UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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Henry B. Pegus. Editor-in-Chief
News Editor
Dorothy Cols.
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Edwin W. Hullinger Wilbur Fischer
Burt R. Hammond E. H. Kendrick
Don Davis
Larry Gayen
Maryne Island
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Alice Howley
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students at Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news on paper; to hold a faculty holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind and compassionate; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university the students of the University.
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1917.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and what he does will help him for mankind—Phillips Brooks.
IN 1919
Workers for the Permanent Income Bill say prospects are promising in every section of the state. The Agricultural College and the State Normal are now in line, pulling with the University for the mill tax through their student and alumni organizations.
In 1915 when the Mill Tax Amendment came up before the Kauas legislature it failed to go to the people for ratification by only seven votes. Had it been passed and approved by the state it would be incorporated in our constitution today, and the schools of the state would be assured of a healthy existence in proportion to the growth and development of the stage.
Those who are out working this year have practically the same proposition to buck as those who instituted the fight two years ago. There are 165 members in the legislature—40 in the Senate and 125 in the House. Half of these were not members of the last legislature, and must be seen and convinced of the need for a permanent income for educational institutions.
The state has heard considerable talk of the income bill this year, but especially have the legislators been interviewed and pressed for their vote. But there are pitfalls into which the measure may fall. First of all the proposed amendment may fail to go before the people because three other amendments have received more favorable notice, for the constitution says each legislature cannot submit to the people more than three amendments.
Then there is the possible fate that the bill met two years ago—that of luke-warm voting. All the men who voted against the measure in 1915 were not "dead spot again" it. Many of them simply had some other bill they would rather pass—in other words "pet measures" killed the biggest step in educational lines that it had been the privilege of the state to consider since it first said we should have schools.
Then there is the possibility of the constitutional convention. The sentiment for such a convention is running strong now, and in case it is called the permanent income amendment would not be mentioned in the legislature. The fight would have to begin all over again when the delegates were elected to the convention, and the chances of the permanent income bill being incorporated in a new constitution would depend on the fight waged by the schools of the state by their faculties, alumni and students.
If the legislature passes the amendment it will not be voted upon until 1918 at the general election, and it will not go into effect until early the next year. If the constitutional convention is called it will meet this fall, the results of its work submitted to
the people for approval the following year, and in 1919 we may have the permanent income for our schools.
The men who have waged the fight among the legislators for justice to our schools have had to be far-sighted to do the great work they have done. May they see their reward in 1911!
They say the front row seats went first for the show tonight. Those who have seen the pictures advertising the show have expressed no surprise at this.
KEEP STUDENTS INEFFICIENT
One of the most notorious facts of college life is that student officers are in the main inefficient. Day after day offeeff proof and occasion after occasion utterteeth speech upon this blot which covers student affairs. Reasons for the failure of the student control in college activities are many. The first: one probably is incapacity—nothing can remedy that. The next one probably is lack of interest—that can be cured by a selection of persons to occupy the chair, the line of activity the officers represent. A third cause is the fact that few duties of student officers are known—either to the officers themselves or to the students. Not knowing what the duties of the office are, the student proceeds to mess things up, a feat which in most cases he efficiently accomplishes. Again, students are careless and will neglect the office work which is controlled by individual instruction, the "important" date for the Princess or a canoe ride or some other engagement essential to life, liberty, and the pursuit of husbands. The percentage of efficient officers, it has been said, may be placed at a small fraction of one per cent. However near or far from the truth this estimate is, the fact remains that student activities should be pushed and managed by students; for the work done in school affairs is important training for life, as well as learning well as well as from success. As one eminent American author said, "You can't teach a bird to fly by tying to a limb," and you can't teach students to be efficient by tying them so that they can neither fall nor rise. Only with opportunity to take responsibility can initiative and efficiency be produced—Exchange.
SCRIBISH SCRIBBLINGS
According to the new system of grading we fear some student's report cards will look like A-B-C, while others may looks as poor as "L."
"Lack of Funds Prevents Tagore's Coming to K. U."—Heading in Friday's Kansan. If he's financially embarrassed we'll loan him two-bits.
We notice that over 3000 persons were entertained at "bridge" last Saturday.
Advice to any student—do your exam. cramin' early. 107 days to commencement.
An insurance agent came in the office yesterday and got two orders before he left. One was to get out and the other to stay out.
Our idea of mental insufficiency is thinking oneself one hundred per cent sport for hiring a cab to take a girl two blocks to a party.
And now there's a "second team" developing among the basketball players. Where did we hear that before?
By way of complimenting the "eats" at the Prom, a certain student was heard to remark that the menu was printed in French.
And still we don't get that "Jazz- Time" gag. It sounded like a regular orchestra to us.
We also had the dickens of a time figuring out the "Redwood" stuff. But none of these worries kept us from having a good time.
We noticed, also, how many flowers were checked at the door.
"Why Are You Here?" will be the subject for discussion at the Y. W. C. tomorrow, but bet no one will worry because the sorority superclassmen said they had to go.
Jim Dash.
MOUNT OREAD!
And feel so small when we see,
About us, the Glory of thy work.
We look to thee with wonder. Whose life is so radiant,
MOUNT OREAD!
We look to thee with wonder,
And dare at all, as we learn of thy
drift
How, knowing well thy power,
Can we be but Obedient,—
"To qdenen my life be Shaker
and yet, we well know that our lives
Whose life is so radiant, and feel so small when we see.
thriff,
To quench thy fire or Shirk?
Because through love they are the life of them.
In Psychology Class
Miss W..."What would be the result, if you would overload your stomach on a hot day?"
In Physiology Class
D. T.
Student—"Most uncomfortable, would think."
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed □ evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
JUST KIDS!
Many students are working hard at present on the annual Jayhawk. The majority of students are anxious about what will happen but "But do they want stolen goods?
Editor of the Kansan:
For several years it has been the practice for two or three unknown persons to break into the various sorority houses during Christmas in search of material for the Jayhawk. Is this necessary? It is needless to say that it muses up the rooms in the various houses, besides robbing the occupants of the rooms in the dormitories and letters and various after articles of merchandise. Then there are always the delicate foot and hand prints and candle drippings that have to be done away with after the holidays.
Besides the articles mentioned, at a certain house during the vacation just over the thiefs helped them get out. The gloves, gloves, and a Christmas pudding.
It is doubtful if the pudding would help the Jayhawk any; improbable that the publishing company needs any stationery; and ridiculous to think that gloves might come in making the monument of the seniors.
"Historians declare that Cleopatra was a homely woman, but she was probably handsome in the eyes of Antony. We often see a woman that some rave about, who, in our estimations, is ugly enough to stop a clock. But we don't all of us see with the same kind of eyes, as the old man said when he kissed the cow."—Los Angeles Times.
Let's grow up, fellows! Get your
jokes above board M., 17.
In the pony minds of some college students lurks the idea that they cannot be fairly beaten. In their own estimation these egotistic individuals are far more likely to fear that they cannot be defeated, provided they get a square deal.
POOR SPORTSMANSHIP
We hear that some fellow did not, make a debate squad because the coach had it in for him, when in all probability the fellow wouldn't know a brief from a rhinoceros, or an argument from a March windstorm. Another complains that he has failed to make the football squad because the coach would not give him a chance, when a night at practice shows that he does not know the route forward pass from the book of Genesis. We hear that a candidate lost in an election because some one pushed the steam-roller, when a little judgment reveals that the fellow couldn't recognize an election at twenty yards and that his knowledge of steam rollers has been developed by a distant watch of paving operations. The excuses given for failure are many, but college men and women should be big enough not to accuse the other fellow of unfairness which they cannot prove—Exchange
POET'S CORNER
THE EXPERIMENT
We want to bed at 4 P. M.
So as to rise at one.
We'd get our studies after that,
Twould be lots of fun!
For anyone who entered there,
And thus disturbed our slumber.
Might get thumped upon the head,
With a good, hard, big tumbler.
Boomie wound our Big Ben clock,
And then she set the 'harm,
And tacked a sign upon our door,
To keep our friends from harm.
That clock it thumped, and beat, and trolled.
For sleep, dear sleep it would not come
The hours slipped so slowly by,
The air wafted over me, 'tis! 'tis!
It pounded in our ears, Until we became so aggravated, We almost burst in tears!
So still and peaceful was the house,
all were rattling, gently annoising!
All were rattling, gently annoising!
At last Big Ben proclaimed the hour,
we rubbed our eyes, and looked about
the room.
It hanged, and raced and galloped. How it banned, and caught the ducks that entered in upon the alumbras. It stabbed them with clubs.
A SAD WEEK
He was beet with bill and dun,
And he had very little
Oh~Well~Oh~well~we-dare not tell
That never again at 1 a. m,
that never again at 1 a. m,
The year has gloomy begin
For Willie Weeks, a poor man's
RIFN
Arise we from our couch! ___v v m
"This cash," he said. "Won't pay me
I've nothing here but ones and ...
A bright thought struck him and he
"The rich Miss Goldbricks' I will.
But when he paid his court to her
She lisped, but firmly said: "No
TRUR."
"Alas," he cried. "Then I mistake die!
I'm done! I'll drown! I'll burn!"
They found his gloves, his coat, his
a coreron upon them
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"The Chimes of Normandy" Monday, January 15 at the
The Men's and Women's Glee Clubs of the University of Kansas present
Bowersock Theater
Admission—50c, 75c, $1. Seats Reserved at the Round Corner Drug Store—Jan. 11.
VELVET is aged in the wood for two years to make it the smoothest smoking tobacco.
WHEN a dog bites me once I'm through with it. Same way with a tobacco.
Velvet Joe
Show Your Colors!
AN ARTICLE the other day mentioned the fact that this was "Flag Year." If the orders pouring in upon flag manufacturers are any indication of the nation's loyalty the patriotism of the country is now raging paramount. It is a period for people to "show their colors."
University loyalty demands much the same spirit. We must show our true faith by supporting school enterprises. The enjoyment received from the DAILY KANSAN, the news of the "hill" delivered to your door five times a week, will be the best investment you ever made. And now the special opportunity—
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