THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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EARL FISCHER - Managing Editor
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22.
MAKING ACCOUNTS PUBLIC
The resolutions adopted by the Board of Regents at the suggestion of Mr. E. E. Brown, requiring all University organizations to turn in their accounts twice a year to be studied by the University, doubtless mark a new era in handling the business side of student enterprises.
The University has gone further than merely making the requirement that the books be audited. Mr. Brown is at work on a uniform plan of accounting which all organizations will be obliged to follow, and which will make it easy for them to keep their books straight.
Most University organizations are at a disadvantage in this respect, as compared with ordinary business houses. Aside from the fact that their business managers are usually not trained in bookkeeping, their business it not done at a central office where every transaction can be entered on the books as soon as completed. This accounted for the fact that the University auditor had a hard time making sense out of some of the reports of organizations which were submitted to him last spring.
A system devised especially to fit the needs of the organizations with a little coaching in its use from the business office of the University will go far toward making the auditor's work easy and getting accurate reports from the student enterprises this year.
Another good effect which it is hoped the Regents' requirement will have will be to establish the truth or falsity of rumors of "grafting" which are frequently heard in connection with some of the student activities. The University public has a right to know what becomes of the money it puts up for the support of student activities. Some of the enterprise require much time and hard work, and no one will begrudge the payment of a fair profit to the officers who perform the required service. Complete publicity will do no harm to any organization which gives value received for the financial support it derives from the student body.
The Men's Student Government association will doubtless begin to "get into its stride" this year. There is a place in the University waiting to be filled by it, and the members of the association have begun work in a way that indicates that they are big enough for
the job. The rules which the association has put forth regulating class elections are sure to improve conditions.
OUR OLD FRIEND
The football season may be considered to be in full blast when our old friend, Beat Kansas, appears in the state at the end of next week to begin his season's work. Beat Kansas will be remembered as the star who was unanimously accorded all positions on the all-Missouri valley team after the season closed last year. Unlike Gilchrist of Missouri, Beat Kansas is not hampered by being required to do all his playing on the teams of one state. He has license to range the whole Missouri valley at will. Hon. B. will begin the season in Kansas. carefully avoiding the University and confining his work tothe Ottawa, St. Marys, Baker and Washburn teams. He will finish the season with a grand swing around the circle, through Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Beat Kansas journeyed from the east last week in company with Coach Hollenbach of Missouri and was warmly greeted in Columbia.
The dispatches say that whereas "Bill" Roper shouted and waved his arms while training his football team, Hollenbach, his successor, "speaks in a low, terse voice." The first thing Hollenbach said after reaching Columbia was that he had come out west to beat Kansas. A man who is going to say things like that ought to say them in a low voice.
FOR A BIGGER BAND.
Leader McCanles Making Elaborate Plans.
J. C. McCanles, leader of the University band two years ago, and who has been selected to lead it again this year, announced morning that a preliminary try-out for places on the organization will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in chapel.
Many of the old members of the band will not be back this year and new men are needed to fill their positions. Last Saturday a tryout was held at which about twenty men appeared and from this number several men will make a place. MeCanles desires to have a large number of pieces in the band this year and says that there are still several places for good men. Among the instruments most needed are a bassoon, saxaphones and an oboe.
Plans for the year have already been discussed. They include band concerts on the campus every Friday night at 7:30 or 8 o'clock, attendance at all enthusiasm and football games and, if practicable, arrangements will be made whereby the band will play at the parade exercises of the company of University men who have entered the Kansas National Guard. The expenses of the band are usually paid when it accompanies the athletic teams on their trips and uniforms are supplied without cost.
Wm. Linton, who attended the University a few years ago, is visiting in Lawrence. He has a responsible position as expert chemist for the Santa Fe railroad, with headquarters at San Bernardino, Cal.
About the handiest place to trade in town is at McColloch's drug store.
"Moore's Safety" Fountain Pens and Hurd's fine stationery. Wolf's Book store, 919 Mass. st
This is News, Indeed!
ANOTHER striking illustration of the special benefits resulting to the people of Lawrence and vicinity through the medium of Ober's aggressive methods and unique buying power as the result of much careful planning, considerable extra expense and many a long conference with the heads of the best clothes making firms in the United States, we are at last able to announce the complete achievement of our ambition to show the Lawrence public this Fall a collection of $15. $20 and $25 Suits and Overcoats which are greatly superior to the usual grades sold at these prices.
We have worked out this plan on the
theory that a Store which would have the courage to undertake the additional cost of producing much better clothes than are ordinarily retailed at
$15, $20 and $25
would reap its reward in the form of a greatly increased number of new customers and more than make up, in the long run, for the additional expense incurred in having such clothes produced.
We decided upon
these prices because they are the three most popular prices in the retail clothing business-the prices most men like to pay. At the same time we are careful not to relax our efforts to maintain our other lines on the same high standard of excellence which is always characteristic of everything in our Store. This Fall, as in the past, we are in a position to give every customer a better value at any price than he can secure in any other store we know. But we want to emphasize the three strictly special and exclusive lines of Suits and Overcoats at
$15,20 and $25
The garments comprising this proposition are now completely ready and we invite special attention to the beautiful effects in new shades of brown, tan, Scotch gray and fancy weave blue. It is worthy of mention that the quantity and variety in these three lines are virtually as great as you will find elsewhere in all lines combined.