UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 11,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
diploma student paper of the University of Kannada
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The Daily Kansan aims to pic-ter students from the University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news and asking for the deeds the University demands; to be clear; to be cheerful; to be honest; to save more serious problems to wiser heds; to all, to serve to improve the students of the University.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1919.
STOPPING THE GRAFT EVIL
Reorganization of the management
University of Kansas student activities may be looked for if the senti-
ntion expressed at the meeting Satur-
day of the Student Interests Commit-
tion of the Senate and representatives from the students is the sentiment of the entire University.
Graft is not necessarily the taking of pay for work done. It is rather the taking of an excessive sum of money, too great to balance the amount of labor exerted. In some cases, activities are kept up only through the labor and worry of the student managers. In these instances where actual service is performed, adequate but not exorbitant pay should be given.
The tendency is for the elimination of graft. While this is a most landmark tendency, care must be taken that in such elimination student activities are not killed. In other words, it should not go beyond the abolition of graft.
A check in the form of a wildly and practical auditing system is necessary to ensure honesty of management.
In deciding measures to be taken toward cutting out graft, the things to be considered are justice to the students, so that activities will be run for the greatest student benefit. The meeting Saturday showed a germ of cooperation between senate and students that may grow into better understand by both groups and more naturally beneficial action.
Partly as a graft eliminating move and partly as a measure for economy, the fixing of dance prices is an important question. A limit of $1.50 on ordinary dances with probably one舞 made bigger and more costly seems to meet the approval of students. It is pointed out, however, that weekly and minor dances need not charge the maximum price allowed, and that the big dance should be literally a big and more pretentious affair and not a cheap dance with a high price.
More definite arrangement for con- dition of student activities and less hap, hazard methods probably will go far toward making graft impossible.
THINGS THAT KILL
The University Tammany-boss politician is a bore, a menace, and a blot on the landscape. He interprets every made by an innocent student as a bid for political "honors," or as an indication that he is injured because he 'called to attain some honor. He hurries, and thinks he knows, all sorts of connections between various
students, and fancies that they are all plotting for some dark end.
The politician slips into class late. He has waited in the hall to exchange the latest news with some confrere. He comes in quietly, but with an unmistakable air of being the most import, ant member of the class. He recites in the same manner, speaking ponderously, slowly, and saying little more than nothing.
The meanderings, circumcolutions,
and daily maneuvers of the University
politician are humorous. They are so much to him, and so little to any one else.
WORTH TRYING ANYHOW
Students returning from other colleges where they witnessed basketball games often remark, "Why can't K. U. show the pep that school showed?"
Probably the large part of the answer to this question is the sad lack of organized cheering at the basketball games at the University of Kansas. The only yell that has been given at a game this year has been one wavering, poor Rock Chalk each game following the band's playing the "Crismon and the Bluc." This cheer could be made more perfect, other yells could be added, and general enthusiasm promoted by the presence of activity and of the University cheerleaders.
A game with Poly Tech will take place in Robinson Gymnasium on Wednesday night. Why not, as a change, try organized cheering under the leadership of those elected for this purpose. Fermips this will partly remedy the lack of "pep."
FORMING STUDENT OPINIO
The house presidents' council, a new organization at the University this year, is one that possesses a peculiar responsibility. It is, in the last analysis, the foundation for all student government among University women. Whether the foundation will be rock or shifting sand depends to a large extent upon the women chosen for house presidents and the spirit they possess.
There is nothing they cannot accomplish if they have the good of their school at heart. They represent public opinion among University women.
And they more than represent public opinion. They represent the power to form public opinion. A big program is ahead of them for this year. Whether they will carry it out or not will be watched with interest by advocates of student government.
"Papa," said a little one, "will there be any newspapers in heaven?" "Perhaps, my child, but there will be a new set of editors."—Dixon Telegraph.
Good-Bye.
When we were first acquaint You know I had some money, John
John Alcohol, my Joe John,
John Alcohol, my job John,
When we were first acquaint
spent it all in creating you Because I loved you so,
—Butler Democrat.
You know I had some money, John,
But now you know I haunt.
But now you know I haint.
But mark how you have treated me,
John Alcohol, my Joe.
But now you know I haint
I spent it all in treating you
Will some wise person please inform us: With the president and the army on one side of the ocean, congress and the Supreme court on the other, we may all over the ocean, we are Uncle Sam? -Cawker, City Ledger.
Readable Verse
You wouldn't think a man would get hot if you put an icicle down his back, but he will. -Ottawa Herald.
We have been too long together. So you must now take one road, John
RESPONSIBILITY AND TONGUE
The. Kaiser says he has "friends in America, still." And we might add, they are durned still—E. K. Eellay.
No man is fit to be entrusted with responsibility until he has learned to control his tongue. He must think before he speaks; he must not allow prejudice or excitement or anger to influence what he is to say. He must school himself to say the thing, the one thing, that is for the best interests of the job he is doing, and more. When a man has learned this he is ready to tackle almost anything —American Boy.
Discovered by Readers of the University Dally Kansan
Jones: I see that Spitish has gone to real estate.
brown: Yes, poor fellow, we buried im last week —Yale Record.
THOME ALBASTER FACES
Did you ever stop
To ponder
And to wonder
As you all in chapel
Andrage
Into that row of faculty
Faces
On the platform
Just how funny it
Would be
If a sudden draft from the
Transept windows
Would freeze those expressions
Hold permanent and
Stony
Reminders of the
Subjects of our object gaze
Thirty minutes out of every day
And we
Do you suppose if
Someone passed a mirror
Along in front of the
Solemia images
Time they
Would see themselves
As others see them
And
Use us
One
Good morning smile!
Coe Cosmos in the Simpsonian.
Among Our Grads
Richard Hopkins, Attorney-General of Kansas, attended the University of Kansas in 1894.
While in the University, he got his training in law, arguing against his room-mute, Arthur MacMurray, in an oratorical contest. He probably began his success as a politician in the University, for while in college he was business manager of the University, the professor at that time ran by stockholders, who were all big politicians in the University.
Mr. Hopkins is Lieutenant-Governor during the Stubba administration. Later he was made counsel for Stubba League. He is now living in Topeka.
STUPENDOUS
The war has thrust a schoolmaster's task of tremendous proportions on our government. Because there are 5,530,000 persons over 10 in this country who cannot read and write in any language, the Secretary of the Interior has urged congress to enact laws to remedy this situation. The figures quoted in this connection are startling. Popular Mechanics figures up that there are nearly 700,000 men of draft age in this country who are illiterate. Aside from the big economic loss which such ignorance entails, they are vital military constituencies involved. Three million of them between 30,000 and 40,000 are in the army, cannot read the orders posted on the bulletin boards, they cannot read the mutual of arms, nor understand signals given by the Sigma Corps in time of battle—Wichita Eagle.
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS
20—Early up, and to breakfast, of a grapefruit and a wheat-biscuit, and two eggs and bacon, and some toast and two cups of coffee; which meilked better than the French breakfast of bread and chocolate, foramuch as the chocolate did have shreeds in it to boiled milk, the very sight of which did cause me to shiver. To my office, where all day, and H. Brown to meet her at dinner, I was and who not? At night to L. Untermeyer the poet's, who tells me of things doing in the past twelve-months. Very interesting, too.
January 19—To my wife's, and find her in low spirits, and impatient at the length of her so great illness, albeit T. Neill the chyurignau tells me she is to be well. I did hire a horse-scarre and take her for a drive, along the Potomac, very pretty in the sunshine. To her room then, and H. O'Higgins and Mistress Anna are come, and he tells me he knows nought of Mr. Creel's return. My wife beat a game at cassino, she having naught but luck. Read this afternoon C. Fitch's play, "The Stubbornness of Geraldine," which I saw a score of years ago and deemed in my youth to be a fine play, but found no interest in a good friend poor. Huaply, I think, I was entrusted the fresh young beauty of Mary Mannering and Amy Riacier; which I may have thought more of than the drama. Mistress Woodall, my wife's nurse, found dinner for me, and then I to the train, and to bed.
peace conference, but how it should be conducted I do not know; nor if I would my Lord Woodrow, or any other delegates, heed my poor counsel—Franklin P. Adams.
A Howard young man is said to have assisted a young lady by carrying a few packages from the grocery for her, and then stood on the steps of the house, that some of the vegetables froze and were spoiled. Tom Thompson.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
21—Met with J. Toohey, who told me a droll story about a resort G. Arliss the playactor made, which I laughed at mightly. To the office then, and with C. Riegelman the barrister to luncheon, he paying therefor, but only that he did lose at matching coins with me. All the talk is of the
"How's your boy getting on at the training camp?"
"Wonderful!" replied Farmer Applecant. "I feel a sense of great security. An army that can make my boy get up early, work hard all day an' go to bed early can do most anything."-People Home Journal.
Faye: Do you barn dance?
Bell: Not very well. Our barn was filled with grain last summer; there is no barn on the campus and there isn't much practice."--The Midland.
Oh cow, which dost flit in th meadow.
It is now our pleasure to present the latest poetic gem from the magnificent soul of Willie Doit.
To A. Cow.
When my eye dost perceive thy pri-
stine beauty,
Oh cow, which art as the fond memory of a beautiful hope.
Thy magnoliosity, as it were,
I dost wonder why
thou dost not beat it for the tall and uncut so that Aunt Lucy's cafeteria hounds will not of necessity pour too much. I can blissfully along the breadline.
—Utah Chronicle
There was an old man in a brougham
Whose face was distorted with
glougham.
He drank cheddite and tea
As a a sequel you see
He blew into bits with a bougham.
—Harvard Lampoon.
The theory of the thing, Adulphus,
is that when you part your hair in
the middle, you have weight equally
on both sides and left and
left.—The Daily Maroon.
SAD BUT TRUE
Furthermore, many an enamored girl has married a handsome captain on short acquaintance, only to discover she's like a corporal.—Galveston News.
WARNING
If you ask a girl to marry you over the telephone, says the Jewell Republican, don't make a "station to station" call of it, as in that case if the girl wasn't there you would have to ask whoever was there.
Because the cook is liable to go off at any moment, one can hardly class her as an explosive—Boston Transcript.
SOMETIMES FIRED
"When the austere and usually reliable Reuter issued the news that the armistice had been signed, there was just time to shake hands with him. He would over the telephone before the contrition came."—London Daily Chronicle.
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