UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas.
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ter office in lawsuits. Kansas, under the
Federal Code.
Published in. the afternoon five
days after the inauguration.
variety of, Kansas, from the press of
Baltimore.
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Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go for more than merely printing the new course. The University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to teach the new course; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to encourage students to satisfy the students of the University.
MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916.
MOTHERS OF KANSAS
The Students' Day speaker from the College made an unfortunate statement when she suggested that the adviser of women might be washing clothes instead of mothering the women of the University, should certain events come to pass. The statement was unfortunate not in that it was a criticism of the adviser of women, but in that it intimated that there is something fundamentally wrong with manual labor. It suggested a certain snobbishness which the Kansan is confident the women of the University do not possess.
There may be some women at K. U. who speak of wash women with a sneer but they constitute a weak minority. Honest labor deserves the highest consideration and those people who are inclined to look patronizing upon their less fortunate brothers who hew and carry do not represent the spirit of Kansas.
There may be students in the University whose mothers have to wash clothing. The women of Kansas would do such things to educate their children. They are glorified by the sacrifice.
We are all the descendants of pioneers. The pioneer's wife did not hesitate to do the family wash nor 'fill the family water pail from the spring. She worked hard and long with both mind and body and the results are everywhere to be seen. The men and women of the University are her sons and daughters.
Whatever the intention of the speaker from the College, her speech left an unpleasant after-taste in this one respect, at least. Wash women, or any other members of the laboring class, deserve and receive only the respect of a majority of the students in the University.
Missouri has defeated us in track again and it is time for every student who is interested in athletics to make a personal effort to get more athletes in the University. While you are home during the summer months why not boost K, U, athletes among the high school stars of your home town?
BURNING DAYLIGHT
The daylight-saving plan suggested by the Lawrence Merchants' and Farmers' Association is neither new nor revolutionary. It has been used successfully in many American cities and was recently adopted in London, following the example of Berlin and Vienna, as measure of economy during the war. Whether it will be necessary to move the clocks back an hour or not is a question. If everybody would get up an hour earlier and go to bed an hour earlier without changing the hands of the timepieces all would be well. But it is to be doubted if the people would do this.
To the Kansan the measure seems sensible. It would result in a great saving in the consumption of electric current. It would make business and
study hours cooler and more comfortable. "Burning daylight," as one of Jack London's heroes suggests, is criminal.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
Receipt for a political campaign:
To one part popularity, add two parts nerve, three parts slander, four parts promise, two parts denunciation of machine and two parts post-election alibis. Stir thoroughly and take while hot.
LOOK BBEFORE YOU——!
While the majority of students are clamoring for the installation of a course in compulsory military training at the University of Kansas few realize the significance of the movement they are trying to "father." Three long drills weekly, long likes in unfavourable weather monthly, a tight-fitting uniform and a gun practice constitute a number of the hundred and one details of the so-called popular form of preparedness. Furthermore, membership in the collegiate company calls for unexpected interruption from classes and business. Chancellor Strong is right in his firm stand against the institution of such a course.
And now the news dispatches say that skirts and stockings will each get shorter when the summer really comes. Perhaps the time when they'll paint 'em on isn't so far distant as we formerly imagined.
For three years the club women of this state have been making a determined fight for a "clean Kansas." During two of these years they had little help or encouragement, but this year they have the aid of state law and many local ordinances, as well as organizations of school boys and girls throughout the state. In every community that supports a street cleaning department officials must set the machinery of the law at work on every bad spot reported by any of the women's inspectors.
It is said that the streets and yards are cleaner this year than ever before.—Independent.
LEARNING FROM TUMBLES
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble. There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance—that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are—and you soon find out if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.
—Huxley.
FOUND IN A BOOK
A Corner for the Library Browser
"And why?"" asked Ernest, he
joined the volume," are not
thoughtful."
"They have a strain of the Divinity," replied the poet. "You can hear them in the far-off echo of a heavenly song. But my life, dear Ernest, has been so great that I have had grand dreams, but they have been only dreams, because I have lived—an that, too, by my own choice—among poor and mean realities. Sometimes even—shall I dare say it? Beauty is not with beauty, but with beauty and the goodness, which my own works are said to have made more evident in nature and human life. Why, then, pure seeker of the good and true, should thou hope to live a happy life?" —Bests American Tale—Haworth
Tom: "When you proposed to her
i suppose she said, 'This is so sud-
down.'"
Anxious mistress: "Jane, have you given the fish any fresh water lately?" Janet "No, mum. They haven't drawn that water yet."-Puck.
Dick: "No, she was honest and said,
"This suspense has been terrible!"
Anzac Lieutenant: "The Turks are as thick as peas. What shall we do?" Anzac Captain: "Shell them, you idiot, shell them—Boston Transcript. He: "You used to say there was something about me you liked." She: "Yes, but you have spent it all now."-Philadelphia Ledger. "How was the party last night?" "Oh, it knocked punch."-Lamppon.
POETS CORNER
THE COUNTRY EDITOR
He might have been a millionaire,
And with financial fame,
Or sat in a director's chair,
Had money been his aim;
He chose instead to spend his years
In service poorly paid.
And with the paste pot and the
shears
THE COUNTRY EDITOR
He hiccuped the town's events---
The local goings-on:
A humble living made
The local gongs on;
His fellow townmen's hopes and
bents
Inspired his lexicon.
He felt the public pulse that beat
Around him, and he tried
To make his little country sheet
A thing of local pride
Indignaant Seniors.
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
Unseafolly, with all his heart,
He strove but to upbuild
His town, of which he was a part,
With great ambition filled.
He spoke well of his fellow men;
He praised when praise was due;
And wielded but a kindly pen,
And—no reward he drew.
Now who has ever seen a pacifist or a militant that had no fight in him? Usually the pacifist is one of the most ardent fighters of the group of human beings who have fought for doing battle upon a different philosophy from that of the militant.
Probably Henry Ford is as strong an advocate of militarism as Theodore Roosevelt was.
ARE PACIFISTS MILITARISTS?
Edit Daily Kansan;
TREE WORMS
Ed. and Pub.
When the trees begin to blossom,
And their limbs with leaves to
deck,
Comes the sprightly little tree worm
Drops upon the co-ed's neck.
When the trees begin to blossom,
Tree worms are. A species of crawlers. Which infest trees. In the Spring and summer. They are cold blooded and. Feel like icicles when they crawl across one's. Check. Or neck. The chief function. Of a Tree worm. Seems to be. Falling. If you go. On a picnic. They fall into the. Salad. Or the. Coffee. If you go. Strolling they. Drop on your. Date's arm and. She squeals. And when you try. To brush them. Off. They explode. And leave. A nasty. Stain on her. Arm. A tree worm is a cross. Between a spider. And a. Monkey. They have webs like. The one. And can climb trees. As well as the other. If God made. Tree worms. He made a. Mistake. For they are of. No earthly use. And are a pest. And a delusion.
A plain, ordinary game-cock might be called a pacifist, but a plain, ordinary game-cock spurred with gafs and cleared for battle would be more difficult than the two cocks that were totally unprepared would put up a fight somewhat after the fashion of an Elizabethan football game or Bradstreet brawl. The two cocks of the militaristic type would do justice only to a modern day battle. But prepared or unprepared the game-cocks have the fight in them.
To the Editor of the Kansan:
As members of the College we wish to protest against the speech made on Students Day in the name of that student. We feel that of practically the whole school that the speaker did not in any way represent the view point or sentiment of the College. Being to a large extent women the College of course stands for Woman's Suffrage, but it did not elect its speaker to conduct a quagmire campaign from the platform.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
We should deem it most unfortunate if the other schools of the University should think that our criticisms were so petty as the personal nature of the work. We regret indeed that one of our number should use the honor bestowed upon her, even though it was the result of clever rail roading and a misunderstanding of the political situation on the part of the men, to wreak havoc by attacking both herself and other members of her family. Neither do we approve of the cruel, disgusting and altogether unladylike manner in which she criticized certain members of the faculty. Our humiliation at having the College receive this lengthy apology. We certainly trust that in the future such an unfortunate combination of circumstances will not result in the election of one who fails to express the spirit of the largest school in the University.
manufacturer finds the militarist apparently the strongest man of the hour, he prefers to exert his superfluous energy by the round about way of fighting the militarist. The fight is a battle with the militarist. In the term of militarism, Henry Ford is unprepared, but in the terms of sociology he is prepared to the teeth with weapons of silver and gold with which to purchase ammunition to fire his guns and launch his peace torpedoes.
William Jennings Bryan has been a fighter since 1896; perhaps longer, but political history fails to record the military prowess of the Nebraska colonel prior to that date. Mr. Bryan during the past year has been ready to pursue his enemy and maintain his line of communication though his line of attack takes him over the entire middle west. Nor is Mr. Bryan a hyphenated militaristic advocate. He hues to the line and does not quibble with the sending of notes between parties.
He is so thoroughly prepared that he can hurt a million men over the course of his life.
he can hurl a "million men over night" at the throats of the enemy. John Mex, lecturer for the World Peace Foundation, is another of the round-about-militaristic type. He is a fighting man. In Germany at the time of his war he was a prisoner of humanity who could give fight which would do justice to the blood of John Mez, were the preparedness advocates. Since his conversion he has had fighting a plenty. Coming closer home, Lawrence has its fighting parson, Noble S. Eldersen, the incoming director of the Congregational faculty, the Congregational minister might have been a first class Panco Villa had he been reared on the opposite side of the border. At Verdum the attacking force sends a shell into the city each minute. At the Congregational church in Merkdena lies his regular preparedness shell of the militariess each Sunday night. But gafs or no gafs, the militarians and the pacifists are both fighters.
ENFORCE THE LAW
Editor of the Danny K. Moore
Certain things need to stand out as
unpleasantness "unpleasantess"
which is taking place between the
forces of nicotine and their opponents.
Both sides may have those who
have gone to rather radical extremes in personal abuse, in which the users of the cigarette are labelled as reckless young roughnecks, bound straight for perdition; and those, who, for various reasons of their own, do not smoke, are caricatured as silly milkspokes, or as the "holier than-thou" sort of person. In order to get at them they should not it be wise to forgo all personal abuse, inuendo, and other belittling arguments, and let "each tub stand on its own bottom."
It seems that there is one class of smokers who, admittedly smoke to excess so that it does hurt them physically and mentally and who are powerless to break the rules. The other class smokes moderately for the sake of fellowship or pleasure but has the strength to keep the habit within bounds. Now, admitting even the personal liberty argument, is there room to forego the luxury in behalf of those who are harmed by smoking.
But after all this is arguing in defense of the laws on the subject when that is not really the question. State laws and local regulations do exist and as such should be enforced, but it is also the laws he should go about it in the usual manner and not encourage the breaking of them.
-LawAbiding.
Editor Daily Kansan:
At this time when the state university is under test in the minds of many men, it is most unfortunate that the men of these universities, most of them very, very young men should do and then publish accounts of their doings that will make misimpressions in the minds of men.
The state university is a necessity and as a necessity it cannot be stopped, but as a stone warrior of far-reaching ripples so any act that tends to hinder the progress of the universities affects many people and deprives them of many things that they reason from the common cooperation.
Smoking has been a problem in universities for many years. It will be a problem for many more years. The greatest harm done is the excessive indulgence that many freshmen consider as manly and cosmopolitan. They obtained their ideas from the rah-rah of the university, its popularly supposed to represent the average student. This thing always has a cabalah or humidor in its face. The man in the poetter is no more representative than the pipe he carries. Any worthy freshman soon gets his bearings and picks out the real things—the other class is hardly worth bothering with. Sanity on both sides is necessary, but neither new nor exciting, will attain greater results and will be a boon to everyone. It will cause no mis-impressions in the minds of men outside the university and will not disturb the ordinary
Onwrs, Dulline Nackman
man going about his own business
Therefore, why all the notes
are on it? Aslett.
Send the Daily Kansan home to the folks.
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YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN wiith selling ability can earn big wages during vacation. Straight legitimate proposition. Come up and let me tell you how, C. W, Carman, Merchants Bank Building. 150-10
Reception and Afternoon Dresses
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STUDENTS WANTING profitable summer employment, call at 1341 Ohio St., Friday or Saturday of this week. E. C. Babst. 156-3
Your Choice of Any Spring Suit at Half or Less.
WANTED - Roomers and boarders for Summer Session. Board at standard rate. Please surround standard K. U. Club, 1247 KY 187-5 W. Bell.
FOR RENT—After September 1st,
Modern house of twelve rooms. Entrie or in apartments. Also rooms for Summer School. Bell 1823 W.
This week. 25 per cent Discount. On any party dress of this Season's Model. Taffetas or Crepe de Chine in Combination with, Georgette Crepe, Chiffon or Net.
Taffetas, Gras de Londres, Crepe Meteor and Striped Taffetas, 25 per cent Discount.
SUMMER BOARDERS--Mrs. W. Brown will keep her house, at 1290 Oread open to Summer School boarders. Both women adm men. 157-4'
WANTED—Steward for boarding club for Summer Session. Call at 1332 Tennessee or call 2095J. 157-3
Party Dress Special
Sport Skirts—Sport Dresses
FOR SALE—At Your price, a second hand clairon in fair condition. Clairons $100, Gym., a school day between 10:30 am and 12:30 or phone Bell 1765.
In wide Awning Stripes, Rose, Nile, Navy, Yellow. In the New Silverbloom Cloths, Gabardine, and Herringbone Cloths.
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BIG VACATION MONEY!
All students and teachers, men and women, who wish profitable and con-
fidently participate in this summer,
should write at once to
The University Faculties Ass'n',
134 W. 29th Street, New York City.
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits 110,000
The Student Depository
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Engraved and Printed Cards
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Typewriter Paper 744 Mass. St.
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Non-Leakable and Self-Filling Sold in Lawrence at
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