UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 24,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Mary Smith ... Editor-in-chief
Brittany Battell ... Editor
M. L. Pock ... News Editor
Michael K. Bruner ... Editor
Earline Allen ... Society Editor
Clutter Rungen ... War Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Fred Richy ... Business Manager
Wavey Wilson ... Assistant
Don Davis
Harry Morgan
Alice Rowley
Herman Hangen
Herman Hangen
Ferd Gottlieb
James E. Hardcover
James E. Hardcover
Geo. Montgomery
Mary Jory
Marjory Row
Basil Church
Earline Alien
Una Stockwell
Deane Malott
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by using it; to hold a jury to play no favorable; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be pleasant; to be ungrateful; to leave more serious questions to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University.
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918
The war; nothing else matters.
LOOK HERE, SON!
Mr. Freshman:
Mr. Freshman;
When you left home for college, the home town folks were pretty proud to see you go. You told them every one good-by and shook hands with the baggage man, and said, "So long Jack," to the station boy.
Then you stepped into a new world,—college. It's been quite a bit different and you have changed too, somewhat. K. U. hopes the folks will see it, but don't try to show them or tell them. Sure, you have been to college, but they have been right there in the best place in the world for all this time. Find out about it, and them, and all the kids, and everybody, and everything.
After all, the home town folks are the folks that count. They are all interested in you, every single one of them, and you are going to be mighty glad to see them, every single one. Ask them all, "how they're comin'", and shake hands with the baggage man and say, "Howd'y Jack," to the station boy.
Take them K. U.'s message. Be democratic!
LAST TOKENS
They sat down and broke bread for the last time that all would be together. They had scratched their respective endowments of wool and had shot their respective shares of Kansan space for one tremendous year of journalistic co-partnership. This was the simple meeting of the Kansan Board.
They did not express pride in achievement, nor did they exchange sympathy for mutual burdens. They had produced a daily paper, expressing in it the life of a great university community. They had viced the feelings and thoughts and ideas as well as the activities of all the people in that university as impartially as they knew how. Only they had selected what was worth while for all to know on a basis of what all would be interested in. Some things of course were left unsaid. There was job enough to say what was said.
No one claimed to have produced a masterpiece during the year, or even to have done consistently good work either as writers of journalistic style and form or as representatives of those for whom they wrote. They had done the best they could have done, however, in the face of what every exacting day required of them. They had carried on the labor of past years.
Now they laid it down, with smiles of farewell one for another, and with a song to old K. U. They kept the Kansan going. They beqeaited it, to those who should follow on. And
as they departed they laid it upon their successors ever to stand and make the paper stand for the best, there can be for the University and the best state in the Union that made the University possible for its sons and daughters.
DUE K. U.
At one time the University of Kansas held its own among the state universities of highest national prestige. Today it ranks seventh in enrollment and thirty-ninth in professors' salaries. There is a reason for this fall from what Kansas originally built into the state's cultural center.
There is but one reason and that is the inadequacy and uncertainty of appropriations to secure and maintain proper and sufficient equipment and teaching power. The equipment is obvious. The legislators come down to see it occasionally and then forget it until they come next time. Not that K. U. is importunate. K. U. is deserving. People out over the state know this from results in their own communities,—results from the institutions as it now has to be.
Probably the hardest story to tell, however is the shameful record of salaries lower than thirty-eight other like institutions. What sort of place the fortiettin down must be, and what sort of faculty it must have—some derelicts and the best brainy but impoverished idealists possessed of some sympathy from others but no proper support. At the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin which have a millage tax support, world-wide known professors become permanent parts of the institution. Such men given decent means from their livelihood have time to do research work and grow in teaching power as well as advance knowledge in their particular fields.
But what can be done at the University of Kansas? What is there to do with? Who wants to stay long enough to do it—who wants to linger on anyway except some profound idealists who are giving themselves to public service and a measure of public ingratitude? Begin something—and then have appropriations cut. Be doing something and have appropriations cut. What's the use? Plug along, just plug along, that's about all that can be done as things are now.
But things have got to change. And the Permanent Income Bill is going to change them if it can only go through. It will mean, K. U.'s fair share of proper equipment in buildings, apparatus, and facilities for educational progress. It will mean that K. U. will have a fund aside on which to depend in cases of emergency, on which to draw when it must swing ahead in some new direction in response to the demand of the people of Kansas.
Most of all the new order will mean emancipation from political prejudices. Once out of such toils the University can take its place once again with the best universities of the country. Men and women will come in greater numbers to get better education from well trained men who can and will stay and grow with the institution. At the same time economy will be greater in proportion to results achieved.
It is open to senior students in technical courses or graduates of technical schools. After this intensive training the graduates are eligible for the lowest grade of ship drafting under the Navy department. The plan is to develop them in the government drafting rooms.
A special short course in naval architecture, of not less than six weeks, is offered by six co-educational universities of the United States, to women.
"Your contributions to the British Red Cross will be a further means of strengthening the real understanding between the United States and Great Britain." -Lloyd George.
"When one is in the zone of the armies or in the supply areas, words of appreciation or praise for the American Red Cross seem superfluous." -General Petain.
Nursing service is Military Service.
FOR PEACE
'Oler the stretches of the sea,
Born on winds so fair and free,
Distant fearful marmurs come.
Blare of trumpet, roll of drum;
Shouts of warriors, cannon's roar;
Crash of armies shakes earth's floor
Faintly and more faint y grows
T'h sound of battle; on it goes—
POET'S CORNER
Then a vision comes to me
From those lands across the sea;
Tear or widow, orphan's cry
Rising upward to the sky.
O, how long must this endure—
Glory, every nation's lire!
Rather may the slogan be
Progress, Peace, Humanity.
—Gounoud Stoloff.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
The value of the Red Cross to the American nation is not measured merely by the assistance which it is rendering to the official war machine. The propaganda which it has been conducting throughout the country and its extraordinary success in securing popular support has formed one of the two or three most compelling causes of the increasing moral union of the American people in respect to the war. Its propaganda has had the peculiar value of emphasizing the more positive and humaner aspects of war service. It has fastened the minds of everyone, participating in the Red Cross organization or contributing to it, on the intelligent performance of a colossal social task. It has been forming out of a considerable portion of the American people a voluntary co-operative society for preventing the war from inflicting any more suffering than can be sustained, and civilians of France and Italy. Thus it affords civilian patriotic feeling an immediate and a wholesome outlet in essentially philanthropic work, and so converts it into a valuable preparation for the healing ministrations of peace. It is perhaps the most salutory exigating expression of that better nationalism which is not easy to keep alive in the poisonous atmosphere of war, and which whether in war or in peace constitutes the formative and binding influence in American life—New Republic.
MENTAL LAPSES
Judge: "It seems to me that you're a good-for-nothing rogue. Have you ever earned a dollar in your life?" Prisoner: "Yes, yes; honor; I voted for yer once."—Judge.
First Army Mule: "What's the matter, you look dejected?"
Second: "I've been driven all day by a militiaman who never says anything stronger than 'Pshaw,' and it gets on my nerves." - Puck.
OVER AND ABOVE
"Mamma," said Bessie, "do Dr. Jones wear his everyday clothes under that long, white gown when he preaches?"
"Yes, dear."
"Well," said the child, "now I know why it's called a surplus."—Boston Transcript.
"A scintilla, my son, is a thing there is never anything of."—Boston Transcript.
THE HUNS INVADES NURSERY RIME There was a little Hun,
DEFINED
"Pa, what's a scintilla?"
And his bullets were all dumdum dumdum;
But now he is in kingdom come-come-
come!
"Jones called his prize rooster Rob.' "Rob? "
He shinned up a tree
To snip what he could see.
—R. M. Eassie, "Odes to Trifles."
POOR OLD ROBINSON
"Yes, that is the short for Robinson."
"But why call him Robinson?" "Because he crew so." Louis站.
AN ABSENTEE OWNER
Poilu (on sohrt leave) "—Where is your mistress the maid?"
Suzette — "Upaints, monsieur, arranging madame's hair."
Pollu" "And madame—is she with her?" —Cassel's Journal.
Small Brother: "But he'd kiss you if I weren't here!"
THE TEST
Sister: "You bad boy! Run away this very instant!" -Awgwan.
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TEACHERS WANTED—War con
ditions cause many good positions
to be open. We must be prepared to
fill them. Write for our blank and
booklet. Central Educational Bureau,
W. J. Hawkins, Mgr. Metropolitan
Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
FOR RENT——Four rooms and a large sleeping porch to girls for the Summer Session, 1106 Ohio. 150-8-218
LOST- Phi Beta Pi pin. Finder return to Phi Beta Pi house.
308-209-1500
153-5-220.
LOST- Phi Beta crest pin. Return to Kansan office. 153-5=22 **3**
"The Patterson," 1245 Louisiana St.
Half block from campus; no hills to
climb, open during Summer Session.
Three square meals every day in the
week. Also rooms for girls. Call
1243 White. 154-5-24
FOR RENT—Strictly modern furnished house or rooms. 1205 Kentucky. Phone 711. 153-*3*-225
LOST-Alpha Deta Pi pin, pearl jewels. Finder please return to 1234 Miss., or call 291. 156-3-227
FOR RENT -Modern housekeeping rooms. Nice, cool on front. University district. 1108 Tenn. 1190 Blue. 156—3—228.
A TEACHER—In a Kansas high school, wife and 4-month-old baby desiring house during summer months for the care of the same. Call Rev. E. E. Stauffer, 1046 N. H. 157.1.233
Exclusive Agents For Regal Shoes
WANTED—A Steward and stewardess for Summer Session. Phone 1818 Red. 156-2-226
LOST—Flint arrow head watch fob.
$2 reward to finder. John Ise.
Economics Dept. 157-2—229
LOST A Sigma Chi pin. Return to Register's office. 157-2.*234
WANTED—At Stigma Nu house next year a woman cook. A woman for house and to assist in kitchen. Man for dining room and furnace. Apply before June 8th, 1246 Oread Ave,
157-2^2*230
WANTED-Two young ladies with personality and pleasing appearance for summer work. Good salary and railroad fare to start. Address W. M. Hughes, Columbia Bldg., Topeka, Kansas. 157-2-312
WANTED -Young man not subject to draft call, during summer for position open soon. Pays good salary to start. Address qualifications and references o 21 Columbia Bldg., Topeka, Kansas. 157-2-323
Drink McNish's Aerated Distilled water—the only all-purpose water. The same the year 'round. Phone 198, motor delivery will call. -Adv.
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gills gliss work guaranteed,
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LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO.
(802) 745-3126. Eyes examined; examined; fursuit; turtles; snakes; sea lions.
DR. H. REDING-F. A. UU. Building.
Hours 9 to 5. Phone 613.
Hours 9 to 5. Phone 613.
JOB PRINTING—B. H. DALE, 1027
Mst. St. Php. 228.
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D., Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology, A. U. Bldg. Residence hospital, 1921 Ohio St. Roth phones, 35.
KEELEY'S BOOK STORE - Quiz books,
theme paper sets, the sound, the pound,
and a collection of drawing,
Pictures and picture framing. Agency
Hammond Typewriters. 393 Meas.
Square.
Pall Mall
A Cordo Shade Oxford, with fibre soles and leather heels. The newest shoe on the market for street wear ... $7
PECKHAM'S
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Tuesday May 28
Will Be the Last Issue of the Daily Kansan this Year!
No advertising for this issue will be accepted later than 1:00 p. m. Tuesday. Telephone K.U.66.