UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
the official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
Louis Rowe
George MARSIT
Marcus Editing
Manager
BUSINESS STAFF:
CLARK    WALLACE    Circulation Manager
M. D. BARR    Circulation 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 $2.00 per year, in
time subscriptions, $2.55 per year.
Telephone, Bell, K. U. 25.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 24, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS
Little strokes fell great oaks.
JUST THREE!
NO BRICKBATS YET.
The Daily Kansan almost feels vain. During the past few days numerous exchanges have come to the office in which were comments on the first student daily ever published in Kansas.
In every instance these comments have been laudatory, with a few suggestions as to "make-up," heads and other things affecting the appearance of the paper. Some of these comments have been supplemented by personal letters from the editors in which they extend their congratulations to the staff and to the department of journalism.
The Daily Kansan is glad to receive these words of commendation, and it is its hope to make good in all the things that our state papers have promised for it.
Our captious critic who complains that the name of the great and good Greeley was mis-spelled in the Daily Kansan yesterday should possess his soul in patience. Our proof-reader could always spell that name with ease. Today he can spell it with more ease (e e e).
A REAL W. S. G. A.
At a mass meeting yesterday the girls voted to invest its governing council with a power similar to that now held by the men. Week night dates will not be tolerated except especial instances, and a general power of surveillance of University girls' action was granted to the Association.
The action of the girls is commendable. The former Women's Student Government Association was lacking in the one element that was preeminently necessary—a power to enforce their rulings. They could dictate to the girls and they could "call them on the carpet," but when it came to meting out punishment for an infringement of the rules, they were powerless.
The University now has two governing boards to whom it entrusted the discipline of the student body. Both boards are made up entirely of students elected by the students, and if ever a test of student discipline is to be made it will be within the next few months. The Men's Student Council has taken decisive action in several cases on the violation of its rules and the University men have upheld it, in the main.
The women will be called upon to exercise just as great a power at the men, and caution, fairness and a certain amount of diplomacy will be needed to make it a success.
There is one thing that should not be allowed to creep into either council. The members must not seek to regulate too much the details of school life; the trivial and unimportant should not be sought out
Discipline can be exercised by a general overseeing of the actions of the student body. We are men and women here now and we ought not to need to be watched.
A judicious use of the power granted it, will give to the Women's Student Government Association an influence that can hardly be overestimated.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
Within a few days there will be an attempt to rejuvenate our literary societies. To a number of people a literary society carries with it an idea of a lot of hot air surrounding a small group of pseudologicians who are completely carried away by their own verosity. This idea may apply in some of the smaller schools, but when the literary societies in other large universities are investigated, it is found that they occupy an enviable position, and that their members are students who are really interested in the problems of the day.
Several years ago the X.Y.Z. and the Adelphic societies flourished here. The members at that time however, seemed to be unable to infuse their enthusiasm into the younger members and in a short time the societies went out of existence—so far as actual work was concerned. Last year the Cooley club was organized and it appears to be enjoying good health this year. Professor Gesell and the Debating Council are anxious to see a new society formed which will be made up of men who are really interested in the work. The University needs literary societies that will do something. The reorganization that has been proposed should receive a hearty welcome.
GET OUT
This is to the follow who has thought for years that he had no ability as a track man at all; it's for the fellow who, in prep. school, ran fourth to a small; who couldn't lift a twelve pound shot; to the one who was scared to death if he jumped four feet in the air or covered more than his length in the broad jump=
Get out!
You may never win a letter here in the university. You may never even land on your class team, but there's a big chance that you can make somebody else extend him to grapple with some honor or perhaps give up or perhaps varsity team better, so —
Get out!
The athlete who wins points for his university isn't always the one who comes home backed by the great prep. school reputation. Maybe he re workings along the wrong lines. Why "Sleepy" Dull thought he was a spinner when he entered the university. He couldn't do the 100-yard dash in less than a dozen seconds to save his soul, but he developed into one of the best distance runners in the country. You may be able to do something. There is only one thing for you to do—
We want some good inter-class activities this winter. We need something to slirp our spirit when it's cold and sloppy and everybody hangs around home and wonders why in blazes he didn't stick in the old town and sell shoes the rest of his life, Help this along. You can do it. Don't leave the work for the men who know they are athletes. Try to be among those present in skinny togs on the gym floor yourself. To do it you must
Get out!
GET OUT!
—The Michigan Daily
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A WOLF had been gorging on an animal he had killed, when suddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his swallow it. He soon felt terrible pain in his throat, and ran up and down grooming and grooming and seeking for something to relieve the pain. He then pushed him against the move the bone. "I would give anything," said he, "if you would take it out. At last the Crane agreed to try to help me move the bone, and open his jaws as wide as he could. Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf's throat, and with its beak the bone, till at last it got it out.
"Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?" said the Crane. "I should be given his teeth and be told." "Be content. You have put your head inside a Wolf's mouth but come out again on safety that ought to be taken."
THE EDITOR GETS ONE IN VERSE.
Since Brother Kipling penned that mess about our sisters' deadillness, they've learned his gospel word for word, and are determined, 'tis inferred, to put—since pens have vanished swords—the skids beneath Creation's Lords. They'll force Mere Man, 'tis understood, to hew the water and draw the wood. That's metaphor. Here's what I mean: we men will fight the wash machine, and cook the babe and dress the grub and fill the broom and push the tub! Alas, 'tis sad, but we may feel amid our woes a touch of weal; for 'mist the household's warring din will sound our valiant rolling pin. Yes, when old Fate misfortune sends she doles out blessings for amends, and to rejoice we'll have a cause: we'll terrorize as father-in-laws.
Sir;—I want to write about the "her," that strange unlimined unwritten thing that flies our midst on noiseless wing, that essence one might almost say of leap year spirit gone astray.
But these digressions do not show the cause of my abounding woe. What really irks me like the deuce is this: The girls are breaking loose and butting into certain pales that have been sacred to us males.
Finstance, take the Kansan staff. How it would make old timers laugh to see the women write the news! In fact it gives me purple blues to call up K. U. 25 to ask if "Cub" Baer is alive and if he is, then where the ___ are my last seven Kansans?—well, to have a gentle feminine response come rippling o'er the line, when I'm all ready primed to cuss—it makes me yearn to brew a muss.
Besides I don't see how the boys can make the proper kind of noise to print a paper when the girls infest the Kansan Office. Pearls of Womanhood are very nice when taking Doctor Day's advice, but when they take reporter's notes—Ah, me! ! ! it gets my several goats!
"WELCOME, YOUNGSTER."
THE K. U. SHEET
The result of the new effort made by the students of newspaper work at K. U. has arrived at this office. Volume 1 Number 1 of the University Daily Kansas is a neat looking paper full of University news and gossip and enlivened with a little dash of fun and a smile about a little advertising matter as a relish - to the editors and managers of the sheet.
A new print shop at K. U. is equipped for real printing and publishing and the embryo Bill White and Billy Morgan and Henry Allens and Arthur Cappers are busy at the grind that makes newspaper men—not journalists. The paper is a credit to the University.
The K. U, paper has had a varied career. The first paper issued on Mount Oread was printed a long time ago—not so long ago as was our own Campus in Ottawa, but it is venable. The present sheet, however, is an improvement in scope and undertaking. —Ottawa Herald.
A FINE DAILY SCHOOL PAPER The State University students are printing a very handsome daily newspaper. The Missouri State University students last year—and it was similar to that the Kansans are printing. Both are the very best publications of their class. Hiwatha Daily World.
We are in receipt of Vol. 1 No. 1 of the University Daily Kansan. It is published at Lawrence, Kansas by the students of the University of Kansas. It is a 6 column 4 page paper and is published every afternoon, and is very neat in appearance. We welcome the Daily Kansan to our exchange table - Waldo Advocate.
A NEW DAILY PAPER
GROUCHY GILIHAN.
We are pleased to place on our exchange list the University Dally Kansan, the bright, shiny and neat new sheet published at Kansas University under the entire control and management of the students of the school of Journalism.
The new daily bears all the murks of typographical perfection and progressive journalism and is a fine exponent of what is being done in this branch of useful study at the State University.—Clay Center Daily Republican.
After a five day's delay on account of a coal shortage at the University of Kansas, which made it impossible to get power in the buildings, the first issue of the University Daily Kansan came off the press Tuesday. It will be issued every school day of the University by members of the department of journalism. With this new daily paper the students who come to K. U will get practical experience. The new students will be studied by students, and when a graduate comes out of the department of journalism he will know news, the mechanics of printing and also the business of running a paper. The University Kansan was formerly tri-weekly—Lawrence Democrat.
NEW DAILY AT K. U.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
dents. Beginning next week, a feature of the paper will be a department of high school news sent in by correspondents from high schools all over the state. May much success attend the efforts of the students in their new undertaking—Dresden Sunflower.
A College Daily.
We are in receipt of Vol. 1, No. 1 of the University Daily Kansan, a neat six column, four page daily, published by the students of the department of journalism at K. U. The Kansan carries numerous ads for various business firms, but its news department is devoted to the University and the stu-
The Daily Kansan, issued by the students of the department of journalism at the State University, was launched this week. It is a creditable publication, splendidly printed and well edited. The typographical features are so perfect that their very perfection is well-nigh overdone in some points. The work of issuing the paper is good practical work for the students.-Russell Republic.
Warm Words of Welcome from the Lawrence Daily Papers:
Following are extracts from telegrams and letters received by the editor of the Daily Kansan:
Abilene, Kansas.
Abnebbi, Kalafani.
The first issue of the Daily Kansasian promises a paper to the University should be proud. It looks right, reads well, and has the marks of a real newspaper, style and touch.
My congratulations to the staff.
C. M. HARGER
I wish to extend heartiest congratulations on the launching of the Daily Kansan. It is a most excellent publication—a credit to Kansas newspaperdom and a very convincing proof that the practice as well as the theory of journalism is to be obtained by all persons pursuing this department of the University.
Especially well balanced and well written are the headings over your first page stories. These headings give evidence of a very careful and "know how" analysis of the news value of each story.
You do not seem to be in need of any suggestions for improving your paper—and judging by the first issue, you and your associates are fully capable of putting to best possible use all the information upon which you have to work.
I might suggest that, as a diversion from the writing of purely local news stories, the students occasionally undertake the discussion of social problems and other matters of world interest on your editorial page.
Thank you for sending me the first issue of the Daily Kansan. I have not had time to read it closely but it seems to be filled with live stuff for its field. The general appearance of the paper is pleasing but I can not say that the step-ladder heads appeal to me.
ARTHUR CAPPER,
Publisher of the Topela Capital.
I have read number one and number two of the Daily Kansan, with a whole lot of pleasure. It is breezy and effective and has an air somehow far away from the stereotyped newspaper. It seems to me it is a splendid idea and you and your boys are to be congratulated on the start you have made. And speaking of stereotyped writing, did you ever notice how hell bent the new local man and the new editorial man is to express himself in what he conceives to be newspaper style and newspaper English? There should be neither, as a matter of fact, and the best reporter is the one who tells his story in his own way without limiting himself to the way it has been told since newspapers started. Wishing you all the success in the world,
R. E. STOUT,
Managing Editor Kansas City Star.
I am getting the paper and appreciate the favor. Your daily looks like a newspaper; reads like a newspaper; and is a newspaper. It's great, and I want to congratulate you upon your fine production.
W. R. KERCHER,
Correspondent Kansas City Journal.
D. A. VALENTINE,
Clerk of the Supreme Court of Kansas.
The Daily Kansan is fine and I know it will succeed. It is a good thing for the University, and for everybody connected therewith.
W. Y. MORGAN, Hutchinson News.
Thank you very much for putting me on the mailing list of the Daily Kansan. It looks good to me, although I am not a K. U. man. I think you are going to get a lot of mighty good information in it, stuff that will be valuable to the University. I am sending a story on the aeronautical work the University is doing to my Eastern papers this week. I stole it from the Kansan and hope to steal many more.
CECIL HOWES,
Newspaper Correspondent.
Here's wishing you success. You may not make any money but you'll have lots of fun. Have been running a paper for twenty-six years out here in the short-grass country and I have had much more than my share of a boisterous good time.
If I were asked what I consider the thing in a newspaper which its readers value the most I should say, Sinceicity, Reliability, Honesty, all meaning the same thing. Never deliberately mislead your readers. And your days will be long in the land. Good by and good luck.
HENRY BLOCK,
Editor of the Syracuse Journal.
Leavenworth, Kansas.
"RUSTY" RUSSELL,
Let me congratulate you on your first issue of the Daily. If the rest to follow are as good as this one, it will be a "dinger".
Cambridge, Mass.
I have just finished reading the first issue of the Daily and want to congratulate you and the Board and hope that
you have the best of success with the venture. It looks like a newspaper now and has some news in it that is interesting. I know that it will continue so and that the Daily will soon become a necessary fixture in the school.
HOMER BERGER,
A copy of the new Daily Kansan is at hand. It is a work worthy of much praise. In typography and news it is a compliment to the talent you have in your department of journalism. But such words of praise will give your boys a self-satisfied air which will block improvement, so I will take my cue from your invitation for "suggestions."
First, I would never permit the "make-up" to divide a story in order to get three leaders at the top of the column as occurs on page four. The convenience of those who read a paper should take precedence over the taste of those who look at it. A good "balance" in heads helps the looks of a paper, but it often leads to a nuisance comment to many readers and magazine stresses chasing around for the end of a good story he started on the first page. Please train us some journalists who won't stand for this.
Secondly, in your University daily and your class in journalism, you have an opportunity to work out the solution of some of the problems of a newspaper ethics, which most of us in the busy world do not have time to deal with. So I would suggest that you take our newspaper code of ethics dividing it into "takes" and assign two members of your class to each of the following topics into which the code is divided, as it appears in the eighteenth annual report of the Editorial Association: "In Advertising," "In Circulation," "In Estimating," "The Editor—News," "For the Editor—Views."
Let one member defend the code in his particular topic and let his partner oppose it. I suggest that you put your most capable talent on the negative side each time, as we will be more benefited by an intelligent and capable criticism, than we will by praise and defense. As you will appreciate by a perusal of the code, the last two topics will call for talent of an entirely different nature and probably more age than the preceding topics which deal more with business problems.
W. E. MILLER,
W. E. MILLER,
Editor of the St. Marys Star.
The University of Arkansas is raising funds for a $100,000 gymnastium.
To introduce our new line of
On next Friday, between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning and four and five o'clock in the afternoon, in order to introduce this new line to you, we will sell this line of regular 40c Chocolates at
Bulk Chocolates
"The Best That Ever Came to Town"
28 Cents a Pound
Remember the time and place. ROWLANDS College Book Store
Tell the story of a city's growth.
In the year just ended there were erected in Lawrence buildings costing $709,675, and municipal improvements amounting to $148,090, and improvements and rebuilding of private property amounting to $300,000.
So the total paid out by the town for new and more substantial things was more than a million dollars in the year 1911,---and that wasn't an exceptional year.
City Improvements
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
图示