UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 66.
Junior Prom, Social Event of Week, To Be Big Wartime Party
Class Party This Year to Con form to Economical Lines— No Cabs or Flowers
Decorations Are Patriotic
American Flags Will Wave With Those of Allied Nations
The week's social calendar has one red letter day for this week—it is Friday, January 11, the date of the Junior Prom. In former years the acre mention of the Junior Prom lled up vivid pictures of dress aits, flowers and whatnot. But this the Prom is to be a war-time paranaged on the lines of rigid eco- yet not without every essential big party from music to good enailment.
aymond Hemphill and Warren oldy have been busy during the istmas holidays attending to the ails of the big class entertainment. the first time the Gym will be a or red, white and blue draperies. the flags will wave with those he Alles and batting will hide the 's.
je programs, too, have their touch
je patriotic idea, with red and blue
ring on, a background of white.
of the features that tend to make
je
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1918.
away with. Even the grand
thus has been dispensed with but the
weer will start at 8:30 o'clock.
Boy's eight-piece orchestra will
at the party, the occasion being
carewell appearance of "Doc" Bly,
the soulful violinist, who has
were at many big social events at
U. He is to report at once for ser-
in the army. Corti, the saxophon-who needs no introduction to K. U.s., is also on the program.
rinkle Leads Cavalry Night With Bandits
Student of 1916, Now M Captain, Cleans Up Border Mexicans
buster A. Sprinkle, who commenced the detachment of cavalry at I. pursuit of Mexican bandits, who raided Marfa, Texas, on Christmas day, was known for his excellent University from 1914 to 1916. He bennil military work while attending the came a second lieutenant in Company M, the K. U. National Guard unit, while it was on the border.
After the company was mustered out, Sprinkle took the provisional examination, and received a commission as second lieutenant after taking the three months course at Fort Leavenworth. He was promoted to first lieutenant last April and to captain in August.
Captain Springle and his men chased the bandits ten miles into the mountains and succeeded in killing eighteen and wounding twenty. No American casualties were reported. It is thought that possibly the raid on Marfa was inspired by Germans.
Sprague Called To Capital For Food Work
Miss Elizabeth Sprague, who is head of the department of home economics in the University, received an appointment to do work on the government food conservation movement under Herbert Hoover.
Miss Sprague held classes in food conservation at K. U. last summer and during the time she worked out a recipe for war bread which has been generally successful. She is the woman from the faculty to be fed into the government service. Miss Sprague will be gone three or months.
K. U. Man Bayonet Instructor
wart Plank who is at Fort Sill,
i., was promoted to divisional in-
or of bayonet, after he had at-
l a course in bayonet under two
sh army officers. Plank was a
amore at K. U. last year and was
Company M, the K. U. unit of the
ansas National Guards.
An examination for the removal of conditions in Biochemistry 50 (Medical 'hysiological Chemistry) will be held a Room 205, Chemistry Building on January 12th at 10 o'clock.
Olcott Coaches Navy Five
Herman Olcott, who left his work as coach of the football team in mid-season to coach in athletic work at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., is now coaching the basket ball team of the sailors there. He was also one of the coaches of the Naval football team which played the Camp Funston team at Kansas City last fall. His basket ball five promises to be one of the best in the country and has already defended several of the best college teams.
Kansas School Heads
To Meet In Topeka
The Association of Kansas Colleges, of which Chancellor Frank Strong is president, will meet tomorrow in Topeka to discuss the effect of the war curriculum, teaching staff, and the first college the colleges and universities of Kansas.
Four important addresses at the meeting will be those of President W. A. Brandenburg, of the Pittsburg Manual Training Normal, Acting dean J. T. Wilard of the Kansas State Agricultural President S. E. P. Price of Ottawa University, and clinician Strong on the "War League of American Colleges."
The War Here and Over There
There are now 38,000,000 men in the armies of the warring nations.
A shortage of food is reported by England, France, and Italy. England has recently adopted compulsory rationing and in France bread rations have been cut to seven ounces a day.
Peace negotiations between Russia and the Teutonic powers have been temporarily suspended because the Russians demanded that the seat of negotiations be transferred from German great headquarters at Brest-Litovsk to Stockholm.
Lieut. M. F. Daum, of Company M was one of the fifteen men who graduated as an instructor in grenade throwing at the divisional school for officers at Camp Doniphan.
Sergeant Ewart Plank of Company M, who recently received an appointment to West Point, is now on leave of absence and will go to Fort Leavenworth in a few days to prepare for the entrance examination.
Herbert Corey, a special correspondent, writing from Berne, Switzerland, says that all men in Germany over eighteen years old are in the fighting lines. Boys of sixteen and a half years are 'being taken from their homes and schools and sent to' the training camps.
Conferences are being held under the auspices of the Surgeon General to consider caring for American soldiers who may be returned to America unfit for further service. The plan includes mentation and education, intending to make the soldier fit for a self-supporting civilian life.
J. R. Potts of Holtville, Cal., who was saved from death by pneumonia by soldiers who found him in a dying condition on the Apache Indian reservation in 1889 has sent a check of fifty dollars to President Wilson instructions to use it for the soldiers' rescuers and is usual that President Wilson sent the money to General Pershing to be used for the men in France.
The Great Lakes Naval Training Station has 25,879 recruits, the largest number of Jackies ever gathered under a single command for instruction. Four thousand of these have arrived in the last three days.
Will This Win The War?
He is a professor here at the University. The other day he dismissed his class and left the lights burning in the classroom. He was the last class held in the room that day and the teacher filled till the night watched turned them off until evening. He knew that fuel was necessary to generate electricity, and that coal was scarce, but he didn't stop to think of that. Which side is he helping in the great war?
A special section for the County Club Union will probably be made in the Jayhawker if the present plans of Manager Jap Glaco materialize. Glasco plans to have a picture of each county club and a short synopsis of its work accomplished due the year. There are 105 counties.
Club Pictures in Annual
Kansans Will Speak At State War Meeting In Topeka Next Week
Chancellor Strong And Dear Kelly Are On Program Of Council Of Defense
The University of Kansas, will be represented by several of its faculty on the program of the Kansas War Conference at Topaoka Janua'r 17 and 18. The conference will be conducted by the Kansas State Council of Defense in cooperation with the Council of National Defense.
Director F. R. Hamilton of the University Extension Division is a member of the speakers bureau which has charge of the conference.
Chancellor Frank Strong will speak Friday night on "Readjustments in Education to Meet War Emergencies" Dean, F. J. Kelly will talk on "Meeting the War-Time Demand for Teachers."
Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, will speak Thursday night, and at the same meeting Sir Frederick E. Smith, Attorney-general of Great Britain will speak.
K. U. Band Displays New Service Flag at Concert
The K. U. Military Band now has a service flag with thirty-two stars in it. The flag was displayed last night for their annual fall concert and J. C. McCain added this morning for Rosco J. Robinson, who has enlisted in the Medical Reserve and Hugh A. Grutzmacher, now in the Balloon Service in New York.
The flag will be displayed in the glass bulletin board in Fraser Hall after this morning. Former band members are now in almost all branches of the service. Capt. Frank E. Jones and three others are in the infantry, three are in the artillery service, five in the Great Lakes Navy Barracks and one in aviation service, one in the hospital corps, one in sanitary corps and seven others are in service but the branch is unknown. Mr. McCanles says stars will be added to the flag from time to time as members enlist.
K. U. Graduate Speaks To Electrical Engineers
Martin K. Thomen, e12, of Toledo, Ohio, visited December 20, in the Engineering School and talked to the upperclassman of the electrical department in regard to positions for the men who will be graduated next spring. Mr. Thomen is a representative of the H. L. Doherty interests and training for prospective graduates to take positions with his company.
After graduating from the University, Mr. Thomen was employed by the Doherty Interests and was stationed with the Denver Gas and Electrical Company. He is now stationed at Toledo in charge of a transmission distribution department.
Jewel County Club Banquet "Dutch" Wedell, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., was the principal speaker at the third annual banquet of the Jewel County Club of the University of Kansas given at Manka-tou during the vacation for University and high school students of the county. Wedell attempted to interest the high school students and rural teachers in the work and ideals of K. U. Nearly 100 attended.
I take this opportunity of welcoming the students back to the University, and wishing them a happy and prosperous New Year. I sincerely trust that we may give very serious attention to our University work despite the unusual and difficult circumstances surrounding us. The obligations of the times lie heavily upon both teachers and students and call for unusual seriousness and devotion in order to remain here, may measure up in some degree to the sacrifices others are called on to make.
Trine Latta, c14, spent Sunday and Monday at the Alpha Chi Omega house, on her way to resume her work as instructor in chemistry in Stephens College, Columbia, Mo.
Jewel County Club Banquet
To the University Kansan;
FRANK STRONG. Chancellor.
Date For Senior Prints Extended to January 19 Work Must Be Pushed
Delay on Seniors Makes Speed On Book Imperative, Editors Say
Work on the Jayhawk. *r* must be pushed with the most speed possible from now on, the annual editors said this morning, due to some delay in getting senior pictures in before the holidays and because engravers and printers are becoming insistent in their demands for more material.
Because of the inability of all seniors to get their pictures taken and the points turned in before Christmas the final date for acceptance of pictures has been extended to Saturday, January 19. This should give ample time, and believe for all seniors to get their pictures in the hands of the annual men.
Posters were up in the University buildings today announcing the final date for senior pictures. Organization prints are wanted as soon as possible and a campaign will be started at once for junior and sophomore pictures. These sections are to be made large ones this year because of the fact that many students are not certain that they will be in school next year, even should war conditions next year permit the publishing of an annual. Junior and sophomore dues this year will be reduced to $1, fifty cents less than last year's rate.
A meeting of the Jayhawker board will be held soon, it was announced, and the details of the work will be discussed and outlined there.
Phi Alpha Delta Has Thirty-one in Service
The Phi Alpha Delta, law fraternity,
has thirty-one men in active service.
Out of this number twenty are comm-
issioned officers; seven are first
lieutenants and thirteen are second
lieutenants.
Of the remaining number, one is a regiment-major, one is in the balloon service, one in the quartz master department, three are ap artice scenemone is in the third officer's training camp and the others are filling the rank and file of Uncle Snoopy' fighters. Lieu J. P. Flom went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces that were taken from the first officer's training camp.
Lieut. Sam Pickard Home On Leave Fm Ft. Worth
A most common way to announce a visit to the home of his "best girl" is to fly low and knock a few bricks off the chimney with one wing of his plane before landing, says Lieut. Sam Pickard of the U. S. aerial corps, who is in Lawrence for a short furlough. Pickard is a former K. U. man and has been training in Canada and at Fort Worth, Texas.
Leuttenant Pickard is in the division at Fort Worth which has some of the most skilled birdmen of the United States. Among them is Captain Vernon Cole. Pickard has several snaps on his body and he has had the experience of being lost in the clouds for a considerable time and of being forced to land while flying over a town when the only available space was a narrow street where he had to run the wheel one side of his machine over the curb.
Sororities To Have Bible Study Classes
Bible groups will be formed in all sororities on the Hill for the purpose of Bible study during the second session. The study will be a meeting of sorority representatives last week. The study will be conducted by leaders chosen by the girls. The groups will meet at each chapter period for twelve consecutive weeks.
Leaders will be chosen, and plans for courses of study will be made in the fraternity meetings. Each sorority will take up the particular study which it most desires, and will have a leader selected from its members or from its friends among Lawrence women.
K U Prof. on Tribune Staff
Herbert Flint, who has been working on the New York Tribune during the past year, visited with friends in Lawrence during the Christmas vacation. Mr. Flint was on the daily shift, but now is working on the Sunday edition equally. He was formerly an instructor of rhetoric at the Univer-
BULLETIN
Frozen Experiment Causes Near Panic In Laboratory
A chemical experiment, performed before the holidays, resulted in a fire scare in the journalism building this afternoon. Water and phosphorus which had frozen in a glass tube, burst and the union of oxygen and phosphorus filled the physiology laboratory with smoke.
No damage was done other than breaking the apparatus. The University and the Lawrence fire departments were called. University students who were helping to put out the supposed fire narrowly escaped being overcome by the phosphorus fumes.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The Glory of College Life
The Glory of College Life
It's great to be a student
And be boning for a quiz
In a subject you flunked last year.
And have the landlady's
High school daughter
Holding a birthday party
Downstairs.
You sit and listen to a colored guy
Play rotten jazz music,
and hear
From the throats of a dozen
Of the little sisters downstairs
Yells that make you think
Satan is抱着 them by turn.
Under the fifth rib
With his five-pointed spear,
The thought does you good,
For you hope that he is.
Then the music stops. You're glad
Then the music stops.
You're glad.
But you wish it would
Start again
So you couldn't hear
The noise they make
When they run upstairs.
Your roomie curses earnestly
And lies down on the bed,
And you try to prove
Another theorem.
Then they go downstairs with a no
That sounds like the drayman
Putting coal in the collar.
They open the door and go
Outside.
The noise they make
Sounds like a pack of wolves
Just under your window,
You wish they were wolves
So you could take a gun
And go out and do some shooting,
Durn, but it's great to go
To college.
isn't it strange that after a Yellow has been home on his vacation having the time of his life that the first thing he does when he comes back to school is to call up some girl for date.
Every night the freshmen of a local sorority are sent down and made to study around the dining room table. An austere upperclassman sits at the head of the table and insists on silence and stodiousness. The other night, a freshman brought her gum with her, and chewed and chewed. Suddenly she had a thought.
"Dorothy," she asked, "Am I chew ing too loud?"
A junior's pipe dream: To take Mrs. Vernon Castle to the Prom and start with the music and show the boys how it's done.
Speaking of conservation, there is a man here in Lawrence whose ingenuity puts German economists in the wasteful class. R. O. Burgert, whose little shoe shop next to the City Park has mended scores of run-over "Hill" heels and "holey" soles, is making some new and handsome swapper shoes that are soldered except for a small heel at the center, and are considerably heavier than the wood or leather sticks which are on the market.
Only ouds and ends of leather and odds and ends of time are used in making them, so it isn't at all odd that the stick may be considered a conservation. By sticking together the two ends of the stick, Burtis' bugle is able to produce the quintessence of smart accessories, the "swagger stick."
Send Candy to Co. M
University Students Not Required to Take Smallpox Vaccination
Seventy-five pounds of candy was sent to Co. M., by the University home economics, in the Christmas car for Camp Doniphan. The candy was made by the women of the department in which less than 50 per cent of sugar was used, syrups being substituted whenever possible. A box of candy was sent to each squad. Each box contained a variety of candy.
But University Health Saucee
Urges All To Take A NgQ
Precaution
City Epidemic Possible
Douglas County Health Officers Would Include University As In Health Order
University students and faculty members will not have to be vaccinated for smallpox along with students in the Lawrence grade and high schools, according to Dr. John Sundwall, who said this morning the University Health Service has received no word that they must.
Upon orders from Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, all students, faculty members, and janitors of the Lawrence city schools were required to be vaccinated by today or to prove that had been vaccinated within five years, their courses were taken because of the fear that a smallpox epidemic would break out in Lawrence.
Dr. J. C. Rudolph, Douglas County health officer, interpreted his orders from the state to pertain to all students in the city, including University students.
"Smallpox vaccination will not we compulsory among K. U. students unless an epidemic becomes imminent," said Doctor Sundwall this morning, "but we urge everybody who is not already immune from the disease to take vaccination immediately. There are no cases of smallpox at the Uni Lawrence Hospital but several among Lawrence should be strictly willed. If one feels he should report at the hospital for examination, so that any threatened outbreak of smallpox may be checked."
Students may be vaccinated any day at the University Hospital, 1309 Louisiana street.
Committee Announces Subject of Bryan Essay
Students Will Write On "Freedom of Speech and Press"
The subject of the William J. Brigan prize essay this year will be "Freedom of Speech and the Press in W. Time," according to an announcemeate by the College committee, Pursons Holder, Hollows, and Dykstra.
The income from $250 which was presented to the University by Mr. Bryan in 1898 is used for each alternate year as a prize for the University students, thus stressing the principles which underlie our form of government. The prize will be conferred next spring at commencement and will amount to about $750. Details of the contest as to length of time other things will be announced later.
The prize was awarded last in 1916 to Lenora Misse, a sophomore in the college, for an essay on the "Cost of Preparedness."
Red Cross "Home Service"
University students are being sought as leaders for the "Home Service", the most recently planned work of the American Red Cross. The main purposes of the service are to provide meals in service and to aid in the reconstruction period after the war. A chapter has been organized in Topeka.
Precautions are Urged
Authorities at the University hospital urge all students who have symptoms of any disease to notify the hospital at once so that every precaution can be taken for preventing an epidemic. Tonsilitis, which was at first feared would become widespread, has appeared in only a few cases. The measles cases also are growing much fewer.
Engineering students eligible for temporary exemption should hand their names to Prof. G. C Shaad, acting head of the School of Engineering before noon tomorrow (Tuesday) as the applications must be in Washington before January 15. He leaves for Washington Wednesday morning.