Special Jayhawker Edition
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Special Jayhawker Edition
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 101
Gerard Will Deliver Commencement Talk For University Grads
Arrangements are made for Address by Former Ambassador to Berlin
Will Speak Here June 3
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 4.1918
War
Was in Germany Two Years After Start of European
James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany, has accepted the invitation of Chancellor Frank Strong to give the commencement address at the University June third.
Mr. Gerard is a graduate of Columbia University and was associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York for one term. He has been prominent in Democratic campaign work in New York for several years. President Wilson appointed him as ambassador to Germany in July 1918 one year before the outbreak of the war before the entrance of the United States into the conflict was a most trying one.
He was well liked by the people of Germany but was not much in favor with the Kaiser and his war lords. When the United States declared war last April he was given a safe passage out of Germany.
A number of interesting articles by him have appeared in magazines and he has written a book of his experiences while ambassador at Berlin, which has been valuable as an explanation of the position of Germany in the war.
Kansas Debaters Will Meet Oklahoma and Colorado Next Friday
Commencement speakers at the University since 1912 were: Hamilton Wright Male, associate editor of Outlook, Philander P. Claxton, United States Commission of Education, Charles R. Brown, Dean of the School of Divinity of Yale University, Rabbi Wise, Hamilton Hold, editor of the Independent Magazine, and William Jennings Bryan.
Kansas will uphold the affirmative here of the question "Resolved, that the Federal Courts of the United States should be deprived of the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional."
K. U. Affirmative Team Here
—Negative Goes to
Norman
The K. U. negative team will meet the Oklahoma team at Norman on the same evening. At the same time Oklahoma and Colorado teams meet at Boulder. The names of the judges have been submitted, but have not yet been agreed upon by the opposing schools. All of the judges here will be from Kansas City and those at Oklahoma will come from Oklahoma City.
"The question this year about the courts is one that is of great current importance," said Prof. H. T. Hill, who is coaching the debaters. "The members of the squad have gone to the bottom in the question and it will be interesting as well as instructive to the public."
City. The squads have been working hard on the question for the last two months. The individual members are now working on the delivery and the rebuttal points. The teams chosen from the squads will be announced the first of next week.
The debate here is open to the public and student tickets admit. Much interest has been shown formerly in the triangular debate. It is the first of the two debates to be held here this year. Kansas will meet a team from Missouri in April.
A war saver is a life saver! Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Maj. W. Y. W. Davis has quit holding his 4 o'clock military drill classes overtime, but one of his assistants, Capt. Burney Miller kept Company E 10 minutes overtime Thursday.
K. U. Follies Features Hick Song and Chorus
The K. U., Follies will feature local hits, songs, jokes, and patriotic selections in the entertainment March 14. Helen Cook, Hester Jackson, and Nell DeHart are on the program again with a "rube" act similar to the one in which they appeared last year. They will be accompanied by a hick chorus for a hick drill in appropriate costume.
Dorothy Button and Mildred Dietz with chorus have a clever song followed by a song and dance by Carl Brown and Ethel Wycoff. One of the big features of the Follies will be a patriotic drum specialty by Willard Pierce, followed by a song by Irene Jardin and chorus.
Howard Haines, formerly of the Orphem circuit, will appear as a novelty trickster. A black face sketch will be given by Burt Cochran and Dorothea Engle. The finale will be a patriotic number by Etta Poland and chorus. Many other features, equally as good, will be announced later.
The War Here and Over There
The ship shortage is made plain by figures which show the world is short more than seven million tons of shipping. Secretary Baker estimates that three million tons more of new ships will be necessary to get the whole army to France.
WAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Germany exalts over the success of our latest war loan, which reminds us hat when Lee surrendered the most identifiable commodity in Dixie was Confederate money—Boston Transcript.
The Food Administration has fixed the price of binder twine, taking nineteen cents, the present price of sisal, as the basis, and setting the maximum amount of profit.
The United States has added 399 vessels to its merchant marine in the last six months.
A tobacco shortage in Germany is causing the use of many more or less harmful substitutes.
The Austrian peace terms offered to Rumania demand abdication of the kind in favor of his brother.
The United States spent more than a billion dollars for war purposes in February.
The campaign for the third Liberty Loan will begin April 6, the first anniversary of America's entrance into the war.
President Wilson has placed an embargo on corn imports, to hasten the movement of wheat, which is badly needed to fill commercial agreements with Europe.
The War Department announces the loss of the naval tug Marine last week in a gale. Officers and crew were rescued.
American troops repulsed a strong German gas and artillery attack north of Toul, driving back the Teutons after a hand to hand fight. Both sides took prisoners in small raids.
Four bodies have been recovered and twenty-four men are still missing from among the crew of the naval tug Cherokee, which went down in a storm Tuesday.
Petrograd dispatches say the Bolsheviki, with the motto "Victory or death" are arousing enthusiasm for the defense of Petrograd, and have broken off all negotiations with the Germans. Other dispatches say the Bolsheviki have signed, at Brest-Litovsk, a treaty of "peace at any price," and that the German advance has ceased.
One hundred forty-four persons, including seven women nurses, who were on board the torpedoed British hospital ship, Glenart Castle, are still unaccounted for.
A decision is expected soon on the proposed movement to Siberia by United States troops to assist the Japanese in putting down pro-German movements there.
Two officers at Camp Doniphan are to stand trial as a result of the investigation following the reports of insanity conditions and the neglect of patients at the base hospital there.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
"Liberty" Jayhawker To Record Year's Work Of University in War
All Activities in Great Struggl Will be Recognized in This Year's Annual
A "Liberty" Jayhawker, designed along patriotic lines, entirely in keeping with the spirit of the times is what this year's annual will be, according to Harry H. Morgan, editor. Realizing that the war has touched, either directly or indirectly, every person in the University and that the year's activities have all been affected and changed by the big struggle, the editors felt the Jayhawker would not be an accurate memoir of life on Mount Oread without such an atmosphere.
In addition to a military tone running throughout the book, from the cover design to the last page, which combines loyalty to Old Glory, with fidelity to the Crimson and Blue, the annual will have a special military section, as extensive and complete as any other feature.
The Jayhawker will be dedicated to the Kansans who are making the supreme sacrifice for their country and the military section will be made of material appropriate to such a department, including pictures and snap shots of University men who are now in the service, views of Company M depicted by Dr. Danielson, as pictures of the cadet drill companies. Special features of the section will be war poems and suitable illustrations.
The opening pages and sub-divisions pages will be red, white and blue, in a style of art work, done by especially chosen professional artists, such as has never appeared before in a University annual. The border design will combine the quail motif with the crown and the panels for the seniors, junior and sophomores will carry out the same iden-
"Iinasmuch as this is the first time in the history of K. U. that the publication of a war annual has been possible the editors of the book consider it a privilege as well as a duty to issue such a book," said Morgan today. "We are doing our utmost to publish a Jayhawker that must necessarily be essentially different from former ones in this respect and hope to create something that will stand as a monument to the effort and sacrifice all K. U. men are making for their country."
The work of the University women will be shown by pictures of the surgical dressings classes and what the combined effort and contribution of K. U. to the cause has been will be told in the military section by a faculty man capable of writing such an article.
Send the Daily Kansan Home.
Lovers of Old Books Will Revel in Exhibit Of Annuals in Spooner
To the folks who like to poke their noses into musty books and uncover all norts of interesting data about the misty past, the exhibit of "all the annuals ever published at K. U." on display in Spooner Library this month, is one of the most interesting things on the campus.
Collection Dates From "Heiro-
phautes" of '73 to "Liberty"
Jayhawk of '18
Ever since 1874, when the first Kansas annuall, the "Heliophanites," was published, a complete file of the books has been kept by the University Library. They are ordinarily locked in the vault but because the 1918 Jayhawkner is planned to be institutional record of the University's part in the Great War, they were brought out and placed on display, in order that this year's book may be compared with the annuals of the past.
Smallest and perhaps most interesting of all, is the first annual—the "Hierophanes" of 1873-4. The book was edited by Miss Hannah Oliver, now of the department of Latin, assisted by three members of the I. C. Sorsis and Beta Theta Pi societies. Those were the days when the literary and fraternal societies controlled all student activities on Mount Oread; and the second annual, edited by a members of Phi Kappa Psi, who dedicated to the Betas, because of their invaluable aid in advertising the book.
Perhaps some explanation for this "1918 Jayhawkier Edition" of the Kansan ought to be made. If so, this is it:
IN EXPLANATION:
But this year, things are different. The senior class is small.
Without the help of the rest of the student body, it could not publish
an annual that would do justice to the University. And it is up
the rest of us to help.
And so, this 1918 Jayhawkter—"The Liberty Bell Book"—is an annual in which all of us are vitally interested. It will record, as no other agency could record, the part the University is taking in the Great War. Everything that we have done this year will be shown in picture, song and story. Ten years from now, with the war a memory, your friends scattered and gone the 1918 Jayhawkler will be a valued record of your classmates' part in the Great War. All that there is in friendship and association will be recalled through the Jayhawkler's story.
These early annuals were printed by the "Lawrence Journal Steam Printing Establishment," and are extremely interesting from a typographical standpoint. There are no printed pictures in the first half dozen books, though several contain actual photographs tipped in the binding.
Realizing that the 1918 Jayhawker must be radically different from all before-the-war annuals, the management of the book wisely chose a staff of students representative of all classes in the University. The 1918 Jayhawker is not only a senior annual. It is everybody's annual. Students whom all of us know—from freshmen to graduates—have contributed to its making.
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The 1918 Jayhawker is everybody's annual—the Liberty Bell Book that belongs to all of us. Years may pass before another clalabor Jayhawker will be published on Mount Oread. Those of us who can should take advantage of this one.
Until 1900, every senior class which published a book chose an individual name for it; so that all the books of the '80s and '90s have different titles. The "Kiwr Book" of '96, was one of the on-st elaborate of these books, and contains page after page of original drawings by Syd Prentice. His depiction of scenes at Cameron's Bluffs, where the students used to go on hikes and for picnic suppers, are quite
The Jayhawkler has never been, in the past, the All-University book that it is, and should be, this year. Prior to the Great War, the annual has always been entirely a senior class book, published by the seniors for the seniors—and including the lower classes only incidentally.
The Kansan recognizes these facts. Therefore, it gives its space, willingly and cheerfully, today, that the student body as a whole may come to recognize them, too.
like those appearing in recent books: "The Quivera," of 1893, was the first cloth bound annual to be published. Prof. R. D. O'Leary, department of English, wrote one of the editors of *English*. It was a big underwriting for us at the time," he said of his work as student editor, "and we considered we had produced a wonderful book. It was so expensive, in fact, that we lost quite a little money on it, and several of us went out from college with a debt hanging over us that we later had to pay." The "Quivera" contains
"Our Kansas Girls" Contest Starts Today With 44 Women in Race
Corps of Solicitors for Jayhawker Begin Tomorrow to Get Votes For Themselves or Friends—Every Cent Good for a Vote
Eight Winners to be Given Page Each in Feature Section
Plain Tales From The Hill
The following young women have been nominated as candidates in the contest :
Instructor in French: "What does the French word 'souvenir' mean?" Student: "I don't know."
Overheard at a local restaurant (from a Freshman who was experiencing difficulties in cutting his roast beef): "Gosh this cow must have gone to school where gym was compulsory; I never saw such a muscle before."
Contest Ends March 16—Contestants' Standings Will be Announced as Race Progresses—Faculty Members Act as Judges
dates in the contest:
Missie Frances James, Earline Allen, Helen Brown, Muriel Brownlee, Missie Francis James, Beryl Buchanan, Jessie Buck, Dorothy Button, Charlotte Carnie, Edna Chain, Lila Clark, Hazel Cook, Irene Cutter, Opal Day, Rhea Diveley, Katherine Follill, Lillian Gleisser, Agnes Gossard, Helen Govier, Moseley Hambric, Marion Holmes, Geneva Hunter, Josephine Huni, Hester Jackson, Agatha Kinney, Logue Lisanne, Laurine Lynn, Ruth Masssey, Lois McCord, Patterson Mildred Payne, Lena Pittenger, Rae Riley, Eda Rising, Mary Sampson, Genevieve Searns, Fern Skra, Myrtle Steen, Eileen Van Zandt, Genevive West, Elaine Wharton, Dorothy Wiggins, Grace Windsor, and Jessie Wyatt.
With forty-four University young women nominated as candidates, the "Our Kansas Girls" contest of the 1918 Jayhawker started today and will continue for two weeks. During this time a miniature army of solicitors, primed with an argument for every objector, will endeavor to sell a "Jayhawker" to every student on the Hill. They will get votes for themselves or for friends by inducing every student to subscribe for the University's first war annual—The Liberty Bell Jayhawker of 1918. The price of the book is four dollars.
I in F: "Well what does it mean in English when a boy gives a girl a souvenir?"
Voice from the back row: "It usually means a souvenir spoon."
A young army officer from Ft. Leavenworth visited in Lawrence Friday and went to a dance Friday night. His date had to leave town on the 11 o'clock Santa Fe train, and they left the dance in time to catch it. The officer didn't know one station from the other, and the young woman couldn't distinguish them readily.
A woman student of the University, by her own confession, sat on the front seat of Fraser Chapel at the food conservation lecture last week, and ate candy while listening to the lecturer's talk on saving.
They went to the Union Pacific station. They sat on a bench. And waited. No train came in. Still they waited. Then the officer asked the agent when the train was due. He found there was no train till 2 o'clock in the morning. They discovered their mistake in stations. Found they had only eight minutes to catch the right train.
They ran. Although the soldier had been in training for several months, he was hard pressed and fatigued in crossing the bridge. Taking a taxi, they reached their destination just in time to grab the 11 c'clock.
War Department Calls Another K. U. Professor
Walter Hall, c20, lapsed back several decades in the development of mechanics Sunday. The motor that runs the Baptist Church pipe organ went dead, and Hall was called on to pump air for the musicians. "More exercise than military drill," he said.
J. O. Jones, assistant professor of hydraulics at the University has accepted a position as testing engineer on the new munitions plant to be constructed in the east.
Professor Jones is the second professor from the School of Engineering to be called by the War Department to work on munitions plants within the last three weeks. C. C. Williams, professor of railway engineering was called to superintend the construction of a plant a short time ago.
Black Helmet will meet at the Phi Delta Theta thea Wednesday night.
Prof H. A. H. Rice will take charge of Professor Jones' classes at the University
Don't be a SPENDER, BE A SAVER!
Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Votes in the contest cost one cent each, and are given for every penny paid for copies of the Jayhawk or for space in the book. Students paying $4 down for their book will receive vote coupons good for 400 votes; organizations paying for a page of space at $12 will receive 1200 votes. A minimum deposit of $1 is required with every book order. Only a few extra copies, above the number actually subscribed for, will be printed.
FACULTY MEN AS JUDGES
Professors L, N. Flint, C. A. Dykstra, and Arthur MacMurray will hold the keys to the ballot boxes which are to be placed about the campus; and will act as tellers when the votes are counted. Frequent announcements of the standings of the contestants will be made.
There will be eight winners in the contest, and each girl will be given a page of space in the Jayhawker, in the order in which she finished in the contest. Professional designers and artists will arrange and decorate the pages. Each winner will appear in one of the specially selected paper stock, in duotone ink, and will be one of the handsome features of the book.
The 1918 Jayhawker is unique and original in composition in that it is a War-Jayhawker, picturing the battle fields of France, the life of soldiers is training camps, both in Kansas and far away in foreign fields, and pictures of many prominent University students who are now in the service.
ALL ARE REPRESENTED
Every department of the University will be represented, from the engineers over on the "west end" to the medics "down in Rosedale." All the activities of the past year will receive attention. Rallies and athletic contests, the razing of North college, plays and parties—all forms and varieties of student activities will be shown.
Distinctly military in spirit, the Liberty Bell Jayhawker will appear in a maroon colored cover, stamped in gold, almost as large as the book last year, and because of the unusual opportunity which the war has afforded to get out a military book, should be more interesting and unique then any annual ever before published here, according to members of the Jayhawker staff.
The humor section will provoke the smiles of even the most sober members of the faculty. This department is full of snapshots—a lot of them being those submitted in the snapshot contest last week—and are spicy stuff. In addition, there will be many literary material and cartoons.
The Jayhawker Beauty Ball
The Jaykins in the "Our Kansas Girl" contest will be awarded at the annual Juyhawker Beauty Ball, to be given April 19 in Robinson Gymnasium. Plans for the party are only in the embryonic stage at present; but all indications are that the Beauty Ball will rival any of the previous parties of the year in elaborateness. There will be a midnight farce, musical comedy style, a supper, and all the trimmings—such as decorations, fussy programs, etctra.
Better 'phone her tonight, boy!