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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV
NUMBER 11.
Two Lawrence Companies Given Rousing Send-off On Move Toward Kaiser
Civil War Veterans Lead Parade With Fife and Drum Band
Soldiers Give "Rock Chalk"
Enthusiast Marks Departure of Boys In Good Spirits for Fort Sill
The Santa Fe Depot has been the scene of many an enthusiastic rally when University football teams have departed to conquer a gridiron enemy but none of them could compare with the mass of people who crowded the platform and tracks yesterday morning to see Companies H and M off for Fort Sill in their first move against German despotism.
CIVIL WAR VETS LEAD
By 8 o'clock the streets for two babies in either direction from the depot.
The two companies and their band, accompanied by a fife and drum corp of Civil War veterans and the K. U. band paraded to the station and the soldiers immediately entered the train of nine coaches, which was waiting for them. The crowd sent up a mighty cheer when the men arrived and the two bands took turns playing national airs and popular songs.
CAPT. JONES SPEAKS APPRECIATION
It was a happy crowd and the soldiers were a smiling happy bunch. They cheered, sang songs, and joined in the Rock Chalk yells to keep up their spirits. Many mothers had prepared boxes of lunch for the boys and these were handed in through the windows along with little packages of candy and trinkets given by relatives and friends.
CAPT. JOSEKS SPEAKS APPEARATION
Captain Frank E. Jones said to one of the students, "You pulled out, that he and his men appreciated the farewell that was given them. The day was ideal and the people turned out in such numbers that they were made to feel more of the fighting spirit.
Battery B Has K. U. Men
"This is something," he said, "that the boys will never forget and they know that you people are interested in them."
Newly Organized Unit Left Today With Kansas Grads As Officers
Ralph Spotts, second lieutenant, was at one time a member of the faculty, being connected with the University extension department. He is a graduate of both the College and law school and belongs to the honorary scholastic society, Phi Beta Kappa for the Association Auxiliary graduate of the School of Law and Lieutenant Troutman attended the University.
Battery B, the new field artillery organization formed recently in Lawrence, left this morning together with Battery A of Topeka for Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla. The Lawrence organization holds a particular interest for university students and faculty men as a majority of both the federal and noncommissar officers are either former students or graduates.
It will be known at Camp Donibhan as the 130th field artillery.
Hugh Means, a practicing attorney in Lawrence and partner of Raymond Rice of the law school faculty, is the colonel of this new regiment.
Among the non-commissioned officers are the following students: First Sergt., Louis Fink; Supply Sergt., Shorty Ogden; Mess Sergt, Rice; Corporalals Allus, Justus, Geo Dunkley, C. B. Randall and Worthie Huffman, both of whom rank of corporal. The privates are Richard Randall, Lucius Perkins, James Rinehart, Ralph Ellis, Lind and Jewett.
The rest of the organization is made up mostly of students from Haskell, Ottawa and Baker universities.
Pay Day Puts Joy In Camp
Friday was pay-day for Company M, and the lads in khaki were saved from absolute bankruptcy by the belated arrival of Capt. H. H. Wallace, quartermaster. "Financial embarrassment" was forgotten when the captain left though it was the first money they had received since mobilizing Aug. 5.
The men were paid only for their first month's service, from August 5 to September 1. They received the following amounts: sergeants $28.00; first class privates, $28.60; second class privates, $26.00.
K. C. Star Man To Talk
To Journalism Students
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 1, 1917.
J. W. Morrison who has been ex-change editor for the Kansas City Star for the past few years will speak to the students in the department of journalism this week. Mr. Morrison had hold the position of telegraph editor on the Star for some years and will take up magazine work in the east and will be in Lawrence one day before he goes to his new work.
New System of Grading In Force Next Semester
Letters Will Replace Figures
—Values Are Indefinite
The Cause
A resolution, passed last November by the Senate, on changing of the grade system, will go into effect the end of this semester.
The old "1", II, and III" method or grading will be replaced by the letter system, with four divisions of grades, instead of three and one. The older system was the "while" and "I and F" signify "incomplete" and "failure." As under the old system no definite percentage has been assigned the four letters, the plan to adapt the students to the grades, rather than the grades to the students.
According to the committee which drew up the resolution, it will be quite an honor to receive an "A". The "B" stands almost as high as the "I" of last year. The percent of workers who did graduate and graduate work has not been determined, but is expected to be acted on at once.
Small Chemistry Faculty Handles 650 Student
The chemistry department of the University is feeling the effects of the war more keenly than any other department, as both chemicals and laboratory apparatus are hard to obtain and the price is higher. As a result the department has been forced to spend more money than ever before to obtain the same amount of equipment.
In turn fees are higher to the students but according to Prof. E.H. S. Bailey, this increase will be made as small as possible.
The war also has drawn heavily upon the faculty. Nine former instructors are in service, all being engaged in chemical work connected with war supplies. "Chemistry is running the war," says Professor and when the Government needs a man, we cannot hold him back."
Even with this decreased faculty there are twenty per cent more students taking the work than were expected. Even five hundred students are enrolled.
K. U. Graduate Appointed To Aid in Food Campaign
Scott Johnson received an appointment yesterday from the department of agriculture to assist in the campgrounds and work with Mr. Johnson will take up this work the first of October and will receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars a year and expenses. Mr. Johnson is the assistant in the department of entomology.
One-thirty sleepers are fast becoming a habit on the Hill. These are not somnambulists. They are weary students who burn midnight oil, go to the library, and to classes all morning, eat their lunch in one bite and then hasten to badly ventilated rooms and listen to sleepy-voiced instructors dole out information concerning the psychology of yawning.
"Women might knit in class," he said, "but what can we poor professor do? Talking gets of monotonous doesn't keep me awake and more."
All the graduate students of the department of entomology except two are assisting the department of agriculture in this work. The demand for entomologists is great now and the enrollment in the department is larger than usual. It follows that a faculty of entomology, has two other places of a similar nature to he filled but as yet has found no one qualified to fill them.
Can it be remedied? That students are not the only ones who suffer is evidenced by the fact that one professors suggested abolishing all afternoon work.
He will work on cereal crops and will be stationed for the present in Kansas. He is making an extensive inventory of wheat on the market on wheat, barley and other cereals.
Profs and Students Sleep at One-Thirty
Military Drill Chances Grow as U. S. Officer Is Assigned to K. U
Senate Will Meet Tomorrow
Take Definite Action
On Training
The chances for military drill being given at the University this year improved in considerable Saturday with the announcement that Maj. George W. Martin, U. S. A., retired, has been detailed to K. U. as professor of military science and tactics. No word of the arrangement had been received late today by University officials. Mr. Martin's Strong said he knew of no change in the prospect for military drill. The information of major Martin's appointment was received in Lawrence in news dispatches from Washington.
The University Senate which meets tomorrow afternoon will take up the military training question and probably will make a definite announcement. Whether credit will given for this is not certain, but compulsory is a matter of considerable debate among the hill authorities.
The announcement is official and probably is a result of a recent request by Doctor Strong for an instructor in military training. The War Department at first said it would be unable to detail an officer for the work. Believing arrangements might be made, the faculty has been withholding final decision on the question of military training.
Doctor Strong believes every able-bodied student should be required to take drill work. Men on athletic also may also be included in the plan.
Student Loan Increased By Registration Pledges
Many Students Have Been Enabled To Get
Degrees
According to a report by George O. Foster, $4,300 of the Student Loan Fund has been loaned to students of the University since the founding of the fund in July, 1894. Only engineering and college students can borrow from the fund and upperclassmen are given preference. Three colleges made this year and other applications are before the board for approval.
One thousand dollars of the fund was given by James L. Meade of Chicago. This amount is held in trust. Other contributions have been made by classes and individuals. The class has read the list of donations with $342.50.
The total amount of the fund now is $2,852.50. Loans now outstanding amount to $2,632.00, leaving $220 available to needy students. All students will be given two years of students' graduation. They bear four per cent interest until maturity.
Students this year at enrollment pledged $160. No loans for more than $160 are granted, only $25 of amount can be borrowed in one month.
A plea for University men to enlist in the home guards, the downtown military unit that is being organized in Lawrence, was made last night after football practice by Coach Bean Olcott. The unit is being orphaned in Lawrence and the law enforcement property after the national guardmen are called out next week.
K. U. Men Asked to Join Local Home Guard Uni
To do his "hit" in France, but without any immediate approach to the firing line, is the opportunity that has come to Fortress Jones, e'15, who visited friends on the Hill yesterday. Jones will leave soon for France to install a number of powerful gas engines recently purchased by the French government from the New York firm of builders with which he is now identified. His home is at Needesha.
This method of protection of the water supply and other civic works is similar to the business men's regiment of Kansas City, Mo. There are only about sixty men in the unit now and the K. U. coach thinks there should be at least 125 men in it, with a Jayhawker representation of twenty to thirty men, since it will directly affect the University. The coach pointing out that the company being to be drafted could get into shape so they would have a fine opportunity to make non-commissioned officers and later try for a commission in the national army. The number of men enrolled will determine whether the company will be able to obtain guns at once or not.
K. U. Engineer to France
Kansas Grad Driving Ambulance In France Awarded Bravery Meda
Roy Stockwell, '11. Lawrence Man Has Been In Service Ten Months
Roy Stockwell, graduate of K. U. in 1911 and at one time secretary of the Y. M. C. A. here, has been in the American Ambulance service in France for ten months. During this time he has taken part in several important drives with the French near Vienna. In 1928 he played in the heavy attack the first week in September was decorated with a French war cross.
From Mr. Stockwell's accounts, the business of driving an ambulance is, difficult. Most of the roads can be used only because they run through the front of the Government day. When the trucks run they must go without lights, over narrow roads which have often been shelled by the enemy. Mr. Stockwell says the numbers operating over these roads daily are often running into the thousands.
ARTILLERY INSTILTS ENTHUSIAISM
He writes of his first experience with close artillery fire: "At 9:45 the batteries opened up. As we were almost directly in front of them, we had to be careful not to muzzle, great sheets of fire, and then would come the reports, one after another in rapid succession. They came so loud and so fast you could hardly hear your speak. It really was a great sight and even men who have been at the front for almost three years seemed to enjoy it. The firemen had to keep their pressure $p$ power and energy that it always raises the spirits of the men whom it is supporting."
A POISON GAS EXPERIENCE
Referring to the poison gas that the Germans rely upon to check road movements, he writes—"When we were within two and one-half miles of the post, Ned Townsend, who was in front, stopped and said to me, 'I smell gas.' I said I could not notice any. Two minutes later Ned stopped in mine and said, 'I can feel it in my eyes.' By that time I could feel a smarting sensation in my eyes and could smell something resembling mustard. We both put on our gas masks and started on. There was a heavy fog which, with the masks, made it imminent, point followed a ravine to the post and the gas always settles in low places.
"There was no going on as we could not keep the cars on the narrow road, so we stopped and decided to take another road much longer but on higher ground. It happened that we were compelled to turn our cars at a corner which the Germans often shelled and as we were turning the cars we could hear gas shells around the door. We soon got out of the fog and then after driving back for fifteen minutes or so, took off our masks and were much relieved to find the air again fit to breathe.
"Gas used to be sent over only in waves driven by a slight breeze. Of course it could only be sent when the wind was just right. Recently, however, the Germans have been sending it over in shells which are shot by the artillery at some special point, just like other shells. If a road or a trench or a battery is bombarded a gas shell which was a road or a trench is difficult and battery which is bombarded with gas is put out of action temporarily as the gunners simply cannot work in the gas."
FRENCH ARE LOYAL
Mr. Stockwell pictures the French people as loyal and noble under the sufferings which they have endured in bearing the brunt of this war for so long. The French soldiers are as courteous, gentlemanly, and brave to assist them, but lack the boastful arrogance which is so general of the American people.
Mr. Stockwell has recently applied for a commission with the U. S. artillery. His parents live in Lawrence.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
Dotzour Into Y. M. Work
Grover Dotzour, student in the School of Education last summer, has resigned his position as principal of the high school at Sterling, Kans., to do educational work for the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Funston. Twelve education stations have been established in the camp where classes are conducted every night in the week. Some men can neither read nor write men required to go to school for two hours each night. One hundred and fifty men of the cavalry division are studying French.
Men's Glee Club Tryouts Will Be Held Tuesday
Harold L. Butter, dean of the School of Fine Arts, is enthusiastic about the Men's Glee Club for this year. At a recent meeting of the old members of the club, it was decided to keep the club under the control of the committee. Every K. U. man who has a good voice is requested to tryout Tuesday.
It is the duty of every good singer in school to tryout for the glee club as it is representative of the best talent of K. U. The first meeting will be Tuesday night at 7:30 in the fine arts building at 1406 Tennessee Street. The choice of a director for this year will be made soon.
Byron Murphy, by the way, is nicknamed Pants. He reports much commotion caused this morning when he caught a dog in his yard and lady with the greeting: "Hi, Pants!"
Plain Tales From The Hill
Here is one young lady with the habits of a bovine, perhaps. She remarks in an off-hand manner: "Guess how many sticks of gum I've chewed this morning? Twelve and a half. And I'm saving the other half of the thirteenth for this noon. I just love gum."
Claire Dietrich, fa'18, might be termed a busy young man as busy- goes. Every Thursday evening Mr. Dietrich goes to Ottawa where he conducts an orchestra or two. Having nothing else to do in the meantime, he plays for a dance, then plays at church, and then sells Victrola music boxes to musical Ottawa. He returns to Lawrence Monday morning in time for classes on the Hill.
As usual Harold C. Black, c'18,
spent his week-end in Kansas City
doing missionary work on his auto-
mobile. He has it figured that it will
take three weekends to make a docile car of it again.
Sob stuff from the society desk:
Many were the farewell dates Friday and Saturday nights. The soldiers who had one else had a chance, they do say.
Clora Rigga taking Journalism
tutorials the following local for
publication:
Rusty Friend visited in Excelsior Springs, Mo., over the week end.
Bright youth in same class: "Swag ger sticks."
Miss Maude Elliott, c'21, is teaching school near Garden City this year. Miss Elliott writes that she has shot a number of snakes already this fall, among them a rattler with seven at-tails and a spider from teaching her pupils the three Ea's, chief ambition in life, she admits, is to shoot a coyote.
Scrubby Laslett, who spent the summer in Estes Park, has a beautiful, or rather several beautiful, fish stories he is telling his friends. With the stories goes a new casting rod he shows. "I wish I had some of the fish I caught on it now," says Scrubby.
The bill of fare was scanned and Albert ordered:
Albert Logan, c20, visited friends in Kansas City one day last week. He took a lady friend to a cafe. She ordered cantaloupe. He ordered "the same." The waiter brought the order. He pailed and said: "I can't eat musk-melon." The waiter told him he might re-order.
"Gimme a-la-mode pie."
"What kind of pie?" asked the too-
patient waiter.
"A-la-mode pie," explained Albert in his best queen's English.
So the waiter brought him cornflakes and cream.
Ames P. Rogers, c'17, is with the National City Bank of New York this year. He declined to go to roagern as the bank's foreign representative.
Elton Rhino, c'18, and Curren Hriechn, c'18, who worked for the U. S. Geological Survey in Montana and Colorado last summer, have gone to Pawhuska, Oklahoma, to do geological survey work.
Stanley Nelson, e17, is visiting at the University. Nelson has been working for the Black Construction Co., at Little Rock, Rock, Ark., as consulting engineer and is now on his way to New York City.
A. T. Powell, a member of the class of '18, is visiting friends at the Pi U house for a few days. He has recently been engaged as head draughtsman for the Grand Trunk Railway System. He will report October 3 at Camp Funston for military duty.
First Political Posters OfYear Make Showing; Only Two Tickets Out
Seniors Decorate Campus With Fancy Campaign Literature
To Watch For Illegal Votes
Herbert Laslett Will See That Election Is Properly Conducted
Conducted
The first political posters of the year appeared on the Hill this morning. Every nook and corner of Mount Oread was literally decorated with the light green campaign literature of the senior class ticket.
ONE SOPHOMORE TICKET OUT
Th fourth year "Home Guards' ticket, as the posters call it, splits the offices "fifty-fifty" between the men and women and assumes the military idea by shifting from the trite of the ordinary class officials and uses a following termiology: Captain, Warrant Officer, first lieutenant, Dutch Schoenfeld; top sergeant, Mary Nicholson; paymaster, Lena Rogers.
THE TICKET OUT
As yet only a ticket to sophomore class has announced a ticket beside that of the seniors. They have taken it in the field, that headed by Bruce Fleming for president with Rip Brady as candidate for Hop Manager.
Junior class politicians are still recount about giving out their ticket. The choice will be announced tomorrow and the up-weup will be an agreable surprise.
The freshmen have given out no "dope" on their political outlook. No ticket or promise of a ticket has shown itself.
All petitions must be in the hands of Walter Havekorst, president of the Student Council, by six o'clock Tuesday morning. Each must have 25 signers and be accompanied by 75 cents for payment of the class ballots.
CATCH ILLEGAL VOTERS
Steps have been taken by the election committee of the Student Council to that illegal voting will be eliminated. Herbert Laslett, chairman of the committee says that such a thing as duplication of votes or indiscriminate election voting in the neighborhood of the poll must not be tolerated. Lists are being prepared of all students eligible and these will be checked at the time the voting is done.
A division of the freshmen class to facilitate voting will probably be made. The position of the polls on the campus has not been decided.
Election judges for the different classes will be announced tomorrow. Students with a large acquaintance will be asked to act as judges so that there will be no possibility of one person voting for another.
Students May Study Wireless Telegraphy
Arrangements are being made to offer courses in wireless telegraphy, telephony, telegraphy and elementary engineering this semester. The courses will be offered in the school of engineering, and no preparatory training of any kind will be required for entrance.
Although there will be no credit given for the work done, it is expected that the classes will have a fair-sized enrollment. There are no fees. The courses have not fully materialized but it is expected that within the next two days information concerning the course be available. It is the intention of the faculty to offer practical experience to students who may later find use for the knowledge. W. H. Beltz, formerly a wireless telegraph operator on transmissive arrays, returned from New York last semester as an instructor in electrical engineering. He will be in charge of the telegraphy and telephone courses.
"We intend to offer work that will equip students with enough knowledge to become efficient operators," said Prof. F. E. Kester of the department of physics. "There is a big demand for men who can do this work."
Graduate Students to Meet
The Graduate Students to Meet
the Graduate students in the 2018
Administration Building at 4:30
wednesday of this week. They will
consider suggestions of Dean
for consideration of the work of the School
this year and choose the candidate
for election to the Student
Student Government Association.
Prof. W. W. Davis's Father Sick Prof. W. W. Davis was called to O'Dark, Ala., Sunday by the sickness of his father. He was announced at his classes this morning, that he probably could not return before Friday.