UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Loriis ... Mass ... Editor-in-Chief
Gleason ... Mason
BUSINESS STAFF:
CLARK  WALKETT  Manager
M. D. BAKER  Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every afternoon by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
Subscription price $200 per year, in advance; one term, $125, time subject.
Telephone, Bell, K. U. 25.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Employ thy time well, if thou meanst to gain leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour."
THE DAILY KANSAN.
The first issue of the University Daily Kansan is the result of a natural feeling of pride that the University has in its official publication. It was not content to be outdone by its sister colleges with their dailies. For a number of years the state University of Kansas has been recognized as one of the big and efficient educational centers in this country and the establishing of a daily paper will not only augment the influence of the University within the state but also will convince every college in the land that in journalism, as well as in other things educational, Kansas is well toward the front.
Some time ago it was recognized that a tri-weekly was neither adequate nor satisfactory, but it was not until the department of journalism obtained sufficient funds to install a complete printing laboratory that the Kansan was encouraged to take the necessary steps for a daily. "The appeal to the student body and to the alumni for support gave the Kansan sufficient financial backing to assure its publication for the rest of the school year.
As a result, after some necessary delay, a student daily is printed today for the first time in Kansas.
--of the daily Kansan board to publish a daily that will represent student life so completely that no future generation will allow it to die for lack of support.
Some students have expressed a fear that the Daily Kansan will cease to be a student publication and will now become a faculty organ in which the department of journalism will be the dominating factor. Such a fear is groundless.
Although the Daily Kansan will use the equipment of the department of journalism it will pay in full for this service and the editorial and the business departments of the paper will be strictly under student control. The journalism students will be used as laboratory workers on the paper but their stories will be edited by the news editor of the Daily Kansan and it will be entirely within his power to direct what news shall be printed and what news shall be withdrawn. The policy of the Daily Kansan is entrusted to the editor-in-chief and he is responsible for whatever appears on the editorial page.
The Daily Kansan wishes to repeat what it has said in previous issues. Every student in the University no matter from what department he comes, is welcome to try out for a staff position on the paper. Reporters are needed from every school and the Daily Kansan wishes to have its staff as representative of the school as possible. No preferences will be shown and appointments will be made strictly on the merit basis.
It will be a week or ten days before the Daily Kansan will be running on the systematic basis that has been planned for it. Everyone will recognize that the first few weeks of its existence will be trying ones but before the year is over it is the hope
Kansas is credited with doing many freak things, but we submit that she has never yet paid $1,000 for a tailor-made state song.
FIRST CALL
This is the first call to do your examination cramming early! Do you realize that there are only eleven more days before the fateful quiz hours arrive? January 27 has been set as the day upon which happy professors will commence a week's bombardment upon those who have been enrolled in their classes, and by February 5 they will have stormed completely the intellectual ramparts of the student body.
Examinations are a bore and a nuisance but they will have to be accepted as one of the inconveniences of college life. What, then, is the use of postponing the polishing-up process until the last few hours preceding the gloom?
If the students of the University wish to do something that is different, they should try the unusual plan of "bugging" for quizzes through the entire semester instead of putting it off until the last moment.
If you haven't been doing this, remember that there are only eleven days until examinations.
Missouri editors have accepted the invitation of the school of journalism to meet at Columbia in May—one month after the Kansas editors will be entertained by the department of journalism at the University. The Missouri Press Association has held so many sessions in Columbia that it may be said to have "got the habit" of visiting the school of journalism once each year. Any professional school is fortunate that has the active interest of those engaged in the profession.
The University professors who "attended" the fire at the home of Prof. R. R. Price are said to have rescued all the china and cut glass, without so much as cracking a single piece. The next time that Chie Reinish has a vacancy in the fire company he will undoubtedly look for a Ph. D.
Since moving into the rooms formerly occupied by the School of Medicine, the Daily Kansan has one more unique distinction. It is the only newspaper in the world that is disinfected with formaldehyde.
One freshman has refused to accept the Student Council's permission to discard his cap this cold weather. He uses it for an ear muff on his north ear.
Potter lake, no doubt, is an ideal place for skating. It offers every attraction to "eagle spreaders" and "grape vine" creators. All it lacks is water.
Fresh. "How do you know he is a stranger?"
Soph. "I saw him set his watch by the Physics clock."
Nay, master, nay," said Lankin; "if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.
NCE upon a time a Wolf was loping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see in the water? He drinks a little lower down. "There's my supper," thought he, "if only I can find some excuse to seize it." Then he called out to the Lamb, "How dare you drink?" He water from which I am drinking?
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"Well, then," said the Wolf "why
call me bad names this last year"
*last year.*
"I don't care," snarled the Wolf; "if it was not you, it was your father"; and with that he rushed upon the poor man. But before she dreaded she laughed out—
"That cannot be," said the Lamb;
"I am only six months old."
ore she died she gasped out— "any chuse will serve a tyrant."
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
There was once a cannibal rummy,
Who dined on a well-spiced old
"When down on my nerves,
I just dote on preserves."
Said he, as he patted his tummy.
—Cornell Widow.
Fresh: Why. Does everyone say 'To hell with Yale?'
Soph: Because of our warm re gard for that university.
—Harvard Lampoon.
Once upon a midnight meet,
Sat a Freshman, meek and weary,
Their eyes shine.
at a Fresman, meek and weary,
In a dream.
In his hand a letter cheery,
"You are on probation, dearie,
From the dean.
—Stanford Chaparral.
A. Wise—How is your son doing in his new bank position?
B. Wise—O, he's forging his way to the front.
"Here's the magnifying glass, son Go look at a worm."
California Pelican.
"Give me ten cents to look at the big snake, papa."
—Princeton Tiger.
"Why was Binks put out of the game yesterday?"
"He hadn't shaved and was disqualified for unnecessary roughness."
—Yale Record.
Mary had a little watch.
the property.
And everywhere that Mary went.
The watch wobbled to go.
—Columbia Jester.
The watch refused to go.
—Columbia Jester.
HINTS FROM FATHER
From Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, by George Horace Lorimer.
MOTHER O' MINE
Dear Pierrepont: Your Ma got back safe this morning and she wants me to be sure to tell you not to over-study, and I want to tell you to be sure not to under-study. What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the education that's so good and plenty there. When it's passed around you don't want to be bashful, but reach right out and take a big helping every time, for I want you to get your share. You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
I didn't have your advantages when I was a boy, and you can't have mine. Some men learn the value of money by not having any and starting out to pry a few dollars loose from the odd millions that are lying around; and some learn it by having fifteen thousand left to them and starting out to spend it as if they were fifty thousand a year. Some men learn the value of truth by having to do business with liars; and some by going to Sunday School. Some men learn the cussedness of whiskey by having a drunken father; and some by having a good mother. Some men get an education from other men and newspapers and public libraries; and some get it from professors and parchments—it doesn't make any special difference how you get a half-nelson on the right thing, just so you get it and freeze on to it. The package doesn't count after the eye's been attracted by it, and in the end it finds way to the ash heap. It's the quality of the goods inside which tells, when they once get into the kitchen and up to the cook.
You can cure a ham in dry salt and you can cure it in sweet pickle, and when you're through you've got pretty good eating either way, provided you started in with a sound ham. If you didn't, it doesn't make any special difference how you cured it—the ham-tryer's going to strike the sour spot around the bone. And it doesn't make any difference how much sugar and fancy pickle you soak into a fellow, he's no good unless he's sound and sweet at the core.
The first thing that any education ought to give a man is character, and the second thing is education That is where I'm a little skittish about this college business. I'm not starting in to preach to you, because I know a young fellow with the right sort of stuff in him: preaches to himself harder than any one else can, and that he's mighty often switched off the right path by having it pointed out to him in the wrong way.
If I were hanged on the highest bill,
Mother o'mine.
If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o' mine.
I know whose love would come down
to me
Mother o' mine.
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine.
If I were damned of body and soul,
    Mother o' mine.
I know whose prayers would make me
    whole,
    Mother o' mine.
___Kibling.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not *responsible for the clues expressed here*. Communication must be signed as an e-mail.
HELP! HE'S HUNGRY
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I am a student who has a morning class that does not dismiss until 12:20 (five minutes overtime) and an afternoon class that takes up promptly at 1:30. When the days are balmy and walking is good I find that I have ample time in which to walk down Mt. Oread, eat my dinner (I'm no plutocrat) and walk up "the hill" during the noon hour.
The recent heavy snow, with accompanying ice and zero weather, has made safe walking almost impossible and I find it perilous to venture out on the walks and pathways. Now what I wish to bring to notice in this communication to the Daily Kansan is that some place on the campus ought to be provided where students may buy a noon lunch that will stay the pangs of hunger until a more substantial meal may be obtained.
I am informed that the Board of Regents at the Agricultural college have taken steps whereby meals may be obtained on the campus. It is reported that the preparing of these meals will be a part of the laboratory work of the department of domestic science and that lunches may be obtained that will be inexpensive and yet nourishing. I see no reason why a similar plan could not be adopted at the University. With a little extra effort the department of Home Economics could provide a simple noon meal for which a number of students would gladly pay them.
If the department of Home Economics is not inclined to favor the project, the University Regents ought to allow some private enterprise to start a small eating house at which late-for-breakfast students and others who do not wish to make a special down hill trip at noon, may relieve their hunger.
I am sure that I voice the sentiment of a large number of the student body and that the matter will bear investigation. When we have our new Union Building the eating proposition will be settled but until then unless some other provision is made, we must buy hob-nailed boots and spiked shoes and plod a perilous way to and from our boarding houses.
A. N. EATER.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The Daily Kansas will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome—The Editor.
FROM SNOWBOUND
Unwarmed by any sunset light
The gray day darkened into night,
A night made hoary with the swarm.
And whirl-dance of the blinding storm.
As zigzag wavering of and fro
Crossed and recrossed the winged
And cree the early bedtime came
The white drift piled the window
posts
Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.
And through the glass the clothes-lined noats.
So all night long the storm roared on
the morning broke without a sun;
In tiny spherule traced with lines
around the world, from earth to
in starry flake, and pellicle,
All day the hoary meteor fell;
And, when the second morning shone,
We looked upon a world unknown,
Or we watched the stars glisten
Around the glistening wonder bent
The blue walls of the firmament,
No cloud above, no earth below,—
A universe of sky and snow!
Gets brighter as the moon approaches.
Look marvelous shades: strange dome
and towers
Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood.
Of garden wall, or belt of wood;
A smooth white mound the brush-pile
snowen,
A feneless drift what once was road;
The bridle-post an old man sat
With loose-flung coat and high cocked
The cellcubb had a Chinese roof; And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, sensed to tell Of Pisa's leaping miracle.
—John Greenleaf Whittier.
You May Think this a queer time to talk about Spring Clothes,
but we have got to make way for them, because they are coming. To do it, we're marking down prices on every fine suit and overcoat in the house; we include in this offer
Hart Schaffner & Marx
goods. Here's the list of prices that will make room for spring goods pretty quick.
$25, $22.50
$20 Suits
NOW
$25, $22.50
$20 Overcoats
NOW
$15
$15
Mens' $1.50 Sweaters now $1.10 25 per cent. off on all Sweaters.
Peckham's
LAWRENCE A TOWN OF HOMES
If you live in a city you are probably dreaming of that home you will have some day in the country. If you're in the country, chances are you're thinking of the city. That's human nature. But there is a happy mean between city and country in the town of moderate size, the ideal place for a home. Such a town is Lawrence, the University town of Kansas. It's a fine place to live, here and now.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
Bell Brothers Pianos
Are Made for Discriminating Musicians and are sold where really artistic pianos are appreciated.
Lawrence, Kansas. Bell Brothers Piano Co..
Gentlemen:-I had the pleasure oeral months ago and was delighted with the effect which your interposed spring produced in the leaves, gives the keys a piability under the fingers, that is very desirable.
One important point in tone production which I find it hard to develop is that in order to bring out a strong tone of good quality under a heavy pressure touch the knuckle or wrist should
I believe also that your spring will increase the durability of an activity you do. It is also a sudden shock which they have heretofore been compelled to stand.
the key is struck. The simple little invention of yours helps to accomplish this result in the action.
CARL A. PREYER
Teacher of Piano-forte, Kansas State University
BELL BROTHERS PIANO CO.,
LAWRENCE KANSAS