UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 70.
Junior Prom Tonight In Robinson Gymnasium A Realistic War Party
Annual Party To Be a Bower of Camouflage and Flags
Transports Are Not Allowed
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11, 1918.
Triple Rations at Midnight True —Tape at 2 a. m. Stops Engagement
1. Details will fall in at the arm-
ory at 8:30 o'clock.
2. Captain Haley's regimental band will sound off at that time.
General Orders:
3. Details will march in double file from barracks. No conveyance will be tolerated.
4. Regimental mess at 12 o'clock "Seconda" allowed.
5. Violation of these orders punishable.
Raymond Hemphill,
Warren Woody
Commandants
The armory for the wartime Junior Prom is a bower of camouflage and flags. Emblems of the Allies have been put "over the top" and the terrain has been waxed for the occasion. The skirmish starts at 8:30 o'clock and combatants should be "over there" by that time.
Transports to the scene of action are not allowed. In keeping with the war order of things the women may have powder on their faces and the men may wear shell-rimmed glasses. War paint is barred.
A truce will be declared at midnight for mess. Triple rattions will be given out, between each of which skirmish will be kept on in the dug-out.
Captain Haley will play appropriate sorties throughout. Shrapnel arrangements of patriotic numbers will be expected. Hits will be scored.
Identification booklets will be given to each combatant.. Taps will be sounded at 2 o'clock Saturday morning the skirmish will retire in good order.
Question of Gym Cuts Being Settled Today By University Senate
stackers From Exercise Must be Punished Says Physical Education Department
The department of Physical Education will insist that the Senate give it power to compel students to attend training and training and exercise be abolished.
No definite results were secured in regard to cuts from drill and gymnasium work at a conference yesterday afternoon between the department of physical education and the University Senate. The conference is being held again this afternoon in an attempt to settle the question of cuts from the compulsory exercise passed by the Senate several months ago.
Some form of punishment must be given the students who have either cut or failed to attend drill and gym classes, according to the department of physical education. W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics and head of the physical education department is in favor of compelling those students to attend drill or exercise for the remainder of the term if they fail to do so. Other courses, he is also in favor of excluding the faithful attendant of drill for the remainder of the semester as a sort of reward for their faithfulness..
The question will probably be settled this afternoon in the second conference between the Senate and the physical education department.
A dancing club composed of town people and University faculty member will give its second dance of the year, Tuesday, April 16. It will be Dancing Will start at 8:16 o'clock and last until 11:30 o'clock.
Faculty to Dance
A telegram from Miss Elizabeth Sprague, head of the department of home economics, who is now doing war work with the Food Administration in Washington D. C., announces that she will probably be there all of next semester.
Sprague Absent Next Semester
Cold Makes Morality Of K. U. Studes Worse
Latest cable reports from Mars, says all elements under the command of Boreus, King of the North Wind, have formed an alliance with the Gas system of Lawrence, against the comfort and morals of the University of Alabama is brought in to cause a student Just can't help saying "darn."
Students who have been saying that winter was never going to arrive were caught with the thermometer hovering at 10 degrees below zero.
The only use found now by the student for the gas stove is in the role of an extra chair when the other assists of the house assemble in his room.
The lack of gas, though, is not the only cause for the University to long for sunny California. Students who came to 8 o'clock classes this morning found that to come up Fourteenth Street they need either a snow plow or a pair of snow shoes. The descent, however, is easy.
The War Here and Over There
The University of Oregon is start ing military drill.
Here and Over There
Helmets for trench work have been received by the men at Camp Funston.
A Swiss report says the Kuxians and Bulgarians have all ready made a separate peace.
The sixteen national army cantonments built by the government last summer cost $134,000,000.
The University of Colorado will publish a history of the part they play in the present war.
The United States Food Administration is shipping 1,500 farm tractors to France to do the spring plowing.
The Bolshevist government will issue a decree repudiating the Russian national debt, according to recent reports from England.
During the last nine months the American army has been increased from 9,524 officers and 202,510 men to 110,865 officers and 1,428,650 men.
The University of Indiana will start school at 7:30 next semester in order that they may have their military drill in the morning.
The fighting forces of the United States at the present time are fifty per cent larger than any other military force ever raised by this country.
The Du Pont powder plant is nearly out of coal and will have to close down if no more can be secured. Other powder plants are facing the same situation.
Congress has appropriated 87,527,338,716 for war purposes in 1918. This is about fifty times as great as the amount appropriated for the War Department in 1915.
The government will spend $3,200, 600,000 for guns during the year 1918. This amount is over four times as great as the appropriation for all government expenses in 1915.
Wan Is for Dressing Rooms
The mystery of the solid brick wall
built across the east end of the men's
side of the gymnasium is solved. A section of the handball court has been cut off, and the wall is one of the sides of the new dressing rooms built
for the women.
In the first two series of training camps over 45,000 officers were commissioned from civil life. This number is about eight times as great as the number of officers in the regular army April 1.
The Dickinson County Club entertained high school seniors and alumni of the University at Ablene during the holidays. Instead of a banquet as was given last year, the club members presented the "K. U. Follies," a series of vaudeville stunts presenting various phases of school life. The "Passing Show of K. U. Girls" was one of the events of the evening. After the program Permanent Income Tax literature was distributed, About 150 were at the meeting.
Wall Is For Dressing Rooms
Play Given by Dickinson Co.
Many Changes Reported In Company M Since Arrival at Ft. Sill, Okla.
Two Kansas Companies Now Combined As Company M. 137 Infantry
Many Have Been Promoted
Men Are Now Working Under Direction of British and French Officers
In the reorganization of the National Guard the company was united with Company M of the Second Kansaz, as Company M of the 137th Infantry, Captain Jones commanding. The company now contains 238 men. Lieut. Merrill F. D. Faum is still acting as first lieutenant of the company. Lieut. Frank Elmore was transferred to the Headquarters Company. The company under the new organization has six commissioned officers, a captain, three first lieutenants, and two second lieutenants.
Many changes have been made in Company M since the arrival at Fort St. John, according to Capt. E. E. Jones, a captain of the warren on a fifteen days' sick leave.
Many of the noncommissioned officers and enlisted men have also been transferred to other branches of the service. Sergt. C. B. Eggen has been transferred to the signal corps and Sergt. L. E. Decker to the Headquarters Company. Sergt. Frank Stortz attended the second officers' training camp and is now a second lieutenant. Don Riley has received an appointment as a provisional second lieutenant and is in training at Leavenworth. Robert Manning has been transferred to the balloon section of the signal corps and is at Fort Crook, Nebraska. John W. McMurphy has been transferred to the aviation branch of the signal corps. Ewart Flank has received an appointment to West Point.
MANY OFFICERS ARE TRANSFERRED
In addition six men have received appointments to the third officers' training camp. three of these, Ford Coc, J. R. Grinstead, and Frank Sands, are university men. Sands are many at the time of his appointment.
INSTRUCTION WITH GRENADES
Must Examine Students From Jefferson County
An outbreak of spinal moningitis in McLouth, Jefferson County, has caused Dr. S. J. Crumbine, state health officer, to order an immediate examination of all Jefferson County students who spent the holidays at home.
Detailed instruction is being done by British and French officers. This includes grenade throwing and bayonet fighting. The foreign officers have charge of divisional schools for commissioned and noncommissioned officers. Men are detailed from the limited selection of positions work. Those who show superior skill are commissioned as instructors at the end of the course.
Dr. John Sundwall, of the University Health Service, said this morning that a throat examination would be made of these students early next week. They are to report to Dr. N. P. Sherwood, of the department of biobiology for their examinations. Biology teachers expected to report will be posted on the Snow Hall bulletin board Monday morning.
Death From Meningitis In McLouth Causes Precautionary Measure
Lieut. Daum attended the school for greendade throwers and was made an instructor. Sergt. Ewart Plank attended the bayonet school for noncommissioned officers, and was the first noncommissioned officer in the division to be made an instructor. Sergt. L. B. Hayes took the course in gas warfare and has been made a regimental instructor.
The superintendent of the schools at McLouth has died of spinal meningitis and there are three cases of illness. Persons in Winchester have been exposed and every precaution will be taken to prevent bringing the disease to the University.
A meeting of the University Health Service will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock where procedure in the board will be determined upon.
County Clubs Placing Permanent Income Tax Before Voters' Attention
Twenty Kansas Counties Have Clubs at University to Forward Amendment
No Additional Tax In Bill
Banquets Held at Christmas Time are a Great Aid to Income Amendment
Students from more than twenty Kansas counties have organized county clubs and nearly every club gave an entertainment during the holidays. The purpose of these clubs is to interest the people of Kansas in the university and particularly to push adoption of Permanent Income Bill.
The Permanent Income amendment was passed by the last legislature and will be voted on by the people at the general election in November. The only permanent income the University has is less than $10 million, probably the smallest fixed income of any university its size in the country.
IS NO ADDITIONAL TAX
"The majority of the people think that the Permanent Income amendment will just add that much more to their taxes," said Willard Glaceo, president of the County Club Union. "The tax will not be an additional one but merely take a fraction of a mill from the regular tax and put it in a special levy to provide a permanent income for the state schools. The legislature will be given the power to levy a tax of a fraction of a mill to provide a permanent income for maintenance of all state schools. Then the schools can plan for the future on the basis of a definite income.
"As it is, plans can not be made for more than one or two years at a time because each legislature makes such appropriation as it chooses. The students must aid in informing these people who will not take the trouble to inform themselves, of what the permanent Income amendment really is."
Just before the holidays pamphlets explaining the amendment in a coneise manner were distributed to the students to take home. Mr. Glasco is now planning to have small boxes made to contain these or similar pamphlets which will be placed in every community in the state.
Van Der Vries Leaves In Feb. to Take Place In Government Service
During a Year's Leave He Wili Do Field Work for Chamber
Of Commerce
John N. Van der Vries, chairman of the department of mathematics, was appointed yesterday by the United States Chamber of Commerce a member of its field division. Professor Van der Vries has been granted a doctorate in the social sciences and will leave about February 1, for Washington, his headquarters.
Professor Van der Vries has been teaching at K. U. since 1901 and has been head of the department of mathematics since 1914. He was Douglas county chairman in the Red Cross memorial museum. He has served as lieutenant of the second battalion of the University student military organization.
The United States Chamber of Commerce has previously appointed two former K. U. faculty members to positions. Merle Thorpe, former head of the department of journalism is editor of the Nation's Business, official organ of the chamber, and J. W. Evans, assistant professor of journalism from 1915 to 1917, is an assistant on the same magazine.
"The idea of the work into which I have been called," said Professor Van Der Vries this morning, "is to bring us together and be between industries and the government.
Mischa Levitzki Comes
To K. U. Wednesday
Through his active support of the Red Cross and Liberty Loan, Professor Van der Vries was chosen to help in the chamber's work in organizing war service. He was in Washington last week, making arrangements to take up Red Cross work in France, but now will take his new position instead.
Mischa Levitzi, the young Russian pianist, will play in Robinson Gymnasium, Wednesday night, Jan. 16. This is the third of the concerts of the University Concert Course. Levitzi comes from the East where he has been proclaimed the greatest living pianist.
His tour recitals in New York City and nine recalls after his first appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tell of his success.
"Levitkii's recital will be the finest of his year's concert course and every ticket holder should attend," Dean Harold Butler, this morning.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Lorin Dewall, Marcus Hanna, and Ralph Rodkey, cross country men, are having a hair pin contest. The cross country team practices each afternoon after the girls gym classes use the track and the floor is covered with hair pins of all descriptions. So large have their collections become that their track suits are completely covered with pins.
The reason one K. U. woman has foreworsen writing to soldiers who advertise in the papers for "someone to write to them as they are lonesome." The following is the ending of a specimen she received from Hawaii: Well, Grace i think i could lern to love you, and now i will tell you what kind of a looking fellow i am. 5 feet 5 tall blue eyes, lite hair 23 years, old, and i Live in pennsylvania and i am for sale to so write and let me know if you Could love me. well Dear, i will have to cloak this time for i Have to go on guard Now So i will cloak.
One senior woman has solved the problem of war conservation in writing to her soldier friends. Her mailing list includes six names and it would be impossible for a busy senior to write six individual letters a week. Instead of doing this she writes one form letter and makes carbon copies of it and sends it to all of them.
Found in a knitting bag; one unfinished wristlet with four steel knitting needles, one unfinished scarf with two bone needles, two bails of yarn, fountain pen, pencil, a Kansan, a text book, a note book, pocketbook, powder puff, looking glass, and a box of cough drops.
Conference at Topeka To Consider Problems Brought About by War
Chancellor Strong and Dean Kelly Put on List of Speakers
The Kansas State Council of Defense in co-operation with the Council of National Defense will conduct a War Conference in Topeka, Thursday and Friday of next week. F. R. Hamilton, Director of the University Extension Division, is a member of the speakers' bureau in charge of the conference. Chancellor Strong and Dean F. J. Kelly are to give speeches at the conference.
Training of the national army, camp activities, food and fuel administration, price fixing, readjustments in education, Red Cross, and other important subjects will be discussed by who have been active in each subject.
The Kansas War Conference is one of the conferences to be held in five different states next week. All of these meetings will be held in conjunction with the Council of National Defense. The time will be devoted to the training of readjustments from normal conditions which are necessary in war times.
Invitations have ben issued to the mayors of every city in Kansas and to the leading business men of the Kansas towns, as well as those who have places on the daily program.
Authorities Set Time Limit For Vaccination As Monday, January 21
The delegates and visiting guests will register at Memorial Hall in Topeka. The conference is expected to further interest in war activities over the state. Patriotic music will be furnished by Washburn College, under the direction of Dean Horace Whitehouse.
The Commerce Club will meet at the Beta house, Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Students Must Show Certificates of Immunity Before They May Enter Class
One Case Reported On Hill
Monday
But Eight Persons Have Developed Measles Here Since Monday
The time limit for vaccination for smallpox of all students in the University of Kansas as well as all faculty members and employees has been set for Monday, January 21 by Dr. John Sundwall, head of the University Health Service. This will give all a week in which to become vaccinated or prove that they have had the disease or have been vaccinated within the last five years.
"The University Hospital will be open to vaccinate men on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 9 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon," said Doctor Sundwall this afternoon. "Women at the University will report at these same hours on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."
Before students may be admitted to classes Monday, January 21, they must present a certificate that they have been vaccinated or have had the disease, according to Doctor Sund-wall. All in the employment of K. U. will have to follow the same regulations except that they must give their certificate to the University Health Service.
LENIENCY URGED
Although many students believe that this vaccination will make them ill the week that they will have to study for examinations, Doctor Sundwall thinks the majority of them will come through in good condition. He considers it the wistest thing to do to set the time limit at January 21. He also believes that professors should be appealed to to deal leniently with students in view of the fact that they may be too ill to study. The time limit has been set so early, Doctor Sundwall says because he believes the school should deal with the situation strenuously at the start.
ONLY ONE CASE AT K. U.
There is only one case of smallpox among University students. The hospital authorities reported this morning that Andrew Sheppel, 1222 Mississippi street, has been quarantined for smallpox. There is no epidemic of small-pox in Lawrence or in the university, but the State Board of Health has made the vaccination ruling as a necessary precaution against an epidemic, say the health authorities.
There is a real epidemic of measles in the University, Doctor Sundwall says, there being eight cases reported among K. U. students from Monday until yesterday. Practically the whole University has been exposed he says, but most of the cases are light, some being sick and some being merely confined to their roms. He advises every student to report to the hospital at once upon the slightest indication of disease.
Because the University Hospital is crowded, some of the students having measles are confined at their homes.
The increase in the number of men going to war is shown by the latest figures of the stars in the service flags of the fraternities. Some of the numbers are compiled only from the men who have gone in the last two years, while other flags include those who have gone from the fraternity as a whole. The list follows: Angola, 28; Taipei, 28; Kappa Sigma, 31; Phi Delta Theta, 46; Phi Gamma Delta, 68; Phi Kappa Pai, 61; Phi Kappa Alpha, 31; Sigma Kappa Epsilon, 35; Sigma Chi, 50; Sigma Nau, 47.
Service Flag Figures
Miss Cora Reynolds, instructor in voice in the School of Fine Arts, who has been unable to meet her classes for several days because of an attack of bronchitis, has resumed her work.
The Commerce Club will meet at the are taken Monday at 12 o'clock at quires' Studio.
Military drill cuts will not be made up to night, but the class will meet onday night, at 7 o'clock.
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