JUNE 4,1919. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Editor-In-Chief...Edgar L. Hollas Associate Editor...Ferdinand Gottlisch Assoc. Editors L. Woolf and E. Ex. Editor...Mavim Blair P. T. Editor...Nadine Blair Society Editor...Belva Shores Assistant Sport Editor...Walter Heren Assistant Sport Editor...Walter Heren BUSINESS STAFF Adv. Mgr., ... Lucie McNaughton Ann.'s Adv. Mgr., ... Guy W. Prazer Ann.'s Adv. Mgr., ... KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS KANSAN BUS F. L. Koenhankull Gensha Hunter L. Clark Kenneth Clark Mary Smith Mary H. Samson Fred Rigby Basil T. Church Marloby Roby John Mcmurthym Roby Mackenzie Earl Powell Charles Slawson Earline Allen Subscription price $2.00 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $1.00 for a term of three months; 40 cents a month; 10 cents a month. Entered as second-class mail matter September, 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence. Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kandu. By the press of the Department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Pionees, B.K. U. 25 and 66 The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University supports. To be clean; to be cheerful; to be brave; to be calm; to be careful; to be smart; to be leave more serious problems to wiser hands; in all, to serve to the university and qualify the students of the University. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919. THE WEATHER Probable showers tonight; no change in temperature. GOOD PROFESSORS LEAVE Each year the University loses some member or members of its instruction force because better and larger-salaried positions are offered elsewhere. The going of these instructors often sets back the department they were in to such an extent that it will take several years for new professors, no matter how good they are, to work it into shape. Many of these instructors would stay at the University if their salaries were increased so that they would be adequate for the positions they are holding. It seems, however, that the institution does not have the means to increase the pay, and must necessarily let them go without protest or attempt to better conditions, in spite of the loss that may fall on the school. Another bad aspect of the employment of instructors is the fact that teachers can stay here when they are performing their duties inefficiently or are a loss and detriment to the University. It is true that when one becomes an instructor in a state school he holds his position, practically for life or as long as he pleases. Because of this fact, instructors, who by the manner in which they conduct their classes or by the lack of interest they have are injurious to the institution, are still allowed to remain as instructors. These two problems are hurting the standard of the University and should be dealt with. The means of bettering these conditions should be adhered to, but more good can be produced only by increasing the means of settling both of the difficulties. PROLETARIAT Reading through an interesting account of Bolshevism in Russia, a student ran across the word "proletariat." And to get the drift of the article he had to know the meaning of that word. He did not have recourse to a dictionary, and so he asked another student near him. He was told a general meaning of the term, and read on, much enlightened. One can't pick up a newspaper, story, or magazine these days without running across just such words as this one, and without the meaning the entire story is gone. Think of those key words in the great stories of today: arbitration, nationality, international, super-state, bolshevism, social-democrat, menshevism, 'and a hundred other words. This is not a boost for the dictionary, but it is a boost for another course given at our University. That is History. In order to understand the problems that are before the world today, every student should take at least the one important course, "War and Peace," for in this course they will learn things that are of vital importance to them. We are going to live in this world for some time. We are going to meet problems just like the ones that are facing" President Wilson today. That is why we should at least be informed enough on our current history to be able to read intelligently the news story of the day. STUDENT DAY Student Day, the day set aside annually for a meeting of students where student speakers can voice criticisms against the faculty and the University, will be June 6 this year. This date almost crowds the day out of the school calendar, but students should not let this fact detract from making the day a success. Speakers should be chosen at once. Each school of the University is entitled to one speaker who will present the grievances of his school and give any other comments he may see fit. The speakers who are selected should have time to think over matters carefully and confer with other students in regard to subjects which should rightfully be taken up at the meeting. The Student Day meeting is ordinally a bet one. The most serious mistakes and injustices existing in the University are always emphasized and talked against. Words are outspoken, and if anything is seen wrong with the school, it isdivulged, no matter on whose shoulders the blame rests. The speeches do not represent merely the thoughts of the speakers. They are written after consultation with schoolmates and after every possible point has been gone over. Not only matters of current import are taken up, but also matters that have been noticed throughout the entire year. Larger, more important affairs will receive greatest emphasis, but small points are also brought up, and improvement suggested in even little things. This year the meeting probably will have as its chief topic student government. The Senate, which always comes in for a good deal of roasting and criticism, will probably be hit harder than ever. The school has been called pepless repeatedly during the last few terms, and the cause and remedy for this condition perhaps will be offered. Regulations of dance closing hours and prices and of the enforcement of traditions no doubt will be subjects. Each speaker selected should feel it his duty to investigate all possible subjects of criticism and to work up solid arguments and important facts about these subjects. He should really work hard, for if anything in the University should be a success, it ought to be the day when students can air their grievances and suggest improvements. Let us all, men and women, get behind Student Day and make it a meeting well worth attending, and one that will not be merely destructive but one that will be constructive and of lasting importance. Every student in the University should attend the meeting. Moreover, if any student has anything he thinks should be brought up, he should suggest it to the speaker from his school. "Don't be a tattler" is one of the first lessons children learn, both in the home and at school. K. U.'S "SECRET POLICE" It is only natural for persons to desire to have their wrongs righted. If they cannot do it themselves, the next best thing is to tell some person in authority. But from childhood up this impulse has been regarded as one showing poor sportsmanship. The special secret police is one of the notables at K. U. who not only tattles, but spies before he does tattling. And spying is only half a notch higher in the scale of social relations than tattling. K.U. students are not children who need to be watched and reported to their elders. They resent the idea that it is necessary for certain unnamed persons to go about looking for irregularities in their behavior. Student government would be a fitting substitute for the system of espionage now in vogue. If the discipline of the University were so arranged that each student felt he had a personal share in preserving law and order and the good of the institution, few cases requiring the service of the Disciplinary Committee would occur. University of Kansas students are capable of regulating their own affairs without the assistance of faculty members and others commissioned as s. p.'s. THE MEMORIAL CROWD The smallest thing that any student could have done for his school was to attend the Memorial Exercises which were held in memory of the fellow students who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War. And yet how many did attend? The first floor of the gymnasium, which was reserved especially for the student body, was only about two-thirds full. Surely it cannot be that the students who did not attend do not appreciate all that the University heroes have done for them. No doubt every one has a good, plausible excuse for not attending, but nevertheless, it still remains that they were not there. And yet they cry for school spirit. It seems that the revival of school spirit is almost hopeless when the student body votes to hold a Memorial Service and then does not support it. What we call giving the devils their due—pouring water on the "wild" senaders. GRADUATION PRESENTS Seniora are now sending out invitations and announcements of their graduation to their friends. Their friends will be glad to know of this event, but then the old question comes up, "What shall I give as a graduation present?" Remembrances of various kinds will be given. Some will be expensive, some will be small, but most of them will be useless. Why could not the seniors be members of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving around graduation time? This year, especially, when everyone has given heavily to war funds, should useless expenditures be cut down. Graduates should make commencement a giving affair on their side. To be a Spug will require only writing on the name card "gifts not acceptable." This is a good year for Seniors to be Spugs. K. U. is getting to be some "awful" place according to outside papers. The K. C. Star thinks all k. U. professors are either "Reds" or worse. That includes all of the faculty. Now the Journal-World comes out and says the students are not fit to have student government. The latter is a small thing—and so is the writer of the editorial in the city paper. And now the Kansas City Star comes out with a story about the stone house east of Woodard's being the home of Governor Robinson. Old government governors never lived in the house and commanded the K. C., organ of accuracy. The University campus roads look like Flanders according to returned soldiers. Worry and not overstudy during examination week is the cause of nervous breakdown among the students in City Star. They do neither here. That was once all the publicity the man got out of a life sentence. It usually came at the end of the column, just before the reporter told where the happy couple left for after the sumptous repast prepared by the bride's mother, and after a long description of the ceremony, the bride's costume, an enumeration of the guests, the presents, a flattering account of her dad's standing in the community and other matters. Wasn't it a grand and glorious feeling after voting for the Honor System? The Honor System would at least elinize the secret police. Did you feel guilty after voting against the Honor System? Every hour of rain is costly to the farmer says a citizen of Lawrence. It is also costly to the students. Ask the taxi drivers. She turns from a kitten to a cat when she is able to see things in the dark and gets her eyes wide open. But now the bride gets the small end of it. We don't find out what Nellie's dress was made of or what kind of flowers in her bouquet, or what her presents to the bride's-mails were. But we learn in full all about when, where and why Oswald enlisted, where he trained, where he got his commission, if he rated one, when he sailed, where he fought, and all the varied career of a fighting man. And the reporter is sure to use the words "kahli" or "democracy" or "over the top" in the account, words formerly not considered appropriate for weddings. When Fashions come from France Men never take a chance. MAYBE THEY DESERVE IT Water pressure on the Hill was very low the first of the week. There was no water to be had from the city mains. The University is the biggest user of water the local company has and pays full price for the water but whenever there is low pressure the water will freeze and hence patrons can be supplied with plenty of water. Water is a necessity in all of the many laboratories on the Hill and when it is cut off it causes a great deal of inconvenience and trouble. It would be a great deal easier for other consumers to get water from the water district or their offices on the Hill. The city water department attributes the cause of low pressure to the stopping of some of the machinery for repairs. WHEN FRESHMEN WILL BE SENIORS "Oswald Tinkle, the groom, wore the conventional black." Has the groom made the world safe for himself at last? Has he forced his way into the first paragraph to stay? Let us hope so. The members of Professor Melvin's classes have gone to the City Hospital. The work assigned was too much for the few who had the nerve to tackle it. The members of the Naval Section of the S. A. T. C. are suing the University for their subsistence for the year of 1918 when they were barracked on Mississippi Street. The Senate has authorized padding again. The cheerleader announces that freshmen not wearing their caps at the meet Friday will be paddled and blanketed as an inaugural for the "old time sport." A new billboard, 28 by 10 feet, has been finished and will be placed south of the Museum the first of the week. The coming issue of the Sour Owl will contain the list of faculty members regarded as poor and slow pay by the $ \mathrm{n} $ Lawrence merchants and those on the dead-bent list. The north entrance of the new Administration Building will be completed some time within the next two years, according to John M. Shen. Students who endorse the principles of the honor system and attack the proposed plan because of a detail in its execution forget that they are sacrificing principles to particular incidents. "Dinner Dance Replaces Annual Senior Outing."—Daily Nebraska headline. Can it be that Cornhusker seniors have become such indoor house plants that they deny themselves even the exhilation of a yearly outing? The dance managers have placed a taboo on taxis for the coming parties of the year. The University groundkeeper has announced his intentions of taking a whirl at the matrimonial game in June. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS For Rent For Sale For Lost Found Help Wanted Situation Wanted Classified Advertising Rates Or call at Daily Kansas Business Office. Telephone K. U. 66 Minimum charge, one insertion 25c. up to fifteen words, two words, five insertions 50c. 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