THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STATE Editor-In-Place Associate Editor ... Geneva Hunter Campus Editor ... Hera Crower Campus Editor ... Glazes Olea Telegraph Editor ... M. L. Peck Alumni Editor ... John J. Kiatlon Alumni Editor ... John J. Kiatlon Plain Teaches ... Gilbert Swosnot HAROLD Hall ... Business Mgr HENRY B. McCurdy, A&T Business Mgr FLOYD Honehall ... Circulation Mgr Burt E. Cochran Ormond P. Hill Aldrich Disk Donald J. Robinson Jonathan Alfred P. Malone Alfred J. Graves Dana Maolt Larry R. Smith Beavers Luther Hangens Boehr Shores Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1918, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $3.50 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $1.50 for a term of three months; 50 cents a month; 15 cents a week. Published in the afterfour five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kentucky as members of the department of Journalism. Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phones. Bell K. U. 25 and 88. The Daily Kananeni sime to picture the undergraduate Life of the University of Kansas. The news by standing for the ideals the University demands, she tells the news to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be wise; to be wiser heads; in all, to serve to the heat of its ability the students of FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920 THANKS TO DEAN BUTLER When the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra played the last notes of their program Wednesday night, the most successful concert course in the history of the University was eroded. The audience, which was the largest ever assembled in Robinson Gymnasium for a musical performance, was emphatic in its enthusiasm for the orchestra and solo number. Mr. Oberhoffer, conductor, has succeeded in gathering together a very notable group of accomplished musicians, and University audiences have learned that his programs always please. To Dean Butler of the School of Fine Arts is due the credit for arranging a concert course which has been so artistically and financially successful. It is indeed, because he has dared to book the best attractions possible, even at high cost, that the concert course has been supported so well. There will be no dimacity next year in disposing of tickets for the course because University and Lawrence persons know the quality which may be expected. CLOTHES AND THE MAN Clothes, clothes, clothes—their prices, styles and patches! Has any one thing been a more universal topic of conversation since the armistice was signed? We hear clothes at the dinner table in street cars, and at the office, the newspapers devote columns to it and the Senate takes valuable time to discuss it. And whatever the cause of the present agitation—overman facturer or indignant public—it has given the contemplative individual quantity of food for thought. Just what, he wonders, are the real benefits to be derived from clothes besides comfort and utility? Or, indeed, are there any? Simplicity is the cry of people and press. Let us pull away, say public sentiment, from the extravagant living andiolatty of dress which is undermining our country's democratic institutions by upfake standards. And undoubtedly both the demand and the accession are Just. Americans, as a people, are extravagant and if the money spent in one year on merely the superfluities of dress could be added up, no doubt it would reach an astonishing figure. But is all the expenditure for clothing beyond bare necessity an indication of foolish foppery and false pride? Are there not asthetic values that should be recognized not merely as legitimate, but as desirable? And even though standards of style and mode might well be raised, are there not standards of beauty which should be encouraged? It has been claimed that clothes make the man. Clothes do not make the man, but the man makes the clothes he wears, and how often they are indicative of his refinement and taste, or the lack of it! We demand graceful architectural and artistic landscape gardening, believing it to be of real cultural value. Then why should not our personal appearance be as pleasing as possible? this is not anti-old-clothes propaganda. The old-clothes movement is highly commendable and, it is hoped, will succeed in its purpose of lowering prices. But in our enthusiasm for simplicity we should not swing to a senseless extreme and thus defeat our own purpose. Surely there is a middle course which, if followed, will set standards of dress according to artistic simplicity rather than extremeness of style and the dollars involved. Campus Opinion The Purpose Of Overalls ter Daily Kansan: In an editorial headed "Overall Crazy" apearing in the Kansan of April 20, the present movement to *demand* him was attacked and discouraged. The point taken was, in brief, that there is already a scarcity in the supply of overalls, that the movement to wear overalls will take off of the market these garments which the laborer must have, and that the "overall craze" will probably abside within a week or two anyway. This editorial utterly fails to take a broad or comprehensive view of the movement. The purpose of this movement is not to parade new denims, but to provide an alternative to the present exorbitant prices of clother, whether this is done by wearing overalls, last year's clothes, or fig leaves, is immaterial. The object is to cut the consumption of clothes wool and fabrics, with a view to lessening the demand. Ed T. Hackney, the Parr Price Commissioner of this state, declared recently that approximately one-fourth of the clothing now being produced is made on the overtime of working men. The serious shortage in wool, resulting from the tremendous consumption of third-hand yarn, has yet been entirely relieved, and serves to render the clothing problem more acute. Thinking people the nation over have long been considering how the situation might be relieved. They have hit upon the logical solution, but it's hard to imagine the movement to wear overalls is a spontaneous step in that direction. But it is not necessary that we all buy new overalls. Ine purpose can be achieved just as well by wearing last season's garments a while longer, or maybe we need to undertake the style changes, or they come a trifle threadbare. The student who wears his last year's clothes, the ex-soldier who wears his skakes, the ex-gob who wears his dungarees, and all are knocking the props out from under the high prices. The movement appears to be nation-wide and if persisted in for several mouths, is bound to succeed. There are a number of reasons wearing overalls to achieve a bizarre appearance, and who will cast them aside in a week or so, but those who really are trying to check the consistency of their persist until their object is attained. An observation of students on the campus will show that comparatively few are wearing new or updated clothing and are wearing old khakis, corduroys or fatigue clothes. The laboring man's supply of overalls is not threatened by the change in student fashion. All of the University are taking in order to fight the high cost of clothes. Impartial. Editorial Note—The Daily Kanas heartily endorses any sane movement for conservation and economy in clothes. The spirit of the movement will best be served, however, the Kanas believe, by wearing old clothes rather than by purchasing new denims. Jayhawks Flown One Thing I Liked John S. Worley, a holder of an M. S degree from this University has become famous as an engineer on municipal projects. As a member of the firm of Worley & Black, he has been connected with the construction in different cities of this section of water works systems, water purification plants, electric light and power plants, sanitary sewer systems, sewage disposal plant systems, sewage treatment plant. He is now in direct charge of the valuation of common carriers in the western district, a work which is being carried on by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Worley has offices in both Kansas City and Washington. A series by University faculty members pointing out the good features of other universities and colleges where they have been. One of the notable characteristics of the University of Maine, which is my alma mater, is the interest taken in commencement week events by both students and faculty. It goes without saying that the alumni have a similar interest. What the student is the alumnus will be. No particular stress was laid on providing events of commanding interests in the earlier years while this spirit was growing. Probably the custom has simply persisted as a heraldage from a staircase into a few special steps have been taken to hold people. One practice started about twenty years ago was to hold a special convoction at which there would be reviewed the leading events of the year, such as matters of history, special acknowledgements rendered by the author. Written histories prepared for such an occasion made enrollment material for a permanent university history. Another and more recent step has been taken to offer some sort of award or inducement for the fraternity or other student organization when a graduate alumni back for commencement. This has been an effective measure. or myself, I cannot understand why students are so anxious to get away from their school surroundings. Neither can I sympathize with faculty members who shun the commencement events, or with alumni who make so much noise in a room no place in the world more appropriate for the university man to spend a few days than the environs of the institution that has placed its mark on him. In such a way, with the air freed from the pressure of grinding work, are formed the associations and networks provided there is mingling of all the groups. Nothing comes to those who only lounge about one house. To bring about such a condition calls for just one thing in unstinted amount—work. Cornell's endowment fund has reached $3,374,252. The goal is to be $10,000,000. —P. F. Walker, Dean of the School f Engineering. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS For Rent For Sale Lost Found Help Wanted Situation Wanted Classified Advertising Rates Telephone K. U. 66 Minimum charge, one insertion 55c; five insertions 75c; five insertions 85c; twelve to twenty-five word one insertion 85c; five insertions 75c. 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