UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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The Daily Kaukaa aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University, and more than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University values. To be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be compassionate; to be watered; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1919.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
Another days work and the big percentage of University students will be on their way to the old home town for the Christmas holidays. For two weeks studies will be completely forgotten as they mail around again with the old crowd.
It will be a pleasant feeling to come down off the Hill Friday without any assignments for the following Monday. No matter how lonesome it has been since those first days in September when we stood in line in front of Robinson gymnasium and no matter how hard the work has been since then, it has been worth it all now to drop it altogether for a few days while we relax in the old home town atmosphere.
The old home town looks better than it did to us last summer. For want of anything better to do we used to remark that it was a dead place and not fit for anyone with ambition. It was clothed with familiarity and we wanted a change. But that was three months ago. After tomorrow, not all the text books in the Library nor all the professors in the University could keep us away from the old home town over the holidays. Regardless of what we thought three mohta age we now eagerly are waiting for the train that takes us back to the place of our folks and our real friends. For the old home town is the only sensible place to spend the Christmas holidays
IN DARKEST MILWAUKEE
It doesn't seem possible that any man should be running for congress today on a platform demanding the continuance of German schools, German newspapers and societies and foreign schools in general, making speeches in German and denouncing American participation in the war. Neither does it seem possible that a congressman convicted of violating the espionage act and unseated on the charges of general disloyalty should have the nerve to run for congress again. Yet Victor Berger of Milwaukee is doing this.
Let no one however be too quick to pass judgment on Milwaukee for allowing Berger to get away with it for there is another side of the picture.
Berge's opponent is a fusion candidate, supported by both democrats and republicans. These two parties more at swords points in most parts of the country than they have been for some years have united in common cause in Milwaukee in order to defeat the combined forces of pro-Germanism and socialism. And they will win. So it will be found everywhere, when once the issue is raised between Americanism and alienism.
Let it also be observed that Berger's opponent bears the name of Bodenstad. The fact that a man of such antecedents as that name indicates stands forth as the chosen champion of Americanism, and trusted implicitly by citizens of non-German ancestry, is striking in itself that hyphenation is on its last legs in its last American stronghold.-Milwaukee.
THE ROAD TO JERICHO
One is always inclined to make facetious remarks when a man in public office takes his doll rags and goes home. He should have learned before accepting the position that life is not a one-sided game.
But the average citizen finds himself commending Dr. Garfield's attitude in regard to the settlement of the coal strike. His resignation is the expression of principle based upon special study of the various phases of the problem. He believes that the President's adjustment will raise the price to the consumer, though it will afford immediate relief, and he is quite sure that the hydra will continue to lift its numerous heads at every opportunity.
And the average citizen feels that this is the time when the monster might have been mastered once and for all. His heart crys out because of the general suffering, and he may have to pay, oftimes, a terrible personal price. But that is poor business, whatever the cost, to push aside decisive action when the hour has come. The average citizen fought through the world war, whether he was at the front, or kept the home fires burning, to make the world safe for democracy. He knows that America can be safe for nobody as long as so small a per cent of our people—oustored, self-governing people—can plunge the whole country into such unpardonable distress.
We may saw our own wood and dig cur our own coal, but the real necessity is to save our national government. There is no one so small among us that he can afford to "pass by on the other side."
Mental Lapses
"Let's go over to the Fine Arts uilding."
"(What am I?"
"I want to see the apple butter." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Evidently Not—Bless—"Somebody passed a counterfeit on Bob a year ago, and he hasn't been able to rid of it, since."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Maiden Aunt (horrified)—“What Does that young man never go to church, then?”—St. Paul Dispatch.
As the Poet Might Now Remark We are living, we are living.
In a grand and awful time!
And a quarter we are giving
For things not worth a dime!
—(Windset) BORDER Cities Sta.
These Changed Times."—I hear your son is determined to marry an actress."
Multitudinous Brain Fag—"You don't mean to tell me you ever doubt the wisdom of the majority?"
"Permit me to console with you."
"Condole? That stuff's out of date. Why, she makes $10,000 in the movies." -Fittsburg Sun.
Canny Finance—A man from the north of Scotland was on holiday in Glasgow. On Sunday evening he was walking along Argilr街 when he came upon a contingent of the Salvation Army, and a collection-bag was thrust in front of his nose. He draped a penny into it.
"Well," responded Senator Sorghum with deliberation, "what is a majority? In many instances it is only a large number of people who have got tired out trying to think for themselves and have decided to accept somebody else's opinion." Washington Star.
"Really?" said the lazs. "That was very good of you. But, then, you do a good thing too often. And do a bad thing too often. Lord will repay you a hundredfold."
Turning up Queen Street, he encountered another contingent of the Salvation Army, and again a smiling boy collection a bag-location in front of him.
"Na, na!" he said. "I gied a penny tae a aquad o' your folk room' the corner just the noo."
"Aweel," said the cautious Scot, "we'll just wait till the first transaction's fenished before we start the second."-London Tit-Bits.
And yet they passed him quietly by.
With an unknowing, level stare;
They met him with an abstract eye
As if he were the nit.
HE DID NOT KNOW
He did no know that he was dead;
He walked along the quiet street,
Smiled, tiped his hat, nodded his head.
To his friends he chanced to meet.
"Some sorry thing has come to pass."
The dead man I thought; he hurried home.
And found his wife before her glass,
Dallying with a comb.
He found his wife all dressed in black.
He kissed her mouth, he stroked her head.
"Met act so strange since I've come back From over there," he said.
She spoke no word; she only smiled.
But now he heard her say his name,
and saw her study, grief-beguilt.
His picture in a frame.
Then he remembered that black night And the great shell burat, wide and red
The sudden plunging into light;
And knew that he was dead—Harris)
Kemp in the Century Magazine.
Jayhawks Flown
Mice Alice Vorg, A. M. 18, has been sent to the Uduciul School of Ceylon, India, for three years, according to a letter just received by Dean F. J. Kelly from Miss Lui G. Bookwalters, head of the Uduciul School, who also received her master's degree from the University.
News of Alumni and Former Students
The Uducil school is under the English government. Miss Vogt's work will be the standardization of the English school work and a comparison of their standing with the American schools.
Mr. Ray Swarner, c18, who has been with the Nash automobile sales department since leaving the army service has accepted a position with the Hudson Motor Company, and make headquarters in Kansas City. He was a guest at the Kanza fraternity Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Miton Heath, c17, who has just been discharged from the navy after two years service is visiting at the Naval Hospital and he has devastated regions of France and Belgium for the past six months on the Hoover Commission. Mr. Heath was also on the committee which in charge equipped the equipment of the air service.
Media McCheeney, c'19, and Maureen Wood of Topeka were guests at the Alpha Chi Omega house Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Stanley B. Nelson, c17, is now director general of public works in San Domingo Republic.
Capt. Forest Record, e'17, who has just returned from Panama Canal Zone was discharged last week and has accepted a position in one engineering department of the Packard Motor Company in Detroit.
Dorothy Brown, A. B. '17, of Jopin,
Mo., visited her sister Helen
Brown, c20, at the Pi Phi house Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Victor Bottomly announce the arrival of a baby boy whom they have named Heath Bottony. Mr. Botbottomy received his LL. B in '15, and was a member of Betta Theta Pi fraternity.
"Unquestionably," answered Mr. Mecketon. "My smoking has done terrible damage to the parlorCTRLs and my wife in the car." —Washington Star,
Mr. Fred Soper, A. B. '16, A. M. '17, spent Monday at the Acomas house. Mr. Soper received his M. D. from Rush Medical College, Chicago a year ago. Since that time he has attended Hospital in Chicago. He is being sent to Brazil by the Rockefeller fund, and will start on the trip January 18.
"Dou you regard tobacco as injurious?"
Mrs. Florence Finch Kelley, c'81, is the author of an article on "The Menace of Socialism" in the Yale Review for January.
A 100 per cent Golfer="Well, you should be thankful your husband can't play golf at night," said the asymptotic neighbor to a golf wold.
Judge J. E. Little, '195, recently resigned as judge of the district court at Colorado Springs, Col., after 16 years of judicial service in various courts of El Paso County. He became a member of the Supreme Court. The attorney Shoup of Colorado has appointe Arthur Comfort, '82 to fill the vavcy.
Mr. Stuart Henry, 'e31, has written a novel "Villa Elsa" published by the Century Book Company.
"I don't know about that," she replied. "He can talk about it at night." --Detroit Free Press.
Oread Dictaphone
Every day it records the answers of five persons who have been asked a single question. : : :
Why did you come to K. U? Where And where
Question:
Gladys Jordan—I wanted to get my education in the best school available in Kansas. In looking over the courses of study of the various colleges, I chose those of the University of Kansas the best and decided to come here.
Answers:
Second Floor Fraser.
Lillian Swanson—I came to K. U.
so that I might have my degree from
this institution.
D. M. Mann—I came to K. U. because I believed that here I could get training that would aid me in my work.
Elva McMullen—I came to the University because I wanted a big school with big ideas. I thought this school offered such. The Fine Arts course I thought was about the university state, that being my special interest.
Ruth Truml—I came to K. U., because it was the State University, and would therefore have the best of equipment, though, so that students thought, "so that she would mean more to me and to others than a degree from any other of the schools." Also, the University offered strong courses in the branches
Harold Jette—I came to the University in an endeavor to obtain the best training that I could get. I also studied at a university which offered exceptional courses. I also had the desire to become the proud possessor of a degree from dear old Harold.
OUR CRIPPLED AIR SERVICE
Of special value, in view of the tension at present existing in our relations with Mexico, was the testimony given yesterday before the House subcommittee on the crippled state of American aviation by Brig. General Mitchell, a director of military aertenances. Outstanding features of his testimony were: The fact that only 965 fliers remain in the Army out of a total during the war of more than 150,000; the lack of modern planes for the use of the Army; and the fact that the United States would in all probability have to rely for new planes on British and French manufacturers. According to General Mitchell, the United States, since the close of the war, had fallen so far behind the leading European Powers in respect to aviation, that it take many years of earnest effort to overcome the handicap if now faces.
Brigadier General Mitchell's evidence corroborated by other complement witnesses, furnishes a striking commentary on the completeness with with War Department inefficiency, and the parsimony of Congress have crippled the air service of the Army. The needs of the air service for the Army are met by $80,000,000, and Congress has appropriated for its use but $25,000,000, a sum barely sufficient to maintain even a skeleton organization. The essential facts relating to the scraping of the air service are in the possession of Congress and the War Department. To remedy a situation which is so vital related to national defence by making adequate provisions, this report is one of the first duties of the present Congress—Boston Transcript.
DEAD LETTER LAWS
Senator Poindexter of Washington has introduced a drastic measure for the suppression of Bolshevism and the killing of Soviet agents if passed it would rid the country of these evils. But would it? More than two years ago, early in 1917 an alien anarchist exclusion act was passed—the veto of the President, by the way—and has been in force since then. The violations of this law allow anarchists could be prevented from entering the country, and those within the country could be deported, but since the passage of this act anarchists and revolutionaries have flocked into the country more before and though hundreds of them have been arrested, most of them have been set free without judicial process, and very few have been deported. The reason is simple; the law has not been enforced. Men high in authority under the present Admiral Lunin have been forced to set it aside on their own responsibility, and have encouraged the anarchists and other dangerous radicals to believe that it would not be and was never intended to be enforced. Of what use then to pass new legislation or archely? Is there any guarantee, any reason whatsoever, to hope that Senator Poindexter's proposed law would be more seriously regarded? Of the need of such laws there is no question, but before enacting new ones let us have an enforcement of those laws. If the police do not see the deportation of several hundred undesirable aliens under the 1917 law as an earnest that the authorities do intend to enforce the laws. Otherwise it were folly to load the war machine with dead prisoners for criminals to laugh at.—Springfield Union.
PROSCRIPTION FOR ASIATICS
PROSCRIPTION FOR ASIATICS
Senator Jones of Washington proposes an amendment which would deny citizenship to persons born in the United States, themselves invisible to citizenship. That such an amendment could receive the assent of three-fourths of the states, even to withhold civic rights from American-born Chinese and Japanese, is unimaginable. The organization under the American system was that of slavery, and that was wiped out long ago. Even the attempt of some Southern states to confer preferential rights under American law was shortlisted. That it matters very little what a man's father was, but that it matters a great deal what a man is himself, is an American principle that means a great deal more than may be apparent at the first glance, or modifying it, even in a small way.
If the children born in this country of Chinese or Japanese parents are not what they ought to be, the fault lies in the teacher's excellent subject to which to apply the effective agencies of Americanization—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"Now, Gerald. I hope you are not to go marry a mere parlor ornament. In other words, I hope the girl is going to be a girl who can do something."
"She's that, all right. Why, that girl can roll a cigarette better than I can."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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