UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FEBRUARL 10, 1919. INIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Editor/in-chief...Luther Hangen Associate Editor...Floyd Hockenhull News Editor...Harold T. Hull Exchange Editor...Harry J. Mackey Mary Sawson Society Editor...Emily Ferris Sports Editor...Charles Slawson Adv. Manager... Luelle McNaughton Adv. Adj. Matt... Guy W. Fraser Adv. Adj. Mart... Guy W. Fraser KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS Jessie Wyatt Helen Peffer Mary Smith Fred Higby Matthew Ganser Edith Roles Violet Mattew Selva Shores Marjorie Roby Bail Church Edgar Hollis Subscription price $3.00 in advance for the first nine months of the academic year; $1.00 for a term for the first three months; 40 cents a month; 10 cents a week. Entered as second-class mail matter deferred 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 Department of Journalism, from the press of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66. The Daffy Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate of the time more vividly than merely printing the news by standing for the ideas the university has to be clean; to be cheerful; to be cohesive; to be quantitative; to be creative; to have serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919. AT LAST THE DIRECTORY The student with a Real imagination is trying to figure out how many dollars worth of postage stamps will be saved when the Thirty-fifth Division sails for home, and the girls stop writing their daily letters. Surely refreshing is the announcement by the Men's Student Council that a University directory is at last ready for distribution. The directory this year is purely a student enterprise, an enterprise undertaken because of a pressing need. Not since the autumn of 1916 has a directory been published by the proper source of publication. For more than a year and a half the University has done without an absolute necessity in school life. Now because they feel it is of no use to make further requests to the state, the students have gone to the trouble and expense of issuing the book themselves. The price of the book although low an item that should not be considered if the directory were published in the state. The directory this year comes when the school year is more than half finished. The material for the book of necessity is in many places scanty and insufficient. Collection of material dependent upon the students and could not be obtained from authoritative sources. The work of the Mon's Student Council is most deserving and should be given high praise. But blame and criticism should be directed at the system which does not permit ample funds for the customary free distribution of a student and faculty directory of the university. Such a publication is a recognized necessity in an institution where in ordinary times nearly four thousand men and women are occupied in work of mutual interest. The lack of a book of this kind is a reflection upon the merit and efficacy of the institution. DEBATING LABORATORY The University of Kansas will meet but one team in debate this year. Two years ago we held a dual debate with the University of Nebraska, a triangular debate with Colorado and Oklahoma, and a single debate with Miss. Last year the dual debate with Nebraska was dropped. This year the triangular debate will not be held. Instead of having five debating teams we was the case two years ago, this year there will be but one team. Fifteen men and one woman tried the three places in the team at the out last week. More than five times as many persons sought places as there were positions. This shows that students are interested in debating work and would afford material for more teams. The universities with which Kansas formerly held debates desired to hold them again this year. The reason for not having them is insufficient funds. As no student enterprise tickets were sold last fall, the debating treasury is empty. An appropriation of fifty dollars, however, was received from the University in order to hold the debate with Missouri. Is debating valuable enough to the University for it to receive an appropriation? A good debater first must be a good student, for a thorough knowledge of the subject debated is the primary essential to good debating. To know his subject, the debater must spend many hours in library reading and in studying his subject. To deliver his debate, he must learn to speak convincingly—the kind of oratory that is practical in public life. The University is benefited by intercollegiate debates. The debating schools are drawn together intellectually, a thing which can not be done in any other way, not except athletics. High school students look up to a college debating team as they do to a football team. Many new students might be attracted if debating were better promoted. Only the obtaining of sufficient funds holds down this art. Debating and argumentation are accredited subjects in the University; intercollegiate debating is the laboratory training of these courses. In scientific course laboratories are equipped and large appropriations are made for their upkeep. Logically, appropriations should be made for the debating laboratory, for its benefits are as valuable to the University and to the students as are the scientific laboratories. What has become of the old-fashioned girl who wore high shoes in February? DO YOU KNOW- The woman who anxiously awaits the return of "her" Jackie, who is due to come back next week? The first name of your professors? Who the Laws would have for dancing instructor? That every person who smokes a cigarette in Kansas is violating a law? How many chimneys there are on the Chemistry Building? Who are your class representatives in the W. S. G. A. cabinet? The woman who recently was up before the disciplinary committee? How many students there are or Mount Oread? GINORANCE OUR ONLY MENACE The point has been well made and we have taken pains to emphasize it that ignorance is the menace that must be fought in the country in the form of bolshevism, I. W. W.-ism, or any other guise which the enemies of order and decency may assume. Even ignorance, which is far more general in America, would contain within itself all the means by designign politicians for political ends, regardless of consequences Bolshevism cannot get very far when it depends imposing upon the ignorant the belief that they can get something that they have not earned at the expense of those who by labor, diligence and trust have laid something away. Appeals of this nature always are made to and only to the ignorant; those who can inform themselves know better. There are only about 7 per cent of the people of the United States who cannot read and write, and while this is appealing in itself, it is comforting to know that from this small percentage must be drawn the element of bolshevism, in the form of an ignorant carried to its logical absurdity. Of the first 2,000,000 soldiers drawn to fight under the American flag 200,000, or 10 per cent, were illiterates, which might be terrifying in other circumstances. Fortunately in this soil, ordinarily the breeding place of bolsosevism, the seeds of patriotism, discipline and of order were sown before the destructive growth of anarchy had a chance to take root.—St Paul Pioneer-Press. Readable Verse Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kannan A TENEMENT CHILD She lives within a legend of her own, coupled with fairies and water sprites. Exquisite ladies and grave, courtly knights. Who move mid magic woodland sweetly sown. With flowers more lovely than were ever known. Strange lyric words no mortal ever spoke. Drink from the lips of these enchanted folk. Whose hours and needs on elfin horns are blean. And their brave deeds and merry whimishes drift. Through all her common tasks of weeding. Laying a glamour on each homeyltry, More real than what her neighbors so sagittically care and squator seem. The hazy pigments of a distant dream. —Charlotte Bucker in the New York UNCLE SAM KNOWING PEOPLE How many people on the campus do you know well? With how many others do you enjoy a passing acquaintance? Do you walk to and from classes without once saying "Hello" to a fellow-student? Or, are you kept busy greeting passersby as you hurry along from one building to another? Are the faces familiar to you those of a strictly limited group of your own classmates, or do you know members of the various organizations in the University? Are there no professors you feel that you know well enough to do more than distantly nod to outside the classroom? And why the fusillade of questions? you may ask. They are prompted by recollection of the views of a friend, a former student, who used method in cultivating friends and practicing cordiality. This student had attended college elsewhere for two years before coming here. After a few months he began checking off names in the student directory. A semester later he repeated the process. Questioning revealed the information that here was a person who measured the success of his life in the University by the readiness with which he made friends. We were struck by the novelty of the idea. Many a time have we heard speakers whose experiences and wisdom we respected, nominate the University campus as the place where a student forms the associations which are his alliances for life. We forget a large per cent of the acquaintances we had in high school and earlier days, but the friends of our University period are forever cherished.—Ohio State Lantern. AFTER PROHIBITION WHAT? THE DIGGERS The anti-sailon league representatives already have framed a drastic statue for enforcing national prohibition. It provides for an Enforcement Commission with special officers scattered through the country. An injunction f*cuture to deal with illegal sale of liquor is included. The proposed statue is highly suggestive of unpleasant possibilities. Will the unregenerate States that do not ratify the amendment do box meekly to the edict of their arid inclined sisters? In many communities will sentiment uphold the law's enforcement? The prohibition agent will in some occupy a status as unenervous as that of the revenue agent in the Tennessee mountains. Mounting restrictions on prohibition States, some coalition covenant of an entire industry will not be without an unsettling effect on financial and industrial life. Congress has a big job in providing substitute taxes. The country will be embarked upon a memorious interference with the so-called "personal liberties" of its citizens, with a prospective reveal of the issue of State Rights and other consequences difficult to force."—Leslies. Without exception, the Aussies all hope to be sent home "by the other way, so that we can see America." We hope they will be sent home that way if they want to. Besides wishing to have them see America—which is a proud breed of dogs—we should like to have American see them. “Stars and Stripes.” As is perfectly fair and proper, the plan now is that the Australians are to be among the first of the British forces to be sent back to their home on the other side of the world. Most of them have been out since 1914, going through the hell of the Dardaneelles and later being transported to France, where they have earned the right, if ever soldiers did, to wear that natty bonnet of theirs at such a cocky angle. We talk about "Uncle Sam," meaning our own dear country, and year half of us don't know how the name came to be applied to the United States Government. During the war of Independence, Samuel Wilson who was one of the inspectors of provisions, and was jocularly called "Uncle Sam" by his workman, used to receive goods bearing the contractor's initials and "U. S." Thus, a shipment of provisions would be marked "E. A., U. S., meaning "Elbert Anderson, United States." But the men, ever found the joke, always read the address, "Elbert Andersson and Uncle Sam." The joke never died and Uncle Sam became synonymous with U. S. (United States.)—Woman's World. On Other Hills According to George A. Dean, professor of entomology in K. S. A. C., insects cost the state of Kansas each year more than three times what is spent on education. The annual loss through insects is $40,000,000. This loss is being diminished through the efforts of entomologists. The University of Kansas is not the only college that is going to give vocational advice to students. Phillips-Exeter Academy in New Hampshire plans to aid students who are puzzling over the possible choice of a future profession or occupation to follow on leaving college, by giving a series of talks on vocational subjects. This movement has been started by the Christian Fraternity of the Academy. Petitions are being circulated among students of Depauw University to be presented at the next meeting of the board of trustees, asking that the students be given the right to hold dances. Depauw, a Methodist institution, has forbidden dances since its foundation. Send the Daily Kansan home. The University of Illinois women have invested more than $46,000 in Liberty bonds. The building plans outlined by the University of Illinois before the war will be carried out as fast as appropriations can be secured from the state legislature according to Prof. James M. White, supervising architect. This program which has accumulated for several years, was halted by conditions due to the war. Although the new Education Building is almost completed, it will not be possible to occupy it before the beginning of the next school year. It is planned to start work on the new Library within two years, and meanwhile the new addition to the old Library will be finished. The McKinley Memorial Hospital, which is to be erected in Campaign with funds aggregating $90,000, a gift from Congressman Wm. B. McKinley will be started in the spring. There is the matter of making decisions, too. Nobody can say how many men fail because they are afraid to make a decision and to stick by it. A big man once said to us, "I would rather have a man who makes instantaneous decisions and is right seven times out of ten, that, a man who fuses instincts with calculated ones and is right seven times out of ten, that, a man who fuses instincts with calculated ones and is right seven times out of ten." You must have the nerve to decide—American Boy. DECISION Send the Daily Kansan home. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS For Rent For Sale Lost Found trip Wanted Jon Wanted Telephone K. U. 66 Or call at Daily Kansas Business Office. Classified Advertising Rates Minimum charge, one insertion 2$c. Up to fifteen words, two insertions 3$c. 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Phone: 5124, Phone: 5123, Phone: 5124 10B PRINTING - B. H. Dale, 1027 Mass. M. Phloora, 282. DR. H. G. CABBELL, Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284. 745 Mass. St. KEELEER'S BOOK STORE - Quiz books. Home paper, paper by the pound, artist's mixed media. Poetical. Painting with picture refining. Agency for Mammoth typewriters, 935 Mass. St. A. G. ALRICH 736 Mass. St. Is the place to get the best in printing and engraving Taxi 12 'PHONE "One-Two" Hotel Kupper Kansas City, Mo. Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District —especially handy for ladies, being at Eleventh and McGee. Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets. MARS. Mor WALTER S. MARS, Mgr. CLIETT, FEABODY & CO, INC. MAKEES Drop in to the AUGUST J. PIERSON CIGAR STORE A full line of cigars, tobacco and pipes, also pipe repairs. 902 Mass. PALACE BARBER SHOP Taxi 148 The Most Sanitary Shop in Town FRANK VAUGHN, Prop. 730 Mass. Calls Answered early or late. Moak & Hardtarfer ED. W. PARSONS Repairing and engraving diamonds, watches and cut glass Jeweler 725 Mass. $40 TYPEWRITERS Bought, sold, rented, repaired, exchanged MORRISON & BLIESNER 707 Mass. St. Phone 164 PROTCH The College Tailor 833 Mass. St HOTEL SAVOY HOTEL SAVOY Kansas City, Mo. Absolutely clean Convenient location Good Cafes, moderate prices SCHULZ the TAILOR 917 Mass. St. Phone 914 SUITING YOU is my business Conklin and L. E. Waterman Fountain Pens McCOLLOCH'S DRUG STORE 847 Mass. CARTER'S K. & E. Engineers' Rules R. & E. Engineers Rules Dietzen sets Instruments Bow pens, pencils and dividers. 1025 Mass. St. Phone 1051 Try Our Famous Coffee Victory Lunch 1018 Mass. Popular Prices~ Tables For Ladies Do You Read Ads? The happenings of the business world, the new things that are being made every day for your convenience, for your pleasure, are found in the advertisements of the various publications over the United States. 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