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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1023
People once thought the world was flat. Now everyone knows it is crooked.
RELIGION ON THE CAMPUS
RELIGION ON THE CAMPUS
There will be those who, ask about the status of religion on the campus, will say it just does not exist. There will be those who will say it does. There will be those who will say they do not know. And probably the latter are the only truthful ones.
The whole trouble lies in a definition of the word religion. If it is meant to mean a rigid interpretation of the Bible, an unquestioning acceptance of all the traditions and customs of a long gone day, then it must be admitted that religion on the campus is not dominant.
But the students on this campus, as young people everywhere, are questioning the things told them. There is no longer the blind acceptance of things as they were. It is not a matter of lack of religion so much as it is one of more thought about religion.
The young person today is bewildered, as well he may be, by the strife between sects, by the unending arguments over the difference in creeds and observances. He listens to one who denies the authority of any other; he goes in another direction and is told that only that way lies the truth. Equipped with a mind of his own, he starts to think for himself.
He is in a state of uncertainty. But he is not non-religious or un-religious. He is merely seeking the answers to his questions which others have failed to answer for him.
As for the wisdom of such a stand, as for the outcome of such a situation, who can say? Thought, well-directed, never yet harmed the world. It is not likely to do so now. And the world is not composed entirely of those who fail to think straight. There is a surprising number of people in the world whose lives guided by their own sincere thinking, move along quiet ways. It is on such people, of whom there are many in K. U., that the solution of the problem hangs.
A European country reports an exhaustion of the hare stock of the nation. Herpicide will save it!
STANDARD OIL AND THE EARTHQUAKE
Pet theories, advanced by various scientists to account for the recent earthquake in Japan, have been given wide publicity in the last few weeks. Some were new; some were old; but each from the point of view of its particular holder was absolute.
The illiterate Japanese, however, have quite another theory. The Standard Oil Company established huge tanks throughout Japan for the storing of the immense stores of oil consumed by the nation. And in those tanks the crevulous Japanese see the cause of the earthquake.
It is, of course, merely a case of mixing cause and effect, but to those Japanese who watched the tanks explode while the earth ran in waves under their feet, there is no other explanation.
From the theory of water seapage to the theory of the Standard Oil tanks is a far cry, but it measures the gulf that separates the scientific mind from the unlettered one.
If W. J. Bryan's ancestors were not, as be emphatically states, anthropoid apes, why all the monkey business at Washington?
IT COULD BE WORSE
The crosses of the Ku Kuxi Klau flame on the hills of Oklahoma; martial law grips the people in the attempt to settle the problem; American farmers stir rebelliously over the low price of wheat; politicians quarrel between themselves from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
But Greece and Italy have settled their difficulties; Germany has abandoned its policy of passive resistance; the dancer of a shortage of coal this winter has been removed; the price of gasoline is lower.
Things could be worse.
German money, they say, is being marked down.
THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT
THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT
Acknowledged thinkers of various
countries are called upon from time to
time to make a list of the ten most
important men in the world's history,
or the ten most important books in
the world's literature. And they oblig-
ingly make up a list and present it
to their friends. As if such a list
could be made!
Out of all the history of the world, who can judge the ten most important men? It may be that a great statesman, still living, who has failed so far, for lack of perspective, perhaps, to gain his meid of appreciation, deserves mention. It may be an unknown man at the dawn of history, whose acts or thoughts swayed the destiny of the world. It may be that a barbarian chieftain of centuries ago persuaded his people to travel to the south, to overturn the empire of the Romans, and so herald the coming of the Dark Ages. Who can say?
Then who, viewing the vast panorama of the history of the world, can arbitrarily pick out the ten most important men?
Chappie Coats
with the present demand they won't last long, but we wanted to tell you a beautiful lot arrived today.
Weaver's
Official Daily University Bulletin
There will be a meeting of the Faculty of the Department of English Monday, September 24, at 4:30 p.m., in Room 213, Fraser Hall.
Number 4
Conv received at the Chancellor's Office until 11:00 a.m.
Thursday, September 20, 1923
All students who have not turned in their directory card, with addresses and phone number, at the Registrar's Office, must do it at once in order to get the name with correct address and phone number in Student Directory. REGISTRARS.OFFICE.
Plain Tales From The Hill
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The letters
written home these
first few days will contain
many sentences. Those
in a few weeks
"send-tenses."
Now that the gym is used for registration; upperclassmen having one room; freshmen the other, we have found out that there are as many dumbbells in the upperclassroom as there are in the frosty's.
Of course we mean those on the wall.
Found on a registration blank:
Self-supporting—50 per cent. Mean-
Moderate.
Fresh muses as he register "Secret Organizations--my Dad's Mason. Shall I put that down?"
Gp. girlboyed the hill's canine characters, has disappeared again.
He spent his summer in Kansas City and getting old of age and somewhat blind he got 'out many times. The last time just w a week ago. No tracce can be found of him. Much space has been given him in this column and in other pages. This opportunity to give him what it looks to us the last line about Pt.1 we hope that he will return again, like he has many times before.
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Student salesman was selling activity tickets. Frosh walks up to the counter. "Are you sure?" "How are you?" Flugs is my name. I want some of those tickets. Dad told me to get in all the activities. "Okay, I will." You think one book is enough."
The opposite of this went down the line of waiting Fresh students shouting that he was an advance standing student and that he should be at the head of the line. They let him in, too.
Perry Johns, A. B.'23, is principal of the Wallace high school at Wallace, Kan.
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Street Car Safety
If street cars through reckless, careless or inefficient operation, killed as many people as do automobiles through these causes, there would be a whirlwind of protest against them.
Traction companies will take in about $900,-
000,000 this year and invest $240,000,000 in new equipment and plant facilities, says the Walla Wash, Walle, Union.
The use of automobiles has reached a point where it is actually forcing busy people onto the street cars as they have not sufficient time to hunt parking spaces or garages when their cars are not in use.
The deaths caused by street cars are comparatively few while in Chicago, alone, last year 600 persons were killed by automobiles 10,000 crippled and 295 had been killed up to the latter part of June this year.
Is it any wonder that the electric car is running into its own when the matter of safety, convenience and economy is considered?
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