UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF HERRBERT FUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief JOHN C. MADDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Editor HARRY W. SWINNLE - Business Manager RAY ELOUDGE - Circulation Manager EDWEN ABELES - Advertising AARVEN PAULER - Advertising JE BIOHO - Advertising REPORTORIAL STAFF LUCY BAGER HENRY MALOY HARBANL HUTCHINGS JOHN GLESSNER RANDON LARBED EARNIE POWERS GRIESA ALVINE BRADLYTE ROBERTSON SAM DROGH RANDOLPH KENNEDY *A notice from the press of the department of your institution* Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance; one term, $1.50 Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Publish. In the afternoon five times a week, by students of the Universal. Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism Lawrence Phone, Bell K. U. 25 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. WWW.UKUSEN.COM The Daily Kansas aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing materials and books; to be cheerful, to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to sister water; in all, to serve to the best of its abilities. THURSDAY. 8SEPTEMBER 18.1913 AN ALL-STATE OUTLOOK Close on the heels of the many new plans of the Board of Administration comes the announcement of Professor Haworth's pamphlet on ground water throughout the state that should impart information worth thousands of dollars to stockmen and farmers in case Kansas ever has another dry spell. Professor Haworth is probably the best informed man in Kansas concerning the geology of the state, and that he is now about to publish, under the direction of the Board, a bulletin dealing with undreamed of possibilities for stock water for stockmen is an event of no small importance. To give the state the benefit of expert assistance from authoritative sources is assuredly an important function of all state schools. That the new Board is keeping this idea well in mind is shown in that as soon as Professor Haworth offered to compile his pamphlet, the Board immediately took steps to give it state-wide distribution. It is such work as this, and the installation of courses like the one to be offered to the "small merchant," that is going to give the new Board with a single, all-state viewpoint an opportunity to everlastingly "make good" and prove the wisdom of having the schools of Kansas under one management. Style for 1 a. m. Pledge Yell, Season 1913-14 adapted from President Woodrow Wilson: "Tut, tut, tut, Tut, tut, tut, Tut, tut, tut: Brown, Brown, Brown!" WHAT WERE MISSED Regrets make poor reading, but surely every upper-classman in the University is mighty sorry the Student Union building arranged for last spring failed to materialize in time for occupancy this fall. Think what it would have meant this week: a place to loaf and mix, rest and get acquainted, cross wits and lay plans; a place where professors would be "one of the fellows," and especially where the freshmen might have been paddled and welcomed and in a single night made dyed-in-the-wool Jayhawkers; a general rendezvous for the alumnus back for a visit and always, the place to find one's peers, congeniality and good fellowship. BAGGED TROUBADOURS Two years have passed since the University band wore through the last sound pair of brecestes it had and was left threadbare and ashamed, as well as unprotected from the cold nips of the Kanaas wind. Now Director McCanes passes the word along that the band's most recent uniforms are "unpresentable." SOCIAL FEVER uniforms are "impressed." The old uniforms were given away to a certain benevolent organization. It begins to look as if the band will have to recall them. These are days of feverish haste and taxicab bills, and nights of banqueting and enforced insomnia, with a little progress toward getting an education thrown in, for the University's fraternities and social organizations Well, the rain has come, the tariff bill's about done, and the professorial fish story is no longer holding its hearers. Let's sit down and see what this first week may mean to a number of University freshmen. It means lavish entertainment that cannot be kept up and which to any reasoning student of university age must sooner or later fade into its true color. It may mean more. It may mean instilling into a number of freshmen false notions about their true relation to society and the University and consequently, more work for the state some time. Perhaps it is responsible for a few freshmen at the University spending as much their first year as many of our professors get in salary. It is to be hoped the University's fraternities fill their ranks this year without damaging their recruits in the capturing. "GOING UP" It's mighty good to know that when we by chance lose a professor here, he rarely ever goes anywhere but "up," and that the bell-hop on the elevator to success recognizes just that one signal. There's Prof. R, R. Price, for example, who is now at Minnesota. Word comes that already Professor Price has successfully organized a league of state municipalities there similar to the Kansas league—and it looks as if Mr. Price must have spent part of the hot weather at the undertaking, too. Well, no matter. Kansas never got hot enough to keep the University from looking with satisfaction on one of her "graduates" mounting to the next rung on the ladder of success. SONG I ha' often heard it said, (Though my wording may be new); "Tika tiny blade o' grass Has its宜 pure drap o' dew." This auld saying I did pen, Asking Jeanie if she knew: I was like a blade o' grass: Wad she be my drap o' dew? ALL HAIL THE TYRO Lanky and awkward, often uncouth, and more often concealing with difficulty the agony of sore muscles and bruises from tackling, he sits among his fellow students and sees the Varsity break through the Baker, Washburn, Nebraska, or Missouri line, and gets scarcely a single thought during the entire football season. Such is the lot of the freshman football man. Yester her answer came, Sweet and saucy, like my lass. "In the way o' color, Rob, Ye are like a blade o' grass; And ye're growing in my heart, Where the cauld wind 'never blew; Dinna suffer lang wi' thirst, Come and tak' your drap o' dew." To have a part in building up one of these wonderful football machines seen each year on McCook is in itself no small honor, and that one needs no public applause. The freshman tyro may count his bruises by night and bay liminet by day, but let him not complain of lack of applause. And yet,— or applause. Have you ever heard a real rousing cheer on McCook field when the north bleachers were black with wildly enthusiastic roots? Have you ever "yelled your throat off" as the Jayhawker machine team plowed down the field time and again? The freshman tyro is what you were in a large measure really cheering for. It is those inexperienced bundles of bone and muscle that knocked and beat and slapped and kicked the machine into working order; and THE TRANSITION FROM SCHOOL TO COLLEGE (The following is an excerpt from essays on College Life, by Le Baron Russell Briggs, which freshman at the University will read this year in Rhetoric.) University. College life is the supreme privilege of youth. Rich family men from private schools may take it carelessly, as something to enjoy unearned, like their own daily bread, yet the true title to it is the title earned in college day by day. The privilege of entering college admits to the privilege of deserving college; college life belongs to the great things, at once joyous and solemn, that are not to be entered into lightly. Now the things that are not to be entered into lightly (such as marriage and the ministry) are often the things that men enter prepared viciously or not prepared at all; and college life is no exception. "There had always a lain pleasant notion at the back of his head," says Mr. Kipling of Harvey Cheyne's father, who had left the boy to the care of a useless wife, "that some day, when he had rounded off everything and the boy had left college, he would take his son to his heart and lead him into his possessions. Then that boy, he argued, as busy fathers do, would instantly become his companion, partner, and ally; and there would follow splendid years of great works carried out together—the old head backing the young fire." Such fatal gaps in calculation, common with preoccupied fathers, are not uncommon with teachers,—the very men whose lifework is fitting boys for life. the very then wishes. The first feeling of a freshman is confusion; the next is often a strange elation at the discovery that now at last his elders have given him his head. "I never shall forget," says a noted preacher, "how I felt when I found myself a freshman,—that feeling all restraint was gone and that I might go to the Devil just as fast as I pleased." This is the transition from school to college. The main object of school and college is the same—to establish character, and to make that character more efficient through knowledge; to make moral character more efficient through mental discipline. In the transition from school to college, continuity of the best influence, mental, and moral, is the thing most needful. Oddly enough, the only continuity worthy of the same is often (in its outward aspect) neither mental nor moral, but athletic. An athlete is watched at school as an athlete, enters college as an athlete; and if he is a good athlete, and if he takes decent care of his body, he continues his college course as an athlete, with new experiences, it is true, but always with the thread of continuity fairly visible, and with the relation of training to success clearly in review. Paliably bad as the management of college athletics has been and is, misleading as the predominance of athletics in an institution of learning may be, the fact remains that in athletics lies a saving power, and that for many a boy no better bridge of the gap between school and college has yet been found. The freshman athlete, left to himself, is likely to fall behind in his studies; but unless he is singularly unreasonable or vicious, he is where an older student of clear head and strong will can keep him straight,—can at least save him from those deplorable falls that, to a greater or less degree, bruise and taint a whole life. "The trouble will begin," said a wise man, talking to sub-freshman, "in the first fortnight. Some evening you will be with a lot of friends in somebody's room, when something is proposed that you know isn't just right. Stop it if you can; if not, go home and go to bed, and in the morning you will be glad you didn't stay." The first danger in the transition from boyhood to manhood is the danger in what is called "knowing life." It is so easy to let mere vulgar curiosity pose as the search for truth. A senior who had been in a fight at a public dance said in defence of himself: "I think I have led a pretty clean life in these four years; but I believe that going among all sorts of people and knowing them is the best thing college life can give." The old post knew better:— The old poet says, "Let no man say there, 'Virtue's flinty wall" Angels sinned first, then devils, and then man." There's a spot in my heart that no colleen may own, There's a depth in my soul never sounded or known; There's a place in my mem'ry, my life, that you fill; No other can take it, no one ever will. Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive; For in heat understandings sin began; Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive; Sure, I love the dear silver that shines in your hair. And the brow that's all furrowed and wrinkled with cars 1 kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me; Oh, God bless you, and keep you, Mother Machree. Shall lock vice in me; I’ll do none but know all. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Every sorrow and care in the dear days gone by Was made bright by the light of the smile in your eye; Like a candle that shines in a window at night, Y: ur fond love has her cheer'd me, and guided me right. J. F. BROCK, Optometrist and Specialist in Scientific Glass Fitting. Office 802 Mass. St. Bell phone 695. PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. C. M'CONNELL, Physician and surgeon. Office, 819 Mass. St. Bell 399, Home 9342, Residence, 1348 Tenn. St. Ball 1023, Home 938. DR. BURT R. WHITE, Osteopath. Phone, Bell 939, Home 257. Office, 745 Mass, St. HARRY REDING, M. D. E. Eye, ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted. Office. F. A. A. Bldg . Phones, Bell 513, Home 512. G. A. HAMMAN, M. D. Eye, ear, and throat specialist. Glasses fitted. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Dick Building. DR. H. W. HAYNE, Oculist, Lawrence, Kansas. J. W. O'BRYON, Dentist. Over Wilson's Drug Store. Bell Phone 507. J. R. BECHETT, M. D., D. O. 833 Massachusetts Street. Both Massachusetts. B. phonetic and residence. C. W. JONES A. M. M. D. Diseases G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery, and zygology. Suite 1, F. A. A. A. Residence 35. Ohio State St. Both phones. 125. DR. H. T. JONES, Room 12 F. A. A. bldg. Residence 1130 Tenn. Phones 211. R. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires' Studio. Both phones. CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED Barbers Frank Iliff's Barber Shop, 1025 Mass. Two good barbers. Satisfaction assured. J. C. Houk's barber shop, 913 Mass. Students' whiskers a specialty; 4 chairs; never have to wait. Razors honed. Phone Kennedy Plumbing Co., for gas goods and Mazda lamps. 937 Mass. Phones 658. Plumbers Ladies Tailors Mrs. Ellison, Dressmaking and Ladies Tailoring. 905 Mass. Phones 2411, over Johnson & Carl. Ladies Tailoring and Dressmaking, Gowns for all occasions. All work guaranteed. Mrs. T. B. Daily, 914 Mass. Sanitary cleaning establishment in connection. Phone 421 Bell. Hair Dressers Hairdressing, shampooing, scalp and facial massage, shampooing, hairgoods, "Marinello" toilet preparations. For appointments call Bell 1372, Home 951. The Select Hair Dressings Business 927 Mass St. Sporting Goods. D & M sporting goods and athletic supplies. Kennedy & Erast. 825 Mass. St. Phones 341. Try our fountain if you like your drinks in clean glasses, Barber's Drug Store.—Adv. FOR RENT—My third floor; suitable for four girls. Mrs. Kinne, 1400 Ohio. Bell Phone 504. tf. Ed. W. Parsons, Engraver, Watchmate and Jeweler. Diamonds and jewelry. Bell Phone 717. 717 Mass. LOST-Lady's Walham watch. In-or phone 1577 Bell. Reward. or phone 1071. Ben. **Regurn**, 1217 Ky. italian N on back. **Regurn**, 1217 Ky. Reynolds Bros. Every refreshment that you desire. We cater especially to student parties and receptions. We invite you to try our punch and brick ice cream. Prompt attention to all orders. Bell 645 1031 MASS. Cleveland Cash Grocery Rear of Peoples State Bank CLEAN, FRESH STOCK We buy for cash and sell for cash Boarding Clubs, Fraternities, try us Both Phones 535 Lawrence Sewing School Ladies Tailoring and Dressmaking. Sewing School. Misa Powers Mary C. McClarnon 814 Maes. Phone 560. SEPTEMBER 1913 1913 Biggest Event on the Mens Wear Calendar This Month KNOX HATS AND HEID CAPS ONLY AT PECKHAM'S If your memory is good, you will remember The Flower Shop If it is not, this ad is to remind you that our number is 8251-2 Mass. Phone 621 New students are cordially invited to call and get acquainted. Mr. and Mrs. George Ecke. Leading Florists . 846 Vermont HOTEL SAVOY ROOM AND BOARD AT REASONABLE RATE Meals 25c. Mrs. M. F. Williams Bell 136. K. U, PANTATORIUM AND DYE WORKS Student Rates. See Our Solicitors Cleaning and Ladies Work a Specialty JACK FULLERTON Phones: Bell 1400, Home 140 1400 La. The Perkins Trust Company CAPITAL $100,000.00 700 MASS. STREET One Dollar or more starts a savings account upon which we will pay interest at the rate of three per cent per annum. Bring your valuable papers along with you and get our special rates on SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES. Perkins Trust Company PERKINS BUILDING 700, Mass. St. Special maple nut ice cream at Fresh salted almonds at Wiede- Wiedemann's—Adv. mann's—Adv.