UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 29.
Whistle Monday Marks Beginning of Military Training at University
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1917.
Work on Plans Rushed On Account of New Draft Rules
All Must Enroll Tomorrow
Schedule Announced For Exercise For Both Men and Women
All necessary preparations have been made and everything is in readiness for starting military drill at the University Monday. When the whistle blows at 8 o'clock Monday morning classes will begin and will let out at 11:50 for lunch. Starting again at 1 o'clock classes will run to 4 o'clock, at which time the military drill or exercise will take place.
Every man and woman will be required to take military drill or physical exercise. Students have been enrolling today and the office has opened until noon tomorrow so that all can enroll. Physical examinations are given at the time of enrolment and wherever anyone is found physically unable to participate they will be expelled in which students must engage will be designated by the medical authorities at the time of enrollment.
DRAFT WILL GET UPPERCLASSMEN
The preparations for military training have been pushed rapidly since the changes made by the National Draft Commission in classifying the registered men into five categories: include all unmarried men between the ages of 21 and 31 who have no dependents, the majority of men will be taken from the junior and senior classes by the second draft in January; the military tactics will be valuable to the men when they go into training.
The schedule for men will be military drill offered at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. Physical exercise for men with special qualifications and inclinations—Gymnasium work at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m, and 3 p.m. Basketball running at 4 p.m. Basketball at 7 p.m. Football at 4 p.m.
**WOMEN'S work outflights**
*the women in charge of physical work for women.*
Floor work, Gymnastics and Hiking
10:00 o'clock, advanced gymnastics Monday, Wednesday and Friday;
11:00 o'clock, floor work Monday, Wednesday and Friday for freshmen;
11:00 o'clock, floor work Tuesday and Thursday for sophomores; 2:00 o'clock, floor work Monday, Wednesday and Friday for freshmen; 2:00 o'clock, floor work Tuesday and Thursday for sophomores; 3:00 o'clock, floor work Monday, Wednesday and Friday for freshmen; 3:00 o'clock, advanced gym, Tuesday and Thursday
4:00 o'clock, dancing; 4:00 o'clock hiking daily.
Sports: 11:00 o'clock, soccer Tuesday and Thursday; 2:00 o'clock, swimming, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 3:00 o'clock, swimming, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday classes are full; 4:00 o'clock, hockey, Monday and Wednesdays for sophomores principally; 4:00 o'clock, hockey, Tuesday and Thursday for freshmen principally; others may come if other days are not convenient. This is arranged to alternate with basketball, swimming, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday for freshmen; 5:00 o'clock, basketball, Tuesday and Thursday for other classes.
IDENTIFICATION CARDS NECESSARY
The enrollment cards must show
down the student's name, ID and
physical exercise and the chases will
be carried out on the five hour basis.
Professor E. M. Briggs will have charge of the military work and all work will be carried out under strict military discipline. During the first month provisional officers will have charge of the regiments and later permanent officers will be appointed. Many of the faculty members have enrolled for the training and some act as officers.
Woman's Forum to Meet Tuesday
At the weekly meeting of the Woman's Forum, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30, Miss Elizabeth Sprague of the department of home economics, will speak on "Conservation at K. U." She will discuss the many ways in which students are attempting to economize, and will tell of experiments for the economy. Ms. Hale will be carried on in the Home Economics classes. The meeting will be held in Fraser 205, where subsequent meetings will also be held.
The Weather
Tonight: Probably rain and turn-
tair; cold; color red.
Generally
Kansan Starts First College House Organ
"The Ad-Minister," the first house机 to be published by a college paper in the United States, made its appearance among Lawrence merchants at the opening of the Kansan's fifteenth business year. It has the added distinction of beinf the first publisher of its kind to be issued in Lawrence.
To quote the words of its editor, Fred Rigby, "the duty of this publication is to 'preach' the gospel of that business creative power, known as advertising, and incidentally show the merchants of Lawrence what a good medium, the University Daily Kansan is."
In its columns, the editor endows to bring out useful suggestions as to the improvement of retail advertising by offering Kansas hat to offer its advertisers, and to illustrate instances of the dynamic power of advertising.
Students Unanimously Declare For Uniforms To Be Worn For Drill
Comfortable, Economical and Conducive to Better Spirit, Say Students
Students are practically all favorable to wearing uniforms on the Hill, according to representative men of the student body and faculty of the University. They believe that uniforms are a part of the military drill.
"Uniforms are more convenient and comfortable and decidedly more economical than civilian suits," said Hershel Washington, president of the junior class, who has worn the army suits.
"The idea of uniforming the student body is good. Students should decide whether they are going to wear them." This is the opinion of Walter B. Havekort, president of the Men's Student Council.
"Students should be strongly recommended to don the khaki, but I do not believe that it is advisable to compel them to do so," says Uncle Jimmy Green, dean of the School of Law.
The men who are heading the movement for compulsory uniforming of students have in mind only a democratic system. Officers will not be distinguished by leather putes or special officers' uniforms as is the case in the United States army. The commanded by faculty men and students who have had experience in military drill.
The cost of khaki uniforms will be about $10 for cotton and about $17 for wool. Both types. They can be seamed or wholeleeves and consequently will be cheaper.
Doctor Sundwall Tells University Women Value Of Health Measures
Women Urged to Enter Ne Regime With Euthusiasm to Increase Vitality
Fifty per cent of the men who take physical examinations for the United States army fail to pass according to Doctor Sundwalt. This shows the average American citizen is not physically fit and that there is a crying need for measures to help an ill man as well an男 must be stronger, for they have added business and industrial responsibility in war time.
"Compulsory exercise is purely a health measure, and is vitally necessary," said Dr. Sundwall at the mass meeting of women students held after convolution this morning. "It is the duty of every man and woman to keep themselves physically it, and since the whole nation looks to the United States as especially important and necessary for us to take steps toward putting ourselves in the best physical condition possible.
All women were urged by Doctor Sundwall to feel this responsibility and to enter upon the new regime with enthusiasm. He assured them the work would not be hard and they would be amply repaid for the cost of time and money by the increased amount of vitality resulting.
A second mass meeting of the women will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Fraser Hall and questions will be answered, in an effort to make the women understand the new system better.
Haskell was defended yesterday 20 to 16 in a spectacular game with the Great Lakes Naval Training station, at Chicago.
Second District Editors Guests of Lawrence At Annual Meeting
First Meeting of Editors Held Today—Kansan Board Represents Journalists
Luncheon Given By Kansan
Journalism Students Represented at Haskell Banquet Tonight
The Second District Editors are here. About forty Kansas editors belonging to the Second District Editorial Association arrived in Lawrence this morning for the two day session of the annual meeting. There are several papers in the district and nearly everyone of them is represented here.
FIRST MEETING THIS APTENOON
The first meeting is a general session of the Chamber of Commerce when some of the best known editors of the district will give short talks on the journalism and the work of their particular field" during the past year. Dorothy Cole, news editor of the University Daily Kansas, will represent the University publication and the department of journalism at the meeting. She is giving a talk about a woman in the newspaper field.
FIRST MEETING THIS AFTERNOON
The editors will spend the rest of the afternoon in visiting the University and the various buildings on the campus.
STUDENTS AT HASKELL BANQUET
Tonight they will be guests at a dinner at the Haskell Institute. This will be an unusual affair for the entire banquet will be prepared and cooked in a kitchen equipped with the Pocahontas dresses in tribal costumes will serve the meal. The Daily Kansan will be represented at this banquet by three members, Dorothy Cole, Eugene Dyer and Millard Wear. Cargil Sproull, a member of the Kansan Board last year and now editor of the Lawrence Journal-World, will also be a guest at this dinner.
For the following morning, Saturday day, W. C. Simons, president of the association, has prepared a lively program. A business session and election of officers will take up most of the time till 11 o'clock when the visiting editors will be taken on an auto tour of the city until time for the luncheon by the Kansan board at noon in the Kansan office.
KANSAN BOARD LUNCHION SATURDAY
The luncheon Saturday noon will be the part which the University paper will do towards entertaining the editions of the book and making of the association will be guests at this feed. Miniature copies of the Daily Kansan will be used as place cards at the table. A few talks by the existing editorial members of the program will make the program at this luncheon.
While the editors are in Lawrence, hey will be the guests of Lawrence business men and other town people. The last thing on the program of the association will be the football conest.
Following the feast on the Hill, the visitors will go to the football game between Kansas and Ames on McCook Field. This will be the first Missouri Valley contest to be played by K. U. Smith. The players played here aside from the Nebraska game. The fraces is to start at 3 o'clock.
The election of six senior men to the Sachems, an honorary class of the senior class, was announced by Chancellor Frank Strong at convocation this morning. The new members are W. O. Hake, Tim Shreve, Warren Wattles, Homer Beale, Merle Ruble, and Earl Schirn.
Names of New Sachems Announced This Morning
Six Students Elected to Honorary Society of Senior
These men were elected this fall by the members of the society who were voted on last spring, and who became president of the school this fall. The men elected last spring who are in school are Harry Morgan, Edward Schoenfeld, Rudolph Urllaub, Walter Hawkestor, Hugh J. Burke, James Russell Friend and Eddy Todd.
The Sachems interest themselves in any matter looking to the welfare of the University in general, and the senior class in particular.
The Dunakin Boarding Club, 1317 Ohio street, will entertain for its members and a few guests, at an informal Halloween party, Friday night. The evening will be spent in playing seasonal games and dancing.
The Dunakin Club
A Good Time in Khaki And Gingham The Plan For Big Party at Gym
Mrs. Brown Again Urges That Rustic Dress Be Worn
Gym To Be All Dressed Up
plenty of Entertainment For Students Not Wishing To Dance
Rustic dress and a good time are the two things most to be desired at the All-University party tomorrow night if the ideas of Mrs. Eustace Brown and the committees work out as planned.
In the first place Robinson Gymnasium will be all frilled up with rustic decorations of a nature suitable to the occasion, which should be enough to match the fashion. A khaki shirt, a straw hat and other old clothes, and to every woman student to wear her gingham gown. All sorority and fraternity members have been requested to wear back-home attire most of them have promised to do so.
FUN FOR NON-DANCERS
In the second place for those who do not dance there will be fancy dances and the fairy minstrels. The fairy minstrels start at 7:30 o'clock downstairs. The receiving line will welcome students from 8:30 to 9 o'clock. The Virginia reel will then be danced with faculty members as leaders, after which social dancing will occupy the time till 12 o'clock.
Students are requested to enter the gymnasium at the east door and faculty members at the west door of the building. Faculty cloak rooms will be in Doctor Naismith's office in the second floor. Student'd cloak rooms will be in the kitchen of the gymnasium while students' cloak rooms will be upstairs.
USE FRONT ENTRANCE ONLY
Women students will go down stairs and wear their braces, down again at the entrance, escorts downstairs. All side doors will be locked so that entrance can be made only through the main front entrance.
Confusion Results from Sherwood Eddy's Failure To Talk at Convocation
speaker Missed Train, Students
Missed Classes, Profs
Missed Students
What the University Senate has deemed the last morning convolvation in Robinson Gymnasium this morning, proved to be a real "Comedy of Errors." Sherwood Eddy, who was to be the principal speaker failed to make connections with his train at Kansas City on account of a late morning performance. Omaha. This did away with the main speaker of the convolvation.
Chancellor Strong spoke to an audience made up mostly of women, for a great majority of the male student body had left the gymnasium. Doctor Schmitt said all students to take an active part in the war work being done in the Y. M. C. A. camps in both France and Russia. He explained how important was the meeting at noon today in Toulouse which she Sherwood Eddo would speak.
J. J. Wheeler, University marshal, unannounced that on account of the 'ailence of Mr. Eddy to arrive that the usual schedule of classes would be held. Most of the audience immediately left. A few seconds later, there was a change in plans and the Chancellor took the platform.
Then to add to the comedy, the man who blows the whistle for the change of classes was not notified of the change and some classes met on the regular hour while others came together on the forty-minute schedule. The result was that many of the buildings had their halls crowded with students waiting to go to class. Most of the development element in reporting absent members.
To put a finishing touch to the errorful skit Chancellor Strong nearly missed his train to Topeka. A mass meeting of women of the University was held and he rallied about the physical education of K. U. women.
A certain young faculty man who is to be married before long was out looking for rooms the other day and the lady of the house kept referring to his "wife." Finally, in desperation, he admitted that—well, he really didn't have a wife yet and that it is quite a task to go househunting.
Kansas Will Battle Against Strong Ames Eleven Tomorrow
Jayhawkers Have New Plays For Iowa Aggies In First Big Clash
—Northerners Will Depend Much on
Veteran Line To Win
Muddy Field May Decide First Valley Game On McCook
Good Showing of Fast Backfield and Presence of Regulars in Line-up Brightens Prospects of Victory For Olcott's Men
Fresh from two victories over strong non-conference teams, Kansas will open her Missouri Valley Conference schedule on McCook Field tomorrow afternoon against the Iowa Cyclones, who succeeded in twisting the Tiger's tail 15 to 0 last Saturday.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Another one of those things heard on the Hill—
Ray Reazin, a former student at Baker, has enrolled in the University of Kansas. At Baker they called him "Grape-Nuts."
Coach Olcott has been drilling the Jayhawkers behind closed gates for the last week and the team will enter the game tomorrow with confidence of a decisive victory. The Kansas mentor has left nothing undone that will put the team in the best possible condition for the opening valley battle.
It's a fortunate thing for some of the women on the Hill that aprons are the mode for Mrs. Brown's party. Especially one who announced that her last dance she acquired green dresses out of her party pants and a ragged hole on the other. And in these war days she has to wear it just the same.
Senior Woman: "Oh, I rather eat a freshman dish; they are always so delicious."
Did you ever try to tell a foreign language teacher who cruelly professes blank ignorance on the subject? You might be a student in French 59 had do that yesterday. "Mademoiselle," said the prof, "what do you mean by that word 'bear springs' that you use in transference" I call me what it is—describe it to me."
Junior Woman: "Yes, they are new this year that they squeak."
And Mademoiselle with her limited French vocabulary started bravely out: "It's a square." —" only to be be subject to theay the proof of her surprised "square"? So answer as you are long?" Undaunted, Mademoiselle tried again, and defined it definitely and accurately as a thing with many spirals of metal which "Bon Mademoiselle," cried the proof. "And now what, a mattress?"
Queer things happen when you're collecting money for organizations. A senior called at a rooming house and inquired for a freshman. The woman who answered the door said that the freshman would not be back until six o'clock. The senior called again at the clock and the landlady sent her up to the freshman's room. The freshman had opened the door in the afternoon!
Maybe you don't know what a technician is. Well, she is in the medical building and leaves complicated notices on the bulletin board for poor, overworked would-be doctors. Yesterday, she carefully pasted up. "At the end of the hour, leave your locker numbers with me."
Gold Medal To Engineer Making Highest Grade
A startled medic approached the janitor and inquired: "Say, old top, where is there a screwdriver around here? That woman wants the number off my locker and my knife won't do."
Sigma Tau Fraternity To Reward Freshman For Best Grades
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, in a recent meeting decided to award a gold medal to the freshman in the School of Engineering who makes the highest grades year. The plan was adopted to promote better effort and interest in student work among freshmen engineers.
This is the first movement of its kind to be started in the engineering school and it is hoped the students will take advantage of it. The freshmen will be chosen by a committee of faculty from the School of Engineering.
A medal is also to be awarded to the freshman of last year's class with the highest grades. The name will be announced soon. The medal will be put on display in Marvin Hall in a few days.
Captain Swede Nielsen, fighting fullback, said this morning he was confident the team would win although it would have to fight every minute. Coach Olcott said after the game that he had been knocked out that the Jayhawker backfield is the strongest he has seen since coming to the University. Captain Swede Nielsen and Tom Pringle are charging the line harder than ever before. Pringle was a consistent ground gainer in every game this season. Even in the Illinois game he was good enough for a pass, but he was given the ball. In the freshman scrimmages this week, he has been showing up brilliantly.
FOSTER'S WORK IMPROVES
Stem Foster, heavy quarterback, will direct the team against the Cyclone charges. At the first of the season he was inclined to fumble in critical times but has been showing with the freshmen.
Frank Mandeville, star halfback of the freshman squad last year, will be Pringle's teammate at right half. Mandy is one of the best open field runners on the team. He did not join the Kansas camp until after the Illinois clash but has been used at right alf since his first appearance.
Lonborg, a new player at right end,
has been one of the stellar performers
this season by his consistent work in
recovering punts and pulling forward passes from the air for long gains. Laslett, on the other end of the line, is a worthy teammate and is also an effective and hardest tacklers on the squad.
Frost and Nettels have been doing consistent work in the tackle position, by blocking punts and breaking up formations and interference and formations in general.
Woody and Jones have been holding down the guard positions. Jones is considered one of the best players in the line by old sport followers who have been watching the team work out this season. Woody is small but scrappy and won a letter on the sound last year.
Hull llooms up as the most likely candidate for center, although Davi
The Ames football eleven arrived in De Soto late yesterday afternoon in their special railroad sleeper, where they will rest until tomorrow. Light signal drill will be the program for the Iowa Aggies this afternoon on the pasture lands near the Kansas town. The Iowans will arrive in Lawrence a few minutes before the game starts.
The northerners will depend much on their veteran line to hold the Kansans down. But their backfield is good this year and it was the playing of the tiny but fast quarter, Boyd, that had much to do with the victory over Missouri last Saturday. This man who is the star player for the Ames eleven weighs only 128 pounds.
ENEMY IS CONFIDENT
Not only will the Aggies have a good backfield but they will have good substitutes in condition to replace the stars if they get hurt. The Ames line has not been crossed so far this season and the men of Coach Mayser will go into the Jahawker clash contest. If the game is played the Iowa eleven probably will be lighter than that of the K. U. team but the line will be about the same weight and possibly a bit heavier than the green but heavy Kansas line.
James Position Kansas
Neal L. E. Laslett
Breeden L. T. Nettels
Barker L. G. Jones
Wallace C. Hull
Shoemaker R. Wooy
Schalk R. T. Frost
Jager R. Lonborg
Boyd Q. B. Foster
Johnson L. H. Pringle
Vanderloo F. B. Nielsen
Aldrich R. H. Mandeville