JANUARY 16,1919. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN --who have broken their engagements. A Mid-night Prowlers Club: for those who find sleeping entirely outside of their curriculum. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Editor in chief ... Helen Feffer News Editor ... Lathar Hanneen Publisher ... W. T. Wilson Society Editor ... Mary Sammon Sports Editor ... Edgar Hollis KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS NINESIZE Adv. Manager NINESIZE Circulation Mgr . Lacle McNeathum Guy Mgr . Guy W. Frazer KANSAN HOA 104 Mary Bregby Fred Rigby Maryline Earl Anne Emily Parrine Emilie Hunter Helen Krause Eloise Role Herman Hangen Bea Shulva Charles Siwson Beverly Leigh Marie Subscription price $2.00 in advance for the first nine months of the aca- sure year; $1.00 for a term of three month; 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 Department of Journalism at the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, Kansas Phones. Roll.K, II, 25 and 68. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of Kansan, so far merely printing the news that merely printing the news wavies holds; to play no favorizer; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be supportive; to leave more serious problems wiser heads; in all, to serve the university the students of University. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1919 EDUCATIONAL APPROPRIATION ON BUSINESS BASES At the present session of the legislature, the state institutions will be represented in the matter of appropriations by J. A. Kimball, manager of the Board of Administration. This is the first time that the business of all the state schools has been combined. In former sessions each institution presented its budget separately, and each appropriation was made separately. Under the new plan, a just and fair distribution of educational funds will be made, since Mr. Kimball's business is to know the needs and conditions of the various schools of the state. He regards the several state institutions as one large educational unit, and not as distinct organizations with a spirit of rivalry against each other. A great amount of time formerly spent in discussion of the educational appropriations will be saved under the new plan, and an expert will recommend the distribution of appropriations. This is another step forward in the educational status of Kansas. The student with a Real Imagination says the best seller on the Hill would be a book of short stories telling how the Chancellor and other campus heroes proposed to their wives. Since it is forty-three degrees in the shade right in the middle of January, the student with a Real Imagination says he is going north about the first of May. THANK YOUR STARS It is election night. And it has been a real election. Student spirit has been as strong as ever, but the usual political scandals have not been in evidence. The University has not only come to life, after four months of chaotic activity, when everything seemed to go wrong, but it has come into a sanner, more vigorous life. Not everything is going right. We are served with alleged aquariums in lieu of H2O. The Senate has cut spring vacation to three days. There is the inevitable professor who solemnly believes that his students live for one thing only—to learn the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about his own subject. And of course, we have to divide our checks among the landlades, the taximen, and a few hundred others. But the thing that really counts the most is all right. The spirit of the University has returned. The S. A. T. C. did not ruit it. The war is over, and we are back on a normal schedule that is running more smoothly than it did in the good old days. Kansas spirit has its old force, but it is the better because of a widened perspective. KANSAN A NON-PARTISAN PAPER Because political tickets appear in the advertising columns of the Daily Kansan, some students will contend that the paper is taking sides in the election. The advertising columns of the Daily Kansan are open to anyone in the University who is willing to pay the rates, provided the context of the advertisement is legitimate and clean. In student politics the Daily Kansan is non-partisan. It stands for clean politics. The editorial policy is not controlled by the advertising columns, and the presence of a political bicker in its columns is no indication that it supports that ticket. Some people worry a lot about what courses to take. One man always goes through the book-cases to see what books the upperclassman have discarded before he decides just what subjects he thinks he needs. TENTATIVE STUDENT ACTIVITIES Who said there were too many organizations on the campus? No matter how many some people belong to, they are always tickled to death to get an invitation to become a member of another one. There are many interests now that have no organizations to back them. Let some interested party who feels he need of some particular organization start one. There is always someone to "belong." Here are a few suggestions for clubs that occur to us: A Snow-shovelers Union: for freshmen only. A Shining Light Society; for all red-headed students. A Society for Protection of Cats; to keep medics from abusing members of the feline family. A. B. B. Club; for blighted buds A Sorority Devoted to Hair-dressing Styles: for young women who are interested in the latest thing in bangs, spitcurls, etc. A Manners Club: with the purpose of teaching students to eat notiselessly and calmly without losing out on the food. A Physical Exercise Organization: for girls who live down the Hill and do not get enough exercise. There are many more that could be mentioned, but you can think them up for yourself. BARRACKS AND BANQUETS BARCAKS AND BANQUETS Why not use the barracks for banquet halls? Surely we are aware of the fact that the University has no place suitable for banquets. Why let an opportunity go by noticed? In each of the barracks there is a large, accommodating mess hall. Plain to be sure, but all the essentials for a banquet hall are there. The tables are stationary and the chairs are built at the tables. But the greatest advantage is that the floors are not slick and thus all danger of the waister slipping and giving you a shower bath of hot coffee would be eliminated at K. U. dinner parties. Why not consider it? The men of our home-coming sea forces were rolling on parade down one of the most famous streets in the world. They did not step like West Pointers; but their lines were apt to curve a little at the end and to bulge in the center, so that watching then, was somewhat like seeing the waves driving past some ocean headland before a northeast wind of autumn. On and on they came with a band of at least battleship strength heading those endless ranks of marines, signators, gun crews, deckmen, stokers, hospital attendants, engineers, mascots, and all the rest who make up the legions of Josephus Daniels's far-flung empire. They got the roaring welcome they deserved, and the schoolteacher guest in our friend's office window persisted in looking only down the avenue after those who had passed. "It's such a pleasure," she said. "se ten thousand pairs" of heels of their shoes all nicer than could any man in marine hope to stand against an organization capable of carrying such marvels as that? Our winner was every time *Collier's* SECOND INSPECTION Our navy wins every time.—Collier's. Readable Verse Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan I've never had much envy for the man Who rolled in money and a limo- u I hoped that I'd complete my little span. HE WAS A MAN Not rich or poor, but comfortably between. I felt a spasm, now and then, of annume. What great writer phrased a whine. men some great writer phrased a poem well. Yet have I warmed myself before his name I had to say And so forgotten I had less to tell. Achievement, if it passed me by, must go; I'd be forgotten and I would forget. From the reason for it is then flow. Past from the highway's boating lane and flow. But there are things! I met a man to day— A man, I tell you!—with an empty sleeve! That much of him the Huns had shot away. away, And he was fresh from France at home on leave. The sights that man had seen'—the dangers known A medal to its role of work well done! dangers known A medal took its tole of work well And he so young—a ind just newly grown— Had lost so much, and yet so much more won! erty! I invied him the hurt! The splendid Had left him so much more than al of me! i envied him the hurt! The splendid loss WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO THE PROF Who gets a hair-cut semi-annually -O. C. A. Childs in New York Sun. Who is considerate enough to remember the name of all the students in his classes, and greets them all by when he passes them on the 18th. Who wears rubber tired goggles with a strip of shoe string an inch wide streaming from them? Who advises his students not to moke and has a pocketful of cigarst the time? Who enters the class room daily nine minutes after the whistle has blown and holds class five minutes over time to make up for the loss? Who reads your theme out loud and grazes at you as he does so? Who has an appointment out-of town and is good enough to notify the students the night before? Arthur Braden The lady prof who is obviously pardial to the young man in the class? Who scares the life out of you by making you think you are going to flunk the course and then gives you an A. Who threatens to flunk you if you ut class and then fails to come to lass himself half the time without otifying the students. Who swears to flunk a student just because he wears a fraternity pin? Who assigns a raft of library reading when there are only two books in the library? Most K. U. Students are possessed of a marvelous ignorance of religion in general and the Bible in particular. My five years here as a teacher in religious education has revealed to me that the average student may be completely floored when asked the mostQUESTIONABLE His Latin he knows and his physics he knows, but his Bible is foreign to him. Who holds his classes in the fifth floor of Fraser? (Editor's note—It may not be his fault.) This is serious, especially since the high schools are giving credit for work done in religious education in Kansas. Unless the teachers who are going out from K. U. are careful they will be classed as ignoramouss, or worse, they will stand shamed before their students. Whoever takes his eyes off of the floor all during the lecture. The Y. W. is doding a great work in every way and should have the support of each and every woman on the Hill. Get behind the load and To the Daily Kansan; The Y. W. C. A. offers courses in religious education. For your own personal efficiency, get into one or more of these classes. A DIFFERENT SPIRIT IN COLLEGE It is already apparent that there will be a changed spirit in the colleges after the war, a point which is touched upon by professor Robert N. Corwin, chairman of the committee on revision of courses at Yale, in a recent discussion of the reforms which are reasonably to be expectae as the result of the war. He finds first of all that because the world is poorer, it will be necessary for all men to work harder, and that in this college men will not be able to escape their share. This brings us to the probability of longer terms and shorter vacations, with an implication in favor of the all-year school. But it means more than that; it also includes the question of student demonstration of courses" and better understanding of the work of the faculty and students. Elimination of lost motion gains time, as any mechanic knows. A significant instance in bringing about the change which is to make the college a place for serious work will be exercised by the students themselves. It is plain that young men who have been aged by a year and a half of war will not return to their classes in the same state of mind in which they left them. They will be many years older, measured by that which they have seen and done, than they were when they went away. The point that the years of youth are precious will have been impressed upon them. They will constitute the future. They will be primarily for work only incidentally for play. It is impossible to escape the conclusion that other young men will follow their example. It will no longer be unfashionable to be a "g r i n d." The lightheaded, the casual, and the student who selects his studies with the sole purpose of obtaining credits easily either will reform his plan or be left behind in the race. It seems quite probable, too, that the faculties will need to look to their laurels henceforth. We do not envy some of them their task of teaching experienced veterans where heretofore their classes have consisted only of boys. We do not allude to the relatively unimportant requirement that they shall be careful of their "facts", but to the need of interpretations which will appease the requirements of students who have had new practice in thinking for themselves. The teacher who formerly "got by" because of the necessity of life to the need of practice to inspire them in some positive way, or his usefulness will be done. It is safe to predict a tremendous rattling of the dry honer The colleges will not be committed, regardless of circumstances, to the four-year course. The problem is individual; it is partly financial, and must be adapted to circumstances. But something like it is certain to come. It is improbable that the serious young man of the future will be content to potter for four years over work that he could do in three. The world is calling for him, and he is chafing over every delay. The spirit of the student is changing, and the college must be prepared to vibrate in harmony with the new note—Yale Review. "It a good thing it is," replied the cynic, "or half the people who are wading around in it would be drowned."—Boston Transcript. MerelyMental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes --- "Society is so shallow," remarked the blase young woman. * NOT IN THE SWIM Magistrate: Great Scot! officer how did these men come to be so badly bruised and battered up? PEACE TA ANY PRICE Office! Please, you Honor, they were discussing the peace settlement with Iran. DETERMINED The lawyer was sitting at his deal absorbed in the preparation of a brief. So intent was he on his work that he did not hear the door as it was pushed gently open, nor see the curly head that was thrust into his office. A little sob attracted his notice, and, turning, he saw a face that was streaked with tears and told plainly that feelings had been hurt. "Well, my little man, did you want to see me?" "Are you a lawyer?" "Yes. What do you want?" A QUESTION OF TASTE One morning Mr. Smith was heard talking to himself, making his “Oh, it's nothing much, mother, answered little William. “I just put a tube of sister's oil-paints in place the tube of tooth-paste.” “Tit- Bits. "I invoked," said Mrs. Smith, what's provoked father now?" "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "are we going to have freedom of the seas?" "Why are you so interested?" Why are you so inscrusted? "I haven't forgotten the way we were treated at the beach last summer. I don't believe anybody has a right to rope off the ocean and then charge you fifty cents for the privilege of taking a bath in it." - Washington Star. "I want to apply for a position as an expert amanensis." "Well, what's stopping you?" WARNED "How do you spell the peeky word?"—Louisville journal-ournal. "Lady," he said, "if them oats gets into my ear again there's goin' to be harvest."-Pittsburgh Dispatch. It was in a street car. The woman wore a long wisp of artificial grain, which, protruding horizontally, tickled the ear of the roughly dressed man who occupied the seat beside her. At last he could stand it no longer. He took out his jackknife and opened it. A GENTLE HINT "Only the ivories?"—K. C. Journal. "Yes, Mabel. The ivories often kiss in this game." "Weather too rough," explained the son, "so we've put in for the day." The old sea captain was smoking comfortably by his fireplace when Jack, eager to retrieve the sword, "Too rough!" exclaimed Mr. Tar with visions of his own days at sea. "Why, sir, I was once sailing around the Cape when a storm came on, and it blew down the main-mast and the ship." The Captain didn't even think of running in." "Well, you see," exclaimed the son, "this storm was so bad that it blew the anchors on the captain's buttons, to the paint off the ship's bows, suck." "Stop!" cried the old man. "You do me credit, Jack--you do me credit." POSITIVE SIGNS Out in New Mexico even public signs come direct to the point. They do not waste any time in wondering how the reader will feel about it. In a garage at Albuquerque is "Don't smoke round the tank! If your life isn't worth anything, gasoline is!"—Saturday Evening Post. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS For Rent For Sale Last Found Help Wanted Beyond Wanted Telephone K. U. 66 Or call at Daily Kan sas Business Office. 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