UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 29,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Geo. A. Montgomery, Editor-in-Chief James E. Hardara, Annalee News Editor Helen Peffer, Society Editor Howard C. Morgan, War News Editor Howard C. Morgan, War News Editor
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Published in the afternoon five times a week. Edited by Larry Kanna, from the press of the Des Moines Press.
The Daly Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news for the ideas the University hones on, to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charismatic; to be charitable; to move serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university, to allify the students of the University.
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1918.
Will the "pep" men, who are shouting from every sidewalk in bold-face type, have enough pep after election to clean their posters off the campus?
TEACHERS AND A LIVING WAGE
If the Allies had some way of introducing the Irish malady into Germany they could sit back and let the Huns fight it out among themselves.
TEACHERS AND A LIVING WIDE Some of the seniors in the University are signing contracts to teach in the high schools of the state for salaries ranging from seventy-five to eighty-five dollars a month. Such wage are likely to look tempting, at least to students who have spent most of their lives in school with only a mesager allowance for expenses. This is especially true if the student has the idea, as many do, that teaching is an occupation that day for only five days in the week.
The student who contemplates requires but six or seven hours a teaching, however, should stop to consider that he has spent some four thousand dollars to secure his education, and must have a reasonable return for his investment; that he is entering the lists of wage earners, and will be expected to contribute his share for social work, church work, and war work; that he will be required to dress well and seek the best of board and lodging in order to maintain the prestige and leadership which the profession demands of him; that, in addition to the stx or seven hours a day in the classroom, he will be required to spend many hours of work outside in preparing lessons, reading papers, and making out reports; and, most important of all, that he is employed only nine months of the year.
Due to the fact that many new teachers enter the work each year without considering these things, teaching has become one of the poorest paid of the professions. As a result only the inferior teachers remain in the profession. The better ones leave it as soon as some other line of work is offered. The profession just now is suffering from such conditions, and it must continue to suffer until those just entering it learn to properly estimate the value of their services.
Why should the Dutch wait till winter is over before putting their embargo on quinine?
"SHELL FOR SHELL"
Eight hundred Germans attacked and in a glorious battle were defeated by the magnificent resistance of American troops who gave steel for steel, lead for lead and shell for shell. Simultaneously on another now well-known section of the long
Western Front eight hundred thousand and Germans were held to minor inevitable gains by French and English troops.
It is about time the Associated Press quit the style of grammar school histories and ceased to magnify skirmishes into battles. For real battles are going to come and goodness or badness only knows how such news writers will handle them. Someone was right when he said that perhaps American newspapermen had exhausted all their resources and skill in covering local fires.
It is true, however, that Americans want to know what the comparatively few soldiers they have son are actually doing. Tell that simply and directly, and in due proportion That effort will increase and eventually the proportion will be ever with what America's allies are doing. Then let the great battles them selves give the words that shall tell their story. There will be no need to borrow from the style of G. A Henty. Much less is such need just now.
KANSAN PRIZE POEM CONTEST
Every One Deserves Something
KHAKI LADS Hazel Ernst
Today, today they say good-bye And sail across the sea.
To fight, to kill, to bleed—to die To serve democracy.
They sail, they sail, on, on to France
in glory, strength and youth
To fight the demon, dragon Hun,
To smile false pride with truth.
And still they come, brave Khaki Lads
from freedom's holy land
To crush, to kill with righteous wrath;
Worshied Almighty.
Woe to the Allemand!
O woe to Prussian greed and lust!
Autocracy shall go.
The tyrant crown shall fall to earth, And crushed to earth the foe.
We pay the price—our manhood's life
The men we loved are gone.
Columbia shall bow with grief E'er peace comes with the dawn.
For day by day some loved one falls
Despite our daily prayer.
And mingles with the mighty host That sleeps forever there.
The long, long trail is stained with blood;
The battlefield is red.
The pale moon sheds her silver rays On our beloved dead.
O Khaki Lads, O lads so brave,
What can we say or do
To pay the debt of gratitude The future owes to you?
You fought, you killed, you bled—you died
Beyond the deep, dark sea,
Far from the friends, the home you
loved,
Theresa, your mother.
To serve democracy.
MENTAL LAPSES
Long, long shall wave the starry flag Beloved. Red. White and Blue.
You died that it might ever wave
O Khaki Lads for you.
"Johnny, what do you mean by calling Mrs. Jones a liar?"
"Well, my good woman. I must go now. Is there anything I can do for you?"
Policeman: "Huh, and niver come back? You shtay right here, an' I'll do the rinnin' after it!"
O Khaki Lads for you.
"Well, Ma, when she rang the door bell you said to show her up."—Chaparral.
Lieut.：“You can't write this home.
It would give away valuable information.”
Prisoner—"There goes my hat. Shall I go after it?"
Fasinated Bartender (watching a stout Englishman gulp down his fifth drink): "Gosh! First time I saw a British tank in action." -Panther.
Toot: "All right! I'll just refer them to the article in Harper's I got the dope from.
An interested visitor, who was making her final call in a tenement district, on rising, said:
"No, thank ye, mum," replied the submerged one. "We mustn't mind it if I don't return the call, will ye? I haven't any time to go slummin' me-self."
The Philologist
A Few Words With Him .
"You are very regular in your visits," said the Philologist. "It is unusual to find anyone who is so interested in such subjects; and when he takes such careful notes as you appointe him, he will tell you how. How does it happen that you...
Every Day
"Beg pardon! Oh! What was I saying about Latin names? I was about to say... that you would find them adequately discussed in, say, Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar. Now, any other question?"
"No. The name 'robin' does not come from his robbing our cherry-trees, but is a diminutive of Robert. We have other birds with Christian names, for instance: Jenny Wren, Magpei, and Jackdaw. It is difficult to say they did first get those names."
The Philologist stroked his beard reflectively. "Proper names, characters in history or fiction, often become common names with a special significance. Thus we speak of a 'Macchielloelli', 'a Don Juan', 'an Edison'. Where was I? Oh! Yes. Those bird-names probably did, and some of them still do, connote something. Jenny to me suggests demureness, Mag suggests a shrew and a chatterter, and Jack suggests verticature, pranks. Notice that we have the strength also represented in "jack-screw" and "jack-plane", the versatility in "jack-knife", and the frankishness in "jack-napens" and "jack-a-lantern". In "jackass" the 'jack' simply means 'male'.
CAMPUS OPINION
"Yes, you are right. The word 'jac' is a sort of 'jack-of-all-trades.'
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. The name will then not be used unless you want it. The editor must know who is writing the communication as evidence of their accuracy. Communications are welcome.
Why can't the students at this University learn the meaning of the word self-control? All of us realize that this is a serious time in the history of our country. We are all ready to make all kinds of promises to practice self-control that will help the government in its war work, but the trouble is that we really do not fulfill them.
We resolve to refrain from a few picture shows, drink a few less "cokes," and buy a little less candy this week than last, but when a fellow who hasn't much to do sticks his head in at the door, and shouts, "Well, let's go to the picture show; Douglast Fairbanks you know," we forget all about the good resolutions made at the patriotic speech last night, and we offer Oh Shoot. We pass a drug store and drink a "coke" or buy some candy, forging that our Friendship Fund pledge is not paid vet.
Self-control is an old word and almost every man has had it preached at him since the days of the grade school, but still it is a word the meaning of which every University man should relearn.
We buy substitutes for flour because we have to, we put three cents on a letter instead of two because we have to, we buy Liberty bonds and baby bonds for looks sake, but what do we do just because it is patriotic and our duty. The government can and probably will make laws forcing us to do certain things necessary for winning the war but why can't we do such things without being forced to it?
Nowhere has come so great a change as in the meaning of the phrase "carry on." The grimness of righteous determination has been substituted for the emptiness of frivolity.
"Cheer up. You look as if you'd lost your last friend" was originally said of the dear old woman who spent every rainy day going through the box full of clipped funeral notices of "them that were."
Hilltop Philosophy
C. T. B.
When a nation rejoices in the slaughter of women and children it ceases to hold the respect of even the most nervous of neutrals.
A hermit may be a prime favorite with himself, but he's a bore to the community.
Donated advice is frequently like a town sprinkler in full operation on a rainy day.
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FOR SALE OR TRADE for farm, 11- room house, strictly modern, between court house and University. Inquire of Crew, 1132 Ohio. I7-2-205.
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HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS—
HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR
there's a message for you in the
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READ IT!—Adv.
Don't wait--DO IT NOW! Buy War-
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An Electric Iron You Should Own One!
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CAN'T YOU IMAGINE the number of times you have wished you were able to slide a hot iron over a slightly mussed shirt waist, or a skirt just a little wrinkled? It is possible to fully satisfy this wish if you own an electric iron for it is always ready to "smooth out your troubles."
Stop in and ask us about them!
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Let "Clean-Up" Week also be "cash-in" week for you. We buy nearly everything that is no longer useful to you. And incidently, we pay the highest prices.
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