THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Gilbert O. Sweenson
News Editor ... Adeladee Dick
Campus Editor ... Ormond P. Hill
Guest Editors ... John Hunt
Aumni Editor ... John Montgomery
Sport Editor ... Walter G. Heren
Plain Till Editor ... Kenneth Clark
Economist ... Michael Krug
RUSINESS STAFF
Harold R. Hall...Business Mgr.
Bart Cecchran...Advertising Mgr.
Floyd Hochenhain...Circulation Mgr.
KANSAH BOARD MEMBERS
Boger Holla John J. Klatter
Boger Holla John J. Klatter
Marvin Harma Jesse Wyatt
Marvin Harma Jesse Wyatt
Luther Hunger Charles J. Shawco
Luther Hunger Charles J. Shawco
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Entered on second-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanaas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The Daily Kaanas aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students. Furthermore than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University promotes, it also tries to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be smart; to be wise; to wiser loads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, DEC. 15, 1919.
ONE SINGLE OBJECTIVE
The first thing to keep in mind in the million dollar Loyalty-Memorial campaign is that there is one single objective. The drive is for a million dollar Loyalty-Memorial fund and not a double drive for two different purposes. The fund of course will be used for the double purpose of erecting a student union building and a stadium to be built section by section, but there must be no antagonism between these two purposes during the drive.
AN OPEN DOOR
The campaign must begin and end with a unified purpose. No factionalism must be allowed to creep in and destroy the larger objective. The quibbling over details which so often disurts a movement must be carefully avoided to insure a harmonious effort in putting K, U. First.
It is sometimes said that a caferrion on the Hill does not pay, and if it did that there is no place to put it.
What about a lunch wagon? A clever girl does wonders with a tea-wagon and a chafing dish. Why does somebody find a royal road to fame and fortune this icy-footed, zero weather by running into some convenient basement with any kind of a cart with any kind of a hot bite to eat at lunch time? There are all sorts of little portable heating things that might be easily utilized. And there is no end to the hot things that might be served, —hot soup, dog hot, tamales, hot coney, not to mention hot doughnuts or hot mince pie. Or hot coffee or tea, cocoa or milk would not be sneezed at. But stuff of all sort would warm the cockles of the soul and save the walk down the hill and back again, and extra time might come handy for extra work.
A KEEN HISTORY
Few persons realize how our modern slang has evolved. Let's analyze thoughtfully, scientifically, and with precision the origin of the much used adjective "keen," a word which has probably a wider range of meaning than any other word in the English language. The word was first coined by the Theda Bara of ancient times, the Siren of Nile Valley, Coc Patra.
She was sitting by the clear water of the swifty flowing Dead Sea, surrounded by many wooores. The sun, cutting low in the east, casting grotesque shadows with fantastic movements through the dense foliage of the stately persimmon trees. It was autumn. The grass was just beginning to turn green. Far in the distance came warning rumbles of an impending eruption of Mt. Veaucus interrupted at irregular intervals by the
sharp bark of the oxen grazing peace-
dark of the near shading plank on the nearby sandbar. Nature provides a banquet for New York, now a distinguished suitor, with an amorous wish, dipped his trusty helmet into the water, bringing forth a beverage, which by its very nature, having been dead and fermented for ages, was of the very sort which men inherently desire. Bananas, olives and watermelons blown from the treetops lay in thick windows upon the turf.
Mark Anthony, always popular with the fair sex, was just returning from a hard-fought billiard game. Apouching our heroine, he said, "Mehthinks perlence I've torn my new Emery shirt."
"Pray, my lord, can I not be of service?" asked the fair one. Mark, being a kind man, could not refuse her. Taking the needle from her embroidery, Miss Patra graciously mended the rent. Then she snapped the silken thread with her father's Gillette blade. "In't that 'keen?' she remarked, meaning that the blade was sharp.
Mr. Anthony thought she was speaking of his new shirt. The wooer with the lined tinted Phoenix, the booth with the new Jno. B., the goof with the Kremer collar button, the gump with the New President suspenders, the bird with the Florishem kicks—each thought his particular distinguished apparel was being complented. "Keen is right," they proclaimed in unison.
And to this day "keen" may be used not only in reference to razor blades, hats, hats, collar buttons, suspenders, and shoes, but also to anything that allows of description. So the next time you call into use this word remember that you are only some 2500 years behind.
The Chicago Tribune complains that the characters are always hissing unblessing phrases such as "How dare you?" Now there is an art in effective hissing and to appreciate fully its value a person should practice daily. Suppose you start the first day with, "Physicism pleasias psisalis" and then add it to the phrase as your hissing is improved.
Mental Lapses
Mrs. Morningside—"When you spoke of my maid as an old family retain or I expected to see an older person, long has she been in your family."
London Opinion.
Mrs. Rooral—"Ever since last Wed- vesday."
Husband (handling his wife some money)—"There, Amelia, is five pounds, and she has bothered me a bit," I say. "I think I deserve a little applause."
Wife—"Applause? Why, my dear,
you deserve an encore."
London Blighty
Friendly Constable—"Come, come, sir, pull yourself together; your wife's calling you."
Convivial Gent.—"Wha' she call—calling me; Billy or William?"
The shadow of the arch-enemy next door appeared in the doorway of the humble kitchen.
Convivial Gent.—"Then I'm not going home."
—London Blighty
"Mrs. Jones!" she exclaimed, with folded arms, "let me tell you **that** child of yours is badly spoilt."
"Well," rejoined the aggrieved neighbor, "if you don't believe me, just come out and see for yourself what the steamroller's done to him."
We haven't heard much of the Kaiser lately. It is time he had a head-line all to himself.
"Oh!' Get away with you," snapped Mrs. Jones testify, scenting another complaint as to her young hopeful's conduct.
He—“A.penny for your thoughts.”
She (coyly)—“Oh, I really can’t
all you. This is not leap year.”
London Opinion
Mac—"I'm smoking a terrible lot of cigars lately!"
Jack—"You certainly are, if that's one of them!"
She—"I appreciate the compliment,
but I'm afraid I could never make
you happy."
He. "Oh, yes, you could. You
don't know how easily pleased I am."
-Boston Transcript.
DOWNFALL
I once was a perfectly innocent person.
With pride in respect for the law,
I'm now an offender. I doubt if it
On car tracks it's eager to stop,
'here once I had friends who politely
address me
This vignette of our over saw.
A fliver is what has contrived to dis-
treas me.
Now nobody speaks but a cop.
It mocks with disdain all my caution and labor
To see that it doesn't disturb,
by blocking the street at the do.
y blocking the street at the door a neighbor,
Or standing too far from the club.
The horn gives offense when is rau-
cously hollers.
To warn some stray kitten or pup
Each day I am careful to put up twi
dollars
To keep me from being locked up.
I once had a lofty and proper ambition To lead a respectable life,
Attaining a moderate social position
Apart from suspicion and strife;
Today I am waiting for someone to
come.
To lead a respectable life,
Attaining a moderate social position
Some underworld word as we pass
And slip me a gun and a knife and a
J. Stitt Wilson, who spoke here at several student meetings this fall, appeared at the University of Texas Tuesday, touching on the same questions he treated while at the University of Kansas.
On Other Hills
Jimmy.
For I'm now of the criminal class,—
Washington Star.
No one can excuse the girls of Oklahoma University of being behind the times. "Ears sink back to bad repute" says an Oklahoma daily handbook and we learn further down the story that "Ears are going out of style."
At Tulane, Louisiana, in a "Newber song competition" during November a freshman girl was indiscrete enough to submit a song to the air of "Marching thru Georgia." This was one to much for the committee.
At the Colorado Springs High School a third mourn's literary society is being formed by those men not members of either of the two existing organizations, the Senate or Delphian.
Movies of the Utah Argies-Agries game and the C. U. Argies game were shown at the Argies at chapel of their May Fete were also shown.
Iceland has sent one of her sons to join the many foreign students, representing sixteen nations, who are attending year at the University Wisconsin.
He is Bjorn G. L. Bjernson, son of the surgeon general of Iceland and has come to the university to study American methods of electrical engineering. After graduation, he plans to gain experience in an American industrial concern and then to return to aid in developing his native land.
BE SENSIBLE: SHOP EARLY
The Shop Early logan is full of good sense and practical wisdom. I is not only a great convenience it women, but it is even greater convenience to the buyer. By following the woman can, in the first place make a close calculation on what she can afford to spend, how many presses she can buy and then take him home, when she prefers, stores she knows will have just the goods she wants to purchase. More than this she will find it much easier to secure the best attention in these stores before the rush begins, before a hundred people are coming into town, so that he is be waited on at once. Then the trip to the store and home again is made so much more easily and with so much more comfort when the cars are crowded and when even standing room and a strap are hard enough to fit into the Shop Early slogan in mind and profit by it.—The Baltimore American.
TWO SORTS OF METEORITES
TWO SHORES
Somewhere out in space millions of people have quit their jobs every day and go out for an ethereal good time. How far they travel in the airless streets of the infinite nobody knows. The people of this planet see them only after they reach the atmosphere, south. Then their good time is over. Traveling through the fictional air makes them red hot. Most of them burn up. Others come down to be lost in the sea with a final bias or to be buried in the ground as deep as four or five-four miles as second compuls.
A few million people have flown off the handle in the industrial world and are whizzing through economic space, spending like moguls and loading like Ludlman's dog. After they hit the atmosphere of necessity there's going to be a flash and a thud—New York Sun.
Guide To Odd Gifts
This column is for the assistance of
of readers of the Daily Kansas and
mention of merchants not made as
nothing, Space cannot be purchased.
Philip is a travelling man. He has such a time with his laundry and his mending that he declares he will settle down as soon as some good woman will accept him. (That is the perplexity of a man still老实, that their wife should be a combination of cook, seamstress, laundress, and nurse). While he is still looking for that woman, and it will probably be some time before she finds her in this stage of life, he will be a bad idea to stick into his Christmas package a little bachelor help in the way of a nound green tin card carrying two spools of thread, needles and a thimble, so he may be fairly presentable when he can’t “to sentence herself” to her!
If you are,particularly fond of candy and you think Sister Sue will require some special urgency to induce her to make you some while you are home a pretty little fudge apron embroidered in cross stitch that you will find in the department stores may be the necessary inspiration.
Miriam has been your closest friend and confidante, almost your father confessor. A Good Fairy that glots in the dark a symbol of guidance and inspiration, will express your sentiment and be a treasured ornament to her private siting room. The University Book Store handles them.
Aunt Jane is a very busy woman and oh, so forgetful of her engagements. If you send her a little set of three books of green leather binding to keep her from getting too attached to keep her appointments, send her letters to the right addresses and buy all the things she wants downtown because she has them all written down in these little books. And how many of us have to get into religious faiths and yours. These book sets are on display in a popular supply store window on Massachusetts Street
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
The action of so many of the large cities of the country—Philadelphia and New York among those in the East—in determining to continue the daylight-saving scheme, in spite of the republic's repeal of the rule, will require a decisive indication of the national sentiment on the subject. These local measures are all right so far as they go, but they can only be considered as palliatives and temporary expeditients. The question will depend on whether Congress can be brought to reconsider its action and to realize that it was stamped by a minority in repealing a measure that had commended itself to the vast majority as wife, wise and expressive. A uniformity of time zones and of railway table practice the local daylight-saving ordinances may create confusion, while preserving the benefits of longer daylight hours for rest and recreation for the separate community. In addition to this local revival of the summer-clock adjustment, is a thoroughly organized national mission to carry the fight into Congress and to bring about a re-enforcement of the time zone law and its daylight-saving laws—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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WANT ADS
LOST—a copy of "Alcestis." No name in book. If found, please leave at office of Kannan. 60-2-130
LOST—Waterman pen without cap.
FOUND—At Prof. Sattinen's after the fire Wednesday, pair of ice slates. Call at the Shilton home, 13 Louisiana Street. 60-12-19
LOST - Waterman pen without cap
Filled with greenish blue ink
Phone 1224 White. 61-2-138.
steam heat, for men. 1225 Ky.
61-2-154
The Gleaner who exchanged hats
with no at the Prebyster Christian
Endowee last Sampson night will
call at 1212. Oral Bison
Boyer.
60-21-15
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms suitable for men. Modern house. Telephone 2164 Black - 914 Ky Str. 24-5120
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Exclu-
clusive Optometrists) Eyes examined;
glasses made. Office 1905 Mass
DRIL, REDIN, G. P. A. U. Ridg, Epe, ear, nose, and throat. Special attention to fitting glasses and tonnell work. Phone 513.
FOR RENT—Room for male student.
1037 Tenn. 61-2-138.
H. W. HUTCHINSON, Dentist. Bell phone 185, 303 Perkins Bldg.
DIL, H. L. CHAMBERS, Suite 2, Jackie Building. Buildin general practice. Special attention to nose, throat and ear. Telephone 217.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery, and gynecology Suite 1, FI A. U. Mild, Residence Building, 1301 Obie Street, Both phone 35,
LOST-Gold class ring crugements B,
M. H. S. 1919. Initial A F. R.
ward if returned to Kansan office.
Phone 2355 Black. 61-12-338
J. R. BECHTIJM, M. D. Rooney 3 and a
over McCullock's. Residence 1131
Tenn. St. Office. Phone $43.
St. Phone. 228.
CHIROPRACTORS
10B PRINTING—B. H. Date, 1027 Mass.
DR. WELCH AND WELCH - Palmer
Graduates. Office 9049 Vermont St.
Phones. Office 115, Residence. 115K2
D. R. C. ALRIGHT - chiroaptropie ad
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, with sleeping-porch accommodation and
DR. G. R. ALBHEIGHT—chirooptile ap-
dication Office, Stubba
Hodges 1003 Moss St. Phone 131. Residence
Phone 761.
F. B. McCOLLOSH, Druggist
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L. E. Waterman and Conklin
Fountain Pens
THE REXAL STORE
847 Mass. St.
"Suiting You"
THAT'S MY BUSINESS
WM SCHULZ
917 Mass. St.
It is recent contributor to the Everett Missouri, has his to say about gambling conditions at the university; "Playing poker as a gambling game is one of the worst curses that has ever struck this country. It is also one of the worst curses that has ever struck this country. If all the gambling that goes on among the students of the university were revealed it would indeed
be a startling revelation. The general public, the students, and the members of the faculty have no conception of the amount of gambling that goes on. They have not been horrified or acquainted but even they can significance the value of it."
K. U. must either become a great university or else take a back seat as an educational institution.
Varsity Bowersock
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IRENE CASTLE in "The Invisible Bond"
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825 $ _{1/2} $ Mass, St.
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SEATS Thursday at Round Corner Drug Store.
PRICES — 50c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, plus war tax.
An Electrical Christmas
NO more appropriate gifts can be found than those electrical appliances which we show.
We suggest an electric grill, chafing dish, study lamp, or a flash light.
Kansas Electric Utilities Co.
719 Massachusetts Phone 590