14 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kashan EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL STORY Don Dawley Editor-In-Chief Herbert Howland News Editor E. T. Dyer Hearst Society Editor Lewis Mann Plain Takes Editor BUSINESS STAFF Vernon A. Moore...Business Mgr. Fred Rigby...Assistant NEWS STAFF Helen Patterson Wibur Fischer Robert H. Reed Alice Bowie John Montgomery Alfred G. Hill Flags Paul Smith Mary Smith subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $175. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K, U 25 and 66 The Daily Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas, to go further than merely print the news of the university, to verify the university holds; to play no farther than be clean; to be cheerful; to be friendly; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University. THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1917. "A people is by the attempt of many To rise to the complete mastery — —Browning. THE FLAG FAD To be a victim of the flag fad— is it or is it not patriotism? If every one could wear his patriotism on the inside instead of on the outside! If the dollars that the fat manufacturer grabs by selling decorations for shoe tops, letters, collars, buttonholes and hats could only be added to the Red Cross fund! A man may love his wife, but he would hardly paste her picture on his neat white shoe tops! Learning from other people's mistakes would be easier if we did not all feel too smart to make mistakes like other people. ON STUDENT DAY Tomorrow's the day! It is Student Day. It is the day of the worm that turns—of the downtrodden, brownbeaten student who lives in fear of his professor, but who rises at last to rebel against him—of the dog who has his day. Nobody ever knows just what is going to happen when a bunch of college orators are turned loose without instruction or warning. The result is a free-for-all scramble of speeches and speechmakers that's good to listen to. Representatives from every school in the University will mount the platform to tell what his school thinks is wrong with the institution. The faculty will be kidded, ridiculed, scorned —perhaps even praised. The grafters will get theirs. The administration will come in for a few gentle knocks. Somebody will probably launch a hot attack against the politicians. Maybe the legislature will be a topic. Faculty members who have not been on their best behavior for the last few weeks are shaking in their boots today, in anticipation of the terrible things that may ensue tomorrow. The Man Who Holds Classes Overtime and the Individual Who Gives Shot-gun Quizzes were seen last evening hunting for cover. The Prof Who Indulges In Personalities In Class and the Person Who Overworks His Dear Pupils are planning on leaving for the tall tall timber. It'll be great sport, seeing who gets caught and who escapes. And we'll all be there! Won't We? Just at this time there's one brotherhood that doesn't seem to be cutting much ice. Reference is had to the Brotherhood of Man. PAY YOUR DEBTS! The Kanan has never before seen fit to recommend editorially that a man or an organization in the University pay just debts. Moreover, it isn't sure that it is necessary in the case to which these remarks apply. This year, however, the last few weeks of school have been so completely upset that a word of warning may be worth while. In the rush of leaving school, both during the excitement of the withdrawals for military service and in the general turnoll at commencement, it wouldn't be at all surprising if a few organizations or individuals should forget to tie up all loose ends before departing. Perhaps the treasurer and some of the officers of your fraternity have withdrawn in a hurry, leaving business affairs unsettled. No one else has felt any great amount of responsibility, and in consequence matters have been allowed to drift. Or, you may Lave some personal debts unpaid. Some time a reckoning is bound to come; and the longer it is postponed the greater will be the difficulty when it arrives. Has any such thoughtlessness as this prevailed in your case or in that of any of the organizations to which you belong? Wouldn't it be for your own good as well as for that of your associates to look up the matter at once and, if there are irregularities, to straighten them out at once? Girls are wearing Chinese hats on the campus. That's what comes of putting them on a rice diet. OTHER OPINIONS TALK OR CONVERSATION It is said that the gentle art of conversation has been lost. It would seem entirely true from the flounderings of many of our most prominent students when thrown into conditions necessitating a little real exchange of words and ideas. What do you talk about? On the campus, in the classroom, at the dinner table, on the car, around the fireplace? Do you ever take a hand in guiding the conversation or do you just drift along with the ebb and flow of words? A motor expert can tell the make of an automobile without seeing it, by listening to its exhaust. An expert salesman can tell how to approach a merchant or buyer at a glance. The experienced man in any line can read character very accurately by the conversation one carries on. He can measure in a very short time the breadth and depth of a stranger's mind by simply hearing him talk. There are plenty of good, live topics for conversation today. The college man and woman should always have plenty of really worthwhile things to discuss. It may require a little mental effort to keep off the rocks and shoal of indifference and small talk, but the effort is worth while.-Ex. WOULD-BE WIT Senior-Have you been through Calculus? New York Man (asking about a friend of his in Kentucky)—Well, Bill, when you left Kentucky how was old friend Tom? Frosh...Yes, but it was dark and I didn't see much of the place—"Orange!" Stude (factiously)—This steak is used in June, Mrs. Bordem- very rare. Landlady (crustily)—And your board bill is much larger. Man-made weather-attack suithelled—Purchased Board Bill-Tom was badly hurt in a feud. New York Man-Well, that's a shame! But I never had any have faith in those cheap cars—Ex. Clerk—Yes, madam, I shot the alligator myself. "Bill Smith made an awful break at the "Stille's tea."" "... "Some on hand handed him a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream on it." "Well, he put his foot on the round of the chair and blew the cream off!" Woman (purchasing purse)—Are you sure this purse is genuine alligator skin? Woman—Well, I'd take it if i didn't look so solled. Clerk—But, madam, that's where the alligator hit the ground when he fell out of the tree. —Ex. WHEN SENIORS WERE SOPHS sentiment against the "Sour Owl" grows. Mrs. Flora Finch Kelly says the first penalty would be best for its editors. Kansan continues to give the matter publicity in order to "clean up" the Owl. "Real Student" writes to petition faculty and asks student body to petition faculty to discontinue the publication. Items from the Daily Kansan Files of Two Women's Student Council plans to have the campus whistle blow at night as a, curfew warning all fussers that it is time to start homeward. Marvin L. Gear, sophomore college from Buffalo, pledges Kanza. Volume 1, Number 1 of the Kansas Engineer appears. An article by prof. Goldwin Goldsmith on campus planning is the featured contribution. Student Council plans to beautify the campus by planting trees and shrubs on it. Phi Alpha Tau, honorary dramatic raternity, studies the modern drama and the art of make-up. Two actors, Stephen King and Drew Daywalt, Kansas City, will give lectures. Quill Club explains that it does not deserve the criticism made of it during the past year, especially in regard to the Bread Magazine which published by the Magazine which were published were journalistic rather than "literary." Psychologists advise students to work hard before final exams, as manual labor increases the memory. Another species of optimist has been discovered who really believes that he will attend classes in the new Ad building. HILLTOP PHILOSOPHY This year the book agents have a brand new line. They now point out to the college man that the best way to do his bit in this war is not to go to the farm at $25 per, but to sell our wonderful compendium of useful information which will do more good to humanity than all the farm hands in America. Oh Consistency, thou art a jewel! And now what is to become of us all when all our physicians are called to Europe? The way one man puts his motto of success. A few pounds of sand, a bottle of glue, and a big stick. JOURNALISM AT K.U. A couple of weeks ago, E. E. Kelley, editor of the Toronto Republican, spent several days at the University addressing journalism classes and making talks on newspaper management. After he got back home, he devoted two columns in his paper to telling about his experiences. The following are extracts from his article: "Tuesday and Wednesday of last week the editor was in Lawrence, where he had been invited to talk to the various classes in the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. The idea on which the invitation was based, as we editors should be qualified to present the attractions of country newspaper work as a career. **** The School of Journalism has been established several years. If we remember rightly, C. M. Harger, a graduate of the University and now editor of the Abilene Reflector, was the first dean of the department, and had associated with him L. N. Flint, who still keeps the wheels going round in that department. The present dean, Merle Thoree, is away on a leave of absence and is editing the Association's business with Prof. Flint are Samuel O. Rice (who prepares much of the publicity matter sent to Kansas newspapers) J. W. Evans, and a young professor, Frank Thayer. These men are the instructors in all that pertains to making a newspaper, from the three line locals to editorial and advertising work. * * * "The students in the school of journalism print a paper which is issued five days a week during the school year, and is in its 15th volume. The editorial staff is six in number; there are two on the business staff and fifteen on the news staff, all chosen from the staff. We extend times for changing the members of the staff, so that each student has opportunity to do actual newspaper work. The present editor-in-chief, Macy Helen Patterson, is ending her senior year in college, has been a high school teacher, and expects to teach English in a high school next year. The society editor is Miss Ruth Gardiner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gardner, who age 40 at College Park, and who ago at One of the reporters is Alfred G. Hill, a son of Prof. J. H. Hill, once president of the Kansas State Normal. He is after his degree and has to his credit several months of service as a reporter on the Topeka Capital. * * * "I was a guest at the annual dinner of the Daily Kansas staff and professors, Wednesday night. One of the number, Henry Pegues, just that evening had been called on to report the next day at the officers' training camp at Ft. Riley. If a dinner at which twenty-five were to sit down here in Toronto, with one of the number of guests, I would have been the service the next morning, his presence would be a death's head at feast, the occasion would take on funeral gloom and speechmaking would be the signal for tears to flow. But not so on this occasion. It was a time of laughter and jest, of college song and class yells, of mocking advice and carefree good fellowship. —And yet it was evident that his classmates had a high face like the kids graffited his loss from the class. To me it was only a demonstration that the newer Kansas generation, like the old, faces all things like a thoroughred. * * * "There is one man of the freshman class taking journalism who is deserving of a paragraph to himself. His name is McMurphy and his some is eight miles east of Madison. He is working his way through school. He knows something of the printer's trade, and does some work in the Kansas office and has some janitor work. He is a country-looking lad with the unconscious I'm-as-good-asany air which is so attractive men who feel he has the world by the tail on a downhill pull. Our guess is McMurphy will pass some of the more brilliant ones in later life because he knows exactly what he wants and to go to after it. * * * "Naming no names, there are a number of professors at the university who have grown gray in their work there. As a type, they make one think of elderly farmers come to town of a Saturday in a Sunday suit; being uniformly cordial in handshake, unassuming in manner, and treating the stranger within their gates with a certain sort of flattering deference. In an older generation of young professors may give "pep" to the institution, but the gray-haired ones are the ones who know with certainity just what, and what not, to teach. Gray-haired men have learned the uselessness of surplusage. * * * "I had the pleasure of an hour's visit with Willard Wattles, who is a teacher of English, I believe, in the university. He looks to be twenty-eight, is tall and dark and rather handsome. He is an unassuming young man and a good conversationalist. A man is a good conversation-alist if he lets me do at least half the talking." ARE COLLEGE ACTIVITIES WORTH WHILE? Students who have most of their college days behind them are bound sooner or later to question whether they have used wise judgment in directing their interests. If they have fullest benefit from their class room work, they wonder if they have been too narrow in their interpretation of college education; and if they have given the larger share of their attention to extra-curricular interests, they doubt whether they have been justified in doing so. In case the student engages in only a limited amount of outside work, so that his scholastic standing does not suffer, the problem is, of course, easy of solution. Under such circumstances, it is conceded that the outside activities are beneficial in that they give the undergraduate a home away, and which the world is said to be waiting to administer to him. There are, however, a half-dozen student offices which constitute such a heavy drain on their holders' time and efforts that it is found impossible to do justice to even a light course of studies. Here is where the question arises, oes it pay? The holder of such a position more unsound in his experience than in those of type who lives a life of "academic seclusion" and who looks forward to the Phi Beta Kappa key as the key to success? Again, if the head of a student publication such as the Daily or the Gopher gets so much experience, why should he not go out into the world where he can get his experience at first hand and undiluted, but where he distracts himself, ultimately having no classes? Or if it is true that the student editor receives training equivalent to that offered by the journalism department, and that the business manager gets the equivalent of courses in economics, why not recognize the fact by giving them university credit in journalism or economics, thus argumenting that the refiring stipend and employment program of additional work? Or should he be prepared, when he enters the office, to make a big sacrifice? These are merely some of the questions that have perplexed us lately, and we do not now undertake to answer them. They are thrown out in the hope that some one who knows these questions will light of experience on a problem that at some time or other every student must face—Ex. "When was the loose leaf system first used?" "Eve used it to keep track of her party, gowns." - Cornell Widow. 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