UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 12, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Millard Wear,...Editor-in-chief
Roger Appley...Assistant Editor
News Editor
James E. Hardacre...Assistant
Manuel Benmulli...Society Editor
Maryrion Lou...Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Fred Rigby...Business Manager
NEWS STAFF
Vivian Sturgeon Harry Morgan Herman Haken Dorothy Cole Eugene Dyr Chas. J. Shawen Luther Haven Ferd. Gollobel Luther Haven Ferd. Gollobel
Raymond Hemphill
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December 17, 1910, at the post office at
Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of
March 3, 1879.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go further than merely printing the news standing for them and to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University, to help the students of the University.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1918.
THEN AND NOW
Comparisons of Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson are unenable, are really pointless. Different times, different men—and different leaders of men are here. The world was simple in human relationship and political structure and commercial organization in 1861 when the present unwieldy intricacy takes form beside it and beyond it. President Lincoln's issues were simply resolved and the future was definitely one thing or another, logically and inevitably the one thing which did finally prevail. A nation so conceived and so dedicated, under the God of Lincoln, the American, did survive.
Not quite a year ago the native land of Abraham Lincoln came into the struggle. It came the nation he believed it to be and helped to make it. It came with clean hands without need of war to be cleaner. It came in the ancient spirit of sacrifice for the everlasting good of the race, that every nation might live its life within its independent rights to contribute to the good of the rest, that a world might be at peace with itself.
Wilson is a worthy successor in leadership of the people in the continuous struggle upward and onward through all time. And there will be other leaders for other times.
But Abraham Lincoln, the American, the man chosen by God, laid straight the way, crossed the threshold and left his country and now the world with the vision which is the hope of all mankind. This is his day. He is with his people, still.
Philips University at Enid, Oklahoma, rejected the six-day school plan recently because the president of the institution showed that fifty per cent of the students were women, and the men who would go into the fields or farm after May 1, were by far in the minority. He also showed that there was little need of labor in the middle of May in Oklahoma, the wheat not being ready for harvest until June.
A LITTLE INCONSISTENCY
Winter weather is not the only variable thing in Kansas. There are legislative assemblies which can blow hot and cold in the same hour, The University Senate abolished holidays and set the close of this semester four days earlier at the session Friday afternoon. And then the temperature dropped and freshmen were excluded from competition in intercollegiate athletics. To be progressive was wearisome.
Holidays are infrequent at the Front. Every undergraduate of this University is glad for their being less frequent here. Every student is looking forward even to the few additional days for helping the folks back home. Four days of labor is a partial answer to the call coming from short-handed industry and agriculture.
ture in Kansas this year. The cancellation of holidays is a moderate answer to the six-day week plan.
The answer to the freshmen was more than moderate; it was quite usual, quite apathetic. Their Varsity eligibility denied, freshman athletes will cool their uncalloused heels until the end of the sensibly shortened semester while the meager representation of depleted upperclass tries to uphold the athletic standards of the University. This is against the recommendation of the University athletic board and in agreement with the University of Missouri, probably the only other institution in the Missouri Valley to reject freshman eligibility, recommended by the Missouri Valley conference officials after two years of deliberation.
Not for the sake of any college exuberance of spirit over sporting contests—war has leavened that—but rather that the evidence of physical fitness in Kansas shall not be foeble or faltering or apologetic, the University's full strength should be given its chance to develop and work. The kind of men that Kansas makes is already known in the ranks of the army. Others must follow in their steps. They must get ready. The freshmen ought to be in with the rest.
The Senate was a little inconsistent, just a little, to affirm the one war measure and throw out the other. This is only natural, however, and the only prayer is that hereafter the Senate will keep warm and alert to the end of every deliberation.
NO DRESS-SUITS THIS YEAR
NO DRESS-SUITS THIS YEAR
Newspapers are circulating over the state a story that the business manager of the State Board of Administration has held up a voucher in from the University for expenses of $16, for the rental of eight full-dress suits for use at the last All-University Hallowe'en party.
James A. Kimball, the business manager of the board, according to one story, "intends to sift the matter down to the bottom and ascertain, if possible, why a bill for the rental of eight full-dress suits for a society function for students should be passed along for the state to pay."
Evidently there has been a complete misunderstanding of both the acts of the incident and the spirit if the students.
Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women at the University, is given a small yearly budget by the state annually for the few all-University entertainments given. Out of this fund comes the voucher in question. Mrs. Brown supervised the fallowe'en party. The rental of the dress suits came out of the effort to cut expenses for the party to the minimum. The suits were worn by students for a minstrel act, which was a part of the program for the entertainment. As no formal parties have been given at the University this year, men guests at the party were not in full-dress attire. Decorations were of autumn branches and leaves and students furnished the music and entertainment. Many women wore gingham dresses. Cider was served as refreshments.
Social affairs at the University this winter have been reduced to a minimum of expense and simplicity. No formal affairs have been given, because students consider them inappropriate during war times. If students owned dress suits or had occasion to wear them, the rental would have been unnecessary.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT With the wind coming from the south, the University incinerator was in excellent working order yesterday much to the discomfort of the students. The burning of such refuse might have been done after 6 o'clock when the students would not have been on the campus in such numbers to appreciate its fumes.
Women at the University of Oreon are learning how to make war toughnuts.
It's the little things that count.
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that Our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Dear Madam.
To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Mass.
LINCOLN'S LETTER TO MRS: BIXBY
Yours very sincerely and respectfully.
Griffith (Squirt) Dr. Owen has just submitted to Dr. Stewart his resignation as captain of the 1918 Cornhusker track team. Squirt was elected captain following Missouri Valley meet at Ames last May. He is now in the aviation camp at San Antonio and there is no doubt in the minds of those who knew him that he will bring honor to his alma mater through success in this branch of the service.-Daily Nebraskan.
ON OTHER "HILLS"
The physical preparedness classes will drill in Sage and Risley at 7:15 o'clock this evening.-Cornell Sun.
In spite of crippled transportation war times and the shortage of help it their offices, 119 newspapermen attended the sixth annual newspaper institute of the University of Washington last week-end. Seventy-six of these men were real newspaper owners. The nearest these figures have been approaches was at the session last year, which was attended by 111 newspapermen, of whom eighty-two were owners. People on the campus interested in newspaper work brought the total attendance for this year up to 175.
Eastern News
While in the University Mr. Dyment was one of the strongest supporters of athletics on the faculty, and represented that body on the athletic committee. It was through his efforts that soccer was introduced here, and because of the time he gave to the sport as coach that the game remained on the Varsity calendar. It was while Mr. Dyment was on the campus that the Pacific coast conference was organized and he was elected as its first president—Oregon Emerald.
At the University of Virginia midwinter germans are predominant at the present. $5 will admit to all three of the dances, the first two germans costing $2 and the final hop $1.50. An orchestra from Washington furnished the music. Dress suits and uniforms were to be worn to the first two affairs although the final dance was informal. (This from the war-like east.)
Editor's Note: This is an interesting item of eastern news for the wild westerner who does not know Sage from Risley and who has not become acquainted with "evening."
Colin V. Dyment, formerly professor of journalism in the University, was yesterday appointed chairman of the faculty athletic committee of the University of Washington, where he is now head of the journalism department.
Washington, Nov. 21, 186
"Heed Captain Patten's advice and do not enlist now if you can possibly stay for further training. You may have a chance to become an officer," is the advice of Harold Priest, lieutenant with the Sixtieth infantry, Camp Greene, N. C., now visiting his parents in anticipation of being sent overseas. "Many of us cannot thank Captain Patten enough for his advice and counsel."—University of Washington Daily.
The boot and shoe manufacturers of Lynn employ thirteen and a half times as many persons and pay nine times as much in waeps, but use only one-third as much fuel as do the manufacturers of malt liquors in Boston.
The breweries of the United States use three and a half times as much coal as the bakers, nearly six times as much as the printers and publishers, nine times as much as the manufacturers of boots and shoes and twenty times as much as the manufacturers of men's clothing.
These are vitally interesting statistics which have been collected by a Boston theology student.
In Massachusetts the manufacturers of boots and shoes employ forty-three times as many person as and do one-fourth times as much coal.
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Read the prices for our Clean-Up Sale On REGAL SHOES
$12 to $14 Shoes now . . . $9.85
$10.00 Shoes now . . . 8.45
$ 9.00 Shoes now . . . 7.85
$ 8.50 Shoes now . . . 6.85
$ 7.50 Shoes now . . . 5.85
$ 7.00 Shoes now . . . 5.35
$ 6.50 Shoes now . . . 5.00
$ 5.00 Shoes now . . . 4.00
$ 4.50 Shoes now . . . 3.75
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