UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Long of Head, Long of Body—Long!
ADVICE FOR SWIMMERS
"Common Sense Is the Greatest Factor in the Water," Says Dr. Naismith
With the opening of Potter's Lake and the adjournment of many of the men to the river, comes the advisability of a few rules for governing one's importance in the water. Of prime importance, according to Dr. James Naismith, is the learning to swim or float sufficiently to keep one's head out of the water for an indefinite time. If one can do this he can wait until he has overcome the pains that follow an accidental circumstance in the water, and then he can call for help or approach some floating object with a great deal more certainty than he can by floundering and fighting in the water.
Here are a few rules, Dr. Naismith adds:
Do not go in soon after meals. A laps of two hours is a good mini-
Do not sit on the bank to cool off before taking the plunge. Go in while the blood is going at a good rate. Go in head first, and no at a toe at
Go in head first, and not a toe at a time.
Do not take a swim in the evening
when the air is chilling and the water
warns.
Breathe through the mouth in the water. You can spit the water out of your mouth but in your nose it strangles you.
As soon as a feeling of tiredness comes, rest. This is necessary at the first sign of exhaustion.
In an early-season endurance test keep near the bank. It takes as much endurance to swim around the pool as it does to swim across it.
Learn to swim on your back and to float.
Don't be ashamed to help for help if it is necessary, but don't make a big fuss about it. And don't, above all asks, ask for help as a form of joke.
As an after thought, Dr. Naismith said: "I wish I could emphasize for the fellows that go to the river, that when they are washed down below the shallow sand bottom to a step-off, they should not try to fight straight back up-stream but should angle in toward the bank. The cupboard is filled with sand up. This is of the greatest importance, and yet I have never been able to get one of the fellows to do this after they had blown-up.
"The greatest factors in the water, however, is experience and common sense."
AND MRS. ROBIN DOES ALL THE WORK.
Birds Start Housekeeping.
Within an arm's reach of an open window facing west from the east wing of Marvin Hall, Mrs. Robin, with the aid of the Mr. Robin built a nest of brass, weeds, sticks, strings and mud. The nest is built on the steel fire escape and is even with the first floor, almost within reach of the ground.
The work of building the nest was finished this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Robin brought in the last pieces of string and pieces of soft grass to make the inside of the nest comfortable. Mrs. Robin placed her bit of string on a table, took a piece of string from Mr. Robin and then with a few demonstrations which he seemed to understand very well, she chased him away.
Left to put the finishing touches on the nest Mrs. Robin put in about ten minutes rearranging the carefully placed lining of the new home and then came the most interesting process of all. Mrs. Robin carefully set herself in the nest, and began to press it into shape. She would settle herself deep into the nest, squirt ruffle her feathers, turn the crown or twice to make theinish uniform on all sides, and then climb out to look over her work. For early an hour she squirmed about and pressed her breast into the nest, then she took another look and flew away.
two surveyed proudly. Mrs. Robin settled herself on the nest, and Mr. Robin found a perch for himself on a nearby tree, swelled out his chest and sang a robin song as he boasted that he had built the nest all by himself.
And so Mr. and Mrs. Robin have started in spring housekeeping within sight from a dozen windows, and within reach of one. She turns her back to the open window where professors and students peep out at her.
It was only a few minutes until she returned with Mr. Robin, and the
SOME BUILDING--FRASER
SAYS THE STATISTICS FIEND
Did you ever stop to think of the amount of rock, wood, glass and cement used in the construction of Fraser Hall?
The building has 60,970 square feet of floor space, which would furnish standing room for more people than there are in Topeka. If the floor space were divided into blocks one block would be in front of the other block touching the one next to it, the line would extend to a distance of approximately eleven and one-half miles.
There are 302 windows in Fraser which have an area of something like 5,500 square feet of glass, which would more than cover the largest green house in the city. There are also windows in the manufacture of eye glasses similar to some of those sold by peddlers, there would be glass enough for over 260,000 nairs.
If a student should start from the basement floor and walk up the steps to the roof of Fraser, he would climb 181 steps. If he were walking on the street and his stride measured 30 steps, then he would cover a distance of 150 yards. A student having one class day on the third floor of Fraser, climbs 270 steps a week in order to attend his class, providing he attends five times a week. He also covers the 9,720 steps to attend this one class providing he takes the same study both semesters or another one on the third floor.
NEW LIGHTS FOR FETE
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Special Effects Will be Used in "The Stuff of Laughter" Friday Night
New and advanced ideas in lighting effects such as are seldom tried for outdoor spectacles except in the east, where they are most popular. Of the May Fete night performances.
Edward Martin, University electrician, and John M. Shea, superintendent of grounds, are the men associated with the effects for the stage on which "The Stuff of Laughter" will be produced, on the golf links. Two platforms, twelve feet high, are being erected among the trees in the stages will be two bathtouses of five hundred watt nitrogen lamps equipped with powerful reflectors. Sixty yards in front of the stages, and back of the audience, and like a musical spot lights will be a similar battery of the powerful lights.
By means of a color screen, eight different colors of light will be used during the performance, the color varying with the dramatic action. The lights throw the lights through the trees and by combining colors in mid air.
So powerful will the lights be that during the whole time of the performance, the entire supply of current from the University pumping station will be utilized. Two electricians however, will be stationed at the station to make re-connections in case of a fire.
Horace Stargas, sophomore engineer from Hennessey, Okla., has pledged Sigma Tau, the honorary engineering fraternity.
Alta Smith, special Fine Arts, will entertain the active members of Mu Phi at the home of her sister, Mrs. R. E. Barnes, Wednesday evening, May 10.
AGREE WITH GOMPERS
K.U. Professors Say With Union Leader That Labor Is Not a Commodity
Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor said in a recent interview that labor is not a commodity and this raised certain questions in the minds of some students of economics. The matter was taken up with Prof. H. A. Millis and Prof. F. J. Gompers, although the subject bears some modifications and explanations.
Professor Millis said: "Labor is not a commodity taking that term in its strictest sense although it is often much easier to speak of it as such and I often do so after explaining to my class the exact significance that I attach to the term. Labor cannot be separated from the fact that you cannot speak of an individual as he might of a piece of merchandise. Neither are we working primarily for profit, but for the good of mankind, and if we are doing this we cannot speak of mankind as a commodity.
LABOR ORGANIZATION AIDS ADJUSTMENT Many people confuse the individual and the power that he can exert and object to organization of labor on the job. Many people confuse supply and demand it makes for unnatural processes. They believe that supply and demand will straighten things out and they will eventually but organization and governmental interference make living more bearable. Professor Blackmar, "the labor is not a commodity," said Professor Blackmar, "a man cannot be separated from his labor and neither he nor his labor is merchandise or power in the sense that steam or an engine must operate." The old slave might have been spoken of as a commodity, but while I am a slave to my desk as long as I am in the employ of the University, I do not have to stay at that
We Are, We Are, We Are, We Are, We Are the K. U. Laws
PROFESSOR BLACKMAR AGREES "I can run away and I can choose other occupations. It is just because of that that I am not a commodity. You can choose of twenty per cent more occupations than your father could and he of twenty per cent more. You are getting further and further away from being the commodity that it once might have been.
Lady Nic Has Friends
Lady Nic Has Friends To combat the activities of the Anti-Cigarette League, smokers of the University are planning to form an organization to be known as the Smokers' Club.
The Delta Taus defeated the Pi K. A's on Hamilton Field yesterday by the score of 3 to 0. The feature of the game was the pitching of Sutton and Paul. The Delta Taus, getting three hits and the Pi K. A's, two.
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THE ICONOCLAST
An iconoclast is a man who wanders up and down the earth destroying old customs, old traditions and old relics. He is an apostle of unrest. He is the alarm clock of civilization, for he keeps the world awake. He is an expert in the art of protecting the constitution the most cheerfully shows up—and then shows the world up.
Columbus was an iconoclast. He fought against the belief that the world was flat. Before he finished he discovered a kind of planet he has never seen before.
The glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome."
Lincoln was an iconoclast. Before he died, slavery, a national crime, was destroyed. George Washington was an iconoclast. Before he died he proved that his country not only had the strength to gain its freedom, but it also had the wisdom to govern itself.
To say the world has made great strides in civilization is simply to say that the iconoclast is "on the job" down through the ages, torturing people.
And so it is with Safety. Time was when every one folded their hands with a smug and sanctimonious air and said, "Oh, accidents will happen. You can't manufacture anything that you know." The iconoclast did not know "didn't know." You can't stop an iconoclast with talk like that. They are a determined tribe. Said they, "Why blame Providence for something which is caused by human neglect and carelessness? They can be
The rest is history. Already conditions have changed so that fewer men are killed, fewer women are injured and fewer men go through life with injuries.
A clover of two and two,
Put it in your right shoe,
The first young man you meet,
In field, street, or lane,
You'll get him or one of his name,
—Folly lore.
Can You Beat It? A $2.00 fountain pen for $1.00. Made by W. A. Shaefer, "the crag lever" self-filling pen. Book Store, 914 Mass. Street—Adv.
Billy Sunday's revival song, "Brighten the Corner," is going the rounds among the fraternities and sororites. It has been corrupted
Use Queen Elizabeth—the new per-
son—and get by the profit on that next
payment.
"Someone far from Harvard You may lead up to the bar, Pass out the schooners Where you are."
The latest and best perfume—Queen Elizabeth—at Dick. Brons—Adv.
Kodak books look better if the films are developed at Squires...Adv.
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CARROLL'S
Don't forget the New Varsity Shop for smokes, magazines, etc. It's Handy.
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"The Mishaps of Musty Suffer"
Smashing, Calm-smashing, Explosive Laughter Also "The Strange Case of Mary Page," Pathe Weekly and a Pathe Comedy, "Luke's Double" ADMISSION 10c
I Have an Idea
that there are about twenty University professors who are tired of living in houses which do not suit their needs. Is my idea correctly based? If so,
You Can Profit by It
I own some lots in the University Place Addition—two blocks south of the campus, away from the noise and humdrum of the business section of Lawrence, right on the car line, connected with city water, gas and sewer—which I want to sell. I want you, Mr. University Professor, to buy one of them. Just a Minute—
I Want to Build You a House
on one of these lots—build it according to your own ideas of what you would like, just as you plan it—and let you pay for it in small monthly installments—pay just a little more each month than you are now expending for rent. In a few years the place will be yours. Isn't that just what you have been waiting for? Now, what do you think of my idea? Let's talk it over.
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