MAY 10, 1918. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF Geo. A. Montgomery...Editor-In-Chief James C. Hardace...Assoc. Editor John T. Helen...Society Editor Helen Pfeffer...Placer Editor Howard J. Morgan...War News Editor JUSINE8 STAFF NEWS STAFF Fred Rigby ... Business Manager Bowley Bobly Harry Morgan Dorothy Mary Marshall Davis Charles J. Slawson Ferdinand Gottlieb Mary Smith Herman Hagen Hockenborn Floyd Hockenbon Subscriptions price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1916, 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 Phones, Bell K. U, 25 and 66. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students, to go further than merely printing the news by standing for it and to play no favoriter; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be responsible; to have serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918 K. U. READY TO GO AHEAD The war; nothing else matters. K. U. READY TO GO AHEAD Despite the destruction by fire of half of Fowler Shops, the University will go right ahead with its work as though nothing had happened. The Engineers who are the ones most vitally affected by the loss came up the hill this morning, over a hundred strong, and pitched in to help in caring for the machinery and cleaning away the debris. Every University employee who can be spared is also on the job helping with the work. Authorities of the University and the School of Engineering met at the Chancellor's office this morning and in less than an hour had decided to put a temporary roof over the structure at once. The roof will be put on in a short time and the University will be ready to assist the Government in training soldiers, or in any other war work that may be required at any time it is called upon. Thus the University is proving that it is ready to do its part, and the state should be as prompt in permanently rebuilding, as the University has been in temporarily repairing, the loss. GUARDS SHOULD BE POSTED In spite of the fact that University authorities do not believe guards for the University buildings are necessary, it is well just now to give the matter serious consideration. All rumors of German complicity in yesterday's fire should be discounted, of course, until there is evidence that such was the case, but it must not be forgotten that there are German agents in this country; that those agents here already committed crimes that helped to delay the country's war preparations, and that with the University doing war work and preparing to train men here for war service, it is not at all impossible that those agents should consider buildings where such work is being done and apparatus to be used in training soldiers as legitimate prey for their crimes. With this in mind it would be only sensible for the University to post guards around those buildings where government war work is now being done, as well as around those where instruction might be given the coming summer to national army men. SHOPS MUST BE REBUILT Because of the utility of the shops by the Government during the war they should be permanently rebuilt as soon as it is actually possible to do it. How soon that can be done is not certain, as it is likely that it will be necessary to wait till the state legislature meets in order to get an appropriation for that purpose. However, the 'legislature', under the conditions, should not delay an appropriation a single minute after it convenes, since the shops will have to be rebuilt anyway, and the sooner it is done the more service the state will be able to render to the Government during the war. This is not the first time fire has broken out in the building. This should point out the necessity of making the building as nearly fireproof as is possible when it is rebuilt. All the framework of the old roof was of wood and burned readily as soon as the flames reached it. This framework should be replaced by steel girders that, in case of another fire, would not permit a roof to fall in as the old roof did. Fireproof floors that will not permit fire to spread from one story to another should be put in throughout the building. Fireproofing now will be cheaper than rebuilding after another such fire as that of last night. With Fowler Shops, their peculiar part of the University, half destroyed by fire on the eve of their annual holiday—a holiday the more impressive this year because they were to honor those from their school who have gone to serve the nation in war, the Engineers came up the hill this morning in overalls and jackets, and helped polish machinery and shovel debris till the hour set for their celebration, and then in their working clothes, went out and put on their parade and observed their ceremonies just as they had planned them before the fire. The University admires the Engineers for their work today. They have shown their caliber. DID THE WOMEN REALIZE? THEIR CALIBER Perhaps they didn't realize those women who disturbed a food conservation lecture—that those lectures are being given by the government. Perhaps they didn't realize that similar lectures are being given in every other college and university in America. Perhaps they didn't realize that those other colleges and universities report their women taking the work loyalty and enthusiastically. Perhaps they didn't realize that the women in the department of home economics who are giving the lectures are making a greater sacrifice than they are. Perhaps they didn't realize that the University would have been branded as unpatriotic if it had refused to install the lectures. Perhaps they didn't realize that action such as theirs would give critics a chance to brand the University as unpatricious. Perhaps they didn't realize that the war is to be won by women in kitchen and pantry and dining room as well as by men on the battle field. Perhaps they didn't realize. WHY NOT WRITE TODAY? A Columbia boy who has been in the front line trenches writes that he was glad to get out of the trenches and back to headquarters for he knew some letters would be waiting him there. But supposing no letters had been there? If you know someone who is "Somewhere in France" write him today; you would like to hear from him but letters do not mean as much to you as they do to him. He needs them. "The man who gets a letter from home is a fifty per cent better fighter that day than the man who does not. The great thing to do is to write-write-write. Always write cheerfully, even if you do not feel cheerful" says after Lawrence of the British Army, who is now in the United States. Everyone is disappointed when an expected letter fails to come; how much more so one must be when he is forced to fight for his home and country. Why not write today?—Evening Missouri. Proud Wife (to nervous friend in automobile): "I feel so safe with jeorge driving, now he has joined the led Cross. He is learning first aid, and knows where all the hospitals are."-London Opinion. CONTEMPORARY OPINION EACHERS AND In recent years it has come to be a common feeling that all teachers are underpaid and overworked. The subject of teachers' salaries is discussed, deplored, some one remarks that something ought to be done about it, and then it is dismised from the conversation. TEACHERS AND PATRIOTISM The other day a member of this underpaid profession remarked on the fact that many teachers are leaving their present positions to take the civil-service examination and enter some form of Government work which is made attractive both by the feeling of patriotism which goes with the duties and by the more attractive monetary side. While great possibilities are opening up every day for those who seek to do Government work, one can but deplore the fact that this sort of service should carry with it a feeling of patriotism which is absent from the profession of teaching. Especial emphasis has been laid by the country's leaders on the need of keeping up to the mark in educational activities, whether of public school, high school or university, during the war. Educational training must continue regardless (or rather regardful) of the carriage on the other side of the water. The very war situation makes it all the more necessary. While perhaps not so spectacular in results or likely to win the applause of the teacher, it is also the country by the teacher should be as ready an outlet for patriotism as any service one could mention. Heroic deeds and unusual acts a patriotism will always stand out in connection with the war. But quite as proficient in bringing about the final results to be sought for, will be those who have served the forces of the country toward their goal of universal service—Ohio State Lantern. NO RETALIATION The State Department has begun an inquiry to confirm the press reports of ill-treatment of American prisoners of war in Germany. If the reports are true, retaliatory measures will be considered. Heretofore German prisoners of war have been treated with marked liberality by the United States. For instance, a German prisoner of captain rank receives the same pay as an American officer of the same rank. As the American officer is the highest paid in any army in the world, the German receives it. In the German army, such generosity on the part of the United States has met with adverse criticism from some quarters. It would seem that such treatment ers rather on the side of virtue, is rather too much of a good thing, but retaliation for German cruelties is more to be avoided. For three reasons the latter system should have careful consideration before being taken up. It is hard to ascertain the truth concerning the alleged atrocious care American prisoners receive, because the Germans will permit prison inspection only of those camps that it selects, and there is little fault to be found with them. Retaliatory measures would give truth to the tales the German officers tell their men of the treatment of prisoners by Americans. Former Mayor Mitchel, of New York, was talking at a dinner about office-seekers. But greatest is the third reason. America is fighting a war for ideals. Germany and German cruelties are on the other side of the great divide.—Evening Missourian. "Yes, sir, though the dead man hadn't been buried, yet this office-secker came to me and said, breathlessly: "Mr. Mayor, do you see any objec tion to me being put in, poor Tom Smith?" MENTAL LAPSES "A good man had just died," he said, "and with unseasonable waste an officer killed." "Who, no,' said I. 'Why, no, I see no objection, if the undertaker does v't." - Washington Star. It was kit inspection in a certain military camp on the Yorkshire coast, and the men in one hut stood to attention when the officer came in. He stopped opposite one fellow, and asked him what he did in civil life. The man replied: "A carter, sir." To the next man he put the same question; he had been a weaver. The officer then stopped, facing a miserable-looking chap. A passenger by train wanted to read, but a man opposite would persist in trying to talk. After several brief replies the reader became irri- "Well, and what were you in civil life, my man?" He replied, "Aw were very happy sir"—Passing Show. "The grass is very green, isn't it?" said the would-be conversationalist, pleasantly. "Yes." was the answer; "such a change from the blue and red grass we've been having lately!"—Tit-Bits. For Rent For Sale Lost Found Help Wanted Stuart Wanted Telephone K. 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