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LEAD LEAGUE
THE DAILY KANSAN OFFICE
By "H. H."
The present standing of the teams in the inter-fraternity baseball league is as follows:
Division A
W. L. Pct.
Phi Alpha Delt 2 0 1,000
Phi Beta Pl 1 1 .500
Nu Sigma Nu 0' 0 .00
Acacia 0 1 .000
Division B
W. L. Pct.
Keltz 1 0 1,000
P. Upsilon 0 1 .000
Sigma Delta Phi 0 1 .000
Send the Daily Kansan home.
For all who are not acquainted with the Daily Kansan office and its peculiarities the following story is dedicated.
The Daily Kansan office is a moderately large room located in the basement of the old Medic buildings. In the east wall of the room are several windows which begin above level with one's head down below the high ceiling. Right beneath these windows a long desk parallels the wall.
the wall
Behind this desk the copy editor and the managing editor hold forth over their work. Along the north wall—the long way of the room—extends a series of tables where exchange papers from the Kansas press are on display.
On the south side of the room—from east to west—are located respectively telephones, the sport editor's desk and the business manager's table. Beyond the south wall and connected by two doors—one at the east and the other at the west end of the wall—is the room occupied by the editor-in-chief and the director. Merle Thorpe.
At 9:30 in the morning the room is practically quiet, with the exception of typewriters at the tables in the middle of the room, which are being carefully managed by two cubs. The sound of the linotype machine may be heard with its regular clickings from the composing room behind the north wall.
One is at once noticeably impressed with the vast difference between the two sounds, that of the typewriter and the linotype. The one comes in well defined bangs and at unequal intervals and the other is the steady drone of a machine in onik action.
The linotype machine stops for an instant as the operator takes up a new piece of work. Now the chipping of the sparrows outside may be distinctly heard between the occasional "ping, ping" of typewriter bells. The copy editor's pencil may even be heard as it hastily makes its across the paper.
The 9:50 whistle blows with a sharp note from the direction of Marvin hall and footsteps soon resound upon the cement walk around the southwest corner of the building. The door at the southwest end of the room is thrown open and several growing freshmen shuffle with importance to the managing editor's desk to their trotting orders for the day. The two cubs at the type-writers are no longer heard in the din of differently pitched voices and the low words of instruction which the managing editor of the Univer-
NO DANGER IN LOW-
HEELED SHOES UNLESS-
city Daily Kansan is issuing to the crowd of "campus scourers." Soon the members of the reportorial staff come into the room, carrying themselves with the air of experienced newspaper men.
They lose no time in getting down to the duties of the day for they know just what they are expected to do and they do it with dispatch. Soon all typewriters in the room are humming merrily to their accustomed tunes as if they welcomed their proper use by the professionals at the trade.
Before long the tables along the north wall which are covered with state papers are lined with eager students looking for news from their home towns; who gave the last party, whose spending the week-end at his home, comment from the high schools on "how much we miss our graduates who are this year in the Kansas University." All this goes on in the Daily Kansan office during channel exercises in Fraser hall.
Presently the persistent cubs have finished at the typewriters. They have written their feature articles and now are going to their 11:15 classes, leaving the copy editor to himself, to smile over the products of their labor until they blows from the direction of Marvin at Lee's in entrance to him that his dinner at Lee's will be ready and waiting for him in fifteen minutes.
It is ten-thirty and the room again resumes its orderly conduct. The same cubs are still pounding the keys of their typewriters; the same copy editor sits at the same desk at the east end of the* room with the same amount of work to be done.
The linotype machine can again be heard singing the same song of perfect machinery being operated by experienced hands. The tables at the north end of the room are the only objects which seem to show signs of mortal combat. The papers are all huddled in heaps and floor on the table. They have performed their duty, however, and are now awaiting the janitor's waste basket. More than fifty students have read them in a half hour.
With a sigh of satisfaction he arises from his cramped position and dons his coat for the downward journey. He goes out whistling softly and after the echo of his receding steps has died out around the northwest corner of the Medic building building the only sound that breaks the stillness of the office is the flapping of the papers in the O. K. basket on the copy editor's desk as the gentle gusts of spring air enter the open window and blow out through the composing room.
Dr. Johnson of Girls' Athletic Department Discusses Broken Arches
Dr. Johnson recommended that the wearing of low legged shoes be continued with moderate walking exercise until the arch becomes sufficiently strengthened to support the weight of the body as it was intended to do. The feet form the base of support for the entire, body and at every step are subjected to a pressure of from one hundred to two hundred pounds.
"The recent demand by women for arch supporters to be worn with the new walking shoes is not due to any fault in the shoe," said Dr. Johnson, in an interview this morning. "The pain and discomfort experienced by many is due to the weakened condition of the arch from continued wearing of improper shoes."
Are these low-heeled shoes dan
rentous to people's feet?
Following the report that many students were buying inner arches to keep from breaking down the arches of their feet, a sprain worse in many cases than a broken bone, the Daily Kansan interviewed Dr. Johnson of the physical education department today on the question.
In extension the foot normally rests upon the heel, the tips of the metatarsal bones and the outer side of the sole. In walking, running or dancing the direction of the weight upon the arches is constantly changing and it is only through the action of certain muscles that the normal arch is conserved. The healthy condition of the arch can only be maintained by the evenly balanced action of those muscles which surround and
Dr. Busey gives the following description of the foot in, walking and the injurious effects attending the wearing of high-heeled shoes.
strengthen the weak parts of the arch.
"In walking, the heel touches the ground first and supports the whole weight of the body for a moment. A little later the point of the foot touches and assists in preserving the equilibrium by increasing the base.
"During the second movement of walking the heel is raised and the weight of the body is shifted more and more to the center of the foot and toes, the latter spreading and pushing the body forward. This last is the movement which displays to the greatest advantage the suppleness and elasticity of the articulations of the foot, and the adaptation of the arch to receive the weight of the body and to transfer it to the distal pier while the body is being moved forward by the same act.
"The narrow high-heeled shoe, on the other hand, by displacing the supporting base, causes both piers of the double spanned arch to strike the ground simultaneously. In a coexistence of this feature and the matching it is stiff and hobbling and the body advances by jerks."
In addition to the direct injuries to the feet in the way of cornns, bunions and flat foot says Dr. Johnson, the excessive elevation of the heel displaces the center of gravity and transfers the weight of the body for the most part from the heel to the line of union of the instep with the toes, a series of joints with sockets not visible on the brunt of the height of the body. Under these conditions the equilibrium of the body can only be maintained by an increase of the natural curves of the bony framework which results in
"It is the execution of this movement which gives the gait of woman that elegance and grace which are so attractive.
weak arches and an incorrest standing posture.
The greater firness of men on their feet on slippery pavements and their ease and sureness in walking is doubtless due to the difference in the cut of the shoe and the lower and broader heel base, she says.
Again, from the esthetic point of view, the size of the foot must be in proportion to that of he body. Artists declare that every foot that has ever worn a shoe is deformed, and that a shoe that is worn on the foot they go to the shores of Italy where the peasant women have never worn shoes.
Page's description of a perfect female foot demands great breadth and fulness of the instep, a well marked great toe, a long second toe projecting slightly beyond the great toe, and a very small little toe.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT TO BE FLUNKERS' JOY
Eligibility Committee, Per A J. B., Can't Keep Anyone Out of Free-For-All
Coach Hamilton's plan to hold a free-for-all tennis tournament has already gathered to its aid many supporters, and it now looks as if this tournament will be a fixed success.
At first Manager Hamilton was a little in doubt as to whether the students and faculty members could take hold of this tournament in the spirit in which he wished them to enter it, but from all appearances to me, he seemed to be the male portion of it, seemed in favor of the Coach's latest project.
The freshmen especially have already hailed this chance in wild delight, and many yearlings were heard to say to each other, Harry McColloch is elected to the Student Council, and now just watch David D. Diessler clean up in this tennis tournament over those upper-classman."
And the funkers—it's the flunker's delight. "Well," said one well-known class-cutter to another of the same species today, "I have been up on this hill three years now, and this is positively the first student activity I have been able to enter in all that time without Boynton and his Eligibility Committee chasing after me. Now's our chance."
The faculty will probably enter with full force into this contest, although not so many of them have been heard from. Professor Higgins, O'Leary, Millis, Sturtevant, Mitchell, and Putnam will surely try their mettle against that of their frisky proteges, while many more will probably come in within the next few days.
Daddy Haworth today protested violently against being declared inelegible. He asserts that he can play tennis as well as any of the other faculty members, and declares that he is up in all of his work. The protest against his name will probably be removed tomorrow morning.
Quite a few entries in the singles and doubles were received at Manager Hamilton's office today, and many more are expected before Monday. The last day for the entries to be in is Thursday, May 15. Thursday night the lots will be drawn, and contests announced in Friday's Kansan.
The tennis courts, while the contest is going on, will be reserved exclusively for 'tournament matches, and even if 400 entries are received, according to the plans of Manager Hamilton the tournament can be run off before the end of school, and the winner be presented with his trophy on or before commencement.
All entries should be left with Manager Hamilton or Paul Randolph, at the Manager's office, on the second floor of the Gym.
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"Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes."
Maybe Fortune IS blind. Be that as it may, her devotees need good eyes if they would grasp a prize.
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"What am I GOING TO BE?" Is a question! that haunts many a High School Student
He would like the all-round development that is the end of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; but he must, while acquiring this, be working towards some chosen vocation. The University of Kansas offers many opportunities to such students through business courses in the College and professional work in the associated Schools.
If he must begin at once his professional or business training, the University offers avenues of approach to practical life as varied as they are attractive. Some of the vocations for which special Schools or courses are maintained are:
Teaching
Medicine
Sanitary engineering
Food analysis
Reporting
Health officer's work
Mechanical engineering
Law
Accounting
Banking
Railroading
Chemical engineering
Drug inspection
Ad writing
Organist's position
Insurance
Mining engineering
Physicist
Taxidermy
Nursing
Printing
Horticulture
Publishing
Pianist's work
Collections
Civil engineering
Drug chemistry
Physical training
Ad soliciting
U. S. Survey work
Vocalist's position
Magazine writing
Economic entomology
Painting
Hydraulic engineering
Pharmacy
Athletic management
Editing
Housekeeping
Elocution
Municipal engineering
Electrical engineering
The Daily Kansan's Educational Department will see that inquiries addressed to it are answered by the ones most competent to give full particulars regarding any vocation and the University courses preparatory for it. Address the
Vocation Editor University Daily Kansan LAWRENCE, KANSAS