UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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OCTOBER 8,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief
Mary Smith
Plain Titles Editor
Haley Petter
Editor in-chief
Haley Petter
NEWS STAFF
Herman Hangen
Herman Hangen
Eidger Harper
Charles Sienkow
Elmer Berman
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--general election to be held November 5th, of a proposal to limit the franchise to those persons who had taken out their final papers and become full citizens of this country and renounced their allegiance to kings and potentates of other countries; and
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8,1918
TOO FARSIGHTED
K. U. STUDENTS have been too far sighted. They have had a hypermetropic outlook on life. Now that the University has been turned into a government school and every one is subject to government orders, our lens are being corrected and we are getting a better vision.
We have all quit making definite plans for the future for those that we have made have been frightfully disarranged and spoiled. Sometimes we wonder where we will be and what we will be doing next month, next week or even tomorrow. S. A. T. C. men don't know how long they will be permitted to stay here in school. Students plan to take courses, only to learn that they have been discontinued due to the war. Friends come to school together only to be separated after a month or two during which they see each other rarely.
Heretofore we have had the childish attitude of wanting what we want when we want it. We have ignored what we have now and our greatest pleasure has been in looking forward to our plans for the future.
Now we are forced to correct this farsighted vision, appreciate things close at hand, enjoy every minute while we have it and make the best of every opportunity. It won't hurt the best of us to develop a little patience and take things as they come.
So lets look around and enjoy the view from the hill while we are here. Lets have a good time in classes at parties and at home while we have a chance; and lets take it for granted that the government knows what it is doing and when it takes a great deal of our time, let us develop our resources and capacity for pleasure so that we can get Sixty seconds worth out of every minute that we have here.
THE PERMANENT INCOME
THE Permanent Income Amendment will be voted upon by the people of Kansas in November. That everyone may know who stands for it the State Council of Defense has issued the following statement.
WHO?
Leading business men of Kansas have been urging for years that the Schools were big business institutions and that the best business methods be adopted in support of them. They have urged the plan of a permanent and separate School fund.
Many members of the Legislature have long appreciated the inefficiency of the present plan and have submitted this amendment because it will lead to better and more economical administration of the Schools.
The presiding officers of the two houses of the Legislature say:
"From several years experience in the Legislature and especially from our experience as Presiding Officers we are convinced that the passage of the Permanent Income Amendment submitted by the last Legislature would greatly expedite the work of future Legislatures and allow them to provide for the Schools more effectively and efficiently."
W. Y. MORGAN, Lieutenant Governor.
A. M. KEENE, Speaker of the House.
The Official State war body, the State Council of Defense adopted this resolution July 11, 1918: RESOLUTION
Whereas, The Legislature of Kansas of 1917 realizing the sacredness' of the ballot, directed the submission to the voters of Kansas at the
Whereas, The Legislature of the State of Kansas of 1917 realizing the need of a more scientific manner of supporting the state schools, and that money raised for education should be held sacred for education, and that the state was being seriously hampered in the administration of her educational institutions by the lack of a permanent income, directed the submission to the voters of the State of Kansas of an amendment permitting the Legislature to establish a definite permanent income for the schools that would make possible the planning of the affairs of these schools in advance;
Therefore, Be it Resolved by the Council of Deof these amendments especially timely;
Therefore, e it Resolved by the Council of Defense that it does hereby fully endorse both of said amendments and does hereby ask the people of the State of Kansas to vote for said amendments as war measures.
the State Council of Defense has appointed a committee on educational efficiency to present the vital importance of this Amendment to the voters of the State as an emergency war measure, because efficiency in education means efficiency in army organization, greater fighting power, and better preparation for handling the after-war problems.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes Captured by the Knight of the Shears
The young housewife, looking very pretty and woman-like in a big green overall, was cleaning ut the pantry cupboard.
"Dickie," she called to her young husband, who was smoking in the spic and span little drawing-room. "I want you to bring me a mouse-trap home tomorrow."
"But, angel," cried the young man, "I brought you one home only yesterday."
"I know, pet," called back the young bride; but that one has a mouse in it."—Montreal daily Star.
Traffic Cop: "Come on! What's the matter with you?"
Truck-Driver: "I'm well, thanks, but me engines' dead!"--Buffalo Express.
"So the doctor told you to go to a warmer climate. What was the nature of the trouble you consulted him about?"
"I went there to collect a bill."—Boston Transcript.
"What has become of the preyhound you had?" "Killed himself!"
"Really?"
"Yes, tried to catch a fly on the small of his back and miscalculated. Bit himself in two."—Tit-Bits.
"one of my pupils," says a Buffalo teacher, "could not understand why I thought that the following paragraph from his composition on 'A Hunting Adventure' lacked animation and effectiveness: "Pursued by the relentless hunt, the panting gazelle sprang from cliff to cliff. At last she could go no farther. Before her yawned the cham, and behind her the hunter."—Montreal Daily Star.
Friend: "Now, you don't need any medicine.
I had toothache yesterday, and I went home and
my loving wife kissed me and so consoled me that
the pain soon passed away. Why don't you try
the trick?"
Sufferer: "I have a terrible toothache and want something to cure it."
"Agnes married a self-made man, didn't she?"
"Yes, but she has compelled him to make extensive alterations."—Boston Transcript.
Sufferer: "I think I will. Is your wife home now?" - Vancouver Daily Province.
The Earl of Beaconsfield once said: "The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as the mother who talks about her own children."
Fancy what the earl might have said had he known the owner of a fivler!" Judge.
The president of the Santa Fe Railway, Edward Payson Ripley, recently ordered a totally deaf man to be employed. "For what position?" asked his general manager. "He's so deaf he can't hear thunder." "Exactly," said Mr. Ripley. "Let him listen to passenger's complaints."—Montreal Daily Star.
Bits of Readable Verse
Discovered and Handed in by Readers of the
University, Daly Kaugan.
THE STRONG YOUNG EAGLES
"one by one, young young," she fall—
(from an editorial in the New York "Sun" on
the
from an editorial in the New York "Sun" on the death of Major Larrybeth. The young eagles fall, yet day by day new eagles take the sky, and they rise higher. Where those who live are those who dare to die.
do one by one the strong young eagles fall. Leaving to those who follow where they call, Leaving to those who follow where they call.
America, these eagles are your sons!
Hold to the faith and keep your vision sure.
O Nation, be ye worthy of our garris.
These eagles, deserve free rest and endure!
— Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer.
OUR FIGIETING HEART IN SONG
EVERYTHING Ends In Songs," said the witty Beaumarchais, and if he were living today he might note that of all things that begin with song perhaps war is the most remarkable. Every tune that comes into the head of a composer comes with a march rhythm and is inspired by war-time thoughts—either bellicose or sentimental. Many of the songs may seem to the fastidious "vulgar and cheap," the New York Evening Post tells us, and no doubt they often are, yet the cheapest song may seem transfigured for singers to whose deepest sentiment it makes appeal, and to some songs of shoddy expression we do injustice unless we admit a truth of feeling. The roughness of the lines which proclaim
Belgium, we can hear you calling;
Belgium, your tears are falling.
Belgium, give me your tears!
Belgium, dry your tears!
does not prevent them from attaining dignity as the expression of what the whole nation has always recognized as one of the great provocations of the war, says The Post, which adds that "we can afford to have the people singing many shabby, faulty songs, along with better ones, but we could never afford to have them singing none at all." We read then:
'Yet we must not sneer at what the songwriters produce simply because they do it crudely; what catches the popular fancy may do it for superficial reasons, but the reasons are worth analysis. Any one who wishes to gage the sentiment of the day may learn as much of one aspect by looking over a popular music-counter as of another by reading The Congressional Record. These are the songs that decorate training-camp pianos and the pianos of sisters of the recruits. It may seem painful that while Mrs. Heman's "Piligirms" made the coast resound with hymns, the shipwrecked destroyer-crew instinctively broke into 'O boys! O boys! Where we go from here?' Yet there is no little feeling for current history in 'O boys', which celebrates the recruit who, when his squad was marched one hundred miles and his companions were tired, simply asked where they went next. There are other songs of indomitable recruits, from 'Every One Was Out of Step but Jim' to 'Uncle Sam Is Calling Me' and 'I'm Going to Follow the Boys'. Those who wish to know how out soldiers feel may gather it in part from such ditties as 'We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser,' 'Hunting the Hun,' and 'Keep Your Head Down, Fritzie Boy.' After recent events we may be sure that many pianos and phonographs are giving with renewed spirit the song, 'Bing, Bang, Bing 'Em on the Rhine,' with its subtitle, 'This sounds ever so much sweeter on a forty-centimeter,' and its chorus, 'When we go swimming in the Rhine, we'll hang our clothes on Hindenburg's old line.' The high spirit if these songs is a good quality. So is the determination in them, typically express in 'Our Country's In Now, We Must Win It Now,' and 'We've Bound to Win with Boys Like You.'
"When the novelist Winston Churchill cast about to recall what had most thrilled him here he decided it was the Hippodrome crowd singing Cohan's classic lines, 'Send the word over there; we'll be over, we're coming over, and we won't come back till it's over, over." Even the Germans marched through Brussels whistling 'Every Little Movement.' The dignified and excellent war-songs that have been written have had comparatively little popularity. Sousa writes a good march dedicated to the shiphulldogs, and we hum ragtime; good poetry goes unaccompanied, while we sing dogged by Harry Lauder.
Johnny was at the grocery-store.
"I hear you have a little sister at your house," said the cropper.
"Yes, sir," said Johnny.
"Do you like that?" was queried.
"I wish it was a boy," said Johnny, "so I could play marbles with him, and baseball."
"Well," said the storekeeper, "why don't you exchange your little sister for a boy?"
Johnny reflected for a minute, then he said, rather sorrowfully:
"We can't now; it's too late. We've used her four weeks." - Philadelphia Ledger.
Central Educational Bureau 610 Metropolitan Bldg.
Saint Louis, Mo.
In these war times this Bureau can offer available teachers more remunerative positions than they may secure for themselves.
Write for registration blank.
W. J. HAWKINS, Manager
WANT ADS
FOUND-Eli and Falk Lock and Key in road in front of Green Hall School, 701. Owners may have some by calling an innson office and paying for this ad.
WANTED - A good tenor singer for church quartet, good pay. See John Ise, 1125 Mississippi, Phone 789 Black.
FOR RENT—Lower floor of five rooms, furnished. Phone 1520 Blue or 2058. 6-2*
WANTED-Girl roommate for des-
table south room, near University in boarding district. Phone 2498 White.
6:5
LOST- Phi Beta Kappa key inscribed M. W. Sterling 1888. Return to Prof. M. W. Sterling or Kansas office. 7-5
LOST—Suitcase between Vinland and Lawrence. Reward. Walter M. Cox, 908 Indiana. 7-2*
LOST-Ring with square mounting of saphire and diamonds. Lost on registration day. Finder please return to Chi Omega House or phone 210. Reward. 8-3
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. (Excludes
glasses furnished, Offices 1025 Mess.
and 1037 Mess.)
G. W. JONES, A. M. H. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynectomy. Suite 1, F. A. U. Bldg. Residence 2401, 101st Ohio St. 26th phones, $5.
KEELEUS BOOK STORE - Quiz book,
artistic materials, drawing supplies
Pictures and picture framing; Agency
typewriter Typeset. 338 Mass.
Street.
TYPEWRITERS Bought, sold, rented repaired, exchanged
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D., Rooms 14
over M.Colecch's $87 Mass. St.
C. E. ORELUP-E - Ear, Eose, and throat. All glass work guaranteed. All dressing materials and adenoids. Over Dick's Office JOB PRINTING - B.-H. Dale. 1627 Mass.
DR. H. READING—G A. U. Bldge, Eyes,
DR. H. ROGERS—Cases fitted
DR. H. PARK—Phone $13.
DR. H. G. CABBELL, Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284. 745 Mass. St.
MORRISON & BLIESNER
707 Mass. St., Phone 164
SPORTING GOODS
Athletic Supplies.
Football Goods
KENNEDY & ERNST
{26 Mass. St., Phone 341
THE QUALITY HOUSE In Stationery, Printing and Engraving.
PROTCH The College Tailor 833 Mass. St.
A. G. ALRICH
736 Mass. St. Phone 288
Hotel Kupper Kansas City, Mo.
Taxi 12
'PHONE "One-Two"
Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District —especially handy for ladies, being at Eleventh and McGee. Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets.
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MILITARY SPECTACLES
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO.
1955 Mar. 20
1025 Mass. St.
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus $100,000
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