THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FUSCHER - - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
BUSINESS START
HOMER BERGER -- Business Manager
CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER -- Treasurer
L. E. MILLER -- Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
LOUIS LACOSS CARL CANNON
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Address all business communications to Homer Berger, Business Manager, 1411 Tennessee street, Lawrence, Kan.; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1341 Ohio street, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Office in basement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell, K U. 25.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15.
A STROKE FOR GOOD GOV ERNMENT.
The Student Council yesterday won a signal victory in its efforts to clean up University class polities, when the Board of Regents formally approved the recommendation that students who had been guilty of illegal voting should be suspended for one week.
If the Regents had failed to endorse the recommendation, the usefulness of the Council would have been at an end; but there was no hesitation on the part of the members of the Board. It was patent to all that failure to act in this case would be construed as putting the sanction of the University on political "crookedness" in general.
University politics is a preparatory school for men who are to take up the duties of citizenship in the state. There is no place where a line can be drawn between illegal voting in class elections and illegal voting in other elections. Clean politics in the University means a better chance for clean politics in the state in the future.
The approval which the Regents have given the acts of the Student Council will no doubt give to the members of that body an increased sense of responsibility. They have been recognized as a factor in the government of the University, and from now on they have men's work cut out for them.
WHO WOULDN'T BE A FRESH MAN?
It is the belief of The University Kansan that it is a great privilege to be a member of the freshman class of the University of Kansas. The familiar badimage heard at the expense of the first-year men may lead some new students to conclude that the estate of freshman is one somewhat looked down upon; but if so it is a conclusion drawn without taking all the facts into consideration.
The freshmen are the hope of the University. In their due turn they will take their place first as as leaders in University affairs and later as alumni to whom the University will look for creditable achievement.
While they are new to Mount Oread and its ways the best they can do is to play their ordinarily inconspicuous parts and learn what they may from all they find about them. It should therefore be considered an honor when they
are invited by the Student Council to adopt a distinctive headgear.
It is to the interest of freshmen to wear class caps and to begin wearing them as soon as they are permitted to. In the first lonesome weeks the wearing of the freshman cap will be a strong bond drawing together those who have interests in common and work to do together in the future. The wearing of caps should be regarded by freshmen not as mark of discredit, but as an honor.
It is by getting freshmen to take this view of the matter rather than by adopting coercive measures that the Student Council should seek to enforce its regulations concerning class caps. To state the case pointedly, the University and the state at large will not "stand for" anything that may be construed, even distantly, as hazing.
The student body as a whole is solidly behind the Student Council in its more important plans. It is up to the freshmen to make good on the comparatively subordinate question of wearing class caps. Who wouldn't be a freshman with four great years of University life ahead of him?
It is a matter of personal interest to every student to see that the landladies of clubs and boarding houses use city water and not well water.
Go right this day and let HI-ATT, the CLOTHIER, order your fall suit from the ROYAL Line.
You Young Chaps
If you want satisfaction of knowing that no man or youth in the land is dressed in more perfect taste than you are this fall, select your suit from any one of the various sets of new models now exhibited in our men's department. All of the designs are new, of course, but no one can say that they are not thoroughly in accord with good taste, culture and refinement. It is, in a word, the most perfectly complete array of young men's swagger, fashionable suits this community has viewed in years. Every garment in every line is a brand new and authoritative design for this fall and winter.
$12.50 to $35
College Shop
Beginning next Monday we will give a coupon with every five cent purchase. The person having the largest number of coupons on Dec. 15th will receive free a set of six genuine German Steins, valued at $25.00. Get in the contest. Save your coupons. It's worth while.
FREE---Set of Steins----FREE
Lawrence, Kansas
ROWLANDS CIGAR STORE "THE SMOKER"
Have You Seen the New K. U.
MONOGRAM
Fountain
Pen
?
AT- Rowlands
College Book Store
"WHERE STUDENTS GO"
TALKED TO REPORTERS.
'Never Admit That 'News Are Scarce,' "Said N. W. Houston.
"The letters in the word news stand for north, east, west, and south," explained Mr. Houston, "and that is its derivation. In gath ering news look out for the small 'personal.' Get all of them that you can, and then get some more. Never admit, in the favorite terms of the country correspondent, that 'news are scarce.'"
N. W. Houston, editor of the Manhattan Nationalist, addressed the sophomore class of the department of journalism Wednesday morning. Mr. Houston discussed the practical details of the work on a country paper and presented to the sophomore reporters a generous measure of useful information. He grouped his remarks under three main heads: how to recognize news; how to gather news; and how to write news.
Ha! We Are Discovered!
Mr. Houston's lecture was the first of a series that will be delivered before the classes in journalism by Kansas and other news paper men.
When you have the blues and fear Missouri's Tigers are too light to whip Kansas a second time, just go to the newspaper files in the library and search the sporting pages for Jayhawker "bear" stories. It will cheer you up and make you believe those Lawrence follows are going to be swamped 40 to 8 about a month after election. You read that "Johnson has lost his 'pep''" and that Ammons is the only man who has shown form. The team is "all in" because they do not train but gorge themselves on pastry. Besides the team is so light this year, Kansas lost to Haskell, barely scored from Ottawa on fluke touchdowns, and escaped a drubbing at the hands of St. Marys. So the Lawrence correspondent would have us believe that the Jayhawkers are destined to lose to every team in the Missouri valley, and every other word is a tear. When you read these stories it makes you thrill with joy and you experience the cestacy of a victory already won. But remember, dearly beloved, that Kansas has a great reputation for disseminating "bear" stories. Awake from your pleasant reveries and get next to the fact that the Mount Oread team is after revenge, and we'll have to stand behind our team more than ever to give those Jayhawkers a second taste of defeat. And meanwhile the Lawrence correspondent continues to send in "bear" stories.—MEGO PHONE in University Missouri
OUTLOOK IS GOOD.
Six Thousand Teachers May Attend State Convention.
Athletics is not the only thing which keeps W. C. Lansdon busy these days. In addition to his duties as manager of athletics he is treasurer of the State Teachers' association, a position which he has held for the past twelve years. There is a great deal of work connected with the position just now, because of the approaching convention of the association in Topeka, October 20 and 21. Teachers from all over the state are sending in their dues, so as to be in good standing when the meeting begins.
Last year the membership of the association was 4,400. About 30 per cent of the members paid their dues in advance. This year, Mr. Lausdon says, the indications are for a record-breaking attendance at the meeting. He thinks 6,000 teachers will go to Topeka next week.
ORGANIZE NEW CLUB.
"Short Grass Country" Gets Official Recognition.
A "Short-Grass club" was organized Wednesday evening by the election of H. W. Rodebush, president; Miss Claribel Lupton, vice-president; Miss Beryl Lovejoy, secretary-treasurer. The purpose of the organization is both to let the University know the number of students who come from west of the one hundredth meridian and to encourage other students to come from that section of the state.
Dr. Sudler to Speak.
Dr. M, T. Sudler, dean of the scientific department of the School of Medicine, will speak on "Student Health" at chapel next Tuesday morning. Chancellor Strong desires a large attendance of students to hear the discussion of this important subject.
A laboratory guide book on experimental physiology, for medical students, written and published by Dr. Ida Hyde, professor of physiology in the University, has been adopted at the Medical School of the University of Toledo. The book has been in use at the University of Kansas for some time.
Next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in the gym, the Woman's Student Government Association will give a party for all the new girls and old ones as well The party is to have many interesting features and all the girls are cordially invited to be present.
In the September issue of the Columbia University quarterly, appears an article by William Allen White, regent of the University, entitled "A Theory of Spiritual Progress."
A New Laundry.
Henry Martin has installed a laundry at 1026 Massachusetts street, which is thoroughly up-to-date. Machinery does all the pressing—there is no ironing—and by this method a fine mission finish is obtained. See his student representatives. Adv.
1 room for rent. 1014 Miss. an Gragg house; girls; board in same house. 2-t
Protsch Fall Suiting
Wilder Brothers Custom Laundry
Special attention given to Ladies work:
Carpenter & Arnold, Agents
Home 529, Bell 1225, Laundry
Phone 67
The Watkins National Bank.
Capital $100,000
Surplus $50,000
Undivided profits $20,000
J. B. Watkins, Pres. C. A. Hill, V. P.
C. H. Tucker, cashier.
W. E. Hazen, assistant cashier.
DO YOU WANT TO-
Buy,
Sell,
Rent,
Exchange
Typewriters?
R. M. Morrison Agency, 744 Mass.
in the Student District.
WM. LA COSS.
Everything fresh that the market affords. Both phones 618. 1333 Ky. St.
The Corner Grocery
A. G. ALRICH,
Printing
Binding, Copper Plate Printing,
Rubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel
Die Embossing, Seals, Badges.
744 Mass. St.
Base Ball
Base Ball and Foot Ball Goods Kennedy & Ernst 26 MASS. ST. PHONES 341
PENNANTS
Fix up your room with Pennants and Posters bought at the Indian Store, 917 Mass. St. A large assortment to choose from.
S. H. McCurdy
Good things to eat—Groceries,
Fruits and Vetetables, Flour
and Feed.
1021 Mass. St. Both Phones 212
Everybody Welcome.
Frank Koch The Tailor 727 Mass. St.
SCHULZ
FOR FALL SUITING 911 Mass, St.
Those Shoes you want repaired
Take 'em down to
K. U.
Pantatorium & Dye Works
730 Mass.
We can clean the whole bunch if we get a chance. Finest of dresses, coats, pants, hats, gloves or anything else. Our work will suit you. Prices on application.
Both Phones 1400.
Gorsuch Bros., Props.
Wanted—By a young lady, a room-mate, at 1321 Tenn. st. $1, at McColloch's.
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic, 50c and