UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN JANUARY 8,1918. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Ewertet Palmer Editor-in-Chief Alice Bowley Asst.'s News Editor Herman Hangen P. T. Editor Jurgenur Ingemann Sport Editor John Moorman Sport Editor BUSINESS STAFF Fred Rigby ...Business Manager Eugene Dyer Mary Smith Marjorie Roby Harry Morgan R. Hemphill Alice Bowley Don Davis Dorothy Cole Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter through the U.S. Mail System, under the act of March 15, 2007. Published in the afternoon five times published in the evening four times sketch, from the press of the De- parliament. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 68 The Daily Kansan aims to pick up information from the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news in newspapers; to provide varsity holders; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be careful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads all, to serve to the students of the University. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918. A man never hears the best things that are said about him, because he has gone to war then. If you have been successful as a weather prophet, you might try your hand at predicting the next move of the Bolshevki. We look with suspicion on the man who doesn't hate to write a letter. A boy who has been allowed to loaf, stay out of school and have his own way in everything is not likely to do much in any educational institution. Please don't send him to the University. A CALL TO NOZZLES We respectfully invite the attention of the University fire department to the analogy between its system and that of the bureau chief who, at the time of the Spanish-American War, complained that his bureau was in good running order until the war cane along and upset it all. No one could possibly find any fault with the University fire department—unless, of course, there was a fire. The heroic attempt of the volunteer fire-fighting force of University employees to force a stream of water through a hose that was still wrapped around its carriage was very amusing to several hundred students yesterday afternoon. They would have offered almost any odds that it could not be done. But seriously, for just such blundering and for just such headlessness on the part of the University in general, we may someday pay a terrible price. Why not take the necessary steps now that will insure the University an efficient fire department? A CHANCE FOR ALL In some parts of the State it is still believed that the young man who works around town while attending college is an object of ridicule by other students. Hugo Wedell, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., is authority for the statement that one third of the University men work all or part of their way through school. These men rank high in their class work and many of them take leading parts in school activities. What further evidence is needed to show that a democratic atmosphere prevails at the University? The day of the rah-rah college man is past. Furthermore, anyone who wants an education and is willing to work can get it. The man who through a groundless fear of ridicule, dares not come to the University or any other state school and do outside work part of the time, is not made of the right sort of stuff to get the good out of a college course. LET'S TAKE PRECAUTIONS Whether or not there is a likelihood of an epidemic of smallpox in Lawrence, the present situation should be handled with the utmost care. The move to exclude all chil- children from the Lawrence schools who cannot show that they have been successfully vaccinated seems entirely justifiable. University students will avoid all danger if they report to the University Hospital for vaccination at once. The statement of Dr. John C. Rudolph, County Health Officer, is significant: "An epidemic is improbable if precautions are taken." ASSET OR LIABILITY? Military drill at the University will be a detriment to all concern if it teaches the student soldier slovenly ways and little habits of disobedience to superior officers. When the student gets into the war game under the stern hand of Uncle Sam he will have to forget such things and the process is not likely to be pleasant. "Over there" every man is expected to be on his toes sixty minutes out of every hour. Only success counts. Good intentions, excuses and promises to do better next time are in order. Incompetence is a military crime punishable by severe measures. Military drill was adopted by the Senate for the purpose of improving the physical condition of the students and teaching them the rudiments of military tactics. It accomplishes neither of these purposes when only one-half of the enlisted strength of a company reports for drill. We have had military drill at the University for only two months yet it takes no shrewd observer to see that the undivided support of compulsory military drill is passing. Nearly everyone admits that military training for men during the war is an admirable thing, but many students are beginning to ask themselves if military drill as it is now conducted at the University is not detrimental to the institution. The University Senate should act upon the resolution adopted by the deans of the different schools without its usual academic delay. Student officers should be given authority to enforce military discipline, and the practice of cutting drill should be made an unpleasant pastime. On the other hand, all student officers who prove inefficient should be immediately reduced and other men elevated to fill their positions. If we are going to have a K. U. regiment, let's have one that we can point to with pride. The student who pays his little debts around town promptly and good naturedly is forming a valuable habit. He must pay his bills anyway, and he can make himself popular by paying them promptly and with good nature. 1 know that some Americans may consider the idea that Germany would attack us, if she won this war, to be improbable; but let him who doubts remember that the improbable, yes, the impossible, has been happening in this war from the beginning. If you had been told prior to August, 1914, that the German Government would disregard its solemn treaties and send its armies into Belgium, would wantonly burn Louvain, would murder defenseless people, would extort ransoms from conquered cities, would carry away men and women into slavery, would like Vandals of old, destroy some of history's most cherished monuments, and would, with maniacal fury, kill any other fields of France and Belgium, you would have indignantly denied the possibility. You would have exclaimed that Germans, lovers of art and learning, would never permit such foul deeds. To-day you know that the unbelievable has happened, that all these crimes have been committed, not under the impulse of passion but under official orders—Robert Lansing. There ought to be a society for the prevention of useless living.—Kansas Industrialist. Low Cost of Health Fresh air, exercise, simple diet, clean thoughts, a cheerful disposition. Low Cost of Health Any one can afford these—Kanas state Board of Health. The Daily Kansan—a daily letter home. When Foy had moodily read to the bottom of the list he turned to an unobtrusive young man who had been watching him out of the corner of his eye. WHEN FOY AND HITCHCOCK MET Shortly after Raymond Hitchcock made his first big hit in New York, Eddie Foy, who was also playing in town, happened to be passing Daly's Theater, and paused to look at the pictures of Hitchcook and his companion. The pictures were the pictures a bill-board covered with laudatory extracts from newspaper criticisms of the show. "Sure," replied the young man. "Any good? How's the guy Hitchcock- ing?" "Say, have you seen this show?" he asked. "Any good?' repeated the young man, pityingly. "Why, say, he's the best in the business. He's got all these other would-be side ticklers lazily on the mast. He's a scream. I suppose so much at anyone in my life." "Is he as good as Foy" ventured Foy, hopefully. "As good as Foy?"" The young man's scorn was superb. "Why, this Hitchcock has got this Foy person looking like gloom. They're not in the same class. Hitchcock's funny. A man with feelings can't compare them. I'm sorry you asked me, I feel so strongly about it." "I know you are," said the other young man, cheerfully. "I'm Hitchcock"--Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Eddie laughed at him very sternly, and then, in, the hollow tones of a tragedian, he said: The Valley of the Trenches There were three lines of gig-zig trenches with diagonal communication trenches between, cut along one of the sloping sides of the little cup-shaped valley of desolation. Behind them was a bomb-proof shelter and before them three lines of barbed wire entanglements, two feet, six inches in height. The trench the hillside and the valley floor lay a little narrow strip of No Man's Land. Barber wire defended the enemy's trenches also. "I am Foy." The valley was deserted in the noon heat of the August sun. The men from the first training camp had gone and the men from the second one had not yet come. The already scorched leaves of the scrubby trees along the little river to the cast seemed to shrivel up more before our eyes. A heat haze rose up and filled the valley with pulsing water between the two hill opposite the trenches. The tents in the line along the edge of the west wall were so small that they seemed merely a mirage. They're make-believe trenches—and yet men have stayed in them for a day without water and with only a piece or two of hardtack for food. The detail to get water had been captured by the enemy and the force was not strong enough to send out another. Men have stayed in the trenches with no water—and the Four months ago cavalry horses had used the little valley for a range and had raced over the wiry sick-eleanor prairie grass which always grows out of sand and clay. But men had come, men in the uniform of their country, and had begun with picks and spades—there were no such things as enthening tools—to dig themselves into the hills and valleys of the army post. The old stone barracks were alive with men and the artillery paradeagain and twelve and retreat and the scrape of feet on the old brick walks. The cavalry horses learned that there was something besides range and freedom. But now those men have gone—the college boys and the farmers and those young business and professional men—gone to real trenches in other camps to teach other men the skills they cannot have yet, the ones you cannot low them beyond the make-believe of those trenches on the Hill. They're deserted trenches, make-believe trenches—yet those men marched out to them with rifles and with field guns to kill their men, and red-caped judges have proclaimed defeat or victory. Stretcher bearers have gone over the top in deadly imaginary fire to seek the wounded and the dead. Men have been reported prisoners or missing. Machine guns have cannounced the death of Filed. Filed in the bushes above the bomb-shelter have poured out death for the enemy and shelter for the men with their heavy barrage wire. Tin cans have hit the chicken wire strung over the trenches, thrown by the best bomb-throwers in camp. truck companies' quarters were only a few hundred yards back. They have stayed in the tranches when the temperature was one hundred and ten degrees in the shade—only, to quote the most Irish member, there was no shade. Men have gone over the top, stirred to fury by their officer's words and have charged through the barbed wire runways with bayonets fixed on the dummies hanging from the enemy's barbed wire. Men have stayed in the trenches all night, waiting for the enemy to come before the dawn when the enemy comes out of his trench to steal across No Man's Land. That little strip of No Man's Land is really a narrow deserted road yet it has seen desperate fighting and heavy casualties. One's mind refuses to go beyond the make-believe. The training camp was such a glorious joke to the men who were there. They hid their seriousness. All the little trivial comical things of which they spoke come back at the sight of the trenches and will not be crowded out, by the more terrible things. This was just a summer camp where young men got together to learn the value of discipline and to enjoy hard life in the open. There Voges Front or Italian Front or Russian Front. Egypt and Gallipoli and Servia and Rumania are all a bad dream. The new uniforms and the gold cords are a bad dream. There should be nothing beyond the make-believe in the valley. CLASSIFIED WANTED-FOR SALE-FOR HIENT —M. S. LOST—On University car; black leather notebook, Law notes. 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