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PERHAPS THIS POINTS THE WAY
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1920.
In defense of the charge of $4.00 for the rental of senior caps and gowns it has been urged that a fund must be created to cover loss on gowns not returned. The necessity for this does not seem to exist at the Kansas State Agricultural College. The gowns for the senior class at that institution were rented from E. R. Moore and Co., 932 Dakin St., Chicago, Il., at $2.25 each. They are rented to the seniors by the Manhattan book stores at $2.35 each.
OVERALL CRAZY
A margin of ten cents profit seems to be enough to reimburse and protect a commercial institution like a book store. But, of course, a committee made up of members of the class could hardly be expected to do business on a margin of profit which would satisfy a mere dealer.
Un thinking twice, is not this overall craze sweeping the country very foolish?
We find by inquiry that the present supply of these garmaments is far from supplying the demand. This is due to the scarcity of labor in the overall factories and also in the denim factories. When we think of the matter in this way it does not seem to be a desirable means of reducing the H.C.L.
It is very probable that this craze of donning denim will subside within a week or two. If it does, see what has been done. We will have uselessly spent three, five, two dollars more; we will have taken off the market many garments which the laborer practically must have; we will have created such a demand and such a security that the price of them will climb still higher.
Inseud of encouraging this movement here at the University, why not let this institution be the brithplace of its discouragement?
THE BONUS
Dreams of a bonus for ex-service men seem to have a good chance of becoming a reality, with the approval by the House Bonus Committee of a plan calling for $1 for each day of service.
According to the program, approximately 3,800,000 sailors, sailors marines, and nurses will be benefitted, and the plan calls for the expenditure of a billion dollars, the money to be raised by a tax of one-half of 1 per cent on all sales.
A cash bonus of $1 for each day of military service to men who served sixty days or more in the world war.
The salient features of the plan which has been tentatively agreed on by the house subcommittee are:
Payments to be made in four equal quarterly installments as a new tax levy is collected.
No ex-service man to receive a bonus unless he applies for it within six months after the law is enacted.
No bonus to be given to veterans who received any pay from their private employers while in the military service.
No bonus to be given officers or men of the regular army, navy or marine corps or those who were on detached service.
Persons entitled to a cash bonus who prefer aid in vocational education or purchase of a home in the city or country may be given a credit of probably $1.50 for each day of service instead of $1 a day cash.
The proposed bill is receiving favorable commendation from ex-service men of the University. One of the features which appeals strongly to them is the provision calling for aid in vocational training in preference to the cash bonus. There are approximately two hundred ex-service men attending the University of Kansas this year. Most of them received their discharge from the service only a short time before school opened last fall and consequently they had no opportunity to earn funds to defray the expense of a college education; some of them are borrowing money to help them through this year. If the plan, as at present agreed upon, is enacted by both the House and the Senate, a large percentage of these men will ask for vocationa aid, not because it calls for a bonus of $1.50 a day as compared with the $1 a day cash bonus, but because they desire the university for higher training.
The tax of one-half of 1 per cent, which is it proposed to levy on "turnovers" in business, would it, is estimated, raise enough money in one year to pay off the entire amount required for the bonuses. Under the plan, farmers, producers of raw materials, and men doing a business of less than $2,500 a year, would be exempt from the tax. The extra one-half per cent tax would not become a burden on the shoulders of the tax-payers.
Reports from Washington indicate that the House is expected to act on the bill this week, while there is a disposition among some of the members of the Senate to delay action until after the two party conventions.
The question of bonuses should not be made a matter of politics. The men who left their civil occupations at the back of their Government did not wait several months before beheading the call to arms. They are entitled to some remuneration. The majority of them left positions which were paying higher salaries than they received in the service. To many of them it was a losing proposition, financially.
Out of deference to the men who defended the nation in the war, Congress should not further delay action on the question of bonuses.
Vocabulary Building
From a correspondent comes this unusual query, which may be passed on to our readers: "What is the best method to acquire a large vocabulary?" Is there a "best" method? No doubt many methods have been tried, and perhaps personal experience would be more illuminating. In general, teachers with due deference to teachers of rhetoric, it might be supposed that the choice of method should be governed by circumstances. Enlarging one's vocabulary at the age of forty, for example, is a different matte from enlarging it at fifteen, and may call for a different method. Persona habit, too, must count for much; some people are good at schemes of self-improvement, while others can never carry a diary beyond some degree of system or learning new words should not be too formidable to be kent up.
It would probably be a mistake, too to centre attention too exclusively on words, which are but a means for expressing ideas. To enlarger one's personal vocabulary the most obvious method is to enlarge one's need of a large and well-asserted stock of words used in writing and a more resolute effort to express thoughts with clearness, precision, and felicity. This process is like constructing a mosaic out of blocks that vary in size, shape and color—everybody who has worked at dissected picture puzzles knows what it is like. Once in a million times a piece may be missing, the puzzle would go up in despair. But almost always there is a word that drop click into the gaping hole and patience has its reward. —Springfield Republic.
Campus Opinion
Mr. John Lin Shua Supt. of University Buildings and
Mr. John Em Shea,
An Open Letter
Grounds,
Lawrence, Kans
Dear John:
I wish to drop you a few lines of greeting and unsolicited advice which may help you in your noble work of elevating the student taste in landscape gardening. Your work is very arduous, and the quarter-section of dirt which you must keep in shape undoubtedly is keeping you very busy.
Briefly, the suggestion is this: in view of the small and inadequate allowance made by the University budget for the work of beautifying the campus, why not swell the treasury to provide funding for University parking space? $ ^{*} $
The automobiles that park on the campus are admittedly a great advantage to the University because they allow us to take up but little space, and the remainder of the 160 acres could be very well given over to parking the cars of students,
The graduated tax could be justly apportioned in two ways: the first, with regard to position, and second, in regard to make of car. Position on the greenward just south and east of the east wing of Ad would undoubtedly command a very high figure, and in regard to make of car. Position on the fine Artists who work such long hours. Another valuable position would be just on the crossings, where the occupants could enter and leave their vehicles with the least exertion. The make of car would have an important influence on the prestige thus developed by the department; it should charge the biggest cars the least amount for parking, and thus encourage the ownership of palatial cars by the students. Owners of dingy, utilitarian, and economical flippers, could, in view of the small amount of prestige given to the institution by such vehicles, very well afforded. The revenue thus taken in would easily be enough to install a complete system of beautiful landscape gardenning at the University, with perhaps enough left over to decorate some of the front-yards. If the system works as well as its principles fit in with the requirements, probably would be obtained to build several new buildings, and provide for more modern housing facilities for the classes. After a new animal house a stadium, a student communals, and a botanical garden had been created possibly some attention (and possibly finances) could be turned to the matter of increasing the salaries of the faculty.
I am. then
Sincerely, Pedestrian.
NOT TOO LATE, SAYS ALMA MATER
Arbor Day, April 16, was set aside by Governor Allen for the planting of trees, was observed at the State Normal School at Emporia and taught the students that mer students lost their lives in the World War. Rows of elms and white oaks were planted near the athletes' compound where the men had metaphorically.
Editor. Doily Kempst.
Of Interest to Women
The State University planted no tree for anything or anybody. Our big memorial to our gold star men and women is the planting of trees before the great plan can be materialized. And if we had planted just one tree out of respect to the Governor and the historic custom of the state we should not plant it.
Alma Mater.
creature does not need to coll to spring. True, he is often colled when he starts his interesting aerial flight, but such position is not necessary. So do not feel offended if he neglects this formality when you meet him.
This is the season of the year when our companionable reptile friends are coming out from their long hibernation. As we stroll around over the soggy spring fields we may see them in the sun or retreating before our careless sten.
But it is not yet too late. Nature is kind this spring to her poor derelicts. No memorial can be more beautiful than gracious growing trees. And nothing can foster a greater interest in the campus than the Chancellor ask for an appropriate convolution on an early date. Let Mr. Shea decide where the trees will be most effective and call for volunteers to mobilize our forces, and in turn help us navigate the inexcusable carelessness. Never can we put the University first by permitting it to lag along Last.
Rattleknes do not lay eggs but the young are born alive. The rattlesnake family consists of nine species and can shift for themselves a very few hours after birth. They do not hang around for mamma to look out for them; strangely enough they do not seem to need this parental protege.
Biologists are nearly agreed that you can tell the age of a rattler by the number of rattles which he has. He acquires a new one every time he gets a new skin, and this happens several times a year.
Our friend the ratcatcher is coming out from the hillside at this time of the year and it is interesting how he has always thought, this gentle
If Howat has any sensibilities at all don't you think he must feel stepped on because Oakaua considers the town to be his own, the town, even though he is in jail?
Is the resolution indored at the Methodist conference in New York lifting the ban on dancing a step towards peace at Baker?
A telegraph dispatch tells vals of a man in Buffalo who was "shot in the fractions." This reminds us of the city to have her limon cut out.
A newspaper headline which seems to be a little ambiguous is the following: "Kills Widow, Then Himself."
A wise man in Philadelphia, who has twelve children, hit upon the bright idea the other day of an easy way to take the bills the first of the week. Some come in by the couch loads. Laughing gas in large cases is his remedy.
Javhawks Flown
Notice of the death of Miss Macey Lynette Aldrich, A. B. '12, A. M. '13, has been received. Miss Aldrich was an instructor at Martha Washington College for women in Abingdon, WA. Her death was caused by influenza.
Murray, G. Hill, A. B. '94, M. A.' 97, who is now employment manager of a large department store in Cleveland, O. is visiting at the Pi Upia house and with other friends in Lawrence.
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Surmounting the pole is a huge figure of the owl, the same symbol of wisdom as may be seen-on the corner of Spooner Library. As it symbolized wisdom, the owl was taken as the emblem of the University.
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The next figure on the pole is a human hydr, the most conspicuous feature of which is the bulging brow. This is intended to represent the senior class. Below it are the initials of the school, "K. S. U."—it was Kansas State University in those days—and next in order is the symbol of the junior class, a pony, which was meant to show the means by which that class got through school. The figure of his Satanic Majesty represents the sophomores, and below that is a saddle, symbolizing the freshmen, who were traditionally fresh from the farm. The class numerals are the last carvings on the pole.
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