UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SEPTEMBER 23,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Entered as second-class mail matter September,
20, 1917. Lawnward, Lawrence, Kansas,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1918.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none—Carlyle.
THE boys in uniforms, and the much greater number who are preparing to get into uniforms, give hearty expression to their feelings about the women and men who, in connection with the hostess house and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., have done much to make them realize that somebody cares for their comfort here in Lawrence. Business men from the Chamber of Commerce have also been active in the same direction. The men of the S. A. T. C. and the N. A. T. S. have only to ask for what they want.
LONG LIFE OLD GAME!
S Jerome Beattie, a K. U. boy who is winning his way as a magazine writer—when he is not boosting a movie corporation or going to France as a war correspondent—as Jerome says in Colliers, Mr. B. Ball died a comparatively painless death at the hands of the Great War.
Whether football is to go the same way remains to be seen. It will live on during the present year, but it will live a changed life. Nevertheless we shall love it still. If it should have to die, the event would be far from a painless one in the college world, even the transformed college world. Football is a dear old friend.
Perhaps the account in *Outing* of the ancient history of the game explains the honorable place it holds among those who are given to admiration of the "giants in those days."
"All nations have played football. The ancients inflated a bladder, or follis, and kicked it about. In Greece there was the equikuros, a game played in much the same way as with us, only by a larger number of persons. Then the Romans played a game called harpastum with both hands and feet, which shows that even then carrying the ball was permitted. Here were the foundations of 'scoer' and Rugby.
"In the Philippines and Polynesia, it is played with a light ball made of thin, split fibres of bamboo, ingeniously interlaced. The Eskimos play it with a ball made of strips of leather. The Maoris of New Zealand and the Faroe Islanders have a game of native football. East and west, north and south, we find football of one kind or another.
"There can be little doubt that it was passed on to Great Britain by the Romans from harpastum where they strove by a 'conquering cast' to throw the follis into each other's goals. Centuries before cricket was born in the south of England, football was common in the north. Tradition has it, that one of the early footballs was the skull of a Danish invader kicked about on the Roodeus at Chester on Shrove Tuesday just before Lent."
Is there as much noise as usual in the campus atmosphere this fall? How long before the Young Ideas will begin to develop mastery of the technique of Rock Chalk? Why don't they sing? Conditions bring the men together as never before so early in the year. Where are the cheer leader?
FALL CAMPAIGN FOR WAR FUNDS
LL the American Army Welfare Agencies recognized by the war department for work in and around the training camps and billets in America and France will make a united campaign for funds to carry on their work during the week of November 11 to 18 inclusive. A total of 170 million dollars is to be raised during that week to carry on the activities of the seven distinct organizations for the coming year. This is the largest single gift ever asked of the American people and it will be used to maintain the morale and provide comforts for the soldiers in and around the training camps and in the trenches in France.
Each of the seven organizations has completed
its budget for the year 1919 in the light of its experience during the past year. Heretofore each organization made its budget and then its own campaign. This year all the budgets have been combined and the people will be asked to give but once for all the agencies. The money will be distributed to each organization in proper ratio to its budget. Provision has been made that subscriptions may go to all or any single agency as the subscriber directs;
Young Men's Christian Association.
Young Women's Christian Association.
Knights of Columbus
Jewish Relief.
War Camp Community Service.
War Camp Library Service.
The University apportionment of this fund will probably be seventy per cent more in the coming campaign than the apportionment for the Red Cross last spring.
In spite of the opportunities offered for war work in college and for preparation for later war activities, enrollment of women in most school thus far reporting has decreased below last year. Thus it is made more evident than ever that the 'taking over of the colleges' by the government is not only a good thing in preparing for war but a sustaining factor for the institutions. It will not fasten military training upon universities after the war unless experience shows that such training in universities is good. There will be ample opportunity to judge.
Well, we hurdled the top then!
News of the Red Cross The Army Behind the Army in Which Every Patriotic Citizen is Enlisted
A worker in Rome, dressed in the uniform of the American Red Cross, had dined at the opposite side of the town to that in which his living quarters were located. Coming home rather late, and losing his way, he got into the slums of the city. Walking along a very dark street, he was suddenly waylaid by two bandits, who pointed a pistol at his head, and demanded his money. He very calmly said: "I am Capt. ___, of the American Red Cross." They immediately assumed an attitude of the utmost respect, pocketed their revolvers, and, with the greatest courtesy, told the Red Cross officer that he had wandered into a part of the town where it was not safe, and, after saying that they would see to it that nothing should ever happen to any man representing the American Red Cross, escorted him to the more civilized parts of the city and, bidding him a courteous "Good evening," departed.
Bits of Readable Verse
Discovered and Handed in by Readers of the
University Daily Kansan
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
not in injuries on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbb. He most lives.
THE AIM OF LIFE
Who thinks meat, feels the noblest, acts the beat,
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the
Lives in one hour more than in years to come, do some
Whoofah blood sleepas an it slips along their vene-
Life is but a means unto an end; the end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all turrns,-God,
The dead have all the glory of the world.
-Phillip James Bailey.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes Captured by the Knight of the Shears
Claire: And did Algernon really say that he thought I was angolic?
Clarice: Not quite. He said that you possessed certain characteristics that were inhuman.
—Dartmouth Jack O' Lantern.
Olld Lady Customer: Do you guarantee these nightgowns?
Sly Young Clerk: Yes, you can't wear them out—Chaparral.
"Oh, say, who was here to see you last night?"
"Only Myrtle, father."
"Well, tell Myrtle that she left her pipe on the piano."—Nebraska Awgwan.
"Do you think a girl should learn to love before twenty?"
"Nope! Too large an audience"—Dartmouth Jack O'Lantern.
Of course there must always be an exception even to that rule which says, "Every rule must have an exception;" which is that a man must always be present when he is being shaved.—Shanghai Red Hen.
Ag. 1—Have you attempted to milk a cow yet?
Ag. 2—Yes, but the attempt was an udder failure—Penn State Frost.
Voice: Is this the weather bureau? How about a shower tonight?
Prophet: Don't ask me. If you need one, take it.—Stanford Chaparral.
There was a physician of long ago,
Who wanted a man to shovel the snow.
Instead of a shovel he gave him a hoe;
For he was a Hom-eopath, you know.
—Ohio State Sun Dial.
Attention S. A. T. C. Men
is a necessity as all soldiers are wearing this style.
A Military Watch
We are prepared to care for your needs in this line as we have the largest and finest assortment in the city. All makes
$5.00 to $55.00
We are also showing an exceptional line, of military gifts, including:
Symblem Rings
Safety Razors
Drench Mirrors
French Horns
Cigarette Cases
Identification Lockets
Photo Cases
Military Sets
eBookbooks
Knives
Service pins' and military jewelry of every kind for the folks at home.
Ye Shop of Fine Quality
WIEDEMANN'S
for Quality and Purity since 1868
Firmly Back of the U. S. Food Administration in catering to the desires of K. U. men and women.
The First Baptist Church
corner Kentucky and Eighth Streets
Welcomes every man to the University and extends a cordial invitation to all men of Baptist membership or preference to its services.
Sunday School 9:45—Class for College Men
Chancellor Strong, Leader.
Morning Worship 10:45
Evening Worship 7:45
Christian Endeavor 6:45
There's a Smile of Satisfaction When Schulz Tailors Your Uniform
Uniforms we make comply with S. A. T. C. regulations but have that snap of trimness and fit you will be unable to find in an issued uniform—come in and let us take your measure.
WM. SCHULZ
917 Mass. St.
THE TAILOR
917 Mass. St.
Announcement
For the benefit of S. A. T. C. men, this studio will be open for appointments every Sunday morning from 10 a.m. until noon.
Official Jayhawker Photographers
DICK BROTHERS
The Live Druggists
WELCOME YOU TO LAWRENCE
We're at the Transfer Point—8th and Mass. Sts.
Army Kits and Toilet Articles
Stop in and get a cooling drink at our fountain the next time you're waiting for a car.
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