UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Fourth Annual Party Was Well Attended; Patriotic In Nature
Flags of the United States and Of the Allies Served as Decorations
Used Theater Arrangement
Entertainment Features Were Liked by Audience—Orchestra Furnished Music
Most of the University was present at the Fourth Annual All-University Colonial Party given in Rolston Gymnasium Saturday night. "The game was very exciting," the Allies used for decorations helped to make it a real patriotic party.
The first part of the entertainment was composed of vadeville numbers.
"Efficiency," the one-act war play presented by Alpha Phi Tau, members of the dramatic art class, was the best number. Burney Miller, who played the part of the Kaiser, realized the dramatic moments of the play and won much applause. Herman Hangen, the efficient man built up from a cripple by the Scientist, who finally kills the Kaiser and ends the war which he was supposed to win, carried the part well. Karl Brown, the Scientist, interpreted the character well.
The pageant, "Kanning King Kan" was a clever presentation of the food conservation question and illustrated aptly "grone are the days when we throw our scraps away." Susan Mac-Donald was director of the caste and Dorothy Cole had charge of the dances.
The Men's Glee Club sang two numbers. The first was a group of trench songs, "Johnny Get Your Gun," "Over There," and others sung from behind camouflage trenches in front of the stage. Harold Hall and the members of the Home Burning" and a quartet "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" from behind the scenes. John Wahlstedt sang two solos.
Dorothea Engle was charming as a colonial lady. Her dance took the place of the minstick which has been a feature of former colonial parties. The program was drawn by Prof. W. S. Hekking of the School of Fine Arts.
The failure of the program to begin on time and the long waits between numbers detracted a little from the effect of the program.
Social dancing followed the reception. A four- piece orchestra, played.
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A reception on the lower floor of the gymnasium followed the program. In the receiving line were Herman C. Hangen, Mrs. Eustace Brown, Dr. and Mrs. Frank Strong, Magnon Schoen, Warren Watters, Eater Moore, Agnes McFarlane, Holmes and Eustace Kugler. White lattice work covered with flowers changed the lower floor of the gym to a colonial garden.
Herman Hanken was in charge of the general arrangements. The committee on decorations was Ruth Ellis, Karl Brown, Frances Hitchcock, Lewis Potueck, Helen Pears, Francis Fuhr, and Frances Allen. Ernst Kugler was in charge of the program.
Senior Invitations Not As Expensive This Year
Orders Accepted at Check Stand
—To Place Star After
Names of Soldiers
Seniors may order their commencement invitations at the check-stand in Fraser Hall Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The prices are twenty and forty cents, and the invitations are the same quality as last year, although the prices were twenty-five and fifty cents. There is no limit on the number ordered, but the money must accompany the orders.
Letters have been written to all enlisted men who left the University after receiving their degrees, asking if they wish to order invitations. Soldiers' names will be starred in the class roll.
"Class Day 1918," a poem by Helen Rhoda Hoopes of the department of English, will appear in the invitations. Leather or paper bindings may be ordered. The cover is decorated with "Kansas" in large letters and the seal of the University.
The Daily Kansan—a daily lettes home.
Eight K. U. Students Qualified for Aviation
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
Eight University of Kansas men have been recommended to the War Department by the Kansas City aviation examination board as fitted to receive commissions in the aviation section, signal corps, of the army, after completing a satisfactory course of training. Their names follows: Frank P. Mandeville, c'20; Harry M. Nielsen, c'17; Paul J. Rutherford, c'20; Horace M. Staggers, c'20; William W. Vandermidschma, c'20; Wallace O. Hake, l'18; Paul P. Merritt E; Ellsworth G. Tuttle, e'19.
The War Here and Over There
Jericho, of biblical renown, has been taken by the British in their campaign against the Turks in Palestine.
Sixty-three survivors of the Tuscania, who are in Irish hospitals, are reported recovering from injuries and exposure.
Since the United States entered the war the employees of the United States Steel Corporation have received increases in their wages amounting to sixty per cent.
Ex-Chancellor Von Bethman-Hollew has set aside the income from his real estate holdings at Waco, Tex., amounting to about $75,000 a year, for the purchase of Liberty Bonds.
The aviation school at Princeton, V. J., is the first camp in which every man has taken out war insurance. The school was funded for 110,000, the maximum amount.
The administration's bill for the appointment of two additional assistant secretaries of war is now before Congress. Goethals and Stettimius have been mentioned for the positions.
The dasheen, a sub-tropical plant which grows in swamps, with a fruit similar to potatoes, is being raised in the South in an effort to solve the food problem. Its leaves, stems, and roots are all valuable as food.
The first official news of the presence of new American units on the western front was given out Friday night, February 22, in the report of a patrol engagement in which the Americans were victorious. The new line is in the famous Chemin-des-Dames sector, which is the point nearest to Paris.
Director General McAdoo, in reply to the statement of Food Administration Hoover that the country was facing a food crisis on account of transportation difficulties, says that the state has been trying to handle the supply, and that he is willing to place them entirely at Mr. Hoover's disposal.
The steamer Florizel, of the Red Cross line, bound from St. Johns for New York, was wrecked on the rocks north of Cape Race in a blizzard Sunday. Little hope is held out for the 146 passengers and crew on board, as there was no response to a line put on board the battered vessel by naval gunners.
President Wilson has set the standard for wheat during the coming year at $2.20 per bushel, the same figure as last year. This is for No. 1 Northern spring wheat at Chicago, with a descending scale of prices at other markets. The President's order removes the danger of an unsettled wheat market by heading off agitation in Congress.
The Boisheviki have accepted the German peace terms, which will place Russia in virtual German bondage. The terms call for the surrender of Livonia, Esthonia, Finland, Ukraine, and other territories ( demobilization of the Russian army and internment of the fleet, cessation of anti-German propaganda, and a commercial treaty favoring the Teutons. Little resistance is being offered the two divisions of the Kaiser's army which are occupying Russia, with Petrograd as the apparent objective.
The Senior Memorial Committee met this week and decided to present to the University either an electric clock or a bulletin board. Walter Raymond, chairman of the committee, said investigations were now being made as to the price of electric clocks and a decision would soon be made as to the choice of memorial to be presented.
Has Charge of Women at Funston; Will Confer W/h K. U. Women
Winifred Wygall To Come To K. U. Tuesday To Speak At Y. W.C.A
K. U. Women
"The War Program of the L. W. C.
A. at Home and Abroad" will be the subject of Miss Winifred Wygall's talk at the regular meeting of the W. Y. C. A, in Myers Hall Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. *Miss Wygall* is in charge of all the works of the Association at Camp Funn on. Before coming to Funston she was student secretary at Vassar.
The Y. W. C. A. at Camp Funston is in charge not only of the hostess house but everything connected with women there. Miss Wygall, as director of the work, is responsible to the government for every woman employed there. Many women are employed in laundries and in offices.
Miss Wygall will be in Lawrence tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Any University women desiring conferences with her about Y. W. C. A work may arrange for them with Miss Buffield. All women who are thinking of attending for any other reason of interest to the Y. W. C. A. should see Miss Wygall some time tomorrow. She will be at West-minister Hall.
The efficiency of the Association's work has been tripled since Miss Wygall took charge, the Committee on War Work has reported.
Bible Study Classes Have 1025 Enrolled
Faculty Members Who Lead Classes Meet Weekly for Discussion
E. M. Briggs, Commanding.
"The total enrollment of Bible study classes is at present 1025," Hugo Weddell, head of the movement here at the University said this morning. "There are twenty-six faculty members as leaders in the fraternities and sororites and ten others who are leaders in the down-town churches and in the Bible-chairs.
Former Students Leave for Camp Lieut. J. Elliott, Paul Friend, Ronald Ramsey, Pat Harvey, Earl Fitzpatrick, Dudley FITzpatrick and Roscoe Stubs, former students at the University are members of Base Hospice (89), which left Kane City Saturday for Camp McPheson, Georgia. The unit was mobilized a month ago in the Union Station at Kansas City.
Because of the convocation set for 4 o'clock, Tuesday February 26, A Company will not form at 2 o'clock, as usual, but will form with the other companies at 4 o'clock. Rolls will be called, reports made as usual and the companies dismissed as soon as possible to attend convocation.
"The hearty co-operation of both students and faculty members, as shown by the high enrollment in the classes and by the large number of faculty members who have charge of the work done in them, is very encouraging." Mr. Wedell said. "So far we have graduated from organized classes for Bible study and all of the sororities have enrolled for the work."
The student's national day of prayer was observed Sunday from 9:00 to 9:30 o'clock, at the Congregational Parish House. The meeting, an annual event, was considered of special importance on account of war conditions. It was led by Miss Esther Roop and was well attended.
A number of the Epworth Leagues and Endeavor societies of the downtown churches, recognizing the value of organized Bible study have turned their regular meetings into discussion groups, using "The Social Principles of Jesus," by Rauschenbusch, as a guide.
Faculty members who are leaders of classes, are proving their interest and regard for the work, by meeting at Westminster Hall from 7 to 8 o'clock each Friday evening for discussion of these classes. These discussions are carried on under the leadership of Dean F. J. Kelly of the School of Education.
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Electrical Companies Are Combing Country For Skilled Workmen
Westinghouse Agent Interviews Seniors and Juniors in University of Kansas
All electrical companies in the United States are in sore need of skilled men, according to M. H. Bielbeck of East Pitsburgh, Pa.; representing the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, who is here today interviewing the seniors and juniors at the School of Electrical Engineering.
The scarcity of help, he says, is due to the fact that so many men have enlisted and others who have not are averse to the commonplace kind of work miles behind the firing-line. Most mechanically inclined men prefer a special branch of the service such as aviation, but there are so many such men that all cannot hope to enter that branch. For such men, says Mr. Biebel, it is better that they work for an electrical company, even though it is not as interesting as work at the front.
Nearly all electrical and manufacturing companies in the United States are doing government work, designing and producing new implements of war. The Westinghouse Company, says Mr. Biebel, is now working on two such appliances. The call for men rests on the fact that the company is more of a case of 'increased production than of design.'
Mr. Biebel, in interviewing the electrical students today, is attempting to show them the importance of their tasks. The work they will be asked to do in the factory is the highly specialized kind such as designing shells and airplane propellers, assembling motors, and so on. A special invitation is given to the junior electrics to work through the summer months, for the company wants every available man.
Two Hand-forged Nails Found in Razed Building
Will Be Placed in School of Engineering Museum as Relic Of Old Days
While working on the building which stands opposite Ecke's Hall the workers found two old-fashioned hand-forged nails which evidently had been made before the invention of the nail machine.
George Innes, of the Innes, Bulleine & Hackman Dr. Goods Company opened in this building the first store he ever owned in this city. His first customer was the father of Mr. Ellis, the present owner of the building.
The nails are curious enough, but the story connected with the old building, which is being reconstructed by W. C. Ellis, is even more curious. The building was built by a Mr. Raymond whose grand-daughter, Mrs. Bessie Cox, is today director of the First Baptist church of Lawrence.
The two old rusty nails will be placed in the museum of the School of Engineering as a souvenir of the progress of Lawrence and its citizens.
Grad Magazine Features Department of Cooking
The "Seeing K. U." article for the February number of the Graduate Magazine takes the seer into the basement of Fraser Hall to visit the Department of home economics. A full page cut shows two women at work in the model kitchen menure in the magazine is taken from a diary written by Miss Kate Stephens, '75, while she was living in Germany in 1883.
The list of men in service who have gone from the University is continued. The names of former students are given of graduates are given in this list.
As usual the magazine contains the general University news boiled down, the athletics, and the alumni notes which give the personal items about graduates.
Herbert R. Laslett, c18, who withdrew from school several weeks ago to enlist in the coast artillery is back in Lawrence after being rejected from the service because of his eyes. He will re-enroll in school.
K. U. Man Establishes New Aviation Record
Lieut. Sam Pickard of the 182 Aerial Squadron of Camp Tailifero, Texas a former K. U. student, broke all United States records in flying Saturday, when his squadron totalled 125 hours of continuous flight with the machines the highest record made in the United States.
Following this success, Lieutenant Pickard was appointed as the commanding officer and assumes responsibility for the entire camp.
Mr. Pickard has always written optimistic reports of his work. He was sent to the aerial training school of the Royal Flying Corps at Toronto, Canada, last August and since that time, both there and in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was later transferred he has made rapid progress.
The following is a copy of the telegram received by his parents here yesterday: "I broke the U. S. records today for flying time. My squadron totalled 125 hours with ten machines, which is going some. I am in charge of all flying and assume responsibility."
Plain Tales From The Hill
In addition to enduring the first man society editor ever this month, the Kansan is having a freshman for an editor for the first time in its history. Ferdinand Gottlieb, c2'1, is serving as editor of the War Column. Gottlieb is not in the department of journalism, but has worked on the Kansan all year, intending to enroll in the department next fall. He was the only freshman ever elected to the Kansan Board.
A few freshmen in a house on the Hill have taken advantage of a turn in the stairway to occupy orchestra and box seats for farewell dates, an audience the actors did not like to play to.
THEN THEY SAID FAREWELL.
A woman in the house received a telegram a week ago from a "friend in California" who had enlisted and was stop off for one evening on his way through Lawrence. Hence, another farewell date for the freshmen's enjoyment. The happy woman tailed of nothing but the "man" for several days, making the others in the house wild to see him.
On the fateful night the woman went to meet the man. The freshman women placed themselves advantageously and waited. Just before the dates came back, however, one woman's conscience hurt. "It’s too soon," she said. "Lady Peck tonight." So the freshmen went pains at their lessons.
The woman soon arrived with a strange-looking man. The hours dragged slowly by, the two sitting side by side, evidently expecting some peeking eyes. At last the girl turned to her companion. "Well, Bess, it didn't work," she said. "it was a beautiful plan; I don't see why it miscarried." Bess, with a sigh of relief, pulled off her wig.
Billy Ashley, c'21, made a bet with a certain plain-tales-man that his name would not appear in this column during the month of February. He loses.
K. U. Alumni Banquet Held at Kansas City
Burney Miller, after being choked three times in the play "Efficiency," almost strangled in the "Checkmate"; and finally shot in the latter play, all for taking the part of a Hun, is still around as a living American citizen.
The annual K. U. alumni banquet was held in Kansas City, Saturday night. Instead of the usual songs and college yells the dinners preferred the popular war songs. The speakers told of the self-sacrifice and patriotism of the hundreds of K. U. men who have given their services to their country. "War" was the theme of all the speakers.
There are now about twenty-five hundred K.'s, men in service," said Diah R. Brown.
The new officers elected are: Charles M. Blackmar, president; Porter Fones, vice-president; Ralph E Morrison, secretary; Robert J. Camp bell, treasurer.
Russell Charles of the School of Pharmacy, because of eye trouble, has withdrawn from his classes to return to his home in Attica, Kansas. Mr. Charles expects to return to school next year.
Conditions in Russia Will Be Subject of Doctor Harper's Talk
earned Much at Petrograd While in Service of American Embassy
Convocation in Gym Tues.
Four o'Clock Classes to be Dismissed to Enable Students to Attend Lecture
Dr. Samuel Harper, former professor of Russian at the University of Chicago, who has been interpreter for the American Embassy in Petrograd during the recent revolution in Russia, will speak in Robinson Gymnastium at a 'o'clock tomorrow afternoon. He will present him dismissed and students in military drill will be given a chance to hear this address on "Conditions in Russia."
There probably is no other man in the United States who is better informed on the Russian situation than Doctor Harper. He has lived in Russia, speaks the language fluently and as interpreter during the revolution he has been able to get some first hand information that should be valuable to students of the war. Doctor Harper is a son of the late William Rainey Harper, president of Chicago University.
"We are very fortunate in securing this address," said Cancellor Frank Strong this morning, "and I believe that it will be the most timely address that has been given at the University this year. William Allen White returned to this country from Europe last fall on the same steamer with Doctor Harper and he tells me that Doctor Harper is a most interesting and entertaining speaker on his sub-surface because he knows Russia intimately. He hopes these students and faculty members will hear this man and the University invites the people of Lawrence to attend the convocation."
Doctor Harper arrives in Lawrence tonight.
Snapshot Box Awaiting Hill-climbing Students
Jayhawker Editors Are Mutely Passing the Plate for Kodak
It's not a very big box—but it means a lot to the folks who read the 918 Jayhawk. It's not a particularly handsome box, either; but it's aafe to say that no single amount of pace on the campus contains as much highly intensified, dangerously exosive material.
Why, the Jayhawk Snapshot Box of course—the box which is being used by "Brick" Chandler, snapshot editor of the "Jayhawk," in his snapshot contest. Contributors are loading it with prints this week, in the hope of winning the three copies of the Jayhawk, the official University annual, which are offered to the three persons for the best snapshots submitted.
What box is this?
Where is the box?
Don Davis, business manager of the Jayhawker, is besieaching every student to notice the box near the University bulletin board, as they climb the Hill tomorrow morning. It's there—quite an ordinary looking box, securely locked, with a silt in the top through which snapshots may be dropped. There's a sign to the effect that this box is for the use of contributors to the snapshot contest.
"I think the contest will be a big success," said Brick Chandler this morning. "Every student should get out his memory book this week, and look through it for possible contributions. If you haven't any pictures already, get out your kodak and snap a few of the rare sights visible these days. No hike is complete without the thrill that comes from seeing it recorded in the Jayhawker. We want all sorts of snappy prints, and I hope everyone who has snapshots that are at all appropriate will turn them in. The box will be on the Hill all week; and the contest will continue until Friday night. Prizes will be awarded next week."
Prof. M. C. Elmer of the department of sociology was in Wellington, Friday and Saturday organizing the work for civilian relief under that chapter of the Red Cross.