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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 5, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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 Department of Music, from the press of the University of New York, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students at UCSB going on to go further than merely printing the news standing for their university, or to pay no favorizer; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to teach them to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University, and to the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1919
TESTS OF CLASS ABILITY
Tom and Jerry will feel like unwelcome guests in the United States when three thousand saloons go out of business next year.
TESTS OF CLASS ABILITY The national bureau of education has suggested that the schools of the country employ psychology experts who have been conducting experiments in the army to do similar work in the city and public schools of the United States. These men would direct courses in efficiency and organization in the schools.
These men, it is argued, could establish a standard for promotion and efficiency among the school children. Mental tests could be used to find the mental attitude of the children who could be placed in classes according to their ability. Those having superior intelligence could be placed in a special class and allowed to work faster. The defective children would not hold the standard or the group back, the bureau of education believes.
The psychologists will be discharged from the army in a few months and the nation must take immediate action if it wishes to secure them for this work.
If this possible field of psychological work is developed, the possibilities of applied psychology as a profession will be greatly increased, and the subject will become more important and extensive as a college course.
Wichita chewed 272 miles of gun in 1918 at a cost of $2,000.
Ed Howe, who is spending the winter in Florida, thinks things are slow in the south. He says he saw a dog chasing a rabbit and both were walking.
Isn't it wonderful how the Kansas cheerleaders lead the crowds here in basket ball games?
THINGS THAT KILL
The student who walks on the Hill each morning, proclaiming loudly that he is not prepared for the quiz and that he doesn't have a lesson, should be excommunicated. The chances are that he has studied from four to six hours and that he will get an A in the quiz. He merely wants you to assure him that he is an excellent student, or else he goes in for worrying as an indoor and outdoor sport.
No one cares whether he has studied or not. No one is interested in whether anyone else has studied except himself. Modesty does not demand that the grind go about publish-
ng his own shortcomings, and shout-
ing his lack of knowledge from the
touse-tops. It bores others profusely.
Scientists say that if the total heat that the sun throws off is estimated it twenty-five million dollars, the amount received by this earth would be two cents. May the sun never die out and the stars cease to shine!
SPRING IS NOT HERE
If your February allowance has not yet arrived, and your bad checks are still coming in, and all the other girls are acquiring new spring hats and suits, the only thing to do is to be brave! The May weather will not last forever. The ground-hog is never dependable; so it's bound to be colder within a few days. Then your coat with the big fur collar, which was so elegant last September and which is so dismal now, will not be such a trial.
Don't look on the stylish creature in the long, svetle skirt with enky. Keep your chin elevated, and act as if you are as good as she is, even though you know you aren't. Her mind of course is at rest, but that does not help her difficulty in locomotion. There are draw-hacks, even to being in the height of style.
If the strain of seeing others in their ultra-up-to-date things proves too great, you might try fixing up your old clothes until funds arrive. The new hats nearly all have a touch of red about them. Drape a piece of an old midly tie about the last spring's relic, and see if the effect is not the same. Take the hem out or your suit skirt, and wrap it tightly about you. Secure it with thread or pins, and no one will ever know the difference. Be sure that it is practically impossible for you to travel about, and your success is assured.
WONDERS OF NATURE
WONDERS OF NATURE
Below the surface of the soil is the angleworm. The world waited for the intellect of a Darwin to discover that this silent denizen of earth opens the pores of the soil, in which the water penetrates the roots of plants, and every seven years lays a new coat of soil an inch thick over the earth's surface. From every part of the broken furrow hasten an maze of busy ants, the smallest of the pin-head, one-fourth of the world's greatest scientists after studying the habits of ants for years, "is the most marvelous atom in the universe." The ant was using his herd of dairy life and making use of their rich excretion long before man knew the virtues of the milk cow.
The green leaf is born to blush unobserved, if not unseen. Yet it is the greatest manufacturing plant in existence. It has the power of mixing the human breath with water, making grape sugar, which is transformed into human food in the form of starch. For power, the leaf strains out the red and blue rays of sunlight, surpassing the achievements of Edison or Ford in ingenuity and efficiency.
On the featured plume of the gold-erred witness the 'genius of the ballooning spider. Being prepared for his aerial journey, he has selected a favorite vantage point and begun to emit jets of liquid silk from his spinners, which when hardened give sailage surface to the wind.
Does it not seem that common things are interesting and worth while? Yet familiarity breeds contempt, and we set our affections on things remote.
Do not overlook the humble toad, who has located in a wet spot of earth, where his skin is absorbing the water on its back. The only organ by which he can drink.
In preparing a nation for the world struggle the value of the crumb of bread, the lump of sugar, the copper cent, receive great emphasis. Here is our great educational gold mine which years of peace and plenty have left unworked and neglected.—Teaching
Intelligence tests, like those given in the army, were given to the students of the University of Idaho. Thirty-six per cent of the students were rated as high superior, 38 per cent as superior, 20 per cent as high average, and 5 per cent as average. The men showed a higher degree of intelligence than the women, for 40 per cent of the men were high superior, as compared to 29 per cent of the women.
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
Readable Verse
FIREFLY SONG
Wanda.
Weave little star, about my bed!
Weave little stars into my sleep!
Come, little dancing white-fire bug,
Come, little flitting white-fire beast!
Light me with your white-flame magic.
You little star-torch.
Ask Roomie
Translated by H. H. Schoolcraft, in Christian Science Monitor.
She Will Answer Anything Thrice a Week Right Here
How old is Maxine? Is she married, or have I a chance?
Dear Roomie
Maxine Elliott is 46 years old today, according to "Who's the Who." She is not married, having been divorced from her last husband, Nat Goodwin, ten or fifteen years ago. Roomia.
Write, Call or Phone the Kansan
Dear John M:
Dear Roomie:
John M.
I tried till 3 a. m, to mouch my hair like Miss Elliott's but couldn't make it look the same. How do you suppose she does it?      Vivian.
Roomie.
It might be a wig—there is enough of it. But don't be discouraged and give up too easily. Of course you have nothing to do but practice the Maxine side-part, and practice makes perfect. Roomie.
Dear Vivian:
The librarian at Spooner is so good-looking that I want to meet him. I feel that he is a good dancer, too, and want to become acquainted with him on that account. Is there any way I can do so? Katherine.
Dear Roomie:
It is easy enough to get acquainted with a public personage like a librarian. You can talk loudly in the reading room so that he will have to come over to reprimand you. You can lose your assignments and go up to ask him what he thinks you ought to read. And you can always ask him to hunt up yards of references for you. These excuses will make an opportunity for him to get acquainted with you if he wants to. Roomie.
Dear Katherine:
AS TO YOUR FUTURE
Perhaps these former K. U. Students can help you.
Commercial law, banking, stenography and typewriting are essential in preparing for this work. A mastery of these subjects is necessary.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BANKING?
Marton Bedford, Bacheior of Music, 1913, now bank employee in Grand Rapids, Michigan, offers the following suggestions to University students who are reaping themselves to fill positions as bankers.
The number of openings in this work is increasing. Students may get into the work by training and references.
Salaries are low at the beginning. Essential qualifications for this work are integrity, accuracy, and personality.
The personal qualifications that are essential are the ability to be a good mixer, good natured but close-mouthed.
Salaries are low at the beginning.
The remuneration compared to teacher's salaries is a little less in wages but the expenses are not so much.
Charlotte Radloff, A.B.15; banking employee, Oakley, says:
You may get into banking positions by applying to the Bankers' Association.
Banking law, English, American government and law courses will aid you in the banking profession.
celler in bank, Whitewater, advises:
Business methods, and all of Prof.
A.J. Boyton's courses, are suggested
as a preparation for the work.
Frances Marion Joseph, A.B.18,
teller in bank, Whitewater, advises;
Typewriting should be placed in the curriculum to aid students in prac-
A graduate may get into the work by applying at small banks.
The remuneration is about $1,200 a year. One month of vacation is allowed.
examiners say that women have been successful.
Lucy H. Huff, A.B.'15, assistant
Stewardship and State Bank, Claflin,
offers the following
The remuneration is better than the salaries paid teachers.
Run your eye down the table of contents of Songs for the Fireside, Select Hymns, or All the Latest Hits, and you will find that about everything in them has been ragged or choked to death during these past 17 months in barracks, in billets, on the march, where ever a pair, or several pairs, of O. D. lungs have had the chance to let loose on them.
The qualificaitions for this work are patience, tact, and the ability to read people.
The courses that will help in the work are accounting, banking, and commercial law.
One song would be omitted. It is the song which the soldier has thought and lived, though he did not sing it, it is the song which now stands for realization. It means a job done, a journey ended. It is called "Home, Sweet Home." Stars and Stripes.
THE SECRET OUT
An A. E. F. song book, if it were to be truly inclusive, would have to contain about everything that has been sung anywhere by anybody.
MerelyMental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
Hub (at window): Police! Doctor!
Boston Transcript.
A HURRY CALL
Wife: John, there's a burglar at the silver and another in the pantry eating my pies. Get up and call for help.
Men are usually wanted but the
The second course of the tablet d'hote was being served.
PREFERRED UPPERS
"What is this leathery stuff?" demanded the diner.
"That, sir, is fillet of sole," replied the waiter.
"Take it away," said the diner, "and see if you can't get me a nice tender piece from the upper part of the boot, with the buttons removed." —Dallas News.
Ted: Is that artificial memory system you took up any good?
Ned: It hs its limitations, o.
course. It would never teach you to
remember the name of the Vice-
President of the Star-Strangled Banner—Life.
"What a beautiful sight," he exclaimed, "to see your two little boys thus! It such brotherly love is as rare as it is exquisite."
A POETIC SMILE
A Chicago man, with his two little boys, was visiting a Boston man of his acquaintance. The Bostonian was accused by the affection of the two kiddies.
The Chicagoan nodded in assent. "Yes," said he, "those boys are as inseparable as a pair of pants."—Harper's.
An elderly gentleman, clad in an immaculate suit of black, was seated on a bench in the park enjoying the lovely spring day.
WHY HE WAITED
A small boy lay on the grass not far away and stared intently at the man. For a while the man said nothing.
"Why don't you go and play with the other children?" he asked at last.
"I don't want to," the boy replied.
"But it isn't natural for a boy of your age to be quiet. Why don't you want to?"
"I'm just waitin'!" answered the boy. "I want to see you get up. A fellow painted that bench about 850 minutes ago-"Harrer's.
TRUE TO THE END
At Jimmy Harrigan's wake a tinge of patriotism was manifest. Mr. Mulcahy approached the widow and said:
"Phat did he die of, Mrs. Harrigan?"
"Gangrene,
Black Hawk Heaven for the color.
Mrs. Harrigan." "Harper."
Officer: And what kind of an automobile was it that hit you?
Victim: Hard, Officer—mighty hard.—Harpen's.
"Traded it to a feller who ships 'em to Africa and sells 'em to native kings for thrones."—K. C. Journal.
THE MAIN MYSTERY
"Tony, what did you do with your old boothlack stand?"
"One half the world doesn't know how the other, both lives."
"I know how my neighbors live," declared Mrs. Peepbo, "but I don't know how they can afford it."—K. C. Journal.
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