UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 15, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kufraa
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918.
The war; nothing else matters.
"BENEATH THE STARRY FLAG"
THE STARRY FLAG
They will come home. They will bring back the flags. Some will have fallen under those banners, but their country will never forget them. They will be remembered as they marched away, as they fought, as they died.
But the rest of that great host of five millions will tramp by in review. Washington shall see them. Woodrow Wilson will stand day after day to salute them as they pass by. The whole United States won't be able to keep back the others—and tears—as they pass by.
"And beneath the starry flag they will breathe the air again, in the freedom of their own beloved home!"
There will be monuments and memorials. North and South and East and West throughout all generations the soldiers of America shall be given the honor and the glory. Memorial Day then—when the world is free, when right has conquered might and the truth stands revealed with justice and mercy to be the guide of men in dealing with men—the soldiers of the Greatest Cause will march and all the people shall call them deliverers, and all the people shall hold them and their day blessed.
A MIGHTY VICTORY AHEAD
Our country is on the road to a mighty victory—a victory not only over our enemies in the field, but a victory over ourselves. The American people are going to conquer some of their habits of extravagance and waste, both among individuals and in the operation of financial, mercantile, and industrial machinery of the country. Another victory over ourselves will be the broadening of our commercial vision. We are going to see our opportunities to serve the world with a clearer purpose.
We are going to see more vividly the results of the neglect of our public duties as individual units of our democracy. We are going to be more efficient in every way. The great war, deplelar and horrible as it is, will make better citizens of us—will elevate our ideals, intensify our devotion to them and inspire us with a desire to render an ever-increasing service to humanity.
Once, in Texas, a visitor came upon a tall chimney, like a factory chimney, rising in an arid waste.
"Friend," he said to a native, "what is that chimney doing there?"
"That nint's no chimney!" said the native. "its a well." "well," she added.
“Yes,” said he. “It’s old Jeff Thatcher’s well. A cyclone turned her upside down and inside out.”—Washington Star.
CAMPUS OPINION
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. All communications less the author no states, but the editor must know who is writing the communication as evidence of the author's knowledge. Communications are welcome.
Editor of the Kansan:
Why doesn't the Kansan start a campaign to get the offices at Fraser Hall to open up before the eight o'clock classes in the morning and before the one o'clock classes in the afternoon? Ever since the class schedule was changed so the classes began on the hour instead of the half hour it has been impossible to get into these offices before the first classes in the morning and the afternoon.
The University authorities have imply required the students and the professors to get to classes a half hour before the end of their term, employees to change their schedule.
In the case of the post office, especially, this causes great inconvenience. For instance, one student mails his laundry home each week. This must be weighed each time to determine the amount of laundry the student has an eight o'clock class in the morning and a one o'clock class in the afternoon.
In order to mail this package he has to make a trip clear to the Lawrence post office or bring the package to the hill and carry it to a class in the Ad Building and then back to Fraser to mail it.
It seems to me like there is no excuse for such conditions. Those offices are for the convenience of the students, and when they cease to be that it is time that something should be done.
Certainly it is not unreasonable to ask that those offices be opened at least ten or fifteen minutes before the first classes. It may be a little late for such a schedule to be adopted this year, but it could be done. If it was not dated this year, it should be started with the opening of one next year.
What do the Kansan and other stu-
dents on the hill think about it?
A Student.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
UNIVERSITIES AND THE WAR
There has come a feeling, more and more intense as summer approaches, that the coming months will put the war-time position of the American university to the acid test of real national service. Where a year ago college men poured by the thousands into military camps and naval training stations, today universities have no such offering to make. Their students, on the whole, are young or physically unfit men. Their problem is to effectively train these men for the needs of the future. This is the test; it can be met in two ways.
In the first place, the university should provide proper military training for those students who will sooner or later enter active service. The Harvard R. O. T. C. has accomplished this in a way which leaves little to be desired. In this direction Harvard has surely fulfilled its obligations.
In the second place, the university should provide a maximum of educational training. During the college year Harvard has done this. Plans for the summer months, however, fall short of the attainment of this standard. The long vacation, with provisions for only a limited summer school course, offers a serious obstacle to the men who desire to go as far as possible in college before asking their country's call. In the times of war there is therefore need (as has been suggested) of an all-year college term, or of an intensive summer school. The equipment is at hand, which in any case should not be kept idle. Proper instruction would no doubt be provided by members of the faculty. The whole plan entails such an economy and such a real service, that it must necessarily meet with the consideration of the university.
We cannot be satisfied with a college life which is but veneered with superficial war activity. The American university must come down to the grim reality of giving its all and doing its utmost toward the final victory.—Harvard Illustrated.
HAS THE WAR BEGUN FOR YOU?
A year ago, graduate of this school was asked the question, "What do you want to make of yourself?" Answer was: "I first intend to make a MAN out of myself." The graduate has made a man of himself. He is at present at home sacrificing a college education in order to help educate his younger brother and sister. He is in the draft, he subscribes
to all Red Cross benefits, and is a purchaser of Liberty Bonds. The war has begun for him, as he not only does his bit but keeps on doing his share. For many of the high school students the war has not begun.
We cannot call them slackers, as they are patriotic, but they have not begun to realize the importance of the struggle in Europe, or the importance of maintaining the upkeep of the morale of the soldiers.
In the colleges men taking general courses are being drafted into the army, while those who are training themselves with a goal and a definite purpose, such as engineers, doctors, etc., are being trained to finish their purposes, for they are of the kind of men that the government will want after the war.
For the majority of the seniors the war has begun, mostly, because of their sudden awakening and the realization of what they must be after the war is over. This has been brought about by their graduation this spring. Let us then be realmers of that realization that we are involved in a great devastating war, which we must wn, and that we must also prepare ourselves to meet the great problems that will confront us after the war—Harvard Lampoon.
The Germans do not believe in reproiciomy. Since the Allies have started raiding parties of their own, the brave enemy would call it quits on both sides. "It is cruel, wanton, destructive," they are saying.
STOP THE AIR RAIDS?
When the war began, the Zeppelin were heralded as the greatest invention of the age, as the one way by which the controversy would be won. The raids on the English coast were considered moral victories, and celebrations were in order to restore the wastess of helpless women and children. Nothing was thought then, of the cruelty, the wantonness, the destructiveness.
The German attitude is curiously childish. Germans do not know how to play the game fairly. They remind one of the two brothers, one a big lad of twelve, the other a baby of five. The mother asked the elder why he did not share part of his candy with his brother, why he was not fair. "I don't have to be fair," was the answer. "I'm bigger."
When Germany was bigger and more powerful, she did not know how to be fair. Now that the Allies have grown up to be quite as big and powerful, she would still like to play the game according to her own changing rules. But the time for that is past. Germany showed us how to break rules. "It shall go hard, but we will better the instruction."
We will stop the air raids, yes—when the war is over.—Michigan Daily.
MENTAL LAPSES
"Why the noise "
"The barber is shaving himself."
"But why the argument?"
"He is trying to persuade himself to have a shammo." - Record.
Company commander, exasperated at rookie's tardiness: "See here, are you with us in this war or not?" —Boston Transcript.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
Chandler, 2016.
*What does he raise when he sows wild wilds a correspondent. Well, we know one young man who raised checks. And his crop led to a close crop in the State's prison.—Boston Transcript.*
CORRESPONDENT ANSWERED
Then the Plunkville merchant hung on.
OFFICE MELODRAMA "I'll get you some day!"
"I'll get you some day," he hissed,
"even if the telephone service in Plumville is rotten."—Kansas City Journal.
CONSOLING
Bobby—Grandpa why do you look so sad?
OFFICE MELODRAMA
Grandpa-Ah, my lad, I was just thinking, here I am seventy years of age and I have done nothing that is necessary to make posterity remember me—nothing.
Bobby—Oh, well, don't worry,
grandpa. Maybe you'll have a chance
to live in history as somebody's grand-
father.—Ex.
WHAT MACAULAY NEVER IMAGINED It was not a New Zealand sitting amid the ruins of London, as Macaula once pictured him as doing in the dim future, but mounted Australians leading General Allenby's troops in the capture of Jericho, that gave the world occasion to moralize on the strange turn of events.—New York World.
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SWEETENED NEWS
Food Administrator Tells How It Is Possible to Eat Candy and Still Be a Patriot.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14
—(Special)—it is possible to eat candy and satisfy your sweet tooth and still be a patriot. Food administrator Hoover, in a formal statement today, said:
“There are at least four groups of candy made from absolutely whole, unprocessed nuts. The first includes chocolate and cocoa candies with centers of nuts, fruits, fruit paste, marmalades, and fushihi chocolate creams with the bitter coating, and the uncoated soft candy with the unprocessed Turkish pastes similar varieties.
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