THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Fred Ellsworth Associate Editor Armenia Humberger Editorial Department Johnson Dean Campus Editor Phyllis Wingert Sport Editor Giles Schmitz Vice President Claire Ferguson Plain Talker Editors Scella Dutton Hill Alumni Editor Jacqueline Glenn Margaret Larkin BUSINESS STAFF Lloyd H. Ruppenthal Business Manager Japnes Comnity Assistant Manager Manhattan Assistance Manager BOARD MEMBERS Arthur Gavin Marion Collins Pauline Newman Ruth Miller George McVey Addison Massey George Gage Elmer Selsoi Water Slaw Marion Shipley Wilfred Husband Joe Turner Lottie Lesh Subscription price $5.00 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $1.00 for one semester; 80 weeks of study per semester. Entered in second-class mail matter September 17, 1930, at second-class office at LAKES, Kansas, under the draft of March 28, 1931. Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of journalism. Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, K. U, 25 and 66 The Daily Kannan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Karnataka; to go further than merely printing books; to hold boils; to play no favories; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous, to leave more serious problems to the students for the least or to its ability the students of the University. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922 The tax on most luxuries has been removed but the Lawrence Street Railway still charges seven cents a ride. INTRACTABLE FRANCE What is the matter with France? That noble nation with whom Great Britain joined forces only a few years ago in united stand against a common foe; that beloved country for whom America admittedly crossed a submarine scoured sea to fight the Teuton hordes; France, this very same France, is now acting as peevish as a disgruntled old maid. What is the matter with her? First we call a disarmament conference. France is glad to attend, along with the rest, but right off the reel she begins to kick up. She kicks over the traces on the naval holiday "water wagon" and demands the right to build more ships than she ever had before. No sooner do the others get her "hitched up" and pulling nicely on this plan than she shakes again at the "abu" question, nearly upsetting the whole party. Now France can see only plots and intrigues in the supreme allies council meeting at Cannes. She is fearful of Lloyd George. She wants Germany and Russia out of the conference. She wants reparations and they must be forthcoming immediately. And at last she has made it so hot for her premier that he has become disgusted and resigned. What is the matter with France, anyway? France is undoubtedly in keen distress, and is in danger, perhaps, of future unhappy complications Nevertheless, she doesn't need to get the "blues." It is said that she has merely been using some of her demands for trading purposes in dealing with the other countries. She trades the right to have great numbers of submarines for a defensive treaty with England. But after a time she runs out of barter material and then soils her statesmen for not getting better terms in international bickerings. Lift your chin France and give us a smile! Is Lawrence behind the times, or progressing in the matter of her jail entertainment? While Sodalia is reported to be holding poker games and having a general good time for her prisoners, this city is planning a rock pile for its prisoners. The recent ruling made by the Supreme Court of Kansas to the effect that, beginning with the year 1924, applicants for the Kansas bar examination must take one year of college work, and in 1925 must have two years of college work in order to take the examination, is another indication of the phrase "Kansas leads." THE "GRADE" STUDENT "Gee, I wish I hadn't gone to that class." "Why not?" "Why the instructor didn't call the roll. I'd just as well not gone." well not gone. This is an actual conversation overheard on the campus the other day. And it isn't unusual. You've probably heard it, many times. What is at the bottom of such a conversation, such a spirit as is therein portrayed. Consider what must be a student's ideals, his ambitions, who would regret attending a class just because the instructor failed to call roll and thereby create a record of the fact that the student was present at the class—physically? was present. Yet such a spirit is all too common on our campus. Almost is it prevalent. Never for a minute does that student consider that he had cheated himself when he misses a class—his whole thought is that he has a "cut". and that that "cut" will count against him on his "grade." He is primarily the "grade" student, the one to whom the mark that is given him at the end of the semester is a goal in itself, not a mere estimate of the work he has put into a course of study, and the value he has gotten out of it. These are the students that constitute the dearest good of the University. Their ideals, their ambition their worth to the University, all alike—are "not." SHIFTLESS YOUTH Booth Tarkington, one of America's most brilliant novelists, has revealed the truth about his younger days. He confesses that up to his thirteenth year he had earned exactly $77.575 cents. The seven and a half cents was his share of the wage received for shoveling snow with another boy. "My first ambition," says Tarkington, "was to be an artist, not a financer—or even a writer." Which all tends to show that not all geniuses were boy prodigies, as our mothers have always taught us ever since they tucked our books under our arms, gave our tousled head as put, and started us off to school. Of course, such teachings may have been a trick of the parents' trade. No doubt, they needed a way to arouse our interests and stir our ambitions. It is plain to see, as we look back over our past, that our parents were sagacious. It would have been the richest folly for them to have let us learn of, and revel over such stories as that about the youthful earning capacity of Booth Tarkington. Perhaps had we followed his example, some of us would not have turned out to be as capable as we are—and certainly not as great as he has. Student Opinion To the Daily Kansan: Your editorial entitled "Howatism Starved" is somewhat misleading. You say that the Kansas miners "were glad to follow Howat if they could live in Kansas." So you say that Howat would say "they followed the line of least resistance." I protest. The Kansas miners are fighting for the principle—the right to strike. They are following the line of greatest resistance; and this is not the first time they have followed that line. You say that many of the Kansas miners lived as well through aid given them by the Illinois union, on which you say they were dependent, as they did when they were working. Again 1 protest. The Illinois miners contributed $50 000 a month. Divide that by 5,000 miners and each miner receives $18. Do you seriously contend that this modest sum will support a miner for one month? Even this figure is not accurate, for there are more than 5,000 miners on strike in Kansas. However you are to be commended for one thing; you did not label Howat the "Carr" of District 14. Had you so labeled him you would have more completely exposed significance of howat and omnium of Kans and coal. You are wrong. Howatism, as you are pleased to call it, is not dead. It is not even dying. On the contrary, it is living and growing in the hearts of millions of American workers. Howat may lose this fight, but Howatism will not be crucified; not even on the cross of hunger where many would like to see it nailed. Domencio Gagliardo. Plain Tales from the Hill PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Professor Hunter: "In addition to the assignments made at the last meeting of the class, I refer you to the appendix of Albright. The other day in answer to a threat of a certain university man the girl addressed retorted, "you do, and I'll cut off your hair like Sampons' wife did." The Kansan cub who overheard her is still whether Sampons secured a divorce or the grounds of annulment for such outlawish actions on the part of his spouse. Doctor Strong was calling the role in one of his law classes. "Mr. Smith,—P. K. Smith?" "Here!" came a voice from the back of the room. Mr. Smith was not there and the professor knew it. When the role was completed Mr. Smith was the first to be called on for a recitation. There was no response. Doctor Strong looked up with a grin and asked. "Well, hasn't Mr. Smith any friends now?" YOU CAN'T ALWAYS FOOL THE PROF. If we only knew what the profs will ask, When it comes to the final quizzes, Why'd we not have to study much, To pass them all like whizzes. WOULDN'T IT BE NICE? The Glee Club of Princeton University has been offered a three weeks' engagement to tour the Canal Zone this June. The offer comes from the Canal Zone Course, which includes all expenses of the course to be paid by that body. On Other Hills A chapter of Sigma Xi, national scientific fraternity, will be installed at the University of Idaho in the near future. Ohio State University is publishing 3,000 song books containing their college songs and yells. These will be distributed to students, members of the Alumni Association and high school prospects. Work on a Masonic dormitory for University of Texas women, whose close relatives are Masons, was begun recently. Later the Scottish Rite Masons intend to erect another dormitory for the sons of Masons. Women from Texas at the University of Oklahoma ma recently formed a Blue Bonnet Club. Contemporary Comment Once upon a time two, desirable senta presented themselves to an ambitions沐吻 with a yearning for "sittin' pretty." Undecided as to whether both at once. As a result he lended between them on the floor. PARABLE OF THE AMBITIOUS YOUTH It isn't true that a similar fat awaits most students who try to succeed in a number of activities? The ones who are no content with sticking to dramatics their hand at stifles or publications. Time passes rapidly. Soon these students become sophomores, then juniors, and when graduation comes they have nothing to show for their efforts here and there has resulted in compiling practically nothing. Trying to succeed in many lines, they have met with scarcely more than partial success in any. On the other hand, most of the men and women on the campus who have arrived some place have done so by concentrating their energy in one field until they have mastered it. Then success has crowned their efforts; and as a result they have often found themselves installed in important positions on the campus aside from their particular specialty. Written in the archives of the university are the names of a few persons who have met success in practically every field of endeavor on the campus. But these persons are the exceptions and their cases do not prove anything. The person who it appears it have loaded on the floor in one way or another. It is a local and profitable plan to stick to one activity. SOFTEN YOUR SHELL. New From The Deluxe Nebraska "The text of a good education is the power to recognize, realize, and understand all kinds of human experience, all human values." Professor Boyd H. Bode of the department of principles of education made this statement Wednesday. Professor Bode is a national authority, whose presence is beloved and opinion valued. He knows whereof he speaks. This text presupposes that a man must be broad, capable of changing his opinions, able to adjust himself to the times, willing to shut out personal琐化和 dogmas from his outlook on the world. what an odd, peculiar specimen is the crab! Don't be one. In this lies the difference between the crab and the sensible guy. Behold the crab—the sea-going crustacean. He is uly, winks sideways, is popeyed, has a bad temper, has claws and a hard shell. He is the epitome of uncleavable guilt, nor his tendency to grunt, nor his teeming sorrow, nor his softness his shell. His temper grows worse with years. It is the same with the human crab. He may or may not be ugly or popeyed in the beginning, but will become so in the end. His mental claws are sharp, his temper is easily ruffled, and grows worse with age, for he becomes less and less able to understand the people he meets—his shell—soir. He knows what he is talking about! Everybody else is misguided. He cannot be persuaded to give an inch. What's the matter with America these days? THE "MATTER WITH AMERICA" From the Minnesota Dally Too many serge suits, not enough overall. Too many silk shirts, not enough blue flannel ones. Too many diamonds, not enough alarm clocks. Too much satin upholstered limousines, and not enough cows. Too much class consciousness and too little common democracy and love of humanity. Too many consumers and not enough producers. too many desiring short cuts to wealth and too few willing to pay the price. Too much oil stock and not enough savings accounts. Too much decollete, and not enough anrous. Occasionally one meets a man with a mind like an overstocked crossross shop, a mind cluttered with countless凄耻, dusty facts, a dingy mind unfulfilled by the lack of common sense that life-contacts yield. Such a man can perhaps tell you Alabama's cotton production for 1897, or maybe the middle name of Buchanan's minister to Denmark, although it has been used more likely his ferts are less spectacular, and he is a laundry driver or a clock. CURIOSITY SHOP MIND University of Washington Daily. He will never succeed, except possibly at vanduille, because he lacks intelligence to distinguish between facts, and between facts and principles. On a lesser scale, he has protodies at Washington. Books are fitter custodians of most facts than the mind. Many touchstone facts may be learned, truly, but time and retentive power conspire to limit the number of facts the average person can make his own. Most facts should be left to rest on library shelves, there subject to resort, not lurked about. Principles, the trees of which facts are leaves, are far fewer, and worster of seeking and retaining. One principle leads to a million facts, a million facts to a single principle. In so far as a student masteres and remembers principles, and builds his own thought on them, he is a thinker, not a human encyclopedia. His learning is adaptable, not mechanical. Fond Father: "My boy, what do you expect to be when you get out of college?" Devoted Son; "An old man, father." Exchange. Girl: "Indians, you know, were never known to laugh." Boy: "Oh. I don't know. Longfellow made Minne-Ha-Ha."—Exchange. Boy: "Is it all right to use slang once in a while?" English Teacher: "No. Better at it out."—Exchange. Freshie: "Did you ever hear a rabbit bark?" Senior: "Nonsense, little one, rabbits, don't bark." Frobie: "That's funny. It says here in my book that rabbits cat cabbage and bark."—Exchange. "Father," said a little boy, "did Solomon have seven hundred wives?" "I believe so, my son." 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