JANUARY 25,1918. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF Millard Wear...Editor-in-chief Boyd Oyster...Assess News Aaron How by...News Editor James E. Hardcore...Assistant Royd Benhillbury...Editor Miller Benhillbury...Society BUSINESS STAFF Fred Rigby...Business Manager Vivian Sturgeon Herman Hunger Herman Hunger Loyer Lyer Mother Loyer Hanger Langer Harry Moogan Dorothy Cole Chas. J. Slimson Ferd. Gottlieb Ford. Gottlieb Raymond Hemphill Entered as second-class mail matter wrote to second-class mail matter. Kansas, under the act of March 18, 1853. Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Published in the afternoon five times of Rashta, from the press of the two of Kashwa, from the press of the two Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DNILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66 The Daily Kansan aims to pick students from the University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news and give it to the university holds; to play the role to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind and gentle; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve the students at the University. NEXT SEMESTER SHOULD TELL FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918. Now that all students in the University have been made to realize that the department of physical education means business and is earnestly attempting to make a success of compulsory military drill and exercise at the University, they should enroll in the sort of exercise that they want and then attend regularly. Military drill at K. U. is on trial and students should do their part, since it is a part of the University curriculum. It is obvious to the casual observer that military drill and compulsory exercise was not what it should have been the first semester. There was a lack of military spirit and military obedience which is so essential to the making of a real soldier. Whether this was caused by the students or lack of system in the plans of the department of physical education, is now in the past. Plans should be laid carefully for the future, however,. If the K. U. students support the just efforts of the department of physical education, and then, drill and compulsory exercise fails, it will be time to point out the defects in the workings of the compulsory exercise plan. In a measure, therefore, it is up to this department to make plans that will treat justly all students and then see that they are carried out from the start. It is a fact that students came to the University with no idea that drill or compulsory exercise would be forced upon them. Some of these who were working students could not, or did not get exemption, and the result was that many dropped out of school. This evil should be remedied for the high standards of the University must be upheld. If the students do their part and the compulsory exercise plan falls through, the blame will rest largely on the department of physical education. Compulsory exercise, if enforced justly, is a big thing for the University of Kansas, and all concerned with the workings of the exercise plan should do his part. The most hard hearted man in the world is the prof who can spring a joke while he is preparing to write the quiz questions on the blackboard. HOME FRONT VICTORIES Aside from the fact that the United States is fighting its own war and redressing its own grievances, we Americans take considerable pride and joy in the fact that our aid is indispensable to France, and we are glad for any manifested appreciation. One of the latest of these is the news that an organized effort to bring young French girls to America for industrial training in our universities will begin to bear fruit about February 1, when the first group is expected to arrive at the University of Cincinnati. Between the lines of this item may be read a most distressing story. Young French girls coming to America for an education can mean only one thing. It means that because of the war's death toll, the career of many French girls as wives and mothers is closed; it is evidence of an economic condition which will force many French women to be self supporting; and it means that in war-weary France, these women cannot adequately prepare themselves for peace-time pursuits. To have accepted this opportunity for service is an act of which Americans may well be proud. Such a service will bring home to forgetting Americans that our land still is the traditional refuge of the world's oppressed. If as a consequence we are prone to boast of our charity, we can point to records which will speak for themselves; if we are given to self-flattery, we can feel that it is merited. The victories on the home front are as important as those in the trenches. THE ROADS TO BERLIN The war will be won—and presumably by as many different ways as are universities in the United States. The University of Kansas adds military drill to its requirements, and liberately begins the day a half hour earlier in order to gain time. Harvard discusses the advisability of setting back the clock an hour, beginning the day at 8 instead of 9 o'clock, in order that the undergraduates may go to bed an hour earlier and thus save light and coal. And Colby, she too has her own little plan for victory. Colby is interested, not in military drill; not in conservation of daylight, but in the utilization of the warm hours of the day. Therefore the lectures at Colby do not begin until 10 o'clock in the morning. With the same reasoning, Tufts cuteen hours off the working schedule of her library. So it is that some save coal, others money, and still others both. In the long run it does not matter which—the war will be won, whether it be by long days and military drill; the utilization of the warm hours, or by the substitution of inexpensive sunlight for expensive calories and kilowatts. Some students were born to flunk, some achieve flunk grades, while others have flunks thrust upon them. LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT BILLE HINGS THAT COUNT He took exception to what the other fellow said and jumped into the argument without an invitation. Then he got sore and let a personal grudge displace his faculty reasoning. Only a little fumble in the game. MENTAL LAPSES "We must all cut out all the non-essentials." Newly Commissioned Lieut: "I should say not, it will take me a year and a half to break even with the cost of my uniforms."-Life heads of the departments2-Life. Bings: "I suppose you are looking for a doctor." "Why not begin with some of the books of the department?" Life "Is this war bread, my dear?" "No, why do you ask?" "It looks to me as if a man had only a fighting chance with it." Life. Willy: "I understand that you haven't spoken to your wife for six months?" Little Boy (visiting in Washington) : "Father, when are we going to see all the red tape?"—Life. Each fellow thinks his college the best because he did it the honor to go to it. He—You used to say there was something about me you liked. She—So I did. But you've spent it all—Mimnehha. Nicky: "Right, I haven't wanted to interrupt her." RedCross News Restaurants, boarding houses, and other eating places at Ann Arbor, Michigan, will be allowed to remain open three periods daily in order to accommodate their patrons, according to an order made by the fuel administrator this week. If all the women had started knitting helmets, sweaters, wristlets and sox last spring, the men in the camps, and in foreign service would not have suffered as they have during this winter. Continue to knit during the summer months, are headquarter orders. FROM THE ARMY IN WHICH ALL OF US ARE ENLISTED The Red Cross asks that knitted articles be sent through them exclusively so that an even and fair distribution may be made. The Pittsburgh schools have for their motto "Sacrifice and Service." Judging from the results it is a good motto. "We must knit without cessation," say important items of the American Red Cross. The men going in the trenches and the men on the seas are to be cared for. The salvage department of the Red Cross of Kansas City is one of the two in the west. Who is there who has not cold cream jars, tooth paste tubes and old talc cans? Turn them in at the Y. W. C. A. and help earn money for the Red Cross. Why could there not be an organized K. U. method of gathering up these things? The Bureau of supplies of this division made shipment last month of 1,104,421 articles; 58,281 were knit garments. "Make two pairs of sox to every other knitted garment." Captain Texton, of Fort Leavenworth, says this and repeats that the men who go to bed with cold feet sleep poorly and have sore throats as a result. If the men had woven sox to wear by day and bed slippers to wear at night, the sick calls would be reduced 10 to 20 per cent. CAMPUS OPINION NEED DEMOCRATIC DECISION To the Kansan Editor: If the University of Kansas is to become a partly military school for a period of the war or longer, the movement should be taken up in a vigorous effective manner. Competent instructors should be obtained. Class schedules should be rearranged and a corresponding amount of academic work necessary for a degree should be dropped. Under present conditions, this University is not adapted to the methods of military procedure. The living quarters of the student body and the professors are widely scattered. It it a co-educational school. Students working in order to attend the University are forced to drop additional classes with the corresponding hardships and expense of a longer residence here. The decision for such action does not properly lie in the hands of any one body. It is a matter of concern to every individual in the University. It should ultimately be determined by popular sentiment. Professors are prone to disclaim any relation of their courses to the added work imposed by the introduction of military training. Clothing for adequate protection of a man drilling in zero weather is certainly not suitable to the average class room or dwelling. The present system of training and the instruction is useless for practical military purposes. An adequate system could undoubtedly be installed whereby this institution would become partly a military school. Academic work could be lightened and put in the morning leaving the afternoon for a period of military training. Instructors might be obtained and trained in sufficient quantities. The University could be reorganized and the thing installed. If a partly military school in the thing wanted, why not acknowledge the undertaking and have a demonstration on one side of the fence or the other? All of this can be done if a partially military school is the thing wanted. The idea of imposing, an extra portion of work under strict military procedure, fullgrown, is faulty. It is more than faulty. It is unworkable. Experience has already proven that. -Fair Play The Men's Glee Club at the Iowa State College has been forced to abandon its annual concert because of the loss of men going into military service and by the speeding up of the work in the class rooms. Speeding up of work in spite of war conditions has also had its effect on student activities at the University of Kanaus. 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