UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Even the Wind on Mt. Oread Can be Held at Bay by One of those
New 1916 Overcoats
which we have ready for your selection. Special values at
$15 - $17 - $20
Knitted Toques 50c to $1
Fur Caps
$2 to
$8.50
A downtown merchant complained this morning because his business is always poor in January. Doubtless true.
And doubtless true because that merchant is not making any effort to increase his January business by stimulating it in offering seasonable goods to possible purchases.
The successful merchant does not sit back and whine when business is dull. He fights harder than he does when business is good. He moves his stock even at a sacrifice. The same Lawrence merchant complains of the students and faculty who patronize the mail order houses.
Montgomery Ward flooded the campus yesterday with news of its January and February sales. We know of one faculty man who sent a $6.78 check for an article he saw offered in the Montgomery Ward circular.
And the Lawrence Merchant who has not the sagacity to advertise his goods, whines because business is dull.
Sophomore Basketball Women Will
Play Edwardsville High Next
GAME FOR WOMEN ONLY
The women's Sophomore basketball team will play a practice game with the Edwardsville's High School at Edwardsville, Kansas, Friday, January 14. Only women, however, will be allowed to attend this game and judge on the swiftness and skill of the teams.
The Sophomore class team has been challenged to a similar practice game by the Polytechnic Institute of Kansas City, Mo., and as soon as the date can be arranged the game will be played in the Rocky Mountain field with the yells from the audience will be of a strictly female variety.
We have prepared a variety of good things for you tonight. Drop in after "The Witching Hour" and let us serve you.
froth Sophomores and Freshmen have elected captains. Ruth Endicott was chosen to lead the Sophomore team.iriarl Nation will lead the Freush recruits.
The Freshman basketball women are planning also to play the Law-
y of Combat.
Preparatory to delivering their final report, A. J. Nigg and G. A. Ruthert, seniors in the School of Engineering are this week busily engaged over the results of the test on a large steam engine in the Cushing gas fields of Oklahoma. The test was made by the Manufacturers' department for the Wichita Pipeline company, one of the largest gas companies in the United States.
Students Test Engine
Reynolds Bros.
THE TAX-PAYER'S DOLLAR
The State Politician not Always Clear in His Campaign Speeches
That the Kansas citizen has been deceived by candidates for state offices in their campaigns as regards the money they were going to save in appropriations both for education, care of the prisoners and defective in the state offices, is evidenced by an investigation of the appropriations made by the legislature for the year ending this. This in- house assessment was made by a student at the University of Kansas as a regular class assignment.
The state taxes for that year were 12 cents on the hundred dollars worth of property. That is, if a man paid local taxes on $833 worth of property, he paid just one dollar in state taxes. Of that dollar, 43.60 cents went to the University of Kansas; 11.7 cents to the University of Kansas; 12.6 cents to Kansas State Agricultural College; 4.1 cents to the Kansas State Normal at Emporia; 2.7 cents to Kansas State Manual Training Normal at Pittsburgh; 1.1 cents to the Fort Hays Kansas Normal School; 1.1 cents to the Olathe School for the Deaf and .58 cents to the Kansas City School for the Blind.
If the average citizen paid taxes on $1,400 worth of property, and that is nearly the amount, less than sixty cents went toward higher education, the one paramount activity this state wants on for the training of better citizens.
Out of that tax payer's dollar, 33 cents go for the upkeep and instruction at the state penitentiary, or to assist inmates in some asylums, state hospitals, soldiers' homes and institutions for the epileptic and feebleminded. Nearly as much is spent for prisoners and defectives by education of the best youth of the state.
For all the help the farmer receives from the agricultural experiment stations, the tax payer with $833 worth of property pays only 1.3 cents; for all other properties, boards, he pays 5.5 cents; for the upkeep of the state offices, he pays 5.9 cents; for the district court expenses all over the state, he pays 2.8 cents; for the finest buildings in Topka-$ Memorial Hall - he paid only 3 cents in 1914.
The other 14.45 cents that are left out of his dollar, go for miscellaneous costs.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Second Tryouts for triangular debate with Missouri, Oklahoma and Kentucky. Thursday afternoon. Jan. 13 at 2:30 o'clock in Room 3, Green Hall.
Those who have rooms to rent for the Merchants' short course Feb. 7-11 please call Extension Division, K. U. 101.
Theta Sigma Phi meeting 4:30
Thursday, Rest Room, Fraser.
McCanles.
Band will play for basket ball game. Wednesday evening, meeting at 10 a.m.
The Correspondence Study Department of the University Extension Division has been moved from 117 Fraser to 111 Fraser, the room vacated by Assistant Registrar, Miss Emily Zwick and her force.
Stop in at Reynolds Bros., after the show tonight, and get something hot. —Adv.
MECHANICALS ADOPT DIP,
DESIGN OF RED AND BLUE
Our fountain is not froze up, even though it is zero weather. Stop in for something to warm you up. Reynolds Bros.—Adv.
LOST-Cameo Brooch, between Robinson Gymnasium and 23rd St. and Learnard avenue, Call B. 158. Reward. 74-3
When down town, a piping hot chili at Roytona Hills, will go a long way toward it.
The Mechanical Engineering Society adopted a society pin at their meeting last night at the home of Prof. A. H. Sluss. The pin will be made up with a red border and a blue center, Kansas colors. The letters A. S. M. E. will appear in the upper of the pin and K. S. U. the lower.
A report of the "Routing System if the Western Electric Company's Chicago Plan" was delivered by S.
E. Campbell. President Jerry Stillwell also gave a report, his subject being, "The Man The Man Kerosene The Man the Chikas International Harvester Company."
The next Annual Engineering Day was discussed at the meeting and several committees were appointed to direct the plans for this event.
After "The Witching Hour," stop at Reynolds Bros., for a cup of hot chocolate.—Adv.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Why Leave the "Hill' this Blizzardy Weather?
During this bad weather the Oread Cafe will be prepared to feed you all.
SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY NOON 25 Cents
Sliced Tomatoes
Roast Beef Gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Bartlett Pears
Seven other kinds of meats and five kinds of vegetables ready from 11:30 to 1:30
The Oread Cafe
Just a Step from the Campus
BONWIT TELLER & CO.
The Specialty Shop of Originations
FIFTH AVENUE AT 38TH STREET
NEW YORK
THE ESPRIT OF COLLEGE
—of crisp mornings on the campus—the gay camaraderie of the greetings tossed over scarf-draped shoulder—the "esprit de jeunesse":—this the distinctive note in the originations of these celebrated
“Contouriers aux Jeunes Filles”
Sports Wear, Gowns, Tailleurs, Undergarments, Hats.
Boots and Accessories—all partake of this esprit.
QUESTIONS IN REGARD TO AFFAIRS OF FASHION WILL BE ANSWERED PROMPTLY, INTERESTEDLY AND WITH AUTHORITY.
LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas.
wants ambitious young people to enroll and prepare for exceptional positions, as bookkeepers, stenographers, private secretaries, civil service. Positions secured as soon as competent. Enroll any Monday. Write, phone or call for catalogue. 645 Mass. St. Two Floors.
E. S. WEATHERBY,
Superintendent.
W. H. QUAKENBUSH
President
THE FLOWER SHOP
LEADING FLORISTS
$ 8 2 5^{1 / 2} $ Mass. St.
Phones 621
We like to do little jobs of Repairing
The College Jeweler
Seniors!
If we make your picture it will be ready for the Annual Con Squires