UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Henry S. Pogues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief
William Koehler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor
John B. Fitzpatrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Vernon A. Moore ... Business Mgr.
Rick Rightman ..
Fred Rightham ..
Assistant
NEWS STAFF
Edwin W. Hullinge
Boulder Bill
Dan Davis
Harry Morgan
Alice Bowlby
Eugene Dyer
Nancy Carmery
Millard Wear
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas, to go further than merely print the news and to provide a university varsity holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be friendly; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all; to serve to the students of the University.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1917.
Duty makes us do what things well, but it also helps to them beautifully—Philipa Brooks.
WHAT IS OUR ANSWER?
Is the college man of the west opposed to, or in favor of compulsory military training?
If opposed, is he opposed to the degree of absolutely condemning the spirit of military training, compulsory or not compulsory?
If not opposed, is he in favor of universal compulsory military service; or of compulsory training in our colleges and universities in place of gymnasium; or of elective courses in military tactics?
In other words, to what degree has the military spirit permeated the student body here at K. U.?
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These questions seem only fair in light of the importance of the question at this particular time. The breaking off of diplomatic relations with Germany by the United States has brought the question of preparedness only too freshly to our minds, and the University man who does not think seriously on the means of meeting the present crisis, be it with arms or diplomacy, is "an intellectual mollycoddle."
The University of Kansas has had plenty of opportunity to see military training in the colleges with which we come in contact. Missouri, Nebraska and the Kansas Aggies all have military companies in connection with the schools, and work in the school regiment is substituted for gym work. Instead of a practically distinct company as we have here at the University, these schools have a number of large companies connected directly with the university. Practically every man has a taste of military training before he leaves school.
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Some agitation was raised last year by the president of the Student Council in favor of compulsory training at K. U. On the other side Chancellor Strong and a number of other prominent faculty men defended our present system.
With matters standing as they are today, however, the question of military training takes on a different angle, and deserves more serious treatment. But a few days ago representatives of the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Lehigh, Georgetown, Yale, Harvard, and George Washington University, appeared before the Senate Military Affairs Committee representing their various school as overwhelmingly in favor of universal military training.
This endorsement, they say, is not due to hysteria due to the present war in Europe, for the sentiment in favor of military training was shown by the large attendance at the student mill-
tary training camps in the east for two years before the war.
The east, however, looks at the war from a different viewpoint than the west. The great struggle assumes greater proportions in the coast states than in the middle western states, and war is served for breakfast, dinner, supper and between dances.
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Nevertheless the fact that the military spirit is not as strong here should not make the seriousness of the situation any less felt. What is finally done by the government will of necessity be done by the whole country, and we in the west are as interested as those in the east.
The Kansan would like to hear student sentiment on the question of compulsory military training.
The 8:18 car yesterday morning carried seventy-nine up the hill to early classes. On days like yesterday it seems only plausible that the street car company could anticipate a crowd before 8:30 classes and provide an extra car.
SIDE-SHOWS FOR YOU MR. MERCHANT
Mr. Merchant while you are here as a student, we want to show you how the University is helping you and your community, how the school is assisting the state in education, democracy, and public service. Over in the chemistry laboratory we will explain the method by which your own city water is tested for its purity; the entomology department will explain its means of protecting the vegetable and plant life of your community; a visit to the political science classes will enable you to learn of the defects in your city, state, or national government; while the engineering faculty and students will be glad to explain municipal sanitation, drainage, paving, and similar projects that you, as a citizen, are frequently called upon to consider. Every department of the University has something of interest to you and it is our desire that you call and be shown. This is your University and we want you to learn of its organization and service. Drop around in the mornin!
OUT OF A BOOK
John Spargo, probably the greatest Socialist in this country today, and writer of world-wide repute on Socialistic problems, spoke to an audience made up of merchants and students in Fraser Hall this afternoon.
As a thinker on social problems, Mr. Spargo has few superiories in the nation today, and as a matter of general educational value rather than of taking sides with the causes of Socialism, Mr. Spargo has many passages from his book, "Socialism."
"It is not such a terrible thing, after all!" (the epithet Utopian). To hitch our wagon to a star, as Emerson advised us, is to be guilty of being Utopians. For if our star is really a star, and not a mere lantern hung out to deceive us, we shall never reach it with our wagon; the end of that year will come when we star. If, knowing this, we aim at the stellar goal we may not reach, we are Utopians and fit subjects for the reproaches of our more practical fellows who hitch their wagons to the nearest street-lamps instead of to stars. So there are many things worse than being a Utopian,—to be a pulpit perverter of the gospel, for example, or even a legislator with one hand constantly employed in the rewards for faithful service to Privilege; so known be known as the dreamer of beatific dreams than as the alderman who sold his vote to a public service corporation seeking a franchise.
"Most persons are somewhat started when they hear some Socialist agitator say, Socialism is not all designed to be the design for the destruction of all the institutions so painfully involved through the uncounted years of human struggle, and the building of a social edifice upon the ruins of the old.
"The Socialist of today is just an ordinary mortal like yourself, calling attention to the signs of social growth.
"Nature's law is inequality. Mountain and valley and plain in the physical world have their counterparts in human nature. No Socialist believes that the diversities of human nature can be swept away. When the climate changes, commonwealth is attained there still will be mountains of genius rising above the plain of life. . . It is today that genius is repressed; the
"Socialism is an expression of faith in man.
dull level of life is a present reality."
Socialism is most grievously mis understood and misrepresented when it is believed to be opposed to private property. The common owner-owner relationship is everything good. Good people still believe to be involved in the Socialist program, has, in fact, nothing to do with it. . . The American Socialist of today is much nearer to Aristotle's belief in the maintenance of private property, and its approximate equalization than the current state of all private property. . . The socialization of property in the Social State would be confined to (1) such as in their nature could not be held by private owners without subjecting the community to exploitation or humiliation; (2) such things as the citizens must agree to own in common a superior efficiency in their management.
"... no man is really free whose life is controlled by another, who depends upon other other man for the sake of his bread in the sweat of his brow.
"This, then, is the challenge of Socialism: No man is good enough to be master of another man's bread, of another man's job, of another man's life. These are great things which he is master of his analysis, for whoever is master of a man's bread, of his opportunities to labor, is master of his life."
JES' FILLER
NEVAH MO'!
NAME: JAMES
Acting has robbed the World of
Many a good
Hod-carrier.
One young galot had a
Part in his H. S.
Play.
It went to his head.
He broke out with
a fever called
"Angst".
Then he grabed a
Rattler one day for
N'Yawk.
He left the old man's Cash drawer standing
Open.
N'Yawk took him in
against her.
He got hungry—nay
Starved and
Still the managers
Listened not.
So he beat it back
To the fatted calf.
He sells nails and
Putty now for
His Dad and
We don't hear of
His career
No more.
A fellowship is now open in the department of German. Here at last is German fellowship. What would der Kaiser do if he heard of it?
Wee timorous cowerin' blaze.
You puny little' bluehaze.
squat here trying to get warm- fsrajein!
We think our cow is shaw.
You puny little' bluish haze.
I squat here trying to get warn
I'm frizin'.
1 wish I could only get the guy
That runs this darned old gas sup-
ply—
'd send him where it's more than warm—
It's sizzin'.
"They don't call Mac the leader of the band."
"He's called the tutor."
"Why not?"
The U. S. republic is doomed.
You see, Violletta, they are called "Aggravation," short. Their real name is "Aggravation."
And then the raucous voice of the janitor was heard: "Hey, send that dumb-waiter back down here! My chewin' gum's stuck on the bottom."
Yes, Mr. Wilson's latest may have been a musical note, but it produced very little harmony.
They are no more log houses
Like they used to be before
Presidents will be no more:
They ain't no more log houses
"Under Cover" enjoyed a long run in New York. It is expected to enjoy one night in Lorcee.
The society editor tells of a certain visiting girl charmming all the men at her house, and that was the little black-haired zebra who so summily in "The Princess Pat."
And the name "Under Cover" doesn't refer to the costumes, eyether.
Mrs. Brown will talk on "Why?" Betcher a milyun she ends up with— "O just because."
If the worst comes to worst K. U. will furnish its quota of guns. Attenshun! Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma XI!
It's easy to see how Mr. Stuart Walker moves his entire theatre. Every stage has wings.
"I'm sorry, Mabel, but I can't call for you tonight."
"Why not, John dear?"
"I've got an awful sore throat." Widow.
Little child (chewing violently)—Mother, I certainly do like this train; they have such dee-lius-gum stuck under the seats."—Puck.
Many a fellow is so intent on winning a girl's hand that he doesn't discover until it is too late that he has neglected to win her heart.—New York
He: Indeed I do. A couple should be happy just as long as they possibly can be alone.
She: Do you believe in long engagements?
WANT ADS
And winds up by getting only the mitten.—Silver and Gold.
FOR SALE- Remington typewriter
No. 10; used but little; a beauty.
Lois and works like new. Will sue-
suffer. Call R炎. Call R炎.
Ogg, 1909 Bell W. S9-5*
BENT—Underwood Typewriters of quality with service at the least cost direct from the Underwood Typewriter Company, Topeka, Kansas.
WANTED—A lady to do educationa work during vacation. Call Mrs. Williams, Bell 514W. 72f.
TEACHERS WANTED—For every department of school work. Boards will soon commence to教老师 in on the first vacancies. Write today for blanks. Only 3½% Cm., com- payload Nov. 1st. Territ. i.e. Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota, Arkansas, Texas Teachers' Employment Bureau, E. I. Heuer, Manager, 228-230 C. R. S. Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 78-ft.
FOR SALE - Underwood typewriter.
First class condition. $17. 1039
Baby typewriter. $49. 689
LOST-A Conklin fountain pen with
address roses on Kansan office top.
Kansan office bottom.
FOR RENT—One large size front double room for boys. $8. per month. 945 Indiana. 1493 Bell. 88-5
BOARDING CLUB—Men and women
1209 Oread. Bell Phone 251-846-2781
846-2781
LOST—Dark blue woolen sash, about four feet long, Wednesday, between 116 Indiana and Fraser. Call Miss Nutt, Bell 295. 89-1
LOST-Pair of tortoise rim noseglasses in black case, Saturday. Reward. Call Huntsman, Bell 20955.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. M. L. CHAMBERS, General Practice
40, 6400 Houses and office phone,
6000 Houses and office phone,
G. W JONES, A. M. M. D. Disease of
G. W JONES, A. M. M
DR. H. REDING, F. A., U. Building fitted.
Hours 9 to 2. Both phones 513
C. E. ORBLUP M. M. Specialist—Eye,
1700, Dick Building.
CLASSIFIED
KEILER'S BOOK STORE. 239 Mass
writers and school supplies. Paper by
writer and school supplies. Paper by
Printing
B. H. DALE, Artistic job printing
Both phones 228, 1027 Mass.
Shoe Shop
FORNEY SHOE SHOP - 1017 Mass. St.
forneyshop.com a mistake. All work
guaranteed.
WE MAKE OLD SHORES INTO NEW
places to get results. 1342 Ohio St
WILSON'S
The Popular Drug Store Toilet Articles
A. G. ALRICH
Good Things to Eat and Drink
Printing, Binding, Engraving
K Books, Loose Leaf Supplies
Formatting Inks,
Typewritten Papers, Boxer Stamps.
744 Mass. St.
Remember
SCHULZ
makes clothes
You can find him at
917 Mass. St.
Remember
We are long on Slide-rules and Theme Paper.
If you are short come down.
CARTERS
Stationery & Typewriters
CONKLIN PENS
are sold at
McCulloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
Citizens State Bank
Deposits Guaranteed
The University Bank
Why Not Carry Your Account Here?
Dick Bros.. Druggists
A trade so large that our stock is always pure and fresh. We want to know K. U. men and women better. The cars stop—sth and Mass.
Sam Clarke Says: Practical economy is
everywhere evident in the new Spring Woolens which I now have on display. I have no stock of ready mades to carry over. You get this saving when ordering of me.
Eldridge Hotel Bldg
BOWERSOCK
TODAY
TUESDAY
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"NINETY AND NINE."
This is a REAL PROPOSITION
Your clothes taken care of during the entire second semester—
CLEANED PRESSED REPAIRED
all for $5.00
A suit a week until the end of school.
LAWRENCE PANTATORIUM
Tailors, Cleaners, Dyers, Hatters.
W. 9th St.
Both Phones 5C
Fischer's shoes are good shoes
Something
New In
Shoes
Here is a real "Barry" model with snap and distinction in every
line, thoroughly made of a material which wears and looks well.
It's a new shade of Mahogany Brown, made on their new "Segar" last. Ask to see them.
OTTO FISCHER
Same styles in Black Calfskin, $6.
Through Prehistoric America on your SantaFe Way to sunny california
Call or write
W. W. BURNETT Agent, A.T. & S.F. Ry Lawrence, Kansas.