FEBRUARY 19,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918.
THE MOST VITAL WORK
Folding of gauzes seems such a little thing, yet it is essential to the dressing of wounds of the American soldiers and sailors who are injured in the world war. Thus far, some women of the University have not joined the classes in this most necessary Red Cross work now being done at the University of Kansas. Up to this time all of the output of the Red Cross workers who have been making compresses, sponges, and other dressing for wounds, has been sent to France and England.
But from now on there will be an ever increasing demand for such supplies on the American front. Every chapter in this country doing work for the Red Cross has been employed for several months making these most vital supplies. Now the call has come to Kansas women at the University to do their part in the work from 3 to 6 o'clock every afternoon except Wednesday. On this day the Food Conservation lectures are to be given.
What is to be the response? No credit of any sort is given to the woman except the credit that they are serving their country in one of the most timely and most needed ways. To the overworked University woman, this will mean a double sacrifice, but surely there are many University of Kansas women who can find this time by eliminating a picture show or a house dance, some day in the week.
THE DISTANT WAR
Perhaps the biggest thing the American people will have to do is to show that they are heart and soul in the war and are doing their utmost to help win it. In an important sense the greatest test that can come to a belligerent people has confronted the people of the United States. Their problem is to stay at home and bend their energies in support of a war three thousand miles from home. Nothing quite as tangible as a shell exploding in the front yard can arouse our war passion to activity.
Most of us started off winning the home front victories with great enthusiasm, but as the duties increase and the requests become more numerous, the danger is apparent that the words may soon fall harmlessly around us and cease to arouse activity.
This is what must be guarded against. There is no honor in fighting a losing fight, when it can be helped. We know our duty, even though we cannot see the battlefield. We know why we fight, even though airplanes are not dropping bombs on our streets, and our children are not wearing gas masks to school.
It is a fight to the end, even on the home front. To the student of the University of Kansas this means that
more interest is needed in military drill. It means considerably increased interest in food conservation and in all sorts of war work.
The war will be won, but victory will come in spite of, not because of, what many of us are contributing to it.
SOCIAL ACTIVITY FOR ALL Shortly after the arrival of Mrs. Eustace Brown at the University of Kansas, she conceived the idea of entertaining the students of the whole University twice a year by two big parties in Robinson Gymnasium. One she planned in honor of Hallowe'en to be given in October, and the other in honor of George Washington's birthday in February.
So that these parties should not be more dancing parties only for student who could dance, she planned several short entertainments before the dancing started. Games and cards at several entertainments furnished amusement for the students who did not dance. The idea was successful from the start.
This week Mrs. Brown is planning the annual All-University colonial under the management and supervision of University students to be given Saturday night. From the last entertainment, the University Halloween party there was an expense of $16.25 for the supplies and equipment necessary to put on the minstrel show. The rental of eight dress suits so that the students could put on the act as real minstrels, ate up $16, and twenty-five cents was expended on lamppack to black men's faces. The remaining of the expenses were as small.
And in a like manner will the party Saturday be given—a maximum amount of entertainment for every student at the University, with a limited expense to the University. The great crowds which go to these parties testify to their success. It is part of the democratic idea at a state institution to provide some entertainment for all, along with the steady grind of school work.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
The meeting was scheduled for 7 o'clock, and he knew it. Yet this innocent student wandered into an important session of the organization twenty minutes late.
It's the little things that count.
Your Daily Quiz On University History
(Answer it—and grade yourself)
Question: What ails the "Physics clock?"
Answer: The "Physics clock" is unable to keep up with the times from mere lack of attention. It is a jump clock, the hands on the face being run by a master clock. The master clock runs with a pendulum and every minute makes an electric contact which causes a motor to move the hands or the face forward one minute.
MENTAL LAPSES
LEAVE THE TABLE ARCHIVE.
Hike the little man washed
his face for brassieres.
"Does he grind his teeth in his sleek?" he asked.
Archie: No'm. For you—Chap
vral.
The physician was soliciting information from the patient's wife.
WHY HE DIDN'T
"Oh no!" said the wife. "He don't wear 'em to bed."—Browning's Magazine.
"Waiter, where's the meat in this sandwich?"
"Then you must have passed it sir"
"Awgwan."
General: What are you lying here for? Didn't I tell you to stand by my horse till you got further orders from headquarters?
Sir Andrew: Weren't you hurt?
Falstaff: Oh, no. I had on my light fall suit.
Falstaff: I just fell out of London Tower.
"You're coming to it, sir."
Interior Decorating Note: Dynamite may be used to advantage in setting off a room.
Orderly: I tried to, sir, but I got contradictory orders from hindquarters.—Widow.
Psychology Instructor; What kind of an green is the nose?
Witty Stude; Some people use it as an organ of speech; while others regard it merely as an organ and give recitals all night—Froth.
"In Heaven," promised the colored evangelist, "there will be great ban-
TAKING NO CHANCES
"Yeh—uh huh—dat's fine," commented a dusky negrine in the audience, "but tell me, young felter, who's gwine wash dem dishes, huh?—Life.
Red Cross News
FROM THE ARMY IN WHICH ALL OF US ARE ENLISTED
The Military Entertainment Council is a special commission appointed by the Secretary of war. It has provided programs of entertainment for the men in camps. Ordinarily the cost of booking such attractions as they have planned would be prohibitive but operating expense has been reduced. Consequently the cost of these performances is from ten to twenty-five cents a seat. Yet many soldiers are unable to attend these shows even at this price. Thousands of soldiers are sending home all their pay.
And as a result the "Smileage Books" have been inaugurated. They will be made up of coupons similar to the mileage books of railroads. In books of one size twenty coupons will be sold for $1 and 100 coupons will be put in $5 books. These coupons will be good 'in' any camp theatre. It is thought that as the movement grows they will be good in other places of amusement.
Knitted articles—wristlets, socks and sweaters and helmets—(named in order of importance) are needed by the Red Cross. Helmets are urgently needed4.
You may furnish eyes for the navy. There is urgent and immediate need for binoculars, spy glasses and telescopes, as well as sextants and chronometers. Any one having one of these will do a great service to send it at once with name and address of the donor to Franklin D. Rosevelt, assistant-secretary of the Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C.
One hundred per cent Red Cross by the end of February" is the goal of Oklahoma. This means that every town and family in Oklahoma will have a Red Cross organization.
There has come a hurry call for 10,000 sweaters and wristlets.
CAMPUS OPINION
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. The name will then not be used unless you give it to the editor who must know who is writing the communication as evidence of your efforts. Communications are welcome.
The University Senate evidently deems compulsory exercise more essential to the University than enrollment. Doesn't it seem that this imposition has been carried rather too far when one woman has been compelled to quit school because she was not able to stand this exercise?
As a result she withdrew from the University this semester. Perhaps she is not the only one who has been forced to give up her education on account of compulsory exercise work. Do you think the Senate will ever wake up to the defects and faults in the present system?
No excuses were accepted. Her claim for exemption was denied in the face of a statement from her family physician saying that due to physical weakness she should not take unnecessary exercise. More than this, this young woman started in to take gymnasium last year. Her mother advised him to avoid the advice of physicians she was excluded from gymnasium. This year the same advice and statement was issued by a physician.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Will some one please answer this? Why or how can anybody conceive the idea that this exercise is a patriotic movement? If patriotism caused as much hard feeling and opposition as this favorite decree of our Senate as, what would become of our country?
R. S. W.
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Messrs. Shubert and Miss Elizabeth Marbury Presents the Justly Famous Musical Comedy, Coming Here Direct From Shubert Theatre, Kansas City, Mo., With the Original Cast
With GEORGE HASSELL and the very PRETTIEST GIRLS in the World. This attraction Played New York 39 Weeks.
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