UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 4, 115
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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WHEN PROFS FORM UNIONS
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1919
WHEN PROFS FORM UNIONS In order to bring about more democratic working conditions and better pay for university instructors, the teachers at the University of Illinois have organized a teachers' union. This "Associated Teachers of the University of Illinois," the first to be established in so large an institution, is a branch of the American Federation of Teachers, and the latter is connected with the American Federation of Labor.
The union intends to rectify the condition in which, its leaders say, "instructors generally are" without democratic voice in determining the conditions under which they perform their services to the public." The instructors wish an arrangement whereby their tenure of office and their working conditions will be determined democratically. The league also would try to relieve the dissatisfaction regarding salaries paid instructors.
When university instructors adopt the methods used by most other professions and organize to improve the conditions under which they work, we may expect such improvements actually to be obtained. In a union like the one established in Illinois will be found the power necessary to correct the evils of the teaching system.
The May fete, even though it will be twenty-two days after May Day, will be greatly appreciated by the University. It is one of those events in which students in pre-war days delighted because they were all-University affairs and the absence of which has been so much deplored this year.
MAKE SPOONER MORE EF FICIENT
"If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed will go to the mountain." And then the old saying may be carried into modern language. "If the library will not come to the student, then the student must go to the library."
Perhaps the student should go to the library, and this he does in the week days. But Sunday, he can under no circumstances take books from the shelves. The library is closed and the books the student needs are like-wise.
The department libraries allow the students to take out books Saturday night, provided they are returned Monday morning. Librarians say the plan works well. Why could not Spooner Library follow the same course, and pave the way to a greater use of the thousands of books kept there?
INTRA-MURAL ATHLETICS
* AND K. U. SHIRT*
Athletics at the University of Kansas are well on their way to a pre-war basis. More than usual interest is being manifested this year in intramural athletics, as has been shown by the organization of three leagues.
Not only will the revival of the national game among the students give everyone an opportunity for recreation and a good time, but it is the surest way to bring back the long lost school spirit. When all the men of the University become interested in something besides the dance and the movies, then it will be that the Jayhawk will regain his own and the famous Rock Chalk will again resound perfectly over the campus.
Instructors and assistant professors at Yale are rejoicing over a 25 per cent. increase in salary. The proverbial wolves now will have to move from Yale to other universities.
And still we have with us the professor who insists upon holding his classes overtime. Day after day, long after other classes have been dismissed and the students on their way to other classes or to the homes, the Prof lectures on. It isn't long before the students in these classes become disgusted, and rightfully so.
DISMISS CLASSES ON TIME
There are professors in the college who answer to that description. They are not treating their students fairly and they cannot expect the same good quality of work from them if this practice continues. Holding classes overtime once or even twice is excusable and oftentimes unavoidable, but after that, it becomes tiresome.
Perhaps the nunt-tank guns which are finding their way to this country will be found most useful in locating certain kinds of hidden tanks after July 1.
THE MODERN MYTH
“Do not let your studies interfere with your education.” This is a popular way of saying that studies do not count for much in one's college life. In some colleges the dominant idea is that the most important activities are found in the side shows conducted by the students, while the performances that the faculty put on in the big tent are trivial and a waste of time in the big business of getting an education There is an evergrowing tendency on the part of college students to take their studies as a matter of little concern. The average amount of study is a negligible quantity.
"Contentment with the mediocris is perhaps the greatest danger that faces us, and it is closely connected with the feeling among students that college is a sort of interlude in serious life, separated from what goes before and dissociated from what follows." During this "interlude" scholarship is tolerated for a time along with headaches, influenza, tight shoes, and being nice to people you don't like.
If students are content with mediocrity in college there is no reason for believing they will be discontented with it in later life. The habits formed in college will be the habits that will grind success or failure in after life. James says that habit "dooms all to all fight the battle of life upon occasions of poor behavior, choice, or to make the best of a pursuit that disables, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again."
The students in college who do not let their studies interfere with their education but who intend to settle down to hard work later on, and who later learn a more easily change their habit of life—this is the Modern Myth. —The Manualite.
It was at college; and in college for a large percentage of the youth the dearest wish is to escape all knowledge. Recently, speaking of one of his courses, a young man said: "We have just been reading 'Jane Eyre.'" The older person on whom he was calling said something friendly to Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. "I don't mean 'Jane Eyre,'" the youth replied, "I mean Jane Addams. I cann't hand her much." "What of hers have you read?" "Twenty Years in Hull House,"? "No, 'Pride and Prejudice.'" His hostess refrained from discussing Jane Austen, and turned to topics less embarrassing than English literature—Leslie's Weekly.
TROUBLE WITH JANE
Readable Verse
Little gray cottage nestling there Where the road turns to the sea,
And dreaming of days to be;
Dear little house of the many scars
By childish fingers made—
Watched over by sun and stars.
TILL HE COMES HOME
Resting a moment from forther care
And drawing of doe to be
Wrapped in the woodbine shade—
Dream, wee home, till the wandrer
Watched over by sun and stars,
Till a hand shall turn the key
Till a nail shall turn the key
And the walls shall echo the gentl
Hidden away at the turn of the road,
In a corner all alone
Beckon and point like a guiding lode
Sermonettes
Till the absent returns to his own.
— R. E. in The Tiger.
Written by K. U. Students and Lawrence Pastors.
THE BIBLE AS RECREATION By Basil Church
Novels and magazine stories within the last century have come to play an important part in the life of the average student. Before that time, literature was scarce and the reader turned to the Bible for interesting reading. He spent his spare time scanning its pages. Today most students choose the latest short stories, the best novel, the popular movie adaptation of Shakespeare's play, The Bible is laid away on the shelf and is used only on state occasions, at a wedding, a christening or a burial.
Occasionally one finds a wise student who still turns to the Bible for interesting reading and this same student may be heard to assert that the Bible is a mighty good antidote for the cheap stuff called popular literature. When one has had an over dose of the latter it might not be fatal to try the wise student's recipe.
Church Directory
If Your Church is not Listed Here Call the Kansan
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1919
Uttersham, Twelfth and Vermont. Sun-
day school and church at 10:30 a.m.
on Sunday.
Friends: Tenth and Delaware. Sunday school at 11 a.m. Church at 11 Mrs. Susie Wilecox, pastor. Telephone 3632W.
first Christina: Tenth and Kentucky, Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning services at 11. As this is the first Sunday of the second year of residence of the pastor, the sermon will be. "Retrospective and Prospective and the Future." Evening services and the Furthest." Religious Command." Special song service. The Rev. M. Lee Sorey, pastor. Telephone 2519.
First Presbyterian; Ninth and Vermont. Sunday school at 10 a.m. in morning services at 11, Evening services at 2 p.m. A.E. Eckle pastor. Telephone, 920.
Christian Science: Thirteenth and Massachusetts, Sunday school at 10 a.m. M. Morning services at 11. Lesson nermon, "Unreality."
St. John's' 1228, Kentucky. Passor
Sunday, 1228 at 8 a.m. High, M.
Noble 1228 at 8 a.m. Subljett, "Neo-paganism." Evening
service at 8 p.m. M. Sermon by the
lew. Joseph Jacobus of Honner
University. J. K. Jckert, pastor,
Telephone 328.
Ulster Brethren: Seventeenth and Vermont. Sunday school at 10 a.m. in the city hall, which also offers orchestra will play at the church at 8 o. m. The Hyat N. H. Hoffman.
First Methodist: Tenth and Vermont University Sunday school at 10 a.m. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "Working Partnership with God," Evening services at 7:45. Subject "The Dominant Character of Christianity." Epworth League at 6:15 p. m.
Seventh Day Adventist' Tenth and New
Ackermann, A. K., Bayden, Elder. Sabbath
school (saturday) at 10 a.m. m. Church
services at 11 a.m. m. Young People's
Sunday service at
7:45 p.m. m. conducted by H. E. Jordan.
Telephone 1509.
The dove of peace in a patient old bird.—Washington Star.
Trinity Lutheran: One block east of the Court House, Sunday school at the Church, Sermon, "Anxious Care," by Karl Wilhelmson. Evening services at 7:15. Luther League and church at 7:20. St. Michael's, St. Staifer, pastor. Telephone 1076.
Printrify Episcopal: Tenth and Ver-
mont. Sunday school at 10 a.m.
at Church of the Lord's Chapel.
War With Japan Not Likely, Says Dr. Mirakuchi (Continued from page 1)
tropical climate. Now, the Japanese know this as well as any one else.
"Then again, the annexation of the Islands to the United States has been a poor business proposition. Of course, the United States can afford to spend money on something that is not a paying proposition, but Japan cannot, for her national debt is $1,225,000,000. No one knows how poor Japan really is, and if she did have money to spend she would necessity spend it in developing the natural resources of Korea and Southern Manchuria.
"The third reason why Japan does not want the Philippine Islands is that in 1908, Japan and America entered into what is known as a 'gentlemen's agreement' which both nations pledged to respect the territorial boundaries of both countries. Up to the present time neither America nor Japan has ever deviated from the letter of that agreement.
CAN'T INCREASE NAVY
"Then, the increasing of the coast line of Japan would cause the Japanese to increase their navy, for they have but enough to guard their own coast line at present, which is 18,000 miles in extent. Japan is sick and tired of armament. Some people think that Japan is governed by a selected fow, but the fact is that public sentiment is the basis of modern government in Japan. Christianity is coming to take hold and the force it exerts is almost irresistible.
"Some people think that Japan is a heathen country. Which would you rather be, a heathen Japanese or a Christian German. You all know how the Germans treated their prisoners of war, but in the Russo-Japanese war the first Russian prisoners taken were treated so well that they afterward wanted to become Japanese citizens," I knew that I would rather be a heathen Japanese than a Christian German.
HEAVY MILITARY TAXES
"And then lest, it takes money to wage wars, and Japan has no money. She is so near broke that out of every dollar that a laborer earns must come back to the government in the form of military taxes.
"America is Japan's greatest creditor, as well as her greatest customer, and it stands to reason that it is not good business policy for a business man to destroy his credit and his customers at one stroke.
"Japan will never bother the United States, and I hope that the United States will never bother Japan. Japan and America will never collide on land or on sea."
Japanese Makes Speech at First of Y. M. Series
This meeting is the first of a series according to Hugo "Dutch" Wedell, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Hereafter the changes will be held on Thursday nights.
Dr. Yutaka Mirakuchi, the Japanese orator, spoke to the students and faculty in Fraser Hall this afternoon at the Greater America and The Ned Ain".
Important subjects of the day will be discussed, including Bolshiism, Democracy in America and Government Ownership of Public Utilities.
Charles F. Scott, editor of the Iola Register, will address one of the meetings on the Constitution of the League of Nations.
Senior Memorial to be Decided on at Meeting
"The senior memorial will be more expensive this year than it has been in the past. The war has closed and the seniors feel that a fine memorial should be given," said Herman Hanenge, president of the senior class, today.
"Plans have been made for a class meeting next week in which all members of the organizations will discuss the kind of a memorial they desire, its cost, and also the question of what it would be like to be something that will fit in with the grove. It will be dedicated on class day."
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