UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 13, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kampong
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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.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phone: FELL K. U. 25 and 66.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of U.C. students, to further than merely print the news by standing for the University and to play no face to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable, to be courageous; to be wiser heads; in all, to serve to wiser heads; in all, to serve the students of the University.
MONDAY, MAY 13, 1918.
The war; nothing else matters.
"UNSER GOTT"
The President's Memorial Day proclamation after a year of our war is significant when compared with the utterances of the leader of the nations against which the United States and its allies are fighting. The Kaiser addresses the Almighty as the peculiar god of the Germans and asks him to be on the side of Germany and German arms.
The President in his proclamation instead of asking God to be on our side asks his people to pray that they may be on the side of God, and exherts his fellow citizens to "assemble in their places of worship and there, as well as in their homes, to pray Almighty God that He may forgive our sins and shortcomings as a people and to purify our hearts to se and love the truth; to accept and defend all things that are just and right, and to purpose only the righteous acts and judgments which are in conformity with His will."
SIMPLICITY AND ECONOMY
No share of the national annual six million dollar waste in graduation frills and furbelows will be expended by the students graduating from the University of Kansas. They always have been economical, but this year of years is going to be the most radically simple and economical.
While merchants advertise regularbridal trossseau for high schoolgraduates, suits for the youngmen at the academy, commencement frocks and flowers for the little ladywho is finishing her boarding schoolcareer, the seniors of K. U. aregetting measured for caps and gownsthat will dignify them despite whatthey wear underneath. One mighthave on overalls here and gracefullywear a scholar's simple robe.
Graduation is something more than a spectacle here in Kansas. It is a solemn rite. Its ceremonial is sacredly simple in the straightforward expression of consecration to the higher good and practical common interests of community, state, and nation. A binding vow is laid on all those who depart. They are bound to the very end they came here for. Their people shall not be sorry if they had the same end in view. This year a greater work lies before them. K. U. is especially in Kansas. Kansas has its sleeves rolled up. So has K. U. Now that the Third Liberty Loan is passed, another must be made ready for and a Red Cross drive is due in between. The labor of the harvest is near. Other labors lie just beyond. Kansan will do its utmost. So will K. U. There is a reason. K. U. is different. It was made by Kansans in
Kansas to do the things that Kansas want done.
SHE ARRIVES
Let's hand it to her. The University of Kansas woman has come into her own. She hasn't been a sub on the football and baseball squads, although she did add volume to the cheering, but she certainly proved she was not a frivolous, empty-headed child seeking the "social benefits of highereducation." She had done something this year.
The Kanaan's staff, depleted constantly by loss of men going to war she has kept alive and alert to what is required of it every University day. She has learned to apply the essentials of food conservation by diligent study. In her Christian Association's practical war policy she has taken up work long since gone to the front left behind. The women have taken the men's empty places. What is more they have just about filled them. They are not saying so. But the men know. They have not usurped. They have substituted just as have their sisters outside of universities all over the country.
Hats off! Her mettle is known.
Her power is unquestioned. She has arrived.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
PRESIDENT AS MAN OF LETTERS
I have not in this short study attempted any critical estimate of President Wilson's place in American literature. My object has been simply to show that, whatever else he may be, he is a man of letters to the fingerprints—a man steaked in literary traditions and possessed of fine literary gifts. He can make political science readable to the layman (no small achievement, by the way), and he can make history fascinating without imparting to it the cheap overcoloring of fiction or the hectic fervor of partisanship.
This aspect of his genius is not sufficiently recognized either here or in his own country. His administrative achievements, both in education and politics, and his fame as a statesman, have eclipsed his repute as an author. But there can be little doubt that if he had abandoned the contemplative for the active life he would have taken a high place among contemporary writers of the English language; and, even as it is, it ought not to be forgotten that this great president is at the same time an accomplished and attractive man of letters.-William Archer in the Fortnightly Review.
BREAD CARDS AND DEMOCRACY
"If we are not supposed to eat wheat, why doesn't the government issue bread cards?" said a student helping himself to a second piece of white bread.
it may be necessary to have bread cards, but if it is, it will be because the democratic plan upon which the entire program of the Food Administration was established has fallen down. When Mr. Hoover became Food Administrator, he said that it should not be necessary to compel, that it ought only to be essential to put the facts before people, they would then do what was necessary without compulsion.
Bread cards ought not be a necessity in a country fighting to keep democracy safe at home—Daily Illini.
ARE YOU WORTH DYING FOR
Over yonder brave men are suffering and dying for you.
What have you done to deserve their devotion? What are you doing that can meet in part the obligation?
If you are not serving, lending to the point of sacrifice, you are not worth the point.
Are you worth dying for??
"Did you go yachting with your girl afternoon?"
runk it over—Chicago Evening Post. /
"Oh, no; we just had a little smack on shore." -Florida Times-Union.
Mary had a little land,
She put it out to wheat,
And then she hesitated
To see what she shouted.
Mary had a little land,
She put it out to wheat.
And then she hesitated To see what she should eat
The question followed her about,
It followed her to school,
And then the teachers lectured
KANSAN PRIZE POEM CONTENT
Every One Deserves Something
THREE CHEERS FOR MARY!
Jessie Lea Messier
The question asked her mind.
It followed her to school,
And there the teachers lectured
Proportion is the rule.
"Twenty-four hundred calories
Are all that you must eat;
A single slice of war bread,
And even less of meat.
"And oh remember Mary,
O sweets you mustn't think;
Forsake all kinds of candy,
For sugar's on the blink.
Instead buy lots of popcorn,
Buy lots of peanuts too.
And then perchance, as recompense
He'll march home to you"
WOMEN AND THE WAR
University women interested in the positions open to them as described in this column may get more details about the work and conditions by applying to Miss Margaret Lynn, of the Department of English.
In the clerkships under the Civil Service Commission, positions for map colorists, law clerks, fingerprint classifiers, and multigraph machine operators, are listed with salaries ranging from $750 to $1800 a year.
Women chauffeurs may do volunteer work in the United States with local branches of organizations conducting war relief work. They may also volunteer for service abroad in the American Red Cross Motor Corps
Canteen work offers a big opportunity to volunteer women war workers. This work is done in railroad stations and clubs for soldiers and sailors. Foreign canteen service is under the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Cross. No salaries are paid, and only women who speak French and who are between 26 and 45 years of age will be considered.
Women are accepted for Americanization work, as canvassers and survey makers, as teachers of English and civics to foreigners, and as speakers before foreign audiences.
Dietitians for service abroad are wanted by the American Red Cross.
MENTAL LAPSES
"Any rings? Any old iron?" chanted the dealer, as he knocked at the suburban villa. The man of the house himself opened the door.
"No, go away," he snapped, irritably. "There's nothing for you. My wife is away."
The itinerant merchant hesitated a moment, and then inquired: "Any old bottles?"—Wit and Humor.
Flinty: "Wrong Why, 'ere I worked 'ard fer 'a day painting up a sparrier inter a Belgian canary, and I'm blowed if the fellow I sold it to didn't give me a bad half-crown it"—Tit-Bits.
Flinty: "It's a shame, Bill, to think that any one would swindle a poor, ard-working man in that way."
NOT A PERMANENT OBJECTION
Prospective Tenant—I like the house, but I don't fancy having that huge building opposite. It cuts out the view.
Stubble: "Why, what's wrong wi' ver now?"
"No, mamma, I didn't," answered Bobby. "I just said: 'This house smells as if it was full of cookies, but what's that to me?'"
"Bobby," said his mother, "you haven't been begging cookies from Mrs. Nexdore again? You know I told you you mustn't do such a thing when you went in there."
Agent—Oh, but that's only a muntion factory. It may blow up any day.
"Suhe he is; if he went out he might lose his identity."—Cartoons Magazine.
A MATTER OF COLOR
A YOUNG DIPLOMAT
"I think that little Ethiopian aprite is afraid of the dark."
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