UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879
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The Daily Kamaas aims to pique students' curiosity about the University of Kansas; to go forward in learning by standing for the ideals she has taught; to be clean; to be cheerful out; to leave more serious problems behind; to serve the need of the ability to solve them.
MONDAY, MAY 16, 1921
When you see a headline like this:
"He won't talk," always look for at least a column story—Hutchinson Gazette.
And doesn't the colony story usually commence with: "I have nothing to say for publication" said Mr. Blank, "however—"?
OUR POSTER ART
Undoubtedly there was a time on the campus when a dance could draw a crowd with a mere black and white notice, "Varsity, Saturday, Adm. 756," but those days belong to the sweet and simple past before the advent of the poster artist. Now the slightest, most insignificant舞者 must be heralded by a huge poster flaunting letters ornate and embellished, the bigger affairs call forth posters illustrated and illuminated with many an effort at artistic expression.
Nor do the dances enjoy an individual privilege in this, for all events from religious conferences to candy sales advertise by the poster route. In succumbing to "posterities," however, the university is merely following the nation. Poster art is recent in the country but its development has been rapid.
Posters found their early prominence when the Arrow Collar youth and Onxy Haspelia lady became the nineteenth century Apollo and Venus. Then the war brought the heyday of the poster and these figures were one after another recast by the artists into the heroic figures of oubloma, doughbogs, and Uncle Sam. This stage also passed with the end of the war and the same figures have shed their uniforms and gone back into the gum and ciractette business.
So it is only natural that the university should develop a craze for advertising through the poster medium since American, stirred to its allied depth by a world war, could not express its ideals and efforts, pictorially, in other terms than poster advertising.
JUST COOPERATION
While it is true that the cost of labor, based on schedules established during a period of inflation, must of necessity come down, reduction in this branch must not be expected to bear more that its just burden of the adjustment sacrifice. Profits must come down too. The manufacturer and employer who is compelled to reduce the wages of his men, must himself share with them the losses that fall to that particular industry. A policy other than this would be the height of selfishness and would necessarily be the cause of industrial unrest.
There is nothing new in this contention, but the actions of both labor
and capital would 'at times signify that neither of them knew the importance of it. However, labor is somewhat at a disadvantage, and its welfare depends very largely on the altruism of the employer. Labor cannot afford class warfare and probable unemployment as easily as can the employer. Therefore the employer must not forget, as nas been forcibly expressed in a recent controversy over an effort to reduce wages, that "Capital never goes cold and hungry..." human beings need food, clothing, and shelter every day of the year. To them the scepter of employment is a ghost never laid. To them life is a constant struggle with the odds always against them."
It is true that the appeal on the score of humaneness and in behalf of suffering mankind has often been misused to further the selfish purposes of agitators and men who seek to exploit the real workers for unworthy ends. In such cases the workers have been victimized by their pretended friends and benefactors. This is a danger they should guard against.
Meanwhile the operation of economic law is inocercable; costs of production must come down, and labor must stand its share. If the laboring man shows a disposition to be fair in the matter, he will have a much better chance of seeing profits also come down in commensurate degree, until full adjustment has been accomplished.
A course in plumbing should prove practical and popular. The class could meet September 15, call the roll and adjourn for tools till January 10, hold a laboratory hour April 5, to debate impractibility of buying tools over borrowing same. Final meeting tune 1 to receive grades.
THE 24-HOUR DAY HOUSE-WIFE
The Association of Overworked, Underpaid, Dishwashing Housewives, with headquarters "by the cook stone and cradle with the wash tub near by," has gone on record as opposed to the eight hour day for their industrial working husbands.
The record states further that "the workers who demand an eight hour work day and pate the loudest about industrial slavery are the very ones who compel housewives to serve as domestic slaves."
What a charge, and yet, probably how true. What does the average worker do when he gets home from his eight hour job? Does he pitch in and help his wife around the house? Does he help take care of the kids? Does he help get the evening meal? Does he? He does not. More than likely he refills his pipe, picks up a paper or magazine, and settles himself down to a perfectly enjoyable good time. And what's the good wife doing in the meantime, she who has been working since 6 o'clock in the morning? Why, nothing but getting his Lordship's supper ready, looking after the three or four youngsters, and finishing the deaning.
Then after supper what happens?
Does his Grace help with the dishes?
Hardly. He either has to go to a Union meeting, go down and work hard playing a game of pool, or else he needs the fresh air, found only on the front porch.
Yes, the male laborer needs the eight hours because he can do his work so much more efficiently. The woman laborer doesn't need eight hours. What she really needs is the whole twenty-four.
What's the solution? Simple this:
compel Mr. Forty-eight Week-Week to
divvy up half the pay check or else let
Mrs. Work-All-The Time work eight
yours too.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Campus Opinion
Do I hear someone laugh? I do,— but it's not Mrs. Housewife.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
We are told by our esteemed Chancellor that one of the motives behind a college education is to build for us the power to take a broader and higher view upon all questions. I wonder, sometimes, at the broadness of the views taken by some professors and instructors in classes on the Hill.
Consider, for example, some of the narrow views and practices that are tolerated in the rhetoric deptartment
of the College. For one thing, they have a petty rule, which is rigidly enforced by some instructors, that any student entering the class late is automatically dismissed for the day and registered an absentee, regardless of the merits in his explanation, which he is not allowed to make.
To be late to a class is a bad practice, and merits no support as a general rule, but in this, as in many other questions, we find two sides. I had an opportunity to see this trifling case, and was instructed by an instructor. In this particular case, the student is working his way through school. After rushing from his morning work to the hospital for a minor treatment, he found himself entering class one minute and six seconds late. Regardless of his exertion, he left the room, leave which he did, and as a result missed the work of the day.
What this student said later would not look good in print. He probably will repeat this incident to his friends and home folks. Such advertising will not go a long way to putting K, U, first, or to encourage the peo- dential home to send their children here for a "bread minded" education.
Why not come down to earth, cut out this babyish practice, and use some common horse sense. The stucco that I have is a newborn education, and not to be made fools of. This is not an appeal for a court of equity, but merely a plea for the practice of that broad mindedness. It would be good supposed to get in our work on the Hill.
A Student.
The editor of this columna of alleged wit and humor has passed into new hands. This notice is printed not on the cover but in a separate credit editor credit for his sparkling paragraphs which he hopes will be forthcoming, but rather in a spirit of sportsmanship; that any outrages committed in said colum front now on be not laid at the column of the recent editor.
Plaine Tals From the Hill
They're telling this on Brick today. One of the many convoction dodgers wandered in last Friay, purchased a long lee seagear, and strolled back to the steps for the usual 'bear went over the mountain' game.
In a few minutes he was back again, wanting to know if Brick had forgotten to give him the corned beef with the 'sagar' he had bought.
One half of K.U. may not know where the other half gets its hooch, but the whole darned town knows it when they get it.
M. J. 19, who is practicing down in Crossroads, Arkansas, writes in to Alumni Secretary Hill as follows: "Had a big jump in business last week. The annual old settlers banquet was held, and I had twelve cases of knife wounds in the mouth to care or."
"I met her at Midland," said a soph
omore to me. "But that is ancient
history; now I meet her in K.C."
Professor Sisson: "All the English writers were well acquainted with Greek. Milton knew his Greek as well as he did his Bible."
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