UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
War Saving Stamps Are Popular Among University Students
But Not Many Baby Bonds Are Being Purchased At Fraser Office
Bonds Are Good Investment
Number of K. U. Men and Women Give Reasons For Buying Stamps
NUMBER 78
Students have been buying war saving stamps at both the down town and the University post office. Only fourteen baby bonds and ten war saving stamps, however, have been bought so far at the office in Fraser Hall.
Some reasons given by students for purchasing one or more of these bonds of small denomination follows.
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“As well as feeling it a patriotic duty of mine to buy one of these war savings stumps,” said one student, “I saw that I would be helping myself to save. I am inclined to spend my money as soon as I get it. By buying a bond, I will have saved that five dollars which comes to me at the date of maturity in 1923. Otherwise, I would have thrown it away on candy and other needless things.”
"I bought thrift stamps," said another, "because I thought I ought to. It was the least possible thing a person could do to help in the war and if I balked at that, I would be a pretty poor sort of an American. And then, I knew if I bought them, it would influence some of the other fellows at the house to get too."
"I bought a thrift stamp because I believe that we here on the home front are under obligations to do everything within our power to make things easy for the boys in the trenches. Without our sacrifice we cannot expect them to wage a winning fight."
"I bought a thrift stamp because my roommate did for one reason. For I thought if she could, I could But I should have bought one, anyway, because I believe in the democracy of the movement and think we should all go in together on this thing."
"Buying thrift stamps appealed to me because I realized that a woman had an opportunity to take a real part in the war; I could not take a man's place on the front but by buying a thrift stamp I became an active member on the home front upon which so much of the success of the firing line depends."
"I used to envy Rockefeller and Gould and Carnegie, and everybody else who owned government bonds. "Some day," I told myself, "I'm going to be a government bond holder, too." Five dollars worth of War Savings Stamps isn't a very big start, but it's a beginning. "Big oaks from little acorns grow."
"Everyone should gladly buy a thrift stamp because of the encouragement such a purchase gives to the habit of making good investments. That, in itself, is a good thing to cultivate and Uncle Sam, besides being a safe banker, has a good use for the money now.
"I bought a baby bond because of a New Year's resolution to do for my country all that is possible for me to do and still remain at home and wait for the call to arms that will soon come. The thrift stamp is surely the easiest way I know to live up to this resolve. Red Cross drives and Liberty Loan campaigns will soon be coming again but the baby bond is with us now and is cheap."
"Every penny paid into the government in this crisis means a step toward the saving of a life. More money in the hands of the administration means better care for the boys at the front. It meant little sacrifice for me to pay into a fund that will pay me back more than value received. But the thought of saving a life brought me to the realization that it was my time to act."
"I have bought several Baby Bonds because I felt that it was my part in the war to lend what little I had to its support. Thrift stamps may be purchased in such low denominations that I thought at once I should lend my government this little bit to bring the war to a successful close."
Michigan met her second success sive basketball defeat in the "Big Ten" yesterday when Ohio State won a 27-6 battle.
Harry Kemp, K. U. Poet
Gives Own Playlets
Harry Kemp, a former University of Kansas man, well known as the "Tramp Poet" who did numerous eccentric things while attending school is now producing his own playlets in New York City. He will present two plays the last week in February. One is a Biblical comedy in prose and the other is a rhymed preachment against pacifism.
The War Here and Over There
The German war debt is twenty billion dollars.
Some of the grocers in Kansas City are charging ten cents extra for deliveries for the purpose of emphasizing conservation.
A weekly newspaper called the Stars and Stripes will soon be issued for the American troops in France. It will be edited and directed by men in American uniform.
The homestead laws permit drafted men to take claims and count the time spent in service the same as time spent in residence on the land in proving up on the claim.
Maj. B, C. H. Harvey, medical statistician at Camp Kool, believes that thirty-five per cent of the sickness in that camp could have been averted if only physically able men had been accepted for army service.
Nearly three thousand strikes have taken place in the United States since this country entered the war. Of these, sixty-four alone have cost a loss in working time equal to six thousand years for one man.
It is claimed by critics of the government censorship that the censors are keeping the public from finding out the facts about the war, thus stagnating the interest of the people and helping to prolong the struggle.
A bill for fixing both wholesale and retail prices of food and other articles to an extent unknown in any of the other warring nations has been drafted by the President and presented to the House committee on agriculture.
Bontfries as a means of disposing of battle debris are being abandoned as too costly. The Paris Ordnance Depot employs four thousand women twelve million dollars a year in restored salvage.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1918.
The First District appeal board at Kansas City has given deferred classification to a registrant who is morally unfit for army service on the grounds that other drafted men should not be compelled to serve and associate with such men.
Medical officers at Camp Funston have been detailed to instruct local draft boards in the proper selection of men sent to the camp for service with a view of cutting down the number sent who cannot pass the final physical examination.
The French are shooting pamphlets and newspapers into the German trenches with an instrument resembling the medieval crossbow. Propaganda is being used by both sides in the great war, and the Germans believe it of enough importance that it is made a military offense for German soldiers to read propaganda of the Allies.
Only about one-fourth of the men at Camp Doniphan have taken out government insurance for the protection of their dependents. The government is urging families of the soldiers to insist that they avail themselves of the government's offer of cheap insurance.
The personal property of the students who lived in the Dunakin home on Ohio Street which caught on fire Monday morning were not covered by insurance.
Dunakin Club Fire Was Total Loss To Students
Only one fraternity is known to cover loss of their member's clothes and books and this was secured from a brokerage company in Kansas City. Ordinarily when a fraternity catches on fire the furniture and property of the fraternity itself is covered but not that of the individual members.
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Faculty of College Will Consider Addition Of Military Science Work
Percentage of Good Grades Necessary for Degree Will Be Taken Up
Special courses in military science and wireless telegraphy may be offered to students in all departments of the University next semester. Arrangement for credit and official ratification of the idea is to be made by each school. Faculty of the College will decide finally on the war training plan for students in the College at a meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Room 104, Snow Hall.
"The need for skilled wireless operators at this time is imperative," said Assistant Dean D. L. Patterson this morning. "The course to be given at K. U., will be thorough and will treat the subject from all angles. It is another helpful step that universities can exert at this time."
Two hours credit will be allowed for the wireless course and as much as four for the military science course in the College, if the courses are approved at the meeting tomorrow.
These taking the military science course must be recommended by the commandant and will probably include students who showed aptitude as soldiers in the military training courses just completed?
The College faculty will also take under advisement the matter of the number of hours of good grades required to get a degree under the new system of grading by letter. Last year 80 of the 120 hours credit had to be I&s and II's, but no rule has been made this year.
Second Sphinx Dance
If Fuel Man Permits
Herbert Hoover With His Econ omy Principles Will Control the Affair
The fuel situation permitting, the Sphinx society, the freshman interfraternity society will give its second dance of the year February 1, at F.A. U. hall. The date is Friday night, just one day after the present order cancelling all night entertainments and dances expire.
The social committee is calling the dance "The Herbert N. Hower." Flannel shirts instead of white ones for the men and middies and skirts in place of party dresses for the women are requested to be worn.
Haley and a four-piece orchestra from Kansas City will furnish the music.
A special five hour course in elementary spoken and written French will be offered next semester at 2 o'clock to meet the needs of students who are to enter military or government service or to do war relief work. Five hours credit will be given to those students who have had no French. Those desiring to enroll are advised to consult Professor Galloo, Fraser Hall, Room 304.
Install French Course To Meet Needs of War
Athletic Board Meets Monday to Discuss Plans
The athletic cabinet of the University will meet Monday morning to arrange the schedule for enrollment in military drill and athletics. Their plans will be published before enrollment takes place so the students will be able to plan their schedule for the second semester.
Chemistry Club to Elect
The Chemistry Club will elect officers at its regular meeting tonight at the Chemistry building. Roy Kitchen, e'18, or Ora Leary, e'18, will talk.
Chemistry Club to Elect
Forum To Meet
The Woman's Forum meeting which was postponed from last week will meet Thursday afternoon in the Rest Room of Fraser at 3 o'clock. Prof. D. L. Patterson will talk about "Socialism and the War." Important business is to be transacted and everyone interested is urged to present.
Brilliant MeteoriteVisible on Campus IsBut One of Millions
Constant Stream of Visitors Plunge Through Atmosphere of Earth
The meteorite and not meteor, as many have called it, appeared in the portion of the horizon to the north-east portion of the horizon, where it seemed to break. A piece of it is reported to have struck near St. Joseph, Missouri, without doing much damage.
A blazing meteorite which passed over Lawrence at 5:55 o'clock last month was one of the many millions which enter the earth's atmosphere every year, according to Prof. E. B. Stouffer, mathematics and former astronomy professor at the University of Kansas.
"The fact that it bit the earth while still hurricane is entirely plausible." Professor Stouffer says. "It probably was only a few feet in diameter when it struck the earth," he says. "For those meteorites burn up by the tremendous friction caused by their rapid velocity through space. When they come into the earth's atmosphere they are traveling at the rate of ten to twenty miles a second. Professor Stouffer said, but they are slowed down considerably because of the friction of the air around the earth so that they are going down when they hit the ground. They barely made motion of iron material, which becomes blown from the burning caused by its friction with the earth's atmosphere. They are simply small bodies of this material floating out on space attached into the earth at irregular intervals and only become visible when they reach the atmosphere of the earth. Meteors are much the same that they burn up before they reach earth, while a meteorite an family attaches the earth.
The museums which attract visitors was and one of a family, recordcased to Professor Sniffler, but merely an aray body. Some persons here in Iwerking are积聚着眈着一 cloud of smoke after the curiose, and Professor Sniffler explains that the smoke is hump-fuled for every minute it travels along through space and the smoke results from the burning of the body.
The fact that so many towns in Kansas and Missouri reported it as being directly overburden although the towns were located in more or less of a circla was overblown by the nascent professor. He was the instigator in Kansas in the 80's when a hurricane passed overhead and many people expected it to strike in their back-yards. The meteorite struck in Pennsylvania. It is extremely difficult to estimate distance in the heavens accurately with the naked eye, Professor Stouffer said.
Work of Van der Vries Noticed By Easterners
The Christian Science Monitor, in its issue of January 18, has the following sketch of Prof. J. N. Van der Vries of the department of mathematics in its column, "People in the News:"
Prof. John N. Van der Vries, head of the department of mathematics in the University of Kansas, at Lawrence, Kan, has joined the field division of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. His capacities as a trained man competent to deal with problems of finances, commerce, and accounting, and his record as an organizer of war activities in Kansas, and as a promoter of the several national bans attracted the attention of the officials of the Chamber of Commerce and induced them to make him a member of their staff.
Freshmen Notice
All freshmen students, men and women, are requested to confer with their advisers before the period of their final examinations in order to arrange their schedules for next semester. This will save the student time and trouble during enrollment day of the second semester.
D. L. Patterson Assistant Dean of College.
Many Chances To Work Are Open For Women
During the present semester thirty-nine opportunities for work were recorded at the employment bureau of the Y. W. C. A. Twenty-nine women applied for jobs and twenty-one were placed. All women students desiring employment, says Miss Katharine Duffield, general secretary, should phone 1315 or apply in person at the Y. W. Office in Myers Hall.
Plain Tales From The Hill
"No, Rachel, the sign with the red cross above it at the entrance of the campus is not a thermometer, just a relic of past events."
Yes, Indeed! A Regular Time
A tall, excited architectural engineer, holding his breath in one hand and a two gallon jug in the other, was interviewed in a street car recently.
"Yeh," he responded in answer to polite inquiries, "There are fifteen of us over in Marvin Hall working on an esquise." His eyes sparkled in childish glee. "And they sent me after a gallon of cider and a dozen doughnuts and a dime's worth of apples. Oh boy! We're sure going to have a time!"
No one denies that it is hard luck to have one's clothes and other personal articles burn in a roaming house fire; but one freshman, without a very vivid imagination either, believes that the height of misfortune would be to have a term theme burn before it was handed in.
Georgette: "Are you coming back next semester?"
No doubt the average dip and petty sneak thief is congratulating himself that the thieves who work in the cloak and locker rooms here at K. U, W were styled "kleptomanias" in the news reports. To class these college "kleptomanias" with ordinary, self-representing crooks would be too much—too much, too much. To do so would be to lower a nobler pursuit.
Juliette: "No, I'm going to stay here."
After attending a few classes in some departments of the University one might gather, and still not be an expert at gathering, that after all, "colum" is the correct way to pronounce it.
Another example of the contrary man is the bird who says he likes to play a ukulele.
She had been told that she was a "keen" girl. Perhars she thought so, too. So when a freshman, who was not an especially clever girl, ask her a question at the dinner table, she did not answer, even when the question was repeated, although it was evident that she had heard the first time. She turned her attention elsewhere, and addressed a remark to her neighbor. The girl's crest fallen face escaped her, for she did not look. You see it was just one of her little ways of getting personal prestige, her attention and her favor are hard to engage. She hoped the others would notice. They did.
Men's Glee Club Concert Postponed Till Saturday
Fuel Administration Gives Permission For Entertainment
Then
The annual concert of the Men's Glee Club, which was to have been given Thursday night, will be given at 8 o'clock Saturday night of this week. The change had to be made due to the "Garfolding" of the County Fuel Administrator. Permission, however, has been given to have the concert Saturday.
The program is on the popular nature and was arranged to be entertaining to a University audience. Special features will be given by a banjo trio, a quartet, and tenor and baritone soloists. The club will not go to Camp Funston February 1, 2, and 3 as had been planned because of quarantines in the camp. The club will make the trip at a later date.
K. U.Men Into Service
K. U. Men Into Service
Dick W. Williams, Beadeye Weaver.
Owen Carl, Arnold Nordstrom, and Arch Narman, all former students of the University, left this morning for Chicago where they will soon be transferred to the Quartermaster's Reserve Camp at Jacksonville, Fla.
Faculty and Students Take Different Views On Six-Day Proposal
Cabinet Will Not Recommend Change But Senate May Act Independently
Will Determine Sentiment?
Proposition Believed Popular But Steps To Make Sure May Be Taken
Among the faculty, the six day school week is being hotly debated. In a Cabinet meeting yesterday, it was decided not to recommend the change to the University Senate, although that body may take up the matter if it wishes. In reference to the Cabinet meeting, Chancellor Strong said this morning, "It was the opinion of the Cabinet that it would not be wise to put the plan before the Senate as a recommendation, however this does not restrict them from taking up the matter." F. R. Hamilton, head of the University Extension Division, is enthusiastic in his support of the six day school week. He said the advantages so far numbered the disadvantages, that there was no question about it. Mr. Hamilton pointed out the fact that many of the schools in Kansas have begun having school on Saturday. He said the matter of arranging the class schedule could be made easily.
Registrar George O. Foster expressed himself as being in favor of the plan if it would aid in the efficiency of the University. He said fecility of the University. He said Walter Havekorst, president of the Student Council, has declared himself as strongly in favor of the six days of school. In speaking of the extra day of school he said:
"AAlthough the opinions of the students I have talked to are very much divided, I personally am in favor of it. I realize that it will cause some inconvenience, but we will soon have to get used to being in-conciered, and it might as well he now."
Harry Morgan, editor of the Jayhawker, is opposed to dismissing school May 1.
John W. Johnson a member of the Student Council, declared himself as decidedly in favor of it, and he said, "To have school six days a week is a savage of time and money to the student. We 'Hoverize' on everything else. So, why not on time and常 while in school."
"The work would have to be cut down too much, and I don't know what would become of this year's Jayhawker. Seniors would be hardest hit."
Warren Wattles says, that the opinion he has formed after talking to several students in that it would be better to do as was done last year. Give credit to those who want to leave May 1 to work on farms and let the rest of the students finish their regular course.
Fate of H. S. Tournament This Year Is Uncertain
Canvas of Opinion From Schools Is Being Made By W. O. Hamilton
Coach Hamilton is uncertain whether the state high school baseball tournament will be held as usual in Robinson Gymnasium this spring. He has sent questionnaires to the high schools all over the state, asking their opinion on the matter, and several of the schools have already answered in favor of the fournamers Others, however, have not said that the big school meet should be unplanned for the period of the war.
The Jayhawker coach will wait to receive the majority of the answers before he announces definitely whether the tournament will be held. He is of the opinion that no game should not be played as usual, and believes the high schools will view the question in the same way.
K. U. Student To Radio School
E. L. Smith, '18, has been called to report to Kansas City headquarters the last of next week for assignment to radio school, in which service he enlisted some time ago. He goes home today to spend a few days before leaving for training.