THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XX
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1923
"Vision of Truth Is Inspirational In Literary Work"
NUMBER 103
Magazine Editors and Book Publishers are Market as Platforms of Old— Johnson
"A flashing bit of a vision of truth or beauty is the inspirational part of literary accomplishment," said Burges Johnson, noted American author and humorist and associate professor at English at Vassar College, address her Literary Shop," at the all-University convoction this morning.
"The magazine and book publishing house of modern times is the platform in our present day market. About 4000 B. C. the poet who felt he had seen a bit of a vision went into the market place and declaimed his vision for the next big ket place. That platform today for the seer of visions is our publications. They are issued under the guidance of editors who have hoped to provide
"Editors have a peculiar power and duty to help. A bad editor uses liptitles in rejecting manuscripts, but the better he becomes, the less he lies," said Mr. Johnson, in confessing mistakes in an early position as "Literary Adviser to the Firm" of Putnam.
The impressive, sonorous title of Literary Advisor to the Firm was gained in an attempt to secure a raise from George Henry Putnam a public job as a publicist of the American pub fishing. Mr. Johnson had a secure tiael position under his hilt.
Few Editors are Writers
Editors Have Power
"Grinding work is necessary to interpret the suddenly formulated condensation for the public. Men with glimpses of truth succeeding or failing in the power of interpretation are more likely to work editors must pass judgment.
an opportunity for a man with a vision and not for one who will write
"The peculiar task of the editor in the publication market in which the thing hated is a manuscript, in each of which is a dream, or bit of a book. To realize that it must be realized a magazine. Few editors are also writers of distinction since there is a conflict between creative and the other imagination which makes a writer so different in American letters. Honest constructive criticism and the ability to recognize and encourage the author who has the power of interpretation as well as vision is a part of the make-up of the successful cellist.
"Critics should measure by what a writer is trying to do," said Mr. Johnson, speaking of the critics of Vachel Lindsay, whose method of writing particularly illustrates the flashing inspiration followed by the author's own work. He has been called the American jazz poet by English critics. He is attempting to put the sound of the human voice into poetry."
"Our next great fight will be against the cigarette and the smoking boy," said Mrs. Elizabeth Littleton, world superintendent and na-tional lecturer of the W. C. T. U. address before the education classes.
W.C.T.U. Fights Nicotine
Lecturer Emphasizes Harm Drug Does to Children
She emphasized the importance of training the children in the primary school to realize the necessity of good sound bodies and in showing them the harm that alcohol and nicotine do to the body.
"Now that national prohibition has been gained we must not cease to teach the coming generation the dangers of alcohol or in a few years will no longer have prohibition," she said in conclusion.
She called attention to the fact that the great amount of publicity given to the cigarette and its good work for the soldiers came indirectly through the tobacco concerns. The motive he bind the movement of supplying the soldiers with cigarettes was money making for these concerns.
George Back, c'28, returned to school today from his home in Kansas City where he has been ill with influenza and tonsillitis.
Last Graduate Magazine Contains Special Articles
"The last issue of the Graduate Magazine is the largest and most complete issue that has ever been published," said "Scoop Hill, the editor. Besides a number of features, including all the latest sport reviews of the University and a number of interesting articles about the alumni, the magazine contains a personal exchange of several hundred items. An article about Prof. C. E. McClung, *96*, A. M., *98*, Ph. D., 03, a professor in the department of zoology from 1979 to 1992 who became professor of zoology at the University of Pennsylvania, tells of his completion of a quarter century of service as a teacher of zoology.
Members of Faculty Of Education Attend Meeting in Cleveland
Professor Smith is in Charge of Round Table For Educational Sociologists
Seven faculty members of the School of Education of the University are attending a meeting of the department of superintendents of the National Educational Association, which is convening in Cleveland, O. this week. The meeting is the annual gathering of public school people.
These men are R. A. Kent, dean of Education; W. R. S. Smith, professor of education; R. A. Schweiger, predeceased head of the Bureau of School Service; T. J. Smart, of the department of rural education in the Extension Division; James A. Naisimith, professor of physical education; and H. P. Smith, professor of education and accountant of the city schools of awrence.
Prof. W. R. Smith is in charge of the round-table for educational sociologists. Dean Kent will read a paper by F. J. Kelly, dean of Administration of the University. Thursday's meeting will be able to attend the meeting. The subject of this paper is "The Cost of Accounting as a factor in Budget Making." This is the one paper provided by the Directors of Educational Research on the program before the meetings of the superintendents.
Other national organizations of the National Educational Association, which are meeting this week in Cleveland, are the National Society for the Study of Education, National Society of College Teachers of Education, Rural Educational Association, and the Association of Directors of Residential Schools. This group has its own meetings for its own members and provides one program for the general meeting of the superintendents.
Sins of Newspapers Traceable to Public—Johnson
Education to Remedy Evils
"This can be argued in a circle by saying that the newspaper educates its readers to the material that it offers and the paper must offer the same content. It is a very simple matter to have laws for the punishment of an individual if he commits an act against the public but when the public itself is the one committing the sin an entirely different problem arises. The colleges and universities are not responsible for the public to the right kind of reading and this in the end will mean the improvement of the newspaper."
"Education will be the only remedy for the evils of the newspaper," unit Burges Johnson speaking to members of the departments of English and journalism in Fraser Chapel this week in "The Public and the Newspaper."
"There are many sins charged to the newspapers of today and the papers may be buried, but any one of them can be made public. There is the case of supply in demand—what the public demands the newspaper must supply or not."
Beat Mizzou!
Dr. Grace M. Charles has just returned from Chicago where she has been confined at her home on account of illness. Doctor Charles has been absent from the University since the Christmas holidays and was able to resume her classes for the first time his week.
K.U. May Fall Heir To Untold Wealth In Egyptian Tomb
Mohamed Hamed El-Driny
To Give One-Fourth of
Treasure in Grave
To University
If the age-old tomb on the land of Mohamed El-Drina medical student of the University, contains the fabulous wealth of that of King Tutan Khan Kham, the University will have richer dollars richer in the next few months.
Mr. El-Driny has expressly stipulated in his letter to the American consul at Cairo, Egypt, sent through Chancellor E. H. Lindley, that one-fourth of the treasure found in the tomb will be given to K. U., one-fourth will go to the museum of New York, and one-half will go to him; he will give the treasure will be heard of the results of the excavation of the tomb for some time, as it requires twenty-six days for a letter to reach Cairo.
To date about $15,000,000 has been taken from the tomb of the King Tutan Khan Amin. The "inner chamber", which had remained a secret to the dars of the ancient ruler for centuries and centuries, has finally been opened, explored, and closed to the prying eyes of newspaperists and art historians. The museum asserts that not all the treasure has been removed from the tomb.
$15,000,000 from Tomb
For centuries the tomb on the estate of the father of Mohamed Hamed El-Driny remained untouched by the hand of mortal man. A superstition to the effect that anyone who disturbed the sepulchre of the dead would suffer the loss of a child, restrained the hand of the Egyptian, Mohamed Hamed El-Driny threw in a new order of things has come to pass; and Mr. El-Driny is waiting for the news of new discoveries.
Can See Pyramids
"From the cave on our estate," said the Egyptian student this morning, "one can look across the sand-washed stoves to the pyramids, fifty meters tall. There is a door composed of huge rocks placed perpendicularly against its mouth. The mouth of the cave is about four meters square, and the mound which marks the probable location of the ancient king is about ten meters high."
The mound is about one-half mile from some houses on the estate of the Egyptian student, the estate it. contains a piece of land 18,450 meters square.
No estimate of the amount of wealth in the second tomb—which is the only other one in that part of the country—contains can be made for the present. If the archaeologists can judge by what the first excavation on the El Driy place will bring million dollars, the K. U. student and wealth to the University under the recent stipulation of Mr. Er-Driny.
The Law Serim has been indefinitely postponed because the managers have been unable to secure a hall in which to hold it. The managers said, however, that it would be held at an event on May 30 but he was in March 9 but the Giolchi Chi fraternity had the hall for their formal party on that date. The Comopolitan Club is also giving its annual interment service above date in Robinson Gymnasium.
Harding Appoints Work Secretary of Interior
The shift in the cabin will take place on March 4. The President is understood to have made his selection about ten days ago. He has been under strong pressure not to appoint New.
Washington, Feb. 27—President Harding today named Postmaster General Work, succeeding Albert B. Fall, whose resignation is effective March 31. Senator Harry B. Fall, postoffice department, the President named Senator Harry New, Indians, recently defeated for re-election. The recommendations were sent to the Senate today. The Senate confirmed Senator New on a motion by Senate on an unanimous vote in open session.
Law Serim Postponed
Dorothy Vaughn, c23, who has been ill in the University Hospital, is able to be back in school again.
WIRE FLASHES
Topeka, Feb. 27—Gov. Jonathan M. Davis announced that he would lay before the bonus compensation of 49,000 for Randaloph Carpenter, Marion, overseas veteran, to serve as director of the bonus distribution for $1 a year. Carpenter is a lawyer of Marion and will be attending with the 55th division in France.
Berlin, Feb. 27. —The controversy between France and Germany over whether the farmer is using colored troops in the Ruhr was continued today by the Berlin government, authoritative dispatches from Colonne stated that black troops occupied Königwinter.
Washington, Feb. 27—Charles E Warren, American ambassador to Japan, will submit his resignation formally within a day or two, he announced after a conference with the visiting at the White House today.
Washington, Feb. 27—Believing that the world is drifting to a war of proportions that may cause the eclipse of civilization for centuries, the Federal Council of Churches today made an urgent call for the establishment of a global world from chaos by helping Europ to straighten out its tangled affair
Washington, Feb. 27—Brig. Gen.
Frank G. Hines, at present deputy chief of staff of the army, today was appointed director of the United States Veterans' Bureau to succeed Veterans C. Forbes, who recently resigned.
Senate Committee
Awaits Clarification
Of Court Proposal
Asks President to Investigate Nation's Position as Court Member
Member
Washington, Feb. 21—The Senate foreign relations committee wants President Harding to clarify that the American mission ship in the permanent court of international justice, created under the League of Nations, before taking definite action. The committee today asked the senate to get additional light on three points:
1. Whether the international court is to be in fact a court or merely an arbitration tribunal.
2. What reservations have been made by other nations ratifying the protocol creating the court.
3. Whether American aid involves the United States under labor, cleaves under the Versailles treaty.
The foreign relations committee spent nearly two hours today discussing the President's request that the Senate at once approve American waters and reservations submitted by Secretary of State Hurges. There was a general understanding, committee members said, that no committee actions would be possible at this session of the meeting time was set for a [rather meeting].
President Harding does not intend to call a special session of Congress if the Senate fails to accept his international court proposal, it was made known at the White House today. Mr. Harding said no particular injury if action on his proposal is delayed until the new session convenes.
Tickets are now on sale by Cathrine Rawlings, Virginia Pendleton Jean Bennet, and Margaret Walker The price is twenty-five cents. **Doris Harris** and Cleta Johnson have charge of the entertainment for the party.
A women's Junior Prom will be given next Thursday, March 8, in Robinson gymnastium. A dinner will be served at 5:30 followed by special entertainment and dancing, which will include favor舞会. The Women's Junior Prom is the second of a series of class entertainments being sponsored by the W. S. G. A. Daviden Rose BarRonses, urges that as many junior women as possible attend this class party.
Junior Prom to be Given By Women in Gymnasium
Twenty-five dollars was collected by ushers at the basketball game Friday night when Virgil Miller, cheerleader, asked for contributions to pay the $40 bill for fuel, which was used in October for the night-shift marade. The bill was sent to the University.
German Railways Rust in Idleness With French Rule
Factories Must Close Soon As Industrial Paralysis Overcomes Ruhr
vaney
By Webb Miller
(U. P. Staff Correspondent)
Dusseldorf, Feb. 27—Rust—mile upon mike, a rusted network of railways, roundhouses filled with rusted becommotives, cars with rusted wheels and wheels that in the most striking, the most telltale evidence of the success or failure of the occupation of the Ruhr. It is more informative than any official interview or statistics.
On an automobile ride through a dozen or more Rku towns, I observed the extension of the red rust which marks the creeping paralysis overcoming the nervous system of the great industrial organism. One by one, we walked along the neiging the horizon are ceasing to smoke as the paralysis reaches them.
Factories Must Soon Close
Factories Must Soon Close
Already 50,000 people are idle in the Raih valley, and their number is growing rapidly. Hundreds of thousands of others are engaged in nonproductive work. Raw materials and stock are fast diminishing, meaning that the factories must soon close down.
From one viewpoint, this paralysis shows the success of Frenco-Belgian alms. Owing to the resistance of Germany's industrialists, the French and Belgians feel they must paralyze the occupied area to force capitulation.
Red Rast Reflects Failure
But the glaze of the red rust reflects the failure of the invaders to procure it.
On Friday, officials will review the several objects of the occupation. Officials now admit the impossibility of obtaining any appreciable amount of coal unless and until the Westphalian treaties with France work under Franco-Belgian orders.
France hopes that capitulation may come before paralysis. I talked to a group of grimy German workers. "We'll starve, but we won't dialogue."
My impression is that it is now the purpose of the occupiers to bring about a situation under which the industrialists and the workers will give in and decide not to oppose the aims of occupation. Although French of old, among the ugly words condition can be summed up in a word: "Thunder."
Hurts Workers, Not Leaders
A vice-like pressure by the invading armies is aimed primarily at the industrialists and at the government the workmen who will be squeezed.
Strange as it may seem, both French and Belgians have given, and still would give, a great deal to placate and win the population of the Ruhr. They have no move now but to apply pressure until the steady paralysis reaches the industrialists' most vital point—the pocketbook.
The French tell the people, "It will be the fault of your own bosses if your families and yourselves suffer." (Cunningham 1903)
Glee Club Concert Tonight
Student Activity Tickets Admit To First of Series
The first concert of the year by the Men's Club Club will be given at 8:15 tonight in Fraser chapel. Student fees and tuition cents admission will be charged.
Some excellent numbers are promised, as the Glee Club has been working hard for some time in preparation for the concert, according to the program. This is to be director of the Glee Club. This is to be the first of a series of concerts.
A concert for the students at Haskell was given by the Men's Gleeb Club last Saturday, and several numbers by them were included in the program of the Merchants' Short Course here last week.
Sigma Phi Sigma gave its annual Washington party at Ecke's Hall Saturday, Feb. 24. Mrs. Ettah Totchman, Mrs. Jennie Mitchell, and Professor and Mrs. Mix chaperoned, and Professor and Mrs. Eckel, Charles Crews, William Thompson, Topeka, Professor MeBride, Washburn Law School.
Central Ad to be Ready For Occupation in Fall
Central Administration Building will be ready for occupation next fall, according to Earl Greiber, a apprentant of construction on the building. The roof will be on by the walls and any partitions are all set in the basement.
The cold weather for the last two weeks has been a great hindrance to the work, because the concrete is hard to pour. However, with steady work, the sixty men working on the job will be able to complete it in time. The first step in front of the entrance will be of concrete trimmed with terra cotta, and a road will run from one end of the building to the other.
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
Talks Over W.D.A.F.
On Rules for Reading
Finds Others' Critical Comments
As Literary Guide Posts
Is Good Idea
"The first requisite to remembering what you read is to read carefully, thoughtfully, and leisurely," was the statement of Helen Rhoda Woods, instructor in the department Hellenic Studies at WAFD on rules for reading. "Charles Lamb, who has some good advice to give on books and reading, said, 'Much depends on when and where you read a book.' In the five chapters of the dinner who would think of taking up the Fauerie Queene for a stonan-'s?
"You must read with your mind as well as with your eyes. If you cannot understand a writer's thought in your own mind, help yourself to understand the development of his idea by writing down the different steps in his thought processes. Often it helps you to get an author's thought about something else has discovered in the book, essay, or poem. Then when you read the book you may use these critical comments as guide posts."
"Reading aloud is another good way to help you to remember what you read. Here, too, the book must be worth reading aloud. Poetry is always best aloud, for poems are written for the ear as well as the e.g., It is only by reading poetry aloud that we can trace what Stevenon wrote. It is also the essence of sounds, the rhythm, the song of it." Miss Hoopes continued.
"A good idea in trying to remember what you read is to keep a commonplace book in which to record the name of the author, the title of the book, perhaps something about the author, or a clever criticism of the book, and something of its contents." One should try to find in every book a suggestion for something to read next. If one reads a historical novel he should follow it with a history dealing with the same period.
Turns Loss Into Profit
Wells Urges Beautification 1 Managers' Magazine
"Cleaning up dumps and waste laun will encourage the citizens in keeping ing clean lawns and yards, and so convert a loss into gain," says Beri C. Wells, city manager of Atchison and the City Manager of the Citi Manager Margarine.
A tract of land in the heart o. Atchison has been changed into a beauty spot made almost wholly of overhead wires, and overband wires were removed, concrete and gravel laid, and the borders of the tract outlined by rows of poplar trees. Other waste land was cleared. The former dumps into lovely flower beds
"I am not in favor of expending large sums at this time to decorate," continues Mr. Wells, "but by the use of waste land, waste materials, and waste time, any community can turn such loss to gain.
"Atchison during the past year purchased at a nominal sum the ragged bluff along the Musquam River from the business section to the city park, a distance of approximately one mile. Atchison also owns the city park, consisting of ninety acres that does not have its equal in this part of the country," say Mr. Wells. "As the individual, without cost, can turn his waste into a beautiful home, and to himself, family and community, as a city convert loss into profit."
Beat Mizzou!
Foibles of Famous Will be on Parade At Gridiron Dinner
Sigma Delta Chi to Invite Notables to First of Affairs Given in State
Strictly Stag Affair
The fancies and foilies of men prominent in public affairs of the state and of the campus, will be exposed to the merciless light of publicity when they gather at Lawrence Wednesday evening, March 28, for the Sigma Dauphin Gridiron Dinner of the Sigma Dauphin professional journalistic fraternity.
The dinner is to be stitty stag and is to be attended by notables on his campus and in public circles. At he national affair the president of he United States, cabinet members, he diplomatis comprise he guest list
This, the first of the Gridiron Dinars to be given in the state of Kansas, is modeled after the annual affair at the annual Press Club at Washington, D. C.
“Giridiron” has no connection with the football squad but signifies “roosting” given guests. Ridicule and caricature is directed at the guests in a spirit of good-muddled native attempt to inject personal feeling.
The entertainment will consist of skirts, stunts and epilapias, the staging of which is shared by the guantes and the gloves. "Hawk-shaw committee" already have their eyes on several personal skeletons which they promise to dring forth from their dark places and before their owners Glidden Jr.
Will Dispel Illusions
The mantle of dignity will be torn from the staid shoulders of professors, the remnants of reverence accorded the政治oga will be scattered to the four winds, and the rogue businessman 'mill' will be forced to forget the course that he in unholly joy in the discomfiture of his fellows.
Attendance at this affair will be limited to 125 hand-picked guests, sixty-two of whom will be members of the faculty, twenty-five members of the student body, and the remainder downtown and state professional and business men and those prominent in public life.
Reds and Blues Battle
Extended Order Drill Prepares R. O. T. C. for Sham War
For the first time this year, extended order drill will begin in the R. O. T. C. tomorrow. The non-commercial reviewed the extended order drill in the Infantry Drill Regulation. The extended order drill will continue the rest of the semester and terminate in the summer, recorded the last month of the semester.
Close order drill has been used up to this time. The close order composes disciplinary action and includes the school of the soldier, meaning the school of the infantry, the principles of arms, school of the squad, school of the platoon, school of the company, and school of the battalion. Its purpose is to teach the soldier how to execute commands to prepare him for parade and ceremony.
The extended order drill contains field maneuvers to train the soldier to take care of himself or his unit in battle and to maintain certain distance between soldiers in battle when the command "Shrimish" is given. It also teaches how to take cover, how to advance, now to use signals and how to use and transmit signals.
The sham-battle is made realistic by the use of a small one-pound cannon, machine guns, and Red Cross nurses placed at the First-Aid station. Each cadet is given thirty sham-battles, which are tricedrives. The sham-battle is between the reds, and blues, the two divisions of the unit.
Anne Dudley Blitz, dean of women,
will return March 4. Miss Blitz spoke
in Columbia University Feb. 22, at
the 10th annual meeting of the
election of the election of Dean J. E.
Russell, of the teachers college. Yesterday Miss Blitz went to Cleveland,
Ohio, where she will speak before
the students of the universities in United States.