I UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University Alty of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF John M. Henry Editor-in-Chief John Happer Marketing Editor Helen Hawker Associate Editor William Jadky Merchandise Editor BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS STAFF J. W. Dressant Manager C. S. Sturventev Advertising Staff REPORTORIAL STAFF REPORTORIAL STAFF Leon Hutcheson John M. Gleason Glenn Clayton John M. Gleaser J. M. Miller Charles Sweet Dave Dawl Elmer Orndt Carolyn McNutt Louis Puckett Harry Morgan Glendon C. A. Gitter Glendon Patterson Subscription price $2.50 per year in advance; one term, $1.50. 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. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture students in the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the book; to teach the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to solve problems to wiser heads, in all, and to satisfy the students of the University. Fair Play and Accuracy Bureau Prof. H. T. Hill...Faculty Member Don Jason...Student Member John Henry...Secretary If you find a mistake in statement or impression in any of the columns of Daily Kansan...to the secretary of Daily Kansan. He will instruct you as to further procedure. VALE, F. H. S. F. Hopkinson Smith, author, artist and practical engineer, is dead. And so the American public is robbed of the further production of a much loved man, but his memory will be carried on by the wok he has accomplished and given to the world. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915 He was born seventy-seven years ago in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in New York City where he has been making his home for the past few years. After leaving school at fourteen he went to work as a shipping clerk and later in the metal industry. He did not give up educating himself, however, and began the study of mechanical engineering. As evidence of his ability in this practical work we have the sea walls at Tomkinsville, Staten Island, Governors Island and the foundation of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. To the majority of the people of the United States he is known best, probably, as an author and artist. His works have been appearing for many years both in the form of short stories and books. Copies of his paintings have appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal. In all his works, both in literature and art, we have no great splashes of vivid color or huge world problems. Mellowness, quaint humor and understanding characterize what is left to the world of F. Hopkinson Smith. A man or woman that has gone through three and a half years of school successfully, satisfying all requirements, getting the necessary grades, and filling all groups called for, usually can be trusted to carry on that work for the final part of the fourth year, when he is a candidate for a degree, and taking a more serious attitude toward his courses than at any other time. And that man or woman is usually busier at that time than any other. EXEMPT 80% SENIORS For these reasons the University authorities should act favorably on the Sachems' petition to exempt seniors having above 80% grades from the final examinations. THE RIGHT WAY We are glad to learn that the Student Council intends to give the students a vote on the point system schedule. As the men's schedule now stands we believe the students are not satisfied with it. A vote will settle all dispute. And if the students do not want the system at all they will have a chance to reject it. There will be no forcing a system on the student body by the Council. The University high brows, "who were so very indignant that they asserted that every case of typhoid in the last three years was the direct result of drinking water" are glad to learn that their contention was really the "flat and undisputed truth." WE ARE GLAD But as has been said by the advocates of the muddy water the matter is settled now, and Lawrence citizens will go right on buying drinking water and smelling city water. For sake of emphasis the Kansas would say that it does not oppose the point system proposition as drawn up by the W. S. G. A., but that it is opposed to that adopted by the Student Council. We hasten to suggest M. Jess Willard to the convocation committee. Student Opinion Editor Karsan: Are the students going to let the "Point System" die? That is the question that is being asked over the Hill and I think it is time that some action is being taken to increase our education. University certain fraternities and individuals have been in control of elections and have heaped the electoral honors on themselves and friends, amid the mighty and painful system of the student body. The Point System has made a stop to this unfair and undemocratic practice, and it is now up to the student body to see that some action is taken on the matter as the Student Council has stated that it will be moved to a vote unless the students manifest some interest in the matter. Let's get together and whoop 'e' up boys! Pepper. Chasing the Glooms We would write some more wheezes about that, Russian-captured fortress, (or was it masculine gender) called P——, but the proof-reader has threatened to strike. Add famous last line; Continued on Page —. Wonder if there's an arbitration court in Mars to which we could reer the Earth's case. Why not call him the Kansas cycle? Not every student who economizes in school is preparing to enter the ministry. Sie semper Barleycorn—champion eeis. Dr. Irving Fisher says European science has added 17 years per century to man's life. He did not refer to military science. At last Spring shows the dimples in her pretty shoulders. Well, if the back collar button is eradicated as per the movement there will be but one button to roll under the bureau. Lives there the man who has not saw what did you think of the fight? " Some of the Kansan cubs and kitties say the janitor of the office could get out a better paper from a content editor of a basket than is now published daily. It is supposed that the freshman of this generation are so much worse than those of last because of the growing disuse of shingles. You can't spank them very handily with a tin roof, don't you know. The Harvard faculty has barre book agents from the campus. If the Kanaas faculty should take such action the present buildings would easily accommodate the students in school. At least man always knows where he got his headache. In spite of his defeats John Bar leycorn has the punch, "One, two, three, dip." No, not tango; tobo a freshman. Shots at Half-Cock Or Foolishment in Verse Now, it'll be the Italian hesitation Quick, James, She Winked Her Ear Oh, the tennis ball is "pinging." While the "spring poet" is singing 4. most "joyful roundelay," The "summer girl" is strolling, Down, by the "habbling brook.", So the "ducats" start to rolling A most joyful roundday. The "summer girl" is strolling, om "dear Dad's" "slim pocket book" Speaking the Kansas Language Billy Sunday abuses the church members and the sinners but never abuses the newspapers. Billy Sunday is the most successful preacher in the country, standing in with the men who form public opinion. We had a president once who undertook to dictate to the newspapers and he served only one day. He was also in the making by the business men trying to run the newspapers. The best preachers, the best statemen and the best and most successful men are all on friendly terms with the newspapers. -Leavenworth Post. The best definition of a friend we have ever seen in print was that given by a writer in London Tit-Bits, who said: "A friend is the first person who comes in when the world has gone out."-Anna Carlson. If you can fool half the people all the time, be satisfied, don't be a dog. —No man ever pushed himself ahead by patting himself on the back.—Noah was six hundred years old before he knew how to make an ark. Don't lose your grip.—Noreadur Dispatch. THE REAL, KANSAN THE REAL KANSAS Jerry Hines, he honeymooned. Ed Howe muses billions amid the bowers of Potato Hill. Joe Bristow is out of work. Victor Murdock is hiding the irony of his name and the unquenchable fire of his poll in Iowa. He has become an impressive expanded that once romantic form as did they Mr. Tracy Tupman's. In literature, in politics, in progressivism, in theoretical and applied all-crankery, the Sunflower droops and fades. The Hon. Jess Hemsley also wrote *esthetic* state Hope. He carries Kansas and her glorv.-N. Y. Sun. RULLEN AND THE BIBLE BULLEN AND THE BIBLE recently there was an English author, Bill O'Brien, who has to his credit some of the best sea stories ever written. His "Cruise of the Cachelo" has perhaps not been surpassed even if we do not forget our own Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," and that Clark Russel wrote. Bullen wrote much other matter about the sea, both didactic and educational, but there was a style that ranked him with the great masters of the language. When he submitted his first manuscript to Kipling, who advised publication, Kipling asked him where he got his fine style, Bullen answered, "I got my style from the Bible; it was my only university." He went on to writing as anything that he ever wrote. Until he was nine years old he lived with an aunt, who taught him to read the Bible and read it with him. On his aunt's death he was thrust into the streets, but under his ragged coat he carried his Bible. In his twelfth year he went to sea in a cabin bay under one of the ships he almost the type of the British merchant service. He flogged the boy so mercifully that the crew threatened mutiny. For twenty years Bullen sailed the sea, rising by degrees until he became mate. With him all the time was his Bible, which he read twenty-five times from cover to cover men in his family and a port of family on five on $10 a week. In desperate straits he wrote of his life at sea and sent the manuscript to Kipling. His first book was the "Cruise of the Candeloet." Afterward he wrote much, and became in the end a wealthy author of high rank, his one line of sea stories and sea observation books, and gave his thought distinction. There are all sorts of deductions to be made from this unusual life. But there is at least one reflection worthy of note, and that is how fortunate is that people whose sacred书 is in the vernacular translated at just the time when the earth was pure and perfect. The style of the Bible in those days was in the air. Writing men of any parts all had it. Bullen's story but repeats what others have illustrated. Some of the greatest writers and speakers in the language have frequently acceded to the style and finest in their thought came from their diligent reading of the English Bible—Indianapolis News. A CHANCE FOR CARRANZA Oh, Citizen Carranza. If you'd make a hit with us. Go busy down in Moxt. Be kind and mouss. Meet Johnson when he comes ashore Present him with a gun. 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