UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OCTOBER 5,1918.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kanna
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 26, 1875. Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1875.
Published in the afterfall five times a week, by the University of Kansas, from the press of the DePaul University Press.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of a student merely printing the ideas he by standing for the ideals the University holds; to play no favourites; to be clean; to be cheeky; to know and to love his students; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; all to serve to the best of its ability the student.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phones. Bell K. U. 25 and 66.
--in sharp round that binds thy bleeding brow
is as a crown irradiating light!
DOUBLE THE QUOTA AGAIN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918.
W E did it last spring. And we did it without much effort. People just chased the committee around with subscription for the Third Liberty Loan. It came easy.
It's the Fourth Liberty Loan now. The government expects a lot more from K. U. now, it expects $25,000 instead of $19,000. But it got $38,000 last spring instead of what it asked. And it's going to get $50,000 this year. We're going to double it again.
THE SENIORS; PITY THEM
POUR not out your compassion upon freshmen, you who have long been accustomed to paty them. They are in a new peace trusted, and things are different from the things which they have known but they have assistance to carry them through the difficulties which beset them. Consider the senior who comes back to her University (we can't his University with any degree of accuracy these days.) She puts her trust in tradition, even as she has before. She reads not the announcements or the bulletin boards or the newspapers. She goes to the gym to register and discover swarms of klaki-clad men who yell "Hold that line."
The courses of her major are as icebergs in summer—they are not. So she enrolls in zooogy and home decoration and fundamentals in infantry drill. She will hope to get a degree the middle of August.
She finds barracks built along her favorite path through the golf links. She finds military police in Green Hall. And there's no end to the number of people and things she doesn't find anywhere.
She has to do everything managing book exchanges and hostess houses to waiting tables in boarding clubs because there are no men. Sometimes she has found herself building furnace fires. There are no furnace boys. They are in the army now.
And she doesn't get any sympathy. When she finds no course in her major she is told that she has been here three years and ought to know how to manage things. When she finds sociology meeting in the former coal hole of Fraser instead of in administration she is told not to interrupt the class.
Have mercy on her! She's only a senior. And things aren't like they were when she was young.
If you have any, bring them to the W. S. G. A. book exchange in Fraser. The student book exchange has been one form of student co-operative organization profitable to the students and to the organization conducting it. The Men's Student Council organized the exchange and have been managing it for several years.
OLD BOOKS
This year only a handful of the men's council is back and most of those are in the service. But a book exchange was needed as a measure of war economy. The Woman's Student Government Association in the form of the student council stepped in to meet the emergency. They are receiving old books from students and selling them with a small percentage going to the council. Bring your old books to Fraser Hall.
THE SHOUTING DIES
Holidays and birthday parties are a bit unsettling. Everybody would rather sit around and talk it over than to go straight to work after the celebration. There's so much to say—how you would have arranged this and how becoming everybody's clothes were and how long you would remember the good time you had. It's a lot easier not to settle down.
The University has had two weeks of holiday
And Tuesday a special one to celebrate a birthday party. And almost everybody is still talking about it. But work has begun a day earlier in the week than it did last year, and the University faculty is expecting a quick settling down. Twelve weeks is a short time to acquire the fundamentals of a new subject or to get through advanced courses with credit. One can't afford to waste good time at the start. The turult and the shouting have died for the army and the navy and the marines on the campus. They settled down to work at one word from their C. O. It's time for the rest of us to do like-vise.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleed Jokes Captured by the Knight of the Shears
SO WAS HUBBY
"My dear, the doctor says I'm in need of a little change."
"Then ask him to give it to you. He's got the set of mine." —Baltimore American.
"Do you believe in evolution?"
POLITICAL EVOLUTION
"Can't help believing," replied Soterator Sorghum, "after seeing how many varieties of politicians a bull moose can develop."—Washington Star.
REMARKABLE CURE
Doctor: "Did that cure for deafness really help your brother?"
Pat: "Sure enough; he didn't hear a sound for years, and the day after he took that medicine he heard from a friend in America."—New York American.
After biting off a Slavonic ear in the first act, throwing her off the bridge in the second, kicking her in the eye in the third, Germany now exclaims as the curtain rises on the fourth, "Why do you not love me, Russia?"—Kansas City Times.
THE LIMIT IN COLLARS
The Knut: "It's simply absurd! What's the use of showing me low-cut collars like these? Do you mean to say you keep nothing taller?" Shop-girl: "I'm sorry, but our next size is cuffs." Cassel's Saturday Journal.
WAR-TIME READING
DAY by day the war books tumble helter-skelter off the presses. Private John Jones relates, in three hundred and fifty pages, why he never happened to go into action; Professor Drynaudst, with a string of micrographies after his distinguished name, expounds the significance of the Willy-Nicky correspondence in the light of the Defenestration of Prague; Miss Angelica Milkweed devotes a fat volume to explaining why the Bolsheviki, whom she met once on the streets of New York, are not really nice people; Dr. Abindab Smith discusses the relation between the Kaiser's brain and the bacillus of elephantiasis. All these things are very interesting, of course, but each new book bears a striking resemblance to some dozens that have proceeded it, and as life is short, and very busy these days, one cannot possibly hope to keep pace with the literary procession.
After all, it does not appear that the person who tries to read all the war books as fast as they appear knows any more about what is actually going on than the one who has long since given up in despair. The details are varied enough, but the essential facts, so far as they can at present be stated at all, are pretty generally understood by all who keep up a reasonably active perusal of newspapers and magazines. The seventeenth book on trench life does not add much to what one learned from the first. Most people live so largely in an atmosphere of war, they think of it so constantly because of its close relation to their daily existence, that an overdose of war books, taken in what should be hours of relaxation, is likely to upset the mental digestive apparatus.
For thoroughly enjoyable reading in these times, The Bellman heartily recommends novels written long before the war was dreamed of; before the trying times of Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells; before novelists felt themselves compelled to wrestle with those insistent "modern problems" which have converted so many recent novels into unpleasant economic tracts. Why not escape, for a little while, into a land inhabited by pleasant people to whom the income tax presents no difficulties, who enjoy the possession of vast and useless acres in open defiance of an as yet unborn Lloyd-George, who have titles and are proud of them,—who, in short, are just as different as possible from the men and women on whom rests the heavy burden of winning the war?—The Bellman.
Bits of Readable Verse
Discovered and Handed in by Readers of the
University Daily Kansan
SERVIA
When the heroic dogs that mark our time
Shell, in /ee days to come, awarded he
When, much forgettion, shall remember these,
When central murder by the Monster-Crime,
When central murder by the Man-Orchid.
The questioning in ancient and plucky -
A living toil, unconquered still and free.
Through superhuman sacrifice subline.
O Servial adj. thy ruins go-·
O servile
Love's many facets there are all to be made,
and the light that dances in her night,
look up, thou trampled tragedy!' given how,
they must seem, though.
—Florence Earle Coates.
In Literary Digest.
WHEN NAMES ARE CHANGED
ALL over the country the courts are busy with prudent changes of names. Ignatz Schmidt becomes Irving Smith; Ernest Wolf-shemer turns himself into Ernest Wolf; the Pfunds change to Pounds; the Bielefelders and Lautenschlagers to Joneses and Robinson's. Thus the discreet enemy alien takes on protective coloration, and so promotes his chances of survival. Moreover, he helps his neighbors in their dealings with him, for Pulvermacher and Sizomahay are beyond both American orthography and the American tongue.
But it is anything but new. Since the days of the first English settlements in the new world, in fact, there has been a constant reduction of foreign surnames to English forms, sometimes closely allied and sometimes very far-fetched. The land swarms, in truth, with Wises whose grandfathers were Weisses, and Manneys who descend from Le Maines, and Brownes who were born Brauns, and Sewells who started out in the world as Soules. Somewhere in my archives there is a long list of such changes. I remember two salient cases: Dillechay for De la Haye and Caron for Querrant.
Sometimes, instead of transliteration, there is actual translation. Thus Weisberg changes to Whitchill, La Forge to Smith, and Koch to Cook, as in the case of the late discoverer of one of the north poles.
A good many foreign names strike the Anglo-Saxon as cumbersome and uncouth, and so their bearers, after facing ridicule for a while, often change them. Thus there is a family of Dicks in America whose great-grandfather was a Schwettenwicke—a knotty name, indeed. Again, I once knew a man named Lawton whose grandfather had been a Lautenberger. First he shed the berger and then he changed the spelling and pronunciation of Lauten to make it fit into American habits of speech. A great slaughter of bergers and steins is constantly going on. Many a monosyllabic American surname of today was a gaudy roll of syllables a century ago.
The Jews, with their German and Russian names, change them readily and copiously, just as they adopt such Anglo-Saxon given names as Irving and Sydney. Edelstein becomes Noblestone, Goldschmidt becomes Goldsmith, Gutman becomes Goodman, Ochs becomes Oakes, Levinsky becomes Levin, Cohen becomes Cahn and then Conn. Moreover, the suffix hein gets a new pronunciation, making it rime with bean. All over America there are now Epsteens, Goldsteens, and Silversteens, though the old spelling is commonly retained. When it is, the pronunciation is an affection; for ein properly rimes with line, not lean.
Proper names, even as between countries so closely allied in speech and history as America and England, show strange and often unintelligible variations. Why Howells should be Hools in England is hard to make out—New York Evening Mall.
"Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins in a tone that was kind but firm, "did you tell me you were up late last night with a sick friend?"
SHE KNEW THE SYMPTOMS
PROFESSIONAL
"What made your friend feel sick? Was he a heavy loser?" - Washington Item.
"Yes."
"Pop, what do they mean by twaddle?"
"That refers to arguments advanced by the other side."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
PA WAS A LAWYER
SUMMER RESORT NOTE
"What's in the mail from your husband today?"
"A couple of needles. He wants me to thread 'em and mail 'em back to him. Got to do some sewing, he says."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
LOS ANGELES' LATEST RULE
Latest news in the moving-picture world is to the effect that camera squadrons are busy taking war-pictures on the Flanders and Picardy fronts in the outskirts of Los Angeles.—Rochester Post-Express.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. (Exclusive)
Optics C 6412, EA. Eye examined
by Dr. David S. DePauw.
G. W. JOXES, A. M. M. D., Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynaecology. Suitfield, F. A. U. Hldg, Residence at Lincoln, 1201 Ohio St. Both phones, 35.
KEELEFS BOOK STORE - Quiz books
on paper maps, paper drawings, tracing supplies
Pictures and picture framing. Agents
and typewriters. 893 Max Street.
J. R. BRECHTEL, M. D., Room 3 and 4 over McColloch's. 847 Mass. St.
DR. H. REDING F- A. U. RIDE, Eye
Hour 1, Phone 9 to 5431
Hour 2, Phone 9 to 5431
C. E. OELUP-Eye, Ear, Nose, and
Throat. All glass work guaranteed.
Glassware made by Specialists and
stainless enamel. Over Dick's Store.
JOBS at B-H, B-H, Dilu 1097 Mass
Phone 224
DR. H. G. CARBELL, Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284, 745 Mass. St.
FOUND-Eli and Falk Lock and Key in read in front of Green Hall Store. The owner may have some by calling at the Office desk and paying for this ad.
WANT ADS
WANTED-A good tenor singer for church quartet, good pay. See John Ise, 1125 Mississippi, Phone 1789 Black.
Money saved works dog and night for you. Buy War-Savings Stamps!
A MILITARY WRIST WATCH
Buy a guaranteed fountain pen at Dick's.—Adv.
ALL KINDS and ALL PRICES
will help you get to class on time
HARRY T. LANDER
Repairing
Jeweler, 917 Mass, St.
Military Jewelry
MILITARY SPECTACLES
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO.
1025 Mass. St.
Sateen and Heatherbloom Petticoats
Silk Flouce petticats from a good quality chocolat tafta.
Each $8.00
Both in plain shades and flowered patterns. Elastic tops and extra deep flouces. Prices from $1.75 to $3.00
Crepe de Chine Camisoles 81.25 Each
Cheaper than you can buy the materials.
Misses plain shades in sateen pettican, $2.25
Also a complete line of silk underwear in skirts, gowns, Teddy Bears and Bloomers.
WEAVER'S
Bowersock Opera House
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4TH
PRICES—$2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c—PRICES
War tax in addition to above prices
Seat Sale Tuesday Round Corner Drug Store.
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