UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 15.1918
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kannada
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**Vivian Sturgeon**, ... Editor-in-chief
James Hardace, ... Associate Editor
Howard Morgan, ... P. T. Editor
Howard Morgan, ... Sole Editor
Marion Globy, ... War Editor
Ricky Ribey...Business Mgr
Wayne Wylie ...Assistant
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The Dally Kansan aims to picture a world in which the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by rending for the ideas the thirst for and curiosity to be clear; to be cheerful; to be careful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1918
MUNICIPAL PRIDE AND SHAME
"Every city that I know of that has any pride," says Fred C. Triggs of the Kansas City Star, "is proud of its fire department and ashamed of its police system."
Visitors are told proudly of the number of fire stations, and are taken down to see the wheels go round. The department will make an exhibition run solely for their edification. The fresh paint and hundred per cent efficiency are gorgeous and dazzling. Even the small town boasts its motor driven truck, chemical tanks and carts of hose.
But the police department of cities great and small is sacred to the clutches of the politician and characterized by the amount of efficiency to be expected from such a source. Visitors are not taken to the police stations to admire the efficiency of the wheels of justice. It isn't done, you know. The efficiency of the wheels of justice depends on the will of the "boss." "Bosses" are much given to financial interest in the very activities in the city which the respectable citizen wants stamped out. The "boss" of course will find a place for one of the "boys" somewhere in the system. If there are no places he will make some. The "boys" may or may not possess the ability, the desire, and the intent to serve the public faithfully and well—but, well they are loyal fellows, and we hope they do. So, ironically enough the public safety force of the city makes it's living off of the pathological pests of the city; they stand for the things they are expected to eliminate.
The faithful, honest, officer who occasionally gets on the force and works for a better and cleaner city is relegated to suburbany districts where he has nothing more strenuous to do than to watch boys play mumble-ty-peg, or is dismissed from the force as too useful.
There is a reason for these two extremes of efficiency in the same city system. No man in the city wants his property destroyed by fire. But an important part of the officials in power are not interested in or desirous of a permanent city whitewashing.
BUT—
There were two of them playing tennis. Two more fair co-eds including an unsophisticated freshman came innocently onto the court and looked as though they wanted to play. The two who were using the court asked them to play doubles with them, out of courtesy to the visitors. No they were waiting for another couple to come and play. Finally after waiting for half an hour they said they would play because there was nobody else to play.
They might have accepted the first ime as true sportsmen, but—
OUTSIDE OF THE CAP
OUTSIDE OF THE CAP
A freshman has written to the Kansan a well worded but unrepresentative communication protesting against the cap custom. His communication unfortunately lacks basis of fact and is similar to other unburnished ideas which students fresh from high school have from time to time in the past aired in the columns of the Kansan inside pages. This freshman, who asks that his name be withheld when the communication is printed, says the freshmen do not want to wear the cap. Last year the Daily Kansan seeking to show the University Senate, then considering the abolishing of paddling for not wearing the distinctive headgear, held a voting contest. The result was that of 230 freshmen voting, only 27 were against the freshman cap. Of this number, only 57 opposed paddling as a means of enforcing the cap rule.
The contest was open to every man in the University. Yet the freshman class—and a representative class—aw the wisdom of retaining this one tradition that smacked of school spirit so noticeable for its absence now, and voted overwhelmingly for caps. The upperclass voted 48 against the cap tradition of 570 votesast. Of this number, 118 were against paddling.
Unlike the intelligence which the communication writer refers to and which he seems to think the freshmen would use to abolish the cap custom, the freshmen favored the caps. But it is not for the freshman to say just what they should do when they arrive at K. S. U. They need look after. They should not be let loose on the campus to do as they please. Freshmen at no other institution in the United States are looked after as well and with less severity than they are at the University of Kansas.
For time immemorial the freshman cap has proved a means of creating good fellowship. It is the one thing which the University Senate has left standing as a tradition at the University. There is evidence of a lack of loyalty on the part of freshmen this year to wear caps that may make some "means other than physical" but just as severe necessary to make this one tradition live. The University Senate, in spite of this vote which indicated the temper of the University, voted to suit its own ideas, and made "physical violence" in enforcing the cap rule, a crime at the University.
The freshman communicate is radically wrong when he says that the upperclassmen do not have means of getting acquainted. They become acquainted by means of caps while freshmen. Laws are recognized by their canes, engineers by their flannel shirts, journalists by their corduroys, and College students by the absence of all these distinctions.
The freshman cap acts as a safety valve for the freshman career. It is the outside of the cap that counts, for the outer appearance has a mental effect on the wearer. The upper-classman sees in the cap wearer a loyal student. By the time that he becomes a sophomore and junior his freshman training has enabled him to uphold the highest traditions of the University. The outside of the cap has done it.
The cap is a means of becoming acquainted and it is a peculiar freshman who does not look back on his cap-wearing days as the best ones at the University. His fresh cap is kept as a treasured momento of his first year at dear old K. U. Absence of the cap is a means of pointing out to the passing University student the freshmen, who are trying to become stained upperclassmen in a couple of months. Such rapid growth goes to the freshman's head. It is bad for him. By the time he becomes a junior, he is an unbearable prig if allowed to run around, minus any badge of distinction.
(Editor's note.—The communicate should confer with an upperclassman or some cap-wearing freshman in regard to Massachusetts Street. Freshmen have to wear their tiny headgear only on the campus and on the University athletic fields.)
The average K. U. student analyzed as to intellectual propensities is a queer sort of being in some respects, especially considering the kind of material that he stores and does not store away in his brain cells.
HOME IGNORANCE OF OVERSEAS
He may be a shark (or a bigger fish, if such a one infest the sea) at zoology, entomology, and other brain-developing oligos. Perhaps, he may be in the habit of taking his mental gymnastics by a careful investigation of the properties of the nth roots of unity.
There is also the student who wanders through the halls of the law building with a miniature library under his arm, pondering the question of whether a certain loquacious person is guilty of malfauses. The daily bread of thought of this student may be the Greek alphabet, the orations of Cicero, the campaigns of Marius, Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander the Great, and Napoleon.
Another type of this average student is the one who journeys wearily back and forth between Snow and Blake Halls, meditating on the number of atoms in a grain of hydrogen, and wondering whether his first patient will be a victim of sciatica or a mere valetudinian.
A common type of student is one who writes English themes, glowing with original and creative ability and is intensely interested in the kind of foods to use in helping to win the war.
Now the queer part of the situation is that the average student, regardless of the type to which he belongs, when questioned about the number of Americans in France, the kind of guns and airplanes used by the waring nations, or the location of yesterday's important battle, replies with a vacant stare. He knows that we are sending men and munitions across the ocean to fight Germany and that recently Germany made a deep inroad on French soil. He probably has heard rumors of a strike in Kansas City, but beyond that his knowledge of present events is limited.
If the student happens to be a girl, the situation is even more pathetic. A few, having interests across the water, spend four or five hours each week knitting, but at the mention of St. Quentin or Montidier, they inform the speaker that they have either been too busy to read or that they simply can't injure their delicate sensibilities with the perusal of such sanguinary literature.
WHAT EVERY MAN EXPECTS
WHAT EVERY MAN EXPECTS
(By Helen Rowland)
Oh, yes!
The genius of Newton,
The coolness and composure of "Central."
It is perfectly easy for
any woman to learn to COOK!
All in the world you need
Is the "right SPIRIT, my dear!"
And a stove and a cook book,
and a bungalow apron,
AND
The genius of Newton,
The agility of a Charlie Chaplin
The judgment of Solomon,
The skill of Ariel,
The imagination of Jules Verne,
The persistence of Delliah,
The versatility of Mrs. Fiske,
The sure aim of Christy Mathew
son,
The thumbs of a blacksmith,
The skin of a salamander,
The batting average of Ty Cobb,
The nerve of Joss Willard,
The self-assurance of the kaiser,
The faith of Joan of Arc,
AND
KANSAN PRIZE POEM CONTEST
Every One Deserves Something
WHEN DAVID CAME Gertrude O. Palmer
The meekness of a— WORM!
—Exchange.
Not to the home of priest or king, Nor to the halls of luxury,
Church That God had laid His hand upon.
Went the robed priest to search the choice
Long years ago a king was sought,
a man of God to rule His men;
To take the throne instead of one
Who lost his power for selfish gain
Out to the home upon the plains,
then tomb upon the plants.
Where dwell a simple shepherd folk;
Strong, free and brave,-proud Nature's own,
He stood in stately judgment while
The prophet turned his God-led steps.
Their stalwart form and graceful mein.
Of those tall, comedy shepherd lads With beauty in the countenance.
And many times his judgment erred,
Seeing the stature and the face
But God's firm voice was silent yet,
And Samuel's mind was puzzled
'or Jesse's sons were formed like gods
And pleasing to the outward eye.
But when at last young David came.
The ruddy, simple, shepherd boy;
With heart as pure as his white
And soul born of the plain and sky—,
"Arise, anoint him, it is he"
"The Lord's voice rang in Samuel's"
"touch."
And he then poured the crusie of oil Upon the kneeling David's head.
O not alone in times of old,
For Jewish and Judean Kings Are men of David's heart and soul.
are men of David's heart and soul,
the choice of God to rule his men
But in the fighting world today
Where science kills, and war's n
Where passion, selfishness and gain
Of favored men low beasts have
made,
Is the call loud and louder still,
For the strong manhood of the
plains;
Born of the open sky and field,
Of virtuous homes and able brains
Then will our land have light and name,
Then will our riches bless our homes;
As in the days of Samuel's voice,
When from his sheep young David came.
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REACHERS WANTED—War conditions cause many good positions to be open. We must be prepared to fill them. Write for our blank and international Bureau. W. J. Hawkins, Mgr. Metropolitan Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
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SALESMAN WANTED by large corporation to sell maps during summer. Lowest man from K. U. last year cleared $10.90 per day. Will pay $5 per day in bonus. See Mr. Campbell at Eldridge Hotel, April 15 and 16. 127-2-197.
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When the War Is Over——?
W K.PAGE, advertising man-ager of the Addressograph Company, Chicago, in his book,"Looking Ahead in Business" says that American business after the war will be faced with a dual competition.
"Big American factories released from war orders, entering new fields low-price foreign competition, no longer handicapped by war burdens, coming into the American market with full force."
"American business will meet this intense competition successfully, of course. But it will have to harness every modern selling short-cut—and win out by sheer superiority of salesmanagement, high-powered advertising, and sales strategy."
Advertisers can more than realize the value of their advertising when this "after the war" period arrives. The good-will produced for their products by the power of advertising will play a potential part in staying off foreign competition.
Business Manager