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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TO SURVEY LAWRENCE SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Class Has Completed Theory Now Turn to Practical
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MAKE RECORDS OF WORK
Groups Are Chosen, Each Section to Cover One Phase of the Work
After having pursued ephemeral theory during the first part of the semester, the students of Social Surveys under Professor Eldridge will turn to the primary field of the survey of Lawrence in several important fields. The survey work will begin tomorrow and will continue until the close of the semester. The fields in which a survey will be made are Haitian, Mexican, and Student Housing.
The group investigating Public Health problems is: Cocha Ball, Chairman; Florence Swenson, Jean Hancsone; Shirley Jenkins. These students will make a study of Lawrence's public health machinery and its function.
ing and will complete their work by making concrete suggestions for the improvement of the service in accordance with the needs through a comparison with other communities throughout the state.
The Recreation survey will be conducted by my Linen Mingenfetter, chairman; Pearl Peland, Cord O. Wells, Helen Darby, and Louise Falls. This group will endeavor to show through comparison with similar communities Lawrence's needs in the line of leisure time facilities, both in connection with the educational system and the park system.
The Education survey is under the direction of Harold J. Matthews, assisted by Earl Edacott, Alberta Yates, Cornell Eckel, and Lenore Miller. This committee will survey the public school system and make specific recommendations for its improvement in line with the latest developments in the field. We will work both the buildings and the course of instruction, and intensive studies will be made along both of these lines.
The housing survey will be made principally with reference to student housing conditions and will be conducted by Bert Anderson, chairman; Martha Mackie, Lila Martin, Nelle Smith, Ella Lappen, and Harvey Foster. The report will be of student rooming houses will be made and strict investigation of student living conditions with reference to existing University regulations will be recorded. This committee opens its office in the effort to establish the University Housing Committee to standardize the student rents for different classes of rooms, and to aid the University in the enforcement of Senate Rules. The investigators on this committee will be authorized by the University and Health to conduct their investigations in the name of the University.
While the Social Surveys Class does not intend to publish the results of their investigations, the material gathered will be available for reference by all interested persons and will be filed in Spooner Library when the survey is completed. The materials are by the Housing committee will be on file in the office of the University Committee on Housing in Room 118 Fraser.
Sages Worry While Stone Keeps Secre
Harken, all ye Sheriocks! Get out the old magnifying glasses and hot-foot it up to the third floor of Dyche Museum where the Mystery Stone awaits you. Four twenty-nine years this bit of stone has delicately all efforts to unravel its story, but perhaps you have been too eager to warp it? Oh, it may be the drummick of a dinosaur or some other little trinket like that.
The Mystery Stone was discovered near Great Bend, Kansas, in 1892. It is flat and irregular in shape and measures about $10 \mathrm{~cm}$ in inch wide. On the surface of the stone are curious marks, circles squares, and other figures chipped into the rock about a quarter of an inch thick. The rock is as a miniature of a sunken garden.
A cast was sent to Harvard, but men of science there could give no explanation. Scientists who came here to look at it were at a loss.
Various guesses have been made but one person's guess seems to be about as good as another. Mr. H, T. Mertin, of the department of paleontology, suggests that perhaps wanderer Axtere-made it as a miniature of their old home community, either for their own amusement or for the information of some one with whom they had met.
Local Prisoner Claims To Be Graduate of Yale
In the district court here Friday, M. e. Allier, claiming to have been granate from Yale, was found guilty of passing five bogus checks, none of which exceeded $10. A fine of $500 and costs was assessed against him. He was consigned to the county jail until the fine is paid.
The checks were all written on Saturday, November 26, on banks in Kansas City, Mo., and Lawrence. Three were made out for $5, two for $10. Under the law a man cannot be convicted of a felony if he writes a bad check for an amount less than $20,签写 his own name. He must have been an emancipator if he passes such a check, on which charge he may be fined or sentenced to jail for not more than a year. Miller asked for a jury of six members, which was an unusual demand in a district court proceeding. He pleaded that he was in an intoxicated state, Miller, who is about 40 years old, has been working in a local restaurant since December 1.
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HAVE BALANCED DIETS
Eating Houses Provide Good Meals According to Professor of Home Economics
--children harder sleeps with his charges. Every night he catches them all and puts them into baskets under his bed. He herds chickens all day long, keeps them away from the house and away from food too, I guess.
Food which is one of the controlling factors in the efficiency of a student is well provided for at the University as most of the organized houses are serving well-balanced meals, according to Miss. Elizabeth Sprague, professor of home economics, who taught in the fraternity, sorority and boarding houses these were selected as typical ones for the student;
Breakfast: orange, waffles, hot chocolate or coffee.
Lunch: cold ham, potato salad, hot biscuits, baked apples.
Dinner: pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potato, salad (letuce with thousand island dressing) pineapple berry and cake, coffee, peanut butter and milk combined with intelligence and not upon indulgence," said Professor Sprague. "The appetite is not a reliable guide and often it has been pampered and abused until it can no longer be trusted to protect the student from errors in loss of vitality. The importance of milk can hardly be overemphasized, as there is no other food so vital to health and energy. Although eggs seem expensive they can be substituted for meat very often, fruits and leaf vegetables are also important. If milk is not offered as a drink it should be used in the cooking of foods."
Some candy is alright, but it is not good as a steady diet, according to Professor Sprague. Too often students feel hungry and buy cake or ice cream sodas which are not sufficient to satisfy real hunger, she said.
Service Men at Michigan Raise Funds for Clubroon
Methods are under discussion, by the various organizations of Service Men of the University of Michigan, for raising $15,000 to decorate and support the American Legion, the Michigan Union Club. Representatives of the University Post of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Gun and Blade, met recently and formulated methods for raising the necessary amounts.
The project was laid after a mass meeting of the service men and whole-hearted support was promised. The room is to dedicated to the memory of Michigan men who died in the World War.
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K. U. Diamond Hunter Accounts Many Hair-Raising Experiences In Letters From Wilds of Africa
The following are extracts from the letters of a K. U. engineer who is prospecting for amonds in Africa. Because of the nature of his work, he cannot permit the use of the localities where he works. These letters give a good idea of the great variety of problems that confront an engineer who does the work of a pioneer. The letters describe how University Daily Kansas from time to time as long as the writer will send them.
The letter follows:
Dear Mother:
The mail came in last night and with it your letter of October 26th, written three months ago. One night think that I have plenty of time to write but I find that I haven't. First we have no lights except candles and they give me a head ache so I guess my eyes are getting hard work at 5 o'clock minutes before it is no hard to get anything done without doing it myself that I'm busy all day tinkering around, I spend as much time as possible on the drilling, which is the main stem of the place, but in addition, I have to look after and manage a plantation, garden, sawmill (run by hand), ferry (dug-out canoes), carenter村, village, and my own establishment (now some twenty men). I can't talk Ragato yet and doubt if I ever shall. By the way, I also have a store and a market.
It will be two weeks tomorrow, since I saw the last white man, but I haven't had time to get lonely. My job is prospecting the river in this vicinity, with drills for diamond bearing gravel. Already enough has been found to warrant exploitation, so the place is being used for drilling a mudalled box with two rooms about 16 square feet, built under a big shed roof made of poles and grass all tied together with rattan. The shed is about 15 feet larger than the house proper to make a porch all around. This porch is screened in with curtain rods and the whole carpeted over a well nucked floor with grass mats. The house is the center of about a two sere square which is solded to Barum grass. Fifty feet away is the mess hall, just like the house except that the house part is a magazine stand in the room, the kitchen built of palm leaves and off at the edre are three little mud houses built for the servants; chicken coops and the palm where the
He keeps a basketful of rocks for his adding machine. Every time he kills a chicken one a day unless he kills a ginea or a partridge) he takes a rock out; every time we buy one he puts a rock in.
Every night he counts rocks and chickens and comes to report. In front, at the right corner, is the tool house and at the left corner the magazine or store. All around it are hundreds of 100 areas. The garden is down over the hill about 300 yards away, and everywhere else are rolling hills with patches of forest and high, high grass. My village is about 400 yards up the trail and there are palm trees, paths and lined with palms, bananas, pineapples, papas, lemons, etc., all of which is growing well. Some day it will be a beautiful place. My lawn mowers are three little naked pincerions, the hardest part of any pick up everything that blows, falls, digs or gets on the grass.
I have a boy cook, cook's boy, water boy, and an assistant to each, a shadow, who always follows me around to carry things and always be hardy, four-legged, by bike or train, baby鸡 chickens, another to luy eurs, a man to weave mats, and a boy to cut grass for him, a sentry who wakes me up in the morning, by sensing to stove, a man to to palm trees and bushes, I don't know what more. Each has an assistant or two. I should have to get my payroll to tell how many and I can't read the payroll for the names seem all alike. I have been working on that payroll long and have only made worse.
I am learning a little of the language but all the words that don't begin with M begin with K. I am always glad to hear a K bop up even if I don't know what the word means. The K's are all verbs so in addition to breaking the monotony, you know that the speaker is getting a little action into it which helps some. I go by the sign language as that is the easiest. You just make a gesture and then the other fellow makes signs you just figure out what he wants to say. The other day when I went down to the works there was a fearful commotion. All the natives were talking at
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The Successful Christmas Gift
is the one selected while there is time for thoughtful consideration of its suitability—While our stock is full and fresh and beautiful.
Through every department of our store you will find abundant evidence of our successful efforts to provide more generously than ever for the Christmas shopper.
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once. It sounded like a bunch of recruits at gymnastic drill. Finally, I figured it all out. All the diamonds procured that day were at the bottom of the river. A crocodile had eaten them before he could, but found that he had been faithful to his trust, and had gone down with his diamonds.
The College Jeweler
The kind old gentleman met his friend, little Willie, one very hot day. "Hello, Willie!" he exclaimed. "And how is your dear old grandpa stand-
"Ain't heard yet," said Wilie. He's only been dead a week."
Olive> "What's an optimist,
Eleanor> "A guy who cuts a dance
with a prof's daughter and then
exercits to pass the course." Voo Doo.
You can always draw the Queen if you've got the Jack,—Sun Dodger.
Eaton's and Crane's fine stationery always desirable. Rankin Drug Store. adv.
Kraker fountain pen are dependable. A real Christmas gift. Rankin Drug Store. adv.
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THAT'S MY BUSINESS WM. SCHULTZ 917 St. St.
"My car isn't running right. What shall I do?"
She: I hope he does not play my Victoria when he comes to see me—Mugwump.
He: That fellow broke three records last week.
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Count the days! There are only eighteen days between now and Christmas and your buying should be done before the last week. This means only twelve buying days. Tomorrow there will be one less,--the next day only ten days will remain. There are two reasons why you cannot afford to delay: You know you must not disappoint friends and loved ones; and, you can save many dollars by making your selections from our stock during this great reduced price sale.
BUY SENSIBLE GIFTS
This is a year when economy is necessary for many of us and wise for all of us. It is a time when sensible gifts are most appreciated and appropriate. Useless gifts are a step directly opposed to the great move we are making toward normalcy.
Our stock is full of useful, sensible, appropriate and valuable gifts,-all at reduced prices.
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