JANUARY 7,1918. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kannan EDITORIAL STAFF UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Everett Palmer ... Editor-In-Chief Millard Wear ... News Editor A. News Editors Herman Hangen ... P.T. Editor Vivian Sturgeon ... Sports Director Kevin Barker ... Sport Editor RUSINESS STAFF Fred Rigby ...Business Manage Eugene Dyer H. Remphill Mary Smith Alice Bowley Marjorie Roby Don Davis Harry Morgan Dorothy Cole Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter under the Act of Marriage 1870, under the act of Marriage 1870, Published in the afternoon, five times a week. In an email, from the press of the Department of Health, the author wrote: Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KFNSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U 25 and 66 The Daily Kansan aims to pick out the best University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news and publish it in the university vardy holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be nice; to be a good student; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; to all, to serve to the University. MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1918. "Speak a shade more kindly than the year before. Pray a little oftener, love a little more. Germany's trial balance didn't balance. Now we will all kick about the grub for a week or two. If you keep helping a man out when he is rushed, he manages somehow to be rushed most of the time. It will be just as easy to borrow trouble in 1918 as in 1917. If we get a new and better set of ambitions this year, we need not worry what becomes of the old ones. 1918 This is no time to give to strange solicitors. There are plenty of responsible sources through which people can contribute their benevolence. Give, but make every penny count. In 1917 the University gave hundreds of its students and many of its best professors to meet the national crisis caused by the war with German. But notwithstanding this loss we begin the New Year a great University with a greater sense of responsibility. The University of Kansas starts the year 1918 under sealed orders. No student knows when Uncle Sam will hand him his call to service, and no student can say, once the course of his school work is broken, when he can take it up again. The reason for this ever growing strength in the face of repeated losses is plain. The University has steered a straight course and has given its best efforts and its best thoughts to fulfilling the mission for which it exists. When the call came for men and money it responded quickly and ungrudgingly. Everyone realizes that in 1918 the University must make still greater sacrifices than in 1917. But whatever comes we must maintain our bodily vigor, our alertness of mind and apply ourselves to the tasks of today. The New Year will be a blessing if it does nothing more than give us efficient habits of work and clear our befogged brains of some of their idle diversions. Military drill at the University has reached a point where it is almost a joke. Contrary to popular supposition, this is due only in a small measure to the fact that the officers are young and untrained. The main reason for the failure is the lack of authority on the part of officers to enforce military discipline. BROOMSTICK DISCIPLINE Strict discipline is the first requisite in any plan for military training. This means prompt and instant obedience to all commands, and the pres- once in ranks of every unexcused man in the organization. This cannot be obtained without some means of enforcing all written and verbal orders The University Senate, in providing for military drill, has provided no means for enforcing discipline, and men have obeyed orders only when they have felt like it. In numerous cases men in the ranks have willfully disobeyed the orders of superior officers who are powerless to demand obedience to their commands. The companies have been formed at times when nearly half of the men have been absent. Men who have such cuts are supposed to make them up by drilling on Friday night one hour for every hour missed during the week. But nothing can be done under present conditions if the men refuse to report for this drill. In the past about two hundred men have cut drill each week, while the average number reporting for make-up drill on Friday nights has probably been less than twenty. Just before the holidays the deans of the different schools and the heads of the department of physical education met to decide upon methods that would secure a better attendance at drill. Among other things they adopted a resolution recommending to the Senate that students be dropped from their classes if they failed to make up cuts, but recommending also that all students be allowed one unexcused absence every two weeks. But why the one unexcused absence every two weeks? Other schools having military drill allow no unexcused absences. If the unexcused absences are allowed it seems certain, judging from the large list of cuts in the past, that every man taking the drill will take all the cuts coming to him. This means that there will be about one tenth of the men absent every day, and that number of cuts each day will do much to break down the organization of the units. If we are going to have military drill at the University why doesn't the University Senate give the commandant power to enforce strict military discipline, and require at all drill formations the presence of every man not excused by him? The plan cannot be a success as long as the commandant and other officers have their hands tied. FOR OUR COUNTRY If it is ever a question whether you or the flag must perish, you will instantly choose that it shall not be the flag. William T. Sherman. There is no greater sign of general decay in virtue in a nation than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.—Joseph Addison. The most substantial glory of a country is in its virtuous great men; its prosperity will depend on its docility to learn from their example.—Fisher Ames. Our flag is the symbol of sovereignty, the emblem of the love of country. It ought to float wherever the country is at work.—Abram S. Hewitt. A man's country is not a certain area of land—of mountains, rivers and woods—hence its principle; and patriotism, its loyalty to that principle. William Curtis will. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if he fall, in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.—Daniel Webster. Are we to be eternally ringing the changes upon Marathon and Thermoplyae, and going back to read exemptions of Greek and Latin of exemplars of patriotic virtue? I thank God that we can find them nearer home, in our own country, on our own soil.-Edward Everett. One of Elbert Hubard's mottos was, "Breathe deeply, exercise in the sunshine, eat moderately, sleep regularly and think well of everybody." Another was, "I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have, than to have things I cannot appreciate." The most delightful thing in the world for the average man is to forgive another man for being better than he—Bishop Nind. I am hopelessly puzzled this evening,—lost, dissatisfied with myself and all that I am doing. Outside a crowd of University students are rallying for a football game, yelling like a pack of savages, while somewhere in the tranches in France other young men are sleeping, som, forever. I wish THE QUESTION they would keep stil. We are at war. Something has been festering within me for months, I don't know where or want it to be, it's coming to a head. Everytime, during the last month, I saw a company of boys—of men with serious hard-set faces marching away, it was if a knifte were turned in my heart. They were marching away, young men with each his fond hope and amelion, to kill other young men of all kinds, ambitions, men whom they had never seen. The thought of it all made me shriek forth against it. Had not the loving white Christ said, "I have thine enemies?" I took long walks into the open country. There were no trenches nor cannons there. Over the broad peace-nibbling the last green blades of grass. They knew nothing of war, were knowing nothing of liberty, they were at peace with each other. Why then should man, who is endowed with reason, kill men equally gifted, I wondered? I have been awakened. The dream has been put to flight,—but not by the mob's cries of "pacificist and slacker." I love peace; I am not a slacker. I don't fear death; it will be a wonderful adventure. I don't fear the cry of unthinking crowds or the headlines of newspapers that write only what will meet with popular approval. I fear my conscience more than these. I have accepted the thing called war. I have come to realize that there is a time when in the sight of God and man it is not only a frightful necessity, but even right and noble. He said that if Jesus would forgive Christ, "Love thine enemies." The day when I put the cold steel of a rifle to my cheek, and—it will not be done because I hate him. I will love him as an unfortunate brother, whom I as a throng of the whip with which my father scourges the unruly child, because he loves him, and other children, have had to strike. But now that I have accepted the madness called war, I am even more hopelessly at sea. What am I, a healthy, young, unmarried man doing here this evening, while comrades are sleeping in France awaiting the battle cry of the morrow? Prominent men, men whose opinions are not to be despised, have urged college men to continue their training against the day of reconstruction. Will not the men who fought for peace and won the right to reconstruct, be able, far more able to fill this office too? Before me, gazing squerely at me with silent eyes, that speak more than I can put into words, and burn into the core is a picture of the young poet, Rupert Brooke. He has sung his last sonic poem, "The few feet of earth he lies; but his warm words throbbing with life live on. "If I should die, think only this of me. That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England and that there's rih'r-ith earth a richer dust concealed." He could sing, but he has gone. I can only read his song. What right have I to be here? In view of the fact that many schools and colleges have adopted the plan of the six-day school week, or of holding classes on alternate Saturdays, would it not be wise for K. U. to work out some scheme for the second semester? Advantages of this plan are obvious, one of the chief being that students will be released for productive work without detriment to their studies, from one to two weeks earlier in the spring. CAMPUS OPINION Editor Daily Kansan: We as K. U. students should not mind the extra amount of work involved. We are engaged in a great war, and our country has need of all we can give. Thus anything which conserves time, meanwhile not decreasing the efficiency of our school work to any marked degree ought to be seriously considered. This is only a suggestion which I should like to see discussed in this column. K. J. W. A K. U. Student. Employer; The position requires a great amount of mechanical exper- EXPERT Applicant: I have owned a second-hand automobile for two months. Employer: Accepted! —Life. MENTAL LAPSES Wild and disheveled, watery of eye, and trembling of limb, he burst into the dentist's compulsing room, and adduced the molar merchant in gasping tones; Yes, replied the dentist. "Does it put a man to sleep " "Of course." PAINLESS PLASTER-PULLER "Do you give gas here?" "Of course." "Nothing would wake him?" "Nothing. But—" "Yes," replied the dentist. "Wait a bit; you could break his jaw or black his eye without him feel- "Yes." With a wild whoop of joy and relief the excited man threw off his coat and waistcoat. "Now," he yelled, as he tugged at his shirt, "get yer gas-engine ready. I want you to pull a porous-plaster off my back." -Fit-Bits. A HARD KNOCK During the cross-examination of a young physician in a law-suit, the plaintiff's lawyer made disagreeable remarks about the witness's youth and inexperience. "You claim to be acquainted with the various symptoms attending concussion of the brain?" asked the lawyer. "I do." "We will take a concrete case," continued the lawyer. "If my learned friend, counsel for the defense, and myself were to bang our heads together, would he get concussion of the brain?" The young physician smiled. "The probabilities are," he replied, "that the counsel for the defense would."—Boston Transcript. It has been my observation that during the first months at college the average young student, perhaps for the first time away from home, passes through a stage of extreme impressionability. During this sensitive period he needs some big hearted, affectionate, scholarly soul to inspire him and rekindle his whole being into a glow of enthusiasm for scientific knowledge and moral rectitude. The impress of such a great soul is everlasting. What delightful memories, under such circumstances, there is in store for the student. As he moves on toward middle life this grows more reverential—Wm. A. McKeever. CLASSIFIED WANTED FOR SALE OR RENT Central Educational Bureau, St. Louis, Mo. Wants teachers. Good positions reported every month in the mid-year. Mid-year graduates enroll now. Write for blank and booklet. W. J. Hawkins. LOST-On University car; black leather notebook, Law notes. Please leave with librarian, Law Building. WANTED—Roommate by young man; large front room on ground floor; hot air, coal furnace heat. Inquire at 1334 Ohio St. 66-12-20 DR. ORELUY-Eye. Eear. Nose and glass work glass warranted. Dick Building. PROFESSIONAL 66-2-121 1A (Exclusive Optometris) Eyes examined by Dr. Kurt Hilde. 937 Mass of the eyeball. 937 Mass of the eyelid. LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. DR. H. REDING, F. A. U. Building. DR. H. REDING, F. A. U. Building. Hours 9 to 5. Phone 513. G. W. JONES, A. 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