DECEMBER 30,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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--so I tuhns, to keep my senses,
To de big cahtoon!
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918.
It seems R. O, T. C. means "Refuse Offer To Co-operate" to the University Senate.
THE SENATE AGAIN
The University Senate closed a successful quarter by voting to "decide upon the desirability of a R. O. T. C. at K. U. next year." It was the Senate's last official act in the old quarter and it entered upon its week of Christmas festivities with the complacent feeling that it had disposed of a troublesome matter wisely.
Now that the Christmas festivities are over, why not resurrect the Senate's last official act and see whether or not the complacent attitude is justified.
In the first place the R. O. T. C, in no way resembles the S. A. T. C. If such were the case, the Senate might be applauded for its action. In the R. O. T. C, there would be none of the military barrenness of life at the barracks; there would be none of the over-military authority; there would be no lack of time for study and no "uplift" entertainments with which to contend. Students in the R. O. T. C, would lead a normal life.
In the second place, the old argument that such a corps here would establish a "military class" will not hold water for a "military class" in a volunteer system established among college boys, many of whom are farmers at least three months out of the year, could not come to pass.
The United States must have trained men ready to direct its armies in times of need. To say there will never be another war, is saying too much for the present standard of morals among nations. Until all nations conform absolutely to the universal doctrine of "Peace on Earth," there will be wars. To be alert and ready to defend "right" is not establishing a military regime. It is the policy of wisdom to be prepared. Our past experience should have taught us that.
Germany has surrendered, but she is not repentant. She will strive to regain her "place in the sun" and in so doing she will not hesitate to strike at the time when the nations of the world are least prepared.
The government offered some three hundred colleges the opportunity of enlarging their curriculums by adding an R. O. T. C to their courses of instruction. The colleges were given the privilege of accepting this opportunity now, not a year from now. A voluntary enrollment of one hundred students was all that was necessary to establish the corps.
Colleges with far less prestige than the University of Kansas have accepted the offer and to those colleges will go the men who are alive to the needs of the country and wish to obtain the training necessary to fit them for its defense.
Fairmount college in Kansas, with an enrollment in the S. A. T. C. o less than one tenth that of K. U. only one of the many wide awak American institutions to profit by the government's offer.
Was the Senate's action justified? From innumerable indications it was not. The Kansan believes that it is with regret that the majority of students at K, U, give up having the R, O, T, C, at this institution.
One of the joys of a former S. A.
T. C. hd will be sleeping straight
through an 8:30 o'clock class if he so
desires.
HOW D'Y DO GENERAL
General Good Resolution is back.
He's the little guy with the big chest and the big ideas. Nearly everybody knows the General.
He makes a good impression on first appearances and deceives the unwary into believing his fish tales of better times and a new era.
He is a harmless individual ordinarily, although he occasionally causes intense suffering by persisting in his efforts to reform people.
He has been termed a reformist, a faddist, a false prophet, and quite generally is known as a decided nuisance. Because of his rank, he is tolerated temporarily by the majority of persons.
He possesses one of the most automatic personalities on the face of the globe and attempts to dictate to a brew heated public with the high handedness of a Hohenzollern.
He is an impostor, pure and simple. He is as unrelievable as a patent medicine ad and as uncertain as a Kansas whirlwind.
The old familiar saying "Hitch your wagon to a star," still remains a guidepost to success, but hitch your good resolutions to the General and you'll crash into the New Year with a loud noise and a thud.
Don't let the General tempt you into accepting the moss-covered idea that New Year's resolutions will succeed in covering a multitude of sins.
Now that the flui is over you can discard that camphor lavalier.
FROM THE WRECKAGE
The Students' Army Training Corps was organized to give young men over the country a partial college education at the same time it prepared them for military service. While it gave the men a knowledge of the fundamentals of the service and an insight into the beginnings of a few half-hearted college courses, it did not make an S. A. T. C. man a college man.
This, at least, was the experience here. The men were not inculcated with the feelings or manner of a person trained in schools of higher learning. Many of them in tasting college learning found it bitter.
"Yes, it certainly is like old times," said the returned alumnus, gazing into his tubful of assorted bath.
While members of the corps were at college they were not in college. They did not get the experience every University man receives in normal years. As a consequence, the social and scholastic life of the University is just commencing at this late date. Every man who has returned to school will be the more valuable to the University because he decided to come back even after the unfavorable impressions received the first quarter.
Now that the S. Ai T. C. is gone what will the girls do for overseas caps?
A private, scenting a new one,
painting him displayed his fragrant edges
and stains.
"It isn't fit for much is it?" commented the sergeant. "Parade at 2:30 for a coal fatigue."—London Tit-Bits.
"Any of you got a very old uniform?" asked the sergeant.
Readable Verse
Discovered by Readers of the University Daly Kansan
When I grits de mawni' naph,
Don I send it on my knee.
Sets my feet up on de fendah, -
as contoured as can be.
UNCLE JARE ON CARTOONS
As contented as can be;
Den I cleans my snacks, an' sets 'em
On my nose, an 'tulna right soun'
(Case the neb布尔l much read soun)
on my nose.
Dere am words now in de papahs
UNCLE JABE ON CARTOONS
Wif de q's an' y's and x's
Stickin' in em ebery way,
Tümes dat and in a blot skym
Tings dat end in *k*-y skye,
(Des'pate readin fo a coon.
(Despate readin (oh a coon)
So I tuhns, to keep my senses.
Dere it is! he aint aint dat lubly"
Mos' de papah hab to tell
AR Nilsen Gown into a putter
Uncle Jabez won't have to spell,
Germany just mad to bustin,
Kaiseh Bill Depthitt' soon,
Turkey gittin cahved for Christmas,
In de big cateoon!
But dere's one thing I nint sure ob,
is dat animal a cat?
Or a tiger? Or a puppy?
Or a goose? Or a dog?
Uncle Jabe jus' can't decide it.
Talke
Taint no possum, taint no coon);
But its mighty cute an' 'spressive
Irde kide
—Mina Mall Epley.
In the Portland Oregonian.
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"We are going to land."
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
WHAT HE WANTED TO SAY
Gently the airplane righted itself and glided to the earth. Released from his seat, the passenger knelt and lifted both hands solemnly.
General Biddle said at a London garden party;
“This here book,’ he growled, ‘don’t tell you what you want to say at all. It tells you how to say the uncle of your mother is 65 years old, or the sister of your wife has bought a cow, or the umbrella of your neighbor is in the attic, but I don't want to say nothing of that kind.
"The doughboy in France has a lot of trouble with the French language. A doughboy sat on a bench in the Tuileries Gardens one day and thumbed a French phrase book discontentedly.
"Once I prayed to be an angel," he said. "But it doesn't go any more unless on foot."—New York Sun.
“What ‘m’ after, said the doulh boy, is a book that tells you how to say: “Your face is familiar—ain we must before?” or “Gee, them eyes! that girl, you sure look out o sight in that swimming suit?” —Dal la news
On the backward descent, a mile or more, the passenger clung to the pilot with both arms and never breathed. He resumed its horizonal travelling.
"Only when I let it do so," answered the airman. "No, and then I drop him back on the table."
"Say, look here; didn't you say you wished to flit on high like a gliding sunbeam?" complained the aviator.
"Does it ever fall?" quavered thnovice as the airplane climbed higher and still higher.
CHANGED HIS PRAYER
"Great heavens!" grasped the novice with relief.
Suddenly the airplane dived and looped the loop, then traveled upside down.
"Hold fast."
"Then shut up. You're going to get your wish."
"Yes," admitted the passenger.
In reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn by his wife, a Japanese, the following things that were disliked by the erratic genius are enumerated: "He disliked lions, abuse of the weak, Prince Albert coats, white shirts, the city of New York, and many other things." He was fond of the sea and of swimming, of "lonely cemeteryes," of ghost stories, of Martinique, and of such mundane things as beefteak and plum pudding—Outlook.
LITERARY DISLIKES
Lord Northcliffe put it in a nutshell when saying that "In 1870 the Germans, when they had the great French army enveloped at Sedan, declined to give an armistice. Bismarck said; 'Germany desires to promote the re-establishment of peace. The best means of ensuring it is to deprive these German chickens will come home to roost!' San Francisco Chronicle.
Campus Opinion
HOW TO PROMOTE PEACE
This Column is Open to all Students of the University
To the Kansan:
Military life at K. U. has officially passed away, but habits and customs have been formed which could not, like the uniform be tossed aside at the instant of demobilization. The other day two University women were walking down Massachusetts Street. They passed a man in uniform whom they knew and he saluted, for army etiquette does not permit the raising of the hat in salutation. These same women later passed a friend in civilian clothes. Did he raise his hat as in the good old days? Not he. The "snapping" salute has replaced the raising of the hat to ladies.
Innocent of the fact that it lacks the proper spirit of courtesy and respect, many University men have adopted the salute in passing young women on the street. But the men whose courtesy and breeding cannot be accommodated by custom into civilian life, nor allow the military to supplant the chivalrous.
GERMAN BARDWARE
All the latest dope on what you may and what you may not get past the censor is brought up to date for all concerned, which means everybody, including everyone, is re-hashed. Some of the more interesting restraints and releases are here re-hashed.
Inhamach as every doughboy is laden with enough German hardware to open a store, the question of souvenirs has became a burning one.
All enemy property acquired under any circumstances whatever should be turned over at once to an Intelligence officer.
"Have a heart," says the outraged doughboy, who chased a fat German colonel for two kilometres for no other reason than because the girl across the street back home had casually expressed her desire for a Husser's helmet. But, the order goes on to molly him if the trophy is not on her shoulder. If the trophy will be returned to the sender. Such trophies may be of vast importance to the General Staff as giving identification not otherwise verified.
As for sending these souvenirs home. It is absolutely verboten to mail your father a German machine gun, even if you captured it yourself at the point of a bayonet. Indeed, trophies, in general, are forbidden except enemy helmets, caps, badges, numerals and buttons. By by by by the field officer, such written approval to be contained in the package.
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There are other limitations on what you may send home in parcels. You may not send any necessities of life. You may not send any clothing, except gloves, handkerchiefs, laces, and such trifles designated as gifts for the folks. And these can be sent only to the United States and Canada. You may not send Government property and you may not send explosives. Whatever desire you may have to send Aunt Lucy a hand grenade you must sternly suppress—Stars and Stripes.
Old Jenkins was mad with rage. For 12 months he had taken the plate round at the local church every Sunday, then knocked over the beef, asked to perform the duty.
IT LOOKED SUSPICIOUS
"I consider I have been grossly insulted," he said to a friend.
"But," said the latter, "I don't think there is any bad feeling toward you."
"I don't know about that," roared Jenkins, but it looks very suspicious. The fellow they have asked to do the task must get one arm."—Winnipig Telegram.
Freckles are the farmer's' service tars—Boston Transcript.
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