APRIL 26,1918
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THEA SIGMA PHI EDITION OF UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918.
CONVENTION IS HERE
The women of Theta Sigma Phi have been looking forward all year to the inspiration and beneficial influences of a national convention. It is especially appropriate that we are meeting at a University where the profession of Journalism has received so much attention. Not only the University but the state of Kansas is well known throughout the country as a stronghold of newspaper work. In addition to the recognition gained by individual men and women, the press of the state as a whole has upheld the higher ideals of Journalism. This background of successful newspaper experiences and the hearty co-operation of the University authorities and the department of Journalism furnish a fitting atmosphere for our first meeting.
It has been a privilege to meet the chapter delegates and to know they represent the women who are preparing to enter the field of Journalism. But one of the brightest memories of this convention will be the hospitality of Epsilon chapter of the University of Kansas. To its members we are indebted for the excellent entertainment and the opportunity of hearing the splendid speakers who were with us westerday.
The delegates attending the first convention of Theta Sigma Phi most sincerely appreciate and enjoy the royal welcome which has been extended to them by the University of Kansas.
CASSIE LAWRENCE BRYANT.
Grand Treasurer, T. S. P
A QUESTION
In the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi now in session on the campus, a meeting representative of some hundreds of women scattered over the country either engaging or preparing to engage in the profession of Journalism, is seen a startling indication of the way in which the feminine sex is fast encroaching upon a field.long held sacred to men. Surely it is a far cry from the George Sand and George Eliot of only a few generations back to the modern woman writer. Those pioneers, brave yet timid, who behind a masculine nome de plume offer strange contrast to the ambitious young writer of today who announces her profession and, often, it must be confessed, with far less justification than her famous prototypes, rushes boldly into print. Hundreds of young women these days, burning with ambition for a career in the field of letters, are hastening to colleges and universities for technical training in their chosen profession. How the great Georges would have thrilled at such rich op-
We hear it often that woman is now coming into her own and nowhere is this more obvious than in the field of journalism.
Everybody has heard the arguments in her behalf. Even men editors admit woman's right to a place in the sun when they declare that newspapers are written very largely for women and that it follows they might as well be written by women. Patent to all who run and read is the big part played by woman in the world of magazine and fiction. Like prohibition, her outward march is invitable.
And now, with great opportunities at her disposal and with everything in her favor, will the modern woman writer do anything vital in literature, or will she be content to be a mere ghost of the profession. In other words will opportunity and favor give birth to a greater than George Elliot?
That is one of the questions which Theta Sigma Phi hopes one day to answer in the affirmative.
MRS. HELEN ROSS LANTZ
Grand President
POET'S CORNER
THE LILAC HEDGE ON OREAD
HILL
Dim in the shifting mist of early dawn.
Gem-sparkling in the noon-day's yel low light.
Half-hidden in the star-stabbed dusk of night.
The long low iliac hedge half spans the lawn.
How many springs have seen your branches break
At April's bidding into perfumed maze
of opalite illaos, longhouses—a haze.
Of litling mystic fragrance in its wake.
How many hands have touched your shimmering lace.
What could you tell if you might speak—what lore
Of love and joy and hope of youth, of yore
And now, you've listened to in silent grace.
Perhaps has felt the light caress of just
You could tell us all of life—a grave or two
One blossom from your store—upon its dust
Tears may have mingled with your blossoms' dew.
When I am very old, I think, and friend
And happening of my youth are dim to me,
In all its old wall beauty I shall see
that low illiac hedge on Oread
Hill.
Edith Roles—Epsilon Chapter
Smiles and socks go farther now to
break breaking down the last line of
efense than curls and candy ever
id.
Harmony is the product of common sense; discord is the offspring of nonsense.
The old maid who continues to pray for a man should learn by this time that pacifism never did win anything.
True love never will run smoothly so long as one insists on having two true loves at the same time.
There is nothing that makes an ordinarily self-possessed person feel so conspicuous as a late transfer—if the conductor sees it.
The formality of a first call is sometimes broken by father suggesting that he has "to get up early."
The true-patriot never grabs the other fellow's corn mush no matter how many catless days he has observed.
True patriotism strikes fire; pacifism nicks the blade and dulls the intellect making the sponsor thereof a "victim of circumstances."
Charity vaunteth not itself, is no puffed up, but the popular version keeps the press sending in post haste for the picture of the donor.
An old friendship revived is a spring welling up in forgotten places.
A lie is like a tire; it bursts when punctured.
Peace without progress for civilization is no peace.
MARION LEWIS,
Minneapolis Journal
MARION LEWIS,
DRAMATIC SEX-TION
(Being a Series of Episodes Occupying One Week on The Adventures of a Girl Reporter)
WHAT TO WEAR
A Lady Reporter
A Governor's Wife
A Governor's Wife
Persons:
Episodes No. 1—Monday
A Superintendent of Schools
Scene. A fashionable hotel. Imposing lady perfectly groomed. She is the wife of the governor of the state. Lady Reporter balances herself uncertainly on edge of chair opposite, having forgotten her gloves.
L. R. "We might emphasize the war work idea by saying women are so rushed they are eating breakfast in their hats."
L. R., blushing. "Yes, yes." (Exits rapidly with hands concealed in pockets of coat.)
Govnors' wife (for it is even she),
"Precisely. But please, my dear,
don't put in anything about standardized
dress. A man reporter once
quoted me as in favor of uniforms for
women. My husband felt keenly over
it. He abhors laxity in personal appea-
tions. He believes women should be
beautiful."
Scene. A county jail. L. R. has worn a Georgette crepe blouse in anticipation of another high-class assignment. A county marshall extends the courtesy of his swivel chair.
Episode No. 2—Tuesday
C. M. "Sure." They traverse long corridor to a door under a stairway. It has an iron grating. The marshall points to a yellow sign. "Our small-ap quarantine will be lifted next week."
L. R. "The office sent me for a tory about the men arrested for trike violence. May I talk to some if them?
L. R. (sotto), I should have worn a gas mask, not a Georgette blouse.
Episode No. 3—Wednesday
Episode No. 3—Wednesday
Scene. Sanctum of a School Superintendent. A sunlit day. L.R. has worn flat-faced and a crumpled hat having read the weather forecast, "rain." S.S. looks up wearily.
L. R. "News today?"
S. S. "Yes. There is what you might term, in your quaint journalistic manner of speaking, a "story." I shall be obliged to require, however, that you withhold the source of this news. It came to me quite in confidence. THERE IS TO BE CLASSES ORGANIZED AT THE Y. M. C. A. Night classes to train young men in modern business methods.
L. R., faintly, "We shall verify it conclusively before publication." (To herself), Drab hats create drab ideas. Flat heals lower the spirits. Perhaps he judges women by their feet. If I had worn something subtle, he might have abolished the teaching of German in the schools.
Scene. A fire in the west bottoms, K, C, C., huge warehouses in flames, firemen running in all directions, policemen shouting, telephone poles toppling, charred to the center; exploding chemicals booming; sparks falling in a rain of red. A policeman on his job, L, R, has worn white hat and high healed white shoes as a psychological experiment in obtaining news. She was the only reporter in the office when the fire alarm came in, having remained late to compile a column of Sunday Music Notes.
Episode No. 4—Thursday
L. R. I'm a reporter for The Post.
Policeman: "Reporter? Reporter?
(surveys hat and shoes). You, re-
sponser your kids your parents? Where's
your pants?
Policeman, intercepting: "Here, where you going? You can't pass here!!
She advances in the direction of the fire chief, 50 vards away.
"One pr. shoes, medium-size heel.
One hat, medium touch of color.
One suit, medium width and length.
One hose, in any manner.
MEDIUM.
L. R. musing at a desk. "Tomorow
l. abon."
She repeats:
Episode No. 5—Friday
(Exit)
it is ragged but it rustles,
This dear old petticoat.
It is iagged but it bustles
FRANCES DAVIS Kansas City Post
To conceal my lack of dough.
All this world is full of hustles
MY PETTICOAT
In the fight for fame, and so I am glad that in the tussles My old skirt, helped by my muscles Still keeps up its heart and rustles.—
My old silken petticoat!
Mrs. I.P. Town,
Honorary Member, Epsilon.
Mrs. Tad Powell.
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