UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Zetha Hammer ... Editor-in-chief Guy Serviller ... Associate Editor Judy Bentley ... Editor Graymond Clapper ... News Editor Michael P. Heller ... Assistant John Gleisner ... Assistant BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS BIANE Chas. Sturtevant ... Business Manager REPORTORIAL STAFF Carcell Sproull Ralph Ellis Vernon A. Moore Don Davis William Cady Paul Brindel Lloyd Whiteide Harry Morgan John B. Wilson Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail master September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Published in the afternoon five times. Visits of the author, a vice president, from the press of England. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life so far; it goes further than merely printing the news by standing up for its causes; it plays no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to be active; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to service the university, to the institution of the University. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1916. "Liberty without obedience is con- federated," William Penn. It is surely surveyed—William Penn. MORE SCIENCE NEEDED! A new year lies before us, full of possibilities as great as we want to make them. We are living in an age in which nations and individuals are fighting for supremacy, and the coming year will be more heavily marked by this tendency than any preceding year has been. Three things are necessary in the fight for supremacy, whether that wager is waged on the battle field or in the class room, and these three requirements are organization, systematization and concentration of effort. Few University students organize and systematize their work. If they did, they would find that they are wasting much valuable time upon minor things. A schedule of hours and work is the best way of solving the matter. SOME DID IT In the coming year are we going to have scientific management introduced into our University work or are we to continue to ramble along in our former unorganized manner of working and living? Several of the county clubs proved themselves effective organizations during the holidays. They accomplished something constructive. Other county clubs were either never formed or else died from sheer inertia, long before the holidays approached. But the most worth-while thing that the full fledged clubs accomplished was to prove that a strong organization is possible. Strong organization is the only thing that will ever gain us the mill tax for which we have been fighting for the past few years. The legislature meets again next year. It is never too late to form a county club. Do it now. THEY'RE OFF Two thousand, eight hundred and six members of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi at the University of Kansas during the next four years! That sounds like a great many when you stop to consider that the enrollment of this institution is only 2806. But that is the present estimate. Two thousand, eight hundred and six students of the University in varied states of health, pocketbook and record in the offices of the deans opened up their eyes last Saturday morning to reflect that the day for resolutions had arrived. Can it be possible that there was a single one of that number that did not straighten up and solemnly resolve that he was going back to the University to show the professors that he could really be One student if he wanted to be? But regardless of whether there will be two thousand, eight hundred and six members of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi in the next four years or not, now is the propitious time to make such resolutions. Discounting the fact that it is at the beginning of the New Year when each one ought to be thinking of the things that are to be done within the next year, it is a highly significant fact that the calendar shows the final examinations to be scheduled for the fourth week in January. The time for the great reckoning approaches and preparedness will be the general student topic for the next three weeks—and Phi Beta Kappa beware! STEP RIGHT UP, AMES. Four days until the first basketball game! At that time, the followers of this popular indoor sport will have a chance to see what Coach W. O. Hamilton has up his sleeve toward the making of another Missouri Valley championship team. Ames comes to our guest at two informal gatherings on the polished floor of Robinson Gymnasium, January 6 and 7. It is rather early in the year to meet so strong a team, but as we started to remark— Coach Hamilton has somehow fallen into the habit of picking out a basketball team that shows early in each season that it is the Cream of the Valley. The championship of the conference has come so regularly that Kansas would hardly know what to do without it. Coach Hamilton is the premier coach of the Missouri Valley and due recognition must be given him for the work that he has done to put basketball on its present high plane in the conference. And we'll all turn out Thursday night for the first tangle. STRIKE NOW IF AT ALL As the mid-year quizzes approach we are again confronted with the old question of the honor system. Both the Men's and Women's Student Councils have toyed with the problem in past months and past years. But nothing has been accomplished. Are we then to acknowledge that we cannot solve a problem that other universities and colleges have solved? If we cannot work out this system it would be best for us to drop the subject entirely, but if there is a possibility of its being worked out, now is the time to act. Are we to have an honor system in working order or not at the time of the mid-year examinations? The time to decide is here now. When'er the cubs can't find the news, and bright remarks aren't in our We always try to fill the page Bible with the Bible. And bright remarks aren't in our home. We already fill to the page. With "Send the Daily Kansan home." VACATION BONEHEADS 1. When (not realizing same to be) amused, you called her grandfather a "type." 2. When you reach down in a hurry and mopped the motor-boat oiler with the first thing your hand touched—her handkerchief. 3. When in the dark at a "beachroast" you mistook a bunch of cornsilk for an escaped and fugitive "hang." 4. When you told that latest Ford jeep, and then discovered that her father had stolen it, 5. When her little brother (to parry your jibes) asserted that he had seen you in the somewhat close face of another girl-Yale Record. Bill Shakespeare, Sport Ed. That Shakespeare was well acquainted with the game of football is shown by the Kenyon Colegiag, which printed the following excerpts from the Bard of Avon's plays: "More rushes! more rushes!"— Henry IV. “It’s the first time I ever heard breaking of ribs was sport.” As Johnny "We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns."—Henry IV. "Being down, I have the placing." -Cymbeline. "Pell mell, down with them!"- Love's Love Lost. "Down, down!"—Henry IV. "Wild, wild!"—Jackson. "A touch, a touch. I do confess." Hamlet. "Let him not pass, but kill him rather."—Othello. "I'll catch it ere it comes to ground." - Macbeth. "Tis sport to maul a runner"—Anthony and CLOepatra. "Worthy sir, thou bleedest; thy exactness was been too violent"; Corinthus. And not a drop that from our cups we throw For such as to drink of,but may steal below To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye in there Eyes ago, beneath, and long ago Omar Khavaym FROM THE RUBAIYAT Editor Daily Kansan: "The teacher of agriculture in Kansas must be brought to the realization that he must help solve the agricultural problems of Kansas," says Prof. H.J. Waters president of Manhattan College, an executive has made a statement which applies equally to the departments of instruction here at the University. They could also deal with practicabilities and help solve other problems for the state. For example the political science department could call on Mr. Sikas Kansas town which is dissatisfied with its present form of government. This was done in a western college last year and the charter turned out was just what was wanted. The engineering school could draw up designs for the beautification of Kansas towns. Business men of the Bureau like that now conducted at Harvard. Business men of the state could ask questions and have the department help solve their troubles. The latest work done by the Harvard Bureau is to discover a cure for the hardship and inefficiency in the retail grocery store. The Chicago retailers have planned suggested and have adopted the method of book keeping proposed. Sluffers and Bookworms. CAMIUS OTION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent. CAMPUS OPINION You do not have to be and you cannot be a bookworm to be a student. You cannot be a sluffer and be a student either. Neither the bookworm nor the sluffer is desirable in a college. The one is too busy to work for his school and the other is too lazy. The happy medium, that student, is one who has time for student activities outside of school work The classes could be utilized to work out these problems as laboratory experiments or assignments. The concreteness of the problems and their relation to every day interest in his course in University, that which he brought to the people, has been brought to the people over the state by the solution of their problems and they would be more interested in the work here. The sluffer goes out of college lazier than he was before entering. The bookworm has taken out of the school all he can get in the way of book learning, and has put nothing into his mind not only to benefit himself but to assist, in his way, be it small or large, to place his school on a higher level. And the result is that when he leaves he is developed along many lines, while the sluffer is developed on one side and the bookworm on one. The city of the college today is for the live student, not the dead one. THAT OLD LOW-BROWED PAPA STIFFE We may not have to chew the city water next year but if not we will probably see a rise in the price of board. "Will they become me?" some of the students in that department are asking themselves. We would frankly say, 'no.' But the number that will be wearing them will soon make them so common a sight that no one need feel any personal discomfort. The sense of the scheme and unity is for the individual students (to say nothing of the economy and comfortableness of a good old pair of corduroys, should make the plan a success. The idea is a good one and should have been adopted long ago. The journalist of all other students need just such sort of rough and ready attribution, so they be distinguished from the "common or garden variety" of students. Editor of the Daily Kansan: Swish, swish, swish. By their corduroys you shall know them. Goodbye pantatoriums and clothing stores. With a neat pair of "cords" on the cold winter winds will only blow in for the journalism student. Practical —Don Marquis. "I'm burning up with love for you!" His accents did not lack fire— And then her papa came downstairs And started up a back fire. As a rule he does not rank number one in his classes because his sole aim is not set upon winning a prize or fellowship. He does not refuse to win and does not interfere with his studies or because he is too busy having a good time and is willing to help whereher he is able and he does not howl because he is not paid for it. And he does not have the course he has something to show for it, which the sluffer has not, and the bookworm probably has not. To say you don't know a person very well is usually a tactful way of saing you don't like him. Lawrence Merchants CLASSIFIED Jewelers are advertising are sold exclusively in Lawrence by ED. W. PARISONS, Engraver, Watch- Jeweler, Bell phone 711, 717, Mast- jewelry. Pre-inventory and Stock Reducing Sales **CHELLA PAINTING** MISS ESTELLA NORTHPARK, FL. edh. painting. Orders for special occasion carefully handled. 735 Mass. Phone Bell 152. Pantatorium Barber Shops Go where they all go J. C. HOUCK 913 Mass. K. U. SHOE SHOE and Pantatorium is the best place for best results 1342 1342 NUMBERS PHONE IKENNAN LUMING CO. for gasoline and Mazda Lamps. 321-467-2280 PHONE KIRSCH LUMING CO. for gasoline and Mazda Lamps. 321-467-2280 Plumbers Printing H. D. MALE, Artistic Job Printing Both phones 228, 1027 Mass. Shoe Shop FORNEY SHOP makes a 1017 Mass. Don't make a mistake. All work must be done with care. MISR, M. A. MORGAN, 1234 Teen, Uppey, College, NY. Party dresses a speciality. Party dresses a specialty. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Nouleurs, studio. Both phones. HARRY REDING, M. D. Eyer, ear, phone: 612-745-3180 FIA, A. F., U. Blidk, Phones, Bell 515; When taking advantage of their slash in prices— J. B. BECHTEL, M. D. D. O. 823 Mass. Both phone numbers and office reks G. A. HAMMAN, M. D. Dick Building. Dick building dines. satisfied. satisfaction guaranteed. Dick building dines. satisfied. satisfaction guaranteed. Tell them you saw their advertisement in the G, W JONES, A, M, M. D. D. Diseases G. W JONES, A, M, M. D. Diseases colony. SU ST. Phi S. Phone. Leve- lley St. Phi S. Phone. A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 743 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas. DR, H. W. HUTCHISON, Dentist. 208 Parkia Bldg, Lawrence, Kansas. Corona and Fox Typewriters University Daily Kansan We have machines for rent and a full line of supplies. F. I. Carter, 1025 Mass. St. Creamery Butter for your hot cakes. A. I. HAKES, Proprietor. Eat there and get good coffee with Pure Cream MODEL LAUNDRY 11 and 13 W. 9th Phones: Bell 156; Home 145 Special discount to K. U. students. STUDENTS Eat at the Varsity Cafe Everything Neat and Clean. Our Everything Neat and Clean. Our food well cooked. We hire student help and solicit students to promote the theater. Two doors north of Varsity Theatre. For the latest in commercial and society printing call on A. G. Alrich 744 Mass. St. Market Cafe Open and Ready for Business Neatest little lunch room in the city Perkins Bldg. J. J. Collins, Prop. Kress Inventory Sale NOW ON There are many little odds and ends you can now buy at a fraction of former prices. See Griffin Coal Company for Fuel. One-Third to One-Half Off. Send the Daily Kansan home. University Girls We repair and remodel coats, furs and party dresses. This work is done in a special department installed in connection with out millinery busi- MRS. J. M. McCORMICK, 831 Mass. eof-tf Let Schulz Suit You 913 Mass. Watkins National Bank Capital $100,000 Surplus and Profits #100,000 The Student Depository Conklin Fountain Pens Non-Leakable and Self-Filling Sold in Lawrence at F. B. McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass. St. Kodakers!! We are making a greater endeavor to develop your films and print your pictures this year. Evans Drug Store 819 Mass. St.