18 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN EDITORIAL STAFF Edwin W. Hullinger. Editor-in-Chief William Koester. News Editor Dorothy Cole. Society Editor Don Davis. Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF Vernon A. Moore...Business Mgr. Rick Rightman...Assistant Fred Richy... NEWS STAFF Wilbur Fischer Marjorie Rickard Martina Rickard Bob Reed Hutch Retter Jack Peterson Alfred Hill Eugene Dyer E. H. Kendrick Paul Flagg Harry Morgan Buth Gardiner Subscription price $2.00 per year in advance; one term, $175. Entered as second-class mail matter lawyer in Lawrence, under the act of lawrence. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students, further than merely printing the news in newspaper or online; he enjoys holding; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be sensitive; to leave more serious problems wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university; the students of the University. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, BELL K, U 25 and 66 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1916. We are all sculptors and painters, we are the world of blood, and horses. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features; any thoreau's sexuality to imbure them —Thoreau. BEAT NEBRASKA! Since the beginning of time,—mankind has delighted in watching a battle of wits. The Greeks glorified it. The Romans enjoyed it sophistically, much as a seasoned theater-goer enjoys a standard play. The citizens of the middle ages doubtless took as keen a relish in the word-squabbles of the scholastics as his modern brother does in the sparring of Roosevelt and Wilson. In fact, this pleasure in the spectacle of brain pitted against brain is one of the symptoms of a healthy, well-balanced mind. K. U. students tomorrow afternoon will have an opportunity to enjoy oral fencing match of the highest order. Nebraska is famous for good debaters. Two of the men on the Kansas team are seasoned arguers. The third, while new on Oread rostrums, was considered Baker University's strongest debater. An interesting contest is assured. It's BEAT NEBRASKA again! And then there is that old rivalry, which can never die out, between the two great Universities, just as strong on the debating platform as on the football field. There isn't an Engineering student, a Law student, or any other kind of student who doesn't believe that he has some new idea that will revolutionize his field when he gets out of college. But that's what keeps the world moving. THE WEATHER AND YOU Br-r-r-r-r. Gee! Br-r-r-r-r-r. You jump out of bed, run to the window, and close it with a slam. You slap some cold water on your face, jump into a few clothes and take another wash—probably in cold water. In less time than it takes to tell it you are dressed and down to breakfast, and a few minutes later, bundled in a heavy coat you are breathing the brisk air on your way to an eight-thirty. Walk up! This is no time for strolling or sluggishness. This is the time for wide-awakeness, alertness, zip, ginger, push, go! Gee--don't you feel good. Wouldn't you like to tackle any problem from a calc problem to a Bengal lion? Talk up! This is no time for grouches or the blues. This is the time for jump-at-the-trigger thinking and expression. This is the time when everybody feels awake and at his best if he ever has a best. Work! This is no time for loafing at the post. This is the time for application. The time when you can settle down over a book or over your work for hours at a stretch, and feel like a million dollars when you get through. Enjoy yourself! This is the happiest time of the year. Sit down in front of an open fire—with a friend or a book—and open up. Open yourself, your friend, or your book, and see how quickly your troubles vanish. There is nothing like it. It may be colder than "Jimmiejeeswax" outside, but you feel more snug because of it. Open up! Lay yourself liable to the indictment of the weather. Get its spirit. It is the spirit of doing things. The elements are doing things—why don't you? On account of the quizzes, the popular song last night was "Pray for the lights to go on." A FEW LINES ON SLEEP (By a Cynic.) In story books heroes awake from pleasant slumbers with songs upon their lips, roses in their cheeks, and golden ringets falling like haloes about their heads. Heroines of real life wear masks, but they are haloes of electric curlers that dig down into the tortured scalps like crowns of thorns! The eyes of these heroes are heavy and blinking, and the roses which they took from their cheeks just before retiring have not yet been donned for the day. Theirs is the glumest man in a kingdom, but work draw the unwilling ones from the most comfortable beds, and in the gray dawn they pound off the few remaining pages of manuscripts that "just must be in that day." People don't slumber royally as they used to; they don't even sleep. They haven't the time. They just drop into a businessiness as a business proposition. The engines must be oiled, the spark plugs brushed a little, so the old contrast will chug along for a few hours more at the desired rate of speed. A DIRELECT GENIUS "Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?" might appropriately be sung by Miss Kitty Anybody, who has just lost her ambition and taken unto herself a new one. She started out to be a schoolma'am, but some one told her that a schoolma'am's sister frightened and secretly resolved that she would try something else just as soon as she could decide what. She attended a concert soon afterwards. When she heard the resonant tones of the singer—and the applause—she decided that she was cut out to be a singer. So Kitty took lessons. It was fine at first. She gloried in it! But soon she noticed that the exertion then besides, she just couldn't stand being starved. she knew she would die if she couldn't eat what she wanted to! "So 'Goodbye, grand opera star'!" Then Kitty decided she wanted to write stories; it sound so well to be called a writer. But Kitty's pet production came back with a rejection slip, and she got cross at the editors because they did not appreciate her genius. Moreover, she was sitting at an altar and going about with her fingers covered with ink. So she just couldn't stand it any longer, and tried something else. Kitty is still a genius just floating about in space—not hitched to any star! CAMPUS OPINION Communication must be slowed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent. Editor. the Daily Kansan: Permit me as the head of one of the small Kansas high schools and a former student of the University to say a few words in commendation of the action of the University senile in suspending the students involved in the recent, unauthorized rally. Students in the high schools of the state watch and pattern after the students of the University to a far greater extent than the latter and the University authorities can imagine. An act of pure "hooliganism" such as this rally plants its vicious seed of disregard for law and order in the heart of the all too receptive high school boy. The faculty and student of the University owe it to the high school students of the state, to us who are laboring to develop in them ideas of civic responsibility, and to the fathers, the taxpayers, to set us a pattern of those civil ideals. If the act of the suspended students only had to do with the University itself, I would be tempted to agree with those critics of the action of the Senate who insist that the punishment is too heavy, but the full significance of that act will become evident five or ten years from now, not in the University alone but in the College and the State. The act of the Senate was just and wise. Its influence will do much to blot out the results of a vicious and uncivic act of student thoughtlessness. Very respectfully. Supt. Carbondale Schools Carbondale, Kas, Dec. 7, 1916. Very respectfully, Fred Barrell. Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx We have a suspicion that this young lady in the picture knew right where she'd find that mistletoe; perhaps she put it there herself. At any rate, the picture is brim full of Christmas fun. And because so much of that fun comes from giving people just the things they want and need, we're making a few suggestions concerning useful gifts for men. Every Man Likes a Fine Scarf An Ideal Christmas Gift The practice of making Christmas gifts of neckwear increases year by year; there's a reason for this. The scarf is the one bit of color that a man may wear and he likes to indulge his fancy; he wants plenty of variety. But in giving neckwear, you must be sure it's in good taste and of fine quality. Our selection of silks this season outdoes any of our past efforts. You may purchase a scarf at this man's store at moderate prices, as well as the most expensive. Gloves, 50c to $5 Hosiery, 25c to $1.50 Shirts, $1 to $5 Neckwear, 50c to $3.00 Handkerchiefs, 25c up Pajamas, $1 to $4 Underwear, 50c to $4.00 Suspenders, 50c to $1 Belts, 50c to $1 Cuff Links, 50c to $1 Scarf Pins, 50c to $1 Bath Robes, $3.50 to $4 Reefers, $1 to $6.50 Sweaters, $3 to $8.50 Waistcoats, $2 to $5 Umbrellas, $1 to $5 Traveling Bags, $5 up Leather Suit Cases, $5 up Hats, $3 to $5 Caps, 50c up Smoking Jackets, $5 up Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes Varsity Fifty Five suits, $20 and up; Dress clothes, Tuxedos, Cutaways, Varsity Six Hundred overcoats, Fur lined overcoats, Fur collar overcoats. PECKHAM'S The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes WANT ADS PLEASE RETURN NOTES—Will the person who took the black leather note-book off the mail box in the Chemistry building last Friday morning, please return the notes to me. They contain data for a term's work in three Lab. courses, lecture notes in three courses and data for a term paper. Lee E. Clark 1000 Miss. 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