UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Closing Session For Engineering Meeting HeId This Afternoon
Papers Read On Water Pollution By Sewerage; Kansas Electrical Development
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1918.
Rural Lines Are Developed
Fifteen Out Of Twenty-Nine Different Systems Serve Farmers
The Kansas State Engineering Society is holding this afternoon in Marvin Hall the final session of a two day meeting and is discussing road building, war time public improvements, politics and education. Officers for the year and a place for holding the next meeting are being chosen.
NUMBER 73
The meeting was taken up largely by two papers, one on the polluting of streams by sewage, read by N. T. Veatch, '09, and a paper by P. F. E. Johnson on the development of water treatment. Mr. Veach is a member of the firm of Black & Veach, consulting engineers, Kansas City, Mo.
Professor Johnson's paper was of particular value to the little towns and the rural population of Kansas as well as to technical men. It told of the development in Kansas of electric lines serving a widely extended area, and of the science of electric lighting and power to many forms and small towns.
Electric power lines stretching out into the country from various towns, notably Garden City, Abilene, Concordia and Wichita, supply a territory about one hundred thousand population. There are 1,310 miles of such lines, on which Mr. Johnson has been able to obtain full data. These lines supply with electricity 120 towns, seventy-four of which have a population of less than 500 and only twenty-five of which had electric service before this development began in 1910.
University Has 496 Former Students In Service
Of twenty-nine different systems, fifteen serve farmers, although many lines do not serve farmers because of the expense and the loss in stepping down current of more than 13.200 volts. These transmission lines do not include the lines that supply inter-urban car lines.
(Continued from yesterday's Kansan.)
Adna G. Clarke, Major, U. S. A. Regu-
lars, Lt. Leworthown.
George Clark, First Lieutenant
Regular Army, Camp Founton,
New York.
W, B. Cobb, Second Luteentecton, 79th Field Artillery, Dallas, Tex.
Millard E. Clawson, M. S. E., Co. B,
110th Fist Signal Battalion, Camp
Dordyce R. Coe, Co. M, 137th Inf.
Omaha, Dixhawk.
Auburn Coe, Co. M, 137th Inf., Camp Daniphan.
calipb Lombard
Bond Coleman Co. 6, Engineering
company, Rang.
Herbert Coleman, First Lieutenant Assistant Surgeon, Navy.
Assistant Surgeon, Navy.
Hale S. Cook, Captain, Navalny, Regi
ular Army, Fort Oglethorpe,
Ward H. Cook, First Lieutenant,
Ward H. C. Cook, First Lieutenant,
Hospital Corps, France.
O, T. C. L, M. Amy
Charles L. Cone, Aviation, Ft. Omaha
Ellis W. Cookson, H. D. 2, No. 4, M.
O. T. C., Ft. Riley.
Samuel Walters Connor, Navy.
G. Glashar, Sergeant 278.
Lewis C. Corbin, sergeant, Tex
S. Field Artillery, Camp Logan, Tex
S. Field Artillery, Camp Logan, 142x
Ray Cottrell, Co. M. 137th IAF
Littleton, CO.
Elvyn Spencer Cowgill, DL two Lieutenant, Provisional, Pt. Lenworthen,
Seymour H. Crank, 117th Field Battle
Alligator Signal Troop, 12nd Division
American Exp. Porces, France.
T. S. Crawford, Navy, Philadelphia.
T. S. Crawford, Navy, Philadelphia.
T. H. Crawford, Captain, Engineer
Patrick J. Smith
Wm. Creek, Co. M. 137th Inf., Camp.
Douhaski
John Crego, 89th Division, Camp
Fountain.
P.
Cronin
Alex Creighton, 117th Ammunition Train, 42nd Division, American Exp. Forces Crusis, 132th Inf.
J. Cross, 138th Inf.
Harold Crowell, Lieutenant, 20th Inf. Ft. Douglas, Utah
John Crowley, Kansas Ambulance Co. 139, 110th Ambulance Train, Camp
Doniphan. James Cubbison, Lieutenant
James Cubsbison, Leueneakn,
Co. M., 167th Inf. Camp Doniphan
Co. M, 187th Inf., Camp Doniphon.
R Davenport, Second Lieutenant.
Charlie
Merrill F. D. Faum, Second Lieutenant
Mervil 18th Inf. Camp Doniphan.
Chas. A, Davis, Great Lakes Band Chicago, III.
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Duffield Speaks To Y. W.
About K. U. Students
"Let's make K. U. one place in all this topsy-turvy world," said Miss Katherine Duffield, yesterday at Y.W. C. A., "where Jesus Christ can look down and not have to take up another burden. Let's put away the prejudices and the grudges which are now on the Hill. What do we love? Do we love those who love us or do we love only the things that are lovely?
"It's time that people began doing a few constructive things instead of destructive. The students are just about the only class who can do constructive things. This doesn't mean all the students in every University except K. U. It applies to each student at this University."
The War
Here and Over There
Argentina has signed an agreement to furnish 83,333,000 bushels of wheat to England and France.
German aviators have recently made several attempts to bomb the American camps in France.
The War Department has rejected any plan to raise the draft age to include men over thirty-one years of age.
A general order issued recently gives each soldier a week's recreation for every three month's service in France.
An amendment to the pending resolution for government control of print paper which would limit newspapers to sixteen pages was adopted by the Senate yesterday.
The population of Berlin is compelled to exist almost entirely on raions which are fixed by the government. The food is invited to breakout and potatoes.
The food administration is asking bakers to begin at once to substitute about ten per cent of other cereals with flour and work the amount up to at least twenty per cent.
Mutilated German officers and soldiers are returning their iron crosses as a protest against the fact that many of those who remain at home are being decorated with the same insignia.
An advisory council composed of six men and one woman has been created to assist in the administration of the war labor problem. The council will be under the supervision of the Department of Labor.
More than one thousand students from the University of Chicago are in the war. The student enrollment there has been decreased about twelve per cent by students who have entered military service.
The editor-in-chief and managing editor of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, a German language publication, will have to stand trial for treason, because of editorials and articles criticizing the United States for entering the war.
The Y. M. C. A. is sending $150,000 worth of athletic goods to the soldiers in France. Most of this is baseball equipment. The shipment constitutes the largest order for athletic equipment ever placed. The soldiers yet in the United States have already received $150,000 worth of athletic goods.
The Department of Labor will endeavor to furnish during the next six months 1,000,000 men for agriculture. 400,000 men for shipbuilding, 100,000 man the ships, 350,000 for transportation, and 250,000 for the manufacture of munitions. Other war industries will call for a similar number.
A bill for the registration for military duty of all men who have become twenty-one years of age since June 5 has been introduced in the Senate. The bill was introduced at the request of the War Department.
Aren't those dollars three more enemies for Germany to fight?
Stars For the Negro Graduates When the University of Kansas service flag is completed, thirteen of the stars will represent colored men who were students or who have graduated from the University.
He paid four dollars for a pair of army shoes and gave to war work the additional three dollars he had intended to spend for other shoes.
More Enemies for Germany
War Readjustments Will Be Main Topic At Education Council
F. R. Hamilton To R-presen
K. U. On Program At Topeka This Week
The Educational Council of the Kansas State Teacher's Association will meet in Topeka Friday and Saturday to consider the necessary readjustments of the public schools of the state to meet emergencies caused by the war.
In many places school is being held six days in the week to enable the boys to get out earlier in the spring to help on the farms. This plan and many other proposed methods to help win the war will be discussed by prominent men in the various forms of educational work in the state.
The topic of war-time school activities, will be considered at the dinner conference to be held in the Mills Building, Friday afternoon. State Superintendent W. D. Ross, President Thomas W. Butcher, of the State Norvell University, T. R. Hamilton, director of the University Extention will be the speakers.
Dean F. J. Kelly of the School of Education of the University will also present the subject of the war-time demand for teachers to fill vacancies left by the men teachers who have gone into military service. There will be a great demand for teachers next semester when many men will be drafted, and the run-up to graduation of Education for securing teachers may be temporarily amended in order to fill these vacancies.
The Educational Council's meeting Friday night will be held in connection with the War Conference of the Kansas State Council of Defense which will be in session in Topeka Thursday and Friday. Chancellor Frank Strong and the war committee are meeting on the educational readjustments necessary during the war.
On Saturday morning there will be a meeting in which there will be a discussion of the Permanent Income Bill and other educational legislative measures to be presented at the next meeting of the Kansas legislature.
$1,675 From Sale Of Student Enterprise Tickets Apportioned
Money Goes To Band, Debating Athletic Association, and Other Organizations
A joint board meeting of the W. S. G. A, and the Men's Student Council yesterday afternoon decided upon the apportionment of funds derived from the sale this year of Student Enterprise tickets. The total returns from these tickets this year was $1675. With only 335 tickets sold this year, last year's report shows the sale of nearly 1000 tickets.
Division of the fund was made on the same respective percentage as was used last year. The University organizations benefiting from the $1,675 will be: the debating fund $100.50; the University band $108.87; University orchestra $50.25; the Glee Club $05.25; the Association $1,340; the Womens Studies Government Association $12.56; the Men's Student Council $12.56.
Purchasers of Student Enterprise Tickets are admitted to the student activities of the organization which benefit from this ticket sale. The small number sold this year, Walter Havekorst, president of the Men's Student Council, says is caused by the fact that the majority of buyers in the past have been men. Many men either failed to return, or expecting to enlist any time during the school months hesitated to invest in amusements, which they might not be here to enjoy.
An important meeting of the Woman's Forum will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Women's Rest Room in Fraser Hall. Professor D. L. Patterson will talk on "Socialism and the War." The Forum is open to all women who are interested in the subject, faculty students and faculty women and the wives of faculty men are especially urged to attend.
The Daily Kansan—a daily letter home.
Woman's Forum
Vaccinated Women Are Not Affected While Men Faint Profusely
One-Fifth of Men Fainted Yesterday—Due to Worry Not Vaccine
One hundred and twenty-two women were vaccinated at the University Hospital yesterday and no one really fainted. This is quite contrary to the expectations of those in charge, because about two out of every ten of the 209 men, it is said, fainted.
According to those in charge of the vaccinating for smallpox, fainting is not due to the vaccinating, but to the psychological condition of the students. Students worry over the thought of being vaccinated until they are in a faint condition before the actual work is started. The vaccinating is being done by a physician, assisted by students of the School of Medicine, and not by students alone as a good many supposed.
The two cases of smallpox in the University Hospital are showing very marked improvements. Several new cases of measles are reported.
The University Health Service asks the students not to call the hospital asking for vaccination at any other than the regular time, as they are too busy to answer the telephone, and no other time can be given. The regular time is from 9 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Men are to report on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while women have Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Violators of Senate Rulings Disciplined By Additional Work
Four Guilty of Dishonest Work And One Of Breaking Date Rule
Four students guilty of dishonest work and one woman, who has been guilty of frequent violations of the mid-week date rule, were called before the Disciplinary Committee of the University Senate last week and penalized.
Two freshmen found guilty of unfair work in preparing mid-term themes were required to rewrite these themes and three extra hours of credit for graduation were added. A junior, guilty of the same offense in another English course, will be required to make one additional hour of credit for the degree. A senior was found to be cheating in Elementary French, and is required to do one additional hour of credit.
A young woman, who had been reported for frequent violations of the mid-week date dule of the W. S. G. A. was severely reprimanded by the Dispilinary Committee and required to appear before the W. S. G. A. and pledge her future obedience to the rules.
The University Senate, although not making any fixed rules in regard to the control of mid-week dates, will support the work of the W. S. G. A.
"K. B. Used Boynton's Address"
The Santa Fe railroad has asked Prof. A. J. Boynton of the department of economics for 1000 copies of his book "The Economic Resources of the Kansas City District," which he delivered before a chemical society this summer. The railroad intends to distribute the copies along the route as advertising for the district around Kansas City.
Levitkii Concert 15 Tungtun
The third number of the University concert Course will given tonight to highlight symphasus. The concert will be a piano recital by the Russian pianist, Misha Levitkii. Mr. Levitkii has been recognized in music circles in Europe and America as an artist of great ability.
R. R. Used Boynton's Address
Levitzki Concert Is Tonight
Chemists Will Meet Here
Chemists Qu Mire
The American Memorial Society will hold a lecture in the Chemistry Building next Saturday, January 19. The feature of the program will be a talk by G. W. Gray of the Midland Refining Company, of El Daron, on the "Analysis of Petroleum and Its Products." The meeting will be under the direction of the chemistry department of the University.
C. A. Haskins Wins \* Captain's Commission
Prof. C. A. Haskins, of the department of sanitary engineering has been commissioned captain in the sanitary corps of the United States Army. He will go to Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia. He is to be succeeded by J. E. Welker, assistant professor of sanitary engineering.
Professor Haskins made a report on the water and sanitary conditions of Camp Pike and Camp Funston. He laid out Camp Cody, Deming, New York to Camp Funston. He is the fifth instructor in the School of Engineering to join the army.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Do you know the University man who has almost finished knitting a scarf? Further information can be obtained from the Sigma Ph Signas.
Who ever doubted that the Betas are intensely and sincerely patriotic? Some wary traveler even accused one of the pledges of wearing a new style of a service pin. No, the pledge did not say it was his pledge pin.
The idea of the real thing is to take a mid-week date to the Town and Gown dance.
Uno: What chapter, Alpha or Lamba?
da?
Uno: Have you been over to the Hospital and initiated yet?
Dr. Doe
One loses things and loses things.
Said the sweet young thing to the maid at the Junior Prom, "Have you seen anything of some fraternity vins? I've lost a couple."
A K. U, maiden was overtaken by an embassading accident at Ecke's Saturday night when she slipped on the floor and fell to her knees. Making good use of the elasticity of her knees she quickly bounded and out onto a nearby chair and the little episode was over.
On the following Tuesday morning this same young lady was seen standing on the steps of a University building laughing unmercifully at the unfortunate students who chanced to slip and fall on the slick side walk. And these poor victims had a legitimate excuse for falling. Perhaps Dot was taking lessons so that she could do the stunt more gracefully next time.
There is a wild scramble for hats and coats every morning on the fourth floor of Fraser Hall, since the University has ceased to light the halls. One student says he is never certain he has his own coat until he has searched the pockets.
We at least have a "reminder" of the good old summer time in the ice wagon which still persists in its daily rout on the Hill.
At first they wore just "interested," he and she, here at K. U. last winter. Then, in the springtime, they became very interested. And he was so interested that when she left the Hill to attend school at Oberlin, Ohio, he wrote the conservatory there for catalogues and information—possibly with the idea of enrolling in music at Oberlin himself. Imagine his surprise and consternation when he received a "personal" letter from the matron of the girl's dormitory, another "personal" from the president of the Y. W. C. A., from the director of the girls' classes from divers and sundry cleaning and pressing establishments and a whole flood of college literature from the head of the school. You see he had used his sister's first name when he signed the letter.
And when the first damsel visited on the Hill last week she tried to tell him some of the particulars about Oberlin. But he wouldn't listen. He had read all the literature he had received and he knew more about the school than she did.
D. L. Patterson,
Assistant Dean.
All college freshmen, men and women, should consult with their advisors before the end of the semester, in order to arrange their classes for the next semester. This will save time and avoid difficulties for the student on enrollment day.
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F. B. Smith Will Not Speak Tomorrow in Gym Brother Fills Place
Honorable Harold Smith, Member of British Parliament to Fill Brother's Place
Telegram Gives No Reason
But British Attorney-General Will Address Meeting In Topeak Thursday
Honorable Harold Smith,
member of British Parliament
will speak tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock. Robinson Gymnasium.
Announcement was made late this afternoon.
Sir Frederick B. Smith, the attorney general of Gt. Britain, will be unable to speak at the University convocation in Robinson Gymnasium tomorrow and his brother, the Honorable Harold Smith, a member of the British Parliament, will speak in his place, according to a telegram received today at noon by F. R. Hamilton, director of the University Extention Department, from Washington, D. C. The convolution probably will be held at 4 o'clock instead of 1 o'clock as originally planned.
The University was able to secure the speaker for the address through F. R. Hamilton of the University Extension Department, who is a member of the Speakers' Bureau of the War Conference to be held in Topeka tomorrow, in which Sir Frederick Smith is to be the principal speaker. The consent of the general passenger agent of the Rock Island Railway, at Chicago, L. L. Allen, was necessary before the train passing through Lawrence at 11:30 could be stopped to allow Honorable Smith to visit the University. No reason was given for his not coming.
Sir Frederick Smith is at the University of Missouri at Columbia, today as the speaker at the War Conference there and will be the guest of the Knife and Fork Club in Kansas City tomorrow morning at a breakfast held if his honor. Great Britain has sent the attorney-general to the United States to speak at a series of war conferences which are being held in various states.
Kansas Graduates Invent Sound Detecting Device
Men Will Go To France At Once
To Try Out New War
Machine
Captain E. A. Weible, e11, and Lieut. A. J. Fecht, c14, of the 29th Company B Reserve Engineering Corps are now in Washington awaiting an order to go to France to use an instrument for detecting sound on a plane. Captain Weible is on for some time. Captain Weible's parents live at 924 Alabama Street.
Captain Webie has been in the government service for seven years and during that time has invented several instruments of a shoal nature. His instrument for the detection of sound measures large guns and other war devices.
Captain Weible and Lieutenant Fecht will go across immediately and will be unable to visit home before doing so. They will be accompanied by the second lieutenant of the same company who is a Princeton graduate. All three men have received their degrees in electrical engineering.
Should Pay Pledges at Once
Pledges for the Student Friendship War Fund are being paid slowly, according to a report from the Registrar's office. All pledges must be in by February. Many students, who promised to pay before Christmas, have come so, "This kind of work is to be used by the Y. M. C. which the building of recreation centers, and relief work in the prison camps, is needed, and all pledges should be paid promptly.
The women of the economic uses class in the department of home economics are preparing and serving meals this week as a part of their practical work. Each woman in the class is required to plan, cook and serve three meals which conform to a certain fixed cost limit and which contain the proper number of calories.