UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
EDITORIAL STAFF
POTENTIAL STUDENTS:
JC M. HADEN  Editor-in-Chief
JON HARD  Associate Editor
JOHN GLEISNER  Manager
LANDON LAIRD  High School Editor
LANDON LAIRD  Sport Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
BUSINESS STOPPER
EDWAIN ABBEY - Currency Manager
RAY EIDERDIEK - Currency Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
SAM DRUUNG
SAM DRUUNG
GLEBSON ALLIEINE
GLEBSON ALLIEINE
ROSS BURNERBARK
ROSS BURNERBARK
LUCIFER HILDENKRUG
LUCIFER HILDENKRUG
LAWRENCE SMITH
LAWRENCE SMITH
GLUCKTON
GLUCKTON
SHAW STARP
J. W. DAVIS
J. W. GREENBERG
HERMANN
HERRMAN
DUNNYER
WILLIAM S. CADY
CHARLES SWEET
CHARLES SWEET
JOHENEVAN
JOSEPH WOOD
Entered as second-cass mail matter
September 17, 1910, at the post office at
Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March
3, 1819.
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The Daily Kansas aims to picture the undergraduate university further than merely promising the news by sending students the news of their favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to solve problems in utter heads; to address problems in ability; to students of the University.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant—Charles Buxton.
POOR POLICY
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1914.
The latest addition to the poster display, far from proving that the Lawrence police is a joke. merely goes to show that someone is afflicted—to say nothing of being an affliction to others—with a deplorably rudimentary sense of humor.
GET BUSY NOW!
The quicker the culprits are dis covered and punished the better.
It is not a bit too early to organize for the boarding house baseball league. April is but three weeks away.
Get your captain elected and round up the available players and gloves. Last spring the clubs that had started practice early got the jump on the others.
If you are one of the extreme few who have never played baseball it is time for you to try it. If you can't play, learn. The time is coming when every young man will have to be able to play the game before he is allowed to vote.
THE BILL POSTING
The one big benefit coming from the anti-bill posting agitation and all the recent developments, is the fact that the nuisance will not break out again soon, in all probability.
"The approaches of the University have been marred greatly this year by the practice and I hope it will be stopped," as Uncle Jimmy puts it.
The posters which were tacked up this morning were evidently intended as a joke and no others will be likely to appear.
With all the recent developments it is well perhaps, to keep a chronology of the affair in mind.
After the first editorial which appeared February 20, and after City Attorney Mitchell gave out an interview on February 23 saying that he would punish any offenders, the dance posters appeared on February 25. The city attorney gave out several statements that the police were "after the offenders." He and the police accomplished nothing toward their declared intention for a week. In the meantime the publicity on the matter given by the Daily Kansan had entirely stopped the evil.
The developments in the matter since that time are fairly well known.
GREAT, ISN'T IT?
"Better than we expected."
"Better than we expected.
These words expressed by a group of men in Fraser Hall Saturday tell the story of the students and their Union.
Magazines, games, easy chairs,the
piano, and all the other obvious avantages are enough to repay the students for their membership fee; but the best thing of all—fellowship—permeates every inch of floor space.
In fifteen minutes on opening night we saw a senior Greek introducing himself to a freshman barb; a professor and a College man playing dominoes; a Medic and a Pharmic, newly acquainted. reading The Star together; an Engineer and a Law talking junior politics; and everybody, including Graduates, students in Education, and a few professors, singing together "Stand Up and Cheer."
Rowdyism? Not a bit of it. Clean talk, clean amusement and clean conversation was the order of the evening. The Union idea is here to stay and a huge stone Union building on the campus is as certain as quizzes.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
"A Florida town is to imprison all knockers."—News note. The only way to do it is to build a wall around the town.
Favorite song of Councilmen—"I Dream't I Dwelt in Marble Halls."
The Student Councilmen should not be disheartened. Al. Jennings, of Oklahoma, with a worse criminal record, is running for governor.
Speaking of bonehead plays, there is the wholesale arrest of University of Kansas students by the Lawrence 'authorities' for the grape offense of tacking on a telephone pole the notice of a dance.-Kansas City Star.
A CHEAPER PROM
CAMPUS OPINION
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
The Junior Prom as it is given today is a very exclusive sort of an affair. The least possible sum to be spent by anyone who attends seems to be about twelve dollars. This puts the function entirely out of the reach of some students. Others neglect other things for which this money could be more profitably used and spend it foolishly on this Prom If the thing is to bear the name of Junior Prom is should be open to all juniors.
A very satisfactory prom and one to be much enjoyed on account of the whole class being present could be staged for half the present cost. There are also many juniors who do not dance. Other features might be added to the program in connection with the dance as an amusement feature. If the Prom was not so exclusive its value as a tradition would be greatly increased. Then there would be at least one time and place at which all juniors would be found together.
A Junior
PLATFORM COURTESY
It is painful, when our Chancellor hands over the Chapel to a student, to see that student dart to the front and begin his remarks without an knowing the honor of being a studied omission, as was the aid in omission, of course, but it was a blunder, at best. It is as bad then, to see speakers representing four Schools of the University of Kansas in like manner hurte speeches without troubling to address audience or the chairman of the day.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansasan:
Students' day had many commendable aspects. But none the less, our characteristic Westernness, with its irresponsible haaste and thoughtlessness, marred it in a very distressing particular. The requirements of platform courtesy were not at all guarded and conformed throughout. I treasured it will somewhat inform the reference to it—the same fault was worse last year, and yet more so the year before.
and the pulpit, up front though it is, not a rest or a support for the speaker to drape himself across. We like a speaker to stand on his own legs when he says anything. Four speakers did themselves. Two schools honor them by training their speeches. This was in about the occasion this year or last, but it is altogether too small a proportion.
There is not one of the gentlemen of Tuesday's program who would not esteem it an honor to be invited to dine with the Chancellor, and not one, so invited, would neglect to greet the Chancellor or to observe the most scrupulous man when his guest. There is possible just as fine a dignity, as in any other relation or upon any other occasion. If such a courtesy is not inherent, it is worth any student's while to acquire it. There is nothing mawkish or undemonstrate in showing respect
and deference due to our official superiors. And it does impart a rare pleasantness to our relations with them to do so. Courtesy never comes amiss. And it enables the one who practises it to accomplish seemingly impossible things with a certain smooth efficiency which is unattainable so long as we cling to our best Western disregard of any right sense of pliability, precedence. The concerns are old, it is true, and we cannot afford to cast them aside. Courtesy is well worth while, on the platform as well as elsewhere.
Delta Sigma Rho.
WE NOMINATE WEBSTER To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
to the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
As one interested, I would like to inquire of the editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan, the reason for his extraordinary zeal in calling attention to the alleged violation of a long forgotten and practically obsolete city ordinance prohibiting the advertisement of student affairs and activities along Adams street.
I would like to ask the motive of his continued attack upon the city police for their evident desire to pass unnoticed his frankie appeals for the prosecution of student "offenders," his numerous suggestions as to the proper method to disentangle and dismine the alleged "criminals," and the wide space and publicity given a topic, which from the first has interested no one.
The enthusiasm displayed in urging the city officials to their "duty" in ridiculing their so-called inefficiency, and in continually notice of a matter, may not even the prosecution along Adams can consider of sufficient importance to complain of, is strange indeed.
The fortunate climax of the affair by which the Student Council was brought into much unpleasant publicity and cheap notoriety was regretable, unjust, and directly chargeable to the editor of the Daily Kansan. Following the uncalled for arrest of some of the members of the student council, the Kansan continues its previous rigidity of the city police, holding them up as noon protesters" and declaring in an editorial that "the ways of the Lawrence city officials are past all human understanding."
What is it that the Kansan desires?
On the surface the entire affair appears to be the cheapest manner of resort to obtain more yellow journalism.
It is not muckraking supreme and unsurpassed?
Since the Daily Kansan is a college paper, and not a private enterprise, it should give more space and attention to student opinion, and stand for bigger and broader ideals, instead of devoting columns and columns to private opinion, and matters wholly trivial. And above all it should never resort to low methods of securing "News."
The complete and pitiful failure of this year's editorial force to in any way reflect general student sentiment calls for but one thing, the choice of an editor-in-chief from among the student body at a general University election. In this way alone will the editorial and news columns of the Kansan become amenable to, and reflect student opinion.
Webster Holloway.
Reference to the Daily Kanan's connection with the poster cleanup, which may help me about what I must do our mysterious "appears" in another column.
The Daily Kansan welcomes communications for the Student Opinion department, especially constructions suggestions such as those issued by "Senior" last week. We will print almost anything however.
however.
All editorial opinion is somewhat personal necessarily, though perhaps not to the degree that Mr. Hollaway's opinion is personal. It would take a vast amount of conceived egism to presume to express "general student opinion" on every matter "trivial" and otherwise, which comes up for the consideration of the editor.
his education for us the decision as to the success or failure of this year's editorial staff rests with some 2500 students and not with one self-appointed critic. It as to choosing editors by general election, that plan as well as various others, has already had its day at the University. In fact about the only scheme that has not already been tried is the appointment of the editor-in-chief by the president of the senior class.—Ed.
HIT AGAIN!
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
You are a ring-tailed snorter, a ranting hypocrite, a misnomer, a traitor, a blackmiler, an ex-convict, a blackguard, a vagrant, a member of the Scoop Club, a tango-dancer, a libeler, a grind, a chapel attendant, a member of the Quill Club, a ruffian, and you ought to be a Phi Beta Kappa or an ice man.
Kappa or an ice cube
Your worst fault, however,
is that you are the editor of the Daily
Kansan. Commiserations.
Herbert Flint.
P. S. I second the nomination.
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