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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NATIONAL GUARD UNITS ORDERED TO MOBOLIZE
NUMBER 156.
War Department Advises Governor Capper That Troops Must be Ready
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1017.
CAMPS TO BE OPENED SOON
Captain Jones of Co. M Thinks Local Organization Will be Called Early
Official orders from the War Department to send the Kansas National Guard to a training camp in the South August 5 were received by Governor Capper today. In order that Company M, the University's National Guard organization, may be ready to leave for the training camp in the South August 5, if will be necessary and the armory in Robinson Gymnasium early next month, said Captain Jones this morning.
PROBABLY EARLY MOBOLIZATION
Probably ten days before the entire Kansas Guard is mobilized at Fort Riley to be fully equipped and muscular. The Gymnasium will assemble at Robinson Gymnasium and make an effort to fill its ranks up to full war strength of 150 men. The entire Gymnasium will be mobilized and trained by M, and all the men will live there.
PROBLEM EARLY NORMALIZATION Last Company is demanding orders to mobilize its 19th force for Fort Riley June 23. Because of the urgency of the situation last summer, the troops were ordered to the Mexican border July 7. Captain Jones thinks it entirely probable that the entire Kansas Guard will be assembled at Fort Riley at least a month before it is ordered to the training camps in the South. It will require a month, he thinks, to fully equip and man all the regiments. This will make it necessary for Company M to assemble his troops. If this proves to be the case, the guardmen will not be home long enough to assist with the harvest. This has been given as a reason why the Kansas troops were the last to be called to the colors.
The government has issued orders permitting the various National Guard units throughout the state to recruit to full war strength. Combat units may be swapped for strength of 100 men. Moreover, several men were discharged in order that they might take the officers' training at Fort Riley. Company M is also faced by a shortage of equipment. Only about one-third of the force is necessary for the company at war strength is now on hand at the armory.
MORE TRAINING IN SOUTH
By sending the guardsmen to the training camps in the South they can be trained and used in maneuvers all winter long where weather conditions might interfere materially if the camps were in the North.
Under the present plan, the National Guard and Regular Army will be fully equipped and trained by early spring. It is pointed out that from the Army will come the First detachments sent to Europe.
HAS REAL WORK TO DO
Governor Capper Recognizes Great Need and Sets May 20 as Y. M. C. A. Sunday
Sunday, May 20, has been proclaimed as Kansas Y. M. C. A. day by Governor Arthur Capper. On this day he has asked ministers of the state to make special mention of Association work and Association needs, with a view to arousing widespread public interest and support.
The immediate need of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. is $3,000,000 to build buildings and furnish all facilities and secretaries to carry on the work of providing the needs of the enlisted men in the camps. Of this amount Kansas must raise $75,000. Governor Capper's proclamation is a recognition of the work.
Figures give what an army of a million men will require: 200 wooden association buildings; 1,000 experienced secretaries; 200 pianos and players; 200 moving picture machines, 288,000 feet of film daily, 200 graphophones, 10,000 records, 3,000,000 sheets of writing paper daily, 10,000 pens a day, barrels of ink, and magazines by the hundred tons.
President Wilson has referred to the Y. M. C. A. as an "organization prepared by experience, approved methods and assured resources to serve especially the troops in camp and field."
The entomology I class under Prof. P. W. Claassen spent the class hour this morning in hunting bugs and insects in Marvin Grove.
GOV. CAPPER TO APPOINT MANAGER AND BOARD JULY
The law providing for a manager and a board of five members to direct all state institutions will go into effect tomorrow. The announcement by Governor Cameron
"Nothing definite about the University situation can be known until the appointment of the new board," the Chancellor said this morning, "but little change in University affairs is expected."
SCHOTT TAKES SHOT AT DISLOYAL GRADS
Urges Successful Alumni to Aid School That Gave Them
a Start
"The surprising thing to me in the K. U. graduate is the apparent lack of direct interest he takes in the University after he leaves. He does not seem to have the feeling of gratitude that is shown to other schools."
This is the arraignment of K. U. spirit given by Henry Schott, student of the University in 1892. Mr. Schott, now director of publicity for Montgomery Ward & Co., with headquarters in Chicago, is here today speaking to students in the department of journalism
Mr. Schott is specific in his friendly criticism.
“There is nothing material on the campus except one stone bench to show the regard which the alumni hold for the school,” he continued. “The University is growing old enough now to have many men who have been successful in business and who should show their appreciation.
"I believe that sentiment will crystallize soon so that former students of the University will show their devotion to the school and the faculty by doing more than paying their alumni dues."
With this serious message off his mind, Mr. Schott found time to recall his student days and comment on the changes.
Mr. Schott and Russell Whitman,
now manager of the Audit Bureau
of Circulations, composed the business
of the audits, and a superior,
a struggling four-page weekly.
"We collected on Friday so we could pay on Saturday," said Mr. Schott. "It was hard to get cash. We could give plenty of show tickets we had for her, but bar there was usually a hack about my door when I was missing meals."
Mr. Schott came to the University from Leavenworth with a number of comrades who were known on Mount Oread as the Leaven-worthies."
"That always struck me as funny," he admitted this morning while enjoying an hour on the campus with Charles Dillon, managing editor of the Cappar farm publications, and L. N. Fint, of the department of journalism, who worked on the Kansas City Star together before the days of money last came to them. This morning they rehashed the good old days and their relation to the present. Mr. Dillon, who is recovering from an extensive series of dental engagements, thought worthy of comment that he had paid in theust before he had emerged from the influence of the anaesthetic.
Mr. Schott, despite his important position, longs to return some time to the active news game in which he served a long term. After leaving the University, Mr. Schott was general utility man on the Leavenworth Times for a year. When he joined Kansas City of the became city of the paper's edition, the Times. Next Mr. Schott established an advertising agency in Kansas City, and a year and a half he took his present place.
Waste Nets Profit
After accepting an invitation to speak at the University Carl Vroman, assistant secretary of agriculture; found today that he cannot come. Mr. Vroman telegraphed F. R. Hamilton, director of the Extension Division, this morning that he could be in the city to give an address to the eleventh-room or one thirty o'clock. As these hours would interfere with the regular class schedule of the University, Mr. Hamilton telegraphed Mr. Vroman that it would be impossible to arrange the lecture at this time.
To a Kansan reporter, Mr. Schott seemed still an aggressive city editor. An opening query was interrupted by Mr. Schott's "Where is your note from?" The book appeared and from it Mr. Schott's opinion of University spirit.
The waste paper collected from the buildings and the campus were sold recently to the Lawrence Paper Mill and netted a profit of over four hundred dollars. The scrap iron and old pipes around the Repair Shops were sold also and brought in mgrre than two hundred dollars.
Vrooman Cannot Come
LAW SAYS STUDENTS NOT LIABLE FOR RENT
Many Differences Arise Between Those Leaving Early and Their Landlads
Now that the end of the school year is approaching, some students are having trouble with their landlades concerning the amount of room rent
"According to the law," said Prof. B. F. Moore, "if a student has no contract there is no obligation for him to pay more than the amount actually due for his occupancy of the room. If a student has a contract and is over twenty-one, he is legally bound to live up to its terms. Or if he is a minor and the contract has been sanctioned by his parents, it is binding. A minor may also contracts except for necessities, that is, he need not pay more than for the time he actually occupied the room.
Several landlords have complained because men students going home for work on the farm or enlisting have refused to pay for the month or anything past the time during which they actually occupied the room.
"The same rule applies equally to women students." Professor Moore continued "University organizations are taking more moral obligation upon women students."
Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, when interviewed concerning the situation said, "Most of the women have contracts for the school year ending June 7. If the landlady asks that the rent be paid to that woman she would comply. Women need not pay any and after June 7 whether they have or have not contracts for the present year."
FRATS DEPEND ON FROSH
Serious Problems Confront Sororities and Fraternities Since War
Took Many Students
Maintaining / fraternity house next year promises to be a difficult business proposition because of the withdrawal of men students either to enlist or work on farms. Sororites and probably an increase.
The raising of the draft age to twenty-one and the order for all medics to stay in school may make it possible to maintain a house, fraternity hall or other place. The number of freshmen pledged next year will be unusually large. If the war continues no expenses for social affairs will be included in the fraternity budgets. Professional fraternity leaders practically the same basis as the social.
The Sigma Chis, Sigma Nus, Ph Gams, Ph Kappas, Acaciaes, Sig Alphs, Kappa Sigs, Phi Psis, Betas, Phi Pka Alphahs intend to run their school this year. The Delta Taus and the six members of the Ti Upsilon fraternity now enrolled have made no definite plans. The alumni membership of these fraternities help the chapter here if necessary. Help the chapter here with the new Alig Hca house this summer.
Legal and engineering fraternities have been hardest hit because they haw their members largely from the Alpha Delta, professional engineering fraternity, is enrolled in school now and only four members of the Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, have made any plans for next year.
LET SOLDIERS INVEST SOME OF PAY---TEMPLIN
Shricks. Business of all the sisters at home descending, clad in pink and white aprons, hair on curlers, and un-whitewashed skin of the natural variety. "Any for我? Any for me? Me? Me? ME?"
Porch of sorority house at K. U.
Arrival of postman, panting and breathless. Drops huge mail bag,
overflowing with fat letters, post-marked Ft. Riley, and wearily mops his brow.
SCENE II
The sisters go inside. Those with letters read them, while the others console themselves with the morning paper, or playing "What makes you make those thirty eyes at me, when they don't-mean what-they say," and say things like these, between times: "Well, when Jack does write." I
SCENE I
Sister getting there first grabs the bundle, and proceeds to distribute while the others hover near. "That's al," announces the distributing sister metaphorically, holding up the last letter, and having reserved one for herself.
A psychologist, if present, would make notes of joy, triumph, doubt, uncertainty, gloom, anger, jealousy, and revenge, on the faces around him.
Dean of College Suggests Legislation to Do Away With Waste on Pay Day
Government loans for soldiers, as a means of investing their pay, is the suggestion for bettering the conditions of pay day in camps which Dean Templin has made to Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the committee on expenditures in the department of justice.
College Soldiers Work While Fair Women Weep
"There is nothing new in this. Everybody who has been around military quarters knows it. The question is whether something can not be done and I am writing to suggest something.
duplicate
Tempii, Templai says in his letter:
"Dr. Nismith, our physical director,
who was on the border with the boys
last year, says that 'pay day is the
devil's time—the army would be
better if there were no pay day."
Return to Present Series of Thre Outdoor Plays in Summer Session Engagement
Senator Borah says in his reply: "I thank you for your letter. Something of this kind might possibly be done but I should think it would not happen." He then still seeking recruits. It would seem to me, perhaps, to discourage any fellows who might want to handle their own money. Later it might be entirely practicable and certainly would be wise to do something of that type, but it could be in mind and I shall talk with some of the army officials about it."
COBURN PLAYERS TO COME
"Let there be a legislation making it possible for the boys to buy a government loan, a dollar or more at a time. In England the newsbys and everybody else can invest as little as a penny in the form of a stamp which is stuck into a book and when the amount accumulated reaches a certain sum, it is exchanged for some other money." Can't sell this sort be done and opportunity provided at recreational headquarters for investing any portion of the month's pay in what is in effect a government bond?
"Won't you please think seriously
you think well of it, be
getting it," he thinks.
Dean Sayre of the School of Pharmacy attended a meeting of the State Pharmaceutical Association at Topena Tuesday and Wednesday. He had spoken on the improvement in quality of medicinal agents since the enactment of the Food and Drugs Act. A paper was read by Mr. Congdon giving statistics of the work of the development of analysis in the University.
The fifth annual presentation of outdoor plays by the Coburn Players will be on the campus June 22-23. "The Yellow Jacket" will be presented Friday evening, "Much Ado About Nothing," Saturday afternoon, and "Romeo and Juliet" Saturday evening.
The public look forward with pleasure to the coming of the Coburn Players as they are one of the treats of season. They are brought here by the Summer Session of the Company to a meeting of all of their seeds go to the Company and the remaining money to the Summer Session.
Dean Sayre Attends S. P. A.
wait twice as long as he'd bled, before I answer it. Then the petilie blond pipes up, "Well, what Bill is simply punk on, writing letters. He just wants me to am not expecting a thing! Anyway, I am not expecting one before Thursday."
The others, having finished their letters, proceed to discuss war—and warriors. The unlucky ones leave the piano and paper, and go in to hear the latest from the front. "Just think," Mary is saying, as she folds up two letters addressed in the same writing, "Ed says that he scrubbed floors all his spare time yesterday, and that he got up at five-thirty, and that——"
SCENE III
Marie interrupts. "And Boots says they vaccinated him in one arm for typhoid, and the other one for small pox, and that he is awful sick, and that they have to march anyway, and that fifteen fellows fainted, and fell right out of the line, and—Oh! Isn't war awful?"
"It's simply inhuman. I know John isn't strong——"
"And they all have to wear wrist watches!"
"Eleven o'clock. My gracious, it can't be! I've got to go."
Meeting breaks up. Business of shuffling for the stairway.
PLUNGES IN POTTER LAKE
CEASE UNTIL NEXT WEEK
Swimming in Potter's Lake is forbidden until a guard can be stationed about it, according to the department of physical education. W. O. Hamilton will place the guard on duty the lake is forbidden until that time. All persons desiring to swim are asked to do so in the pool in the evansmarium.
A few people have been swimming
Lake. Lake this week and have
been required.
Plain Tales from the Hill
HOUSEHOLD HINT FOR MEN
Weather is getting hot. We've taken off our vest so as to feel the cool Oread breezes. Also, we have been forced to put on a clean shirt.
Don Davis was a busy little boy this morning. At 9:10 a.m, m. precisely he placed a glass case containing pictures of Helen Topping and her dancing pupils in front of the bulletin board near the entrance of the cafeteria. At 9:30, when he passed up the spice, the glass case had disappeared.
Wouldn't it be great to have been taking five hours' work under Prof. W. W. Davis and five hours under Prof. H. D. Harper? Uh huh, it would, they both have gone to training camps leaving their classes teachers. So when the kids get two hours of sleep the daytime. They have to take regular finals, but whosoagnon worry about that?
A little sleuthing revealed that John Shea, superintendent of grounds and buildings, had ordered that the pictures be taken to his office, and kept there until he said they might then been away. After hunting for Mr. Shea over the campus, Davis finally managed to get him on the telephone.
"Say," he asked, "what was the idea in taking away those pictures?" "How many times," inquired Mr. Shea with dignity, "have I told you not to lean signs and posters against the University bulletin board?"
"Nary a time," replied Davis. "But say—can I fasten it to a tree?" "Sure," said Shea. "Come and get it."
"I'll bring my gang," said Davis. That's how it happened that Donald Dwight, the latest editor of the Kansan, and Walter Heworker, president of the Student Council, were seen carrying the case across the campus at 10:45 o'clock. It was hot work, but they made it.
The pictures have since been on view under the sheltering branches of an oak tree.
Talk was progressing nicely. The Pi Phis were entertaining a few members of the Romance language department at dinner. They had come to one of the difficult courses, where it is hard to eat and talk at the same time. So most of them were eating. But one of the instructors, from Portugal, who teaches his native language, was bound not to let the conversation drag. He wanted to know.
"How many inmates have you here," meaning all right.
If you were a warrior, what would you rather be, a recruiting officer or a soldier?
At Riley they get up at 5:30 which is early, collegially speaking. And then they drill all morning and all afternoon.
They have a recruiting station to the National Guards in Robinson Gymnasium. Three men are the recruiting officers. Robinson, Grinstead, and Montgomery. Robinson and Grinstead sleep in the armory upstairs. And arise at noon every day. Montgomery stays at the City Y. M. C. A. He pulls into work about nine every morning.
And still they say every man has some doubt.
The University is doing its bit in many ways. The beans are growing in our garden. The dandelions are furnishing cotton enough to start a bandage factory. But what we started to say was that the faculty is doing its bit in furnishing speakers for graduation. To start young men and women of our great state off on the right foot high school authorities use University of Kansas faculty man. Chancellor强 went to Glassday today to talk at the commencement event expressing his public speaking department has been out all this week telling the young high school folks what's what. Prof. U. G. Mitchell spends a week at high schools delivering addresses. Other members of the faculty talk occasionally to high schools.
Doings at the Sigma Chi house this week:
Wendell Switzer of Topeka is a visitor.
Harold Smith, after spending a month at the Culver Training Camp. Culver ind. returned to Lawrence and he left for yesterday for his home in Kansas City.
EVEN WAR CAN'T STOP KANSAS--TIGER RIVALRY
Wint Smith Says College Men Are in Majority at Ft. Riley Camp
LOOKS LIKE A WAR CAMP
But K. U. Boys Have Plenty to Eat and Are Getting Used to Life in Camp
B. bits of personal news of the K. U. boys at FT. Riley are always of interest. The following letter from Wint Smith to George Montgomery gives an idea of the kind of men, the work, and a summary of what goes on at the training camp. Smith was on last year's football team and is a member of the newly elected student council.
Ft. Riley, Kas., May 16, 1917.
You asked about the work we are doing here. The drill and organization is just the same, except that here you have one more command in charge of each squad. The fellows crab at the meals and the non-coms just as the privates did in the army last summer. The non-coms here are just as those in the army—good, bad, and harmless. There is a lieutenant in command of every platoon on the ship and the oak saw service as a private in the Philippines and Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Each platoon has a separate room in the barracks, and school for the platoon is held there by the lieutenant of the platoon. The lieutenant has a desk, a chair, a table and an arm in turn. The assignments cover about ten or twelve pages of the drill or the guard manual. We are asked to commit lists of definitions of such terms as base, file, alignment, battle sight, etc. Our instructor is not very dexterous, but our instructor is quite cratic, for he usually decides the way the majority think.
There are 172 men in my company.
This gives the company nineteen squads, and it is so large that the first squad cannot hear the last squad respond. Only one man who can command the company and make his commands heard.
The personnel of the company is as varied as humanity itself. The club man from St. Louis, with his horn-immensed glasses, his kid gloves, and his Charlie Chaplin mustache, is here. He wears silk pajamas, and his name, on an embossed card, is placed neatly on the foot of his cot. He tries to maintain George Washington's standard for table manners, and so far has almost starved to death as he attempts to adapt teaching to reach and help himself and perhaps by the end of the month he will have acquired a code of table etiquette that will make self-preservation a little harder for the rest of us.
The college man, also, is here. He comes from Yale, Syracuse, Cornell, Kansas, Colorado, College of Emporia, Friends, Baker, and Denver University. My company is a typical college bunch. The fraternity men have enough pins on their shirts to noticeably staple them. One thing is noticeable; the men from the West wear their pins on their khaki shirts at drill, while those from the East wear them on the dress shirts in their lockers.
Every one has to be inoculated for typhoid and vaccinated for smallpox. They certainly work fast here—only they can get the vaccine. Two men in this company fainted.
I haven't seen many of the K. U. men yet. There are only six of them in this company. They are Jolliffe, Kenneth Gedney, J. W. Johnson, "Buck" Seward, F. E. Potter, and John Madden. I have seen Dick Trewele and Richard Small. Pat Pedroja is here and doesn't look any larger in uniform than in civilian clothes. When he presented his notion to the captain said: "How old are you, how very nice Sir?" was the reply. Swede Vernon and Jick Fast are in a company just across the quadrangle. Jick is still wearing a civilian cap, owing to a shortage of small sized hats.
There is a bit of good natured rivalry between the Kansas and Missouri boys. But there is one thing that makes this game so interesting is the name of Lindsey. They respect that name just as we respect the name of Simpson. Anton Stankowiak is here. He is not as particular as he seems to be, but he is in no way the name of No. 3 leagues and a No. 8 hat.
Bonnie Reber is here, too, and at present is out on the drill ground doing "squads right" and "squads left" in his shirt sleeves. In the same company with him are Fischer, Richter, and Ford Coe.
Well. I must close. Send us a
Kansan once in a while. Wint.