UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 16, 1918.
JNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Karpovs
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Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
The Dally Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of a doctor, for further than merely printing the news about a university, to play no favor in university holds; to play no favor in be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous to be brave and to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University, to help the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918
AN R O T C FOR K I.
The war; nothing else matters.
With all the officers' training camps closed to men from the University of Kansas because the University has no course in military training that is recognized by the Government, University authorities are to be commended for their efforts to get a branch of the R. O. T. C. established here next year.
This will enable the men who are enrolled at the University to feel justified in remaining in school. They will be able to feel that if continuing their education they are not shirking the responsibilities thrust upon them by the war, since at the same time they will be preparing themselves for the highest kind of service when the nation has need for them.
With a branch of the R. O. T. C. located at K. U., men who are waiting their draft call will be able to take training to fit them for the military work which the government will call upon them to perform. Men below the draft age will also be able to take the training, and when they reach the draft age will be trained and ready to render the maximum of service in the shortest length of time after being called.
This plan, if adopted, will be the greatest step taken by the University to prepare its students to do their part in the war. With the Government planning an army of from three to five million men, there will be a great demand for officers. The Government desires to secure as these officers as many educated and trained men as possible. This plan will enable the University to offer its men to the Government to fill the places for which college men should be prepared.
With an R. O. T. C. here the problem of military drill for the University will be solved. The units will be officered throughout by army officers, and all of the equipment will be furnished by the Government. It will be conducted on the plan worked out for all of the R. O. T. C.'s throughout the country, and will do away with the imperfections existent in the present plan of drill.
It is the University's one big opportunity to assume its just share of responsibility in preparing its men to do their part in 'winning the war.
ALL IN IT
When the marching orders come to a k. R. U. R. T. C. they must be for every last able bodied man who comes up the Hill next September. Not one shall get "exemption" or take tennis or climb trees or go fishing in place of the military training.
Be it understood, therefore, that
his R, O. T, C. is not a measure for physical exercise to promote health, although it undoubtedly will incidentally do all this, but is first and last a military obligation, a military training for military purposes of a state and nation confronted by grave necessity. There are no excuses. The discipline must be rigid. Men shall obey it or get out and go back where they came from. Kansas doesn't want them. K. U. doesn't want them. The United States doesn't want them if they fail in the primary duty of today. They will just have to sneak out of sight.
The uniforms will be here, the guns will be here, and the U. S. officers will be here. Get into the uniforms, take the guns, and convince those officers what sort of men Kansas makes for their country. All the year through, no kiddish "cuts," no substitutions, no thought except for the big thing that must be done. Freshmen and sophomores of course will be in it. They will be beginning. But junior and seniors sooner to see service must be there too. Studies will be done in addition. All must be done. And the man who fails to come up to the measure of next year's whole big job gets a slacker's emblem.
So when the University is in uniform and under arms and a sweet young things in serge coat and white flannel breeches struts across the top of Oread there will be a reaction. He will need wings. He will need speed. And it won't be safe for him to come back.
But there won't be any question about discipline. All in it, all for their own biggest and best interests and their country's—there won't be any administrative problem of getting men to do their duty. They will do it out of their hearts and with their wills. And they will make the great duty apply to every man in their reach. This is what army men all MORALE!
RedCrossNews
FROM THE ARMY IN WHICH
ALL OF USJARE ENLISTED
The American Red Cross since the beginning of the war has grown from 500,000 to 22,000,000 adults and more than 15,000,000 juniors.
More than 27,000,000 surgical, dressings have been sent to France, by the American Red Cross, since April 1917.
There are warehouses of the American Red Cross at every camp any cantonment where there are troops quartered.
The American Red Cross has raised $106,000,000 for relief work at home and abroad. The second campaign calls for $100,000,000.
The American Red Cross has commissions to Belgium, Italy, Russsta, France, Roumania, Serbia.
Millions of women have worked easelyly to contribute knitted articles, surgical dressings, hospital garments and refugee clothing these women have contributed time o the value $40,000,000.
MENTAL LAPSES
"What is the meaning of 'alter ego'?" asked the teacher of the be-
"He winked his alter ego,"—Boston Transcript.
"This picture," he said, stopping before one of his early efforts, "is one I painted to keep the wolf from the door.
BRIGHT BOSTON PUPIL
"Give me a sentence containing the phrase."
A rising young artist was showing a lady through his studio.
"It means the 'other I,' responded a pupil.
"indeed!" replied the woman.
"Then why don't you hang it on the knob where the wolf can see it?"
The young man had talked for ten or fifteen minutes without a break, when the girl at the other end of the wire interrupted:
HER EAR WAS TIRED
"Just a moment, Guy," she said.
"What is it. Fleda?"
"I want to change the receiver to the other ear. This one's tired."
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CAMPUS OPINION
It is getting very tiresome to be continually losing belongings such as hats, gloves, and overcats, especially when those articles have been taken from the same individual in the same semester from various cloakrooms and halls in the buildings on the campus.
Editor of the Kansan.
A green Borsalino hat was taken this morning from the cloakroom in Spooner Library between the hours of nine and eleven. The initials of the owner are stamped in the hatband, and the name and address of the owner are placed in the lining, and also written on inside of the band, itself.
Whether such articles of clothing are taken by mistake or intentionally is hard to determine, but when an innocent person discovers that he has some article that does not belong to him he should, at least, try to find the owner and inform him of the whereabouts of his property.
—“Frank.”
WOMEN AND THE WAR
Clerks qualified in modern languages will be selected for government service by competitive examinations held in various cities (including Lawrence) May 22-23 and June 19-20. Competitors qualified in any one of the following languages may apply—Dano-Norwegan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Russian.
A call has gone out for women to serve as bacteriological technician. Vacancies in the medical section of the War Department will be filled at salaries ranging from $1200 to $1800 for one year, and from $400 to $600 for the application of laboratory diagnostic methods to the routine of general hospital work.
The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an open competitive examination for preparator in entomology, for both men and women, May 22 and 23.
Civil Service examinations for electrical draftsmans are open to both men and women. Applications wilt be received at any time.
Women with a Ph.D. degree may apply for the position of assistant clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Examination will be held June 11. Salary is $1200 a year and maintenance.
ON OTHER "HILLS"
Three of the fraternity houses a the University of Chicago are to be remodelled for women's dormitories this spring. Owing to the great number of men who have gone into war work, the remaining students have been forced to change their toation.
The Kansas Industrialist of K. S. A. C. advises goats to keep down the h. c. l., for aside from eating all kinds of scraps, the milk is nutritious and useful.
The University of Oklahoma is offering a course in military drill for summer session for men wishing to qualify as instructors in cadet corps.
The University of Wisconsin has elected forty-two new members to Phi Beta Kappa. Thirty-one of these are women.
Registration this semester at the University of Washington is cut in half.
Michigan University is erecting a building in connection with the engineering shops for the instruction of army mechanics. It will accommodate 500 additional mechanics.
A drive is on at Indiana University for 600 pairs of socks for soldiers before the close of the semester.
Iowa State College sent thirty men and Illinois one hundred men to the fourth officers' training camp which opened May 12 at Camp Dodge.
Students of Ohio State University are voting on the question of an honor system.
A training school for six hundred auto mechanics and radio operators will be conducted this summer by Tulane University at New Orleans.
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The Gift Shop Offers the Largest Assortment of Appropriate Gifts for Graduation—
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735 Massachusetts 8L.
The Original Marks Jewelry Store
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McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
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Toilet and Shaving Needs
Kodak Supplies
Welkos Drug Store Formerly Evans' 819 Mass.
Diamonds, Watches, Silverware,
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Jeweler—725 Mass. St.
Jewelry of the Better Sort
Summer Comfort
The patented elastic clotch stretches easily as you move about—no binding or bunching—moves just like your skin.
You want to be comfortable always—but particularly in hot weather. That's why you ought to wear *Sheded*.
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Long wear, too. Where does the ordinary union suit begin to rip? At the crock. Sheddar doesn't. The give at the crock takes up all
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Made in fine materials - madras, nainook, etc. Tailor-
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WASH SKIRTS
Wash Skirts of Pre-Shrunk Gaberdine at prices less than last year.
$4.50 to $8.00
SMOCKS
Big Check Gingham Smocks. Made of best quality fast colored Gingham.
Price $2.00
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