UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NOVEMBER 19, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1918.
THANKSGIVING
NEVER, since the Pilgrims originated the service of Thanksgiving, has so much meaning been attached to a Thanksgiving proclamation as to that issued recently by the President.
For four years the world has had little opportunity to rejoice in the ever returning period supposed to be filled to overflowing with happiness-
In the world there seemed to be not an abundance of good things, but a serious lack. From peace and prosperity mankind seemed fung into an abyss of misery. And still there were those who were able to glimpse a message of hope—and hope gave rise to thanksgiving—not only in the protected areas of this country, but in the devastated areas of war stricken countries. It was a silent thanksgiving in which hearts rejoiced that democracy could not be overcome by the agents of evil in whatever form they seemed to be manifested.
Such has been the thanksgiving period for four years. This month, summoned by our President, we can rejoice as never before, in the fruits of a righteous victory and in the coming of peace and plenty.
Attack on the battlefield may not be the part of any of the Students's Army Training Corps, but they had their part in the victory. The weight of fighting men in France, plus the men back in America training to be fighters piled up the mass that crushed autocracy. "They also serve who only stand and wait," is especially true if "they" do a little training while they wait.
LABOR STEPS FORWARD
M. SAMUEL GOMPERS and the labor unions do not intend that the people of the United States, the "bourbons" especially, shall allow themselves to rest under false impressions as to just what the working people expect from the reconstruction period after the war.
Notice of the laborers' viewpoint was forcefully served when, in a recent interview, the president of the National Labor Federation declared that a bitter fight would accompany any attempt at a general reduction of wages or an increase in the working hours.
The economic revolution, about which the country's far-sseeing men have been talking is showing its danger signals. The working people are going to see that the thing for which they have been fighting is realized and it may be inferred from Mr. Gompers' statements that there are to be no half-way measures considered. They have fought for a principle; now they expect to see that principle applied.
Now that they have conquered what they set out to conquer and have seen the failure of applied autocratic principles, are they, as their leader predicts, "coming into their own?"
THOSE WHO WON'T WORK
THERE is small hope for the girl who is looking for work and cannot find it. She is the girl who wants a position but not a job. She wants to earn her way, but not by the means at hand.
This girl has come from a home of modest means. Her parents are not able to raise the money to send her to school unless they borrow it. Shall they incur debt to make her life at
college an easy one?
In her modest home this girl is used to housework. She understands plain cooking; she has scrubbed the kitchen floor once a week for several years; she has swept and dusted and made beds, and in many cases has had the care of little children. When this girl grows up and comes to K. U. she suddenly becomes resentful of her ability to do housework successfully. She looks in vain for work to help pay her expenses, when work with which she is familiar is at hand.
When one hears such a girl remark that no places are open except those offering housework, one wonders whether or not she is sincere in her wish to help out.
The folk-at home are not urging her to work; they will probably go in debt rather than have her do something disagreeable. Is there need of such a sacrifice on the part of parents who have taught a girl to do household duties carefully and well? Should housework prove distasteful to a girl who understands it? If there is no other opening, why not accept the work at hand? It would improve conditions all around. Householders would have helpers; parents would keep out of debt and jobless girls would have plenty to do.
The editors of the Daily Kansan are as concerned over bestowing a suitable name upon the white headgear of a Jackie as the average parent is over naming the first child of the family. Would it be possible to call the thing in question an upperdeck?
And now we are bombarded with the expressions of regret and disappointment from some of the men who were supposed to be in the next draft contingent over the seeming impossibility of ever getting into the world scrap. It seems peculiar that this pugnastic enthusiasm did not size them a year ago—or at least before the signing of the armistice.
"TELL IT TO THE MARINES"
The saying "Tell it to the Marines" is traced to Pepys, author of the famous diary and it is said by him to have originated with King Charles II of England.
It so befall, the story goes, that his light-hearted majesty with an exceedingly bored expression on his swarthy face was strolling in the shade with the ingenious Mr. Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty.
"I had speech yesterday at Deptford," said Mr. Pepys, "with the captain of the Defyance, who hath but lately returned from the Indies and told me the two most wonderful things that ever I think I did hear in my life." Among the stories told were of those fish flying in the air.
"Fish flying in the air!" exclaimed his Majesty, "Ha Ha a quaint conceit which 'twere too good to spoil with keeping. What, Slr—" (he turned and beckoned to the Colonel, Sir William Killigrew of the newly raised maritime regiment on foot, who was following in close conversation with the Duke of York)—"we would discourse with you on a matter touching your element. What say you, Colonel, to a man who sweeps he hath seen fishes flying in the air?"
"I should say, Sire," returned the sea soldier simply, "that the man hath sailed in Southern seas. For when your Majesty's business carried me thither of late I did frequently observe more flying fish in one hour than the hairs of my head in number."
Old Rowley glanced narrowly at the Colonel's frank weatherbeaten face. Then with a laugh he turned to the secretary and said, "Mr. Pepys, from the very nature of their calling, no class of our subjects can have so wide a knowledge of seas and lands as the officers and men of our loyal maritime regiment. Henceforth whenever we cast doubt upon a tale that lacketh likelihood we will tell it to the Marines—if they believe it, it is safe to say it is true."-Portland Oregonian.
"I am glad that I was here when the war broke. You see, a Yankee still has a cloven hoof and a spiked tail, down here in Arkansas. But the war has done what years had failed to do and done it in a matter of months. This country is just one flame of loyalty. Here and there is a disloyal utterance, but his shrift is short. 'Our flag, our country'—this from women whose fathers and grandfathers fought for the stars and bars.
UNION
A woman of the North who has spent many years in the South has this to say in a personal letter that has just come to France:
"And now the women don't want to call our soldiers Sammies. They're YANKS, that's what they are. That sounds like a man. We're all YANKS, everyone of us today."
"The Arkansas Gazette, the most influential paper in the State, uses that formerly hated word in the headlines, adopts it, glorifies it. Yes, we've got a country now."—The Stars and Stripes.
Bits of Readable Verse
Discovered and Handed in by Readers of the
University Daily Kansas
ROSE MIST IN THE MORNING
Rose mist in the morning
Tangled in the trees,
Scarring all the branches.
Lunged in the breeze.
Spangles by the brookside,
Frost lace on the grass,
Tiny globes and bubbles
Spun of rain glass.
Rose mist in the morning
Melting into gold;
What will be the sunset
When the day is old?
Martha B. Thomas,
In the New York Sun.
Merely Mental Lapses
Jokes and Alleged Jokes Captured by the Knight of the Shears
MANNERLY CONVERSATION
It's a shame to do it, but public safety impels us to expose the sergeant who is palming off his Mexican border service-ribbon as an American voie de guerre, thereby raising his own holdings of "amourique Amérique" stock in the eyes of petite Madelon—Literary Digest.
WHAT SAVED THE BABY
Mama: "Willie, you have no manners."
Willer: "Well, if I waste them now I won't
have to pay," she said.
The family were entertaining callers one afternoon, and while the grown-ups were talking, the baby crept on the floor. Soddeuly there was a loud bump and wild wall. It came from the direction of the piano.
The young father had already dashed toward the piano. He dript on his knees and grabbed under the piano for his injured offspring. Presen- tively he returned.
"Oh, the baby has hurt himself!" cried the mother. "Run quick dear!"
***
"He fell down and bumped his head on one of the pedals," he reported.
"Oh, the poor daring! Is it a bad bump?" asked one of the guests.
"No," he answered. "Fortunately, his head hit the soft pedal!" -Tit-Bits.
AN IMPRESSIVE PAUSE
Rich Old Aunt: "Robert, I am going to make my will. I think I shall leave you (pause.)
will. I think I shall leave you (-pause).
Nephew (eagerly) : "Yes, aunt."
Aunt: "Before long."—Boston Transcript.
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FRANCE
Praise-enough has been bestowed upon our troops in France to turn the heads of less sensible men. Kings and Presidents and Premiers and Field Marshals have paid tribute to their skill, their valor, their discipline, and their fine spirit.
All of this is fine and stirring. But to many a mother back home, nothing Foch can say will seem quite so fine as this—that the children of France love the doughbys.
The schoolmaster of an unnamed French village near the front asked his pupils to write, without preparation, little compositions describing the American soldiers billeted in the hamlet A captain of engineers obtained the artless manuscripts and sent them along to an English publication. They are great reading, all thirteen of them, but a few extracts must suffice:
"The one that I know is tall, well built. He is very amiable and kind to children. Whenever he meets one on the road he will stop his horses and take him along. He is a horse driver. When it it raining he does not care, he will then whistle with all his might." -Ernestine Cabannes.
"I saw the American soldiers at their meals.
"It is very funny. They stand in a long line and laugh aloud. When their meal is over they start singing."—Pierre Loupien.
"The they like sweets very much. They are clean; they wash all their body with cold water. They the very polite. They do not have the same religion as we have, but it does not matter; they are free to practice the one they choose, or none."—Camille Duboris.
The same note runs throughout; the strangers are remarkably fond of baths, they are greedy for candy, and, strangest of all, they smile!
Thus with pathetic unconsciousness the infants write their terrible indictments of the foe.
We might forget much else in time, but not this—that the little children of France remarked upon it when they saw soldiers who smiled—New York Sun.
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