the all-Kansas Alumni Council this week will be the possibility of establishing a retirement fund for faculty members. If such a plan is adopted, it will mean that instructors, white haired and approaching three scores and ten, will no longer have to spend their last years in classrooms and literally die in the traces.
The retirement fund for teachers is not a problem of the university alone but is one that is being discussed by teachers all over the country. In many states such funds have been founded and are in successful operation. Their plan is essentially the same. Every teacher in the state is required to belong to the association, which means that a certain proportion of his or her salary will be automatically diverted into the fund. In many respects it is nothing more or less than a professional insurance against age. To be eligible to a pension, anywhere from ten to twenty years must have been spent in teaching in the state with enough years here or elsewhere to total twenty or thirty. The pension is paid in direct proportion to the salary the person received while teaching. This generally amounts to enough to live in comfortable retirement.
How many mothers were dislubished to learn the sixth daughter of Mrs. Charles Nisbet for years a writer for household nongrines on "how to train girls," recently gained publicity by attending a wild girn party, forcing a man at the point of a gun to change clothes with her and then going on a burning trip in hobo fashion!
Since the scheme has been proven practicable, there is no reason why it should not be adopted on the Hill. Similar policies are being taken out with insurance companies to enable many large corporations to retire their employees. Certainly our professors are as deserving of such a pension as any factory worker. Considering the manager salaries which they are paid, it hardly seems possible that they could save enough in a lifetime of teaching to ever retire upon. If the standards of the teaching profession are to be raised, a retirement fund is assured one of the first steps to be surrounded.
ON HOW TO TRAIN GIRLS
The escapee of the girl who, according to all rules of reasoning, should have been a model daughter, should furnish food for reflection. It will probably cause many to love some of their faith in the printed word.
The January tenure of the University Women's Club has been postponed from April to June, and is scheduled in Skyes host. This is the annual Guest Tea, and each member may attend one or more events.
UNIVERSITY SENATE:
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
MRS. F. B. DAINS
NIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB:
The University Senate will meet at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 4, in the auditorium of the Administration building. E. H. LINDSEY.
Very likely in the future, if nothing is done, a number of the concert course will be apalled or some other entertainment disturbed. It takes only a gentle breeze to set up a rasping, squeaking, rattling that makes enjoyment of anything but a basketball game in the gymnasium impossible. Why not oil the ventilators or do whatever is necessary to silence them?
Now that it has been nearly three weeks since "The Dover Road" was presented in Robinson gymnasium, it is fairly certain that this outburst is not the result of sudden anger, snap judgment, or premature conclusions. But why weren't the ventilators on the roof allowed to make worse a building already unfit for a theater? When William Allen White talked at the last all-University convocation, the sweeping ventilators were a distraction to the speaker and a nuisance to the audience. The next evening "The Dover Road" was presented in the same building and the nuisance continued unabated. The following night was the same.
Cambridge University of England will be represented in the relay races of the University of Pennsylvania here next spring, it was announced today.
OIL THE VENTILATORS
MEN'S GLEE CLUB;
The Men's Glee Club will meet tonight, Monday, at 7:30 in room 362,
central Administration building, for one hour rehearsal on content songs.
This is the first of extra rehearals for contest, and attendance is required.
T. A. LARPEMORE
ENGLISH MAJORS:
English majors should see their major advisers about their work before enrollment. If possible each major should bring transcript from the department's office and provide a resume. Send resume to: Dr. Day, Jan. 4, 2 to; Wednesdays, Jan. 5, 2 to; Thursday, Jan. 6, 10 to 12. Miss Morgan and Miss Laird will hold their conferences next week.
and especially in newspaper and magazine articles of the "advice to mothers" or "lovelorns" column types. This could hardly be called deplorable, however.
SARAH G. LAIRD, Chairman of the Committee
Genius in garrets may be a thing of the past as Dr. Edwin E. Slosson said last week in Philadelphia but that has no reference to the ingenious found not only in garrets but in cellars as well.
But Mrs. Nichols is not discouraged. She is going to capitalize the matter by writing a series of articles to tell mothers her experiences with her own daughter. Perhaps by thus approaching from the "what not to do" standpoint, her advice will be more valuable.
Book Review
--for $23.50
By Edgar Schowiter
Phone: 75
Yurrap As Is," by W. Y. Morgan.
219 pages. 82. Crane & Company
Topela.
The genial "Billy" Morgan has written a travelogue on the Europe of today in a slangy style that is sure to "get across" to his fellow Kansans.
The well known Hutchinson newspaper man, accompanied by his wife, made a tour of Europe the past summer seeing Belgium, France, Italy, Germany and England. Mr. Morgan wrote travel letters home to his paper and it is these letters that constitute his latest book.
The work is not of the ordinary travelogue type; the usual kind are so systematic in following the course of trips taken that they are more tiresome than to do the traveling oneself. Mr. Morgan's book is anything but tough. Enough, its style is not classic, but it is easy to understand as "Blih" is to understand in person. The first chapter in the book introduces the less-travelled natives of Kansas to the cost of a European trip. The prices are given in rather alluring figures. However, the author himself had occasions to be pimped, for example, when a French customer officer literally "blow up" over Mr. Morgan's possession of more than the amount claimed him $2 for the offence. Mr. Morgan concludes that the French are retaliating thus, for our prohibitory rain of their wine export through an embargo on American tobacco.
Most of the countries Mr. Morgan likes very well. He speaks favorably.
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of Belgium, even though their noted Flemish painter, a certain "Mr. Rubens" chose fat women as models. And he enjoyed Italy, where everyone bowed and scrapped to him and no one demanded tips, being another example of the efficiency of one Massolius. Germany is pictured as industrious beyond the ordinary. London, though somewhat more costly to live in than the Netherlands, is thoroughly appreciated by Mr. Morgan from the top of a bus.
It is upon Mr. Morgan dwells longest and most critically, he seems to hold no hard feelings against the French, even though they were there all the time. He accepted all our money. The French attitude is expressed fully in a little anecdote: Mr. Morgan offered the suggestion to a Frenchman that if the Germans during the war had quit fighting and offered the French a few francs ("died for his country") the insulted Frenchman promptedly became hysterical at this affront and did not regain his calm until the persecutor of the joke gave him five frances, and thereby of moved the point originally suggested.
"Yurtur As It Is" soon will become "Yurtur As Was," for it has not outgrow the habit of rapid map-changing. Nevertheless, Mr. Morgan's little book will continue to be of interest because of his way of drawing homely comparisons, thus connecting the distant strange lands with places and things the stay-at-homes know. He has written "The Adventures of Nancy, France, with Cow Creek of Hutchinson that makes the book uniquely worth while.
The University of Wisconsin hockey team is rapidly getting into shape for several preliminary meets before it takes on the Gophers and Michigan for its Western Conference season, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan are the only Big Ten schools that have hockey teams.
Marion L. Spangler, who formerly was Marion L. Lewis, instructor in journalism at the University of Kansas, notified the Alumni office of her marriage July 16, 1928, to Fred Huorm, Spokane, Wash. Her address is E 54th Street, Spokane, Washington. Spokane's news representative for the Christian Science Monitor.
Read the Kansan want-ads.
14 splendid student tours under the expert management of an old established institution, 44 in Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. June
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