CITIZENSHIP MEANS MORE THAN VOTING
PENANCE FOR 364 DAYS SLUMBER IMPOSSIBLE
Prof. Zueblin Denies Excess of Immorality in City—Servant Girl Problem.
In the last of a series of five lectures delivered in chapel Professor Zueblin spoke yesterday afternoon on "The Life of the Citizen." He defined true citizenship as he sees it and discussed various special problems peculiar to the city such as industrial dependence and immorality. He said in part:
"Citizenship may be stated in terms of life values. We are in the habit of finding it stated in terms of votes, and for many people that exhausts their interest in it. There are people who state their citizenship in terms of party. Loyalty to party is to a great many people quite superior to patriotism. They would sacrifice their country to their party, as is shown by their voting for their party, right or wrong, and more commonly voting for the bad with the good, in the name of the party. Others state their citizenship in terms of money. Buying a vote at the polls is not the only monetary influence used in citizenship. There is yet another mode of stating citizenship which is a little higher than these, yet not sufficiently high. There are those who state citizenship in terms of stern duty. They regard it almost as a work of super erosion to perform this obligation of citizenship. There are self-righteous people in every community who punctiliously perform this laborious obligation Anyone who does not spontaneously enter into citizenship, not only at election time but constantly, is not a good citizen. We cannot state citizenship in anything less than life. If we do not state it in life, it is a hollow mockery.
"Citizenship does not consist in going occasionally to the polls and voting for some man, whom we do not know and perhaps never heard of, selected for us by some political machine. Citizenship should be in evidence every day in the year, every hour in the day. We provide for our waking and sleeping hours, vigilant fire and police departments and would not feel safe without them. They are never permitted to slumber. A citizen who slumbers 364 days in the year cannot atone by the penance of one day at election booths for his neglect of his civic obligations involved in the religious, intellectual, and economic problems that confront him every day.
"We hear much of the evil growing from the dependence of a community upon its industrial enterprises. The bread and butter problem makes us all more or less subject to this dependence, but the evil begins when the men who are so supremely capable of controlling their business enterprises branch from this task and seek to control citizenship. The corporation must be held within bounds. It must be allowed to control itself but not the people, and should at all times be subject to the will of the community in which it thrives.
"Coming again to human fellowship, we have in that simple expression the solution of the servant girl problem, which for years has been a serious one over this entire country. We hear
daily the cry from housewives that girls would rather slave in a factory than assume the less arduous duties of the kitchen. The reason for this is plain. In the factory there is at least a semblance of independence. The girl who eaves this is unwilling to serve under the domineering thumb of a mistress.
"The immorality of the city, while a conspicuous vice, is probably no more natural to the city man than to his cousin in the country. Intemperance in all things is a truly American feeling. In eating, drinking, playing and working, even in the matter of church going, some Americans are intemperate.
"All these things are the larger possibilities of the city misused. By their very existence they point the way to higher possibilities. Let us look on the other side of the question; if there is industrial dependence, there is also cooperation. One of the processes of the assimilation of the foreign population, is the factory system. We must eliminate the abuses, but let us recognize that when we bring people together in these great collective operations, we contribute to civilizing processes. A well ordered industry is a discipline in itself."
"Picture Sale."
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Caramels in pound and halfpound boxes, 20e per pound at Wiedemann's.
Our assortment of post cards for tinting is unequaled in the city. One cent each, Kress.'
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"Cuddle up a Little Closer," from the "Three Twins." 20c a copy at Kress.'
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Buttered and salted popeor always on hand at Soxman & Co. If you like strawberries try the fresh berries with sundaes and sodas at Wiedmann's.
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Everybody has poetry in his heart. Every student should have a book of poetry by K. U. poets on his book-shelf.
"Somebody Waiting on the Corner," at Bell Bros.' Music Store.
Try the ice cream sodas and sundaes with fresh crushed strawberries at Wiedemann's.
Colgates taleum—15c a can at Kress,'
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EXPENSE IS LESS THAN IN PRIVATE RESIDENCES
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Students Careful About Behaviour Dormitory System Makes For Democracy.
This last of a series of articles on the dormitory system at Columbia deals with the subject of expense and advantages. If the University of Kansas should establish dormitories here the expense would be made less for the students and a closer spirit of comradeship engendered.
The expense of any of these rooms is a trifle under that of the very best than can be obtained in any of the private rooming houses in the neighborhood and for the money spent, the student easily gets twice the service that he could obtain at such a private residence. The charges for the single rooms amount to from $10 to $15 a month. The charges for the suites are in proportion to those for the single room. A good suite can be obtained for $15 a month. The lighting is paid for extra, but this amounts to very little. The lower stories are the lowest in price and as one goes up, the prices of the suites soar.
As to the behavior of the students in the halls, there is little or no so-called rough-housing, undue noise, or vandalism. Of course sometimes tin pans are let-off down the stairs, but the freshmen have to be attended to outside the confines of the building. Therefore the accusations brought that the bringing students together makes life there a regular pandemonium does not hold water when tested by the experience at the dormitories of Columbia University. The conduct of the students there is better than at private rooming houses.
The advantages, then, may be summed up briefly:
1. The University assures the student the best service for the least money.
2. The University is more certain just how the student body is faring when in the dormitories than when scattered among the private rooming houses.
3. Any decent dormitory gives the student an opportunity to have some privacy by having a room or suite to himself. This is a boon to any one.
4. Student esprite de corp is greatly developed by bringing the students together. This makes for democracy, tends to stamp out petty and snobbish cliques and circles and if anything is thoroughly American in the best sense.
The Unitarian Church
Preaching service at 10:30 a. m. Sermon: "The Next Steps in Religion." Sunday school as usual at 12 o'clock. The young people will meet at 6 o'clock for a social tea, after which Dr. Alberta Corbin will speak on "Student Life in Germany." At 4:30 p. m. there will be a service of vesper music given by the following persons: Mrs. Olin Bell, organ; Mrs. G. H. Hamman, piano; Miss Helen Hill, violin; Mr. Wm. Dalton, tenor; Mr. Ralph Stevens, 'cello. There will be combinations of piano, organ, violin, 'cello, and voice. All are cordially invited to these meetings. F. M. Bennett, minister.
THE CHEMIST OF TODAY
Frank Brock, a fellow in Chemistry, spoke before the Chemical club at its meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Chemistry building. His subject was "The Industrial Chemist." He told principally of how to get a position after graduation from the University, especially in a factory where there is not already a chemist, but where one is needed.
Chemistry Fellow Tells of His Duties.
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"The chemist of today," he said "must understand the business and mechanical side as well as the chemical part. The manufacturers are beginning more and more to demand this. The best method for the graduate to do is to work for six months or a year as a common laborer in the factory. This gives him an opportunity to become acquainted with the workmen and to gather data as to the needs of the plant, their efficiency, system of work, and the other details.
"In signing the contract he should know definitely what his duties are to be, and these should be as full as possible. Moreover, he should be responsible only to the head of the firm as this gives him a larger field without being hampered by the others. His salary usually is from twelve to fifteen hundred dollars."
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"Somebody Waiting on the Corner," at Bell Bros.' Music Store.
Fine writing paper at Boughton's.
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New Shipment
Tennis and Squash Balls just in.
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Students' downtown headquar-
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"Somebody Waiting on the Corner For Me."
On sale Saturday at 15c a copy Bell Brod.' Music Store.
A rollicing ragtime tune, words and music by R. H. Davies, lately of K. U. On Saturday afternoon and evening of this week Mr. Davies, himself, will be at Bell Bros.' Music Store to play his jolly new jingle and the sweetest tenor you ever heard. He is going to sing it.
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