JANUARY 9,1918.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of students, further than merely printing the news by standing for the values the University does; it plays no face to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be responsible; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to educate the students of the University.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1919
THE WATER SUPPLY
For some months Lawrence paper have printed a notice warning citizen to "boil water until further notice", which is a good long time. Lawrence people have observed the warning but are beginning to tire of it. The action of the city commissioners in completing the new water plant is as deliberate as their diction, when they caution us to continue boiling the water.
The mayor and the city commissioners say that the delay in completing the plant is a result of the war, and the consequent shortage of labor; that contracts made a year ago have not been filled, although all possible steps have been taken to rush the completion of the plant. When Mayor Kreeck was in New York three weeks ago, he made another effort to secure the equipment ordered, by conferring directly with the firm with which the contract was made. The mayor, city commissioners, and the city engineer are confident that the whole plant, including the filtration system, will be finished within four or six weeks.
The University has been without any drinking water during the present school year. An agitation for a separate distilling plant for the University has had no results, because authorities in the department of chemistry say that the initial cost of installing such a plant would be considerably more than a thousand dollars, and that even after it was installed, it would cost six cents a gallon to distill water, which is nearly as much as it would cost to buy the distilled water directly.
The state bacteriological laboratory announced that the city water is fit to drink now, that it has been for three weeks, but that there is no assurance that the same treatment which makes it fit to drink will be continued. It seems that the water may be used one day, and that it may not the next—that its purity is problematic. About the only thing University students may be sure of is that they may receive free inoculation for typhoid fever any week during the school year.
The city fathers have assured us that the new plant will be finished within four or six weeks. They said this a year ago. The truth of the statement remains to be seen. In the mean time, we will drink questionable water, or "boil it until further notice."
CLOTHES AND THE MAN
Here's to him!
We're all for the man who still wears his uniform.
Complete uniforms are compara
tively scare on the Hill, but the O.D. overcoat and the pea jacket are very much with us, albeit the plebeian trouser appears where the old puttee used to be.
In these days of conservation the practical and wise thing to do is to keep on wearing army clothes. Wool is scarce, and the uniforms have considerable wear left in them. Incidentally, the issued overcoat is warmer than the civilian top coat.
As far as "class" goes, the khaki-clad man is miles ahead of the poor civilian. Pale purples and forest greens are artistic. The azure sock and the absinthe tie are picturesque. But the fact remains that their wearers look weakly insignificant compared with well-groomed men in all wool uniforms.
The word "Hun" will retain a place in American literature. F. E. Aust proposed to replace, "Keep off the grass," with "Don't be a Hun." We suggest another interpretation, "Don't be a Snob."
BOXING HERE TO STAY
University athletes and enthusiasts will be glad to know that more encouragement will be given to boxing this quarter.
Dr. Joseph A. Reilly, athletic director of Kansas City Athletic Club, believes that the sport of boxing will sooner or later be placed in all schools. He compliments the University of Kansas upon being the first school of the valley to take up boxing.
Dr. Reilly suggests that boxing matches with other colleges be arranged. There is an opportunity for the University of Kansas at this time to encourage this action. The men here are interested in the sport and would like to see a boxing schedule arranged.
Manhattan plans to invite other colleges to compete with them. Why cannot the University of Kansas be one of the first to issue an invitation
LOOK OUT BELOW
Students in the University of Kansas will be well fitted to undertake Arctic explorations after going through one Lawrence winter. They can scramble around over glaciers without spiked shoes. They will know how to slide down the sides of icebergs in the most approved fashion. Fields of snow will not disconcert them. They've had experience.
The Thirteenth Street hill beats any nice young glacier in lack of secure footing and the Fourteenth Street hill is worse than the coast of Greenland for unexpected breaks.
The campus is one sheet of snow until the University snow scraper limbers up for action. And by that time it has melted and frozen and melted and frozen until no human agency can remove it.
Shoveing snow is one of those things it is better to let the other fellow do—notwithstanding city ordinations and their lack of enforcement. Nobody suffers but the poor folk who fall down and there is some consolation even for them. The doctors make money from setting fractured bones and applying hot water to sprains.
Let the good work go on,we say.
Nothing is more kingly than kindness.
The best way to kill off a rival is to make him a friend.
Happiness is a by-product of helpfulness.
He who remembers old friends makes new ones.
NUGGETS
Keep the milk of human kindness to yourself, and it soon curdles.
The great always have a long memory for their friends.
One of the worst thieves is the man who has no time to think of others.
The present is always full of opportunities to pay our debts to the past.
Students in the University of Missouri, according to an order issued December 30 by President A. Ross. Hill are urgently requested to take the vaccine, to prevent another outbreak of influenza. The vaccine used for the work was first made last month in the Public Health Laboratory of the University of Missouri.
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THE THOUGHTS OF A HOMESICK
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THE THOUGHTS OF A HOMESICK
POWER IN FRANCE
**SOLDIER IN FRANCE**
If I could only be home again!
Oh, the time that I've been away!
Oh, this land has have passes since when
I sailed from the (USA),
wonder should do if I
wonder in the Land of Joy.
I'd take the loftiest hills on high,
And I'd qq probably show: "Oh, boy!"
I'd probably tear for a Broadway show
And something tells me that I should
90.
For sleep on the Great White Path
I'd sleep in a regular, Pullman berth;
he'd sleep in a regular, Pullman berth;
.
And at breakfast I'd have six dollars worth
Of coffee with regular cream.
I'd smoke a lengthy and black cigar;
I'd drive to a well-known beach
On a dustless road in a joltless car
With a favorite faultless peach.
I think that I do these things sub-
In the Western Hemisphere.
But I know that I'd put in most of the
time
Wishing to be back here.
Franklin P. Adams, Captain U.S.A.
so many goods, so many stories,
and wind and wind.
While仕本 the art of being kind
lends itself to a lot, let us
learn the art of being kind.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Campus Opinion
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So many gods, so many creeds.
KINDNESS
To The Daily Kansan:
This Column is Open to all Students of the University
The finance campaign of the Young Women's Christian Association will soon be on and I wish to take this opportunity to speak of certain phases of the work of the association that have come under my observation and that I regard as of value to university life.
First of all is the Big Sister movement. The chairman of the Big Sister committee came to my office the week before enrollment and offered the services of her captains in assisting new girls by giving them information and helping them locate. On the first enrollment day the captains came and those detailed for duty were on hand promptly throughout enrollment week. They did real service in assisting girls who were in Lawrence for the first time. After enrollment in the first few days before class work regularly opened they cheered the girls who would otherwise have been lonely and home sick. And again when the University was closed because of the influenza epidemic, I had occasion to call upon the big sisters to help the freshmen who were in town with nothing to fill up their time.
I know from my own observation that they have furthered and sometimes originated movements among the student body that have resulted in permanent good for the University—movements that have tendered higher scholarship, better conditions and higher standards of social life. A striking example of this kind of work was the assistance given when the Woman's Student Government Association was started some years ago; Miss Alice Nourse, now Mrs. Tindale, was the secretary; Miss Nourse and her association were among the most interest workers in spreading the sentiment for student government among the University
About that time too a Y. W. C. A. House was established which was helpful in creating standards of living. I have always regretted that the house was not continued. It is to be hoped that the campaign for funds will have the hearty support of the students of the University.
The historian who wishes to make the closing of the war clear to his readers will do well to note these lines in which James Hopper tells what he saw on the way north from Vaux to Soissons:
Alberta L. Corbin, Dean of Women.
All our boys lay stretched exactly in the same direction, as if they by some mysterious magnetic current they had been pointed toward some spiritual pole—the pole of their averaging purpose. They lay stretched exactly in the direction of advance, health, advance, fear, the foe, their fear, the beautiful and lilie, while the Germans were in buddies at the bottom of the shell holes.
STARS OF GOLD
That is how our world was made free, and we must never forget it.— Collier's.
On Other Hills
To offset the disturbance caused by demobilization of the Students' Army Training Corps, following close of the war, Washington University will continue the current year under the trimester system instead of the semester, in order that students may do a full year's work. It also makes it possible for a high school graduate, with military training or experience that can be accepted as credit, to enter the university at the best of the second trimester, including number 20, and obtain a course. The schools have been extended from June 12 to 21, which, with curtailment of holiday periods, makes a session of thirty weeks, or only two less than the original schedule.
Formal application has been filed with the War Department for establishment at the university of one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, following inquiry by the department as to the wishes of the university in that direction.
A preunning course for women has been opened at Pennsylvania State College. Intensive study will be conducted twelve weeks in the scientific subjects that are a part of the regular hospital training.
Despite the cessation of hostilities there is a growing need for trained nurses in the army hospitals, according to M. M. Ireland, Surgeon-General of the Army. The government requires the nursing candidates to be graduates of high schools, at least 20 years old, and to be in good health. Young women who complete the preliminary course immediately will be sent to hospital training schools for three months. The two months credit toward graduation as a trained nurse will be given for the work at State College and the probation period will be shortened one month. The course will include the study of hygiene, physiology, anatomy, chem-elementary nursing, and lectures by the college physician. The expense for the twelve weeks at State College will be $120, covering board, room, and fees.
WITHOUT HONOR
"So everything is lost, including honor."
That is the bitter comment of the Cologne Gazette upon the action of the German sailors who, for the sake of the bonus, took the U-9 to England along with the rest of the submarines. The U-9 was Commander Weddingen's boat distinguished above the others by the honorable record of having sunk war ships only. Of them, Beatty, with that chivalry of the sea which none but Gavin had disregarded, wailing for this reason, his surrender. But the measure of earning 500 marks apiece was too much for the creatures who drowned women and children, so the U-9 went along with the rest.
"We cannot sink lower in the estimation of the world says the 'azette; it is impossible."
No wonder that there are even Germans who understand the deep damnation of the sordid episode.
The revenge, of course, will not be foregone. Already the British merchant seamen have imposed a severe year penalty upon their false brethern. They will not in all that time sail to German port or carry German goods. It is a just punishment for the murder of 15,000 of their fellows. It will be strange if American seamen are more forgiving. They, too, have seen the savagery of the Hun; they can recall shipmates who have been victims of Huns. What else can the German flag be than the symbol of dishonor for years to come?
That this truth should at last penetrate the German mind is well. A sense of guilt is the first step toward repentance. And yet seamen the world over will feel a little sense of shame that seamen should sink so low. They know, of course, what the German seaman is; they remember how he has broken all the kindly laws of the sea. Nevertheless, this last instance of the total debasement of men wearing the uniform of their country promotes melancholy rather than revengeful reflections.
The Germans have not been men but murderers, like pirates risking their own lives in attack. They have been cold blooded assassins, stabbing the unprotected in the dark. And now they reveal themselves as mean and greedy assassins, deliberately hurling the one memorial of German heroism and bravery at sea to the enemy who magnanimously sought to spare it—N. Y. Tiburen.
If you want a real smoke buy your cigars at the City Drug Store.—Adv.
Professor J. A. Farrell gives private instruction in voice and violin at his residence, 1008 Tenn. St. Telephone 1244—Adv.
Some experienced lawyers hold that the truth is never so well served as by unconscious and unwilling testimony. For instance, a lot of us have ideas on the freedom of the press, etc., but the American theory was never better stated than by Count JOHANN HEINRECH VON BERNSTORFF some time the kaiser's deputy at Washington, when he lamented to the Wilhelmstasse Foreign Office on October 27, 1916:
"The fact of the American newspaper being subsidized can never be kept secret, because there is no reticence in this country. It always ends in my being held responsible for all the articles of any such newspapers." The former embassador had learned College.
The former embassador had learned something and said it!- Collier's.
Englishmen visiting this country write home that they are astonished by the absence of bragging here over our achievements in the war. Wait a bit. Our posterity will be on deck presently organizing the Sons and Daughters of Armageddon and crowing about us—and perhaps stretching it a little. Human experience is that those who do things do not brag much, and that those in the midst of things do not see them very largely. Their descendants attend to the glorification. We of today will shine gorgeously as ancestors and will be at our best as splendid memories, and credited with heroisms and patriotisms and sacrifices we will wish we really had committed, if we are permitted to look over the situation.—Richmond Times
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