UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 6.
Company M Ordered To Break Camp for "Parts Unknown"
Sunday Student-Soldiers Will Leave K. U. Campus For Mobilization Camp
Combine Two Kansas Units
First and Second National Guard Units Will Be One Company
Company M, the official K. U. unit of the Kansas guard, has received orders to leave Lawrence Sunday. Their destination is not known, but it is generally assumed that they will go to camp in Oklahoma, as was first mentioned by the men going east or to some other southern mobilization camp.
Along with these orders came thus combining the First and Second Kan sa Infantry regiments. Although this will strike some of the first regiments of the First and Second Kan in Company H, the Lawrence company, are disgusted with the arrangement, men in Company M are satisfied for their captain, F. E. Jones, outranks the captain of the Second Regiment company, H of the lieutenants of Company M. Lawrence outranks but there will be only five where the two units are combined.
In contrast to this the down-town company, which is one of the oldest organizations in the state, will be outranked in nearly every office and the men don't relish the idea of going with men they know nothing about. But the University company will be associating with a good unit, according to Captain Jones, when they are joined with the Salina unit for many of the men are college graduates and sargentals will be divided equally and there will be no out-ranking in the non-coms. The surplus of the non-compassioned officers will be transferred to other units.
Y W C. A. Meeting Tuesday
When Company M of the First Regiment is joined to the Second Regiment, there will be approximately 250 men and seven officers in the new Company M. Most of the men feel satisfied for the plan was to enlarge the company and not do away with it, or to fill it with drafted men. This would mean the addition of more than 100 drafted men to the University company, for there are only 129 men in the unit.
May Entertain Soldiers
"Our Beginning" will be the subject of the first W. Y. W. C. A. meeting, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at Myers Hall. Each member of the W. W. C. A. cabinet will make a short talk on her part of the Association work. Miss Esther, will of the department, speak English. She will speak the introduction of the cabinet members. There will be special music. Every woman in the University is urged to attend this "get-acquainted" meeting.
Thomas Crawford, c.19, of Topeka, may soon be in France doing Y. M. C. A. work under the direction of the United States army. He has applied for work as a pianist with platform entertainers which are greatly in demand in Europe. He is from the New York City Y. M. C. A. which has charge of the work. He will leave the University at once if called.
Crawford will be commissioned second lieutenant if he obtains this work, as the entertainment course is in charge of the army. He is a memoirist. Mr. Fronteraly was a student in the department of journalism last year.
Mr. Crawford has just returned from a fifteen weeks' engagement with the Redpath-Horner Bureau on a tour which took him over eight status.
Connelly Goes to France
Connely Goes to France
J. V. Connell, c19, is now in France and a member of General Pershing's staff, left front left at the end of the school year for Washington, D. C. His picture appeared in Collier's a few weeks ago showing him leaving a ship directly behind Major General Pershing.
University Band Tryouts
There will be a chance for those who have not tried out for band to do so tonight and tomorrow night from seven 0'clock in room 502 Franconia. These will be the last trouts.
The line-ups will be printed in Wednesday's Kansan. The band will rehearse in Fraser Chapel Wednesday evening at 7:30.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1917.
Blind Woman Enrolls In K. U. For Journalism
A blind woman, Miss Ruby Ricket of Haddam, Kas., is a student in the University this fall. She is at present enrolled in the College, and expects to take up journalism. A girl friend, obtained through the Y. W. C. A., rooms with her, Mrs. C., of her own written work on the tynewriter.
Miss Rickett recently was graduated from the State School for the Bishnu Kansai in Kansas and plays herself partially supports herself by composing music.
New Professor To Direct Orchestra This Season
The University Orchestra" should take on a new lease of life this year with the coming of Prof. Frank E. Kendrite, new head of the department of violin in the School of Fine Arts who will have charge of the orchestra.
Professor Kendrie is a graduate of Bowdoin College and has his master's degree from Harvard. He has had extended experience as a concert solist, teacher, and conductor. As he played first violin with the St.
PROF. FRANK E. KENDRIS.
New member of the School of Fine Arts Faculty
Louis Symphony Orchestra for two
playing here under his guidance should
Professor Kendrie invites all former members of the orchestra to come to Fraser Hall, Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock when the body will be organized. New members may come at the same time or they may see Professor Kendrie at the School of Fine Arts Tuesday afternoon from 1:30 to 4:30 o'clock or on Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30 o'clock.
Students Speak Well Of
Sousa's 200-Piece Band
When the Second Kansas Ambulance Company entrains at Kansas City Monday or Tuesday for "somewhere in U. S. A." the University will be represented by seventen men.
The few students who spent Saturday and yesterday in Kansas City returned with praising accounts of the monstrous Great Lakes Naval band of two hundred pieces led by Philip Joseph Schiller. The band played at Electric Park. A band of the size of our university band seems large, but one three times as large baffles the imagination until a person hears it for himself. The men have been so well trained that they play together with the band's members; this size was necessary at the Great Lakes, because of the thousands of Naval rockies drilling on the parade ground at one time. Sousa spent several months this summer putting the band together and training it and popularity has been greatly increased by the success of the undertaking.
The band parades down town each morning and gives two concerts each day from 2:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon and from 9:30 to 10:30 at night closing with the concert on Friday night. Some of the students are taking advantage of the opportunity of hearing the greatest band in the world, even though class work is just starting.
University Men Leave For Somewhere in U.S.A.
The men from the University who are members of the company are: K. W. Pringle, J. R. Foster, W. C. Anderson, Clarence Bailey, Doyle Buckles, Chester Thomas, John Crowley, Frank Ise, Kenneth Keck, John McClanahan, Glen Smith, Bruce Church, Ernst Stalcup, Wesley Childs, Fred Rewertz, Paul Flagg, and George Hart
Credit Given This Fall In Aeronautic Courses To All Kansas Students
Twenty-four Now Enrolled In New War Course; Women
May Join
A Mysterious Stranger from war times appears this week in the Kansas curriculum in the form of a 5-hour course in the elements of aviation. And to make the newcomer welcome and immediately useful, the School of Engineering will allow five credits for all students in the University.
The course in flying will be divided into three sections. The classes will meet at 11:30 each day. Monday and Wednesday there will be lectures, recitations, and demonstrations on the internal combustion engine and types of engines used in airplanes. This work will be given by A. H. Slus, associate professor of mechanical engineering.
Tuesday and Thursday the class will take work under Solomon LeFschetz, assistant professor of mathematics, on the mechanics of flight. Fridays the work will be on elements of mechanics, by T. T. Smith, assistant professor of physics. These two sections will go into the principles of hydrodynamics to help certain contours, the characteristics of monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes, and scientific elements involved in airplane construction.
The purpose of the course is to prepare men to be army aviators and to prepare men and women for work in manufacturing airplanes. The class will correspond partially with the university's ground" given the student in the army aviation schools. It also is hoped the course will be the fore-runner of a complete course in airplane engineering in the near future. The government has promised to consider the UniversityPublishing future aviation schools.
About two dozen men have enrolled in the course in aeronautics. The most of these men expect eventually to enroll in the aviation branch of the United States Army, said Professor J. C. Dennis, who is especially attractive to men in the College and about two-thirds of the men enrolled are from that school.
Preparations Point To Big Year For Glee Club
Jayhawk murmurs and whispers about the campus indicate an early organization of the Men's Glee Club. Dean Harold Butler, of the School of Fine Arts, will give the club all the assistance necessary to a successful year. We will send this week for all members of the Glee Club and those interested in becoming members. At this time a definite organization will be made and the plans formulated for the coming year. A manager must be elected and a director must be appointed. You will assist in the placing of a director and the general organization.
A slight misunderstanding sprang up last year when Dean Butler secured the Senate's permission for a trip during the school term. However, at the time, he promised that the club would have successful program could be arranged. When the time approached he saw that it would be an impossibility to make the showing that Kansas would be proud of due to the lack of men, interest and practice. A change of plan was necessary. The mid-season and this helped spoil the arrangements. Consequently the trip was called off.
A campaign to raise enough money to place a bronze tablet in honor of Lieut. William Fitzsimons in one of the buildings has brought enthusiastic response from faculty men.
"I hope that the student body will "realize what a great sacrifice Liient. Fitzsimmons made that it will be possible by student subscription alone to erect a memorial in his honor," said Dean Olin Templin.
Templin Urges Students
To Help Get Memoria
former Journalism Students Visit
Two former students in the department of journalism, Raymond A. Fagan, and Ralph Ellis c'16, have come back to the Hill for a short visit. Mr. Fagan has been working at the city editor and expects to enter an advertising agency soon. Mr. Ellis is now city hall reporter on the Lansing, Mich. State Journal.
Lieut. Fitzsimmons was the first United States officer to be killed in France while defending the flag. He was a graduate of the University of Kansas, receiving his A. B. degree in 1910 and his M. D. in 1912.
Farewell Benefit Dance For Student Soldiers Given On Hill Friday
They're going to dance next Friday night in Robinson Gymnasium for the benefit of Company M. It will be the first All-University dance and the last one for the soldiers who are being to be called any time to service.
Authorities Have Given Sanc tion to All-University Party to Say Goodby to Co. M
Crawford's Jazz Jazzers will furnish the music. This orchestra is a combination of some of the best dance music men on the Hill. Tommy Crawford is at the piano, Bruce Fleming handles the drums and cowphone and Shanty Newhouse will tickle the stomach of the banjo and syncopated satirical movements. That makes the music certain.
Price: Seventy-five cents which is guaranteed neither to break nor to make anyone. Members of Company M will have tickets on sale this week. And, of course, the tickets will be sold at the door. If you don't care to dance and still want to watch, the balcony will be open at twenty-five cents. You can buy those tickets, too, from the soldiers of Co. M. The seventy-five cents will admit one couch to the floor.
The Benefit-Farewell All-University dance is what the managers of the dance are calling it. Official sanction of the dance has been given by Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, and all student organizations are behind it to make it a great success.
The dance is to be a finished product of what has been wagged on all sides and in every town this summer in the way of pavement-benefit dances for the soldiers of the town. The gym will be decorated with red, white and blue bunting and the programs are neat.
Wireless Man Passes Up Thrills To Go To K. U.
It is a far cry from the trouble-hunted playground of the Kaiser's tin tizzards to the peaceful slopes of old Oread; it is a long call from the thrills of the wireless room of a transatlantic liner to the dull security of Marvin Hall; yet such is the recent transition of Willis H. Beltz, late Marcino operator on the Panama-Pacific liner "Kroonland," now a freshman in the School of Engineering at K. U.
Young Beltz, who is only nineteen, became possessed with the wireless "bug" while attending the Reno county high school a few years ago. With the aid of a classmate or two he erected a wireless station and soon learned how to communicate to the elements of the game. Beltz, in fact, became so obsessed with the idea of becoming a Marconi operator that he arranged to take a special course in operating at Valparaiso University immediately after leaving school. He left Valparaiso early in 1916, a full-time licensed and licensed S.C. on a wrist on the "City of Erie," then playing on the Great Lakes.
From the "City of Eric" he went to the "Dawnellite" and from that to the "Octarina," but he never was off the job. He was back when he on board the coastwise service.
Late however, was soon to begin in earnest for this youthful operator. Just at the time conditions between Germany and the United States approached the breaking-point, he was ordered to the "Philadelphia," then about to leave on a transatlantic voyage to English waters:
The trip across was without incident, but the return voyage was no more than started when the message was flashed over the world that the United States was imperative, as the "Philadelphia" was then in the danger zone. Accordingly a stop was made at night and the old ship received a coat of disguising paint before the dash for mid-ocean was resumed. After the ship passed through the danger zone after the declaration of war.
The submarine menace, in the estimation of Belitz, is not growing in spite of the most favorable weather and conditions for operation. Likewise, he has nothing but praise for the American destroyers under Admiral Sims and he says that it is the American who is always called upon in a pinch instead of the "lime-julce" as the British seaman is called.
Miss Hoopes' Condition Improved Miss Helen Rhoda Haops who has been seriously ill in Kansas City is now at her home in Lawrence. Miss Edna Osborn is taking her classes in her absence. Her condition is rapidly improving and she expects to meet her classes in a few weeks.
Fighting "Pi" Wants To Lick the Kaiser
Poor "Pi," famous Pi Upsilon dog, is to be put in solitary confinement today and all because he confines want to be patriotic.
For the past week "PI Upsilon" has spent but a few hours at his usual haunt on Fourteenth Street, finding either more desirable companionship or better grab with the Company M. boys. Pi has long been noted for his fighting ability and it is not unusual that he should want to go into the army, but the Pi Upsilon fellows think he is too young to decide for himself and are going to tie him up until after the local soldiers go south.
Plain Tales
No, Josie, Helen Forbes lover hasn't gone to war. She cries for another reason. It's hay fever.
They do say the girls take you right up provided you give them your pin and swear to be faithful.
The latest way to propose to become have seen those good looking posters the enlisting officers have placed at all offices. The answer, as uncle Samm says: "I want you."
Of course you read in the Sour Owl that freestay on the idealism of a freshman. We quote him: "What a pleasure it will be to associate with nothing but brilliant and brain people, all of whom are anxious to help a fellow and show him a better way to do it.
Well, he pledged Beta Theta Pi last week.
John M. Shea, superintendent of our buildings and grounds has been a mighty busy man this summer and is still busy. Every day you can see Mr Shea one minute in and around Murray Elementary, where he sits at the library bossing the painters; next he goes back to Haworth to see about a broken window; finally he is seeing what's what in the Museum and then maybe to finish up the fifteen feet of sand that he excavates and answers mail and phone calls.
Nothing to do but work.
Gullibillity, you're it.
Sign on baggage wagon down-
town: K. U. BAGGAGE WAGON.
Fresh as he approaches wagon
says: "I'm a student at K. U. and
I guess you'd better carry my baggage
as I and you travel to other wagon?"
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Two new jokes: "Seen Allie?"
"Allie who?"
"Alemania."
and
"Seen Al?"
"Al who?"
"Alto."
Two young folks were seen sitting on the marble bench west of the Law building this morning. They were holding a hardiness like hardness offered. 'Tee! Bee!'
No, dear freshman, those are the Senior Laws carrying their canes and not more civilians acting "sissy" by wearing swagger sticks.
Last of Rush Entertainments
After a strenuous week the rushing season closed Saturday with breakfasts at the Chi Omega and Alpha Xi Delta houses, a breakfast dance at the Sigma Kappa house; eclipse dance at the Phi Kappa house; dance, afternoon, exclusive of Alpha Delta Pi, and the Kappa Alpha Theta picnic.
The Mu Phi Epsilon sorority entertained with a reception at their chapter house Thursday from 7 until 10, for the new students entering the fine arts school and the faculty. An informal program was given, consisting of a solo by Mrs. Herman Olcott; solo, Prof. Downing and harp solo by Miss Dorthy Bell. The punch bowl was presided over by Miss Edna Roberts and Miss Gladys Nelson.
Mixer for Freshman Women
The women of the Freshman class entertained at an informal mix in the rooms of Mrs. Eustace Brown Friday afternoon from three until five o'clock. The time was spent informally, many college songs were learned. Miss Jones, of the German department, poured tea.
Chancellor Confers on Income Bill
Chancellor Frank Strong is in Topeka today attending a meeting of the state board of administration. Plans for boosting the Permanent Income Bill movement will be "the main topic for discussion at the meeting," said Mr. Blank, a leader of people of the state at the next state election, having been passed by the state legislature last winter.
Margaret Heizer, who has been visiting at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house during rush week, has returned to her home in Osage City.
Council Will Elect TenNew Members To Fill Vacancies
Walter Havekorst, Calls Mass Meetings of Schools, to Choose Candidates
Freshman Caps In Vogue
Committee Appointed to Confer With Authorities On Student Graft
Presidents of the various schools are asked to call mass meetings of their respective schools Tuesday or Wednesday of this week to fill vacancies in the Men's Student Council. Ten representatives will be chosen from the College, two from the School of Engineering, four from the School of Law, and two from the School of Pharmacy. Candidates must nominate five candidates for thirty-five signers before 6 o'clock Wednesday night as the new members will be chosen at the meeting that night.
Walter Havekorst,
President
The Men's Student Council has issued a call for a special election in all the schools, except the School of Medicine, to fill the places left vacant by members of the council not returning to school.
The president or presiding officer of each school is asked to call a mass meeting of his school either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week to elect men to fill the vacancies. Two men will be selected for each vacancy and the council will choose one of the two. NINE VACANCES TO EUL.
VACANCES TO PULL
The by-laws of the Men's Student Council provide that vacancies shall be filled by the council itself, but due to the need of members of the council did not return to school a special election has been called. Each school will choose twice as many men as there are vacancies in that school and the council will select its members from these men.
There are five vacancies from the College, two from the School of Law, one from the School of Pharmacy, and one from the School of Engineering. Each candidate must file a petition with twenty-five signers with the council before the time set for the election by the school president.
FRESHMEN MUST WEAR CAPS
At the meeting Saturday morning the council decided that freshman caps should be worn this year as usual and that the ruling of the University Senate against paddling will not stop the freshman cap tradition. The date to commence wearing them will be announced later.
A committee composed of Walter Hawekorset, Rudolph Uhrlaub and Walter Raymond was appointed to confer with Chancellor Frank Strong and Registrar George O. Foster to formulate a plan for imitation of graft in student activities.
The Chancellor and Registrar were given power by the Board of Administration to make rules doing away with excessive profit in student affairs. The work of this committee will be made public before the class elections, which will be held Friday, October 5.
TO BOOST GOLF COURSE
Herbert Mee and Rudolph Uhrlaub were appointed as a committee to perform plans to establish a University golf course. There has been much agitation among students and members of the faculty the last two years to return to school because of a movement has no head. According to the by-laws, Rudolph Uhrlaub was advanced from secretary and treasurer to vice president because of the vacancy left by Dorman O'Leary not returning to school. Herbert Mee was appointed to the committee. The ten members not returning to school all are in military service.
Members of the council in school are Walter Havekorst, president; Rudolph Uhrlaub, vice-president; Herbert Mee, secretary and treasurer; Joe Pratt and Walter Raymond from the School of Engineering, from the School of Engineering, and Merle Ruble from the School of Medicine.
Lucilla Groberty, who has been visiting at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house, since Wednesday, returned yes, as soon as vacation, where she is teaching this year.
Blanche Mullen, of Hutchinson, spent Saturday and Sunday at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.