UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas.
JUNE 5,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Editor-in-Chief ... Edgar L. Hollis
Associate Editor ... Ferdinand Gottlieb
Ew Editor ... Josale L. Wyatt
P. T. Editor ... Nadine Blair
Society Editor ... Herbert Little
Sport Editor ... Herbert Little
Special Sport Editor, Walter Herer
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture students of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news and explain it, deems the University holds; to inquire about it; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to solve problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1919.
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Friday; no change in temperature.
The Honor System lost, but no one was surprised. Student sentiment didn't disapprove of the plan, but rejected it because of the form in which it was put. Though they failed to adopt the plan, most K. U. students admit the school must rid itself of dishonesty before it can rank among the leading universities of the country. The rejection of the Honor System certainly does not mean that sentiment here favors cribbing.
MAKE CHEATING UNPOPU LAR
The student who cheats injures himself first of all, but his classmates also suffer. He usually pulls himself out of the percentage of failures, and the honest members of the class must work harder to keep up with him. Often they see how easy it is for the "slicker" to "get by" and imagine they should prosper likewise, so slip a few notes in their vest pocket.
Too many students regard cheating as clever. If such slackers and parasites could be made to see the real damage they do themselves, their classmates and the school and could realize the immorality of cheating in examinations, such coarse work would become so unpunctual that the guilty students would be ostracized.
Public sentiment is the most pow erful influence affecting the individual. If a strong enough campaign of education against cheating at K. U. could be put on, this institution would soon take its stand with the other universities of the country in which the dishonest student is an outcast.
If student sentiment could be made to turn decisively against cribbing, we would need no written, codified Honor System. The unwritten law would be enough.
The record of University men in the victorious football team of the 89th Division reflects the glory and pride of the institution. The fact that these men will return next year augurs the success of the team.
FOOTBALL PROSPECTS
Next year most of the best athletes will return to the University. The athletic department will be in a position to get the best results from the excellent material offered.
And best of all, there is proof after proof that the students of K. U. will be behind the teams in every way all the time. The criticisms that have been made against the lack of spirit
caused by the war have begun to hurt, and underneath the present attitude is a soothing desire to uphold the traditional spirit of the University of Kansas. Next year we'll have the teams and we'll have the spirit of student supporters that pushes even a mediocre team to victory.
INTRA-MURAL BASKETBALL
Intra-mural athletics, so far as the system has been tried at the University, have been a success. The Pan-hellenic. Inter-Fraternity and Hash-House Leagues are just completing their schedules and preparing for the finals and there has been keen interest manifested in the contests. The games have given the men a chance to get a little exercise that they might not otherwise have gotten.
But why stop at baseball in the system of Intra-Mural contests? Why not also extend the field into basketball next fall and possibly to tennis? Inter-class football games have always been played on McCook in late fall and early winter. Intra-Mural basketball has been tried at many schools throughout the country with consistent success and could be arranged much more easily than baseball, as it would only take five men to make a team. Why not have Intra-mural basketball at K. U. next winter and tennis in the spring?
There are any number of arguments for the introduction of such a system of athletics here. There is a greater demand over the country than ever before for athletic competition for the many, as opposed to Varsity competition for the few who need it leapt, and this would give students just that opportunity to take part in some form of athletics. Then there is the persistent demands of the coaches for material for their teams, and such teams might bring out real players who would add strength to the school team. And there is the added interest to athletics that would inevitably come.
Why not give basketball and tennis trial, at least?
IF YOU WERE A PROF
You would have to rise in time to beat the students in your eight-thirty class up the Hill. You would wonder on the way what on earth to lecture about, and hope they would be late enough to give you time for preparation.
But they would all be there some where nearly on time, and you would have to stand up and talk. The teacher's pet row would look thrill every time you said, "A plus B equals X." The fraternity freshman over by the window would start a row with the man next to him, and you would try to stop it by calling on him. The brainless wonder of the class would come to your assistance by interrupting with a foolish question. Then you would notice that someone on the back row was asleep, and you would pray for inspiration.
Nothing but a sprung quiz seems like a very good idea, but just as you are about to try it, the whistle blows.
The University mail would come around then with a reprimand from the office for forgetting to make out the seventeenth report required, and you would have awful visions of losing your job and being stranded in the cold, cold world without any money saved up from your muniencal salary to pay the doctor next time your small son should break his arm.
Then a flock of earnest students would drift in asking for their grades, and the whistle would blow, and you would have to do it all over again.
According to the latest report from the office of the State Board of Agriculture at Topeka, this year's wheat crop is due to break all records in the history of the United States for quantity. Kansas has long been known as the first wheat state in the union, but indications are that the great record set by this state in 1914 will be shattered in 1919 by nearly 40 million bushels. The state average has been set at 20.1 bushels per acre.
BUMPER WHEAT CROP DUE
If the wheat follows true to muncations and does break the record, it is going to mean prosperity for the farmers and for the state as a whole. The government has set a price for the entire wheat crop of the country and the farmers are taking no chances. They are going to make real money. And money means prosperity and business.
And this bumper wheat crop will also have a significance as far as the University is concerned. A great many students at K.U. come from country homes, and their college education largely depends on just that very thing—the size of the wheat crop. Kansas is expecting many more students next year than ever before. Former students just getting out of the army are making their plans to return to Mount Oread in the fall. Everybody is going to work hard to come back and make K.U. the greatest school in the middle west in 1919-1920, and the wheat crop is going to do its share.
WHISTLES
Hurrah for the record-breaking wheat crop of 1919.
Wierd whistles, whispering whisties,
wonderful whistles, wild whistles,
winse whistles, would-be
whistles, weary whistles, worn-out
whistles, and war whistles will be
heard whistled when walking on the
Hill. Worry whistles which work
with all moods will be heard.
Wierd whistles wake one in the morning and warn one when class begins. The whispering and winsome whistles win the wooer weight. Wonderfully worked out whistles signal brothers when wanted. Wild whistles warble from the trees from the welcoming birds. Weary whistles will be whistled by the late home-goer. Worn-out whistles are those of the year-old ragtime. Would-be whistles of motor cars warn of danger War whistles welcome returning war riors.
When weary, whistle; when wild,
whistle; or when working, whistle.
Whistle whenever or wherever you wish.
ADVANTAGES OF EDUCA-
TION
"The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this: that it should help you to know a good man when you see him." This is what William James says in his essay, "The Value of the College Bred."
The government recognized this when it went to war, and a great majority of the men who became officers of our armies were college men. They were the men best fitted to know men. They were the keenest intellectually, and in leadership of men. All this was learned in the colleges. The training of the intellect is the first thing in the college curriculum, and by this training, the student acquires leadership, in at least some degree. He is given the greatest opportunity to bring out these qualities within himself. And when he goes forth, after four years of concentrated study, and association with learned professors and students, he is fitted with an armor that makes capable of an executive position. And the business world knows it. The army knew it.
Little does the college man or woman think that this is what he or she is accomplishing in their University. But William James makes it clear, that just as a mechanic or a tradesman, who takes specialized work and learns to know his trade, so does the college student specialize in knowing humanity thoroughly.
WHY FEAR I. W. W.'s?
The Industrial Workers of the World at a recent convention in Chicago adopted measures to greatly promote the spreading of their propaganda. New and larger quantities of literature are to be published, more foreign language newspapers to be published, and even to put I.
W. W. songs on phonographic records.
Every possible means is being used to spread the I. W. W. propaganda,
for propaganda is the basis of the organization.
The very life of the I. W. W. depends upon the literature,
and not the works of the organization.
When the plan of an organization is destruction, and it depends upon
propaganda purely for its support, it need not expect to gain wide favor.
Only when the I. W. W. adopt constructive methods to push their ideals will the organization become a power in this country.
A POTTER'S LAKE PLUNGE
Over the top of Mount Oread, two men attired only in the scanty garb of a swimmer, walked out toward the west, where only the long stretches of the grass on the golf links were visible. Evidently they were going swimmin', but where was a mystery. I had seen the entire University, in my estimation, but I had seen no lake or river. Curiosity overcoming my other desires, I followed them.
Walking rapidly through the valley, the swimmers with myself a few rods in the background, mounted the rise that leads toward the Administration Building, and disappeared beyond the top. I hastened my steps, for our goal must be within sight. And as Balboa stood viewing the Pacific Ocean for the first time, so stood I, at the crest, looking out over the broad expanse of Potter's Lake. Little had I dreamed that nestled between two hills, with no outlet, lay a lake, a pretty, charming body of water, the Mecca of Summer Session students, and the home of our naval training unit last fall.
Campus Opinion
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer as evidenced in the name will not be used if the author so specifies. Communications are welcome.
Editor Daily Kansan:—
The communication from "Junior" in Wednesday's Kansan is so absolutely prejudiced and biased and incorrect that it requires correction. The Senate does not "det all of the issues" when it receives it. It is not "the Senate's policy" to "get the wrong ones" when K. U., "starts housecleaning." If "Junior" will read the minutes of the Senate he will find that no action was taken in this matter, for the reason that it is not in his power to take such matters, as "Junior" would discover if he would read the Constitution of the Senate Faculty.
Mr. Taft on Covenant, says headline. Some covenant.
What does Burleson know about the telegraph, railway and telephone? Anyone can answer the question. "Nothing." Wilson would remove him if he were better situated on the matter.
It is lucky the circulation of news paper is measured by the number of editorials.
If the best instructors continue to leave and the faculty gets into a row, reports in foreign papers concerning them may have a little more truth in them.
Students are all globe-trotters,
judging by the pennants on the walls of
the gymnasium.
Second Peace Treaty Delivered, reads a headline in the Kansas City Journal. President Wilson has a fast delivery, speaking in baseball terms,
Rains are hitting Kansas City. Mo,
regularly. However, the town will be
hit by a blizzard.
The Wichita Beacon's idea of getting married in high life is to have the knot tied in an airplane. Yes, it happened at Houston, Tex., last week.
Mexico is enjoying her pre-war status. They have their daily revolt causes.
Most small towns are getting publicity now by talking of erecting aviation fields or schools.
Some students are glad to hear that
a faculty member even has a cold in his head.
A woman can never hold her own in a tongue battle.
A nose for news is not painted the same color as a nose for booze.
Instead of saying, "When the war is over," we now say, "When the truth is revealed."
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WANT ADS
LOST-A duplex slide rule with magnifier. Return to George Malkinns, 1633 Vermont. 148-5-192
FOR RENT—Desirable rooms for women Summer School Students. one block from the hill. 1332 Louisiana Street. Call 1953. 151-5-197
LOST:—A black leather No. 6 Note Book in Home Economics Laboratory. Call 1117. 149-3-195.
LOST-Fountain pen—gold band—initials E. D. G. Between Bricks and Fraser. Return to Kansan office.
150.2.196
LOST - A number 6 note book at McCook Field. Phone Millie 555.
- Cook Field. Phone Millie 555.
LOST-Ahoku pin. Call 2430. Reward.
146.5*-188.
LOST-A P. A. D. pin. Finder please.
Dean L. Flo. Temp Street.
123-456-7890 123-456-7890
LOST—A fountain pen with silver
flagreite trimmings on campus Wednesday.
Finder please phone 290.
159.2-200
LOST-Waterman Safety Pen. Horace D. Moore engraved on barrel. Return to 745 Mississippi. Reward. 152-2-201.
WANTED - Steward for summer school. School, C344 254. Blue, 152-2-202.
LOST-A gold wrist watch probably on K. U. car. Call at 1245 Oread and receive reward. 153-3-203
THE PATTERSON mixed club 1245
L. St. One half block from campa-
ses to climb. Wear open during summer sessions. Rooms for girls. 148-3-19.
THREE students, men or women,
wanted for traveling position during
vacation. Position permanent if
desired. Applicant must have pleas-
surety and be able to
the public. Address V. R. Care
Kansan.
1 x 1.
PROFESSIONAL
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. (Exclusive)
Lawrence Optical Co. is a
glasses furnished. Officers 1025 Mass.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D., Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology. Suite I. F. A. U. Bldg. Residence and housing. 1201 Ohio St. Both phones 35.
FANCY DRESSMAKING and plain new-
shawl. Size 121. Refresh $9. A. M. and
Phone 1121 Red. Before $14.
J. R. BCEFFIH, M. D. Roema 3 and 4 over McCellhoe, 847 Mass. St.
DR. H. REDING—F. A. U. Elder, Eye
Drillers, Classified Lenses, Tinted
Eyes to 8. Phone: 513-764-2900
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W. J. HAWKINS, Manager.
Your Trunk
or baggage handled promptly if you call
Red Ball Transfer PHONE 82
SUITING YOU is my business
CITIZENS STATE BANK Deposits guaranteed.
THE UNIVERSITY BANK Why not carry your accounts here?
Liberty Tube and Tire Co.
Opposite Masonic Bldg. Phone 991
VULCANIZING
Tires Re-Soled and Re-Treaded
Get the "Russell Tire Service"
Every Job a Masterpiece
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ED. W. PARSONS
Repairing and engraving diamonds, watches and cut glass. jeweler 725 Mass. St.
Taxi 12
'PHONE "One-two"
PROTCH
Taxi 148
The College Tailor 833 Mass. St.
Calls Answered early or late.
Moak & Hardtarfer
Conklin and
L. E. Waterman
Fountain Pens
McCOLLOCH'S DRUG STORE
914 Main
McCOLLOCH'S DRUG STORE 847 Mass.
HOTEL SAVOY
Kansas City, Mo.
Absolutely clean
Convenient location
Good Cafes, moderate prices
IDE COLLARS SOLD BY Skofstad
C. E. ORELUP, M. D., Eye, ear, nose, and throat. Glass work guaranteed. Phone 445. Dick Building.-Adv.