UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11, 1917
No Decision Is Reached On Military Training By Senate At Meeting
Incomplete Report of Committee Delays Date and Hour of Drill
The hour for compulsory physical training for all men of the school was not determined at the meeting of the senate yesterday. The committee appointed last week to investigate conditions for adopting compulsory physical training made its report. After a short discussion the matter was resolved and the committee more thorough study. The senate and committee will meet next Wednesday afternoon and if possible will come to a vote on the question.
WOULD DRILL AT 4 O'CLOCK
WOULD DRILL AT 4 O'CLOCK
The son of the senate is to teach the senate training after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. This would necessitate the closing of all classes at this hour. One member of the senate thought that classes should be started at 8 o'clock and the first day may give over to physical training.
"It is the plan," said Prof. L. E. Sisson, secretary of the senate, "to adopt some form of training which, if approved by the senate, put the men in condition to take up military training immediately after they are out of school. I think the senates come to an agreement Wednesday to meet the question up for final vote."
The form of training to be adopted will be discussed at a later meeting. Although military drill is considered a normal part of certain that drill will be decided upon.
NO ARMY OFFICER COMING
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No army officer has been assigned to the University of Kansas and the report that Maj. George W. Martin, U. S. A. retired, would head military training here was erroneous, Chancellor Frank Strong was advised today by the War Department. In reply to a telegram asking as to the authenticity of the report of Major Martin's appointment, Adjutant General McCain telegrammed the Chancellor from the report that Major Martin had been assigned to the Army in Arkansas. This university includes that state's agricultural college, and military training is a regular part of the work there.
General McCain further said that his previous reply read at the first K. U. convoction to the University's request for an army officer held good. That reply said the government had no available officer who could be assigned to Kansas nor had it equipment to spare the University.
Chancellor Strong said this morning the University Senate probably would take steps to obtain an officer to take charge of the training.
K. U. students have contributed only $25 to the Soldiers' Library Fund. The people of Lawrence have contributed $44;
Lawrence and the University Are Far Behind In Their Allotment
Soldiers Library Fund Increasing Too Slowly
The library war council, appointed by the Secretary of War, will attempt to raise $1,000,000 for this purpose and have apportioned the amount accrued by the Library Lawrence and the University have been notified that their share is $600.
"While we are falling short of the amount so far, the result is still encouraging." Miss Carrie Watson, Instructional Students will contribute the price of a movie or a sundae to the fund. The campaign will not stop until the $600 has been raised. Lawrence is acold and set a good example to the state."
"The libraries so far established are proving of great value in keeping up the moral standards of the army camps," Orrin C. Lester of the nation's military, or of the soldiers would rather read a good story than do anything else."
War Irresistible, Says Prof. Melvin In Lecture
Prof. F. E. Melvin of the department of history lectured on "The Irresistibles of War" at the Women's Forum yesterday.
"At regular intervals," said Professor Melvin, "we Americans have to repurchase our national birthright, liberty. This war makes the fourth time for us. And now, not only America but all the allied nations are seeking the same liberty. We are marching song of the English soldiers, was not 'Ipparnyi' but the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'"
For the next six weeks, the Women's Forum will change its meeting schedule.
Big Rally Held Last Night
Bonfire Closing Feature Of Night's Celebration
The first football rally of the year was held last night by a hundred or more enthusiastic students who were participating in the national football interest and excitement.
The course taken by the men in their attempt to create K. U. spirit was up Tennessee Street, then to Indiana Street, and finally to Eighth and Massachusetts Streets. There a big fire was started with old boxes, while the men yelled Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, to the tune of tin pans.
Thoughtful Columbus Discovered America In Month Of October
Foresight of Great Explorer Gives University Students
a New Holiday
Tomorrow is Columbus Day.
Of course you know what Columbus did.
He discovered America in 1492,
and the laws discovered Columbus
Dome.
Christopher is greatly to be honored for his discovery, but it is believed the students of this institution will attach more importance to the discovery of the laws than that of the well known Italian
When they went on strike October 12, 1916, refusing to attend classes, the law students established a brand new holiday in K. U. And this year everybody gets the benefit of their discovery.
COLUMBUS WAS A GREAT MAN
"Christopher Columbus was a great man, all right," explained one student today. "His countrymen said he was crazy because he told them that the world was round like a marble or a baseball, but he didn't mind that and kept on telling them until the queen of Spain pawned her jewels and sent him some men and ships and sent him to locate the rest of the globe.
"He was glad enough to go and didn't come back until he'd found a land for us to live in. When we realized what he had done for us we needed to believe that we decided to set aside a holiday on which to celebrate his discovery
"We were sensible enough in our choice, too, for we decided to celebrate the day he discovered America, which is July 4th. The day, which probably is in July or August. Celebrating in October gives the college student a holiday he can use, whereas a holiday in July or Augu- ter is not. We are except to Summer Session students.
COLUMBUS KIND TO STUDENTS
"In the matter of selecting a day for his discovery Columbus was more thoughtful of the college students that attended the conference, fathers who drew up the Declaration of Independence. They were careless enough to sign that document right in the middle of summer when most of important colleges are not in session."
"But some day we may be sensible enough to dispense with the Fourth of July altogether, and celebrate the birthday of the signers of the Declaration instead.
"October 12 is all right, but the one fly in the ointment is that there won't be any Columbus Day holiday next year nor the year after, for the twelfth comes on Saturday and on Sunday those two years. Therefore, we won't get to enjoy America's birthday again until the year 1920."
"As Columbus Day is a state legal holiday," said Chancellor强, "it was decided that it should be observed if the holiday is issued. The status of a legal holiday is usually attorney-general, and Columbus Day has always been one, though it was never sanctioned here until this year. We do not like to break into the work University, but we believe that all state schools should observe the day."
A LEGAL HOLIDAY NOW
Twenty-nine states, Kansas among
them, name Columbus Day as a legal
holiday, however. A recent
observed here as such until last year,
although it has been denounced by the
students as an off-day every year.
Johnson Will Pubish Bulletin Prof. F. E. Johnson, of the School of Engineering, has been in the western end of Kansas for different methods of electrical transmission. His research in that part of Kansas is now nearly complete, after having spent much of the summer gathering material. He plans to publish a bulletin in a few weeks on electrical transmission in Kansas.
A LEGAL HOLIDAY NOW
Pi Gamma Sigma will meet Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Fiat University.
Johnson Will Publish Bulletin
In promising to furnish for the night-shirt parade all the eats, a band, the barrels and boxes necessary for a monster bonfire, and entertainment at two picture shows, the Lawrence Merchants' Association has done something that will solidify as nothing else could the feeling of friendliness between Town and Gown. The spirit of the merchants show that they want to treat us square—and it is up to the men of the University to reciprocate Saturday night.
Square!
There must be no rowdyism—no raids on stores. The merchants have made up a "pot" with which they will buy ample eats for every man in the parade, and these eats will be distributed orderly and systematically at the Bigelow Building, just before the bonfire is lighted. Cheerleader Friend, on behalf of the hundreds of rooters whom he will lead Saturday night, has pledged that there will be no raids on stores; and the men of the University will do the square thing in backing him up.
The monster parade will be an unparalled success if the plans that have been made for it are not spoiled by irresponsible and unthinking rowdyism among the paraders. If every man will remember that the merchants and the University have put him on his honor not to raid the stores, all will go off as it should.
The merchants have done the square thing in going to an immense expense and a great deal of trouble to co-operate in making the parade a success. They'll treat us square —from the start of the parade to its finish.
Reciprocate!
Hospital Will Reduce Number Of Minor Ills And Class Absences Too
nual Fee
Students Get More Th Money's-worth Out of An-
The large number of absences from classes as a result of sickness at this time of year is to be cut to a low figure if the students will co-operate with the University Student Hospital in carrying out their aim for the year.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Students are urged to report to the hospital on first signs of sickness, so that their case may receive attention before the ailment has had time to get started. Many severe cases of sore throat last year could have been checked in this way and no time would have been lost.
*It is our purpose to not only prevent sickness among the students," said Miss Elizabeth Fleeson, hospital dietitian, this morning, "but to help them save their money. Time is worth dollars to the men and women who need to study for nine months and an absence is a loss of several dollars."
Y. W. C. A. Office Hours
The two dollar fee charged to all students at registration enables them to obtain free medical treatment and medicine at any time during the year at a saving of several dollars. The two dollar fee is worth more than the typhoid inoculation each week, have already received more than the two dollars' worth of service. The ordinary fee is from five to fifteen dollars for the inoculations. The hospital bill for anyone who might get typhoid under this fee or for several days under a nurse's care, would be quite large if the University did not maintain a hospital.
Nine patients can be accommodated at the hospital at one time and many more can be taken care of in the isolation hospital on the west side of the campus. A charge of one dollar per day is made and this small fee hardly covers the patient's board. Last week we cared for who had infectious diseases and nine persons who had typhoid fever.
C. A. HOURS
The office wives of Miss Katherine Duffield, the new W. J. W. C. a secretary, have been announced. Every morning except Saturday and Sunday, Miss Duffield will be in her office from 8:30 to 12 o'clock, and every afternoon except Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 to 3 o'clock. She will be there at other hours only by special appointment.
All physical examinations are being given at the hospital this year in place of the gymnasium as heretofore. There are now about hundred women from the freshman and sophomore classes have been examined. Seventy-seven men out of the four hundred examined this season are expected to return for treatment for defects.
Three nurses for "first aid" work are at the hospital day or night. These nurses attend to an average number of forty calls per day. Some are only minor injuries as cuts, burns, scratches and bruises, but no injuries may occur. The clinician may the hospital is ready to play the part of "mother."
Student Organizations And Up perclassmen to Enforce Headgear Custom
Freshmen Buying Caps For Game To Insure Painless Attendance
Wearing, for the first time, their distinctive blue caps, every man in the freshman class is expected to come to South Park Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock to participate in the grand parade which is to prepare a car to be on the road for the season. "Plenty of seats will be saved for all those in the parade," said Cheerleader Rusty Friend this morning, "and everyone who gets in the parade will be assured of a seat in the center section of the roster's line." "We do not take part in the parade will not be admitted to McCook Field."
Cheerleader Friend plans to form the freshmen in squads of eight, just as soldiers are organized, and the yearlings will march together in the parade. Seats in the north side of the hall will be rooftop section, will be reserved for them. Handbills bearing the new yells and songs will be circulated.
Violators of the cap ruling at the football game will "get theirs", according to Rusty. A blanket squad has been organized among the upperclassmen, and every effort will be made to provide plenty of entertainment between halves. Men who take dates to the game will also take their chances on being tussed. "We want them to get University in the rooting section," says Rusty. "At Illinois they won't let a date on the field and they have one of the best organized rooting sections that I've ever heard."
Upperclassmen, as well as freshmen, are to have their place in the Thunderding "Thousand." Several senior students will be reserved for the rooters.
Sales of freshman caps at local clothing stores have been large, and, according to one prominent clothier, they've fallen off the rails. "Two weeks ago," he said, "there was a rumor that there was a shortage of caps, and there was a wild scriamble to purchase them." The clothier sold to supply the average class.
Every organization on the Hill is backing the freshman cap tradition. The student council has a vigilance to enforce the freshmen's enforced, the fraternities have all agreed to require that their freshmen wear the caps, and the honorary class societies are all considering means of carrying on the tradition. Every student has his cap all ready for Saturday afternoon and avoid pain," says Rusty.
Directories Ready Soon
Student Directories will be ready for the printer, in three weeks, the registrar says. All changes of address should be in before this time, as no correction can be made after this date.
Basketball Practice Tuesday
The next regular Varsity basketball practice will be held Tuesday night according to Captain Dutch Uhrlub. The reason for postponing the regular practice is that many want to go home over the week-end.
Jayhawkers Will Don "Nighties" And Step Out Saturday Night
Two Bands, Big Bonfire, Movies, and Plenty of Eats Featu Celebration Planned by Merchants and Students As Climax to First Football Victory
Will Eliminate Rowdyism And Store Raiding This Yea
Cheerleader Rusty Friend Pledges That Students, In Return for Favors, Will Not Raid Stores—Elaborate Plans Promise Most Successful Parade Ever Given
Music by two bands, the biggest bonfire ever built in Lawrence plenty of eats for every man, and visits to two moving picture shows are to be the outstanding features of the 1917 Nightshir Parade, to be held Saturday night, starting from Fraser Hall a 8 o'clock.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Elaborate preparations for the parade are being made by Cheerleader Rusty Friend, Walter Havekorst, president of the Men's Student Council, and Tom Sweeney, of the Lawrence Merchants' Association. Students and merchants will co-operate this year as they have never done in the past; and as a result, the annual night shirt parade will take on the aspect of an immense community celebration in which every University man will take part and which half the townspeople of Lawrence will witness.
Pi, our Greek representative in the dog family scored his 789th victory last night while out with the rallyers. The fight took place at the Nu Sigma Nu house. The rallyers had just entered all the rooms in this house and routed everyone out. A tan bulldog stood guard in one room. Pi made one grab and had a hold of his foe's paw. The buildog grabbed Pi's car. The buildog would be rewarded if yet a fire hadn't been lit under the noses of the dogs. Both dogs are living today but one tan dog has a mangled foot.
Miss Hazel Pratt of the woman's department of physical education is getting onto the wiles of some of our dear co-eds. The ladies asked permission to play in the tennis tournaments and gymnasium work. Then they forgot to sign up for tennis playing. Miss Pratt is warning them.
Here's what Mrs. Eustace Brown,
advisor of women did:
She rents one of her rooms to two freshman girls. The slats fell out and wouldn't stay in. So Mrs. Brown nailed them in. Couldn't find any nails of suitable length so she used victrola needles.
what would you do if the slats fell out of your bed? Course you would put them back. But to make them hold, what would you do?
John Stewart, e21, intends spending his one day holiday ideally. He goes home (Hutchinson) tonight. Gets there at four o'clock in the morning. Will find his dad there with the car and they immediately start for a two days hunting trip. Will sleep none at all and be back here in time for school Monday with all kinds of bear stories.
J. A. M, finds it rather disconcerting, to use his own words, to dance with a girl previously unknown at a Varsity and feed her all the line he has and then happen to glance at her waist and find that she is wearing a pin. Which angers him at the fragrantity spirit of our University.
The meetings this year are proving successful and the attendance is growing rapidly, as was shown last Sunday when the students crowded the room to hear Bishop W. O. Shepard's address on "The Whole World Belongs to the University Man."
Those twelve K. U. girls who wanted to see David Warfield at Kansas City yesterday and then had their tickets lost and gave up all hopes of going did get to go after all. Late in the day they called up the theater and told them about it. Theater folks said it would be o.k. So twelve lassies took the next car for the city. Were a little late in getting there and found that three internes at the hospital where the man with the tickets had been taken had found the tickets he was carrying. But you can get into the show. But the girls saw the Music Master anyway even if they did have to phone and worry and get angry and feel sorry and act haughty and do some tall talk.
Dr. Dan Brummitt
At K.U. Vesper Service
Dr. Daniel Brummitt, of Chicago, editor of the Epworth Warhall, will give an address at the Sunday vesper services, held at Myer's Hall at 4:30 o'clock. The subject of his address has not been announced.
The Entomology Club held a meeting last night and elected officers for the coming year. The officers elected were: Joseph Groh, president; H. L. Fackler, vice-president, and Ellen Edmonson, secretary.
Under the direction of Cheerleader Friend, the paraders—attired in ever known variety of night garment—wi assemble in front of Fraser Hall at 8 a.m. There will be a party they will march to Brick's O'rend Caf where Brick plans to have souvenir or treats for them. Then they will proceed down to Lee's College Innr where Lee has a donation for every student, and will go to South Park, at which place they will be joined by the University and the city bands.
With the University Band leading the procession and the city banc bringing up the rear, the parader will then march northward along a path marked by a star far famed "snake dance" on their way. At the Eldridge House, the parade will turn west to the home of Uncle Jimmy Green, patron saint of K. U. football. Uncle Jimmy has promised to make a short speech in which he would take one of his famous prophecies regarding K. U. football prospects.
From Uncle Jimmy's, the parade will return to Massachusetts Street and march south, again executing the "snake dance" on the march to South Park. Thousands of townpeople and visitors arrive through the sidewalks to witness the spectacle. Just before reaching South Park, the paraders will pass, single file, through the Biglow Building, one door south of Wilson's drug store, a building Merchant's Association will give a package of "cats" to every man.
According to Harry Dick, of the Dick Brothers Drug Company, who is chairman of the "eats" committee, each package will include a sandwich, some candy, "smokes," and probably some popcorn. Cider also may be included. The "toes" scramble" outside the building before the bon-fire is lighted.
EATS FOR EVERY MAN
The Merchants' Association, in furnishing complete "eats" for each man, expects the students, in return, to retain from "raiding" stores during the parade. Heretofore, the proprietors of a few confectionery and cigar stores have furnished all the "eats" for the parade—have been forced to do so, in fact, by the mobs of raiding students. The plan this year is to share the expense among all the merchants by purchasing the eats with association and distributing them at the central point. Better eats for the students and a fairer sharing of the expense among all the merchants will result.
NO RAIDS ON STORES
After the eats are given out at the Bigelow Building, the paraders will build their bonfire in South Park. The Merchants' Association has agreed to furnish all the boxes and barrels necessary; and all that the parders will have to do will be to gather them up in the bar and in the candles will be used in the center of the bon-fire to make it burn rapidly. Chancellor Frank Strong, W. O. Hamilton, and others are to be asked to make speeches.
MOVIES CONCLUDE CELEBRATION
MOVIES CONCLUE CLEARATION
After the bon-fire celebration, which is scheduled to conclude at 10:20 o'clock, the paraders will march north again to the Bowersock Theater, where Manager Sherman Wiggins will run complete performance for the benefit of the audience. The Bowersock show, the parade will return southward to the Varsity, where Manager Lloyd Ware will run off another show. The performance at the Varsity which will last until after midnight, completes the evening's program.
NO KANSAN TOMORROW
Because of the Columbus Day vacation in the University tomb, where the grave is buried, day edition of the Daily Kansan.
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