THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN VOLUME XVIII. DOFF HATS TO PAST AND COATS TO FUTURE "The New Pioneers" Subject of Chancellor's Talk to Board of Agriculture TOLD SCOPE OF EDUCATION "High School Freshman Know Bigger World Than Did Dr. Samuel Johnson" The freshman in a standard high school of today knows a vastly bigger world than Dr. Samuel Johnson, the greatest scholar of his time, dreamed of, according to Dr. Earnest H. Lindley, chancellor of the University, in an address Thursday night before a meeting of the state board of agriculture in Chicago. "The New Pioneers," Lindley's talk was "The New Pioneers," and in it he interpreted some of the aims and accomplishments of modern education. He said, in part: "The pioneers are pathfinders who solve problems instead of dodging problems. The pioneer spirit has prevailed in every age and is the passion for progress. Life is a ceaseless adjustment to changing conditions. America has celebrated two types of old pioneers. First are the men who went to sea from New Bedford, Boston and Salem, men who faced the perils of unknown waters, matched wits with the shrewdest traders of the Orient and came back with rich carages. The second were men who knew best and honor most. They are the men who won the west. They set out with gum and axe and an unconquerable spirit and opened for mankind new zones of safety and of opportunity. The new pioneers are armed not with gum and axe but with test tails, microscopes and minds, richly stored with modern science. NUMBER 77 "Thanks to them and to the millions in the past who have had the passion for improvement, the world is now active on three frontiers. First, the frontier of natural resources of the inner realm of the mind. Third, the frontier of the new social order. Pioneers in the realm of external nature have discovered to us an inexhaustible reservoir of nature A—Frontiers Sighted by men A—Frontiers Sighted By Men "The last frontier, that of the social order, claims the energies of many of the closest pioneers of our time. Men and women with the spirit of the neighbor in their hearts and the maximus of empathy in their means by·which communities may work together for the productions of great social values for all. The power inherent in modern populations. It released by proper ideals and team work, is beyond computation. The individualism of the old pioneer is an extension of the new pioneer and the time may soon come when a private-spirited man will be as much of a curiosity on the streets of a modern city as would a cave man. "The most important discovery on the last century is that men are now in sight of means of control of their minds and there is the possibility of a directive psychology which will ban depressing, depressing, destructive thoughts. BUILD A FILL OF JOY SAVVY. "If progress is to be maintained, the whole system of public education must concentrate its energies in developing to the utmost this problem solving passion. "We may well take off our hats to the past but we must take off our coats to the future. The finest heritage for our children who are to live in the new era will be such an education as would enable them to help themselves to the utmost and to find supreme satisfaction in overcoming the obstacles induced by new and complex conditions." Bourbon County Club Enterrains Bourbon County Club Enterrains As a result of the banquet that Bourbon County Club gave at Fort Scott during the holidays and at which it awards a football team of honor and K. U, alumni and high school seniors present, an active alumna organization was formed with Streeter Blair as president and Floyd Doubettley secretary-treasurer. Dr. Forrets C. Allen, director of athletics at K. U, Ernest Blince, E. W. Bower and G. W. Clwe were speakers and alumnus who said that K. U was every Kansasian's book. Literature concerning the University was given to those at the banquet. Kappa Sigma fraternity is giving a house dance Saturday night. Student Lost Finger Tip In Revolving Machin UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921. Benjamin Reynes, e24. one of the Philippino students enrolled in the University, suffered the loss of the tip from a broken finger on Thursday afternoon in Fowler shops. Reynes was using a jointer and through carelessness got a finger too near the fastly revolving blades and a little of the flesh was clipped off. The bone was not touched and no permanent injury done. The injured finger suffered from bruising and the right blood Reynes fainted, but the application of several hands full of snow soon revived his and first aid was applied. LECTRICALS CHOOSE STAFF FOR MAGAZINE march Number of Kansas Engineer Will Be Electrical Harold Anderson and Dwight Beard were elected editors and Clark Davis and Harold Smith were elected business managers for the electrical number of the Kansas Engineer at the regular meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers recently. The electrical number will probably be issued as the March number of the magazine. The society is planning a big open electrical meeting in the near future for all of the engineers, and tentative arrangements were also formulated for the electrical students' part of Engineer's Day. The program included talks by Seymour Crank and Dana McCall, students in the school, on "The Village," "Lighting" and "The White Way." WILL BANQUET LEGISLATORS To Talk Over School Problems With Kansas Teachers Topeka, Jan. 14.—One of the novel events in connection with the coming meeting of the Council of Administration and the Educational Council of the Kansas State Teachers' Association to be held in Topeka, January 20, 21, and 22, will be a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce to the members of the Kansas Legislature by the teachers of Kansas. This banquet will be held Friday evening, January 21, and will be given under the auspices of the Kansas State Teachers' Association. Two women will present and women and women of Kansas will purchase tickets for the banquet paying a sufficient amount for the tickets to provide for two hundred complimentary one to be issued to the matron and the leading state officers. Brief after-dinner talks will be made following the banquet by a number of representative school people. Referring to the banquet today, F. L. Pinet, Secretary of the Kansas State Teachers' Association, said, "We want them to be involved and talk over some of the vital school problems of Kansas with the members of the Legislature. We believe that this frank and open way of meeting the members of the Kansas State Teachers' Association was old fashioned method of butt-holing individua members." Clubs Will Promote Music Week in Kansas From January 23 to 20 will be known as music week in Kansas. The week was designated by the Kansas State Federation of Music that met at Pittsburgh This is a time when music lovers | hope to create an interest in music in every city and country home. The local music clubs throughout Kansas are co-operating with the churches and special musical programs are being prepared for the summer. The children are planning to end the week with an evening of community singing. U. S. People Mostly in Cities Washington, Jan. 13—Less than half of the population of the United States live in rural territories; the u.S. censuses only about 450,000 people in population in 51.4 per cent of the total, counting as urbans all who live in places of 2,500 or more inhabitants, according to the bureau. I. S. People Mostly in Cities Gamma Phil Beta freshmen have invited the upper classmates to a party to be held in Engles Hall, February 19. WILLIAMS TALKS ON EUROPE ERING London and Paris Have Subway System Extending Under Entire Cities SWISS RAILWAYS ELECTRIC European Engineers Conside Aesthetic Qualities While Americans Want Durability Prof. C. C. Williams of the department of civil engineering gave the nert to last freshman engineering lecture of this semester, in the Assembly Room, Marvin Hall, Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. He spoke on "Engineering Problems in Europe." Professor Williams spent last summer in Europe, and in his first semester slide pictures which he had made from photographs that he took while there. In his discussion of the economic side of engineering in Europe, Professor Williams showed that their problems are much the same as those in American. High wages, inefficient labor, lack of building material, and other difficulties are great drawbacks to new projects on the continent and in England. Professor Williams spoke in detail of the transportation facilities of various of the European countries. He contrasted the subways in New York to the highways in London, by showing that those in New York are merely for the purpose of relieving especially congested districts, while those in London and Paris are really comprehensive systems that extend under the entire cities. DUTCH STREET CARS NOISELESS He described the street railways in Holland, saying that they were almost noiseless in their operation. The tracks and the cars are kept in such condition there that the cars glide along like rubber-tired vehicles, and contrast very strikingly with the streets cars in American cities. Prof Williams told of the electrification of the Swedenshire coast by which they can produce three million electric horse power, through their water power. The streams in Europe are kept from flooding by levers, by reservoirs, and by straightening the. The villages were the dure of the rivers, and much land that would otherwise be waste is thus recclaimed. According to Professor Williams, there is a possibility of the Mississippi river being used as an arm of the ocean, in much of the country, the Thames and the Seine are used. "That streams may be controlled by engineers like other forces of nature, is something that Europe has realized," said Professor Williams, "and it is a lesson that America has yet to learn." SHOWS ENGINEERING PICTURES A number of the pictures, which were shown, illustrated the difficulties which the engineers in Holland and in Venice have in constructing buildings. Holland they can no rock base on which to stand their foundations, and in Venice they have to place all buildings on piles. In closing, Professor Williams showed how the engineers in Europe take the aesthetic qualities into consideration when planning their structures. The American engineers only built one building having qualities, but in Europe they aim to design their work in an artistic manner. Civil Engineers Plan Debate and Banque A business meeting of the University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers was held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Vinn Hall. Plans for a civil engineering banquet were discussed, and the date for the debate tryouts for the Mechanician-Civil Debate was set for Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 oclock at the first of the year, the civil engineering students challenged each department of the School of Engineering to a debate, but the Mechanical Society is the only one that has its attention in February; the debate will be in February, and the proposition is the much argued question of Engineer-Law and Missouri-Kansas fame that is receiving so much attention on the Hill at present. The proposition is, that labor should have care in the management of industry. - Send the Daily Kansan home MISS MITCHELL IN DIGEST There was published in the Literary Digest of Jan. 8 an excerpt from an interesting article in the American Magazine on the Woolworth building in New York City. The author of the story was Miss Annah Mitchell, a former student in the department of Journalism here. Excerpt Taken From Her Ameri ican Magazine Article Miss Mitchell worked on papers in Lawrence for t time after her graduation and was linger the next day. She is now the City Star. At present she is on the staff of the New York Tribune, writing interviews and book reviews Her story of life in the Woolworth building was both realistic and interesting and its worth was shown by the many articles she published an article concerning it. SUNDAY TO BE FIRST BIRTHDAY OF LEAGUE First Council Meeting Held a Paris On Sabbath One Year Ago Geneva, Jan. 14—The first birthday anniversary of the League of Nations occurs Sunday, January 16. On that day a year ago the first meeting of the Council was held at Paris and the formal organization of the League effected. The intervening twelve months have been much troubled by echoes of the great war and by the feverish efforts of the world to reach some sort of new equilibrium. The bandera then placed on the first at left. handicap thus placed on the first attempt at a world-wide international organization has been tremendous. A year ago the League had twenty-three declared members. Today it has forty-nine Nicaragua and Honduras having completed their rattifications, while the forty-one delegations comprising the Assembly were still in session at Geneva, where six new members were granted admission, two of The peer members of the League represent an estimated total population of 1,217,000,000 to which can be added another 12,000,000 people living in mandatory territories. Eleven more states, with a total population of 44,000,000 have applied for membership, leaving a total of only 38 million. One year ago the League machinery consisted of the Council and an incipient Secretariat with insufficient temporary quarters at London. Today it has six offices in this city, where the staff of the General Secretariat, consisting of several hundred people from a score of countries, occupies 175 rooms, while a nearly building has $8 more rooms than the ones offered for the various member states. About sixty international treaties have been registered by a score of nations under the Covenant provision for open diplomacy. TO GIVE NEW SWEDISH COURSE "The course aims to introduce the student into Sweedish literature and cultural life," said Professor Sturtte, most vivid this morning. "To this End, lectures are given upon certain periods of Swedish literature and certain representative works are read, such as Teegner's "Fritithiagsa." A new course in Swedish will be given by the Modern Language department next semester, under Prof. A. M. Stortevant, it was announced today. Modern Swedish (59-b) is the name of the course, which will be given at 8:30 o'clock, three days a week for three hours credit. Prof. A. M. Sturtevant Gives Three-Hour Instruction Book Sale Frat Open to All The members of Sigma Tau Sigma, salesmanship fraternity, whose insta- llation was announced Thursday, are composed of University students and many members of other mer ers work, it was explained by a member of the organization this morning. Book salesman from any concern are eligible for membership, after they have made the required minimum, he declared, and other organization members mentioned their representatives were represented the organization. There are twelve stu- dents in the charter membership. Students who desire further information on the course may discuss the work at he German office, at 10:30 o'clock, any day next week. STUDENT BOARD MAY DROP NEXT SEMESTER Present Rate of $7.50 a Week Claimed Too Much by Consumers REPORT DROP OF 50 CENTS Five Year Ago, Board wa $4.00—Jumped During War to $7.00 The price charged for board by University boarding houses next semester is arousing much unofficial comment among the students. The present price, $7.50 a week, is deemed too high as a general rule, in view of the recent drop in retail prices of retail commodities. A rate of $7 a week for board has been set in some houses by the proprietors, it is unofficially said by students eating at boarding houses, but at even this reduced rate there is som complaint. Boarding house keepers claim that the increases since September, 1919, has been only fifty cents, and that a suit against him count is unjustified by the conditions. The boarding house rates, as nearly as can be approximated, for the last five years, were: 1917, $5.00 a week. 1918, $6.00 a week. 1919, $7.00 a week. 1920, $7.50 a week. The approximate prices of the principal grocery staples, as approximated to a Kansas reporter at noon on Tuesday, July 17, were "before the war" as are follows: Sugar, cwt. 9.50 30.00 6.00 Potatoes, cwt. 3.00 7.00 1.50 Rice, lb. .10 .173 .08 Beans, lb. .10 .15 .07 Dried Fruit, lb. .30 .30 .20 Bread, 12 oz. .10 .10 .05 Coffee, lb. .50 .65-65 .40 Corn, canned .15 .15 .08 Yr. Before Now Ago War Flour, cwt. $5.80 $7.00 $2.50 RAOUL PIERET MADE PREMIER OF FRANCE Former President of Chamber of Deputies Announces His Provisional Acceptance Paris, Paris, 14—Raoul Pierret, president of the chamber of deputies today provisionally accepted the premiere offered him by President Mili It was understood the new premier will offer the post of foreign minister to Aristide Briand. Former President Bidens would become a minister of finance. Pieret made the announcement of his accoste of th office after his conference with the President. Pieret was popular as president of the chamber and was relected to that office Monday. New Era of Study Revived By "Finals' A revival of learning, has struck the University of Kansas. This Renaissance makes its appearance semi-annually, usually during the months of January and June, suspiciously near the "femals." People never suspected of having the remotest relations with women, but now they realize themselves between two pages of some volume not merely for recreation. The speed with which note books are increasing in bulk is surprising. Attendance at classes is on the increase, as is the number of students who linger around the Professor's desk after class until the professor has obviously made a mental note of the importance of an approach of Spooner library is increasing in popularity, indicating that the seating capacity will have to be enlarged if its popularity increases proportionally in the next week. Two More Fellowships Open Next Semester Two Fellowships will be open next semester, one in the department of sociology and the other in the department of Spanish. Two of the fifteen Fellows, Miss Martha Thompson, who has recently been married, and Mr. Earl Shepard have resigned, leaving the vacancies. City Population Less In Kansas Than Rural Kansas has 353,275 more people living on farms than in towns and cities of more than 2500, according to the statement made public Thursday by the United States census bureau. Kansas is an exception to the general rule, for more than one-half of the population of the United States is living in cities, according to the 1920 census. The city population numbers 45,318,632, a gain of more than 5 per cent over 1910. The rural population is 51,390,739, and has lost between 10 per cent in in areas with the exception of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. The states showing the largest increase in their urban population are Michigan, Texas, Ohio and Oklahoma. LEGISIATURE RESTS OVER THE WEEK END Judiciary Committee Keeps a Work on Big Appropriation Measures Topkis, Jan 14—When the house of representatives finished its days work Friday, it was to adjourn over until Monday, when both houses of the legislature were expected to get down to work in earnest. Although the senate adjourned for the week end Thursday, its judicial committee was in session. Thursday afternoon, and Chairman Snyder said he expected to keep the committee hard at work in an effort to get the big appropriation measures out of the way early. Opinion seemed to be general today, but the close fight in the house over the Lambertson resolution to shu off all permanent highway legislation for a period of two years, presages much trouble for any highway legislature, and the senator sought to have his resolution adopted at once, but a sub-motion to refer it to the road committee carried just one vote. After the fight was over, Lamberton stated that if the committee did not make a report within five days, he proposed to start a fight to have his resolution adopted. ENGLISHMEN2PREFER BOXERS They Don't Like Plain American Fight New York, Jan, 15—As a class the English don't think very much of American fighters. They cling to the notion that while American punch ends fights it does not with them. After Frank Moran had knocked out Joe Beckett in the second round of a recent bout, the Loudenors refused credit to the American. One expert at the ringside commented: "Up to the time Beckett was knocked out he was winning." Tommy Burns, former heavyweight champion, writing expert stuff for "Sporting Life" in an analysis of the bout said: "Beckett lost because he couldn't take a punch." He then devoted several hundred words to the fine showing that the flattened British champion made in the first round. However, America is to send a "Moses" to England that may lead them out of their darkness about the inferiority of American champions." Jack Britton, the walterweight king, is going over in February to pull the first 1921 revival of his old brother act with Ted Lewis. Britton, thirty-five year old war veteran of the ring, is now the third several seasons ago, is hardly considered when Americans are discussing affa affairs. But if London does not go crazy over him, it will be surprising. He's just their type of a ringman. Nice looking, a craveful man, and a good boxer, with some punch. Ted Lewis, by two victories over Johnny Bamish, in which he frat wont and then proved his right to the British welterweight championship won a place in the affection of Pleachella Carnioner, almost a national idol. Unless part of the affection is due to a native son love for Lewis, Britton should prove just as popular because he has praven his ring superiority over the blonde Ted time after time. Bat Levainby, stabalone of Britton, is also oiling across and since the day he met Romy Wells, the Battler also may have a profitable and popular visit there. U. S. INVESTIGATES LANGDON'S MURDER Incident is Called "Serious and Regretable" in Note to Japan NO INDEMNITY IS ASKED But State Department Insists on Family's Compensation Washington, Jan. 14—The killing of Lieut. W. H. Langdon by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok is "sirious and regretable," the state department has informed the Japanese government, it developed here today. The note to the Japanese government along these lines as sent by the state department to the American embassy in Tokyo last night. Nention was made of indemnity, if the Japanese department still is considering asking that compensation be given to Langdon's family. The department at the same time asked that Japan take "adequate steps" for rectifying the wrong as far back as possible, returning recurrence of such incidents. INDUSTRIAL JUDGE TO LECTURE HERE Covl. Presiding Judge Will Tell of Workings of New The Honorable W. L. Huggins, presiding judge of the Kansas Industrial Court, will speak Sunday evening at the Unitarian Church on the subject, "The Spirit of the Law Toward Labor." Not only has Judge Huggins presided over the industrial court since its creation, but he was also author of the bill which established it and has been largely responsible for the development of the idea. Judge Huggins will give first hand information as to the value and future development of this method of handling industrial disputes which he has seen as an able speaker and his visit to Lawrence affords an opportunity for students of the University to become more familiar with the political science professors are urging their students to attend the lectures. Mississippi Lawyer Chopped To Pieces Before Wife Meridian, Miss., Jas. 14—Moyo Price, prominent Meridian lawyer and former United States commissioner for this district was dragged from his bed early by two unidentified men who were shot with an axe while his wife looked on. Mrs. Price was unhurt, but was too hysterical to give a description of the men. No clue was found to their identity. Bloodhounds were sent for in an ef- fort to trail the slavers. The crime was deliberately planned, officers believed. Telephone wires lead ing to Price's house had been cut. A bloody axe, with which the murder is thought to have been committed was found on the front pore. Excitement is high here, and a lynching is feared if the guilty men are apprehended. Folmer Student Marries Foher Student Marries Arthur Remington Kelley, M. S.'15 Bernard Gilliam, bachelor's biological survey, department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., was recently married to Miss Marguerite Evangel Henrich at Berkeley, California. Mr. Kellogg entered the war with the 20th engineers from California, but was later detached by the government and assigned to the work of exterminating rats in the trench of Trench City, a collector. Mr. Kellogg was an member of the Sigma Xi, honorary scientific faternity. Mait Looled for $80,000 Mail Looed for $80,000 Chicago, Jan. 14—Three mail mails containing $80,000 were stolen when being carried from at Masonville to the railway station at Mount Vernon, according to information received by the postoffice inspectors here. The money was being sent to a mine to meet a payroll. Appropriation bill Washington—died. The House to- day has the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill, carrying a total of $130,000,000.