UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 91
Annual Party Unites Colonial and Modern Wartime Conditions
Doors Open Early and Program
To Begin At 7:30
o'Clock.
Stunts To Preceed Dancing
Dates Are To Be Tolerated But Are Far From Being Necessary
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 18, 1918.
"The Colonial Party Saturday night is going to be an all-University function. Dates will be permitted but they are not necessary. All students, men and women, should attend whether they have dates or not," said Herman Hangen, manager of the party, when questioned this morning.
Promptly at seven-thirty o'clock the program will start and the doors will be closed after the program has begun. The early hour is necessary in order to finish the program and still have time for the dancing. The doors will be closed to those who come late in order not to interrupt the program.
A double stage will be built on the second floor of the gymnasium where the entire program will be given. A trench will occupy the front of the second stage and here the glee club will sing the trench songs of the Allies. It is expected that the University Band will play patriotic selections during the program. The play, "Efficiency" will be presented, Dorothea Engel will dance a colonial dance, and about fifty University girls will present a pageant on Hooverizing.
"The second floor of the gym will be decorated with the colors of the Allies," said Herman Hangen, this morning. "The lower floor will be decorated in colonial style and a reception will be held here just before the dancing begins which will last until midnight. Music will be by a four piece University orchestra."
200 Compresses Made First Week By Women
Red Cross Sends Urgent Call for Large Supply of Surgical Dressings
Two hundred compresses were made Thursday and Friday by the women enrolled in the surgical dressings work. This week, Room 205, Fraser, will be open from 3 until 6 o'clock Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Only a small percentage of the University women have registered so far for the work.
Women who do not have long-sleeved white aprons may start the work with short-sleeved aprons and paper cuffs. The enrollment probably will be larger this week after students have a chance to fit the surgical dressings work into their schedule the work committee believes. An urgent call for surgical dressings has been sent out by the National Red Cross.
Women Volunteer for Child Welfare World
Under the supervision of Mrs. J. R. Beckel, president of the Confederation of Clubs, ten women of the University have volunteered to assist in the Child Welfare Movement. The women will make a house to house canvass of all homes where there are children under five years of age in order to give the parents valuable information in regard to their children which they have obtained as the result of careful experiments and statistics. The object of the League is to try and cut the child death-rate one hundred thousand the coming year.
year.
The women who have volunteered are: Julia A. Kennedy, Edith Bankis, Miriam Griffith, Jessie Rankin, Clara Pittman, Nelle Hohn, Irma Leon and Rose Seigelbaum.
Women's From Well Attended
The women's From Saturday afternoon was attended by about 500 women of the University. The Grand March was led by Mary Nelle Hamilton in the costume of a Red Cross nurse and Amedee Cole, as a boy. During the intermission two fares were given in which Charlie Chaplin was prominent. Between faires little Betty Stimpson, a daughter of Prof. E. F. Stimpson, gave several charming solo舞s.
Women's Prom Well Attended
Choruses For Follies To Be Announced Soon
"The choruses of the K. U. Folies, to be given March 14, will practice Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons in the future. The entire cast will not meet together for practice until the last week or two before the production is staged." Blanche H., director of the Folles said today.
Miss Simons will be ready to announce definitely the names of **p** the people in the chorus, after today's performance, in final selection of the chorus casts will be made.
There will be three big chorus acts in the production one of which will be a China-town act given by eight girls. Twelve girls will make up the chorus of each of the three acts of which there will be solos with chorus accompaniment. Costuming will be a feature of all three of the choruses.
The War Here and Over There
Every postal employee in the United States will be used in the campaign of securing a million laborers to supply the shortage on farms.
By enrolling 23,000 men for shipbuilding last week, Illinois led all other states.
The next Red Cross war fund drive will be made in May. One hundred million dollars will be asked for this time.
A bill that would require the registration of alien women is now pending in Congress.
German airplanes unsuccessfully raided London Saturday night. The Germans lost one big airplane.
Reports from the French front say Americans are too eager to get at the enemy and have to be restrained by the Frenchmen.
Enemy aliens who refused to registrar with police authorities during the week for the registration of enemy aliens will be interned, the Department of Justice has announced.
Camp Dorjian will have a Liberty Theater soon, according to Harold Braddock, director of the military entertainment council, appointed by the Secretary of War.
Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York, is opening a training camp for nurses, and is appealing to five thousand college women, to prepare for service with the Red ross in France.
men of draft age who are qualified artisans will be given deferred classification if they enroll as ship builders.
There are lively gun duels on in the mountains of Italy daily according to reports, but the Italians are holding their positions successfully.
An attempt of German air raiders to bomb an American hospital behind the lines in France was unsuccessful. Occupants of the hospital were severely shaken by the explosions but no one was injured and no damage resulted.
Carrier pigeons are being used as spies by the Allied aviators in France. The aviators drop cages of pigions attached to parachutes behind the lines in Lorraine with instructions to the natives to send military information by the pigions.
Prof. Griffith Quarantined
The War Department has published a list of "Banner Communities" who filled their army quotas by voluntary enlistments, and had to furnish no men for the first draft. Oregon heads the list with fifteen, South Dakota is second with twelve and Kansas third with eleven.
The students of the School of Fine Arts are planning a "spread" for tomorrow noon between twelve and one o'clock in their rooms on the third floor of the Administration building. It is the intention of the plan to bring the students and faculty into more intimate relationship.
"Spread" for Fine Arts
Prof. Griffith Quarantedin
W. A. Griffith, of the School of
Fine Arts, is under quarantine of his
home because he is the son of his
son, George, with the smallpox.
Professor W. S. Hokking and Professor
Frazier are meeting his classes.
Governing Power of Universe Still Governed by Force, Says Topeka Man
As Well Quote Decalog To Mad Bull As Argue With Germany—Kulp
"Id just as soon read the Ten Commandments to a mad bull as to try argue with Germany in the state it is in now," declared the Rev. J. E. Kulp, of the First Methodist Church of Topeka, in addressing the University concession Friday. And when I face a bull I want to refuse, I will force the principle of which are founded on force. And yet," continued Doctor Kulp, "out of Christianity comes the principle essential to democracy."
Doctor Kulp made the initial speech of the local campaign to interest every student in Bible study. Chancellor Frank Strong, presided and Hugo Wedell announced plans for carrying on the campaign. A meeting of the group leaders was held after the speech.
"We are at war. Our first business is to win," said Doctor Kulp, whose personality strengthened the force of ideas probably more rugged than many students expected to hear at this concession. "If Germany is to be left with this loot which she is storing up, the world will look to aristocracy and the militaristic as the most efficient.
"The philosophical anarchist—not the anarchist that is usually conceived, but the man who believes that a point of difference may be settled by argument and persuasion—gets his angels' sang of peace on earth to men of good will, but this does not apply to men of ill will."
Mr. Kulp praised highly the res-
sults of college men and women in
America at the Ivy League.
"I do not like to make a separate class of the college people, but it has given me confidence that they have met the supreme test, and have made the great sacrifice," he said.
Dramatic Club Scenery For Play Has Arrived
The special scenery for the Dramatic Club play, "The Checkmate" has arrived from a Kansas City scenic house and the lighting effects have been thoroughly worked out for the play. Wednesday night at the Bowersock Theater.
Sproull Called to Aviation Cargill Sproull, c17, received notice Friday afternoon to report March 2, at Urbana, Ill., for service in the ground school of military aeronautics. Sproull was city editor of the Lawrence Journal World from last April until this January.
"The cast has worked hard at the rehearsals," according to Prof. Arthur MacMurray, coach of the play, "and the production promises to be the best ever produced by University student." The University Orchestra will direct the direction of Prof. F. E. Kendris will furnish the music between acts.
"The Checkmate" is a war play, featuring German spies and intrigue. Wireless apparatus plays an important part in the development of the plot. The net proceeds of the play involve an attempt to keeping with the idea of the Dramatic Club to aid all nation wide worthy measures.
Kansas is meeting the Kansas Aggie track team tonight at Manhattan in the opening track meet of the season for the Jayhawkers. Both teams are depending on new material for victory, K. U. having only two old men in the meet, Rice in the high jump and Murphy in the half mile. Ralph Rodkey who was counted on for a place in either the quarter or the half, is out of the meet on account of a bad hip.
Track Season Opens
Tonight At Manhattan
The Argies believe they have a team that can defeat the University of Kansas this year, but K. U. fans are relying on the freshman stars in the dash events and shot put to fill in for their teammates. The crans who left school last spring. The longer distance events will be the weak points in the Kansas line-up.
There will be no hiking for women until Thursday, February 21st. Bertha Mix.
Sproull Called to Aviation
May Use School of Engineering To Train Men For War Service
War Official Coming This Week To Examine Facilities
Here
The United States War Educational Committee in Washington notified Chancellor Frank Strong this morning by telegram that Mr. J. C. Wright a representative of the Federal Board of the War Department, accompanied by a military officer, will visit the University one day this week to look at the department's programs for educating and training mechanical men in the second draft.
Prof. G. C. Shaad of the Engineering School recently made a special trip to Washington to offer the equipment of the University for the work training certain men of mechanical experience who are in the second draft.
The War Department has appointed a committee which has been examining the questionnaires of those men of military age which were sent in on December 15th and has selected for a reserve list those who have been engaged in, or have been trained in mechanical lines which will be useful for work of the government during the war. There are many schools in various parts of the United States from May 1 to October 1.
The Engineering School has equipment enough to accommodate several hundred men for this training and it hopes to meet with the approval of the representatives who will be sent to examine it.
Seniors Want Their Dinner a la Hoover
Action to petition the University Senate that they rescind the cancellation of the Senior-Alumni dinner this year, was taken at a Senior class meeting held late Friday afternoon. It was decided not to ask for an extension of commencement until Tuesday, but to concentrate the energies of the class in making Saturday, Sunday and Monday fill every requirement of the customary commencement of the University of Kansas.
Caps and gowns will be worn by the class of '18, since they are considered more economical than the buying of special clothes for the occasion.
Humphrey-White
"Abolishment of the senior-alumni dinner is not necessarily a patriotic measure," said one senior. With the regular annual alumni meeting held during commencement week, giving a Hooverdinner dinner will not induce many alumni who were not already planning to attend the meeting to overburden transportation. Another senior said, "Alumni will be expected to pay for their meal as usual. The state legislature has voted to utilize a part of the graduate's diploma fee of $5 to pay for this dinner. If it is patriotic to ask the senior to pay $5 for his diploma this year, then what will be done with the price of the fee over and above the cost of producing the diploma. It is not that I want the food; it is the K. U. spirit airured by these annual functions that I do not want K. U. to lose."
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Humphrey of Caney, Kansas announced on February 13 the engagement of their daughter Miss Jewel Humphrey, c'21, of that city to Mr. Byron White c'21, of Neodesha, Kansas.
Universities Trade Rentiles
A skull of an ancient reptile found in the Permian formations of Texas has been received by the department of paleontology at the Museum. The specimen is the skull of an Eryops, a lizard-like animal five or six feet long. An exchange of specimens was made with Dr. S. W. Willeston, of the University of Chicago, a former professor of paleontology at the University. The University exchanged a partial skeleton of the Naasaurus reptile, also found in a Premian formation in Texas.
At the meeting of the French Club Tuesday at 3 o'clock, Prof. E. V. Gage will give his talk on "The Passion Play in the Marquises Islands" which was postponed last week.
Harvard students rejected by vote a daylight saving plan to begin classes an hour earlier in order to economize the use of artificial light, but this plan was rejected.
K. U. Graduate Attache
U. Of Embassy In Spain
Charence A. Castle, A. B.'14, holden of the Rhodes Scholarship from the University, is now attache of the American Embassy at Vigo, Spain. After leaving the University, Mr. Castle went to Oxford and later travelled in Spain and taught in a Spanish University. Since that time he has been with the American Embassy. His home is in St. Joseph, Mo.
He writes of conditions in Spain as rapidly approaching a climax. The people are starving, and living conditions with the middle class are becoming intolerable. He believes Spain will be forced into the war and will enter on the side which seems to be winning.
ABILITY DUE TO OREAD BREEZES
Plain Tales From The Hill
ABILITY DUE TO OREAD BREESD According to the Ft. Worth Record Lieut. Sam Pickard's training among the co-eeds on the wind-blown heights of Mount Orwell is standing him in good stead. When attending a formal "Mary's Ankel" at Ft. Worth, where he is stationed in the Aviation Service, Sam's ability to appreciate certain parts of the comedy manifested itself in such a show of merriment that it was mentioned by the dramatic critic of the Record. All of which goes to show that there are some things worth while at college that aren't learned from books.
The local jokesmiths who have been pulling the cheap wit about the "deadly" weapons used by the K. U. military companies may not be so far off after all. Last night in doing about face a rookie in the front rank was struck on the head by the musket of the man behind him. The injured private was so daunted and the rest of the company laughed so hard that the captain was forced to allow the company to stand at rest for nearly five minutes.
The Robins Come
Twas the first robin of spring, thought the hill climbing student. He looked up in the tree tops for the chiping birds. It was clearly a call of the robin to his mate. But no. The fraternity man was standing in front of his house whistling to the girl across the street. Truly spring has come.
It is rumored that one of the most popular professors of Geology was recently successful in obtaining a very rare specimen in form of a dainty pink bed room slipper. This is his treasured possession now. Of course among his personal collection of fossils he has different kinds of scented handkerchiefs, gloves and other articles of feminine vanity but never before did he have the chance of securing the bed room slipper of a real live actress. He says that he, too, was very much surprised and delighted and that he had no "idear" that he would ever be so fortunate.
The Goat Was Out
Whose initiation ceremonies cal. for multitudes of black dominoes and three or four of a most vivid crimson? It is not likely that they were suposed to have been exposed to the public eye, but they were, most effectively. Now, all that those students who traversed that particular street on that particular morning want to know is whose strong box yielded them up.
Scrivner to Washington
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Scriver were in Lawrence the latter part of last week on their way to Washington, D.C., where Mr. Scriver will be business manager of the "Nation's Business."
Servirian, A. B. '16, was a member of Sigma Delta Chi and the Franklin Club. He was an active member of the Kansan Board. Since he was graduated from the University he has worked on a number of Kansas papers and was recently made editor-chief of the daily Dispatch-Republi of Clay Center. Mrs. Servirian was Miss Florence Straughan, a former student at the University.
Senate Will Decide On Stand Concerning Council of Education
The government will give instruction to 75,000 drafted men needed for the ordinance department, signal and engineering corps during the coming summer, it has been announced at Washington. The men to receive the training will be men in class one. Many of the universities and colleges throughout the country will be asked to turn over their equipment to the government for this purpose.
Universities of America Are Trying for Representation on Wilson's Cabinet
Senate Assembles Tuesday
Council
Department of Education Would Grow Out of Emergency Council
As a member of the National Association of American Universities, the University of Kansas has been asked to vote on the proposition of establishing a department of education in the federal government with a secretary in the President's cabinet. A special meeting of the University Board had been held Tuesday afternoon, immediately after a meeting of the College Faculty on the same afternoon, to decide on the question.
Two matters will be brought before the Senate. First, the opinion of the University on the organization of an emergency council of education composed of representatives from the members of the American Association of Universities during the war. The second, already mentioned, concerns the creation of a department of education as part of the administration.
After the war, such a department as this could be created easily from the Emergency Educational Council when the details of the work would be well outlined. There will be a need of a new arrangement of our educational standards and institutions when the war is over. There have been many attempts to create a department of education in this country.
Dramatic Club To Give Full Program Of Plays
Milton's "Comus" May Be Given This Year Instead Of May Fete
A full program of plays is planned by the K. U. Dramatic Club for the next two months. After the Dramatic Club play next Wednesday night at the Bowersock Theater, the club will follow it up with two more of the one act Popular Plays series which the organization has introduced this year. The last two of these plays were presented last year and no packet the Little Theater in Green Hall. The small admission fee cleared $14 for the Red Cross. It is the plan of the club this year to give all net profits to this organization.
The latter part of March, the Dramatic Club will present "Eliza Come to Stay," probably in Robinson Gymnasium to raise money to push the campaign for the Permanent Income Bill to be voted upon in the 1919 election. The County Club Union which is pushing the county has asked the club to present the play so that the campaign might be carried on stronuously.
Sometimes in April, the seniors will present their $50 prize play which is being contested for now. The winner will be announced in about two weeks. Four University students have written manuscripts for the play. The winner of the last two of the prize plays was Alton Gumbiner.
To end this series of Dramatic productions the K. U. Dramatic Club will give Milton's "Comus," in May on the University golf links. This probably will take the place of the May Fete which was abandoned this year by the Women's Student Government Association.
Glen Sherman Dies in K. C.
Word has just been received of the death of Glen Sherman, '198, at his home in Kansas City. Mr. Sherman was a member of the University football team while in school. Until last fall he was connected with the Metcalf, Brady and Sherman law firm when he was made a member of the local draft board No. 10. The burial will take place at Seneca which was Mr. Sherman's former home.
Practically every school in the western conference, better known as the "Big Nine," is planning to put a baseball team in the field this spring. Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio State, Iowa and probably Purdue will be represented on the diamond. Notre Dame is another big western school where baseball will not be suspended because of the war.