THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kentuess
Published every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall.
Phone, Bell, K U 25.
H. C. WATENS, Editor.
□ Claud A. Clay, Managing Editor.
Clinton Kananga, Business Manager.
Ralph Harnman, Ass't B, Mgr,
Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager
Members of the Board:
May V. Wallace, Judith Connelly
Paul Harvey, Fred M. Lyon
Joseph Murray Henry F. Draper
O. E. Markham O. R. Baum,
Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term .75e ; time subscription. $1.75 per year.
Address all communications to Clinton Kamage, 1029 Kentucky Street.
Ralph G. Cole has exclusive charge of the circulation of the Kansan, and all complaints concerning non delivery ete., to be effective must be made to him, at the cheek stand.
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1908.
NEWSPAPER ETHICS AND LAWRENCE JOURNAL.
"I instruct my employees to get the news and to get it without any regard to the methods they use."
This is the ethics of a certain editor of Lawrence, who if the people of this senatorial district will pardon us for flaunting the fact in their face, we will state is a member of the state senate. The statement was made in a puny attempt to defend what was a clear case of stealing by an alleged reporter in the employ of chief Brady.
Now we don't pretend to know much about the elusive thing called newspaper ethics; no halo of piety shades our journalistic brow, but we want to take this opportunity of denying the stinging impreciation which the downtown editor hurls on all who are engaged in publishing "what happens."
It is said that honor exists even among thieves; yet the Journal editor says that there is none among news gatherers—at least, in his office. We hasten to deny that honor should play no part in the reporter's code of morals. We deny that a man must be a thief and a pirate and a rascal to make a success in the field of journalism.
News is a commodity that the newspaper man deals in just as the banker handles silver and gold. The downtown scribe thinks that this commodity is his to take whenever found; he considers other newspapers his legitimate prey; that what other papers pay money to obtain, he should obtain by cupidity and trickery, and for that he says he pays "his reporters."
His senatorial majesty informed a Kansan reporter who reproached him for stealing a report of the Iowa-Kansas game, that no amateurs from the University could tell him how to run his paper. We pray to gently inform his editorship that one day not so long ago a crowd of these same "amateurs" did run his paper, and set a pace that he never had before nor has since reached, and his paper has been
running "just like a rabbit," ever since. It is well known that after that issue this same editor, who now defends strong arm piracy, tried to blackmail the "amateurs" who published a long list of his friends who were violating the prohibitory law. But then, blackmail and slander and underhanded attempts at intimidation are right in line with thievery and journalistic piracy. At last consistency is found in the pusillanimous downtown sheet. But oh, what a code of morals and ethics for a newspaper.
The Y. W. C. A. has decided to abandon the County Fair as a means of money making. The officers give as a reason that the function is too undignified for University society. Maybe so. If we must be dignified, we must. However it was the general opinion of all present at the Fair two years ago that it was the most successful affair of the year and did more than any entertainment to develop a democratic school spirit. If dignity is the issue, something might be said about the propriety of securing money by a mere subscription list.
Today the husky Tigers alone stand between Kansas and the culmination of the highest wish of the rooters, an ever victorious team. Kansas has not been all victorious for nearly a decade but the wonderful machine developed by Kennedy and Mosse has bowled down everything in its track and it will be strange if Missouri is not added to the ever increasing list of victims.
The language teacher who the other day urged upon his pupils the necessity of "performing a conscious act of cerebration" was putting it a trifle strong, don't you think?
Allemanians to Banquet.
The Allemanians will give their tenth annual banquet this evening at the club house at 1200 Tennessee street. The guests are: Professor and Mrs. Engle, Mrs. Ella Carter and Gertrude Gilmore, Lawrence; Millicent Noftzger and Bertha Morris, Anthony; Kate Reynolds, Clay Center; Grace Whisnand, Chanute; Pearl McCreary and Hortense Rodenburg, Leavenworth.
The Glee Club gave its first concert last night before the Tonganoxie high school. The rain prevented a large attendance. The boys started home in a hack which broke down on the way. It took six hours to make the journey.
First Glee Club Recital.
Saw Many Kansans.
While Chancellor Strong was in the east attending the National Association of Universities, he came in contact with many Kansas graduates. "The country is just full of Kansas men" said the chancellor, speaking about the matter"I meet them wherever I go,and they are good men too."
On to Kansas City
Kansas - Missouri Game ON Turkey Day
to see the Jayhawkers twist the Tiger's tail. Before leaving show your colors by getting a
FOR THE
On Thursday next you are expected to eat Turkey.
K. U. ARM BAND or PENNANT at
OBER'S
Open till Wednesday night and closed all day Thanksgiving Day.
Miss Rose Zurcher, '08, is visiting her sister Blanche, a junior in the college, at 1330 Ohio.
Prof. and Mrs. M. W. Sterling entertained the Dickinson county students at their home on Louisiana street, Saturday evening. The Dickinson county delegation is a large one this year, only two other counties having a larger attendance.
Rowland's, COLLEGE BOOK STORE 1401 Ohio St.
Hiawatha for Thanksgiving dinner.
Thankful for blessings you have received and for calamities you've escaped.
Eat your neighbor's turkey if you have a chance - if you're "not expected," eat your own.
Be thankful in any event
We shall be pleased to furnish your Thanksgiving dressing.
Thankful that you have such a satisfactory Clothing House as ours, that stands ready to supply your wants in Clothes, Shoes, Hats, and Toggery, at such reasonable prices.
Kansan Bulletin Service.
Seat sale, Fraser Hall ...$25.20
Bulletin service to Daily Gazette 2.50
(97.7)
About 250 students and faculty members occupied the chapel Saturday afternoon to see the Kansan's special bulletins of the Iowa game flashed on the screen. This was a smaller crowd than had been expected, the Kansan having hoped for an attendance of 500 in order to have a neat sum to turn over to the University Hospital Association. Following is an itemized account of the receipts and expenditures:
RECEIPTS.
EXPENSES.
Telegraph tolls...$11.00
Reporter to Iowa City...17.50
Lantern Slides...3.50
Janitor service...1.00
$33.25
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