UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 105
Reunions in Paris Are Common Events With Jayhawkers Overseas
Former Director of Physical Education Writes in Letter of Experiences in France
Naismith Meets K. U. Men
He Tells of Shaking Hands with Former Students in Camps Abroad
The number of K. U. men now in France is rapidly becoming so large that K. U. reunions in Paris are getting to be common occurrences, according to a letter received by Chancellor Frank Strong of the University from Dr. James A. Naismith, formerly head of the department of physical education at the University at New York. Doctor Naismith has met so many old K. U. men in France that he says many an occasion has seemed like old times.
The first University of Kansas man that he met in France, according to the letter, was Roland Boynton who is secretary to the colonel commanding the troops—Colonel Travis of Iola. Boynton was on the same vessel with Creighton, the track man. Afterwards Doctor Naismith milt lieuten-R. E. Welsh and later, Tom Lee of the class of 1910 who has been doing Y.M.C.A. work among the French and who probably is now in an officers' training camp. At an aviation camp Doctor Naismith milt lieutenWhitehead and Lieutenant Miller, a graduate student who was an instructor in the University of Illinois. Lambert, a former K. U. student now a mechanician in the aero corps was also at the camp.
The letter reads:
"I was later standing near the doo waiting for someone, when I saw a familiar face coming toward me, smiling. I could not recall his name and as all the men are in uniform, you have only the face to judge by. He made me guess but I could not do it until I asked him to take off his hat and then I saw the extensive forehead of Lieutenant Francis Wilco, L.L.B. His hair is being flying and they cut all kinds of capers in the air. It will not be long before we hear of them bringing down their Boches."
Later Doctor Naismith met captain O'Keefe, who was a member of a tumbling team at K. U. He took part in the raid described by Patullo for the Saturday Evening Post in the story "The First Raid." According to the letter he is still the same modest, kindly little scrapper that he was on Tennessee Street when he was laid out.
"One Sunday morning," the letter says, "I turned around to the call, Oh Doc Naismith and saw six feet four of Kansas manhood in the person of Wint Smith. He is a lieutenant and an instructor in an artillery school. With him was Lieut. Roy Cress.
"I have not met Lieutenant Kirk land nor Roy Stockwell of Lawrence, who has received the croix de guerre with special mention for his bravery in rescuing wounded while exposed to shell fire, rifle fire and gas. Neither have I seen Rick Randolph although he was near here. I see Professor and Mrs. Applebloom frequently. Applebloom is head of the purchasing department of the Y. M. C. A. and Mrs. Applebloom is looking after the movement orders."
American experience with the French language is usually laughable, says Da. Nismith, but he has managed to survive between his French, some Latin words murdered, and a variety of signs. The work over there is made pleasant by the co-operation of all for the best welfare of the men and as the army stands for a new ideal of military life, he does not doubt but that the American army will be the best that can be put out. He tells of a professor of psychology from Morningside in a little but near candy and tobacco in conducting a boxing event, then leading the singing, then introducing a speaker, then keeping the fires going. A $5,000 a year preacher in a big church in America is doing menial work in a canteen, and many society women are doing similar work in France.
Spend, but spend vividly; save, and save earnestly; buy War-Savings Stamps!
Tau Beta Pi Pledges
Three Junior Engineers
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8, 1918.
Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering society announces the election of the following junior: A. J. Smith, Independence, Mo.; C. A. Keenan, Kansas City, Mo., and J. R. Mahan, Independence, Kansas. The members of the society are elected from those students who have a high scholarship record.
The War Here and Over There
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
We are told that no one in Germany but the Kaiser rides in an automobile supply truck, which shows that they are still keeping the auto in autocracy—St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Berlin announces that a treaty of peace has been signed with Finland. Men in the next draft will be divided into four classes according to physical condition.
A Spanish newspaper has un earcited a German plot to bring about a revolution in Spain and to assassinate King Alfonso.
The savings of the people of the United States were increased from six billion dollars to fifteen billion dollars in 1917.
In addition to constructing submarine chasers for the government, the Henry Ford plant in Detroit will soon commence building light "tanks."
A plan to sell all property belonging to German interests in this country has been agreed upon by the Senate appropriations committee.
A spirited debate took place in the Texas lower house yesterday on the question of barring the German language from all schools and colleges in the state.
Germany has admitted that she demanded the forts of Toul and Verdun from France in July, 1914, as a pledge of France's neutrality in case of a Russo-German war.
The ship-building labor adjustment board has authorized an eight-hour day for ship workers, as well as a minimum wage scale, free transportation, and on open shop.
An American patrol of nine men which had been missing all night returned to their trenches at noon Wednesday by making a dash across No Man's Land, not a shot being fired at them.
Two years imprisonment or $500 fine or both is the heavy sentence that will be instituted on all persons in Pennsylvania who are found guilty of storing more than 30 days' supply of foods.
No more men of draft age will be allowed to enter the ordinance, quartermaster. signal, medical, or adjutant general's departments unless they are specially fitted for the positions.
The War Department has approved a new plan of army organization which calls for six divisions in each army corps, three of which will compose afield army. This will require the appointment of seven lieutenant-generals and three more generals.
The peace treaty signed by the Bolshhevki gave Germany 381,000 square miles of territory, inhabited by 50,000,000 Slavs. This does not include the Ukrainian Republic, which is virtually under Austria's control, nor the three small stateseded to Turkey.
Forest J. Miller of the department of geology has been accepted in the aviation corps and left this afternoon for the aviation training school at Urban, Ill. Mr. Miller was graduated from K. U. in 1916 and has since held a fellowship in the department of geology, working on the subject of fuel resource analysis of Kansas Hework Southern Kansas, making various tests and investigating means of utilization.
Money saved works day and night
for you. Buy War-Savings Stamps
Miller To Aviation
Miss Evelyn Engstrom of Wichita is spending the week-end with Helen McLean at the Chi Omega house.
Will Uphold Negative Side of Question at Issue in Little
Rivals from Colorado Will Debate Tonight Against Affirmative
Theatre
Colorado's debaters arrived today to meet the University of Kansas team tonight in Green Hall Theater. The Kansas team spent the afternoon in studying the fine points of the subject before going to the platform to support the contention that the Federal Courts should be deprived of the power to declare acts of congress unconstitutional.
Members of the Colorado team in the order of their speaking re Kenneth Grant, Carlton Hills and George Penny. Kansas' first speaker is Robert Albach, who will be followed by Marjorie Bean and Edward Mason.
The debate tonight will be held in the Little Theater in Green Hall, instead of in Fraser as first planned. An error in the University marshal's office set the orchestra concert for the same time and place. The orchestra requires the pipe organ.
Prof. B. F. Moore will preside at the debate, and the Judges will be H. R. Ennis, Charles H. Thompson of the Civil Service Commission, and L. C. Smith, of the Commercial National Bank, all of Kansas City.
The Kansas negative team left Thursday night for Norman, Okla., to meet the University of Oklahoma trio tonight.
University Orchestra Is Ready for First Appearance Tonight
Mrs. Olcott, Miss Hopkins and Prof. W. B. Dalton to be
Soloists
The University Orchestra, under the direction of Frank E. Kendrie conductor, will give a concert Friday evening, March 8, at 8:15 'oclock the following is the program;"
"and on Janu'...Mozart Spanish Dance"
No.2, Bolero
Wedding March from "The Rath-
charmer of Hamlin"      "Nessler
"Connais-tu le pays?"     "from Mig-
non"           "Ambrose Thomas
Kypris"            "Augusta Holmes
"Vive amour!"    "from Cherubin"
*Massinee*
Mrs. Evelyn Olcott, Mezzo, Soprano
Miss Harriet Greissinger, Accom.
Romance      Sieendse
Traumerel Schumann
Sof for 'cello with string accompaniment
Ednah Hopkins, Soloist
Traumerei Sab
Solo for violin with string accompaniment
Prof. W. B. Dalton, Soloist Henry VIII Ballet-Divertissement
No. IV, Dance re la Gipsy
No. V, Submit
Professor Visits
Prof. H. E. Riggs of the University of Michigan who was graduated from K. U. in the department of civil engineering in 1886, was in Lawrence recently looking after property interests. Professor Riggs is the son of Judge Riggs and was engaged in the engineering business in Lawrence for some time after he was graduated from the University. On several previous visits to Lawrence he obtained positions in the University of Michigan for several professors from the K. U. School of Engineering but according to engineering faculty members his visit this time was purely personal.
Former Professor Visits
Ray E. Gafney, fa20, has been appointed assistant manager of the Sailors and Soldiers Club at 1305 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Mo. Gafney will provide and arrange for all entertainments. The club is maintained for all soldiers and sailors on leave in Kansas City, Victrolas, pianos, pool tables and shower baths are provided for the soldiers.
Gafney Gets Appointment
No. VI, Gigue et Final Coronation March from "The
Prophet" ...Myerbee
No. V, Scherzetto
No. VI, Gli et Final
Prof. D. L. Patterson will give an illustrated lecture at the University Club tonight.
Earline Allen Again LeadsiBeauty Contest; Hazel Cook Is Second
Senior Electrical Engineers Base Award of Votes on Ingenuity of Women
Earline Allen had again taken the lead in the "Our Kansas Girls" Contest when the votes were counted this noon by Prof. L, N. Flint, Hester Jackson had nosed out Hazel Cook for second place. Miss Cook is now third. The other contestants in the order of their standing, are: Louise Logan, Marie Buchanan, Ellen Van Zandt, Jessy Weywatt, Frances Adams, Jessie Bock, Myrtle Steen, Josephine Huoni, Genevieve West, Rhea Diveley, Laurine Lynn, Dorothy Wiggins, and Lila Clark. A rumor was current on the campus this morning that Hester Jackson had withdrawn from the contest. This is denied by Miss Jackson.
"Additional payments on Jayhawk closes, made before the contest closes, will be counted as votes," was the order of Harry Morgan, editor of the book. "Every cent paid for subscriptions and for organization, senior, junior, and sophomore space is good for a vote—providing the money necessary to pay for events in March 16." Subscribers who have paid only a dollar or so down, but who pay more before the contest closes, will get additional votes."
An unusual "stunt" was promulgated this morning when representatives of the senior electrical engineers announced they controlled approximately 15,000 which they offered as a prize to the ingenuity of K. U. womanhood. Charles L. Shugart, spokesman for the class, said members of the class would be ready to hear the causes of the different candidates set forth in person next Monday morning between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock in the lecture room in Marvin Hall.
"The end of the world has come!" A group of people rushed wildly up Tennessee Street last night about 9:45 o'clock. They were eagerly scanning the brilliant heavens to the north. As the red are grew brighter and brighter and approached the zenith, their terror increased.
"We have all these votes over here," said Shugart, "and don't hardly know what to do with them. We don't get many chances to meet the women in the contest and so decided to give them all an equal chance at our votes. It's been many months since a woman was seen over here on our edge of the campus where none ever come voluntarily, and we want some to come. Members of our reception committee will be in the lecture room in the second floor throughout the hour Monday."
Did Your Wicked Past Appall You? Ours Did
"It is the end of the world!" All that red in the sky is the blood of all those killed in the European War. Many, if not all, die, deaths, too, within the last year."
According to reports, the phenomena was observed last night from coast to coast. Astronomers are generally agreed that the strange effect is caused by electrical currents and atmospheric communication. Atmospheric communication was impaired during the period in which the aurora borealis was visible.
The excitement was caused by the appearance of the aurora borealis, which was the most brilliant last night that it has been in this latitude for a quarter of a century. Areas and valleys have been cleared and apparently moved from east to west in the northern sky. The patches of light were constantly changing.
And the group hurried down the street, apparently not knowing where they were.
Present One-Act Plays
"Roseberry Shrub Sec," and "The Conspirator" will be put on by the Dramatic Art Class in Green Hall Little Theater Monday afternoon at three o'clock. These Monday afternoon plays are always open to visitors. Three weeks rehearsing is put on each play and each member of the class is always at work on a part.
Miss Mary Anderson of DeSoto, who attended K. U. last year, is visiting friends at 1321 Yearne street.
Davis Tells Forum of Diplomacy and the War
Prof. W. W. Davis spoke to the Woman's Forum Thursday on "Diplomacy and the War." He said in part the diplomacy of the war had grown out of a group or set of problems which had confronted diplomats before the outbreak of the war. He discussed several of these; the Balkan question, troubles in Asia Minor, and the Alsace-Lorraine question. "Since the beginning of the war," he said, he explained, "we have been abandoned or had changed into leaders and now diplomats are facing new problems among which are Germany's invasion of Belgium and the entrance of the United States into the war."
Plain Tales From The Hill
The brothers of a certain fraternity were discussed "Our Kansas Girls' contest. They referred to one of the beauties leading in votes.
"Say," drawled one of the brothers,
"is that the Alba Chiba Omeo Cook?"
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"The cook!" shot out another of 'em. "Whad-ju think this beauty contest is, anyway?"
No Solomon, the man climbing over the peak of Blake Hall yesterday was not taking treatment for heart trouble, nor was he up there just for the view, nor was he practicing tight-rope walking, and decidedly he was not winding the clock. Just a bum place in the roof, and he was fixing it.
'E'S A SUFFRAGETTE
After all there's some consolation in being a man sassiety editor, as Lawson May will testify. Especially if the job will save a feller from getting all mussed up by a pugnacious prof.
Yesterday Miss-bag pardon, Mister Lawson—was sitting at his faithful typewriter pounding out assissery notes when Prof. Sam Rice approached. "Well, guess I'll go over and get that story," quoth the pref.
"Yes, yes, cubed," answered Lawson.
"Yes, yes, back." He got it
bumpy, right back.
Professor Rice gasped and looked and started to take his off coat. Then a look of sadness came over his face. "No, no." he murmured, "I can't do it. I never beat a woman up and I can't start now."
There is really such a thing as the irony of fate. Eileen Van Zandt, a candidate in "Our Kansas Girls" contest has the measles! The sisters who are soliciting votes for her assure every one that her beauty will not be ruined by the horrid, ridiculous fact remains—she has the MEASLES!
An unstudious stude went down town several nights ago to devote several fleeting hours at a "keen movie." He took the exact change for admission, and only that much. Witness the spectacle of our hero as he strides along.
Enter the villain, in the shape of a grating on the sidewalk at the front of one of the stores. Said hero, clutching his money in his hand to keep from losing it, encounters the villain. A nickel falls from his flat desk and lands on its visions of no keen show or else a long walk home to get more money.
Hero looks around, appalled by the thought that some one might see him as he plays the climax. Then he stoops, lifts the grating, descends into the hole, grubs in the bottom of it, and emerges jubilant. Anticlimax: Hero, returning from the theater at a late hour, takes the opposite side of the street.
Physics Student, watching the aurora borrealis phenomena last night,
"Never before did I see nature so ashamed of herself."
The joke that got the biggest laugh at "Mary's Ankle" last night wasn't really supposed to be in the show at all. It was inserted by the leading man, an individual who realized the value of "local color." He was sitting, with "Mary," on the deck of the steamer. And the object of his attention was that Mary had not been poorly turned, silken clad ankle that had brought them together when Mary got hurt in an automobile accident and came to him for help.
Dr. F. H. Geselebracht will speak Sunday at 4:30 o'clock before the K. U. Methodist League in Myers Hall.
"Gee!" he said, "if any K. U. girl has an ankle like that she'll win the Beauty Contest sure!"
Every K.U. Woman An Hour a Week in Red Cross Work Is Plan
Class Committees Will Begin Big Drive for Workers Monday
Need for Dressings Urgent
France
No Reserve Supply Ready for American Army in
*Every K. U. Woman One Hour a
Wear* In Surgical Dressings
Work for the U.S. Army.
The foregoing is the slogan the Surgical Dressings Committee of the University has adopted to start its campaign to bring every one of the nine hundred University women into perhaps the most currently needed form of Red Cross work now open to the women in universities and colleges. Class committees have been organized and a campaign was mapped out at a meeting called by Miss Margaret Lynn, director of woman's war work, Wednesday afternoon.
CLASS COMMITTEES AT WORK Members of the class committees will see every woman in the University to urge the absolute need of every University student joining this Red Cross work as a volunteer of the work of doing their bit for the cause of America and world democracy and that no American boys will die in France for want of surgical dressings and hospital equipment.
It costs nothing to join the classes. The big drive for surgical dressings will start Monday. A bulletin board on the campus will announce the results of the canvass by the class leaders. Every woman who enrols for one hour a week will count one point for her class.
MRS. MARVIN SPEAKS
The need for surgical dressings was presented to the forty women at the committee meeting by Mrs. Geo, Marvin last night.
"Hospitals on the front in France are absolutely without supplies in many cases," she said. "Old newspapers are being used to dress wounds which means infection and suffering and often death. Every compress made by an American woman means the life of a soldier in Europe.
RED CROSS WORK A DUTY
"The work in our surgical dressings should not be considered as something to be done in spare time only. It is a duty which must be performed for the government. Sacrifice of other interests and activities should be made if no extra hours in the week can be found."
Miss Margaret Lynn told of the lack of reserve supply of Red Cross dressings. "The American Red Cross had hoped to have a large reserve ready when our men went over to France. At present they are just keeping even with the demand. A reserve must be accumulated in America before the promised German drive in the spring or untold suffering and death will be the result of the negligence of American women."
MUST REALIZE NEED
Marion Joseph presided at the meeting and made an appeal for greater support of war work on the campus. "Only a small per cent of university women are spending even an hour a week making compresses," she said. "If every woman would spend at least an hour the supply of dressings sent would set a record for western schools. The surgical dressings committee is willing to open the room every hour of the week if the demand is great enough. The demand for work must be greater when college women realize their responsibility."
The class committees are: senior, Arlene Griffiths, chairman, Grace Windsor, Susan P. McDonald, Jane Waters, Niln Blurton, Gertrude Lea Coss, Minnie Moody, Mignon Schel, Ruth Thomas, and Marie Buchan; junior, Louise Nixon, chairman, Mary Burnett, Jessie Rankin, Nindia Clain, Helen Wagstaff, Anne Benson, Florence Ingham, Margaret Young, and Ruth Rouse; sophomore, Edna Burkholder, Jennifer Gibson, Nindia Clain, Trant, Helen Jackson, Jean Coeff, Lillian Cottrell, Helen Bender, Helen Carlin, Margaret Lodge, Mary Anderson; freshman, Virginia Quinn, chairman, Helen Thurston, Helen Olson, Edna Eberly, Clara Nigre, Dorothea Engle, Lecra Varig, Hazel Rae, Katherine Glendenning, Ruth Russell, and Eloise MNutt.