THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The Daily Kansaan aims to please the students of the University of Kansas, to go forward by standing for the ideals the students desire; to be clean; to be cheerful; to have more serious problems; to serve the host of its ability to serve the host of its ability.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1921
THAT QUESTIONNAIRE
Down in Mississippi, an educated hog has suffered nervous prostration and is in a serious condition. Time and time again, we have tried to show our instructors the dangers attached to the over-loading of one's mental capacity.
From the Registrars office there has been issued a questionnaire through which students were asked to show how they spent their time at the University. The purpose of this is to show just how student life is conducted and to prove that the students are not wasting time but rather making the most of it. Also, the data compiled will be used in the school catalogue to give an accurate statement of actual student expenses.
The simple structure of the typed questionnaire would require only a few minutes to fill out. Yet how many have gone to the trouble to do no? It is a seemingly unimportant request on first thought and yet the idea behind it means much to the school. Figures from the Registrars office show that a representative reply has not been forthcoming.
The students are neglecting a prime story in failing to comply with the request of the questionnaire. The "New Era" has subscribed in an unusual display of loyalty to the institution and the Chancellor. All has been cooperation for the advancement of the school. But here is a chance to cooperate vitally in combating some misinformation that is too readily accepted as truth by many outliers, namely that the students of the University fail to take advantage of their time and their financial expenditure.
Once more the test of real school spirit is called upon to displace such a misapprehension. Shall it pass by unheeded? Shall the present record stand as an answer? Surely a spirit that has manifested itself supreme in more critical times than these will not weaken under such a sample task. The
questionnaire is another call for cooperation and loyalty, requires the action of every student.
Mail that questionnaire today.
VIVE LA CONVOCATION
"The shouting and the tumult dies, The captains and the kings depart."
And this state of affairs is generally the point in the existence of an institution when the public loses interest and turns to more lively and recent developments.
But the enthusiasm and attendance at university conventions should not die down for this reason. Yet many students teed that a concession uncompanied by the football spirit with its attendant rallies, yells, and stirring speeches, is not worth an hour of their time. Still others believe that a concession without an undercurrent of loyalty and patriotism such as was inspired by the Stadium
Drive, will be far too dry to claim their attention.
These complaints are to be expected but will be disproved. The convocation Thursday will retain the interest and hold the attention of everyone who goes, and every student should be there. Just because some big campus events have lost their newness or temporarily ceased, is no reason that convocation will be a dull dispatched affair.
Convocations the second semester will not suffer from a lack of pop and students should not stay away because the football here will be missing or the stadium worker idle. Not to the discredit of these affairs, but because Just as interesting affairs will claim attention in the convocations this semester as did last.
HOWAT STRIKES AGAIN
Alexander Howt and his independent ways are again in the limelight His latest act has been to call a strike of mine workers at Pittsburgh, directly in violation of an injunction prohibiting such action served on him by Judge Curran, of the C.awford county district court, last September.
Whether or not the law, uplby the newly established Industrial Court, prohibiting the calling of strikes throughout the state is constitutional or not, remains to be seen. No doubt it will be determined once for all before the present mix-up has been settled.
Consider for a moment the reason for Howat's calling the present strike. It was all because of a controversy over the pay of Kai Mishmash, a young miner. The mining company had agreed that Mishmash should be paid a man's wages when he became nineteen. According to one record, the family Bible, Mishmash is now nineteen, but according to the company's record, he is not the company refused to pay Mishmash full wages, and straightway Howat called on two hundred men to ston work.
One of the main reasons for the founding of the Industrial Court was to prevent the stopping of industry over just such a trivial matter as this. For years, in Kansas had kept laborers out of work and the public out of patience. Certain industries were repeatedly closed, and prices on these commodities rose sky-high, all because of some little controversy that could be settled arbitrarily in an hour.
That the Kansas Industrial Court has a good reason for its existence cannot be denied. And that Alexander Howat many times does not have a good reason for calling a strike cannot be denied.
CRIME AND THE MOVIES
Moving pictures have come to exert a tremendous influence in the lives of the people of the United States. For proof of this, one has only to look back upon the service "the movies" rendered in the world war. They were one of the most potent factors in mustering the nation to arms, and their assistance in the matter of raising war funds was invaluable.
It is indeed a fact that their influence is a mighty one, and it is because of this influence that the lpirid deposition of crime, and other undesirable features are being loudly and indignantly condensed.
Melodiara, that type of play wherein crime runs rife, appears to be the stromhold of many producers, and they are serving it up to the public as rapidly as they can turn it out. And no doubt it is having its effect, especially upon the youth of the land and the foreign element. As a case in point, the Rev. Howard Billman, of St. Louis, recently told about an eighteen year old boy who was arrested for attempting to rob a safe. During the course of the trial the judge questioned the boy and he admitted that he had received the idea from a moving picture. It is true that this is an isolated case, but it is not the only one that has come under the observation of the authorities.
As for the effect of crime pictures on the foreign element, Mayor Hylan, of New York, has said:
"The foreigners are persistent patrons of the motion picture theaters.
What they see in the pictures they take as typical of life in America. Therefore, if they see crime brought constantly before them, and heroes made of criminals, they will get it into their heads that instead of working for a living, it will be much easier to commit burglaries and murders." In Chicago, the chief of police has become so convinced of the detinental and deteriorating effect of those pie-
tures wherein crime and obscenity form a part that he has forbidden them to be shown.
Such actions as these are encouraging. They are going to pave the way for better pictures; and better pictures are what the public wants. The depiction of crime, especially that of the bolder sort, has come to be, and its abolition from public movies would be a decided step in the right direction.
Campus Opinions
Register another objection to any plan to make final examinations compulsory for seniors making grades of
Editor, Daily Kansan:
In the first place a final examination is an unfair test. It conceals more than it tells about the student's knowledge of a subject. It has a place as a discipline—a threat to keep one one's nose in a book if he doesn't want to flunk. But for seniors such a threat seems a trifle absurd. By that time the student is a man or a woman and ought not to be regarded as such. But if he doesn't give much of a whip what sort of grade he gets just so he knows his stuff. If he doesn't make a grade of A or B he should by all means take a quiz, not as a test, but as a threat to make a better grade. But if he doesn't make a good grade, Kappa record, if you please, who would say this is not enough?
A and B. I thought the exemption had been decided upon last year and would be in force this spring again, so I'm going to discuss it regarding the merits of the plan.
adherence the last week of his school life. As a rule he is overburdened with other things of a more practical nature, so he has prepared his preparations to make for commencement and he has a job to get. In short he doesn't have time to cram —which is after all the only way he can prepare—and he is working under a handicap.
I am not an A or B student, thank you, but if I am fortunate enough to make this average in some course I think I deserve to be exempt from
think I deserve to be exempted from the final. I will have enough finals as it is.
I would like to hear what others have to say about this. If it lowers scholarship I want to know just how. —C and D (Normally).
Homer M. Eagles, '20, is appraising oil values for J. L. Darnell, a consulting engineer at 170 Broadway, New York.
ALUMNI NOTES
Milton Nigel, 17, is with the John B. Austin Architectural Company, the largest concern of its kind in Los Angeles.
Paul B. Faragher, 90", formerly of the chemistry department, is chief of the experimental laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Company of America, at Pittsburgh.
Warren Blazier, '20, is with the Western Electric Company at 463 West Street, New York.
Fern Schick, '20, is teaching at Ottawa this year.
Margaret Grossenbacher, '20, is at
Easton, teaching in the rural high school.
Kansas males need no longer walk the streets of New York friendless, nor lack help to get their checks cashed. For several months a group of young alumni have been holding semi-monthly dinners, meeting in offices at 6:30 at the apartment of Glendon High, [176, 67 West 11th Street].
Out of town alumni who occasionally drop in are: Willard Wattles, g'11. Princeton University; Warren Coffman, Yale University; Tibby Foley, '20; Yale University.
Among the crowd who may be found at these alumni meetings are Joe Bosh (with an advertising concern); E. Wayne Wingert (with Famous-Players Lanky); Olin Deltar (with a film company); Hugh Marshall; Car Cannon; '12, and Claire Detrich, '18, (New York Public Library, 42nd Street); John S. Madden, '14, (E.B Wilson, inc., advertising); "Chuck Doble" '13, (National City Company); Haroldack M, hardware); Phillip L. Davis, (L David L. Davis, Inc., Sheehan), Sheehan, '10, (Stroud and Brown, advertising); Francis H Stevens (reporter on the Hudson County Dispatch, Hoboken, N. J.), James Lyne, '19, (reporter on the Daily Illustrated News); Chaucy Hunter, '17; Nelson Steven Homer, '16; (Machinel Company); Ahsher Hosson, '13 (University of Columbia); Allen Wilber, '12 (Macmillan and Company); Herbert Flint, '14 (National Thrift Bond Corporation); H. M. McPhee, '20, (National City Bank); G. A. Hallowey; W. E. Blazier; Howard Miller, (The Museum); and Mr. Alvine himself of the Famous-Players Lasky Corporation.
SUMMER TRAGEDY
He had hovered about her all evening, notwithstanding her efforts to repulse him. At length stung to madness by her desire to rid herself of his presence, he was about to leave. Then the fluttering of her fan, disarranged the lace at her throat, leaving her white neck bare and gleaming in the moonlight. With a whirl of fire she danced, with the consequences of his rash act, he flung himself upon her. The next instant he lay crowded at her feet.
Alas! poor little mosquito.—"Wesleyan News."
Miss Amabelle Newton and Mrs. Purcell, members of the faculty of the University of Baker were visiting in the department of design, Monday.
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FOR RENT - Room for two girls. Phone 2381 Blue. 91-5-350
FOR RENT - One strictly adorable South East room for girls at 1288 Miss. Price reasonable. Phone 1783 White. 91-3-347
FOR BROWN - Gloves in Green Hall last week. Finder call 1340 White. Reward. 98-5-323
WANTED - Work afternoons for board by student. Call Frame 2541 98-5-340
LOST - Pi K. A. Braceset at the gym, Friday night. Name on inside. Call 2424 Red. 98-5-341
LOST - Quill pin with initials "W. " on back. Reward for return to 1221 Ovad. 98-2-349
FOIR RENT - To men of the faculty or students, please south rooms in a modern home near Spencer Library, 1312 Ohio Lake. 98-2-339
GOOD BOUND - $6.75 week. Mixed chair 1023 Mississippi. Phone 2297 Red. 87-5-332
REACH - South rooms for boys. 1228 La. One block from campus. 81-1-474
WANTED - Room mate by young man at 1300 Tennessee. Call 1387 White. 90-5-345
FOR SALE - Corona typewriter. Good as new, Write Bushal Jevons, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. 90-3-346
FOR RENT - Modern rooms at 1000 Illinois. Near Engineering school. Prices well above. 97-5-329
PIANO TUNING - For high class piano tuning, player work and repairing. Call A. Weber, practical piano maker. 500 Ill. St., Lawrence.
LOST—Lefax note book, with some plain paper and notes. Call 1055. Reward. 90-3-343
LOST—One string of pearl beads at the corner of 17th and Mass, or at the Santa Fe station Saturday morning. Prized as a keepsake and will give liberal reward for return. Phone 1087. 84-1f-309
LOST— one brown gantlet glove—right hand—in Fraser Wednesday night. Call 2239. 88-5-39
FOR RENT— Two unfurnished apartments in strictly modern home. For light housekeeping. Will be vacant Feb. 13, 1216 Tem. Call 2531 White. 86-4f-325
WANTED—A student, domestic science student prepared, to assist with house work from 4 to 7 p.m. on week days, morning on Saturday and Sunday. Call 2129. 88-3-388
LOST—Pair brown gantlet glove. Finder call 2577. 88-2-337
LOST—Painter fountain pen and cap. Between East Ad. and Round Corner Drug Store. Call 1502 White. 91-2-351
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DALE PRINT SHOP, 1027 Mass. St.
Phone 228.
CARDS
DALE PRINT SHOP, 1627 Mass. St.
Phone 228.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Exclusive Optomation Eyexam. Office x548. Mass. St.)
DR. H. b., CHAMBERS. Suite 2 Jack-
kind. engrained practice. office. nose, throat and
Telephone 217.
DR. FLORIENE B. JARROWS—Office
8:30-12:40, 11:30-5:30. Office 229, 909
Mass. Street.
VANITY SHOP—Marcelling, manieuring,
shampooing—Mrs. Anna John-
son, Phone 1372, Stubba Bldg.
DR. H. REDING—F. A. U. Building,
Eye, ear, nose and throat. Special at
tention to fitting glasses and tonal
C. T. GREELIP, M. D.—Specialist. Eye,
ear, nose, and throat. Glass work
guaranteed.—Dick Bros. Bldg.
DR. G, W. JONES, A. M., M. D. Diageo of stomach, surgery and gynecology. Suite I, 1 F. BkU. Photo. Students 3, Residence A, KJK2. Hospital 174.
DR. J. R. BECHTEL. Rooms 3 and 4 over McCulloch's Drug Store. Office Phone 343. Res. Phone 1342.
CHRIOPRACTORS
DRS. WELCH AND WELCH—PALMER
GRADUATES. Offices 927 Massa, St.
Phonae, Office 115. Residence 115K
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