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DECEMBER 19.1917
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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sert.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the students, further than mostly printing the news by standing for them. It also plans to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be brave; to be courageous; to have more knowledge; to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1917
In this the country's first Christmas in the most terrible of wars, the Red Cross is asking you to become a part of its mighty organization. It asks you to invest your enthusiasm and your good will in a Red Cross membership. Investible dividends will be returned to you by your army, your navy and your allies.
Henry van Dyk writes this "to those who feel poor":
We are a large family.
I write as your brother We are a large family.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
world-war, made in Germany,
against which we are fighting, has sent our incomes down and our expenses up.
The pinch hurts, but it is not going to kill us.
We still have enough and something to spare.
Though we feel poor, don't let us be impoverished by selfish fear.
Let us save in food, in food — in clothes, in luxuries and joy-rides—but
Let us keep Christmas this year by keeping up the Red Cross.
Let us use that by giving it to the wounded, the suffering, our friends,
Then it will not be a poor Christmas but a rich Christmas to our hearts.
COMPANY ATTENTION!
Military drill at the University has lost its glamour with the first cold weather. The demon Cold has caused a serious depletion of the ranks. Members are rapidly substituting track and other forms of exercise for drill. It is reported that many simply do not attend and that others answer the roll and then desert.
Military drill at the University is doomed if this spirit continues. The University Senate before adopting the system considered the matter of maintaining interest in the work, the difficulty of which was predicted. But the importance of the drill seemed far to overshadow the many disagreeable features. It was decided to place the men on their honor. This was deemed all that was necessary to make military drill a success from first to last.
Something, however, has gone wrong. Are the University men false to their trust or was the Senate wrong in its valuation of military drill?
Simply to answer these questions does not remove the problem. The only thing, that will make the drill a success is for each private and each officer to do his part. By joining a company each man places himself under moral obligation to do at least this much.
Let every man in the K. U. regiment come back after Christmas with his shoulders back and his head up, determined to bring the regiment up to its former high standard.
PREPARING FOR PEACE
The announcement of four tempting fellowships for women by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae is proof enough that a serious effort is being made in America to keep education free from the contamination of war.
Research work, and higher education might lag during the struggle were is not for the well established system of fellowships. The growth of this movement in the time of war speaks high for the ideals of American universities.
The four fellowships announced by the Association will, no doubt, appeal to K. U. students. One, open to any woman holding a degree of Arts, Science or Literature offers a $500 prize for study in Europe. Another, the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial fellowship, open to holders of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Science, offer a $1,000 prize under certain conditions. A third fellowship offers a total prize of $440 for study purposes and is available to holders of a degree of Arts, Science, or Literature who intend teaching as their profession.
There are in the University between thirty-five and forty women who are eligible for one or more of these fellowships. It would be worth the time for these women to consult Mrs. Eustace Brown who can supply all needed information.
A serious effort in this direction is an opportunity if not a duty of this group of privileged Kansas women. Their work will count thrice over in the days of peace that are to come.
PLAYING AMERICA'S GAME
"The Masses," a monthly publication with a circulation of twenty-five thousand copies was declared non-mailable some time ago by the Postmaster-General. Action was taken under a recent Federal law which makes non-mailable any matter advocating disloyalty or forcible resistance to United States law.
In editorials, news matter, and cartoons, the magazine suggested disloyalty, if it did not openly work to obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service. It based its right to circulate such sedious matter on the Constitutional amendment forbidding Congress to abridge the freedom of speech or press.
In refusing the publishers the facilities of the mail, however, the Postmaster-General did not refuse them the privilege of printing what sentiments they pleased. He simply refused to be the agent in spreading vicious un-American reading matter over the country.
OUR UNIVERSITY BOYS
Our few months at war have brought many long-suffering and cynical parents to realize that American colleges are institutions with a deeper and more permanent purpose than the military. The institution of haberdashery fashions and the breeding of silk-sock socialists. Hardly a college of any description, even correspondence, but has representation in the ranks, and an impartial analysis would demonstrate that the football heroes of the schools were not just a part of the call for real battle than are the gunmen bravadoes of the big cities.
When the full, authentic story is told of the part played by college men in this war, the hackneyed sneer, so popular with imperfectly self-made students at the college education, will be about as vogue as the iron cross. — Life.
SORROW
The birds will fly in circles Silently.
And I will sing it on bare, bare hills, Myself, alone!
Knowing full well the joyless song-
Captivity.—
The ever-hungry, tearless eyes,
Of Misery.
Out of a broken heart
I'll make a song!
The stormy sombre clouds Will soon to see
Yes, captain am I of Sorrow,
Fear and Care.
Walking—my hand in the clinging hand
Gamma chapter of Kappa Phi club, for Methodist women was installed at the Agricultural College at Ames, December 13. Mrs. Gordon B. Thompson, patroness of the local chapter, and Mrs. Levi Townsend, patroness from the chapter at Iowa University, went to Ames and installed the new chapter of one hundred and two charter members.
Emilia Berrington .
New Kappa Phi Club
Of dumb Despair!
MENTAL LAPSES
"Germany still insists on annexations. Let's give her Hell."-Punch
Friend—"Impossible! What makes you think so?"
Financier—"A blackmailer, I'm a fridl."
SYMPTOMS
Friend—"What is your baby going to be when he grows up?"
Financier—We have to give him something every little while to keep him quiet," Judge.
First Co-ed (after hearing a "paparose poet" in the Houston Club) · · · · · ·
Second of Species—"Yen, I was so excited that even my gloves were worn!"
The text is cut off before it can be properly read.
A PREMATURE QUESTION
Tommy had been playing truant from school, and had spent a long, beautiful day fishing. On his way back he met one of his young cronies, who accosted him with the usual question, "Catch anything?"
At this, Tommy, in all the consciousness of guilt, quickly responded
Western railroads are putting Bibles in their smoking-cars. Obviously it would be more conducive to Christianity if they would spend that money on car-windows that won't harm the angels. Angel gets more business from the source than almost any other.—Buffalo Evening News.
THE GREATER NEED
Old Farmer: "Ay, I heard they was wonderful things, but I never could get any details afore."—Titt-Bits.
Son—"Why, they're just wobbling
thingamabas, full o' what you-may-
call 'om, and they blaze away like
billoo!"
Old Farmer (to soldier son just returned from the ^front>)—"Well, Dick, what be these tanks like that there's so much talk about?"
ALL. CLEAR NOW
"I must say this khaki camping skirt is a loose fit."
A MISFIT
"You're in wroth, auntie. That is
in your wroth you have on." - Louis
ville, courier-upriver
TOUCHING COMPILIMENT
"I do hope you appreciate that in marrying my daughter you marry a woman."
'I do, sir! And I hope she inherits the qualities from her father?' Psusz. 'Pass me.'
NO LAWYER NEEDED
An Atlanta lawyer tells of a newly qualified judge in one of the towns of the South who was trying one of his first criminal cases. The prisoner was an old negro charged with robbing a hen-coop. He had been in court before on a similar charge and was then acquitted.
"Well, Henry," observed the Judge,
"I see you're in trouble again."
"ceasuh," replied the neger, "laclast!" she said, you re-lect, you was maid lawwhu."
"Where is your lawyer this time?" "I ain't got no lawyer dis time," said Henry. "Ab's gwine to tell de troof."—Oregon Journal.
Ambrose—"I got a new job, today.
Timothy—"So! What's it like?"
Ambrose—"I'm getting paid for
A NEW JOB
Timothy "Gosh, people must be 'lying to hear you'讲."Burr.
Amhoree — I'm getting paid 10
ing at funerals."
"Here, you," shouted the commander of the German air squadron to one of his raiders, "give back that Iron Cross at once. We've just learned not to indulge in burglaries youombarded and not a children's hospital."—Life
REPUDIATED
Greek Letter Holiday Parties Hit By Wa
A Map to draw, a Theme to write,
and Thou
Playing "Oh Johnny" in the Flat next door;
Home Reading that would choke a large-sized Cow;
A first-line Trench were Paradise
lust now — Lamoon.
The customary pre-holiday parties and entertainments by students are to be vigorously deleted on account of the lack of attendance, but cut their dances and parties to a maximum of simplicity and the little Christmas gifts that fraternity and sorority members give on these occasions may be passed on immediately to charity.
THE FRESHMAN OMAR
One sorority is to give a Hooverized dinner, the menu of which will conform strictly to the spirit and letter of conventions in the school. The Hill will品 war economy Christmas dinner and the gifts will be given to the Friendship Club, which will distribute them in Lawrence. Still another sorority will observe the same spirit in their Christmas dinner, and on the Hill are to follow this plan as well as the fraternities.
"Bad" Fellows On Hill Are Fighting Huns
"K. U. men are tamer than in former years," declared J. M. Boyd, Lawrence chief of police, recently. "Several years ago the fellows were pretty lively, and, although we didn't make real arrests, we tried to scare them."
Boyd believes that the "bad" men on the Hill, the mischief makers who made a raid down town whenever they had a chance, the fellows who had the good time, have all gone to war. The police are very hard to get; the police, and he has found the students more subdued this year than ever before.
Chemistry, a Compulsory Study Twenty Years Ago
Twenty years ago every student in the University was required to take Chemistry. At that time the department occupied the building which is now used by the department of journalism, but overflow classes were also held in Snow Hall, Physics Building and in the basement of Fraser.
"The building now occupied by the department of journalism was built in 1883 for a chemistry building and was used by us until 1900 when we moved to our new Chemistry building," said Professor Valley, of the department of chemistry.
"Twenty years ago we were so crowded in that building that we had to have 150 students in a lecture room seated for 75. In the laboratory two students were required to work together on all experiments because of their lack of experience. The professors in the department at that time. I used to teach chemistry, mineralogy and pharmacy. The two other men are both in the service of the government now. Professor Franklin, now of the Leland Stanford University faculty, is a member of the chemical division. The other instructor, Edward Bartow, is now a major of a sanitary corps in France."
The department of chemistry moved into its present building in 1900. Last year they had more than twenty laboratories there, and three in 1897 and 1888. The department is furnishing men nearly every day to the government for war work.
Oread High Red Cross Unit
The women of Oread High School, under the leadership of Miss Cora Delube, of the department of English, have voluntarily organized a Red Cross club in the school. By means of a small assessment levied on each member, the women are able to buy necessary supplies, and are now engaged in making many useful articles. This is purely a local organization, and the idea was origi- nated by Mrs. Delube's output is turned over to the city branch of the Red Cross.
We have a large assortment of individual moulds and bricks for ice cream—see us when planning your parties. Wiedeman—Adv.
We make our own candies and ice cream and are able to make almost anything you will want for Christmas. Wiedemann—Adv.
The Daily Kansan—a daily letter home.
Central Educational Bureau, St.
Louis, Mo. Wants teachers. Good
positions reported every month in the
mid-May year graduates enroll now.
Write for blank and booklet. W. J.
Hawkins.
WANTED - Woman with house and furnishings for boarding club all ready organized to start January 6.
Phone 1220. 63-13-17
CLASSIFIED WANTED = FOR SALE = FOR DENT
FOR RENT—Modern furnished front room on first floor after holidays. Furnace heat. Phone 1190 Blue. 653-115
FOR RENT* -Students desiring nice coal-furnace-heated rooms for second semester, inquire at 1001 Mainne.
Board if desired. 62-5*-114
WANTED - To rent house with furnishings suitable for boarding club to move into January 6. Phone 1220, 63-3-116
63-5-115
ROOMS FOR GIRLS--Some fine rooms on the Hill, one half-block from campus. A hill block. Ht. "The Patterton." 125 Ls. La. St. Bell. 1243 White. 59-7-109
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Houses 9 to 15. Phone 8-9 to 5. Phone 513.
JOB PRINTING-B-H. H. DALE, 1027
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G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology. J. 180. F. A. U. Bldg. Residence hospital. J. 1601 Ohio St. Both phones. 35.
With our large assortment and colors of candies we are able to help your carry out any color scheme in the Christmas entertaining, Wiedeman—Adv.
Don't forget to send your friends a box of Wiedeman's fruit chocolates at Christmas. They are the cheapest item is considered, Wiedeman-Avid.
No. of pages: 2008.
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Meals ...10c
Hot cakes and coffee ...10c
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If Your Girl Doesn't Eat Candy— TAKE HER FLOWERS Telephone 55 Lawrence Floral Co.
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at
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PROTCH The College Tailor
CONKLIN PENS are sold at McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
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A Good Place to Eat
Private Dining Room for Parties
Resorting Parking Bldg
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