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Entered an second-class mail matter September 17, 1918, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921.
WHY DO WE WANT YAP?
Of the few material things the United States derived from the Verasilles conference, the Island of Yap has produced the most perplexing situations. It is the little Island of Yap that has caused the strained relations that exist today between the United States and Japan.
Yap in itself amounts to little or nothing, internationally. It can hardly be located on the map without the aid of a reading glass. Lying to the north of Australia and the East Indies, and to the east of the Philippines, it is a small, insignificant body of land—almost as maternal as its name sounds. It is one of five main islands of the Caroline archipelago, the total population of which is about 55,000, and whose total area covers 807 square miles. The agricultural and industrial value of the island is very low. Its inhabitants, while they are stavart and of a hardy nature, could not contribute much to American civilization. Why, then, do we want Yap?
Briefly stated, we want it because of its position to facilitate the working of trans-Pacific cable lines. The importance of the island lines in the fact that it is a valuable link in the system of cable communication between the United States on one side, and the Philippines, Dutch East India, China and Japan on the other. As the cables are arranged today, Yap as connected with Guam, China and the East Indies. Gaum, which is under American control, is one of the
important cable stations between America and the Far East. But the waters surrounding Guam are hazardous and dangerous to cable service, and it is considered of vital importance that the United States be allowed to exercise sovereignty over Yap, so as to insure uninterrupted cable communication. The United States apparently considers the control of Yap as important as its present control of Guam.
During the history of Yap, the island has seen more than one international dispute over its sovereignty. Spain claimed possession of the island originally by right of discovery. Germany interfered, and hoisted the German flag over Yap in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The provisions of a papal decree gave Spain possession of the island, but also gave Germany important commercial concessions. Germany later purchased it from Spain, and had possession at the beginning of the war.
There is a possibility that there are anterior motives behind the desire of the United States to keep possession of Yap. The state department may be looking into the fure, and estimating the international effect Japan's possession of the island would produce. But for the present, anyway, we want Yap.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SHOES AND STYLES
One of the slogans of the National League of Nursing Education which is holding its convention in Kansas City this week is, "The Proper Shoes Make Life's Walk Easy."
And furthermore all the nurses attending the convention are practicing what they preach. There is not a pair of high-heeled shoes at the convention and consequently the attendants of the gathering are probably not molested very much by the members of the opposite sex. There seems to be some prejudice connected against women who wear low-heeled and broad-toed shoes, although the nurses say that this fact is deplorable and should be eliminated.
Ordinarily when the average person thinks of low-heeled shoes, he associates them with antiquated school teachers, reformers of the feminine variety and suffragettes. Thus we may account for the prejudice which is undoubtedly unwarranted.
Modern educators say that perfect feet are exceedingly scarce among the women. There is only one set of these perfect feet in the total number of women in the University of Kansas. The girl who possessed these irrepresible pedal extremities was born in China. She evidently did not conform to the styles of that country. The concensus of opinion seems to be that wear shoes of the ground-gripping variety is to flant total disregard in the face of "style." "But comfort first," say the nurses, and they are trained to make people com-ortable.
I. W. W. MUST PAY
The I, W. W. must pay. The supreme court has refused to review their conviction by the lower courts, and "big Bill" Haywood and seventy-
the others will survive the penalty.
These men were inducted on four compinary counts—conspiring to prevent forcibly the execution of certain federal laws, to intimidate citizens from exercising certain rights, to induce male citizens充电 to register for selective service to resist, and to cause disloyalty and refusal of duty in the military and naval forces
These men set themselves up as directly opposed to certain laws of the country; they not only aired their views upon every possible occasion, but they went about it forcibly to inflict their opinions upon others; they considered it their privilege to set aside any law of the country when it did not meet with their approval, and finally, they the same as told the government that they were above it—that
The result was just what they might have expected. They were arrested and convicted.
The laws of the country are made for all of us. When we do not approve, it is our privilege to say so, and to go about it peaceably to get them changed. When we use force as a means to combat certain laws, that is anarchy. And we are not ready for anarchy yet.
What has become of the old familiar word "gretit" in the spring elections? Maybe the H C L is responsible for its disappearance.
Speaking about non-essentials, how about the Sunday evening dates in Lawrence?
Astronomers assert that Winecke's comet is coming closer and will be "very near" to the earth in June. Radicals and hen-pencked husbands should immediately cheer up, as they now have something coming their way.
A pair of bum comedians often beats a full house.
The Tula World states that a Texas jay freed a man who, in a family tilt, bit his mother-in-law "right in the neck." Evidently, the biter and his lawyers were both good at mouth work.
To claim the moral victory is a sure sign of practical defeat.
the prof who holds his classes after the whittle and then crabs when students come in late in the vernacular or the informal voyager, noninfiltrate a voyager on the rim.
Forty-two California hotel owners, by mutual agreement, went back to pre-war prices April 1. Let the signs of spring continue.
Cleopatra had a way with men, although she did not find it necessary to bob her hair to get by.
Probably the next movement on the hill will be to allow credit for courses in Black Mask and Pachacamac, and courses from classes during election week.
(With appropriate apologies to B Johnson by the Fresh author who says that he felt just that way about it.)
Plain Tales From the Hill
A Lament
Dance with me only with thy feet,
And I will dance with mine,
Don't wiggle around that funny way
The motion you give to your shoulde Is beautiful, almost divine, But might I beg of thee, my dear, Don't do it with such design.
It goes to my head like wine.
The motion you give to your shoulders
I brought thee to this dance, my dear,
thee so much honoring thee,
As hoping that I'd have you, dear.
Just to myself, for me.
But when you shake around that way
Others soon will see.
And then they all will claim a dance. And there'll be none for me.
The Strangest Story Ever Told
According to the Hiawata World,
this is the way that printer's "mixed
in images in a Savannah, Ga.
gainspaper."
"The wedding was one of the prettiest of the winter season, and many were the envious glances cast upon the blushing bride and stalwart bride-groom. Both reptiles are supposed to be of the lizard family, though the larger of the two, a strange armoury, is much difficult to classify. After an extended honeymoon at Palm Beach and Miami, the young couple will be at home in the snake-house at the Zoo, where a place has been prepared for them near
the giant turtles and the boa constrictors."
(By the girl who sings bass in the band.)
Of organae, cleverly planned,
With accordion plaits running all u
and down.
She was musical quite, so she made her a gown
She looks truly swell, and would frequently harp
And fluted to beat the band.
Of organdie, cleverly planned
On being high cold and an haze.
And of course to B natural, she had to
B sharp
quantity harp On being high toned and all that.
Enough to abide in A flat.
First Student: "Well, old man, how is your course in Psychology coming?"
Second Student: "Fine. I am a good student, but the fellow who sits by me is certainly next to nothing."
The University of Tulane has recently staged a campaign to raise $1500 with which to send a Tulane representative to China for Far East training. The event was presented to the fraternity and security first handing in a hundred percent subscription. Prizes were also offered to the two students getting the most subscriptions. The award by the name "Tulane in China."
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