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 academic year; $2.00 for one semester; 56 cents a month; 15 cents a week. Entered as second-class mall matter September 17, 1812, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones. K. U. 25 and 66 Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Alaska at Anchorage on the bases of the Department of Journalism The Daily Kaanan aims to please students of the University of Kansas; to go farther than the average student by standing for the ideals the teachers want to be clean; to be cheerful; to have more serious problems EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Marion Collins Ansonkie Editor Ted Johnson Campus Editor Joe Turner Glenn Editor Glenn Diller Telegraph Editor Margaret Larkin Plain Tales Editor Aquaqueline Gilmore Exchange Editor Dora Fleeson Exchange Editor RUSINESS STAFF ROARD MEMBERS Business Manager-------Jloyd Rupentinhal Ast. Business Manager-------James Connolly Ast. Business Manager-------Carlton Carbon George McVey Phyllas Wingert Wilfred Husband Stella Dutton Hill Lotte Leine Shane P forgenson Chile McKay Michael Armage Armage Kumberger Ted Hudson Ben Hibbs TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922. THE HUE AND CRY "The hotbed of socialism in America today is in the American colleges and universities," cries a Ländsberg Kannas, man in a speech before the Civilian Club of that city. "Young people in Kannas colleges are being influenced by professors who are contemptible intellectual cookies, drilling red ideas into the minds of their students." Can it be that such is the case in the schools of our land? We ask ourselves. At first glance it appears a serious condemnation. But hold. The orator has not finished, he declares that reds, socialists, radicals, and bolshistes are all to be classed in the same category. At the start the speaker has killed his own treatise. For he has displayed the same fallacy in thinking that the average American exhibits. He has used interchangeably four words which to the thinking man have four different and significant meanings. Any man who thinks contrary to general belief and public opinion is labeled red, radical, and socialist, and bolstered indiscriminately. And what is a radical, a red, a socialist? Oh, it doesn't matter shrugs the majority; his ideas are not in accord with those of the general pubile. Thus it is easily understood why many people hold this view concerning the college student. For he is a thinker. He seeks to learn to discover the truth. And in his quest he evolves ideas which do not always conform to the general opinion. Immediately the cry of "red," "radical," or "socialist," rends the air. does the student or the professor deserve these cognomens? There are usually two sides to every question. Just because the instructor and his charge delive into a problem 'and think it through to a solution, instead of appropriating tailor-muds ideas from society, are they to be condemned as reds, radicals and socialists and as such barred from polite society except when on exhibit* A professor in the education department suggested that it would be more pleasant if we could teach people to dine instead of using the University Commons as a filling station. WHO'S RESPONSIBLE "John, where on earth did you find that book? I thought I had it hidden where you never would find it. Hand it to me immediately." John is caught red-handed with a rare work of fiction which parental authority bad deeded he should not read. "Saint Elmo," "At the Mercy of Tiberious," "The Right of Way," "The Common Law,"—these words sent a thrill through us. The books were forbidden fruit. They were not meant for youthful minds and wee to him who was caught poring over one of these venomous volumes. But the task of the parent is over now, so think the modern fathers and mothers. The younger generation have no desire to dip into these depths. And why should they? They can get deeper thrills, more suggestion and more reality by stepping around the corner to a dime picture show. Evidently the protectors of the home do not visit these shows much. For here we have seen film after film which make these forbiddon books seem like Sunday School literature. And on the front rows, waiting with open mouths and bated breath, are the children of the land, drinking in stories of crime and immorality which will ever leave a stain on their character. At home in easy chairs sit the parents, complacently relying on the censor, if they give any thought at all to the danger. But the censor must be childless and devoid of any sense of moral responsibility. And the task of the parent is not over; it is ten times more complex than it has ever been before. Parental authority must take the field of censorship. When one has attained the dignity of the senior year, if he is at all of a reflective nature he looks back over his four (or more) years and wonders what mistakes he has made. He won waders, perhaps, if he had it to do over again, he would not have followed through another line of study. LOOKING BACK When a man or woman has stuck through four years of university work the question really begins to loom up as to just how much in theoretical and working knowledge they have derived from the courses they have taken Too often they are forced to admit that this knowledge is a more or less useless cluttering up of the mind due to the principle ideas which moves them to take the course. It would furnish some astounding figures to compile the number of times that a course is taken merely for the credit the student can obtain from taking it and a corollary to this first motive the painful hours spent in figuring out the courses in which they will be required to least exercise their brains. Of course these remarks very largely apply to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. When the student has once decided to go through any of the other schools he finds that his studies are to a great extent already mapped out for him. But the College such a big indefinite thing. Studies as far apart as the poles are grouped together under this one division of the university. If the student hasn't a very definite idea of the course of studies he wishes to take when he goes in, he is lost and flounders around from one group to another until the beginning of the junior year when he must declare a major. And even then his flounderings are not ended. These reflections and observations can lead to only one conclusion. There are in our American universities a fairly large mass of students who do not belong there. They have no plan of life. At the present time there is a larger attendance in the schools of this country than ever before. But without a rather definite idea of the reason why he is attending such an institution the benefits the student will carry back to his community from having had a college career are problematical. The present need seems to be for more thought and less indescriminant schooling. "Call the police," was the first thought that came to a landlady on Ohio Street as she heard the front door gently close at five o'clock yesterday morning. The police arrived and a thorough investigation revealed nothing. It was about to be recorded as an unselved mystery when the landlady happened to recall that one of her roomers had to leave to attend early initiation at a sorority house. Plain Tales from the Hill Time, noon; place, the Commons. "Ha, ha," exulted the student as he hid his meat under his potatoes and thereby saved fifteen cents. "Why aren't you wearing you oledge pin any more?" "My girl! made me give it back." "What's the idea?" The spirit of the Frosh after his first flunk: "What's the idea? Hairnets are too expensive." "A sunny day in winter, I hear a sparrow twitter. I ought to throw a stone at him The optimistic critter!" Students government at the University of Kansas in name, but not in reality, is the way some of the University people look upon the legislative assemblies at K. U. What does the Men's Student Council accomplish some ask? Who ever heard of solens having to wear a wristband? Do they not known for the great things they have done in their electorate? Did anyone ever hear of the Advisory Assembly making use of its vee- privilege or any other claim for existence that it may have? others ask. The so-called theory of a "check and balance system" had its effect in University government, and the result was the establishment of a low power system three times a year to discuss measures for reform, but thus far has been either powerless or afraid to exercise stipulated powers. Student Opinion The W. S. G. A. has some claim for being a part in University government. Much has been accomplished by the women's governing council, but more might be. The W. S. G. A. is to be complimented upon its activity in the past year, but there was not much success for the laurels thus won. There has been inertia on the part of the women solons as well as the men. Who is to blame for the lack of interest and inertia in the governing assemblies on the Hill? The answer is not easy but a part of the fault is due to the system of government itself; no governing body can function properly without power to enforce its rulings. Such is the plight of the student government at the University. Let there be real student government and successful results will be forthcoming. Students should be responsible for the administrative functions as well as the legislative. What is the use of having student legislation if the enforcement and sanction powers of the department—but with the faculty; deans, or other designated potentates on Mount Oread? If student advisers want to experiment in curbing the improprieties of their frivolous and irresponsible charges, they take the monarchial potency to make such edicts—and the students have to submit to those trials. Several decades ago kings lived upon thrones and ruled by coup d'etat decrees. Such practices were permittible in that age, but when people began to demand a cessation of such rule, and, rightly enough, their demand were heeded. And rightly enough again, when such undemocratic methods of governing are resurrected and brought into use at a state university, the time for a hearing has arrived. Give students a chance to govern themselves entirely and returns from such responsibility ought to be good—at least better than the present system. Place the legal government at the same level as the same governing body as much as possible. Municipalities have realized the value of co-operation of these in one responsible head or body. Hence the popularity of the city-manager plan of municipal governments might profit from municipal experiences. One might be almost convinced that student government does not exist at all, judging from the camouflaged system at K. U. But successful control is in force at other universities and colleges. Not in all cases is absolute governmentvested in the students. Sometimes these are ignored. In the curtain at the psychological moment and keep the actors from stepping too far—for it is said that the unseen power is jealous of its charges. Successful administration of school activities seems to lie in two alternatives; either the students must have control of their government, or they must be given rights of self-government and put the guiding reins in pedagogical hands with no restrictions from the students. The time for a decision at the University has come. Coalition members argue that students' government looks more feasible, but pedagogy sovereignty has reigned longer—too long, in fact. SENIOR. Cash prizes for the best original essays by foreign students in attendance at American colleges and universities are offered through the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association by Fred N. Dow, of Fort Wayne, Me. The subject matter is appropriate and measures for its solution, but the widest possible latitude is given to the choice of subject and the method of development. Length is to be between two thousand and three thousand words. First prize is $100, second prize $0.00, and third prize $250, all obtained by writing to the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, 14 W. Washington St., Chicago. On Other Hills The young women and faculty of the Colorado State Agricultural College will be host says soon to all the men of the college in the new women's building. Classes will be dismissed for the afternoon. Excuses for late registration were asked for at the University of Iowa and 514 offered excuses of being out of town, 111 did not read the Iowan or the bulletin boards, and many other such excuses. "That a university woman should only be permitted to participate in one sport a semester," was the subject of a debate recently given at a Woman's Athletic Association meeting at Northwestern University. The Scarlet Mask dramatic organization of the Ohio State University is making preparation to take a cast of 42 men to Panama in June. The organization will present "Many Before the residents of the Canal Zone." Lafayette College, because of its undefeated football team, has received the award of the eastern football championship trophy for the season. Philadelphia. This medal was presented to Boston College in 1923. The University of Iowa intends to give wide publicity to the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding. They plan to install a wireless transmitting apparatus in the natural science auditorium and to transmit all of the speeches and music to different parts of the United States. WANT ADS Five insertions on 6 cents. Over 15 words and not more than 40 words. Inset insertion of want ad incurred for less than 28 cents want ad incurred for less than 28 cents must always account for. Summation vacation. Liberal Business Office. 93-4-301 NOTICE—Reward will be given the gentleman who recovered cap and black notebook in Spooner Library Thursday afternoon. 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