UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 19,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief...Mary I. Saimon
Honorary Editor...Mary I. Saimon
News Editor...Rebecca Hollis
P. T. Editor...Ferdinand Gottlieb
Sports Editor...John Montgomery
Sports Editor...John Montgomery
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of its students, further than merely printing the news by standing for the idea. Students are no favors; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to have problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the best of University.
MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919.
ATHLETICS SACRIFICES TO WAR GOD
The University gave its athletic stars to the service. The students gave their interest to war work. That was war.
The armies are in process of demobilization. Athletes are returning to the gridiron and the diamond. The interest of the students is turning again to phases of University life. This is reconstruction.
The weakening of K. U.'s athletic machine was merely a sacrifice to the god of war. There was no let-down in the spirit of the men. Pep went the same way, and not because the morale of the students was so strong as to the condition of the University, for normal conditions are certain to return.
Everyone knows the patriotism of KU. students. In every war they have volunteered, and comparing recent athletic achievements, in apparently larger numbers than at the schools. The state's institutions, past and present, are drawn by the fact that between letter men will return for football next season.
No, conditions aren't alarming at all. Kansas merely did its bit, and a big bit it was too. The present agitation for better athletic teams shows that the student spirit is also coming back. Next fall will show.
A THREE-FOURTHS VOTE
Considering the variety and brilliance of colors this spring, the sweaters on the Hill can no longer be classed merely as things to wear. They are things to hear.
In the past, many measures have passed the student body and become incorporated into the policy of the University, by a bare majority vote. A two-thirds vote has always been considered a big majority.
The Senate in considering the proposed plan for the honor system, approved it almost unanimously, but decided that it could not be introduced into the University of Kansas unless three-fourths of the entire University expressed themselves as favoring the system.
In the past it has been a pretty hot political election that drew 75 per cent of the students to the polls, and unless K. U. is wide awake enough to realize just what the honor system means and is willing to express its conviction by voting, the thing is undoubtedly going to fail through.
The Senate, however, realizes that a movement like this cannot be a success unless a large majority of the students are backing it enthusiastically. A large minority of students could easily keep the honor system from working, even if the majority of the people at K. U. voted to install it
The sentiment is undoubtedly for an honor system now. The few students who are not in favor of it admit that they knew little about the way in which it works. These people will have a chance to become informed at the next morning convoitation.
When the vote is finally taken, the number of people who turn out to
vote will prove definitely whether K. U. has enough of the old spirit to take advantage of a good thing when it is offered.
Freshmen are a bit slow with their room rent and board bill this month. They are the victims of numerous commencement invitations from the hometown friends.
Wet weather dampens the spirit but cures the spring fever.
WHAT KANSAS DID IN THE WAR
The history of Michigan is being written by two K. U. graduates. All the civil activities, as well as the military operations of Michigan, will be recorded for all time in this document.
Kansas has a vast amount of material of this state in the world war. Thousands of documents have been read, acknowledged and filed away until a future legislation makes an appropriation which will make it possible to compile from them a history of Kansas in the war.
The last legislature refused to make the appropriation of $1,500 which was asked of it, and the work is now waiting until some future legislature or some private organization furnishes the necessary funds.
It looks pretty bad for Kansas when K. U, men go to Michigan to write a history of that state's work in the war, while Kansas, who has done equally as much in supporting every war activity, lets her material remain unread. It is a case for the Kansas Historical Society to investigate immediately.
it seems that when Postmaster-General Burleson took hold of the wires he got alive one by mistake.
THE ISOLATION OF RUSSIA
Russia is the only great nation not represented at the Peace Conference. She wonders at it, for her participation in the early stages of the war was brilliant, resulting in the saving of Paris and possibly England from invasion by the Germans. Her present isolation is due to her idea that popular government can be brought about through anarchism.
This fallacy was planted in the minds of the ignorant peasants by the Germans to end Russia's participation in the war. Not only was this accomplished, but all of Russia's industry was stopped and her credit with foreign nations cut off.
Now that the war is over, Russia still remains a political outcast with Bolshhevism feared and loathed by all civilized nations. It's time Russia started her political spring house-cleaning.
The person who calls you before you are up in the morning to remind you of the committee meeting at noon is not a real friend.
A hospital fight is being waged in Lawrence between the city and the Presbyterian Church which promises to result in the erection of a new modern, up-to-date hospital for Lawrence. The entire disagreement is about who to build the hospital: the city of Lawrence or the Presbyterian brotherhood.
LAWRENCE HOSPITAL WAR
The city has a project for a municipal institution with an option on fig-proof, water-heated, twenty-room hospital that can be put into operation on short notice. This project has the approval of the city health commissioner, the city nurse and the unanimous backing of the Social Service League, which has pioneered in that line of work in Lawrence.
The battle outlook at present may be outlined as follows:
The Presbyterians have a plan for a new $100,000 hospital and they promise that the foundation will be laid before winter. The exact site for this building has not been announced yet, but it will be out of the business district on the pavements where it will be easily accessible. After a meeting of the Douglas County Medical Association, every doctor pledges himself to support the plan of the Presbyterian Hospital, and urged that the city take over the plan for the new $100,000 hospital.
The outcome of the battle is yet indeterminate, but at any rate it seems that Lawrence will perhaps get the long needed city hospital from one of the two sources.
Campus Opinion
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Just because of the unfortunate Hopfer-Shaw-Cajcone affair which was dragged into the criminal courts of the state, several members of the freshman class of the University are taking solace in the belief that the state officials will protect them from the upperclassmen, and are refusing to wear the distinctive headgear of their class.
Two names were reported yesterday, one, that of Harry Turner, has been turned in twice and yet he refuses to wear his cap. He says that he, too, is not a freshman. That statement is untrue and ridiculous. And then, the Mr. Turner was a candidate for the presidency of the freshman class.
The cap tradition has been in effect at the University many years. Every other freshman class has complied with the rules or has suffered the consequences of being paddled by the upperclassmen. The upperclassmen demand that the rule of the Intermediate field. This can be done by the repeal of the senate rule against paddling. If the freshmen know that they will be met at the top of the Hill by a number of upperclassmen, armed with paddles, not a one of them will forget his little head gear. More than this if the University includes away from the Red Line in the best way to begin is to repeal the senate rule and let the erring freshmen get what is in store for them on the Hill.
To the Daily Kansan;—
J. L. W.
Memorial Comment
Editor Daily Kansan:
Some of the advocates of a Commons as a memorial, are holding up the lack of interest in recent athletic events, as an argument against the stadium. I think this is a mistake. If you take into consideration some of the causes for lack of interest in athletics, you will agree with me that this is a good argument for a stadium.
The war disorganized competitive athletics as it did all other forms of college activities. Schedules were shifted; midnight rallies, nightshirt parades, and convocations were a minus quantity, giving rise to a lack of interest as part of the students. Football, the first and by far the greatest drawing card of all college athletics was greatly restricted, and the best athletes taken away because of military work. School pep and spirit were stifled at the very outset, therefore making them up among the students in the later and less attractive athletic events. This cause of course is common to all schools.
Another reason, and the one upon which I wish to base my argument, is that aside from the athletes on the field, there is nothing to attract the students. Ao look out over MeCook field and view those ugly, wooden stands, would make any student downhearted. The war has caused a contempt for anything ugly and rotten, and we offer for the beautiful and strong. Most anything besides the memory of barracks and smoke covered battlefields, will do a great deal toward working up interest in athletic sports.
It isn't because we haven't any school spirit, but it is because our interests are being misdirected. Certainly there is a great deal of interest taken in social events. A little competition and a Rock Chalk between dances, and we would have worlds of pep. We do not need any more floor space for social gatherings. What knows we have enough people, that is, humid, and now is the time to concentrate our attentions toward it. The athletic field as well as the home, must be made attractive, or the prodigal will not return.
Brya Mwang college for women in Pennsylvania has a new course in employment management end supervision. It is a practical training in some special line of manufacture, and we are ready to go from this course in February, and were ready to go into factories as employment managers. This course was taken in close cooperation with large employers who recognize the need for vocational educational system to meet the organization problems in business.
An Interested Student.
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I hate writing letters.
I hate the paper and the spluttery old fountain-pen or dull, slippery, snubnosed pencil.
I hate the things they make me say and the things they let me forget to say.
I hate the beautiful sentences and rounded periods that slip away and dissolve into mist when I try to write them down.
I hate the choppy sentences and misbegetten English that I really do put down.
I hate the misunderstandings and false impressions my letters cause.
I hate the date, the superscription, the address, the body and all upper and neither and other parts of the letter.
I hate the feeling of stupidity and incompetence that comes over me every time I see a piece of writing-paper.
I hate knowing that I should have written the letter long ago.
I love to get letters.
I hate writing letters. But above all—I hate myself for hating to write letters.
I love the anticipatory thrill when the bundle blows mail-call.
I love even the sergeant when he calls off my name.
I love the feel of the letter before it is opened—the stamp—the postmark—the ink—the blury marks made by the cancelling machine.
I love tearing the envelope ope, neatly at one end.
I love the visions and dreams that are invoked by the letter.
I love all the little clippings and oles and notices that come dropping
I love the slanting lines and the in-between lines.
I love the lack of date upon the letter.
I love the beginning and the end and the whole in-betweens of the letter.
I have getting letters. But above all,
I love the girl who writes me the
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And Also These:
The college educated man of today is under an obligation to the world. The world is in an unprecedented condition of disorganization, unrepair, and desolation, and it devilves on men in general and college men in particular to bring it back to its normal status and again start it on the road leading to a higher and better civilization. And it is particularly our task because our advantages in education fit us to realize the work in the hope of unborn billions for several generations to come. Posterity will call us to strict account. If we enjoy the opportunities and advantages of a college training then let us be sure that our conscience can never call us "slacker."—The Tar Heel, North Carolina.
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