THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas Subscription price $2.50 in advance for the first nine months of the demic year; $2.50 for one semester; a month a month; $18 cents a week. Entered on 2nd-class mail morn- September 10, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the March 2, 1879 Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism at Kawasaki University of Kansas. (For the press of the Department of Journalism Lawrence, Kristine Phones, K. U. 25 and 64 Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Chicago, K. J. 35 and 66 The Daily Kansan aims to pick up a strong foundation in the university of Kansas to go further by standing for the ideals the writers, to be clean, to be cheerful and to leave more serious problems out of the way to the host of its ability to make a difference. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Fatalia Doughert, Associate Editor Gekla Shulta Associate Editor John E. McKinney Campus Editor Ren Bibela Editors Ravnand Dyer Architect Charles Chaffee Plain Tales Editor Llewellyn White Writer Kathy Brown Rewarrant Deana Roa BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager...Lloyd Ruppenthal Asst. Business Mgr...James Counley Asst. Business Mgr...Cornwell Carlson BOARD MEMBERS Joe Turner Doris Marie Fenner Philips Wayne George Landau George McVey Ted Hudson Ted Hudson Lett Lee Lett Lee Armenia Borumbeg Jacqueline Calmore Jacqueline Calmore Diana Bujagal Diana Bujagal Lori Lloyd Lori Lloyd THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1922. AN EPIDEMIC OF FRATS If the epidemic of honorary and professional fraternities continues to sweep this campus the next few years with the thoroughness it has exhibited in the past few years, the Greek alphabet with all its various combinations will prove helplessly imade quate for the demand. As the situation now stands many of the alleged honorary and professional fraternities are termed such only because of the heading of their charter. In many cases they are neither honorary nor professional. When any man in the department, providing his political affiliations are right, is eligible for membership in the honorary and professional organization, wherein lies the honor? Democracy is a fine thing in the large, but need it be the guiding star in selecting candidates for an honorary and professional organization? Since 1905 honorary organizations for every type of college life have sprung up in the American colleges and universities. Many of these have arisen within the past ten years. First they were started as clubs or societies. But before long the nationalization idea began spreading from college to college with the result that many of these local organizations were given national charters. Since then national society sponsors have worked with the persistency of the modern publicity agent. If one law fraternity exists in the school, a new group of students is selected, the catch line in the purpose changed, and in a short time a set of fraternity pins appears on the campus. So it has spread through all the professions. The University of Kansas has not been immune to this attack. In fact this very year a half dozen new fraternities have been installed. Where is it all leading? Under the present system a man may belong to several different professional fraternities. Such looseness is neither a benefit to the man nor to the fraternity nor to the profession it represents. If we must have honorary fraternities lets have the requirements such that they are a real honor, a mark of achievement, to belong. If the idea is to get a group of men together who are slightly interested in the same profession, let's call it a social fraternity. But if we are to make a distinction between the man who does creditable work and the man who dogs sloppy work, and are to call this distinction membership in an honory society, lets see to it that the men who are elected are really deserving of such selection. FREE "K" BOOKS The decision to give every student a "K" Book next year is a praiseworthy one. The "K" Book is a very valuable handbook for the student year and with its calendar fully filled out makes a dandy memory book. Official Daily University Bulletin LL-UNIVERSITY CD; VOCATION; Copy received by Florence E. Thia-Miller, Chancellor's Office Volume I. May 4, 1922. May 4, 1922. An All-University Conversation is called for 10 o'clock Friday in Robin Conference. When Alice White will be the speaker, ESSIONS OF KANSAS EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION; E. H. Lindley, Chancellor. Faculty and students who are interested in journalism in Kannas are invited to attend any or all sessions of the Kansas Editorial Association in January. That the students really find a need for the "K" book was demonstrated last fall when hundreds of students called at the Y. M. C. A. and inquired for the book when a delay in the printing prevented its distribution at the first of the semester. Copies sold for twenty-five cents each. Next year the University together with the Christian associations and Lawrence advertisers are to make possible their free distribution. With its departments on athletics, churches, fraternities, Kansas songs and yells, railroad time-tables, and pages for daily memoranda, a free "K" book will be a welcome companion for every student next year. Student Opinion To the Editor: What regulation is there that arranges the temperature of the water that we use on the HILL? Is it all supposed to be cold? If it were so, why not heat it up? In fact, if a tap masked hot water should naturally act upon anything but cold water, it is dooble if the user would ever again hold a real faith. Cold water is in itself the coolest water the frowner bore. We are provided to use it. One thing, however, that is more difficult to become accustomed to, is the drinking water. Why should the water that we use on our hands be cold, extremely cold, and the water that we drink hot, extremely hot. I refer especially to the fountain in the pool. Sometimes it is only tended. On very rare occasions it approximates really cool water. I know of a student who goes very regularly to this particular fountain to drink his "glass of hot water." Not all of us, however, can accept this as a solution of the hot water problem, and if we could, we wouldn't like it as a steady "diet." The faucets that we use are, generally, conductive to cleanliness. They wash the face every time one takes a drink. They are sanitary—most of them. A few are not. Again specifically, I refer to the top floor of the old-fashioned drip-hack variety, and moreover it is very, very dirty. Hot and cold, couldn't the pipes be made contientious, marble? WANT ADS Drink Water. WHERE WILL YOU SIT? OR DO YOU PREFER TO STAND? All Want advertisements are cash. 15. All Want crimes (20+) Over 15 words and not more than 25 one insertion, three insertions. Cash must always accompany want ad. LOST—At K. U. Karnail, gold wrist watch, Swiss movement. Findease call机 R. I. M.Laughlin, 1725 Olio. 144-3-289 travel bag taken by mistaken travel from 1150 U. P. Train at Lawrence, April 29. Finder please notify A. F. Turner, e-o K. S. A. C., Manhattan, Kansas. 145-3-287 LOST—Delta Tau Delta fraternity pin. Call 429. 145-2-391. LOST—A light gray cap, Foreman and Clarke, in Gym, last Saturday night. Call 1131 Call. 145-2-393 LOST—On campus May 1, a pair of glasses in case. 1614 Ky. or Phone 389. 145-3-393 LOST—Alpha Xi Delta sorority pin somewhere between 1322 La. and Presbyterian church. Reward. Call 1953. 143-2-388. 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