UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas of Kansas Subscription price $2.50 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $2.50 for one semester; 50 cents a month; 18 cents a week. Entered as second-class mall matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 2, 1879. Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the department on Journalism of the University Press, a proud office of the Department of Journalism Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, K. U. 25 and 66 The Daily Kannan steps to provide the best education for students of University of Karnataka to go forward, by standing for the ideals the students offer; to be chionn; to be cheerful; to leave more serious problems out; to heat up the ability the students have in solving them. EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Editor-in-Chief Journal Editor Campus Editor Editorial PageGraph Editor Marion Shubley Alumni Editor Alumni Editor TQ Hudson ROARD MEMBERS BUSINESS SYS Business Manager Lloyd Truppenthal Axel. Business Mgr James Connolly Axel. Business Mgr Carlson Cantlon George McVay Phylla Winget Wilfred Husband Daria Sutton Dillon Doris Fluenon Armena Kunigmbeter Jaceline Gilmore Raymond Dyer THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922 REDUCING TAXES When hard times are being fat by everyone and cries for reduction in taxes go up on every side it is very likely to be the state schools that find the maches the scapegoats. They have been the target from time immemorial for all sorts of criticism, and it is a habit of the people of this state to look for a reduction in their budget as a relief from burdensome taxation. On the surface of the matter this appears to be good reasoning. In the aggregate the funds appropriated for the state schools are large. The farmer or townman frequently reads with a gasp the newspaper reports of the large sums of money appropriated for educational purposes, and asks to himself that here is where all his money is going. But let us get at the facts of this case. In Kansas the total state tax for any community, town or country is 2,235 mills on the dollar of assessed valuation. In the country districts the total tax rate, local and state, is on a rough average, about 14 mills on the dollar. In some counties it will run higher, in others lower. In the cities the total tax rate is much higher. About 20 mills on the dollar is a fair average. The entire state levy forms only about 14 per cent of the total tax levy, and only 9 per cent for city dwellers and the expenditures for schools are only a small part of the state appropriations. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The legislature could cut off entirely the appropriations for state schools, thereby lowering the state tax rate by a fraction of a mill, and the tax payer's burden would be lightened so little that it would take him some time to figure out whether the legislature had really done anything or not. Aside, then, from the questionable policy of económizing on education, it would seem from the above figurez that the tax payer must seek relief in his own community whence the greater part of the money taken from him in taxes is spent. TEA DANCES IN DISCARD! The tea dance, after a short but interesting career, is a thing of the past. With the announcement yesterday by the producer that this form of afternoon entertainment would be discontinued, the tea-hounds and cake-caters of the Hill are in mourning. The tea dance, an innovation which made its appearance last year, boomed for a while. "Going tea dancing this afternoon?" grew to be a common query on the Hill, and the common answer among a certain class was "Yes." But for the last month or so the tea dance has been dropping steadily into oblivion. Then, yesterday, the final blow in the announcement of its closing. There is some speculation among University students as to the entree of the explanation of the proprietor that the reason for closing the dunce was that they "didn't pay." Some are delineated to believe that there was a powerful outside pressure brought to bear that played a very significant part in the closing. Perhaps there was. The University authorities frankly frowned upon the ten dances, and attendance during week days was an open breach of a University ruling. But there is a more significant fact behind the failure of the "soda grill." It is very probable that they did not pay, and the reason is obvious. The student body of the University has no time for tea dancing. Granting that there is a class that would always patronize such an institution, it is decidedly in the minority; too much so to support the thing. The students of Kansas are a busy class; they are here for a purpose; not for amusement; and that purpose is too absorbible of time and thought to permit the expenditure of three week afternoons in the no doubt pleasurable, but at the same time inconsequential partime of "tea dancing." WHAT A FLAPPER IS NOT One of the most popular indoor sports nowadays is defining flappers. Everyone from Brown's hired man to the Vice-President of the United States has given a definition of some sort. The definitions vary from one paragraph in length to a whole book. That a flapper is a youthful woman is usually found in the first sentence. This is the only agreement they have arrived at; they had better concentrate their forces. A Chicago alderman gives a definition that sounds as if it were copied out of an ontology text book. It reminds one of an insect. Another intellectual superior makes his definition read like a perfumery advertisement. The only objection a few can find to comment upon is the fact that some of the young women refuse to buckle the top backlash of their gaiolis—maybe it's the next one to the top, though. Others, in defining a flapper, use words and phrases which may have some meaning in the vernacular of a beauty parlor, but to the average individual mean nothing. If all these definitions must be accepted how are we going to distinguish a flapper from an ordinary young lady. No one in the world could fit all the qualifications given in all these definitions, not even a perfect specimen of any existing flapper of today. A NEW HOTEL One of the greatest handicaps under which the city of Lawrence is working will be removed if the Chamber of Commerce decides to push the much talked of campaign for a new hotel. There doesn't seem to be much room for argument. Nearly every student on the Hill has at one time or another been embarrassed by having to lodge a guest at the only hotel worthy of the name. It's a good thing and we hope the Chamber of Commerce will do all in its power to put the thing through. PORCH SLEEPERS' LAMENT Who was the simpleton that invented the sleeping porch? The frenchish idea of his darkened brain is making more mierable students on this Hill than all the bumba and quizzes put together. If it were possible to keep warm on a sleeping porch, a student couldn't sleep. The air is filled with groats, incoherent muttersions and staccato chattering of teeth. If he were to put cotton in his ears his mind would send cold shivers up and down his spinal column, and he would have fiftle dreams about pale blue nines, rheumatic joints, and ice cold haths. Every cold night the student is confronted with a dilemma. What should be do, stay up and freeze or go to bed and freeze? He usually chooses the latter after shivering around in his room until one or two o'clock, but in so doing he is merely trying to warm all the crisp air that is floating around Mount Oread. A sleeping porch cannot be classified under the heading of "sleeping quarters"; it is merely a place to spend the night. The ones who spend their nights there cannot be classified. Every morning after a University professor arrives safely in his classroom he heaves a sigh of relief and says, "Well, the speed demons didn't get me yet. They still have another chance when I go home tonight though." Kansan Krackles Princess Mary wasn't the only person who said "I Will" at 11:45 o'clock, last Tuesday. So The Snook is a book about which girls suppress giggles and merely sighs. To get a tank full at the "K. U. Filling Station" costs more than twenty cents a gallon. Headline—Girl in a daring hold-up What was it, a mouse? The University loan fund is not the only fund that is affected by business depression. Everyone was glad to see the snow come except the fraternity who are members of Hill fraternities. Cleaning sid walls is not so much fun, they walk. The Sigma Nu neophytes cght to be thankful that they live in the country. If the cash bonus receives many more blows, it will be knocked out. Now we know how the flapper reserves her cogwheel. We heard one into Spooner Library the other right wearing a pair of goloshes in he accepted fashion. Student's Health Code A. Covenant I pledge myself to so live that may be well, and to this end I agree to abide by these, My Laws: I accept the stewardship of my body, promising not to violate the rights thereof by acts of omission or commission. I will allot a portion of each day for work, another portion for play, and another portion for rest, and another appropriate energy and thoughtfulness. I will avoid all poisons of whatsoever kind. I will do unto others as I would save others do unto me. I will not expose others to contagion borne by them in a like manner to protect me. I will respect the rights of others to have sunlight, clean air, clean water, and healthful food. I will make use of my muscles in work or play during some part of each day. I will devote to sleep, not only the required hours, but keep my mind in that state of quiet calm which is necessary for resture and rest. When the weather turns cold, Walt may bring me I will accept with calmness, preserving my equanimity in seasons of adversity and of plenty. I will eat as my work demands, and will not over-eat in response to appetite or whim. Plain Tales from the Hill A number of students are saying that the most daunting font that has ever been performed on the campus of the University of Kansas is that it renders some of the last issue of their magazine on the steps of Green Hall. Janitor (To Van the animal man) "Van, why do they blow the Univer- sity whistle every hour?" Plans are being formulated for a new hotel to be built on the Stanford campus. It will be constructed and leased by the University. The hotel will include a guest room at Stanford's visitors, who were hitherto forced to stay in San Francisco. Van: "To notify the 'Profs' that it is time to wake the students and tell them the class is over." Found! "The *littlest* person in the world—the person who will steal notebook *dilivers* out of a student in school." In the public office overnight. Heard in the biological library: The still, dead silence at the table was broken by a most disturbing whisper. "Say, I want to see your whisper. "Say I want to see your nerve," please." Representatives of all fraternities and various other organizations at Ohio State University agreed to support the normal dances as unnecessary expense. The Texas Methodist Conference is formulating plans for a $100,000 campaign for a girls' dormitory; the intended to be raised in 1922. The U. S. 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