UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF RICHARD GARDNER...Editor-in-Chief WAYNE WINGAT...Managing Editor WARD MAIN...Campus Editor EDWARD HACKENEY...Sparting Editor EDWARD HACKENEY...Ast. Sparting Editor BUSINESS STAFF JAMES LEIDIGH Advertising Mgr REPORTORIAL STAFF STANLEY PINKERON JOHN C. MADDEN RAT ELDRIVER RODENT SELLERS HERRING FLINT Entered as second-class mail matter Sep- 1987. Under the order of March 3, 1879. Kansas, entered at the Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism. Subscription fee $2.00 per year, in ad subscriptions $2.50 per year; one term, $1.25 Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1165 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1912 Words whispered on earth sound like thunder in heaven.—From the Chinese. CRITICISM FROM WEST POINT. The fact that a West Pointer has written back to the University of Kansas criticising the spirit shown here ought to rankle in the heart of every man and woman connected with the institution, whether student or faculty member. Is it possible that the Kansas bull dog has lost its grip? Can it be that the student and faculty are only lukewarm in their support of student activities? Does this "disinterestedness" of which we are accused explain why so few have gone out for the Glee club, and why no more have appeared for football? No one has ever accused the sons and daughters of Kansas of having a yellow streak. It is their duty to see that this accusation never takes form. The "fight" is here all right. The difficulty lies in getting each one to do his share. Not that anyone means to shirk. It isn't that; this seeming lack of spirit with which we are charged is due to the dependance that every one places on his neighbor. Let each one get into the game. And when the cheer leader issues a call for rooters, don't stand back and "let Bill do it" but hasten out to McCook Field with a megaphone and fight harder than the West Pointers ever thought of fighting. The brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods, etc., who started building the University some twenty millions of years ago evidently believed in a good foundation. If the glee club were mixed, we venture to say that the Fraser assembly room would present a much livelier appearance on try-out nights. Two gymnasium records have already been broken by the freshmen young women and one of the records was for strength of grip. Politicians should take notice. GET IN LINE. Now that the Daily Kansan and the Oread Magazine have combined in a clubbing offer, whereby anyone can get the two student publications for $2.25, many who have hesitated to this time thinking that they could not afford to take both publications will no doubt show the real K. U. spirit and subscribe. Those who have already subscribed for the Daily Kansan can pay 25 cents more and receive the four numbers of the Oread. The Oread plans to enlarge its field this year and do away with the former partiality to literary form. Besides the short stories, tales, poems and art work, the magazine will run a review of the most important events and devote considerable space to athletics. There is no man or woman in the University who cannot afford to read his or her own copy of both publications. In fact the student cannot afford not to. But few students will overlook the offer—no loyal student will. Here's hoping that everybody made a good getaway and has struck a pace that will take him through the first quarter in condition to increase the speed a tracer if need be. WEATHER ITEM. Probably never before in the history of the University did the first week -f school pass without anybody's having any desire to pull his coat. There were 106 more students who couldn't get into the first chapel exercises of the year than were unable to get in last year. There were more than a thousand for whom there was no room last year. The Fraser assembly room is one of the most unfortunate examples of failure to grow larger in proportion with the increased enrollment. It is hardly necessary to say that the University needs a larger assembly room. THINGS WE DON'T DO Want the cool weather to stop-et. Buy alarm clocks for ornaments. Shave ourselves because we like to. Think Kansas lacks spirit. Make fun of the P. C. anymore. Care to understand the fourth dimension. Imagine Missouri holding Kansas for downs. Think Adam and Eve were Eskimos. Know how many square miles there are in the Sahara desert. Hold freshmen responsible for all that they do. Buy enough athletic tickets. A jack-o-lantern parade was one of the features of the Freshman Frolic Saturday night. "Umph, what I'd call rather a light form of entertainment," sniffed a prim upper-classman yesterday. The real freshman always takes off his cap upon entering Fraser Hall. Which is another example of the fact that one forgets as he grows older. THOUGHTLESS PRANKS Early Thursday morning the University marshal found a tombstone standing on the lawn in front of the University Hall. The stone was from the grave of a child, and presumably had been taken from one of the cemeteries south of the campus. The perpetrators of the act are not known, but it is reasonable enough to suppose that they were students, for no one else could have the slightest motive for such an act. But that is neither here nor there, and who is guilty makes little difference. By those who did it, the deed was probably thought very funny, and they probably had bright visions of the furore it would cause on campus. Perhaps it tended to渝 them; perhaps some of us would have thoughtfully laughed at it next morning, but suppose it had been the tombstone from the grave of your brother or cousin, where would the humor be then? Surely no need be said about a thing of this sort, but it should serve as rich food for thought, especially for those who tend to go out on midnight escapes and thoughtlessly do things of a similar nature without considering the possible serious results—The Daily Illini. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF WISE OLD BOYS Do immediately whatever is to be done. When a regiment is under march, it offers offence because front do not move steadily and without interruption. It is the same thing with business is not instantly, steadily, and regularly despatched, other things accumulate behind, till affairs begin to progress, and as army refrain from brain can stand the collision—Sir Walter Scott. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow." "What a quantity, not of time only," he says. "I spent in pot and re-resolving to get up out of bed in a morning." "By-and-by, is easily said," and re-said. The Daily Kanan will publish in the New York Times and the Contributions welcomed. The Editi- ves OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE FROM THE PRINCESS 'he splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story; And the wild cataract leaps in glory And snowy summits old in story, he long light shakes across the Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wilde echoes flying. oes tinging, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying. Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying; O sweet and far from cliff and scair The horns of Elandfainl thick blow- O hark, O heart how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther go- And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. They faint on hill or field or river Our echoes roll from soul to soul, O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or rive From Bill Nye's Comic History o England. And grow for ever and for ever. Blow out the bow, set the wild eses dying. oes nying, And answer, echoes, answer, dy JSE POCKET TYPEWRITERS From the Pnonographic World. After this Rome sent over various great Federal apprentices to soften and refine the people. Among them came General Agricola with a new kind of seed-corn and kindness in his heart. He taught the bare-footed Briton to go out to the pump every evening and bathe his soil-kissed feet and wipe them on the grass before retiring, thus introducing one of the refinements of Rome in this cold and barbaric clime. —Tennyson Typewriter们在 the modern business world have taken rank among the essentials. But travelers cannot well carry heavy machines about. Consequently "pocket editions", so to speak, have long been a desideratum. The device must be practical and do good work. Along about the beginning of the A young German has taken out patents in many lands, and placed them upon the market in some of them the smallest typewriter yet produced of practical nature. Its proportions are so small that the machine can be wrapped in a pocket handkerchief. The main part of the instrument is a circular disk, bearing the different figures, letters and punctuation marks. While the writing is about as good as that on done any machine, the execution is not rapid. The circular disk has to be moved into position for each separate character, before it can be printed. The machine is so adjusted that sheets of paper of the largest size may be used without folding them, and the whole finish of the work suggests nothing short of a first class instrument. Where the amount of work is not great and time not pressing, the machine will help the average man as well as the traveler. The Druids were the sheriffs, priests, judges, chiefs of police, plumbers and justices of the peace. MR.WILLIAM BILL NYE THE COMIC HISTORIAN Religious questions were as hotly discussed as in later times, and Caesar could not enjoy society very much for five or six days. The Druids largely lived in the woods in summer and in debt during the winter. They worshiped almost everything that had been left out of their tomb, but it was: "Never do anything unless you feel like it very much indeed." They believed in human sacrifice, and often of a bright spring morning could have been seen going out behind the bush to sacrifice some one who disagreed with them on some religious point or other. At Stonehenge there are still relics of a stone temple which the Druids used as a place of idolatrous worship and assassination. On Gibet Day people came for many miles to see the ruins, and to see a few cuttles of intimate friends. They practically ran the place, and no one could be a Druid who could not pass a civil service examination. Caesar was a broad man from a religious point of view, and favored bringing the Druids before the grand jury. For uttering such sentiments as these the Druids declared his life to be forfeit, and set one of their number to settle also with him after morning services the questions as to the matter of immersion and sound money. carrionian "Erie," says an elderly Englishman, the Queen Boadicea got so disgruntled with the Romans who carried on there in England just as they had been in the habit of doing at home—cutting up like a halo'en party in its junior year—that she got her Britons together, had a steel dress made to fight in comfortably and not tight under the arms, then she said, "Is there any one here who hath a culverin with him?" One was soon found and fired. This by the Romans was regarded as an opening of hostilities. Her fire was returned with great eagerness, and victory was won in the city of London over the Romans, who had taunted the queen several times with being seven years behind the beginning of the Christian Era in the matter of clothes. Boadicea won victories by the score, and it is said that under the besom of her wrath seven thousand and Roman warriors kissed the dust. As she wandered her scrape in token of victory the hat-pin came out of her crown, and wildly throwing the "old hot thing" at the Roman general, she missed him and unhorsed her own chaperon. Disgusted with war and the cooking they were having at the time, she burst into tears just on the eve of a general victory over the Romans and poisoned herself. THE PHILOSOPHER What is to be undergone only once we may undergo; what must be comes almost of its own accord. The courage we desire and prize is, not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. STUDENT OPINION —Carlyle A NEW SLOGAN. The editor is not responsible for errors expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith. Wait 'til it's' muddy, then everybody will agree. We need more sidewalk room between Fraser and the Administration building. This is the legislative year and let's join in asking our Chancellor to not forget this little item in our budget. All together now, "More sidewalks, less mud and smaller shoe-blacking bills." Forced To Walk In The Road. SLIPPING IN. There is absolutely no system of enrollment in the University of Kansas. When a student, who has a course all made out, is compelled to spend an entire day in enrolling there certainly is something radically wrong with the system. In the junior line this year over fifty students who were at the end of the line slipped in another door and were taken out, who came first "patiently" waited. Who is to blame and why should this be allowed? After gaining entrance there were only about four professors to look after the enrolling. two of these of which was a single point no matter how simple. Why not devise some plan to have more help in enrolling and have the professors agree on something? Start a course in enrolling college student for the professors or at least tell them how. WHO'LL START IT? Head Of The Line. Mr. Editor, I believe the hour has struck for a great reform which will save time and labor. Will you push it? Since it is no longer good form to wear one's heart on one's sleeve, why not wear a sort of conversation card, bearing answers to the following inevitable questions: Name? Place in school? Home town? Views on the weather? Editor Daily Kansan: A single thought convince one of the merits of this plan. PERHAPS. I. M. Weary. Editor of the Daily Kansan: In a past issue of the University Daily Kansan you mentioned a coal washing process that saves a great deal of coal. Please explain the process in some future issue. Faithfully yours, A Coal Dealer. It has been suggested that elevators be installed in the University buildings. Next we expect to hear from the engineers about the one in Marvin hall. Then we shall be prepared for a suggestion from progressive law students on the great benefit that a moving stair-way up Adams street would be. This is one of ten models by Hirsh, Wickwire & Co. America's Finest Tailored Clothing. StrictlyHandMade for men and young men who want the best. SuitsandOvercoats "Of Course." Big Sunday Dinner AT ED ANDERSON'S Opening Select Dancing School. Oct. 2—Wednesday night; Oct. 5 Oct. 2—Wednesday night; Oct. 5—Saturday afternoon, Ecke's Hall. Miss LeOra Strahl, Instructor. Private Lessons by appointment. Bell phone, 1719; Home phone 4772. Music by Owens and Christenson. THE GIVING OF WEDDING PRESENTS IS A HEART WARMING PLEASURE The buying of them is a cold blooded business proposition. 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