JANUARY 7,1919.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919
ROOSEVELT—THE MAN
The death of Theodore Roosevelt has aroused in the American people deep grief at the loss of one of the nation's truly great men. The nation grieves not only for the statesman but also for the cultured, educated man, the author, the nature-lover, the leader, the man of common likings. Nor To the United States alone in its mourning; the entire world has felt the touch and influence of this mighty man and pauses in remembrance of his life and its many deeds.
Whether one agrees whole-heartedly with the political policies of the ex-President, whether one endorses none of his policies, or whether one supports some of his ideas and discounts others, still he stands in admiration and respect for the man in other of his many interests.
University students should remember the Theodore Roosevelt was a college man. His degree of Bachelor of Arts from Harvard was supplemented by LL.D., conferred by eleven universities, D.C.L. from Oxford, and Ph.D. He was ever a student and reader of varied types of literature. His Pigskin Classics that he took with him on the African trip are memorable as a discriminating choice of literature.
As a contributor to literature, Mr. Roosevelt ranks high. His many books portray the experience of a student, an active observer, a thinker, and a do-er. The range of subjects is remarkable. His nature works dealing with hunting, outdoor life, and wild animals, are valuable commentaries on large experience from living under outdoor conditions. Additional to these are books of history, lives of notable men, and essays. Especially to be mentioned are Mr. Roosevelt's essays on American problems and ideals.
His views as expressed in articles in newspapers and magazines have had profound influence over the country and have helped shape many policies. His personal qualities of masterful leadership made him achieve great popularity, this popularity, however, being variable because of his decided views on important questions. As a contribution to varied phases of the world's interest, the life of Theodore Roosevelt can be pointed to with pride by the American nation.
AN UNFAIR RULING
According to a ruling of the University Senate, womens' basketball teams are not allowed to play on any other court than the one in Robinson Gymnasium.
Two years ago the champion team of the University was allowed to play
games at Ottawa University and other institutions. More interest was shown by University women in this short at that time than ever before.
Eight members of the team, accompanied by the coach, made the trips to other towns. Their conduct was all that is expected of University women.
Last year when the subject again came up before the Senate, faculty members who were formerly opposed to women playing outside games, approved when they realized the propriety with which the trips were conducted, and that such contests served to stimulate interest in the sport. The supporters of the subject argued that trips made by eight women of the team, properly chaperoned by their coach, were certainly no more objectionable than the glee club trip made by fifty women to Camp Funston last spring. Instances of University students going unchaperoned to dances in Kansas City and Topoka were also compared with the basketball trips.
For a time it appeared that the women might again enjoy games with outside teams. But one woman on the faculty said: "We have no authority over students attending dances in other towns, but this matter 68 basketball games is one which we can control. Therefore we should prohibit it."
It was prohibited. Because this happens to be one of the things which the Senate can control, the women are not allowed to play games on other courts. Even a practice game on the Haskell court, which would be excellent practice for both teams, is not allowed.
Inter-class games only are allowed. The women are interested in them, but with a little encouragement on the part of the Senate, basketball would take the place it rightfully deserves as the foremost sport for women.
Is this subject one over which the Senate can exercise absolute control, or can it be reconsidered?
110,000 books and 44,000 pamphlets on the shelves of Spooner library are useless because of lack of binding. This is a grave matter. But in these days of war-time economy, think of the thousands of girls who are "shelved" because of lack of new and suitable covering.
If you are unable to get in on one of the Hill's political gangs, form one of your own and deal out the pie in your own way. You can be the boss of a party if you have the courage to organize it.
WATCH YOUR STEP
Lieutenants are returning every day from Arkansas, Montana and even worse places. They return to take their places in society, places they rightfully held when they left here not long ago. But the joy of their return is almost entirely destroyed because they do not understand the new style of dancing. They have not had an opportunity to keep up.
The next step is perfectly logical, because by this time you are quite out of breath, so you stand still and rock back and forth until you have recovered from this exertion. You will probably be crippled in the morning, anyway, but these rest periods will help.
The new dances, however, are very simple if you understand the system. The first principle is that of indecision. Never know exactly what you are going to do next or the effect it spoiled. Start to take a step to the side with one foot and then suddenly change your mind and take eight or ten steps on the other.
Always point out clearly to your partner that unless she rests her head on your shoulder firmly, it will be impossible to get the best results. Then go ahead and do anything you want to, just so you don't do the same thing twice, and you are guaranteed a success in the dancing world.
It is very simple! Proceed lieu tenants!
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DON'T BE A DRIFTER
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
Don't be a drifter! Breast the stream
And struggle for a worthy dream.
Be one of those with standards high
Who dare to do and dare to try.
Too many merely drift along,
Helpless when danger's wind grow
Tossed by the currents here and there
Held in the eddies of despair;
Bruised by the rocks they might evade
Were they all not too lightly swayed.
Don't be a drifter! Shake a plan and have some purpose as a man. Travel around the world to Go without a guiding star, Swayed by the faithless whims of
But in the distant set your goal
But in the distant set your goal
But in the distant set your goal
The shoalhes and the coves beware.
Too many harques are broken there.
The rocks and tangled branches he
To catch the dirtwood floating by.
But he who fight against the stream
Shall some day reach his port of Dream
Don't be a driver' join the few
Who seek life's real tasks to do.
Strike out where deeper water flows.
And breast the stream with imam
People are all about us: We can scarcely walk in any direction that we do not meet them.
PEOPLE
It's important to know people, just for the sake of skill necessary to avoid some and to encourage others to a reasonable and beneficial contact.
People exist largely for the sake of being known. If this principle were not inherent in them there would be no use of their being around any one.
To know people it is essential that we know ourselves. Also, to know ourselves we must know people.
It was necessary, however, to make people more or less interesting, and so the qualities and feelings and emotions and sentiments have been placed in people in different proportions. The excitement of these proportions them depends entirely upon finding what these proportions are—life.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
GOOD AND SUFFICIENT
"She's giving a very elaborate party."
"Gotten up solely on my account."
"I thought you two were on the巾"
"wheel."
"We are. And that's the reason she got up the party."—Kansas City Journal.
WASN'T HE CUTE?
Wifey: "You must not expect me to give up my girlhood ways all at once."
Hubby: "That's all right. Go or taking an allowance from your father as if nothing had happened." Brooklyn Citizen.
ted" Hudson Expects to re-enroll Edward F. "Ted" Hudson expects to be back in the University this quarter according to a letter from him received by Charles "Bad" Westfall, pressman in the Journalism Press. Since school was over at Marine Corps Camp has been in the Navy. Va. Many of the people of Washington, D. C. entertained men from the camps around Washington on Christmas, and Mr. Hudson tells of having "a wonderful time at a Christmas dinner yesterday with all the trimmings not found in Kansas."
NO CREDIT
"Ted" Hudson Expects to Re-en
"What does she say?"
"Save her face is her fortune."
"Oh, mamma, I'm frightened!" came from little Tommie, in bed. "What are you frightened?"
SURE TO COME
"Now I understand what they mean by involuntary bankruptcy."—Louisville, Courier-Journal.
"I hear somebody on the roon. "Oh, well, go to sleep, my boy; it's only your father taking off his shoes before he sneaks through the scuttle. He's just got home from the club in his airship." -Yonkers Statesman.
"Says her face is her fortune."
"What are you frightened about, my son?"
"You'll get run into," responded the rider as he knocked the other down.
You'll get run in!" said the pedestrian to the cyclist, "if you ride without a light."
A QUESTION OF RUNNING
"You'll get run in, too!" said the policeman, as he stepped forward and seized the cyclist.
Just then another scorer came along without a light, so the policeman was run into, too, and had to run in two.-Minneapolis Journal.
ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK
LENT TO A FRIEND
I give humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this book which having endured the perils of my friend's bookcase, and the bookcases of my friend's friends, now returns to me in reasonably good conditions.
I give humble and hearty thanks that my friend did not see fit to give this book to his infant as a plaything, nor use it as an ash-tray for his burning cigar, nor as a teething ring for his mastiff.
When I lent this book, I too was lost: I resigned to the utterness of the long pages. I never thought to look upon its pages again. But now that my book is come back to me, I rejoice and am exceedingly glad! Bring hither the fatted morocco and let us rebind the volume and set it on the shelf of honor: for this my book was lent, and is returned again.
Presently, therefore, I may return some of the books that I myself have borrowed.—Life.
RESPONSIBILITY
If you were to ask us for a definition of responsibility, there are days when we would be inclined to tell you that it is something that almost everybody avoids. People seem to be afraid of it. They like to pass it on to someone else. They dread to make decisions and stand by them. Now that is a mean sort of business—that being afraid of consequences. Our idea of a man is one who dares make up his mind upon a point, and then is willing to go ahead and be responsible for it. We mean a man who will go ahead and say: "I think this is right. I have studied this and believe I ought to do it, and I can depend on my judgment. I am willing to take the consequence." He is the kind of a man you find in a great position making a great success—American Boy.
WHAT NATURE BUILDS WITH Cellulose is Nature's great structural material. It is the essential component of the cell walls of plants, and as such the basis of all plant tissues. So its properties are of interest and importance to the lumberman the maker of cordage,the spinner adn weavers of cotton,the workers in flax, hemp, jute and ramie, the pulp and paper makers, and to all those whose business it is to utilize this remarkable material that still remains the product of nature's secret laboratory.
This is only a hint of the bewildering possibilities and actualities of cellulose. Things happen when you begin to treat it chemically. It takes kindly to nitric acid and becomes gun cotton and smokeless powder—after which it becomes less kindly. Less highly nitrated, it functions as soluble cotton, colloid, celluloid, and it appears in lacquers artificial leatheres and a host of other things. Treated with caustic soda and carbon bisulphide, it is transformed into viscose, and later comes upon the market as artificial silk, of which 20,000,000 pounds were produced in 1913.
Acetic anhydride transforms cellulose into cellulose acetate, first cousin of the nitrate, but less temperamental, being nonexplosive and harmless as a paper doll. From it have been made artificial silk, nonflammable films for moving pictures, windows, aviators and airplane wings. Acetic anhydride cellulose acetate is a war commodity, but with the release of raw materials following a righteous peace there will come a lively flourish in the cellulose acetate industry—"Chemistry in Overalls," by Arthun D. Little in Minneapolis Journal.
THE CHEAPER
Let it be understood at once that it is not appropriate in what follows to cast the feminine casual aspersions on the masculine taste in masculine neckwear. That belongs in the realm of the humerist, not the -psychologist. All those who bestow neckties at Christmas time, men and women alike, are to come under the scope of this analysis. If any distinction is made it will be that a more searching scrutiny will be directed toward the masculine giver of neckties than the feminine.
THE CHRISTMAS NECKTIE
One, sitting alone on Christmas morn with the colorful tokens of many loving friends and relatives spread out before him, was led to musure upon the innumerable deductions of which the display might be the source. It was not so much that the sartorial taste of the recipient of the silken scarfs was called into question, though there might be confessed an inner tremor at the thought that this radiant exhibition, dimming Joseph's coat and even rivaling Solomon in all his glory, was the aggregate conception of disassociated minds of what he would choose for himself should he make a personal visit to the haberdasher. Rather, the musing led
to the conclusion that here was an exemplification of that theory of suppressed desires. The fond father resolves that his son shall have advantages that were withheld from him; the loving mother makes willing sacrifices that her daughter may be attired in a style not possible to her own girlhood; the millionaire founds a school that shall open to boys that book of knowledge that was sealed to him. Each and all of them are seeking to gratify, by giving to others, a surprised desire of their own lives.
So with the purchase of a Christmas necktie. If it be a man, when he purchases in his own behalf his eyes are drawn to the lines where are displayed the purple, the lavender, the crimson and the green mixtures; the nationality grips him; and he goes attired, as to his cravat, in decorous blues or solemn black.
But always the latent love of barbaric display remains innate, and unconsciously he ships its leash at the moment of buying a tie which some other man must wear. Not because he believes, necessarily, the other man would like it does he buy it, but because, if he dared brave the gibes of family and friends, he would wear it himself.
And the man who receives it on Christmas morning would, in his secret heart, like just as much to wear it, but he's a coward too—New York Tribune.
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