UNIVERSITY DAILY RANSAN
FEBRUARY 21, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news of University of Kansas; to go further than merely play the news of University of Kansas; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to leave more serious problems to wiser hears; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1918.
WORTHY WAR INFORMATION
It was in an effort to get students of the University of Kansas interested in the great war in all of its phases that the War Council at the University was created. Its efforts have been uniting and it deserves recognition of having at least brought commendable speakers familiar with the war situation here to the University to talk at conventions.
At first the Council met opposition in having military drill and compulsory exercise interfere with a full attendance of students at the meetings at which the best speakers would appear. It was not possible to arrange to have a speaker come just on the date that the students were to be let off with no drill and exercise. But gradually the exercise authorities of the University saw that it was nearly as essential that the students have some first hand information of the battle fronts as it was to drill two hours on the golf links. The efforts of the War Council were strengthened.
Now, their plans have become so organized that they have a steady stream of speakers—but not coming to talk too often—appearing before the students. Perigard is an excellent example of the type of speakers brought here to describe the struggle across the waters. If the work of this War Council follows in other war matters relative to the University student as well as it has in bringing such an imposing variety of speakers to Kansas, it will become what the University Senate is not.
Just when the merchant is starting his spring suit sale announcements, there is another cold wave.
EVERY COMPRESS COUNTS
There are 938 women enrolled in the University of Kansas. About 50 of them are enrolled in surgical dressings classes. An urgent call has been sent out by the National Red Cross for all sorts of surgical dressings.
If every woman would spend one hour of the time she usually wastes in a week at the surgical dressings rooms it would mean 938 hours of work a week. Nine hundred and thirty-eight hours would mean -figure up for yourselves how many rolls of bandages it would mean. The University probably would be breaking a college record for production.
But the large majority of the women either have not or will not arrange their work to include the hours spent at Red Cross work. Consequently the amount of handages sent out from the University is low. And every compress counts in a Red Cross hospital.
There is a type of student who is always going to do something and always planning something unusual,
but* unfortunately he never does any
hing.
PIE
It is round, it is flaky and fulsomely sweet,—and it is incidentally palatable. Leave it alone. Don't let it tempt you. Of course it shouldn't be in sight; it shouldn't have been made in the first place. At least it should not have taken the carbo-hydrates that thousands have had deducted from their proper nourishment in England, France, and Belgium. Pie—that is the circular cistern for sugar and fats; that is the originally, exclusively American bane of digestion, fruit of extravagance, mixing-pan of sin.
Before the war, one ate half a pie at a sitting, custard in the morning, apple at noon, and mince thrice appropriate at night. Last year the H. C. of L. grated on pocket-nerves enough to limit the pieface to a saner quarter, which this year was reduced to a reasonable sixth. Some people went so far as to eat pie but once in twenty-four hours; others took desperate patriotic measures and pied up just once a week. Altruism will do wonders. Before the end of 1918 the United States will have pie only as a memory.
Manifest are the reasons for the expiration of pie. One needs only to approach the Western Front to get a stomach full of lead. That would be deliberate heroism now. But to swallow a plate of molten lead at home is to be an arrant foe, a rash seeker of unnecessary trouble. A nation's digestion at stake, a nation's common sense must inevitably come to the rescue. America must be made safe for the assimilation of wholesome food.
Then the cost of pie is ridiculous in proportion to what is received from it. Poor business is un-American, even un-German, quite unworthy. It is not a question of affording; it is wholly a matter of paying for what you do not get, of being internally destroyed under the deceit of a temporal blandishment. Piemakers are frauds; they are to breadmakers as thieves are to philanthropists. They know what they put into their products, they know and are indifferent to the fate of him who eats it. It is enough to say that they stand exposed along with their pastry. Their crust will crumble, too.
Finally the moral awakening of America will include in its banishment of booze and bodie the abolition of public insistence on personal indigestion. It will remove the cause for this peculiar love of sinning against self and the common weal. It will take pie from the baker's window and the pantry shelf and give it an everlasting place in the history of crime on the continent of North America.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
He promised his friend that he would type the theme for him, but he did not get the work done until three days later, when his friend got little credit on the assignment. Those three days made little difference, you say, but it was such a little thing, and his friend failed to play square. It's the little things that count in school.
CAMPUS OPINION
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. The name will then not be used unless a record is written by the editor must know who is writing the communication as evidence of authenticity. Communications are welcome.
Why doesn't the University have some indexed file of all the names of students in the University of Kansas so that a student wishing to find the name and address of another student might easily and readily find it? There will be no directories this year because the University's student is in a hopeless muddle to find the name of some student and his address under present conditions.
Editor Daily Kansan:
The list could be posted under a glass framed bulletin board in Fraser Hall where everybody could have easy access to it. Under present conditions, the student cannot find the name except by chance or by going to the Registrar's office and having it looked up. This would be a hopeless situation, but the registrar would flock to the Registrar's office.
It only seems feasible that the indexed list plan be used when all of these things are considered. The proofs of all of the names could be obtained from the state printer if they have not already been brought here. The labor spent would be very costly, and many students still students would praise the scheme. Why doesn't the Registrar take it up or the University Senate?
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RedCrossNews
A real daughter of the Revolution, wife of a veteran of the Civil War, and grandmother of a boy in the U. S. Army today, despite advanced age—she is 86 years old—James V. Carter of Ingleside at Topeka spends an afternoon a week at the working headquarters of the Red Cross. Since June 1 she has knitted eight sweaters, four helmets, four pairs of socks and six pairs of whistlets.
FROM THE ARMY IN WHICH ALL OF US ARE ENLISTED
She comes of fighting stock. Her father carried arms in the War of 1812 when he was but 19 years old. And one of his race lost his head in England for refusing to bow down to imperious royalty which later lost its head too. During the Civil War, while her husband was at the front with Sherman finding out what war she was, she saw enough to support herself and three children and yet had time enough to scrape lint and make bandages for the army. Her grandson in Camp Doniphan is holding up the family record, but her effort is far from done.
Between Lincoln's birthday and Washington's birthday a Red Cross Junior membership is being waged throughout the country.
A ruling from Washington regarding Red Cross canteens makes it impossible for the Red Cross to sell anything to soldiers. Even chocolate and postcards must be given. If the post cards are stamped they may be distributed for the price of the posta Cigarettes must be passed out on a tray and the packages must be broken.
Headquarters has sent this word "Do not think that because the Christmas drive is past there is no reason for displaying the Red Cross Service flag. Foreigners visiting this country comment upon the solidarity of the American nation in this move. It is your duty to display the flag." There are few fraternity houses and rooming houses at K. U. doing so.
MENTAL LAPSES
I DON'T
My parents forbade me to smoke.
I don't!
Nor listen to a naughty joke.
I don't!
They made it clear I must not wink
To dance or flirt is very wrong.
I don't!
Wild youths chase women, wine and song.
About intoxicating drink. I don't!
Send the Daily Kansan Bome.
They made it clear I must not wink
At pretty girls, nor even think
About intoxicating drink.
I kiss no girls—not even one;
I do not know how it is done.
CATASTROPHE
You wouldn't think I have much fun I don't!
"Oh, I suppose so," she replied wearily, "but what's to be said on the other side doesn't interest me."—Boston transcript.
"What's the matter "
"I'm ruined."
"Had a fire in my room." "Much burn?"
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"Yeh my checkbook and it had a
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"There's a great deal to be said on both sides," he asserted.
Husband - I thought you had given up burnt wood art, dearie?
Wife—George, how can you be so heartless! This is a pie.—Hartford Courant.
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