"NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN GLEISBERG ... Editor-in-Chile. HELEN HATTER ... Associate Editor JOHN M. HENRY ... Managing Editor CALVIN LAMBERT ... Sport Editor BUSINESS STAFF CHAR. 8. STURFVANT Advertising Manager REPORTO] LEON HARR BILLY VEVEN GOSH WSVERN CHARLES SWEET ELMER ANNDE ELMER AINSBE FRANK B. HIENDERSON GLDSEON LATINE WIMMELY KAYNE WM. S. CADY BROTHERBEN AIRON ROGERS conscription price $2.50 per year in ad ages, apc term, $1.50. Published in the afternoon. Bye times as Kansas, from the press of the department Entered as second-class mail master Sep 20 March 15, 2018 Kansas, under the act of March 3 Phone, Bell K. U. 25 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. Not for what she has done for me, Though it be great, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, Though it be great, For what she is, her majesty, I love my state. —Thomas Emmet Dewey LETS DO SOMETHING The immediate formation of a county club central committee is imperative if the organizations are to carry on effectively the work for which they were formed: the creation of sentiment in favor of the mill tax for state educational institutions by the dissemination of knowledge of the advantages the law offers. Thanksgiving vacation will be here in a few days, and students returning home will have an opportunity to work with legislators. They should go home armed with facts and figures and convincing arguments. These they cannot get, because they do not know where to get them. A duty of the central organization would be to give information. The legislature meets in a comparatively short time, and the mill tax will come up for consideration. The rush and crush of legislation is notorious. Legislators have not the time to inform themselves of the merits of the mill tax. If they know them their attitude toward the bill will be different. A county club central committee would see to it that the legislators were informed, and kept informed. Many of the clubs, on their own initiative, have begun campaigns, but the majority of them have not. The efforts of even those who have are certain to be less effective than if directed by a committee whose business it is to know the best methods to employ. Kansas will have the mill tax. It is a good law, and good laws, along with many poor ones, always find their way to the statute books of Kansas. It is a question only of time. A county club central committee can shorten the time. The department of entomology at the University of Washington has installed an observation bee-hive in the science building, so that students may get first hand knowledge of honey making without danger to life or limb. The hive is so placed that the bees can fly out of the window, but not into the class room. BEES AND HORNETS Why couldn't our entomologists do something of the sort with the wasps, or hornets, or whatever they are, that swarm around the south door of Fraser? Wasps don't make honey, that anybody knows of, but they do make nice little houses, and it is fun to watch them roll mud balls, when the observer feels perfectly safe. At any rate the brutes would be more appropriately located in a glass cage in Snow Hall than buzzing around the doorways in Fraser. HOW EDISON ACCEPTS WAR HOW EDISON ACCEPTS WAR Thomas A. Edison, inventor and manufacturer, is forced by the war to look elsewhere for many of his raw materials which have heretofore been shipped from Europe. With these importations cut off Edison has been working night and day and has inspired his associates to almost superhuman labors in order that supplies may be obtained. One of the great achievements of the last six weeks, says the current number of the American magazine, has been the erection of a plant in seventeen days to manufacture a ton and a half of carbolic acid per day—required in the manufacture of his phonograph discs. Up to the outbreak of the war all of this carolic acid was imported from Europe. TEALING OPPORTUNITY Dean Blackmar states the commandment thus: "Thou shalt not steal the neighbor's opportunities." steal any neighbor's opportunities. In frontier days vigilance committees enforced that law upon those who stole the property which represented their neighbors' opportunities. The frontier is gone, and with it the vigilants. But the commandment lives, and is broken daily at the University. Perhaps the vigilants should come to life Each day some book disappears from Spooner Library. It may reappear a few days later, or it may be gone forever. Either way, it is lost to the students who have some lesson to learn from it. They have been robbed of an opportunity. Much of this theft, for it is theft in both the material and the spiritual sense, arises from thoughtlessness. But the crime is not lessened by its motive. The fact remains that the stealing of books has reached a stage which is appalling the faculty. The meager corps of librarians cannot act as a police or regulating force, so the task of righting matters devolves upon some other body. The Student Council is obviously the other body. How shall it be done? The Daily Kansan suggested that the Student Council appoint a number of students to act as a secret vigilance committee. Some of these would be studying in the library at all hours and could observe many misappropriations of books. A notification to the Student Council and investigation and punishment would follow. But this plan has its drawbacks, chief among which is the fact that the students object to espionage. The Daily Kansan will welcome suggestions. If you were called upon to sing all three verses and the chorus of the Crismon and the Blue could you do it? Now be honest. Ten chances to one you could not. Still the Crismon wrote a song for our great institution, a song that should be sacred to us, and as well known as the Lord's prayer. Another question—have you any good reason for not knowing the words to this noble melody? Again your answer is probably "No." At every football game that has been played on McCook this year the band has sung the chorus of the Crismon and the Blue and while every student rose and removed his cap or hat, few could sing the song because they did not know the verses. CAN YOU SING IT? At the Missouri game Saturday there will be thousands of visitors from Missouri, and in fact, all over the country. Our rooting will be closely watched and if we sing any songs, which we are very apt to do there will be an attractive audience that would attempt to arouse the admiration of the visitors by giving our yells with unity and pep and by decently singing that song which is near and dear to us, the Crimson and the Blue. L. In Monday's Kansan, under the heading of coming, going and there, the Kansan writer seems to infer that he worked at a disadvantage in writing a story of Saturday's game. Evidently he did, and a great disadvantage it must have been, or else his idea of football differs greatly from what other students who accompanied the team on its trin to Lincoln. In his pessimistic story he speaks of the manner in which the Nebraska backfield pierced the Kansas line, but fails to mention the fact that a good many times they failed to gain or lost, and that Nebraska did have to punt now and then all through the game. PESSIMISM? As one who has followed football closely during the last three seasons, and witnessed the game at Linecoln, it seems to me that the showing of the team was far from pitiful, and that we have no reason whatever to be thankful that the score was not larger. Surely our team was outclassed, but I don't think that Nebraska is at all capable of scoring more points than they did. The displayed pessimism does not seem to be having the desired effect of encouraging enthusiasm among the audience. Certainly we are proud of them. DANCES W. R. P. Dances given by classes and other organizations have so far this year been failures financially. Might that be taken as a sign of the time? Dancers as a class are divided into two groups: those who like the new dances and those who do not. These two groups have exponents of the new dances can dance nothing else and think that those who do not, are old-fashioned and behind the times. Many students only learn the new dances and sinks and refuse to dance them. If part of the crowd dances the latest dances, the other group of students will not attend because they say that it makes them too conspicuous to be dancing the old waltzes at Castle, polka and hesitations. This leads to curtied attendance and consequently, failure financially. The presence in the collection of Carruth's "Each in His Own Tongue" and Ingall's "Opportunity" seems hardly consistent with the compiler's purpose, but a more seriousthemselves. It also considerable amount of mediocre verse which, while perhaps worthy in spirit, in literary merit falls far below the average standard of the book. Conspicuously offensive among these is the overwrought Harry Kemp* and the Overwrought FF* of very limited appeal, together with some of the Edson New York Mail hackwork. Sunflowers, a Book of Kansas Poems Heredetofore dances have been the one thing that was always sure to bring in a good profit for the organizations, but now the various exchequers are becoming sadly in need of replanning. This is the proposition that confronts the dance managers. G. S. Sixty years ago this year, at Lawrence, the differentiation of Kansas as a political unit began. Now from the University of Kansas to the University of Wisconsin, we do of poems with the sole purpose of differentiating Kansas in poetry as signally as our territorial foehathers distinguished her politically. This compilation, appropriately enriched with booklets, Poems by Poets is the work of Willard Wattles, an instructor in English in the University. Perhaps, after all, these defects are negligible for the book as a whole successful theorem has been coined for the state" the "significance of the state" has been sympathetically interpreted by more than one poet both within and without the state' Walt Mason has surely done so with his "Morning in Kansas." William Allen White, while clearly yielding the palm of the younger Sunflower singers, likewise adds a characteristic touch without which no Kansas collection would be complete. The keynote of the book is struck by Miss Esther M. Clark's "Call of Kansas", which, together with a six-line poem by Harry Kemp as yet little known, deservedly occupies the attention of the cluded, as might be expected, the familiar; earlier Kansas classics which fit the purpose of the book, such as Ellen Allerton's "Walls of Corn". Whittier's "Song of the Kansas immigrant", Richard Realf's "Awareness of Lawnworms" and "When The Sunflowers Bloom", Ware's "John Brown", and Sol Miller's "Pawpaws Ripe." Much verse, including a fair amount of real poetry, has been written about Kansas. Of this Mr. Wattles has selected which he荷包 interpretative of the state. And that someone believes enough good poetry interpretative of the state has taken the pains to publish a volume of it, is surely significant. It is an assertion that Kansas in poetry lives in these things, she is in hope, as original. Entertainment For a Most Worthy Purpose A SPLENDID Entire Gross Receipts will go to the Relief of the Suffering Civil Population of Belgium Everything for this entertainment is being given without charge. The services of the Musicians and Readers, the Theater, the Advertising, the Printing and the Piano. Friday, November 20 BOWERSOCK THEATRE A SPECIAL PRICE OF 35 CENTS to the Students of the University, High and Grade Schools K. U. Glee Club Quartette, Wm. B. Dalton, Violoncellist, Jas. A. Butin, Whistler, Willard Wattles, Reader, E. A. Blackman, Reader, Prof. Carl A. PREYER, Pianist, Prof. W. B. Downing, Baritone, Blanche Simons, Violinist, Edna Davis, Contralto, Madeline Nachtman, Soprano THE MISSOURI UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB Among Those on the Program Will Be THE TAILOR 913 Mass. Street Lawrence, Kan. Schulz Students' Shoe Shop R. O. BURGET, PROP. 1107 Mass. St. Good Work A Specialty. Prices Right. We Also Repair and Cover Parasails. The Entire Proceeds Will Go to the Belgian Fund Harmonious with the interpretative idea of the book are the attractive marginal illustrations, by Ivan Shuler of Wiehita. The book contains eight three-pages and is printed by the Journal-World Company of Lawrence. The price of the book is $1.00 net. For Young Men and Men Who Stay Young Student Union Barber Shop Student Union Barber Shop F. M. TIDROW, Prop. Everything Up To Now. All Standard Tonics. 1200 Tenn. But in the work of the four younger poets, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Harry Kemp, C. E. Edson and Willard Wattles, the provincial not in Kansas verse for which the volume is especially designed is most markedly prominent. Lindsay's only contribution is his "Walters" showion for an outider, an unusually sympathetic insight into the meaning of the state. Kemp's best poem in the book is his six-line "Kansas," which is little less than an inspiration, so close is it in spirit to the lofty idealism of the founders of the state. Edson and Wattles, however, have interpreted the state far more concretely and pictorially; Edson is at his best in his "Threshing Time" and "The Promise of Bread," a poem of vivid imagery that might better be called "The Promise of the Wheat." The majestic "Kansas, Mother of Us All," "The University of Kansas," and the longer but no less admirable "Prairie Wind" are Wattles' best contributions. Want Ads Mail your want ad with 25 enclosed to the Daily Kansan -want ads are payable in advance. LOST—A "Mercantile" self-filling fountain pen. 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