UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 53
President Wilson Is The Man of the Hour Dean Templin Writes
K. U. Dean Finds Many Bureaus But Little Work Accomplished By Them
All Is War At Washington
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 4. 1917
100,000 More People In Wash ington—Many Khaki Uniforms
"It itse to me that the attitude towards Wilson has changed completely. He is easily the man of the hour, and there is universal defence to him."
Such is the word that Dean Olin Templin has written back to his friends at the University of Kansas and now doing organizing work in the formation of the War League of American Colleges, following the approval of his plan by George Creel, chairman of the war on public inic last week.
"It would seem now, that he can do just what he wants in Congress and the people will follow him," he says, "and how fortunate that it is so. What a mess we would have been in if it were otherwise.
"It would seem that half of the people of the nation have been here with some sort of a scheme, so that the natural attitude of everybody is just, 'Good Lord, another one?' It is going to be an exceedingly difficult thing to get a serious consideration of the scheme. I find, too, that there have been already some abortive attempts along this same line, and that fact will make it more difficult, shall feel我 will be perfectly, diligently repeated, repeatedly of course, but will not give up until I am compelled to. Of one thing I am nearly convinced and that is, that the movement should be a purely voluntary one by the institutions themselves, conducted and maintained by them.
"I can see how many have criticized the government for inefficiency but such criticism is largely unfair," he continued. "The fact simply is that in a few months we have tried to increase immune support should have been growing vigorously for twenty years but it we work at all smoothly."
"Dorad advised me not to go near the officials, but if the universities would join in, just go at it. It would seem that every inch of territory has been plastered over by one bureau or another, and then the burea has gone to sleep. There are some concrete citizens of the country in one line or another, which have never met and one of these is on University affairs.
"The they say that Washington never was so full, and it certainly looks it. This morning's paper stated that there are now 100,000 more than ever before in Washington. And the khaki is everywhere—fine-looking fellows too. There is apparently nothing but war in the minds of the people here, Tomorrow those who are willing to go to Thanksgiving dinner are to hang out a flag with a white ribbon attached and any soldier who sees it is to go in and be a member of the family for the occasion."
Home Economics Classes
Make New War Biscuits
The students of the department of home economics, under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Sprague, have discovered a new war food in making good biscuits without using any wheat flour at all. They used one-third each of rice, barley, and oats flour and the result was very satisfactory.
Many Jobs For Holidays
Last summer the members of the department experimented with warbreads. They could not buy the different kinds of flour they needed, such as oats, barley, rice, wheat, and linseed. The Chemistry Building and there with the aid of a small hand mill they made their own flour. This process of making flour was slow and difficult because the grains had to be ground and sifted several times, each time through a mesh screen. In order to make the fine of the proper fineness. Through extensive experiments they learned that to get the best results in bread making, one-fourth of any kind of flour, rice, oats, graham, alfalfa, barley, should be used in combination with white flour. If more than one-third of the quality of the bread decreases in proportion with the amount added.
Lloyd McHenry, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau, is looking for men who want work during the Christmas holidays in the City of Denver, paying good wages will be open at that time, according to McHenry.
W. A. A. To Give Dance Saturday, December 8
The first dance given by the Women's Athletic Association will be held Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 5:30 o'clock on the main floor of Robinson Gymnasium. This is the only afternoon dance that will be given by the association this year. There will be good music, and a prize will be offered for the two best workouts. Ashton, Mrs. Esterly, Miss Bertha Mix, and two members of the student body, who are to be chosen later.
There will be a floor committee of eight to see that everyone dances, and to teach those who wish to learn. Refreshments will be Hooverized, and will consist of ice-water. The small container of silver is the admission price.
The War Here and Over There
BULLETIN
President Wilson in his address to the Sixty-fifth Congress at 12:30 o'clock today urged Congress to declare war on Austria. The president asked for legislation to meet railroads and fuel industries that he declared food prices were now based on selfishness rather than on supply and demand.
He asked for more drastic laws for punishment of alien enemies, and suggested confinement to penitentiaries and enforced labor for alien enemies the same as others who commit criminal acts.
In regard to peace the president declared that any peace America makes must deliver the people of Belgium, Northern France, Austria, Hungary, the Balkans and Turkey from domination by Prussian military and commercial autocracy.
Reports from the Russian election indicate that the Bolshevik faction has
An armistice, indefinite in length between Russia and the central powers, began at 10 o'clock Sunday night.
The Germans were repulsed with heavy losses by the British in the Cambrai region yesterday.
According to General Crowder, protest marshal, men subject to the next draft may enlist until December 15. The next board will also require a certificate from their local board showing that they are not needed to ill a deferred quota of the first draft.
Total Number Per Cent Eligible Eligible
Following is a summary by classes in the University who are of print age.
Total Eligible Eligible
Freshmen .455 60 13
Sophomore 331 89 27
Junior .217 125 58
Senior 148 148 78
Graduate 31 21 68
Special .38 21 55
Total number men in University 1275
Total number draft age 464
Total number female 464
All except one of the medical students at Rosedale are of draft age. The one not subject to the draft was one day too old to register.
A meeting is called for December 5, at 4:30 o'clock at the Trophy Room in Robinson Gymnasium to discuss the organization of a faculty drill company. While faculty men are always welcome in the student companies, it is beloved when they re-organize their group to organize a special faculty company. It is planned to drill two or three times per week at an hour to be agreed upon. All who are interested are urged to come and bring their friends.
Official Military Notices
3. Drill assignment: Review School of the Squad and School of the Soldier, Take School of the Company and Order, omitting Platoon Movements.
2. the hygiene lecture, regularly,
hereafter, will be given at 4 o'clock
Thursday in Fraser chapel. All
freshmen, except non-commissioned
officers in the regiment, are required
to attend.
1. Each company will drill at its
reserve Tuesday.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Following is the program for the week December 3 to 7:
To Raise Ferns
First Official Report Ever Made of a Party At K. U. Is Announced
Tropical ferns will be grown at the University this winter in spite of the cold northern climate. The department of botany has installed a Wardian case in Snow Hall, a case designed to keep the air at a temperature of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In this, the plants will be grown.
Soph Hop Detailed Report Released by Foster Shows Balance of $11
All Expenditures Are Listed
Those Receiving Comps Figure In Report—Music and Eats Big Items
The only accurate report of a University party ever made in the history of the University of Kansas according to George O. Foster, was that of the Sophomore Hop, which was officially announced today by Mr. Foster, auditor of student activities Every University activity includes the Pre-Pride, Law Scrim and ever the Jayhawk will be financed and managed in the same way, absolutely doing away with all chance of graft according to Mr. Foster.
With a net balance of $11, it can be seen how carefully everything was figured, to give the students just what they deserved for their money.
Cash received from sate of tickets as per door check on tickets presented ...
Cash received for coupon sold and not represented by tickets at door ...
Total cash received by Auditor ...
Cash received by Auditor not accounted for by coupon or door check ...
Expenditures as follows, all expenditures being covered by regular vouchers duly receipted in regular form:
Charles K. Shofstall, mu-
Charles K. Shorsman, music...$118.4
L. W. Cazier, refund one ticket...1.5
Royal R. Ryan, for decorations.
Journalism Press, window
ards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.
Daily Kansan, display ad-
vertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.36
W. D. Harrison, porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00
C. L. Jones, porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00
Lee Inam, inn, refresh-
ments, 450 plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.00
Ecke, tables and clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.50
Gymnasium expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.00
J. A. Sterling, programs
and express charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.03
Farece expense, Howden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00
Postage used by manager
Brady on invitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.60
Envelopes for invitations,
A. G. Alrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50
Manager Brady, trip Tope-
ka, and telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.05
Journal World, tickets and
coupon printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00
Advertising Varsity Thea-
Total expense 518.33
Net balance cash in hand 11.17
Dr. Schwegler to Speak
Advertising Varsity Theater screen 4.50
The following persons presented complimentary tickets at the door:
George O. Foster,
Auditor Student Activities
Mark Adams, Lind Anderson, Eleanor Atkinson, Kenneth Bell, Herb Bennie, Marie Buchanan, E. S. Cowgar, Harold Cox, Donald Davis, Margaret Pitch, Bruce Fleming, John Fowler, Michael Doyle, Caroline Doran, L. W. Crazier, Eugene Dyer, John A. Dyer, Lucille Elmoss, Donald Good, Clarence Gorrill, F. A. Guy, Margaret Hodder, O. S. Holmes, Agatha Hoffman, Date of O. S. Homes, Rollo Howden, Geneva Joseph, Charles Kebw, Weart Ludlow, Mrs. E. R. Mackie, Jessie L. Messick, Ralph Metcalf, Mrs. Jennie Mitchell, J. N. Montieth, Harry Morgan, Edwin Patton, Mrs. Virginia Petty, Mrs. May Phillips, Elizabeth Plank, Mrs. Record, Kathy Brown, Emma Garshroer, Ryan Garshroers, H. J. Shelley, E. P. Shetton, Tim Shreve, Horace Stags, Butch Stodder, T. O. Tarrant, Theo Thompson, Warren Wattles, Theo Wedd, G. C. Wilson, Wayne Wilson Mr. William Brady, Phyllis square method in which he handed the business.
George O. Foster,
Regular meetings of the Y. W. C. A. will be held each Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and will dismiss promptly at 34,5 beginning December 11, with the Recognition service. This decision was reached at a meeting of the cabinet as this hour seemed to be the only one possible for the majority of the Schwegler meeting this week because of the joint Schwegler meeting Thursday. Dr. Schwegler will lecture on "How Do Religion and Science Correlate?"
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Ohio State University Favors Four-Term Plan In Engineering School
Other Colleges At The Colum bus, Ohio School Expected To Favor New Plan
Not to be a War Innovation
Deans of Various Departments Will Act—Board of Trustees Finally To Decide
Columbus, O., Dec. 3. (Special to the Kanan.)—Action favoring the adoption of the four-term plan for the college year at the Ohio State University has already been taken by the faculty of the College of Engineering, it is expected soon by the faculties of the other colleges in the University.
The faculty of the College of Engineering independently investigated the plan which is in use in several other universities in the country and designed to miting such a resolution to the general meeting of the faculty last month. At this meeting the resolution was referred to the administrative council, which is composed of the deans of the colleges of the University and the president.
This council will consider the resolution by asking each dean to take the matter up with the faculty of his respective college. After this consideration has been completed and the attitude of each college obtained, the council will submit a report to the general faculty which in turn will take over responsibility for the Board of Trustees and the President. Final action by the Board of Trustees in favor of the plan would result in putting it into operation.
Dean Alfred Vivian of the College of Agriculture and acting Dean Edwin F. Codington of the College of Engineering have already expressed approval of the plan. The attitude of the other deans will not be known until the report of the Administrative Council has been submitted.
According to Dean Joseph V. Denevine of the College of Arts the university authorities are not inclined to consider the plan as a war measure but to adopt or reject as a plan that would be a good one for times of peace and war. This attitude may mean that definition of proposition will be and hurried on account of the war, but will be the result of careful consideration.
Law Scrim Friday Night Will Be the Big Party of This Week
Conservative Prices at Dance In Honor Football Team as Well as Informality
as Informality
One hundred tickets will be sold at $3 a couple and can be obtained from Dick Gelvin, Raymond Hemphil, Armeine Barteldes, or Rip Brady. Those who want tickets but have not secured them yet, should so immediately, as only a few more remain to follow, according to managers of the Serim.
"Plans for the annual Law Scrim to be held in the F. A. U. Hall next Friday night have been completed and the tickets are selling fast. Only a few are left. The dancing will start at 8:30 o'clock," said Dick Gelvin, manager of the Scrim, this morning.
The Scrim is the annual formal party given in honor of the football players by the students in the School of Law. This year it will be strictly informal but the managers ensure that it will be a real party as in the past.
The Methodist Church will have a
weekend on the church Friday night.
All Methodist Church members
Miss Kathrine Duffield, secretary of the Y. W. C. A., will go to Ottawa Tuesday evening to meet with the Y. W. cabinet of the University of Ottawa. Immediately following the cabinet meeting she will sit down to work on her work in Hells' Kitchen, New York City. Wednesday morning at 10:00 o'clock. Miss Duffield will talk at a regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. on "What Present Day Service Involves." While in Ottawa Miss Duffield and his wife attended a former University student and daughter of the Reverend Mr. Powell, who was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lawrence in 1913.
Miss Duffield at Ottawa
The decoration committee has worked out an excellent decorative scheme, which will give the Hall a regular holiday appearance. Haley's 6-piece orchestra from Kansas City will furnish the music.
NOTICE
The Board of Alumni Visitors would like to see the following students of the University at a meeting in Room 206 Fraser, at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The presidents of all social sororities and fraternities, and the presidents of all professional sororites and fraternities.
The presidents of the Women's Forum, the Athletic Board, the W. S. G. A., and the Men's Student Council.
All class presidents.
The presidents of the Y. M.
C. A. and the Y. W. C. A
The editor in chief and news editor of the Daily Kansan.
The presidents of all honorary class organizations
Plain Tales From The Hill
And This One
There is another K. U. man at Domi
phan, and this one is a second *seat* II.
He was walking down the company
stairway and he met a private. The
ignorant man turned to him.
“Don’t you know enough to salute an officer?” asked the second lieutenant, “to teach you so you can forget, forget, forget up there and salute me fifty times.”
The private meekly obeyed.
But along came the major. He paused to enjoy the little scene, and when the private had carried his hand over the fence for the fiftieth time, the major spoke.
"Don't you know," said he, "that an officer has to return the salute of a private? Just so you won't forget to return the fifty salutes of the private."
And the lieutenant did the meekly obeying act.
From Fort Sill
Among the men in camp at Domphan there is a K. U. man, a sergeant. He has a large collection of photographs—photos of all the "only girls." The other day he got them all out and amused, passionately they looked fondly towards them.
Finally he burst out thunder to his
timate murder. away, crushed, he. the you
they are they are they are they are
He Did a Kind Deed
Marie Buchanan is so busy with the glee club (which has a membership of 105 this year) that she forgot to pay her journalism fee. Registrar George O. and the other powers that be issued a mandate thusly and as all students who have not paid their fees must be excluded from "classes."
Professor Flint read the announcement to his eight o'clock class and told them that he had lent her fifty cents so that she could pay the fee and return at once.
Two couples were seated at a front table in Brick's, and one of the girls was reading the movie programs for the coming week.
"Marguerite Clark in 'Mice and Men," said she, "Oh, I want to see that. But still I don't know, Mice and Men—they are all just allie. You know," she exclaimed, "we wear thirteen in our room last week."
Red Cross Will Make Drive For New Members
Every Grown Person Not In Uniform a member, Is
Goal
The War Council has requested the Red Cross Society to have a drive for new members before Christmas. Their plan is that every grown person in States not in uniform should by that time be wearing a Red Cross button.
Every person who joins the Red Cross will be given a button and each house will receive a transparent Red Cross flag with an additional cross to be placed on the flag for each member of the Red Cross in the house.
Upper Class Medics Exempted from Draft By War Department
It is hoped that on Christmas eve every house will have such a flag in the window from 7:30 until 9:00 o'clock to illuminate its colors. Church bells will be tollled and groups of young people will go about the streets singing carols. This plan will be carried out by teachers making this a Red Cross Christmas.
The manager of the state campaign in Kansas is William Allen White. J. N. Van der Vries is manager for Douglas county.
The Zoology Club will meet Tuesday, December 11, instead of tonight, at the Sigma Phi Sigma house. Prof. W. M. Koch will have charge of the program.
Medic Students Asked To Enlist In Enlisted Reserve Corps
May Enlist After Dec. 13
ward
Men Low In The Draft May Enlist In Navy After-
Students of the second, third, and fourth year classes of the School of Medicine may obtain exemption from the second selective draft. This information has been received by Chancellor Frank Strong from Provost and the War Department in response to the telegram sent last week.
The regulations governing the execution of the selective service law say that students of the three upper classes of the medical school who have not been called by a local board for physical examination may enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps as provided in the national defense act and if called by a local board may be discharged.
EXEMPT MEDICS FROM DRAFT
First year students, who have been taking the preliminary medical studies are not effected by the regulations.
The regulations also state that those students of the three upper classes of a medical school, who have been called by a local board for examination and physically exempted, and who have not been ordered to military duty, may, by application to the Surgeon General, be ordered at a time before the commission is charged immediately from the National Army for the purpose of enlisting in the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Medical Department.
The Navy Department calls special attention to the fact that many departments have been filled already, and enlistments are desired now as apprentice seamen, firemen, machinist's mates, landmasters for Quartermaster, (aviation) and landmasters for machinist's mate, (aviation.)
"A man enlisting in the army before December 15 has no chance to be anything more than a private," said Cole E. McBregg after his trip to Fort Leavenworth and to the recruiting stations in Kansas City last week to secure information for the Chancellor.
ENLISTING MEN GET CREDIT
If there are any men though who desire to enlist before the final day set, the University will see that they will not lose the credit for their semester's work. Chancellor Strong is in favor of granting degrees to those seniors who are in good standing and qualified for the subject for consideration before the University Senate at its meeting tonight.
The local boards, which execute the orders and provisions of the selective-service law, are beginning to send out questionnaires to every registrant liable for the next call. All K. U. men, whose number is far enough up on the list to be called, should be careful to ensure that all who register where the registered has his correct address. Each person is responsible for the receipt of this questionnaire and should inform filthis local board or the County Clerk immediately of his address, if there is any doubt about them not having it.
In the Red Cross Membership drive, I have been placed in charge of schools. The main object of this movement is to increase membership and get everybody who is not in the Army, enrolled as a member of the organization. The dollar fee is merely incidental to the movement. The purpose is to save away money that we are back of them, and to show Germany that, as a nation, we stand united in support of the war.
When the drive was on for the Eleven Thousand Dollar Student Loan Program, LLC was distinctly understood that no other solicitations for war funds from professors and students at the University should take place until after the students' payment. I谨诚 strictly to this tacit agreement.
Nevertheless, no one who is not now a member should be deprived the privilege of becoming one, and although no one will be solicited, if any student or professor desires to become a member, he can make application and pay the dollar membership fee at the office of Geo. O. Foster, Registrar.
F. W. Blackmar.
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