UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 88.
Surgical Dressings To Be Made By Women As Red Cross Service
Many Enroll for Voluntary Task, Substituted For Knitting Work
Plan Explained At Meeting
Quarters In Fraser Hall To Be Used Four Days Each Week
The work in making surgical dressings will begin tomorrow at 3 o'clock in Room 205 Fraser. The room will be open daily for the present from 3 to 6 o'clock except on Wednesday and Saturday. If there is need for it the hours will be extended. The call for this work is urgent and all women who can give time to it are earnestly asked to undertake it.
A schedule of hours has been placed beside the door of Room 205 Fraser Hall and women are asked to register their names for the hours they prefer. It
It will be better to work two consecutive hours when that is possible than at two different periods. Those who sign up should come provided with an apron, a large handkerchief or square of lawn to cover the hair, (unless the apron has long sleeves) cuffs, a six inch ruler and a pair of scissors.
Margaret Lynn.
Making of surgical dressings for the Red Cross is a war work to be undertaken by women of the University of Kansas beginning tomorrow afternoon. Plans for the war activity were explained at a convocation of women yesterday afternoon, addressed by Miss Margaret Lynn, head of woman's war work in the University, and by student speakers. Following the convocation many of the women signed the roll, agreeing to spend specified hours doing war service.
"The call for material of this sort is urgent," said Miss Lynn in discussing the work this morning, "and all University women who can spare the time are earnestly asked to undertake it. Those especially who have been doing knitting are urged to take this new service.
Miss Lynn at the convolution held yesterday urged University women to set up a new scale of values, "nutting first things first."
"Room 205, Fraser Hall, has been fitted up for the purpose, and the rooms will be open from 3 o'clock until 6 each day in the week except Wednesday and Saturday. A schedule of hours has been published to the door, and women students are not permitted for the hours at which they will come."
Katherine Reding, president of the Women's Student Council; Mary Brownlee, representing the Y. M. C. A.; and Lucile Nowlin of the Women's Forum, gave short talks, favoring the plan.
Following the meeting, a number of women registered, some enrolling for as many as four hours of voluntary work.
Some women have substituted, the making of layettes for the French war babies, for the work in surgical dressing, and this is believed practically to account for the smaller number registered so far for the surgical dressing making.
Dean to Speak in Atlantic City
Dean F. J. Kelly, of the School of Education, will discuss industrial education at the meeting of the National Association for College Teachers of Education, Tuesday, February 26 at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He will also attend a meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, at Philadelphia, February 21 and 22.
A convoiation of the University is called for Friday, February 15th, at 4 p. m. in the Gymnasium. This convoation is purely voluntary and not under military regulation. All students and teachers are cordially invited and it is hoped that all of them may desire to attend. The speaker is eloquent and the subject is vital.
frank Strong,
Chancellor
Seniors Will Present
Prize Play In April
The winner of the $50,000 senior play contest prize will be announced in about two weeks by the committee, consisting of three faculty members.
Prof. Arthur MacMurray says all of the plays submitted have some phase of college life as their main theme, "Although this is not absolutely required," said Professor MacMurray this morning, "it is desirable The winning play is to be produced sometime in April."
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1918.
The contestants for the prize area Lucile Nowlin, Harold Lytle, Eugene Dyer, and C. A. Goss
The War
Here and Over There
Incompetent officers with the American army in France are being sent home.
A Jewish battalion for service under the English flag is being recruited in Chicago.
Thirty-one air raids on Germany were made by Allied aviators during the month of January.
Congress has passed a bill appropiating fifty million dollars for hous ing shipyard workers.
The Senate military committee's investigation of the War Department which has been in progress for two months has ended.
The French are considering plans for the establishment of the theaters just back of the trenches for the entertainment of the American soldiers.
All available parts of the Ford motor plan at Detroit will be turned over to the manufacture of the new Liberty motor for the American air fleet.
Camp Greene, North Carolina, is to be abandoned as a training camp. The soil where the camp is located is of such a nature that the camp is now knee deep in mud.
The Government is planning to spend $688,650,000 during the coming year for munitions plants, cantonments, aviation fields, storage plants, hospitals, ordance depots and port terminals.
An airplane mail route between New York, Philadelphia and Washington will be established by the Post Office Department during the coming summer. The Government has called for bids on five machines to be used in the service.
A bill providing universal training for all men in America between nineteen and thirty years old has been introduced in Congress. The bill proposes to train those between nineteen and twenty-one, but would not draft men for service until they are twenty-one.
To Have One Knitting Class
W. S. G. A. Ruled to Maintain Period From 4 to 5 on Wednesday
"The change in the Senate ruling regarding physical education reducing it five to four hours a week makes it necessary to rearrange the knitting classes. As was said in last night's Kansan, credit in Red Cross will be given only to those women who have yarn checked out from the department of physical education. There is no point in maintaining voluntary knitting classes every day since people will knit elsewhere.
"The women's student council ruled last night to maintain only one knitting class—that to be held on Wednesday from 4 to 5 o'clock. Those who have checked out yarn should come to this class. Those who were to learn to knit can find instruction here. It is strongly supported by the women who withdraw from the knitting classes will enroll in the surgical dressing class. That work is necessary and can be done only in organized groups."
Katherine Reding, President W. S.
G. A.
A. W. Larsen, instructor in mathematics at the University last year, who has been teaching at the University of Illinois the last semester, has returned to the University to resume teaching mathematics.
Larsen Returned to K. U.
K.U. Alumnus Promotes Plan For Exemption Of Engineering Students
Present Rulings of War Department Do Not Fully Meet Situation
A campaign among the engineering schools for the purpose of forming congressional opinion to exempt all engineering students that are in good standing, from the draft, Bigger is promoted by Harry E. Bigger K. U. alumnus and professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan.
"The rulers of the War department, permitting the enlistment of students in the engineer's reserve, do not fully meet the situation," wrote Prof Riggs to C. C. Williams, professor of Civil Engineering at K. U., "and all engineers who are in good standing should be encouraged to continue their work until graduation."
Prof. Riggs is of the opinion that the appreciation of the wide range of usefulness of trained engineers can best be developed through congressional influence, and that indirect pressure must be brought to bear on Congress to prove the importance of engineers in this war.
The plan suggested by the former K. U. man, and which he has been experimenting with at Ann Arbor, was commenced last December. The mater was first discussed among the students. The students are now using their influence to convince influential men and Congressmen from their district, that engineering schools must be supported at this time if the supply of engineers is to be maintained.
The K. U. Engineering School has not taken any definite action or expressed their attitude on the plan of Mr. Riggs, but Professor Williams has received very favorable replies from the engineering schools of Missouri, Texas and California.
In referencing to this problem which England and France had to face, Professor Riggs wrote that these countries made the grave mistake at the outbreak of the war of assigning engineers to duties foreign to their training, and later found themselves short of the technique they needed.
Special Courses Open To University Students
Shorthand and Typewriting Will Be Given Every Day In
About twenty-five students enrolled in the courses. One may enroll in typewriting or shorthand or in both classes. No credit is given. Instruction in shorthand will be given every afternoon at 3 o'clock in Room 313, Fraser, and typewriting classes last from 4 until 6 o'clock. These hours make the work equivalent to a five-hour course, and students already taking an average amount of college work, are not advised to enroll.
Classes in typewriting and stenography were organized yesterday for students who wish to be prepared for government clerical positions or other lines of war work by next summer. Miss Margaret Lynn, of the department of English, who has charge of women's war work in the University, supervised the organization of the classes, which will be conducted by Prof. E. B. Stouffer. Professor Stouffer is an assistant professor in the department of mathematics.
Students who received incomplete in my sections of Economics I last semester may take a make-up final examination in the subject in Room 203 Administration Building on Saturday morning, Toburnry. This will be the last opportunity to make up these incompletes.
Women in Applied Sociology class who intend to go into Child Welfare work in connection with the State Health department should report to Mrs. J. R. Bechtel, at the Red Cross headquarters down town at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Manuel C. Elmer
Attendance at typewriting and shorthand does not permit exemption from regular physical exercise periods.
W.M. Duffus.
Notice
Annual Colonial Party To Feature the Spirit Of '76 Down to 1918
Chorus of Co-eds Showing Effect of Hooverizing Is One Feature
The custom regarding the annual Colonial Party heretofore has been to give a more or less elaborate environment based upon the colonial idea. This year the party will be given very economically, and will combine the colonial idea with the idea of patriotism.
The annual All-University Colonial Party which will be given in the gymnasium February 23 will have patriotism as the general feature of the program from the Revolutionary spirit of '76 down to the present time. The program has already been formulated by Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women under whose direction the party is given, and Herman Hangen, chairman of the committee on general arrangement.
"The first number on the program," said Mrs. Brown toying, "probably will be a colonial dance by Dorothea Engle. The modern spirit of patriotism and conservation will be portrayed by a pageant of University girls showing the effect of Hoovering upon the University students. The play 'Efficiency' which was recently given in the Green Hall Theatre will be given again at the Colonial Party. The Glee Club will be asked to sing modern war songs that are being sung by our boys over there. The later part of the evening will be devoted to dancing.
Herman Hangen, chairman of the committee on general arrangement announced the committees today. They are as follows: Publicity, Floyd Hockendall, chairman, Howard Morgan, Alice Bowley. Decorations: Leland Benson, chairman, Frances Hitchcock, Louis Potueck, Frances Allen, Karl Brown, Ruth Ellis, and Helen Pearis. Program, Paul Schmidt, chairman.
The first Colonial party at the University was given by Mrs. Brown four years ago and has been given as one of the All-University parties since then. This year it is the second party to be given under the direction of Mrs. Brown. The presidents of the respective classes, Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong, and Mrs. Brown will be in the receiving line.
Checkmate Is Premier Play
Scenes of "The Checkmate" Are Set In War-Time England
"The annual K. U. Dramatic Club play, "The Checkmate" to be given at the Bowersock Theater February 20, has the best balanced cast of any play given by the club," said Prof. Arthur MacMurray, who is coaching the production. The cast has been practicing for the play the last two months.
It is one of the best war plays appearing on the stage, Professor MacMurray believes. While not a military production, spies and their workings have much to do with the plot, the setting of which is in England. The club has gone to extra expense to get special lighting effects and scenery. As a dramatic production it is superior to anything ever attempted by the K. U Dramatic Club. Coach MacMurray said.
In keeping with the recently adopted policy of the Dramatic Club to give the net proceeds from their plays to war work all money above actual expenses from this production will be given to Red Cross, Coach Mac Murray said.
Complete figures on the enrollment for the second semester have not yet been made out but indications are that the figure will be about 1300 in the College. Late enrollments are still being received in instances where students were ill from vaccinator.
Late Enrollments Cut Down Feared Decrease
Saturday was the latest date for regular enrollment. Students enrolling this week are required to pay $1, the regular fee for late enrollment. Students who were enrolled Saturday and two Monday. It is known that the final result will show a decrease although not as large as was believed earlier.
Phi Alpha Tau To Give Sketch At K. U. Follies
The cast of the K. U, Follies, 1918 series, will practice in Robinson Gymnasium at 5 o'clock Wednesday and Friday afternoons, Blanche Simons, director of the production announced today. Approximately thirty University students are trying out for parts in a film set. The selected there probably will be more than fifty. The Follies will be given March 14.
The latest addition to the program is a skit to be given by the dramatic fraternity Phi Alpha Tau. Lit and airy musical numbers as well as witty lines will form the basis of the production.
Plain Tales From The Hill
IF OVER-TIME COUNTS
As military drill companies at four o'clock have never been dismissed on schedule this semester but have always been held at least ten minutes over time, a buck private in the rear rank marks that the, the companies will make up enough time for a week's holiday.
He was drilling his squad of K. U. rookies and the class in surveying across the street was squinting at the Museum tower. Two very small boys came up behind the would be surveyors.
Urachn No. 1: "Look at them fellers over there. They got guns." Same No. 2: "Naw, they ain't gung; only wood and a piece of gas pipe. But say, look at the boy scout with his knife." Hesold Lilly was drilled 'em!
Harold Lytle was drillin' 'em.
A printing firm over Boston way has asked for a contract to print this year's edition of the "Kansas Cycle," the well known University of Kansas annual. The general opinion seems to be that though it has been the "Jayhawker" for only twenty years, in these days of wireless and other means of swift communication even such foreign ports as Boston ought to know better than to call it the "Kansas Cycle."
ERSATZ FOR ROLL CALL
Methods of taking the roll in different classes vary from spending ten to fifteen minutes calling the names to guessing at the members of the class who are present, but here is a suggestion that might be borrowed from one of the fraternities. During mock initiation this frat made each pledge carry a six pound rock with him when he was absent from the house and to leave the rock at the front portal when he was at home. In this way the number of freshmen in the house at any given time could be known by looking at the rockpile in the front yard.
A Chicago newspaper has expressed itself that it is the duty of all patriotic men to grow several crops of whiskers a year to be used as ersatz, to help meet the wool shortage. Isn't it possible, then, that the mustache epidemic which is seriously threatening so many K. U. students at the present time is merely a patriotic measure?
How sad the western Kansas jack-rabbits must be when they think of the number of their departed relatives who have been made into chicken croquettes and served at so many of the local cafes.
German Professor Asks
Appreciation Of Values
Admitting that the outcry against the teaching of German in the schools and collages of the United States is natural and inevitable, but appealing to sober sense, tolerance, and appreciation of real values, Prof. E. F. Engel in an address before the German Verein yesterday afternoon discussed "Why and how German should be continued as a subject in our high schools and colleges."
The disciplinary value of the study of German, its literary excellence, its political and commercial usefulness were brought out by Professor Engel. Suggestions for the improvement of teaching methods in the direction of standardization of work and the adoption of scientific methods were made.
Professor Engel will read the same paper before the Central Kansas Teachers' Association at Hutchinson, Friday.
North A. Wright, s2^0, of Atchison has passed the examination for aviation service and is now waiting to be called.
Contest For Snapshots For Annual Announced With Books As Prizes
Feb. 25 to March 2 Will Be Snapshot Week On Mount Oread
To Give Three Jayhawkers
Brick Chandler, Editor of Section Asks For Spicy Collections
A snapshot campaign for the 1918 Jayhawk was the unusual announcement to be made this morning by Brick Chandler, snapshot editor of the annual this year, when he became liberal and offered three copies of the Jayhawk to the three persons—faculty, graduates, seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen or specials—who turn in the snapped snapshot or collection of snapshots for the annual campaign 25 to March 2. It will be snapshot week on Mount Oread, accoring to Chandler and a box will be placed on the campus to receive all snapshots that are submitted in the contest.
"Spice is what we need in our section," said Brick. "It is what fills the book with humor an dhuman interest. The material we have collected already is not poor by any means and we have ideas for lots better ones but if anyone in the University has any good pictures of interesting scenes, interesting people or interesting situations, they are wanted for the 1918 Jayhawker and this contest scheme was hit upon, in order to make it worth while for persons to submit pictures.
"Snapshot week will start a week from Monday allowing plenty of time for everyone to hunt up pictures or sit on Saturday or Sunday and take some.
"No one should hesitate to turn in only one picture because if it is good enough, a prize of a Jayhawker will be given for it, but collections of snapshots are wanted too, and will be given equal consideration by the judges when the prizes are awarded." Names and addresses must be placed in the envelope with the picture or pictures submitted in the contest but nothing should be written on the back of the snapshot, according to Chandler. At the end of the week the pictures will be judged.
Germany's Nail Driving Plan May Be Used Here
Students May Drive Nails In Wooden Jayhawker and Help Win War
A large wooden Jayhawker in which students could drive nails at a cost of ten cents each is the suggestion of Prof. L. N. Flint of the department of journalism as a method of raising money for various war purposes. This idea is based on the Hindenburg statue in Germany in which nails were driven at a high price per nail. So many campaigns in the University have been carried out on the tag and subscription plan, that, it is believed this new scheme would attract much attention.
Chancellor Frank Strong has referred Professor Flint's suggestion to Prof. G. C. Shaad, chairman of the Finance Committee of the University of New Orleans. He probably will be launched soon for government thrift stamps and the wooden Jayhawker scheme may be used.
Student Council Will Choose Five Members
Election of five members to the Men's Student Council will be held February 20 at its regular meeting. Two vacancies are open in the College and one from the School of Law, one from the School of Engineering, one from the School of Engineering.
Candidates for these places are chosen by the students of their respective schools and must meet the requirements of the University Athletic Board. They must file petitions with the signatures of at least twenty five persons with Dutch Uhrlaub or Arthur Hershberger by 6 o'clock Monday, February 18. The council requires a fee of 75 cents to accompany each petition.
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