"NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University John Gunnison TIM KEENEY Editor-in-Chief John M. Henry Managing Editor John K. Henry REPORTORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF J. W DYVON ROBSE E. BURNBARK Business Manager JOSH E. BUENNAMARC Consultant Manager LEON RHON BETTENTON GUY SCHIVER CHARLES SWEET RIX MILLER RIX MILLER FRANK B. HENDERSON MARIE VANDELINNE HELEN HAYN RATMOND CLAPPER CHRISTINE PATTerson CHRISTINE PATTerson Entered as second-class mail matter Sep- ter 14, 2014. Sending to: KC-735, Ko- man, Kansas, under the act of March 3. Phone, Ben K. C. 20 Phone, Bell K. U. 25 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. Subscription price $2.50 per year in ad- ance; one term, $1.50. Published in the afternoon five times as a tribune. Received in print four times. Released from the press of the department The Daliy Kansan nims to picture the situation of the Kansas to go further than merely printing the newspaper; he holds hands to play no favorites; to be clean, to be cheerful; to be charitable; to solve problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the best of its ability the students of the school. WELCOME, DELEGATES. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1914 Delegates to the sixth annual convention of the League of Kansas Municipalities are most heartily welcome at the University. It is appropriate that they should convene on Mount Oread, for they, like we students, are idealists. The men who belong to this association stand for the best things in municipal government. They have made the old jokes about the country town obsolete and now we go out to visit our country cousins in a small town and find every convenience we had in the city. These men who are with us or Mount Oread today are to be given much credit for the improvement. They are the men who saw early that civic offices were to be held for the benefit of the citizens rather than that of the "boys." When they are eager to listen to talks on "Wholesome Drinking Water," "City Pavements Under Kansas Conditions," "Garbage Disposal," "City Planning," "The Purpose and Benefits of Social Surveys," they are thinking of something else besides their jobs. THE CAMPAIGN STARTS. In taking upon its shoulders the formation of a federation of county clubs to promote sentiment in favor of the mill tax the Student Council has assumed a task of no small magnitude. The Council must succeed, must form an active organization that will accomplish real good. It is the first big thing that has come before the Council, and its prestige will suffer irreparably if the plan is not successfully launched. The right plan is being followed—the apportionment of the counties among Councilmen, each to stand sponsor for his quota. Students should help the Councilmen, for they cannot accomplish much without the co-operation of every student. Six out of the fifteen organized rooming houses for women sent their chairmen to confer with Mrs. Brown, advisor of women, Monday. That is a fair showing, considering the present status of house government, but it is not by any means what it should be. Certainly there are more than ten houses, or groups of houses, containing ten girls each, and every one of these ought to be organized and in shape to cooperate with Mrs. Brown. The purpose of house government and of Roaming House Association is not primarily disciplinary. The object is rather to avoid the necessity of discipline for the women students. This is to be done by raising and establishing standards of conduct that no girl may have any desire to do the things that would call for disciplinary action. THE ROOMING HOUSE PLAN. Mrs. Brown is undertaking a great work, and, as always, there are a number of the faithful who are pulling with all their might. But nothing permanent or valuable can be accomplished unless the body of women students gets back of the move ment and pushes hard. If they will do this, they need have no fear of having their liberty curtailed and their rights as individuals arbitrarily taken from them. In other words, the more self governing the women do, the less they will be interfered with from without. And the quicker the women get in the procession, the faster it will move toward the desired consummation. Get in line and boost student government! 5. U WORKS FOR THE STATE The University has, in a bromic way, a three-fold purpose for its upkeep by the state of Kansas—the teaching itself, the research work and the public service function. While the majority of people over the state who are taxed for the maintenance of the institution realize the great benefit derived from teaching and research work, it is the later function—that of public service—that gives them their best idea of the value of the University to the state as a whole. Public service work takes on varied forms. It is mainly through the Extension Division that this work is handled. Questions concerning nearly every phase of civic life and its problems can be sent in and the matter investigated by the University's best informed men along these particular lines. Sanitation, iee plants, water works—in fact any of the knotty problems concerning these municipal reforms that puzzle the uninformed are thoroughly and scientifically dealt with by the University. By no means the least of the public service work is the water analysis. In this department, analyses are made of water from all over the state. This is important in giving notice when the water in any particular locality is impure or otherwise unfit for use. Any water that any one desires to have tested can be sent in and the analysis made. The report will then be turned on in it. Special analyses are made of the water in any particular town desired. Last year several towns were thoroughly investigated, practically every well in the city being tested for impurities. Topeka was one of the towns subjected to this investigation and the majority of the wells in the town were found to have some sort of impurities in them. It is such work as this--safeguarding the public health—that makes the University worthy of support. If this kind of work is to go on and put on any stable foundation, a regular tax must be made, such as the mill tax proposes. Then the work can be continued and extended to further fields of usefulness. Even though the day set for prayer by the President has passed it will not hurt the average plug to do a little unofficial praying on his own hook occasionally. Those Boston Braves who early in the season jumped to the Federal league are doubtless expressing their feelings in language that would make the fire of a German siege gun sound like a Roman candle. Those English agents who are attempting to transport some Missouri mules over to Europe are far greater heroes than the English soldiers who are facing the German cannon. For a dreadnaught to be sunk by a submarine is like Missouri being walloped by Rolla School of Mines. In the midst of all the excitement in Paris poor Venus de Milo is powerless to raise a hand. Accounting, quite properly, is taught in the Ad. Building. William Jewell's colors ought to be black and blue. Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son in College Dear Boy: This morning I received your letter of the twenty-third of June and not July as you had dated it. I am very glad you have had that troublesome tooth drawn; you will now I daresay, be perfectly easy, and may even rupture up from school. I send you every language, the sense of which I am very well satisfied with. I have corrected the English of it, which corrections I desire that you will observe and remember. Though propriety and accuracy are commendable in every language, they are particularly necessary in one's own; and distinguish people from others from the illiterate vulgar. Those who write and speak a language with purity and elegance, have a great advantage over those who are free from faults, but yet have no beauty nor happiness of style and expression. Cicero says, very truly, that it is a very great ornament and advantage to speak a language in which men excel beasts, Speech Direct yours to me here, and after that to Bath. Adieu, and, in proportion as you deserve it, I shall always be yours. Chasing the Glooms "Anyhow, there is some advantage n having a wooden leg," said the "What is that?" What is this? "You can fasten up your socks with thumb tacks."—Columbia Jeser. "I have given up smoking." "In training?" "No, it's too effeminate."—Columbia Jester. "Bill, you are looking worried and tired." Cholly—Is this horse intelligent? Cholly—Is this horse intelligent? Groom—Yes, he don't kill —Columbia Jester. "Who wouldn't?" Nothing but work all day." "How long have you been at it?" "I start tomorrow." —Crescent. Cleo—I just love to tango. Anthony—1 just tango to love— Wisconsin Sphinx. "Why are some lectures like the clouds?" Wisconsin Sphinx. "They are over your head."—Texas Covote. "What is your idea of Purgatory?" "Acting as special cop on night-shirt parade night." "Don't know." "What is his average income?" about two A. M." Wisconsin Sublimit. So why not at Kansas accept the Council's ruling without question and as quickly as possible forget the ruling and get it into the tradition class? We hear so much of K. U.'s lack of traditions. Here is what we learn with will improve the whole atmosphere of the University. Will you permit an old grad to take a little space in your Campus Opinion concerning smoking on the campus? I have no objection to smoking in its place and the Student Council seems to think that a college campus is not the place, with whom many will readily agree. At M. A. C, there is a time honored tradition that there shall be no smoking on the campus. As far as I have ever heard there is no faculty or student ruling concerning the matter, its simply a tradition. The upperclassmen pass the word down to the freshmen and that's the end of it. The buildings here are a good five minute walk from the edge of the campus and between four and five hundred meters in dormitories, yet one sees no signs of smoking anywhere on the campus. And in fact very little on the streets of the campus; the campus tradition creating an atmosphere in which there is little temptation for smoking. F. D. Messenger, e.'13. East Lansing, Mich. SMOKING Editor Kansan: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Twelfth Annual Concert Course and Music Festival United States Marine Band MATINEE THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 22, 1914. Song Recital by Madam Johanna Gadzki THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1914. SEVEN CONCERTS Violin Recital by Albert Spaulding DECEMBER 6.1914. Chamber Music Recital by the Zoellner String Quartet MARCH 9, 1915. Two Concerts by the Russian Symphony Orchestra MAY 6,1915. Course tickets $4 and $3—Student course ticket $3 and $2 Sold by committee on plan of Music Festival. ¶ Course tickets exchanged at Corner Drug Store (Woodward's), Tues, Oct. 20, Guarantors' tickets on Mon., Oct. 19. ¶ Single seats for Gadzki recital sold Wed., Oct. 21, $1.50 and $1. SAY FELLOWS BOX 394 Send $1.00 for 50 Suit-Case Labels from Miller's Travel. Two alike. Pit on that travel looked. All Concerts in Robinson Auditorium C. C. BREWER MANHATTAN, KAS PRINTING A. G. ALRICH PRINTING Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Rubber Stamps, Engraving, and the Embossing Buffers 744 MASS. STREET Go to the HOME BAKERY For Good Things to Eat Shorthand and Typewriting Bookkeeping and Banking Penmanship and Spelling In fact, a comprehensive train ing can be had at D. M. Williamson 933 Mass. St Lawrence Business College $1.50 up $1.50 up body of C Inc. Makers Mail your want ad with 25 cents enclosed to the Daily Kansan—want ads are payable in advance. 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