UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the Univer- city of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Zetha Hammer Editor-in-chief Associate Associate Chas. Sturtevant Associate Edite Raymond Clapper News Edite Charles Sweet Assistant Assistir Bernice Dahl Edite BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Chas. Surtaveur .. Business Manager REPORTORIAL STAFF carrigi Sorrell Ralph Ellis Vernon A. Moore Don Davis William Cady Brandon Prindle Lloyd W. Maree Harvey Morgan Wade McKenna McKennan Entered as second-class mail mat- telete. Send to: 215-670-2345, office, afx; wwcnds; kansas, under the jfk. Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Published in, in the afternoon. Five weeks later, in a column in the press were published. Joined the press of partner at the age of 40. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to go further than the University of Kansas; to go further than the University holdst; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to the students of the University. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1916. The discontented Man finds no easy Chair—Richard's Almanac. WHY NOT? The voice of Mammon is after all the voice that speaks the loudest. We may philosopher as much as we will about the sordidness of gold and the degrading influence of money, but when all is said and done, in the last analysis, the only real strength that an organization has, consists in its right to handle finances. It is lack of any kind of financial support and the lack of any opportunity to handle money, that has made the Student Government Associations the helpless, powerless bodies that they have become. If the Men's Student Council had had any sort of financial backing the Student Union would not have resulted in failure. In the first place, if the Council had had money, it would have been able to put up a creditable club house that could not but have been a success, and in the second place, if it had had a financial backing, the Student Union could have been tided over and nursed back into a healthy condition. The report of the financial standing of the athletic association is just out. The athletic association is the only organization in the University that has control of any finances and the handling of any money. What would the Student Council not be able to accomplish if it had the same financial backbone? In other large universities where student government has succeeded, and where anything worth while has been accomplished by the student government organizations, they have had control of all athletics and the expenditure of money brought in by athletics. If the Student Government Associations had control of finances they would be able to establish a cooperative bookstore on a firm foundation, a cooperative bookstore that would finally grow into a large cooperative general store such as they have at Harvard. Student government would then have power enough to carry through any ventures that it might undertake. But not until the control of finances is put into the hands of the Student Government Association, with a board of directors composed of both members of the student body and members of the faculty, will student government ever amount to anything powerful, or ever have the power and strength to push through the things it may undertake. CODIFIED AT LAST The new constitution of the University of Kansas is just off the press. With its passage by the University Senate, the institution has changed from a government made up of customs and laws gradually built upon precedent to a government with codified laws dealing with the different powers of the different departments. The University has passed from the stage of the unwritten constitution, of which England is a good example, to the written and more exact ruling. The new constitution deals with ten main points, setting forth the duties and the limitations of the various bodies and officers. While each officer knew before the passage of the constitution what his duties were, now he may look up any point that arises as to his rights in any matter. Director of libraries is a new office which has been created by the constitution. General supervision of the various school libraries, together with the examination and selection of books is a part of the duties of the director. After forty-eight years of doing things because they have always been done that way, the University of Kansas will now do them because they are printed in a book: from the spirit to the letter of the law. THE NEXT TO GO? One by one they are taking them from us, the little indulgences we have learned to think are necessary. The cough, time-honored fellow to the cold, is the first victim. We have it from no less an authority than Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the widely known popularizer of medical knowledge, that coughing is only a habit, a nervous habit due to a tickling in the throat brought on by previous coughing, and also by a sort of unconscious imitation. Hence, if a man never coughs the first time, and is careful not to do as the Romans do, he will never have to cough, nor even to clear his throat. But the iconoclasts are not content with robbing us of this one comfort. They must needs go a step farther, and declare that sneezing and the picking of one's teeth are obsolete. "All habits," they say, "nervous habits. You have been jellyfish, spinless creatures, failing to use your will for the betterment of your health." These reformers are on the war path, and they mean business. Warrants are out for the cough, the mneeze, and the toothpick. What will be the next to go? Perhaps the hand-criefish and the cuspidor. Now that the Austrian civilians have to do without cigarettes so that the soldiers can be supplied, they may begin to appreciate the horrors of war. The trawlers "Good Shepherd" and "Pax Vobiscum" took the parcel post off the Oscar II, thus preventing Christmas packages from reaching their destinations. But then, what's in a name, especially in war times? The fact that the mark and the Krone have depreciated in value at the foreign exchanges, doesn't seem to be affecting German markmanship. FOUND IN A BOOK A Corner for the Library Browser "Why am I wrong in trying to get a little success?" "Just because you try. Don't you understand?". Good work has nothing to do with this doesn't belong to—you've put it into him or her from outside." "Wait a minute. All we can do is to learn how to do our work, to be masters of our materials instead of our tools and never to be afraid of anything." "I understand that." "But how does that affect___" "Everything else comes from outside ourselves. . . Very good. If we sit down quietly to work out notions that are sent to us, we may or we may not deal with them in a great deal depends on being master of the bricks and mortar of the trade. But the instant we begin to think about success and the effect of our work—to play with one eye on the other and to learn everything else. At least that's how I have found it. Instead of being quiet and giving every power you possess to your work, you're fretting over something which you can neither see nor hear. When my little head was bursting with a notion that I couldn't handle because I hadn't sufficient knowledge of my craft, I used to run to wonder at my own magnificence and give me the world. "But surely one can understand." "Very seldom with malice aforethought." thought. —The Light That Failed. (Kipling.) I have heard of a copy of "Sentimental Tommy" in the library. But as I have asked at the desk six times for the book I rather doubt it. I know of a boy who got out the ponderous, generation-age volumes of Scriffner's to read how Tommy lost the prize. "The Iron Woman" by Mrs. Margaret Delaird whose biography, logic, and purity of diction has caused Mr. Hamilton Mabie to characterize it as one of the strongest pieces of American fiction, and other characteristic works that are absent. Yet Robert W. Chambers, Josephine Dasmond Bacon, and Ralph Connor—all these may be had for the asking. There is a thumb-worn "Tess o. the D'urbervilles" somewhere back in the stacks lost as hope'less as they were, and another with the curvature of the spine which the journalism classes keep constantly in sight and watch with an eagle eye fearful for the future. I will forever beverted of Thomas Hardy. complete the same! FROM "RABBI BEN EZRA" Mother Goose in College We Hereby Resolve This is not an attack on the library, nor on its mengerness of solid diet. I realize that we are poor at Kansas in alumni of large universities. Rather it is an attack on the lack of discrimination between the cheap and the shoddy, and the lasting and the permanent. Perhaps as the result of our education in our libraries the literary ideals of our undergraduates will be increased. TO always get our lessons—from a good student. TO neither borrow nor lend—esper- sibly lend FROM "HABBI BEN ERA" So, take and use by work; What strain of the stuff, what warping pants in the tie in my hand; My tie in the hand; Perfect the cup as planned; Let age approve of youth, and death. Brown's football eleven will play the University of Washington team of Seattle, at Pasadena, California, on New Year's Day. The students as a rule read what there is for them to read. That is self-evident. So it is impossible to blame students for a lack of discrimination between the cheap and the shoddy and the lasting and the permanent when in our own university library the same lack of discrimination is deplorably evident at every glance thru the files. Possibly no more charming book has been written than Benjamin Franklin's story of his own life. It should be in the hands of every American. Dr. Eliot includes it in his "five foot book" on the history of America. Yet only one autobiography of Benj. Franklin is in existence in the library, while Henry Van Dyke's puerile verses are honored with three copies each. I was looking only the other day for some volumes on the "new poetry", the work of the Imagists; anthology, most important, the modern drama—and the result! alas—"no not one". Gertrude Stein, Vasheh Lindsay, Amel Lovell, Jonathan Rothschild, of them, are noticeably lacking. Yet Elia Wheeler Wilcox has nine large volumes. Editor of the Daily Kansan; Russian literature, except for the artists. every child knows (I refer to Tolstoi and one or two others) is conspicuous by its absence. A search for Gorky's story of his sordid childhood reveals nothing. Yet a search of the novels Harold Bell Wright. I haven't the heart to mention the three classics except to say that "The Eyes of the World" heads the list. Joseph Conrad, a master writer, human, fascinating, colorful, who would be of absorbing interest to the student whether he cared for "literature" or no, is represented by a meager selection of short stories. The author's published work might be said in passing that the mature work of Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porton, published in 1915, is on file, not to mention a volume or two by the same author on science—notable chiefly for his writings of biographies and prosequences of phrases rather than any literary qualities or real scientific knowledge. TO keep our notebooks up—on the shelf. "Bulging Bookworm." TO keep on the walks—unless the students are shorter,—iowa State Student. And if he's not been stopped. He's slipping still. There was a young man Browning. Slipped going down hill. Kansan Advertisers Those merchants who really desire and appreciate your business are those who advertise in the CLASSIFIED Book Store Patronize Lawalana Book Store KEELERS BOOK STORE 329 Mass. SL. 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