UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DECEMBER 18,1918.
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1918.
THE SYMBOL
Probably never before in the course of human events in these United States would people have had the courage to put on a campaign like the Red Cross drive Just before Christmas.
"What! Try to get money when everyone is frantic already, thinking of what to give his friends and how to pay for it?" they would have said in other years. But no one seemed to think of that this year.
We are not giving gifts this Christmas simply because we think some one else is going to give to us. We haven't time to think about that. There are too many bigger things to think about. During the war we have gotten used to doing for the other fellow and it seems perfectly natural and proper that, at this Christmas time, we should be called upon to aid in a movement, the key-note of which, is Service. Service was, after all, the reason for there ever having been a Christmas.
And this year the smybol of Service, the Red Cross signifies the Christmas spirit more truly than do mistletoe and holly and tinsel wreaths.
The spirit of brotherly love and unselfishness that pervaded the battle grounds in France and Belgium is silently stealing across the broad Atlantic and taking possession of the hearts of would-be worldly Americans.
Even the cat has felt the Christmas spirit and has given up (temporarily) making eyes at the canary.
The professor's small son who had his skates sharpened in October, in order to be ready for the first good skating on Potter's Lake, will have to wait several days longer, according to weather prophets.
Water. Water. Water.
SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
This is the time of year when some fiendish persons who like to take the joy out of life go about informing the youth of the republic that "there is no Santa Claus." They sip sweet joy out of fact that the youngsters' whole Christmas fun is spoiled for a year or two and that bitter disappointment and disillusionment have taken the place of happy trustful ignorance on the subject of the wherefore of their sparkling array of gifts and toys.
There IS a Santa Claus and he is with us now. He is the spirit of Christmas and the feeling of good will. The person who casts aside his Santa Claus when he learns that this
jolly old fellow is not a real man with a fur coat and a red nose, has not only lost this happy delusion but has failed to grasp the lesson which Santa Claus was invented to teach.
Let's not only keep our faith in Santa Claus but pass it on to the youngators when they first begin to hear that "there is no Santa Claus."
Let me see--get her a framed picture of yourself. It always shows good taste.
It is time for somebody in the family to suggest new shoes as an appropriate gift for the small boy who is hankering for the latest airplane model.
Ask Roomie
She Will Answer Anything Thrice a Week Right Here
Dear Roomie:
A friend in France whom I trusted implicitly has proved false. He must have another girl and he seems to have less education than he led me to believe. You see, Roomie, when his letter came yesterday it was headed, "Dere Mable," and my name is
Dear Geraldine:
Geraldine.
Don't worry. He was only kidding you. Dere Mable is a book, and somebody must have sent it to him in his Christmas 2 by 4 by 7. Read better it.
Roomie.
The brotheren in our neighborhood, the name of which I dare not mention for fear of being paddled, have ordered me to come back early and sweep the house. They say I must be here by December 26, and how I can do that and still have a Merry Christmas is now too many for me. Of course the naturally not come, but the town men will be right on deck at 8 p. m., Thursday morning, waiting to put me to work. Kindly inform.
Freshman
Dear Freshman:
There's only one thing to do. Get a doctor to write a statement to the effect that you've had the flu, or are coming down with it, or something. Then the brothers won't want you around, because they might catch it. Hope it works.
Roomie
Dear Roomie:
Do you suppose all the girls will go home for Christmas? If they do not and I do, how am I going to keep my popularity here? It really worried me so much. Should I buy stamps and own those followers who remain here in Lawrence?
Popularity
Dear Popularity:
You most certainly should not write to the man who remain in Lawrence, or to the men who go home for vacation either. Write to the ones who send you flowers for Christmas, but forget the others temporarily. Have a good time with your hometown bank clerk, and if the K. U. boys can forget you in ten days, they will be some forgetters.
Roomie
POSTSCRIPT
We go out on the first train after quizzes, so we head to bear in mind our destination.
Do Whom It May Concern 'n Every think.
Don't eat too much. It ain't polite.
don't send the prof a Christmas card.
t isn't necessary after quizzes. And
don't shout that you don't forget to come
ack to school.
Campus Opinion
Merry Christmas.
Dear Everybody:
In your issue of December 17, a communication signed "Class of 1922" alleges that the beginning French classes are attempting to do a full semester's work in the seven weeks of this much curtailed quarter. To the instructors this seems like mock irony when they look back on the work of former years only to find that this year the classes have not yet covered all of the ground assigned to the first half of the semester, have not yet taught their classes, and "1922" will call at the French office. I shall be glad to explain in detail the content of the first semester's work.
E. Gallo.
To The Kansan:
Campus Opinion This Column is Open to all Students of the University
If the prof scowls and says he's going to flunk the whole class, court-courly remind him of the time when heck was a pup.
What has become of the old-fashioned girl who used to knit in class?
When Uncle Sam wipes us off his payroll, we'll have to be reinstated in the good graces of dad's check-book.
When son comes home, from war, lad will religish his arm chair and he other home comforts mother has always deemed essential for the head if the house.
A young man can button his sister's gloves in less than half the time it takes him to button any other girl's.
Promiscuous gift giving is being discouraged. More of those gingham aprons and less of those fussy breakfast caps will serve to keep father paying the bills.
Who wants to be a beauty in this day and age with everybody shouting "fraud" at the electioners?
Many men in the S. A. T. C. feel that they should be given a medal of honor, for attending all of the free lectures shows and sight-seeing tours, which have been given for them this fall.
Blooming dandelions in December, remind us of roast-goost on Fourth of July.
Water. Water. Water.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
"Mother, do our soldiers in France bathe?"
"Poor boys! Not very often, I'm afraid."
Fred T. Harley of Collinwood won a necktie as a prize at a social. He said he would rather have won any other of the prizes.
"Does it seem altogether square— to use this sona and water?" Life.
Miss Wavie jerald reports a girl friend was greatly disappointed in a bulb she planted in a jar for her table. There was some mistake. She expected a narcissus. It turned out to be an onion — Cleveland Press.
"I didn't really need a necktie," he said. "I had one already."—Cleveland Press.
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansas
Readable Verse
God of our fathers, Who hath called
one more.
Our far-flung legions to the parent
shares.
University Dairy Kansas
PRAYER IN TIME OF VICTORY
Where England guards the gateway of
the sea.
Where Belgium bleeds beneath the steady stars
the sex
And France upholds man's old equal
attractions
Where grace of Florence and the hills
America runs swift upon appointed feet. . .
That we not lightly overthroat the sun.
You too, too proud, for all our belch-
ing.
remember Thou the agony of thy cross
Which turned to triumph all the bitter
Still lift the cross to fling hell's cohors home.
And Serbia Games through freedom's avatars.
In mumad forms cried loud, "A ban
Bastille."
Bastile?"
Who breathed through Garibaldi and
Cromwell with steel.
In manned forms cried loud, "A bass
nots' home;
Grant Thur, our God, who nerved
till it was done.
Stay Thou our steps lest they become too fleet.
And lifted Lincoln to prove a nation's win.
Who breathed through Garibaldi and Rosemary
Break Thou our backs and crown our brows with pain
Aloe France upgrades man's old equiv-
tiae
Lest we become as those that we have
slain.
And then in faith of Love's great victories
slain,
And then in faith of Love's great vie-
Willard Wattles:
In Boston Transcript.
Broken with wonder fling us to our knees.
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