UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Texas
EDITORIAL STAFF
JOHN C. MADEN . Editor-in-Chief
JONC MADEN
LORIS CONDEN . Associate Editor
JOAN GLEIBNER . Manager Editor
FRANK B. HENDERSON . High School Editor
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SAM DUGEN
LOUY BARBER
GRAHAM HOLLY
GRAHAM ALVINE
CHARLES GIBSON
CHARLES GIBSON
RAY CLAPPER
LOCILE HIDRIGNER
CHARLES SWETT
JOHN WRENDER
JOHN WRENDER
GLENE SMITH
GLENE SMITH
COLINVILLE CLAYTON
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CALVIN LUMBERT
Entered in as second-class mail matter
and issued a notice of publication
Larvence, Kansas, under the act of March
19.
Published in the afternoon five times
in the Kansas and Louisiana
Kansas. From the press of the department
of agriculture.
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Phone: Bell K. U. 25.
Address: 389 W. 4th St. to UNI2ELEGITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
The Daily Kaman aims to picture the student in his own way to go further than merely printing the news by standing up for his favorite interests; to be clean, to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to user heads; to attend aull; and to the students of the University.
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1914
A friend is worth all hazards we can run—Young.
GLAD TO SEE YOU!
GLAD TO SEE YOU!
The University is never happier than when she is a hostess. Last week the merchants of Kansas called. This week the newspaper men have dropped in for a chat.
Make yourselves comfortable, you visitors. Ask questions from any daughter or son of the University who happens to be handy. Visit every building on the Hill. Treat the students like home folks.
But one request, Mr. Editor, one admonition, one warning—please don't make the serious mistake of reading the Daily Kansan too critically.
The Men's Student Council has the task of boosting the Student Union past the danger line and laying plans for the permanent Union campaign next year. The W. S. G. A has an opportunity to work on the other Union—that first dormitory.
REMEMBER THE DORMITORY The Student Council election last week cleaned up the last crumbs of political pie for this year and every organization on the Hill should give one last redeeming push to whatever worthy enterprise it happens to be behind.
By enlisting the support of the women on the faculty and the Advisor of Women a substantial addition to the cash dormitory pledges could be made among the seniors before graduation time. Such a movement would also tend to convince the 1914 legislature that K. U. intends to erect a dormitory with or without aid from the state treasury.
OUR FRIEND—THE BAND
If civilization is another name for altruism as some sociologists maintain the University band is a highly civilized body. Its latest unselfish activity—the open air concert—is becoming increasingly popular.
Strangely enough the weather on Friday nights has not been so pleasant as on study nights, consequently the crowds have been small. With evenings like those of yesterday and today, however the campus in front of Blake Hall will scarcely be large enough to hold the appreciative music lovers.
LESS MUD
The committee of the Athletic Board which, we hope, will allow more of us to have access to the tennis courts, is requested also to take a look at the ditch along the south end of the north courts. This small, insignificant looking canal, has done more damage for its size than any other ditch on the campus. Everyone who has had a new tennis ball ruined in the mud can testify to this fact.
The cost of tiling the drain would not be great, and every tennis player on the courts would bless the name of the committee if it makes the improvement.
FEARING THE LIGHT
TEARING
The power of threatened publicity was shown by the Student Council last week when seventy-five men paid in their Union dues rather than risk seeing their names on the "tightwad list" which the Council promised to publish.
Readers of the Sour Owl were disappointed to find that someone got cold feet and that the delinquent list failed to appear, but the Union treasury is happy—and seventy-five K. U. men feel stung.
OUR DAILY QUIZ
Use honor system and grade yourself
THE EDITOR
Q—Who are the persons who adorn our campus this week?
A. They are digitaries from seven states thatates of the Union from Kansas.
Q. —Why are they here? Have they come with peace in their tents?
A. They came for different reasons, but none of them malicious. Some came to escape the wrath of the Assessor, others because the Grand Jury meets in their particular community this week, while still others are recuperating for the coming political campaign.
Q—Why did they choose as a law case place where the Mainin law operates?*
A.—They are attending the ses
sion of Kansas Newspaper
week.
B.—They are attending the ses
sion of Kansas Newspaper
week.
A—An editor is an individual who earns his daily bread by finding out what some people want to suppress, and telling it to others who want to know it.
Q——Does he ever suppress any secrets?
A—Yes. If they pertam to his
atairs, or to those of a lodge broo
Q—Doss an editor ever gain the approval of his fellow writers?
A. —Yes, sometimes he dies.
A — Yes, sometimes ‘du de-
l’.
Q What happens when an editor is
a?
A. —The sheriff has a sale, the widow goes to work, and the editor begins to regret, that he accepted patent medicine ads when on earth.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
That "smaller university" which walloped old Mizzou in debate seems to have sort of crimped her baseball aspirations too.
The Boston Herald claims that Colonel Roosevelt's boils make it impossible for him to stand up, and the Transcript says the blooming trouble-makers keep him from sitting down. If both reports are true the colonel must rest on his right eyebrow.
"After Huerta, what?" asks an ex-change. Guns.
The agricultural department's bulletin on alfalfa should be consulted by engineers in general and also by farmers. The county raising moustaches this spring.
DICTIONARY OF DATES
Books, in their present form were invented by Attalus, king of Pergamia, in 387 BC. They are used chiefly in the imposition of torture in modern universities.
(Compiled by the Daily Kansan's official collector of worthless facts.)
Boots were invented 907 years before Christ.
Bricks were first used in England by the Romans. In 1625 their regular size was fixed by Charles L. Latimore, the Irish as an implement of warfare.
Bridge—The first brick of stone in England was that built at Bow, near Stratford, in 1087. The card game by this name is an excellent excuse for the idle rich to avoid work.
Bread was first made with yeast by the English about 1650. Other types of "raisin" bread are common today.
Boston Fire: Nov. 9, 1872. Loss
$73,000.00. It baked the beans.
Buckles were invented about 1580. Bullets of stone were used in 1541. Iron bullets were first mentioned in 1550.
WITH K. U. POETS
Ballion (assaying of) was introduced in 1354. A basis for coin, which is unknown in college communities.
STARTS OUT WITH A PLANE
Mr. Will A. Ransom, editor elect,
is getting in line for his new duties.
This week's paper has been edited
amost entirely by him and shows the result of his careful plaining—Fairmount Sunflower.
MY SWEETHEART
oy William L. Burdick, Professor of Law
A woman,
For she my heart doth own;
She true and fair, her pure,
She truthful and high throne.
A little maid I know full well,
For she my heart doth own;
Her eyes are bright as beaming stars,
Her lips with rose tinted kisses.
The pink and lilies of her cheeks
Were by the angels missed.
Glad be my sweetheart's every day Man God with blessings fill
May God with blessings
Her life's cup lill it runneth o'er,
And guard her from all ill.
THE "SIX AND SIX" PLAN
Need I my dainty love to name,
My sweetheart my age unfold?
She is my own dear little girl,
My Helen, four years old.
Considering the fact that Lawrence as well as several other Kansas towns, is considering a change in the present four year high school plan, the following explanation of a new arrangement will be timely. Dr. P. P. Claxton, who endorses the six year high school scheme, was the University's president last year. Both articles are from the Boston Transcript:
There seems to be general agreement that the present absurd policy of dividing elementary and secondary education into two set periods of eight and four years is yielding to the onslaughts of its enemies. The old days such as well-warmed wall mosaics either went to colleges or he didn't. If he went to work he stopped at the eight or ninth lege o the daint'. If he went to attented high school; if he was going to work he stopped at the 8th or 9th grade. Today the high school is for everybody and there is no reason breaking the system of school period. As a matter of fact, children of the sixth grade age are at the beginning of the transition period between childhood and youth and they should not be kept doing elementary work. At present the pupils in most secondary systems mark a time when a seventh grade or higher grade, by women grade teachers. With a six-year elementary school system it would be easy possible to provide the teacher with the child from first to grade, thus gaining the large value that comes from teacher and children remaining together until the teacher knows the needs of the children their strength, and their weakness, and can build intelligently on all the work of previous years. Another factor of this is that the school age today corresponds closely with the eight-year school period and many parents are thereby confirmed in the idea that elementary education is all that is needed. If the break came when the pupils were twelve years old, the majority of them then were high school age and there would soaxy the conditions under which they were working that they would be more inclined to continue their education.
B. J. Sheridan, of Pooila,
Sees Traces of Tyranny
Emphatic approval of the "six-and-six" plan of school organization is expressed by Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education. "I know of no valid reason for the present," he says in a letter to "school," declared Dr. Claxton. "There should be six years of elementary school and six years of high school, the high school period being divided into two sections of three years each. There are many reasons for the change, begin the year with seventh grade, will make much easier the departmental work, which should begin at least this low down. It will also make it much easier, to begin work in such high school subjects as foreign languages, constructive geometry, and real art, thereby to be begun. The study of languages, especially of modern languages, should be begun in a practical way before children have passed the time when they can learn in this way. This plan will also make it possible to introduce manual training in the sciences, forms of vocational work two years earlier than they are now begun."
"Our secondary school work is now at a great disadvantage as compared with the work done in the Gymnasium and Realschule in Germany, the Lycees of France, and the so-called public schools of England. By giving six years to the high school, the boys and girls who go to college may easily have, on admission college, increased amount of languages, languages, and other subjects than they now have. I feel quite sure that, by an arrangement of this kind and a little more care in the preparation and selection of teachers you may gain for most children two years in the twelve."
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.—Lowell.
B. J. Sheridan, Paola Western Spirit
J. J. Sheridan, Paula Western Spirit. Faith So Caid is God the palpit, hope for the universal enlightenment of mankind is the foundation
of the press, and charity for the mission. The flesh is the superstructure in the procession. Thus h is the pulpit and the press exemplify faith, hope and sacrifice.
The world enlightened means the pulpit without out, oppression, and without tyranny. Evidence is around us that the pulpit still oppresses those it can't get away with, still
tyrannizes over those it can't con vince.
The pulpit does not burn the unbeliever today at the stake, but in action it must be outraced, and his ambition to help his brother thwarted and defeated. And this leads us to ask: 'Is it not as he said? Is it not as he says that to oppress those who do not believe with us, as it was of old to stone the prophets, or to behead John the Baptist?' The press, by its spread of the news, has been the king that the King ruled by divine right, but in this age of liberty, is indulging a school of newspaper owners who have become less adept in proceeding upon the modern belief that the press has the divine right to rule.
Love of power springs eternally from the soul of the man. Power exits self. It is easy for the powerful to enchant and possess himself; to oppose the feeble the bishra power comes alone of God, and to Him alone belongs," said Edmund
The press of this country, and of England, in Jefferson's day, became so tyrannical that the great champion of human rights raised his voice against it in the same language in the news that denounced the tyranny of George III.
Peter Cartwright, the rugged ex-commander of the intelligence of the press, Cleveland cried out against the tyranny of newspapers and Taft had just cause
with their large circulation and their great influence, too many of the metropolitan daily press are ambitious to lead and to control in business, in politics, in church and state. These are potential agents of oppression. They seem to reason as did Louis XIV, who was sincere when he said, "With all earnestness that it is their duty to give a new version of an old saying by submitting press for people, so that the voice of the press is the voice of God."
Papers Are Better, Says A. Q. Miller, of Belleville
A. Q. Miller, Belleville Telescope.
A. Q. Miller, Belleville Telescope both the press and the pulpit have an important work to perform. Even in the time of Job the power of pub
liability was recognized, and the recognition he has increased every day since the time of Job. Equipment with this great power, the editor carefully weigh and consider his responsibility—is he fully alert to possible problems that lie before him?
mean there is no room for improve-
ment. The paper is not exclusively
a public utility resource, but a
business institution, with business
problems, and payrolls to meet.
The newspaper this country is highest today than it ever was before.
Thousands of dollars in objectionable advertisements are refused every year by the Kansas press. No business man or politician can buy an editorial opinion against Kansas. Free use of the columns of the press is freely granted to churches and other community interests.
We find the press today occupying higher ground in its stance on the policy, but also in reaching to the community. But there are many more rounds of the ladder of pressure clowns.
What the editor thinks one day applauds, what the editor does not approve or disapproval of his critical readers. The average Kanaas editor writes a week to an audience of 400 persons.
We hear a great deal in this age about "giving the people what they want." It is palpably an erroneous idea.
To do this would be to let momentary thoughts prevail; to let tempory passions run blot; to cater to the lowest rather than the highest ideals
There are certain principles of right, for which both press and pay must take a determined stand if they fail to their fullest opportunities and duties.
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Homer Hoch, Marion Record.
We are coming to understand that religion is life. The boundary line between the two is that of reason and reason.
between the moral and the non-
moral, a vishing line. In
the last analysis
every question of
conduct, of social
relations, is a moral
question.
and a fair show in the game of life.
The church must not only be interested in having a man inherit eterna, but also interested in having him inherit from his progenitors a clean body and a sound mind, and a comfortable conten environment the game of life.
A religion which doesn't overhaul a man's life in this world will not do much for him in the next world. The religion that is off the job on Monday is the church, not the press meet on the great common field of social service.
The editor without a vision of social service needs to have his soul examined. I look over hundreds of Kansas public schools and support an evil institution. But I see hundreds of columns of support of everything that is good. Do you know a reform in recent years that has made a difference if it hadn't had the press back of it?
The newspaper which is not alert to co-operate with the church in the past year has had a bad year. And the church which doesn't reach for the help of the press needs the assistance of an evangelist and a dynamic. The forces of righteousness are beginning to learn the lessons of co-operation. It is a lesson they have been able in learning.
As the story books say—the moral
and "try to do better next time",
and "try to do better next time".
C. M. Harger, of Abilene,
Describes Editorial Work
C. M. Harger, Abilene Reflector.
The surveyor of publicity ever has seen and ever will be subject to criticism, largely because his critics fail
to understand the conditions under the environment. The editor is no superman. He works with the equipment of his job, citizen. Essentially he is a business man, his merchandise he buys in a community of the time, his purpose so to dispose of it that he may买到它 and 11kews it maintain a place of influence and respect among a few people have little pa
dence with the view that the press is venal. Sometimes, in the commercialization and error, but the great mass of newspaper, like the great mass of the newspapers, was made a part of the movement of society, a higher standard of living and nobler ideals for mankind.
As high a measure of ethics, as earnest efforts toward helpfulness, as sincere devotion as well as as the spirit of office as in the pulpit. But the approach to the task differs in the two professions. To the preacher the message is supreme; to the editor the message is less superfluous, prepared with the business, social and political influences—but nevertheless it rings with truth. The preacher is often a man apart. The editor's days are spent with the peoples, and the social institutions of humanity.
Thinks the Editor Like the Preacher, is "Called"
The editor's texts are of necessity from the volume of the world's activities. There are psalms of men's rejoicing in work, suffering under the glory of right endeavor. There are precepts, poetry, lamentations. And there are revelations—oh, the revelations that come to him, not only of frailty in man and woman, but also of longing desire, but of glorious self-sacrifice and of noble deeds, of love that purifies and of calumny unrebelled that good may be accomplished, of faith that dwells in men's sands and finds its expression in willingness to
Seen in its true perspective, as the editor sees it, the world is far more complex and he dreams especially of a new earth where peace and purity and justice shall prevail. Hand in hand should tell the pulpit and the press "We are all going to clean the newspaper are today the mightiest factors in the world's progress. Each possesses its own field and neither priest nor editor can enter fully into the other's saint-traits. The world needs no ceration; he assumes no guidance than his own brain and heart, but the press is doing its full share to bring that consumptive which often becomes the reason of rightness among the children of earth.
Tale-bearers, as I said before, are
just as bad as a task-maker.-Sheri-
dan
life of the ordinary man and the treatment of questions which so intimately concern this life and often leave them to the preacher for a short sermon on Sunday and often the tribute of going to listen to him. We discuss the problems of sanitation, commission form of government and the baseball club
E. E. Kelley, Toronto Republican
Two things must come into the life of every normal man. Once, &c., let alone a child.
The life of the preacher who is called of God is a life of service. He is an actor in drama of life. He drama of life. He christens, joins in wedlock, visits the sick and buries the dead.
Jehovah calls, demanding of him to believe that he helps make his little world the better having been in it.
And what about the editor who has heeded the call to service?
The typical country editor of this part of the West? His columns are the annuals for mothers' borborks and families, the heartbeat of the community. He is with his people through the fat and crisp winter paper is the diary of their civilization.
Habes come into this world of sin and sorrow and moundains are given in architecture, and slow moving hearse down Main street and on across the hollow to the cemetery on the hillside, and on the land where the construction of each and all. And by the fireside in the home its pages are gone over column by column and columns are made and pasted in the family scrapbook, made from an agricultural report; and thus do families compile histories of their own. And
And the editor prints the news worth printing—the clean news. He has convictions on moral and criminal grounds, the boys and girls of his little town he takes his subscription list and advertising columns in hand and stands shoulder to shoulder with the preacher in light blue clothing. The true soldier harkens to his "call."
W. Y. Morgan Believes in Active Christianity
W. Y. Morgan, Hutchinson News.
The theory is too generally held that religion is a thing apart from the
Fortunately this theory is now being combatted and the effort to get pub attention to the greatest question in the hopes of religion and of humanity.
but let somebody mention the fact that we have souls and might consider them—and we pussyfoot away, and we wander and endeavor to look unconcerned.
To illustrate what I mean, let me give this personal experiment: For years it was an attendant but a member of the church were most of my personal friends and associates. They never organized a stock company, hoomed a town proverb, or set up a church prince but they came and urged me to go with them. But concerning the church, the hope of a future life, I found a subscription paper for a church building would be presented, but only as a public spirited proposition from me, with them in the organization that stands for God and for our fellowmen, to march on the only road which according to the Bible must travel to reach eternal life.
My case is not exceptional. One of the great problem is to break down this apparent exclusiveness of the church. No other factor is more important to news paper, and you have only to look around you to see the evidence.
Analyze the fight that is being made by the press for better government, better conditions and better opportunities and you will find these teachings of Christ amuled and taught but not to suffer or changed, it is not to suffer loss of importance, but it is not to suffer so lonesome.
The newspaper is finding its place of leadership, not only in proclaiming the gospel as preached by others, but also in supporting its own good right arm. The editor is to be a preacher, not with book and text, but with thought and word and overlasting practice, to break through barriers that has covered over religious activity.
That to live by one Man's will will become the men's misery.—Richard Hooker.