UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 122
K. U.'s War Activities In One Year of Conflict Of No Mean Proportion
Liberal Contributions Are Made To Y.M.C.A. and Red Cross Funds
Woman Gives A Diamond
Special Courses in War Instruction Well Attended—Many of Men Drill
This question seems to be satisfactorily answered when some of the things K. U. has done during the year are considered.
Is the University doing its part in the war?
For the Y. M. C. A. Students' Friendship Fund, $7,525 has been paid in cash. The total pledge is $12,000. Registrar George O. Foster says the payments are coming in continually and the entire pledge will be paid. Liberty Bonds to the amount of $150 have been turned from fraternities for the same diamond young woman gave her diamond ring.
THRIFT STAMPS BOUGHT
For the Armenian relief more than
$3,500 were given by the students.
$8,500 were given by the students.
The large sum raised for the Red Cross was turned into the Douglas County fund.
Two hundred and fifty Baby Bonds and 400 Thrift Stamps have been sold to students through the Registrar's office alone, and they have been on sale for only fifteen days.
Regular classes for women in surgical dressing and food conservation have been formed. Military drill for an hour a day has been made compulsory for men and an hour a day of exercise is compulsory for women.
In the spring students leaving school for farm work or joining some branch of the service will be given their credits if their standing is good.
MORE THAN 1000 IN SERVICE.
There are 1150 students and alumni of the University in various branches of the military service.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL. 5. 1918
At present there are thirty-five students taking typewriting and seventeen taking stenography, without credit, the majority of them preparing for college. All our particular classes in War French and Food Conservation are well attended.
Women's Organizations Will March In Parade
in the past year twenty-six members of the faculty have received leaves of absence for war work or military service. Of these twelve have gone into some branch of war work, and fourteen have enlisted in actual military service.
Liberty Loan Committee of 100 Members Will Boost Sale of Bonds
The Women's National Liberty Loan Committee for Douglas County, which is composed of 100 members, will boost the sale of the Liberty Loan Bonds. Mrs. J. R. Bechtel is the city chairman and Mrs. H. E. Don Carlos is the county chairman.
The following members have been chosen to make four minute speeches over the county:
Mrs. J. W. O'Brien, Mrs. Harold Butler, Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, Mrs. Frank Strong, Miss.Helen Eacker, Mrs.A. C. Terrill, Mrs.T. H. Chalkley, Mrs.J. B. Buchter, Mrs.R. D. O'Leary, Mrs. T. H. Kennedy, and Mrs. Anna Arnette.
The organization will be in the parade today with Mrs. J. L. Killworth as marshal and leader. All of the women's organizations of the city will be represented.
Former Kansan Editor Enlists In The Navy
Everett Palmer, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansan, has enlisted in the navy and left today. He probably will be stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Kansan Board and was assistant news editor this month. He was enrolled as a junior. His home is at Jewell.
He is the second editor-in-chief of the Kansan to be called to the navy this year. Harley Holden enlisted in the radio corps in December.
Stamp Sales Boosted By War Savings Society
Efforts of the finance committee of the University War Committee to push the sale of War Savings Stamps have resulted in the formation of a University War Saving Society with a membership of a majority of the faculty and a large proportion of the student body. Many fraternities and sororities have joined practically in a body.
Membership is open to all University students. Because membership in the University War Saving Society requires that all members purchase War Savings Stamps at least to the extent of five dollars by July 1, the society is expected to give considerable impetus to the sale of War Savings Stamps. The society also plans to do work in May in the Red Cross campaign.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The star humorist of George Creel's staff touches the high water mark when he assures us that Secretary Baker has gone above "to speed up the "Allies." -Boston Herald.
American flags provided by France have been placed over the caskets of the first American troops who died in battle.
The Red Cross has just organized a bureau to supply information on casualties among soldiers, with William R. Castle, Jr., former dean of Harvard College, in charge.
According to the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung, wood is now being largely used in place of ivory, celluloid and other substances in the manufacture of combs in Germany. Excellent toilet combs, it is stated, are made from thinly cut, faultless birch and beechwood.
After several days of comparative inactivity along the battle lines in Picardy fierce fighting by the Germans has wielded some ground around the critical sectors east of the city if Amiens.
The government is constructing a restaurant that will accommodate 860 persons at one time and will serve 5000 a day for the convenience of the employees of the Ordnance Department in Washington.
The United States Food Administration has shipped 1500 farm tractors to France, in order to increase France's crops and to lighten the burden of toll on her old men, women and children.
Clerks in two of the government departments in Washington have adopted 150 children in response to an appeal of the organization known as The Fatherless Children of France.
Friends and relatives who are disgruntled or distressed by the delay of mail and packages sent to their boys in France must remember that some 3,000,000 pieces a month are sent to the soldiers there. The boys are scattered all over France and the small number of delays, though unfortunate, seems unavoidable.
Not all of those who are injured in an attack at the front are carried to rear on stretchers. Hundreds of them, even those who are seriously hurt, make their own way to the dressing stations. It is a point of honor for the men to do this if it is physically possible—and every fight with the enemy little groups may be seen stumbling cheerfully but painfully away from the battle.
The total casualties among the American expeditionary forces, announced by the War Department on March 20, are 1,961. Of this number, 1,300 are deaths and 618 are wounded. Fourteen are missing and twenty-one have been captured. Six hundred and one have died in action. Seven civilians have died; and six soldiers have died as a result of being gassed. Only thirty-seven have been killed in action and 147 have been killed by accident.
Because of the depletion in the teachers' ranks, married women will be permitted to fill their places by order of the United States Commissioner of Education, P. P. Claxton.
The Rota Club will meet in the Women's Rest Room, Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen
JOINT RESOLUTION
Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States
Whereas the Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America; Therefore be it
Approved April 6, 1917.
WOODROW WILSON.
CHAMP CLARK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS R. MARSHALL,
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
W. A. A. Picnic Postponed
On account of the inclement weather
the W. A. A. picnic, which was
to have been given this afternoon,
has been postponed until Tuesday, April
9, at 5 o'clock.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
Chanceller Strong Better
Chanceller Strong, who has been ill with the typhus disease today, it reported to be improving today. His son, Frank, who has symptoms of pneumonia, is reported to be in a serious condition.
Am Getting Younger
Is Word Uncle Jimmy
Gives Laws At Banquet
Chancellor Strong Better
Many Law Students Attended Uncle Jimmy's Seventy-seventh Birthday
"Well, I'm getting younger every year," remarked Uncle Jimmy Green, at the school of Law banquet in his honor Thursday night at the Eldridge Hotel. For the Laws had heraled their dean as 76 years old, but Uncle Jimmy explained that he is really 77 and he could be in seventy-fifth birthday, for they say he is getting younger to them every year.
A larger percentage of the students in the School of Law attended the banquet this year than ever before, the law students said this morning. As a result, 62 percent for the school has lost 62 per cent of last year's enrollment.
"It was a fine banquet," said Uncle Jimmy, this morning. "But there was many a vacant chair. For there are only sixteen seniors, when there would be fifty but for the war, and more are leaving soon. I hate to see them go, but it is their duty."
The working of the Kansas Supreme Court was explained by Mr. Justice J. S. West of that body. He said the opinions of the Supreme Court expressed the opinions of the whole and not of one man, as is sometimes thought, even among lawyers. Each case is gone over individually by all members of the court, and discussed by all in a meeting. After the opinion is written up, it is gone over again by the court, the speaker explained.
Tribute to Uncle Jimmy and the war were the chief themes of the other speakers. Prof. Raymond Rice was toastmaster Ira Snyder, a graduate of the School of Law in 1912, came from Denver, Colo., to attend and speak at the banquet. Judge James H. Mitchell of Lawrence gave a lecture on the role that speaker for the school faculty, while the students were represented by three men, Arthur Hurshberger, from the seniors laws, John Murphy, from the middle laws, and Harold Goodwin from the juniors.
German Drive An Aid To U. S. in Floating Third Liberty Loan
Danger of Situation Makes People Eager to Invest, Professor Boynton Says
"The Third Liberty Loan should be easier to float than either of the preceding two." This statement was made by Prof. A. A. J. Boynton, head of the department of economics, concerning the drive to commence Friday, April 5. "The German drive could not have been timed more opportunely to aid the selling of these bonds. People are wrought up over the situation, and will be more willing than before to invest in the aid of the government. Furthermore, the people have become acquainted with the nature of the bonds, and know they are a safe investment and are exempt from taxation.
“There are, nevertheless, some difficulties connected with selling the bonds. Money is in demand, and corporations are offering bonds bearing 8 and 9 per cent. There is a temptation on the part of the people to buy these securities in place of the Liberty Loan bonds bearing by $4 \frac{1}{2} $ per cent, in spite of the fact that the former are subject to taxation. Also, there is some competition with the War-Savings Stamps and the Baby Bonds, many preferring this type of investment.
"People should retain the bonds after purchasing them, until their maturity. Many buy the bonds and sell them in a day or two slightly below par, thinking they have done their patriotic duty, when in reality they have merely pushed the burden of waiting for the maturity of the bonds onto someone else.
Sousa's Navy Band Plays Here Sunday
"It is a time when all should help win the war by purchasing Liberty Loan Bonds in accordance with their ability, and by retaining them until the time of maturity."
John Phillip Sousa and his 50-piece band from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., will be in Lawrence Sunday afternoon for an open air concert in South Park. The band will arrive in Lawrance from Topeka at 3:50 o'clock, and the concert starts at 4:15.
If the weather is bad, the band will play at the Bowersock Theater, although the theater undoubtedly would not hold the crowd. The band is making a tour of the Middle West in the interests of the Third Liberty Loan campaign.
Serve and save—buy War-Saving Stamps!
Henry Pegues Receives Lieutenant's Commission
Henry Pegues, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansan, has been commissioned a lieutenant at Fort Sill, Okla., following his work in the officers' school at Camp Doniphan. Mr. Pegues was also news editor of the Kansan and a member of the Kansan Board. He graduated from the University of Kansas last year and emended in the national journal from Hutchinson and was a member of Hutchinson and was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and of the Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity.
Plain Tales From The Hill
— Spooner Library underwent some spring housecleaning during the short vacation. The injunction to those freezing rooms is main reading room formerly read —
Enter ye the Reading Room and watch your step; for wide is the aisle and rotten the carpet that leads to the librarian's desk, and many there are
A broad strip of cork linoleum has replaced the worn out matting and the injunction now reads—
Enter ye the Reading Room and lift up your feet; for wide is the aisle and corking is the linoleum that leads to the librarian's desk, and many there are who drag their heels.
One of our fair young women was amusing herself with a tiny chicken the other evening. A friend overheard her crooning, "Kitty, kitty, kitty," and she seemed not to realize her mistake.
Judging from the twinkling of new diamonds and fraternity pins on georgette blouses, Cupid has been making great advances in his Spring Drive.
The people who attended Lieutenant Nance's lecture in Fraser one day this week were not sure at the opening of the lecture whether he was a hobo or a crook. The lieutenant said that the popular opinion used to that the army was made up of hoboes and crooks: "But, said he, "some of my folks were in the army."
Some people who have "never seer the ocean or never seen the sea" have some queer ideas about Uncle Sam's "Jackies." One dry-land yesterday asked one of our students, who has just enlisted in the Navy, why the sailors have such flaring bottoms on their trousers. When told that the trousers are made that way so that they could be updressed up the knees when the sailors scrub the deck, he replied, "Well, 1 always thought that they were made that way so that they could be kicked off in a hurry if there was a wreck."
The ways of a class president are hard. Bruce Fleming, of the sophomore class admits it. Bruce has been advertising a sophomore class dance for Saturday night. Had the posters out and everything was done. You see, the class needs the money to pay for its picture in the Jayhawker and the dance was for that purpose. Then yesterday he found that the music which he had hired couldn't play after all. He hadn't made it hard. The president called every pianist in town and in Topeka. But they all had work. So he called Kansas City. Kansas City had one extra pianist it wasn't using. He got him. She the class gets money for its annual picture after all. But it's a hard life
Two girls looked admiringly across the campus at an array of Freshman caps in their first appearance for the spring.
"I wish they would have something for the girls to wear," one of them ventured. "I think it would be fun." "Yes," the other replied. "Then no one would ask me if this is my ast year."
A visitor on the Hill from Boston this week admired the view of the Wakarusa Valley and said that among all of the universities that he had visited in the United States, he had never found one that had such a beautiful view of farm land under cultivation as cur university. Coming from outside where what he great deal of snow he was surprised to find that Kansas could have such fine weather at this time of year.
University Joins Town In Celebration To Open Liberty Loan Campaign
No amount is too small to LEND TO YOUR COUNTRY. Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Campus Drill Companies Take Part in Parade and Classes Suspend
Birkhead Is Chief Speaker
Separate Record To Be Kept of Bonds Bought by Students and Faculty
With the greatest din in the history of the sedate little town the Third Liberty Loan Campaign was launched at 2 o'clock this afternoon when all the town and University bells and whistles summoned participants in the Liberty parade to assemble.
The parade, headed by the Women's Loan Committee, with all patriotic organizations following, the Grand Army of the Republic, Lawrence battalion of Kansas State Guards, Boy Scouts, the Haskell casket batallion, the Kansas University battalion, and the Lawrence, Haskell and University bands, marched from the corner of Thirteenth and Massachusetts down the main street to the Bowersock, where the citizens of Lawrence attended the meeting. Leon Birkhead was the chief speaker.
All business of the town, including street car service, was suspended from 2 to 1 a o'clock for the celebration at the University were dismissed.
A committee composed of volunteers from the University faculty will start work next week to get subscriptions for the loan among faculty members of the institution. Because the blanks have not yet arrived, and the clearing house has not made a decision to take in the matter, the active work of this committee cannot start this week.
Subscriptions to the loan by University people will be kept track of so that every one can know what part the University has in the campaign. According to the terms of this third Liberty Loan five per cent may be paid down, twenty per cent May 28, with no payment in June, thirty-five per cent July 18, and the remaining forty per cent in August. This loan bears four and one-fourth per cent interest.
Senator Borah, Former K. U. Man, Asks United Support OfThe People
Great Patriotic Speech Made After Debate on Price of Wheat
In a letter from Dean Olin Templem from Washington, he encloses a copy of the speech of Senator William T. Beacah of Idaho with this comment;
"I wish every Kansan could read the speech of Senator Borah delivered in the Senate the other night at the close of a very irritating debate on the regulation of the price of wheat. Because Mr. Borah was a University of Kansas student, a farm boy from Rice County, the address would doubtless be more interesting than, otherwise; and yet, aside from that fact, it ought to be read by every student. It has been repeatedly pronounced the first address of the year next to those of President Wilson."
SPEECH SECOND TO FRESIDENT'S
The address is printed in the New
York Times for March 24. A copy of
this will be posted on the Fraser Hall
bulletin board. Extracts from the
speech follow:
"No man in this contest can be indifferent to the situation upon the theory that he is not geared up to some activity in connection with the war. Whether he is upon the farm, in the workshop, in the factory, or in the law office, in the police department, if he is doing his duty; or, if he is not doing his duty, he is menacing this great conflict in which we are now engaged.
"You may put upon the western front all the soldiers that you can build ships to carry, but if there is not behind them a united and determined people, aroused and thoroughly understanding the fact that we are all a part of the contest, we shall not be able to succeed in the end.
"Shall men, shall the people, be
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