UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 41.
Military Drill Takes On Organized Form After First Week
Work on Machine Guns Begins Today—Order 500 Practice Rifles
Military Lecture Today
Affairs in military circles have begun to shape themselves into regular routine order, after the close of the first week of military drill at the University. The transfer for noncommissioned officers to other companies than those in the Navy is practically completed, and these men are now becoming acquainted with members of their company.
Plans for Studying Manual and Making Up Absences Announced
with the opening of the second week of drill, plans of the military drill committee for next week, have been announced. An order for 500 practice rifles was turned over to the U.S. Army on making guns banned today and every week guns will be turned out and put into use. The guns are to resemble closely the real army rifle. Fifty-six rifles which were used last year are being being unpacked today and will probably be put into immediate use.
FIRST LECTURE THIS AFTERNOON
FIRST LECTURE THIS AFTERNOON
The first military lecture of the year given by Dr. John Sundwall this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Fraser Hall. Officers in charge of their companies will march in order to Fraser Hall.
MUST MAKE UP ABSENCES
It was announced today that the first study of the military manual will be held Thursday afternoon. Each company will be invited to provide information on plans for the Thursday afternoon meeting, will be posted immediately.
MUST MAKE USE OF ASSEMBLE
Beginning this week, military drill will have to be made up. According to Col. E. M. Briggs, men who were absent last week will be excused as many of the absences were on account of changes in conference or study periods. The absence is made up every Friday evening at 7 o'clock. "It does not matter if the hour does conflict with something else on the students schedule," said Col. Briggs today. "If the student is absent during the morning drill Friday night." Colonel Briggs said that all Friday's absences are made up on the following Friday.
All members of the faculty who wish to drill with the students can do is they wish. As no definite plan for faculty drill has yet been arranged, several members of the faculty are so anxious to begin the work, that student companies have been thrown open to them for the present.
Eight Petitions Started For W. A. A. Offices
All Classes Represented But Freshmen—Election November 23
vember 23
Petitions are being circulated for the following for officers of the Women's Athletic Association: Dorothy Tucker, c'18; for president; Ruth Endacott, c'18; manager; Carol Martin, c'19; secretary-treasurer; Dorothy Queufrel, c'18, senior representative; Dorothy Querfeld, c'18, junior representative; Helen Wagstaff, c'19, junior representative, and Doris Drought, c'20, sonhomore representative.
Freshman women are urged to circulate petitions at once, since all petitions must be handed in next Tuesday. Each petition must be signed by fifteen per cent of the members of the Women's Athletic Association, and must be accompanied by a fifty cent fee.
The election of officers will be held November 23 in Robinson Gymnasium.
"Homecoming" Kansan Friday
It is planned to have a special eight page Homecoming Edition of the Kanan issued next Friday. It will be a combined athletic and military number. There will be a page of special dope stories, and the issue will contain some interesting cuts. Uncle Jimmy Green will also give his annual prophecy concerning the big game.
W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics, wants 100 ushers for the Kansas-Nebraska football game on McCook Field Saturday afternoon. Men wishing to do the work should report at McCook Field Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 13, 1917.
Flying Is Great Sport
Says Ex- K. U. Athlete
Buck Seward, e'19, who is now one of Uncle Sams's aviators visited at the Pi Kappa Alpha house last Friday and Saturday.
Buck has been in Canada studying flying and getting ready to meet the Kaiser. The weather there is getting too cold now for flying, so his company will be taking him to Texas. Out of the twenty-five in the company seven are K. U. men. He says that flying is the finest sport in the world and talks unconcernedly of soaring 11,000 feet high and reaching two and a half hours at a time.
suck recently had a fall of 500 feet, but "It was only a little fall. Never hurt me much; just cracked two ribs, sprained my back and dislocated a knee." He has a furlough of three weeks at the end of which time he will report at Fort Worth, Texas, to continue his training.
Official Military Notices
1. All military drill companies will form at 4:00 P. M. on their respective parades on Tuesday of this week and regularly thereafter. First Sergentants will call the saws, said as for the drill periods. The companies will be marched as promptly as possible, by companies, to Fraser chapel for the regular lecture period. This includes upper classmen as well as lower classmen. All men of company will write this lecture period at 4:00 on Tuesday as well as the section period on Thursday (11:00; 2:00; 4:00, or 5:00, according to the Company drill period). Rolls will be called on Thursdays, however, by section leaders, and Company formations will be disillus-
2. All men of the Regiment are directed to watch the bulletin board
E. M. Briggs, Commanding
A. Changes and transfers in commissioned and non-commissioned
1. Maj. H. T. Hill is hereby re-
lained as major of the Third Bat
Tatler.
2. F J. Kelley is hereby appo-
visioned for the third Battalion
vice Hill, relieved.
3. J. G. Brandt is hereby appointed First Lieutenant on the tactical staff and assigned as Adjutant of the Third Battalion.
4. The following commissioned
other companies transferred to other
companies as follows:
Captain Swingle from A Co. to D Co.
Lieutenant VanderSchmidt from C
*a.* to *I*. Co.
Lieutenant Jones from K Co. to Co.
Lieutenant Shanton from I Co. to C Co.
Lieutenant Harris from L Co. to K Co.
Lieutenant Sorgatz from A Co. to I. Co.
Lieutenant Akers from B Co. tc D Co.
5. (a) Lieutenant Kirkpatrick is advanced from Second Lieutenant to be First Lieutenant and transferred from L. Co. to D. Co.
(b) Sergeant Hunter is relieved
for First Sergeant of B Co., appointed
as Second Lieutenant and assigned
to B Co.
6. (a) First Sergeant Fogarty is transferred from A Co. to L Co.
First Sergeant Johnson is transferred from -L Co. to A Co.
(b) Sergeant Hill (R.V.) is ap-
pired. First Sergeant and trans-
formed.
First Sergent Johnson is transferred from L Co. to A Co.
(c) Private John Dyer, is ap-
pointing in 7. (a) Sergeant A. J. Smith
and 8.
(b) Corporal Wilhelmy is transferred from B Co to C Co.
Sergeant Olin Paul is transferred from C Co. to D Co.
Corporal Halpin is transferred from G. Co to B. Co.
Sergeant R. R. Nelson is transferred from B Co. to I Co.
transferred from B Co. to C Co.
Corporal Stewart is transferred from
Corporal Hangen is transferrer from G. Co to I. Co.
( 2 ) Sergent A. B. Blair transferred from A Co. to F Co.
Hay Wheeler, Roy Kitchen, E. B Miller, J. C. Holmes, G. A. Ross.
Corporal C. H. Little is transferred from G C. to D C.
8. The following new appointments are made:
Melbourne Sinnard assigned to Co.
H. J. Gish assigned to F Co.
Clarence Gorrill assigned to A Co
Paul Schmidt assigned to C Co.
Lawrence Lamb assigned to B Co
K. W. Egan assigned to D Co.
E. F. Hudson assigned to A Co.
J. W. Clark assigned to D Co.
B. They will be respected an
B. They will be respected and obeyed accordingly.
obeyed accordingly.
By order of E. M. Briggs.
National Committee Asks $11,000 from K. U. For Y.M.War Work
Big Campaign Will Start At Convocation Friday Afternoon
War Secretary Will Speak
All Organizations Will Aid In In Raising Large
Sum
Eleven thousand dollars is the quota of the University of Kansai for the War Work Finance campaign to be carried on Friday and Saturday morning of this week. The state War Work committee, which is to lead to university at the Sherwood Eddy meeting at Topka several weeks ago.
The Y. M. C. A., and the Y. W. C.
a cabinet member are the presidents of
the fraternities as sororites, both
honorary and so, the officers of
the class societies will be on the
Promotion Force for raising the $11,000
"This isn't a campaign of any organization of the University or connected with the University," said Chancellor Strong this morning. "It is an all-University campaign for the support of an undertaking that taxes the world has—the carpool for soldiers in camps in their less moments."
ALL-UNIVERSITY CAMPAIGN
Harry White, of the International Y. M. C. A. committee will speak at an all-University convocation Friday afternoon in Robinson Gymnasium of the vast amount of money needed for carrying on the work in prison camps and concentration camps. White has been in Y. M. C. A. service front and is well equipped to tell students of the conditions "Over There."
SCHOOLS OVERSUBSCRIBED
Reports have come into state headquarters at Topeka that many schools have oversubscribes, their quotas. Small colleges of not more than two hundred students have subscribed in some cases $10 and more per capita.
Chancellor Strong is in charge of general arrangements of the campaign. The campaign will last Friday and Saturday morning.
Students in the University have been urged to follow the original plan of the international committee that arranged the Y. M. C. A. war work campaign for better camp conditions for our troops. This committee said that it desired all college students University students to take part in their own separate campaign and not in the general one. Following this plan, K. U. students will lend all of their energies to the University campaign.
Yarns and Cob-pipes Will Feature Annual Senior-Alumni Smoker
Smoker Will Be Given Friday
Night Before Nebraska
The third annual senior-alumni smoker will be held at the Merchant's Association club rooms Friday night at 7 o'clock. Every senior and alumnus is invited to attend and meet old friends and make new ones.
Game
The members of the committee managing the smoker are John Shreve, chairman; John Dyer, Linda Anderson, Francis Martin, Russell Sanders. The average attendance for the last two years has been about 500 men.
Two cases of tuberculosis have been discovered among the students by the University hospital this fall. Both patients have been sent to sanitariums. Infectious diseases such as these are a menceance to the most urgent health, acclimatization and the hospital visits should be reported at once. Students with heavy colds and coughs should be most careful, lest more serious illness follow.
Talks by Chancellor Strong, Uncle Jimmy Green, Vice-Chancellor Burdick, Thomas Sweney, president of the Merchants' Association; Prof. H. Friedman, Chairman, Speaking and Coach W. O. Hamilton will make up a part of the program.
Students Must Watch Colds
Yarns by old Grads will be a big feature in the entertainment of the evening. A barber shop quartette and a quartette of Ukes and steel guitars will furnish music. There will be refreshments and a good fast boxing bout by some local talent. Cobham may also have a committee promises to have plenty of tobacco on hand for the occasion.
Many Students Complain That Drill Is Working Unexpected Hardships
Working Students Deprived Of Time Necessary to Earn Living
May Have To Leave School
Medics and Engineers Now Work Far Into The World
That five hours of military drill is imposing severe hardships on students, especially on those who are working, is the belief of many students. Several men fear they must be pressed hard for time, and others are pressured hard for time.
Students of the Schools of Engineering and Medicine say they feel keenly the injustice of the new restrictions. All engineers take as many as seventeen or eighteen and one-half hours of school work, and the rest of their day is taxing their capacity for work. Five members of this school have definitely said that they will be forced to leave school if they must continue to take the full amount of compulsory exercise. One of these intends to petition for fewer hours in these classes. These men are relying on outside work for their support and do not now find time for this work.
MEDICS COMPLAIN MOST
Classwork for the medics embraces all the hours between 8 o'clock in the morning till 5 in the evening, with one hour off for lunch. They must need drill from 5 to 6, and thus their time is taken up until supper. In order to study their lessons, they report that they have to stay up far into the night. One student placed himself on a bed. Some say that six and one-half hours of sleep is all they may be sure of getting.
Other schools are likewise rushed for time, according to representative members of each. Here, as before, those who do outside work complain most heyewhenth. Some are working four or five hours a day, and in order to do their school work properly, they allege that they must sacrifice one of these hours for drill thus making them stay at the University. A few of such students have not been reporting for exercise, but feel they must account for their absence or enroll in drill soon.
CLASSES HELD OVERTIME
Military drill classes have not been closing on time, according to reports, and students are protesting against what they call a needless waste of time. They feel they are sacrificing enough time for drill with the 50 minutes for which they enrolled, and do not like the idea of being in the presence of men enrolled in the 4 o'clock military drill company get to the gymnasium a quarter or half an hour ahead of time, or are there all the three o'clock period.
Student opinion in general hold that drill is proper and a good thing for the University. The majority however agree that there is nothing that seem as possible it could be revised and remedied as not t handicap us in getting our education
Work Finally Started On Second Wing Of Ad
New Section to House Offices Foreign Language and Fine Arts
Actual work on the Administration Building has started. Teamsters are hauling material for the construction of the building. The contract calls for the completion of the work by July 1, 1919.
The west wing of the new Administration Building will contain the foreign language departments, and the middle section will be used for class rooms, offices, and music classes; accustomed students will occupy the departments which now occupy the east wing of the building will continue to do so.
When the language classes leave Fraser Hall the College will expand its curriculum and offer more opportunities.
The large class rooms in the center section of the new building will make it possible for two classes in the same department to assemble for the opening door of the new sections of the building wpt be finished until needed.
Professor Rice Ill
Prof. S. O. Rice of the department of journalism, has been kept at home several days on account of illness. He is unable to meet them but was unable to meet them today.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Professor Skilton Leaves For Cincinnati Concerts
Charles Sanford Skilton, professor of organ in the University, leaves this week for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has been invited by Dean Sidney Hurst to present a lecture of Organists to appear in the double capacity of organist and composer.
Thursday evening he will give an organ recital under the auspices of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the program consisting in part of his own compositions. Friday and Saturday nights Dean Skowenky led his Indian Band in his own Indian Composition "Two Indian Dances," which will be played by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. This concert begins the educational series to be given in Cincinnati this winter.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The Last Leaf
The Last Leaf A Freshman Pledge's Wail
I'm doggone glad to see you go.
I labored hard to rake
You on a pile with
All your brothers. While
All my brothers,
Nero-like, tapped plaintive ukes,
I burned you underneath the
Sizzling trolley wires—
Now you are gone,
I go to douse witch-hazel
On my blisters and prepare
Myself
To beat the parlor rug.
This is the way a young woman of the debating class argues: "It is much better to be interested in a football team of which your friend is a player, and not ledged in the Red Sox, the Giants, the White Sox, or any such football teams."
We have an unknown celebrity in these, our, United States. Marguerite Clark in her play, "Bab's Burglar," showing down toow this week, is in her play New Now. What do you suppose has the honor to be the owner of the pig?
A student advertises for some articles lost between the gym and the Chi O. house. Said articles described as being set with one diamond and two pears. In view of the fact of the Hooverization of board, it is plain that this group consists of couple of pears, but what the owner wants with the diamond is bevon us.
The duck season is on. But some fraternity men simply cannot hit a duck. Last week a member of the Sigma Alpha Epidaurus fraternity was detailed to go down to Potter's Lake to shoot a mud hen who was suspecting that his hen. He went aboard a boat to shoot the hen. Another fresh remained on shore.
Along came two engineering students. They paused and watched the frosh in the boat plug away with his rifle at every spot in the lake where he aligned the alleged target. Said one of the engineers, "What's the idea?"
"Whad ya mean, 'what's the idea?'"
retorted the freshman from his boat.
"That's all right," yelled the frush on shore.
"Don't let him kid you."
The engineers considered him rankly disrespectful and they paddled him. While the paddling went on the frat brother reached shore safely via the boat and beat a hasty retreat for home.
And the mud hen continued to float on the lake.
Cage-dwellers, not cave dwellers, have made their appearance in Hill society. Rabbi Wise christened them Thursday afternoon. Cage-dwellers are people who sit in the balcony of a gym behind the wire at convocations.
Dorothy Chole Elected
Kansan Editor-in-Chief
The Kansan board met recently and elected new officers to take the places of those who have held editorial positions the last month. Dorothy Cole was elected editor-in-chief to succeed Eugene Dyer, Harley Holden is news editor in Dorothy Cole's place, the secretary of the college, succeeding Mary Smith, Smith, and Mary Smith will take Alice Bowly's place as society editor.
Millard Wear has been, appointed assistant news editor to Holden. The new officers will hold their offices for a month.
Want Golf Course in Valley
Want Golf Course in Valley Next spring may find "Fore!" the watchdog of the gymnasium classes instead of the "Fours right!" providing the entreaty for under and upper supersiors. Several students and instructors have signed petitions asking that the greater part of the Valley be entered into a golf course. A little money is already on hand and it is possible the course will be in shape by spring. Walter Havekorst, president of the Student Council, believes golf may be made an alternate for gym.
Kansas Rooters Prepare For Advent of Huskers; Rally Friday Morning
Overconfidence In Jayhawker Camp Left When Nebraska Walloped Tigers
Dope Points To A Victory
Coach Bond's Men Depend On Speedy Ends to Stop Huskers
Kansas football followers are counting the days until the Jayhawk goes forth to battle the wily Cornhuskers on McCook Field Sat. August 16 in the game that will decide the championship of the Missouri Valley.
A spirit of grim determination prevailed in the camp of the Jayhawkers and while every vestige of overconfidence that may have existed was taken on Saturday when the Huskers smothered Missouri under a 52-0 score.
Students on Mount Oread have seen enough of Captain Nielsen and his men to know that they will fight to the last ditch to win.
ALL ROOTERS TO TURN OUT
Kansas rooters are preparing to turn out en masse for the game and Beerleader Rusty Friend says his dohrs will do their part toward winners. In an effort to keep the office of Manager Hamilton indicate that every seat in the rooter's section will be taken long before time for the game. Guests are being ex-posed from this section and Friend expects the rooting to be the best in years.
Friend said the big rally this week would probably be held Friday morning on the same plan used before the Missouri game last year. The student body will assemble in the gym along with the band, and there will be a number of speakers to give their opinions of the outcome of the game and work up enthusiasm. It might be any night rallies this week, according to Rudy, as Captain Nielsen believes they do more harm than good, in causing loss of sleep to the players when it is needed before the big game.
DOPE BRIGHTENS ASPECT
Those familiar with the available dope point significantly to the facts that the crippled Missouri backfield gained 106 yards against the heavy line at Kansas. The Kansas was holding the steady Oklahoma to yards gained in scrimmage. That Kansas has a pair of classy ends in Lonborg and Laslett and Cook, Shellenberg and McMahon, the trio of Nebraska speedsters, may find the going around them rather rough. The team, as well as the Aggies and Oklahoma have netted but six points again Coach Bond's men, and that Kansas, when she was without the services of some of her most valuable men, held Illinois, a "Big Ten" team, to three touchdowns and team, to another aggregation, scored the same number of touchdowns against Nebraska in mid-season.
Kansas realizes, however, that the Huskers have a powerful eleven and that the dope is in their favor, and she is preparing the warmest reception possible for the northern team's invasion of Lawrence next Saturday.
Women's Glees Club will meet toon in Fraser Chapel from 7 to 8 o'clock.
The Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesdays. Not much change in temperature.
Notice
The Chancellor would like to see the following students of the University at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon.
rine presidents of all social sororites and fraternities; and of all professional sororites and fraternities.
The presidents of the Woman's Forum, the Athletic Board, the Women's Student Government and the Men's Student Council.
All class officers and school officers.
The members of the M. M. and Y.W.C.A.cabinets and boards of directors.
The members of the Pan Hellenics.
The presidents of all honorary class organizations.
The members of the Kansan Board.
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