UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of California, as published in the Department of Journalism.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the students, in order to then merely print the news or standing for the ideals the University wants to be clear; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be intelligent; to be wise; to be caring; in all, to serve to the best of its ability the students of Kansan.
One of the greatest advantages h. a college training is that the earnest student can learn to think straight. We need broad, straight thinkers—George W. Perkins.
TUESDAY, JAN. 20, 1920
LITTLE THEATRE AND THE GYM
Such a crowd attended the "open night" meeting of the Dramatic Club last Wednesday night that the Little Theatre was full even to the extent of all the standing room being taken. Little advertising had been done but the students came out as well that it could not help but make the ones taking part in the two short plays feel that an interest was being taken in them and that they would be expected to play well. Such a large enthusiastic crowd spurred them and the plays were very successful.
But what kind of a crowd turns out to the Basketball games, which have been so interesting and well worth seeing? Not only the school spirit but the University standing in the sight of other schools depends upon the success or failure of these games; but nothing can be said concerning the gym being filled to its utmost capacity with an enthusiastic crowd of rooters. These games are well advertised and the students cannot use ignorance of the schedule as an excuse for not attending them. In costs but little to attend the games, and as a rule the students spend so much foolishly that they do not take into consideration the cost of a game or two.
The exact nature of the failure of the student body to support basketball as well as football and other activities can not be determined, but if every student would attempt to learn the reasons for himself and do his best to overcome them, so much would not be heard of the lack of spirit in the game.
THIS WAY, PLEASE "Keep to the right."
This is a sign that greets one at the interactions where traffic is the thickest. It is a law on the statute books. It has a purpose.
This, too, is a trite sign which is established at every railroad crossing. It is a warning to augment the public safety. It also has a purpose.
A combination of the two signs would not be out of place if posted at the entrances of the University buildings. Three thousand students changing classes every hour give rise to congestion at the exits. These signs should be placed especially at the entrances of Fraser Hall and the Administration Building. It might
also be remembered that the exits of
also be remembered that the exits of these buildings are also the entrances. All the confusion that results every hour could be avoided by placing these signs in the halls and seeing that the students obey them.
OUR PROFS.
With an estimated enrollment the second semester of 4,000, K. U. must have good instructors and good equipment.
High class men are high priced, and the University of Kansas wants high class men.
One immediate aim of the Loyalty Movement should be to obtain an increase in salary for our professors, before it is too late. Loyalty to the school where one teaches is a noble emotion but it makes pretty poor living when taken straight.
We have it on good authority that "less than five percent of the American people are doing more than ninety-five per cent of the talking."
OF KANSAS CLAY
The Lord made man out of mud, and it was only a matter of time until man made some rude pottery. Gradually he learned that the useful may be beautiful, and the beautiful, useful and art-pottery began to come into its own.
The Orient naturally produced the most brilliant and fascinating effects But we Americans have an eye for color, too. For two hundred years the mountaineers in the Carolinas have made a bright orange pottery which is the delight of comsoissees, though other American potteries are much better known.
The Rockwood, near Cincinnati, in its brown and grays, beautiful shapes and decorations, is always desirable. The Newcome Arts and Crafts Institute in New Orleans makes a special of the Southern flora in its decoration on every distinctive blue and gray backgrounds. Colorado has the Van Briggle ware in blues, grays, rose and yellows, and Stuttgart, Arkansas, produces some fine unglazed work in creams.
The pottery in the glass case on the right of the vestibule as you enter our Dyce Museum was made of Kansas clay, as the card informs you. And the work was done here on the Hill by Miss Maria Benson, the teacher of Design in our art department.
Miss Benson is a graduate of Newcome College and a devoted student of all that is best in ceramics. Her success with the Kansas clay came after long experiment with the different kinds. Great Bend and Hosington have the honor of giving her the best results. Her color and glazes are triumphs of chemistry as well as art, and her shapes suggest the antique.
Color and glaze, with Miss Benson, preclude any need of decoration, and one does not know which to admire the most, the various tones of rich, bright red, like the red of the Kansas sumac, or the exquisite blended tints in her metallic bronze. Nothing like the former, according to a fine authority, has been known since the old "Omminee Red," and the latter is equally artistic.
Mrs. Thayer has selected three specimens of this glorified Kansas clay for the Thayer art collection, and happy is that individual who can dream of possessing just one.
THE GERMANS AND ART
Jacob Golshur Sham, president of Cornell University, has given his entire philosophical library of several hundred rarely valuable books towards the restoration of the library of the University of Louvain, France. This library contained 300-000 volumes and was destroyed by the Germans in 1914. Many princeless mauscripts were thus swept away, as well as a rare collection of virtually every edition of the Bible since the beginning of printing. And nothing like this crime has been known since the destruction of the library at Alexandria in Egypt by the Caliphar Omar in 643 D. A. and a better chairman of the committee on restoration could not have been chosen than our Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia.
THE GERMANS AND ART
The new vegetables, "arracha" and "dashenbe" may be "almost as good potatoes," but who is going to eat with such jaw-breaking names?
The House of Commons in Great Britain only recently permitted the use of typewriters in their press gallery. Reminds you of the time when some folks objected to the advent of the organ in their church.
Milk in New York City is only 15 cents a quart while we pay 16 2.3 cents in Lawrence. But comparisons are sometimes consoling. Down in the "cow country" of Oklahoma the price is 25 cents.
Mother Shippe's propensity has truly come true about flying through the air. The Commercial Airship can be to put a fleet of ten great machines into regular service next summer. The freighters will cost one quarter million钱 each, carry ten tons and make seventy-five miles an hour. The passenger vessels will cost one million dollars each, have a capacity
of two hundred, and travel better than one hundred miles an hour Schedule of charges has not yet been set. No doubt it will be good and plenty.
Mother Shippen's prophecy has
Carliff, Wales, was little more than a sordid fishing village before the war. It now possesses 25 millionaires, not in American dollars but in pounds sterling. And one "little daughter of the rich" complains that her father only allows her 20,000 pounds a year for pin-money.
Campus Opinion
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer as evidence of his security. The name and specific communications are welcome.
Editor, The Kansan:
The University is about to start it. on another semester and a few words in regard to the curriculum would not be out of place. The University is entirely too strict with the pre-requisites, so the student certain departments. If a student wants to take a certain course in some department he is confronted with several courses which are pre-requisites. Perhaps he only wishes
requires. Perhaps he only wishes to take that one course in that department and does not care to fill a group two before he gets the course.
Even in ones major department he is forced to take some courses that are not to his liking but the head of the department says take them or get out. What are you going to do? Such a system tends to stifle personal freedom andiviality in the student. These two attributes are the things that most people come to college to bring out to make a greater success in life but the University seems to try to stifle them. Of course a certain amount of prerequisites are necessary in order for the school to go on. However, these should be dispensed with after the first year so students come to college in order that they may better fit himself after he gets out of school.
Michigan will open her baseball season with a trip to the South. Five games are scheduled on this trip. Teams include Georgia, and Vanderbilt.
If the students would co-operate maybe the obsolete group system could be forced out.
On Other Hills
Pottery Clark, former assistant football coach here, has been appointed head baseball coach at Illinois and the University of Miami. Huff who is athletic director there.
Yours for a better curriculum,
Minnesota University will have a Winter Carnival January 24. Toorboganjang, fancy skating and dog-
The latest idea at Iowa State is to dance to wireless jazz music from Chicago. A plan has been perfected whereby the engineers can give a formal dancing party and by means of an amplifier have the highest jazz played in the stadium, part of the country. The plan might cut down the high cost of music as the orchestra could play for many dances at the same time.
team racing are a few of the events scheduled. Ten Minneapolis newsboys will compete in the docteam races against the St. Paul champion. Heins Brock one of the best skaters in the world and an avid fan of fancy skating. Two Alaskans will probably compete in the races with their Alaskan malemates.
A fountain piped in used 1864 still is in Paris. It was patented that same year by Jean Benoit Mallat, an engineer, and the firm that still carries on the business founded by him in 1870. The first fountain pen ever made.
FIRST FOUNTAIN PEN USED
Mallat was invented of the gold pen yith the ruby point, perhaps the easiest and most durable nib with a smooth edge, and not necessarily expensive. In 1843 Mallat substituted iridium as a point for his pens. At the same time he provided a reservoir for the ink. This was probably the idea of storing ink in the handle.
Mallah's fountain pen differs only slightly from our modern ones. It was self-filling, but the flow of ink was regulated by a little turn screw on the side. This, however, was soon given uu, as it became clogged.
"Everything I eat is dear."—K. C.
Star.
Mental Lapses
Where Money Talks.
"Waiter, bring me everything you we got for $2.00."
"Ever eat any venison?"
Qualified
"Boss, you said a mouthful."
"Didn't I hear ya say that you took fencing lessons when you wuz in college?" asked Farmer Meddgergain.
Where Money Talks.
"Yes," replied his son, home during vacation.
"Well," said *inherent* r *Meldgrasser,*
"there's yer over ___ that on them an*
"I'll set ya digir ___es."
-- K. C. Journal
Redd—"Do y tionary engine
ionary engine Greene-"Sur
Greene—Survive at one in a flivver is a good part of the time." Yankers Stateman
what a sta
Portly
"What has become of the man who used to beat the big brass drum?" asked the returning citizen.
"He left us more than a year ago," was the ansewer.
"Good man wasn't he?"
"Sure! But he go so fat that when he marched he couldn't hit the drum in the middle."-I was.
Small Son (Observing baldheaded row) "Mother, did they get their tickets from a sapler?" -Life.
Weekly Calendar
WEEKLY CALENDAR
Tuesday
Tuesday
Dorothy Dalton in "His Wife's Friend," a mystery play.
Varsity
J. Walter Kerrigan in "The Lord Loves the Irish." Also Pathe Review.
Public recital given by School o Fine Arts, Fraser, at 8 o'clock. W. Webster
Bowersock
Billie Burke in "Wanted—A Husband," also a Christie Comedy.
Musical comedy "Listen Lester' University
Law lecture, Little theatre, at 2:30 o'clock Thursday.
University
Varsity
Billie Burke in "Wanted—A Hus band," also a Christie Comedy. University
Bowersock
Norma Hackett in "Tea for Three."
Thursday
Basketball with Missouri, Robinson Gym, 7:30 o'clock.
Charles Ray in "Red Hot Dollars", also Harold Lloyd Comedy.
Jack Pickford in "A Burglar by Proxy." Also Pathe News. University
University
Basketball with Missouri, Robin
Inson Gym, 7:15 o'clock,
Law Scrim, F. A. U, Hall.
Varsity
Bowersock
Saturday
Charles Ray in "Red Hot Dollarars," also Harold Lloyd Comedy.
Jack Pickford in "A Burgiar b Proxy." Also Pathe News. University
Oread High School party, Rob inson Gym.
AND WE MIGHT QUOTE
J. Berg Esenwein-Vision comes first to those who have learned to look deeply into their own nature.
Walter Savage Landor—Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are.
You get a thorn with every rose— But ain't the roses sweet?
F. L. Staunton—
"Is she really so curious?"
"Curious? Why, that woman would listen to advice."
The universities of North and South Carolina and Virginia have the custom of exchanging faculty lecturers during the year. The plan has proven very successful. It is said that a number of co-operation have developed among the schools as a result of the exchanges.
The organ for Leland Stanford announces that they have entered a team in the inter-collegiate rifle matches. The conditions of the matches appear in the December 15 issue of "Arms and the Man."
An old fashioned boy-supper is to be given at Baker on Friday night to start a fund for sweaters for Baker football men.
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WANT ADS
oOST - Silk muffler and gold pin out of overcook pocket at basketball game, Friday event in gymnasium. Wattles, 2620 Black. 75-5-14
GUND—A Waterman fountain pen.
Owner may have same by identify-
mp. Call P. F, Stair 248. 71-2-157
FOUND—Pairs of glasses in case at Gym, Monday morning. Owner can obtain same by identifying and paying for this set. Call at Katie 780-2167. 780-2167.
WANTED--Mother and daughter in University would care for house during families absence. Best references. Phone 1835. 75-21-65.
LOST—Zoology note book, containing names, Lee Altand and John Jamison. Finder please call 2057 White. 74-12-63.
LOST—Pair horn rimmed glasses.
Call 234. Reward. 72-2-161
LOST—Conklin fountain pen, last Thursday. Call 1697 Blue, 72-2-160
LOST-Monday on Campus, hand bag with valuable contents. Reward. Helen Walters, 1549. 1011 Ind. 71-5-155
LOST-Pi  Phi pin, unjewelled
Please return to Helen Zenor and
receive reward. Telephone 99.
61 15 183
LOST—In locker room of gym a fine pair of spectacles in a black Lawn Optical Co. case. Reward. Phone 334. 71-5-158.
71-5-15d.
NOTICE—The person who took slide rule, marked k.B. E. Messam, from top of lockers in Bacteriology laboratory is known. Please return to Kansan office and no questions will be asked. 69-5-10
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Ex-
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med; glasses made. Office 1025 Mass
DRLH. READING, F. A. U. Bldg, Eyes,
nose, nose, and throat. Special
attention to fitting glasses and tonsil
work. Phone $15.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Suite 2, Jackson Building. General Practice. Special attention to nose, throat and ear. Telephone 217.
H. W. HUTCHINSON. Dentist. Bell
155. 130. Perkins Bldg.
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery, and gynecology. Suita I, P. A. U. Hild, Nedlands, New York. 1201 Abbie Street. Both phone 35.
CHRONICIATIONS
DRS. WELCH AND WELCH—Palmer
Graduate. Office 904 Vermont St.
Phone. Office 115, Residence. 11KX2
J. H. BRCHEFTL, M. D., Rooms 3 and 4 over McCullock's, Residence 1121 Tenn. St. Office, Phone 343. St. Phone 228.
10B PRINTING—B. H. Dale, 1027 Mass.
FOOD AND THE CLOCK
D. C. R. B. ALRIGHT—chirpractical adjunctions and massage, Office Stubba Blvd. 1011 Mass. Ht. Phone 1531. Residence Phone 1761.
You som to side with the sports and others who advocate the daylight saving law; why not give space for the cases of the farmer upon this subject?
The farmers certainly hold the best reasons for opposing the law, which means more hardship and more burden of expense to them and also raises a vital question concerning the bread and butter of mankind. It means the hiring of additional help, or for want of means to plant and harbor crops in the fields, or the same will remain in the ground to rot and froze; there will be a scarcity of milk, sugar and other products of the soil.
It is a very easy matter for those who advocate the so-called daylight saving to change their hours of work without turning the hands of the clock back or forward or passing municipal State or national laws. Those advocating such laws know very little about farming of the farmers' wants or what our New England States farmers or the farmers' wants or what
VARSITY
Also
THE AMERICAN WAY
Dorothy Dalton in "His Wife's Friend"
FOUR SHOWS DAILY 2:30-4:00 7:30-9:00
BOWERSOCK
our New England States farmers ha to contend with in our short summ seasons—N. Y. Sun.
It is one of the big things about the American system that it is founded on free discussion, with majorities supporting it. There is no excuse for theirAdvocacy of violence because we Americans taki all our questions to the ballot box If these New York Socialists are taking us at our word and are putting us in a position to be un-American to exclude them from politics by force—Kansas City Star.
Mutt and Jeff Comedy
If you like a picture full of thrills, romance and mystery, don't fail to see this.
TODAY ONLY
THE AMERICAN WAY
The question of the eligibility to the Socialist representative who seats in the New York legislature a challenged, is one to be determine by the facts.
If they are adovating the over throw of the government by violence then they clearly have no business in the legislature. But if they are so voicing changes—no matter hoillish or undesirable—by vote of the people, then they have a right t membership.
J. Warren Kerrigan
Mr. Kerrigan's latest picture and promises some real entertainment.
At The Varsity Wednesday Bille Burke in "Wanted. A Husband"
Also Pathe Review
"The Lord Loves the Irish"
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