UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-on-chief ... Gilbert O. Sewson
News Editor ... Adelalde Dick
Campus Editor ... Ormond P. Hill
Associate Editors ... Brian G.
Alumni Editor ... John Montgomery
Sport Editor ... Walter G. Haren
Business Editor ... Edna Malott
Exchange Editor ... Deana Malott
BUSINESS STAFF
Harold R. Hall...BusinessMgr.
Burt Cockran...Advertising Mgr.
Floyd Behkeman...Circulation Mgr.
KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS
Elise Holle John B. Kieler
Michael Hollie John A. Kieler
Marvin Harms Jesse Wyatt
Daniel J. Halleen Charles H. Shawson
Luther Hangen Charles J. Shawson
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The Daily Kassen ain't nice to picture the undergraduate life of the student, and I don't think than merely printing the news by standing for the idol the University would be cleaner; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be kinder; to be wise; to be wiser. In all, to serve to the best of its ability the students of
TEST FOR PROGRESSIVES
TUESDAY, DEC. 16, 1919.
Every now and then there come out of the East an avalanche of new ideas that compels alleged Western progressives to crawl into their holes. We allude specifically to the fact that a fraternity in the University of Chicago has met high laundry costs by purchasing a washing machine and doing its own washing.
The surprising thing about this is not that a perfectly sensible effort to reduce expenses has been undertaken by Chicago men, but that Kansas fraternity men should have allowed the Easterners to steal a march on them. Laundry comes high in Kansas as well as in Chicago. The wherewithal to pay for laundered fraternity linen no doubt is as hard to collect in Kansas as in Illinois. And no one questions that there is not as much linen to be laundered in fact, Chicago has nothing on Kansas but a washing machine—an account fortunately which can easily be balanced. If a fraternity washing machine operates successfully in Chicago, it will operate successfully in a Kansas fraternity, and by the same token it will operate successfully in a dozen Kansas fraternities. Here is the opportunity for alleged Western progressives to assert themselves and prove themselves real. Let the East submit its idea if it wishes, but let the West be, ever it has been, the experiment station on a large scale. Let Kansas fraternity men either make or break the idea that fraternity linen laundered by fraternity men by means of a fraternity washing machine is a good thing. Kansas expects at least this much of her sons. The rest of us want to crawl out of our holes.
YOUR HAND TO THE PLOW
We are committed to the Million Dollar Memorial Drive as the one practical concrete method of putting "K. U. First."
The plans are definite enough and comprehensive enough to challenge the unqualified endorsement of every person interested in any way in our University. No one can be so great that these plans will not appeal to his largest capacity for doing big things. And no one is so small that his devotion will not be immensely worth while.
The avalanche of white ballots after the Convocation on last Friday manifested the feeling of the individual student. Hardly a man or woman who does not say that he or she is heart and soul with the cause. Practically every organization on the Hill has made some signal express-
otion of the united thought so essential to success. Faculty and Senate enter upon the splendid task in vigorous concerted action. The whole state will very soon respond to the resonant key-note. And any Kansan anywhere who happens to have no part in this dynamic project will waken up by and by to the ignominy of having himself to blame. A million dollars is rather a large sum of money, even in this period of infilated ideas. But no amount of money can express the love and gratitude we bear the boys who "took the khaki and the gun instead of cap and gown." Any adequate memorial must carry out the idea of unselfish service, and the form this idea can take is the important matter. What it can cost is only the incidental requirement. Having once conceived the spirit, the body's a foresee conclusion.
And far-reaching as the practice, use and ideal influence of the proposed memorial may be, the effect upon the people who bring the wonderful work to pass will be a still greater achievement. This movement is to be the one big unifying thing in our University life for weeks and months to come. But we shall learn in every little thing that goes into it by day at the outstanding fact of the world-war, and the one great period—the enunciation of the Son of Man that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The whole creation is based on the fundamenta law that it is only as we give that we grow, only as we lose sight o self that we can succeed.
This is what it means to put "K. U.
First." This is how the Million-
Dollar Drive is already done. It is so well begun.
TIS TOO TRUE
Charles Dudley Warmer, according to Agnes Repplier in Life, when paying his masons four dollars a day thirty-five years ago, made the following prophetic observation: "I have reason to believe that when the wages of mechanics are raised to eight and ten dollars a day, the workmen will not come at all; they will merely send their cards."
Mental Lapses
We have often wondered what a "cooler gong" is, but we now we know. It is that bunch of Prof. Boynton's disciples who gather at the "cooler" in the northwest corner of the library.
From an account of a recent Kansas high school glee club program:
"A very fine program was given in chapel Friday morning by the Young Doyen in the Railroad," Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield, "Polly Wolly Doodle."
If we sit with absent looks
Reaching miles beyond our books
Please, dear profs, don't be unkind
Christmas visions fill each mind.
Dreams of turkey, stuffed with dressing
Sprigs of parsley 'gainst the meat Juicy, tender, soft, and sweet.
And his brown wings gently pressing
Cranberry sauce that can't be beat Looks almost too good to eat
Who can look wise with thoughts like these. —I.N
And a slice of plum pudding, Oh tell me please.
White mashed potatoes piled up high Look like a cloud from a summer sky
And strawberry jam just opened for you.
Now that Garfield has resigned as uel administrator, we nominate Henry Allen.
How are these for heads to the frequent stories of fraternity house robberies?
Kops Kapture Kleptomaniac at Vappa Kave.
Sneak Steals Sigs Socks,
Petty Plunderer Purloins Pi Phi
Playthings;
Big Burglar Burges Beta Bunga flow;
FAMILY LAST LINES
Professor as whistle blows: "Now I have just three more points to make. In the first place—"
FAMOUS LAST LINES
Sneak Steals Sigs' Socks;
The name of Kansas is being talked of from coast to coast. Now lets have the name of Kansas University follow in its wake.
DEFICIENT IN ENGLISH She had studied all the ologies, And taught in modern colleges;
he can talk in French and Spanish German, Hebrew, Sancric, Greek; She can quote a Latin grammar.
he knows all the ancient poets and can quote 'em by the week.
The truth is, as a linguat,
She is certainly distinguished.
I face the back to 'Angleshot, unlike
the fact you never guess:
I've baked a pie, not a tart.
Trying hard to train the ear, sir,
and in teach her lips to utter, sir.
She can quote a Latin grammar,
and sneak Russian and not stammer:
Yet she lacks in Anglo-Saxon, though the fact you'd never guess;
Guide To Odd Gifts
and to teach her lips to utter just one simple little "Yeah."-Walter Pulitzer in the New York Sun.
This e-mail will be for the assistance of
of mothers of the Daily Kawai and
mothers of morethan one is not murdered.
Shiree may not be purchased.
Maryl will be tickled to pieces if she can carry a handbag like mamu's. Leather or satin purses with chain or strap handles in sizes to suit little girls' hankies and Sunday School pennants for all seventy five cents at Innes'.
A nut set with bowls, hammers and irons will be a gift for the whole family. One set made in Japan, a wooden bowl with a built-in-stump to crack the nuts on and cut little wooden hammers, sells for $1.40. Another set made in China is muggy with two bowls and one nickel hammer is priced at $1.50.
Mother is rather particular, or she shall say, discriminating, and not just everything will please her. She would like the Jap laquer dresser set of two pieces and a tray that is price at $11.50 in Carter's window display. The unique thing about this set is that it will stand hot water without injury.
If you friends is food of cats she will like an odd vase that is in the shape of a gate with a cross bar. Upon the bar are two amazing little kittens. The flowers appear to be growing out of the flower pots set one on each gate post. The price is about two and a half.
Mother never has a vase suitable for short stemmed flowers and must have recourse to a large sized tuckerm.
How please she would be to have a flower bowl with a "holly" frog or fish in the bottom in which to stick the flower stems. Birds and butterflies among the blossoms to add to the reality of the effects. Or if you prefer, they will perch on the rim of the bowl.
Amma married into a wealthy family and has the distinction of possessing a boudoir. In one side is a bay window filled with flowers. One or two of the new Itaian pottery jardiniers finished in colors to match her hangings will be just the right thing. Prices ranger from $ .75 to $3.00.
Campus Opinion
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer as evidence of his sincerity. The name will be communicated in the official publications. Communications are welcome.
Some of the he-students of one Williams University got together recently in congress assembled, and passed a solemn resolution condemning as a nafarious practice all "pollination" as far as their校办 was concerned.
Editor Daily Kansan:—
Now this is undoubtedly great stuff.
Some uplifter is probably making a great deal of publicity out of it. But
if they would stop to consider—think the matter over they would soon see that their task was impossible.
ural selection—"the survival of the fittest"—after men had found that only by group action could they be complish big things.
Williams probably intends, in its rehilation of "politics", to elect his son to the presidency, ensuring the election of the most popular and well-known man in the school, and lowering the holding of power to the level of a popularity contest.
By "Politics" the dear reformer probably means manipulation of elections-concerted effort on the part of a certain group to put over their candidate. This process, in actual practice in all governments, no matter how democratic or ideally sosialistic, been arrived at through nat-
School "politics" so much disappared by the reformers and up-lifters on the Hill—consists of little more than the grouping together of five or twenty of the pensioners of a company to elect him and of a capita-pain to elect him and his colleagues. No man can expect to even get the backing of his friends unless he has
Fanning—"What's become of the rubber stamp, 'Dictated, but not read' that you used to use on your letters?"
Dasher—"I threw it away and got one that prints 'Mailed, but not delivered.'"
CANDID
-Life.
Senator Polindexter wants to be president of the United States, and says no. Whether or not he is alone in his desires, time will tell. The senator has never been so commandable, but his discretion may be questioned. The tradition that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office, still has a strong hold on the American people, but it has less of a deny. It is almost unprecedented for anyone to hire a hall, proclaim his own herits, and expose the demiess of his competitors, real or suppositional. Senator Polindexter himself knows how, however, share the direct primary is in fully bloom, and where the old political order has been turned upside down. If a candidate lies low till he hears the call of the people, he is likely to lie—no pun intended—
The senator, by taking his case to the stump, has thus sought to nationalize a sectional idea. He is the first to do it—in the way he is doing it. If he succeeds he will not be the last. Portland Oregonian.
"Do you know any good jokes?" "Well, I know you pretty well."
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THE Gentleman who exchanged hats with me at the Prebysterian Christian Endearer last Sunday night will visit at 1212 Oresby Goyer. 60-2,131
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FOUND -- At Prof. Skilton's after the fire Wednesday, pair of ice skates. Call at the Skilton home, 15 Louisiana Street. 60-2-132.
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Grads Read Kansan In East
The Daily Kansan even in the East is read and enjoyed by old grads, a letter from R. D. Russell, A. B. 1919, secretary-treasurer of the K. U. Alumni Association of Philadelphia, Penn, expresses many thanks for the sending of copies of the Kansan and the engerness and interest with which they were read at the banquet given
there December 9. The campaign to put K. U. First was particularly noted and commented upon, according to Mr. Russell.
Four thousand students and faculty will back K. U. to the limit to say nothing of thousands of alumni. Come on, lets get the commons and the stadium.
TODAY ONLY
Varsity Bowersock
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Copyright 1919, Hart Schaffner & Marx
A store that serves
OUR business in this store is to do something more than just sell clothes; anybody can do that; we do sell a lot of them.
But the real business of this store is to be of service to men in the matter of clothes; to see that our customer gets the right quality, the right style and fit, and gets it at the right price.
It's an important service and we make a business of it; Hart Schaffner & Marx suits and overcoats are our way of doing it.
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