UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 7,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kampala
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William P. Plain, Plantation
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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.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the student at the university than merely printing the news by standing for the idea. He uses a "favoritor," to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be humble; to have serious problems to wiser heeds; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1918
The war; nothing else matters.
A WAR-TIME SCHEDULE
With the Government calling for every individual and every institution to exert all effort to win the war, the University might well consider the proposition of holding school six days a week next year. Many universities and colleges during the past semester have been doing this. The School of Law at this University has followed that plan, and will finish its work this week. Its students will be able to begin some kind of productive work three weeks ahead of students in the other schools. This is important when there is a shortage of labor in nearly every essential industry.
To adopt the plan for next year it would be necessary to rearrange many of the courses, but that is easily possible. There is no course now offered but could be changed to a three- or a six-hour course. Many three hour courses are already offered. It would be unnecessary to change these. Two-hour courses could be expanded to three-hour courses, and five hour courses expanded to six-hour courses or reduced to three-hour courses.
A few persons can be found among both faculty and students, who would object to such a change because it would not permit as much time for pleasure and recreation as they have been accustomed to, but the majority both of faculty and students would be willing to make the necessary sacrifices in order to render the maximum of service to the country during the war.
America has pledged herself to do her part in the war. She has oversubscribed her Liberty Loans and her Red Cross and Red Triangle funds, she has enlarged her shipbuilding plants to many times their original proportions, and is now preparing to raise an army of at least three million men. She can do even more than this. And her colleges and universities can help her to do it by so arranging their courses as to allow students and faculty as much time as possible to help in war industries.
WHY HE CAME
The alien refuses to remember why he came to America when he rejoices in continued exemption from the one imperative duty binding every man who is today a part of America. Not all of his original purpose was directed towards dollars and cents; most of what he wanted was freedom to participate in the rights and privileges of the republic, the state, the community,—with all the benefits of democratic society as a whole which all government here constitutes and maintains.
Police power, for instance, is for
his protection in America. He had always feared police on the other side of the Atlantic. Here he is equal to any man before the law for the first time in his life, and he can come and do, dwell, and associate with only due consideration for the common interest as his guide and limit.
He can compete here in America; he is not thrust on account of his birth into a static social or industrial class from which there is no escape. No one has presumed to tell him, let alone oblige him, to stand still the rest of his life and be contented. American democracy and progress rest on no such Old World "contentment." Labor's organization and far-seeing corporate organization in American industry have made him conscious of what he is worth, what more he can be worth, both to himself and to his community, and how to collect in terms not only of cash but also of decent living. Labor unions couldn't and capital wouldn't do any such things in the land from which he came.
Here he can grow as well as gain. If ever he marries and has children, their opportunity will be far more than his limitations of self permitted him. For their sake, for the very thought of them in the future, he would not leave this country and what it holds for him and for them. He would not go back across the sea to what he came from.
Then, if here and now unencumbered, why shouldn't this alien fight when the very foundations of the democracy he has found and entered are at stake? He knows his duty, rest assured of that, but, cowed by the half-starved, downtrodden peasant soul his native land half-endowee him with, he cannot of himself get up sufficient incentive. Perhaps he is to be pitted.
But why he came includes what he came for, and still stands the duty of American leadership to tell him in unmistakable words all he came here for. His obligation must be laid upon him. Washington must tell him to stay and stand up for what is here or go back whence he came.
DRAFTED MEN
It would be well if something of significances could be brought home to those who, too often listlessly, watch the drafted men going to war. Certainly it is not fitting that so clear an embodiment of American ideals should be ignored save by the idly curious and the hysterical.
Unluckily, the tradition of the gaudy soldier-hero still prevails: the crowd will applaud a uniformed officer on a prancing horse, but it cannot admit itself to understand the full meaning of an inconspicuous boy in his oldest clothes, carrying his belongings in a gunny sack, and trudging to the railway station with a pasteboard tag on his coat. The boy is not a soldier, as yet, nor is he particularly a hero; but he is the living representative of something greater than soldiers or heroes: of a nation that stands pre-eminently for peace, putting forth its united strength to fight for justice.
It would be well, too, if more of the drafted men themselves could be brought to realize the great honour of being thus chosen to fight for America. It is a principle of democracy that, in time of peace, the people select the fittest among them to be their governors and law-makers. Open their choices are known as honest representatives are felt to be so worthy of respect that even the customary term of address is changed to "Honorable."
In the gravest emergency of its existence, the American democracy has similarly selected the fittest among its people to be its defenders, and they, too, deserve the title of "honorable" because of the greatness of their office. Every drafted man is something that the volunteer soldier, for all his individual courage and patriotism, can never be; a symbol of democracy in arms, voluntarily subjecting itself to the utmost sacrifice in order to stand united solidly on the side of justice honor and true peace." The Bellman
Son of the House (facetiously):
"Enter Lieutenant Swifson—an officer and a gentleman."
His Sister (teasing): "Well, don't leave your friend outside, Bertie, do ask him in."—London Opion.
A vivid personality is not always the individual who makes vivid personal remarks.
--time with my friend.
Lieutenant (sarcistically): "My dear fellow, did you ever hear of marking time with the hands?"
The Museum of Natural History appears with the suggestion that we eat seaweed. That's fine for New Yorkers, but we landubbers of Kansas had better stick to sunflowers.
Superstition does not guide the professor who recently set a quiz for May 13.
"Eats" may not please English or journalism professors, but it is a favorite of the painters of University activities.
The road to Berlin isn't paved by passive waiting, but by bonds, sweat, and blood.
The School of Law faculty urges women to learn law before marrying. One University student hopes that his future wife learns domestic science first so that no legal obstructions will be placed on the privilege of eating.
A Third Liberty Loan button outweighs a score of iron crosses.
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.
Goucher College at Baltimore, Md., recently celebrated "Registration Day." There were 107 girls who pledged to do at least two months' of farm work. Many others signed for clerical, camp and laboratory work.
There are at present vacancies as library assistants in the Civil Service at Washington, D. C., and Madison, Wis. Examinations will be held May 22 and June 19.
The Committee on Woman's War Work Abroad of the Intercollegiate Community Service Association is forming within itself an Intercollegiate Unit Committee with one woman from each college added.
Women can obtain places in the ordinance division of the War Department as statisticians. The pay amounts to about $1,800 a year.
Women can be used as blue print file clerks in the construction division of the government. Such a position brings from $1,000 to $1,500 a year.
Counsels are wanted in both the Reclamation Service and the Interior Department. The duties are in connection with purchase or property, securing rights of way for ditches, preparing abstracts of property and giving legal advice to the managers of the Federal irrigation projects.
A young woman who came to Columbia to take her degree of doctor of philosophy married her professor in the middle of her second year. When she announced her engagement, one of her friends said:
MENTAL LAPSES
Schoolmaster: "What is the meaning of this? What has the poor boy done that those others should trounce him in such a fashion?"
"But, Edith, I thought you came up here to get your Ph.D."
"So I did," replied Edith; "but I had no idea I would get him so soon."—Judge.
Pupil: "He says his pa is a conscious objector, 'an' that he's one too, so they're just a-tryin' to bring the 'errors o' war 'ome to 'im.'"—Facts and Fancies.
Recruit (nervously): "Shall I mark with my feet, sir?"
Recruit: "Yes, sir; clocks do it."—Puck.
In Ole Kentucky
"My father was killed in a feud," I never would ride in one of those cheap cars." -Cornell Widow.
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Pictures and picture framing. Agency
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Reception sticks, cream wafers and buttercups for Mother's Day affairs. Wiedemann's.-Adv.
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Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District especially handy for ladies, being on Petticoat Lane. Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets.
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HOMECOMING DAY FOR
K. U. MEN IN CAMPS SATURDAY, MAY 11
The members of the W. A. A. have planned a dance in their honor—a party with unusual decorations and good music.
SHUFFLE THE KICKS
Robinson Gymnasium Saturday, May 11
$1 The Couple
Tickets at Fraser Business Office and members of W. A. A.
The Last Big Party of the Year.
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Let "Clean-Up" Week also be "cash-in" week for you. We buy nearly everything that is no longer useful to you. And incidently, we pay the highest prices.
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A Leather Man for Leather Goods
AND you will be glad to carry one of our new suit-cases or travelling bags. We have just received a new shipment. They are of the best leather materials and the price is reasonable.
ED KLEIN 732 Mass. St.
tomorrow
is the last day for seniors and graduates to order their cap and gown!
From 11 to 12 and 1 to 4, tomorrow at Fraser Hall checkstand, Orders will be taken for Caps and Gowns.
Seniors and Graduates should attend to this to insure reservation! Charge will be $2.50.
LADIES AND GENTS—ATTENTION Don't discard your last year's hat. No difference if it is Panama, felt, or straw. Bring it to us and we can save you the price of a new one. We change the inner or outside band and make your hat look like new in shape and style.
Price reasonableWork guaranteed LAWRENCE HAT WORKS 833 Mass.