UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Capt. Ernest Weibel, '11, Dies in France April 12 From Wounds in Action
NUMBER 130.
Telegram From War Depart ment Received By His Parents Monday
Range-Finding Plan Found
Captain Weibel Working on Improvement for Invention At Time of Death
Capt. Ernest E. Weibel, Co. B, 29 Engineers, died in France of wounds received in action, according to a telegram from the War Department received Monday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Weibel 924 Alabama street. He is the first Lawrence man with the American forces in France, and the sixth K. U. man to die in the service. The telegram reported his death as occurring April 12. He arrived in France Feb. 24.
Since his graduation here, with the exception of two years spent at Yale and Harvard, Captain Weibel has been in Washington, D. C., where he was employed as a physicist in the Bureau of Standards. Since last June, he and Lieut. Arthur Fecht had been working on an invention to be used by the artillery in calculating the range of the enemy's guns. The invention is finished and is in use today, although the men were still working on it.
Captain Weibel graduated from the School of Engineering in 1911, and received his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1916. He was a member of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity.
Mr. Weibel was commissioned captain, December 22.
Captain Weibel is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Weibel, a brother Leo N., with Co. B, 110th Engineers stationed at Camp Doniphan and a sister, Nadine, c21.
Kansas Minerals Are Valuable War Asset, Says Doctor Moore
Congress May Authorize Appointment of War Minerals Administrator
"The United States has large resources of iron, coal, petroleum copper, lead, and zinc," said Dr. Moore, "but we are short on manganese, which is used in the manufacture of steel, pyrite, an important ingredient of the acid used in making muttions, tungsten, platinum, molybdenum, chromite, and magnesite, the last two being used in making smelters for iron ore. The Germans controlled the supply of these two minerals in Europe, and placed an embargo on their export at the beginning of the war. Small deposits have been found in this country, and the state geologists are to co-operate with the national survey in locating and developing these and other highly important minerals. Between 300,000 and 400,000 tons of shipping will be released for food or transport service if these minerals be sufficiently developed here.
Dr. Raymond C. Moore returned last week from Washington, where he attended a joint convention of the members of the United States Geological Survey and the state geologists, in his capacity of state geologist of Kansas. The state geologists were invited by the director of the national survey, George Otis Smith, for the purpose of conferring on the matter of the minerals necessary for use in the war.
"There is now a bill in Congress providing for a War Minerals Administrator, who is to be directly responsible to the Food Administrator," continued Dr. Moore. "Herbert C. Burke will review this bill and chiefly responsibility for this bill, which will greatly facilitate the speed and efficiency of the work."
Doctor Moore was asked what part Kansas would play in this movement. "Kansas is usually regarded solely as a farming state," he replied, "but the value of her minerals last year was fifty million dollars. The state is rich in deposits of lead, zinc, and petroleum; it has a quantity of pyrite. Kansas 'cult' is now a more important asset to the nation than ever before. The state survey is to begin at once on the work mapped out at the convention."
Presbyterian Orchestra To Appear in Concer
The Presbyterian Student orchestra of twenty-five members directed by Harold H. Lytle, will give a Red Cross benefit concert April 20, at 8 a.m. in the Presbyterian Church. This is the third annual concert given by this organization.
Prof. Arthur MacMurray, of the department of Public Speaking, will read several selections. He has seldom appeared in Lawrence, but has consented to read on this program for the Red Cross. Mrs. Homer Talbot, pastor of Presbyterian Church choir, will sing two songs them, a war-time lullaby, by Mr. Lytle. A silver offering will be taken for the Red Cross fund.
The War Here and Over There
ENEMY TAKES MESSINES RIDGE The Germans have, according to latest reports, carried the greater part of Messines Ridge by storm. This strategic point commands Ypres and its occupation by the enemy will necessitate the evacuation of Ypres. Buchenwald, Wilbergen, and Wytzhausen, have been defeated by Germanians. Unless a successful counter attack it made, the drive to the channel ports seems likely to have prompt results.
In France they are fighting with bullets. The least we can do at home is to fight with our dollars.-Kansas City Times.
Ernest P. Goodrich, "an accomplished consultant engineer of New York," writes in The American Review of Reviews that he believes airplanes might fly to Europe. "Vessels are being convoiued. Why not establish a boat patrolled route to the Azores (1740 miles), to Portugal (800 miles), to France, and send our machines through the air?" says Mr. Goodrich. He believes that it is a perfectly practical scheme to obviate the difficulties of shipping the planes or materials to France. It would let the tonnage put so far used in that way be put to some other use.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 17, 1918.
Our fourteen inch guns are over 58 feet long and weigh 95 tons. They cost $118,000.
About 60,000 officers and men are engaged in coast patrol work of the navy.
Buy a bond engraved in America or you may wear one forged in Germany.-The Bond Bulletin.
Q. I am a soldier of two months standing. I am anxious to know what course to pursue to become a general. At present I am a private. A. You have a long run ahead of you. I would advise that you purchase some good current literature and pray for peace.
Newspaper headlines which you will probably never see.
Newspaper headlines which with probably never see: Kate Kaplan on his own house, Russian army on his offensive, U. S. Seeks separate peace. Hindenberg marches down Champ Elysuses.
Charlie Chaplin appears in "Ham vet."
Tusah "16 Topeka Prof. W. B. Bodenhafer's class in Remedial and Agencies will go to Topeka, Saturday where they will visit the Boys' Industrial School and the State Hospital for the Insane. This class went to Leavenworth about a month ago to visit the State and Federal prisons.
Milwaukee votes dry.
Dust ceases to blow at Doniphan.
—Trench and Camp.
Bodenhafer Class To Topeka
Electricals Meet Thursday
A meeting of the University of Kansas branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock in Marvin Hall. The subject to be discussed will be the Ottawa power plant test by George Bowman and W. T. Frier. This is a talk on a senior thesis that was carried out this year.
"Rare Bits" Tickets Reaily
Tickets for "Rare Bits" are on sale at the check-stand in Fraser Hall today. This junior-senior mixer is to be a big affair, with plenty of fun, refreshments, and a few stunts to furnish conversation on this "get acquainted night." "Rare Bits" is to start at 7:15 Thursday night in Robinson Gymnasium.
"Rare Bits" Tickets Ready
At Present Officers Camp Admit Only Enlisted
Training Camp May Be Opened for College Students This Summer
Aviation service and admittance to one of the officer's training camps are temporarily closed according to E. M. Briggs but either of these may open opportunities for University students at any time. Considerable training camp will be the Harvard Training Camp which will instructors of unquestioned ability but this camp will not commission men into the army directly.
"Present army rulings permit the designation of enlisted men only for training in the officers' schools for military service today. Major-general Wood is now
strongly recommending a common sense view of the situation which shows the necessity of establishing more training camps this summer to train 40 years of age to fit them for the duties of captains, majors, and colonels.
W. S. G. A. Is Active In National Movements And University Affairs
The younger men, non-comissioned officers, or privates in the service now, no matter how well he may know routine drill, could not satisfactorily handle these more important commissions, lacking the necessary balance, maturity, and judgment. With the rapid rate of the call next draft Colonel Briggs thinks in offices highly probable the War Department may again find it advisable to train schools for civilians from 25 to 30 years perhaps younger as was done last summer. Training for officers for all of the troops already across the water will undoubtedly be given in France but the training for the new troops will probably be required here.
Many students who attended the Harvard training camp last year, although not commissioned at once into the army, were given immediate admittance into the first training camp opened by the government and received from it higher commissions than could have been secured otherwise. A bulletin giving full and detailed information about the camp and the courses of study is expected soon. Some other branches of the service which men are intending to enter this summer are the ambulance service, sanitary engineering, balloon instruction, and aviation.
Architects Place Two Firsts in Art Contest
Another competition, which will be the last one for this year, will be held May 5. The subject for this competition is a country chapel. The response to the judgment of this contest will not be announced until after school is over.
Quill Club will meet in the rest room, Fraser Hall, Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock.
The department of architecture has received word that the drawings sent in at the last competition of the New York or the New York were 100 per cent efficient.
Six Mentions Also Awarded to University Artists of Eight Entries
Of the eight drawings entered in the competition, two firsts and six mentions were awarded to the K. U. artists. One first and two mentions were given on the projects submitted and one first and five mentions were given on the analytic subjects. This makes fifteen honors awarded out of sixteen competitions entered by the department this year.
Annual Report Shows Wide Field of Endeavor for K. U. Women
Much activity in school and national affairs is shown in the financial report of the W. S. G. A. just announced by Marian Joseph, retiring secretary. The report follows:
Expenditures
12. Manicures
To Red Cross, Margaret Parks . . . $ 50.00
To G. O. Foster, Student
Friendship Fund . . . 50.00
To Edna Atchinson, Scholar-
ship . . . 50.00
To Margaret Lynn, yarn for
D. A. R. . . 15.00
National dues . . . 15.00
Music for middy dances . . . 12.00
The University has gone over the top, and has subscribed almost a thousand dollars more than its quota of $15,000 in the Third Liberty Loan. But K. U. is not satisfied to stop with just what is required. It is willing to do more than the Government asks, and has now set the goal at $25,000, almost double the amount asked. Students and student organizations so far have subscribed very little if at all. The committee hopes to give every student organization an opportunity to take at least one bond.
K U. Addresses the Kaiser
Refreshments for dances ...
Needles and yarn for Red
Cross. . . . .
Total ... $296.1
Receipts
Balance on hand ... $173.11
Members' Dues, first of year ... 57.75
Members Dues, during year ... 23.75
Middy Dances ... 35.70
Girls' Prom ... 39.80
Needles, yarn and Red Cross ... 32.95
Student Enterprise Ticket ... 8.38
Incidentals ... 11.45
Total. $382.55
Total Expenditures. 296.33
Balance ... $86.62
The new officers were installed last night at a meeting in Fraser Hall.
Lucene Spencer is new president;
Mary Smith, vice president; Katherine Wilkerson, secretary; Irene Tihen,
treasurer. The new class representatives were also installed.
The dance Saturday night—the College Kick in F. A. U. Hall—is for the purpose of raising more money for activities of next year. The council started this year with a balance of $173.17. This has been reduced to $86.12 by the many war demands.
Sandzen Has Exhibit
Of Pictures at K. U
Berger Sandzen, professor of aesthetics and dean of the School of Fine Arts at Bethany College, Lindsburg, has an exhibit of his work on the third floor of the Administration Building. Sandzen was born in Bildsburg, Sweden, and was a pupil of Zorn and Berginin in Stockholm, and Amon-Jean in Paris. He has won recognition as a strong and original interpreter of nature, in pictures in oil, water color, and wood engraving. Most of his pictures on exhibit here are of mountain and ocean scenes. Many of them are of scenes around Lindsborg and Salina. Sandzen is represented in the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; Lund Museum, Sweden; Library of Congress, Washington Art Insti
Student Day Date To Be Set
Student Any Date to Be Set
The date of Student Day this spring will be decided upon at a meeting of the Student Council tonight. It will probably be held the latter part of this month or first of next month so students of the School of Law will be able to participate.
Sanders is represented in the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; the Library of Museum, Sweden; Library of Congress, Washington Art Institute, Chicago.
Sphinx will meet at 7:45 o'clock to night at the Beta house.
Black Helmets will meet at the Pi Upsilon house to tonight at 7:30 o'clock.
Two Convocations at University Next Week
Two convocations in one week is an unusual record for K. U, but this is explained by the fact that there has not been a convoction for three weeks on Tuesday, Sarah Louse Arnold will lead the problem since the war commenced.
On Tuesday, April 25, a convocation will be held to hear William Al len White, Kansas author and editor, and Miss Helen M. Bennett, of Chicago, who are brought here under the auspices of Theta Sigma Phi, which is holding the first national convention here that week.
BULLETIN
The University seismograph in Blake Hall registered an earthquake this morning starting at 1:47:57 and lasting till 2:13 o'clock. The estimated distance was 1600 miles from the location of the California as a dispatch from there states there was a slight disturbance early this morning.
Plain Tales From The Hill
If you see a suspiciously acting student peering around the campus, do not judge him too severely, for he is probably performing a psychology lab experiment. In so doing he may be frightened by what he sees as a professor for a match to climbing to the top of the Administration construction tower.
A certain sociology professor must have been reading Dante's "inferno" he was speaking of a noted sociologist. He wrote in a class that the deceased sociologist
must now be a captain of a shoveling squad.
Katherine Duffield is official inspector of women's rooms. The other afternoon the girls of a certain organization on the Hill went home and found tacked up in conspicuous places in each room such notices as—
"This room is in a deplorable condition. K. D."
"This room is tidy, but please hang up your wraps. K, D."
"This room needs sweeping and dusting. K. D."
The girls were quite peeved to think that Miss Duffield had found their rooms in such conditions. At the dinner table that night two guilty girls had sat down, and were longer. They had put up the notices and "K.D." stood for "Katy Didn't".
Medic-"Did you hear about the large order of pajamas Von Hindenburg made for the German army last week?"
Junior Law—"No, why does he want pajamas or his car," he said. "I'll revive."
"Comus" to Take Place
Of Annual May Fete
The first outdoor performance attempted by the K. U. Dramatic Club will be given this year, probably the night of May 11. It is planned to take the place of the May Fete at the University. The first presentation will be that of Milton's masque, "Comus."
The cast for the "Comus" has not been entirely selected but will contain nine principals, with twenty-two dancers.
There is to be splendid music and fine dancing, Prof. Arthur MacMurray says. The production of the play is expensive, because of the elaborate costumes. The Dramatic Club expects a musical performance by the S. G. A. general fund, to be used for Red Cross work and the W. S. G. A. scholarship.
Elect New Forum Officers
Elect New Forum Officers
The regular meeting of the Woman's Forum will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Room 110, France. The first part of the host is used to elect of officers, president, and chancellor for the coming year. Several members also will give reports on modern war books. Sibyl Martin will report on Mrs. Kellogg's "Women of Belgium," Frances Selig, on "Life and Letters of a Countess," and Clara Kubik, on "Garder's, My Four Years in Germany."
Owls will meet at the Kappa Sigma house tonight at 8 o'clock. Important.
You can't SPEND your money and SAVE it too! Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Old K.U. Comes Through With $850 More Than Its Liberty Loan Quota
Drive Does Not End Until May 4 and Much Larger Total Is Expected
Set New Quota At $25,000
Student Organizations Urged to Take Greater Interest in Campaign
Despite its good showing the University will not get a flag. It will share that honor with the city if the students and K. U., get into the honor list.
K. U. went over the top in the Third Liberty Lgan drive today and up to noon had subscribed $850 more than its quota of $15,000. A new voluntary quota was adopted this afternoon, and Prof. U. G. Mitchell, who is heading the drive work on the Hill, will subscribe at least $9,000 and possibly $25,000 before the drive closes, May 4.
"The drive committee expects all faculty subscriptions to be in by Friday," Professor Mitchell said. "However, we need more subscriptions from students, particularly from organizations on the Hill. Several student organizations have come in, but a number have not yet subscribed. Their subscriptions are needed. They should not hold out. Besides it is not necessary to pay now, even the first payment. This first payment of 5 per cent may be deferred until May 1. Also, it is not necessary to subscribe this week. Any time next week will do."
University Man Ends Important Exploration For U. S. Government
Allen Sterling Made Scientific Investigations in Brazil, Chile and Bolivia
Allen Sterling, a K. U., graduate, son of M. W. Sterling, associate professor of Greek, who has been on an expedition in South America, sent out by the department of terrestrial magnetism, has arrived $20,75 and in good health, at Parn, Brazil, according to a cabbage received by his parents today.
The trip before the arrival at Para was made through the dense forests of Bzhail, a district known as a fever country. According to the telegram, Mr. Sterling arrived in good health. The expedition of which he is a member left the United States in September, 1916, and, except for a few stops at Cuba and Panama, has been in South America since.
The report of the director of the department of terrestrial magnetism sent out by the department at Washington tells of an expedition led by Observer Sterling in Chile and Bolivia and thence down the Beni and Madiera rivers to Manaos, Brazil. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate several regions with respect to their availability for the location of a magnetic observatory. A location was found about 210 miles from Lima, after several inland regions were investigated and the country as far as Lake Titicaca was explored. Mr. Sterling left the party in February, 1917, and continued investigations in Chile.
Mr. Sterling is the second K. U. man who has been connected with expeditions sent out by the department of terrestrial magnetism. Ittal Luke, a graduate of the University, was a member of the company on the ship Carnegie, which carried on similar work with the American expedition tells of way stations occupied which were established by the "Carnegie."
Funeral of Miss Carr Held
Funeral of Miss Carr Held Funeral service for Miss Merritt Carr, who died at the University hospital Monday afternoon, were held at 9 o'clock this morning at the home of Dr. J. W. O'Bryan in Lawrence. The body will be taken to Miss Carr's home at Leavenworth for burial.
Sachems will meet at the Phi Delta
Theta house tonight at 7:30 o'clock.
This meeting is of importance and
all members should be sure to attend.