UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MARCH 7,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of KANSAS
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news or publishing it in a university vaccines hold; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be tolerant; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; to all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1918.
Have you a little SALVAGE BAS KET in your home?
DEBATING DECLINES
Nobody cares if the federal courts of the United States are deprived of robes, righteousness, and the right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. Nobody wants to know why they should have such a power or why it does not matter.
Let orchestral strains from Fraser Hall draw in the crowd, ballyhoo the lads and lassies with enchanting mourn of oboe and wall of violin. Voices of the commonwealth can clash at will alone in the sound proof vault under Green Hall. Let them come from Colorado. Let them talk. Let Kansas answer. Who wants to listen now.
Of course the question is serious. Of course a nation is asking it and eventually will reply with the mandate of a democracy's will. But university people are fiddling and fanning, building culture into their egotism. And the world goes by. The world does its thinking. The world speaks its opinion and acts upon it without contribution from insulated academicians.
No, you must not think in terms of this century,—not until next century. Then it will have been proved in doctoral theses that right is right and wrong is wrong, that this ought to have been done thus, and thus ought not to have been done at all. Sweet and consoling after-thoughts—fruits of schorraly research—the most unproductive work that a moving world is cumbered with!
Be like the typical collegian. Be as far from the Kansas soil and Kansas spirit that give you life and purpose—as far as things dead can keep you. Scorn the question of the day. Live on in yesterday. That much is safe—it was agreed on long ago.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
It was a large class and the instructor was in a hurry to finish the work on hand so they could go to a more important discussion. But the time killing student persisted in arguing over an unimportant point that had unfortunately come up and they lost half an hour; not much, but these little things count.
COLDS FREE—APPLY IN CLASS
Fifty persons in a hermetically sealed box—that's what it amounts to. The class was uncomfortable and a bit heady. Five or six persons had colds, audibly. Everyone was so ill at ease that the professor's discussion did not penetrate at all. It was not strange, either, considering that within that room, with it's closed doors and windows, the fifty had sat for nearly an hour, and that during the previous hour there had been another class there
and before that another. But instructors still persist in wondering why they get their quizzes funked, and why measles, colds and mumps will go the rounds.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
He was never absent from class but never arrived at any of them less than three minutes late. His professor in the preceding class did not keep him after the regular hour but he always was a few minutes late in arriving at class. A little less work between classes and less loafing would place him at class in time. It's a little thing but—
JEST FILLER
FISHIN' AGIN
he brook is free of ice, Bill, the water's not too high;
The fish are up in sight, Bill, swiftly swimin' by—
My tackle ain't the best, Bill, but-
my goin' mein to try!
Jes find the rusty spade, Bill, and mosey round the drain:
Poke about for worms, Bill—they're
out to feel therain—
And we'll *put* 'em on the hooks, Bill,
the longest string to gain.
The almanac can't lie, Bill, it's true as a holy thine—
We've got to follow on, Bill, and see what it will bring.
Get you up at dawn, Bill, jump right out and run;
'I'll be waitin' by the willow, Bill, al
rigged up for fun—
We'll have it all together, Bill, before the day's begun.
—Jawn Henery.
WOMAN'S WAR WORK
(From the announcements of the Committee, Public Information Section)
Committee on Public Information) Radio inspectors of the Department of Commerce have been instructed to advise women who wish to become radio telegraphers to study Morse telegraphy instead. Because of the great shortage of competent telegraphers at the present time the Western Union Telegraph Company is undertaking the instruction of operators and offering to pay them while learning. There is, however, practically no demand for the services of women as radio operators, either in the Navy or in commercial life.
Books and library service are to be provided for Army, Navy and Red Cross hospitals in America and France, according to the plan of the American Library Association; which will direct the work under the War Department Commission of Training Camp activities. Miss Caroline Webster will have general charge of this new branch of the service. The librarians will be accommodated as nurses and will have the same standing as the regular hospital staffs. The position will not be filled by trained librarians entirely but there will be place for women without technical training. The duties of the librarian will include reading to convalescent soldiers.
The woman who has had training as a physical laboratorian is needed for war services under the Civil Service Commission, in such work as the testing and calibrating of apparatus at the radio laboratories. Applicants must have had at least three months of physical or electrical laboratory experience and the equivalent of high school training.
"Freshman Time" is a creation of an upperclassman's imagination. No freshman at Indiana University has ever had the delightful sensation of possessing any minutes as his own. He goes to a series of lectures, conventions, hygiene, and gymnasium where he sees his fabulous time in the powers of many persons. He is told to take his time, conserve his time, and value his time, to which instructions he listens, then turns to search in fairyland for freshman time.—The Indiana Daily Student.
The War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities now has fifty-five women deputy sheriffs doing scouting and patrol work. These are protective officers working in vicinities of camps in all parts of the country, co-operating with military police and local authorities. Their special office is the care of young girls in the vicinity of camps, the oversight of their conditions of living and forms of entertainment.
By Margaret Lynn
Violet Ray Displaces Currycomb and Brush
Barber-in-chief in the Valley of the Kaw, he spoke with supreme authority. He had just collected $1.33 from a perfect man, had just proclaimed a stentorian "Next!" from the red plush throne. But there wasn't any next just then. Lawrence, Kansas, was about to sit down to the evening meal. And the torsorial emporian elected to help win the war by shutting off the current that was feeding his magic violet ray. "Yes, it's a wonderful machine," he said, "shakes your evil looks away. Just like an earthquake—there's beauty in every ear."
THE ADVENT
Then the old chap got reminiscent and told the philosophic tale of every great and successful man. Years and years and years ago when he was a little shaver he had come to town with all he had on earth wrapped up in a red kerkheid tie to the end of a crooked hickory stick. In that precious parcel were a silver of soap, the fringe of a shaving brush, a razor that would slay a pachyderm, shears that would shame the International Harvester Co., a pachyderm, a comb that squared seven teeth at odd intervals, and a family hair-brush that his mother had used for discipline on five brothers and five sisters." That "hat brush is the only existent monument to whatever virtue I possess," he said solemnly.
He was the second barber the town had ever had. The first one was kidnapped by Quantrell as contraband of war, on ground of military necessity in Missouri. And yet no one welcomed him. In fact, no one saw any use for him at all. Women cut hair by clapping dishpans on the heads of husbands and sons and circumshearing to produce a resultant abbreviated thatched that looked like a flight of steps from neck up to crown, and down a slighter decline from crown to brow.
UTILITY OF WHISKERS
As for shaving—it never occurred to anyone. In winter whiskers were accessory clothing, and the law and the prophets had set the rule that summer was the time to raise crops in store for the season beyond the harvest. Conservation was the watchword. There was some beauty too. For when the breeze blew through there was whispering music as of an aeolian harp strung with a million strings. And all the men had a fondness for music.
"I borrowed an empty keg—lots of 'em in those days—and set up business in a corner of the blacksmith shop," said the professional pioneer. "Lucky I did," he added. "I took the glorious opportunity to tell a dozen men at a time that they groomed their horses better than they did themselves. Then I repaired the beauty of that blacksmith so that he got the bell of the town away from the dancing master. That was the beginning. Now look at 'em all!"
"Look at 'em—oh look at 'em!"—Elijah vindicated, Isaiah triumphant never had such satisfaction. "They sit down to my skill. They linger until my consumate art has made them whole."
NEW ERA DAWNS
Visits to the barber shop were cut from once a month to once a week in course of a quarter century. And when the Spanish war became history, men came once every twenty-four hours. "I put in five chairs. I kept open nights. I bought bay rum by the barrel. I founded a bank, I began to feel like Alexander after the world was all his own," sighed the barber.
The barber was wistfully regarding the box that held the infernal powders subject to the hand of man. "Someday," he said very softly, very dreamy, "someday I shall shave you out your hair by pressing a button."
"But that was before people thought water was meant to be drunk and electricity to do more than dispel the night," There was a gleam in the eye that follows the shears—"It had to come. I mean the violet ray,ray. Gave a tooth-ache? Cure it. Floating kidney? Anchor it. Homely mug? Enchant it. Nothing like the violet ray. Men spend an hour at a time under its spell. And you just saw how they emerge. He is good for several hours. Then he'll be back for several hours."
Plymouth—a persistent influence. Adv.
Take your old fountain pen to Barber & Son, Druggists, and receive $1 credit on an Ink-Tite self-filling pen. It's guaranteed.—Adv. 90-35
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