UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 14, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Vienna
EDITORIAL STAFF
**GEO. A. Montgomery..** Editor-In-Chief
James **A. Hardace..** Assistant News Editor
Helen Peffer... Society News Editor
Howard C. Morgan... Plainfield News Editor
Howard C. Morgan... War News Editor
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Fred Richy ... Business Manager
Wayne Wilson ... Assistant
Alice Bowley Harry Morgan Donald Davis Martin Chargel J. Shawson Perdinand Gottlieb Mary Smith Torman Hangen Fordyce Floyd Hockenhall
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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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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students, and to go further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University has taught us to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be intelligent; to have serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1918.
SIGNIFICANCE REALIZED
The war; nothing else matters.
SIGNIFICANCE REALIZED Memorial Day has been left to old soldiers and their next of kin and a few generous enthusiasts for too many years now. Other people have ignored these patient sentimentalists, or endured them, or humored them. Other people have done with the day what they pleased.
Memorial Day has been reserved for cleaning the furnace, hauling away the accumulation of ashes, and shifting the furniture to summer positions. Families have had fights and picnics. Many have promenced in dress parade to ball grounds to see an athletic contest sizzle while the old codgers in blue stumbled to the resting place of their comrades and sang their battle hymns.
The President of the United States has spoken the higher purpose of his people. He has called them to prayer with him as the nation's sacred altar. Every American must be mindful of the Past. The soldiers of Sixty-one both North and South shall be honored for what their sons have done in this new day and they shall honor their sons. For what another Memorial Day is bound to mean, this Memorial Day of 1918 shall be something different. It is a Sabbath of memories, a Sabbath of thanks to God, and a Sabbath of supplication to the God of all men that America may be clean of heart, clear of mind, and strong in purpose to Do his Will for the good of mankind. Let no irreverent un-American act or utterance profane this day!
ESSAY: THE GAB-FEST
It takes two to make a gab-fest and here at K. U, any number from that upward may spend an evening or an afternoon engaged in one of these feats of mastersly eloquence. It is customary always to gather in the room of someone who happens to want to study, and there to hold forth at great length on any designated subject or on no subject at all
Skilled gab-festers who observe all the rules of the game always group themselves artistically on the bed, in any position which may strike them as comfortable. More bed-spreads have been ruined for K. U. landlads through the pernicious influence of the gab-fest than from the most violent wrestling matches ever staged in a rooming house.
The gab-fest is the paradise of the "moocher." On such occasions he can "mooch" more "smokin'" than at any other kind of a gathering. A package of "scags" at a gab-fest lasts about as long as the proverbial tallow dog in Hades in pursuit of the well-known astescat boss.
The gab-fest seldm accomplishes anything; it merely wastes time.
occasionally a dare-devil wager results, occasioned by some long-winded gabber's over-supply of gab, and then, after the bet is settled, there is material at hand for another feet. It is only the student who is boning for a quiz or writing his mid-term in the room selected by the assemblage who learns anything. He remembers swar-word which he had long since forgotten, and manages to tear his hair in various untried ways.
The gab-fest, a combination of debating society and minstrel show, is a peculiar institution of K. U. student life. The flow of spontaneous wit and humor, to say the least, is remarkable. Even profs are known to indulge occasionally, of course in a rather more clandestine manner than the studies, but their utterances at such times are very like the things heard at typical undergraduate gabfests.
At this season of the year, the gabest is beginning to move out on the front porch, and any evening scores of them may be seen and heard in the student district in Lawrence. In a few weeks, however, the sound of the gabest will no longer be heard here. But the fests in the village drug store back home will be enlivened by the addition of college-trained men.
--lim in the shifting mist of early
CAMPUS OPINION
Dear Editor:
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. The name will then join the date, but the editor must know who is writing the communication as evidence of communication. Communications are welcome.
At the first of the semester a ruling was made by the University Senate excluding seniors from final examinations if they had grades of A or B. This ruling was made on the supposition that seniors with those and would have to be so without being burdened with final examinations.
The fact that they were seniors who had done four years of University work was to be taken as evidence of their sincerity and their interest in their work. Four years of training in the University was to be accepted as evidence of their ability to organize their work. And there is no plausible excuse for the wearing and wearying ordeal except as proof of the ability of the student to organize the work he has covered.
But this ruling didn't foil the profs who have had the habit of piling up work for the students at the end of the year. It is their last chance at the seniors, and examinations are very much in their favor, in nearly every class in which seniors are enrolled a week or so before time for finals.
This isn't fair, either to the seniors, who are supposed to be excused, or to the juniors who will thereby be required to take two finals. It simply means overworked classes as usual, except that this year they will be more overworked than ever before. There is something wrong if the profs have fallen into such a rut that they cannot estimate the work of the seniors without subjecting them to final examinations.
A. Senior.
MENTAL LAPSES
"Are the Comeups in mourning for their里 uncle who left them so much nearer."
"No, they are only in black for him."-San Francisco Chronicle.
"What," said the lady who does her own marketing, "is the price of these chickens?"
GLAD RATHER
"A dollar and a quarter apiece ma'am," replied the market woman. "Did you raise them yourself?" asked the lady.
"One wife too many!" exclaimed Mrs. Wedler, as she glanced at the headlines of her husband's paper. "I suppose that is an account of the doings of some bigamist?"
"Not necessarily, my dear," replied her husband, without daring to look up.
"Oh, yes, ma'm. They was only a dollar ten last week," they were the reply
NOT NECESSARILY
"Telephones are great time savers, aren't they?"
"Well, that depends upon who calls you up."—Ex.
KANSAN PRIZE POEM CONTENT
Every One Deserves Something
falf hidden in the star-stabbed dusk
of night
Gem-sparkling in the noonday's yellow light,
THE LILAC HEDGE By Edith Roles
The long low lilac hedge half spans the lawn.
How many springs have seen your branches break
At April's bidding into perfumed maze,
Of subtle lilac loveliness—a haze
milk latexiness and
hitting mystic fragrance in its
wake.
low many hands have touched your shimmering lace—
What could you tell if you might
sneak—what lore
Of love and hope and joy of youth,
of yore
And now, you've listened to in silent grace.
Perhaps has felt the light caress or lust
You could tell us all of life—a grave or two
Tears may have mingled with you blossoms' dew.
One blossom from your store—upon its dust,
When I am very old, I think, ano friend.
And happening of my youth are dim to me.
In all its old still beauty I shall see
That long low lilac hedge on Orcen
Red Cross News
FROM THE ARMY IN WHICH ALL OF US ARE ENLISTED
The quota of Red Cross nurses for the southwestern division required to meet the demands of the army and navy service is 605 before June 1 and 2,500 before January 1. This quota has been worked out on the basis of the most comprehensive survey ever made by the American Nurses' Association of the nursing resources in the United States.
Secretary Baker is authority for the statement that the presence of the Red Cross in France turing the past ten months has been worth a million and a half men in the trenches. It has strengthened the morals of the fighting forces to such an extent that army authorities are beginning to regard it as one of the most important elements of the armies.
Rules have been changed so that young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty may now go to Italy as ambulance drivers. Men within the draft, showing physical disability sufficient to put them in class five may also be taken.
A new post office rule prevents friends from sending many comforts to the boys over there. However many articles are received by the Red Cross which may be shipped in bulks is in the hands of parents and relatives of soldiers to send every comfort to the soldiers at the front.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
LEARN ABOUT THE Criticism and discussion of governmental policies in war time may be valid or harmful, depending upon the judgment and information possessed by the individual who does the talking.
The much exercised American prerogative of free speech has found and will continue to find a vast field for its outlet in war situations. College students and college professors—and every one else—are talking about the war. Nor is it wrong that they should be. They are great offenders if they take a stand on grounds of ignorance or misinformation. But college men and women may just as truly be powerful defenders if they labor in the promotion of accurate knowledge about the war—defenders of the Allies of their own country, and of the colleges as places of learning.
There is nothing more ludicrous or pathetic to hear a man argue about some great question of the World War when he possesses absolutely no definite information. Even the highest officials and greatest thinkers can not definitely foretell future. But what knowledge there is available of the past and present should be a constant field of inquiry
LEARN ABOUT THE WAR
should be a comment for the college man."Cornell Sun.
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