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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 2, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
t paper of of Kansas
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas, to go further than merely print the news by standing for the ideals the University represents. To be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be honest; to face serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
TUTSDAY, APRIL 2, 1918.
THE LAST LAP
The last lap begins today. Easter vacation is behind us. The University year is coming down on the home stretch. For seniors, here are a scant two months before college days are over forever. Be a sponge. Soak up a little bit of information and pleasure that comes your way. Crowd everything into your days that you possibly can. In doing all this for yourself, however, do not forget that the universe runs on the principle of give and take. Be of a little service to your fellow students, or your community.
Now is the time for Juniors and underclassmen to make the minutes count. These are strenuous times; even the clock is moving up an hour. There is more to be done in this last two months of the spring session than there has ever been to do in previous years. The necessity is greater. Return to the University next September is uncertain for many students. Wise students will take the wise advice of Lord Chesterfield to Maul Muller and make hay while the sun shines during the coming April and May.
BUT—
He was walking down the street, a mere barb. The fraternity man of recent pledging became intensely interested in the sidewalk as the barbarian approached. The pledget had seen the meek bar, but—
HE ALSO SERVES
He may not sit behind groundglass, gilt-lettered doors as does the city editor, but he delivers the goods just the same. His salary may not mount to several thousands yearly and he may not have scores of men under him, but he is at work twelve hours a day at least six days of the week. Editorialist, news editor, reporter, ad man, business manager, and, when occasion demands it, pressman, compositor and devil, that is the country editor. A man with a headful of ideas; a man with good, sound business sense; a man of tact; and a man with a thousand and one things to do and with the ability to do them all well—that is the country editor indeed.
The metropolitan daily, covering such a broad field, plays up the big news items of general interest. And we unto the city newspaper man if he cannot get such items in sufficient quantity. But the editor of a weekly has a different problem to face. It is the personal item which will make or break his paper. Names of neighbors are what he needs, and enough of them to fill several columns of every issue. He must not forget to mention that Jim Jones has bought a new Ford or that Mrs. Smith visited at Podunk over the
week-end. He knows that people like to see their names in print and that the more often home folks see them the better they will like the paper.
News is not news to the country editor. He is known too well by his readers. The scandal story that the city editor would give first page space in the metropolitan paper, he must suppress altogether. It would jar on community feelings. He would hurt his friends. And he is glad that he can pass over such items and leave them for his city brother.
Although he is a busy man, just at busy as the man on the daily, life denies him nothing and he has more time for real living. He stays close to human beings and humanity, and that is the reason that he can still serve his paper when his hair is streaked with gray. The city editor is wrung dry and thrown aside at fifty. It seems, to the average person, that it is a bigger thing to be associated with the large paper in the metropolis. But the country editor is well satisfied with his position, as a rule, for he knows and his circulation knows that he is serving the public in the better way and is getting a good deal more enjoyment out of it than if he were in the rush and whirl of the impersonal city office which never stopped to think of a real individual.
AS IT REALLY WAS
“—hundred calories. Very high patented flour—”
The silence was broken by the turning over of leaves by those who were beginning on tomorrow's Geology or Botany, and the rattling of stiff letter papers in the hands of those who were patriotically writing to "him" overseas.
"—government regulations requiring
  —tiny tiny little thing."
quiring — "tiny, tiny, little thing—"
An epidemic of the whooping cough burst out among the assemblies women of the University. Several students amused themselves by looking around over the room, and meditating on the new spring hats visible. Some wrote up laboratory books, others were slyly giggling.
"Be very, very careful. Will the girl in the eighth row please stop talking?"
Some restless stirring, many bored expressions, and a large amount of honestly unconscious sleep spurred the speaker to greater effort.
"Can we really?" Feeding cereals to chickens—"
The end of the hour approached The sleepers awoke, and gather their note books together. A choru of pent up sighs were relieved.
"I perceive from some of you faces that some of your aren't the least bit interested."
A farewell of yawns prefaced much swarming toward doors, and the handing in each of his own pink slip.
The third Food Conservation lecture was over. After this manner was wasted the gospel of economy which, it was hoped, would touch so many people, making them reduce personal consumption because of limited national resources; influencing them to save that others might have.
FEMININE DYNAMITE
How much good was accomplished?
Didn't the forceful feeding get anything into you? It was sound nutrition; the trouble was with your appetite. Only one course remains.
Grey matter must be hyperdermically injected.
He was in France. He was doing only the average amount of work at the University, but she did not write for a week. He thought she had forgotten that he was doing his best in the great fight. She had merely be careless. It was such a little thing—the writing that letter—but it meant everything to him.
Grandma-"Shall I teach you how to make doughnuts?"
It was a little thing that counted.
Debutante—“Yes, I'm terribly interested, but I can't quite understand how you fix the inner tubes”—Milestones.
The Philologist
A Few Words With Him Every Day
"No," said the Philologist, as he absentmindedly scratched his left ear with the inky end of his pen,—"and yet you are right in maintaining that 'mama' is likely to be an older word than 'papa,' although it is probable that neither word is the oldest word in language. Nor can we consider the vocal expressions of an uncomfortable baby as words; they are too inarticulate and are by no means uniform, and even if they are effective in producing immediate results, they can hardly be classed as words.
"The oldest word is probably the sound we write "T-e-h-k." It originated when our primitive ancestors while wandering through the jungle came upon something that startled one of them. His mouth flew open in surprise and he drew in an involuntary breath. The result of pulling the tongue away from the upper teeth as he inhaled was this sound "T-e-h-k." He made it because he couldn't help it. His companions heard it, looked at him, saw what he was staring at, and immediately climbed trees.
"We still use the word because we also gasp when we are surprised, but with us it generally means 'Just look!—Shocking!' We occasionally write it 'Tut,' and some ignoramuses pronounce it as they see it written."
"After this sound had occurred spontaneously for a few thousand years, some genius used it intentional, and then it became a real word.
"By the way," said the Philologist, as he turned to his desk again," did you know that some races call their father 'Mama' and their mother 'Dada?' Curious, isn't it? But it's a fact——."
(Verses read by Marco Morrow at Associated Journalists' dinner, University of Kansas.)
POET'S CORNER
The Prayer of a Rotarian
I ask the gods who mold the mind of men
And shape their lives, that I may have two gifts—
No more; I ask for Pride; I ask for Power.
Oh, not the might and vanity of Kings
That I may lord it for a little day;
But give, I pray, that power of brain and arm
Nor yet the purse-proud power that comes with gold:
That I may do each day with joy the work
I find at hand; and act with glad assent
My little part in God's vast scheme of things
The power to give the world more than I take.
The power to be a man!
Let me not be
*M michethina*, *min. māhna*, *majāy oak*
Besechnesthe (*māhna*) in heaven's name
my lords! my lords!
Let me be not a gorging bird o'prey
that glides over the sage of earth.
The crafty man who waits disaster's blow
my lords!
(Oh, I have seen them in the market-place.
Rich merchants clothed in purple, haggling there
Over some taudry bauble with such greed
They made the very beggars sick (or)!
Vho idly eat Life's bread and drinks
Life's wine.
Let me not be the high-born mendi- cant
And pounces on the hapless, hopeless one;
And give to me that honest pride
which soooks.
Let me not be a beggar at Life's board.
The power to work—co-laborer with Thee!
All alms bestowed by Chance or Circ:
emancipation;
"It means the "other I," responded a pupil.
But give to me, O God, the power to serve
To take more than my honest sharc— the pride
"What is the meaning of 'alter
teacher' and the teacher of the be-
eginner's class?
To give my fellow man more than his due.
My fellows and my age—the power to live—
"Give me a sentence containing the phrase."
"He winked his alter ego."
-Marco Morrow.
K. U. Soldiers Write Defense of Funston
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The following has been received from soldier alumni at Camp Funston.
Camp Funston, Kansas. March 21, 1918.
Editor Daily Kansan
To the contrary of what Candidate James B. McNaught would have the good folks back home believe about the Third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Funston, not all of the personnel reverting K. U. as their Alma Master belong to the egotistical "dough-boys." We, the aspiring candidates of the First Battery of Artillery strenuously object to being left out of recognition entirely. "Over there" we wager that the dough boys will be able to defend themselves till they meet after they, the dough boys have got themselves into a hot place and must needs be taken out before their crust is burned.
We write in congratulating Candidate McNaught on his splendid letter concerning the Training Camp, but we in the battery wonder where the infirmytem get the time to take the several censeus, the results of which he mentioned. They certainly must have an easy time of it!
Yours for old K. U.
Henry J. "Hank" Ahrens, '10.
Clarence J. Pierce, '07.
S. W. Caywood, '15
S. W. Caywood, 16.
J. C. Carpenter '17.
J. C. Carpenter, '17.
H. A. "Hail" Russel, '17.
CAMPUS OPINION
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. The name will then not be used until the comment is received and the editor must know who is writing the comment as evidence of the writer's since. Communications are welcome.
Do all profs forget that they were students once? One remarked in his class today, "What unintelligent things students do!" He has forgotten entirely that not long ago he was a student doing the same unintelligent things that the students of today are doing.
If we were all so nearly perfect that we never made mistakes the vocation of teaching would certainly be on the front. The most recent professors would be out of luck.
Then, too, is it absolutely necessary to continually practice a too soothing ebullition of vitriolic sarcasm on the unintelligent student?
We are offenders—but perhaps if one of the intelligent ones are capable perhaps that we too can become nfallible.
Intelligent.
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Be Prepared Next Winter-COAL
The price of the coal will be the government price at the time of delivery. By ordering now for summer delivery, you will get the benefit of the probable drop in price.
Deep Shaft Cherokees—we are taking orders for spring and summer delivery. Fraternities and sororites use this coal.
Order your coal now for spring and summer delivery. You may have part or all of your order delivered during the summer and the remainder after school opens.
Arkansas Semi-Anthracite--you may get this coal now. This is the coal that most of the professors buy.
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