UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
Kansas Team Left In Best of Spirits For Illinois Football Camp
NUMBER 15
Jayhawkers Will Start Season Well, Says Coach Olcott
Team Is In Best of Shape
Twenty-three Men Will Be Used Against Big Nine Team
The opening game of the Jayhawk football season will be covered by John Montgomery, a special representative of Dally Kansan. He left for Urbana this afternoon with the team.
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"You have the stuff in you, and if you don't lose your heads, Kansas will start the season well against Illinois."
These were the final words of instruction Coach Herman Ollcott gave the Varsity last night on McCook Field after they had gone through a light work-out. The forward pass was emphasized and most of the plays in the great shape, but the men did not work with any over-confident spirit.
TEAM FELT TODAY
The team of twenty-three men with Coach Beau Olett and Manager W O. Hamilton left this afternoon at 3:50 o'clock on the Santa Fe. They will arrive at Urbana early tomorrow morning in time for a short sign-up.
All are in good condition except Nettels, who is still troubled by a bad knee, but he hopes to get into the first line-up the coach will send against Illinois. Because the University opened late this fall, the men have had to work hard to get into shape and lack experience in practice for several veterans may keep the Kansas eleven from presenting a formidable machine.
Coach Olcott believes Illinois will start the game with a whirlwind of speed. If Kansas does not lose its head, especially in the first part of the game, the coach thinks K. U. will have a chance to win. In any case he believes the score will be low and the game close.
COACH IS OPTIMISTIC
Fraternity Frost Must Wear Distinctive Caps
The men to face Illinois when the ball is kicked off tomorrow are: Shim, right end; Frost, right tack; Gould, guard; Davison or Hull, center; Jones, left tackle; Laslett, left end; Foster, quarter; Casey, right half; Pringle, left half; and Nielsen, full. Zoellner, at tackle or guard; Simon at, full, left, half and Knowles, at full, left, half and Knowles, ton, quarter; Stephens, tackle and end; Liggert, guard and tackle; Dennis, tackle; and Lonborg, end.
In his talk to the men after practice yesterday afternoon, Coach Olcott said if the Jayhawks would start in now and fight, they would "clean up" in the Missouri Valley this fall. He said he knew just what the Varsity was capable of doing, and they need not fear any team in the conference if they played the game as they should.
All fraternities on the Hill have decided to make their freshmen wear the distinctive caps this year. Nonfraternity freshmen probably will wear a cap in school, but methods of enforcing the tradition besides paddling and because of the sentiment of the student body last year only twenty-seven freshmen opposed the tradition and only forty-eight percent supported it. University wanted the cans ablished.
The Men's Student Council has decided that the time for wearing the caps will be the same as usual this spring. The caps can be secured at the down town stores now. A white button designates the college, yellow the School of Engineering, and red the School of Pharmacy.
New Committee To Give All Advanced Standing
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 5, 1917
The advance standing committee has been reorganized. Hitherto the members were chosen from the college only, but as students from every school should be represented in advanced standing, it was decided that each school should be represented in the committee. The new members of the advanced standing committee are: Prof. F. C.ady, chairman; Prof. F. C. Fady, secretarys of G. C. Shaad, E. D. Obsorn, H. L. Butler, L. S. Havenhill, F. B. Dains and W. H. Johnson.
Students Help Varsity Training Table Saturday
The Men's Student Council is giving a dance Saturday night in Faternal Aid Hall for the benefit of the Jayhawker football team training table. Soaring food prices and the desire to give the gridiron men the chance to season for the dances. And the admission fee is only seventy-five cents.
The business men of Lawrence are doing their part towards the training table this fall and with the whole student body intensely interested in the welfare of the K. U. team, a large crowd of University students is expected. The dance will start at 8:30 o'clock.
Students Contribute To Soldiers-Sailors Fun
But Predominance of Dimes Keeps Fund Total Low— Much More Needed
A total of $13.25 has been dropped into the Soldiers' and Sailors' Library Fund box in Spooner Library. The individual contributions range from 10 cents, which is the most popular amount, to a dollar. "The students seem to have taken the Kansan's advice." Miss Carrie M. Watson, librarian, said this morning, "and I see that the shows and sundays for the fund. I'm am lead to believe this because so many dines are given."
Although the national campaign is to end this week, the box for student contributions will remain in the library next week, according to Miss Watson. Six hundred dollars is Lawrence's share of the national fund of millions, and one hundred dollars is expected to come from the students.
Of the nation's million dollars $824,000 already has been raised. Each community is expected to give the equivalent of five per cent of its population, and so far the state of Massachusetts has lead all others in giving money to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson have both tributed, and the books bought will their money will have a notice to this effect on one of the飞 leaves.
Dandelions Grow Over Bill's Grave
Bill is dead. Today students in the U.
University who knew Bill are bouroning
the University.
Bill was only a turtle but he wasn't like most turtles. He was shipped from Florida as a unique specimen of turtle but when he arrived at Dyche to pick it up, he found more wonderful than had been hoped for. A hand full of grass thrown into Bill's apartment proved this. Out of the hand-full of grass Bill would eat only a few blades of dandelion that happened to be mixed with his meal.
The peculiar turn of Bill's appetite continued. He was disconcerted unless munching on a tender bit of dandelion in the grass. I suggested an idea. He turned Bill loose on the campus where the weeds grow in abundance. For days groups of students watched Bill in his campus building. Bill was a side show between classes.
Then came the tragedy. Between classes Bill sought greener fields for his effort in the extermination of the weed and when he tried to cross the stream, Bill was killed—well, Bill is dead and Bill's friends are mourning Bill's death.
Student enterprise tickets are on sale today at the business office in Fraser Hall. These tickets admit students to forty attractions including football, basketball, and baseball games, track meets, concerts given by student organizations, and debate's.
Student Tickets Go On Sale In Fraser Today
The first midday dance of the year will be at the Gym next Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. These midday dances are given three or four times per week by the Government Association and are for all University women. *
The tickets will sell for $5, which is much less than single admission for the forty attractions would be. The sale has been heavy the las The money from the sal is divided among the student organizations.
To Hold First Middy Dance Next Saturday
The dance will be informal. The Big Sisters and upper classmen are asked to see that the Freshman girls have escorts. Ten cents admission will be charged to cover the expense of music and refreshments.
To Organize Company Of Cadets Officered By Kansas Students
Army Officer May Not Come
—No Notice Received By
Authorities
Time Of Drill Not Settled
Parents of Students Have Written Asking For Training —Temmlin
"We hope to organize at least a battalion of cadets, all offered by University men," said Prof. E. M. Briggs of the department of German in speaking of military training at the University. It is doubtful whether a man will be secured from the army, according to Professor Briggs, although army notes in the Journal of American History that Maj. Géral W. Martin, U. S. A. Retired, had been detailed to the University as professor of military tactics. No official announcement has been received at the University.
Squad drill will be taken up first and later the men will be organized into platoons and companies. The companies will finally be organized into a battalion. "The organization has changed over the months," said Professor Briggs. "By that time we will be able to tell who are competent officers."
FACULTY MAY TAKE PART
Professor Briggs hopes that many faculty men will participate in the drill. It is probable that competent faculty men will be chosen for capitals and lieutenants.
Members of every class must as mit to physical examination. The women as well as the men must be examined, and they all will be re examined, and so forth in the nature of the work to be required of women has not been determined.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Olin Templin, the College, who introduced the resolutions for military drill in the University Senate, said it would be a difficult task to select an hour when all students could take the compulsory exercise, that an hour would be arranged even if the college had to meet on Saturday morning.
"Letters have been coming to me," Dean Templin said, "from parents of University students asking that military drill be given. They are anxious to have their sons prepare physically as well as mentally to do the task, and are required of them in the war. The punishments, versatility responsible for the physical condition of its young men of draft age.
"Many students have taken their required two years gymnastism work and have been graduated from the University physical wrecks, because they never took exercise of any kind when not required to do so. The University wishes to correct this tendency and compulsory military drill for every man in the University is the solution."
First Meeting of Math Club Monday at 4:30
The new officers will take charge of this meeting. They were elected at the end of last year, and are as vice-president, Evan Burtson; secretary and treasurer, Frances Adams; publicity agent, Georgia Beeber Prof. U. G. Mitchell is the faculty advisor. On the program committee Helena Garman, Hobart Lutz, Elsen Smith, Ignatience Uhl, and Ralph Buffington.
The Mathematics Club will have the first meeting of the year Monday night at 7:30 o'clock in Room 103, Administration Building. "Aeronautics" will be the subject discussed at this meeting.
Kanza announces the pledging of V. J. Harker of Belton, Mo.
Second Inoculation Given
More than 20 freshmen received the second "sheet" for typhoid yesterday at the University Hospital. Only 20 men failed to show up. One inoculation is useless without the second and third injections. The second will still be given if the men report next Thursday. Thursday afternoon is the regular time for men, and Tuesday for women.
Oread High School Has Mixer
Oread high school gave its first mixer of the year last night at the school building. Sixty students were present. The party was by the present. A group of students from the school. It was a get-acquainted mixer preliminary to the election of school officers and athletic captains next Tuesday. Similar socials will be held later in the year.
Oread High School Has Miser
Chancellor and Wedell Back From Chicago War Conference of Y.M.C.A.
Association Plans to Provide More Recreation Centers In Camps
Must Extend Foreign Work
England, Russia and France Ask For More American Secretaries
Chancellor Frank Strong returned today form a Y. M. C. A. War Conference held in Chicago to further the establishment of Y. M. camps on the firing lines. John R. Mott, who has recently come back from Russia, where he was a member of the American Commission, and Sherwood Eddy, who has arrived here recently France, were the principal speakers.
"The object of this meeting," said Chancellor Strong, "is to place Y. M. C. A., centers among the allied armies to relieve the war strain and raise the morals of the soldiers. The strain of army life is unprecedented and breaks the men down rapidly. Commanders have practically demanded assistance, and the Americas are now in a state of work since they have been involved in the struggle a shorter time than the other nations.
"These camps are to be centers of recreation with reading and writing rooms and to furnish a place for social and religious activities. They are to be established at the earliest possible time through the International Y. M. C. A., with Americans at the head of each camp.
France alone wants 1,000 of these social centers, and Italy and Russia want as many as they can get. England has its own system of camps, but France does not. Around Bagdad need assistance the most, according to the Chancellor.
Prison camps are also to be provided with Y. M. C. A. centers. There are more than 6,500,000 prisoners of war, or more than four times the number of prisoners in the country made up of a large per cent of college men and professors. Under the terrible conditions under which they have to live, it is important that the best possible facilities be provided for them Y. M. workers believe.
Moore Publishers Survey Of Kansas Oil Prospects
"Oil and Gas Production of Kansas" Goes to Press Next Week
Raymond C. Moore, assistant professor of geology and state geologist, will send to press next week a bulletin on interior Kansas entitled "Oil and Gas Production of Kansas." This bulletin will be a comprehensive guide to the nature of the state, and the production of oil, zinc, and other minerals.
The bulletin will be of great value to any one who is interested in the mineral development of this state, and especially to land owners. The land will be classified as to the oil-prospectors, because it is valuable that which is worthless, and that which has favorable indications for oil.
The whole state is covered in the survey. Especial attention is given to the development of the zinc industry in the southeastern part of the state. The State Geological Survey, of which the Bureau of Land Management is operating with the United States Geological Survey. The bulletin will be out in November.
Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity,
hold initiation ceremony Tuesday
night for Willard Glasco, '18.
The organization announces the following
pledges: Harold Goodwin, Woodston;
Paul Schmidt, Junction City; Howard
Haines, Baxter Spgs.; Horace Rit,
William Spgs.; Andrew Reid; C
Jackson, Coldwater; Chair Hill,
Washington; Donald Young, Dodge
City; William H. Wilson, Lawrence.
P. A. D. Pledges Nine
William D. Clark, freshman medic,
the second University student to be
summoned by the draft, this week,
received notice this morning to report
at his home town, Utica, Kan,
to wait further orders. Clark took
his examination previous to enrolling
in the University. He had
hoped to complete one semester's
work before the call came.
Blaine Ramsey, c'16, who is instructor in the department of chemistry, has been called to his home at Garnett by the death of his father. He will return to Lawrence next week.
State League of Kapsas Municipalities To Meet
Arrangements for the ninth annual convention of the State League of Kansas Municipalities which is to be held in Wichita, October 16 to 18 inclusive, are now complete and the program is out.
In the opinion of Homer Talbot, secretary of the league, the program for the coming convention is unique both in the excellency of the speakers secured, and in the possibilities for having an enjoyable time. An automobile trip over Wichita has been planned by the Rotary Club for the spring season of the year on the first day. On the second day a big banquet tendered by the Chamber of Commerce features the program.
Three men from the University of Kansas who have shown unusual interest in municipal affairs will be on the program. They are: Prof. C. A. Margulis, Ph.D.; Prof. M. K. Bittel technical science, Prof. W. C. McNown of the School of Engineering, and Homer Talbot, secretary and head booster of the league. Other speak-up faculty have been secured from all the larger cities and a few from out of the state.
Plain Tales From The Hill
It's o. k, to roast certain politicians on this Hill for they have the right to come-back but when it comes to some big decision in this state in the person of Hutchinson then do the citizens of that town get awful angry, according to prominent men and women from the Hutchinson and Protective League.
Say the members of the league. "Ouris is some town and as long as the boys smoke cigarettes and tickle the stomachs of ukeleles and the movies run at nights and the sidewalk runs both ways we resent having our little city referred to as a village and we deny that our people wear long hair and drive about in spring wagons. So there."
Tad Ried, e'19, end on last year's Varsity no longer is eating the common plbee feed of the civilian. His is the life of ease. For he is a sergeant in an engineering company stationed at Camp Funston. Besides sergeanting Tad is coaching an army plbee up Missouri, Tad also wishes he could get into the fray tomorrow against Illini.
Those administration building profs are getting mighty clever. According to one mathematics professor the Club will start this year "a-flying."
Professor Lefschetz will lecture on the meeting of the club to be held Monday.
Not all our young men play around the house Saturdays or go to the City for a little recreation over the week end. Anyway not Charles and tra Landon. These two men are goering down at the barn. The corn has accumulated since they firmly planted seed corn in the ground on a vacant lot near town.
Big city stuff is what the University is getting now. This morning out where the Post boy stands Thursdays was a pile of piles with a litter of mail, his nickel and take a Post," said the sign. Just like a regular big city.
With the announcement from the cheerleader and the president of Men's Student Council and the rest of the bunch on the Hill that all freshmen were going to have to wear the freshman cap comes the advertisements and window displays that the things are costing six bits this year instead of the proverbial four buits.
What's the Sphinx?
A youthful Phi Gam pledge who was bid to the Sphinx午晚 Wednesday night kept the whole house up all night after he had accepted the bid, trying to get information on the freshman society.
"And just think, I always thought that all the society was good for was wielding the barrel stave," said the *reshman*.
He hasn't been initiated yet.
Band Adds Three Members
Those freshman medics are an easy going lot with their few classes. The teachers on the farm allow the student a wontent hour of afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
A meeting of all freshman advisa-
tions will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock.
Band Adds Three Members Mc. McAlen, director of the University's athletic department today these three additions to the band: Mr. Barron, Merton Akers, and Thurlow Neiswender. At present there are thirty-six members but Mr. McCulley is expected to have forty, and could use another flute or piccolo player, if good.
Class Election Over; Handshake and Smile Of Politician Is Gone
Annual Battle Settled With Little Hard Feeling Or Muckraking
One Squirrel-Print Is Out
Vote
Freshmen Dig Up Old Skeleton To Get Yearlings'
The last few days of the campaign have been marked by considerable activity on the part of candidates in the senior and freshman classes. Freshmen put their tickets in the field at the last minute Wednesday night, filing their petitions with the Men's Student Council only a short time before 6 o'clock, the final hour et.
The annual class election is over.
The affable politician with a hearty
handshake and a pocketful of cam-
aign literature will now retire to
the background and his pleasant
miles, which have been so conspicu-
ius on the campus and in the class-
rooms for the last week, will fade
into the stern lines of the business
of office-holding or the irony of defea-
POSTERS IN ABUNDANCE
An unusually heavy flood of posters littered up the campus this morning. Candidates of all tickets, even though they had no opposition, made good use of their advertisements and pasted up the sidewalks with all kinds of insignia from class numerals to solid blocks.
Handbills were quite numerous when students were coming to their library.
Hill politicians again deemed it adav-
ible to resort to muckraking, even though,
it appeared at first that the
politician would not offload with
the usual • *mud-slinging*”.
ONLY ONE SQUIRREL PRINT
The "birdie's tale" was confined to the campaign in one class and was a rejuvenation of the politicians' "favors" of the president. The long gone stone at University politics.
Electioneering was brisk around the senior and freshman polls. Each candidate had a strong corps of lieutenants out, well-provided with cards. With the exception of the one handing the election, clearly contested and filled with feeble around the voting places. Few votes were being cast in the sophomore and junior classes because of no opposition to the tickets put in the field.
K. U. Student Arrested Charged With Speeding
A popular young man on the Hill, steward of a boarding club, solemnly vows he never again will fracture the ties of the Kansas City police force.
With several companions, he drove to Kansas City recently in a Ford, on a purely business mission. While driving out of the city they were stopped by a policeman. Not being acquainted with the antics of a Ford the driver put his foot on the wrong sedal.
At the police station he was charged with speeding, and running without a tail light. Visions of a night in the street not appeal to the fastidious students.
They were taken before the captain and the young man steeled his heart against the conflict. 'He begged in a very touching, but far from humble manner. Although he admitted his guilt, he asked for lenency on the ground that they were unable to furnish bond.
The captain having a human feeling or mankind, dismissed the charge.
It is rumored that the Ford began making tracks for Lawrence as soon as公布。
Senior Law President Shakes The Plum Tree
The appointment of Cecil Embry and Wallace Hake as managers of the Uncle Jimmy D banquet and of Dick Gelvin and Armeine Barteldes managers of the Law Scrim were announced today by Wilbur Jones, president of the senior laws. The date of the banquet will be announced later and the dates it is always given in honor of the football team at the end of the season.
Frank Fratcher was elected vicepresident of the senior class at the election this week and John Fogarty, secretary-treasurer.
The botany club met for the first time this year Wednesday night. The next meeting will be held next Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock, Room 101, Snow Hall. At this meeting officers for the coming year will be elected and a program will be given. The club has about forty members.