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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Univer-
EDITORIAL STAFF
Don Davis ... Editor in Chief
Dugene Dyer ... News Editor
Lawson May ... Plain Tales Editor
Dorothy Cole ... Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Fred Richby ... Business Manager
Wayne Jenson ... Assistant
Nole ... Volunteer
NEWS STAFF
Harry Morgan John Montgomery
Mary Smith H. C. Hangen
Mary Smith H. C. Hangen
Evevent Palmer Alice Rowley
Mary Roby Vivian Stargeon
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students, further than merely printing the news by standing in front of them and playing no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to be brave; to have leave more opportunities to wiser heads; in all, to serve the students of the University.
FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1917
CLEAN UP THE WALKS!
And now that the fall elections are over, who's going to clean up the campus walks?
In past years, the mass of posters and hand-bills which were allowed to accumulate on the "campus beautiful" during election week have been left to disappear as wind and rain obliterated them. Many times, posters pasted in September were still unsightly blotches on the campus walks at Christmas—all because no individual in the University was responsible for cleaning them up.
Here's a plan: Why not have the student council pay for cleaning up the posters? Then, next year, the burden of payment could be shifted onto the politicians by adding a small fee say ten cents a petition to the seventy-five cent fee now in force. This additional money would be sufficient to cover the slight expense of washing the posters from the walks and putting them in a waste container.
The politicians are shameless about the matter. They don't care, apparently, how badly the campus is cluttered with posters if only they carry the election. So it is up to the student council—which has power to do anything it wishes regarding campaigns and elections—to handle the situation.
Some people are polite to their enemies and rude to their friends.
What will the council do about it?
MORE ABOUT "GRAFT"
When the manager of a business concern has misused the funds at his disposal, the position of manager is not made a "salaryless" one on that account, but the matter is investigated and a check put upon the next man who occupies it. The concern does not expect to find a man who will fill the position and be satisfied with the thanks and goodwill of his employers as his salary. "The laborer is worthy of his hire."
Why do the investigators of the "graft" situation at the University expect to take away the only recompense of the student managers and expect them to carry on the work just as faithfully as ever? If such a plan is carried out, it will be almost impossible to get managers, and those who do accept such positions will go about their work in a half-hearted way. Why not let the manager have an adequate percent of the profits, with proper publicity as to the expenses and profits?
LET'S MOVE DOWN!
There is no doubt that some classes in Fraser Hall are authoritatively scheduled to be conducted almost within sight of the pearly gates. But climbing those stairways to the fourth or fifth floor causes much heart palpitation and results in considerable muscle exhaustion.
Since the mission of the University
is obviously to impart knowledge, and not especially to increase circulation, why not let some of the afternoon classes, meeting at present on top floors, occupy some of the empty classrooms on the lower floors?
Surely the increased convenience would overbalance in importance the slight incongruity of having a journalism class, just for example, meet in a room otherwise sacred to the study of Latin.
What do the clothiers do to their mirrors that makes your old suit look so intolerably shabby before their glass?
THE WHY-NOT OF "K" BOOKS
Many University women are won dering why no "K" books have been provided for them by the Y. W. C A this year. Efforts to obtain books through the Y. M. C. A are fruitless, because the 1000 ordered will not more than supply the men students
In former years the Y. M. C. A. has distributed books free, while the Y. W. C. A. has made a charge of fifteen cents each. Many women obtained books free indirectly through friends. As a consequence the Y. W. C. A. has suffered from over supply. The loss last year amounted to between twenty and thirty dollars. Books this year could not have been sold for less than twenty-one or twenty-two cents, because of the high price of paper. The Y. W. C. A. was not able to bear the burden, and as a consequence Miss K. U. must look elsewhere for a memorandum for her winter's activities.
FOR PERCENTAGE GRADING
The new system of grading by letters, which is soon to be adopted by the faculty, is undoubtedly an advantage over the Roman numeral system. But the letter method is indefinite and unsatisfactory compared with the old use of percentages based upon one hundred as perfect.
There are only two excuses for the letter system. The first is that it makes the professor less work. He merely has to judge whether a student will be competent and substitute the corresponding letter. The second excuse is that it may cause less dissatisfaction for a few students who jealously watch the grades of their classmates and come up with excuses. There are a point or two below anyone else.
But isn't a student entitled to know exactly what he is doing? Is it fair that students with different grades, although the difference is small, shall be taught the same curriculum? Then again, a slight difference in grades will give one student an A—and another, a B.+. The system is rather misleading. Why not go back to the old method of percents based on age? Yes, but the student *Snow*, where he stands*1.
A. J. M.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Again the tobacco trust has pulled off a neat trick and that on a mammoth scale. Through a cunning use of ready print newspaper material, some smokers have thrifty concern has brought forth a mighty chorus of sobs and lamentations over the imagined loneness of our boys at the army camp. Thus they have induced millions of people to contribute large quantities of contained cigarette "madden" for the "soul and comfort of our boys."
If it were not so serious in its ultimate significance this cigarette movement would be the most stupedous joke perpetrated since the war began. Our boys at the camp do not have ten minutes per day for becoming lonesome. What is important to the war, what liberty and democracy is not solace or tobacco dope. They need more courage and the highest possible fighting efficiency—clearness of aim, steadiness of nerve and heart action, power to resist fatigue and disease and to recover from wounds, determination not to yield or surrender themselves to lustful temptations—and cigarettes teed to weaken them in respect to every one of these fine quantities.
Now let us carry this sob business to its logical sequence. Let us place a trash can on the campus in which to receive gifts of the "making" for the mothers and sweethearts left behind. Many of these are bowed in sorrow and lonesomeness and are in far more need of solace than the boys in the ranks. Let us have a generous offering of pipes, cigarettes, cigars, cigarette papers, Bull Durham, plug tobacco and cupids for the sorrowing ones remaining at home. This brings us closer to that possible as the other one and far less expensive in the end. W A McKenner
W. A. McKeever.
OTHER OPINIONS
Our moralists get very excited about the pitfalls that are supposed to surround our soldiers; they are fearful the men may succumb to one or another of the destructive tempations that lure human nature from the paths of rectitude. It is proper to take reasonable precautions against such dangers; everybody knows it is better to provide substitutes. A book is one substitute.
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
But the case for books for soldiers does not rest primarily on moral considerations. The essential fact is that the men want them. They want diversion, and they can find it in books. It is little enough that civilians can do to mitigate the hardships of soldier life, and it only requires a small consideration, after all, to provide this simple yet unfailing source of ammunition.
It is an appeal that should come home to every man who has found pleasure in a book, whether philologist or author. Yet the response in Chicago has been meager. It is announced that the Twenty-first ward street cleaners classes of the community should contact the Chicago Tribute.
How much money have you spent
luxuries and unnecessary things
during your stay?
WHO BUYS YOUR LUXURIES?
If you are an average type of person, it would probably figure up to me.
Of course, however, it's none of our business how much money you spend — whether you are extravagant or frugal. How much money you to answer our importment, uerry.
That dollar so invested would have meant for some man in the service of his country comforts far more immeasurable and greater kind of enjoyment it brought to you.
That dollar you spent for your own comfort, or another dollar like it and like a lot that you are going to spend on the party you have paid for a Red Cross membership.
Here is what we are getting at, thourh:
You are to have a final chance today and tomorrow to join the Red Cross. If you have failed to heed precondition, take a second thought on he matter.
MENTAL LAPSES
Think of the great need, and think of the little sacrifice necessary for you to make in order to do your share toward relieving this need.—Ex.
NECESSITY
Hermione: Why, you'll freeze at the game in those silk stockings. Jessica: Yes. I know—but our seats are in the top row. Minnecha
SOLD
Automobile Salesman: "I appeal
Camp Funston
JUST back from Camp Funston where I have been since school closed last June. It is wonderful the buildings that have sprung up in so short a time. Monday will be opening day at the K. U. Shoe Shop, 1342 Ohio St. We invite the students to come in and get their souvenirs and see Camp Funston and the largest pay roll day for the 9,300 men at the check stand waiting to receive their portion of the half million dollars that was paid out that day. It was a sight!
We beg of the students to consider that the K. U. shoe shop is dependent entirely on the student trade, owing to the fact that I do not get any of the town trade, so if I do not get student trade, I get nothing. I have never made it so plain in the ten years I have been on the hill as I do this time. Just think—I have given up a job at $49.40 a week in order to take up my work here for the students.
When your shoes need repairing come to me!
W. J. Broadhurst, Prop.
K.U. Shoe Shop
1342 Ohio St.
Proprietor
to you as a woman of taste and judgment; the static lag of the motor is as the square of radius impulse."—Puck.
"Why all these toes as you pass that village?" inquired the fireman. "Toots is my wife's pet name." The engineer—Kansas City Journal.
"Your wife's dinner-parties are always beautiful affairs."
FOND
HUNGRY
"Yes," replied Mr. Cromrox. "At first people didn't seem to want to come in, but I guess mabbe the term 'em' of justly making a difference." -Washington Star.
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KENNEDY & ERNST
Hardware and Athletic Supplies
826 Mass. St. Phones 341
We sell paper at prices that interest
Citizens State Bank Deposits Guaranteed The University Bank Why Not Carry Your Account Here?
CONKLIN PENS
McCulloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
are sold at
FOR RENT—To rooms, south exposure, 2½ blocks from Spooner Library. Apply 1312 Ohio. 15-2*129
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FOR RENT—Rooms for boys, nice modern rooms, cheap rent. Call and see them. 1346 Tenn. 14-2-28
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LOST-I-P loose leaf leather note book, 6X8, containing physics, history, zoology and English notes, between Physics bldg. and Fraser Hall on Monday. Notify P. A. Gempel, 718 Ind. 14-2*27
FOR RENT--Room for two girls,
1400 Tenn. St.
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LOST—A bunch of keys. Finder please return to Dean Blackmar or University business office. 13-2*.*26
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KEELEKS BOOK STORE. 935 Mass.
write and school supplies. Paper by
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PROFESSIONAL
DR. H. REDING, F. A. U. BUILDING.
Nursery # 9 to 6. Phone 613.
Hours 9 to 6. Phone 613.
TONIGHT'S THE LAST NIGHT
G. W, JONES, A. M, M. D., Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology F. A. U. Bldg. Residence at hospital, 1901 Ohio St. Both phones 35.
Do You Know Who Is Your Neighbor?
He May Be An Enemy To Your Country.
How do you know that you are not harboring a Teuton spy within your own home?
See the secrets of German methods exposed in this thrilling drama of diplomacy.
WILLIAM FOX Presents
Dustin Farnum
THE SPY
A timely American Drama exposing the operations of foreign enemy secret police.
By George Bronson Howard
A WAR PICTURE WITHOUT A BATTLE
First Show 7:40 Second Show 9:15 Admission 15 cents.
COMING TOMORROW—Big Double Bill
GEORGE WALSH IN "Some Boy"
BILLY WEST IN
which is some picture too.
BILLY WEST IN "Cupid's Rival"
ADMISSION 10 CENTS
ADMISSION 10 CENTS
Matinee 2:30—4:10 Night 7:40—9:15
You Know You Feel Safe at
The Bowersock
Because It's FIREPROOF
To The Students OF THE University of Kansas
Isn't it of great importance for you to get the best board for the least money?
Here is a demonstration of how 50 per cent of our regular customers boarded the last 18 weeks of school.
The average boarder used twelve $5.50 coupon books at $5.00 each making a total of $60.00, an average of $3.33 per week. Figuring the ten per cent discount on twelve coupon books you actually receive $4.22 value for $3.33 per week.
Everything is bought at wholesale price and in large quantities which enables us to give you more for your money.
There are many reasons why the Oread Cafe is far superior to other eating places.
Our meals are carefully prepared by two long experienced cooks.
Each menu is carefully composed to meet the desires of all.
The large variety of meats, vegetables and desserts is unequaled in Lawrence.
Besides our regular meal we serve short order and fountain specials all day and evening.
Besides the twelve regular employees ten experienced students are at your service.
The Oread Cafe has already enjoyed a very success-
The Oread Cafe has already enjoyed a very successful opening and a fine summer business.
A Trial Will Convince You.
The Oread Cafe
"Just a Step From the Campus." E. C. BRICKEN, Owner.
P. S. The Oread was fortunate enough to buy an immense stock of supplies before the advance, and is prepared to feed you cheaper than any place in Lawrence.