THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas, the press of the Department of Journalism.
Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phone: 712.555.666 and 66
The Daily Kanan aims to pic- ture the university of Kansas; to go fur-ther beyond standing for the ideals that are written or arithmetic; to be clean; to be cheerful; to leave more serious pro- gress; to provide an ability the students at the University
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921.
SLIGHTLY MISTAKEN
"The great and immense virtue of the American people is its spirit of discipline. . . American obedience to orders coming from above is instinctive and immediate."
This is the manner in which we are described by a prominent Frenchman who has seen much of America, and who ought to know better. His words are being widely read in France, and the French are no doubt forming a very excellent opinion of the American people. Is the statement correct?
Books on the reserve shelves in Spooner Library are not to be taken from the building. Several are known to have been missing Saturday,
John Shea had some signs erected several months ago at different places over the campus reading, "Keep off the Grass. Yet the paths are flourish-
The Chancellor recently urged a cessation of the practice of smoking on the steps and approaches to the University buildings. Observe if this practice has been stopped.
No, the great, dominating virtue of the American people can hardly be said to be obedience. There are only a few of us who have criminal inclinations, and the rest are prone to let our consciences be our guides.
THE CONSTITUTION CRAZE
Had the Frenchman seen one of the speeding automobiles on or near the campus this morning, he probably would not have been written: "The American objs just as the horse gallops, the bird flies and the Swiss is neutral."
The most evident developments of the new era are the new constitutions which have appeared in rapid succession during the last month. Few organizations, composed of either men or women, have weathered the storm of the changing conditions coming in the wake of Chancellor Lindley's debut at the University.
Both the women's and men's inter-Greek organizations have installed new rules, each set showing a strong tendency to closer co-operation with University authorities, both in the actions of the various bodies represented and in demanding a higher scholarship standing. The men's Christian association has adopted a new constitution and the woman's student governing body has drafted one which will be voted on next week, both of which provide for more stoncore work from the students in connection with the school.
These are not the direct results of faculty intervention, but of an influence coming into University life which has so sobered the minds of the students that they are showing themselves willing and eager to co-operate in an effort to put the University on a higher plane and to help eradicate false influences that have tended to lower the name of the University in the eyes of some of the state's citizens
It is a happy condition. It means that the breach between faculty and students, who at times have not been in perfect harmony, is gradually nearing the minimum, and that the entire forces will finally be working as a unit toward the greatest K. U.
A SLAVE TO SLANG
The casual reader of George Ade's "Fables in Slang" wuld hardly suspect that at one time early in his career he had aspirations to conduct a column of genuine literary material in a daily Chicago newspaper. Such is the truth.
For some time on this job he conducted a double column with John McCutehon, but owing to the jams in news and oversupplies of galley material, his column was often crowded out from day to day as inconsequentin¹. The function of this double column was merely a refuge for stories and paragraphs which had no news value and little literary worth. As a result his literary gems were often held over-forever.
Finally the editor presented Ade with a "department" on the page and ordered him to produce trivialities and paragraphs daily. Ade soon discovered that the readers were more interested in the column of familiar characters recurred from time to time in the yarns. Finally, this character material, written in Ade's inimitable style, became so much in demand that he produced longer articles in slang which came to be known as "Fables in Slang."
By 1898 these fables and type characters had found their way into compilations of his works and added great notoriety to his productions. After this catastrophe, he was condemned to slang. People would not believe him capable of producing anything else or anything more serious. His condition is best described in his own phraseology: "They simply wouldn't let me be a high-brow."
ON POLITICS
Compus Opinion
Politics as they now stand in the student body of the University of Kansas, are a farce; merely a setting up exercise, as it were, whereby two selected groups of men decide who the puppets will be and await their chances to move. And the ones usually crown all the kines.
These two political groups or machines have come to be known as the Black Masks and Pachacamas. On the eve of a school election the word is passed around, securely, and the chosen delegates meet in a room with ropes hanging from the goats are named. Then follows the usual cropping out of political posters, which appear perfectly all right to the innocent unobserving eye. But they are nothing but one of the efforts in furthering the doctrine of monopolized politics. And the public wears woven glasses.
Does the public know the merits of the candidates? Does the majority ever see the nominee? Do such statements as, "He's the REAL man," prove the candidate's worth? Do you know the motive of ticket promoters?
The answers to such questions are never stressed. Instead, the party ticket is featured, imploring voters to vote a straight ticket because that ticket is a "good" ticket! By such facts the voting bodies govern themselves. Thus, school honors are no longer in high school fail to hold office, and the most honored person in-school is often the best grafter.
Do not mistake our hostility in the fact that these certain groups of men come together for the purpose of nominating a candidate whom we judge to be suitable for office. Such is not the case. Anybody has a right to nominate and petition any person, if he does so with all sincerity of purpose, believing that person qualified for whatever office that is to be filled. They may never be described as such. They seek to, establish the "spoils system" by electing "primed" nominates and furthering student graft, which may be said to be synonymous. And upon such a basis we condemn them. We cannot harsely or spoken out of prejudice, being one who might have taken an opposite stand.
But is it not entirely the fault of monopolized politics that things stand as they are. True. It is against all statutes of common law that laws should be "pass around" *pass around the job* "which are usually captioned "school honors". But the
student body must do its share. It must be on one side off he ence or the other. As it is, it stands for monopolized politics, entirely indifferent and lacking in initiative. To combat the evils of political machines, the voters must create live interest, boycotts machine tickets, vote independently, and KNOW the nominees. Political meetings must be made public, not secret, and candidates must be introduced to the whole voting body, not to a selected group, nor at the polls. And also lately prohibit absentee voting. Until such efforts are made, things will continue to be "bailroaded."
On Other Hills
A Voter.
The Daily Cornell Sun rises to, poin of indication when it comes to, where *n* student has two, three or even four examinations in a single day and the day after. NSY says, "Intentitionally, the Faculty has come to impose what practically amounts to a mid term examination period. The fact that examinations are given in week one last week or two before spring vacation makes it well nigh impossible for the student to do justice to his cources, for unlike the regular examination week, this period offers no let up in time; if he fails, studying is so done, must be purely in addition to the daily requirements.
A number of colleges that have new ticipants in the Penn relay canvail, have entered in this meet, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. Among them are the Kansas State Agricultural College, the Oklahoma Agricultural College, and Washington State University which will be represented by its great pole vaulter, Jenno, who has a mark of 13 feet and one inch.
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Who Was Moseley?
HE was a young Oxford man, only twenty-seven when he was killed at Gallipoli. Up to his time, man had never seen the inside of an atom. He turned the X-rays on matter—not figuratively but literally—and made them disclose the skeleton of an atom just as certainly as a surgeon makes them reveal the positions of the bones of the body. Moseley proved that all atoms are built up of the same kind of matter. He saw, too, just why an atom of copper is different from an atom of gold.
Atoms are built up of electrons. Each atom consists of a nucleus, a kind of sun, with a certain number of electrons grouped about it, like planets. Moseley actually counted the number of electrons of all the metals from aluminum to gold.
When you discover what gold is made of or a new fact about electricity, you open up new possibilities for the use of gold or electricity. For that reason the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company are as much concerned with the "how" of things—atoms and electrons, for instance—as they are with mere applications of the electric current.
Hence Moseley's work has been continued in the Research Laboratories, with the result that more has been learned about matter. How does water freeze? What is lead? Why are lead, iron, gold and tungsten malleable? Such questions can be answered more definitely now than ten years ago. And because they can be answered it is possible to make more rapid progress in illumination, in X-ray photography, in wireless telegraphy, and in electrical engineering as a whole.
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