STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TOPEKA KAN.
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 19, 1912.
PROF. DYKSTRA SAYS ENGLAND IS LEADER
NUMBER 47.
"Missouri Delenda Est
United States is Trailing in Progress of Democracy,he Points Out
ENGLISH ARE PROGRESSIVE
Have Embodied in Their Govern ment What the Third Party of This Country Proposed.
"The selfish satisfaction of the American people in believing that their democracy is the best at the present day is wrong," declared Prof. C. A. Dykstra this morning in chapel.
"One hundred years ago, this country was conspicuous for its democratic form of government. Today the United States is not the great hope of democracy so far as practice have pursued us; we go abroad to lessen the forms of democracy. Today England has in practice what the Progressive party recently proposed; the socialized democracy and the conservation of human resources, policies of the progressive party are in practice in England.
"Since the time of Gladstone who struggled with this movement of Liberalism in order to make it a political, social, and economic democracy, until the present time of Lloyd George, who is now carrying on a fight for this spirit of democracy has been developed. In his own words, he states that the strength of England will consist in the efficiency of citizenship, and not in conquest of territory, or wealth, or martial power.
The English Platform.
"The platform of England for 1913 is filled with measures relating to the conservation of human resources. A National Health and Insurance Act benefitting from thirteen to fourteen million laboring men has been passed. The employer and employee pay a proportionate part of the sinking rate. Those whose工资 than $800 dollars a year may participate. A campaign against tuberculosis has also been waged.
Forty-three young women responded to Professor Hubach's call and appeared at North College for a tryout Saturday morning at 11:30 o'clock. From this number, twenty-seven were selected as material and from there, twelve will be chosen for the final personnel of the club. Beside these, a reader and a pianist will be chosen to complete the club.
"The great problem of taking care of the unemployed is being solved. Theirs is a campaign against the unemployed. This benefits, over two and a half million people, and aids those worthy of receiving help. Old age pensions for social as well as military service, the income tax, shifting of taxation, workingman's compensation act, the minimum wage for all workers, law creating for the servication of the child's health; all these are progressive, measures which are in actual practice in England.
Kansas will have a Woman's Glee club.
Professor Hubach expressed himself as pleased with the material and said that the club should make good from the start. He will begin work on a concert as soon as the organization of the club is completed.
"And I wish to show to you belatters who are continually praising the great democracy of this country," concluded Professor Dykstra, "how England is trying to socialize and democratize the customs which were supposed to be securely hidden in a shell of conservatism."
Professor Hubach is planning a trip through the state for the club and is ready to receive offers for dates from any towns in Kansas.
Pi Beta Phi will hold open house to the fraternities and sororities for their visiting guests.
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ENGINEERS AND LAWS HOLD A LOVE FEAST
Had Enthusiastic Rally Together In Front of Green Hall Today
The laws and the engineers engaged in a real yell fest this morning in front of Green hall. The laws were represented by about one hundred students and the engineers were represented by a like number.
The yelling began at ten o'clock and did not die down until after chapel. The new songs were sung and several old ones, among them being the old song about the "twisting of the Tiger's tail." The meeting signalled the spirit that has taken hold of the students since the Nebraska game and also the fact that the two ancient enemies on the hill are together in the big undertaking to make this year a prosperous football season at K. U.
Near the end of the fest the engineers saluted the laws with "What's the matter with the laws, they're all right, they are, they are," and the laws returned the salute immediately. Students of both schools parted with the best of feeling towards each other.
Enlarged to magazine size, and with a football poster cover, the football number of the Oread Magazine, published by the Quill Club, kicked off Friday morning with the first issue of the year.
The feature story of the magazine is "The Never-Victorious Team," a football story by Herbert Flint in which considerable local material and events that have actually happened to Kansas football teams are woven into the story of a coach who spoils a team's chances to have an all-victorious season by his unpractical methods of coaching, and then falls for the mistake gripped by an unknown fighting spirit, reject his orders to play any kind of football to win and win the championship game under great disadvantages.
Kenneth Hamilton, of Kansas City, will be a guest at the Sig Alph house for the week-end.
Barton, Left Tackle.
A Tiger Fighter.
CARL, HE WOULD WRITE TO A PRETTY K. U. GIRL
It would me glad make if there is any boy or what is rather to me a girl on your hill of the Kansas University with me to correspond and to me stamps for my collection send. It would make me much more glad to correspond with a pretty girl who is more to me like my sister. If there is anyone on your hill to me to write, let him to Prof. J. F. Campbell go and ask for my name, the Carl Zlohmann on Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, Germany.
WILL BE A TOSS UP TO PICK THE WINNER
Tiger Coach Expects Fierces Struggle in History of the Schools
In a letter received by Professor Carl expresses the following senti-Campbell of the German Department ments;
Columbia Missouri, Nov. 18—Coach Brewer started the preparation for the Kansas game last night with a sharp signal practice. All the men were put in uniform for the workout and the squad appeared to be in the best shape of the season. The Tiger Coaches did many things during the last Saturday, for a lengthy period, for fear of injury, and as a result every man is brimming over with pep.
The practice this week will be entirely signal work and part of the time will be spent in working up some new plays for Kansas' benefit. Despite the overconfidence of the Tiger rooters, Coach Brewer refuses to believe that the Kansas-Missouri game will be grapes for either team. To quote the Tiger mentor, "The game next Saturday promises to be one of the greatest struggles in the history of the school. It will be a toss-up to pick the winner. Kansas has been playing under wraps all season and has not shown her real playing strength except against Nebraska."
Alpha Tau Omega held initiation last night for Leon Howe, of Almena, Kansas, a sophomore in the College.
"My dear Mr. Campbell," he said. "Some of my schoolchubs have got letters of our school boys and girls.
On the other hand, the Missouri rooters can see nothing but a Tiger victory. “It’s our year to win,” they say, and their motto is “Help BEAT KANSAS. Every Tiger that is able is expecting to come and see what they firmly believe will be a Kansas defeat.
"And I please you to give my address to a boy or what is rather to me a girl. This girl can, if it be so well, send me with her letter any stamps for my collection, I remair your thankful, Carl."
Gilbert Frith, '12, of Emporia, will come Thursday to be a guest at the Phi Delt house for the week-end.
BETA THETA PI TO ENTERTAIN FORTY
Twelfth District Convention of Fraternity Will be Held Here Friday
Forty delegates and seventy-five alumni will meet with the local chapter of Beta Theta Pi in their twelfth district convention here during the week end. The national president, F. W. Shepardson, and George Fitz, author of the Siswah stories will attend. The chapters represented will be Westminster, Fulton, Mo.; Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn.; Washington, St. Louis, Mo.; Missouri, Columbia, Mo.; Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
The meetings as planned will be as follows: Friday afternoon, business meeting; Friday night, dancing party; Saturday morning, business meeting; Saturday afternoon, Kansas-Missouri game; afternoon, banquet in Kansas City.
MANUFACTURERS CLAIM
FOOD STANDARDS ARE HIGH
At the meeting of the Board of Health held at Topeka, and then Manhattan; the pharmacy, chemistry, and engineering departments were well represented. Dean L. E Sayre who has just returned from the meeting, had an important part in the discussion.
THEY'RE COMING HOME
"One of the most important subjects discussed was the Kansas standard of mince meat," he declared this morning. "Manufacturers from different parts of the country are complaining that the Kansas standard is too high. The standards committee has made a present presentation, and to make a thorough investigation of mince meat markets, and leave the matter of any revision until such investigation is completed.
This week the boys are coming back to waddle up the hill, and greet the friends of other days, to greet them with a will. No doubt the most of them will be quite strange to you and me, for long before we trod the mount, they left this misery. Some of the men who come this week will have fraternal friends, to greet them with a hearty grip, and gather up the ends of long since faded memories of days of happiness, days when the world was rosy red, and not a howling melancholy. The girls will greet them at the U.; no smiling eye will greet them, loyal students, of K. U. So we who strive to carry on the standard of the race must each appoint ourselves as one to show a smiling face. True joy will come from giving of the thing within your heart, so when they're here, cough up a cheer, and MORE THAN DO YOUR PART.
Ponce.
PRESTON WANTS GIRLS
GLEE CLUB TO SING
A Date is Open on Town'
Concert Course for a K.
U. Stunt
Preston, Kansas was the first town to respond to Prof. C. E. Hubach's call for offers for the Women's Glee Club. The following letter was received by him from R. B. Haines of that town: "I notice in the University Daily Kan-san that you proposed to start a Ladies Glee Club, and that you planned taking them on a trip through the state. We have a lecture course club here, and as yet we have no number for the month of February. We would like to have a concert by your club about Feb. 18 or 20, and we would be willing to pay any reasonable price for it. We would want a program of music, and readings such as are usually given by glee clubs. We are awaiting an offer from your school before we go farther in looking for a number for that date."
Professor Hubach is considering this offer, and is expecting others in soon. "The club," said Professor Hubach, will well balance and will, I think, be able to give an excellent program with a little practice."
A canvass is now being made by the foreign Work committee of the University $l$ M. C. A, for subscriptions for the support if the work of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Herman, who are the representatives of the University of Kansas at Madras, India.
"Dad" Herman's total salary and expenses amounts to $1100.00. Of this amount $1100.00 is obtained from contributions made by students and faculty of the University. Four hundred dollars of the $1100 is anonymous. Another hundred nad been subscribed before the visit of Mr. Arthur Rugh to the University last week. At the meeting Friday afternoon $116.00 was pledged by the students.
Of the sum to be paid by the University $484.00 has not yet been pledged. The committee of which Carl Dunbar is chairman will make a thorough canvass this week endavoring to see every man in the University.
"During the academic year 1910-11, 553 educational institutions gave $188,000.00 toward missionary work," said Roy Stockwell, secretary of the Y.M. C.A., this afternoon. "Of this amount $94,000.00 was contributed by students.
HIGH LIFE PRODUCES HIGH COST OF LIVING
Hastings, Right Tackle
Barton's Scrappy Mate.
Dean Blackmar Prescribes 7 Ways for Reducing Cost of Living
MAKES TALK IN HUTCHINSON
Before the Kansas Agricultural and Industrial Congress, University Professor Gives Statistics.
1. Let the government check the decline in the purchasing power of gold by taking, automatically, seigniorage of the bullion that is behind the dollar, thus leaving the value of the dollar stable and allowing the weight to rise or fall in correspondence with the rise and fall of average prices.
3. Introduce scientific intensive agriculture in order to double the production per acre.
2. Induce if possible more people to engage in the production of raw material.
4. Revise the tariff by a scientific treatment which will eliminate present evils.
5. Prevent as far as possible organizations from advancing prices arbitrarily. Place a maximum limit to prices if necessary.
6. Introduce simpler and less expensive methods of bringing the commodity to the consumer.
7. Finally, educate people in the principles and habit of true economy, thus doing away with extravagance and waste.
These are the remedies offered Kansas farmers this morning by Dean Frank W. Blackmar, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, in an address "Some Factors in the Cost of Living" before the Kansas Agricultural and Industrial Congress in Hutchinson, Kansas, today.
"The average price of commodities has risen steadily since the latter part of 1896," declared Professor Blackmar. "During this period the prices of nearly all commodities, especially food products, have steadily advanced. A few articles have fluctuated, but have had little influence in changing the general trend upward. In the ten year period immediately preceding this there was a steady increase in the price of commodities of 1896. During this period the standard of living has constantly increased making an additional burden upon people whose incomes are fixed, or who have been unable to increase their incomes in proportion to the cost of living.
"The high cost of living has been caused by the attempt to meet the demands of a high standard and the prices of goods." The latter is the chief cause.
"It is necessary to discriminate between the cost of the living arising from a higher standard and that arising from high prices. The former is sometimes called 'the cost of high living' and the latter 'the high cost of living.' The former means that we have a better and more varied life. We have a better correspondingly. We have a better school equipment; better churches, better homes, and better furniture and better clothing. Prices have increased about fifty points in the last ten years and are still going up. There is no immediate relief in sight, especially in food products."
In the modern movement among universities towards rendering direct service to the state, the University of Kansas was a leader, having begun such work in 1866.
Professor and Mrs. Blackmar will entertain next Tuesday evening for the graduate school class.
Phi Beta Phi held initiation last night for Pearl Cox of Wichita, a junior in the College.
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