UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the Univer- UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN EDITORIAL STAFF John Gleasenbower Editor-in-Chief John M. Henry Managing Editor Mark Berry Editing BUSINESS START Chas. S. Sturtevant Advertising Mgr REPORTORIAL STAFF Leon Harsh Gilbert Clayton Guy Scrivner Charles Sweet Elmer Arndt Rex Miller Subscription price $2.50 per year in advance; one term, $1.50. Frank Henderson Chris Raymond Raymond Clapper Wim S. Cady Charles Chester Roger Rogers THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1914 Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the office at Lawrence, Kanassa, under the act of March 3, 1879. Phone, Bell K. U. 25 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. THE SOUR OWL The Sour Owl made its appearance on the Hill this morning. Utterly devoid of wit or humor, verging on the vulgar, and poorly written, edited, and printed, it is but another argument against class societies. It is little credit to its publishers or to the University. NOW WHAT ABOUT PEP? The accusation that K. U. students lack spirit and pep was proved a fallacy at the football smoker last night. Every seat in the hall was occupied, and K. U. spirit ran riot. it is a prophecy of the support the team will have next year, and it is an endorsement of the season just closed. K. U. is justly proud of her team, and is behind it always, win or lose, no matter what some Kansas City alumni may say. THAT SACHEM STUNT If the Sachems intended to make their travesty of the Chancellor and the Student Council ridiculous they succeeded better than they probably realized. If, on the other hand, they sought to stir up friction and bad feeling, there is nothing too severe that can be said of them. WE WANT HOOKS It is not essential that humor shall consist of personality or vulgarity, nor is it good that a representative society use the privilege of a public gathering to air personal feeling. With the recurrence of winter, and the consequent use of heavy wraps, students who have classes in the Administration Building are again confronted with the question of where to hang their coats. There are no hooks in the hall. In many of the classes there are not enough chairs. A student may either sit on his coat, or throw it on the floor. The floor is dirty. Sitting on a coat is uncomfortable. LET'S PLAY FAIR It is to be hoped that the editor of the 1915 Jayhawker will discontinue the practice of former years of dealing in personalities. It isn't fair to make unkind remarks about students on the Hill, whose enemies happen to be able to get matter inserted in the Jayhawker, for the one attacked cannot "come back." Everything is auspicious for the most successful annual in the history of the University. The entire student body is evincing a greater interest than ever before. The seniors are behind it to a man, and the juniors will be when they are called on. It would be unfortunate to spoil the publication by the insertion of personality, as has been done in the past. SNOW Beautiful snow! Oh, the bitter, biting irony of that phrase! Not that a foot of snow over everything isn't superficially ornamental, nor that individual snowflares aren't marvels of art. But in itself snow can never be positively beautiful, because it is associated with too many unpleasant things. Cold, for instance, and north winds, and slippery walks, and wet shoes, and last and worst, slush. If snow came in the summer, when coolness would be appreciated, and if it disappeared suddenly when it took a notion to leave, or even if there were no anti-coasting ordinance, we could bear up with greater fortitude. But until the laws of nature and of Lawrence are changed, snow can never have a place in our affections. Twas not ever thus. Years ago we greeted the first snow fall with shrieks of delight, and were with difficulty prevented from spending all our time in the snow. In our misguided infancy we thought it was fun to freeze our hands throwing snowballs, to run our little red sleds into trees and innocent bystanders, and to slip and slide on the cement walks. Nowadays we couldn't be hired to throw a snowball—unless we were an engineer passing the law building—we are not permitted to coast, and when we slide on the walk we swear. Now the first snow flake makes us groan, dig out all the winter duds we haven't sent to the Belgians, and begin praying for an early spring. What if it is good for the wheat? We haven't any wheat. What if a green Christmas does mean a full grave yard? Quiz week will soon be along anyhow. We stand for less beautiful snow and more comfort in this vale of tears. SCHOLARSHIP VS. ATHLETICS During the entire football season, this fall, there has been a great lot of knocking and complaint by K. U. alumni and friends, over the athletic conditions at the University of Kansas. The defeat of Kansas by the Missouri Tigers in the big annual contest, seems to have brought things to a climax and there has been much press comment and even one or two alumni indignation meetings, in deprecation of the attitude of the Kansas faculty and board of managers for undue interference in athletic matters and in keeping down the amount of student "pep." The writer witnessed the recent game at Lawrence, between K. U. and Missouri, and to him it appeared that the better of two good teams won fairly, in a clean well played game of football. There was plenty of enthusiasm while K. U. was leading in the score, and at least the normal amount of gloom among its supporters, when the Crimson banner was trailed in the dust of defeat. To an onlooker, there seemed to be no reason why the defeated ones should not be good losers, for ifailure not only ruins the valuable lesson, it should make prominent the virtue of taking defeat gracefully, as well as plausions of victory. But with all this depreciation of K. U.'s athletic standing comes the report of an average increase of ten per cent in the scholastic grades of the whole University student body. So that perhaps the University is accomplishing something, after all, and in spite of an occasional defeat in college sports the young men and women sparks the young men really better work in the things they are sent to Lawrence to do—and there has been more than a suspicion in past that there had not been as much student interest in these important matters, as in some others—Ottawa Herald. CONCERNING NEBRASKA William Allen White on what's the matter with Nebraska is the latest illustration of the various old adages about a next-door neighbor and his neighborliness. He seizes them, turns on the camera to Nebraska as his excuse. "Nebraska," he chokes, "colorless, eventless, uninteresting Nebraska!" Perhaps William Allen White had just heard the returns of the Kansan-Nabucca game when he wrote that it is taken from the New York Sun: "Nebraska is a milk-eyed, placid, blue-stockinged old maid, who never had a throb of emotion stronger than a plantonic yearning for a tabby cat. Nebrasaka's feet never are found tangling up and down the primrose path of dalliance with any idea entering or leaving than a geometrical theorem. "Nebraska never has produced a public man excepting Bryan, and she never has given him a sustaining major when he needed it." Nebraska, moreover, has never been sought by a cyclone, nor baked with hot winds, nor swept with a blizzard! The idea that she could be successfully positively grotesque. It is as beyond her to produce anything out of the ordinary as it is characteristic of Kansas to do so. And simply because the two lie side by side, Eastern newspapers have the impudence to confuse them! If, after this, Nescafé would not resort to rhetorical defence by her one great public man, it will be because she is placid as Mr. White declares. KANSAS God made the world, and rested. And then, to make creation doubly sweet, he made the state of Kansas. He took the love and laughter of the skies, the sun and den, the breath of dawn and golden sunset splendens and fashioned here the pride and glory of the new born climes. Then round this Eden of the world He placed the flaming sword of drought and hardship and difficulty and danger, that none might enter to her heart, but did brave and worthy as her own. The race that wooed and won this peerless state deserved to win her. They came of stock that conquered women. They brought high hope and purpose firm and faith that would not falter. The desert specter, lean and grim, commanded them to halt. The clouds withheld the boon of rain, the sun sent forth his furnace flames, the blighting winds blew fiery rays, the earth reaped her early store, the earth staked ablack, the darts of Treachery assailed them, they faced a somber sea whose waves beat dirges of despair on shadow blackened shores of desolation. And yet they stayed, these men and women of heroic mold. They tamed the Wild, they conquered Fate, they drove Oppression to his lair, they fought for principles that gave new life and impulse to a Nation struggling upward toward the stars. They dreamed of the stars and dreamed the star of Kansas there, the brightest constellation of them all. So live and love and work and win the race of Kansas of today. Their eyes are on the future's peaks, their steps lead ever surward, their hearts are steeped in Nature's gold their souls have caught the vision of new lands that lead to new endeavors, no looking back to out grown forms and mouldy monuments and mile stones of the past, but pressing on new trails to blaze, and finding as they go new hopes, new problems, new achievements. A race unparalleled in song or story, a race that dares people to climb and clad to higher planes and brightest, and broader vistas. I see a state resplendent with the deeds that were and are, and promise of the deeds that are to be. I see the smile of sun and sky, the sheen and shade of woody depths, theburnished gold of harvest fields, the light and love of happy homes, theblowy tide of emerald oak, the mound of glad years come and go, thewitching splendor of the night, thestrength and glory of the day. Ihear the reaper's joyful song, theherdman's call, the shout ofharvest home, the splash of streams, therustle of the corn, the lowof kine, the hum of life and industry, themingled music of the mart andfarm. An empire stately, broad andfree, a blissful Eden of the heart, agenius nurtured and refined. A racewith hope and faith endowed, withlearning's light upon its brow, withstrength to tread the upwardpath,with dreams that mount to vastand radiant reaches of the stars——JohnClem Bradshaw in Kansas City Star. "Lie still."—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. "Yes, but think of the poker hands he had to lose to her old man before he accomplished the trick." —Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. "I hear that Billy finally won Stella's hand." "What do lawyers do when they die?" Econ. Prof.-Show how wealth is the result of effort. Customer—I should say not. I want to buy where they recommend their goods. Good day sir.-Harvard Lampoon. Customer—I notice that your sign reads: "We Roast Our Own Coffee." Clerk—"Yes, sir, do you want a pound?" Stude—Her face is her fortune— Stanford Chaparral. "No, I wasn't full."—Harvard Lampon. Teacher—Yes children, an Indian's wife is called a squaw. What is the name of her? "Were you bailed out?" "I bet on the game and got cleaned." Small boy—Squakers.- Harvard Lampoon. "Thirty-five cents." "You weren't very dirty, were you?" - Princeton Tiger. A Special Display of Party Dresses Priced from... Party Coats from The Little Schoolmaster Says: Der Kleine Schulmeister Sagt: "Here's One for the German Students!" Lassen sie Sam G. Clarke heute ihr Maas nehmen! FRANK KOCH "THE TAILOR" Lassen sie heute ihr Maas nehmen! Es ist nicht noetig das Deutsch sprechen en dem Vorszug und die gute qualitaet der von Ed. V. Price & Co. nach maas gescheidenteren Kleidungstuecke hoch zu schetzen. Sam G. G. Clarke wird mehr als 500 verchäedene Muster fuer ihren Winterbad; sowie die neuesten Moden keennen koenen. At 14.75. Twenty Coats of wide wale corduroy, Zibeline, fur collars, heavy wool checks,fancy plaids,and pile fabrics. Values up 9.75 to 22.50 at At 9.75. Thirty Coats of Wool Zibeline, Boucle, Cheviot, Broadcloth, Plaids, Fancy Mixtures and New Pile Fabrics. Values up to 9.75 15.00 at Full Line of Fall Suitings. STUDENT HEADQUARTERS "THE TAILOR" C. W. STEEPER GO TO THE HOME BAKERY For Good Things To Eat C. M. Williamson 933 Mass. 50 Winter Coats On Sale Friday and Saturday GO TO THE Cleaning, Pressing and Remodeling Clut 10 years K. U. — Satisfactory results. Stafford Guardianille A. H. Foster, K. J. Wilhelmens, Agnes Bell 1434 Jason 1434 A. G. ALRICH PRINTING Belted Flare, Fox Trot and Russian 10 years K-12 - Satisfactory result Satisfaction Guaranteed 12.50 to 18.00 10.00 to 25.00 Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Rubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel Die Embossing, Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. Street. R. E. PROTSCH THE STUDENTS TAILOR. We are laying aside now Christmas cigars. Leave your order at Carroll's.-Adv. Handsome Furs Black Fox, Hudson Seal, Black French Coney, Sable Coney, Sitka Fox, Sitka Minx. In sets or singly at 20 per cent off marked prices. Lawrence, Kansas. Largest and best equipped business college in Kansas. School occupies 2 floors Law and Business Building. TYPE or shortened by machinist for sample of Stenotype notes and a catalog WATKINS' NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000 Surplus and Profits $100,000 The Student Depository. FRANCISCO & CO. 812 Vt. St. Phone 139 Livery, Hacks and Garage Wednesday Matience, best seats $10 George Bernard Shaw's最经典 Comedy SHUBERT Mat. Wed. Wednesday, Saturday just before 8:00 Fanny's First Play With original London company NEXT: McIntyre & Heath. "The Ham Tree" Want Ads Mail your want ad with 25 cents enclosed to the Daily Kansan—want ads are payable in advance. FOR RENT~To young men two (2) single rooms, $5.00 and $7.00 per month. One double room at $10.00. Board if desired. A room mate wrote 1561 R. I. 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