UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Geo. A. Montgomery . Editor-in-Chief
Roger Triplett . Associate Editor
Robert Roger . Associate Editor
Ferdinand Gottlieb . Telegraph Editor
Geneva Hunter . Campus Editor
Deane W. Malot . Print Editor
Kenneth S. Plain . Print Editor
Earline Allen . Exchange Editor
KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS
Harold R. Hall...Business Mgr
Burt Cochran...Advertising Mgr
Floyd Hockenhall...Circulation Mgr
E. Lawson May
John Montgomery
Mary H. Samson
Charles J. Slawson
Jessie Wyatt
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KARLSON B Edgar Hollis Ball Church Kenneth Clark Luther Hangen Walter Heren
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Entered an second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanaan, under the act of March 3, 1875.
Published in the afternoon five time a week, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of California, in the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kaisan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the university than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals of the University. In order to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be kind and to be caring; to bear heads; in, toil, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, OCT. 6, 1919
THE CONSUMER'S PART
The statement that the High Cost of Living is in reality the Cost of High Living will not appeal to many as a joke, yet a little thought is likely to convince one that the average American is guilty of an almost criminal neglect of economy, the consumers' practical method of reducing the cost of living.
From the American who is mildly alarmed over his prices to the one who is frantically howling about the profiteer, no one seems to have thought of the possibility of thrift. It is typical of the American public today that the average American consumer will preferably pay forty-five cents rather than forty cents a pound for a certain kind of food. A butcher recently said that he had tried a number of his customers by offering them two similar cuts of steak at different prices and in almost every case the buyer had chosen the highest priced steak. In these cases the butcher had not claimed superior quality for the higher priced steak.
The consuming public has not only adopted the slogan "the best is none too good for us," but it has gone further and seemingly decided that price and quality are synonyms. This tendency to regard price as a certain index to quality has been a factor in the rise of prices, fostering and in many cases almost compelling the rise.
May it not be possible that a fundamental change in the attitude of the consuming public—an attitude that eliminates wastefulness, blind following of what the retailer dictates, the acceptance of price as an index of quality—may it not be possible that this change is a necessary step which should come first and may not need to be followed by the regulation of the profiteer?
William Howard Taft is authority, for the statement that a budget system would have saved the nation a hundred million dollars during his administration. What a budget system would save at the present time with the national expenditures increased manyfold may only be imagined in the absence of actual facts, but it will be agreed that Mr. Taft's recommendations to the house committee that a budget system be adopted, carries with the approval of the American people.
FOR A BUDGET SYSTEM
The budget system for national expenditures has long since ceased to be a reform whose morals are debatable. Nearly all thinking men believe it and have believed in it for years. It has been the standing promise of our political parties for years but always it has failed to find its way into law.
The reason for this is that the representatives of the people in Congress are intrenched too solidly in the pork barrel system of appropriation to listen to anything else. There are still too many hamlets over the country which have not received marble post offices; too many communities which would be benefited by million dollar draining and dredging projects; too many congressmen who, not having adequately rewarded their districts, agree that it would never do for congressional power over appropriations to be abridged.
Intelligent reconstruction demands as its first requisite a scientific expenditure of the public's money such as a national budget would establish. Any attempt to try and go ahead with the present system with its disgraced waste and inefficiency, would be to continue the betrayal of the nation's best interests, and to deny once more the right of its people to a government both sincere and efficient.
THE BANISHMENT OF FEAR
What it is, where it came from, where it is going—these are some of the things which a group of K. U. students endeavor each year to find out about socialism. And the wonder of all it is, that no one seems to object. The scandal lovers seem to have completely overlooked this fruitful field. The quest goes on undisturbed, and to all intents and purposes, approved.
The students of socialism walk up the hill daily with their texts under their arms. It is a bright red book, and between its two covers is the history of socialism from Saint Simon to Deba. In the big library are other books. They treat socialism in many ways. The books are not dog-cared from constant use. Neither are they dust-laden. All this and no outcry? Can it be that all, even the scandalous knowls socialism, and knowing it, have censed to tremble at the name? It must be so, for from what but knowledge can come the banishment of fear?
Mental Lapses
THE RETURNING EMPTIES
An optimistic Colorado farmer, on seeing some clouds floating by, remarked:
"Well, I guess we are going to have some rain."
"Aw!" said his pessimistic neighbor, an ex-railroad man, "these are just empties coming back from lown." Boston Transcript.
GENERAL HOUSEWORK
Mistress (to cook): Now, Bridget,
*m going to give a birthday party.*
I incerely hope you will make yourself
generally useful.
Bridget (much flattered); but, Surge, Oi! Milo do my best; (and confidently) Oi' so sorry Milo Oi can't dance, um—Glagow Evening Times.
UNHEARD OF
"While my cousin, Tuck Bedigo, over on Fiddler Creek, was splitting stove wood tuther day," related Horse-faced Sapdancers, or Soup Creek, he made a miss-lick and cut off two f his toes."
"What was he spitting wood for anyhow?" interestedly asked a neighbor. "That his wife left him or something that a-way." Country Gentle
The banker sees the signature and hands it out, by Heck,
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
Some guys can take a pencil and sit down and write a check
For fourteen thousand dollars at time.
And pretty soon you have a funny picture;
Some guys can take a pencil and make a few odd marks.
Nor hesitates, nor holds a single dime.
world, artistic skiffs.
Get sacks of bills and silver in a mixture.
Some guys can take a pencil and write sheet after sheet
It's printed in the papers and the wierd, artistic sharks,
Of big ideas good for promulgation.
The public eye, there's always compensation.
Not every guy could write a check that's good for 14 cents.
They scatter them and publish then and if they chance to meet
Some people's big ideas would not please the other gents.
Nor draw a picture that would sell at all.
With that pathetic impudence of youth America half-formed, gigantic, and
THE FAMILY OF NATIONS
The guy and not the pencil makes them fall. W.F.Σ.
Stretching great limbs, in something of surprise.
Opened with the link below.
Out of the granite, time has reared a State
haughty and fearless, awkward, pass-
eliorate—
sionate—
For all his dreaming and his reckless
For all his dreaming and his reckless
boast,
*supbrace*
Behooks new meaning written on the
dose.
Betrayed by those whom he has trusted most.
Years of stern peril knit that welded frame.
landed those arms and set that near
alliance,
flanked those arms and set that heart.
Unburdened those loins with vigor of increase
Gave to his hand a weapon forged to peace.
He cannot turn the discovering hour aside.
He feels the stir that will not be denied
And in the Family of Nation's pla-
Forgets the boy and finds himself
Campus Opinion
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer as evidence of his sincerity. The name will not be published in any specials. Communications are welcome.
man—Willard Wattles in the In dependent.
The most unattractive spot on the entire campus is the site of the old S. A. T. C. barracks. Work should be started immediately to clean this up and make it correspond to the general condition of the remainder of the campus.
Editor The Daily Kansan;
People coming to the football games will have to pass this unsightly spot. When they enter, they will leave with a bad impression. Old graduates returning will think we have let things run down, when they observe these con-
Nature has made it possible for the University to have an attractive campus, so lets see that steps are taken that we may have it. F. B.
Editor, The Daily Kansan:
I want to comment on the announcement on the kanan on Tuesday of telegraph news. This telegraph news has met a longfellow want on the part of many students who wish to keep in touch with world affairs without the expense of subscribing to two newspapers. As the official gatherer of all campus news the Kanan has always been a necessity, but now, with a lot of student energy it is serving the student with exactly the variety he is demanding. G.S.
Mitor. The Daily Kansan:—
To The Daily Kansan:—
Although we all admire the beauty and finesse of the new Administration Building, there is another thing needed. A lot of people need attention. The basements, especially after a rain are almost pristine in atmosphere. Isn't there some way in which the rooms can be ventilated? We don't want them to air and let fresh dry air? F.R.S.
JAPAN FEARS OUR FILMS
The Japanese are much alarmed lest their morals be contaminated by foreign ideas carried over on cellulol. Out of 4,291,000 feet of film passed by the American censorship the Japanese censor found only 785.000 feet of film men. Kissing and killing are taboo in Japan and after cutting out these of American reels there is not much left.-The Independent.
KANSAS
Kansas has a history of characters and actions that force their way into print. I once rang an elevator bell in a hotel in South Africa, and when the boy came up noted that he was interested in a book. Glancing at it on the way down I saw that its title was the Life of Buffalo Bill. This man began his career in Salt Creek Valley, near Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and from there gravitated to the plains of the West as buffalo hunter, government scout and Indian agent. He appeared over his own country and abroad; and all the time Kansas was being advertised.
KANSAS MAKES HISTORY
Returning soldiers inform me that on the battlefields of France a favor- it song was John Brown's body lie mouldering in the grave, but his soul remained buried in Kanaas. The Civil War will be talked about a long time, and whoever discusses it should begin with Dutch Henry's Crossing, in Kanaas, now a paradise of rural peace and happiness, but a bloody event occurred when four young oriaries in angry controversy, D. W. Wilder once said that Kansas is Chapter One of the amendments to the pro- saliva constitution of the United States, changing it to an antislavery document. The Civil War is Chapter
return from California, and confesses in his book that he had a small audience. Albert D. Richardson, who wrote one of the best books about the life of slavery in the old town of Summer, now deserted, and in its cemetery one of Richardson's children is buried. Twelve miles tieth the west, in the same country, lived for a time an apparently harmless school-teacher, called William Hart, who later developed into Bill Quantrell, the terrible guerrilla still a highwaress at Lawrence still a highwaress at aristocracy and history.
One is no one so ill-informed he dies not know the word Kansas. Mark Twain, Horace Greecley, Artemus Ward, Samuel Bowles, all the noted men of that time, wrote about it. Artemus Ward delivered a lecture in Ackison on his
Of those who wrote about Kansas in its early days, Horace Greeley led; and his was the most vile pen of the period. And he had the assistance of such men as William Cullen Bryant, John G. Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell and theodore Parker.
"We shall hear no more of bleeding Kansas," said President Buchanan, who led the fight of the National Government against the free-state settlers. That was in 1856, when the fight was only beginning: Henry M. Stanley, later the African explorer; a Kansas correspondent; every newspaper of consequence in the East during the Civil War; and an off-duty cane Thomas H. Gladstone to write for The Times. Lawrence was written about so much that it was called "Historicity."—Ed Howe, in The Country Gentleman.
On Other Hills
Hot Every 15 Minutes!
The Y. M. C. A. of the University of Missouri, printed their budget for last year and it shows an expenditure of $10,165.
The fact that three hundred high school students of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, struck for shorter hours causes The Evening Missouri to remark double most of them could recite everything they know in shorter hours.
The Orange and Black of Stillwater Ok. Normal, reports an annual class fight between the freshmen and the sophomores in which the first year men were victorious. The sophomores failed to take the freshmen colors down from the cottonwood tree which is the traditional color bearer. The paper boasts that the women of the school are not of the "hot house wizard" type. When freshmen women cut the ropes which bound some of their classmates the sophomore women valiantly undertook to stop them.
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