UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 25,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918.
PATRIOTISM AT A PENNY
Despite the fact that soldiers at the different training camps are continually asking for good reading matter, many people are still throwing or burning their old magazines.
The students at one house, however, have adopted a different policy, and have appointed a committee from their number to gather up, every two weeks, the magazines that have been read and mail them to the soldiers. This means that about a dozen magazine, practically new, are sent to the training camps every month. The cost, one cent for each magazine, is insignificant.
If all the fraternities and rooming houses in Lawrence would adopt such a ruling, it would mean hundreds of magazines sent to Funston or some other camp each month. Here is a fine opportunity to render a patriotic service at a minimum of expense.
GERMANY'S AIMS IN THE WAR
The recent German drive on the western front, if it does nothing more, should remind the United States that there is still a possibility, a very grave possibility, that Germany may yet come off victorious in this war if America does not speed her preparations and get an army into the trenches to aid the Allies. France is far spent, and the burden of war is bearing heavily on England. If it will spur her to greater effort and activity in her preparations, let America remember that she must be the deciding factor.
But along with this—even before it—let America remember the aims of Germany in this war. Let her remember that Germany in those fateful days in July and August 1914 could have prevented the war if she had cared to use her influence to temper the demands made by her ally, Austria, on Serbia. But Germany refused, even when asked, to do this. There can be but one reason for this refusal—Germany wanted war. And there can be but one reason why Germany wanted war—her desire for conquest.
Despite her hypocritical protests to the contrary, conquest has been the aim of Germany all along. Following the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Germany annexed the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and levied on France a war indemnity of a billion dollars. Many times since, German leaders have expressed regret that more than a billion was not demanded. That indemnity made Germany what she is today. With it she built up the most powerful military machine the world has ever known, and developed an industrial system, under government supervision, that
has placed German goods in every market of the world.
On the other hand that indemnity so weakened France that she was unable to keep pace with her neighbors in preparing for the present conflict. Today Germany knows—since 1871 she has known—that for her, wars have been good and profitable. German victories have afforded the opportunity for Germany to strengthen herself and weaken her enemies by dispossessing the conquered peoples.
And that is the purpose of Germany in this war. With her sixty-six million inhabitants she is overcrowded and needs room for expansion. Her program of colonization, begun less than forty years ago, was started late too late to secure colonies adequate and desirable for the expansion of her empire. All land available for colonization is now in possession of other countries, and if she is to expand she must take the land necessary for expansion from some people now possessing it. This is her aim in the present war.
It is now only a matter of time until she will have extended her influence and in part her domain to all of European Russia, and possibly to parts of Siberia as well. Russia, unless rescued by the valor of Allied arm, must become a vassal of Germany. And the fate of Russia must be the fate of all nations which accept terms of a victorious Germany.
"My better nature makes me want to write books," admits William Allen White. "It is my inherent baser nature that keeps me running a news-aper."
BRITISH VIEW OF THE DRIVE
British VIEW OF THE DRIVE
Extract from a letter received by the E. M. Fulton Jr. of British prison who entered the war in August, 1914. Now home recovering from wounds - Dated from England, March 27, 1918.
Well, you know of what has happened since last Thursday. These are trying days, but I believe we shall see brighter ones before very long. I am wondering what the effect will be on your side. Of course the Booche had no alternative but to strike as early as possible this year for another drive, knowing how the Allied front could be reinforced by your men during the year. He has struck with tremendous force but the line is not broken.
I was reminding myself only today of when we left the first Somme battle in July, 1916. It was just before dawn. The Germans had been pushed back over a distant ridge and their flares were going in the distance as though the dawn wasn't enough. We filed over the hillside and down into the valley where the summer morning mist lay among the trees in the wood.
It was strange to see the old trenches we knew by heart,—Old Royal, King's Avenue, the Tambour, Tanggiler and Maroc—all deserted and half in ruins, past the cemeteries to the village—and then the smell of wet fields, clover and morning mist. The stench of blood and flesh and explosives made me love to get back into the unbroken country, and to see natural sights and friendly faces once again. I thought it would all be kept in peace after that—at least in our generation. And now the Huns are back again. Still the line is unbroken, and the weight of this drive should be spent soon, if casualties are of much account.
The Kaiser seems to have done without his pagan gods—have you noticed, by the way?—ceased his Siegfried and Thor cry and gone back to the Lord again. This is all rambling, so I won't keep it up. The exasperating thing is to think of the Bolshevik and his ways of getting liberty and progress, by putting the whole cause in the fire like this, providing the Boche with good British guns—so hardly spared—to pound our men with. And the cause we are fighting for, too!
Well, I hope it will all help your people to realize that time is not indefinitely on our side. Of course you Americans are doing wonders, and
we all realize and appreciate it, but time is a vital matter for our cause. I don't think one was ever brought before now to see what a tremendous cause it is, and the absolute necessity of beating the Huns if life is to be endurable in Europe—or anywhere else for that matter—in the future.
CAMPUS OPINION
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Editor Kansan.
That favoritism is one of the chief reasons why Kansas teams never win championships is a reason always given out by K. U. students when they return to their homes in the summer. The situation is the same this year as heretofore. The scarcity of material this year has caused no more discretion to be used in selection of this year's teams.
Freshman baseball candidates allege that the first year baseball squad was practically chosen the first night if practice and that the unfortunate candidates were never given a chance to show their wares. One man said: "I am not much of a ball player, but that coach will never know it." He added: "You have to play players. If favoritism is going to be the predominating feature of baseball in K, U, it had better be dropped from the University's list of sports.
A Baseball Fan.
WOMEN AND THE WAR
Many women's colleges, notably Vassar, are compiling lists of their students who are in war work abroad and at home, similar to the roll of names kept by men's colleges.
The French Red Cross has approved the sending abroad of properly organized relief units of college women, according to a cablegram received recently by the American Red Cross.
Some colleges are supporting a social worker in France, usually a graduate member of the college. Almost every group of under-graduate college girls, besides the alumnae groups, is supporting French and Belgian orphans. Two women's colleges—Smith and Wellesley—have organized relief units of college men for work abroad.
MENTAL LAPSES
The Food Administration courses, which were adopted during the second semester in all colleges where such courses were not already in the curriculum, are expected to have a great influence on the work of college girls during the summer. Miss Ida M. Tarbell, head of the Food Administration Department of the Women's Committee of the Council of Defense states that through these emergency courses hundreds of young women in all parts of the United States are gaining knowledge of the food situation and the ways in which the government is trying to meet it.
“But, my dear,” said his wife, after he had complained about the food the new cook had brought in, “you know during these terrible times it is absolutely necessary that we make great sacrifices.”
THE MAID'S SACRIFICE
Sound travels at the rate of 400 yards a second, but there are exceptions to the rule:
Scandal—1000 yards a second.
Flattery—500 yards.
Truth—2½ yards.
An alarm clock—barely 1 foot.—Ladies Home Journal.
Oh, of course, but what I object to is that cook's making hers in the form of a burnt offering."-Star.
The One Who Depends on Alarm Clocks—"I'm afraid the dean will fire me. I've missed chapel three days running."
The One Who Has Given Up Hope— "Oh, well if you missed it running, that shows your good will, anyhow." Duralee.
-Purple Cow.
Our idea of an optimist—The lad who, reaching the station in time to see the rapidly disappearing taillights of the "last train," with the next train due at 4 a. m., loks up at the moon, shoves his hands in his pockets, between puffs, "Onw if I only had my Chemistry here!" —Record
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