Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-21
OF ARTICLES ON TOWNS AND
NEAR TOWNS WE HAVE
VISITED IN OUR
YOUNG LIFE

Lawrence. Kansas. Is about forty miles
from Kansas city. for which Kansas City
probably regards itself fortunate. or per-
haps it Is Lawrence which regards itself
fortunate.
Lawrence Is particularly noted for two
things. II is in the state Of Kansas, which
is dry, and it is the home OF the famous
ROCK CHALK J-A-Y-H-A-W-K
yell
A dry town is fine place for college.
II takes all the spirit out Of the game.
For how can students celebrate victory
| in fitting and proper manner, such as
insulting bartenders and heaving beer
bottles through plate glass mirrors? The
fact that the students can't celebrate
victory as IL probably should be IL prob
ably the reason Kansas has no, Victories
4 10 celebrate when il plays Nebraska
The Rock Chalk yell has been pro-
claimed by expert critics including all
our leading cheer leaders. as the greatest
| yell in the world. II may be, but It
sounded mighty sick week ago along
! side of the U-U-U-N-I OF Nebraska, even
though it was given by 5000 leather
lunged threats as compared with a couple
OF hundred. which gave the TIusker cheer
| Lawrence a week ago yesterday would
have been joy as a place for an under
takers convention. Crepe hung on all
the doors and the gloom could have been
cut with a knife.
| Lawrence Is q very up-to-date city. It
has a street car line which doesn't run
/ TO the depot and therefore Is great help
TO visitors who enjoy pedestr 'anism.
It also has couple Of restaurants.
( At least the signs over the door called
them that although there is some doubt
in our mind as to the advertising integ-
rity OF their proprietors We tried to
eat in one OF them. The next time we
get hungry in Lawrence we will inaugur-
ate a fasting period
McCook field which is the place they
play foot bail games, has press stand.
A little over 5000 persons saw the
observation-disclosures game. At least nine
tenths of this number sat in the press
stand. They were all x. L. journalists
Journalists, not newspaper men-and they
all had to have front seats. They got
'em, due 10 the courtesy of a guy named
Murray, or something like that. who
graciously appointed himself charge d
affairs Mr.. Greenleaf and ourself sat
in rear row where we couldn't see
anything and entertained the collegan
reporters with an up-to-date line OF rapid
fire comedy which had to do largely with
the superabundance of incompetency of
the Kansas University athletic board
and everybody else connected with the
management of McCook field. 1t was
clever stuff. but the sunflower gents
didn't applaude properly. They are I'M
appreciative down there
Fortunately Lawrence II an easy town
to get out of. Both the Santa Fe and
the Union Pacific run trains through It
at frequent intervals and as you know
the Union Pacific is q nice railroad.
Speaking of prohibition a corpulent
iperson who evidently went to Lawrence
a week ago Saturday more for the pur-
pose OF irrigating the state than seeing
the foot ball game, returned to Kansas
city on the same train we did. He was
a Kansas man and he was accounting tor
the Nebraska victory. He had the best
alibi we ever heard. Probably you would
like to hear 1t.
'Tsh eashy-hio-to-hic-she how they-nic-
beat ush," he suffered with much DIFF
ficuIty. They h-hic-twelfsh men
hic-I shknow they dld-hic-becaush I
counted 'em-hic."