UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF **JOE C. MADENN** - Editor-in-Chief **PRAKHAT H. HEMERSON** - High School Editor **FRAKE H. HEMERSON** - High School Editor BUSINESS STAFF REPORTORIAL STAFF EDWIN ARELLA - Coaching Business Manager JIM WATSON - Coaching Administration Manager JOE BARRY - Coaching Management Manager HENRYOY RANDOLME KENNEDY DUCCY BARBER ADAM DAGEN W.J. DYCHE BARNARD FRIEDMAN HUBERT FUNT GLEWBON ALVINE HOBERT FUNT CHANGER GIBSON LORAH BROM GILBROOK QUILTIN RAY CLAPPER ROBBIE BURNEY RAY CLAPPER LUCIA HILDINGER CHARLES SWEET JOHN VANFELPENTVANT LAWRENCE SMITH JOHSPH Howard GLDRESS PLATTON CRAVIIN LAMBER MARY MAYBURN CRAVIIN LAMBER Entered on second-1-class mail matter of Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March Published in the afternoon, five times a week. Kansas. From the press of the department of education. Subscriptions price $2.50 per year, in advance; one term, $1.50. Phone. Bell K. U. %. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kansan aims to victime the massacre in Iraq, and to go further than merely print the news by standing up for the Knesset. The news is played no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be serious; to be more serious problems to uder heads; to be more serious problems to abult the students of the University. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1914 The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. —Garfield. UNENFORCED LAW The Lawrence city council passed a coasting ordinance last year, an ordinance intended to protect young people from just such tragedies as that which grieved the University Saturday night. The ordinance is an excellent one. It provides that there shall be no coastrig on Oread hills until after the street cars stop running. It provides that watchmen must be placed by the coasters at each street crossing, watchmen under the supervision of the city marshal. Like so many of our laws, however, it was not enforced—and the fatal accident occurred. Laws that are merely made, and not enforced, are worse than useless. MORE "PEP" WANTED ' We hope the Clay Workers' Society will have nothing to do with mud slinging. The students want a Student Union. Very few of them have refused to support the plan, but they cannot sign up if a petition is not presented. With more than four hundred Student Union signers on the first day of the campaign, last Monday, the necessary eight hundred names on the petitions seemed assured in less than a week. The committee, however, took a deep breath of satisfaction Tuesday morning, smiled broadly—and "layed down on the job." After the committee's "ginger" meeting in Fraser Hall this morning the men ought to buckle down and get a signature or a flat refusal from every eligible student in the University this week. If this is done the Union can still be opened at the time originally planned—sometime between February 20 and March 1. The worst thing about snow is the fact that it is so wet when it melts. ___ SMOKING The suspension of three students for violating the rule which prohibits smoking in any University building or on the entrance to any building, will prove more effective toward enforcing that rule than any number of warnings and ultimatums that the Student Council might see fit to stand out. If the Student Council succeeds in enforcing its rule, applying only to students; some other body ought to stop a similar practice by any of the professors. It is probable, however, that the (7.4) what is $f(e=0)$? publicity given to the action of these instructors will prove as effective as a specific suggestion from an administrative authority. "Count No-Account" is the title of the senior play. We hope they don't try to use a monocle, because it always falls off and causes the audience to snicker at the wrong time. DON'T BLAME THE FACULTY Cheating at the University, however small, is the fault of the students, and is not caused by lax faculty methods. Honor is a personal thing and no student can blame his instructor if he lacks it. The recommendations of the honor sentiment committee, published Friday, in regard to changing practices of certain professors might, if adopted, reduce temptation among the few with wobbly consciences, but that is all. Student sentiment must handle such cases, not a certain specified code of action by the instructor. Dealers claim that the price of butter is high because of the big demand for it but that gag doesn't go in a boarding house city like Lawrence. NOT A MARBLE MEMORIAL NOT A MEMORIAL The plan of the engineers, past and present, to present the University with a bust of Frank O. Marvin is an excellent one; but that man's most lasting memorial is the School of Engineering itself, since for its growth and high standing he is so lavely responsible. May Advisory Dean Marvin continue in his present capacity to upbuild that excellent school for many years yet to come. If the proposed national movie "raise" to ten cents goes into effect it will help the W. S. G. A. wonderfully in putting the Mid-Week Date rule into effect. ANOTHER ONE UNSIGNED Another anonymous communication was received by the Daily Kansan Friday, commenting on the enrollment in the gymnasium. Contributions will not be published unless the cutout knows the name of the author. The name will be kept confidential if desired, but it is absolutely necessary that the Daily Kansan be acquainted with the authorship of everything printed in its columns. ENDS AND ODDLETS K. U. will add a School of Commerce to its present collection soon, if reports are correct.—Washburn Review. WE ARE KIDDED DON'T DENATURE BASKETBALL Perhaps, as Doctor Naismith suggests, there are grounds for changing the name from basketball to basketball; but remember what hap- ited after it was a popular game played with hard rubber balls. Then, out of deference to the lampshades of the nation, hollow celluloid spheroids were substituted in the ball. History repeats itself as (supply favorite author) observed, or it wouldn't be history. The Prince of Monaco recently discovered a new fish in the ocean at a depth of three miles. It isn't as sophisticated in ignorance of such important facts. A HOBBLE SKIRT SECTION Fine Arts basketball players will practice in the Gym. Saturday at 10—Drake Daily Delphic THE LEGEND OF THE SUNFLOWER What has become of the old-fashioned student who carried his text books to class? Dainty maiden Dressed so neat Monday morning Adams Street. Slippery pavement Down by Lee's Maiden strikes it Curtain, please. By Elmer F. Engel, Associate Professor of German. (Copyrighted, 1913, by the author and recently issued in booklet form. Reprinted by special permission). A long, long time ago, before ever man lived on the earth, the spirits of all the flowers dwelt in the far off land of Odorbloom, where they served a noble and gracious queen. In these gardens, large green plants, thick green grass and running brooks, to give shade, food and water to bird and beast, but there were no flowers. So when God made man to live on the earth, the good queen of Odorbloom called all the children, and said: "Dear children, I have something to say to you, which may, perhaps, make you sad. You have always lived happily here together; you have always been ready to serve me, and I love you, but the time has now come when I must say farewell There were tears in the queen's eyes, and her words had so overcome the tender spirits of the flowers that they could only sigh and sob. With trembling eyes, "I have often told you about the earth with its high mountains, its broad lands and its deep blue seas, and about the birds, the beasts and the fishes that live there in their free way with no one to rule over them. There are no flowers on the ground, and we joy them and care for them. But now man is to be the lord of the earth, and he will need the bright colors and the sweet fragrance of flowers to make him gentle and kind and happy. So I want you to go and learn how to cheer and take care of the earth to cheer and brighten their lives. They will be glad to see you and will make beautiful gardens for you to grow in, and build big glass houses to keep the cold wind off of you. You may choose any and every flower, and I will let you live anywhere you please." Although the flowers were sad to leave their queen, they said if their presence on the earth would make men glad they were ready to go, they did not bother another mother color and shape they liked best, as they saw them in the rainbow or the evening sky, or in the 'things they had seen on their journeys with their queen. One wanted to be white and look like a star; one wanted to wear black and keep company with the moon; one wanted to be dark red and dwell high up on the mountains; another wanted to live in the water, and so on, till all but one had spoken. This one had always been most loved by the queen, and of course it was very fond of the mother color and Odobloom was to it a paradise. All were waiting for it to speak, and at last, with a sad, sweet voice, it said: "My gracious queen, I have waited till last to make my choice, because this beautiful land is very dear to me, and it gives me pain to think of leaving it and you; and then I fear you will say I am asking too much in my choice. You know how I love the sunlight and how I always watch the sun on the mat, so I Love the glory, the form and the glory of the bright, shining sun, and I want to dwell in a land where the sun always shines, and among a people who are true and good, and who will sneak well of me." "my dear," said the queen, "you have indeed asked much, but you shall have your wish. There is only one land that I will want; you will feel at home. There you will be welcome and my ruest blessing shall go with you." And so with the dawn of a warm, sunny day in spring, the spirit of the sunflower left its earth until it came to the broad plains of a great western state. It made its home, and over all the fields, by the roadside and river banks it now lifts its bright face every day to the clear light of the sun and to the glittering water, it that they gave its name to their state and today the great state of Kansas is best known as the "Sunflower State." SPRING SUITINGS FRANK KOCH TAILOR 727 Mass. K. U. DICTIONARY Maine (a street.) Chief in name Massachusetts there count ten from Massachusetts Math. an out-of-date science in which two and two never make but four; the study of students; the way engineers known to woman; engineer's favorite sport. “M” Missouri (see football, track, athletics). The name of a species of Tigers particularly fond of Jayhawk feathers. Its hardest feat is to keep the knots out of its tail. Museum. A large handsome building full of animals, birds, bugs, fossils, rocks, stiffs, medics, and cozy-corners. Also contains a beautiful model of the Administration building as it will be some day (maybe.) A. G. ALRICH Printing Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Bubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel Die Embossing, Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. W. J. Francisco For Mayor PROTSCH The Tailor THEY ARE HERE A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AT ANDERSON'S OLD STAND JOHNSON & TUTTLE 715 PROPS. Mass. PURE MILK From a Sanitary Dairy ROY DAY 8854 Bell 6456 Red Home High School Students who are so fortunate as to have Musical or Artistic Talent and who are wondering whether the development of their abilities would place them in a remunerative profession will be interested in the experience of the 24 graduates from the School of Fine Arts last year. Ten are holding well paid positions. Five are continuing their studies. The others did not desire positions. The ten have positions in piano, organ, voice, organ and choir directing, painting and expression. 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