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JANUARY 28,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
of Kansas
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1919.
TO TAX STUDENT HOMES?
A bill offered in the Kansas state legislature providing for the taxation of property of fraternities and sororities was defeated in the House of Representatives by a vote of 64 to 42. The proposed legislation aroused a storm of opposition in the colleges and universities of the state, not only among fraternity men and women alone, but among non-fraternity students as well.
In normal times the case for taxing fraternities is weak enough. Fraternities and sororities are only social and economic organizations that enable students to live more cheaply and with better advantages. They give room for the growth of the normal tendency to group life. The state has consistently neglected the existence of such a tendency in its failure to build dormitories and student rooming houses.
As a result fraternities have supplied the need. They promote interests of the University, and, rightly considered, are nothing if not a part of the university itself. They are not profit making organizations. Their aim in the economic sense is the provision of better and cheaper homes for the students.
To tax them would mean to their eight or nine hundred students at the University of Kansas a substantial increase in living expenses. The proposed action would make harder the way of those who are trying to get the advantages of social contact along with their academic education.
The justification for taxing fraternities now is even more shadowy. The fraternities are in unsettled conditions. They have given their men in large numbers to the army. The abnormal conditions of absence of members and high prices have made their life very precarious.
Whep the men are beginning to return to college it would scarcely be a flattering recognition of their services to single out their school homes as objects of special taxation. It would be a small reward for the returning students to have their living expenses increased after their patriotic actions had occasioned their withdrawal from school and a corresponding neglect of fraternity finances.
The House of Representatives, in rejecting the proposition, acted wisely, not in the interests of a special class, but in the interests of fraternal organizations all over the state, as fraternities stand in the same relation to college activities as more general fraternal societies stand in regard to the public.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Suggestions have been made to build reservoirs to lessen the danger of floods in Kansas during high water. The University is fortunate indeed to be placed on a hill where overflow of the drinking water in campus buildings can not form a flood, so that such precautions are unnecessary.
REMEMBER THE WOUNDED
This time last year the war was at its darkest stage. Our boys were either sailing or about to sail for France. The Germans were hitting hard and steadily. The outcome was uncertain; But we would not lose heart, and we dared not slack in the little things which we who stayed at home were able to do. We were helping in any way we could. Classes were formed for the purpose of making compresses for the wounded or knitting socks and sweaters for the fighters.
Then came the turn of the tide. Our allied forces beat back the enemy and swept them out of France with deadly swiftness, but at terrific cost. The end came and we celebrated—and ceased our work.
But we have not yet reached the end. Our work did not stop with the signing of the armistice. There are the wounded to care for. Perhaps the convalescing soldiers here and over there do not need the heavy woolen socks or the purred sweater, helmet, or wristlet, but they do need soft easy slippers, crocheted or knitted, while they lie so long waiting for the stubborn wound to heal.
This comfort of these wounded men depends upon us. It takes only one half day to crochet a pair of comfy slippers. There are at least one thousand women enrolled in the University of Kansas. One thousand pairs of feet can be made comfortable and one thousand men reminded that the women of America have not forgotten them.
Those men finished their work—let the women at home finish theirs.
The pessimistic student says that whenever he is not feeling good and his appetite is gone, somebody is certain to ask him into a drug store to have a banana split.
FILL A MUCH FELT WANT
Plans for a student directory this year have been made by Men's Student Council, and if University authorities approve, a book will be published. The year and a half the University has without a timely student and faculty directory has shown the need of such a publication.
Under present conditions ready access to the addresses and telephone numbers of fellow students is impossible, and inconvenience results. The numerous requests for such information at the office of the registrar increase the work of that office.
While agreeing that a student directory is needed, some persons object that it is not practical this year because there will be many changes at the end of the second quarter. Although there will be some changes, they will be comparatively few, and do not constitute sufficient cause to reject the publication of a directory when its advantages are considered
The lateness in the year will require swife work in compiling material for the directory, but the Student Council has made detailed plans for getting out the book promptly, and is waiting only on consent to publish it. It is reasonable to expect that consent will be given and a much-felt need, of both students and faculty will be filled.
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. —O. W. Holmes.
"The Daily Maroon" tells us that an S. A. T. C. student holds the record of pulling as many degrees from the University of Chicago in as many months. The degrees are A. W. O. L., K. P., and C. M.
Readable Verse
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
He who has the vision sees more than you or 1;
HE WHO HAS VISION
you or 1;
He who lives the golden dream lives
He who lives the golden dream lives
fearfully thou.
You know what he said and what you had to
hoots assail his thought.
Yet, as he looked at her,
tournid thereby;
Time may scout and world may laugh
But the vistomary came ere the build ers wrought:
ers wrought;
For the toes, touches the down, are
Ere the tower bestrode the dome, ere the dome the arch.
He, the dreamer of the dream, saw the vision march!
He who has the vision hears more than you may hear.
Unseen lips from unseen worlds are bent unto his ear;
From the hills beyond the clouds mess
sages are home
Drifting on the dews of dream to his heart of mourn;
Joy beyond the narrow joy, in whose realm we reel—
Time awaits and ages stay till he wakes and shows
For he knows the stars are gird,
dawn and midday.
(fe who has the vision feels more than you may feel.
In the jocund tide that sweeps dark and dadda away.
Glimpses of the larger life that his vision knows!
and dusk away.
He who has the vision lives round and
With no intention to strike a man when he is down by the indirect method of taking a jab, at his ancestors, it may not be amiss to consider: the decline of the Hohenzollerns from the time when one of them brought suit in Missouri in 1849.
DECLINE OF MONARCHS
And through him alone we draw dews from combs of sweet.
Insanity drove Frederick William IV from the Prussian throne in 1838. Shortly before that a fizzled German revolution came near accomplishing the same result. But Frederick William had his merry little lion before he signed the throne over to his brother. He fed his people the same "Me and Gott" stuff so popularized by the family tree, and he got away with some of the same kindy exuberance in the United States.
In. 1849 A st. Louis court was called upon to consider this petition:
"The plaintiff (Frederick William, IV, King of Prussia) states that he is the absolute monarch of the Kingdom of Prussia, and as king thereof is the sole government of him, he is unrestrained any constitution, nor will his will expressed in due form is the only law of that country and is the only legal power there known to exist a slaw."
A Missouri jury today might balk at such a statement of fact. A typical American court might be pre-emptive in petition. But the King won his suit.
The royal plaintiff was all worked up about some money that had been taken from the Prussian postoffice. An employee had embezzled funds and fled to America. The king, being the government, had to make good the money and the patrons of the postoffice. But old Fritz didn't propose to hold the bag.
He engaged an American lawyer, long prominent at the Missouri bar. The attorney took hold of the case and won it. Besides his fee, the attorney received two magnificent vases from Frederick William IV in token of his appreciation. The appreciative Hohenzellern still remember that good turn. The kindly William II, until 1832, of Austria and Peror of the Germans, showed his appreciation of the Missouri attorney by bestowing upon him in 1890 the decoration of the Grand Cross of the Hohenzellern Order.
WHY?
Old Mr. Hohenzellern and his boy,
Frederick William, both admittedly down and out, probably often recall incidents such as these in reflecting
In *a* military camp, out near St Paul, young soldiers were grouped idly on the grass, near a road. It was Sunday afternoon and the camp was full of visitors. There were many fathers and mothers there, but partied in the open, the unchaperoned young girls who passed, giggling and ogling the soldiers.
The lads at the roadside watched the folks pass, talking among themselves, now and again responding with a laugh or a careless word to the girls who accused them. Finally, an automobile filled with young women went slowly by. The car was driven by one of the girls. It was a costly car with a monogram on the door. The girls within were richly dressed, rouged and powdered and pennelled in the manner popular even with decent girls of to-
the good old days of the dynasty.
Glendon Allvine in N. Y. Tribune.
day. The girls in the car called to the boys, offering them a ride and a supper, and passed on, giggling.
The young men of our country are being tried out and sobered by fire. What is happening to the young women of America?
The boys looked after the car in silence for a moment, then one of them
To judge by the thousands who are running after the uniforms, they are doing their siliy best to belittle bellie. And it should be honoring for the blakii they wear.
"Fellows, it's bunches like that we going over to France to die for!"
Every girl in America should be taught that khaki is emblematic of a sacred cause, and that when they aid a boy wearing it to degrade himself themselves are degrading the cause for which he wears it. Every American girl should resolve that she will help the boys she knows to bear themselves like American men—just plain American men, than which there is no finer, straighter, cleaner class in the world. —Pictorial Review.
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MerelyMental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
And nobody answered.
Many people would reform if they were not expected to refund. Life.
DRASTIC ENOUGH
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"Might I ask how my three-act drama is coming on, sir? Has it been accepted?" questioned the young dramatist eager.
"The three members of my reading committee have read it," replied the great manager loftly, "and think it will do with one act cut out."
"I am glad to hear it is no worse
said its author, breathing a sigh of
reason."
"Do you remember," said Mrs. Cornetsoel, "when we used to tell Josh, 'Children should be seen and not heard?'
Doctor: I'm afraid your poor husband is beyond help. I can hold out no hope.
"But," continued the manager, "unfortunately each one wants to strike you."
DRINK DELUSIONS
"Wait till we've had a few more drinks," said Bill, "and I'll sell it to you." Boston Transcript.
A couple of old rounders were sitting in a bar-room imbibing cocktails. Presently one of them remarked, "Do you know, Bill, I think I'll buy this hotel."
Voice from Bed: 'Ere 'oo are yer gettin' if I ain't a-goin to snuff out!'
Wife: You leave it to the doctor, dearie; e knows best!—London Passing show.
His wife had followed him across to be a Red Cross nurse. During a bit of German Strafing he fell wounded, and woke up several hours later in a field hospital. His wife was bending over him.
"Yes," replied the farmer; "and now I get called down by everybody if I interrupt Josh while he tell'sLINne at events at the front."—Washington Star.
JUST HIS LUCK
"Ain't that just my luck, Jenny?" he murmured. "With all the pretty nurses there are over here to look off the soldiers, I had to draw you."
She: Don't you think that cousin Mimi looks ugly in that ultra low-cut dress?
Triad (Wellington, N. Z.)
He: Not as far as I can see—Jester.
AND GROWING BIGGER
SOME DISTANCE
"Why do they call the baby 'BILL'?"
"He was horn on the first of the
children."
Senior: What do you think of the Culebra Cut?
Freshman: Well-er—I have never
smoked a pipe. Don't let me
smoke a pipe—Pelican.
HADN'T TRIED IT
Sniper: I've knocked the spiker off of 'is bloomn' *elmet—e*'s took the top off o' my bloinm' ear—and it's my shot next!- London Opinion.
THIS FOR IT
"I say, who was here with you last night?"
SOME SMOKER
"Only Myrtle, father."
"Well, tell Myrtle that she left her pipe on the piano."—Awgwan.
Judge: Did you strike this man in an excess of irracibility?
The Coon: No, suh. I done hit him in de stummick.-Tiger.
WHO AM I?
I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world.
I am more deadly than bullets, and I have wrecked more homes than the mightiest siege guns.
I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the world.
I steal in the United States, alone over $300,000,000 each year.
I spare no one, and I find my victims among the rich and poor alike, the young and old; the strong and weak: widows and orphans know me
I loom up in such proportions that I cast my shadows over every field of labor from the turning of the grind-station to the moving of every railroad train.
I massacre thousands upon thousands of wage earners in a year.
I bring sickness, degradation and death, and yet few seek to avoid me. I destroy, crush and maim; give nothing, but take all.
I lurk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently. You are warned against me, but you heed not.
I am your worst enemy.
I am relentless. I am everywhere:
in the home, on the streets, in the
factory, at railroad crossings, and on
the ses.
Miss Tyle: How short do you think my gown should be?
1. A M CARELESSNESS — E-x-
change.
The University of Oregon are staging inter-fraternity debating
ACCORDING TO GOLDSMITH
Modiste: Well, you know, "Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."—Ginger.
OBEYING ORDERS
Manager of Bellevue-Straford;
Bov, ston whistling in the hall!
Bellboy: Merely obeying earl,
an ex admiring mama's French
poohie. Punish.
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