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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Lawson Mason | Associate Editor
Aaron A. Anderson | News Editor
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Mary Smith | Plain Tales Editor
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
Photos by P. K. Yu, 85 and 66
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the university, but the more than merely printing the news on their paper or holding vardy holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to have more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1917.
"RAGGING" THE KANSAN
WARNING THE KANSAN Some faculty members take particular delight in the open ridicule of the Kansan in their classes. It is the dainty morsel that can be munched without fear of any return criticism. They are safe in saying anything they wish and calling attention to the smallest 'inconsistencies' in the University paper. The paper won't talk back.
The Kansan claims no alibi and makes no apology for the genera- make-up and nature of the Kansan. The Kansan is the product of the organized effort of about one hundred students. The work that is undertaken by the Kansan and the department of journalism is the making of newspaper men and women out of students who know practically nothing of journalism. Their laboratory work is as much of an experiment as is that of the chemistry department. The only difference is that when the Kansan cub makes a mistake the whole Hill knows it. If an experiment fails in the chemistry laboratory only the professor and the student are aware of it. But let a Kansan reporter fail to say that some faculty member's initials are A. B. instead of B. C. and that professor is the vowed enemy of the Kansan for the remainder of his days.
The accusation has been made that the Kansan is unfair, that it is radical in its opinions, that its inaccuracy is appalling, that news proportion is ignored, that schools and departments are given no publicity. These and a hundred more. The Kansan is given no credit for the good work that it does. A well written or well handled article seldom receives comment. The Kansan does not ask it. It wants no sympathy. It only asks the critical faculty man, who would take the Kansan as the "rag to chew on" to look about his own department for the little things that are wrong before he begins his tirade.
NATIONAL AIRS
The other day in one of the local theaters the pianist rambled from ragtime into the Marsalles, the national hymn of France. A part of the audience stood. The rest giggled in derision. Those poor creatures that were standing thought the pianist was playing the "Star Spangled Banner." Their mirth was undiminished until those standing were seated. This is a typical case of
America's ignorance or indifference to phases of the war.
In France the humblest peasant hums our national hymn, it is a classic of democracy, it is the battle hymn to victory there. Yet in the United States not one of twenty is able to recognize the national hymn of France. No attention is given it. It is played in syncopated variations. Those who stand when it is played are laughed at.
There is a way of showing the bond of sympathy between countries that are giving their live blood in a common cause. Respect to the national hymn is a way of showing it.
THOSE "K" SWEATERS
There are probably thirty students in school who have been awarded athletic "K's." But how many of these sweaters are to be seen on the Hill? Other sweaters are worn to class but the athletic sweaters are not to be seen.
The big reason that there is not more of the sweaters in evidence is the fact that many students have the sentiment and are not backward in expressing it that the fellow that wears his K-sweater on the Hill is "putting on airs." This idea is wrong.
The student who earns his letter should wear it and wear it on the Hill. He is entitled to the honor that comes with the wearing of it. The sweater is given to him to be worn and not to be stored away.
GUARD YOUR HEALTH
The danger of a typhoid epidemic at the University threats. If the keeper of the boarding house where you eat has taken no action to see that the water that is served to you is not pure, quit that place and get a place to eat where some effort is made to safe-guard your health. Take the typhoid inoculation and insist that the food you get is sanitary. You are the one to suffer if you get sick so take some measures to keep your health.
The solution to the problem the University professors have of keeping the students awake in class may lie in the supplying of fresh air to the students. When forty people are boxed in a room with no ventilation there is little chance that the student can give his best attention to his class work. Open the yindows.
CAMPUS OPINION
A PROTEST Editor the Daily Kansan
Editor the Daily Kansan:
"The biggest thing the United States can do internationally, is to place 1,000 army Y. M. C. A. buildings in France to raise the morals of the French army."-General Pershing.
"Taking this as his main theme, Hugo Wedell, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. addressed a gatha of men students in Myers Hall."
Will the Daily Kansan not ask Mr. Wedell to deny the statement appearing in yesterday's Kansan and quoted above? Surely he was either deceived or misquoted. General Pershing certainly never gave utterance of his guiltiness insult to the most heroic fighting force the world has ever seen.
Reform the morals of the French army! Of the men of France who have made the names of the Marne and Verdun imperishable as long as great deeds achieved by moral, mental and physical stamina are admired by mankind! Like all armies it is human but in saving civilization it has performed deeds superhuman. It is not immoral, but even if it were no other nation is yet in the position to preach morality to it.
"Yes," said the cynical old sea captain, "when I was shipwrecked in South America I came across a tribe who could not be solidly witty. They had no tongues."
THE TROUBLE
D. L. Patterson.
"Good gracious!" exclaimed the listener; "how could they talk?"
"They couldn't," it was the reply,
"that what made them wild?"
Later, the police said.
CONNOISSEUR
Willis: Come with me. I've got two extras.
Wills: Miss Oldbud and Miss Passe.
Willis: Going to the party?
two extras.
Gillis: Who are they?
Gillis: They're not extras. They're early editions—Early Bird.
Willis: Going to the party?
Gillis: No. I haven't any!
POET'S CORNER
("General Pershing stopt in his
hands on the wounded," filed
File Three: "London Dispachet)."
FILE THREE
File Three stood motionless and pale,
of nameless pedigree;
In years a youth, but worn and old,
With face of ivory;
But saw those threads and knew the sign.
Ah, I had been File Three!
high
Ah, had I been File Three!
Upon his sleeve two strands of gold,
Oh, would I had been he!
The General passed down the line.
And walked eight rapidly.
"Twice wounded? Tell me, where you were."
that was just an ordinary chap.
Thus he wrote him in America: Margaret Weigt,
who went to Washington.
The man of stars asked he,
"Givenchy and Lavenza, sir"—
Oh, where was I, File Three!
K. U. has been "scooped" again.
Evidence in the case, the following item from the Spectator, published at McPherson College:
He put on khakil and strapped on his hand. The king would never contain a marshasha; he slept in a tent with nine other men, which he kissed the folks and the boys when he met them at the France. And he became, if he wove an only line of small print in the manly only a line of small print in the
Women only will be admitted to the University Chorus at the University of Texas this year. In former years the chorus has been open to both men and women. Credit is given for work in the chorus.
Then crisply quoth the General
ON OTHER "HILLS"
"You Took Me, Man, File Three," And Tommy's heart held carnival—God! Would I had been he!
Literary Digest —P. S. W.
The Press Club composed of all the staff of the Washburn Review is going to "put Washburn on the map." Every two weeks a letter will be sent out to the newspapers of Kansas.
Then crisply quoth the General:
"You are a man. File Three."
"A Liberty bond for every Yale man must be the university's direct service to the government." With the foregoing as a slogan, Yale university has set a pace in extending the circulation of liberty bonds among members of the faculty, the student body and among employees.
Women at the University of Illinois will sell peanuts and candy at the first home-coming game next Saturday afternoon. The profits of the concession sales will go to the fund being raised to buy Christmas gifts for the University men in France.
A woman's war work council has just been organized at the University of Wisconsin among the women students. The council systematize and direct the work that the women undertake to aid the nation. The project is under the women's self government association.
Women at the University of Illinois are each giving three cents a week to a fund to provide Christmas packages for each University man somewhere in France. These packages are to contain certain books, magazines, raisins, cigarettes, chocolates, mints, chewing gum and milked milk tablets and are to be uniform in size and content.
The students of K. U. may be in danger from drinking the Lawrence city water, but they are not menaced by a water shortage. The students at the University of Illinois
"A matrimonial bureau has been started in Arnold Hall by those interested in seeing the young folks live happily ever after. One young woman has grown with height red hair and got just what she wanted almost immediately."
Students at the University of Oklahoma will have to pay $1.50 in advance if they want a copy of the 1918 Sooner. No more copies will be sold than are ordered, and the price will be $3. The Sooner this year will be by the entire student body instead of by one class, as in former years.
He was just an ordinary chap twice are millions like him in America.
Women at the Iowa State College have been admonished by a chapel speaker to give up dancing during the war. What they are to substitute for dance cannot knit or read the Sunday newspapers as he condemned them, too.
Each Sooner in the service of Ucle
Sam is to receive the Oklahoma
Dally throughout the year, according
'o the decision of the student council.
He liked three square meals a day, and baked bread with potatoes and ties, and a close game of baseball. He was good to his folks and open-handed with the wives' yarns, but there were some who loved growing because some day he was going to have a job where his job and bragged about the big company took over, and then in the late afternoon. But he was honest and steady and he was to get a raise the next summer. And then the United States declared
JUST AN ORDINARY CHAP
There's A Reason for Leaves Turning Red
One time somebody wondered why the leaves change color in the fall. Professor C. A. Shull of the depart- ment of Botany at the nomena in the following manner:
In the summer the leaves are covered with a substance called chlorophyll. This chlorophyll is beneath the tissue on the outside of the leaf. Beneath this green chlorophyll there are hidden two other colors, yellow and red. When the first frost comes up the leaves become dark brown down and disappears. Two yellow colorings known as Carotin and Xanthophyll are thus exposed. In some of the trees, especially maples, a red pigment predominates. This red pigment is known as Anthocyanin and it is supposed through recent tests that the purpose of this pigment is to protect some of the more tender tissues of the leaf from the ultrafast rays of the sun. So the explanation of the change in color of the leaves is due to the breaking down of the green coloring and the bringing to view of the yellow and red.
MENTAL LAPSES
WILLING TO EXPERIMENT
The sewing-machine agent rang the bell. A particularly noisy and vicious-looking bulldog assisted in opening the door. The dog stood his ground. The agent retreated slightly. "Will that dog bite?" he asked.
"We don't quite know yet," the lady said. "We have only just got him. But we are trying him with him. Won't you come in?"—Tik-Bits.
THE SPORTSMAN
With gun in hand, a proud grin on his face.
His shoulders bowed with strings of bloody game,
gain.
He stands before the clean hills and
the sky.
And poses for his portrait. Such is fame! -Sydney Triad.
"Did you call at Royxay's house?"
vasked the young doctor's wife.
"Yes," replied the doctor, "and I wish he had sent for me sooner."
wish he had sent for me sooner."
"Gracious! He so scorned ill?"
Gratuous: is he so seriously in it?
"No; just the contrary. I am afraid
he'll be all right again before I get in
bald-alfen doses." -Tit-Bits.
NO HURRY
Mr. Brown: I had a queer dream last night, my dear. I thought I saw a dragon in the mirror.
Mrs. Brown; And what did you sav to him?
Mr. Brown: I asked him what he was running for?—Sydney Bulletin.
CHEERY
Bacon: "Let me shake your hand, dances of the happiness days of one of your happiest days of the year."
Egbert: "You're too previous, old
man. I'm not to be married until
tomorrow."
Bacon: "That's what I say. This is how days of your life,..." -Spokan Review
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WANTED—FOR SALE—FOR RENT
WANTED—An experienced stenographer for University position.
Apply by letter. Address, Box 15,
Daily Kanson office. 25-2-*15*
*
WANTED—Steward or stewardess for mixed club at 1116 Tenn.
Phone 1190W. 24-5-58
FOUND—Note book on Botany, in Ad. Room 207. Call at Kansan Business Office. 24-2-55
MASQUERADE COSTUMES for
rent. 1016 Pa. St. Phone Bell
1719W. Le Ora Gunning. 25-5-58
WANTED—A student who understands typewriters, to keep twenty machines in running order. Inquire at the Department of Journalism Business Office or telephone K. U. 150.
LINGER LONGER Club, 1319 Tenn.
All drinking water boiled. Rates
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Sunday dinner 35c. 22-5-48
FOR RENT-Large, light modern sleeping rooms for light housekeeping with use of dining room and kitchen. Call 1243 Black 23-5-52
FOR RENT—Rooms for light house
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Mass. St. Phone 228.
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PAUL ALTHOUSE
The Greatest American Tenor
from the METROPOLITAN OPERA CO. WILL BE PAID
$2000.00
Any University Student Can Hear Him For
FOR FOUR RECITALS IN KANSAS
25c
By Purchasing a $1.00 Season Ticket To The
UNIVERSITY CONCERT COURSE
FOUR CONCERTS
Tickets now on sale at the Registrar's Office The Remaining Numbers Are CHRISTINE MILLER, greatest American contralto MISCHA LEVITZKI, last season's sensation. KIRKSMITH TRIO, 'cellist, soprano, pianist Best seats $2.00—To K. U. Students $1.50 Remainder $1.50—To K. U. Students $1.00
PURE WATER
McNISH'S AEREATED DISTILLED WATER
Phones: 198
Bowersock Theatre
TONIGHT
First Show 7:40
Second Show 9:10
JUNE CAPRICE The Sunshine Girl
In "EVERY GIRL'S DREAM"
A Picturesaue Romance of Old Holland.
Here's a chance to settle down in a comfortable chair and let the sweetest girl in filmmod entertain you.
ALSO MUTUAL WEEKLY showing completion of the largest bridge in the world-General Pansing's mascot-dental parlor on wheels as used in camps—and many other news items of interest.
ADMISSION 10 CENTS
Tomorrow
MILDRED MANNING and WALLACE McDONALD IN "THE PRINCESS OF PARK ROW"
Admission 10 Cents
Admission 10 Cents
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