MARCH 27,1919. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Editor-in-chief Floyd L. Hockenbill Awards Editor Brian Sobhak Exchange Editor Basil Church Exchange Editor Bill Sloane Society Editor Edgar Hollis Society Editor Charles Slawson Charles Slawson Ad. Manager, Lorelle McNaughton Circulation Merchant, Herman C. Hannon Circulation Merchant, Herman C. Hannon Luther Hangen Mary Smith Mary Smith Pred Rigby Bethid Heath Violet Matthews Jessie Wyllat John Montgomery Jessie Wyllat Marvin Subscription price $3.00 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $1.00 for a term of three weeks; 10 cents a month; 10 cents a week. Entered as second-class mail matter September, 27, 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 Kansas at Pine Bush press of the Department of journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66 The Daily Kansan aims to picture undergraduate life of the University ther than merely print the news, but rather immerse the students with varsity hubs; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courteous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in ml; to serve to the students of the University. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1919 THE DIRECTOR There is one institution of the University that has been accorded unanimous praise from faculty, students, and visitors alike for the last twelve years. This is the University Band, under the direction of J. C. McCanles. Before Mr. McCanies became director the band was only a hapazhard organization without uniforms and with practically no instruments. Under his direction over 500 men have been trained and equipment valued at $3,500 is now the property of the band. The news of the resignation of Mr. McCanles has taken aback every person interested in the organization. It is generally felt that the loss of such a director cannot be afforded by the institution. Through thick and thin the K. U. Band has always been an inspiration to spirit and pep. In many a hard-fought game the day has been saved when the band struck up "Booa-Boila" and the old Thundering Thousand roared a Rock Chalk that inspired the players for the final successful effort. The salary of the director of the band has never been large. Many institutions have paid band leaders better. It will be hard to find another director who will accept the position at K, U, for the same salary. If Mr. McCanles would reconsider his resignation for an increase in pay it would seem wise for the University to grant a higher salary. The K. U. Band has always been an organization of which the University was proud and we cannot afford to have it deteriorate. THE NOTCHED PADDLE Down in the bottom of the senior's trunk when he makes his final trip home after graduation, invariably are found two relics to be held in reverence after all other college memorions have been forgotten. These keepsakes are the freshman cap and the notched paddle—the one the cause, the other the effect. A capless freshman used to mean a notch to the paddle owner. A notch recorded in a most indelible manner forgetfulness or disrespect to the ancient custom. The notch was a sign of displeasure to the freshman, but in his three advanced years it was a sign of honor and pleasure. But get the three hence, fond pipe dreams of a lively past! AN OPPORTUNITY You read the squirrel print, "Wake Up Kansas" and wondered. You have heard much criticism of the lack of University spirit this year, and you wondered bout that, too. What do you think about it, especially who you have ever been here during normal times? At the University Y. M. C. A. every Thursday night until school ends there will be delivered short informal talks regarding the problems connected with K. U. They will last only three quarters of an hour and they will be given by Dutch Wedell, himself. You know Dutch. Don't you think, Mr. Average Student, it would be a wise plan to hear those talks? They will give you new light on important questions. The time spent in hearing them will be short and the understanding gained will be more than worth while. The title of the series is "Wake Up Kansas." PERMANENT ROADS After being allowed to remain in an unappeasably bad condition for several months, the roads on the campus are at last being repaired. Such an improvement has been a crying need for a long time. Pleasure in a ride around the University under present conditions is impossible. The University of Kansas possesses a location and a campus that could be made one of the most beautiful in the United States. A systematic plan of landscape gardening has been undertaken. The best additional improvement that could be made is a system of well naved and curbed streets. The bad conditions of roads on Mount Oread is noticed greatly by visitors. The grounds of Haskell Institute are admired by many fully as much as those of the University, and the difference in the condition of the roads is the reason for this. Now that the roads are to be improved, why not improve right? Filling in with dirt can only remedy the defects temporarily. The war is over. The Legislature apparently wishes to improve state schools. In the matter of buildings, equipment and most internal improvements, we have been faring well. Can't we start a little permanent external improvement? WHY AMERICAN BOYS ARE MARRYING FRENCH GIRLS An American Navy nurse, who admits she's slightly jealous, furnishes perhaps the first really thoroughgoing and expert opinion on the Franco-American marriage situation in France. After a year and a half in France this American girl finds French femininity "delightful," with a knowledge of captivating masculine hearts that would put most American girls completely out of the running. She suggests the advisibility of presenting President Wilson with a petition to send all American troops home at once, "in the name of American debutantes." Her letter, written to a relative in New York, appears in the New York Evening Sun. You seem rather incredulous about so many of our American boys having married Frenchwomen. Why, I wonder? I don't see any reason why they should not. The Frenchwoman is a delightful creature. Even we American, and English nurses can see that, much as we should like at the human end, and still feminine, and it goes rather hard with us to see some of the finest of our soldiers lads marrying pretty little Alines, Maries, and Ninettes. We think we could find better mates for them, and some of us think that a few could be found without even going outside of France. But still they're being captivated—we call it "captured" when we talk among ourselves—by the Frenchwomen. Louise told me last night that she had it on positive authority that in the neighborhood of 100,000 American soldiers and sailors had married Frenchwomen over here! No wonder we are jealous—only don't tell anybody that we are, for maybe I'm the only one of us who is ready to admit it even to herself. Still, as I've just said, I don't blame the boys. These girls are really almost irresirable, and they understand the art of flirtation better when they are born than the average American woman understands it after her fourth divorce. They know how to dress, too, to bring out the very littlest as well as the greatest of their charms. And they know how to talk to our soldiers with their eyes and hands and shoulders better than we Americans can talk to them in their own United States. They speak a universal language—the language of appeal—and they never fall to make themselves understood. Readable Verse NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1919 Today no storming vanguard leaps To leave its share of slain; At dawn no rolling thunder sweeps From Flanders to Lorraine; The white year breaks against the sky Below the last red dare. Sway with wind and storms drift Who neither know nor care.—From a poem by Lieutenant Gruntland Rice in Current History. Besides all this more or less superficial charm, the Frenchwoman is truly a woman. They make wonderful wives and mothers. I've been here long enough to see that. They make even better wives and mothers than they make sweethearts. they're wonderful housekeepers, although, except among the upper classes, they do run to too much furniture in their parlors and too much garlic in their kitchen, to suit my plain tastes. But how they understand food-conservation an economy, Mr. Hoover could learn quite a few lessons from them if he cared to study them. And on top of all this femininity, they are fighters. They are the bravest women as a class, I believe I have ever known, and the most consistently patriotic. Their patriotism is so deep, so much a part of them, that they never think of saying anything about it. If you separated a Frenchwoman from her love of France and her desire to serve France, you would have to tear her limb from limb and pick her to pieces. It goes all through her, and enters subconciously into everything she has done since her childhood. You know something of what they've done since the summer of 1914 from your reading of the papers and magazines, but that full hisory can never be written. So, why shouldn't our boys love them, and marry them? Anyway, whether they should or should not, they're doing it. Can't you do something to persuade the Government to have them all brought home? We're thinking about presenting a petition to Mr. Wilson while in France begging him, in the name of American debutants, to send our boys home... Literary Digest. On Other Hills Ten of the thirteen lecturers already appointed to the new Labor Union College, which is be established in Boston next month, are Harvard graduates or members of the University's faculty. Among those who will conduct lectures and courses at this new college are: Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School: Professor William Z. Ripley, professor of economics and an authority on railroads; Professor William B. Sayer, L.B. '12 of the law school; Dr. Horace M. Kallen, '06; Professor Zechariah Chafee of the law school; Harold J. Laski of the department of government and economics; James Mac-Kaye, former lecturer on political economy at the University; Dr. H. W. L. Dana, '03; Professor R. F. A. Hoernle, professor of philosophy; and Professor Felix Frankhard of the law school. Eighty-four Charleston women have signed up for the training course offered by the Woman's Athletic Association. Every co-eed who keeps the training until Easter vacation will receive fifty points toward her "C" or membership in the Association—Law. rentian. Plans are being made by the faculty, alumni and students of Missouri University, in connection with commencement, to obtain funds for the erection of a memorial building to the students of the University who gave their lives in war. The plans provide for a fund of half-million dollars. The building will have a memorial tower 125 feet in height. The tower will bear tablets with the names of those killed. At the top there will be a set of chimes. "Experts tell us that, roughly speaking, one marriage in three results in divorce," began the chap with the fund of useless irritation. "Yes," the other one chimed in, "and it's the roughly speaking part that causes most of the trouble."—Indiana-apolis Star. Under prohibition perhaps we shall have more epitaphs like the following from a cemetery in Georgia: Within this grave There lies poor Andy; Bit by a snake. No whisky handy. Donot Transcript. C. E. ORLUP, M. D. Eye, ear, nose, and throat. Glass work guaranteed. Phone 445. Dick Building.—Adv. "You don't make your speeches as long and elaborate as you used to," remarked the constituent. "No," replied Senator Sorghum "I've made up my mind as to the exact position I'm going to maintain, so I can be as brief and lucid as I like."—Washington Star. Reports from the Netherlands, as they grow. Ventures in Original Verse The Muse Rampant Are mostly exaggeration. For maps of Holland plainly show It is a low lying nation. Are mostly exaggeration, We rack our brains and scratch our head As o'er exams we bend, As o'er exams we bend. Ah that's the time, by jinks, alas When a feller needs a friend. I am start on a rainy day. Priste as a broken victrola record You paid two dollars for. And pitiful As an underdone potato, Is the teacher of the student When the keen girl he took To the dance Can't dance. Mother Goose's History of Lawrence (From Chamber of Commerce Issue of Pewee Kansan.) The town was burned but was rem- made. in eighteen hundred fifty four, Lawrence opened wide her door. The first celeb that Lawrence had, Was one John Brown whose end was Was one John Brown whose end was sad. After Quantrell's little raid. In fifty-six the powers that be, Gave her the University. Into the town in sixty-four, U.P. trains began to roar. Away back there in sixty-nine, The L.B.C. put up its sign. Although begun in seventy-two, The water plant is almost new. In eighteen hundred eighty three, The city took its final spree. This merchant's club was first begun in eighteen hundred and ninety one. Then in the flood of nineteen three, The town of Lawrence climbed a tree ('Twas several trees, but that won' ('Twas several trees, but that won't rhyme. A poet has an awful time.) As Lawrence had for long years The Kaw at last was newly spanned. Then came the war, with endless days, and lightless nights, and other ways To help the Lawrence soldiers fight, To make the Heines see the light. And having won, our town has thrived Until this glorious day arrived. Talk it over with Clayton 133.—Adv Private instruction in voice and violin. Prof. J. A. Farrell, 1008 Tenn St. Telephone 1244.-Adv. Drink the natural water. Mount Hope Spring—McNish. Phone 198. Adv. Plymouth Jottings May we add just a jot or two as the new term begins? Did you have a pleasant breathing spell? Fine! Probably this term will be a little bit less strenuous. At least, let us hope so. So say we all of us. Last term was fierce, wasn't it? Sunday morning at 10 Professor Mitchell will have his Sunday School Class in the upper east room of Plymouth. You are invited. Now let's start right. At 11 we have our Morning Worship. The Sermon will raise the question, "Was Job patient?" At 6:45 the Y.P.S.C.E. meets. Topic for discussion "On The Fence." Fred Stringfellow will lead. At 7:45 we worship with the Presbyterian. It is my privilege to preach on "Your Two Selves." Plympton wants to remind you that you will always be heartily welcome at these various services. Yours very cordially. ROSS W. SANDERSON, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS For Renq Pastor of Plymouth Church. For Sale Lost Found Help Wanted Situation Wanted Telephone K. U. 66 K. U. 00 Or call at Daily Kansas Business Office. Classified Advertising Rates Minimum charge, one insertion 25c. Up to fifteen words, two insertions 25c. Five insertions Fifteen to twenty five words, one insertion 25c. three insertions three five insertions six words up to a word, a word each additional insertion, first insertion, rates given upon application. WANT ADS LOST—A Jawedee Beta Theta Pi pin between Varsity theater and 1201 Oread. Call 1340 Black or K.U. 147. 102-3-139 FOR RENT—To Girls. Very desirable suite of rooms, study and sleeping porch, room south and east exposure. Must be seen to be appreciated. Also one room for two girls. 1416 Tenn. St. Phone 1378 Blue. WANTED -DIE washer. Phone 334 - Sigma Chi house, 1489 Tom. 812 - St. Louis house, 1489 Tom. 812 WANTED—A boy to play the piano at the Anderson Club. Phone 1505W 1407 Ky. 103-5-141. FOR SALE—Two perfection oil heaters. American Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 4 vols; Encyclopaedia Britanica, 28 vols; Stoddard's Glimpses of the World; Leslie's, 5 vols.; Cosmopolitans, 25 vols.; Scientific American, 36 vols. Call at 738 Mass. St. IXI PROFESSIONAL LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. 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Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets. WALTER S. MARS, Mgr. Saint Louis, Mo. Central Educational Bureau 610 Metropolitan Bldg., We have remunerative positions for available teachers. Write for registration blank. No advance free. W. J. HAWKINS, Manager. Conklin and L. E. Waterman Fountain Pens ED. W. PARSONS PINES LUNCH Home Made Pies, 5c Per Cut Repairing and engraving diamonds, watches and cut glass. Jeweler 725 Mass. St. Excellent Mexican Chili, 10c PALACE BARBER SHOP HOTEL SAVOY Kansas City, Mo. Absolutely clean Convenient location Good Cafes, moderate prices The Most Sanitary Shop in Town FRANK VAUGHN, Prop. 730 Mass. We make your last year's hat look like new. We dye, clean, re-block felt straw or cloth hats for ladies and gentlemen. Lawrence Hat Works Phone 2253 833 Mass. St. The College Tailor 833 Mass. St. PROTCH SUITING YOU is my business S CHUL Z the T A I L O R 917 Mass. St. Phone 914 Kahns Pure Milk Company Sells Milk that is pure and fresh— Price, Ten Cents per Quart to Clubs, Fraternities and Sororites. Good, Sweet Skim Milk, Twenty Cents per gallon— KAHNS 717 Mass. St. Phone 955 DIXON'S ELDORADO "the master chawing pencil" 17 degrees at all stationers DIXON It takes eight months and more than half a hundred processes to make an Eldorado. But my, what a pencil!