UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Aransas, under the act of
1845.
Published in the afternoon, five times
in the press. Published in Kansas, from the press of the
bay of Kansah.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the university, a student who then more than merely printing the news by standing for the ideas the University seeks to be clear; 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.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K, U. 23 and 66
K. U. STUDENTS ARE LOYAL
Mr. Kanaga has been heard a second time and still in the minds of fair-minded and observant persons the students of the University of Kansas are not walking exemplifications of the slacker spirit. His latest communication is somewhat sander in tom but it fails to carry the conviction that the men students of K. U. are disfriending from the student of for anyone else's sympathy or惰意
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1917.
Thank God for life every day, and thank benefactor out of the world. That's what I feel—"Cause
But for the benefit of those persons whose sense of patriotism is bounded by a desire to shoot firecrackers and shout hallelujah it seems necessary to make clear the perfectly abvious position of our men students. Well do we need them, and why our country is at war? Likewise we know there is a crying need for a real awakening, for an exodus to the colors, for a kindling of a spirit of sacrifice such as is essential for the successful promotion of war. But the rank and file of our men students are doing what many others have not done—they are coolly considering the situation—and in their schools they are instructors, faculty members, and last but most important, the advice of their parents.
It took our country two years to decide on war and our national government many weeks to finally formally declare hostilities. As yet our policy is not clearly defined. Our executive branch has not thrashed out the part America is to play while legislators are weighing the relative merits of the volunteer system and conscription. As yet the president has issued no authoritative call for volunteers. In the face of these things then is the college man considered a slacker because he has no rushed into some military unit?
Furthermore when our Chancellor urges a normal conclusion of the school year; when such men as the British representative Mr. Balfour, defines the immediate needs of the Allies as food, and openly state that they will not be forced to wait at this time merely increase the supply burden; when the best informed men of our country and University are urging careful consideration, prompted by firm resolve to do what is best for our country; are K.U. mer to be disparaged as cowards, slackers and disloyal citizens simply because at this time, three weeks after the declaration of war, only one third of the population was gone into training preparatory taking up service?
To answer directly the charges in Mr. Kanaga's latest charge would be to burden our readers with information which they already have and which is likewise accessible to any other person. An examination of the figures in Registrar George O. Foster's office will show the estimates made by Mr. Kanaga to be several days or a week old. Students are leaving every day, and the enlistment figures are mounting rapidly. Is it any that already one半 of the men students, of military age and physically fit, have either enlisted or are now affiliating themselves with some military unit. And when the proper time comes the remainder will go.
Don't bother yourself to be ashamed of your Alma Mater Mr. Kanaga, the men of the University of Kansas are going to war. They have never bemiried the good name of our states in past wars, or in any other endeavors requiring patriotism. We will send out full quotation, and it is without
egotism that we say we will be glad to compare their achievements with those of a few who now question our loyalty. And let it be hoped that they will not leave here imbued with the spirit that prompted a K. U. man to throw himself into miles away, in which to unjustly blacken the name of his Alma Mater.
THEY THINK WE'RE NUTS
"University to Grow Vegetables on Campus" says headline in an exchange. We take it that up to this time nuts have been the chief item of production—Daily Illini.
"Above all, do not rush off hastily and enlist. That was the great trouble in England. The college men there seized the first opportunity to dash to the front and were among the first to die, men whose brains would have made them of invaluable aid to their country as officers."—Purdue Exponent.
The most wasteful thing the university student can do is to offer himself for work which he is not well qualified to do.
If the many gaily clad women hoe the weeds out of the gardens this spring as enthusiastically as they are planting seeds, the world's food supply may not be so short after all.
When Seniors Were Freshmen
Items From the Daily Kansas Files of Three Years Ago.
Y. M. C. A. quartet composed of Messrs. Herron, McKean, Smith and Guise give a concert at the Methodist church.
Maria Madden, Ames Rodgers, A. N. Dilley, Helen Hurst, Vera Weatherhog, Kozna Kennedy, C. A. Castle, George Bunn, Francis Martin, E. L. Trice, Frank Hetherington, Ida O'Brien, Robert Reed and Harold E Yost are in the cast for the Spanish play which will be given tonight.
Captain Jones issues call for volunteers to fill Company M to fighting terrorism.
The line up for the St. Marys game is Sommers, Bishop, Sproull, Van den Vries, Morrow, Painter, Wandell Smee, DeLongy.
The Men's Student Council defeat the Kansas in baseball.
KEEP COOL
The fever has seized us. With war actually declared, preparations actually being made, and millions of American citizens, whatever their blood-lies, ready to respond to the call of their common country, the war is dire. In their mind, men are doing and saying things that in their calmer moments they would leave unaid. The pacifist is silenced, the neutral whom most of us called "pro-German" holds his peace, and, with a few exceptions we seem agreed that, now that we are actually at war, war is not the only issue for us; and that is to support our government and President. And that is as it must be.
We are eliminating all things German, and frequently in a noisy way. Hotels changing their names so that they may not lose money. German fried potatoes are not being served in places where they have ever appeared on the bill of fare. Men feel it unnatural to admit that they are geerman or of German birth, and their loyalty to America they feel it necessary to pity themselves for the German blood which flows in their veins.
What a pity. Are many of us no better than those mad folk who must beat their breasts to kindle the proper degree of rage. Must we discard all that is German, good, bad or indifferent, no other reason than that it is German?
President Wilson, and be it to his credit, has declared this to be a war, not against the German people but against the German government. It is a war for democracy, for the German as well as the Russian, for the French, for the Germans, for every land we have only kindly feelings. It is against a government that we wage war—Indiana Daily Student.
A woodpecker lit on a freshman' head
"Never knew he handled firearms!" "Doesn't. He can send a full shell cover through the furnace door without covering the floor."-Buffalo Express.
And settled down to drill;
He bored away for half a day
And finally broke his bill.
LOYALTY TO ALMA MATER
A GOOD SHOT "He's a crack shot."
"You say Dibling's allegiance to his alma mater has never wavered?" "Never; Dibbling has been out of college twenty years, and he still borrows money from his college chums ourselves."—Birmingham Age-Horral.
Thon, too sail on O Ship of State!
He was a captain of the University of America with all its feats. Humanity with all its feats.
He is harming breaches on thy fate!
What Workmen wrought they ribo on?
What Workmen wrought they ribo on?
POET'S CORNER
Who make each mast, and sail and rope
Tope
What anvils rang, what hammers
THE REPUBLIC
In what is forge and what a heat we shape shapes, the earth's sound and shock! Sound which audible sound and shock! Tis of the wave and not the rock; and Not a rent made by the gale! And not a rent made by the gale! Sail on, nor fly to breast the sea! Sail on, nor fly to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, o
our faith triumphant over our fears,
and "Faith" the building of the Ship" by
Paul G. Nottle, The Building of the Ship
CAMPUS OPINION
CAMUS US OTNION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
WHERE'S OUR PATRIOTISM?
Editor of Kansan:
DR. H. REDING F. A. U. Building
2. L. S. RIDING F. A. U. Building
3. Hours 4 to 6. Both phone 513
C. E. ORELUP, M. D. Specialist, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat. Bell phone 1768. Dick Bldg. Glass work guaranteed.
Things which are happening on the campus of the University in these days make some of us ashamed to think that they come from American students. We have passed by the disastrous service in Company M or other organization, ready to grant them the excuse that matters from Washington on down to Lawrence are unorganized and that many men prefer to wait until more definite programs are established. Personally I believe that many of our men students who have not clearly defined lines of service before training counts, will come forward ultimately for military service. This we can rest secure in in some degree of resignation, although the institution is thereby standing in line for uncompliantary comparisons when it compits its one distinctively local military company to accept enlistments from outside and to close its recruiting outside. The uncomplianted inmates are not coming fast enough to allow the men stationed there to earn their duty pay.
But when the University paper, the Kansan itself, prints in its editorial columns an open and avowed insult to the uniform and to all the students who have donned it—students who are taught the same thing of service to come out and do the plain and obvious thing which lies before them to do—then patience comes to an end. It is hard to find words in which to express disgust in strong enough terms for the person who could have penned the words of that president of the nerve and spirit the motive of vanity enlisting. What we need in this institution today are more men with the conscience and nerve to enlist, and above all a spirit which condemns satirical phrases aimed at the uniform of the United Army—yes, a training incapable of thinking in such terms.
P. F. Walker,
[We are reprinting below the editorial to which Dean Walker refers. We are unable to see in what respect it is "an insult to the uniform and to the students who have done it"; and we feel confident that readers of the newspaper that if outspoken contains nor implies an insult to anybody.—Editor.
One meets on and about Mount Oread certain downy lipbed们披ed in brown, with straight hat brims, and the tightest of leggings. He may stoop to brush imaginary scales on his wrist, rub one shining shoe on the back of a legging. How untried as yet are those new wings of his! How conscious he is of his appearance and the sensation he creates. But the vanity of youth, must not be censured. It requires the use of cannon and the blasts of exploding shells. And he will come back,—ah, how different.]
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LOST—A Waterman's fountain pen in the basement of Fraser Friday morning. Finder please return to Helen Binder, 1116 La. *139-2**
SUMMER VACATION OPPOFUN-
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laboratory, classroom, and play. For particulars see Operator, Bowersock Theatre. 140-3
LOST—An Eastern Star pin. Finder return to Kansan business office.
WE MAKE, OLD SHOES 'INTE WNEW ONES. The K. U. Shoe Shop is the place to get results. 1342 Ohio St.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. General Prescene at 1035 Mass. Hours 1:30 to 6:00 and office phone. Bell 999. Home 309.
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Picture fanning.
Printing
B. H. B. HALL job printing.
Both phones 228, 1027 Mass.
Printing
BERT WADHAM'S For BARBER WORK At the Foot of the 14th Street Hill in the Student District
Peoples State Bank Capital and Surplus $88,000.00 "EVERY BANKING SERVICE"
Remember SCHULZ makes clothes You can find him at 917 Mass. St.
northborough library
HOTEL SAVOY 9th & Central Sts. Kansas City, Mo.
Always meet your friends at this hotel.
What would be more appropriate than a banquet in the City If you have already decided on the date for your spring or farewell banquet write us now for reservations.
Typewriter Supplies
Note Books—Theme Paper
—All your Supplies at
CARTER'S
Citizens State Bank Deposits Guaranteed The University Bank Why Not Carry Your Account Here?
CONKLIN PENS are sold at McCulloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
WILSON'S
The Popular Drug Store
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