UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
England Will Fight Out War To a Finish, Says Hon. Harold Smith
American Soldiers and Ships Are Needed Overseas Immediately
No Peace Talk In England
British Women Show Great Heroism In Doing Work Of Men
"The British people are determined to fight this war out to an honorable finish," said the Hon. Harold Smith, member of British Parliament, who addressed the students at a special convocation in Robinson Gymnasium yesterday. At the outbreak of the war the British army was totally inadequate. It consisted of 23,000 men and over 8,000 more survive. Since the declaration of war in 1914, England has raised an army of seven and one-half millions.
Suffering in England is intense and the whole national life has been changed. In spite of these conditions the people are determined to fight to the end.
Mr. Smith showed how weak the pacifist element is by citing the parliamentary elections since the war has began. Out of 48 elections only two pacifists have dared to be candidates and they were defeated by overwhelming majorities.
"To win the war ships and men are necessary, and we are waiting for American soldiers," declared Mr. Smith. "England, despite her frightful losses from Germany's sea attacks has only lost fourteen per cent of her shipping tonnage. However, 75 per cent of the remainder is being used in war work. We need your ships to carry food to our people and that is why we urge you to speed up your shipping program."
Two Military Science Courses Are Offered
Mr. Smith pledged his country to the careful treatment of wounded American soldiers. He declared that they were under a handicap because they would not be nursed by women from their own country but by those from a foreign country.
Mr. Smith told of the heroic attitude of the British women in taking the places of the men who have gone. "Women are found," he said, "in all the industries in which men were engaged before the war. The work is work which before the war people would have considered impossible for women to perform. They are acting as window washers, bus drivers, tram-car conductors, and are engaged in all kinds of agricultural pursuits."
Two courses in military science will be offered in the department of Physical education next semester. Credit for these courses will be given in the various schools where electives are offered in the work required for the degree. The details of the courses and the hours when they shall be offered will be arranged by Col. E. M. Briggs, and W. O. Hamilton, of the department of physical education.
An elementary course in military science of two hours credit will be given which will include a general study of the theory of the manual regulations in all forms and departments of military tactics. Class room instruction and lectures will be used in presenting the subject.
An advance course in military science for two hours credit is planned in which there will be a laboratory study of the science of map reading and the planning of military movements in battle. This course will be open only to students who have had considerable experience in military drill either in other schools where they have attended, or in training camps last summer.
The idea of the department in giving courses in military science is to give students a chance to learn enough about the theoretical side of military procedure to enable them to get better places in the army when they are drafted into active service.
Holden Called Into Service
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 18, 1918.
Houman Called Into Service
A letter received from Harlan Holden, former editor of the Kansas, says he was ordered to report the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois January 13. He is in the radio corps of the navy, enlisting about the middle of December.
NUMBER 75.
Dramatic Club Changes Date of Play to Feb. 20.
The date for the presentation of the Dramatic Club play, "The Check-Mate," has been changed from February 13 to February 20. Great progress is being made at the rehearsals, which are being held three times a week, according to Prof. Arthur MacMurray, director.
The theme of the play is the necessity for the transportation of troops to the front by the Allied nations. It was chosen because of its particular appropriateness at the present time. Louis Hull, manager, has already completed the contracts for the scenery and has arranged for the presentation of the play at the Bowersock Theatre.
The War Here and Over There
Conscription for Ireland was defeated yesterday in the House of Commons by a vote of 136 to 48.
A bill providing for a director of munitions has been prepared and will soon be presented to the Senate.
At Camp Doniphan an hour each day is devoted to play under direction and supervision of the Y. M. C. A.
England will place no tax on capital during the war, but is considering the conscription of wealth after the war.
That the Central powers will not accept the Russian peace terms not evacuate the territory now occupied by them was given out from Berlin in an official statement Monday.
A mutiny among the submarine crews at the German naval base at Kiel on January 7 is reported in an exchange telegraph dispatch from Geneva. According to the report 38 officers were slain by the crews.
An attempt was made in the Senate to block the coal embargo ordered by Fuel Administrator Garfield. The attempt was unsuccessful, however, and all manufacturing concerns east of the Mississippi River were compelled to close down last night at midnight.
An American war council of five members, including the Secretaries of War and Navy and three civilian members appointed by the President, is being considered by the Senate military committee. The council would control the production, purchase, transportation and distribution of all war supplies.
There will be no grain shortage in the United States during 1918, according to grain exchanges. The only problem is that of transportation. Millions of bushels are still on the farms and much of this will spoil if not moved soon. There is enough wheat that the grain exchanges believe the Food Administration can spare ninety million bushels to the Allies at the present time.
From the establishment of the United States, government under George Washington to March 1917 the total cost of maintaining the American Government was $26,000,-000,000. This amount paid for the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Mexican War and the Spanish-American War, as well as all the expenses of the government. From March 1917 to the adjournment of Congress in October 1917, Congress appropriated $21,000,000,000. In other words nearly as much was appropriated during those seven months as had been appropriated during the whole 128 years of the nation's history up to that time.
At least one small town has been made prominent by the war. This town is Mound City. Five of its boys, all born in Mound City, and all graduated from K. U., have enlisted. Four out of the five have won the rank of first lieutenant and the other is second lieutenant. The boys are Ted Shannon, Bond Coleman, John C. Madden, Burnette Bower and Otto Trig. The population of the town is only 800.
Five K. U. Men Made Officers
Dramatic Art Class Plays
Two one act plays will be given in Green Hall, Monday at 3 o'clock by members of the dramatic
One. One of these is "Efficiency," a war play that is being shown in New York with great success. The other is a comedy, "Compromising Martha."
Dramatic Art Class Plays
1. 2. 3.
K. U. Service Flag To Be Metal Bulletin Board Containing Stars
Men's Student Council W Bring Board Up-to-Date Twice a Week
The University will have no service flag at present but instead it will have a metal bulletin board with detachable letters which will occupy one of the sides of the large University bulletin board at the corner of the campus.
The committee from the Men's Student Council says it will be in place in a short time. The plan is to have a black metal board just the size of the official bulletin board with white letters which will record the number of K. U. men enlisted in each branch of the service and a total of all men enlisted.
The plan is to change the figures two times a week, so that students will know up to date the exact number of men K. U. has in the service.
The plan was brought up in the Intelligence Committee and was turned over to the Men's Student Council for execution. The committee is looking up the statistics now and intends to post them in the following way: Number of men enlisted in the infantry, navy, artillery, aviation service, marine corps, quartermasters corps, and engineering corps.
Government Regulation Of Present Coal Crisis Hits Dancing Students
Administrator's Decree Shortens Hours To Save Fuel—Closes Hall Early
Probably no public dances in which students may be interested owing to strict government regulations concerning the conservation of coal will be given during the remainder of January.
All stores, pool and billiard halls,
and hallas used for dances and lodge
meetings in Lawrence have been ordered by the Douglas County Fuel Committee to remain open for the remainder of January, beginning Saturday,
only between the hours of 8:30
and 5:30 o'clock except Saturday
night when they may remain open until
9:30 o'clock. One drug store in
the city, however, may remain open each evening.
The following letter, giving the order of the fuel committee, was received by Walter Havelakor, president of his Student Council this morning;
"In the interest of fuel conservation in the present emergency it is hereby ordered and directed that from January 19 to January 31, both dates inclusive, all stores shall open not earlier than 8:30 o'clock and shall not later than 10:00 o'clock. By special permission from the chairman of the fuel committee one drug store in the city may remain open each evening.
"The terms of this order shall also be binding on pool and billiard halls and halls used for dances and lodge meetings.
"By order of the Douglas County Fuel Committee."
E. H. S. Bailley, Chairman
Approve W. J. Francisco, Mayor
of Lawrence
The college dance will be given in F. A. U. Hall Saturday night unless the fuel administrator absolutely forbids it. The舞 had been planned before the order, which is to come into effect January 19, was given, the college dance committee said, and they believe that the adminis- tor not forced parties whimbi- before the new fuel order was anounced.
Weidlein Gets Promotion
College Dance Saturday
Announcement has been made of the appointment of Edward R. Weidlein, as acting director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. Before this promotion, Mr. Weidlein was associate director of the institute. He took his degree from K. U. in 1909 and followed it with a master's degree here the following year. Mellon Institute is a large department of the University of Pittsburgh operated to secure co-operation between science and industry.
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Extra Fee for All Students Vaccinated Next Week at Hospital
Certificates Must Be Presente At Every Class Monday— Small Number Scratched
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All students, members of the faculty and employees of the University are urged to comply with the regulation of the State Board of Health regarding vaccination if they have not already done so. The Board of Health has the power, I am informed, to prevent individuals who have not been successfully vaccinated from attending classes or any other public gathering. It is therefore necessary if the work of the University is to continue, that all members of the University comply with this regulation of the State Board of Health.
Frank Strong Chancellor
"Students must be vaccinated this week if they do not want to pay an extra fee," said Dr. John Sundwall, at noon today, "because of the extra trouble and work that it will put us to next week, we will have to charge all who wait, a fee of twenty-five cents."
Today was the last day that the men could take the vaccination. Tomorrow is the last day for women to be vaccinated and the hospital authorities have set the hours of 9 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Men cannot be vaccinated tomorrow.
According to the latest report from the University Hospital, all students must present their certificates of vaccination at all their classes Monday if they care to remain in their studies. Some students have been complaining that they have been vaccinated within five years but are unable to get certificates due to the death of the doctor who serached them or other circumstances. In this case, since there is no absolute evidence of vaccination, students will have to be vaccinated again to satisfy the authorities of their immunity.
University Women To Help In Conservation
A telegram received by Chancellor Frank Strong this morning from Herbert Hoover, National Food Administrator, asked the University to co-operate with the Food Administration in securing the food situation and the methods of conservation. The need was highlighted by the administration offers to send outlines and suggestions regarding the training of these women.
Mrs. Evangeline Downey Teeter, of Cambridge, Ohio, and Mrs. Elizabeth Nowell Smith, of Lawrence, both former assistants in the department of home economics of the University have been elected as instructors in the department to fill the vacancy left by Miss Elizabeth Sprague. Miss Sprague has been given a leave of absence to assist the National Food Administration in Washington, D. C.
An answer to the telegram was immediately sent to Washington to the effect that the University will be very glad to do everything in its power to aid the campaign for conservation of food. As soon as the outlines and suggestions are received the extent of the work can be determined.
Two New Economic Instructors
Girls Will Sing for Soldiers
Girls Will Sing for Soldiers The University Senate has approved the plan of having the Women's Glee Club give concerts at the army camps in Kansas, Arkansas, now on the marcher for his inauguration. The regular concert of the club will be given here shortly after the beginning of the second semester. Arrangements are being made to give the same concert at Fort Leavenworth and Camp Funston in February.
Dr. S. J. Crumbine, dean of the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas and Secretary of the State Board of Health, received a telegram from Washington, D. C. this morning to come to Washington at once to attend a meeting of the health officials of the various states.
ChancelHor to Speak At War Meeting Tonight
Chancellor Frank Strong went to Topeka, today to attend Big War Conference. He will address the conference tonight at the city auditorium.
This meeting is one of the first and largest conferences of its kind ever held. Every part of the state is represented, and every class of men, from day laborer to millionaire, both men and women, will be there.
The conference resolves itself into a great educational meeting for the opinion of the state through addresses from representative men.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The End of a Perfect Year
When the end has come so close,
The changes in us is great.
All we do is grind and grind,
And sit and think and wait.
Our books are in a jumbled pile Before our weary eyes;
We look at them in wonder, And sigh, and sigh and sigh.
In misery we drag around
And wish the end were here,
But soon with flowers and all
It will be here, I fear.
Among the many trials of the concert artist are the after its over admirers. While Levitkii was saying yes, that he liked to play to western audiences, and yes, that he would be delighted to send some musically aspiring ladies his autographed photograph, and that he would surely send it in four days, an elderly but enthusiled lady rushed up.
"Aren't you all tired out?" she
quarrels, "My, but you did work hard.
I should think that you would need
in extra heavy piano."
"No, we didn't go to a dance."
"Did your girl throw you down last night?"
Have you heard it—the story of a Prof whose trunk was lost? According to a confession made the class, this Prof's trunk went astray when it was checked to Lawrence at the end of Christmas vacation and now the owner's wardrobe is depleted. So do not think it is some one gone mad with "Hooverizing" if you see a form clad in a barrel gliding about the campus; merely offer a prayer that the hoops many hold.
Did you ever get your picture taken and have some "it" pull that old one? You know it.
"Now look foolish, Jack."
"Thank you."
Complete Series Of War Works For K. U
Many Books Already Received at Spooner Library and Others Are Coming
Capt. Bruce Bainsfather, "Bullets and Billets," Ian Hay Baith, "The First Hundred Thousand," and "All In It!" Henri Barbusse, "Under Fire"; Arthur Guy Emprey, "Over the Top"; Hugh Gibson, "Journal of Our Legation in Belgium"; Philip Gibbs, "The Soul of the War"; Frank W. Haud, "My Home on the Field of Honor"; Fritz Kreisler, "Four Weeks in the Trenches; Nordcliffe; Lord Nordcliff's Book"; Harold R. Peat, "Private Peat, His Own Story"; Edward D. Toland, "Aftermath of Battle."
The following interesting books, describing conditions on the fireing line have been ordered for Spoon Library and many of them have been received;
Skating on Potter's Lake
This is the first installment which the Library has ordered. They will be placed in a revolving bookcase, especially built for this collection, Others will be added until a complete list of war works has been secured.
Skating on Potter's Lake is again a popular pastime among K. U. students. The cold weather has furnished plenty of thick ice but the light snowfalls have made the surface somewhat rough. However, students are taking advantage of what skating there is.
Joe Stout, a long distance runner at the University of Chicago, set a new indoor track record. Tuesday when he ran the mile in 4:31:15. He will go into the aviation service soon but hopes to run against Jole Ray in a New York meet before he is called.
K.U. Wins Opening Conference Game From Ames By Slim Margin
Fearing's Two Shots In East Minutes of Play Win Battle
Jayhawkers Play Off-form
Iowans Spring Surprise With Speedy, Aggressive Attack and Nearly Win
Scoring two long shots from midcourt in the last three minutes of play, Fearing, right forward, made it possible for Kansas to defeat Ames last night in the first Missouri Valley Conference game, 24-21. The contest was rough and marred by wild passing and poor goal shooting, the Jayhawkers being the chief offenders.
Captain Uhrlaub scored the first point with a free throw and added another one-pointer a minute later. Ames tied the score when Boyd dribbled to the basket and caged the ball, but Laslett soon brought the spectators to their feet, by scoring a field goal after dribbling through the entire Ames team. After this, Kansas never lost the lead except for a few minutes near the end of the first half, when the score stood a tie.
two goals by Abbott put Ames but one point behind the Crimson and Blue, and after Fearing had scored from the field, a long shot, by Harper and a free throw by Boyd of Ames tied the score. Just before that hatchet shot with the only basket on a long shot and gave Kansas the lead, 11-9.
Bunn took Mandeville's place at left guard at the start of the second half, and both teams played better basketball in this period. Goals by Fearing and Matthews soon gave the Jayhawkers a slight lead, but the basket shooting of the Ames guards soon cut it down to a one point margin and the Iowans needed but a single field goal to win until Fearing put the game safely in the victory column.
The Jayhawker quintet was distinctly off form and did not appear to be the same fast, smooth-working machine that sent Funston to defeat a week ago. The passing was wild and reckless, and every man missed goals that have been easy in practice. Laslett was the principal factor in keeping down the Ames score, and Scrubby played hard and fast every minute of the game.
Because no man could toss free-throws, really lost the game for Ames. Out of eleven chances after fouls, Boyd and Aldrich of the Aggies scored but once, while Uhrlaub caged four goals in five attempts for Kansas.
The score follows:
Kansas FG FT PF TF
Uhrlaub (c), lf-c 1 4 0
Fearing, rf 3 0 1 1
Matthews, c 3 0 1 1
Mandeville, lg 0 1 0 1
Laslett, rg 0 3 3 1
Bunn, lg 0 0 0 0
Miller, lf 0 0 1 0
10 4 7 4
Ames FG FT TF TF
Aldrich (c),lf 0 0 0 0
Boyd,rf 2 1 0 2
Linnan,c 0 0 0 0
Harper,lf 1 0 0 0
Abbott,rg 3 0 1 2
Hahn,rg 3 0 0 0
Brotherlin,lf 1 0 0 0
Referee—Ernest C. Quigley, St.
Marys.
Senior Invitations To Cost Less Than Usual
Senior invitations have been ordered and will be here by May 1. They are of white paper and brown leather, with an embossed K and Kansas seal. Although the invitations are similar to those of last year, they are slightly different where they have previously cost twenty-five and fifty cents.
Names of men in the service who receive their degrees in February or June will be starred. If men who are leaving school will leave the names of the persons to whom they wish to send invitations the committee will mail them out as soon as they come.
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