UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 6,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY MAY, 6, 1919
Unsettled; showers in eastern and southern portions tonight; cooler Wednesday.
WHY DELAY THE MEMO-
RIAL?
The Senate Memorial Committee has decided to wait until next fall to decide upon a fitting memorial for the University of Kansas men who gave all in the recent war. The memorial is a vital matter and one which should be decided now while public opinion is asking for a memorial. The University may decide what memorial they want, but the outsiders will have to pay for it.
The men who died for their country did not put off their job until a later date when they would be in a little better condition. Winning the war was of vital importance to them. We could not do that, but we can and should erect a fitting memorial to them and do so shortly.
Opinion is becoming more divided on what the most suitable memorial would be every day. The form of memorial should be decided upon immediately and opinion in Lawrence and at the University would soon be working to get it through instead of being split on the kind of a memorial to have.
Lilacs and bridal wreath make good buttonhole bouquets, but the most popular lapel flower 'is a blue round disc with a white V on it.
There is one consolation in being called before the Disciplinary Committee. It is a quick way to get acquainted with the notables of the University Senate.
WHAT ABOUT THE PHILIP-
PINES?
The assurance by President Wilson to the forty Filipino delegates that independence of the Philippine Islands is almost in sight, brings forth much comment concerning the advisability of the United States severing political connections with her eastern-most frontier. The American people are definitely pledged to grant ultimate independence to the islands, but the general opinion is that the Philippines must first give satisfactory evidence that they can maintain self-government.
Reasons why the Filipinos wish to be severed from the United States do not seem to be generally understood. A relatively small number of the native races living on the island of Luzon have shown ability for self-government, but these are the superior races of the islands and must be contrasted with other tribes who live in a condition of barbarian. Thus the argument presented by opponents of
Philippine independence that Filipino government would in a short time be destroyed by civil wars seems more effective as far as immediate results are concerned than the contention that the islands would be absorbed by Japan.
Since it has hitherto been a policy of the Democratic party to advocate early independence for the Philippines, the time when independence arrives will probably depend somewhat upon the party in power for the next few years.
In any event the step is an important one and should be carefully considered from every point of view. The progress of the Philippines, socially, politically, and in business, as the Minneapolis Tribune points out, has been remarkable in the last twenty years, but has been due largely to the protection and counsel of Uncle Sam. Furthermore, in the last four years, especially, the Filipines have been enjoying a large measure of self-government and the bond of connection with the United States has not proved disagreeable in any way.
If the United States decides to grant freedom of government to the islands it would seem wise that the independence be on the same basis as that of Cuba. Thus the control of the new government in regard to foreign relations would be retained by the United States, and the principal danger of the new island government would be eliminated.
With the war tax on luxurious soda fountain products, it is not as easy as formerly to say, "What'll you have?"
According to the result of the debate Friday night K. U. should encourage the development of woman debaters.
ANOTHER WAY TO PESTER
BOOMIE
Ask your room mate to spell the following ten words: repellent, collectible, pienicking, inoculate, consensus, inferred, sacrilegious, dissipate, bibilite and vilify.
If roomie spells seven of the ten correctly he makes a high record. A professor at the University of Minnesota, in testing ninety normal students with the words, found that the best spellers were correct in only seven of the ten.
A blow up in a hash-house game is becoming more common than a blow-out while riding in a Ford car.
Pennies don't count in this day and age, according to the student who said every time you pay six cents for a coke you waste a dime.
Soon will be announced the winners of the honorary scholarship fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. With this announcement will come the usual query regarding the value of such attainment.
After all, how else can a real man be judged except by his result, his output? Can the impartial criticism justify himself when he uses this viewpoint?
IS IT SOUR GRAPES?
Loud may be the cries of many students that the object of a broad education is lost if one takes the required steps for the winning of a Phi Beta Kappa key. Whether this argument is real reasoning or just an allied amounts to little, however, in the long run. The opponent of this scholarship system, because of the evidence submitted must admit that the wearers of the key are to be found in all the important walks of life. He sees them flashing on the captains of industry, the noted scientists, Wall street giants, diplomats and statesmen.
Engineers are not so afraid of women after all according to the report that they will serve at the Engineers' Banquet.
A downtown reporter accused the Board of Administration of coming here to investigate the one time famous shimmy.
All communications to this column must be written by the signer as evidence. If no signature is given, the name may be used if the author specifies. Communications are welcome.
Campus Opinion
The University is doing the school one of the worst turns it can by not giving the men who were in the S.A. T.C. and U.S.N.R.F. their subsistence money. Someone has it and proper investigation should be made before the men leave school this spring.
Editor Daily Kansan:-
The men who were here last fall and were crooked out of their money will never return to the University of Kansas if they are looking for fair play. It gives one a bad feeling toward K.U. and when you think of the dirty way in which someone played the men you regret that it was allowed at the school you called yours.
A loyal student will not say a word about his school life he cannot give it a boost. If things are not cleared up here shortly there will be a lot of K.U. students remain silent on the University this summer.
"Dad" Elliot's coming to K.U. was locked on as one of the important events of the school. But does it still remain so in the estimation of the student body? To the question as to what did you see when you glanced at the almost inevitable answer, "I guess they were all right but they were to radical for K.U."
Editor Daily Kansan-
Fair Play
Although "Dad" Elliott said that he was speaking of general conditions at Universities in the middle class, another other schools are similar to our own.
Many Y.M.C.A. men have a habit of painting up conditions in a worse light than they really are in order that they may start the individual thinking. This is not the kind of an appeal that has the maximum effect upon the student body.
How many students really dance the shimmy and how many know what it really is? About every two or three years a new step is started which causes considerable excitement for a few months and then it blows over.
It seems the athletic conditions were exaggerated. Where two or three men are seriously impaired on account of athletics, there are probably several thousand others who benefit from their training.
It seems strange too in our University that any one would want any political office if the votes had to be bought.
The appeal to the University student would have far greater effect if it was presented in a less exaggerated manner and the student attitude toward important questions would be more sincere.
Basil Church
Editor Daily Kansan:—
Surely the honorable senate committee, sanguine as it may be, cannot hope to change human nature to such an extent as to induce the student, especially the mate student, to spend his time at such a place. The average man, when he wants to leaf to Goe's Lee or Brie's Leo, he can smooch him as loud as he can when he wishes to study he goes to his room or to Spooner; and when he desires amusement, he goes to a movie or pool-hall.
The chairman of the senate memorial committee announces in Thursday's Kansan that it may be six months before final decision is rendered with regard to the memorial for the K. U, student who died in France. Is it proper that this question should be postponed until the students are absorbed in the petty issues and activities of peace? It is common knowledge on the hill that the committee were almost unanimously in favor of a student commons until the memorial number of a certain campus publication was published advocating a stadium, in opposition to the senate's idea of a cafeteria and general meeting place for students, such as has proved such a failure at Missouri.
the committee of visiting alumni, representatives of the body who will furnish most of the money for the erection of a memorial, and who therefore should have the final decision about this proposition, reported favorably on a stadium at the same time that the senate committee first met to consider the same problem. The committee has never seriously considered a stadium, although both the majority of the student body and the alumni are in favor of it.
Herb Little.
It is evident that those most concerned in' the commons proposition have engineered this delay, so that even though the government will, while they saw commons propaganda.
"WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?"
With the academically dead and dying scattered untidily all over The Hill, the cause of good scholarship is shedding a discrete tear just behind the scenes. Causes and albis for "busting," and probabilities are more plentiful than ever, but none answer the damning question of Cornell has been guilty of intellectual slovenness during the past term.
There have been few citations in the orders of Davy for conspicuous action in the academic field of honor. But the casualty list is lengthy.
The fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-gimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster.
In the final analysis, the blame for academic casualties rests almost entirely with the student. It is easy to argue successfully against this conclusion, but the argument convinces no one but the individual concerned. There is a vast deal of intellectual deadwood and rubbish, desecrating the upper stories of many Cornellians.
Spring time is the time for house-cleaning. With the impetus given by the faculty in cleaning out a large number of near-brainless wonders, and students who failed to climb the academic grade, a mental house-cleaning of every individual should be easy.
The suffering reason is on deck—Cornell harbors no intellectual derelicts. In this best of all possible worlds, it becomes necessary for the college student to organize himself mentally for the trials and tribulations of the coming term, else the battle-scarred survivors of this term's finals be but a handful of bespectacled highbrows.
The job of a University is education. So get it.—From the Cornell Daily Sun.
SAMBO ASTONISHED
Sambo, a busky warrior in the American army, had only recently landed, and was comparing London with New York. He paused before a shop-window full of watches. His gaze became fixed on a very shiny watch on a velvet cushion, on which was pinned a card bearing the words, "This watch will go for eight days without winding."
sambo pondered, and then walked straight into the shop: "Say boss, will you tell me how long dat darn watch will go if you do wind it up?"—Tit-Bits.
KEEP YOUR INSURANCE
Discharged soldiers are failing to realize the advantages of continuing their Government insurance, taken out while they were in the service. There can be no question that the rates are below those charged by private companies; the difficult ones in ordinary carrying the duties of any kind. They fail to see the value in keeping up their policies.
Notwithstanding the organized efforts made in camps prior to discharging the men, to induce them to continue their insurance after their return to civilian life, policies are being allowed to lapse. Records of the Bureau of War Bisk Inspection Washington have left least half of the men who took out insurance are dropping out as they leave the service.
University students are at an age when they should take out some form of life insurance. Never was there an opportunity like this to get a policy so well adapted to the means of students. Most of us spend more money foolishly each month than would be required to pay the premium on a several-thousand-dollar policy. Think twice before forfeiting this opportunity.
In view of the desirability of every young man of an age to have been in the service carrying insurance in some form, a nation-wide movement designed to remind soldiers of the importance of retaining their Government insurance is to be inaugurated. The organization will center in Washington, but each state will have a director to check up on the local posts within the state. To induce men who have forfeited their policies thereby failure to keep up monthly premiums, to get back in the period of illness, has been increased from two to six months after discharge, merely on the written statement of the man concerned that his physical condition is good.
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