UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JANUARY 14, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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News Editor ... Luther Haugen
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Society Editor ... Mary Sammon
Sports Editor ... Edgar Hollis
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate at the University of Missouri to go further than merely printing the news on paper and holding it in hands; to play no favoriter; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to help others; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university, in all, to satisfy the students of the University.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1919
ELECTION PROPAGANDA
will the coming University election bring back annual outburst of yellow literature which the University has fought and nearly obliterated?
Only one class ticket resorted to mud-slipping tactics last year. They did not profit by its use. Politics on the Hill should be straight and any students contemplating the publication of the usual pamphlets containing material to their opponents' discredit should think the matter over. It will not pay.
The propaganda usually breaks out in the freshman class, because the new men are easily influenced by a few older students who have no real regard for the University. In the past some of the new men have not fully appreciated the Kansas method of fair dealing.
It is better to lose in a fair fight than to win by foul means. That is a policy of the University of Kansas.
A type-writer is one of the few animals which will bear a great deal of pounding and still give service.
Three days of vacation in March Come on, boy, raise us five.
CALL OFF THE MEETINGS!
There are too many student organizations on the campus. Now that things are beginning to assume their normal order, there is a meeting of some kind or other scheduled for every minute of the student's time outside of class. If he attends each of these he comes up the next morning only half prepared for recitations. Every department in every school has organized and always seems to have some urgent business to discuss before its members. A man is lucky, (or perhaps out of luck), if two or three of the meetings which he is supposed to attend do not occur at the same hour.
The average student has class work until three or four o'clock and at that hour of the day he wants to go home and relax his mind by doing a few of the things he really wants to do.
Is he allowed to do so? Once in a semester, perhaps. Every department in which he is interested urges him to attend its meetings. If he does not, he is branded as indifferent and irresponsible.
If one can get along without being a member of anything besides the classes which he came to the University to attend, he stands a fair chance of making good grades. Do this, however, he must be a reacuse.
K. U. students would live considerably longer, and would doubtless learn just as much, if this annual epidemic of committees and meetings
could be checked. The average amount of work really accomplished at such appointments does not justify the time and energy expended.
THE DAY APPROACHES
There will be an election Thursday,
following which the excitement will all be over. Those who have attained
greatness will be pleased, those who
have missed it will not be deeply
grieved, and every one will have enjoyed it.
FACULTY SHOULD INSTALL
HONOR SYSTEM
Every one endorses the honor system, but who is going to put it into operation? This system means too much to all University students to let it go by default. It is practically impossible for K. U. men and women to make it effective. The plan must be put into active practice by members of the faculty.
A committee from the University Senate should be appointed to arrange the necessary regulations to establish the honor system. This should be done at once before interest in the matter has been dropped. The regulations should be uniform for the entire University and should apply to all classes.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE
Only these are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. Never yet was worthy adventure worthily carried through by the man who put his personal safety first. Never yet was a country worth living in unless its sons and daughters were of that stern stuff which made them die for it at need; and never yet was a country worth dying for unless its sons and daughters thought of life, not as something concerned only with the self-evasion of the individual, but as a link in the great chain of creation and causation, so that each person is seen in his true relations as an essential part of the whole, whose life must be made to serve the larger and continued needs of the world. It is said that the man who is not willing to die, and the woman who is not willing to send her man to die, in a war for the great cause, are not worthy to live. Therefore, it is that the man and woman who in peace time fear or ignore the primary and vital duties and the high happiness of family life, who dare not beget and bear and rear life that is to last when they are in the graves, have broken the chain of creation, and have shown that they are unfit for companionship with the souls ready for the Great Adventure.—Theodore Roosevelt in his volume, The Great Adventure.
COLLEGE VOCABULARIES
The vocabulary of the average college student is limited. And even within these limitations many of his words are slang phrases. The chief reason given for this is in the psychologist's view that people are be ridicule. And this frequently happens when anyone uses a word out of reach of his "crowd."
The college student who persists in feeling around for words is laying up for himself a fund of invaluable knowledge. Even though he may flounder somewhat at first, his end will be achieved. Dr. Abbott says, "The mistakes which make us useless are better than the mistakes that keep us out and this disposition of some college students to increase their vocabulary, even though they may blunder at times, should be admired by all." The Cornellian.
A train going north at the rate of 23 miles per hour meets an east wind which has moved 30 miles per minute. From what direction does the wind seem to come?
TELL IT TO THE PROFESSOR To the Editor of the Kansan:
The way to have everything you want is not to want anything you can't have.
Physics.
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
Readable Verse
LET THEM REST
While our government was removing from the battlefields of the South the bodies of its soldiers buried there, and from the graves of those who were killed in the national cemeteries, Eugene Ware of Kansas wrote the following lines, entitled "The Protest," which in view of the fact that he was the planned removal of the body of his son, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, to this country, and of the alleged policy of our government for the return of these fallen heroes, France, would appear specially appropriate—Milneapolis Journal.
On the prairie, in the forest.
'Neath the cypress, or the laurel,
On the mountain, by the bayou.
Let them rest, let them rest, where
they tell:
On the prairie, in the forest
In the dell;
Where they fought the soil is sacred,
Let the country all be sacred
To the ones who fought so bravely,
To the ones who fought so bravely,
Long and well.
Long and well.
Do not rank them up in fields,
Under pallid marble shields;
Lest pallid be let rest.
t them rest, let them rest.
Where they fell.
heen rest and be worshipped Where they fell.
Let them rest, let them rest, where they shall be. All those places will be sacred.
If you let them stay to guard them; they will shroud those spots with glitter. Like a spell.
And the soil will seem as planted With the germs of vital freedom; When the seeds so grandly Let them dwell.
Do not rank them up in fields, Under panned marble shielded, Under padded plains, Unfitted
Ask Roomie
She Will Answer Anything Three
a Week Right Here
Write, Call or Phone the Kansan
Dear Roomie:
I'm a town girl and my kid brother poured water on the front steps just before my date came for the dance Saturday night. Of course it froze and Pete fell down three times on the way in. And, Roomie, he said such awful things that I can never forget them. For me I broke two dates, and then he said worse things than ever. What shall I do?
Dear Eveline:
Eveline.
Train your little brother. He started all the trouble. Of course, you had a right to break the dates, but your date had a right to swear, too. I do not approve of profanity, but I think you were too harsh with him, considering that it was your own brother who caused the trouble.
Dear Roomie:
Took my girl out to Aunt Sylvia's Sunday, and she kept seeing a light-haired woman in my fortune in the cards. As She is dark, She won't speak to me anymore. Durn! Bill
Cheer up! If your girl has such a jealous disposition as that, she is not worth worrying over. There are 98% other girls on the Hill, and not all of them are that kind. Roomie.
Dear Bill:
I've fallen in love with the cook at a boarding house where I call every day, but the matron always comes down to talk to me and I can't get a minute alone with me as she lives, either. Should I call up at the house and ask for a date after the dinner dishes are done? Grocery Boy.
Dear Roomie:
That would be a fine plan. But as some houses object to calling the cook to the phone, you will have to use a little diplomacy. When you ask for her, say, "This is Western Union," and they will be sure to let her talk to you. Roomie.
Dear Boy:
Dear Roomie:
Is coke liable to wear out? I mean will I get good results from it if I drink it every day or will I have to increase the dose next quiz week?
Personally, I don't know much about coke, but I have a friend who knows all about it. He says that when you get the habit you'll have to increase the number every little while. He's had as many as eight a day and lived to tell the tale, but I would advise you to go slow.
Dear Roomie:
Dear Student:
Student.
The Theta freshmen stole my pet
shall I appeal to the police or
the Charge?
Roomie.
Dear Madam:
They say cats always come back,
and as it is not customary for K. U.
women to commit murder even on cats,
I believe your pet is alive and
happy and will return. If it does not
come soon, call at the house and explain to the girls that you are home-sick for the kitty. Roomie.
Nothing works.
"Well, you has an idea he's lucky."
"Well, if you think you're lucky,
you are aunt, ain't you?"—K. C.
Journal.
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"A penny for your thoughts is all very well."
RETURNED MANUSCRIPT
"Well?"
"But it is tough to have to cough up 40 cents postage on some profound thoughts you sent to a highbrow magazine."
Jail Visitor: My friend, have you any religious convictions?
Prisoner: Well, I reckon that's the right word. I was sent here for robbing a church—Boston Transcript.
No author can really be considered great until his grand-nephews quarrel about the publication of his love letters.—New York Evening Sun.
A grizzled sergeant was drilling a squad of rookies who, to save their lives, could not meet with the N. C. O.'s approval. No matter what they attempted, they seemed to invariably get it wrong, and finally the N. C. O., losing his patience, turned to them and said:
"When I was a small boy, my mother gave me some tin soldiers. I lost them, and I cried bitterly; but I wasn't hurt. I've found them!" — Ontario Post.
Whipped cream at Wiedemann's.- Adv.
Vote a clean ticket—Use the *Yellow Slip* —Adv.
We have all sizes in oranges and grape fruit, also good apples. Dunnire's..Adv.
We carry a complete line of Johnston's favorite box chocolates. Rankin's Drug Store—Adv.
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WANT ADS
LOST- In Room 8, Green Hall a leather notebook about 8½ by 9¼ in. Notes valuable to owner. Turn and reward. Phone 2133W. 5*3-7*2
FOUND—Near Engineering Building a man's grey silk scarf. Owner can have same by paying for ad. Kansan Office. 54-3-73
FOR RENT—Newly furnished rooms for boys. Boarding club next door.
Call 1215 Tennessee. 54-3-77
LOST -Amethest ring with six pearls Thursday afternoon at Gym. Heirloom. Reward. Phone Florence Harkrader, 268. 54-3-75
WANTED - Colored House Man im-
mediately, to live in Frat house, care
for some rooms, and steam plant.
References required. Phone 412 after
6 P. M.   54-3-76
FOUND—Fountain pen and pencil in front of University hospital. Call at 1318 La. St. 55-2-78.
LOST—Two Economic Books, Bullock and Adams. W. Husband name in it. Return to Kansan office. Reward. 55-5-79.
PROFESSIONAL
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D., Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology. Suite 1. F. A. U. Hldg. Residence Hall, 1201 Otto St. South phones, 35.
LAWRENCE O'FICAL 60. (Exclusive)
offered to officers of the Office of
framed prison, Offices 1025 Mass.
Milwaukee.
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D., Rooms 3
and 4 over Mccollach $87, Mass. St.
R. H. DEHING—F. A. U. Bldg. Eye.
Hour 9 to 6. Phone 5132. Hired
Hours 9 to 6. Phone 5132.
JOB PRINTING—B. H. Dale, 1027 Mass.
St. Phone 228.
Repairing and engraving diamonds, watches and cut glass.
Jeweler 725 Mass. St
ED. W. PARSONS
DR. H. G. CABBELL, Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284. 745 Mass. St.
TYPEWRITERS
Bought, sold, rented,
repaired, exchanged
PROTCH
The College Tailor
833 Mass. St.
MORRISON & BLIESNER
707 Mass. St. Phone 16.
TAXI 68
HOTEL SAVOY
E. F. WIRTH
At Hatfield's Confectionery
709 Mass. St.
is my business
Kansas City, Mo.
Absolutely clean
Convenient location
Good Cafes, moderate prices.
SUITING YOU is my business
SCHULZ the TAILOR
917 Mass. St. Phone 914
Calls Answered early or late.
Moak & Hardtarfer
Taxi 148
CLARK
CLEANS
LOTHES
730 Mass. Phone 355
Corklin and
L. E. Waterman
Fountain Pens
McCOLLOCH'S DRUG STOR$
847 Mass.
Central Educational Bureau
610 Metropolitan Bldg.,
Saint Louis, Mo.
We have remunerative positions for available teachers. Write for registration blank. No advance free.
At the VARSITY this Week
Wednesday
BIG DOUBLE BILL
W. J. HAWKINS, Manager.
"Unexpected Places"
Bert Lytell IN
and return engagement of
5 reels
CHARLIE C H A P L I N
in his first million dollar Picture
"THE DOG'S LIFE"
3 reels
IN
Thursday and Friday Big Feature Production
Nazimova
"Toys of Fate"
7 reels
Also
1 Reel Bray Pictograph
Every Thing Points Toward
HOUKS'
as
The Shop of
The