THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN STATE OF CALIFORNIA IS NO PROMISED LAND K. U. Student in Golden State Writes to Professor Goldsmith "MEDICINE FOR DELUDED" Kansas Man Has Such Good Land That He'll Never Lose It Professor Goldwin Goldsmith, head of the department of architecture, recently received a letter from a former K. U. student who now resides in California. Professor Goldsmith turned the letter over to the Kansan with a few of his own remarks. It would seem that California is not all that it is "cracked up to be," but the letter and comment explain the situation. Professor Goldsmith's remarks follow: "The enclosed panygary, 'My California,' was sent me by a K. U. student from California. It seems to me that it would be 'good medicine' to print it for the benefit of any deluded Kansas native who has acquired the idea that California is a sort of promised land flowing with milk and honey. Having lived some years in California, I am acquainted with the home-grown product of the story referred to and I can assure anyone if fortunate, constituted torture the California turtle mentioned has the Kansas chigger 'backed off the map.'" -Goldwin Goldsmith. The student's letter follows: "MY CALIFORNIA" "When I say, 'My Californian,' I do not mean that I own California, that is to say, not all of it. I own some of it, but I did not think when I bought it that I was going to own it forever. The follow that sold it is that I could that I could sell it sometime at a profit. But he was a poor prophet. "But I love California as only a 'native son' of New Hampshire can love it. I love its lakes and rills, its mountains and hills, but most of all I love its soil. Those lots that I own in Los Angeles. I have an attachment for those that I shall never that is, it looks now as if I never had. I just noticed yesterday that the seeds read: 'To have and to hold.' But the dream of my life is to sometime settle down in my own little bungalow, on my own little ranch and there with my own little wife, in the golden sunlight and the slivery moonlight, to dream the happy hours away seeing visions of other days and other places. And where can you find more to recall such visions than on a California ranch? "You sit down to the Grand Rapids table and eat your Hawaiian pineapple, your Quaker Oats and Aunt Jane's swimming in New Orleans mollusks. "You rise in the morning to the music of a Connecticut alarm clock, you put on your Musing underwear made in Minneapolis, hitch your Boston garters to your Paris socks, button your Baltimore suspenders to your Detroit overalls, put on your Lynn, Massachusetts, shoes and your Danbury, Connecticut, hat; and you are ready for the day. "At noon you dine on Cincinnati ham cooked in Chicago lard on a Detroit stove burning Wyoming coal. "Then you go out and put your Concord, N. H., harness on your Missouri mule, hitch onto your Moline, Illinois, plow, and plow a couple of acres of land covered with Ohio mortgages. "And then at night you fill your 'Pride of Detroit' with Mexican gasoline and dash out to the beach, and in a Greek restaurant while smoking a Boston-made cigar you watch a New York girl dance the Memphis shimmy to the music of a New Orleans jazz band. "And then upon returning home you read a chapter from a Bibleainted in London, say a prayer written in Jerusalem, put on your China silk palamas, crawl between your Fall River sheets to fight all night with fleas, the only home-grown product on the whole damned ranch." Manhattan Plans For Sigma Delta Chi Meet Manhattan, Kansas, Sept. 19—Local members of the Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, are making arrangements for the national convention of the society to be held at Agricultural College in November. This will be the first national convention of the organization ever held in Kansas. It will bring together delegates from nearly 40 of the leading journals and journals of the United States, as well as prominent newspaper men and magazine writers who joined the fraternity when in college. K. U. IN REVIEW The buildings of the University of Kansas, when those now provided for by appropriations are completed, will represent an investment of more than $3,000, according to figures compiled for the University Daily Kansan by John M. Shea, superintendent of building facilities of the University. The actual cost of these buildings was only two and a quarter million, since some of the earlier building cost much less to build than it would to replace them. UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS The Administration building, under construction since 1911, and now being completed, will cost $849,844, and other construction of the past two years brings the recent total to $1,098,600, prior to the administration building $1,098,000, and have a present replacement value of $1,800,250, or nearly twice the original cost. Total actual cost of all buildings was $2,348,721, and the present value $8,600,071. The figures in detail: Built Building 1866 North College 1872 Press Hall 1884 Menth (Journalism) building 1887 Snow Hall 1893 Chancellor Library 1894 Power Library 1895-4 Bake Hall 1896 Heating Plant 1897 Dowry Shops 1899-2 Chemistry Library 1902 Dyche Museum 1902 Green Hall 1906-7 Robinson Gymnasium 1907 Hospital pavilion (Roselade) 1908 Laboratory building (Roselade) 1909-9 Mechanical Laboratory 1909-9 Power Plant 1909-10 Repair Shops 1909 Haworth Hill 1914 Clay laboratory 1914 Laboratory building (Roselade) 1915 Dispersary Building (Roselade) 1915 Oren Training School Administration Building 1917 Air Wing 1917 Center basement 1917 West Wing and Center Floors Center 1917 Completion of building Electrical Laboratory University Council Heating and Power Plant Library Women's Dormitory New Hospital GYMNASIUM CROWDED AT UNIVERSITY PARTY 2,000 Attended—Musical Program by School of Fine Arts The School of Fine Arts faculty, assisted by the Phi Mu Alpha orchestra, presented a musical program, Dean Harold L. Butler headed the faculty members, Miss Agnes Husband, mezzo-soprano, also sang, followed by a violin solo by Prof. Waldo Geltch, and two tenor southern dialect pieces by Prof. Walter Whitlock. Both Pro-Students are likely employed lock are recently appointed members of the Fine Arts faculty. Mr. Gelth appeared here in a recital last spring. Over-crowded galleries, an almost endless receiving line, an appreciated program and 'quantities of grape punch were the features of the evening at the first all-University party of the year, held Saturday evening in Robinson Gymnasium. It is estimated that 2,000 attended, keeping the chancellor, faculty members and representatives busy on the receiving line and on half hours. A well-arranged program, under the direction of Prof. F. P. O'Brien, of the School of Education, was presented. Original Cost Replacement Cos reaction the program was conducted, said that he was agreeably surprised at the large crowd present and well pleased with the party evident enthusiasm. Jefferson City, Mo., Cept. 19 (U. P.)-Members of the Missouri Highway Commission were to meet here today to select road engineers and designate districts in which the pro- ducer will receive $5,000,000 bond sale shall be spent. He also expressed his appreciation of the efforts of the Phi Mu Alpha orchestra in aiding the entertainment, as well as furnishing music for the social dancing. The floor was cleared for dancing at 19:30 o'clock. Missouri Starts Plans For Hard-Surface Roads This follows certification of the first block of bonds of the $80,000,000 fund authorized by vote of the people on highway work in the state. Phi Kappa announces the pledging of Sylvester McInernie, of Kansas City, Mo. 80 300 10 000 12 000 50 000 80 000 80 000 38 000 16 000 41 000 65 000 130 000 149 000 65 000 149 000 100 000 400 000 40 000 65 000 170 000 47 000 50 000 7 000 18 200 7 000 11 420 7 500 11 420 50 000 75 000 40 000 6 000 125,000 42,000 225,000 7,844 250,000 40,000 16,000 81,877 250,000 150,000 Frank Mandellev of Varsity football fame has sent his brother here. Young Mandy has had four years' high school football and two years at Phillip's College, Enid, Oklahoma. He can average of fifty-seven yards for pants and should bid well for half and paint on the fresh eleven. Mandy's Brother Here Madame Swank Exclusive designs in reception gowns, dinner and dance frocks. 900 Mass. St. over Peoples State Bank. Telephone 216 Coupes Tourings Sedans RENT A NEW FORD. Drive it yourself 808 Vermont Phone 653 Courtesy Service We Give the best pressing and delivery service to be had Suits pressed while you wait KIRBY CLEANERS and Dyers 1109 Mass. Phone 442 Try a SPECIAL LUNCHEON 11:30-1:30 Forty Cents English Broth Veal Cutlets or Roast Beef Baked Potatoes Corn and Green Peppers Chocolate Cake and Ice Cream Try a Makes Enrollment A Glorious Giggle She was young and bobbed-haired and frank and boyish. She was a new freshman. She had reached the long card stage of enrollment. "Gosh, you gotta be scribe to get into this school," she remarked as she settled herself to begin. Since she had been thinking the same thing, we were at once. A giggle, "Say, how have spell 'parallel'?" she inquired. We spelled it for her and then spent the next five minutes vainly studying our own card to discover where that troublesome word could be used. Another giggle. We sent up a prayer that our spelling jinx would not desert us. "Say, what county is it? What home town?" We were lost. You said, raphy we didn't. We felt that being required to name the county of every stranger who felt inclined to quiz us was beyond us. Apother party volunteered and we subsided. A laugh, amused and with a note of something else in it. "Married or single," she read. "Thanks for the suspicion, folks. Not guilty." Her brown eyes narrowed as she studied about the room. "I think I'll write 'not yet, but soon'," she grilled. Mr. E. P. Learned, A. B. 22, instructor in the department of economics, was married, August 30, to Miss Zella Rank, A. B. 21, of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mr. Learned is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Adams Presents Large Bird Egg Collection Over thirteen hundred birds' eggs are contained in a very valuable collection presented recently to the University by a former student and graduate of K. U., Prof. L. A. Adams, Prof. Adams is now assistant professor of biology at the University of Illinois. Prof. Adams has spent a great deal of time in collecting these eggs, most of which were secured in California and Kansas. There are over three hundred nest sets in the collection and the eggs are of various kinds ranging from those of the diaries of the big hawks, those of the big hawks, those of the turkey buzzards. The collection is now at Dyche Museum. Miss Elise Grant, A. B. 20, who has been a guest at the Alpha Delta Pi house, left Sunday, September 17th to visit friends in Ottawa. Instruction in MODERN DANCING for appointment Phone 2392 Blue "Suiting You" THAT'S MY BUSINESS WM. SCHULTZ 917 Mass. St. will be paid to the artists on the $6,750.00 University Concert Course you can hear all eight concerts for $6.00, $5.00 or $4.00 by purchasing a season ticket. Mail your order today to H. L. Butler, Lawrence 647 season tickets already sold First Concert, Tuesday, Oct. 3. The Student's Friend and Helper Remington Portable Simple—easy to operate by anybody. Compact—fits in case only 4 inches high. Price, complete with carrying case, $60. Complete—has standard keyboard with four rows of keys and no shifting for figures—and other standard features—just like the big machines. The Lawrence Typewriter Exchange, 137 Mass., Lawrence, Kansas. Remington Typewriter Co., Inc. 107 W. 7th St. Topeka, Kansas Remington Typewriter Co., Inc. 1021-25 Grand Ave, Kansas City, Mo. Paragon Ribbons for Remington Furious Typewriters $5 each - $15 a dozen There will be a meeting of the new Owls at the Kappa Sigma house, Wednesday evening at 7:50. All Owls are required to attend. Important matters will be discussed. Bernard Meidinger, President TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY LOST—Gold barrel of a fountain pen Valued as a gift. Notify Emily Maher, 1213 Ohio St. — S21 FOR RENT—Room for 2 girls, 1301 Tenn. Call 1198. —S21 LOST—Bill fold with identification card. Phone 603.-Ernest Baldwin. - S21 WANTED—Typing. Fifty cents thousand words. Phone 1269 Black. LOST—Ladies gold bracelet wrist wrist, octagonal, Swim movement, between West Ad. and Robinson Gym. Call 2390 Red. —S21 LOST—On Oread Avenue someplace— Phi Chi pin. Finder please return 1233 Ored. Liberal Reward JUST LOOK at my adv. on the back of the Phone book. If you want service——call me. CLARK LEANS LOTHES Special Victor Records I'm Just Wild About Harry Say It While Dancing Why Should I Cry Over You? Blue Struttin' at the Strutter's Ball The French Trot 图 at Varsity Theatre Tonight Only Shows 2:30 4:00 7:30 9:00 Ethel Clayton "For the Defense" A melodram with very appealing qualities. The hypnotic influences shown are very interesting. Comedy: "Torchy's Nut Sunday" Adults 28c Children 10c Wednesday & Thursday An Electric Curling Iron Is as indispensible on your dressing table as your powder puff HOT POINT AND UNIVERSAL $6.50 Kansas Electric Power Co. 719 Mass. Phone 590 ___