UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
Wilbur Fleicher...Editor-in-Chief
Rebeurt Vanvaren...Associate-Chief
Mauren Brouwer...Associate Editor
Zetha Hammer...News Editor
Miles Vaughn...Assistant
Ryan Ransom...Assistant
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Raymond Clapper
Harry Morgan
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David Manning
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Charles Sweet
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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 of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
Address a. communications to
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students, and further than merely printing the news by standing up for the students' holdls; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be gagging; to be agitous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to serve the universityity the best of the University.
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1916.
A stingy man is always poor—
the UNIVERSITY ON SHOW
Pudd'nudell Wilson's Calendar
Mark Twain
A stiney man is always poor—Fr
PUT THE UNIVERSITY ON SHOW
The high schools are coming to the University next Friday and Saturday,
Boys' and girls' basketball teams are coming to Lawrence to take part in the state tournament.
And they are also coming to see the University.
Some of them will be seeing the Hih for the first time, and will go back home with a vivid impression of the school. What this impression of the University is to be, depends greatly upon us.
These high school students are the University students of the future. Their first impression of the school will be the strongest, and all of the K. U. men and women should show them the greatest courtesy. Pains should be taken to see that they have a good time. If county clubs are still organized, they should see to the entertainment of those from the county, if not, then the individual students should help to entertain those from home and let them see the reasons why they should come to the University of Kansas when they are graduated from high school.
Show them a good time!
Those faculty people who turned up their noses when they read that students buy more copies of the Cosmopolitan magazine than any other, should know that some of the stanchest defenders of "Adventure" are from the faculty.
2 KANSAS PRAIRIE FIRES
KANSAS PRIMALI TILES
A prairie fire has been raging in Western Kansas, and for the past week the people of Ford, Hogman and Finney counties have been in constant danger. It has been a long time since a devastating prairie fire has swept the plains of Western Kansas. None but the early settlers of the state realize the awful significance of a long, low-lying roll of heavy smoke on the horizon of the wind-swept prairie. It is one of the perils which our grandfathers and grandmothers knew too well.
In the early fifties, when the plains of Kansas were, here and there, beginning to take on new life, when the sparsely settled state was rapidly being formed, when the good pioneers were stating claims along the streams and valleys; then, the cry of "prairie fire" threw terror into many hearts. Men hurried from their homes, with the same determination that men go to the battle-front; their homes, their families, all they owned in the world at stake. They fought the fire with all their strength, and many times the sturdy pioneers were driven back, while the ever onward march of the fiercely burning fire licked up the fruits of a hard summer's labor.
And so, last week; the remnant of these early settlers read with sympathetic interest the accounts of the prairie fire near Dodge City and Jet more, and they will be the first to an answer the cry for help which families driven from their homes have sent out Property damage already has been estimated at near a half million dollars, and driven by the typical Kansas March wind, the whirling, leaping hungry flames are traveling at a rapid rate over the fields. A more striking reminder of the dangers and hardships of primitive Kansas has no come to us in many years.
SPRING—MAYBE!
Have you seen 'em—the straw hats the girls are wearing?
Some of pink,
Some of blue
Some with quills,
All "brand-new."
They are the heralds of Spring, forecasting Her and urging Her to appear.
She has come, too, as you have noticed.
Soon enough, the cold earth will warm up, and coax out the first flowers, so that you can take "her" to Cameron's Bluff to make a pretense of hunting violets. Then, you can stroll on the campus on week-end nights, and maybe sit down to rest on the steps of one of the buildings, until the right watchman, swinging his iantern, frightens you off.
Spring days are the days. Is there any feeling on earth that compares with the peaceful, self-satisfied air you acquire when the spring fever gets into your bones? No wonder that when stretched upon the green you have vague visions of the grashing of teeth by your professors over your unlearned lessons, still you smile and say, "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world."
FLIPPANT POETICS
THESE SPECIAL ISSUES
THESE SPECIAL ISSUES
"Great!" say the proud professors,
"It's fine!" the poor cubs shout.
't is really accurate.
The technical bugs make out. And so the special issue goes. And maybe loses "mon;"
And all interested parties say,
"Praise God, the thing is done."
POOR WILLIE!
Little Willie took a drink
But now he drinks no more For what he thought was $ \mathrm{h}_{2} \textcircled{2} $ Wes H, SO
Jayhawk Squawks
If, as they are attempting, the K U. profs really succeed in extracting all the nutrient from Lawrence (7), board will be higher next year.
-Anon.
Between the ages of 20 and 30, a girl is always jokingly referring to the fact that she is going to be an old woman. After 30, she becomes strangely silent.
"I all I hear, now," said Mrs. Gottii Twisted, "is 'Best Babies Week.' I should think that the best ones would be strong and husky."
By the time a diary is old enough to
be read, it has become too humiliating to be read.
In the "The Public Don't Mind"
columine of a K. C. paper, one person
writes a letter, and the next eighty-
seven write answers.
In the first stage of a "case," he carries her books. In the second stage, he carries her flowers, candy, etc. But in the chronic stage, he can't even carry his share of the conversation.
The electric light does lots of valuable work, and doesn't make much fuss about it, either.
The graduates entertained last Friday. To date, none of the faintings are nervous prostrations resulting from the accollement experienced have proved fatal.
Once upon a time there was a girl called off a date and was really (ick)
The insect biology class of the department of entomology is making a complete survey of canker worm infestation in Lawrence.
If a friend wants to borrow something, just tell him "It's Lent."
-G. S
If U. S. gets into trouble with Mexico, where will some of our sensational newspapers find room for all the headlines?
Send the Paily Kansan home to the folks.
OUR FAVORITE POETS
plain,
When lathing and plenty cheer'd the
laboring swain.
And parting summer's lingering blooms delay?
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid.
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please.
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
of when every part
could please,
Row often have 1 loiter'd or thy
Where humble happiness endear'd each
some!
to green have 100 yet cut off
Where humble happiness endear'd each
The never-failing bell, the buvy mull.
The door that top the neigh-
bors' hill.
charm
Theater actor col, the cultivated farm.
The new-fallen brook, the busy mill.
scene!
How often have I paused on every
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
A nation is made great, not by its fruitful acres, but by the men who cultivate them; not by its great for-
ture, but by its lands; not by its mines, but by the men who work in them; not by its railways, but by the men who build and run them. America was a great land when Columbus and his cannons have made of it a great nation.
made!
— From the Life, Deserted Village, by
foldemun.
PATRIOTISM
In 1776 our fathers had a vision of a new nation "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Without an army they fought the greatest of existing world empires that they might have defeated by military later, without a navy they fought the greatest navy in the world that they might win for their nation the freedom of the seas. Half a century later they fought through an unparalleled Civil War that they might establish for all time an ultimate right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A third of a century later they fought to emancipate an oppressed neighbor, and victory won, gave back Cuba to the Cubans, sent an army of school-masters to educate for liberty the children from their vanquished enemy, but paid him liberally for his property. Meanwhile they offered land freely to any farmer who would live upon and cultivate it, opened to foreign immigrants on equal terms the door of industrial opportunity, shared with rural intellectual equality and provided by universal taxation for universal education.
WHEN SUNDAY COMES
The cynic who can see in this history only a theme for his egotistical satiate is no true American, whatever his parentage, whatever his birthplace. He who looks with pride upon this history which his fathers have written by their heroic deeds, who accepts with gratitude the inheritance which they have bequeathed to him, he must preserve this inheritance unimpaired and to pass it on to his descendants enlarged and enriched, is a true American, be his birthplace or his parentage what it may—Lyman Abbott.
WHO MADE THE MOVIES?
There has been much discussion lately as to who invented the movies. The investigators find it hard to put their finger on any one man. Photography itself is not as useful for motion pictures, we should be able to go down to a "nickel" any evening and see some famous old civil war battle. We could watch Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders make their desperate charge from Hill instead of about it in some more or less dull text book.
As the little cigarette is futile until the match is applied to it, so with the development of the movies from photography. The match in this case was the celluloid roll film. In America, the movie could be taken on a continuous roll. The first picture that resembled the modern film was of a traffic scene in London. Friese-Green patented the invention and invested heavily in it. To the Germans and Americans an extra credit for its rapid development.
With the possible exception of reading, the "movies" is today the greatest source of entertainment and recreation for the American people. Whether the strangeness will wear off and moving picture operators be substituted even for professors remains to be seen.
COURTESY "OVER THE PHONE"
It's one thing to be courteous on meeting persons on the street, in our place of business or in our home. It's another matter, sometimes, to be courteous in talking over the telephone. When you're at work at your desk or in another part of the house, the telephone rings. You've got to stop and answer the phone. And by the time you've taken down the receiver for the 'stealth time in the last half hour, you’re in good mind to take some head off.
There is the man who thinks it bliss to sit and read *indoors* all Sunday. It may be books or it may be newspapers which make him glad to spend the time with unseen, unheard comrades.
So much of the day's business is done over the telephone that it is as essential to be courteous then in an meeting persons face to face. In the advertising of a railroad ticket office in Kansas City appears the phase, 'It's a pleasure to answer your phone.' Of some other business concerns, their trade at the end of the month would take a decided leap.
There is the lass who thinks it joy to stroll and smile with greatest pleasure on the Sabbath. It may be that the day comes stormy; she is sad unless perchance the parlor gives forth the sound of youth.
Now, it is true that Sunday was not meant for things like these, and well we were taught it. But, honest now, how do you pass Sunday? How can you tell? So the picture given here? No. What a model—University Missouri.
Courtesy pays!—University Missouri.
soulan.
There is the woman who thinks it best to cook the Sunday dinner with courses a in line for you. It is easy, too;omy; it may be that there is none; the menu calls aloud.
There is the lad who likes to stand and watch the crowds go by. He seldoms stands alone; there is more fun in a "bunch."
Belle: "Do you believe that matches were made in heaven?"
Second Father: Yes, he had a four years' leaf.—Cornell widow.
Bella: "That isn't where the sulphur is."—The Widow.
First Father: Is your son college bred?
He: "When I began to get mad
at you, you were brainless
and unattractive."
She (tenderly): When did you first know you loved me?
"So am I. Let's sneak away some where."
"Having a bum time?"
there.
"Can't. I'm the host."—Siren.
Banker: Have you heard the last song hit?"
Hille: "Naw, scoot it to me.
Bunker: 'It's called. "He Was a
Rebel Soldier, But He Wore a Union
Suit." -Texas Longhorn.
est song int.
"Naw, shoot it to me"
"it'll kill you!"
THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR
The war's effect upon Europe is not only seen in widows, orphans and ruined homes. The great cataclysm is devouring men's souls, is demeaning their spirits to all that is good and noble.
The terrible casualties around Verdun give one phase of the awfulness of war. The other side may be seen from this grim bit of humor, published in the University of Edinburgh Student:
Officer (in surprise) as soldier returns to the trench after having been detailed to escort a captured "boche" behind the lines; Hunter You've had a word journey. Where is your prisoner?"
Tommy—"Dead, sir! It was this way, sir. That chap began wailing about his wife and four kiddies, and well, sir, I have a wife and four kiddies, and well, to tell the truth, sir, he was making me feel so miserable I had to shoot the blighter."
The Scotch are noted for their joyful, wholesome humor. Nothing of the Scotch is in that. The tragedy of the Scotch is that it depicted the blight which blind men to all that is beautiful in life—Ohio State Lantern.
FOUND IN A BOOK
It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that man has fallen off a seafloor poster. We post a man has not fallen off a seafolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still aboard upon the earth. That the man has not fallen off is obviously emotional; that it also is one thousand times more common. But journalism cannot reasonably be expected to put on insist upon the permanent miracles. Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones of Worthingham," "hey, you can get the happiness of blink at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not dissolved.
A Corner for the Library Browser
MICROBIA SPRINGUMS
The Prom has long since been for- writing
And exams are a thing of the past,
And winter it's gloom has forgotten.
Like snails do the moments creep
Like snails do the moments creep past,
WANT ADS
But unless you're a rank disbeliever,
In signs, you had better take care!
You have heard of the gern of
Gregor Furry?
FOR RENT—To men, One single room for one man, and one suite of rooms, consisting of study and outdoor sleeping room, fine for spring. New house. Fine location. Gas, electric light, hot water, 1416 Tenn. St. 109-3
LOST—Gold friendship circle on dance floor in Gymnasium Satur午 night. Finder call B. 209W7. 1121*-1
WANTED—A student who understands driving an automobile, to drive about three afternoons a week. Bell 241. Call A. D. Weaver.
"Safety first!" is evidently a slogan of Prof. H. A. Lorenz. Every time the gym class chuckles "swat!" he uses a thick switter before participating in the game.
Send the Daily Kansan home to the folks.
FOR SHINES THAT LAST
Spring Fever?
I'm IT! Now beware!
I'm IT! Now beware!
—Yale Record.
GUARANTEED HAT WORK Try the New
Shoe Shining Parlor & Hat Works
At 833 Mass. St.
Watkins
National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository
A Good Place to Eat Johnson & Tuttle Anderson's Old Stand 715 M
For the latest in commercial and society printing call on
A. G. Alrich 744 Mass. St.
Conklin Fountain Pens
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling
Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store
847 Mass. St.
CLASSIFIED
Book Story
**Book Stores**
KEELER'S Books 329 Mass.
SC. Typewriters for sale or rent
Paper by the pound. Quis books is for
10c. Pictures and Picture framing.
ED. W. PARSONS, Engraver, Watch-
work jewelry. Bell phone 711, 717 Mass.
China Painting
China Painting
MISS ESTELLA NORTHRUP, china
Orders for special occasions
carefully handled. 785 Mans. Phone
Bell 152.
K. U. SHOE SHOP and Pantatorium is
best place for best results 1242
Ohio
Shoe Shon
Shoe Shon
Plumbers
Printing
PHONE KENNEDD PLUMING CO.
927 Mass. phones 658. Mazda Lamps. 927
Mass. phones 658.
B. H. DALE, Artistic Job Printing
Both phones 2128, 1027 Mass.
Drassmaking
FORNEY SHOP SHOP. 1017 Mass. St.
a. mistake. All work
guaranteed.
MRS M. A., MORGAN H.1821 Tapanense,
Murraya malacoides very reasonable.
Kuringa, Malacoides very reasonable.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H, L. CHAMBERS. Office over
Squires' studio. Both phones.
HARRY BREDING. M. D. Eye, ear, eye.
M. D. Eye, ear, eye.
M. D. Eye, ear, eye.
M. D. Eye, ear, eye.
612 U. Bldg. Phones. Bldg. 613;
612 U. Bldg. Phones. Bldg. 613;
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. *Diseases of the stromach*, surgery and gynae-
cology. Suite 1, F. A. U. Bldg. Residence. 1201 Ohio St. Phones 35.
J. R. BECHETEL, M. D., D. O. 832 Mres.
Both phones use and residence.
A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 743
Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
D. H. W. HUCHTONSON. Dentist. 308
Perkins Bldg. Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E. ORLEUR M. D. D. Dick Bldg. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist. All glass work guaranteed. Successor to Dr. Hamman.
The College Tailor
PROTSCH
See Griffin Coal Company for Fuel.
IT PAYS TO BE PARTICULAR
YOU probably know some one man whose appearance is admired by everybody.
And the reason is—he is particular in his selection of clothes.
It doesn't cost any more to be particular than to be careless—if you do your buying here.
We specialize on three things:- variety of stock, value for your money, and courtesy of service.
Can you afford to overlook these?
PECKHAM'S