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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Joe Boyle
Associated Editor .. Ruth Armstrong
Campus Editor ... Ray Runnigan
Tolphigh Editor .. George Gage
Bibliographer .. Harold Seymour
Plain Tale Editor .. Evalie Dougherty
Alumni Editor .. Edulie Minger
BUSINESS STAFF
BOARD MEMBERS
Henry B. B. McCurdy___Business Mgr
Lloyd Ruppentin___Asst't Business Mgr
Lloyd Hughes___Asst't Business Mgr
Ivy Armstrong Russel Carlson
Eulaiie Daughter Admissie Masonse
Josphine Nelson Camille Nole
James Austin Eibinger Mugler
Submission price $2.30 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $2.00 for one semester; 50 cents a month; 16 cents a week.
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanaau, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism at Harvard, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Daily Kangan assists to picture the University of Kansas; to go furiously by standing for the ideals the students write; to be clean; to be cheerful ours to move more serious problems to the heat of its ability the university to serve the heat of its ability
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921.
A FIRE TRAP
The gymnasium is a fire trap.
Eight minutes are required to empty it under normal conditions.
That's bad enough. But what if conditions were abnormal, suppose a fire should break out. How long would it take to empty the building—with hysterical screening and blimb rushing here and there in a frantic endeavor to reach safety?
Again, there are no fire escapes. And it is the one place where the students as a body can and do meet. Last Friday three thousand University men and women assembled there. That meant that three thousand lives were placed in jeopardy. Such a condition should not be allowed to prevail. Every effort possible should be made to minimize the danger.
Enough chances have been taken in the past. Why not build for the future on a "safety first" plan?
Two things could and should be done. First, build some fire escapes; and second, as Maj. Harold D. Burdick suggested, work out a system whereby the building could be emptied in an eerie manner.
Now that Harding has chosen his cabinet, we can rest easy until they go to work.
The State Legislature is considering at the present time the taxing of every bachelor,
SAVE THE BACHELORS
Such a tax law, if passed, will be a progesterous infancy. If bachelors are taxed, many of them will escape the tax by hiding behind the skirts of matrimony. And by losing the bachelor, we shall suffer an economic loss. Bachelors are a necessity. It is the heart-hearted, unentangled bachelor who gives pennies to the kiddies. He is usually the one who showers the little nephews and nieces with the toys and trinkets that fill juvenile hearts with joy. Therefore, we need the bachelor.
Many a married woman supports her husband by washing the linen of bachelors. If the bachelors were drawn away from the boarding houses or restaurants, the proprietors of such places would suffer a loss of revenue. Bachelors build for prosperity. As for posturity, we have enough of that as it is.
If you trace the history of charity and alms giving, you will find the shades of departed bachelors sitting on the steps of many an orphan's home. Many a magnificent church has risen because bachelors have given freely of their wealth. If these philanthropic bachelors had married, their wealth might have been spent on
pickets and powder-puffs.
Undoubtedly there is an unknown agency working for the passage of this unfair tax. It may be the lawyers who know that an increase in the number of marriages will result in a proportionate increase in the number of divorce cases. It may be the ministers who have an eye on the revenue that comes from uniting two people into that state of love, or otherwise, which is called matrimony. It might even be an association of furniture dealers.
Certainly it is our duty to protect the ochelors from unjust discrimination. A bachelor cannot always help it because he is not blessed with a human expense account. Then, he may believe Ed Howe's laconic statement that "married men may have better-halves, but bachelors have better quarters."
Professor Baumgarner has demonstrated that cigarettes are harmful to growing rabbits, and yet more than half of the freshmen still persist in smoking them.
THE PHILIPPINE POLICY
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problem of the Philippines closer to the new administration is the resignation of Governor General Harrison to be effective March 4. This resignation will leave a very important office for Mr. Harding to fill immediately after he assumes his executive duties. However, Mr. Harding is well informed on Philippine policies through conferences with naval and military officials. The importance of the question is revealed through rumors that Mr. Harding has mentioned General Leonard Wood for the appointment.
The duties of the executive in the Philippines are largely of a civil character. Everything seems to be orderly and quiet there at present, in spite of an organization of natives who are clamoring for independence. The leaders of this faction are not hostile to the United States and do not criticize American control as a failure or an injustice, but even试试 to the progress made under American dominance.
They think, however, that the time for independence has arrived. Unrest seems to be the keynote in all dependent countries however small they may be. Whether the Philippines are obliged only on their feet to launch
a stable government or not is a serious question before the new administration, and one which it must handle with diplomacy if it is to work for the good of the Philippines without jeopardizing their future. In granting Philippine independence the United States has a chance to vindicate itself of the charge of colony grabbing during the Spanish-American war.
HOW TO ACQUIRE BETTER ENGLISH
"The position is yours. There is one thing I know you can do, and that is speak English fluently, which is half the battle in the business world today" said the manager of a large concern when a young woman applied for employment. Such is an example of the individual who wins because she took advantage of the opportunities which came to her. One of those opportunities was learning to speak English. That is everyone's opportunity, especially for the university man or woman.
There are four ways in which the University student may take advantage of this opportunity which may later mean success or failure. The class room presents itself first. The other methods are, reading, listening
The class room is the first recognized opportunity. In fact, so vital is the need for speaking the language, that the freshman has his rhetoric for his first requirement. But every classroom presents an opportunity for the student to better his speaking
anity. Whether he be a class in law,
in engineering, in medicine, or in
literature, each recitation depends to
a large extent upon the student's ability
to speak fluently. And every other
student can and should profit by
his fellow students' mistakes or
ability.
Equally important in acquiring
other methods are, reading, listening to others, and conversation.
Equally important in acquiring speaking English, is the student's
reading. Whether it be fiction, or the newspapers, or the text book, each writing must possess correctness to a certain extent, or it would not be read from the printed page. The newspaper presents the most common and one of the best laboratories to acquire good English form and a reasonable vocabulary.
Thirdly, the student has the opportunity of listening to others as an aid in acquiring Better English. Each week students have an opportunity to
hear speakers who has made at least a partial success in their work, and this presents an opportunity to better one's English in every way. Mistakes
by others are easily noticeable and when such mistakes are recognized, the listener will often remember such. For a mistake heard, is second to a mistake made, which when realized no will doubt be remembered. Every student then, should reap benefits, not only from what speakers say, but how they say it. The popularity or dislike of a speaker usually depends on his fluency in speaking.
Finally, the easiest method to acquire the ability to speak good English, is every day conversation. At the fraternity or sorority house, at the boarding club, coming down the hill, or between classes, conversation presents itself as a golden opportunity. Students would do well to cultivate the habit of correcting each other, for it is the everyday conversation which later on determines the standing of a man or woman, and a mistake recognized in someone's else conversation, is a mistake prevented on the part of the observer. Above all other methods, the student should get the "dictionary habit". It is always the surest way.
No student need complain of a lack of opportunity to acquire a working knowledge of the English language. But when a senior is heard making a mistake that the freshman should have mastered, all these opportunities seem to have passed by unrealised. And such examples are not unknown. As has been said before, English is not a dead language, but the most practical and most useful known to
mentioned are not recognized and utilized during college days, it is tenfold the task to acquire afterward, what every individual should possess—the ability to speak the English language, accurately and fluently.
Campus Opinions
How long will the students of the University of Kansas tolerate such cheap rubbish as contained in the last issue of the "Sour Owl?" How long will they pay good money for the privilege of feasting on such carnation?
Editor. Daily Kansan;
Now I have assimilated some pretty rank literature in my time ranging from the "Diamond Dick" and "Frank Marriott" stories to the "Ballard of Duck," among the American soldiers in France. Moreover I heaped get out an army paper that was a long way from angellie. But the cruelness and vulgarity of this "Sour Owl" was too much even for me, and mine out of ten of them. And whom I have discussed the number, adults they are nauseated by it.
I will not go into the details of the "Owl's" sickening flinching doodle about the toddler, nor will I waste time upon its unwarranted and amateurish attack upon the Daily Kansas. The Kansas has its weaknesses and members of the Kansas that are unwilling to admit them; but beside this pitiful issue of the "Sour Owl," the Kansas is a model of perfected journalism.
There is not a single redeeming feature in this issue. Its attempted humor is the soriest ever encountered in the English language, its self-styled "scandal" is vulgar without being hurt, its cartoons are amateurish and rotten, and at least one is a direct steal from a current magazine with no credit given. Furthermore, it is also not an effective student body of this University, a claim which has been obloquely retracted by the spontaneous expression of disgust and censure with which the number was greeted.
Such stuff would not "get by" in a Hearest Sunday edition, or the Police Gazette. Then how can it continue in our State's greatest educational institution? A snappy and witty magazine, reflecting true phases of University life, would have a real place on the Hill. But instead we have the "Sour Owl" with its insipid accounts of "naughty" doings, (the adjective is
the "Owl's", not mine), its ancient jokes patted up and made over, and its coarse efforts at sex appeal (witness the cover).
I will not spend further time in *trade* against the offensive magazine There are some students, (a small major, fortunately), who rever the in sort of muck the "Owla" peddlers. Some of these will probably write let me talk about the "Owl" and abusing me for this article. That is their affair. My sole purpose is that of arousing the great majority of K. U. students, who hold in honor our University and her ideals, to throw the weight of their combined opinion against this foul in the making the fair name for our Alma Mater.
Common Decency
ALUMNI NOTES
Julia Carman, '20, the first woman to receive a degree from the school of engineering, is in Tulsa, Ola. She was employed with the geological survey of the University the first semester of this year.
Mary Preyer, 18, will leave Law rence soon for Concepción, Chile where she will teach music in a girls school. Miss Preyer is the daughter of Prof. Carl A. Preyer of the School of Fine Arts and she has appeared in with her father. She will go to Souh America for a period of five years.
Alice Bernhard, '20, is teaching English in the Hiawatha high school.
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LOST—Gold wrist watch with Huntington case, Initials S, L. F. Call 2397 Black, Reward. 99-5-370
FOR RENT—Modern room, single or double; for boys. 1340 Ky. Phone 1850. 101-5270
LOST—Last Wednesday, in Room 110 Fraser, black fur neckpiece. Reward—Phone 2616. 103-374
LOFT - Leather loser leaf note book
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Finder please call 902-3688.
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FOR RENT—Room for either one or two boys at 1037 Teen, Phone 2621.
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LOST- At the Sunday morning service, vice in Robinson Gym, a pair of plain kid gowns, size 6'. Finder placed him on the floor at call 1187 White. 100-3-273
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FOR RENT. Two furnished apartments in strictly modern home. For light housekeeping. Will be vacant Feb. 13, 1918. Tenn. Call: 614-237-3030. 86-43-255
FOR RENT—South rooms for boys.
1228 La. One block from campus.
81-tt-734
IANO TUNING-For high class piano tuning,player work and repairing. Call A. Weber, practical piano maker. 500 Ill. St., Lawrence, Kansas. Phone 646. gt-8f-236
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DALE PRINT SHOP, 1027 Mass. St.
Phone 228.
DR. H. B. CHAMBERS. Suite 2 Jacketing. building. mental practice, Special attention to nose, throat and ear. Phone 217.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Ex-
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D. FLORIENCE J. BARROWDS -Os-
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8:30-12:00, 11:30-5:30, Phexe 2337, 909
Mass Street,
DR. H. HEDING—F. A. U. Building.
Ear, eye, nose and throat Special at
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phone. Phone 513.
VANITY SHOP—Marcelling, maneuuring, shampooing—Mrs. Anna Johnson. Phone 1273, Stubba 1283.
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In the History of Kansas University
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MORNING
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MORNING
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EVENING
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MORNING
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EVENING
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH
MORNING
"SPECIAL SERMON FOR STUENTS"
4:30 P. M.
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MORNING
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EVENING
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MORNING
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UNITARIAN CHURCH MORNING
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EVENING
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