UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student-paper of the University of Kansas
John M. Henry...Editor in Chief
Raymond Clapper...Managing Editor
Been Hayes...Associate Editor
William Cady...Echange Editor
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J. W. Dyche,... Business Manager
REPORTIALIOR STAFF
Leon Hurley    Alona Gould
Gibert Clement    J. M. Glasser
Gray Sorriver    J. M. Glavier
J. M. Glavier
Emanet Arndt    Carolyn McNutt
Carolyn McNutt
Louis Puckett    Harry Morgan *
Gledon Alvine    C. A. Bitter
Gledon Alvine    C. A. Bitter
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.
Subscription price $2.60 per year in advance; one term, $1.50.
The Daily Kansan aims to pique interest of the University of Kansas, to go further than merely printing the news standing for the university's play favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be serious; to solve serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to the students of the University.
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Fair Play and Accuracy Bureau
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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.
CLIP SAMPLE BALLOT
A referendum of the point system and the return of the student disciplinary power to the Senate will be taken by the students Thursday as well as the ballon on cheerleader, Councilmen, school presidents, and Athletic Board. The ballot will be long and the student will have to do a lot of considering making his marks.
Then the men and measures on the ballot will receive the studied and competent consideration, they should have.
For efficiency, the best results, and fairness to all the student should clip the sample ballot in the Daily Kansan, and figure out before he enters the booth just what men he will vote for and how he will vote on the referendums.
VOTE IT BACK
The communications reprinted during the last few days in the Daily Kansan, coming as they do from men of affairs in the University, show that the students really lack confidence in the Student Council, and want the disciplinary power returned to the Senate.
The students are not wrong. The Council has not the prestige to enforce its rulings, made up of students it has its hands in trying to rule students, and has gone down so in popular opinion that good men refuse to run for its positions.
All this has been proven during the past year by the Council itself. It may be that another organization could effect a Council that would efficiently handle student discipline. But until that organization comes let's let the Senate do the student ruling.
Don't keep your hand in the fire while you are waiting for scientists to discover some fire-proof for your band.
Here's a recipe, professors, for the creation of a new course.
IN THE REALM OF REASON
Take the perfectly obvious, no matter what, surround and intertangle it with a highly complex and incomprehensible perminology, raise abstract questions, and then seek the obvious, employing your new terminology. It makes little difference whether or not you attach the customary common garden meanings to words—you must have obscurity in order to seek the light, and quibble about your vocabulary is one of the best little means there is of obtaining it.
In classifications, be arbitrary.
Force the memorization of your
owen, although a dozen others might serve equally as well.
As regards the subject, it makes little difference how obvious it is. The student will find ample work in the adaptation of your vocabulary to your classifications, and to his own explanations of the obvious.
The first quarter of the semester may well be spent in justification of the existence of the course, and in showing how it is related and unrelated to other similar and dissimilar subjects. If there is the remotest possibility of the employment of a scientific method, you can waste a good many hours comparing your subject to physics, chemistry, and botany.
And last, but by no means least,
keep your feet on the ground, and
stay away from common-sense.
Student Opinion
THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLI
NARY POWER
Edition Koehler
Editor Kansan:
To the average uninformed student the return of the disciplinary power by the Council is synonymous with its abolition. This is not the case but Council at least more popular with the Council and consenectively more efficient.
Turning to other schools in the West we find many examples of very efficient Councils minus disciplinary powers. Ohio is one example, Chicago is another. At Chicago the county officer offers an office as prime supporter of the Reynolds Club, the name its Student Union goes under.
Then why not a Student Council without disciplinary powers at Kansas? Surely there is enough to do. Then the Student Union question, and any number of student questions to which it could devise its time.
It has been proven that disciplinary powers will at any rate for the present prove a bone of endless contention between the Council and the students. The Council president admits that it does not have enough power should he pry all or turn what it has back to the Court, the former is impossible then why not the latter, a return of disciplinary power?
LOCATE RESPONSIBILITY Editor of Daily Kansan:
What is that in government to
what are all striving? 2.
Responsibility.
Students have an opportunity by voting back the disciplinary power to get them out of government very thing in student governments. As it now exists, we never know who is the power behind the gun when accused of committing the Council members seem to know.
By voting it back on May 6th, if a man is expelled or suspended, we shall
Sachem
STUDENT GOVERNMENT FAILED
EDIT of Daily Kansas;
I wish to add my little opinion in the discussion about giving back the disciplinary power to the University Senate.
Why it has been a failure under the present organization, and why it shall continue to be an issue in this—student government has not been fairly administered. Give it back to the Senate and at least three more years for it to guiding out a few men for punishment.
In a recent issue of the Daily Kansan I notice an item concerning simplified spelling which must be several weeks old, for instead of sixty-seven, there are eighty-nine colleges which have adapted simple spelling. Hilliard colleges have adapted Missouri comes next with ten, and Kansas follows with nine.
ALL SPELL SIMPLY Editor of Daily Kansan;
The state universities of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Dakota, besides many state schools in other states, have taken the same percentage of their teachers represented in these is nearly six thousand, and the students number over eighty-two hundred.
Senior.
A Georgia town claims to have formed a descendant of George Washington.
It is also interesting to note that eighty newspapers and periodicals with a circulation of over 2,000,000 are using simplified spelling.
Little Glimpses of College Life
A reporter said the biggest story possible would be made by Gaby Deslys eloping with the Pope. But we'll bet that a joint debate between T. R., and Billy Sunday would get more front page space.
Chasing the Glooms
Simplified Speller.
Wonder if they will censor the Teddy-William films
Michigan Raises Non-Resident Fee
Michigan's board of regents raised the non-resident fees for students in all schools and colleges in the university from $10 to $25, at its regular rate. But this increase will go into effect in the dental college next fall, and will take effect in the other schools and college in the fall of 1916. When the new ruling becomes effective, all students in the school will be forced to pay $25 more than is assessed Michigan students.
Weather has it on any kind of ad-
vertisement when it comes to selling
weather products.
All Ready for Big Meet
The plans of the Missouri Valley Conference track meet are now ready. What is expected to be the greatest athletic content of this section of the conference is held at 29 at Columbia. The members of the conference are the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, Drake University, Iowa State College, University, Kansas State Agricultural College, and the University of Nebraska.
Professors Not Human!
In room 104 of Folwell hall, several University of Minnesota professors were discussing the humanitarian effect of the present war of the Middle East and the civilization of civilization as affected by Zeppelins and Ford automobiles.
In room 105 at Folwel hall, at exactly the same time, G. Sols, of St. Louis claiming to be a syndicalist organizer, was declaring before an audience: "Professors are not members of the human race."
Any student who is ambitious to pilot a flying machine can learn the fine points of the game by enrolling in the class of aeronautics at Michigan. The course has been recently developed and updated by neering. Work is under the direction of the department of naval architecture.
Wolverines Learn to Fly
Edit a Model Evening Journal
BUT OH YOU KID
A recent edition of the University of Washington Daily appears modeled after the New York Evening Journal, as a note at the bottom of the sheet states. This was carried out even to the last page with its large type editorials. Advice to the Lovelorn, by Gwendolyn Flairx, and advice to the teenagers used on the front page. The paper, labeled the "sth" edition, a so contained a thrilling love story by Virginia Terhune Van de Bogart.
"Fruit salad," thunders the Clim-
ters, "is mighty, and shall prevail."
Which is a fierce proclamation and should strike terror to our crusading soul. But that blast from the Jacksonian was a warm welcome week. This week we pick up the Jacksonian and read, apropos of the carnage in Europe:
"Her often is disagreeable, with the Jacksonian wears pink silk garters above his knees, keeps his money in his shoes, carries sachet powder in his bosom, and ties his hat on with his hair." The one probably sings "Rocked In the Cradle of the Deep," as a contralto solo! But we know from a valued personal acquaintance that he is otherwise splendid fellow! - Emporia Gazette.
WOMEN'S COLLEGES AND MAR-
PIAGES.
Professor Sprague of the Massachusetts agricultural college points an accusing finger at the women's colleges as factors in the fall of the native birth rate. Of Mount Hollyyoke graduates, no one did who do have an average of less than two children. According to Professor Sprague's figures the same is true of Vassar, while at Wellesley and Bryn Mawr only a third of the graduates marry, another third of those who have one child. But when it comes to small families, are the women's colleges the only offenders? Of the women graduated from Mount Holyoe in the quarter-century beginning 1871, 608 have married as 44 have married as 44 with some of the married Wesleyan men of the same period. Mount Holyoe graduates of the 10 classes beginning 1871 have had an average of 1.74 children to a family; those of 1881-1891 an average of 2.55; those of the next decade an average of 1.88; beginning with 1895 the records are so obviously incomplete that they are poor material for statistics. The Wesleyan average is 1.538; a faculty member of Wesleyan between 1871 and 1880, 1.96 for those of 1881-1890, and 1.42 for those of 1891-1900. Of course the figures for the '90s cannot properly be compared, but those for the 20 years before the man's mourning period were
ABROAD AT HOME WITH JULIAN STREET
Another Easterner has toured the untridden wilds of the west, and is safel yhome in the land of the lobster and the terrapin with a stock of new fish to observe all manias of the plains and a clever book on their customs and personalities.
By C, Me, and M, V
Send the Daily Kansan home.
This time it is Julian Street, newspaper and author, who blossoms forth with "Abroad at Home," (The Century Co., New York) a clever book of foreign United States that is, the part of the United States which isn't ruled by Ross Murphy and the theatrical trust.
After one has finished Mr. Street's scintillating rhetorical outburst one cannot belief but wonder if he really believes all that he says. It is really possible that he considers N' Yahk the center of the universe? Mr. Street is clever. Far be it from me, but a man, then, isn't N' Yahk the acknowledged home of all of the clever people in U. S. A.? If you don't believe that it is just glance through Mr. Street's book. He'll convince you.
He informs the reader that the book isn't intended<sup>4</sup> to give any information about the towns visited; it is merely Julian Street's impressions of the town, so it doesn't even accept a Westerner, would consider sprawling villages like Detroit and Kansas City, as real dyes-in-the-wool cities). He is right, too. Even you can realize that the book isn't intended to be a source of information.
However, one cannot but admit that the travelogue is interesting and that it does search out a lot of the faults and funny inconsistencies in this book. The United States, Mr. Street's purpose is to amuse and he has succeeded admirably. One cannot but chuckle and nod one's head in approval at his humorous criticisms, and his ppt snap-shots of familiar places.
His sketches are intensely personal, he admits it, and if he treads on toes one can only take it laughingly. In his description of a typical Westerner, who "wears watch chains inclined towards massiveness, with large golden emblems dangling from them" and has a "button-hole' which blooms with the insignia of some secret order," one can find himself given if he has seen such a person. Perhaps Mr. Street didn't see one either but then he has a N' Yahk imagination and sees through N' Yahk eyes, so why not laugh and give the clever man his dues?
Should this gently sarrastic description prove distasteful, one has
only to read further to find this passage where the clever N'Yahk person gets serious. "The Westerner's vision," he writes, "like his fashionable broad-broad shoulders. He seems the United States-ize man what it really is. His eyes are for caused for a longer range. Hats and hearts grow softer and bigger out here. Yet the Western man is genius, generous, whole-hearted, sympathetic, selfless, and sometimes a little crude, with aitude which has in it something lovable."
This is pleasant criticism, but he soon gets clever again. The two telephone systems of the West are most nerve-racking to this dweller of the most "comfortable city in the world." He writes of an experience Kansas City hotel. "There was only one telephone in my room, and of course all my calls came to other one, to which I was called twice in the course of the morning—once from my shaving, the other from my bath."
INTOITIONS OF THE SANCTUM
How coal and gold from the hills should be digged.
How ships that sail in the sea should be rigged.
How money made in the mints should be spent.
How funds that are held at the bank should be lent.
The editor knows.
How armies that march to the war should be led,
How light on the diplomat's work should be shed,
How rulers of nations their work should perform.
And preachers the gospel should preach and edify. The editor knows.
How ladies should dress their spring bonnets and gowns.
And policemen should patrol the streets of the towns.
How sewers should be fed, and petitions should.
And teachers should serve intellectual bread,
The editor always knows.
one editor always knows —Way of Faith.
Calls Schools Sausage Machine
Caís Schobos Sausage Machine "The Western Education Sausage Machine is an oriental scholar has defined the system by which western educationists are endeavoring to supplant eastern by western training in Asia. The reaction is sure to come, since western education, especially in China, has been under development. Learning from Europe and America will be good for the Orient in so far as it is gathered up, assimilated and made real in the life and expression of the orientals themself, for the orientation new learning in the long stretch between Morocco and Tokio may do well to remind themselves that it is
in the Orient and not in the Occident that modern ideas and ideals in education are to be worked out. Superimposed education is no more effective than superimposed religion in eastern lands. The training of the intellect and mind is an important asset given out of the activities, the intelligence and the state of progress of public opinion with the people concerned.
California Expositions
Here's the chance you've been waiting for—an opportunity to visit California at slight expense.
The Santa Fe is the only line both Expositions.
It's doubly interesting this year, because of the great world's fairest San Francisco and San Diego.
Let me send you our illustrated cross-continent guide book and Exposition books and tell you about the cheap fares on the Santa Fe.
On the way Grand Canyon of Arizona and Petrified Forest.
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