THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-In-Chief  Herbert Little
Associate Editor  Joe Boyle
Charles Editor  James Carr
Campus Editor  Lucia Cleveland
Telegraph Editor  Tay Runnion
Journalist  Jay Russell
Flain Tales Editor  Peguline Newman
Exchange Editor  George Gage
Editor in Chief  John M. Schmidt
BUSINESS STAFF
BOARD MEMBERS
Henry B. McCundy ...Business Mgr.
Lloyd Rappaporte ...Astt. Business Mgr.
Deanne W. Mahtz ...Circulation Mgr.
Meda Smith
Rubh Armstrong*
Burt A. Cochran
Paul E. Flagg
Arthur G. Garvin
Ford Gettlibt
Gilbert O. Swenson
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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, 1875.
Published in, the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of History at the University of Kansas, from the press or the Department of Journalism.
Address all communication to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phone: 712-555 and 66
The Daily Kansas ams to pile
these gifts. The University of Kansas; to go fur-
ward in our mission; to stand for the ideals that
criteria; to be clear; to be cheerful;
to have more serious problems; to have more serious problems; to serve to the best of its ability the people of Kansas.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921
IN APPRECIATION
University publicity was given a boost Sunday when the Topoka Capitol, the largest newspaper in the space, tendered ten columns of its space to the students in the department of journalism. The articles included subjects of interest to the people of the state and were all written by students in the department.
The stories appearing in the paper help to coordinate the work of the county clubs which carried on an intensive campaign for new students during the past vacation. With the Capital publicity appearing as a climax to the county club campaign no doubt many high school seniors were influenced to continue their education in the University.
The legislators of the state read the Capital will have their eyes opened to a number of facts that otherwise they might never know. The University should heartily than the Capital for the services rendered just at this time when every effort is being made to help build a better understanding of the University.
SIGN HERE, PLEASE
Law students at the University of Oklahoma prepared a petition for an extension of the Christmas holidays, closing it with the statement;
How many people carefully inspect a petition offered to them to sign being placing their "John Henry" along with the rest of the "boys"?
"On which date at high noon we humbly request the faculty to publicly execute the soft-soaped, unthinking numkulbs and bonkbones who have hereto affixed their signatures."
Of course it was all a joke but—20 future barrister of Oklahoma affixed their names to the petition before one attorney-at-law to be insisted upon reading the entire petition before signing it.
It was circulated among junior and freshman law students at Norman the Wednesday preceding vacation. Included in the "goofa" were the president of the junior law class and a son of a law faculty member.
Of course no one at K. U. would do a thing like that, but you always read a preferred petition clear through before signing or do you obligate yourself by signing it blindly? Are you always in accord with the entire substance to a petition? Or do you sign it just to accommodate a friend because if you refused he might get sore at you?
THE BUDGET SYSTEM
The use of the budget system for controlling the financial end of various industries and institutions has grown steadily since its appearance. The efficiency of this system is well known and appreciated by leading financial experts and sound-headed
business men.
The hit-and-miss system now in use in the financial transactions of the United States government is an obstacle to the development of a systematic schedule for determining the expenditures and the probable deficit or surplus of the government's financial machine.
Congress has long realized this fact and its opinion crystallized into a measure for budget legislation which was passed last June but vetoed by the president because parts of it openly curtailed the executive power of the president as provided for in Article 2, Section 2, of the federal constitution.
The bill was modified and passed by the House a second time but failed in the Senate through organized opposition to any budget plan. Then the last congress closed without having any permanent work accomplished in the direction of modernizing the financial machine of the nation.
In the present short term, however, the bill is being reconsidered. President Wilson expressed the wish in his annual message that the legislation would be adopted during the session. The need for a budget system to regulate and determine the financial policy is paramount and should receive the consideration of Congress without further delay in order to help solve the pressing problems of transition and reconstruction.
A comprehensive budget system should do much to pave the way for more effective legislation when president-elect Hearst takes office in March, by clearing away the present ceb-wobbed system of administering to financial questions and politics.
THE PROFESSIONALS
Professional fraternities as a force in University life have been sadly neglected in recent years. Plans for forming a professional Pan-Hellenic now being put into effect are with the intention of making these organizations more than mere names of groups. Before the war the professionals were an important factor ip University life, but since that time, nearly all organized effort on the Hill has come from the social fraternities.
A program of athletic activity and means of regulating professional fraternity life are among the considerations to be taken up at meetings in the near future. But these are among the least of the means by which the professional Pan-Hellenic can benefit the University.
Knowledge over the state that students are sufficiently interested in their work as to form organizations to carry it on more efficiently and to discuss outside school hours is certain to benefit the University.
Social fraternities as a means of training men and women in the niceties of living together are a recognized institution of the University, but the existence of professional fraternities which have as an object similar training in the life work University students have chosen is unknown to many persons among the University's constitutivity.
If the new Pan-Hellenic can by a program of well-considered publicity bring the knowledge of their organization and the purposes for which they strive to the knowledge of the state, the name of the University will be held in higher esteem by the citizens.
THE W. S. G. A.
A large organization can command support and be successful only when every member of the organization has a knowledge of all activity of the representatives of the organization.
It is the purpose of this editorial to state briefly some of the accomplishments last year and so far this year of the Women's Student Government Association, an organization composed all women in the University. Every woman upon registration in the school automatically becomes a member. The Executive Council of fifteen members elected by the Association is merely the tee group selected to carry on the work week by week. Ultimate legislative power is vested in the Association as a whole. Besides the general run of business
the executive council last year per-
fected the organization of the House
President's Council; together with
the Men's Student Council managed
varieties and community parties, fostered the organization of county claubs and helped with enrollment; managed the Book Exchange; financed and
the Book Exchange; immaned and managed the sale of armbands in the Loyalty Movement; held teas during enrollment; established an eligibility standard of C average grade for all Council members; donated $100 to the Red Cross, supported a French orphan and gave $100 in scholarships. This year's council so far has produced and managed the 1920 May Patee and gave "the Follies of 21" and used the proceeds to support a French orphan, to give $50 to Armenian relief, a $50 scholarship to a freshman girl, and $40 in scholarships to organized houses; has restored the House President's Council; assisted in the dormitory and co-operative house movements; has managed varsity dances with the Mur's Council; managed the Book Exchange; helped with enrollment and has started other movements for the raising of University standards.
MORE CRIME
A report of the prison survey committee of New York gives the key to what may prove the solution of many cases where undeveloped mentalities are responsible for crime. It raises the problem of caring properly for the children of the grade schools who are undeveloped in mentality and judgment and who have no special training to guard against wrong intellectual development. Children should be examined early in life to determine if their mental age is the same as their chronological age. Sub-normal children should be aggregated from the others and special instruction given them to remove the cause of the retardation in mental development.
Dr. D. P. Hickling, a Washington medical authority, in a recent address said that mental diseases are largely preventable if their cure is undertaken in early stages.
He urged that those who are neither successful or happy to consult a mind specialist. The person who is groundy, discontented, discontented or self-centered is on the road to nervous collapse or insanity, he thinks and the time to take action is before the condition become chronic.
"SANDS OF TIME"
The leap year, of which we make so much fun, extends back to the time of the adoption of the "new style" or the reformed Gregorian calendar. The change in the calendar occurred in 1577, when a proposed change was adopted by all the Catholic princes. Aloysius Lilius a physician of Verona, projected a plan for the annunciation of the calendar which, after his death, was presented by his brother to Pope Gregory XIII. In 1628, Gregory issued a brief abolishing the Julian calendar in all Catholic countries, introducing in its stead the one now in use.
The amendment ordered that ten days were to be dropped after October 4, 1582, and October 15 was reckoned immediately after October 4. Every one hundredth year, which by the old style was to have been a leap year, was now to be a common year. The length of the solar year was now then to be 365 days. 7 hours, 49 minutes, and twelve seconds.
The amendment was introduced in Spain, Portugal, and the greater part of Italy. France dropped the ten days in December, and the following year the change was followed in Catholic Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Poland followed in 1886, Hungary in 1887, Holland and Denmark in 1700, and Switzerland in 1701.
In England, the Gregorian calendar was not adopted until 1752. January 1, was then adopted as the beginning of the legal year, and it was customary for some time to give two dates for the period intervening between January 1 and March 25, that of the old, and that of the new years. Russia alone retains the old style, which differs twelve days from the new.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
By Permission of Brentano's, New York
VERSE BY HARRY KEMP
Oh, a sailor hasn't much to bring—
an old skiff巾 around a damage bag
but, however humble he be,
he has the Ligurian be, he has the sea.
A SAILOR'S LIFE.
Oh, the long white leagues and the foam of it.
Oh, a sailor hasn't touch to love—
but he has the blue, hung sky above
the everlasting waves around,
That wash with an eternal sound.
And the heart to make a house, of it,
On a ship that kicks in waves behind
Through the blasting days and tense
seats blind.
So bury me, when I come to die.
Where the full-sailed, hooting clipe
ALUMNI NOTES
Give up the last cold body of me'
To the only home I have—the sent
Ella Lonnie Hagen, A. B. '18, is teaching in the home economics department at Garnett,
H. Clay Fisk, A. B. '16, is principal of the high school at Nowata, Oklahoma.
Glendon Alvine, a former student of the University, who is doing public work for Paramount Pictures in Lawrence and Lawrence in Lawrence Monday and Tuesday.
Wilford Hill, LL, B. 15 is practicing law at Cherokee, Oklahoma and is county attorney of Alfalfa county.
Violet Matthews, A. B.20, who is teaching in the Tonganoxie high school, spent the holidays with her parents in Topeka.
Bostree Baldridge, c23, whose home is in Chicago, but who spent a part of her vacation at a house-party in Iowa, returned to school Tuesday.
Hortense Slavens, c22, is not in K. U. this year, but is teaching in Illinois.
Elizabeth Sartin who was injured before the holidays is able to be back in school.
L. H. Dodd, c. c/14, is here at the University, and at the present time is working on the plans for the new stadium, under the direction of Prof. C. C. Williams, head of the department of civil engineering
Prof. H. A. Rice went to Topeken, Monday, to attend a meeting of the State Water Commission of which he is the secretary. The meeting was for the purpose of drafting a new water commission law.
K. U. Girl Makes Good
You open the door of the newspaper office of the Edinburgh Valley Review in Texas and a smiling little woman advances to meet you. She is the former editor of the University Daily Kansan at K. U. and is Mrs. Bessie Kershaw, who lives May Sammon o prominent girl in society at the University of Kansas.
Business was going briskly when the visitor entered. Mrs. Harma had just made out an assignment sheet which she finishes each morning when she goes to work for she is the city editor of the Edinburgh Valley Review. The visitor watches her as she prepares to make her morning beats. She covers the city, going from the court house, grain elevator to all the schools where she does she edit this regular news of the day but she is a sport writer and has been elected official score-keeper for the Valley Baseball League.
"How old are you," asked the visitor as he noticed Mrs. Harm's business air. She smiled and added that she was 21 and was a graduate of the University of Kansas, taking her degree in journalism.
"Mary Sam" as she was called in college, has always been enthusiastic over journalism but had decided that she would teach in Edinburgh. Upon her return to school, she superintendent of schools to apply for position. She, however, heard of a position on the Review and after talking to the editor she accepted at a salary of 450 a week. Since be she has she has gotten out 22 "auses."
In explaining her work Mrs. Harma pointed out that the Valley has room for many more young journalists. She said, "Having just one line of work as society, sports, woman's page, or even advertising is not near as delightful as writing up the big and little happenings, the sports, the lectures, the meetings, the meetings and correcting the copy and taking a few subscriptions each day and collecting the bills at the end of the month."
Gen. John Fraser, president of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, was elected Chancellor and President of the Faculty Dec. 4, 1867 to succeed Chancellor Oliver, who had resigned to go to Nebraska.
WANT ADS
TO RENT: One or two rooms for girls
Strictly modern, one block from
campus. Convenient to hotel. South and
West exposure. Call 2509, 67-53-233
LOST: A gold fountain pen (Moores)
Wednesday afternoon. Finder please
return to Kansan office. Reward.
67-2-32 67-2-32
PIANO TUNING--For high class piano tuning, player work and repairing. Call A. W. Welsh, practiced in the St. Louis, MO., Kansas, Phone 644-682-5360
FOR RENT—Room. Boys or girls.
Room and Board for four girls.
1108 Vermont. Call 1820. 68-5-253
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ROOM AND BOARD-For four girls,
Large southeast room, sleeping
porch. Modern house. Hot vault heat.
Call 2323 .Red 1225 .Kyss 6-8-238.
HAS ANYONE a Wells and Hart
Second Course in Algebra? We
will give double price for one. Paul Gould.
Phone 1728 Black, 69-3-240
FOR RENT- Modern southheast room
for two boys, 1216 Tenn.Call or telephone 2531 White 92-24-21
FOR RENT- A room for girls . Super if desired . Call 1218 Tenn. or call Black. 65-52-42.
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ROOMS FOR BOYS. Also garage.
1042 Ohio.Phone 1286 Red.70-5-244.
ROOMS FOR BOYS. 1345 Vermont.
Call. 2652 White. 70-5-245.
Call 2652 White. 70-5-245.
FOR RENT—Room for two girls.
1339 Teen, Call 1975. 70-2-246
ROOMS FOR RENT—For men. 1508
New Hamp, Phone 1690 Red.
705-417
70-5-247
FOR RENT—Rooms for boys. 1001 Miss. Phone 1599 Black. 78-5-248
LOST—A pair of brown gauntlet gloves. Room 9 West Ad. on Jan.
5th. Call 1546.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DALE, PRINT SHOP, 1027 Mass. St.
Phone 228.
AWARRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Ex-
cellence) makes glassware. Office 1925 Ma-
dr. M. L. CHABBURY 206 Main St. Seattle,
washington 98103. Drive no. 7, throat and ear.
aluminum to noose, throat and ear.
glassware
D. FLORENCE J. D. WARDSON—Osteopathic Physician. Office hours 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Phone 2237, 909 Mass Street.
DR, H. REDING—F, A. U. C., Building.
Ear, eye, nose and throat. Special
attention to fixing glasses and tonal
work. Phone 513.
DI. ALRIGHT - Charproctor-Radio-
Therapy - Message. Guards guar-
mented. 110. Mass. St. Phone. 1431.
Residence Phone 1761.
DR, G. W, JONES, A. M, Ma, M. D. Diseases of stomach, surgery and gyncology. Suite 1, F. A. C. UBLIG. Phones 175, 184, RSIS, 262, Hospitalades.
DR. J. R. BECHEFTT, Rooms 3 and 4
Office 125, Office 126, Office
Phone 315, Phone 124, Phone
MAE P. CRAIG, public stonetographer,
Bachelor's Degree in Public
Stonetographing from Blvd.
Hibor Phone No. 6. Depositations
are at Blvd. Hibor Bank.
Varsity
CHRISIPREACTORS
DRS, WELCHE and WELCH—PALMER
GRADUATES. Office 297 Mass. St.
Phones. Office 115. Residence 115K.
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