THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1921
IN PAN-HELLENIC
There is said to be some very inter casting talk circulating in fraternity circles, concerning the riltations be between the various national fraternities in Pan-Fellicene. The discussion it is rumored, comes from various al sed disabuses of rushing rules.
The Pan-Hellenic representatives have talked it over. They have communicated the intelligence they gathered from the meetings, to their fraternity brothers. But they have refused to make public even the cause of this discussion.
If but one fraternity of forty men or so was concerned, it would not be serious. Fraternities are supposed to be secret. But in events of University importance, wherein all the fraternities are concerned, the lives of four or five hundred people are concerned. The relations of these four or five hundred to the rest of the University really make the things carried on in Pan-Hellenic of all-University importance.
It might be a good thing, then, for Pen-Hellenic to seriously consider the availability of bringing their discussion out into the light. Word of mouth intelligence is ever perverted, and distorted by repetition.
LIBERAL CLUBS
The student has in all ages been stirred by an ardent desire for knowledge. There have been no great conservatives among the hosts who search for wisdom, but revolutionary theories in science, religion and politics have been held by many of the world's students. Sometimes these theories have been found worthless, but much of the world's progress has come from the labor of students striving to verify just such theories.
This inherent desire to know "what makes the wheels go round" is intensified in modern times by the surge of new ideas springing up in the field of politics. All about the student are groups holding theories which he formerly considered his pets —is it any wonder that his zeal in this direction should be intensified by the popular favor his ideas find?
Here we have the reason for the existence of the Liberal Club of eastern schools. "Liberal-minded but not radical" is the watchdog. A plan for a permount federation of these organizations is now being put forth with eminent educators watching the project with much interest.
Little attempt to crusade is being made by these organizations. Rather, their effort is to bring members to a better understanding of the questions under contention in the world, and for this purpose speakers representing the various angles of thought are brought in. From most conservative to most radical, all are given a chance to come before the members of the club, first in formal address, then in informal discussion.
These clubs will mean much in the future political tolerance of the country. Too much persecution of innocent idealists as dangerous incendiaries is caused by ignorance of the subject matter they teach. A new generation fully versed in the various schools of thought will know what to accept as true and what to reject as false. Radical "searst" will often be averted, and what is infinitely more valuable, the citizen will be acute enough to recognize the real anarchist when he sees one.
HOMES IN STYLE
The housing problem in the United States continues acute.
The wise and far-seeing Americans expected that this congestion would occur after the war was over and tried to make provision for the future, but in the excitement of the war there was very little actual building done.
Now that the fighting has finished and people are trying to mend and renew their praetective occupations they are looking for homes in which they can again take up the work which war forced them to abandon. Comparatively few homes were built during the war. As a consequence, the demand has far exceeded the supply and according to the economic law of supply and demand, rents and building materials have soared far beyond the reach of the average purse. The strained resources and the crowded conditions may have a good effect, however. If the but creat<sup>2</sup> interest and make the American people realize that they need homes, and homes owned by the individuals who live in them, this war, as far as American is concerned, will not have been unlessly engaged in.
The tendency of the past few years has been a move towards apartments, rented homes and rented farms. If this tendency is stopped, if the American people will but realize that real happiness is found in their own homes, they will go far toward preserving that spirit of independence and love of fair play that our forefathers, who hewed their homes from forests on hostile Indians, have "beneathted to us."
The homes is the greatest American institution and its integrity must be maintained at all costs, even at the exorbitant prices of land, labor and material that exist today.
THE "POPGUN" TARIFF
Tariff legislation has occupied the attention of nearly every Congress that the United States has possessed. The tariff history of the country fills many large volumes in the libraries of educational institutions. The present session of Congress is again struggling with the same old question, and has brought forth what is called the "pongun" tariff.
The proposed bill, if it becomes a law, is supposed to help American agriculture by excluding the products of other countries which also buy liberally in the United States. The proposed tariff has aroused resentment in England, Australia, and more especially in Canada, and rumors of retaliation are becoming insistent. Embargos and prohibitory tariffs are two-edged instruments and often bring results diametrically opposite from those anticipated.
Many of the supporters of the new bill declare that it does not amount to an embargo or prohibitory tariff, but it is evident that if it does not, it will fail its purpose of helping the American farmer who complains of unprepared imports of foreign farm products.
The United States, and especially the American farmer, needs more markets and more customers instead of more tariffs. Tariffs and tariff legislative activities do not materially help commerce or stimulate interest in opening new markets. The "popgnn" tariff, indeed, is more of a menace to than a protection of the agriculturists of the nation.
Writing in the Review of Reviews for January, Elon Jessup has pictured very graphically outdoor winter life as lived by the men of Darimouth College.
"A MAN'S COLLEGE
The men in the college who prefer doing out-doors even in the rigorous
New England winters, have organized the "Dartmouth Outing Club" and every week-end sees them tramping, mountain climbing, snowshoeing, skiing, trail-blaizing and carrying on similar forms of woodcraft recreation, as a result of this Dartmouth has won a reputation as an outdoor man's college.
"There are many men," says Mr. Jesup, who prefer to steal off in the silent woods, knapsack on back, than go to a football game. The outdoors spirit has become a very real thing. The Dartmouth Outing Club is the organization which has been the means of crystallizing this spirit. Nearly one thousand undergraduates belong to the club and take an active interest in its affairs. This is almost two-thirds of the student body. Indeed the Dartmouth Outing Club is so pre-eminently successful that it is now far past the experimental
stage. Williams and a number of other colleges noting how it has gone ahead are following suit with outdoor 'bubs of the same sort.'
Some years ago several undergraduates conceived the idea of an outing club and they set out to make their dream come true. They discovered a deserted, shack and went about fixing it up. It was from this small beginning that the present club was built. They now have seven well built cabins scattered among the White Mountains and the club owns something like two hundred and fifty acres of land.
The money in the main part has come from the interested alumni and the generosity of Rev. J. E. Johnson who raised over $40,000 as an endowment fund for the club.
The cabins are used by the students for week end trips and also in the summer vacations for camping headquarters.
According to the instructors who also make the trips when they wish, getting outdoors over the weekend helps the academic standing of the students, as they return very much refreshed from their trips and, consequently, are more able to grasp their work during the week.
In concluding his article Mr. Jesup say "These are some reasons why Dartmouth College is developing a vigorous race of outdoor men."
Campus Opinions
Editor the Daily Kansas:
With the prospect of a new building, may we not suggest features which might be embodied in it for the students' benefit?
In the Chancellor's financial budget for the coming two years $300,000 is asked for a library building. It has been a recognized fact in the University for some time past that Spooner Library is not adequate in size to accommodate the increase in students and volumes of works.
The library at Harvard has a loa-
ng room furnished with comfortable
chairs and settees, desk and floor
lamps, and stacks of books of all varieties suitable for browsing. No study-ing is allowed in this room.
The University of Kansas needs such a place for the students who wish to read more extensively in the enormous collection of books, many of them very rare, which this institution is fortunate enough to possess.
It is a fact, lamentable though it may be, that few students make use of the library except for getting the materials on topics assigned by the professors.
A general reading room, such as is in use at Harvard and other schools, would enable all to read widely and intensively—an opportunity as essential for a research institution as an adequate class of instructors and a broad curriculum.
In the present library lack of floor space does not permit of such a room. Straight-backed chairs, many tables, and a number of wall desks are the only facilities and comforts provided for the student. Consequently, few of them are allowed to read aloud at time in an odd hour reading at random, make use of the unlimited supply of of good reading material available there.
A CHEERY OUTLOOK
3. Odgen Armour is not given to excessive optimism and of course he is far from being a pessimist. No good armor is expected. Mr Armour is above all things a
new year gives every promise of a most gratifying degree of prosperity for American business.
good business man. In the course of a brief interview in the Journal on the occasion of a visit here, he expressed the emphatic opinion that the
"With the opening of the spring season, the United States will begin on an era of prosperity," he remarked. "The present bad industry and commercial situation will vanish and business conditions will become more stabilized.
"Things are rapidly returning to normal, and industry, capital and labor markets. The government's targets must apply themselves to the restored order of things and by doing this the unstable conditions of the past four years will be succeeded by fruitful growth."
That is decidedly encourag, but Mr. Armur is only one of the big business men of the country who entertain such views. That they are based on an unusually profound understanding of conditions as they exist goes without saying, for Mr. Armur's finger is on the pulse of the nation's business as firmly as any other man's. His opinions are fortified by those of our students and experts in expression to caution against undue optimism, have declared that the outlook is solidly and substantially encouraging from every view point.
The great industrial centers are robbing with the new life of returnees, who seem to be subsiding, though the pendulum not yet swung to the point of healthy outlay. It drew perilously far away from the extreme of wanton extravagance and for a time it hovers on the edge of extreme, that of excessive caution.
Bargain hunting is now very popular pursuit, but the gratifying fact is that bargains are being found. Such views are those of Mr. Armour will tend to confirm the optimism which seems to be in the air and they are based on actual facts that they are based on actual facts of the present and the inevitable conditions that the immediate future will bring to pass—Kansas City Journal.
On Other Hills
Baker University today is acting as a part of the Thayer art collection of the Thayer already has exhibited the collection. The artist and she will soon take it to K. S. A. C.
An invoice of the faculty of Ohio Weslvan shows that of 107 who are training the students there are 40 who wear the Phi Beta Kappa key and 11 have their names in "Who's Who in America."
At Ohio State University plans are underway for a cooperative book store on the campus by next semester. The Men's Student council is expected to bring satisfactory results. The books are to be sold at absolute cost in order that the store may be co-operative in its work. There will be a point of contact of a manager from outside the university is advocated to avoid all friction.
At Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, ground is soon to be broken for a new Community House which will contain a ballroom, an auditorium, a canteen, a cafeteria, barbers shop, pressing room, library, gym, the planned is planned to build. garages for the convenience of students who have cars at the university.
Three fellowships consisting of $1,000, $300, and $550, respectively, are offered by the Ankara association for graduate students 1921-22 for graduate women students. Holders of the two smaller fellowships, may, if they do their graduate work at Wellesley, apply for one of the resumes for fellowships of $175 offered by the trustees.
WANT ADS
ROOMS for boys for rent, 1001 Me.
Phone 1599 Black. 75-5-264
A New Cooperative house will be opened next semester. Rates will be particularly low. Those interested with Ms. Brassigher will receive Fraser-Adv. D7-72F0
FOR RENT- One large furnished room in modern home. For boys Call 1968 Black. 77.5-288
ROOMS FOR BOYS- Strictly mod-
ern house. 1319 Tenn. 1243 Red.
77-5-269
PIANO TUNING—For high class piano tuning, player work and repairing C.A. Weber, practical bassist, St. Louis, Kansas, Phone 644-68-138
STUDENTS wishing to practice on piano in private home call at 1110 Vermont or Phone 2226 Red. 76-3-265
FOR RENT- Room for girls. Also
garage. 398 West 16th. Phone 2381
Blue.        75-5-81
BOARD on the Hill. Where quality rules . Women only . 1231 Oread.
78-2-272
NO RENT: One or two rooms for girls. Strictly modern, one block from campus. Convenient to hill.South and west exposure. Call 2580.7-5-271
WANTED TO BUY: A bookcase.1216
Tenn. Call 2531 White. 78 5-274
FOR RENT: Unfurnished apartment in modern home, Will be vacant Feb. 13 or sooner. 1216 Tenn. or 2531 White. 7-5-273
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DALE SHOP PUNCH, 1207 Mass. St. Phone 328.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (ExxonMobil; glasper made. Office 1925 Mass. St.)
D. H. L. CHAMPLIN. Suite 2 Jack Kramer attention to new throat and peri-
telephone 214.
D. H. L. CHAMPLIN. J.D.-Department Physician. Office 5248 Floor 119, 113-560-300. Phone 2373, 989
D. H. REDING—P. A. U. Bullding, one out of three Special tertiary glasses and four work Phone 131.
VANITY SHOP—Marcelling, manure-
toring, one out of three Special tertiary glasses and four work Phone 132, Stubb Bldg.
C. O. TREULB—D. M. Special-Experience. Eye work guaranteed—Dick Irex Work.
G. D. W. JONES, J. M. M. M. Diseases of stomach, surgery and gastro-
enterology Office 55. Residence 262K Hospital.
D. J. R. BECHTEI. Rooms 3 and 4 over McCutcheen's Store. Office 53 Phone 328.
CHRISTOPHERS
DISLACH AND WELCH-PALMER
CHRISTOPHERS
DRS. WELCH AND WELCH—PALMER
GRADUATES. Office 927 Mass. St.
Phone: 115. Residence 115K
University Orchestra Concert
Thursday Evening, January 20 Fifty-three Players The best and largest orchestra K. U. has ever had
Admission 50c Student activity tickets also admit Get your tickets from members of the orchestra.
With EMMA BUNTING Late Star of "Seandal"
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