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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Lucile Cleveland
Associate Editor... Cowell Carlson
Campus Editor ... James Austin
Plain Tale Editor ... Ruth Miller
Telegraph Editor ... Joris Massey
Telegraph Editor ... Addison Massey
Exchange Editor ... Josephine Nelson
BUSINESS STAFF
Henry B. B. McCurdy...Business Mgr
Lloyd Ruppenthal...Ast’t Business Mgr
LeRoy Hughes...Ast’t Business Mgr
BOARD MEMBERS
Ruth Armatrong Joe Boyle
Eulalia Daugherty George Gage
Ethiel Minger Pauline Newman
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Entered as second-chase mail marten September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism, from the press office of Kansas, from the press office of the Department of Journalism.
Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones: K. U. 35 and 66
The Daily Kansan ams, to pique interest of the University of Kansas; to go for a stroll around campus by standing for the ideals the students orients to be clean, to be cheerful to leave more serious problems to have more serious problems to serve the heat of its ability the university has to bear.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921.
A NEW CABINET ERA
Whether "Hooverism" as a national standard of appointment in our national administration departments will permanently supplant the old Jacksonian spoils system is an interesting question for speculation.
Without doubt, Herbert Hoover was appointed Secretary of Commerce purely because of his demonstrated ability and experience as a great administrative commercial head. The American people demanded his appointment in the face of the bitterest political spoils system opposition imaginable.
However, with Meredith and Wallace, are the standard bearers for a new administrative office-filling era. They are not momentary flashes in the black night of Old Hickory's "to the victor belongs the spoils; to efficiency be damned" system.
Rather they are the hereditars of an era which shall give the American people cabinets composed of really capable administrative heads, and not a motley collection of former political cats-paws who got their position in reward for some old-time political debt.
With the thinking people of this country at last exerting a strong enough concentrated influence upon our presidents to demand of them that the cabinet be a real working unit in our administrative system, it will not be long before that "administration" itself will be more worthy of its name, and be respected more both at home and abroad.
STYLE CHANGES
Style is a great subject. It is a subject that answers the same economic purpose as a Holy Bible on the desk of a rent profiteer. For centuries, it has caused women to talk in their sleep and men to have bunions.
Certainly, there is nothing more fascinating than the study of style changes. Style changes began in the murkypast, when a fig tree in the garden of Eden, lost some of its leaves.
But the curious thing is, fashionls of style never exactly repeat themselves. In fact, the styles of today and the styles of a century ago are about as much alike as a bottle of "white mute" whiskey and a glass of rain water.
A hundred years ago, little girls were dressed like their mothers. They wore the same style of long skirts. Their jackets and waistles were similar to those worn by their elders, and they suffered the penalties brought about by wearing heavy furbelows and snowy laces. Small boys were dressed like their mothers—long trousers, short jackets, and shirts that buttoned up the back. This was an age when the child might easily be taken for the man.
Today, fashions in clothing resemble
those of a century ago about as much.
nose of a century age about as much as a greased pig resembles a porcupine. The frills and ruffles are found no more on milky's skirt. Feminine jackets and waists are designed with dangerous simplicity. Mens' trousers are being tailored for the purpose of making fat men look slender. Boys are being garbed in short trousers until they are old enough to grow an upper lip decoration, and girls are wearing short skirts until they become middle aged women.
CO-OP NEWS SERVICE
A recent inter-school movement that has been instituted is the cooperative news service. The new plan has already been instituted among the larger institutions of the western coast, and has been suggested among the middle-eastern universities.
Such a co-operative service would be a decided step toward school cooperation. At the present time, there is little connection between institutions and little chance for co-operation on the part of sister schools. This news service would give to the student bodies the important incidents and activities on other campuses. It would be a means of solving many of the student problems that confront the student governing bodies at the present time, by giving ideas from neighboring schools of how such problems are handled there.
Under the new plan, the co-operative teleographic service would be handled as a part of the daily work of the university newspapers. It would give a greater diversity of news materials, and would create a closer and more friendly spirit between the educational institutions included in the service. Students would no doubt, find more interest in the happenings on other campuses than in the regular news which can easily be acquired through the larger city papers.
The educational institutions of the country today lack the spirit of co-operation which results in a closer unity and spirit. The news service would be an instrument in bringing about this solidarity and co-operation.
On Other Hills
Though Kansas leads in the number of students in her state university in proportion to the population of the state, several other states are not far behind. For every 10,000 inhabitants, there are the following number of students in the region: 82 Michigan, 24 Minnesota, 22 Iowa, 12 Nebraska, 21 Wisconsin, 19 Indiana, 15 Oklahoma, 10 Illinois, 8 Missouri, 8.
Sherwood Eddy has just closed a series of meetings at Ames.
The University of Wisconsin needs $15,600 million for running expenses and expansion during the next two years. Of this amount, $2,350,000 will be earned by the University on who will be removed from other sources than the state.
Baseball is to be reorganized and placed among the intercollegiate sports at Cornell this spring, according to the Cornell Daily Sun.
The Daily Iowa carried, in the issue of Feb. 26, a page feature on the Michigan Union written by a graduate of the University of Iowa, now an instructor at Michigan, ostensibly the latter of interesting Iowa in the institution.
Actual work has been started on the Ohio Stadium. Well-drilling machines are at work taking samples of soil on the proposed site.
Smith Hall, the new women's dormitory at Southwestern College, has just been formally opened. The building, which will furnish a comfortable and attractive room for sixty women and attractive Mrs. Levi R Smith of Liberal.
One of the big mid-February events at the University of Arizona was the senior women's fashion show. Models included the impossible freshman, the business girl, the lege maiden, the business girl, and sport costumes.
An inter-collegiate conference was held in Denver, Feb. 26 for the purpose of bettering athletic conditions among the colleges of the Rocky Mountain Conference. Resolutions were passed denouncing flights, raids and destruction of property during or preceding inter-collegiate contests.
According to the Arizona Wildcat, the University of Arizona has made a 420 per cent registration gain in the last six years.
The war on short skirts seems to have died down. Now, let us start a war on long skirts.
If some of our pretty women students don't stop putting on so much complexion, there won't be any pink Easter eggs for the children.
Let us, always, have a warm spot in our hearts for the instructor who occasionally foets to bring his roll book to class.
A pretty little freshman with bobbled hair and deep blue eyes, says it is a crime to study at night when he so much moonlight going to waste.
The house ways and means committee at Topela has provided money for additional teachers here, but that doesn't show us the way nor provide the means for keeping those that we already have.
The senate confirmed President Harding's cabinet in less than ten minutes, which means one of two chose himself, and the senate wisely, or the senate didn't care.
What an agreeable surprise it is to find that "direct from New York with the same exceptional cast" does not mean that the emphases has been placed on the "exceptional" to such an extent that the entire case is one of exceptions.
Mental Lapses
Mother—Gladys, you stood on the porch quite a while with that young man last night.
Gladys—Why mother, I only stood there for a second.
MoMther—I'm sure I heard the third or fourth.—Foolscrap.
Telegram from his wife "Landlord wants rent. Send me money by wire." Reply from her husband on a journey. Money myself but send 1,000 kisses.
Wife's return wire—"Don't need money. Gave landlord one of the kisses and he is satisfied."—Svenska Darblad.
Mr. Henpeck—Wot's yer steak like tterday?
The Sentimental Butcher- Tender as a woman's 'eart, Mr. 'Enpeck! Mr. Henpeck-Oh, is it. Then I'll have some tripe.-London Sketch.
A bookseller sent a bill to a certain customer for a book. The customer replied:
"I did not order the book.
If I did you didn't send it.
If you sent it I did not receive it.
If I did I paid for it.
I didn't I won't—Efficiency Mag-azine
THE ACADEMMY IN PAPAELISE
North of Fiji, in one of the islands of the Ellice, group of the South Seas, education of a practical nature has been going on, and a deserted coral island has been the scene of a school for girls where not only the ordinary curriculum of European students are taught, building, boating and other necessary arts of a Robinson Crusoe life. When the school was started there was not another living person on the island of Papaelise, which is an enchanting island, three-quarter of a mile long, inhabited by the indigenous its shores surrounded by coral reefs and the blues of blue seas.
The school was started by an Englishwoman, Miss Jolife, in 1912, and she has been the head in this island of learning in the South Sesla till the present time, when she felt it was time to take a holiday. Devoted to her girls as they are to her, she tells of their self-reliance, including their own houses and dormitories with the help of a few native men, whose services were shortly dispensed with, and only one old man retained to help in the coco plantations. There are about 2,000 coconut trees on the island, and the girls look after them—Christian Science Monitor.
"Er, yes, that's what I'm paid for," replied the Y. C. R.
"But why do you make yourself a nuisance?" demanded E. T.
"It go't 'twirtums'"
Well, he got one, and now his name leads all the rest in a column of obituaries.
Said Everett True to the young cub reporter when asked for an interview: "So it's your business to go to people who are into people's private affairs, is it?"
Send the Dally Kansan home.
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