MAY 20,1918 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF Mary Smith Editor-in-chile McIntosh A. A. Editor M. L. Park News Editor Nichols News Editor Earline Allen Society Editor Chrissie Slawson Jonathan War Editor BUSINESS STAFF NEWS STAFF Fred Rigby . . . Business Manager Wayne Wilson . . . Assistant Don Davis Honry Morgan Alice Bowley Vivian Sturgeon German Angen Floyd Henkell Floyd Henkell Subscription price $3.00 per year it advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter Saturday, 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published in the afternoon five times a day by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, BELL K. U. 25 and 66. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas, to go further than merely printing the nearby standing for it, and to play no favoriter; to be clean; to be cheerful; charitable; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University. MONDAY, MAY 26, 1918. The war; nothing else matters. COME THROUGH Of course the Red Cross drive comes at an inconvenient time for students. But there is nothing to do but come through. Don't ask father for any more. Cut down on some of those things which are not necessary for life or liberty or the pursuit of happiness for you but which will make all the difference in the world to France and England and Italy and the rest of the Allies. That will make all the difference in the world to a wounded soldier or a French war orphan or to French prisoners sent out of Germany. That will make all the difference in the world to your own father or brother or cousin or nephew or friend in the trenches. That will make all the difference in the world to you when the men in the trenches find out that you are not behind them. There's nothing to do but to come through. "SHE SMILES SOMETIMES NOW" "I am only nine but I understand very well what you are doing for me and my dear mother. She smiles sometimes now—" A little French boy, one of the thousands of Fatherless Children of France wrote this to a member of the faculty who has adopted him. He is only nine, but his gratitude is part of the overwhelming gratitude of the French people to the American people—a gratitude which is over and above the service given. And other children write to their "Marrains" or "Marrines" here in Lawrence. Another small boy says: "What a great surprise for me to know that I have a god mother in America. I am so happy. I think of you always when I go to bed and I ask the good God to bless you for your great kindness to me. Some day when I am a man I shall pay you back for all you are doing for me now." A mother writes: "I wish you could know how grateful we are for your generous gifts. We talk of you every evening for I want my little ones to remember later how impossible it would have been for their mother to raise them without the help of a kind person across the seas. As it is we lack a great many things. Last month we were three days without bread. I cried a great deal at not being able to make the children understand. My husband had a fine position and we had many plans for our children. But he was taken and now there is nothing but the little I earn. May such suffering never come to the women of America who are so nobly helping us." Luciene Desquilbet, fourteen years old writes to her godmother: "I thank you so much for all your kindness to me. It is helping me to go to business college and I am the one who must prepare now to take care of my mother and my little brother." Another fourteen-year-old boy writes: "What a happy awakening the day after my first communion to learn that I had a new godmother who wants to take care of a poor little orphan like me. How I should like to see you and embrace you with all my heart. You ask me if I need anything. I need a great many things but especially I need my father. But I must not tell you about that. It would make your kind heart suffer too much." A special appeal is being made for the boys and girls who "especially need their fathers" this week. It takes so little to help them. And if that little is given there will be many mothers in France who will begin to "Smile sometimes now." DIRECT PARTICIPATION The people of Kansas have a right to know what their public possessions are doing in relation to what they cost. Then they have a further right to put their own say-on what such a public thing as education shall cost in order that it may accomplish what it should for them. To be sure, the state legislature will apportion moneys raised by the millage tax just as it has the funds raised by the general tax for educational purposes. It will fix the millage rate necessary to produce the amount required and it will spend what is assembled for the purpose as it sees fit among the various institutions of the state. This is true. But there is a difference between the old and new systems. Every taxpayer will know under the millage system precisely what portion of his taxes goes into education. He will know what he personally gives. And then he will be more interested in the aggregate sum and the disposal it gets. If he sees his contribution with the rest apportioned unintelligently or inadequately to special needs, if he sees an institution neglected and unable to deliver to him and other citizens what it should because of lack of proper public support, his own millage will be in a tremendous portion of his consciousness. He will exercise the check upon public officers that every voter has and uses in this Kansas of these United States. The Kansan founded his educational institutions when he was struggling through pioneer hardships, douth, crop failures, and all sorts of accompanying commercial discouragements. He is jealous of these institutions. They are peculiarly his heritage. He wants to support them. And he wants to do it consciously. An hour's time lost in getting a wounded soldier to the hospital often means an amputated limb or a lost life. When the wounded and maimed come home are you going to have to think as every crippled soldier passes, "A few of my dollars given to the Red Cross might have saved that fellow's leg?" Your investment in the American Red Cross will bring dividends in real service to you and to your friend a over in France. The milleage tax tells him exactly what he himself is giving. His eye will be keener on the use made of what he does give. His appraisal of cost and result will put him once again into direct relationship with his institutions. There will be no leaving it all out to the general taxes—his share will count and he will participate in the accounting for it actually fulfills for him. A new Armory-Gymnasium and a Sincie Hall are being erected at the Oklahoma Agricultural College. Out of town subscriptions have brought the Third Liberty Loan total of the University of Illinois up to $220,000. The Red Cross is swift to succor wherever disaster may strike. POET'S CORNER Their hearts were hot as youth's with generous fire To give their utmost—wisdom said, too late— put dutty建国 cryed yea to their desire, And fearlessley they grasped the stone. By Amelia Josephine Burr CAREY'S MEN Between the Prussian tyrant and his goal The line of Britain's army broke and then Arose a land's imperishable soul, And England's laborers were Carey's men. Theirs was the task to build the roads for feet On the great march against the power of Mars,— They asked not if their drudgery were sweet, They only did it, till the holy stars Decreed that they should taste the Of sacrifice's costly joy—and then Shouting they leaped exultant to their And Yankee engineers were Carey's men. Scabbarded swords that God alone can know The temper of, we live our days—and then Grant us to meet Thy test like Carev's men! For each of us, at last. His bugles blow— CONTEMPORARY OPINION -Outlook. ETHICS "Yes, maybe, but I know where could buy one." — Widow. Ethics as the science of conduct which we have known in the past has received almost exclusively an individualistic' interpretation. Honest dealing with every other person as an individual has been all that is necessary to give a man a moral standing in the community. If a man mutuled the public by sharp practice and avoided the department of his taxes by other methods, he was moral being if his private life were clean, provided for his family, and was honest in his direct personal relationships. Inquisitor: And will you tell me—is the chin strap to keep the hat on? "Nom; it's to rest th' jaw after answerin' fool questions."—Life. While the concept of ethics has remained relatively stationary, we have made tremendous strides in mechanical efficiency. The capacity of production per unit of population has increased manifold during the past century. Modern engineering has made possible the construction of massive and lofty buildings with speed and comparatively low expense which has brought about vast concentrations of population, giving birth to our great modern cities. The discovery of steam as a motive power and the invention of the steam engine has enabled the human race to conquer the earth at a greatly accelerated rate. "No..oo. I never was exactly disappointed in love," he said. "I was what you might call discouraged. You see, when I was very young I became very much enamored of a young lady of my acquaintance. I was mortality afraid to tell her of my feeling, but at length I screwed up my courage to the proposing point. I said, 'Let's get married.' And she said, rWhy, who'd have us?"—Tit-Bits. The fortuitous circumstance of the contemporaneity of the discovery of steam and the birth of the American nation has saved us from the particularism of small nationalities which has been a source of belligerency in Europe. While all this mechanical speed, we have continued to do business on an outwork code of ethics which does not fit modern conditions. We must develop a conscience in regard to our relationship to society as well as in regard to our conduct toward individuals. The test of a truly modern man is his ability to think as a social unit—Washington "You would have to go a long way, my friend, to find a better cigar than that?" A pretty girl at an evening party was bantering a genial bachelor on his reasons for remaining single. MENTAL LAPSES ENTIRELY IMPERSONAL CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS For Rent For Sale Lost Found Help Wanted Unwanted Wanted Classified Advertising Rates Minimum charge, one insertion, 25c; two insertions, 50c; fifteen to twenty-five words, one insertion, 75c; fifteen to twenty-five words, two insertions, 75c; fifteen to twenty-five words, three insertions, 75c; first insertion, one-half cent a word each additional insertion with each hard given upon application. LEAGERS WANTED - War conditions 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—Furnished house for summer months. Inquire 1116 La. Phone 1835. 150-5-217 FOR RENT——Four rooms and a large sleeping porch to girls for the Summer Session, 1106 Ohio. FOR RENT-Large cool rooms with sleeping porch or would rent whole house furnished. Call 2344 Blue. 150-8-218 150-5-219 REWARD for return to owner—a 36 gauge single barrel, Iver Johnson shot gun. Lost about 7 o'clock Saturday afternoon on Ohio street, Louis Bourdon, University Club. LOST - Phi Beta Pi pin. Finder re- turn to Phi Beta Pi house. 153-3-22- LOST- Phi Bhi crest pin. Return to Kansan office. 153-5+2-29 FOR RENT-June, July and August, furnished modern house; good location; garage. Telephone K. U. 117. 102 392 6854 PROFESSIONAL DR. OR-LIP-Eye, Ear, Nose and Glass mills glass work guaranteed. Dick Building. AWRENCE OPTICAL CO. DR. H. REDING-F. A. U. Building. DR. H. REDING-F. A. U. Building. Hours 8, Nurses 9, to 5. Phone 513. Phone 513. LAWRENCE (Exclusive) Optometrist(s) Eye care specialist Jackson Kauppi, 297 Mass. Jackson Kauppi, 297 Mass. JOB PRINTING—B. H. DALE, 1027 Mass. St. Phone 228. G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynae, U. Nebraska, U. S.A. and hospital, 1201 Ohio St. Both phones, 35. GEELEER BOOK STORE - Quiz books, theme papers, maps, brochures, tracing, supplies. Pictures and picture framing, Agency and command Typewriters. 839 Mass. Street. The Red Cross means Morale. Every cent contributed to the war fund will be spent for war relief. HOTEL KUPPER Kansas City, Mo. Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District especially handy for ladies, being on Petticoat Lane. Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets WALTER S. MARS, Mgr. Spring is here!—so are the new fabrics for Spring Suits. SCHULZ The TAILOR 917 Mass. St. You Can't Make a Mistake by Giving Jewelry And with such a multitude of suggestions as this store offers we make your problem of selecting a graduation gift comparatively easy. Stop in and look around. SOL MARKS The Reliable Jeweler 817 Mass. 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