THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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The Daily Kausan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news on paper, she devises a three-day workshop; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more安心 problems to others; to be the best of its ability the student of the University.
THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1920
THE PLEDGE
Are the students of the University loyal to their pledge, if they let the two biggest basketball games of the season pass by unnoticed? Are they putting K. U. First if they let the Bengal tiger from our eastern neighboring state come into the lair of the Jayhawker and snatch two basketball games to add to the defeat of Inst November!
No, they are not, and if the gym isn't crowded to running over, Missouri is going to slip in and away with a brace of gamesthat is going to send them whistling on their way to another Missouri Valley Championship. Let's get out and twist that Tiger's tail Thursday and Friday nights.
Despite all we hear and read about the present generation losing an appreciation for classical art, music and literature, more people went to see Sothern and Marlowe in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night than have gone to any other show this year. And everybody enjoyed the play immensely.
REAL AMERICANISM
One hundred per cent Americanism is the term we constantly hear applied to individuals; sometimes self-imposed and sometimes otherwise.
Not infrequently public characters claim 100 per cent Americanism to boost themselves and disparage their opponents and often these 100 per cent Americans have their own axes to grind.
The phrase is becoming stereotyped and applied permissiously. One group claims 100 per cent Americanism and another to go one better claims to be 150 per cent American. Even some of the Reds are claiming to be the essence of Americanism.
Real Americans must hold steady during these critical times. Their thinking must be clear and just. It is exceedingly difficult to form unbiased opinions and think rationally at the present time when feeling is running high. People are at such a high intellectual tension that a person who tries to reason fairly, considering both sides of the question is liable to condemnation and criticism on the grounds that he is radical. However, it is essential that we do not lose our mental poise.
Before attempting to settle the industrial problems and the general social unrest one question must be answered. Is radicalism a cause or an effect?
be attacked or a symptom we must ascertain and remedy the causes. But if radicalism is a cause there are several ways to deal with it: (1) ship or shoot; (2) mob violence; (3) trial; (4) suppression of the
press; (5) legalization; (6) education;
(7) evangelism. There must undoubtedly be combinations of these ease which requires a very careful diagnosis and treatment
True Americans must be the attending physicians and the case will require deep thought and investigation
With a new candidate being men tioned every day, the remark once made by a certain wit takes on increased significance. "The next president is rapidly increasing in numbers."
SAVING THE WORLD
Just now tons of printers ink being wasted to find a solution for what is the matter with the world. And plenty of action is resulting from the agitation. The Big Flies has been dissolved; various committees dressed in expensive clothing are searching for profiteers; a dozen presidential booms have been started with the express purpose o saving the nation; and thousands o talkative Reds are being rounded up for their trip to Europe. The purpose of each move is to assist in heading off threatened census as seen through the magnifying glass of the world war reaction.
Undoubtedly a few cogs have slipped lately and there is need for a few mechanics to restore the Universe to better working order after the mental unbalance caused by the war. Bat in the end the fate of the world will depend upon the common sense of every individual and not upon the number of new experiments for running the machinery. In Russia, the laboratory of Bolshevists, there is a preponderance of new ideas but the lack of common sense. As a result, while saving the world these discoverers of the new scheme of things are themselves starving for the comforts of civilization which they have repudiated.
In bringing the world back to normal we are neglecting the first essential. Every individual must first bring himself back to normal. When every person gets back to a common sense basis and comes down to the ground after his mental joy ride, the saving of the world will cease to be a problem.
In an idle moment last week we figured out that a certain chewing gum company would have to sell about $850,000 additional packages of gum in order to pay for a single run in one of the leading magazines. They must believe in advertising.
MILLIONAIRES AND H. C. OF C.
An Old Clothes Club, such as the one recently organized in Rock Island, Ill., by a bunch of representatives men of the city, might not be out of place at the University of Kansas. This club, which has as its insignia a little button with the letters O. C. on it, has pledged its members not to buy a stitch of new clothing for at least six months in the hope that their action may have some influence on the H. C. of C.
The price of clothing throughout the United States is rising with such speed that it is getting to be alarming. A decent suit of clothes, such as one would not have thought of paying more than thirty dollars for five years ago, cannot now be bought for less than sixty dollars and visions of seventy-five bucks for a commonplace suit in the spring have been substantiated by clothiers.
It is as Samuel G. Blythe says in the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post, people all over the country are willing, it seems, to pay exorbitant prices for commodities, and the manufacturers, jobbers and retailers, noticing this tendency, are just as willing to boost the price fifty percent at a time.
Because of the war, there are thousands of the newly rich in this country who are unacquainted to large sums of money and who are evidently fast losing the sight of it. They have it by the bale and are getting rid of it by the ton. Mr. Blythe attributes high prices in New York largely to the pressure of an over-abundance of new millionaires who are more than willing to pay whatever is asked and who feel slighted if they are not obliged to pay three prices for anything they buy.
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Campus Opinion
Editor, The Daily Kansan:
Put K. U. First.
Why not do it now?
Chicago is experiencing af epidemic of influenza, and the death rate is exceedingly large. No one know how soon it may reach the University. Therefore it behoves us to take care of our students, who are University. It means that if we are to escape this dreaded disease, we must start taking precautions at once. All instructors should make it worth while to urge their students to take better care of their health. Many students have had bad colds for several weeks, have failed to recover to a physician for treatment, which would cure them.
We have had this epidemic before and know that it is mainly through negligence that it is spread. A little precaution from each individual will do much toward preventing the disease getting a start here.
Let us put K. U. first in health as well as in sport.
THE EDGE ACT
Longer hours of dissipation, and shorter hours of work, is not a good idea; that's all there to it. We may all scream our heads off in favoring it, and still it won't be a good idea—Ed. Howe.
It may have escaped the attention of most persons in the United States, except those directly interested in international trade, that what is known as the Edge measure is now a law that governs how an act of Wilson brings to an end a protracted contest over what may be regarded as one of the most important acts ever passed by Congress. It is certainly of vital importance to international commerce, and represents a great step toward the improvement of relations and the restoration of foreign exchange to a normal condition.
An Onlooker.
The purpose of the new law is to permit other nations of the world to purchase American goods on long-term credits. It provides that this may be done without tying up the capital of the American manufacturer to one or more businesses of time, and at the same time permits the postponement of payment for the goods by foreign buyers until they are in a position to pay, or until the foreign exchanges have become more stable. These ends are to be accomplished by the formation of corporations which will be permitted to trade with one another or be based upon the notes and securities offered by foreign buyers. This collateral is to be made the basis of debentures to be issued by the corporations, these debentures in turn to be sold to American investors. The law, which is in the form of an act designated only to finance American export business, but to help the restoration of Europe's industries and conquer. The Federal Reserve Board which is administrative body, has been in consultation with leading financial and commercial interests of the United States designed not only to finance American export business, but to help having practical use made of the act as soon as possible. As a result, announcement has already been made of the formation of a new company, to engage in international trade by New York bank financing whose names are familiar throughout the world; to lend its securities to do a commercial business, and will deal in commodities required by other nations. Another corporation, recently formed, also will devote itself to international trade, but will arrive it on through the purchase of foreign investments which may be exchanged for other bonds. American securities will be private and not government loans.
To what extent financial relief will be given to European nations through the enactment of the Edge law depends very largely upon the American people and the extent to which they are informed as to the desire for it by the corporations as investments. A considerable degree of publicity will be necessary. There are so many sound American investments now selling at attractive prices that one may hesitate about investing in a security offered by such companies or thing. Generally speaking, however, there should be no question as to the safety of such investments, if opportunity for careful scrutiny of the collateral is given by corporations offering the debentures. In addition the investor will have the satisfaction of having a practical way to restore war-ridden Europe to a sound economic condition, Christian Science Monitor.
-BACK TO THE CAVE DAYS
The ancient cave-man never told
His neighbor's wealth in minted
money.
A man was judged, in days of old By hides and pelts and milk and honey.
But soon, in more enlightened zones,
Where people were a little smarter
They got to using graven stones
ny these possessions—n they had 'em.
Were here ahead of Father Adam Were classed among the idle rich
But skins and foods they represented
And that is how, upon the earth
And that is now, upon the earth
The thing called money was invented.
In recent years it's been enough
The storms are more severe and stat
They got to using graven stones
As mediums of trade and barter.
As mediums of trade and barter.
These things had no intrinsic worth.
To stamp a person's rank and station
To count the coin (we call it "stuff").
That he can put in circulation.
But now we judge a person by
We talk of people's bond and stocks
Whenever people is estimated
Whenever wealth is estimated.
Yet still we're prone to call 'em " rocks."
Which shows how coin originated.
New York Tribune
The coal and sugar he is hoarding.
We view his stock of Scotch and Rye
And estimate his wealth according The fascinating lure of gold— The fascinating lure of gold—
Kind Father—'My dear, if you want a good husband marry Mr. Goodheart. He really and truly loves you."
The fascinating lure of good
The charm of money—has departed
Returning to the ways of old
We view his stock of Scotland and Rye
And estimate his wealth according
I am the foundation of all business,
I am the fount of all prosperity.
I am the parent of genius. I am the salt that gives life its savor. I have laid the foundation of every fortune and success. I must be loved before I can bestow my greatest blessings and achieve my greatest ends, I make life sweet and purposeful and fruitful. I can do more to advance a youth than his own parents, he they ever so rich. Fools must be represented in every leaf of bread that comes from the oven, in every train that crosses the continent in every newspaper that cocoons from the press. I am the mother of democracy. All progress springs from me. Who am I to work—New England Craftsmaker.
THE ROUND-UP
WEEKLY CALENDAR
Thursday
WORK
teaching of the ways or the
We're going back to where we start
Varsity
The Bolahevist entertains a theory whose triumph makes frog speech impossible, when he brings down demons with it, with all government by discussion.
The public may prepare itself for a great outcry over the round-up of the "Reds." The opportunity for public weeping over the poor marriages of young mothers said with wearisome iteration that the pillar of true speech has been prostrated and men and women who care nothing for America or the Constitution will invoke the social tradition of Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hlm.
There are enemies of free speech in the country. They are chiefly those who abuse the privileges it confers. Any person who advocates direct action and the substitution of the rule of force for that of a freely functioning majority expressing it is if elf through law is the foe of free speech. The opposition, however, stimulates answering reactions, but because he strikes at foundations which must exist if free speech is to exist.
Daughter—"Are you sure of that, Papa?"
Billie Burke in "Wanted—A Hub band," also a Christie Comedy. University
Charles Ray in "Red Hot Dol lars", also Harold Lloyd Comedy.
Kind Father—"Yes indeed. I've been borrowing money from him for six months and he still keepscoming" —Dallas News.
Weekly Calendar
Norma Hackett in "Tea for Three."
Bowersock
Basketball with Missouri, Rob inson Gym, 7:30 o'clock.
Jack Pickford in "A Burglar by Proxy." Also Pathe News. University
Jack Pickford in "A Burglar by Proxy." Also Pathe News. University
Basketball with Missouri, Rob inson Gvm. 7:15 o'clock.
Bowersock
Charles Ray in "Red Hot Dollars," also Harold Lloyd Comedy.
Friday
Saturday
Law Scrim, F. A. U. Hall.
Oread High School party, Robinson Gym.
Financial Clippings
The Bank of Spain will increase its note circulation from $500,000,000 to $800,000,000. The increase will reserve for gold have gold reserve of $644,000,000.
Argentina will offer $200,000,000 additional credit, without collateral to Great Britain, Italy, and France.
The War Department had an option
100,000,000 pounds of wool controlled by British Government; up to the armistry approximately 33,000,000 pounds had been delivered. The other 67,000,000 pounds has never been delivered, and the remainder of the contract was cancelled.
The United States ranked second to Great Britain in the number of merchant vessels entering Buenos Aires in 1919. Norway was third. In England, the second vessel is second only to New York in maritime traffic for the western hemisphere.
We are likely talking a little less about our friendliness to Europe; and a good deal less about our spending our wealth to benefit it—Ed. Howe.
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WANT ADS
TAKEEN - Overcourt with Palace Clover. Co of K. C. cabel, at Spooner. Party who took coat is known, and if you are to be 1082 W. Virgil will be said. 77-5108.
LOST—Monday between Ad, and Marvin Hall, a slide rule. Reward. Call 2352 White. 77-2-110
LOST—In room 202 W. Ad envelope containing Econ. Hist. notes, Finder please call 2206. 77-12-71.
LOST - A cluster ring - 4 opais and
4 rubies in Gym or at Wedd,
Wednesday morning. Reward Call
Mabel
Bishop, 1597. 300 West 14th. 77-2-16
FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms in modern home near University for gentlemen. Call 1968 Black. 75-6-158.
LOST- Silk muffler and gold pin of over orcest pocket at basketball game, Friday evening in Gymnastics war, 10am. WARDEN, 75-5-14
game, 2820 Black.
FOUND—Pair of glasses in case at Gym, Monday morning. Owner can obtain same by identifying and paying for this ad. Call at Katie 7-237. 7-18-17.
WANTED—Mother and daughter in University would care for house during families absence. Best references. Phone 1835. 75-2-165.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Exclusive Optometrist) Eye exam imed; glasses made. Office 1025 Mass
DRIL. REDING, F. A. A. U. BLD. Eyes,
ear, nose, and throat. Special
attention to fitting glasses and tailor
work. Phone $12.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS, Suite 2. Jackson Building, General Practice, Special attention to name, throat and ear. Telephone 217.
I. W. HUCHHONSON, Dentist. Bell
phone 185, 308 Perkins Bldg.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Disease of the stomach, surgery, and gynecology Suita 1, P. A. U. Hide, residence Suita 2, Alpine 101. Osteo Breath. Both phone 35.
J. H. BECHTEL, M. D. Rooms 3 and 4,
over McCulloch's, Residence 1132.
Tenn. St. Office, Phone 542.
St. Phone 228.
CRIROBRACTORS
100 PRINTING—B. H. Dale, 1027 Mass
CHRISOPHRACTUS
DRS. WELCH AND WELCH—Palmer
Graduates. Office 894 Vermont St
Phones. Office 115, Residence. 115K
D. C. R. B. ALRIGHT—chlipropratic adjunctions and massage. Office Stubba Bldg. 1161 Mass. St. Phone 1531. Residence Phone 1761.
VARSITY THEATRE
4 Shows Daily: 2:30-4:00 7:30-9:00
BILLIE BURKE in 'Wanted a Husband'
Also
Christie Comedy
FRIDAY
VARIANT CHARLES RAY in "Red Hot Dollars"
Certificates of Deposit
BOWERSOCK
JACK PICKFORD in
'A Burglar by Proxy'
THE WATKINS NATIONAL BANK "The Bank where Students Bank"
Put your spare money in our certificates of deposit They bear 3 per cent Interest
The
Normandie Cafeteria
from
K. U. Students
FRIDAY EVEVNING, January 23, 1920
from
8:00 P. M. to 11:00 P. M.
will hold open house for
The new fountain will be open and drinks will be served free of charge to all K. U. students. Mr. Lang will furnish music during the reception.
DROP IN AND GET ACQUAINTED
One girl who eats here regularly, told us a plan she works to save time. After dinner at night she takes a light lunch from
The Oread Cafe
"Bricks"
—to her room.
Then about 10:30 when she would usually came back to “get a bite,” she eats that lunch. Time going and coming is saved
Right training wins the race.
That's as true in life as on the cinders.
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