UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
U. S. Can Whip Kaiser But War Will Be Long, Says Baron De Orgler
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1917
Germany Is Far From Being Beaten, Former Austrian Army Officer Declares
Will Fight To Last Man
Reports of Central Powers Being Near Starvation Are Absurd, He Asserts
Baron Dr. William de Orgler, ex-captain of the Austrian Royal Dragons, will give an illustrated lecture in Fraser chapel tonight at 8 o'clock. He will show the "New York World" war pictures and a roll of films of his own.
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A picturesque figure, dressed in a Prince Albert coat, shoulders slightly rounded and hands clasped behind him, was peering intently through large spectacles at a war map of Europe on the opposite wall when a reporter stepped into the room. He turned quickly.
"You wesh to interview me? Very well, sir, sit down."
"Baron de Orgler?"
"Yees, yes," he replied enthusiastically with a distinct foreign accent, removing his tortoise shell glasses and extending his hand for a hearty shake.
The ex-captain in the Austrian army took a seat on the opposite side of the table, and nervously fingering his glasses, suspended from his neck by a wide, black cord, waited for the opening question.
"It is not a little unusual that you should be lecturing in this country in the interests of recruiting and Liberation," he said, with Germany against the Allies?
NOT IF YOU KNEW KAISER
"Not if you knew Kaiser Wilhelm as I do.
NOT IF YOU KNEW KAISER
The Austrian who for eleven years has been in the diplomatic corps of Austria, who is also one of the glasses over his dark, deep-set eyes, now twinkling eagerly, and edged closer to the table.
"Yes, I have met him on numerous diplomatic missions and personally he has a pleasing personality, but he has that automatic manner about him—you would call it superior attitude—which characterizes the entire German state," he said, which makes Germany hated by her enemies and feared by her allies."
A long distance telephone message for the baron from Kannas City informs him that he is missing.
"You will excuse me, please," he said pleasantly, after wrangling with the operator for service. The reservation opportunity to make a few notations.
DON'T KNOW U. S. IS IN WAR
"No," he continued, after concluding his telephone conversation, "the German people do not know the United States is at war with them. It is not generally known outside official circles."
"Why am I here doing this work?"
He gave his shoulders a little shrug,
pursed his lips, raised his eyebrows and then smiled suavely.
"I am doing this because I hate Germany and want to see her crushed. My country is sick of it all and does not want to fight, but she knows she must to preserve her freedom. If Austria gave up the struggle today Germany simply would absorb the territory and make it a part of Germany," he said. "It hates the government of Prussia but she is helpless."
"To be sure, America can lick Germany, but it will take a long time to do it. You must be just as good as the Germans are and they are not beaten yet by a long ways." With this the baron arose and paced nervously up and down the room as the conversation continued.
DEFEAT OF PRUSSIA MUST COME
DEFEAT OF PRUSSIA MUST COME "America has done wonders since the declaration of war, but it will be many months yet before the full force of this nation is here to fight its war and a half before the Germans are overpowered and six months more before peace terms have been negotiated.
"But the complete defeat of Prussia must come from this struggle. The American people will be fools if they make peace with the Kaiser before wiping out his autocratic system of government, and Germany will not give up as long as she has a man able to stand on the battlefield."
"Reports of Germany's acute need of supplies are lies." That country has plenty of food, oil, grains and is short only in her supply of copper. It is absurd to talk of her starving when you consider the territory at
her disposal—her own country, Austria-Hungary, Roumania, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, Persia, Belgium, part of France and quite a portion of Russia. Besides, she gets much Switzerland, Norway and Sweden.
U. S. BLINDED BY PRUSSIA
"U. S. BLANKED BY FREUSHA
"If American stands for liberty and democracy, she has her full strength into this conflict and win for the cause of democracy."
"Germany America's friend? Don't you fool yourself—she never was America's friend. The Americans were being blinded by Prussia's system of efficiency and her kultur before the war. As you would say, 'She was pulling the wool over your eyes.'"
The ex-office speaker regretfully of the collapse of the Italian defense but laid the blame at the feet of England in 1897. The Italian would be the war Italy's aid when she entered the war
The necessity of making arrangements for his illustrated lecture in Fraser chapel tonight forced the interview to a close and with all the politeness one would acquire in eleven years of dealings in diplomatic circles. Baron de Orgler picked up his cane, set his hat juntily on his head and bowed graciously as he left the room.
"Fifty Pretty Girls" To Entertain In Chorus At Hop—Other Acts Too
First Rehearsal For Big Class Party Will Be Held
Tomorrow
"Fifty Pretty Girls—Fifty—Count Em."
That's the way the billboards would read if they were used as part of the advertising of the Sophomore of Skowen, Jack Howden, Jessie Wyatt, Helen Brown and Leon Axel, have announced as part of the Hop farce this year a chorus of fifty University women. The beauty of every one of the fifty.
The farce will be held at midnight and will last about an hour. There will be no stage but the chorus and vaudulevie acts will be put on in the center of the dancing floor. The farce will be one of the big drawing cards of the class party and every effort is made to see that the choruses are sufficiently trained and that the individual acts are first class. The first rehearsal will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at the gym.
Those selected for the chorus are:
Helen Brown, Geneva Hunter, Helen
Thurston, Mary Poindexter, Genevieve
Searles, Mary Dainy, Mycle Stien,
Gertrude Shephard Jack, Marie
Kuckofer, Sarah Swartz, Ikeleen
liken, Elizabeth Samuel, Theo
Thompson, Emma Mae Rummel, Clora
Riggs, Shirley Chase, Margaret Hodgson,
Margaret Haworth, Dorothea
Engle, Rose Haworth, Agnes Gossard,
Elaine Wharton, Opal Day, Hinda
Ethel Crum, Crum McBeridge,
Eta Poland.
Hester Jackson, Nell DeHart, Mildred Paine, Helen Cook, Mary Samson, Catherine Fogarty, Irene Cutter, Agnetha Kune, Helene Kunze, Melissa Millet, Nell Mills, Hazel Cook, Geneva Cook, Dorothy Button, Lena Pitteringer, Helen Robb, Earlenne兰, Opal Holmes, Muriel Strong, Mattei Pinch; Dorothy Wiggers, Gertrude Fairchild, Rieder Seiden, Arnes Fairchilds, Madeline Riden, Gris Windsor, Nan Goff.
Railroad Officials Ask Rooters To Sign Now
Five hundred more tickets for the game have been received by Manager W. O. Hamilton and are on sale at his office in Robinson Gymnastics, with 6000 free practically all taken by mail. It is expected that more than 1000 Jayhawker rooters will attend the annual clash Saturday.
Railroad officials are asking those who are planning on going to Manhattan, to sign up for the special which leaves Lawrence at 8:40 o'clock each day. They may know how many cars are necessary to accommodate the crowd.
BULLETIN
Quill Club will meet in Fraser rest room tonight at 8 o'clock. Business meeting.
Word was received late this afternoon denying the report that Herman Olcott, head coach at the University of Kansas, has been recruited by athletics there. They say that Dr. Jr. B. Kauffman, who holds the position now, will be retained. Mr. Olcott says that he has received a call to report the arrest of a coach's vice and that he will go to serve in any capacity. He will leave for Chicago Sunday.
People Must Be Taught To Us Right Substitutes, Says Department Head
Miss Sprague Speaks Before Women's Forum On Food Conservation
American People Must Save
Department of Home Economics Experimenting on Various
Grains
"As a rule, we know more about feeding animals than we do about feeding people," said Miss Elizabeth Sprague, in her talk on "Food Conservation," before the Woman's Forum yesterday afternoon.
"Our dependence on certain foods—wheat bread for example—is largely a matter of habit," Miss Sprague continued. "There are many substitute foods to be used, but people must be educated to their use, especially when the man who said, 'I don't want to eat what I ought to; I want to eat what I'd ruther.'"
**MUST KNOW FOOD.**
"Americans people are asked to save wheat, meat, fats, and sugar.
In order to save intelligently we must know the value of foods, and be able to talk intelligently of calories, carbohydrates, etc."
MUST KNOW FOOD VALUE
"For example, we are told to use molasses as a substitute for sugar, and most persons think that a pound of the one is equal to a pound of the other. For example, if the molasses is entirely food material, while molasses is about 40 per cent water."
The Department of Home Economics has been making experiments with various grains for flour and has proved that other grains than wheat can be used. We now are to create the demand so that producers must furnish other flours.
EXPERIMENTS BEING MADE
Some members of the department are experimenting now with the use of various grains in soups and stews. The cheapest and the most palatable grains are black beans, fetitta and red kaffir corn, and the cost is slightly more than one cent a pint. Two other samples of stews which are equally as good, one consisting of lima beans, fetita, tomatate at three cents a pint, fetita, tomato made of lima beans, corn and fetita would cost six cents a pint.
DISPLAY FOODS DOWN TOWN
Miss Sprague has prepared an excellent exhibit for Wagstaff's window. The display is so arranged that it will give the equivalent food value of the foods such as meat, wheat and sugar in their substitutes.
"The three purposes of food," concluded Miss' Sprague, are first for the production of heat, and third for the production of heat, and third for the regulation of body processes."
Sour Owl Pepper Pot Will Bubble With News Of K. U. Celebrities
"Scandal" Section of Humorous Magazine Will Tell Tales at Husker Game
A Pepper Pot, brim full of interesting accounts of K. U. notables, will be the big attraction in the football issue of the Sour Owl, which is to be sold at the Nebraska-Kansas game, November 17.
The art work and feature material for the publication is being submitted in great quantities and according to the editors is creditable work. The cover design was drawn by Fred Leach and is produced in two colors. The insignia of the Owl society is placed at the top of the design and a signature from the lower corner opposite the name of the magazine.
The advertising is being whipped into shape and M. L. Peek, who is in charge of the ad. department, reports little trouble in getting the cooperation of the local merchants in the publication of the issue.
Contributors still have several days to get their material into the hands of some member of the board. Although the sections are fairly complete at present, there is some space to be filled.
A watchful staff of news-gatherers have been on the job since the beginning of the school year getting intimate little facts relative to the accident. The perusal section of the Owl will be bigger than ever before.
Final Football Rally For Fame With Aggies On Hill Tomorrow Nigh
The members of the Owl Board, the governing body in the publican- are Herbert M. Inglese Dyer, M., Peek, E. Lawson and Joe Mattr.
rep Meeting Will Start at 7:15
So All Will Be Able
To Attend
Many To Go To Manhattan
Special Train Will Leave On Union Pacific Saturday Morning
What? A football rally.
Who? Rusty Friend and his two assistants, Harold Hoover and Rex Kendall, are eager to instill some enthusiasm and "Beat the Aggies" into rooters.
When? Tomorrow night.
7:15 o'clock.
Where? Fraser Chapel.
Why? To infuse the K. U. rooters with lots of ginger and pop before they go to Manhattan.
How? By every one being at the rally, men and women, girls and boys, dates, everybody. Be there at 7:15.
"The rally promises to be a big one," said cheerleader Friend this morning, "if indications count for anything. The only way to put the right kind of spirit into the team before they leave for Aggieville is to show lots of enthusiasm at the rally tomorrow night."
There will be talks by Uncle Jimmy Green, Coach Beau Olcott, Manager W. O. Hamilton, Captain Sweede Nielsen, O. Mac McLean and his band will furnish music for the ralliers. Several old grades may be able to be at the rally to tell how they used to beat fans from Missouri to the Cornshakers.
BALLY OVER BY 8 O'CLOCK
RALLY OWNER "We've told you the rally early," said Friend, "in order that those having dates will be able to come out before making their calls. The rally will be over with by 8 o'clock." Talk on the Hill indicates at a tacit understanding that Manhattan on the special Saturday morning. Old heads say to remember what a small number of rooters were able to do at Nebraska last year and think, they say, what a large number will be able to do in defeating the
A SPECIAL TO MANHATTAN
A SPECIAL TO MASHAYAN
The special训队 for Manhattan will leave Uptown at 8:30 o'clock and start back after the victory that night at 8 o'clock with the K. U. team and rooters.
"Everybody that possible can should go to Manhattan," said one of the cheerleaders, "because there is no doubt but what the game is about." But it is by a large score if there is a big crowd of rooters pulling for our team."
An Hour of Rest For Women Who Require 16
Rest Room In Robinson Will Be Fitted Up For Women
Women at the University who are tired will have a chance to rest instead of doing compulsory exercise during the hour that they are supposed to take their daily exercise. This scheme is to be carried out with the aid of a darkened rest room in Robinson Gymnasium that will have fifteen cots to care for the women who need rest more than exercise.
Dr. Eleanor Sherbon, in charge of the medical care of women at K. U., said that this plan was being prepared for the compulsory exercise for women is to develop them in every way possible. The department feels that rest is as essential to the care of the health of women in some cases as hard exertion.
The women students who appear to need the rest cure will be placed under the care of a nurse in charge of the rest room and the regular exercise period of fifty minutes will be spent in relaxation.
The Weather
Fair tonight and Friday with rising temperature.
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Here are the names of two freshmen who are not wearing their caps:
Donald Nutt, e'21, 1609 Vermont.
Earl Pence, e'21, 945 Vermont.
Do your duty.
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War Department Desires Classes In Telegraphy
Willis H. Belz, instructor in the new wireless course, received a letter from the War Department yesterday urging the immediate start of new classes in telegraphy. Registered men are especially desired, and the office will soon be called it is desired that they get as much work as possible.
All men drafted who have had the course should report to commanders of the cantonment to which they are sent and apply for a transfer to the signal corps of the army. The physical requirements in this branch of the service differ very little from the infantry requirements except that special emphasis is placed upon hearing.
Plain Tales From The Hill
This epidemic of exercise has made me more thing for the men to carry. Yesterday one man brought his date up to the gym late in the afternoon. He was carrying a blue gym suit crushed in the crook of his elbow. And the women who have no dates to carry their suits must use those capacious knitting bags until the locker rooms are ready, we suppose.
A fair young maid not the pale weak type that we are told is to be seen on the hill, is amusing the men who work in Blake Hall each morning. At one minute before 8 o'clock they begin to pack the back of Blake two, and sometimes three, at a time, in endeavor to make Ad before roll-call.
If you wake up early enough you can hear all the buglers over the Hill rousing their houses. But there is one sounding tap instead of reverence, sounding taps instead of revelle.
The Betas aren't really having five meatless days and four wheatless days a week. That was merely a rumor. But they are realizing that people have kind hearts. Ever since the anthem of "Just Be Kind," we've been helping the cause of food conservation along so radically they have been busy accepting dinner invitations.
Squad halt! is a very useful command. The new officers last night evidently forgot it because their squads went charging over brick piles and embankments into Potter Lake. The squad drilling between the gym and Haworth Hall almost ruined our equipment, so we started right over the fence that protects the wind gauge and the official thermometer.
Sleep, not exercise, is what K. U. women need, suggests Marie Buchan-
The sleepless ones, it is said, are at 4:30 o'clock.
The Chi Omega sorority will enter tomorrow afternoon with an informa- tion for the members of the Ph Delta Theta sorority—Lawr- ence Journal-World.
Keep Your Head And Win Valley Race Says Olcott In Leaving K. U.
Mebbe so!
Coach Leaves Saturday For Great Lakes, Ill., to Direct Camp Athletics
"If the men on the present football team keep their heads in the remaining games on the K. U. schedule, they should be able to beat any team they meet this season," said Coach Herman Olcott this morning. "The team which the University has this year is a good one. It has a good defense."
Coach Olecott will leave Saturday for the Great Lakes Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., where he will direct athletics and provide coaching camp. He was given the appointment through Walter Camp, chairman of the committee to provide athletics for navy training camps in this country, and he is confident he will be made a commissioned officer.
Three coaches of the University of Kansas are now in the national service. George Poty Clark, assistant to Fort Sill coach, regularly regular army and is stationed at Camp Funston training men for the national army. Leon B. McCarty, freshman coach layy year long serviceman of Fort Sill. B. Kansas is now, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Olcott is the second Yale man to be appointed in charge of athletics at a naval training station in this country since America entered the war. Billy Bull, better known as Dr. William Bull, great Yale fulback, was appointed supervisor of athletics at the Newport Training Station at Newport, RI.
Olcott was center and guard on the famous Gordon Brown Yale team of 1900 and was on the eleven three years.
Commissions For K. U. Military Units Given Best Drillers Monday
Three Companies of Candidates Drilling Daily for Places As Officers
Men Enrolled For Drill To Report For Company Assignment First of Week
On account of the fact that no tryouts for officers' positions in the student drill companies were held this afternoon, E. Col. E. M. Briggs announced that appointments of officers to U. Department could not be made until Monday.
Each member of this unit is given a try-out as sergeant, lieutenant, and captain in one of the three companies, and it is on the basis of work done by the candidate acting in these tasks that appointments will be made.
Three companies made up of candidates for commissioned and non-commission officers have been drilling every afternoon under the supervision of Colonel Briggs and other faculty men. One company is composed entirely of men trying for commissioned offices.
MANY TO BE NON-COMS
The bulk of the students trying for non-commissioned offices will be made corporals or sergeants. There are 125 non-commissioned officers to be selected and all are showing a readiness to accept appointments. They are likely to receive appointments.
FIFTY OUT FOR COMMISSIONS
FEITY FOR COMMISSION
The are a however, fifty candidates for the ten auxiliaries and eighteen lieutenancies. Most candidates who fail to be commissioned will be offered non-commissioned offices.
Colonel Briggs has determined to name some faculty men as captains, and his staff will be their duties as soon as students are competent to fill their positions.
The tactical staff will be composed entirely of faculty men. It will consist of a colonel, lieutenant colonel, three majors and four adjutants. It it probable that next year at least the four colonel and one major will be students.
Every man enrolled for the 4 o'clock military class should go to the Robinson gymnasium Monday before the drill hour to learn his company dress code. The gymnasium assembles. Notices will be posted in the lower west hall of the gymnasium.
Medicinal Plant Garden Installed in Oklahoma U.
Authorities Adopt Plan Suggested by Dean Sayre to Board of Regents
Acting on the advice of Dean L. E. Sayre to the Board of Regents, Dean Brown of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Oklahoma has obtained permission from the authoritative plant garden in Norman, Okla.
Some time ago Dean Saye recommended that such a garden be established here, but as yet there has been no favorable action on the matter.
The plan has the endorsement of the president of the university and state authorities. Dean Brown has written to Dean Sayre for information to assist him in carrying on his work. The actual work will be in charge of the university landscape gardener.
Chem. Library Contains Old Book Dated 1760
In the last shipment of books received at the Chemistry Library there are many valuable volumes that have been obtained at reduced prices. It is the aim of Prof. F. B. Dains, chemistry librarian, to keep up with the most recent set of books, and fill up sets of historical collections.
One of the sets completed last year was a scientific journal from 1795 to 1826. The set is now in the main library. Among old books of historical interest, which Prof. Dain purchases by the year, are "Ancient Chemistry" on chemistry edited in 1802 by a professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. There is also an old chemistry dictionary published at Verdun about 1760.
There will be a masquerade and Halloween party at the Unitarian church tonight at 8 o'clock for student members of the church. Welcome.