THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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tember 14, 2005. Enclosed is a letter,
Kansas, under the cover of March 8, 1967.
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The Daily Kranan aims to picture the lives of children in Kenyan schools to go further than merely printing the news by being linked to the ideas and activities of its students; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be curious; to be more serious about water heads; in more serious about best of its ability the students of the University.
Friday, March 23.1923
Jack Dempsey is fretting himself because he doesn't have much fighting to do just now. Will someone kindly start another war so Mr. Dempsey will have something to keep him occupied?
CONTEMPORARY
Among the various indictments brought against the youth of the land is the charge that they read nothing except trash—that they do not even know the names of the better contemporary authors. The charge is not altogether unfounded, but there are reasons. The superficiality of youth is only partly to blame.
All too often our elementary and high schools, in their study of literature, lay great emphasis upon the work of past generations to the neglect of contemporary writers. The assumption seems to be that the student must have a thorough groundwork in the classics before he is ready for a consideration of the more recent authors. But if he does not like the classics—and many of the younger students do not—he is very likely to conclude that there is nothing left for him except "Adventure" and Snappy Stories."
It is not as easy in our day as it was two or three generations ago, to separate the work of merit from the discus. The young reader needs direction; confronted by the wealth of material which the presses grind out day and night, he is at a loss to know where to start.
The department of English at the University is doing an excellent bit of work this semester in its attempt to teach students here who the contemporary authors are. A series of lectures concerning our present-day men of letters and their work is being given by the English teaching staff. It is an energetic effort to show people that there is something worth while in the literature of this century.
Of course, one's reading habits can not be changed if he is perfectly satisfied with inferior writing. Quite often, however, the student feels that something is lacking, and then a little direction will lead him into a brighter field—a field which means for him the keenest pleasure.
Statistician have figured that the energy which will be expended in handshaking during the coming election would draw 1,246,371 barrels of water if applied to the handle of the old town pump.
THE NEW IDEA
A new toleration is spreading over the world in regard to the treatment accorded new ideas. Formerly, when novel theories have been advanced, in which their opponents have seen a vicious element, they have been violently denounced and then forgotten. They have met with hisses and derision, but seldom have they found a fair-minded attempt to meet argument with argument.
Such a thing has been done in England, where the Snowden act introducing the question of Socialism has swept England by storm.
A few short years ago such a thing would have resulted in rabid denunciation. Today, Parliament sets aside another day for a discussion of the problem.
The wealthiest capitalists of the kingdom are mustered to answer the charges, point by point, which Snowden has put forth.
It may mean that a new feeling of toleration is spreading over the world. It may mean men are growing broader-minded. It does mean, however, that men have come to realize that a fair discussion of any question, however vicious it may be, will show up its fallacies and discredit it to a far greater extent than a futile storm of violence.
Racing automobiles cost the trifling sum of $20,000 each. There is another argument for the man who is trying to convince his wife that golf is an economical sport.
On the Oklahoma prairies a little band of farmers, armed and determined, stands guard over a country graveyard and chapel. Day and night they stubbornly resist the attempt of an oil company to put down a well on the plot of ground long reverenced as a place for the dead. In some way the company has secured from the higher church councils a permit to drill in the cemetery; by the people of the neighborhood, whose dead lie in the churchyard, have taken the matter to court. In the meantime they are fighting to prevent sacrilege. In the end the god of industry will win the battle, for oil companies have money. An age of efficiency can tolerate no sentiment when it stands in the way of the production of wealth.
OIL AND THE DEAD
War in Russia is fierce if Lennese should die from his illness. Don't worry. He has been assassinated several times and nothing happened.
THE EVENING MEET
What an earliest fellow is the rat who lives in the ceiling above our desk! Just now he is in training for the spring track meet, and he practices nightly. He is conscientious in the extreme, never missing a workout.
It seems that he is an all-round athlete, for he does about everything in the track and field category. Usually he starts the evening's work by running through the dashes; then he does quietly and without much ado. From this he goes into the longer runs, tearing round and round over the lath. Hurdles and the jumps come next, and he seems to make the ceiling joint do equally well for both. Just what is his speciality in the field events, we are not certain, as we can attend the work-out only by ear. We are quite sure, however, that he puts the shot and have suspected that he does the pule vault. Ordinally we don't mind his evening work-out; he is quite orderly in the performance; but one night this week he invited in a number of his friends to see him go through the paces. Evidently he felt the need of approbation, and he certainly got it. He cheered when he did his dashes, and by the time he reached the mile run they were in a frenzy of excitement, dancing about on the blasting and anlauding wildly.
Of course, we cannot countenance this sort of thing. If he and his admirers attempt to repeat the festivities, we shall, in all probability, cry at him to desist.
The report concerning the recently invented vect- pocket typewriter doesn't say whether or not it is fitted with an attachment so that it may take the place of the cigar cutter at the end of the waldemar chain.
Kansans have always prided themselves on the school system of the state, yet the Sunflower state ranks twenty-seventh in education among the states of the Union. Only five states north of the Mason-Dixon line rank lower.
Why is it? Kansas has no race or immigration problems' as acute as those of many other states. It has little state debt. Her soil is fertile and there is a larger proportion of it under cultivation than in any other
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state in the Union. One reason is that the people of the state do not realize their low rank among the states and their lack of educational facilities has not been brought home to them or to their representatives. For two years a school code commission worked on the educational system of Kansas and presented to the legislature a report pointing out the needed changes in the school system. The work was the work of experts and its acceptance would have put Kansas in the top rank of the states in education. Its recommendations were not enacted into law. The people and their representatives are unwilling to trust the work of experts. Improvement in education must come through the slower process of educating the people to the needs of education.
The reporter who has found an entertising pair of geese 67 years old needn't think he has discovered something entirely unparalleled. Just the other day we heard of a man 85 years old marrying a damselfish of sixty-nine.
Throughout the United States pro- progressive elements in cities are fighting for city zoning and planning ordinances, and law-making bodies are more and more coming to the realization that it is a fit subject for legislation.
CITY ZONING
For one thing, city zoning is an aid to municipal beauty, but that is only one aspect of the question. Another is that proper zoning both increases and stabilizes the value of property, and that is what the person who puts his hard-earned savings into a home wants.
Many houses erected in a residential district later lose their sale value because some cheap shack for a minor commercial purpose is put up near them. Proper zoning would eliminate this; certain districts would be set aside for residential purposes; others for industrial purposes.
The man who was born on April Fool's day has always thought fate did him a mean trick, but he almost succeeded the other day when he discovered that this year he would be both a "fool" and an "egg."
No town or city can be beautiful until zoning is properly carried out, nor can a home-owner ever be sure of getting as much from property as he has put into it.
Business is business. Wisconsin ministers demanded repeal of the law compelling physical examination before marriage on the grounds that it drove young couples out of the state to marry.
Speaking in circles, the average "Rough Cookie" probably is not more than half as bad as he might be if he were twice as bad as he is, which isn't.
Shawnee Mission can weather it a few years more. Then we can place a marble slab where it once stood.
Joseph Boyd, "22, one of the best second baseman in K. U. baseball history, has moved from Arkansas City to Bartlesville, Oka, where he may be addressed care of the Y. M. C. A. Boyd is now in the engineering department of the Philips Petroleum Company.
If divorces increase, future generations will never understand what a golden wedding was.
Wendell Dodd, fs '22, who has been enrolled in the University of Colorado, visited her Wednesday and Thursday.
Javhawks Flown
"The University of Kansas is greatly honored," says the Graduate Magazine for March, "by the election of Dr. Edward Curtis Franklin, B. S. '88, M. S. '90, as president of the American Chemical Society, the largest scientific society in the world." Doctor Franklin is a native Kansan born at Geary City and reared at Wichita Falls. He started a scientific work as a clerk in a drug store and came to K. U. in the fall of 1844. After Doctor Franklin received a B. S. and an M. S. degree from the University of Kansas he received a Ph. D. at John Hopkins in 1894.
Official Daily University Bulletin
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No.121
There will be a meeting of the Joint Committee on Student Affairs at 10:30 Saturday morning in Room 116 Fraser hall.
Vol. II.
JOINT COMMITTEE ON STUDENT AFFAIRS.
until 11:00 a.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1923
Notice is hereby given of meetings of the Budget Committee on salaries and maintenance in the office of the Dean of Administration, 112 Fraser Hall, McGregor Street, Boston, MA 02116.
BUDGET COMMITTEE HEARING:
ANNE DUDLEY BLITZ, Chairman.
10:30 a. m. Ancient Languages.
11:30 a. m. Germanic Languages
11:00 m. m. German Languages
2:00 p. m. Hispanic Languages
More than 250 women at the University of Wisconsin are earning all or a part of their expenses.
A 16 foot chess board was used in radiophone chess matches played by
8:30 p. m. Romance Languages.
The Committee consists of the Chancellor, the head of the department and the deans of the schools which allow credit from the given department to count toward a degree. Other deans interested in the work of the department are urged to participate in the conferences.
Dress up for Easter
SOCIOLOGY CLUB OPEN MEETING:
"Europe 1914-1923." Discussion led by the European students who are visiting K, U. Saturday 3:30 to 4:30 in Westminster hall.
Professor Herbert Feis of the department of economics will lecture Sunday morning to the Students' Forum at the Unitarian church at 10:00. The subject for discussion will be Foreign labor.
"America and the World Outlook"—talk by Professor W. W. Davis foliowed by open discussion, Saturday April 16th. W. L. MORISON, President.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB OPEN MEETING:
"German Youth in Quest of New Life"—talk by Joachim Friedrich. German student from Heidelberg, followed by open discussion. Members are requested and friends are invited to be present. Sunday 7 to 8 p.m., Cosmopolitan house, 1653 Indiana Street.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Mathematies club will meet Monday, March 26, at 4:30 p.m. in room 206 Fraser. Edith Steininger will speak on Tri-linear co-ordinates. All mathematics students are invited to attend.
SOLOMON RAMALINGAM, President.
KARL FINK. Adviser.
Phi Lambda Sigma will hold its regular meeting Saturday at 4 p.m. Very important business to be attended to.
Madge Palmer, president
the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota recently.
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The World is Working for You
THE manufacturer who makes your shoes is working for you. So is the store that sells you shoes, your grocer, your clothing and every concern or person who makes or sells anything you buy.
Often these people have messages for you. They want to tell you about new goods,new styles,new prices or other new things they think you should know about.
They can't speak to you personally because they have so many customers to serve. So they put their messages in the newspaper in the form of advertisements.
It is to your interest to read the advertisements. They are published for your benefit. They keep you informed as to what these folks are doing for you. They help you buy the right goods at the right time and to make the most of your money.
Moreover, you'll find that business concerns that tell you fronkly what they are doing are the most dependable. Stores that advertise are progressive stores that have something real to say to you. Manufacturers who advertise their products have confidence in them, because it does not pay to advertise anything that is not good.
Reading advertisements is both interesting and profitable