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MARCH 13, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919.
ON THE JOB
The action of the Joint Student Interests Committee at its first meeting gives evidence of the ability of that committee to cope with the student affairs of the University in a method satisfactory to both students and faculty. The definite report on convocations probably will settle this point of dissension which has been hanging fire all year.
Many student petitions expressing the desire of the students for convocations have gained no results from the Senate. Vague ideas have been held by the students why these petitions have gained no results. At the joint meeting of the representatives of the Senate and of the students, the points of view of both bodies were collaborated in a satisfactory plan.
One hour a month taken from class work would be insignificant. The meeting together of all the students four times in the remainder of the year, however, will be significant to the students in becoming acquainted with the whole University and in the school spirit they will create.
The plan of having two hours in the middle of class periods vacant each week, which the committee has decided to work out, is a sign of advancement and achievement which shows the ability of this joint committee. In one meeting this committee has done more than has been done in a year by the students and Senate working individually.
It is now up to the University Senate to accept the reports of this committee in more than an advisory light. This committee's action is the joint product of the two great constituents of the University. The Senate should with very few exceptions pass the reports of the joint Students Interest Committee.
Sherman gave war a hard name, but even he failed to think of a term bad enough to describe the political fight that follows.
CONSISTENT VOTING
Reasoning rather inconsistently, many women students of the University have repeatedly criticised actions of the women's governing body for enforcing rules made years ago by all the women of the University. The ilogical character of their arguments is that while women students have the right of self government in electing the members of the executive council of the W. S. G. A., they do not exercise that right by voting in full strength in the school elections.
In the last few years, voting in the
regular spring elections has been veil light. It would appear that the women students are more content in criticising actions of the council rather than changing that council by exercising their power in the elections. It is inconsistent to disapprove the action of representatives against whom they might have voted if they had been sufficiently interested.
Some lively opposition for the various places on the executive council, and the votes of practically all the women on the Hill, should give them a truly representative council, which would enforce the regulations of student government in a jadicious and reasonable fashion.
THE DESIRE TO LOAF
It was law stated by one of the old philosophers that for every action there is an equal and contrary reaction. In the minds of the returned soldiers now students in the University this theory is one of importance. The reaction, they assert, is showing 'self in lax school work.
When it is taken into consideration, however, the work these men have done in the service, it is not remarkable that a feeling of unrest exists. Practically all of them have led active lives in the army, navy or marine corps. Every action was forced and the life artificial. The period of work was concentrated and severe. Now the old normal manner of living is pushed before them again, and it is the natural result to want to loaf.
Because of this tendency the returned soldier is much less efficient than he ordinarily would be. He finds a continued effort must be put forth in order to keep himself on a level with his old standing. The hard-working returned soldier perhaps deserves even more praise than that which he receives for his work in the service.
THE FUTURE CAR
The car of the future won't leave anything to be done by man power. In two or three years foot-brakes will be things of the past except on cheap cars. Why should a man exert muscle to stop a car any more than to start it? What's that great brake in an engine idling under the hood for?
Now, jump three jumps more. If the engine starts and lights and pumps itself, why shouldn't it steer the car? Revolutionary? Nonsense! That's what they said of foredoors. All cars of today have them. That's what they said of electric starters. Well, can you sell a thousand-dollar car—or a five-hundred dollar car, for the matter o'r that—without a starter? And in the future the car with the steering-wheel will be as obsolete as the car with the hand-pump for gas or oil is today!
The car of the future will have no such thing as a driver's seat. All the seats in the car, save the rear one, will be moveable. Driving well also done from a small control board, which can be held in the lap. It will be connected to the mechanism by a flexible electric cable. A large finger handle provides the door. Another will attend to speed changes, buttons will light and warm the car. blow the horn, apply the brakes—everything.
Steam or electric steering has displaced hand-steering on all great ships—why should you sit humped over a much-in-the-way-of-your-comfort steering-wheel when your engine can supply the muscle and all you need to supply is the brain? . . .
The car of the future will carry neither extra tires nor extra wheels. In the first place, if the non-puncturable tire doesn't arrive—which it will, probably—and if the substitute for rubber is never made—which it will be—why, some one will come across with a substitution for air. A spare tire would not be the future will be as the Dodo and as unknown as a spare engine, a spare gasoline can or an extra top is today."—Scientific American.
Has it a punch? That is the question; in fact that is about all that matters. If it is a play it must have a punch. The touching drama of heart-interest which left not a dry eye in the theatre, the problem play with the inevitable triangle, the bucolic comedy-drama with the farm-hard quartet, are all in the discard. The demand now is for rough stuff—the crude, raw slice of life—the stage peopleed with white slavers, strong-men, cocoa couchies, vampires.
PUNCH
tiger ginger, spies and secret service
inkers. Even the lovers are cave-
s
Where once the lure of the ad, writer, the insurance man and the book-agent is genially insinuating, perhaps politely inviting, even pleasantly persuasive, salesmanship with a punch now holds sway—quick-closing they call it. Like a menacing prosecuting attorney they smash fist against palm, point a finger of scorn at their victim, bury him in such an avalanche of evidence that his identity is selling that he quickly shows penitence, hoping the damages will be as light as possible.
Charity—even sweet charity, as the sentimental folk of a bygone day were not to refer to it—has changed its tactics. The piteous tale unfolded with harrowing detail and concluded with a touching appeal lacked punch. In the approve dictates Internet users Across" "Don't be a tightwad!" "Have a Heart!" "Be a live one." "Loosen up!"
The meek, pious, benevolent dominie, who sadly but resignedly commented on the weakness of the flesh, has given place to the militant evangelist who flaies the sinner generally—or tries to, for he frequently injures himself and bouts with catch weights, confident his pinch is equal to any emergency.
the punch is the thing to catch the
avor of mob or king.
Are you what you planned to be?
Men and women who have reached
the gym give various answers to
the questions sent them by the
Daily Kansas.
FATE VS. AMBITION
David Starr Jordan, primarily a teacher, and incidentally a naturalist and explorer, wanted to be either a botanist or a breeder of fine sheep at the time he entered college. This should be encouraging to young men and women whose futures are problematic, and who cannot really ascertain what they are especially fitted for.
Dr. Jordan has been a very successful educator, because he had a certain moral and intellectual hold on young men and women. Most people think of him as an educator, and are surprised to learn that he has written five hundred and twenty-five books and memoirs on naturalistic subjects, many of which are concernful. Mr. Jordan chose this subject for research because little study had previously been made along the same line.
Dr. Jordan believes that all other forms of government but democracy are only makeshifts. "Democracy, not peace, nor efficiency, nor education, has been my final ideal," he says, "and democracy, not for itself, but because it leads to justice, dom and armor towards justice - the under which every man and woman shall be free to make the most of life."
K.U. Dictionary
Athlete: A husky, who can under-
go hard training while at school but
who is too weak to chop wood when
at home.
Economy.: The distinguishing quality of a fellow who after having worn a shirt a week turns his cuffs under.
That the oversupply of male labor and a shortage of female labor is due to employers retaining women in positions formerly held by men, even after the original holders of the positions are again available, was a decision reached at the second annual convention of the Retail Millinery Association of America, which was held yesterday at the Hotel McAlpin. As a result, the association will introduce a campaign appealing to both employer and employee on the basis that is is the patriotic duty of the former to re-employ returned soldiers, especially where the pro-woman, has come from women, and to the emmanuel on the ground that it is an illusion on her part that she is being better paid than she could be in strictly female work. The campaign will endeavor to show that it is the patriotic duty of the women to return to women's industries, if for nothing else than to give further opportunity to returned soldiers for employment—New York Times.
Carelessnessss: The chief characteristic of a chap, who, in getting a box of candy from home, tells his friends and doesn't lock the door.
Private instruction in voices and violin. Prof. J. A. Farrell, 1008 Tenn. St. Telephone 1244...Adv.
We are still making the same quality of chocolates in bulk or boxes Wiedemanns.-Adv.
Readable Verse
Dinners and concerts and shows,
Delirious evenings of whist;
When slippers were meant to be worn!
Burdens that have to be borne!
Ol'corned the child. I had to he
Dances where everyone goes,
Lectures too wise to resist,
Plays usually must go.
THE VANISHED SLIPPER NIGHTS
Dh, for the fire in the grate
Pictures we really must see,
Dances where everyone goes,
Features too nice to resist
And the nights without even a date.
And the youngsters awaiting me.
And the joy of the old easy chair And the nights without even a date,
Oh, for the evenings of rest.
Unresturbed by a tacitab's form.
When needn't she mustn't have to get
Home was once a haven for play,
and from four troubles that gripped
And slippers were meant to be worn.
A place where the toiler might stay,
And not just a station to leave.
And a book and a pipe and a chair
Meant peace to the toilet forlorn.
Now look at my slippers and pipe;
Shall ever their comfort I know?
Shall ever an evening be mine?
But those were the days when a pain
Of slimmer were meant to be worm
When I shall have nowhere to go?
Shall the glad days return that are
Or is all of my yearning in vain?
Shall I never get home and put on
Those old-fashioned slippers again?Edgar A. Guest, K. C. Star.
In 1896 John Masefield, then a boy of eighteen, was working in a carpet factory in Yonkers, N. Y., and in that little town he had the good fortune to come across a bookshop kept by a man called East. Friday was pay day at the factory, and every Friday he would buy a book and读 it over SuSunday. One Friday in September he found a volume of Chaucer, and that week-end a great poet was born. In Chaucer he first began to see with the eyes of the mind, which see "butterflies and petals of bowsions blowing from the unseen world of beauty into this world."
The next Friday he bought Keats and Shelley, having heard their names mentioned by East. He followed with Shakespeare, Swinburne, and Rossetti on successive Fridays. "I got in two hours of reading every night," he says, "about five on Saturday, and day a day Sunday." And his fellow workers at the carpet factory found him a little "queer." A boy of eighteen may be pardoned for seeming abstracted when the whole world of passion and beauty is burying and blossoming in his brain!
Lovers of beauty in words have reason to be glad that Mr. East's bookshop was in Yankers and that Massey field found his way to it. We look with reverence on bookshops; even the humblest of them is a shrine for much that is noblest and most permanent in the human spirit. Many a bookshop has been the starting point of a great man's career—Collier's.
The world is so full of a number of
Mental Lapses
Tis well that our cars have dependable surges.
Kansas City Journal
A clubman had been reading a great deal concerning farming, food conservation, etc., and it occurred to him that it might be a good idea for him to have a try at the game. Turning to an old friend in whose wisdom he had absolute faith, he asked:
"Say, old man, what does a chap have to do, anyway, to be a gentleman farmer?"
“It’s very simple,” said the other
“One simply stays in town all winter and makes money.”—Harper's
"We had, my brother and I," he said. "lots of oral encouragement, but no financial encouragement. People talked big, but they would put up nothing. With their mouths full of millions and their quite empty hands, they reminded me of a barber I once knew.
Orville Wright, at a dinner in Dayton, talked of his early struggles."
"This barber said one day as he shaved me;
"That's a fine pup of Wilberforce's.
I give anything for it."
" Well, it's for sale, isn't it? " said
"The barber burst into harsh, sneering laughter.
"Oh, yes, it's for sale," said he,
'but Wiblerforce, the chump, wants
$1.50 for it.' "—Baltimore American.
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