DECEMBER 4,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of students, to further that merely printing the news by staining for the ideas the University wishes to be clear; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be kind; to be wisely and wiser leaders; in all, to serve the best of its ability the students of
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1918
TOO MANY APPROPRIATIONS
Any person subject to military law who steals, embezzles, knowingly and wilfully misappropriates or uses benefit, or wrongfully or knowingly sells or disposes of any ordinance, arms, equipments, weapons, money, stores, money or other property of the United States furnished or intended for the use of such equipment on conviction thereof, be punished by fine or imprisonment, or by such other punishment as authorized, or by any and all of said penalties.—Articles of War.
The foregoing extract from the Articles of War, the legal code of the army, makes quite clear the punishment provided for the sort of petty thievery which has been going on in the barracks and elsewhere_almost from the date of the beginning of the Students' Army Training Corps here. Yet so far as can be learned, not a single punishment of any kind has been inflicted, and few efforts have been made to put a stop to the pilfering.
Composed of men from all class as it is, the Student Army naturally includes a small number whose honesty is questionable. There is absolutely no means of preventing a man from stealing should he desire to do so, for the property of every student soldier lies exposed and undefended. If the honor of the individual does not make his neighbor's property safe, military authority should take a hand
Most of the articles disappearing have been of minor value, but several men have lost wool uniforms and overcoats. The loss of an overcoat may work a serious hardship, and the disappearance of smaller articles has become a nuisance, to say the least. The difficulty of identifying property, the ease with which valuables may be taken, and the absence of a form of punishment have brought on the epidemic.
The stude-soldiers now speak of having their pictures taken for the beauty section of the Peace Book.
DON'T DECIDE QUICKLY MEN
"Believe me, I'm going home as soon as I can get out of here and get one of those good jobs before the fellows come home from France and take 'em all."
This is the way many of the S. A.
T. C. men explain their desire to leave
the University forever as soon as it
ceases to be a military camp. Their
earning capacity, as unskilled labor-
urs, is now at its highest point because of the scarcity of workers, and they are right in the belief that the return of the men from France will mean lower pay for them.
But they do not stop to think that a college education increases a man's earning power to infinity. They have doubtless heard the admonition to gain an education at all costs, for it is an old one, but they have never heeded it or applied it to themselves. A technical course at the University will fit a man as will no other training for the holding of responsible positions commanding high salaries. Think it over, men.
The Minnesota Health Journal would stop the good old-fashioned handshake. The military salute, they say, is far more hygienic. May be so, but not so comforting. Imagine Isobel and Henry standing at salute in the moonlight on the library steps.
It's reasonably certain that Lawrence landlaws and boarding-house keepers will hear no complaints very soon.
TRUE DISCIPLINE
This business of lieutenanting isn't the easiest one in the world—some appearances notwithstanding. It takes real nerve for a young college man to go to a strange school and immediately start bossing other young college men just like a veteran warrior. Only they don't call it nerve in the army,
If an officer can have his men under perfect control, be absolutely merciless with them when they violate his orders, and still keep their respect, it shows that he has made a success, temporarily at least.
Lieutenant Joseph Cummings has been known as the "hardest" officer on the hill, but Sunday he visited each of the barracks housing the battalion of which he is acting major, and explained to his men just why he had given them "particular hell" on every possible occasion. Some of them had not realized before that he wasn't really "sore" at them all the time, but was merely doing his best to turn them into soldiers.
At the close of Lieutenant Cummings' talk in each of the buildings he visited, each man shook his hand, something few had ever thought of doing. They realized then that it was discipline such as Lieutenant Cummings had always demanded and obtained that had freed the world for democracy.
It's been a long time since a K. U.
man offered a dead alarm clock as an
excuse for being late to class, but this
time-honored alibi will be with us
again in a few weeks.
Another reason it's fortunate that that S. A, T. C. ends now: sliding down fourteenth street might have been hard on military dignity.
LET'S KEEP ON BOXING
Boxing is a red-blooded, man's game. Few occasions have been the scene of such a display of healthy morale among the student soldiers as the few boxing matches which have been held. The end of the S. A. T. C. should not mean the end of the sport at K. U.
Boxing as a part of gymnasium work should be encouraged. Most of the matches held thus far have been marked by more blood than science, and the men should be given an opportunity to learn the art of self-defense, which differs somewhat from the blocking and slugging usually seen at student boxing matches this year.
With the employment of boxing instructors and an equal chance for every K. U. man to become a boxer, there is no reason why every rally or other gathering of students should not be enlivened by a few fast bouts.
It was almost time for the second whistle and he was in a hurry but he stopped and held the door open for a girl who had her arms full of books.
YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THIS
Readable Verse
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
DE KIMBERT LULLARY
Written for the University Daily Ran
ann by Humbrow W. Jones.
No Willium Hobenzollern,
'Yo willmus me. Quit 'oo hellerin';
Youseg to get do some swainlerin'
'Oil all 'oo dirty 'wailerin'.
Yo sunk dat Laurentius,
W **jink yo** an. Germania.
We bombed banks in Brittany.
We hid boats to sataina.
So humb.
Yo 'had yo' fun in Belgium,
Yo 'had our fun with you', some.
Yo 'mourn with aeber time, bain.
Yo 'mourn with aeber time, dut word "maun."
You hash.
Yo' lowd dat France he humbled;
Yo' cannon roared an 'rumbled;
But Hindenburg, he humbled,
An Yo' worm an 'grunbed,
An Yo' wushi.
Dove's no rags need yo' chewin!
You're trouble, plenty, brewn.
You're done did all so do',
Youseme did id. Did you scream in
'you' huh?
10 nush.
—Sie Ann Borax.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
--was very smart.
"Don't you believe in the Ten Commandments, then?"
"Please, Sergent-Major, may I be excused from church parade? I am an
"No, even the one about keeping the Sabbath?"
"Well, you're the very man I've been looking for to scrub out the canteen."—Sydney Bulletin.
GOOD RIDDANCE
Gone are the days when my heart was
slowed and you.
"No, I don't."
Gone, very likely, because they couldn't stay.
Gone several other things from which I well could part:
I wern could part;
Among them was the notion that
was very smart. —K.C. Star.
WHERE HE FOUND THEM
"And where have you been, my pet?"
Thus little Willie's mother to little Willie on his return home after an affair with a man he had been in love with.
"Playing postman," replied the family hope.
"Playing postman?" repeated Willie's mother, "and how does one play postman, sweet?"
"Why; I just left a letter at each
customer," explained the prodigy,
"real mail."
"Real letters, darling?" inquired
mama, smiling. "But where did you
get them?"
,"Out of your wordrobe drawer",
responded willie. "Those old ones tied up with pink ribbon."—Minneapolis Journal.
IN OLE ENTUCKY
"My father was killed in a feud," "I never would ride in one of those cheap cars."—Cornell Widow.
I'll be moping up the k-k-k-kitchen floor...The Inland (Unniversity of Michigan.)
You're the only j- j-job that I abbre
And when the m-m-m-moon shines,
Over the mess hall.
K-K-K.K. P.
Poor little K. P.
"Tremendous crowd, up at our church last night."
Belle: "George thinks I'm easy to please."
"No, it was burned down"—For Instance
Tramp: "Excuse me lady, but I ain't no cannibal. I bid yer good day."—Boston Transcript.
Nell: "No wonder, after so many
of us turned him down" -Baltimore
county
I will call you. What do I have
again? I will call my husband
immediately."
NEWSPAPER WAIFS
"Do you believe everything you see in the newspapers?"
Tramp: "Kind lady, would yer
please give a pore man a bite to eat?"
"No," replied Senator Sorghum.
"I if some mistakes didn't get in now and then there'd be no use of my doing so much work from time to time to get campaign stuff into their hands." - Washington Star.
MISFIT
The despot's glories fade,
A pinhead was not made To wear a crown.
AUTUMN'S CHEMISTRY
And tumble down.
A windbird was not made.
Autumn, with its brightly colored foliage, its brilliant leaves being fast whipped into the air by every gust of wind that blows, appeals no more strongly to the lover of the artistic than to the scientist. The mechanism of the tree is one of the wonders of all nature. The leaf is one of the most marvellous food factories of which we know.
Ever since the close of summer the process of preparation for winter has been going on. All through the growing season the leaves have been busy making food necessary for growth. This has been done by combining carbon with hydrogen and oxygen supplied by the water and the air, and with various minerals absorbed by the roots. As winter approaches, and the work of the leaves nears its end, the leaves have accumulated sedent back to the body of the tree. The remaining substances in the cells of the leaf contain the yellow bodies which give them the prevailing autumn color.
Such trees as the Oregon dogwood, however, store sugar prodigally and in greater quantities than is needed for food. It is this substance in combination with other superfluous chemicals which produces the brilliant reds which make the leaves glossy on the maple and the oak. The woodbine typifies another phase of this highly complicated and intensely interesting process.
To the artist the falling leaf of the deciduous tree is a thing of beauty; to the small boy whose chore it is to rake the garden it is only a nuisance; to the chemist it represents a marvelous achievement that he could not duplicate in his laboratory, however earnestly he tried. And to the food economist and the statistician every brilliant red and every rich brown resents a wash of jacaranda sub-sufficient to the aggregate would be sufficient to sweeten the coffee of all the world. The precise nature of the thrill that autumn gives us depends upon the point of view—Portland Oregonian.
CARE OF THE TELEPHONE
The telephone is a fine receptacle for germs of every kind, and little attention is paid to sterilizing this much-used machine. It should be washed out with alcohol as often as required, and to keep the dust out of it make a small round cover of soft leather or heavy cloth and stitch a broad ribbon around the edge, through which can be run a drawing string or elastic. Put this over the transmitter.
Pittsburgh (Kas.) Sun.
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Nothing finer has come out or this war than this line from an epiphath in a British graveyard in France:—"For your tomorrow they gave their today."—From the London Truth
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KEELERS BOOK STORE - Quis books theme paper, papers, books supplies Pictures and picture framing. Agency Hammond and typewriter. 938 Mass. Street.
These famous pencils are the standard by which all other pencils are judged.
37 West 125th St. New York City.
JOB PRINTING—B. H. Dale, 1927 Mass.
SE Phone 2281
C, E. ORELEU—Esec, Kae, Naso, and
Cedros. ORELEU gives special
special attention given tomilis and
tomilins to the children.
ARMY & NAVY EQUIPMENT CO
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D. Rooms 3 and a more McCollachie 847 Mass. St.
DR. H. REDING→F. A. U. Bldn. Eyes.
Hours 9 to 1. Phone 513. Classified.
Hours 2 to 6. Phone 513.
DR. H. G. CABBELL, Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284. 745 Mass. St.
When down town shopping drop in at Wiedemann's for your lunches.— Adv.
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6 B softest to 9 H hardest
and hard and medium capping
Look for the VENUS finish
TYPEWRITERS
Bought, sold, rented,
repaired, exchanged
VENUS PENCILS
MORRISON & BLIESNER
707 Mass. St. Phone 164
Please enclose 6e in stamps for packing and postage.
American Lead Pencil Co.
215 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Dept. D*
Trial Samples of VENUS Pencils and Eraser sent free.
Hotel Kupper
Kansas City, Mo.
DAN'S CAFE The Place to Eat
Try us and be convinced
906 Mass. St. Phone 159
Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District
Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District —especially handy for ladies, being at Eleventh and McGee.
Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets.
WALTER S. MARS, Mgr.
SHAMPOOING
Rates 35c to 75c
Hair work of all kinds.
MRS. C. H. SANDERS
316 Tenn. St. Phone 1036
"THE GIFT SHOP"
A MARKS & SON Jeweler, Lawrence, Kansas.
The Original Marks Jewelry Store
735 Mass. St.
TAXI 68
SUITING YOU
E. F. WIRTH
At Hatfield's Confectionery
709 Mass. St.
is my business
Jeweler 725 Mass. St.
(Next to Varsity Theater)
SCHULZ the TAILOR
917 Mass. St. Phone 914
ED. W. PARSONS
Jeweler 725 Mass, St.
in town at
diamonds, watches and cut glass. Repairing and engraving
The Crispest, Freshest, Pop Corn in town at
TAXI and AUTO LIVERY
AUBREY'S PLACE (Next to Varsity Theater)
Magazines, Fruit, Candies
PHONE 148
Conklin and
L. E. Waterman
Fountain Pens
McCOLLOCHFS_DRUG_STORE
847 Mass.
We answer your calls early or late Prop. W. E. MOAK
HOTEL SAVOY
Kansas City, Mo.
Hair Dried Without Artificial Heat
MRS. LOFGREN
710 Ky. St. Phone 1371
Absolutely clean
Convenient location
Good Cafes, moderate prices
SHAMPOOING
Reduced to ten cents a yard.
Sewing machines rented by week or month.
SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO.
33½ Mass. St. Look for the Red S. Phone 577
THE QUALITY HOUSE In Stationery, Printing and Engraving.
A. G. ALRICH
A. G. ALRICH
736 Mass. St. Phone 288
EVERYTHING
IN FANCY
GROCERIES
Strong's Grocery
1021 Mass Phone 212
HEMSTITCHING
HESS DRUG STORE
Magazines and Periodicals, Douglas Chocolates, Flash Lights, and Paul Coe Colo.
and Kean Coca Cola Store on East Side of Mass. St.
Only Drug Store on East Side of Mass. St.
742 Mass. St. Phone 537
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus $100,000
Careful Attention Given to All Business.
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