MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1924
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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 Sport Editor
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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1924
The Daily Kannan arena to picture the life of Ramsay, the kind of Kannan who goes to further than merely provide the news by standing for the ideal men and women; he is to be clean; he is to be cheerful; he is to be friendly; he is to be more arracious to water heads; he is to serve to the needs of his abilities; he is to be a leader.
Clarice hopes the messes epid mic at K. U, isn't to blame for the shake up propicified in the State Board of Health.
OLD CLOTHES
It may be hard for students who toil up the Hill these warm spring days to realize that students in Russia are cold, and do not have sufficient clothing for all of them to go to classes at the same time.
Many American students find going to school very borse and study only as much as is necessary to insure themselves a passing grade, while European students are studying eagerly and enduring cold and hunger, to an extent which makes the hardest working self supporting student on the campus of the University of Kansas appear to be living in luxury.
With the coming of spring new clothes have appeared on the campus in all the latest colors and styles. No one begrudges these lucky students their fineries, but the question most important to the workers of the European Student Relief committee is, "What are these students doing with their old clothes?"
The answer to this question although it may seem a trifle to many, is the weight which will help to write the balance to the side of the needy students, and afford them an opportunity to gain an education by which they may help in the reconstruction of Europe, and go on with the work of civilization from the place where the World War forced it to be suspended in Europe.
One of the "smart hats for girls" advertized recently would have come in handy during mid-se semester quizzes.
Aristides Jones was distressed to notice a headline which said "Weather Holds Up Fliers." His physic prots never said a word about the weather when he explained the scientific principles of aviation.
IT MUST BE DONE
Something's got to be done about it.
The American nation simply can't have its officials going on this way. For one thing, they're going to overcrowd the jails. Everybody knows jails were made for tramps and pick pockets and murders, and it's not fair for senators and oil magnates and wealthy promoters to come crown it. They ought to know better.
And then, too, the doings of these corrupt officials and millionaires are taking up entirely too much space in the daily papers. Just notice four of the 'ending headlines on the front page of a recent metropolitan daily'—Graft, Then Run; From Desk to Bantidity; Englewood Bank Robbed; and No Such Gift Listed, an expose of corruption in campaign accounts.
No, we don't want to be harsh, but really under the circumstances we're afraid we're just going to have to insist that our prominent citizens reform.
We wonder if this is such a civilized age after all, when we see the modern girl with her hair shinged. It looks very much like an advanced stage of "barber-iim."
Students and police held a battle in Philadelphia. Giving their profa a rest, we suppose.
In a school the size of the University of Kansas, the circle of one's acquaintances is necessarily limited. Students know a few other students in their classes, at their residences, through social gatherings or organizations, but the limitations of time and memory prevent any individual from becoming acquainted with more than a comparatively small number of his fellow students.
CLASS DINNERS
One of the finest ways of bringing together students who would otherwise never know each other, is the holding of class dinners. Men and women of the same class, who are making their four-year sojourn here together, necessarily have much in common. Dinners of the sort which have been held in the past have proved highly successful, and it is to be hoped that the students will continue to support them.
PRAIRIE PHASES
(By ALLEN CRAPTON)
Prelude: A Song for the Prairie
Men who sell their souls to the intuins
Must be patient with quiet things;
Never for them the hymn of the hill
And never the chanty the wild scent sings.
Iron peace is the code of the hill men.
Prodently they dwell where the storm heads are;
'omrade of star and wind they live;
'hen rest, and the prayers of their
wind and star.
Men of the sea live gladly, gladly,
Drenched in the spray of the restless
waves;
Men of the sea die boldly, madly,
by the sea the oak, mallard.
Hurled by the storm into living
graves.
Men of the plains hear the dull rav
falling;
Men of the plains hear the tone dog's cry;
Listening close for their old dreams calling.
Building with days the sepulchre sky.
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A Church
The hush of Sabbath... From the
picket gate
On either side are grass and reg weed tall.
Flanked by the low dark stalks or kitching sheds,
Against the blue sky, lonely and alone.
The building rises with its scaled white walls.
Its shuttered bell tower, and grayshingled roof.
Inside the open door a patriarch stands
Stooped over, with the bell rope in his hands.
Late Afternoon
The sun dips down to the cornfield Behind the old red gate.
A patient woman and barefoot boy Stand at the porch and wait.
A lazy jangle of harness
As a dripping team and a strong dart man
The boy gives a shout of welcome And off to the barn is gone;
Appear and disappear
The mother enters the hot close hours To put the supper on.
Pleading at nightfall with the giant sky:
Strong Master, his horizons are creeping nearer!
I Listened to the Restless Open Space
I listened to the restless open space
ind off to the barn is gone;
Wakens the thick still air
His heavy feet are pressing down our grasses!
I heard the unanswered whisper of lonely places
He is halting upon our throats and dreaming of cities!
Quiver and rise and break with savage cry;
Send us thy sun to shrivel our scanty grasses;
Hear us, Ancient Master, O Great Bestower!
II
Send us thy demons of thirst
strangle his cattle;
Sweep o'er our breasts, with thy waters of death, with thy torrents.
Send us thy hurricanes swinging their swords of destruction;
Closing the wounds of his furrows and crushing his homesteads!
O, keep us ugly and sexton, lonely and cruel.
Send us thy canning to stay his conquering power
Storm Gathering
I saw a maze of bridal fairy faes
Staring at death and sore afraid to
die.
Yet a little while, O, pity us! Pity us, Master!
Beyond the low doorways of the East
In his draughty lair
Lay leisurely at rest
When over ice, the ice floats.
There passed the quivering hands of
the hurrying heat.
With a start he stirred to his heavy feet
When over his bare, tanned breast
He lapped up ponds and creeks and springs,
Leaping the fields, while with huge burst mouth
And his rolling eye saw afar dou the skiej deep The anatomy Dwrath
Leaving nothing but thin rays flying there.
He drank at a gulp the slothful clouds.
In a rage he sped to the chasmed keep
Where in leash hoarse, mittering tempeurs and hurricanes
Heaved and champyprud. He touced the girdling chains
Of the fleetest and sternest winds and drove them out
The winds, delirious, free, set up an immense commotion.
With a thunderous shout.
Fugitive hiding elouds and raked them upon the horizon
They leaped up the sky's hot steeps and scurged into slinggish motion
'fill their height vexed the autocrat sun who, ruling so long monolested.
Glared with a blazing face at the cloudy pack and contested
Sperred on by the ginny's thunder,
The winds whipped the yaw, now
huge tears hollow and slotted
Their black swift up-piling with rapier shafts of fire;
But higher and higher,
huge mass, bulging and clotted,
Dark, and his fiery shafts splintered asunder.
November Dirge
The sumach's fiery spires are black and dead;
The distant fringe of wood
There is no wind, no sound of bird;
there is no water, no sound of fish.
(A sweep of tangled sticks and briers)
is caught against the gray fence n
the sky.
From stillness till the chill gray rain Begins to fall
With a hushed rattle on the dull dry things
And shrrods dead autumn in a drip ping pall,
The Wild Things tremble through the wood tonight;
Elf Sorrow
In a soft cloud-shimmer, in a cowl of white;
The wan Moon veils her face
She spreads gray shrouds along the marsh below—
With slew and solemn peace
The Wild Things startle with a cry of woe.
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The Wild Things whimper in the arms of Night
Lamenting for their dead;
The pale Moon gathers up the shrouds of white
And darkly veils her head;
And naught is heard along the marsh below
But small sad mourners and their wait of woe.
This poem was awarded the prize by the Kanaa Authors' Club as the second best poem produced by a resident Kanan during 1923.
On Other Hills
President Woman of War College threatened to clean up Tepka if the city officials did not talk action soon. In a speech before the conference, she followed statement, "I am fearful that the college authorities must make a fight against an influence of social unrest among the students that is alarming us. If it becomes necessary for faculty members, the board of trustees, and myself, stand ready to make the fight."
Water polo has been the most successful sport at McGill University; if the seasons of consecutive victories are considered, McGill has had an unbroken string of victories in the past year. Yet McGill does not possess its own swimming pool, being forced to use the Y. M. C. A. and the K. of cans when available. Still McGill has been able to produce an intense game during the war competing games were suspended.
A graduate student of Akron University, Ohio, through research work, has discovered that the grades of those students who earn their own money is five per cent higher, than those who do not work.
Counsel—Where did he kiss you?
Plaintiff—On the lips, sir.
Counsel—No, no. You don't understand. I mean where were you?
Plaintiff—Oh! (blushing!) In his arms, sir.
The University of Michigan, and r he auspices of the Alumni association, has a unique way of telling heir alumni about the school. A film portraying campus life with events from ten years ago to this year has been completed, and is now eased to the various alumni clubs.
The Clothiers Are Right!
"It pays to dress well every minute of the day."
We always say, "Buy good clothes"—but even if you have the best clothes that money can buy, you cannot look your best unless your clothes are clean and well pressed. You buy the good clothes; we are here to keep them looking good every minute of the day.
A WELL PRESSED SUIT IS A GREAT ASSET
New York Cleaners
Phone 75
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Do You Save Enough?
Bankers say that saving money is largely a matter of habit—of systematically putting away something every pay day—of consistently thinking in terms of thrift.
The bankers are right. But remember that thrift embraces buying as well as saving. It is "penny wise and pound foolish" to save by scrimping and yet spend money needlessly in making your every-day purchases.
Has it ever occurred to you that every day you can save something simply by reading the advertisements in this paper? Do you realize that the advertisements tell you just where and when to buy to advantage—that they tell you how to avoid regrettable expenditures?
Thrifty folks realize that advertising has reduced the selling costs of thousands of factories and stores. Many of the things that today count as necessities or simple luxuries could not be sold at anything like their present prices had not advertising created a broad market for them. It has made millions of sales at small profit where otherwise there would be thousands of sales at large profit per sale.
So, you owe a great deal to advertising. And you owe it to yourself to read advertising.
Advertising helps you save money Read it systematically
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