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UNIVERSITY DAILY KA
MAY 8,1918.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918
BY THEIR WORKS
In June another senior class will go out from the University to take its place with the already large number of K. U. alumni. Every member of this class, whether he will it or not, will become an advertisement, good or bad, for his Alma Mater. People through the state are watching the sons and daughters of the University to see what they are and what they can do. From the alumni of the University the people form their opinion of the institution.
The wcr; nothing else matters.
Where the graduate goes or what he does makes little difference. So long as his work is honorable and he does it well he will be a good advertisement for the University. The alumnus who does nothing or whose work is not creditable or reputable is also an advertisement, but that advertisement is of the kind that repels rather than attracts. Such an advertisement can undo the work of many good ones.
University men and women going back to their homes after four years in college should be fitted to render a greater service than could have been possible without their education. They have had a superior training and the community has a right to expect more of them than of those who have had no such training. Graduates of this year's class who have the good of the University at heart will remember this, and will go out to live such a life and render such a service as will make them worthy of the institution that graduated them.
Without saying who killed it, or saying that anyone did anything more than let it die when it could have lived, undeniably the death of the bill for drafting aliens can be laid to a willfully negligent Congress.
PREMATURE DEMISE
Somebody said something last summer about foreign diplomatic complications arising from an alien draft, but answer came from every one of the allies to go ahead. Russia, home of races that constitute a majority of alien slackers in the United States, has changed considerably since then, and yet quite consistently within racial proclivities. To make a man of one from such tribes, even if a United States uniform, has to be put on him to do it, is a blessing to him and to the world.
The bill —was there a bill? The bill —did it get before a committee let alone get out alive from a committee? The bill, or at least the idea —what has become of it? To whose interest is it that thus it should be thrust aside?
But to whose interest is—or was
—this sudden funeral hus over the alien draft? To many of the aliens from the one point of view of ingratitude and cowardiness that lets other men die for them,—this is true. To Congressmen who don't want to go on record before future naturalized citizens—this is also true. And the second truth is more pertinent than the first.
After the war these same aliens will still be here. They will clamor for citizenship then. They are afraid to take out first papers for naturalization now, but they will come to court when the army doesn't need them. They will fill up the places of American young men who don't come back with the army. And whom will they vote for? The answer is another question—would they vote for a man, or with his political party, who brought them within the draft and made them to the duty as a test of future citizenship?
ADVICE TO IRELAND
The alien draft bill has got to be exhumed for autopsy even if it cannot be resurrected. Personal and party ambitions, if involved, have got to be brought to light. The soldiers of America who are going out to battle today have a right to know why men who are to share citizenship with them later are not marching beside them now.
BONDS INSTEAD OF BONES
Irishmen living in Augusta, Ga.
have sent this message to John Dillon
leader of the Irish nationalists:—
It is a lamentable fact that despite the statutes forbidding it, and despite the adverse opinion of a respectable portion of the student body, gambling is still going on among a few men in the University. If it must continue, and there is little doubt that it will to a certain extent, strenuous missionary efforts might be undertaken to see that it is done with Thrift Stamps and Liberty Bonds, thus giving it an appearance of patriotism and respectability that it could not otherwise have.
"Meeting of Irishmen of Augusta, Ga., indorses granting of home rule and extension of conscription to Ireland. We expect Irishmen in Ireland to fight with the allies as the Irishmen in America are doing."
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
All the way from the channel coast over to where the Alps melt into the Adriatic there is a line of men holding a series of trenches against an adversary, and that line gives a little here and there, and we watch with anxiety the movement of that line, and it is not unnatural for us to feel that the fate of the struggle is determined by that line.
The authors of this telegram might have added, as thousands of Irishmen of Ireland are doing also. The opposition to conscription in Ireland is apt to make us forget that a good many thousands of the Irish of Ireland have been fighting the Germans as volunteers since the beginning, and that they have been fighting with the gallantry which has always characterized the Irish in warfare has been testified to many times in the dispatches. What other characteristics of Augusta ask that their kinsman of Ireland shall emulate the irishmen not only of this country, but those thousands who went forth from Ireland the instant the world's freedom was challenged by the Germans.
It is wise counsel they have given. Ireland will owe the home rule of which it is now practically assured in no little part to the lively and constant sympathy, which it has received from the United States. It would be an ill return of that help and sympathy to refuse to fight in a cause in which the United States is now as deeply involved as is Great Britain—Dallas News.
And yet it is not a question of square miles of territory, but it is a question of the national spirit and the eternity of moral principles in the world, and even if that line were broken, so long as the people of Great Britain, France and Italy and the United States remain true to the moral foundations upon which they have built their respective civilizations, victory cannot go against us.—Secretary Newton D. Baker.
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THE ULTIMATE TEST
The Allies seem determined to pound the Hun out of Hungary.
How did we stand it as long as we did without the word "camoufage?"
What would the magazine-cover artists do without soldiers, sailors and service flags? Some one asks. It might be that they don't care, but the rest of us would do without them.
It is with a profound sigh of delight that the neighbors hear the bunch of students have bought a new piece of rag time.
Dykstra's Roof Has Now Been Lowered-Headline. It has remained for a K. U. professor to reverse the usual process of raising the roof.
Now that the salvage committee announces that one of the prime purposes of salvage collection is to encourage thrift we are forcibly impressed that by the time this war is over the proverbial Chinese will be a prodigal spendthrift in comparison.
A total eclipse of the sun, scheduled for June 18, of 92 per cent efficiency in this locality, will give old settlers an opportunity to recall the eclipse before the Civil War, when the chickens went to roost and the cows came home.
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer. The name will then not appear on the cover but states that the editor must know who is writing the communication as evidence of their work. Communications are welcome.
CAMPUS OPINION
Let's make a drive on the salvage box. Although quite a little salvage has been collected and sold from the box in Fraser Hall there has not been nearly as much as there should have been. This probably seems like a small thing but as it has been said, "It is little things that count."
One fraternity has placed in charge of this work a Freshman whose duty it is to gather up all the salvage about the house and see that it gets to the salvage box in Fraser. This would be a good plan for all the fraternities to adopt. The same plan applies to the University. Let's all get behind the salvage box and see what we can really make of it, and show those that are in charge of the work that the University is behind them and the Red Cross.
—A. Booster.
KANSAN PRIZE POEM CONTEST
Every One Deserves Something
RADISHES
Or even skins of black,
Or those with purple sides
And tops of white.
By M. Myrtle Sopher
I like little, sweet, round radishes
With rosy skins
Or skins of snowy white;
Little round radishes with pinky
skins
Fine long; Sister radishes
Of any color
And other numbers;
Radishes of all shapes and sizes
And any quality of texture
So long they're young and sweet
And can be eaten.
And for dinner
And for supper, too;
Radishes between meals
Morning, afternoon and night;
Radishes the year round
And oodles of them.
(Ispired by address of William Jennings Bryan at the University of Kansas, June 6, 1917.)
I like radishes for breakfast And for dinner
I like long, slender radishes
"Ah, what a loss I have suffered in the death of my mother-in-law!"
I like radishes.
Second Boob: "How-de-do; mine's Nichols, y. know."
Nichols, y. know.
First Boob: "Nichols?"
"She meant a great deal to you?" "Yes; she was a vegetarian and gave us her meat card."—Le Pele Mele.
Second Boob: "Yaas—one of the Automuth-Nichols." — The Jesters.
First Boob (introducing himself) : "My name's Warren—one of the Virginia Warens."
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