UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN . MARCH 12, 1919 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief. Floyd L. Hockenhull Associate Editor. Harold R. Hall News Editor. Basil Church Exchange Editor. Helen Foerter Harold R. Hall Society Editor. Belva Shores Sports Editor. Charles Slawson Ads' Manager . . . Lucie McNaughton Adv' Adj. Mgr . . . Gay W. Fraser Adv' Adj. Mgr . . . Greg L. Browne BUSINESS STAFF KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS Luther Hangen Mary Samson Mary Smith Fred Rigby Earl Hickman Eric Hickman Rolie Rohner Violet Mattews Nadine Blair Marjorie Roby Jessie Wyatt John Montgomery Subscription price $3.00 in advance for the first nine months of the accession; or $1.00 for a term of 9 months; 40 cents a month; 10 cents a week. 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 Dept. of Journalism, the University of Kansas, the press of the Department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phone: BELL. K. U. 28 and #6. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the day of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news in Kansas; to go farther with Kansas; to hold vies safely to play no favorizer, to be clean; to be cheerful; to be generous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to serve to the university, to satisfy the students of the University. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919 What was the thing on which Edison was said to be working two years ago which would be sure to stop the war? FORESTALLING WORRIES With the approach of the end of the quarter comes a time of anxiety and indecision over the choice of subjects for the new term] Such anxiety is most apparent in schools where a wide range of courses are offered from which to choose. The indecision of upper classmen whose groups are filled, or nearly so, may be partly because they have emerged from the paternal care of underclass advisors. In the short vacation between terms, there is a normal desire to loaf and to be free from all care due to school work. In order to make this vacation what it should be a time of rest and relaxation, and also to make the first days of the new quarter less trenuous, every student should plan his courses for the new term at once. In some cases it is possible to visit classes in the course about to be chosen. Then if there is any doubt or anxiety concerning courses after these methods have been given a fair trial or if the subject in question was not given this quarter, there is still another alternative, that is to consult the head of the department or the major advisor. Schedules may soon be procured at the offices of the various deans. A systematic study of the schedules is not difficult and presents an excellent method of choosing courses. The nature of the courses may be known by using the general catalogue. The matter of presenting the fascinating characteristics of the course may depend somewhat upon the grade card of the student. However, an excellent idea of the course will in all probability be gained. With the choice of courses as important as it is, the wise student will steal a march upon future worry by making his selection at once. The student who takes long steps to save his shoes is about as economical as the professor who looks over his glasses to save the glass. MENTAL INVENTORIES Many colleges are considering a method of application of the army intelligence tests which the government used in the camps during the war. As army tests have proven very useful in the selection of men for the responsible positions; their success to any great extent in educational institutions however, is uncertain. Of more than one million soldiers who were given a physiological examination in 1918, 16,266 showed a mental age of eight years or less and 7,359 a mental age below seven years. It can be easily seen how the government can use such a test to advantage in the selection of officers. In colleges, however, the tests would serve an entirely different purpose. Instead of ranking one student above another because of mental superiority as shown by a few simple experiments, the tests should throw some light on vocational guidance, which is the aim of higher education. It is apparent that in this application the tests fall short. They are not intended to show learning toward any particular kind of work. Where the plan might prove profitable is the use of the tests on individuals entering school. By this means instructors would be able to judge how much work should be required and how many subjects should be carried by individual students. The tests would also give the student an inventory of himself in order to enable him to know how he is ranked as a student and how he should proceed to improve himself. But in no case should the results be used to discourage students because of the fact that other students hold higher rank. As examinations approach, professors are said to be taking up the French cry "On ne passe pas"—they shall not pass. IGNORANCE AND THE PEACE PLANS Notwithstanding the utmost importance of intelligently deciding the adversibility of the League of Nations, the crass ignorance of the people as a whole regarding this question is very apparent at the present time. If the proposition of adopting the proposed league were to be submitted to the people at once, the decision would be no more intelligent that the flip of the coin. For one reason or another the people are in a most pititable state of ignorance o r bewilderdment about the peace settlement. There are six million voters in the United States and probably not more than a fourth of them could intelligently discuss the situation. Probably for political reasons few newspapers of the country have printed both sides of the question. Wide reading is the only method of becoming well informed. Ignorance is the most expensive thing in the world and if we are to meet the serious problems which are continually to confront us it is our duty to be informed about them and not merely trust to miscellaneous political propaganda. With the knowledge of having been the deciding factor in the gigantic struggle the United States should be able to handle the peace which was won as so great cost. Fail to Raise Quota A cablegram from Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, now in Europe, was forwarded yesterday from New York to Charles Dillon, chairman in Kansas for the Armenian-Syrian relief campaign. Secretary Baker says: "The need of the peoples whom your committee is striving to serve is so grievous and appealing that everything within its power to co-operate in relieving the condition of these peoples as far as this may be possible." Kansas has fallen short of its quota in the combined Jewish-Armenian campaign by about $300,000. The amount set for the state was $600,000, but up to the present only $300,000 was allocated, much of it in cash. Of this amount, the Jews will get one-half. It is hoped now to close the campaign in the country districts by March 15.-Topeka Daily Capital. "Do you think you could learn to love me?" asked the young man. sweet young thing, thoughtfully. "I have $5,000 in Liberty Bonds, $10,000 invested in good paying stocks—" "And $5,000 in well paying real estate." "Go on; I'm learning." "All right, dear; I've learned. Be lieve me, you're some teacher."- Yonkers Statesman. SECRET OF JAZZ IS OUT From the clatter of the elevated, the rear and rattle of the surface ears and the hons of the auto horns, I stepped into the Temple of the Great God of Jazz. How quiet the street had been. With all the fearlessness of a man with a mission, I threaded my way through the maze of dancing girls and men straight to the high priest where presiding at the vortex of the maelstrom of sound, he held sway over his sycophants and saxophones. I approached and made the required obesience, which is to hold both hands to the ears and twinkle with the feet. He nodded pleasantly and beckoned such an apparent devotee nearer. "This is now the largest jazz orchestra in the world," he boasted in my ear amid the tumult. "I have just added five boilers makers, three pneumatic riveters and seven soldiers of the heavy artillery from France." As soon as I could trust my voice I knocked. As soon as I could trust my voice to speak, I nodded. "I have also some marvelous new instruments. This one gives an extra tonal reproduction of the door that creaks when you come in late. That belows arrangement sounds a most sonorous sneeze—the kind you cannot control in the middle of the prayer in church. The man with that long spiral horn can do anything from a howling dog to a squeaky shoe. That quartet of obes and bassoons makes the hit of the evening with a bullaby containing a second bass snore as a motif." "My two latest compositions are not yet ready. One is in the minor strain of a baby crying in a sleeping car. The other is based on the syncapation of the modern steam radiator." I signified my understanding by facial expression as the uproar about us rose and fell. "Modesty almost prevents my saying this," he continued, "but I am pre-eminently fitted to conduct a jazz band." My raised eyebrows asked why. "Well," he continued "I am totally deaf."—Kansas City Star. "Walter," he called, sniffing the air suspiciously, "never mind that orsed now. I can never eat when I have a smell of fresh paint around." Mental Lapses "If you'll just wait a few minutes, "slipped the waiver, "them two young ladies will be going."—Tit- Bits. Not dictating, by the way, Get that clear. I just think I wouldn't say "Listen here." Girlish voices blithe and gay We find dear. Put Girlish Language blithe. But I think I wouldn't say "Listen here." Kansas City Journal "I wish now I'd taken mother's advice when she begged me not to marry you." For your parties we make shamrock centers in bricks and shamrock mints. Appropriate for any party this week. Wiedenmanns.—Adv. "Did your mother try to keep you from marrying me?" Oh, how I have wronged that wom an."—Boston Transcript. Topeka is only twenty miles away. Order aerated distilled water from McNish. Phone 198..-Adv Students drink pure water so that you can go home when school is out. Phone 198.—Adv. We carry a complete line of the finest cigars on the market. When down town drop in and try one. 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"Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." - Buffalo Evening News. There had been an accident. The motor car had run over a man's toe and now the injured party was claiming damages. "What! You want $100 for a crushed foot?" cried the chauffeur, agast. "Look here, I've only my pay—I'm not a millionaire!" "Perhaps you ain't," replied the victim, firmly, "and I ain't no contipede!!"—Boston Post. He's: See that man over there? He's a bombastic ass, a wind-jamming nonentity, a conceived humbug, a parasite, and an encumbrance to the She: Would you mind writing all that down for me? "Say," said the new young assistant of the big magazine, breezing in with a basket full of poems that what in thunders half of "me amal!" He: Why in the world- He: Why in the world? She: He's my husband, and I should like to use it on him some time.—Tit-Bits. "Eureka!" shouted the big chief, embracing him. 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