UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University or Kaguse
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RICHARD GARDENBERG ... Editor-in-Chief
HARLAN THOMPSON ... Managing Ed.
WARD MARIS ... Campus Editor
EWARD HACKENEY ... Sporting Editor
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JAMES PALMER, Assistant
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HERBERT H. J. HARRISON
ENWARD HOMANM
R. L. HOWE
Entered as second-class mail mail September 18, 1879. Received by Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912.
Contempt is a better weapon than anger.-From the Chinese.
As far as the eats were concerned, the smoker was not a success. Indeed, all that some people got was the "jam."
Now the engineers are referred to as "knights of transit." Next we may expect the headlines to call the laws "Barons of the Bar."
A JUST REQUEST
Early in January some two hundred men will assemble in Topeka for the purpose of enacting legislation for the state of Kansas. These two hundred men have been chosen by the people of Kansas as most nearly representative of their wishes and opinions and as the most competent to carry those wishes and opinions into effect.
Many problems will come up for the consideration of these legislators. All of these questions interest educated people but one in particular is near to the hearts of educators. It is the proposal to allow the people to vote upon an amendment to the constitution which shall provide an adequate support for the state institutions of higher learning.
In voting to submit the amendment to the voters the legislator does not obligate himself. He merely says that he is willing to allow the people to rule. The legislator is not called upon to decide as to the wisdom of the mill tax. He is asked simply to allow the voters and taxpayers, those upon whom the responsibility would rest, a chance to express their wishes in the matter.
It would seem that no one could oppose this proposition. Those who favor the mill tax will of course support it. Those who oppose the mill tax will surely not deny to the people the right to do as they desire in the matter. To those who will have to meet it should be left the answer to this appeal.
Faculty members are going to get their salary checks by Christmas. What do the students get?
Not being constituted like a camel, it keeps the students humping to get enough water to drink.
THE POOR MAN'S SON
THE POOR MAN'S SON
Few people doubt now-a-days that a rich man's son doesn't have innumerable advantages over a poor man's son, if they both start out together in the same business or in the same profession.
The young man with money has capital, a certain social standing, influential friends, and, above all, the opportunity to adequately prepare himself for his line of work.
Anything that the government in a democracy can do to equalize the chances of these two classes of people is generally considered to be the legitimate business of that government. Anything that will tend to put a poor man's son on an equal
footing with a rich man's son is an aid toward true democracy.
This is the excuse, and the very good excuse, that a state has for furnishing professional education free for all its sons at the state University. If all the Kansas boys were rich there would be no need for free professional schools.
An educational system which would teach young people from the kindergarten to the University but would always balk at giving a business or professional education at any point would certainly be a curiosity. Such an education would, after it passed the grammar school stage, be a rich son's affair because poor men couldn't afford to send their children to school if there was no hope for them to get any practical returns from their education.
The critics of free professional schools in Kansas may not realize it, but they are trying to destroy the equal chance which the poor boy now has with the rich.
"Coal Supply Short."—Headline. Hear the prayers for the coming week to be a freezing one.
What would the cafeteria do for water for the coffee, etc.?
?
Well now that it has been mentioned, a bachelor's club would be a fine thing. Think of the notoriety of its members.
There is not a thread of hope that the rooms occupied by the cafeteria last year will be attainable for its re-establishment. The sewing class seems entrenched to stay.
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Students at the University of Wisconsin are threatened with a rise in the price of hair cuts from twenty-five to thirty-five cents. This has already been done by a number of tonsorial establishments in some of the larger cities. A comparatively few years ago the average barber shop charged only fifteen cents for this service. It is true, of course, that the fashions of cutting hair have changed considerably. In former days every masculine individual was accustomed to wearing his hair thick and clipped in a circle around the neck. He had his hair, trimmed, not cut.
But the styles have changed. Now-a-days the average man, and the great majority of college students, demand that the barber use the clippers freely on their heads. The difference lies in the fact that the later fashions consume more of the toronial artists' time and attention. Formerly, the ordinary barber could wear a sleeve through the entire process in between ten and fifteen minutes, whereas, today, the average barber will consume all the way from fifteen to twenty-five or thirty
This, fundamentally, is an illustration of the cause of the rise in prices. There are some cases where higher prices are caused by monopoly and the operation of the so-called trusts, but these are probably in the minority. The real cause of the greater number of instances in which prices have steadily increased during the last twenty years is that people demand more, the standards of life are higher. The great meat packing companies say that the reason why meat has risen in cost is because people demand the fancy cuts where formerly they were satisfied with inferior cuts of meat. And, to return to the matter of hair cuts, because we demand more and the barbers demand more, we have to pay more. Therefore, the high cost of living.—Daily Illini.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF WISE OLD BOYS
You may either win your peace or buy it; win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. You may buy your peace with silenced broken vows;—buy it with lying words—buy it with base convivances—buy it with the blood of the slain, and the cry of the captive, and the cry of the earth, where the spheres of the earth, while you sit milling at your serene heares, lisping comfortable prayers morning and evening, and so mutter continu- when yourself, Peace peace when their no peace, but only captivity and not peace for you as well as for those you leave unsaved; and yours darker than theirs—Ruskin.
PEACE
The Daily Kanan will publish in
Contributions welcome.——The Editor.
I have done at length with dreaming:
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
Henceforth, O thou soul of mine,
hou must take up sword and gaunt-
ter.
With all my forces unmarshalled,
With all my weapons undrawn?
Had the angels of me kept,
Had I done, instead of doubted,
Had I walked, instead of creep!
You were with earth, not in dust!
Waging warfare most divine.
Life is struggle, combat, victory!
Oh how many a glorious record
Had the angels of me kept,
Thou hast *work* to do at last;
Let the brave toll of the present
Yet, my soul' look not behind thee,
Thou hast *work* to do at last;
Build them on the conquered sod Where they weakness first fell bleed
Two Chinese students in the University of Michigan, V. T. Maw and Y. F. Jabin Hsu, have composed a Chinese playlet which will be presented by the Corda-Fratres Cosmopolitan Club of the university.
Where thy first prayer was to God
—Anon.
GEOMETRY OF THE
[Nerthen thy crumbling past,
Build thy great acts high and higher
A pie may be produced any number of times.
GEOMETRY OF THE BOARDING HOUSE
BOARDING HOUSE
A landlady can be reduced to her lowest terms by a series of propositions.
A bee line may be made from any boarding house to any other boarding.
The clothes of a boarding house bed, though produced ever so far
Overarch thy crumbling past;
Build thy great acts high and high
If, from the opposite ends of a boarding house a line be drawn passing throughout all the rooms in turn through the room where boarders will lie without that line.
both ways, will not meet.
Any two meals at a boarding house are together less than one square meal.
On the same bill and on the same
charge, there about be two
charges for the same amount.
The Yap—If I should kiss you,
would you scream?
If there be two boarders on the same flat, and the amount of side of one be equal to the amount of side of the other, each to each, and the wrangle between one boarder and the landlady be equal to the wrangle between the landlady and the other, then shall the weekly bills of the two boarders be equal also, each to the greater. Then the other bill is less than it might have been which is absurd—The Purdue Exponent.
Yale and Harvard recently gave their thirteenth annual dual concert at Yale. Two special Pullman trains were used to take the men to New Haven. The program was composed of sixteen selections.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIF
The Peach—I certainly should—but my voice doesn't carry far.
They sat beneath the apple blossoms. The moon shone softly. Suddenly, the air trembled.
California Pelican.
"What's to prevent my kissing you?"
"Why, my goodness," she exclaimed.
Hope—Paw, does the state keep animals?
—Princeton Tiger.
-Stanford Chaparal.
Terry—That what Miss Bumlux is quite a society bud, isn't she?
"Well, I don't know about that. But if we keep on drinking this stuff we'll be seeing the same.
Cornell Widow.
But it didn't
Hope—Then what are all these state seals I hear about. (Universal)
Baker—In five years you won't see a horse on the street.
"People say we look alike."
Wayburn—Yes; they would be safer on the sidewalk.
Penley—Just holding my own They send me back as much as I send them.
Henley—How are you getting or with your writing for magazines?
Wisconsin Sphinx.
Bin - Yes, rapidly blossoming into a wallflower, too.
Paw—No, sonny.
ice seals I hear about.
—Stanford Chaparral.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The last meeting of the Quill club before the holidays will be held Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 17th at 4:30 in room 211, Fraser. Professor Whitcomb of the English department will address the club and a Christmas program will be given. This promises to be one of the best meetings of the year and all members, especially the new members are urged to be present. There will also be a short business meeting after the program.
*all announcements for this columna*
*editor to do the news*
*editor before 11 A.M.*
The December pay-roll for regular members of the faculty, officers, and employees will be sent to the State Auditor on the evening of Friday, December 20, with the expectation that warrants will be issued and in our hands Tuesday morning, Decem-
ber 18. The pay-roll will be open for signature Wednesday, December 18, and continue up until noon on Friday, December 20. Edward E. Brown, secretary and purchasing agent.
The Plymouth Student Guild and Christian Endeavor Society will entertainain for the Congregational students of Congregational preference at the church parlors, Friday, Dec. 13.
Graduate Club-Important business meeting at 4:30 p. m. Friday at room 205, Fraser hall.
Announcement To Engineers
Friday, December thirteenth, will be "Calendar Day" in the Engineering School. The University Calendar will be on sale in the Engineering Building from nine o'clock until eleven.
At Westminster hall, Saturday evening, Dec. 14, there will be a Christmas masquerade party. Mask and bring a present for the tree.
The Central Organization of county clubs will meet Tuesday, December 17th at 4:30 in room 116, Fraser. Important business will be taken up and plans for work during the Christmas holidays will be discussed. All presidents and secretaries of county clubs should be present to represent their counties. Counties not yet organized should do so at once. If it is impossible to do so before next Tuesday, county representatives should come to the meeting Tuesday.
Girls wishing to take a hike to Cameron's Bluff Saturday morning will meet at the gym at 8:30 and bring something to cook over campfire. Miss Beckwill will be chaperon.
All girls who intend to play either hockey, basket-ball, or tennis are requested to report to the gym before next Friday and sign up for the sports in which they wish to compete in order for arrangements to be made at once for taking pictures.
CALENDAR.
December 13—Concert by the University band in Frasher hall at 8:00
December 20--fm 'empaul. Robert Stone, state senator from Topeka. Stone, state senator from Topeka. Stone, state senator for the Kansas Farmer.
December 20—In chapel, Robert Stone, state senator from Topeka.
January 17—In chapel, H. G. Larimer of Topeka.
January 24—In chapel, Hon. H. F.
Mason of the supreme court.
February 21—In chapel, Hon. J.
Dolley, staty bark commissioner
of KNJ.
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A Suitcase or Bag
Makes a practical gift.
Christmas prices
20 Per Cent Off
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829 Mass. St.
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a leading business college in the state.
best equipped business college in the state.
Courses in shorthand, bookkeeping, banking
and civil services. For catalog, address
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Wonderful New Pajamas
And at no greater price than you pay for ordinary night wear.
Come in and see these
pajamas tomorrow.
Big, full, full fashioned. Different; with more comfort in them and more wear out of them than you have ever experienced—
Warm, soft, luxurious, roomy night shirts also.
Heid-caps just in today
$12.50
$15.00
and
$18.50
Ladies and Misses Plush Cloaks
Big line Furs-separate pieces or in sets. All on sale at way down prices
THE FAIR
KEELER is making special low prices on pictures and picture frames. :: Let us frame your picture now before the rush. :: New supply of Teachers' Bibles just received and the prices are right.
Eat Your Meals at Ed Andersons
J. A. Keeler, 839 Mass.
PROTSCH.
The Tailor.
KOCH, Tailor
Fine Line of Fall and Winter Suitings.
The Brunswick Billiard Partor Everything new and first class. 710 Mass.
Particular Cleaning and Pressing
FOR PARTICULAR PEOPLE
Lawrence Pantorium
12 W. Warren Both Phones 500
AT THE BOWERSOCK.
Dec. 14—Madame Sherry
Following is the list of bookings of Bowersock Theater to date. From time to time changes and additions will be made.
Dec. 16—Howe's Travel Pictures.
Dec. 21—Mutt and Jeff.
Dec. 25—The Wolf.
Dec. 26—The Gamblers.
Dec. 30—Louisiana Lou.
Jan. 2—"Freckles."
Jan. 3—Bunty Pulls The String
Jan. 4—The Girl From U. S. A.
Jan. 10—Light Eternal.
Jan. 21—Spring Maid.
Special Ladies Tailoring for University. Special in styles and prices.
Emma D. Brown, the ladies'tailor 914 Mass. St.
Typewriters, Fountain Pens, and Office Supplies
F. I. Carter
1025 Mass.
Bell Phone 1051
CLARK, C. M.
LEANS
LOTHES.
ALL Bell 355, Home 160
730 Massachusetts