UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 125
VOLUME XV.
Haddock Is Entered In Pentathlon Event At Penn Relay Games
Javelin
Rice Also to Represent K. U.
In High Jump and
Marshall Haddock, a sophomore in the University, has been entered in the pentathlon at the Penn Relay games at Philadelphia, April 26, Coach W. O. Hamilton announced today. This special event will include the 200-meter dash, 1,500 meter run, the broad jump, discus, and javelin. He will also be entered in the 100-yard dash and discus, and Jayhawkers expect him to do his best work in these two events because he has never been entered in this five-event specialty.
Carl Rice, star high jumper, is expected to show well in this event and may place in the javelin which he has been working with since last year. He has been entered in both events in the Eastern meet.
The entry of Haddock in the pantathon was a surprise to the Kansas track fans, but they feel confident that he will do well for, well his all-round ability in the dashes and weight events should count enough points for him. His best work is in the 220-yard dash, and the 200-meter race is a little longer than this event. He is an excellent discus thrower and last spring showed some form in tossing the javelin. His showing in the broad jump is expected to be only fair, because he has never competed in this event. The 1,500-meter run will be his weakest event in all likelihood, for Haddock is not a distance runner. His longest race has been the quarter mile
K. U. Engineers' Work In Standards Bureau Highly Complimented
Experiments With Electrical Devices Found Especially Successful
He especially complimented the School of Engineering on the work that its men are doing with experiments in electrical devices in the laboratories of the Bureau of Standards.
"I can safely say that K. U. has as many men doing excellent work in our bureau at any school in the west," said E. R. Shepard, associate electrical engineer, in the Bureau of Standards at Washington, in a lecture Tuesday afternoon in Marvin Hall.
Mr. Shepard is on his way to the Pacific Coast and is stopping at the larger schools of the country to tell of the work being done by his bureau. He exhibited lantern slides showing the laboratories and workshops in which tests and experiments were being made for new inventions and instruments which, if successful, will be used in the department as part of the ordnance equipment. He talked especially of the many attempts to perfect a submarine detector which thus far, the bureau has been unsuccessful in perfecting.
Mr. Shepard is anxious, he said, to procure the services of more technical men in his work. Nearly all of the men who are now working in the laboratories are men who have been taken from the colleges and technical schools of the country. He advised the instructors not to do all that is possible in turning out engineers who are in demand by the government at this time.
Mr. Shepard is speaking at the Agricultural College in Manhattan today.
Coach Wedell Chooses First Freshman Nine
The first cut of the season was made in the freshman squad Tuesday afternoon by Coach Dutch Wedell. Twelve players were picked to make up the nucleus of the team this year. A few other promising freshmen will probably be picked in the near future from the remaining candidates.
The men picked Tuesday were: Brite and Desmond, catchers; Marxen and Pierce, pitchers; Harms, first base; McClead, second base; Murphy, third base; Vernillon, fourth base; Shields, Vermillion, Palmer, and Jukins, outfielders.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 10, 1918.
Kanza will call on Alpha Xi Delta Thursday night 7 to 8 o'clock.
Students Give Number Of Books to Soldiers
Two boxes of books, containing about 80 volumes, have been collected at Spooner Library by University students for the soldiers. The books reflect the idea of University students concerning what they consider worth reading. Most of the books are of scientific nature or classies. There are two volumes of Shakespeare's complete works, volumes of Whittier, Lowell, Burns, Longfellow, and Field and several novels by Dickens, Thackeray, Elliot, and Blackmore. Books on modern fiction are in the minority, but works on science, history, and mythology are popular.
The War Here and Over There
CASUALTY LIST LEAPS
A casualty list, the first issued for the American forces in France for the last six days, released under instructions from Secretary Baker reports 447 dead, wounded, or missing. The heaviest toll for this period was April 5, when 124 casualties were reported. Eighteen were killed in action, eleven died of wounds, twenty-one were captured, four died of accident, forty-six died of disease, three died of unknown causes, 103 were severely wounded and 241 were slightly wounded. The report also shows the number of casualties, the average being about forty, while the average daily loss for this list indicates a loss of seventy-four.
No addresses are given because of the enforced censorship and the list has been withheld because of an order saying that all news must come from Pershing's headquarters. Some of the casualties are believed to have been among the engineer units in the great Picardy battle still raging.
The Germans are attacking in France on an eleven-mile from 'from Givenchy and a point near Fleurbaix.
When caught working on the railroad near the great battlefield in France, American engineers seized their already provided weapons and fought like tigers against the Huns, the press reports say.
Ireland is to be given self government if they will agree to conscription for military service.
A huge attack has been launched by the Hum hordes north of Arras.
The United States Steel Corporation has announced that it has subscribed thirty-five million dollars to the Third Liberty Loan.
OF COURSE THEY LOVE TO READ
the camp libraries are being filled with unusual books, according to the Outlook. One church reading-room sent the "Elise" books; another sent "Snappy Stories." Some kind and cheerful soul sacrificed to the cause file of "The Undertakers' Review."
About one thousand Red Cross nurses are now in New York awaiting sailing orders, while more than a thousand nurses are engaged in active service in France.
According to Washington, the country is threatened with a huge surplus of potatoes, and everybody is being asked to substitute them for bread and meat as much as possible. We must very largely substitute for the habit of breaking bread that of breaking the jacket of a well-baked potato—The Nation.
"Don't shock the sensibilities of your officer friend by asking him if he is 'home on furlough'," says "The Writer." "Officers, if they are fortunate, come home on leave." Only privates and non-coms have furloughs."
The death rate of Red Cross nurses on duty in France is very low, it does not exceed one in a thousand.
That the feet of American soldiers will not grow weary on the long road to Berlin, the army is in need of wool socks, more wool socks, and still more wool socks. It is too warm now for the soldiers to need sweaters or helmets or mufflers. But the demand for wool socks, worn in the army summer and winter by the experienced, is growing as more men take up arms.-Kansas City Star.
Professor L. N. Flint of the department of journalism, is ill again and unable to meet his classes.
Trenches Prove Hearts of Men Lieutenant Wint Smith, K. U.'17, Writes of Experiences on Tour of French Front Line
The following was written within four hundred yards of Kaiser Bill's children. I kept writing a little every day, and the reason it is finished is because none of the Kaiser's shells found a resting place near me. Fritz didn't know that I was visiting across the street from him, and I didn't report the fact, for he has a way all his own of treating visitors.
To My Friends:
Somewhere on the French Front, Month of February, 1918.
The following account is not meant to be a complete narrative nor a piece of pure description, but is meant to present my observations and experiences during a ? day's trip to the front. These humorous events as well as serious ones happen just as in every day life.
I left my home station at 10 o'clock on a train that should have arrived at 8. In reply to your query as to why trains are late or the soup is cold the French always reply, "C'est la guerre." I think all French trains are owned by the Missouri Pacific, or, at least, if they are not, they are run on a Missouri Pacific schedule.
On arriving at the station for which I was destined, and from which I was to take an automobile through the countryside to the front I spent a very pleasant half hour searching my dictionary for French words, and looking about the town for hidden streets which lie just to "adroit or agouche" from where you are standing.
I finally found the town major's office and was informed that this particular town mayor did not handle military affairs as is the custom in many towns. Of course I was supposed to know this. However, after due inquiry and much fumbling of the French language, I found the car that was to meet me at the station. I entered the car and was jerked away from the station out to a fine French road, where our only diversion was stopping for sentries, dodging vehicles, and splashing thin, white mud on pedestrians we passed.
In the wind was an odor such as one would get from no place except a stretch of earth, soaked by months of dreary rain, torn by thousands of shells, littered with all kinds of material wreckage and strewn with the wasted bodies of fallen men. As we neared the front lines a big gun sent
CAR FOUND AT LAST
In passing a Frenchman on the road one can always tell just how far he has walked. If he is just nicely speckled he has walked about a mile; if he is well camouflaged he has walked about two miles; and if he is completely masked he has been walking about an hour. The road followed a never-ending line of trees over hill and vale, along poplar-lined canals and through picturesque villages smugly tucked away under tree-clad hills or lined along winding streams.
At last we arrived at Army Head army to corps, from corps to division regiment to battalion. From the battalion I was taken to a dugout and shown my sleeping quarters, which was in a typical trench dugout.
MUD PRESENT EVERYWHERE
The whole scene helps one to realize what the catacombs were like, and how people must have suffered in them.
CANDLE MEASURES SHELL SHOCK
Here one never hears any noise from the war that is going on above.
Only a laint jar is felt now and then when a large shell explodes. The candle that is always present acts as a guide to find the distance of the shell, for with every explosion the flame flickers, the flicker varying with the distance and the intensity of the explosion.
At last you reach the bottom and find yourself in a long underground gallery, along the sides of which are bunks for men to sleep on. Along the sides of the gallery men sit huddled together, elbow to elbow. They are smoking, eating pieces of bread and cheese, writing letters by the aid of feeble candle rays or staring blankly at the wall in front of them. Their legs are wrapped in blankets and their heads are bundled up in muffins, about the size of your hand, much in available space, are rifles, cartridges, cartridge belts, helmets, wine flasks and empty sand bags. A draft of air sweeps by laden with tobacco smoke and the steaming breath of the men. The floor is covered with mud of many months.
There are hours at a time when one never, never hearss any noise of the war. Once, while I was following my guide up the trenches there was no sound save a distant rumble of guns perhaps five miles away. This soon stopped and no sound could be heard except that which we made as we slushed along through the mud. Overhead a hazy moon shown through a flimy cloud; a few stars shown through speckling the western sky, and a soft wind was blowing from off the shell-torn earth.
Upon entering such a dugout one walks up a winding trench whose sides are continually being washed down by the rain. The bottom of the trench is covered with from four to five inches of thin ooze. As you pass down the trench you come to an opening in the side of the trench. Here you break down a pass which holds somewhere into the underground Out of this passage foul, warm air is issuing. You enter the opening and descend through the darkness, feeling your way down the muddy, slimy
quarters. We were passed along fro from division to regiment, and fro
a shell whining overhead, a machine gun spattered, and all was quiet again. As far as sounds were concerned one might as well have been on the broad plains of western Kansas.
GOING TO BED SIMPLE MATTER
As it grows dark at the front side begins to send up flares and rockets which light up the landscape as brilliantly as the sunshine. These lights are shot up by means of pistols made especially for illuminating work. As the rocket starts to descend it explodes and a bright calcium light fastened to a parachute comes floating down. While these lights are burning shadows dance ghostlike over the ground, and the machine guns sputter at all suspicious signs. One has rather a strange feeling as he descends into a former Boche house over the ground, and the machine guns sputter at all suspicious signs. What
RATS QUARREL AT NIGHT
During the night I was awakened by a rat jumping off one of the narrow shelves on me. A few minutes later another rat jumped on me from this same shelf. Upon investigation I found that my helmet was obstructing the rats' passage on this particular shelf. Of course I removed my helmet and gave them a clear path.
Later in the night I was awakened by rats quarrelling over the right to search in my toilet articles. I set up a trap and shot them, the militants with my trench cane.
The next morning the French were amazed by my atrocious deed. They began telling me about great numbers of their comrades who had been killed on the day they were so thoughtless as to kill a rat. Of course I was glad to hear all this, since it was so cheering. He mutilated me, who came as me when I had the mumps and exclaimed, "Land sakes! You look just like brother Henry did before he died with the mumps."
EFFECTS OF SHILLING TOLD
I got up early that morning to go with the major on his morning round of inspection. We were just preparing to start when the Boche decided it was time to put over a few shells. When the bombardment started we could hear the voices of the cannon of all sizes and at all distances.
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Laslett Takes Charge Of Basketball Team
Captain-elect "Scrubby" Laslett has charge of the Varsity basketball squad and is working with them every night at' Robinson Gymnasium. Miller, Matthews, Bunn, Fearing, and Lonborg are still in school from this year's Varsity club. Captain Uhrlaub is in school, but will graduate this spring. Mandeville has enlisted. The freshmen have some good men we are out for the Varsity practices and will be out the varsity style of play this spring.
Plain Tales From The Hill
THE END OF A PLAIN TALE
A little black rat in the garbage can
Back of the Kansan office,
Germany, passed away
Society editor and axen writer.
Society editor and even Prof. L
Stub excitement!
Such excitement!
In water and orange peels,
The little rat squeeled as it thrashed around.
In water and orange peels,
Society editor jumps off the ground
So terrificly frightened she feels.
Much excitement!
The shivering rat crouches, all read to spring!
Its beady eyes look imploring, It crushes its head on the garbage can
Found on a menu slip of a Lawrence restaurant: "Our bored by the weak can't be beet."
It curls its tail, its nose it ran,
Death is the only thing.
No excitement!
Several men on the Hill have a mania for collecting pictures of K. U. women for their art galleries and their acquisition instinct is so developed that they will even buy pictures if a young woman does not give them a life size portrait. A Senior girl was approached recently by one of these collectors and she said she had no picture. She was truthful in the matter because she had no picture (for him.) The man refused to accept this answer and he visited several photographers to learn if she was having any pictures made. "And they killed men like Lincoln."
All students familiar with the study of rocks in geology, know that certain scratching tests are made upon rocks to determine the kind of a rock it is. The other day a student held up a piece of apatite rock (which he thought was apatite rock but was not sure), and inquired of the instructor as to what kind of a rock it was. "Have you scratched it yet?" asked the instructor. "I haven't any file to scratch my apatite with," replied the student innocently.
Where oh where is the maid so fair who does not in her heart so hold the image of a soldier bold. Letters fast fly 'ofer the wire and fill the maiden's heart with fire. The sight of a special or parcel post leaves her a total wreck—almost. All she can think of is "over there" and of him so tall and brave and fair. One eve as she sat alone she saw her heart be throbbing. Her heart and pulse were throbbing fast —for she was to hear his voice at last! Long distance what's that you say—that he wants me to pay! Well do—what will I do?"—Just please tell him that I am through."
Now the Kollege Kick— Yes, It's a Real Dance
The W. S. G. A. will give the "K college Kick" in F. A. U. Hall Saturday night, April 20. Haley and Bevenice from Kansas City will play, Prof. and Mrs. Arthur MacMurray will chaperone.
The dance is being given to raise money for the various student activities in which the Association is interested. This year contributions have been made to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. Friendship Fund, and to other movements for war relief. A French orphan was also adopted for the year. Part of the yarn used in the knitting classes first semester was purchased by the Association and money was given for the Thanksgiving and Christmas boxes sent by the University to Company M at Camp Doniphan. A scholarship is given each year.
Formly the May Fete was given for the benefit of the student council but this year no fete will be given because of the war.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Annual Spring Election Of W.S.G.A. Candidates Will Be Held Friday
Hottest Fight Is for Junior Representatives—Two Places For Five Candidates
Ten candidates are now in the race for class representatives for the executive council of the Woman's Student Government Association. The hottest fight will be for the office of junior representatives. Five candidates handed in their petitions at the regular meeting of the council Tuesday night. Two are to be elected. The candidates are Rilla Hammer, Dothette Dawson, Lora Keeler, Eloise McNutt, and Ruth Bottomley.
Election will be held Friday, April 12, in the Museum. The polls will be open from 8 until 3 o'clock.
Only two candidates, Helen Peffer and Carol Martin have petitioned as candidates for senior representative. Petitions for Frances Flynn, Dorothea Engle and Katherine Glendenning for the post. Were accepted by the council.
Varsity Nine Playing In Mid-Season Form Defeats Freshman
Scoreless
First String Men Scored Three Runs and Held Yearlings Scoringless
The Varsity nine again defeated Coach Wedell's freshman team in a five-inning practice game, Tuesday afternoon, by a 3-0 score. The game was fast and both teams were playing in mid-season form. The only runs of the game were scored by the Var-Softs and the Bats and two errors by the freshmen
Bunn caught for the Varsity and Caler worked on the mound. The same line up was used in the infield and outfield as was used Monday, with Lonborg on third, Foster on short, Cherry playing second and Uhrlau on first. Weltmil, Smith and Oyster made the outfield. Brite and Desmond worked behind the bat for the freshmen and sophomores in box. The infield and outfield was used, with Lashely, Murphy, McClead and Harmes making up the inner defense and Shields, Vermilion, Judkins and Palmer in the outfield.
The Varsity infield was working more smoothly than at any other time this season and not an error was marked up. Foster at short play excelled baseball and his work with Cherry around second base was the feature of the practice. The shifting of Cherry from short stop to second base makes the infield look much stronger, both from a fielding and batting standpoint, as Foster's hitting will add considerable offensive power. Isnerberg, who was out for the team earlier in the season, but quit two weeks ago because of outside work, will be out again this week and his presence will make the competition between the infielders very keen. Isnerberg played second base and short stop on last year's freshman nine.
Caler pitched good ball throughout for the Varsity and only in the last innning did the freshmen give him trouble. Then, with three men on bases and two out, Shields, the last yearling to bat, flied to Smith for the third out. The freshman got four hits off Caler, but two of them were of the scratch variety. The Varsity gathered only four hits but they came at the right time to produce three runs.
Foster led off with a walk in the third and Smith got on by an error, Foster advancing to second. Foster stole third and scored when Lonbong singled to left field.
Coffelt To Aviation
Gola W. Coffelt, fa17, has been called to active service in aviation and will report at San Antonio, Texas. Thursday, Mr. Coffelt enlisted last December and has been attending the University while waiting for his call. He has been active in the Glee Club and has been singing in the chair of the Congregational Church this year.
Alpha Xi Delta will give a house party April 19, 20 and 21 for a number of high school girls who expect to attend the University next year.