UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 4.1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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NEW WAR-BREAD
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918.
Food administration officers in Boston issued a warning to householders early this week to look out for ground glass in all bread. Not sand that a breeze across the plains in harvest time might rift into the wheat, not obdurate "old maids" from the chaff, but glass, pulverized glass that will lacerate the lining of the stomach and cause internal bleeding. German murder brot for American women and children—that's what it is.
Every German who has anything to do with the harvesting of wheat, the making of flour, the baking of bread, or with any part of the shipment of products from the beginning to the end of the process should now come under suspicion. He should be watched. She should be watched. And if guilt be attached the penalty should be death.
Prussianism is not confined to the Western Front. It is not confined to the range of a gun which deals death to French women kneeling at the foot of the Cross. It is not confined to soldiers. It is among civilians here in America.
The supposedly innocent, guilless stolidity that banks itself round with a Liberty Bond, a few well stuck thrift stamps, and a Red Cross contribution or so, is the wooden externality of smoldering fiendishness. It is true that such a sweeping indictment blankets guilty and as yet not guilty without any discrimination. But how can one distinguish? How can one issue clearance from blame at such a time?
The bread that sustains labor, that nourishes little children, the bread the American home depends upon is unsafe and must be watched. Yes, watch it—but let a vigilant government watch the assemblage of every element that goes to make that bread—watch every German hand that has a share in it or comes near it. If one of those hands sprinkles glass, let it be cut off in memory of Belgium even before the supreme penalty for crime be inflicted upon the life and will that guided that hand.
Wanted: A tenant to occupy No Man's Land permanently; must be American, British or French.
CRACKING BATS AT TWILIGHT The Hash House League seems to be flickering out. It is hard to place the blame for the indifference to the wholesome old baseball game. For one thing a smaller number of men are in school this year. Possibly the adoption of compulsory military drill or physical exercise has lessened enthuisiasm.
However this may be, intramural sports certainly should not disappear
from the campus. Because this is wartime there is all the more reason for athletics to go on as nearly normal as possible among us "stay at homes" at K. U. Athletic directors at army and navy training camps cannot give their too much football, basketball, wrestling and boxing. Fighting men must be in trim. The same principle holds good for those who are not as yet enlisted. They must be fit if they are to carry on the work at home.
Since an extra hour has been added to our daily schedule the Hash House League can, if it wishes, manage its games on a twilight schedule. Games could be staged from seven to eight, or even from six-thirty to eight o'clock.
Then let the old bats crack again in a genuinely universal game. No spectators, all participants, all alive for that extra hour of light which the powers that be have given us to do something good with.
THE GREATER COURAGE
The halfback on the football team, who after months of hard training goes into the biggest game of the year made confident and courageous by loyal support from the crowded bleachers is satisfied that he is putting up a worth-while fight, for is not the entire school behind him and the team?
The surest harbinger of spring has appeared—the Freshman cap.
And when he, at his signal, runnig low carries the ball over tackle for a fifteen-yard gain the throng in the bleachers go wild over the thing he has accomplished. Those 'cheers are recompense enough for the hard and dragging days of practice, those days when he thought many times of giving up. But he has been paid. His alma mater has considered his service of worth and has rewarded him with her support.
Suppose that instead of a football player the man is attempting to gain honor for his University and himself—is a debater. His efforts are no way less monotonous than those of the halfback. He must slave day after day and night after night in preparing for the debate. He must delve deep into the dry and uninteresting facts of history and congressional records. His exhaustive search for one small fact which might have a bearing on the question must be faithful and sure, even though it is tiresome and tedious.
And then comes the biggest debate of the year. The debater awaits the hour of the conflict hoping he will be supported by goodly numbers of his fellow students. He goes on the stage and confronts perhaps a hundred persons. They may be the loyal few but they are not enough. The debater is chilled and disappointed; his inspiration fades and he loses his confidence in himself and his team. His battle is harder.
And yet the while he misses the glory and the tumult that should come with victory, he may take consolation in this. If the football game had to be fought with a couple dozen spectators who were almost lost on the stands which should seat a couple dozen thousand,—the game wouldn't be played at all. Greater is the courage of him who can stand to his opponent and stand alone. That courage and all praise thereof belongs to the debater.
CAME TO WORK, BUT DATED
This here school life at Kansas U.
is sure exhilaratin; ; too dawgon
much for some that came to work but
started dinin'. I ain't no crab, I
am satisfied, (satisfied I'm goin' to
flunk) for I'm the guy that had
the dates with Miss High Brow from
Podunk. I sure have had one rippin'
time, for me there wasn't no cure;
I ran in high the whole darn way and
never had no puncture.
HE CAME TO WORK, BUT DATED
But now I'm forced to call retreat; like old Paul, my course is run: my gas is gettin' awful low, with my ride here just begun. There n't anybody else to blame but me, for I have sure
been lazy, unless it is those K. U
girls, who set the fells crazy.
I came here with a high resolve; I'd study like a fool: I didn't know what study girls they kept in this here school. My high resolve got busted up before I'd been here long, and it wasn't no time after that until my grades went wrong.
Today I got a nice invite from the wise old faculty, sayin' 'I could leave for my home town, they'd do quite well without me. That makes me mad as all get out and though you won't believe it, I'm gain' to pack my duds today and by gosh I'm gain' home.
The Philologist
A Few Words With Him Every Day
"Yes," resumed the Philologist, "the word 'palfrey' did change its form somewhat, but the meaning has remained practically unchanged, and the pronunciation has changed so little since the time of William the Conqueror that even he would have no difficulty in recognizing our word. And there are lots of other words that he might know when he saw or heard them, although he would known them in another meaning. They would puzzle him because we use them with an entirely different significance. It is surprising how words shift from one meaning to another.
"And you are saying 'For instance'. Well, take this piece of furniture," he prounded, tapping the desk in front of him assiduously, rythmically, with a long, bony finger, "in modern French they call it 'bureau', but in William's time the word was the name for a kind of cloth. The serbes and scriveners of that day used that cloth for a desk-cover, then extended the use of the word to the desk itself, later to the room in which the desk stood, and finally to the people who occupied the room, so that now we speak of 'Labor Bureau's' and the like.
"Of course there is another shift of meaning when a word passes from one language to another. For example: the French word for desk 'puppitre' is our word 'pulpit'; the French word for 'pulpit' is 'chair' and became our word 'chair'; and the French word for 'chair' is 'chaise' which we use to designate a kind of two-wheeled carriage. You can easily see how the last word originated. The first 'chaise' was a sedan-chair on wheels. "Yes, yes,—I imagine you are right," admitted the Philologist, as he turned to his manuscript and absintemely tried to erase a word with the end of his fountain-pen. "William would probably require the services of an interpreter if he or his shade went abroad among us today."
MENTAL LAPSES
Chance To Escape
During the week certain members of the flock had been paying overmuch attention to sampling the local whisky, and the "meenister"—this is the took advantage of his position in the pulpit to administer gentle reproof.
At that moment a fly settled on the book before him. He raised his fist. "You're gain' tae the bottomless pit!" he shouted. "And you'll get there just sue sure as I ding the life out o' his 'fly?'"
‘An’ I tell ye, one an all, ye’re on the way to perdition!’ he cried.
"Missed!" he ejaculated. "Ah, well,
maybe there's a chance for some o' ye
yet!?"—Ex.
His fist crashed down as he uttered the words. Then he looked to see the results of his handiwork.
"Didn't you tell me that Attorney Gropewit was an ornament to his profession?" "I did." "But he never has a client." "Exactly. He devotes all his time to being ornamental."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Norah—"The lady next door wants to berry a scuttle of coal, mum." Mistress—"Tell her, Norah, that we are already borrowing our coal from the people on the other side of us."—Boston Transcript.
Now is the time when the sweet young thing who would "rather dance than eat," says the Atlanta Constitution, may gratify her preference and at the same time help "make the world more美好," etc.—New York Evening Post.
"Do you people in Crimson Gulch believe in prohibition now?" "Believe in it!" echoed Broncho Bob. "We've got to believe in it. They've proved it on us."-Washington Star.
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Dinner in New York; Breakfast in Chicago—
SOME OF US have peculiar ideals. Frederick D. Underwood, President of the Erie Railroad, holds as his ideal, to be able to take evening dinner in New York and sit down to breakfast in Chicago.
The presen time of the fastest trains between Chicago and New York is twenty hours, but it will be seen that when Mr. Underwood's ideal is fulfilled, the time will be cut down to about 12 or 14 hours. A remarkable accomplishment!
Yes, we all have ideals—you, myself and—the Daily Kansan! The latter holds as its ideal, a greater and bigger K. U. with all he necessary improvements, a closer relationship between faculty and students, and more particularly as it relates directly to the paper,—to serve to the best ability the students of the University.
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