UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MILLET HAS GREEK SPIRIT
Critic Says he Has Simplicity, and Directness of Ancients
From the New York Post.
Citing the words of the French painter Rousseau "it is better to be simple minded than clever," George Fraser "Loving the French painting" "The art of Mille, one of the greatest of the modern, confirms this. His inspiration was drawn directly from the nature round about him, yet his design has the same simplicity and directness of appeal the same quality of style, as we find in Greek and other great art. 'One is never so Greek.' said Millet, as in painting naked one's own impressions, no eyes or hands, and in his drawings and paintings, with their true expression of unconscious actions, we seem to get back to the simplicity of an older world. Some of his designs have the completeness, simplicity, and beauty
of a Greek gem; 'an artist must be moved himself if he is to move others', said Millet. And that the secret of it all, that the artist must be true to himself; men as widely apart as Blake and Frans Hals (to take care of their paintings) were the great school of Dutch painters were strong as long as they, like the Italians, were true to their natural sources of inspiration; but how lamentable was the failure of those Dutch artists, who thought to improve their paintings in hummeries! Types and customs vary, but the beauty of the air, of the sunlight, and the shadow, are as Rousseau says, 'of the universal.'
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COLUMBIA WANTS FOOTBALL
Only Six Out of Thousand Students
Protest Against Reintroducing Game
From the New York Sun.
Six undergraduates voted against the restoration of football at Columbia at a mass meeting held in University Hall recently to demonstrate to the faculty that there was a real and spontaneous desire for the resurrection, but none were the only ones out of the thousand students present to cast their ballots against the proposition to resume the game under the various restrictions recommended by the university committee on student organizations. Whether Columbia gets the back now is for the faculty to decide.
Prof. John Erskine, chairman of the faculty committee which requested the students to show their hands on the football proposition, threw a bombshell into the camp of the undergraduates by announcing that if the faculty were to win, they would more all that the record of football to Columbia would mean, the report brought in would undoubtedly be adverse.
"What we want," said Professor Erske, "is football, but football where we would have hundreds of players out, not for the team, but for the exercise. The team would be represented the *pital* toward which the players would strive. At Harvard, I am told, they had 380 men playing football last fall, and if we take up the game at Columbia with the idea that a squad will never turn out uniformly successful teams."
One undergraduate, F. G. Stone, '15, a member of the varsity baseball squad, spoke against football and said that football and the ideals for which Columbia should stand were not compatible.
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Picked Up Between Classes
Sam Fuler, sophomore Engineer, who took a girl from his home town to the annual indoor track meet, is offering a reward of fifty cents for taking an online assignment not call him such a good name—who furnished the press with the name of the lady and other information necessary for the publicity his entree into the event. She is mind working and when interviewed on the subject, rose to the majesty of his five-feet-two and drawned. "It was one of them orery Lewenworth character so Sang ught to know Lewenworth character since he hails from that city.
James W. Handberry, a fellow in American history and graduate student on the Hill, had a varied career as a newspaper man before registering at K. U., this year. He worked on the Witchita Beacon three years after his graduation from Oklahoma. Before that time he served as a reporter on an Enid paper. Handberry says he is strong for the newspaper boys.
Neely Todd, sophomore in the School of Engineering, returned to his home in Leavenworth Thursday after a attack of mumps on his left jaw.
Unless Clara Burnett and Dorothy Markham, sophomores College, get their Ingersoll, which is their common property, fixed they may be late at school some morning. However they do not know which it will pay them to do, get this one fixed or buy a new one.
The K. U. Debating Society did not meet last week, so the debate over the justification of labor unions will be at the next meeting, on March 29th.
John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds, has been on the sick list for the last couple of days with an attack of gripe. Thursday afternoon was the only time he was kept from his office.
Earl Nixon: I've heard of guns in economics, but from the grade on the back of my quiz book I must be a popgun.
Prof. Arthur MacMurray, of the department of public speaking, has been called to Nebraska on account of the sickness of his father-in-law. His son, who is a freshman in high school, accompanied him.
Dorothy Keeler, "14, who is teaching school spent Saturday with her parents.
Evelyn Weatherhogg, of Kansas City, Mo., visited her sister, Vern Weatherhagg, senior College, yesterday.
William J. Studler, of Rawlins, who is studying journalism and law at K. U. worked for several years as a审察员 before coming to the University.
Fred Rodkey can tell you how the Indians suffered in cold weather by not having any head gear to wear. He was compelled to walk from the Library to his boarding place on Kentucky street bare-headed, this noon. The library has been falling fast because he had left his hat in the Library while attending an 11:30 class and the Library had closed before he could get back.
Sarah Greer, a special in the College, spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. There she heard an address of Mrs. Mary Antin at the Jewish Temple in getting material from her husband now the wife of Professor Antin of Columbia, came to America a few years ago as a Jewish immigrant.
Bud Ritter says that Jack Johnson is afraid to fight Jess Willard. Isn't that a mean thing for Bud to say when he knows that the law will not allow Johnson to get into the United States long enough to "out-loud-mouth" him, let alone chastise him for his dark insinuations.
A. C. Nicole, junior chemical Engineer, is ill at home in Kansas City. He expects to be back on the Hill the latter part of next week.
The Greek Symposium met at the home of Prof. A. M. Wilcox Thursday evening. An interesting feature of an program was a song and dance by Professor Wilcox.
Professor Putnam recently told the economics classes, "Nothing is real" about climate change.
If Joseph L. Johnson, a freshman Engineer, were to study engineering with as much application as he analyses cartoons he would be rushing himself Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi at the same time. And Johnson can draw some pretty good stuff too.
Frank Miller, '14, who is attending Rush Medical College in Chicago, visited at the Phi Beta Pi house, Saturday.
Sigma Phi Sigma has pledged Louis M. Hull, of Norton.
INTEREST RATES HIGH
ON KANSAS MORTGAGES
Investigation Reveals Condition Approaching Usury In Western Kansas
Dissatisfaction among the farmers of Kansas, with present rates of interest on farm loans has resulted in an investigation of the problem by Dr. George E. Putnam, supervision of Prof. George E. Putnam of the department of economics.
Professor Putnam consulted BARRERS, merchants, and farmers in every state where the things has found that interest rates increase from $\frac{1}{2}$ to 1 per cent in crossing the state from north to south, and about 4 per cent in going from the eastern end of the state to the western end of the state. run from 6 per cent to 10 per cent, but in the western part of the state these rates are really usurious, because of the expense attached to negotiating the loan and to the practice of borrowing money. For instance, if interest is collected in advance on loan bearing 10 per cent interest to run six months, the rate really paid is $10\%$ per cent. Commissions, fees, etc., also help to generate the cost of borrowing money, and the borrower also has to bear the cost of establishing the title to his land, which often is excessive. In general, when all expenses have been paid the actual cost of borrowing may be higher than the rate recorded in the mortgage contract.
Rates Too High
Four-fifths of the farmers in the western part of the state declared that under such conditions the rates paid are too high, but it was also said that the city is much poorer than the difficulty of securing the loans. This difficulty may arise, in the case of short-time loans, from the frequent inability of the borrower to take up the note when it is due; one merchant reported that he had more debtors than 75 per cent of his debtors over from one fall until the next harvest.
But it was discovered that contrary to the general impression the farmer is not discriminated against people who pay the same rate as the farmer usually, and the rate on city property in most Kansas communities is high.
One result is that high-priced land is passing out of the hands of the actual cultivators and into the possession of men who can afford to hold their land. The real benefit is hoping to make the land pay interest on the investment. There is $100 land in Kansas that is not realizing $3 per acre. In the light of such conditions, residues profits from the land must be supporting high rates of interest.
Causes of High Rates
Some of these forces, as seen by Professor Putnam, are bad farming, wasteful methods, borrowing for unproductive purposes, and neglect in prompt payment of obligations. Leaving machinery in the rain, or allowing it to pay itself on mobile helps keep up the interest rate, but the chief factor is the wasteful and uneconomical farming method followed in Kansas, from which many other evils, such as soil erosion and diminishing retains have resulted.
In western Kansas, land values are uncertain because they depend too directly on the price of wheat. In the case of cultivated land is planted to wheat; when the crop falls land values fall—in times of bumper crops they rise. This dependence on the crop has resulted in some places in the land be overcultivated, occupied or vated, then deserted, for three successive periods.
Capital Leaving the State
Capital is induced to leave the state because of strict enforcement of the law on personal property, which, by giving rise to fear of double taxation, diminishes the amount of money available for loans in the state. The redemption law also holds up rates by decreasing the value of a note secured by a mortgage; this it does because of the provision that when the holder of such a note has mismanaged the value of the note, he cannot really get it until 18 months later, when its value may have fallen, and during which time it is yielding him nothing but the necessity of paying taxes.
Possible remedies are suggested by Professor Putnam, not stating that any one of them is a cure-all for the evils of present conditions. Chief among the proposed remedies is the introduction of better business practices in soil to the soil, the best crops for any particular kind of soil or location, rotation of crops, and newer, more economical methods will do more than legislation to lighten the burden of the borrower. The present is witnessing the using of older styles of贸和 the ushering on of the era of conservation.
Farmer Suspicious of Co. Operation
Cooperation among farmers is im-
proving in many areas.
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average farmer does not understand it and does not care for it; he is strongly individualistic, and in addition is suspicious of all cooperative schemes. Also in many places the farmers are themselves heavy stock-owners, the growth banks, and are opposed to the growth of the cooperative idea.
In the way of better legislation several improvements might be made. Instead of a tax on mortgages we might have a compulsory mortgage with a cap on size of the mortgage. This would serve to withdraw Kansas money now invested in other states and would remove the present fear of double taxation. The Torrens land title registration adopted. Under the working of this law only one search of the title is necessary to prove a title, and once established it is established forever. Under the present system the cost of a compulsory mortgage raises a loan sometimes make the cost of the loan excessive.
BOOKS OF VITRUVIUS PRINTED
Roman Writer on Architecture Dedicated Treatise to Augustus
From the Chicago Herald.
It is familiar to all students of architecture, and to many who have but a superficial knowledge of this subject; but his writings are known to few. A new collection on architecture, has just been published.
Although some doubts have been cast upon its authorship and the date of its production, the book is now generally conceded to have been written by Marcus Vitruvius Collegian, Cassar, to whom it is dedicated. That the text has been preserved to us is without doubt due to the fact that it contains in the third, fourth, and fifth of its ten books certain rules for the proportioning of the plans, and details of design and construction of temples, and other columnar structures. The text also contains evidence of Vitruvius himself, and a aggressive indication of the characteristics of the society in which he lived. He was evidently a man of high social position, for otherwise he would not have enjoyed the patronage of Augutus and his sister, Octavia Minor. He was also clearly aware that he had received what at that time was a very liberal education, that he was thoroughly familiar with Greek, and was a great reader.