UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Chas. Sturtevant ... Associate Editor Zatha Hammer ... Assistant Gayle J. Nelson ... Assistant BUSINESS STAFF William Cady...Business Manager Chase Weiss...Adv. James Anderson...Clearing Officer Morgan Hill...Clerkship Mgr. REPORTORIAL STAFF Paul Brindel Raymond Clapper Ralph Ellis Ralph Eagan John Glossner John Glossner Harry Morgan Guy Scriner Cargill Sproull Charles Sweet Glenn Swogger Vernon Moore Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail mat- ter, to be mailed in advance. Kansas, under the office of the Postmaster. Published in the afternoon by River verity of Kannan from the press of Milano. Address a1. communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone. Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students, further than merely printing the text of their University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courteous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to teach and to qualify the students of the University. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1916. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Mark Twain CHE MODERN ARGONAUTS In olden times, when the Argonauts were preparing to set out in quest of the Golden Fleece, they spent days in feasting and frolicking. Their last days in their own sunny homeland, before their perilous journey, were given up to revels in the joys of home, friends, and companions. So should be the last days of the seniors in the University. Spring is at hand, and on the peasant sunny days that are to come, they should do as did the Argonauts. The spring days should bring happy times to the young men and women who are about to go out on perilous quests of future success. In the few weeks before leaving the University, the Modern Argonauts should organize and participate in spring sports and entertainments, and make the close of their college life a period that they will always remember. THE LITTLE THINGS A student was reading his "home town" paper in the library. He had the sheet wide-spread, and was standing in front of the pigeon-hole box where the papers are placed. A young woman who came in to read her home newspaper saw the young man standing there. She did not wish to push him aside in order to reach the rack, so she hesitated, turned and went out. It's the little things that count! THE TEMPER OF THE NATION Let the gods be praised! As yet no jingoistic member of the Press has risen in his might to denounce the United States government for its efforts to extirpate the Francisco Villa element in Mexico. THE TEMPER OF THE NATION If the temper of the nation is to be judged by the attitude of the Press, then the government can well be assured that the people are consistently behind the army's expedition. If the temper of the nation is reflected in its soldiers at the front, then the people need have little fear that the army will not be successful in the attempt to take Villa. But in such a crisis, the public is affected by the slightest national disturbance. General Funston was quick to seize upon the means of keeping unreliable and erroneous stories of the Mexican trouble from the newspapers. No sooner had the government given the order that the amy was to cross the border, than Funston had created a strict censorship over all military news. Other than the four news agency representatives, only six metropolitan war correspondents have been allowed to accompany the army on its southern march. Thus far the Press seems to have been scrupulously exact in its reports. The movement of the army and the subsequent reports; and the censorship placed upon the military news—all these will act as a test for the American public. They will "feel out" for the government officials, the probable reaction of the people to any large military movement. They have a Weinhandler on the student paper at Columbia University. Thus again is the Daily Kansan han-ocapped! SPRING PAGEANTS Every year early in May, the University puts on a May Fete. The custom has grown on Mount Oread and each year has seen a more elaborate and beautiful pageant. Nearly every university has a spring festival of some sort. But in most, it commemorates some event in the history of the institution, or of the state. Here at K. U. we seem to be content in celebrating the advent of spring without attaching to the event any campus tradition. The students attend the May Fete and all agree it is "fine," but would it not make a more lasting impression if it commemorated a bit of University history? The largest pageant in the history of the drama is to be held at Yale, to celebrate the removal of the college from Saybrooke to New Haven, two hundred years ago. Six thousand actors will take part in the event, which will depict the early history of the school through the different periods of American history, from the time of the revolution to the present day. The pageant will be held in the new Yale bowl, which will accommodate 73,000 persons—5000 more than the Coliseum at Rome. Perhaps the University of Kansas has no such historical event of importance to celebrate, and perhaps the institution is yet too young to have important traditions, but next year the fifteenth anniversary of the institution will be marked by special activities. Would it not be fitting to stage May Fete or pageant which would commemorate that anniversary? We have always noticed that the man who seems proud of his wife is called devoted, but the young man who shows the same attitude toward his girl is called a young fool. Jayhawk Squawks Since gasoline has advanced so much in price, we must add to the high cost of living, loving and loafing, the h. c. of sparking. It may be an awfully poor joke, but if you're telling it to a woman and its complimentary, you usually get by with it. First Stude: "I've lost a lot of mounts during this warm spring spring" A news story the other night reads: "I insh sinking, always start at the surface and work downward."-You really start at the bottom and work up. Second S: "How's that?" First S: "Gamboling on the green.' About the only time a student reads the home town paper is after he has achieved a little notoriety at college. "Oh, dear me," groaned poor Mrs. Gottit Twisted, "I feel so bad. I just know I'm suffering with ennui. I've taken another mustard plaster, please." The first week of a spring case is usually used in explaining that one Lord Whaat Talker, the gentleman barber, admits that the warm weather this week was too much for him. He took 'em off. A serenade is an institution consisting of one-quarter noise and three-quarters walk. Another faculty member gone. Ok, still got the Board of Administration. Suggestion to gallant young men with leisurely inclinations; volunteer to assist in moving the I Bake Pie lawn this spring. “Wa-ll,” drawled Farmer Cornshuck, glancing up from the Kansas, “that’s a appertol letter they write the governor. No wonder he was.” G. S. At the end of the school year the treasurer of every class shall turn over to the Registrar of the University in a timely manner, and main in the treasury for safe keeping until the end of the senior year, the money thus deposited not to be touched until that time, will register at the school monthly, willMoney to take charge of all such money. POETS CORNER The White Crows feel that this would remove much of the responsibility as well as suspicion from the chairman of the various committees, especially the memorial committees, committees, committee and the smoker committees.—White Crows. FOUND IN A BOOK LOVE IN A JITNEY THEN WHY BE STINGY WITH SCHOOLS? FOUND The nature of goodness forbids a slavish literal imitation. For a good man is, above all things else, a genuine man. He is "original" in the sense that he is sincere. And his very look, word, gesture, act, so far from being copied and merely dramatic, has been grounded in the moral spirit within. This is his charm and fascination. If, then, we would imitate goodness, we must not fail to be like it in its essence, in its genuineness, its "originality." For it is the last tribute to the good man, who self-serves to masquerade in his clothing. ——John MacCunn, "The Making of Character." FOUND IN A BOOK Oi come, my love, the jitney Kill me, for better or worse. My purse, my sparkler snaps at all the Fates, for better or worse. My purse, my sparkler snaps at all the Fates, for better or worse. I isune five coppery pays So come along and neath The moorings on the low-grade Hill. While all the world is smoake so bright you can see it in spry. Spry, there bliss in every quart The high. So come and be my jitney Queen; a nick is all my heart. For better or worse or Gasoline? Come mount For the first time in over a thousand years the University of Cambridge, England, is on the verge of closing. The medical school is the only department with enough students to run. Thus we find that the state having the largest number of students in colleges, according to population, having the largest assessed valuation, having next to the lowest death rate, and having the smallest debt in proportion to its population, is the state where the average expenditure is made for liquor. We have saved about twenty dollars a head from our liquor bill to spend for things white while .-William Allen White, on "Kansas." All money taken in by any committee or person authorized by the officers of any class or school to handle money for that class or school, should be turned over to the treasurer of the class or school, together with an itemized account of all expenses incurred in the collecting of the tax receipts. If there is a doubt about the "O. K." of the committee shall be paid by check signed by the treasurer, and counterinsigned by the president of the class or school. A Corner for the Library Browser A new word has been coined and loaded upon the American public, by virtue of its assumed fitness for a role in society. The "Public" interprets it as follows; "The new word 'patriomaniia' coined by Perkina Grilman, fits an old and troublesome disease. The patriomaniac usually voices such irrational sentiments as 'Our country right or wrong', 'Deutschland uber alles', 'Rule Britannia and similar nations', 'Mindless luckiness', etc. Inmates he imagines himself a patriot, and those who refuse to humor him to be mollycdycles, cowards and traitors. He continually suspects one foreign nation, then another of plotting his country's destruction. This irrational dread leads him to shout hysterically for preparedness, for universal danger, for the exterminating a terrible but imaginary foe. His infirmity makes him an easy tool of selfish interests which humor him, that they may use him." Editor Daily Kansan: The White Crow says CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent PATRIOMANIA The White Crowds do not believe that graft is the one controlling element in University school life in general and in politics in particular, but they do believe that the ever-present temptation of handling other people's money leads to too much misappropriation of group funds for private use. The White Crowds sent a letter to the White Crows proposing what they believe to be the way out by removing the temptation. The plan proposed is this: Forum —Emporia Weekly Gazette Too often Satan funds work for idiot teachers well enough for class and school funds. You are cordially invited to inspect our mammoth tailor shops whenever you visit Chicago. A guide will show you through SAMUEL G. CLARKE CLOTHIER Eldridge Hotel Bldg. Do You Know that IN RUSSIA roughly 85 per cent of the population are illiterate—can neither read nor write? roughly 30 per cent of the population. About twenty years ago a man called Perez wrote a little story called "Bronchi the Silent." Bronchi was a peasant who was so thoroughly crushed and oppressed that he took his misfortunes as a matter of course and never complained. He died and was admitted to heaven. Being asked by God what he desired most, he answered, "I want a piece of white bread every Friday—not black bread—white bread." That story, more than any one influence, caused the formation of the "Bund of the Russian Revolution." If you comprehend its full significance you will understand why among the ITELLIGENZIA of Russia—the artists, the students, the writers, the thinkers—there can be that can put on a man than that he is not "one of the solutions." RUSSIAN MUSIC is the emotional expression of this situation—of the unspeakable oppression of the downtrodden peasant, of the fire of young Russia to bring the people freedom and justice—it is the emotional expression of a life always intense, always full to the breaking point with bitterness, with anguish, with wild joy. Russian Music Will Be Further Discussed in These Music-Talk Ads—Watch For Them The Shostac String Quartet comes here on Mar.30 Watch for these music-talk ads-They will appear each day. WANT ADS WANTED--Girl to care for child spare hours and Saturdays. Piano practice in exchange, if desired. Bell Phone, 2287 J. 118-2. LOST-A Sheafer fountain pen in pen Frasher chapel last Saturday morning. Finder please return to 1329 Ohio St. 120-3 WANTED—Men for summer work, $4.00 per day; $24.00 per week, guaranteed. A good worker can double that amount. Call C.E. E. Bempell at Hotel Eldridge, Saturday, March 25, after 10 a.m. 120-3 LOST - A pair of ladies' nose glasses (she thinks either in Oread cafe or Lee's) in a case of Kristofson's. Return to Kansen office. WANTED - At once, four students to act as our representatives at the University. Only those meaning business need apply. Excellent faculty to make good commission. Oxford Co., Champaign, Ill. 121-5. YOU CAN buy a lot in "Bowersock Place" subdivision on your own terms. N. J. Wells, agent. 121-3 WILL PAY good salary and expense to right kind of party wanting sum mer employment. See M. Hirsch at 1359 Ohio this evening. Adv. 121-5 Book Store Send the Paily Kansan home to the folks. CLASSIFIED I. OST—Small gold watch, Elgin move-ment, hunting case, no crystal, on north tennis courts Wednesday afternoon. Please notify W.H.A. at 1312 Vermont street. Phone B. 1195W. 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