UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University of Kanaas. EDITORIAL STAFF RICHARD GARDNER . . . Editor-in-Chief HARLAN TROMPSON . . . Managing Ed KANSAN BOARD JAMES LEE STRESS STAFF . Adr. Mgr. JOHN C. MADDEN Circulation Adr. EDWARD HOFFMAN HERBERT FLINT JAMES HOUGHTON L. E. HOWE HENRY MALOY OMAR HITE ERIOL PLAWMAN Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. 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 $2.00 per year, in advance; one term, $1.00; time subscriptions, $2.50 per year; one term, $1.25. Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1165; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1913. The Daily Kansan is glad that the 53 students who passed on the qualities necessary to pass a quiz carefully left out any suggestion of ponies. The weather might have been a negative quantity the other night but it caused some positive remarks. Indeed many persons were heard to mutter to themselves and then burst forth with a cry of what sounded strangely like "blanket." DANGEROUS As matters exist now, a fire would be a mighty dangerous proposition, both from a personal and a property standpoint. Well we don't see any fun in being elected to Phi Beta Kappa anyhow. Considering the fact that the water pressure in Lawrence is very low, in fact so low that it furnishes it little or no fire protection, it might be a good idea to have a few of the rooming houses and fraternity houses equipped with some sort of protection, as good as that that the law requires of the hotels, at least. FRATERNITY TAXES We see by a headline that the House may "Tie Up School Budgets." We have been hoping that the House would loosen up. Rumors from Topeka indicate that a concerted effort will be made during this session of the legislature to repeal that section of the state statutes exempting college fraternities from paying taxes. It is understood that most of the people behind the scheme are residents of Baldwin and Lawrence, where the most of the fraternity property in the state is located. It is the case of the goose that laid the golden eggs over again with the students of these institutions in the delightful role of the goose. Although both Baldwin and Lawrence receive enough from students every year to pay the entire taxes of both municipalities many times over there is constant scheming to discover some new process for the extraction of money from their benefactors. The slightest mention of dormitories on Mount Oread is sufficient to start a hue and cry from the boarding and rooming house keepers who fear that a few more victims will escape their clutches. It may be this same avaricious spirit that is responsible for the agitation against fraternities. It makes no difference that the fraternity members are not permanent residents of the town and come here to get an education as cheaply as possible. Many are self-supporting and those who are not receive their expenses from their parents who in most instances make sacrifices in order to raise the money. But the good people of Baldwin and Lawrence demand tribute from both classes alike. It would seem that the schools were established for their special benefit and every penny that escapes them brings sadness and a determination to corral it next time. The tales of sumptuous furnishings of fraternity and sorority houses are mostly simple rot. The Baldwinites assert that the fraternity houses are among the most luxurious in town. Even this is no very great accusation, but it would be even less were Baker taken away from Baldwin. The same is true in lesser degree of Lawrence. The Daily Kansan regrets to announce the resignation of Edward Hackney as sporting editor. Tryouts for the position are hereby announced. If you have ambitions in this line, report to the managing editor. CONSISTENT The Daily Kansan begs to acknowledge the receipt of a communication signed "Consistency." The writer does not disclose his or her name, and as we are consistent in our policy not to print unsigned communications we withhold the one in question. If "Consistency" will call and sign his other name (not necessarily for publication but as an evidence of good faith), this paner will be glad to print the article. The head writer stamps the high cost of living C. of L. And he wasn't making rhymes either. WHERE? Statistics compiled by the Registrar show that 87.5 per cent of K. U. students go to church. Where does the other 12.5 per cent go? Whereupon it is answered that they stay—in bed. And then there is the person who suggested planting class memorial trees around the Journalism building to keep the wind out of the Kansan office. THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE Were you canned at the last hockey cut? No, I was preserved. —Harvard Lampoon. Ham—Boating is not a fair sport And—Why? Ham—You have to have a pull to get on the crew. * crew. Stanford, Chosenwald HORRIBLE Mable--You say it shocked him when you broke your engagement? Grace--Yes, I had to tell him the naked truth.-Stanford Chaparral. Flush- Going to the Prom? Bust-- No, four queens -stopped How does Gaby Delys spell her name? Flush—All turn you down? Bust—No, beat my four Jacks. —Wisconsin Sphinx. I presume she takes off all the letters that aren't absolutely necessary.—Harvard Lampoon. Father to young son—Stop that growling. Dean Crumbine Young Son—I'm not growling My hair snarls. —Williams Purple Cow. Says Many a "pretty" spring has caused a dismal funeral. The Daily Kansan will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome.——The Editor. OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE It is success that colors all in life, villains admired, makes villains honest: All the proud virtue of this vaunting world Fawns on success and power,however acquired..Thomson. STUDENT OPINION Isn't there a city ordinance that says snow must be shovelled from the side-walks? After all those heavy snows of last year, and so far this year, I have noticed that in some sections of the student district the side-walks are never cleaned. In most cases University men room at these places. Some of the fraternity houses never clean all their windows until they would spend few minutes cleaning off all the snow on the walks facing their property, a great deal of the ice which always comes later could be avoided. We are bound to have a good deal of snow yet, and I for one am tired of wading through the same slush day after day. USE THE FRESHMEN Editor Daily Kansan: Lulu Greenlees Kelley. Jaysquawks By Ponce We are pleased to note that some one reads this rot. We have had three phone calls from indignant parties. On with the mad prance. Let joy be unrestrained. We are for More on his advice to stick to one author. We picked the author of a French grammar, and stuck with him until, well, for quite a while. If the new course in eugenics would teach how to be born rich, there is no doubt that the school would have to be materially enlarged. Will bet our winter suit that the inscription accredited to Pluto is an advertisement of a famous mineral water. There is no doubt that students depend upon their memories for quizzes, but the trouble is that their noodle always goes back on them at the crucial moment. Get that? "Crucial moment." The P. B's. get their K's today University of Chicago: Chicago University has just organized a mustache club. Only those are eligible to membership who can raise a good one. It is to be a select club, too. Something Doing at Our Sister Colleges Wellesley College: The junior week number of innovations. The prom which was given was the first dance ever held at the college to which men have been admitted. Somewhat Ticklish Several Harvard men were at Wellesley Friday to attend the open house. It was a day when students were permitted to receive callers and go driving, motoring, sleighing, or canoeing, without chaperons—a hitherto forbidden privilege. Oh. Girls! Enrollment Going Up? University of California; Walter J. Seaborn, city clerk of Berkley, California, is trying to get students of the University to organize a class in aviation. A number of hyroaeroplanes will be built. Duluth Type Class Dalley born from "The University of Indiana has a custom of giving a game at the end of the football season in honor of the girdiron players." What do they play on a "girdiron?" Rubber Type Used Here. ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted, at French office, at onec, Spanish gammars, Hill and Ford edition. The meeting of Sigma Delta Chi called for Thursday night has been postponed. All announcements for this column should be handed to the news editor before 10 a. m. The K. U. Dames will meet at 3:00 o'clock on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. L. A. Winsor, 921 Miss. St. The entire annual board will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7:15 o'clock in room 8, Green hall. Saturday, March 1, is the last day that senior or organization pictures will be accepted by the Jayhawker. The Good Government club will meet at the Sigma Delta Phi house, 1541 Kentucky on Thursday evening. The ladies of the faculty will be at home to all women students of the University Thursday afternoon, Feb. 27 from 3 to 5:39 in Worth hall. All seniors who expect to take degrees, either now or in June, should make application at once at the registrar's office on blanks provided for the purpose. Next Friday evening, at Myers hall the Y. M. C. A. will hold open house for the Y. W. C. A. Program and refreshments. Every student on the heartily welcomed. Eight o'clock. Bring somebody. All members of the Oread Debating Society who desire to try out for the debate to be held with the K. U. Debating Society, should notify J. M. Johnson or F. N. Anderson at once in order to find out the particulars of the try-out. The first session of the class on "The Chinese Revolution" under Dr. W. C. Payne will be held Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, March 2, in Myers hall. The course will consist of six studies with a text and class discussions. For both men and women. Given under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Making a leap of 12 feet, 6 inches, Captain John K. Gold of the track team made one of the best vaults ever recorded in practice indoors on Saturday—Wisconsin Daily News. Stepped on Snake? SINCERITY AND HONESTY These students need to learn that professors are not fools. On the other hand, they are sharp shrewd fellows that know students better than they know anything else. They can shut their eyes and tell when a student is bluffing. A great many students seem to think it is a disgrace to say "I don't know" in answer to the question of a professor, and rather than suffer that disgraced proceed to make an exhibition of their ignorance and insincerity by bluffing an answer. I knew a mischievous professor who once asked an impossible question just to discover who of his students were honest. One after another the fellows lifted their eyebrows and delivered themselves of uncertain answers that bore that mysteriousness that fools the unsophisticated. But the professor ever passed the question on. It went almost entirely around the class, and finally came to a rugged fellow who knocked the professor's eye out with the short blunt answer, "I don't know." The experiment proved that only a small part of his students were thoroughly honest. Here was the whole class attempting to answer a question which could not be answered. They knew, themselves that they couldn't answer it, but thought they were clever enough to fool somebody into thinking they could. A class knows too, when a fellow is blushing. Often I sit and watch the students around me smile as some fellow is "hemming and hawing" trying to make the impression that he knows something. Bluffing in a class is like wearing a paste diamond at an evening ball. It is like a cheap dinner I know who ate dinner at a twenty-five cent restaurant at French Lek and then we went to the pottery shop walked pompously up and down the lobby of Tom Taggart's swell hotel. —Indiana Student. 744 Mass. Street A. G. ALRICH Printing, Binding. Copper Plate Printing. Rubber Plates. Plastic Plates. Die Bombing. Embossing. Soles, Badges Hotel Cumberland Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence Pantatorium 12 W. 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