UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN G. MADRID ... N ... A INFIELD Editor-in-Chief FRANK B. HENEBRUM - High school editor MARK D. HENEBRUM - High school editor BUSINESS STAFF DOWN ABBEL • Business Manager BLOOMSBORO • Business Manager BOWEN • Advertising Manager REPORTORIAL STAFF LUCY BARGER W. D.JYCHE A. JACKENES HERBERT FLINT LOEH BARN RICHARD CLAY CRAPTER RAKEL SMITH STUEFEVANT JOSPH HOWARD MARCINE FAIRWEATHER SAM DIGRON HARVEY BALLOW GLENBROOK ALLINE GLENBROOK ALLINE FRANK O'SULLIVAN FRANK O'SULLIVAN LUGULE HILLS LUGULE HILLS LAWRENCE SMITH GIBERLY CULATON GIBERLY CULATON Entered as second-class mail matter related to the war in the Pacific, lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism. Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance; one term, $1.50. Phone, Bell K. U. *5* Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kaman aims to iurete the undergraduates to go further than merely printing the news by standing up for their favors; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to ability the students of the University. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914 Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt—Shakespeare. MORE BEAUTY LESS DODGER And the telephone poles will be given a chance to display their natural beauty! MORE BEAUTY LESS DODGER So the bill poster's days are numbered! And the approaches to Mount Oread will not be strenued with a miscellaneous assortment of advertisements! And anyone who dares use every fence post, shrub or tree for a billboard is liable to a fine! City Attorney Mitchell is on the right track when he is pursuing the too frequent card tacker. WE WAITED Registrar Foster's reasons for insisting on "that last long line"—the senior's checking over seance which comes after standing and waiting for an hour or so, are hardly convincing. By obtaining Alice Nielson, the soprano with the Boston Opera Company, the University will hear a singer of the first rank at the music festival this spring. The one advantage in the present system is that all seniors are given an extra opportunity to pass a few words with the ever popular Registrar. Why these grades cannot be inspected by the assistants in the office and why seniors whose work seems irregular cannot be asked to report for a special conference, are not clear. SEE AHEAD Whoever selects the furniture for the Student Union should choose for the future. The Union idea will grow. Whether we will have a $100,000 building on the campus in two years, as Doc. Coats says, it is problematical; but certainly some permanent Union will be found at the University by that time. So make the furniture substantial, good looking and harmonious, even if you have to skimp a little on quantity for the first year. THE PULMOTOR—USELESS THE PULMOTOR—USELESS The pulmotor is undoubtedly a wonderful machine but it is of little use unless a person can find it in cases of emergency. Friday night when an emergency arose the machine was locked tight in Fraser Hall. If the pulmator is an ornament it should be kept in the vault at night to insure its safety, but if it is intended for use it should be placed in A SPELLING MATCH (When Willard A. Wattles, 709, g "11, sent his poem "A Challenge to Youth," to the Daily Kansas for publication on Kansas Day of this year he asked Herbert Flint who was editor-in-chief to be particularly careful with the proof reading. "I have had much trouble," he wrote, "so keep the 'youth's anatomy entire by careful proof reading." In Mr. Wattles' copy he misspelled the word transcendent and the editor published the word in the poem as written "transcendant," sending Mr. Wattles the following jingle: Matters the following jokes: There's something wrong with this here word; in fact it's quite apparent; I'd hate to think misspelling is with you a fault inherent;— Take care, therefore, next time you rhyme: let this be a deterrant. Mr. Wattles is an instructor in English at the Massachusetts State Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.) THE KANSAS LANGUAGE Being a reply in that dialect to Herbert Flint of the Daily Kansan by Willard Wattles, and the first of his epistles from the east. I like to be original. It's very hard to be When folks insist on spelling words so opposite to me. I's pose I'll have to prove to you whose star's in the ascendant I really meant the word to stand undoubtedly transcendant. It's not in Webster's Worterchub, yet I am still inclined To doubt if Noah really knew what I had on my mind. I often find in writing pomes that people seldom see Just all the subtle shadings of my versatility. The future perfect participle aint an English tense. I hate to use the Latin form, but it conveys the sense Of something that's so sure to happen in a future time It might as well be over, so there's reason in the rhyme. Now, after this Philology—I own it's quite unique,—I'm willing to forget the past and turn the other cheek. So please observe the word I used six parasangans back; I spelled it "aint" because it is so careless-like and slack. And makes me think of days gone by when water-bugs was thick And all we boys shucked off our cloos $n$ headed for the crick; There's something enervating in these Eastern niceties And smug acceptance of out-worn and stale verbosities. I long to grip a horny hand and hear the homely tongue That speaks the human language that I heard when I was young. I want to fork the golden flood that filled the header-barge and hear the cuss-words of a land where skies and words are large. There is something rich and racy and invigorating too In the Scriptural injunctions when they wear a lurid hue; There's a language not the purest, one that isn't learned in schools, But I've found it most effective when it comes to driving mules. But now I'm teaching English and I hammer "shall" and "will" Into my weary charges with rare pedagogic skill And much patient iteration as to split infinitives; But the grammar, weak as water, runs through interested sieves. Can it be there is a language that is simple, human, sweet. With the tang of sun and patrie and the swing of loping feet. With the swift and deft precision of the supple lariat. And the noose of words that tightens in a way you can't forget. All the dumb unspoken wisdom of unutterable things Caught in awe from wide horizons, branded with a truth that stings? Kansans speak it, brother exiles, whom you never would suspect, Every ear is like a rabbit's leaning to that dialect; Through the thunder of the subway, over all the traffic's din. Cheer than a perfect tenor, subtler than a violin. I have heard the Kansas language and embraced the portly girth Of a startled traveling salesman just arrived from Leavenworth, Or have hailed with prairie freedom some imperial Broadway queen Whose inflection as I passed her called me back to Abilene. Hiawatha, Independence, Wellington, and Cherryvale, What a brood of prairie-chickens single-foot it down the trail, Art and music, education, aching for a stage career, Fly back home, you silly ladies, do you think you'll find it here? Back to Lawrence and Olathe, even back to Wichita— What's a castle on the Hudson to a cottage on the Kaw? But, say, I think I'd better stop. I didn't mean to write A whole encyclopaedia in philologic spite; Still, you suggested I should send some Eastern parlez-vous Back to the Daily Kansan, and it's what I've tried to do. You want to know of Harry Kemp. I wish I had the time To satisfy your inquiry and answer you in rhyme. There are several things I'd like to say, intending no offense To gentlemen I used to know—present my compliments, And tell them if they knew as much as they would like to know. They'd find more things to dream about than did Horatio. I think next time I write to you I'll have some things to say That I have kept beneath my hat since Harry went away; I'll let the holy Pharisees hold up their hands in horror—Goodbye, my fountain pen is dry, I will the rest tomorrow. P. S.—The word I writ above is wrote as I intended. And so I hope you'll not allow the word to be emended. For I should hate to have my style familiarly transcended. an available place where it can be obtained at any time. ENDS AND ODDLETS NEXT! I would I were an artist! "Twould fill my soul with cheer; For when I got a thirst on I'm draw a glass of ice on California Pelican Still I'd like to be a woodman And walk the forest through And whenever I get hungry I'd take a chop from there. —Princeton Tiger The law would offer me more scope I love the legal race. With thirst and hunger I could cope Just order up a case. THEN AND NOW a prof. of English Lit. I'd be, Then when an inward achin' Proclaimed approach of dinner time I'd try some Lamb with Bacon. A baker I will be some day For then if funds run low And forty bills come in low I'll always have the dough. -Indiana Student. But here in Minneapolis We go to Calhoun Beach And, seated on the sandy shore Enjoy at the park. — Minnesota Mine-ha-ha Michigan Gargoyle. sermons. How times have changed." —Exchange. "A thousand years ago the Countess of Anjou gave 200 sheep, one load of wheat, one load of rye and one load of millet for a volume of Yes, and some seventy or eighty years ago a youth named Lincoln walked six, or ten, or fifteen miles to borrow a text-book and studied it all night by the light of an open fireplace. How times have changed. CAMPUS OPINION At hast it looks as if something is really started for the forming of a Student Union. To say that I am all for it, would hardly express my views. It is the only thing for K. U. and the way the movement is being agitated it looks as if you students meant business. Keep going the way you have started. A *small beginning and a grand finish*. The Wonder Film, Victory in 5 reels. A $100.000 BUILDING IN TWO YEARS! Mon., Tues. and Wed. The World's Greatest Spectacular War Drama, Permission of U. S. Govt. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE TAKE THIS SENIORS I will use the Mexican expression in closing and say Viva! Viva! Also Devere and Lewis in a Musical and Singing Act. Chas. M. Coats. '13. Bisbee, Ariz. If the present plans go through, it will mean the erection of a $100-, 000 or more Student Union building within a couple of years at the least. Each one of you can boast to your postery, that you attended K. U., the year the Student Union was formed and if you have nothing else to boast of, this will be enough. I will use the Mexican expression To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: Although the seniors advertise that they are giving the only student production of the play, the German Dramatic Club, the Pref. A. J. Boynton whether the German Dramatic Club is a student organization or not. Frank Spreier. SAM S. SHUBERT Matinee Wednesday and Saturday "BOUGHT AND PAID FOR." SPRING SUITINGS SPRING SUITINGS FRANK KOCH TAILOR 727 Mass. Inspiring to The Young Man are the stories of achievement in Civil Engineering Graduates of the School of Engineering of the University of Kansas have had an important part in many of the modern marvels of engineering work, from the carrying through of the greatest irrigation projects to the planning and construction of the unique sea-going railroad on the Florida Keys. Address Vocation Editor UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas New Students! All students; yes, everybody. The University Daily Kansan will be chock full of important news of the campus this next term, as well as short biographical sketches of former K.U.students,and clean,well written editorials. If you are already a reader perhaps your parents would appreciate the paper. Why not send it to them? The price from now until June 5 is $1.25. Phone the address to the Bell K. U. 25 University Daily Kansan W. J. Francisco For Mayor A. G. ALRICH Printing 744 Mass. 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