UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
official student paper of the University
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1210, 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 of the University of Kansas, and in the Department of Journalism.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Address all communication to
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
Phones, K. U. 35 and 66
The Daily Kaaanam ass to pice-
ment, in the University of Kansas, to go fur-
herly standing for the ideals she en-
ters from; to be clean; to be cheerful
out; to make more serious prob-
lem; to make more serious proba-
blem; to be the best student; to un-
derstand the student's needs.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921
THE RESPONSE
A holiday in college is a day when all classes are dismissed so that the students may catch up with the work that would not be assigned to them otherwise.
Of the three thousand people who congregated in Robinson gymnasium China night, a few came solely because an evening of entertainment was the reward for the price of admission. The greater number came because the receipts went to help keep alive fifty million starving Chinese.
Those that came for the entertainment alone were not disappointed. They got their money's worth, and then some. But the bigger per cent who paid admission, and also helped fill the contribution basket at the door were those who realized and acted upon the message of the evening.
China night did not end the period of giving on Mount Oreed for the famine-strike Mongolians. It was merely the beginning. Contributions to the relief fund can be left any time at registrar's office. Kansas can do as Yale, Ohio, and Illinois, and a dozen other universities throughout the country have done.
A senior student has already bought a pair of colored eye glasses as a safeguard against the effects of March breezes.
Let us not be content with a feeble attempt at crawling over the edge of our self-set goal. Every additional dollar means so much more helpless, shirrelled Chinese saved.
THE JINX IS ROUTED
Kansas rooters witnessed a track victory over the Aggies, an invincible team for the Jayhawkers for several years. Saturday in Robbinan Gymnasium. The old Jinx has ben routed! Although the meet was not won until the next to the last event, the fighting spirit of the Jayhawkward squad and the canthisilic cheering of one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed an indoor track meet at the University, brought the victory home.
Although the Kansas contenders did not display any great flishiness or excellence except in one or two instances, they had a consistency of attack and a determination that won a first or a second, or both, except in one event. This is the attribute that a team must possess to win track meets. A fighting spirit, machine-like efficiency, and a level-headed coach to develop his material have at last turned out a squad that is capable of adding more track victories to the initial triumph of the season.
The student body must not let down in the interest it displayed in the meet Saturday to obtain the best results from its representatives on the track. The knowledge that his school is solidly behind him, win or lose, sends the athlete out to contend with a
greater determination to expand every effort to win for his school. The sound needs the earnest support of the entire University. The University needs a victorious squad and owe much to every man who sacrifices time and pleasure to train and grind incessantly to get into shape. Let's show the squad and its coach that we are behind them to the finish!
Chewing tobacco is a filthy habit, but after all, it is not much worse than chewing the rag.
WHAT IS BETTER ENGLISH?
Stop! Look! Listen!
Watch your word!
Get the dictionary habit!
Get the dictionary habit:
Much has been said of "better English" and its force in the business world. But what is meant by "better English"? Three qualities are conspicuous in the spoken word of the average careless person. He is inact; he is restricted; he is lacking in originality.
We ought to speak more accurately. How often do we say, with any degree of exactness, what we really mean? We choose the path of least resistance and take the word nearest at hand. One modern author says "Our words should fit our thoughts like a glove, and be neither too wide or two tight." But they offerfit like the old-time yarn mitten, and a loose one at that.
The first task of anyone who would train himself in language is to know definitely what he wishes to say, and then to pick those words which compel the hearer to think of this and only this. Brevity is the rightower to accuracy, and when accuracy has been accomplished, originality follows, with comparative case, with an alert mind.
Originality comes with spontaneity of speaking. It is an escape from self-consciousness, and it comes only when thoughts and words are in constant adjustment. It implies a fearlessness in speaking, with quite as much evidence of precision, tertessence and simplicity. It is mental courage which comes only after much cultivation.
And wide vocabulary is necessary if one would be accomplished in speaking English. Webster contains more than a hundred thousand words, yet the average speaker commands only something like three thousand words. She laziness is responsible for this; it can be overcome with comparative ease. The purposeful addition of one new word a week would soon not a satisfying way. The ways in which this can be accomplished will be discussed later.
If we would make ourselves a success among other men, if we would feel comfortable in conversation, we must cultivate ourselves in the use of our mother tongue. Its neglect is neglect of one of the most essential and the simplest means to success.
When a student goes to a friend for a loan, he usually has a touching story.
Germany is at it again. Another clever attempt at propaganda has come to the notice of government in the form of a dispatch from Germany stating that President Wilson carried on secret negotiations with Doctor Erberger, formerly a leader of the Centrist party. The communication states that Mr. Wilson definitely promised the German state credit during the peace negotiations.
MORE PROPAGANDA
Whether or not there is any truth in the statement, there seems little foundation for communication, and officials at Washington are paying little attention to the move, whatever may be its purpose. Authorities have already characterized the matter as another piece of propaganda, in an attempt to free Germany from the burden of such heavy indemnities as were provided by the peace treaty, and also, another attempt to cause disruption of the friendly feeling between France and the United States before the new administration comes into control.
Germany has done her best to help the cooperation of the Allied countries since the peace treaty was signed. The recent exposing by the state department of our nation of a clever plot to create ill feeling toward
France for the atrocities of French negro troops along the Rhine is but another example of the underhand methods that have been used by the conquered Germany to relieve herself of some of the burden of war debt. And such actions insite the more ill-feeling toward Germany and crause a more decided determination to enforce the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Germany would refrain from such tactics if she but realized that such action merely tends to keep her longer from regaining her former place among the nations of the world.
HASH-HOUSES OF OLD
Times have changed, even with the common hash house that is so well known about a University campus. This fact is clearly evident when one reads the reminiscences of 1816, which were presented recently in a Kansas exchange article.
One would hardly recognize the hash house of 1816 in comparison with that of 1921. The boards, we are told, took off their shoes on winter days, to warm their feet at the fireplace. Today, it would hardly be agreeable with the average hash-house boarder to sit in the company with others in such a condition, especially before a meal.
Even more striking, we are told that the women and men sodim mix in conversation. If the boarding house of 1653 is in the
keeper or 180° inappropriate. hash-house frequenters of today, she would probably be somewhat shocked to see the stags and fairer sex having the times of their young lives. There must have been entire prohibition of the dance and the date in those days, let along the prohibition of the shimme, toddle and shuffle and the eleventh clock date rule of today.
On Other Hills
Yes, times have changed—considerably, since Pa and Ma were kids, And when we read of such customs of the old times, we do not have so much desire for the old time."Turn Back the Universe."
In the first student, referendum ever held at Cornell University, the undergraduates of that school voted, on February 13, to support an honor system now under consideration by the student governing body.
The annual Farmer Week was held February 13-20 at Carlson, About 600 agriculturists from all over the state attended.
"Stargaring" is becoming quite the vogue at the University of Southern California. The man says the high cost of living and tuition prevents them from dating the fair once, while the invariable comment of the women
the invariable comment of the women is: "They're pikers, that's all."
According to the University of Washington "Daily", faculty men at that institution have organized a leadership program for the students to compete with them.
A new tradition in the form of an annual song-fest was started at the University of Utah this year. The fest begins on Friday, January 23, and the vacation celebration each school year.
At a recent session of college coaches in the Rocky Mountain Conference, a recommendation was appealed to the athletic college sport in the conference.
New York University has had a 107 per cent gain in enrollment during the past five years, the biggest gain of any American university.
"I wrote the prof a little note at the end of my examination, saying how much I enjoyed his course." "What did he do?"
Mental Lapses
"Said I could take it over again i liked it so much."—Exchange.
**Phenologist—"Your son has a pro-
nounced mathematical bump."**
The Son—"That's where papa hung
out to play with the vithicent class.
"Am. Legion Weekk"**
Lives of dancers all remind us
That most of us are chumps,
For we always leave behind us
on the women's pumps.
Exchange
Sometimes the girl who cannot be kissed is the one whom some one always kisses—Exchange.
To present the gentleman to the ladv.
To say "Let me present" when making an introduction.
To ask a lady's permission before introducing a masculine stranger to her.
To mention the lady's name first, as, "Mrs. Baldwin, let me present Mr. Blank."
The street car stopped with a yank.
man crowded his way to the door.
"Coming out! Coming out!" he cried
to the impatient conductor.
IT IS CORRECT
Mary had a little skirt
With buttons in a row,
And everywhere that Mary went,
She couldn't hardly go—Exchange
Co-ed—"I'm not sure, but I think be made our library furniture for us." —Exchange.
"A dollar you don't," yelled a sleepy student, snapping to.—Frivol.
To lead a lady around a room introducing her to guests.
Prof.—"Now, Miss Pinhead, who was Louis XIV?"
WANT ADS
To introduce a younger to an older person, or a maiden to a matron, as Mrs. A. let me present Miss B.
IT IS NOT CORRECT
To say, "Let me make you acquainted with," or "Shake hands with."
LOST—A pair of black gauletl
gloves in library. Call 1261, 1400
Tenn. 99-2-371
To take a lady to a gentleman for an introduction.
IT IS NOT CORRECT
To present a dittinguished person to an unknown, as "Mr. Blank, let me present Governor Brown."
FOR RENT—One downstairs room for men, Call 1534 Blue, 1329 Ohio.
LOST—Last Wednesday, in Room
110 Fraser, black fur neckpiece. Reward-
Phone 2616. 100-3-374
1. LOST—Gold wrist watch with Huntington case. Initials S, L, F. Call 297 Black. Reward. 9-5-37
LOST—Silver evershard pencil. Initials N. B. M. Reward. Call Muskelman at 248. 95-2-307
To speak the names in such haste hat they will not be understood.— C. C. Star.
LOST-Leather lesse leaf note book containing valuable notes. Has jacket M, J. Sarnon. Left on gun rack M. Finder please. Findler use w/ward. 99-3.369
FOR RENT—Room for either one or two boys at 1037 Tenn. Phone, 3221,
100-895
LOST-At the Sunday morning service in Robinson Gym, a pair of basked kid gloves, size 6½. Finder's price is the Kansas City call 1187 White. 100-3-372
FOR RENT—Garage at 1805 Miss.
St, Phone 1448 White. 100-3
TO RENT—One room and also %
room for students or faculty on
first floor. 1319 Teen. 1243 Red.
FOR SALE—Share in Lawrence
Country Club with dues paid to
April 1st. $50. Cost $75. Telephone
1587. 96-3-595
96-3-366
FOR_RENT. Twenty unfurnished apartments in strictly modern home. For light housekeeping. Will be vacant. Feb. 13, 128. Tenn. Call 8318 White.
LOST—Bunch of keys in Library call 1131 White, Reward. 97-2-368
FOR RENT—South rooms for boys,
1228 La. One block from campus.
81-1f-734
FOR RENT—Room for one or two Boys, 1321 Tenn. 95-5-363
FOR RENT—Room for girls. 1314
Tenn. Phone 1387 Blue. 94-5-361
PIANO TUNING—For high class piano tuning, player work and repairing. Call A. Weber, practical piano maker. 500 Ill. St. Lawrence. Kansas, Phone 646. 68-128 fc8
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DALE PRINT SHOP, 1027 Mass
Phone 228.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Exclusive Optometrists) Eyes examined; glasses made. Office 1025 Mass.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Suite 2 Jackson building. Building a general practice, Special attention to nose, throat and ear Telephone 217.
DR. FLORENCE J. BARRONS—Ost-
teriatric Physician, office hours
8:30:12-10:30; 11:30-5:30. Phone 2337, 909
Masl. Street
DR. H. REDING—F. A. U. Building
Ear, eye, nose and throat. Special at tention to fitting shoes and tonal nail.
Phone 512.
VANITY SHOP—Marcelling, manicure,
stampooing. Mmra maja Johns-
en.
C. T. ORELUP, M. D.-Specialist. Eye,
car, nose, and throat. Glass work
guaranteed-Dick Iroos Blog.
DR, G. W, JONES, A. M, M. D. D. Dire of stomach, surgery and gynaecology. Suite 1). F.A. A. U.Blug. Phones 2745. KRS236. KS252. Hospital 1745.
DR. J. R. BECHEPIT. Rooms 3 and 4
over McCullough's Drug Store. Office
Phone 343. Res. Phone 1243.
DRS. WELCH AND WELCH-PALMER GRADUATES. Office 927 Mass. St Phones. 115. Residence 135K
"All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy”—Go to a Show
Varsity
Bowersock
TONIGHT ONLY
—the "Bell hop in "Don't Ever Marry."
Admission 11c and 33e Including Tax
—the "office boy" in "Go and Get It"
—the fellow orphan of Mary Pickford in "Daddy Long Legs"
—and now the "fighting Frisco newsboy" in "Dinty"
Admission 11c and 33c Including Tax
Also Paramount Magazine Also Christie Comedy
in
Friday and Saturday
NORMA TALMADGE
To Loosen the 'Purse-strings'
TOM MIX
"THE BRANDED WOMAN"
Also Comedy
Thursday Only
"WET AND WARMER"
in
"THE SPEED MANIAC"
(First Showing Here)
Ava
Also Christie Comedy
ALTERATIONS
SCHULZ The Tailor 917 Mass. St.
We alter, repair, reline, clean and press ladies suits and dresses of every description.
Send the folks a Kansan subscription with your plea for more cash.Those, who have tried it,say it works fine. $1.75 restof year
Choose Your Church
A Call to Duty
Not duty to your country but duty to your church
Next Sunday the churches of Lawrence extend the most welcome invitation to students of the Univesity
Keep up your home habit of attending church
Sermon Subjects announced tomorrow
Be There Sunday