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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news in the University of Kansas; to go further than merely hold the news in a variety holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be compassionate; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WELCOME EDITORS
The editors of the Second District are in Lawrence today. They put their papers to bed, technically speaking, and left things to the office boy's attention. His it's duty to wind up the clock and put out the cat. And blow out the gas.
the editors will be here Saturday also. The Kansan Board is entertaining them at luncheon Saturday. Then they are expected to go down and watch K. U, win the game from Ames.
While the meetings are to be held downtown, primarily and while it is the Lawrence editors who are responsible for the Second District men being here the Kansan is inviting them and expecting them to come up on the Hill and look everything over. The Kansan knows the editors will look us over with an ever watchful eye, ever-ready to criticise our work. That's the reason we want to see the editors on the Hill.
We have come to believe the editors look at the Kansan as a product of a writer's factory where no real newspaper work is learned and where the fellow who gets his training is put out a finished product of egotism and self-importance.
Their opinion is wrong. The department is thorough in its training. The little things are given attention as well as the big things. The man or woman taking journalism is put on his or her own responsibility and his or her work is a proof of the success of the department. The department of journalism has men and women in every activity of newspaper work.
And, Mr. Editor, if you don't mind, the cubs on the Kansan would like to shake your hand and stand in front of you and talk to you and just act like a real editor. For they know you are and they have the ambitions to be editors.
And while they're doing that the Kansan is welcoming you to our Hill. Come again.
IT WAS GOOD
He "took a chance" and now he swears that he will not miss another number in the concert course.
That is the revised sentiment of those who heard Paul Altheist sing in Robinson Gymnasium Wednesday night. The concert went off with punch. At the scheduled time the program was started and there was no tiresome waiting and as one student expressed it the people sat on the edge of their chairs waiting and
unixious that the artist would sing more.
The student that "took a chance" and decided he should go although he had the feeling that he would be "bored to death" said the concert was different from what he expected. He was confident that some foreigner would warble, in some unintelligible words, songs that he never heard before and the surprise was gratifying. Instead he heard a youthful American in a program that appealed to every member of the appreciative crowd. It was different from a musical comedy. It was the class of entertainment that many K. U. folks had thought "above" them.
There will be no trouble getting those who attended the concert the other evening back for the other numbers and the success of the course is assured from the attitude of K. U. people toward such wholesome entertainment.
SIGN THE PLEDGE
"To the United States Food Administration:
I pledge myself to use the practical means within my power to aid the Food Administration in its effort to conserve the food supplies for the country and, as evidence of my support, I wish to be enrolled with yourselves as a volunteer member of the food administration."
That's the pledge University people will be asked to sign next week.
Signing the Hoover pledge card means that in order to aid the Food Administration in its conservation campaign you will—
Eat much less meat—three meatless days a week is his program.
Eat corn and rye bread two days a week—and nothing else these two days made from wheat.
Use graham bread and thus use parts of the wheat not used in white flour.
Forgo the pleasure of candy as much as humanly possible.
Stop making fudge.
Use less sugar on breakfast food and dessert and less in coffee.
Eat oatmeal and cormel instead of wheat breakfast foods.
Eat fish when you would rather eat meat.
Stop eating between meals.
Stop using soft drinks.
Start a campaign in your boarding ouse or organization to adopt the loover plan.
This is what the Food Administration recommends that volunteer members do.
Have you nerve enough to sign the food pledge?
There was once a youth who came to a university with dreams of greatness in his head. After a time his abilities were recognized and his name appeared in the pages of the college paper. He was on important committees, played basketball, made the glee club and started a movement to reform the institution.
IMPORTANCE: A FABLE
And finally his nerves snapped under the strain and he went to a hospital and his reward. The committees met without him and got along just the same.
But because his services were sought for committees the youth exalted himself unduly and began to develop symptoms of nervous prostration. He went to all the meetings of committees, even when three met at the same time, because he considered it his duty. His advice was valuable. No organization of which he was a member dared begin its meetings until he came. He talked continually of what he had done for their honor and glory and so became a bore.
Moral: Even the president of the United States isn't indispensable. The vice-president has been known to do his work.
Just how fifty minutes of compulsory exercise is going to help win this war is a mystery to over half of the women students of the University. Perhaps this is a patriotic movement but just think how much more reas
THE WOMAN'S SIDE To the Editor:
good could be accomplished by knit-
gold or garter or other practical
Red Cross work.
The girls of the University do not appear so physically deficient that time should be taken from real helpful and indispensable war work to develop an ability to make it would be if this fifty minutes could be devoted to a course in preparation and conservation of food. At any rate this would be of more assistance to our boys at the Front than it is to the ground soldiers nearby all the war work done by the girl is done after 4:30. This exercise will make it impossible for any of this work to be done except at night and that has proven very unuseful.
The girls are not slackers by any means. What they want is to devote their spare time to work that will count, that will be of benefit to the team. They have been doing more than their share in this great work. What they want to know is this: Just how fifty minutes devoted each day to physical exercise would be more than the same time spent in work that be of real and material assistance?
ANSWERING A PROTEST
In Monday's Kansan Professor D. L.
Patterson entered a protest against
Editor The Daily Kansan:
In Monday's Kansan Prof. D. L.
the following statement which I.
am supposed to have quoted as
the statement of General John J.
Pershing and used as the subject of an
article in "The War," October 16. The supposed statement follows: "The biggest international thing the U. S. can do is to place
1,000 army Y. M. C. A. buildings in
the French army."—General Pershing.
Judging from Professor Patterson's protest, I see among other things this—that he regarded the statement as an injustice to the unparalleled work of the French Army. Before quoting a character, I tried to relate relative to General Pershing I want to pause to give vent to an admiration stronger than words can express.
Professor Patterson asked the Daily Kansan if it would not ask me to deny the statement as I must either have been deceived or misquoted.
Nothing could be farther from the intention of any loyal American than a motive to make a statement finding to discredit by misrepresentation the morality of an army as wonderful, as powerful, as sacrificial as the French army. An army never to be forgotten for its valor and its courage, an army which had fought our own battles these trying years. We bow benefited by their sacrifice as they are accomplishing the almost super-human. No army on earth deserves the help and consideration that the army of France deserves.
With this attitude expressed I want to quote verbatim General Pershing's statement according to George Sherwood Eddy at Chicago and as I quoted it from my written manuscript in the course of the address.
"The greatest single international thing the U. S. can do immediately is to erect 1,000 Y. M. C. A. buildings to raise the morale of the French army." The difference being in the words single; immediate and morale. Men who are supposed to know the facts about the temptations of army life are of great interest to those who find the morale of the army even worse than it' it.
"Both the military authorities and Catholic authorities of France have asked for these Y. M. C. A.'s throughout the French army." God forbid that this country should enter this task with the "better than thou" spirit. Nothing could be farther from the minds of those in authority in this country, but they must general brotherly, kindly service. Preaching morality to the French army is not under consideration, but giving them a practical demonstration of Christian service by providing them with a home, social center, a friend in their hour of terrible need, is a concern of the greatest moment. Entering the French or any other army as a group of moral reformers is an integral to good judgment, as giving nothing to the enemy as we shall favor them the army for the purpose of presenting a constructive for destructive form of activity is a thing ask for not only by President Woodrow Wilson, but by Russia, France and Italy themselves, the countries under consideration. I think the nation ought to know the facts when its people are asked to support a program. While Mr. Eddy lauded the work of the French army during the war, he was happier knowing the conditions in the army and quoted another French general as follows: "Mr. Eddy, I have lost as many men through vice as I have lost in the trenches."
Again I quote, Mr. Sherwood Eddy and Dr. John R. Mott:
"That is a terrible thing to say about conditions in an amry," added Mr. Eddy, "but if people are not informed they cannot expect to provide the crying and necessary remedies." (Signed) Hugo T. Wedell,
CAMPUS OPINION
Classes at DePauw University are considering giving up their distinctive garb in the interests of war economy. It is expected that the money saved in this way will be added to the Y. M. C. a fund.
General Secretary, K. U. Y. M. C. A
This is an old, old story which is getting rather tiresome. The cynic is always one of these fellows sitting with the crowd and therefore unable to tell just how much volume does come from the Thundering Thousand and Fifty and Sixteen of the field and listen while the bunge gives Rock Chalk. He will then realize just what spirit the University has.
You remark that the Washburn yelling at the game Saturday was so much better than the Kansas side cheering.
To the Editor:
Of course, the cheering of the visiting crowd is always most animated. Their smallness of number is partly responsible for this. It is up to them to do their best. K. U. is the same when away from Lawrence.
Yours for optimism.
Yours for optin
ON OTHER "HILLS"
Military training for women is probable at the University of Arizona. The women plan to form companies with the upperclass women as officers. A special uniform will be worn.
A barbecue is being planned at the Colorado College for halloween night. A unique war time program is being prepared by baking and all the students will attend.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive," the following item from the Daily Texan to wit:
"The girls at the University of Kansas outnumber the boys three to one."
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7:30----9:20
BOWERSOCK THEATRE AGAIN TONIGHT
One of the greatest dramatic actresses now living
NAZIMOVA
"WAR BRIDES"
This picture shows why the United States is in this war to win, it shows the principle for which we will fight. You may not understand why such an appeal is made that you buy Liberty Bonds, but when you see this picture you will
The picture starts promptly at 7:30 ADMISSION 15 CENTS
It is a play children cannot understand and will not enjoy
It's a Bluebird Picture.
"THE RESCUE."
COMING TOMORROW
Also latest Mack Sennett Paramount Comedy, "A Bedroom Blunder," in which Charley Murray and Wayland Trask appear with Mary Thurman and Eva Thatcher, is a scream from beginning to end.
Admission 10 Cents
MAIL ORDERS NOW BEING RECEIVED
FOR the Second Annual Journalism "Jazz"—the party de luxe to be given by the Associated Journalism Students, November 9th, in Robinson Gymnasium.
HALEY'S 4 PIECE
ORCHESTRA
WILL furnish that syncoping, melodious harmony for the "light fantastic toe" to dance by.
OTHER FEATURES
which we just wouldn't dare to tell will furnish surprises throughout the evening. Remember this big social event is open to everybody in the college—Engineers, Laws, Medics, Pharmics everyone!
CLIP THE COUPON TODAY
You won't want to miss this party—that's certain, when 125 tickets are sold, the ticket sale stops point blank! If you want to be sure to miss out—don't let it be you.
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FRED RIGBY, DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence.
Dear Sir:—
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