UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Women Will Register For Surgical Dressing Classes As War Work
Room 205 Fraser Has Been Cleaned of All Classroom Equipment
Connected With Red Cross
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12, 1918.
Workers To Be Distributed Throughout Day—Spend Two Hours at a Time
Plugs regarding surgical dressing work for the women of the University ere announced this morning by Miss Margaret Lynn, in charge of women's war work and will be open for the work every afternoon of the week from 3 to 6 o'clock, except Wednesday and Saturday.
Instruction will be given by the following: Mrs. Frank Strong, Mrs. W. H. Johnson, Miss Hearty Brown, Gardner, and Miss Claudia Pendleton.
Women are asked to register for the work which will be placed outside the room, indicating the hours they can work.
Those who do the work will wear long, white aprons, white handkerchiefs over their hair and white cuffs, washable linen waistps are worn. Scissors, a six-inch ruler and a box material, is all the equipment needed.
The room has been cleared of all classroom equipment and will be kept closed except when the surgical dresses classes meet. Oil cloth covered tables have been put in for the work.
This work is being taken up by the University in connection with the Lawrence chapter of the Red Cross, and all material will be supplied and cut by the downtown members, the K. U. workers folding the cut gauzes. If the demand arises more time will be devoted to the work or other hours arranged for it.
"We will as many women to sit up for this work as possible," said Miss Lynn. "Take your time from other less important things for it, because we realize that few students have the number of students he asked have taken the work be given here and it is the first time it has been offered."
Jayhawker Pictures
Fraternity, sorority, club, and all other organization pictures are due at the Jayhawker office now; and must be turned in during February. Full lists of names should be supplied.
The work is designed primarily, to aid in the nationwide effort to supply surgical dressings for the wounded men in service, but it is also intended to prepare girls to help in Red Cross work when they return to their homes and then add to their usefulness. The teachers' course in the work will not be given at present, although it may be offered later.
Junior and sophomore pictures will be accepted during the month of February. In order to have the completed photographs by February 28, how should an artist should arrange with a photographer for a sitting with a February 23.
The eleven seniors who have reserved space in the senior panels and who have not yet turned in their pictures must do so by Friday of this week.
Jayhawker office hours, in the Daily Kansan news room are 10 to 11 o'clock a. m. and 1 to 4 o'clock p. m., daily, except Saturday.
Regular practice of the Women's Glee Club will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at Fraser Hall.
The Architectural Society will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Room 308, Marvin Hall., for election of officers. All students in the department are asked to attend.
Quill Club will hold a pledging ceremony with seventeen new pledges Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock in the Rest Room of Fraser Hall.
The Young Womens' Glee Club will meet for regular practice this evening at 7 o'clock in Fraser Chapel.
"We accept this war for a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, Earth and Heaven. Alghram Libcoln, June 16, 1864.
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Women Will Play For Class Championship
NUMBER 87
The first of the championship gaes of the women's basketball teams will be played tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium. The seniors ill compete against the juniors and the sophomores will play the freshmen.
The record up to this time shows the seniors in the lead, having won all the games they have played, win the sophomores holding second place and the juniors following third. The freshmen have not won any of the preliminary games although they have done some commendable work.
The War
Here and Over There
The sale of candy is prohibited in italy.
Over 4,500 workmen for shipbuilding have been recruited in St. Louis during the past ten days.
Russia has quit the war an ordered the demobilization of the Russian armies on all fronts.
Austria was invited to a further consideration of peace in an address by President Wilson before Congress yesterday.
The largest service flag in America contains 19,135 stars. The flag is that of the United Mine Workers.
The French government has ordered a million footfalls to be delivered in the next seven months for the use of soldiers in the French army.
Cross country runs and athletic games will be held two afternoons of each week at Camp Donphan and all men able to drill will be required to take part.
The American soldier receives four times as much pay as the British soldier, eighteen times as much as the French, and nine times as much as the German.
The fuel crisis is rapidly coming to an end. Coal is now moving from the mines with better transportation facilities, and it is likely that heatless Mondays will soon be abolished.
The heaviest fighting of the past week has been between the Austrians and the Italians on the Italian front. The Italians repulsed heavy artillery and infantry attacks and held their positions.
The percentage of men rejected for physical disability by the American army is larger than that of any other nation. Thirty to seventy per cent of those called by the different district boards in the first draft were rejected.
Duke Albrecht of Wurmtemburg, who led the German army that subdued the great French fortress at Maubuege, is in command of the German forces facing the American troops who have taken over a section of the French front near St. Mihiel.
Three Indian chiefs from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes appeared before Governor Williams of Oklahoma recently to offer the government the services of ten regiments of cavalry. The Indians preferred service on the border, but were not opposed to going to France. Governor Williams promised that their case would be referred to the War Department.
All American soldiers lost on the torpedoed transport Tuscania were protected by government insurance. Those who had not applied for insurance were protected by an automatic provision of the war risk law.
Announcement was made yesterday by Dean F. W. Blackmar, of the Graduate School, that seventeen University fellowships will be given for the fall semester to students of high scholarship upon application which must be made by March 1
These fellowships, paying $280 a year, are offered in the following departments: anatomy, bacteriology, pathology, botany, chemistry, economics, English, engineering, entomology, history, geology, and mineralogy, German, Greek, Home Economics, journalism, Latin, mathematics, political science, romance languages, sociology, and zoology, and the Schools of Law, Pharmacy, Education, and Fine Arts.
FOURSCORE and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation—or any nation so conceive and so dedicated—can long endure.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot halow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of that field as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is allogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Oread Organizations Are Backing Movement For Bible Study Work
"All sorceries of the University are backing the national movement for a discussion of the teachings of Jesus," said Hugo Wedell this morning, in telling of local efforts to address a national campaign to enroll students in Bible study classes. "All fraternity presidents heartily approved of the plan in a meeting yesterday, and presented the matter to their respective fraternities last night.
"Between 600 and 800 students have already enrolled in Bible study classes in sororities, fraternities, or Sunday school classes. The campaign for enrollment will begin definitively Friday night."
Five fraternities are planning to take the course in "Social Principles of Jesus," but the other organizations have not decided upon a definite plan. We'll keep them going with Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Sigma, Pi Ppsilon, and Alpha Tau Omega.
The following sororities have taken up study classes: Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, and Gamma Pi Beta are studying a course in the "Life of Christ," all under the leadership of Miss Katherine Duffield. Kappa Alpha Theta and Acoth are to study the "Social Principles of Jesus" by Walter Rauschenbusch, the leader of the former being Miss Kate Riggs and of the latter being Miss Elizabeth O'Mara. O'Mara is taking up a study of the "Social Teachings of Christianity" led by Miss Duffield. Alpha Xi Delta ill take up some study under Mrs. A. C. Terrill, hile Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Kappa have not determined their course or leader.
Lincoln Statue, Work
Of Kansan, Unveiled
Sergeant Gage, of the field hospital corps sanitary train No. 10 stationed at Camp Doniphan, came to visit his mother, and attend the unveiling of his statue and witness its acceptance by the state through Governor Capper.
The first statue, the work of a Kansas sculptor was unveiled in Topeka this afternoon. It is a bronze of Lincoln and is the first statue to be placed in Topeka. It was made by Sergeant R. M. Gage, a Topeka sculptor.
—Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
The first lecture in food administration which was to be given at four o'clock Wednesday afternoon in Fraser Hall, has been postponed until further notice.
After services at the Moorial building the people marched to the statue on the court house grounds where the formal unveiling took place.
Christianity's Place In Democracy To Be Dr.J.E.Kulp's Subject
Dr. J. E. Kulp, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Topeka and this year's Kansas Day speaker at that city, will speak on the subject "Christianity and World Democracy" before the students and faculty memorial gymnasium Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Military drill classes and other classes in physical education will be dismissed for the convocation.
At the same meeting, Hugo Wedell,
secretary of the University Y. M. C.
A., will outline the plan of organization
of the campaign to enroll students in Bible study classes, a part of a nation-wide movement. Many fraternities and sororities have already organized such classes, and beginning Friday night in Bible classes that will be conducted under faculty members and other persons who have volunteered for that work.
Chancellor Strong will also speak, telling the significance of a study of the relationship.
Fine Arts Faculty at Parsons Members of the Faculty of the School of Fine Arts attended meetings of Kansas Music Teachers' Assemblies on Wednesday and Friday, Dean H. L., Butler presided over the voice conference and gave a talk on crediting systems. He sang in Friday night's concert and Prof. Carl Preyer played. Prof. F. Kendrick gave a talk on the violin.
"It is hoped that the study of the principles of Christianity will not only make clearer the issues involved in this war, but that it will help this nation as well as others to apply teaching to the world," said Mr. Wedell this morning in speaking of the Bible study campaign.
Prof. Erasmus Haworth and Prof. A. C. Terrill, of the department of geology, have been placed on an examining board to select deputy state coal mine inspectors. The positions are open to anyone passing the civil service examination.
Profs. Pick Mine Inspectors
Fine Arts Faculty at Parsons
The state geographical report will be out in at least six weeks, according to Prof. Raymond C. Moore, state geologist, who has charge of the work. The material is now in the hands of the state printer.
K. U., Dames will meet with Mrs.
C, C, Steward, 814 Missouri Street,
February 13 at 3 o'clock. Leader
Mrs. Blair, subject: Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. Roll call will be answered
by a favorite quotation from any
author.
State Authorities Ask The Why of Dress Suits
James A. Kimball, business manager for the Board of Administration, is trying to find out why the state of Kansas is expected to pay for the rental of eight dress suits used for the All University party last fall. He noted that time of wear, the students should refrain from all such extravagances.
As a matter of fact these dress suits were rented to be used by the actors in the minstrel entertainment for the students who were at the party. They were to be paid for out of the annual budget allowed to Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, who has charge of social life at the University. The state provides for an annual all-University party.
The party this year, a Halloween affair, was very plain, and the refreshments were of the simplest kind.
Plain Tales From The Hill
If there are any students at K. U. who are trembling with the emotion characteristic of the apprehension of evil over the results of final examinations, the next best thing after seeing the profs is to interview the postman. A professor in the School of Fine Arts who was going on a concert tour left some final quiz papers in his mail box where he had told his pupils to get them. The postman beat the students to it and they were very much surprised when later they found quiz papers, letters from home and statements from bill collectors all in one delivery.
Yes, Alonzo, yes! Love! We will find a way, and there is something new under the sun. Just listen to this: One of the student instructors in wireless had a date last Saturday night. The date was with one of the young ladies in his wireless class who can receive twenty words a minute—that is, over the telegraph. According to custom this young Romeo called her up early in the evening. But he didn't want any of the gang to hear the words meant for her ears only so he didn't resort to messing with to convey his thoughts. He simply placed a buzzer near the mouthpiece of the telephone and commenced sending. Dots and dashes flew from the buzzer through the phone to the ears of his star wireless nunil.
Yes, she understood and was ready to go to the dance at eight o'clock.
An unsuspecting student was greatly horrified not long ago when as he was standing in Fraser Hall a young lady ran up to him and blushingly held out her left hand. The young man had never seen the co-ed before but he gazed upon her face in mute admiration until she pointed at the thief finger of her outstretched hand on which sparkled a huge diamond. The young man looked at the ring and gulped and then the co-looked at the man's face and gasped. Then both executed an about face and ran to the end of the hall.
Lincoln Shadow Not Forecast Of Holiday
While far from the campus last night, oblivious of all date rules and regulations, the young student and her handsome escort suddenly stopped short upon seeing the profile picture of Abe Lincoln looking calmly up at an alleyway on the side walk on the south west corner of tenth and Tennessee.
Neither had ever before noticed the strange silhouette caused by the reflection of the street light on the roots of a tree which were cut off when the pavement was laid. Both were struck by the singular appearance of this famous American on the night before his birthday and decided that it was the forecast of a holiday for today, in which students could muse upon his wonderful achievements.
Overjoyed, the happy girl rushed home to her roommate to spread the tidings of the revelation that had been visited upon her. The roommate, however, raised her head from a puzzling chemistry book just long enough to say, "Please be quiet. That thing has been there for years. The Senate rule that there would be no holiday tomorrow."
The Daily Kansan-a daily letter home.
The Commerce Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Sigma Chi house. Prof. C. C. Williams will talk.
All signs fail.
Wednesdays Will Be Holidays In Gym Work For University Women
Credit Will Not Be Allowed In War Work As Substitute For Gym
Ruling Effective At Once
Reorganization of Department Necessitated By Change In Gym Requirements
"The change made Friday by the University Senate requiring all women students of the University of Kansas to take exercise four days a week rather than five has caused great consternation among our departments," said W. O Hamilton, head of the department of physical education and Mrs. E. D. Teeter of the department of home economics.
The board of physical education met yesterday and decided upon Wednesday as the best day of the week in which to eliminate physical exercise. There will be no physical exercise for women tomorrow—the ruling having gone into effect immediately. This will distribute exercise for women over the entire week of having it in four consecutive days.
Coach H. milton said this morning, "This ruling will mean that no credit in the department of physical education will be given for the Red Cross courses or courses in food conservation which have been installed at the request of the Food Administrator, Hoover.
"The only credit which will be given in Red Cross work from now on will be credit for that knitting for which the yarn is already checked out," caid Coach Hamilton, today noon.
"It also means that the department of physical education will have to reorganize all the plans that they have for compulsory exercise and the adoption of compulsory exercises."
In reducing the amount of exercise to four days members of the Senate considered it unnecessary to include in the motion a limitation of freedom from exercise to one definite day of the week. "That," said the Chancellor, "naturally would be understood in the motion."
With Wednesday courses eliminated in classes in every kind of exercise offered will be reduced and since most of the Red Cross and Food conservation courses offered were to have been given on Wednesday, women students will have their choice in enrolling in these courses without receiving any credit whatever or of dropping them. That is, unless some further action be taken by the Senate requiring credit to be given in war work.
This last decision of the University Senate in regard to exercise for women resulted from a reconsideration of the rule passed the last of October requiring every woman not physically unable to take some form of physical exercise for one hour five days of the week. Later a petition, formulated at a general women's mass meeting, was presented to the Senate. This petition prayed for a reduction of the requirements for women's exercise to one hour three days of each week. The petition was tabled.
Faculty Company Drills Three Times Each Week
Three Squads of Professors, Like Students, Maneuver With Wooden Guns
The faculty military drill now consists of three aquads drilling three times a week for an hour or more each drill period from 4:30 till 5:30. Professor G. C. Shaad, acting dean of the School of Engineering is drilling the company.
The faculty are taking setting-up exercises, squad movements, and the manual of arms with the guns provided by the School of Engineering During the bad weather the company drills in Marvin Hall.
Postpone Forming of Club
No definite plans were made for the organization of the club which is to have for its members all women who have earned "Aa" during their attendance at the University at the meeting of "A" girls Saturday. A meeting will be held Thursday at 7:15 o'clock at the Gym.
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