UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Official student paper of the University of Kansas
Guy Scriwiter ... Editor-in-Chief
Wilbur Fischer ... Associate Editor
Bernard Plantant ... News Editor
Ralpin Ellis ... News Editor
Zetha Hammett ... Assistant
Joseph Copper ... Assistant
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Chas. Sturtevant .. Business Manager
Cargill Sproull Harry Morgan
Vernon A. Moore Maureen Mckernan
Doug Davis Charles Seidel
Don Davis John Cady
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Published in, the afterparty five
threes, on November 24, the press of
the Department Journal.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture students of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the text on the University hold; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to beacious; to leave more serious problems to wiser hosts in all, to be aware that faculty the students of the University.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916.
Swindling is the perfection of civil
tion. Voltaire.
KNOCKING AT OUR GATES
KNOCKING AT OUR GATES
A woman, one of the despised races of Russian Jews, stood in crowded Fraser Hall chapel Thursday and told the pitifully brave story of her struggle to become an American. Told the story of her life because it is the story of every immigrant. Some succeed in lifting themselves from the slums. She did. Some do not succeed, but it is more our fault than theirs.
And those who listened to her were ashamed, for she spoke the truth. She pleaded for the immigrant who comes to us not in search of wealth or fame or aggrandizement, but only life. All he asks is liberty to live. His highest aim is to be like the American, he even hopes that some day he will be an American. His national ideals and customs he casts aside as worthless and seeks our ideals and customs.
And the evil consists in what he inhues to us but in what we do to him. Too often he sells his birthright for our mess of pottage. He finds not the land of liberty but the land of outlaws. After we have crushed the life from him, we hold him up in police court as an example of the degeneracy of the immigrant.
Yes, the American will learn a lesson in patriotism from "Those who knock at our gates."
Blindly we fail to accept what the immigrant brings to us. Why has Jane Addams said again and again that the foreigner lives a life of happiness within the slums, that the blue blooded scion of aristocracy never dreamed of? Why does Ris say that the east side Russian Jew will some day break the hold of Tammany? Why but because the poor foreigner possesses the idealism which we lack.
THE FIRST ONE
Spring is in the air, on the campus, in the buildings and in the hearts of the three thousand K.U. students. The past few days indicate its coming and the departure of winter. Days like these are rare in February and come few and far between. Tomorrow may be cold and blustery, but we have sensed the hint of approaching spring.
The campus is still brown and dead, and traces of ice appear on the north sides of the buildings, but the "feel" of the approaching spring is here. Far off, in all directions from Mount Oread, the blue haze along the horizon tells of spring. The constant chatter of the sparrows around the eyes of Fraser; the springy step of the students up the Hill; the bracing air and warm sun; and the hint of growing things—all stir the feeling of renewed life.
WHY IS A TRADITION?
Too often are students heard complaining that the University of Kansas has no traditions. They should consider the reasons why the University has not had the opportunity to
make many traditions.
The University has in many cases been held up in comparison with the older order of educational institutions where many years of experience have gone into developing and cementing the customs and habits of the first, second, and third generations. But the University of Kansas is this year approaching only its fifthtenth anniversary. There are probably no cases where any student's father father attended the institution. The University is only beginning to feel the presence of a large number of students who are attending the same school their fathers did.
However, traditions may be existing on Mount Oread which are not noticeable because of their nearness.
Then again the student body reflects the spirit of the state. For many years the people of Kansas have prided themselves on the fact that they were citizens of a state where many new things have been started. Too often have Kansans been glad to create new movements to vin wide publicity, but too changeable to stick to the ideas already started. It is this same spirit that has so often been reflected among the student body at the University of Kansas.
With a few more generations passing through the University the family pride in the father's father's Alna Mater will be created. In its time the state itself will have felt the presence of college men gone out into public offices inspired with the spirit of state service. With this same ideal reflected back again into the University of Kansas, we should then be on a fair way to have traditions.
THE THREE THOUSAND MARK
Ninty-four new students enrolled in the University at the beginning of the new semester and according to Registrar George O. Foster the enrollment probably will reach the 3000 mark in a short time. That is the mark the school has striven for the past few years and now that we have the 3000 we should be justly proud. Three thousand young men and women, the majority of whom claim Kansas as their native state, all on Mount Oread.
But the question arises whether or not we pay too much attention to the material side, to the exact number of students. The enrollment may add some prestige to K. U. among the other universities, but after all the addition of a hundred new students means that much more crowded conditions. However, we have reached another mile-stone and in the next few years K. U. will pull just as hard for the four-thousand mark.
WANT A "K"?
A "K" for women! Surely the Maloy cartoon represented the true situation about women's rights in the University. Certainly the woman who works hard in athletics should get some recognition of her efforts.
The small gold letter which will be presented to the women who take part in sports will be an emblem of winning honor in some intercollegiate game. Thus the gold "K" will have the same meaning to the women as the "K" sweater of the men.
These two emblems will cause the women of the University to take a greater interest in athletics, and will give them something to strive for, and by livening the spirit, will make a better University of Kansas.
Tessie (in desperation) : Oh, yes,
he has a horse for-
anything* — Prisoner Tiger.
While the "K" is the greatest athletic honor that will be given to the women, a record of merit will be given for active interest in all the different forms of athletics. This reward will be a small gold "A," with "K. U." engraved on it.
Abbemann (after 20 minutes) : Don't you adore "Carmen"?
Marie: Was he on his knees when he proposed?
Estelle: No! I was!—Punch Bowl.
"That's where I shine," said the young college student, as he showed is blue suit to the tailor—Cornell Widow.
No matter how many people are in a pawn broker's shop, it is always a pawn broker.
Punish Father from for away.
Punish Mother from to-do.
List to the longing, list to the call,
list to the longing, list to the call.
Clasp him my hand, Lord, lead me the way;
Open my soul, now in shadows closed.
Strengthen my wings half in sleep re-
freshed.
ASPIRATION
Did you ever take a shower bath in the gym? If so, did you find a decaf shower bath?
Let me be free now to scan the skies.
Let me see deep in humanity's eyes.
Show me the wonders, the great design.
Show me all living things only as thine.
God, give my soul its birth today.
Every afternoon there are at least five hundred men students who take a workout in the gym. Football, basketball, track and baseball practices are all part of the gym classes. These five hundred students have to take a bath after their workout. And what facilities are there in the gym for a good bath?
It is not merely the proposition of teaching students; it is with the idea of preparing them for their contact with students, that their education should be directed.
Let me expand. Oh, teach me to breathe
"Dissertation Ph. D.'s," that is what one writer has called the teachers who cut themselves off from every classroom, their classrooms — Ohio State Lantern.
"It is about time that our colleges realized that they are doing - more than teaching boys—that they are not doing this, and if they are not doing this, they are not doing all their work." This came from President Alexander Meikeljohn of Amherst College at the last meeting of the Association of University Professors.
Editor of the Kansan:
breathe Deep of the air where thy great ones
Dr. Meikejohn is right. The professor who is an expert on the point of view has lost the point of view of the present, who is oblivious of everything but that which he sees.
A course should be linked with the present. It should be taught from memory to completion.
There are about eightteen pipes that supply water to the house. They take more than persuasion or cusing to get any water out of them. Then when you turn one on it either freezes and bursts, or leaks.
DESSICATED PH. D's
Communications must be signed on evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
Editor of the Kansan:
CAMPUS OPINION
The plan it hit upon for learning student opinion has one weakness. The student who uses the ballot inscribed with the questionnaire can only vote in favor of the candidate is in favor of chapel and willing to support it. The gathering of such information seems rather superfluous. It is sufficiently evident already that the great majority of students do not vote in favor of this year's chapel shows that.
The University chapel committee, in an effort to learn the feeling of the student body in regard to chapel exercises, has sent a questionnaire to the University chapel. The University plan is a good one. The services must be supported by the student body if they are to succeed, and for that reason the student body should be given a chance to express its opinion on the question. So far this year, the University's fault has not been with the program, but rather with the attendance. When a school with an enrollment of nearly three thousand men and women cannot show a chapel attendance of more than seventy-four as an average for their class, the chapel is wrong. The chapel committee is striving to find out what that is.
live;
live; unfoldment, help me to know
all I can feel, and live, and do.
For two years these baths have been in this condition. Whose fault is it? Why can not the junior or someone kneel the dirt out of the pipes, put in some new valves or do whatever fixing needs to be done?
The big question seems to be, what is wrong with chapel and how can the fault be corrected; and on this matter the questionnaire gives the student no opportunity to express himself. That is why they did not draw it up its questionnaire. When a thing has proved itself a failure from lack of support, there is little need of asking people if they are willing to support it. Plainly, they did not support it and under what conditions they would consent to help make the thing a success. If the chapel committee would give the students a chance to suggest changes in the present chapel plans they might have had, they would them in making our University chapel services what they should be.
Dip off the air where my great ones live;
Senior.
-Gertrude O. Palmer,
Lawrence, Kansas.
One shower bath. That's all. And it's a poor one.
The students like straight streams as well as showers—all they want is some way to regulate them. Lets see some action.
Track Man
How many new acquaintances did you make among students of the University of Kansas last week?
Was business any better last week than the week before; or the week before any better than the one preceding that?
How many absolutely new customers came into your store or shop last week?
All three questions imply the same thing—namely—ARE YOU MAKING MORE MONEY EVERY DAY AS A RESULT OF YOUR INCREASED TRADE FROM UNIVERSITY STUDENTS?
THREE WEEKS AGO John Houk, the barber, didn't advertise in the Kansan. He was getting his regular old standing business—every week running about the same as the week before.
Business Man of Lawrence
RESIDENCE WANTED-8 or 9
WANT ADS
WANTED—Students' washing. Called for and delivered promptly.
Phone 1866 Bell. 93-5
TODAY he has fifteen new faces visiting his shop regularly. The following from a letter to the business manager of the Kansan shows how Mr. Houx values his investment in Kansan advertising:
RESIDENCE WANTED - 8 or 9 rooms, between now and September 11. Give in exchange, Kansas City, Mississippi. Clear for Clear, or might accept light encumbrance if values justify. Address W., care this paper. 93-5*
LOST-Signet ring with initials D. B.
Finder please phone 1128 Bell. 9-37
"I have spent $8.00 advertising in the University Daily Kansan in the last two weeks and know positively, that I have obtained fifteen regular customers for my shop as a result. Fifty cents a new customer sounds good to me. I didn't know anything about writing advertisements, but the Kansan boys have helped me. Every day, the man who writes my ads comes into the shop and talks over the next day's copy with me. That is what I call "ADVERTISING SERVICE." I am making every attempt to have the SERVICE in my shop as efficient as the Kansan's. That is why I am going to hold my new customers."
FOR SALE—One of best close in and most desirable building lots, South west corner 11th and Louisiana Priced right. Own, Con Squires.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
FOR RENT - Nice large furnished room for boys, $12.00 per month for girls, $13.00 per month.
Associate your thoughts of dainty bakery goods with Brinkman's bakery
FOR SHINES THAT LAST
A Kansan advertising man will be glad to talk over your problem with you tomorrow.
Shoe Shining Parlor & Hat Works
At 833 Mass. St.
GUARANTEED HAT WORK Try the New
We do Fancy Tailoring and Remodeling. MRS. EDNAH MORRISON,
UNIVERSITY WOMEN!
What Kansan advertising has done for John Houk's barber shop, it can do for any other business in Lawrence.
BE FAIR TO YOURSELF AND ANSWER THE QUESTION IN YOUR OWN MIND AS TO WHETHER YOU ARE GETTING YOUR SHARE OF THAT MONEY.
STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SPEND NEARLY ONE AND ONE-HALF MILLION DOLLARS DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.
STUDENTS
SHOE SHOP
1107 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas.
Work and Prices Always Right
We also Repair and Cover Parasails.
R. O. BURGERT, Prop.
MRS. EDNAH MORRISON,
Bell 1154J. 1146 Tenn. St.
CITIZENS STATE BANK
We are handling all University accounts, and we solicit your business, deposits guaranteed.
707 Massachusetts St.
For the latest in commercial and society printing call on
A. G. Alrich 744 Mass. St.
We would be pleased to number you among our satisfied customers. Brinkman's.-Adv.
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository
PROTSCH The College Tailor
A Good Place to Eat Johnson & Tuttle Anderson's Old Stand 715 MASSACHUSETTE STREET
New Model Kodaks
See Them at
Evans Drug Store 819 Mass. St.
Tailored Suits
LAWRENCE PANTATORIUM
CLASSIFIED
Jewelers
Book Store
KEELER'S BOOK STORE 928 Mass.
St. Typewriters for sale or rent
and supplies.
Paper by the pound. Quiz book.
10c. Pictures and Picture framing.
ED, W. PARSONS, Engineer, Watch-
ed Jewelry.
Bell phone 711, 717, Massa-
China Paintin
Shoe Shon
**China Painting**
ESTHNIST Chinatown UPCH, China
MISS ESTHNIST CHINATOWN UPCH, China
QIDC QIDC handbag 728.5M Mass Phone
QIDC QIDC handbag 728.5M Mass Phone
**Shop Shops**
K. U. SHOE Pantatorium is the best place for best results 1342
1824
PHONE KENNEE PLUMING CO.
PHONE KENNEE MAZDA Lamps. 937
Mass. Phones.
L. H. DALE. Artistic Job Printing.
both phones 218, 1027 Mass.
*ORNEYSH SHOE SHOP. 1017 Mass. St.
makes an mistake. All work
with them.
MRS M A. M. ORGANG, I821 Tannesses,
Mrs K. A. M. ORGANG, I821 Tannesses.
Taking prices, Prices very reasonable.
Writing prices very reasonable.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires' studio. Both phones.
HARRY REDING. M. D. Dye, eye.
Erica WILSON. U Bldg. Phones, Bell 813.
phone 813
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. P. Diseases
Counselor, 189th St. Office,
counselor, 189th St. Phone:
Heal-
tal Services, 200 North St. Phone:
J. R. BECHELT, M. D. D. O. D. 832 Mms.
Both phone, office and residence.
A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 743
Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
DR. H. W. HUTCHINSON, Dent. 2017.
Parkins Bulg. , Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E. ORELBI M. D., Dick Hldg  bv.
Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist,
His glass work guaranteed. Successor to
Dr. Hamman.
Send the Daily Kansan home
Conklin Fountain Pens
Non-Leakable and Soft-Pillow
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass. St.
See Griffin Coal Company for Fuel.