UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF HERNBRER FLAINE Editor-in-Chief GRENDON ALYXINE Associate Editor JOHN C. MADBEN Manager Editor JOHN GLEMNER High School Editor JOHN GLEMNER BUSINESS STAFF REPORTIAL STAFF Edwin Ayers *A* - *C* Advertising Manager Daniel K. Johnson *A* - *C* Circulation Manager Jon Benson *A* - *C* Advertising BANDOPH KRNNDY LUCY BARONE J. A. GREENLEES J. W. DYCHE J. A. GREENLEES Entered as second-1-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance; one term, $1.50. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kavanah aims to picture the undergraduate program further than merely printing the news by standing up for its principles, no matter if it joins no initiatives; to be clean; to be cheerful or to be sad; to leave more serious problems in user heads; to identify more serious problems in user heads; to identify the students of the University. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1914 News Editor: Frank Henderson. Asks John Henry to help with research. Fairwater, Marrion. Sullivan Editorial Assistants: Maurine Fairwether, Lyon Horst, John Henry. Exchange editor, John M. Henry Society reporter, Lucile Hildinger To speak wisely may not always be easy but not to speak ill requires only silence-Anon. "TODAY—AT THE K. U." The situation that has developed with reference to dancing, discipline and the Student Council is worthy of a moving picture scenario. Here goes: Scene I Enter Student Council and University Council grappling over matter of freshman caps; Student Council gets black eye; disciplinary powers of Student Council held up, disregarding Council in eyes of students. Quick get-a-way by University Council. Scene II Scene III Enter tango, finding University disciplinary authorities asleep in chair. Tango wakes authorities; exit tango, ejected on all fours. (Aside: Boston and other dances fully as bad as tango meanwhile continue uninterrupted.) Scene Next to Last Enter a tango reception. Authorities warn students from going. (Action fast here.) Students barred from attending. However, Student Council, many "newspaper correspondents" and a few students attend forbidden reception; much excitement; quick curtain. Scene Future Enter authorities, much disturbed; thrust "package" into hands of Student Council and exit on run; Student Council examines package; Eureka: it is the lost disciplinary power, including the matter of disciplining student council, dressed attentive for the reception. Council head reception. Council head thoughtfully; for Council does not think tango is so awful bad. Where are we? Will Student Council discipline offenders? Will Boston and other dances as bad as tango be permitted to continue? Only after the second lesson at $2 an hour may one call it Tawngo. = Long ago to hesitate was to be lost; now to hesitate is to be kicked out of school. AGAIN THE "LONG-HAIRED" INUNIVERSITY PROFESSOR A striking example of what the University can do to help the state through its "long-haired professors" is that of the service just completed by Prof. F. W. Blackmar in his report to Governor Hodges on the state prison. "Build a new one." This and other phases of his report, and the consideration the report is being given, show how the University, through able cooperation, leads in state work and practical advancement in every way. All honor to Professor Blackmar and the institution that makes his work possible. "Faculty Opposes Change for Game." - Kanaaas head. So does dad, particularly if it's poker. WHY NOT A STUDENT QUIZ A University professor recently gave to his English literature class a general information quiz on modern writers, and suffered the necessity (note that word, suffered) of flunking the class with practically zero grades. Why not a student quiz for the faculty covering things that every student knows? It is highly probable that the majority of the professors on the hill, not excepting even the members of the English department, cannot make a passing grade on the very quiz this professor gave his students. Here are a few reasonable suggestions for a student-faculty examination: 1. What is a double-dribble? What is it? E. The difference between safety and a touchback. 3. Give the names of the students in your class; do you know your students out of class? 4. Explain the ramifications of a week-night date rule. the Gym: 8. Explain the relations of the Student Council and the University Council. depe. punk! 7. Was it grape juice or city water that Secretary Bryan had in the Gym? lautes dances seen at student parties. "jinney," "fatime." "deep," "pout." Colin * Who are Packy McFarland, Bunny Bunny, Gyp the Blood? * Is Hannes Kohlemainen a man, an island, a breakfast food or a new dance? What salary will Joe Tinker draw in the Federal league? 10. Would you know the tango if you saw it danced? Have you ever seen it danced? If so, where? Compare with other "decent" dances regularly permitted at student parties. Get the University authorities to put a ban on the down-trodden two-step and watch it spring back into public favor. While they are at it they might also ban all chapel attendance and thus get a full house for those exercises. IMPORTANT SCHOOL OFFICE The candidacy of Mrs. Caroline B. Spangler for the new secretaryship of the State Teachers' Association is of considerable interest to University people. Her husband, William C. Spangler, served three terms as Regent of the University and twice in the capacity of Acting-Chancellor during the interregnum of 1890-1891 and 1900-1902. Mrs. Spangler is well fitted for the work. Since her graduation from the University in 1883 she has been in close touch with educational affairs of Kansas and should make an admirable as well as efficient secretary of the Teachers' Association. As was to obe expected last night when the Kansan board encountered a party of astronomy students examining Sirius, there was a volley of puns, the lowest form of wit. This is a serious matter and should be looked into at once by the proper authorities. OUR DAILY QUIZ Use honor system and grade yourself any other dance! A.—Decidedly not; correctly danced, it is superior to the waltz as "Bostoned." ignored. A Because the alleged evils of the tango are advertised, while those of the Boston have become conventionalized. Q—Is the tango any “worse” than your other dance? THE TANGO Boston. Q—Why, then, is the tango so much talked about, and the Boston ignored? Q. What is the tangle? A. It is the latest fad for those who have money and nothing else t O. —Be more specific. A.—Such is the inconsistency of what is the solution of the organized. Q—Why, then, all this furor about the tango, and nothing said about the evils of other dances? man What is the solution of the tango discussion? A—It is a new dance, much talked of, different every place it is danced, entirely unlike the original, with 57 varieties of steps. A—Bar dances not because of their names, but because of the way they are danced. But we've scarce yet learned the love of it. We're only youngsters yet. We only ask some more of it, some They say that at the core of it This life is all regret; "STUDENT SONG." We only ask some more of it The less we're like to get! It's fair enough at most. And the manner to dispose of it is just to pluck the rose of it Though ill may be the close of it, It's fair enough at morn; And it's prone to disease of it When first the rose is born. Is first to pluck the rose of it. The rose of it, the rose of it, Is just to pluck the rose of it. Robert Louis Stevenson in Scribner's for January. s just to prank the thorn. The de'il may take the thorn. Mark Twain at the Grave of Adam The weeping Twain stood with bowed head before the grave of Adam and thus mourned: "the tomb of Adam, how touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home and friends. true, he was a blood relation; through a distant one, still a relation. the unnesting instinct of Nature thrilled its recognition. The foundation of my filial affection was stirred to my profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous tears. "But let us try to bear it with fortitude. Let us trust that he is better off where he is. Let us take comfort in the thought that his loss is our eternal gain." "I deem it no sham to have wept over the grave of my poor dead relative. Let him who would snare at my emotion close this volume. Noble old man—he did not live to see his child; and I-I-I-I also did not live to see him. Weighed not down to see his disappointment he died before I was born—six thousand and brief summers before I was horn. Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are? FAIR TO ME Be she faire than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be so to me, What care I how far she be? George Withe ONE RESULT OF A CHEM QUIZ Oh, where came the silencious silently Oh, come where the cyanides shimmy flow, then droves down over the Where the carbonates drop over the voids below. covered "below" Where the potassium lie white on the hill white off the silicate And the song of the silicate is never silicate. Where alcohol is liquid at 30 degrees. And no chemical change can affect magnesium. Come, oh come, Tum-tit-i-tum, Peroxide of soda and Uranium. Where alkalies flourish and acids are free. tree, hear, shall be content, sweet science, to thee. AN UNIVERSITY There are many different courses in our University. Some of them are optional, some compulsory; but in all, credits go down in black and when once the work is successfully completed. And to most students, black and white credits are all-important. Yes, toes, the fiddle-de-dee, Sulfate of iron and H+ O-pure C. Black AN UNPOPULAR COURSE SUNDAY MORN But there is one course which is open to all, a course whose credits are never reported on the grade-cards. It is the course in General knowledge. Its text-books are the newspapers, and magazine its subject-matter, the current events of the world. There could be no more interesting study. A clear view of what is happening today means a saner comprehension of the problems of tomorrow. Here in our university opportunity is given to know the news of the world news that tomorrow will be history. Look in the files in the Library—they are open to all—Indiana Student. And so he's certain they should no Be ever danced at all. THE PROFESSOR I never saw a turkey trot, Nor watched a tango ball, that I contain the I have spent the day in loaning. And my teachers are austere, I'll have to call me early And to think it must be early, What do our early roomie dear For exams are fast, approaching. In two weeks they will be here. I have spent the day in loafing. And my teachers are usable. So you'll have to call me early Sunday morning, roomie, dear. Bored Listener—Did you see the Matterhorn when you were abroad? Miss Borewsch—No, papa just Wake me early robe down. For exams are fast approaching, they will be here So you'll have to Sunday morning, roomie, dear. — Daily Illini. Miss can't stand them foreign opera. Jack-O'-Lantern. The Basketball Season Has Started The University Daily Kansan prints the real live sport dope and in order that everyone may keep in touch with the team and the number of games that will be won the price has been placed at WATKINS NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000 Surplus and profits $100,000 The Student Depository $1.50 PURE MILK From a Sanitary Dairy ROY DAY 8854 Bell 6456 Red Home from now until the close of the school year, June 5, 1914. This offer will be open for a limited time only and no time subscriptions will be accepted at this price. SAM S. SHUBERT MAT. WED. & SAT. The Rainbow Next Week: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw See the New Parker Self-Filling Fountain Pen Office Supplies, Typewriters F. I. CARTER TEMPORARY EDITION 1025 Mass. Ball phone 1051 A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AT ANDERSON'S OLD STAND JOHNSON & TUTTLE 715 PROPS. Mass. LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. Largest and best equipped business college in Kansas. W. H. Quakenbush, Pres.; E. S. Weatherby, Supt. PROTSCH Spring Suits Jan. 20 S. G. Clarke has opened a cleaning and pressing establishment not run on the pantatorium plan. No tickets for sale. He IS BONDED. Call Bell 505. L. M. Chaubereff, Rep—Adv. Send the Daily Kansan home. BOWERSOCK THEATRE Saturday, Jan. 17--Matinee and Night ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN presents in a new comedy Edith Thayer opera from a record-breaking run at the Casino Theatre, New York Ensemble of 60--Company es their augmented orchestra NIGHT-or in Heredity? An interesting fact about red-haired persons was brought out in one of the papers, that a red-haired person has a strong antinomy for a red-haded person of the opposite sex. After prolonged inquiries among thousands of families, but PRICES MATINEE--25c, 50c, 75c $1.00, $1.50 Parquet $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. Balcony $1.00, 75c Second Balcony 50c. Tickets at Woodward's ZOOLOGY CLUB HEARS HEREDITY PROBLEMS The Zoology Club which met Tuesday discussed the problems of heredity. Florence Hague read a paper on "General Facts of Mendel's Law" Nellie Taylor, on "Eye Color in Heredity," and Dix Teachor on "Hair Color and Form and Skin Color in Heredity." two cases were found in which both parents had red hair; and in these cases all eight of their children had red hair. Glossy black-haired parents often have red-haired children, because the parents may have red pigment in their hair, which is hidden by the black, and consequently, their child may inherit the red. The Child must continue this study of heredity. Skating at auditorium Friday and Saturday afternoons and every night For the bitter grade of electric light bulbs, gas mantles and globes go to Fein's, 929 Mass. street.-Adv.