THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VARSITY FIVE IN TRIM FOR AMES CONTESTS
Coach Allen Sends His Men Through Rapid Fire Practice With Husky Freshmen
All Players Showing Up Well
Jayhawkers Also Looking For ward to Tiger Invasion January 23-24
Coach Forrest C. Allen's basketball hopefuls are speeding up their practices in preparation for their first Valley mixup Friday and Saturday nights with the Ames five. A fast workout was run through Tuesday afternoon, the varsity first taking on the husky freshman team, and the second string varsity men. Their opponents were unable to update their skills until all the shots being made from the middle of the court, while the varsity used the short pass syetem, and threw baskets from all sides.
Howard "Scrubb" Laslett, captain of the 1919 football team, and all-Valley end, who plays the offensive guard position, has been showing up remarkably well in both practice and the first minor games of the season, but he has also done it. It usually annex a second all-valley position this year, in basketball.
Captain Arthur "Dutch" Lonborg team mate to Laslett in the all-valeley football teams, and defensive guard on the cage aid is showing up well and will play his usual brainy game through the season. Ernest Uhrlman who used his military vacation from the University to play with the Thirty-Fifth division basketball team overseas, has almost climbed the center position for the eighteen valley games.
The forwards are the positions that will exercise Coach Allen's judgment in chasing the starters. While there are no outstanding stars as at the other three positions, there is a wealth of good material. John Bunn, Marvin Harms, Roy Bennett, Olin Feening and Howard Miller are four "K" men who are trying to beat Welch, two sophomores who seem to show up with equal speed with the five letter men.
This week's intensive training is not altogether for the Ames aggregation, but also for the Missouri series the following week. The Jayhawkers are being pointed to the two Missouri series as the games to win above all others, and the hard work they must accomplish. Allen get the Jayhawk five in condition for the Tiger invasion of Robinson gym January 23 and 24.
Colts and Savages For Target Practic
"Target practice will start next Wednesday," said Lt. Col. H. F. Burdick. "The master engineer and his assistant are equiping the third floor of West Ad as an indoor range, Sandbag revertments are being put in one end and a fifty and seventy five yard range are being built.
"This will give K. U, a first class pistol range where the men can be exported in pistol firing. It will provide a close, excellent aiming drill for the rifles."
Equipment for the target practice in the department of military science and tactics arrived Wednesday. Four 22 caliber Colt automovil revolvers were purchased from Springfield model, came by express from Kansas City, Missouri.
"Fighting Tom Smith"
Throws Hat into Ring
"Fighting Tom Smith," an early day K. u. foot ball star, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for justice of the supreme court in Texas. Capitol has the following to say about the man all K. u. knows so well.
Mr. Smith has the support of a host of friends over the state in his candidacy and is making an active campaign for the position.* During his tenure, he sponsored a patriotic by allowing the citizens of two towns to cut wood from his farms near Hinwatha. Not a cent was charged those who cut out the trees, so that they were gate at large to the national Republican convention four years ago.
PEOPLE CAN REDUCE HIGH COST OF SHOES
Student Who Works In Sho Store Draws Conclusion on Causes
Hugh Vaughn, c21, who has been working in a shoe store during the afternoons, has looked into the causes for the high prices of shoes. The following are the conclusions which have been found in regard to the present conditions.
Who is responsible for the high, price of shoes? Is it the wholesaler, the retailer, labor, or it is some outside influence? Today the prices of shoes are considered almost prohibitive, and there are few shoe repair shops in the United States that are not flooded with worn shoes that formerly would have been discarded. Surely there are few that consider themselves among the representative public, who would agree that the people have no great degree for the high priced goods for shoes today. Yet there are few retailers who will not tell you that such is the case.
WAFFLE SUPPER
A retail shoe-salesman of over thirty years experience recently said, "When one sells a shoes today, there are three fits he must make, the head pocketbook, and the foot. Of the three, he should then the pocketbook, and last of all the foot. If a鞋-salesman could fit a customer according to what he believes to be the best shoe for service, price and quality, a great many of his worries would be over, but he should not be the shoe first for style, next for price, and last for real shoe comfort and durability. Yet the public maintain that the high price of shoes is the result of the retailer's profiteer-wareholding obligations, the manufacturer's enormous dividends, or the shoe-makers union."
There is no doubt that a great deal of truth was expressed in the statement of that thosealesman, yet likewise there is no doubt that the high risk of large losses largely due to the irregularity of market and labor conditions. It is likewise true that the profiteering of retailers and the exorbitant dividends that capital is today declaring along all productive industry is having its effect.
The insistence on a forty to forty-four hour week, with a substantial advance in wages, on the part of shoe factory workers is one of the principal reasons why shoes are marked a high as $23 per pair in retail stores. During the month there has been a noticeable improvement in the hide markets, with unusually large sales in both domestic and South American centers. There continues to exist a decidedly strong feeling in regard to
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the higher grades of leather, and the leather shortage today, if there is any, is in these grades rather than in the cheaper lines.
But it is just these lines of shoes that are so much higher today. What anxious mother and father is there who is not today familiar with the exorbitant prices they must pay for shoes for the little children, yet these shoes are made for the most part from the cheaper grades of leather, almost exclusively from calf hide, or sheep skim. Though there seems to be a lot of difference, when they are put into shoes one would suppose that there was scarcey. a whole calf hide to supply the shoes for an entire city.
What then is the answer to this condition of the shoe market and the shoe buying public? It is a question that no man can answer, and those who believe they can, and make the right guess, are in a position to make money in the shoe business. If the price of shoes is to come down in the near future, the labor situation must be made more comfortable; we should be small encouragement for one to take an optimistic view of that situation, the public should do all they can to bring down the existing high prices. There is no doubt that those prices can be steadily brought down by careful buying of the people, and if the demand for sensible, uniformly built shoes is constantly before the鞋-saleman, then the price of shoes will steadily drop. The expense of buying these shoes lasts longer and prices will gradually be eliminated and the shoe prices will begin to assume a more normal and uniform aspect.
City May Build Armory For Lawrence Guards
A city armory for the Lawrence unit of the National Guard is being proposed by several commissioners. The plan is to build an armory of sufficient size to serve not only for a drill room but also to store a considerable amount of army supplies and equipment, enough to equip a surplus of men outside the regular guard unit in all emergency cases.
No definite plans have been formulated except that if the armory is built, the city will ask the state legislature for an appropriation, the city furnishing the ground site and any extra expenses which may accrue from its construction. Prof. F. E. Jones of the school of engineering has suggested that a project be asked to supply designs for an armory if the project materializes. A $40,000, structure is being considered at present.
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You'll be there to hear the University Orchestra tonight—the orchestra you liked so well at the last Convocation
Chancy Remembers Old Songs Of Greeks
Fraser Hall—
8:15
Did you know that *Chancellor Strong belonged to Delta Theta Psi, one of the oldest fraternities in existence? And did you know that though the frat has been extinct for nearly forty years, the Chancellor remembers two of the songs? Well he does and it is.
Friday night Chancellor Strong told the members of Delta Upsilion fraternity all about it at their installation banquet. He said the frat was made up of young men from the university and died in the nineteenth. There were some pretty old men at the banquet but none of them remembered Delta Theta Si. Perhaps then it was in view of this fact that two of the old Delta songs. One was a very slow dream ode while the other was a ripening good song with
enough pea to make some of the organizations on the bill blush for shame. Delta Theta Psi was one of the major fraternities. Friata. Its social frat is Pai Upsilon.
Dance
F. A. U. Hall
TONIGHT
Music by Shofstall and Gunn
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THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY-JAN. 16 and 17
BASKET BALL
FIRST CONFERENCE GAMES--K. U. vs. AMES
Admission 50c—Reserve Seats 25c extra, Tickets at registrar's office and Round Corner Drug Store
Season tickets for all other games here (all are conference games) can be obtained for $3.50. This includes a reserve seat. Single admission to the games woud cost $6.00.
LET'S GO KANSAS!
On January 22 and 23 (next Thursday and Friday)
we play Missouri here. The team expects you to be
out—are you going to Put K. U. First?