APRIL 23,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to pick up graduate life of the University of Kansas than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University places on its students to be clean; to be cheerful; to be friendly; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university; to educate the students of the University.
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1918.
THE HARDER THING TO DO
Many men in the University know well that in a few months or even weeks they must take their places in the lowest ranks of the National Army. They are attending to the business that is required of them against the day of their call to the most unusual and most necessary duty of their lives and all American lives.
Someone has got to carry the gun. All cannot wear leather legs and spurs. And it takes intelligence as well as strength of body to be an American soldier of the line. As things are, the American between 21 and 31 is expected to go as he is called, go where he is called, and do whatever is required of him there. Opportunities to "volunteer" are limited for such men. In any event the more dangerous, the hardier duty is bound to begin in such places as Funston and then be carried further across the sea.
War is adventure with the volunteer when he plunges into it. War is a business that comes as recognized obligation to displace the ordinary business of life for the selected man.-He fears nothing. He shirks nothing. He is ready when the time is set. He does the harder thing to do; he keeps the workaday*world going until he has to lay down his tools of peace and take up the weapons of war.
The University of Kansas man is doing more than just maintaining the common living and working every day demands to fulfill his chosen purpose. He is preparing to serve his community just as every Kansan has done, in college or not, in years gone by. Such Kansans have built the state of today.
But that K. U. man is a Kansas in a bigger way just now. He is getting ready for fighting as well as for better living and working after the fighting is done. He has got to fight first. He knows that in order to live he must fight. He carries a gun. He studies tactics. He applies the special sciences to the needs of war. And doing all, he has the longest day's work ever done in any university or on most farms. He works while he waits. He will be ready.
THE TASK OF AMERICA
It is difficult to understand why the Germans have been able consistently to push back the allied forces in the recent drive on the western front. Many believe that the Huns have made a super-effort, entailing losses they could ill afford, in order to bring the war to a close before the Americans could get an army into action. The Allies, in the opinion of many newspapers, have allowed the Germans to 'push them back because it was possible to inflict greater punishment on the enemy with him on the offensive, than would have been possible with the allied armies making a drive against German strongholds.
Such a theory, at first consideration, appears plausible, but upon reflection it seems highly improbable that the allied commanders would give up, in three weeks, nearly all the territory gained in two years of fighting, if it had been possible to hold that territory against the German drive. English and American newspapers have been slow to admit the fact, but it is probable contrary to general supposition, that the Germans, instead of the Allies, have a preponderance of men on the western front, for it is hardly conceivable that Germany would be making such sacrifices if she did not have the men to spare.
One usually thinks of the Allies as having a greater combined population than the central powers, and consequently considers them superior in man power to the Teutonic nations. This was true at the beginning of the war and held true until the collapse of Russia, but since the withdrawal of the Russian armies the preponderance of men has been with the Germans.
The Russian catastrophe, to begin with, released an army of nearly two million men, which has been withdrawn from the Russian frontier and thrown against the Allies on the west. In the second place, Germany, since the withdrawal of Russia, is backed up by an inexhaustible reservoir of Slav labor. This enables her to take many men out of industry and put them into the trenches. Every man thus taken from industry can be replaced if necessary by two laborers imported from Russia.
This makes it possible for Germany to throw nearly her entire man power into the trenches without seriously hampering her industries. The Allies cannot spare so many men from industry, for although Great Britain has men in her colonies sufficient, under capable supervision, to man her industries, these men are far away and, with the present shortage of ships, it is impossible to get them to Europe.
The surrender of Russia thus throws the advantage on the side of Germany, and the Allies may be forced to give up still other territory before the United States gets enough men on the battle line to throw the preponderance of numbers on the side of the western powers. The problem of the war now rests with America, and it will not be solved until this country, to its least citizen, casts aside everything else, and applies all its energy to the conservation of its resources, the organization of its industries, and the training of its men for the conflict.
MADE IN GERMANY
For many years that little trademark, "Made in Germany," stamped on a knife, razor, dish or toy has been a guarantee of the high quality of the article so marked. Americans bought German manufactured goods whenever possible, for not only were those goods sure to be satisfactory, but the prices were moderate also. Teutonic factories were large and labor was cheap. The latter fact explains why even hand-made goods, which Americans wanted, were inexpensive.
With the beginning of the war, however, Germany remodeled her factories to turn out necessities for the war. She no longer spent her time and her resources making fancy pocket knives, porcelain ware, dolls and drums, and other nations had to look elsewhere for such articles. They must continue to do so, at least until the end of the war. By that time other nations will be equipped to supply their own needs along these lines. This will make is unnecessary to turn to Germany for such goods.
But this is not the greatest, not the principal barrier that will cut off
the trade of Germany from the rest of the world. The barrier that will be hardest to surmount will be that of world hatred, which in itself, for years to come, will be sufficient to isolate Germany from the rest of the world.
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CAMPUS OPINION
Editor. Daily Kansan.
Through errors in notices and through some rather amusing conclusions drawn by a certain "Observer," the integrity of the "powers that be" in K. U. tennis seems to be questioned.
The system used this year in selecting the team is so simple and so time-honored that I was rather surprised the team understood it. In brief it follows:
By preliminary tryout all the better players were to be placed on the Varsity squad. Each member of the squad was to play each other member at least one match of three sets each week. All the scores of these matches were to be handed to the captain at the end of each week. At the end of each week, the captain was, by direct play with the men and by the results of the weekly scores, to place these men in the order of their standing. The names were to be posted in the training house every day, and with the highest standing after two or three weeks of play were to be taken to one of the Kansas City clubs to receive additional practice with Kansas City players before the intercollegiate matches started. The team was not to be definitely picked until the week before the Missouri-Kansas dual journey.
Any man in the University eligible for Varsity, who thought himself a better player than any member of the squad could challenge that member, any time before May 10, to a two out fight. But Mr. Baldwin said this, it entitled him to a place on the squad to compete with the other members for the team.
The plan is working admirably, so far, as it has worked in many other schools. It practically eliminates partiality, because the best man is bound to win a round robin play of this sort. The preliminaries eliminated no one, because anyone misjudged can, by defeating any member of the squad before May 10, automatically put himself on the sound.
The tennis management is anxious to receive helpful suggestions along any phase of its work. What it wants is co-operation. Knocks won't help suggestions will. We've got to beat Missouri.
(Signed) KENN B. UHLS.
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"Why don't you eat your chowder
Hallway room?" asked the boarding
house guest.
"Yes," replied Mr. Hallrom, "cold but not clammy." —Judge.
She—"Mary Garden is a beautiful singer, don't you think?"
He—"Yes, that's all that makes her singing bearable."
"Well," replied the tailor, "if it hadn't been for an apple where would the clothing business be today?"—Ladies Home Journal.
"Why do you have an apple as your trademark?" asked a client of the 'aillor.
Lady (entering bank, very businesslike): "I wish to get a Liberty Loan bond for my husband."
A Southern man tells of a colored mother, living in a country district of Georgia, who was induced by her 10-year-old son to attend a circus in a town near their home.
Clerk: "What size, please;
Lady: "Why, I don't believe I know,
exactly, but he wears a fifteen shirt."
Stanley
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She borrowed a wagon and a mule and set out with her offspring for the circus. The roads' were bad—it had rained—and the youngster was frightfully fidgety. Finally the tired mother exclaimed:
Clerk: "What size, please?"
'See heah, you Erasmus! Yo' set till! I've drive yo' ten miles to enjoy lis circan' an' you shall enj'y it, ef I has to pull chery hair out er yo' hail!!' —Everybody's Magazine.
Ed (in motor car)—"This controls the brake. It is put on very quickly in case of an emergency."
Coeed—Oh, I see. Something like a kimono." Orange Peel.
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