UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26, 1917.
K. U. Women Plan To Assist in Work Of Red Cross Unit
W. S. G. A. Outlined Year's Activities at First Meeting Last Night
Subscribed $50 To Fund
Students Will Co-operate With Downtown Workers—Organize Districts
Red Cross work for every woman in the University is the plan of the Women's Student Government Association for the coming year. The Council subscribed $50 for the work at its first meeting last night.
This money will be given to the Lawrence Red Cross Society and used for the purchase of materials. All funds are to be supervision of the Lawrence chapter.
Each one of the districts will be organized as a unit for the work as soon as the leaders and faculty advisers for the districts are appointed. The officers of the council will do this this week. All district meetings will be held next week.
ORGANIZE FOR WORK
Knitting probably will be the first work taken up since it does not require so much instruction as the making of hospital supplies. The Lawman chamber will be asked to furnish instructors for the different kinds of work.
RED CROSS WORK FIRST TASK
NUMBER 8.
RED CROSS WORK FIRST TASK
"The organization of the districts will undertake by the council this year," Katherine Reding, president, said.
"The beginning of Red Cross work will give a definite basis for work and will make the results of the meetings worth while. Some plan to take red cross among the districts in the Red Cross work will be used during the year."
Bacteriology Graduates Badly Needed In Kansas
"Before this year the districts were organized merely on a social basis and it was difficult to arouse enthusiasm among the wooem. The importance of getting all the women of the district together to discuss their problems was not realized. Other social affairs on the hill crowded out the district meetings. The council hopes for a closer organization of the women this year."
Altho there are seventy-three junior and senior bacteriology students, there is an unusual demand both in this state and in the east for graduates from this University de partement.
Assistant professor N. P. Sherwood,
head of the department of bacteri-
iology, says the demand for graduate
students is great. Because of the
scarcity, he had trouble getting two
instructors. /
In addition to openings in Kansas cities, many colleges want instructors in this work. Vassar was anxious to secure a K. U. graduate, a woman preferably, to teach there, but was unable to do so.
"And the department is busy at present because smaller towns all over the state that have no official food or milk inspectors, send in iced samples to the University to get accurate tests made." Professor Sherwood said. However, several towns would be glad to employ graduate students from other universities were able to secure some jobs. Wichita is only waiting for an opportunity to get some graduate for food and dairy inspection."
Spent Summer at Lakes
Prof. Arthur MacMurray, head of the department of public speaking, and Mrs. MacMurray, enjoyed a motor trip through Northern Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana last summer. Professor MacMurray tried his luck with the reel at many of the schools he visited. He also distance of 3,500 miles. He also spent four weeks lecturing at teachers' institutes in Illinois and Indiana.
Pharmacists Elect Officers
Pharmacists Elect Officers
The Pharmaceutical Society met Tuesday and elected officers. H. A. Skraer was chosen president; Miss Lourie Linn, vice-president; B. R. Nelson, secretary and treasurer. B. T. Johnson was elected to represent the Pharmacy School on the Student Council.
George Penwell, c'19, is back at K. U. He expected to attend Arkansas University this winter, but after arriving there, he heard the call of Mount Oread. Penwell was a member of last year's glee club.
Sam Slade, c2'1, was called home Monday by the sudden death of his father. Slade lives in Kansas City.
"Wear Rubbers," Say
K. U. Health Heads
"Wear Your Rubbers" is the slogan advised by the University Hospital authorities. Besides preventing colds and sore throats during this rainy weather, it is bound to save dollars' worth of shoe leather.
Colds and sore throats have been the principle cases treated at the Hospital since the opening of the school year, and care should be taken especially in wet weather, to prevent these minor ills.
Indigestion, caused by irregular and over-eating, is also being carefully watched at the hospital, since the symptoms of typhoid fever and indigestion are practically the same. Typhoid being prevalent all over the state, students are urged to be inoculated immediately.
Boys of Company M to Get Chicken Pie Dinner Before Farewell Dance
Home Economics Department Will See That Soldiers Are Treated Right
A big home-cooked chicken pie dinner for the boys of Company M has been arranged for 5:30 o'clock Friday evening in Robinson Gymnasium to precede the company fund farewell dance. This was announced by Miss Miss Elizabeth Sprague, head of the department of home economics.
Miss Sprague also emphasized the fact that reports of the hospitality and good times shown the troops in other towns have drifted back to the members of Company M and they lack that personal interest, and have little chance to quarter a university town in vacation, was just the same as home.
Captain Jones said that the soldiers more than appreciated the idea of a chicken pie dinner. Members of the company still have a slight recollection of how chicken pie tastes, he said.
Students and faculty members of the department are to prepare and serve the dinner, but the department must be assisted with the expense so a subscription is being taken today. The more money contributed the more the soldier boys will have to eat.
The dinner will be served on the first floor of Robinson Gymnasium.
Old Glory To Adorn Gym
Good Music And Polished Floor Will Add To Enjoyment Of Dancers
The Stars and Stripes are to fly from every corner of Robinson Gymnasium Friday night when the students and faculty members of the University gather there for a farewell dance for Company M. The soldiers of Company M have charge of decorations and will adorn the gymnasium with red, white and blue bunting with the Stars and Stripes occupying the principal position in the hall.
Tickets for the dance were put on sale this morning, and may be obtained from Walter Havelkorst, president of the Men's Student Council; Captain Frank Jones, or other membursed officers; Gymnasium; or from Lawson May and John Montgomery at the Kansan office.
A soldier's tent, with a stack of arms in front, will be placed at one end of the floor, while refreshments will be sold at the other end by members of the company for the benefit of the company fund. All of the money earned from the dance will be added to the company fund.
The men of Company M are puzzled. They can understand why they are short of clothing and ordinance, but they always have held the opinion that their Uncle Sammy was the little task using lending money that a little task with mobilizing a national army would not seriously affect his nookbook.
No pay has been received since the mobilization of the company, August 5. Every man in the organization is "broke," and has borrowed as much or more than his pay amounts to, according to the men. They are getting anxious for their pay, and catch eager at faint rumors that a paymaster is on his way to Lawrence with money. But all rumors to date, like most army rumors, are only rumors, and in the meantime the men are waiting, and wondering, and wishing.
Soldiers Have Not Been Paid Since Mobilizing. August 5
No Pay For Company M
Time Changes Subject Matter!
FROM SOUP TO NUTS: 3000 YEARS
Howard T. Hill has been secured as assistant professor in the department of public speaking to succeed Odis H. Burns, who has taken up Y. M. work at Fort Riley. Mr. Hill is well known at K. U. since he held his present position from 1913 until he left in 1916 to study law in Chicago. He received a B. S. degree from Iowa State College in 1910.
K. U. Exchange Pays Students
The University book exchange in Fraser Hall will be open Friday and Saturday for the money on the books sold and to sold books. All students must get their books on these two days.
Action On Graft Must Wait Until Election of New Members of Council
Meeting With Authorities Last Night Brought No
The greatest good for the students, is the aim of the action to eliminate the graft that has characterized the conduct of student affairs for the past few years. At this time when economy is the key note of every move wherein something might be saved and students attending colleges this year are at a greater disadvantage than ever before in avoiding unnecessary and heavy expenses, the Student Council feels that it was its social affairs by making the expenses of the social affairs by making the excessive profits of the officers and promoters. Salaries of officers may be lowered or even done away with entirely and the prices of Prom tickets will not be so large.
The Men's Student Council has been unable to decide what definite in regard to the plans to control graft in student affairs. There are several vacancies in the membership board, and we will be visible to wait until later in the week when these places will be filled before action would be taken. At a meeting of the Council with Chancellor Frank Strong and Registrar Peter yesterday the general details of the proposed plans were discussed.
It is planned to have budgets made out of all of the expenses of student affairs and all bills will be paid by vouchers through the hands of Registrar Foster who will be given full charge of receiving the dues from the students and supervising the paying of bills.
Hill Again Faculty Member
Many of the vacancies in the faculty will not be filled, according to Chancellor Frank Strong, owing to the decrease in the student enrollment. The list of new members of the faculty, as recently printed in The Kansan, is about complete, for this semester, and it is unlikely that this list will be added to next semester unless more vacancies occur.
Will Not Fill Vacancies
Thirty-Two Places Are Filled on Band; Others Named Later
Director McCanles Picks Hal of Number Trying Out For Position
For Position
Thirty-two places on the University Band were announced by J. C. McCannies, director of the band, this morning.
Six or eight more men will be selected from those trying out before the next rehearsal. Those men who tried out, but whose names do not appear in the program, will serve in the order of the showing they made, to fill vacancies in the band later.
A piccolo player and a flute player are still needed to complete the band. Any students playing these instruments should see Director McCanles at once for positions in the band.
Sixty-six men tried out for the bana his year, while last year a hundred men tried for positions. Director McCanles announces there will be but one band this year because the material does not justify two.
The following men were chosen for places on the band;
Gordon Musgrove, Jay Hargett, Walter N. Nelson, Carl A. Gray, Harold L. Hytte, Charles Koleany, Jos.H. Walter, Howard Haughawnt, Vernon Sorrell, Renee W. Howl, Hough, Elmer H. Bradley, A. O. Daneley, Jr., Harry M. Stucker, Rinal R. Oglevic, Guy Sackett, Austin R. Sanborn, Harold M. Goodwin, Ralph A. Davis, Roscoe J. Robinson, Dallas L. Convis, Davison M. Davisson, Clarence T. Weldman, Oscar Telegrlehner, Joe Dahres, Popper, Harold P. Shores, Hoyt L. Roush, C. Barnard, Stanley C. Taylor, Charles M. Edgerton
War Conditions Create Demand For Explosives
Triitroi-toluine and ammonal, two new explosives which have been brought into use by the present war, have opened a wide field of experiment for American chemists. The problem, according to Prof. W. A. Mitakes, department of chemistry, is not to overcome more powerful explosive, but to get a metal with sufficient strength to resist the attack of the explosives used.
It is said the charge used in firing a three-inch gun of today would destroy a 12-inch gun of the type used in the Civil war. Chemists are at present interested in the discovery of some alloy which will prove successful in the construction of high power guns.
Soldiers Sell Dance Tickets Members of Company M will sell tickets to the command's farewell dance festival, and also the company fund. Tickets also may be obtained from Walter Hawkorset, Lawson May and John Montgomery.
Soldiers Sell Dance Tickets
Annual Freshman Frolic
For Girls Friday Night
"Everybody out to the Circus," is the invitation to the women of the university for the freshman party Friday night @clock in Robinson Gymnasium.
According to Evelyn Rorabaugh, director, the annual frilly given by the W. Y. C. A. for the freshman will be a circus with all the earmarks of a real circus—peanuts, pop-corn, forsakes as well as freshman. Upper classmen as well as freshman are invited and big sisters are urged to bring their little sisters.
Plain Tales
A communication to the Kansan from one of its cubs in regard to the article to be found at the bottom of the Plain Tales column yesterday:
Comes now the cold, seathing criticism of the City Editor to blight our maiden efforts. We didn't know the Kansan sanctum from the chemistry lab; we didn't know the city editor from the janitor; we didn't know the top from the bottom of a typewriter. Did we get sympathy? No. We. We called down for it. We are said to slimly look around, to hunt and peck, to make him care and desire a life of drunkenness. We thought to help him, to relieve him of his many cares, to make his paper a success. But now—
Soldiers are supposed to answer taps and all other commands where they have to stand at attention. But our women won't be slackers. So every day we can see several of them waking with their soldier men to camp, where they wait on the corner while their men 'tenshun. Then when it's all over they gather up their men and walk slowly and sadly away.
Huh, what's the city editor anyway?
One young freshman girl caused great commotion in a boy's rooming house yesterday when she absent-mindedly strayed half way up the stairs before she discovered she roomed next door.
The crowd gathered. Someone hurt, maybe. Two girls leaning over examining something lying prone upon the earth. They pick it up. Put it down. Just move On. Crowd disperses. Just leave. The "animalology" department who have found a cute little dead snake and they are taking it to their teacher.
The newly formed sisters are getting angry at the rain. Because they have had to wear rain coats for two days or ever since they put on the ribbons of their favorite sisterhood. And folks can't see through raincoats.
The question now comes up for discussion in this paper: What is best for the grown man who walks down the main street of a decent, self-respecting village with a complaining ukeleeing to one arm?
The shower baths in Robinson Gymnasium now are ready for use. They have been repaired to such an extent that water trickles from them
Shall it be immediate death or a slow passing away by drinking from our cafeteria-community drinking cups?
The Sig Alpha have a new house, a regular honest-to-gooodness new house, but it's far, far, across the green. Thusly the said Sig Alpha have a nice big soap box out on their front lawn with R. F. D. painted on it, and the brothers receive just lots of mail, all addressed to the "Sig Alph Farm." "Sig Alph Country Club" and "Sig Alph Road House."
Herbert S. Beironet, c'19, spent Sunday in Kansas City.
The departure of the soldier men from Lawrence means much to our fair co-eds. And to other forms of amusement. A house party was being planned and mother was being asked if daughter couldn't attend a party this week end. Mother being well posted about daughter's affairs said that she didn't believe daughter could because the soldiers were going away Sunday and John comes every other night and Arthur every other night.
James D. Robinson, a freshman on the hill last year, is now farming aaar Florence, Kans.
Bernard Jensen, '19, has charge of three freshmen gym classes this year. Bus was one of the star men on the gym team last year.
Carleton C. Glasscock, c19,'le Monday night for St. John, Kauai, to visit his parents "or a few days before reporting to Kansas City, where he enlisted as an apprentice seaman in U.S. navy. Mr. Glasscock probably was the Great Lakes Training Station. He will be transferred to the band laver, and if he is so fortunate he will receive training under J. Philip Sousa.
Philip Banta, c21, left Monday for his home in Gueda Springs, Kans., called there by the serious illness of his father.
Council Candidates Were Chosen Today At Mass Meetings
Nine Vacancies Made Special Arrangement Necessary To Choose New Men
To Elect Members Tonight
Half of Nominees Will Get Office—Mignon Schell College Secretary
The men nominated by the College at 12:20 o'clock today were: Ernst Kugler, c'20, Gail Wilson, c'20, Ray Paramore, c'20, Elvyn Cowgill, c'18, Homer Hunt, c'19, Clarence Gorrill, c'18, Willard Hilton, c'19, Harold Hoover, c'20, Arl Frost, c'18 and Herbert Laslett, c'18.
All schools having vacancies on the student council have chosen their candidates for election to the Men's Student Council at mass meetings held yesterday and today. Because of the large number of vacancies on the council, special meetings were held where many men were elected as there were many women night the council will choose nine new members from the men chosen.
Mignon Schell, c'18, was elected secretary of the College. All were elected unanimously as there was no competition.
At a meeting of the School of Law at 11:20 o'clock the following men were nominated: Arthur W. Hershberger, '18, John B. Murphy, '19, Walter F. Zoellner, '19, John L Fogarty, '19, The School of Pharman E. J. Johnson, p19, for its representative, and its members from the School of Engineering, chosen yesterday, are Ernest Pickering and Newton Benscheid.
There were nine vacancies in the Men's Student Council this year and as this is half the total number of members, the men decided to give the schools a choice in their representativeness by appointing the new members as the bye-line designate. Half of the men chosen will be eliminated by the council, except in the School of Pharmacy where there is only one candidate.
K. U. Well Represented At Estes Park Meeting
The University is becoming noteworthy for the interest its students show in the religious organizations of the school. The University Y. M. C. A., having the worst difficulties it ever has ensured, defeated the war, had the largest delegation of students at the conference last summer at Estes Park. Forty men had promised to attend the conference before the war broke out and of those only one went, but the workers went out and secured new representatives.
Only two college professors attended and both were from Kansas. One was Prof. Arthur C. Terrill and another a professor at Otau University.
The Y. W. C. A. conference was held at Hollister, M. Again, K. U. had the largest delegation of any institution represented. There were over four hundred women in attendance at this conference. Seventeen students and two faculty women attended from the University.
Student Loan Fund Has $3000 In Its Treasury
The Student Loan Fund has to its credit $3000. All but $300 of this is loaned out. This fund, which is maintained through donations may be drawn upon by upper classmen who provide financial help to finish their education. Students are given loans for two years at four per cent interest.
The class of 1917 gave its memorial fund to the Student Loan Fund to be held in trust. This fund, which amounted to about $75.00, is to be used to erect a stone archway for the University. If the future classes, however, fail to take up the proposition of an archway, the class fund becomes a part of the Student Loan Fund.
All students were given a chance to contribute to this fund at registration. The Registrar said he did not know how much had been bledged this year but about two hundred and fifty cards were marked.
Students interested in securing the benefit of the loan fund should see M.
Kappa Phi business meeting will be held in Myers Hall Wednesday evening from 7 until 8 o'clock. It is important that every member be present.