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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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Don Davis...Editor in China
Eugene Dyer...News Editor
Lawson May...Plain Tales Editor
Dorothy Cole...Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Fred Wayne Business Manager
Wayne Billiat Assistant
Billiat Noid Assistant
NEWS STAFF
Harry Morgan
Millard Wear
Everett Palmer
R. Hammill
Everett Palmer
Joe Pratt
Marjory Roby
John Montgomery
H. C. Hanken
H. G. Hangen
Marion Lewis
Vivian Sturgeon
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Entered as second-class mail matter
in Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of
Morrow.
Published in the afternoon, five times
of the same issue, in The Journal of
Kansas, from the press of the Des-
troit Press.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news from University of Kansas; to play veracity holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be careful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1917.
ITS AN INSULT
Ask any of the 2,600 K. U. Folks what they most object to on Mount Oread this year and the answer will be: "The telephone service."
Speaking plainly, if not grammatically, the telephone service isn't service. It's an insult.
You try to call a number. The central is slow in responding. Eventually, after you have clicked the hook two minutes or so, she snaps:
"Number!"
Very often it isn't a courteous tone. It isn't even inquisitive. It's just short, snappy, and altogether too plain a statement of her evident feeling: "Speak up now or get off the line. I'm busy."
But the service central gives isn't the worst of it.
After you inform central of the number you want it seems to take an interminable length of time before you get a response. Very-often there is a lot of unnecessary buzzing in the receiver. And eight times out of ten — whether by accident or design—the line is busy.
The repair department and the trouble department are just as slow One phone on the Hill has been out of commission eighteen days, and in spite of many pleas to fix it the company apparently has not been able to send men to correct the defect. The thing has become so annoying to the subscribers who have to go elsewhere to phone that they can't speak sensibly about it.
We know the telephone company is busy. We understand that the two phone systems in operation heretofore are now being merged, and that the task is a big one.
But even such an excuse as that is not sufficient for the rotten service the company is giving its subscribers.
AFTER THE GRAFTER
They're hot on his trail, and it's time for the grafters to be taking to the tall uncut.
Saturday morning the student council met at the call of its president, Waiter Havekorat, and a committee was appointed to undertake the task of eliminating graft from student activities. This committee will confer with Chancellor Strong and Registrar Foster, and it expects shortly to announce plans that will be the death knell of the political grafter on Mount Oread.
The council is to be commended for the move it has made. Graft at K. U. has become so notorious in the last few years that the institution can no longer tolerate conditions here. The reputation of the University will suffer if it does.
The grafter will have to go. The days when a man can make half a year's expenses by managing a junior prom must end. It's up to the student council and the University authorities to do the job.
The keynote of Havekorat's plan, we are told, rests on a system of voucher checks which are to be used in making all expenditures for University activities. Not only are these checks to be signed by the student manager; but they are to be carefully considered and then counter-signed by an overseer connected in some official way with the University. Thus will the net be tightened about the grafting manager who is tempted to pad his expense account.
The method of handling receipts will be simple. All tickets will be sold directly from the business office of the University. This will give the exact figures on the receipts from every event.
Such, in outline, are the general plans will have been formulated. They will need revision and perfection—but they are at least a start along the right line.
The Kansan is squarely behind the student council in its fight for cleaner conditions.
After all, there are some joys in being a freshman, and probably many a senior envies the yearling his free meals during the rushing season.
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MENTAL LAPSES
INCONSISTENT
There are many inconsistent men. But the doctor tons the lot—
Takes all the change you've got. —Boston Transcript.
He tells you you need change, and
AN UNCROWDED INDUSTRY Pat had just arrived from Ireland when Mike, who had been in America for some years, spied him.
what are you doing?
"I've come over," answered Pat
"to try if I can make an honest living."
"Faith, Pat!" exclaimed Mike
"what are you doing over here?"
"Begorra, Mike, me boy, that's dead aisy over here, for it's多了 little competition you have in this country." —The Lamb.
UNCROWDED INDUSTRY
One sure way of stirring up a fight these days is to start a peace demonstration—Sioux City Tribune.
The captain and the mate on board the Pretty Polly were at loggerheads. They scrowled whenever they met, and seized opportunities of scoring off each other with fearful glee. Each took a turn at making the day's entries in the log-book, and the mate when making his entries, was very surprised to find, in the captain's handwriting, the words:
"June 2nd, 1917—Mate drunk."
He stared at it wrathfully a moment, then a slow grin broke out; his eyes were tilted.
GETTING EVEN
"June 3rd, 1917—Captain sober"
—London Opinion.
"If you make an awkward slip,
get the worst end of a deal.
Keep a stuffed upper lip.
Don't express the things you feel
POET'S CORNER
Don't express the blanks you see
Wading the turn of the river,
you must put the murky nut.
SHUT YOUR MOUTH
"When old trouble swings the whip
to speed, you can see it." Speed,
Never losen on your grip,
Never leave your grasp.
Even if the loss is real,
Shut your mouth and keep it shut.
THE STUDENT'S CREED
Play!
You can comfort your jawbone jut.
You can help it relax.
You can mouth and keep it shut.
1 will blot out of my life the failures that come from wasted hours and write into it the successes that come from time well spent.
"Here's a mighty useful tip; Learn the old contraption rip, Sympathy will soon congeal. Wash your mouth and conceal It he they ever so deeply cut. Shut your mouth and keep it shut." "Be your portion woe or seal, Still in palace or in hut. Tenderly be sealed or sequal. Shut your mouth and keep it shut."
Tighten in a clitten of steer.
Pretty soon the scars will heat,
I will keep life's page clean, and I
will have the record of knowledge
called.
I will fix my eyes on the goal of ambition, and hold my hand to its laps.
In war, as in peace he is eager, ready, unafraid, and his quick response to his country's call must win him friends by the thousands even before they came to town. Their times were suspicious of his conduct, distrustful of his purpose and all too prone to question the value of his work in society. In the fierce crucible of war he has been tested and not wanting—Creighton Courier.
OTHER OPINIONS
He has not sought the easy bypaths which might have been opened for him, but has insisted on plunging in where danger lurked in its most hideous form. The aviation corps has appealed particularly to him because of the chance it gave for individual prowess and service, and he has clamored for a chance to "do his bit" with the aircraft. He had trained the tillerry, the cavalry, and in fact wherever there were tasks worth while to be accomplished for God and country.
THE COLLEGE MAN
In many quarters the college man has been deemed fit subject for jest and the cartoonist has found a never ending source of inspiration for his pencil in the clothes, the attitudes, the habits and the goings on generally of this favored son of fortune. His idiosyncrasies have been emphasized, and there is essential fitness for tasks worth while and there have been times and places a-plenty when his most urgent need seemed to be for an apologist.
Now, fortunately, all this is changed, and in the stress of war's demands, the college man has thrown off what his friends knew all along to go into the battleships' moments of boisterous young manhood—and from all over the land he has responded to his country's call with an alacrity, an enthusiasm and a patriotism which make him stand forth as a leader, a man trained to do and dare.
If we were to attempt to rank the literary product of the war so far, we should be inclined to say that the highest point of expression has been reached, not in books, but in such phrases as the English have coined during the long period of preparation. Do you think it through? or the French in their great resistance: "We'll get them." "They shall not pass." In such mere fragments are summed up the will and the vision of a whole people. Next would come a handful of verses and single lines by the men who have given themselves and have found a moment between training camp and shell crater to utter the spirit that moved them. Exactly how this happens that express the travail of soul in the attempt at adjustment to awful and unparallel conditions. And last, the mass of direct reporting from the battle field, often vivid and stirring, though of necessity without the perspective of great literature. But it is a mistake to look
LITERATURE AND THE WAR
One often hears expressions of disappointment over the quality of the literature produced by the war. People seem to expect an artistic expression in proportion to the colossal scale of the conflict itself, and they reproach men of letters for not having risen to the greatness of the occasion. In rebuttal it is argued that the writers are otherwise engaged; they are in the trenches, or in muni-tactical action during publicity bureaucracy. Or it is pointed out that the result in such诗 as that of Brooke, of Mascheld, of Seeger is after all, very considerable; that such fiction as "Mr. Britling" would be notable in any period.
I will work hard, hope high, and live up to the best that is in me! then I can write at the end, "Well done." But the above and live up to it. —Ex.
or great literature in the midst of great crises. Poetry, said Wordsworth, is "emotion recollected in tranquility," and he himself succeeded, not with "Verses written on the landscape" but with "the storm," but in "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"—after five years. We have the emotion now, enough, and to spare; the memory of that storm will they come at all—when the world has regained tranquility—Collier's.
"I gm'd to see you go into partnership with Plufubd. A good
A DISTINCTION
"Why, I have heard you speak of him as a thorough scoundrel."
"Politically, yes. Commercially,
he's all right." -Louisville Courier-
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