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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Continue To Train Youth For Service Say Nation Leaders
Young Men In School Are Not Failing to Serve Their Country
Templin Sent Out Inquiries
Wilson, General Wood, Goethals and Others Urge Continuation of College Training
The youth of America should continue their work in the colleges and universities that the country may not suffer and fall back for lack of trained men and women, according to leaders in all branches of American affairs, in reply to a query sent out by Olin Templin, dean of the College, in an effort to ascertain the best course for young men and women to pursue in this time of international crisis.
Is a boy wasting his time by continuing or beginning a college education? Is he neglecting his best opportunity of serving his country by going to school? President Wilson, General Wood, John Wanamaker, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Navy and leading business and professional men of the country responded to the inquiries.
Dean Templin's inquiries were addressed almost entirely to business and professional men and not to educators. Educators naturally would advise a college education—that's part of their business. For many, the advice to the President and other foremost men of America to the boys of America:
SCHOOLS AS USUAL—WILSON
"It would seriously impair America's prospects of success in this war if the supply of highly trained men were unnecessarily diminished," President Wilson writes. "There will be need to expand the number of expert in the various fields of applied science than ever before I therefore have no hesitation in urging colleges and technical schools to endeavor to maintain their courses as far as possible on the usual basis. I would particularly urge upon the young people who are leaving our high schools that as many of them as can avail themselves this year of the opportunities offered by the end that the country may not lack an adequate supply of trained men and women."
Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and chairman of the advisory commission of the Council of National Defense, joins with Hollie Godfrey, chairman of the College of Engineering and engineering, in declaring that "The United States will suffer incalculably if there is a general falling off in the attendance at higher institutions. Should operations of the higher institutions be seriously reduced the industrial life of the country must inevitably be affected by war. The South suffered such a shortage of trained leaders after the Civil War. The effects of this shortage lasted nearly a generation. Colleges of liberal arts have proved to be the best producers of raw materials out of which fashion officers. This is the unanimous mayday in Canada. American colleges may be expected to make the same contribution Indeed, they are already making it It is essential for the country's welfare that a constant supply of intelligent and adaptable young mer should be turned out of these insti
WOOD'S OPINION CONCURS
"I believe young men in college and those contemplating entering, but who are below the draft age or who have not been drafted, should go on with their college work, at least for
the present." That is the opinion of Mae. Gen. Leonard Wood, commandant of the National Army Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas.
"We have drafted more men than we shall be able to equip for a long time and there are more men it included in the draft age than we shall want for a considerable period," General Wood adds. "On the other hand, we have a steady output of technically trained men in order to meet the demands of the war. Young men can prepare themselves to serve better later on if they are well educated and well trained to take up the different lines of technical and professional training encouraged young boys, who are half educated, from giving up their studies—this for the simple reason that we cannot use them to advantage. Of course, should a situation arise in which every available man is needed, then everything should be made available; a person is physically fit should go, but such a situation has not yet arisen."
LABOR LEADER SUPPORTS SCHOOLS Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has this national duty and his education:
"It is my opinion wherever it is possible that institutions and the training necessary for the highest development in times of peace and for the betterment of all citizens ought to be maintained in times of war with the least possible interference. Young people who are not in immediate military service owe it to themselves and their future usefulness to the world to take advantage of every available educational opportunity."
"It will be little short of a national calamity should great numbers of young American boys under military age leave college or fail to enter because of their desire to help in more direct fields of service," says F. A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York. "I believe our young boys who will continue their college work will render their country the highest possible service for the problems to be solved in the future, and they can evidence their patriotism by earnestly pursuing their college courses until they are called for direct national service."
"Go right ahead along the lines they had planned," is the suggestion of John Wanamaker, nationally known retail merchant. He adds that college men should take any military training provided at their schools and pursue "their studies in the usual way that they may be prepared for any call their country may make upon them, and at the same time lay a foundation for their life work when the war is over."
SHOULD TAKE MILITARY DELL Gen. GEORGE W. Goethals, who built the Panama Canal, said: "Until young men are required by the military purposes under the system of selective conscription that has been adopted, I think they should take advantage of the intervening time to acquire all possible knowledge to equip themselves for life's battles. Of course, while pursuing their studies they would be provided with military training as best available."
The provost marshal general, E. H. Illumann, has ordered the heads the drift position work and;
"Many believe the wisest course for such young men is to attend college and to take such military training as can be provided and pursue such studies as may best prepare them for citizenship. In reply, I beg to say that I concur with this view, but I would suggest, in order to make students or undertake any line of work which would interfere with the full and generous performance of the duties to which they may be called during this crisis."
Among other well known men who strongly urged the young man not to neglect his education at this time are the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy; E. E. P.Ripley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad; Brig. Henry T. Allen, Admiral F. F.Fletcher, Admiral W. S. Benson.
chief of naval operations; Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry and many others. The letters are being printed on a paper folder of the resident Kansas on application to the department of journalism at the University.
Two New Pastors Greet Returning Student Body
University students will find new ministers in the First Baptist and the First Congregational churches this fall. The Rev. Frank Jennings will succeed the Rev. O, C. Brown at the former and the Rev. Ross at the former to make the place of the Rev. Noble Strong Elderin, at the latter church.
Mr. Sanderson was graduated in 1905 from Oberlin College. He was ordained in 1908. For the last eight years he has been pastor of the First Congregational Church at Sandusk, O. Mrs. Sanderson and their small son will come to Lawrence next month to make their home.
Both ministers are young men and it is expected they will have a large following among University students because they both understand the problems of the student and will always be ready to advise.
Mr. Jennings is a Kansas man and is a graduate of Ottawa University where he took an active part in debating and Y. M. C. A. work. He will be serving as the presiding in neighboring towns, Mr. Jennings is not a stranger to the University and Lawrence churchgoers as he spoke at the First Baptist Church one Sunday morning last summer. He also is a graduate of the Divinity School of the University of Oklahoma and a graduate of the University School of Fine Arts. Her maiden name was Miss Corle.
Grady Brings Track Man Back to His Alma Mater
University grads remember their Alma Mater. Saturday Archie Grady, former track man, returned to Lawrence with the star football and track man of Collinsville, Okla., high school last year, where Grady taught history and had charge of athletics. The new man is Frank Lexander, a freshman who does 100-yard dash in 10-2. He plays in the backfield and at end in the gridiron game. He will enroll as a freshman this year.
Grady will teach at Gardner this year where he is principal of the high school. Archie was Varsity two-miler and miler in 1915 and 1914, as well as being one of the best runners on the cross country team.
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Twenty K. U. Profs Resign to Teach at Other Universities
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Better Paying Positions is Reason Given for Change of Schools
Better paying positions offered faculty members has been given as the reward for the resignation of twenty professors since the end of the last school year.
Geo. Putnam, who was associate professor of economics on the Hill last year has accepted a professor at Washington University at St. Louis.
Mark Skidmore, assistant professor of Romance Language resigned o head the department of Romance language at the University of Arizona.
P. W. Clausen, instructor in entomology, has taken up work in the department of entomology at the University of Chicago.
Dr. S. A. Mathews, professor of physiology, is now professor of medicine at the University of Alabama. Doctor Mathews was well known in medical circles in the West and has much research work at the University.
J. Wainwright Evans, assistant professor of journalism, has taken up work on the Nation's Business, a magazine edited by Merle Thorpe, former head of the journalism department.
C. B. Harrison, assistant professor of physical education, is doing Y. M. C.
Santiago Gutierrez, an instructor in Spanish at K. U. last year has resigned to take up teaching Spanish at Ohio State University.
Oisis Burns, instructor in public speaking, has resigned to take up $\mathbf{Y}$.
The resignations include the following who have either taken up teaching at other universities or assigned to take up other professions;
Hubert Wiltfong, instructor in mechanical construction.
Paul Tector, assistant instructor in geology.
E. E. Hartman, instructor electrical engineering
E. E. Harkman, instructor electrical engineering
Avis Talcott, assistant instructor of chemistry.
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The Women's Student Government Association has planned a series of district parties for every month of the school year. Some work to aid the Red Cross will be started at the first meetings that will be held the third week of the month. Every woman in the University is invited to attend. The place and dates for meetings will be announced later.
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Charles Hughes Johnson, dean of the School of Education at the University of Kansas, 1910-13, was killed in a motor car accident near Baltimore, Maryland, September 4. He was on his way back to the University of Illinois after a visit to his home at Chapel Hill. C. The man was mauled by a collision with a motor bus, according to eastern paper's.
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