THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Official student paper of the University of
Editor-in-chief. De Vaughn Francis
Associate Editor. Bradley
Bondside. Heinie Hawby
News Editor. Charles Safer
Sport Editor. Harry Morrow
 Sport Editor. Harry Morrow
Managr. Mark Reinhardt
Plain Tales Editor. Lois Rebaite
Amount Editor. Borothy Dillaway
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Entered as second-class mail matter Sutter Exhibition, the University of Kansas, under the act of March 1, 1872, and the act of March 1, 1893, week and on Sunday morbidia by students in a variety of classes at Kansas, from the press of the university of Kansas.
The Daily Kanan aims at picture the future of Kanan; to go further than merely playing the game by building a playground for students; to be clean; to be cheerful; to have more serious problems to solve hands; to have more ability; to the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1923
Keeping a professor in hot water isn't the best way to make him tender when it comes to grading.
STUDENTS AND ALCOHOI
In arranging alcohol as the college man's worst enemy, President Smith of Washington and Lee University was perhaps a little too sweeping in his statement when he said that alcohol is "the promoter of tragedies innumerable on every American campus."
Apparently he classes the large universities, small denominational colleges, and all the intermediate sizes and types in one miscellaneous whole under the phrase "every American campus."
Our mid-western schools, at least, seem practically free from alcoholism. As far back as one can remember, there have been no tragedies on the K. U. campus occurring from the use of alcohol. And why acuse the small denominational school of such practices?
But excessive alcoholism among college men is undoubtedly a will-o-the-wisp in this section of the country.
No one can deny the truth of President Smith's other statements advocating support of the Volstead act. It is a charge against alcohol since the days of its legalized use among civilized nations.
WHY DO WE DO IT?
The only reason some couples get married after long engagements is that they get tired of seeing each other every day.
Many students aver that they are carrying too much work.
The point system precludes the validity of this reason.
There is a common argument that student inefficiency is caused by too many activities.
Systematic study will remedy this ailment. At least, carrying fewer hours will.
The time-honored reason for student inefficiency remains the procrastination evil.
If a student "eracks" his text when the clock strikes 8 p. m. instead of waiting until 10, he will have no need for a correspondence school course in export efficiency.
King George is said to have be come so embarrassed the other day that he grew red in the face. A roya flush, so to speak.
THE COSMETIC URGE
THE COSMATIS
Every once in a while, or ever oftener, some misguided psychologis or student of human nature will burs forth with the obviously false asseration that women lack the originality of the rival sex. This contention is a extremely absurd that it should merit only a vexed "pooch-pooh" from the objects of the slander.
Women lacking in originality?
That can't be right. Just look at the variety of colors the K. U. girls use on their checks. Observe almost any group of girls and you will see all shades of blooming youth from pale
pink to brick red. In its position, too, the modest blush adds with different individuals from the cheek to the eye, from the nose to the invisible ear. Some few girls, fearing lest they select the wrong position, endeavor to touch all four points, but these are the exception to the rule.
Nor do the ladies limit their individuality to color and its position. Even more noticeable is the originality they show in their selection of a suitable place to make their facial toilette. Time was when such things were taken care of in the privacy, of one's boudoir, but the modern girl shows her initiative by applying the crimson layers in classrooms, on the streets, in church, or any number of other public places where all may see and marvel.
Women lacking in originality Why, the idea!
Now that the Klan has purchased a school in Indiana, will it become a Kollege?
WHILE HUMANITY SUFFER
Intensely jealous of its power, bureaucracy has always been blind to the needs of humanity, ready to sacrifice national interest at the altar of its goddess, Prestige.
The refusal of the Japanese government to accept help from Russia comes as another instance of the heartlessness of a bureaucratic government.
Japan is devastated by one of the most terrible and tragic calamities in the form of an earthquake, in history. The Japanese government is unable to take care of the sufferers. It has available neither food, medicine, nor doctors, in sufficient quantity.
Russia, like other nations, sent relief. Japan refused to accept it. She is afraid, it is said, that such a move would make Bolshevism popular in Japan, or would render unpopular the present form of government.
Meanwhile, thousands are reported to be dying for lack of care.
Our idea of an economic waste is to pay our board bill in advance and then get invited out to dinner the same day.
A RIT OF LIFE
Suddenly the dejected student stopped short, his attention caught by the grinding and scraping of motif wheels on the cement walk. From around the corner of dignified Frener hall dashed a small boy on a "scouter," his face shining with the joy of a race; and close on his heels followed a tiny scrap of freckled-faced girl in blue, working her short, plump legs rapidly to keep her, kiddle kar in motion.
The grim look on the passing student's face softened, and his eyes brightened as he watched the children rush by in their race. Somehow the late sun seemed to become clearer, and the thoughts of work he had to do less forbidding, and as he walked along briskly toward his room, he whistled snatches of a popular air.
They were good. But as a matter both of policy and of principle, we have not been able to run them on the bus. Instead, they head the head of "Campus Opinion."
What certain would-be musicians don't know about harmony would fill in insane asylum.
Several times during the past fortnight you have sent communications to the Editor.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. ANONYMOUS
We shall be glad to comply with a request to withhold your name from the paper. But please put it on your letter.
We like your interest in affairs of the campus. That is commendable in your hands is the tool for doing constructive—as well as destructive—work.
The waste basket is full of nobody's opinion.
Dear sir:
(Signed) The Editor.
A man photographed a student yesterday to illustrate a what-is-wrong-with-this-picture advertisement. Student was caught studying.
THE SAFETY VALVE
THE NAVY ACADEMY
designated for the use of the students, designed to train them in university problems. The course is presented in University problems. The course for anything hears penalized. Full notifications as the evidence of good conduct. The address, Navy Academy, Gore, Inc., New York, NY 10022.
To the University Daily Kansas:
Every year H. T. Martin, assistant curator of paleontology and anthropology, is forced to take time from his regular work and clean pencil marks, which have been placed there by thoughtless or destructive people from the valuable collections in Dyebek Museum. Sometimes these specimens are not marked with marks, but have been cut. This sort of defacement is practically impossible to renai
It is queer that men and women who have reached university age, should be so childish as to wish to see their names or initials in such a public place, even if they do not reprint them, or destroying valuable property, most of which cannot be replaced. Mr. Martin says that the students in the University are the ones who do the most damage, in front of high school students and university visitors, as some might suppose.
The museum and everything in belong to the students. It is a thing to be proud of, as though it were your own personal property. Five state schools are as fortunate as the University of Kansas in having such a collection. Men have spent years on their jobs as teachers, one student can mar far more with one thoughtless stroke of a knife or pencil.
This is an appeal to the men and women in the University to realize the true worth of the museum to the student body, to the University's science, and to the students who come here in the future. H, S.
To the Editor:
About the most common characteristic of the great American kicker, who loves to flaunt his fault-finding criticisms in the columns of the newspapers, we be a lack, or at least an inaccurate knowledge of his subject. Last week we perused the fliery letter of J. S. P. in the Kansas, with regard to the election of the governor and the enactment of amusement and indignation. We were annued at the passionate dissertation on military traditions as applied to the R. O. T. C. unit. We were indignant at the rest.
Last year, the senior class of the unit met and chose their colonel. A better selection could not have been made. The student body noticed the announcement, commented on the novelty, and forgot all about it. Not a particle of interest was created on the campus, for the student body had nothing to say about the choice. So the senior class, with the rood of the unit uppermost, decided that the honorary colonel should be chosen. The students said they could feel that their vote, their activity, and their interest would play an important part in the life of the organization.
Oh. Mr. Weather Man'
The R. O, T. C. is the largest, and certainly one of the most important, organizations on the campus. The school's interests are its own. It belongs to the school and is proud of the fact; so proud of it that the unit wants to share its only tradition with the University at large. \
P. L. H.
Ok, Mr. Weather Man... now
weather Wether Man.. now
all this rain! So you get the
impression that our taxpayers
establish meteorological stations so that you may kill back among the thermometers, anemometers, and barometers and yell "Rain, rain, rain!" You can give a "fair" prediction, we invariably awaken to find the same downpour, don the same wet shoes, and splash along to spirits with the dampened spirits. Two or three more weeks of severe predic-
tion, you'll be confident in your veracity.
You were given your high station with the understanding that you would carry out the duties of a weatherman to be in a position of trust—how are you unholding it? What form of dissination is occupying your time, we do not know, but it's up to you to get busy and show us your existence. We go to Kansas City for a baseball game and find ourselves at a regetta. We brave the torrents that rush down Mt. Oread to get to a football game and discover that they carnival. And you are to blame.
The viage of our cleaner and presser has taken on a most diabolically triumphant grim. He is negotiating for the purchase of the Watkins home; and only yesterday was seen splashing about town in the rain, which continues, the fiend will have all the money that the students possess.
Please, Mr. Weather Man, get busy and reinstate yourself in our confidence. Something has to be done. There's nothing that we are getting web-footed.
Our countenance has become drawn and white, like a plant in a dark room. Everything we own is wet, and the relative humidity is so creat that nothing will dry. We must always keep our clothes looks more than usual, of throwing out spruits like a potato in a damp cellar. Our chronic cold is getting worse, and this morning our throat was sore. We still trust you, Mr. Weather Man, but it won't take much more of this to win us over the doctor. We have formed a french triumvirate with the doctor and the undertaker.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Miss Leer (to freshman)—"Dear Brendt, can't see anybody today." Disappointed Freshie—"I hope his Hindness will only be temporary."
His sister called him Willee.
His mother called him Will.
But when he went to college
To Ded he was Bill, Bill, Bill.
If you are thirsty, lift up the matress and you will find a spring there. In case of fire, run to the window and watch the fire escape.
If you see the pillow slip or the bed spring, use glue which is on the table.
They say that one of the candidates for honorary collenal in the recent election mistook Dean Dyer for a student and spent fifteen minutes of her valueline time trying to get him to vote for her.
English Lit. teacher—"When I use 'Striking blonde' in a story, it makes me think of a punching bag artist."
There's a rule at one of the boys' boarding clubs that any fellow who
mentions a girl's name during the meal loses his desert. At the time of going to press only two of the girls have had their dessert every meal.
Here's a new one: Why is a sheet of ruled paper like a lanne dog?
Answer: A sheet of ruled paper is ink-lined.
An inline is a slope-up.
A slow pup is a lame dog.
Prof.—"Did Martin Luther die a natural death?"
Freshie—"No, sir, he was excom municated by a bull."
The appearance of those yellow stickers made evident by the abundance of rain lately brought a remark from a visitor on the hill which was overheard by a student, to this effect: The University must be entertaining a switchmen's convention.
FAKE ADVERTISING
For a number of years a strong committee of the Chamber of Commerce protected the merchants and business men of the city from a lot of fake advertising, but later for some reason the merchants have forgotten how glad they were to be freed from the pest some years ago. The business tax and are taking on experimental names of advertising which cannot return their money, let alone a profit.
Some of the men who solicit for programs, blotters and the like may do as they agree and print and circulate the number which they agree to print, but their number is in the minority. Not long ago advertising of this sort was in Lawrence and a guarantee was wasted. Of two copies. The one thousand dwindled to 300.
The pity of it is that some business men hope to secure returns from such advertising and spend money they cannot afford to spare. Others of course have the money and can stand the loss.
Recently someone put over a scheme to reach fraternities and sororites and got the money, but for the first time for Kansas and the Journal-World enter these same houses every day with seasonable offerings from the business men of the town, the real results from their advertising.
The University has labored
Learn to Dance
Improve your dancing Let us teach you
Fox-Trot Character
Tango Ballet
Social Classical
Waltz Barefoot
DeWatteville—Fischer
School of Dancing
Insurance Bldg.
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hard to eliminate graft from student affairs. No longer is there any profit to the managers in getting out the Jayhawk or in many other things which used to be lucrative sources of income for the students. Perhaps the hill up on the hill has opened the gateway to torrent of fake advertising that is being put over on the town.
Before buying advertising of this sort, or before supporting with contributions the various subscription papers that are passed, members of the Chamber of Commerce are supposed to telephone Secretary Scott to ascertain if the proposition has the power to be special committee whose duty it is to face, and to decide whether it is worthy of support. The committee is doing its part all right, but many of the members are not taking advantage of its efforts.
Journal-World
Beat Nebraska
On Other Hills
The Anglers have scheduled a novel event for their Homecoming, in the form of a bicycle race. They will meet about four miles in length, in such a way as to finish between the halves of the Angler-Ames game. The course will be on the streets of Angler and will not interfere with the event.
Coach R. E. Regnier of the Kansas Aggies announced that the Aggies will have a boxing team this year and will compete with other schools under Missouri Valley rulings. Attempts have been made to meet meets with Ames, Washburn, and Burbank, and with Missouri. Preceeding the inter-collegiate contests Coach Regnier intends to bring intramural tournaments sometime before the Christmas holidays.
Charles Nicoletta, A. P. B'1, of Kansas City, a major in the department of journalism, is now working for the Scripps Newspaper organization in San Francisco. He was recently transferred there from Houston, Texas, where he was telegraph editor of the Houston Press.
WIEDEMANN'S
Tea Room Service
Mrs. Mary C. Love Collins, national president of Chi Omega fraternity, was the guest of the Lambda here for a short time last week.
AND STUDENTS Translations. Question and answer books. Outlines. Short cuts. Mental stimulants. All listed in the free Handy Directory. A card will bring it to you. Address the Handy Book Corporation, Mail Dept., Harrisburg, Pa.
KEYS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
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Served from 11:30 to 2:00
Evening Service a la carte
6:00 p. m. - 8:00 p. m.
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Tonight and Thursday
New York Cleaners
Have the job done right at the
The scene is the South Seas, where law is laughed at, and jealousy takes to the knife.
Love and danger—John Russell's story deals with both.
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OVERCOAT WEATHER SOON Better have that old one cleaned up now!
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A Fur Announcement of Importance
To Every K. U. Girl
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 18th and 19th
You are invited to our annual fur sale and display this Thursday and Friday. Mr. Price, representing one of the genuine quality houses in this country, will have with him more than $50,000 in furs. He has wired us that he has the finest showing of fur Chokers and Coats ever. By purchasing at this time we can assure you a handsome saving.
WEAVERS