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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kamanan aims to picture the daily life of a Kamanan to go further than merely printing the news by standing (for the idea of being) in the newsroom; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be helpful; to be more serious problems to wherendb; in all to serve to the host of its ability to spread the word.
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923
Our police officers are becoming very acute. The other day when a body was found in the Missouri river with several bullet holes in the head, the police immediately went to work on the hypothesis that there had been some foul play somewhere.
POND OF TRAGEDY
A few long, lazy spring afternoons intervene before the grind for the final exams commences. Potter Lake will be the haunt of those students in whom the hankering for the "oil swimmin' hole" will not be crushed by the nightmare of the reif F.
Potter Lake lacks a great deal of being a perfect natatorium, but it serves the purpose. It's a tiny harmless appearing pond, but it is not nearly as harmless as it looks. Nearly every year it claims the life of some student who trusts himself in its muddy waters. Too many times it has been the scene of diving parties that have searched its bottom for the body of a K. U. student. Too many times the drag net-has been swept across the little pond in the hunt for the corpse resting somewhere on its bottom.
The University authorities should take measures to insure against a recurrence of the tragedy that has occurred there so often. Guards should be there and no swimming should be allowed at night when they are not present.
Swimming is great sport, but it is a dangerous sport unless one is entirely at home in the water and even then it is best to have means of rescue at hand.
We'll soon have a novel on the injustice of jailers. Upton Sinclair is in jail.
ILLINOIS SETS AN EXAMPLE
ILLINOIS SETS AN EXAMPLE
Illinois has a splendid state university, ranking with the best in the country. But the legislature is not satisfied with what has already been done and is dealing with the institution in a spirit of generosity which is as praiseworthy as it is rare. The biennial appropriation of $10,565,000 which it has just passed is said to be the largest ever given a state university.
This is an example which other states would do well to follow. In Virginia the legislature, to take another case, is most frugal in its dealings with the fine old university which Jefferson founded as an expression of his ideals of educational freedom. In Texas the state university serves only too often as a football of politics, and its income has been threatened more than once to further the designs of one party or another.
It must not be forgotten that the state university is designed to be the capstone of the public school system. If it is shaken by lack of funds, if the teachers are underpaid and its courses restricted, the cause of national education will suffer. To deal with it generously, as Illinois has done, is not to waste money, but to make a wise and paying investment.
Women will cease to be gold diggers only when men cease to seek women,
Official Daily University Bulletin
GRADUATE CLUB AND SENIORS:
No.159
Monday, May 21, 1923
Copy received at the Chancellor's Office until 11:00 a.m.
There will be a meeting tonight of the Graduate Club at 7:30 in the Astronomy Observatory for the purpose of electing officers for next year. This will be followed by a social meeting at which refreshments will be served. Seniors and others expecting to do graduate work next year are cordially invited. A large attendance is hoped for, as this will be the last meeting this year.
SHERWIN F. KELLY, President
BASKETBALL PRACTICE:
Final basketball practice is called for Tuesday evening, May 22, at o'clock in the Gymnasium. All members are requested to be present.
FORREST C. ALLEN, Coach.
LIFE SAVING TEST;
The Red Cross Life Saving Test will be given to all men who wish to take the examination, Tuesday evening, May 22, at 7:30 in Robinson Gym.
ROOMING HOUSE ASSOCIATION:
Will meet Wednesday, May 23, in Fraser, second floor, end end; at 3:30 for election of officers; no business was transected last week because
THE SAFETY VALVE
MRS. C. STERLING, President.
MRS. D. R. BRYANT, Secretary.
The Safety Valve is a column designated for the use of students, faculty members and anyone interested in University problems. The Kanan does not assume responsibility for anything herein printed. Full names must be attached to all emails addressed to Kanan only will be printed. Address.
The Safety Valve, care University Daily Kanan.
The Barb
A certain man has written a book it is called "The Barb." It is supposely a merciless expose of the evils of the fraternity-sorcery system and with unglued hands with the wicked Greeks of both sexes who openly persecute the "barbarian," or non-fraternity student, by completely ignoring him and making his life miserable. The book is supposed to tell him.
But does it?
Granted that the fraternity-sorcerery system carries with it some evil, doesn't every good thing have an effect on you? Does electricity provide for the possibility of someone's being killed by it? Didn't Darwin's sensational treatise on the origin of species address the religious faith to its foundations?
The author of "The Barb" seems to degrade the Greek letter social organizations for the fact that they cause artificial social strata to crop up among them. They cite the barbarian to feel like an outcast from society when he comes to college. He says that the Greeks make a man a snob, that their organizations seek to establish themselves as a composite sunny university universe revolves. And this, he asserts, isn't right.
Well, first, America isn't a democratic nation. All men are born free and equal, but right there the equality lies. Lizzie O'Brien's baby, down in the slums, is decked out in swaddling clothes. And the offspring of Mrs. Anthony Bolbonghke-Esterbrook (who, incidentally, buys her dacs at Licile's, Broadway-at-Fifth) is decked out in silks and satins. No social stratum is entirely artificial; on the contrary, it is likely to be
social stratum is entirely artificial; on the contrary, it is likely to be entirely natural.
Secondly, if the university barbarian student is inclined to feel like an outcast from society, it is probably due to an attitude of mind rather than to a condition. He occupies as much of a place in a state institution of learning as anyone else, if he will get out and fight for it. There many a barbarian, indeed, with that power, with those of jewelled pins eat the dust. The only difference is that the latter is subjected to fraternity pressure. The former is actuated only by his own desire.
The barb, it is true, loses out on a lot of the stricty social life. He doesn't get "in" dollars the spring parade, he gets "in" fifty dollars the fifteenth to fifty dollars a "throw". And he doesn't get to entertain the hostess, as a pledge, during the informal at the house with a lot of friends. Yes, he misses out on a great deal.
As for the influence of the F-S system in the average university, it is no more the center of the universe than the animal house south of the Hill. It constitutes only one activity. And there are dozens of activities at the average state educational institution.
And isn't it true that if a man is inclined to be a snob (or a woman either, for that matter), he will become one despite a fraternity or a college.
It would seem that the book has acquired an inferiority complex, and has sought to satisfy it by a more or less (mostly) eloquent outburst
isn't it again true that the student will do deliberately sumb a friend simply because he himself belongs to him, even though worth that friend's consideration.
I may be wrong about this one thing. I found out once in my life that I'm not quite infailible. So, if anyone else has any ideas on the subject, address them to the Safety Valve of the Kansan. I'd like you to help me.
of indignation. The novel itself (I
 forgot to say it is a novel) ships into
a ludicrous melodrama which ends
happily for everybody and deposes
the villain. And what more could
one wish?
One more thing—I'm a "barb." D. E. F
Who Pavs?
Do the women pay as much as they are said to? Or is it the man who really pays? On the Hill, the man pays for all that he gets—the women demand everything and return but little. They force the man, if he is to retain their friendship, to go the limit of his allowance, to run bills that oftentimes lead to trouble with his family. That is why the waker-willed to try even forgery. All that the woman asks for is a good time—if she doesn't get it she goes with someone who will give it to her. If she pays with her soul, what about what the man pays in loss of respect for womanhood and parenthood? Is that not a loss as great as that of the woman?
Lo, the Poor Woman
As a matter of fact she is none of these things. She may have an element in any or all those characteristics in her makeup. But then, so has man. There are few women extinct today who combine all those characteristics to the point that she would be impossible. What's more, she wouldn't even be a woman. They just aren't made that way.
If a woman were all the things she is said to be by reformers and disgruntled male critics, what a creature, she would be! She is painted as an empty-headed, pleasure-loving, an empty person, selfish and egalitarian.
Why doesn't man take a lesson from the woman? Horrible thought! He'll probably hold up his hands in horror, but that's just because he doesn't know what he can learn from her.
Woman has no particular grudge against man, .She may have good reason to hold one in some cases, but pick the one why does he pick on the woman?
Now man may be selfish (the sometimes is); and he may be egotistical (he often is)—but woman doesn't go around with a megaphone and show that he houses the houseets. She acknowledges the fact that, after all, he is only human and therefore he holds to possess any or all things in his human right. He stead of stirring epithets, she smiles and makes the beat of her bargain. And she doesn't often find it a bad bargain, either.
Plain Tales From The Hill
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Why not turn the searchlight on himself, and indulge in a little introspection? It would do him good, would probably make him ashamed.
Sophonores who wish to maj r or sociology, see Professor Blackmar Tuesday from 9:30 to 12, or from 1:30 to 3:30.
An old story goes that there was once a great man who came to suffer many hardships. During his great sufferings he kept a perpetual smile on his face, and faced the world of trials. He left a plain Plains editor now that finals are three days near and notebooks and term reports are due.
"A. R."
The Graduate Club picnic, to have been held Saturday, was postponed Instead there will be a meeting of the club Monday evening at 7:30 at the observatory. There will be lection of officers—Nellie Lynn.
A gentleman of color was helping clean out old papers and magazines from the School of Journalism library at Columbia, Mb. On the back of a magazine he noticed an advertisement for whiskey.
H. S.
"Look heah," he said excitedly to the librarian, "Whiskey!"
"That will do you no good," said the librarian; "that's a London magazine."
"Huh! Well, I kin take it home and read it anyway."
The new yellow cabs will do much to keep homesickness away from K. C, frost next fall.
The big by-word for the next week will be "ha ji hit it?" A lot of us will find out that we are "foul balls."
"Phor" Allen's card invitations to the Kansas-Missouri track meet were taken seriously when a dumbell tried to gain entrance into the meet Saturday with the one he had received through the mail.
Through careful observation a student on the hill has come to the conclusion that many of his brother Dumil pipe Punhill pipe they take very easily.
A news story reported that a fire occurred at the Kappa house last evening while the sisters were away and when they returned found the house full of smoke. The fire had started by an electric curling iron. And from the report it was a very serious fire as the largest loss was that of a fountain pen and a term theme belonging to the same girl.
WANT ADS
WANTED - Live stewardess for Sum
mer session. Rooms for women.
Phone 2661. Mrs. A. M. Caulk,
1125
Tenn. M-23
Important Notice for University
Women
Would like to have interview with women wishing a position during vacation. Pays well and party employee must be able to give the best of references. We have people in K. U. who were associated with us last summer. We will be glad to have you talk to them in reference to the position we wish to fill. See Ties. H. Neal. Eldridge Hotel
Sea Tros. H. Neal. Eldridge Hotel Parlor.
"Suiting You"
THAT'S MY BUSINESS
WM. SCHULZ
1405 Main St
Real Silk Hosiery Co., 410 Columbian
Bldg, Toppea, Kansas M-23
?17 Mass. S'
WANTED - Position as cook for Fraternity or sorority, by competent white woman, for next year. Lori, Loran Gardner. M-23 Kannaa.
No Lectures But Daily Conferences
EAT at the Garratt Club, 1247 Ohio St. Good home cooking. Will open first day of summer session. Also host weekdays. 309 Mrs. I. L. Garrett. M-23
200 Mrs. I. L. Garrett. M-23
London Institute they make a business offer and men who wish to fill positions of responsibility and ability spend years at routine work.
Standard office equipment through a business schedule from work & business of the foreseeance directed by men with years of experience with active office and factory operations, to the instruction from the hypothetical stage in the same light as the man actually engaged in business. Baboon inventors are the purpose of the business, giving you to send for the building, giving you to send for the furniture, giving you to send for the table. White tie.
LOST—Fountain pen, Wednesday evening in Spooner or at Kappa Phi meeting. Call 1740 White. M-23
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London
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OALS PRINT SHOP. Job work of all kinds. 1525 Main St. Phone 228.
NATIONAL CALIFORNIA COMPANY Dale Brown, December 1973.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Execlo-
vation Optometrista). Eyes examined; glasses
made. Office 1025, MASS.
Leave it
Kirby
to
and let him clean it right
Phone 442
EXPERT typewriting. Call 1243 Red.
M-23
1109 Mass.
FOR RENT  For the summer, four large furnished rooms, good location to University. 1301 Tennessee street. 1243 Red M-22
LOST—Fancy tan and white leather belt in front of Museum. Call Nadine Irwin, phone 99. M-23
CANOE - For sale. New, 17 ft. Old-
towne. Call 2191 White at meal
time.
"GIFTS THAT LAST"
THE COLLEGE JEWELER
WE LIKE TO DO LITTLE JOBS OF REPAIRING
CAPITAL $100,000.00
C. H. Tucker, President
C. A. Hill, Vice-President and
Chairman of the Board.
J. C. Moore. S. O. Bishop
SURPLUS $100,060.00
DIRECTORS
C. H. Tucker, C. A. H. Hill, D. C. Asher, L. V. Miler, T. C. Green
J. C. Moore, S. O. Bishop
SURPLUS $100,000.00
D. C. Asher, Cashier
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