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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 155.
DRILL TO CONTINUE
TILL QUIZZES----SHAAD
Four Weeks of Voluntary Training Has Done Much for Discipline of Men
WANT REAL ARMY GUNS
"The voluntary drill classes will continue as now organized until quiz week," was announced by Prof. G. C. Shaad, head of the university military training command. "Whether he comes next or cannot be determined at this time."
Regulation Rifles Would Put More Pep Into Men Than Wooden Ones
The men are picking up the work rapidly, company commanders report. Four weeks of drill have made a marked difference in the promptness and accuracy of the men in carrying out orders. The men say, however, that they had regulation army equipment. Dummy riffles made in Fowler Shops are the nearest thing to the army equipment the companies have.
MEN ARE ENTERTAINED
Considers that the drill is voluntary, the men are the task very well under the warm weather, said an officer yesterday. Many of the 125 men who were accepted at the officers' training camp at Fort Riley were enrolled in the military training and drill classes. Their names were dropped from the company's roll. Other men in the drill classes joined the National Guard and are now drilling with the guard units.
"Compulsory military training at the University would be a fine thing," said Professor Shad. "Any one who is trained in compulsory voluntary drill classes cannot but be convinced compulsory military training at the University throughout the year would make a lot of difference in the men, physically and in military strength."
"MIGHT GET ARMY OFFICER
"IF compulsory drill were
stablished in the army,
a regular army officer to take charge of the work. The men would put more snap into the work and reach a greater effeci-
tion."
WANTED--LOTS OF TEACHERS
"In case military drill is made compulsory, the men who have attended drill classes faithfully this spring will be available as officers next fall."
Calls for Superintendents, Athletic Directors and Teachers Flood Office of School of Education
Men wanted for the teaching profession, is the call of the Bureau of Appointments to the University of Chicago to be a teacher make positions in schools over the state.
So far seventy-five students have secured teaching positions through the bureau. An equal number have made application to various schools, but only about one in three More than two hundred calls for teachers have come into the office.
"We have calls for superintendents, principals, and athletic directors," said Miss Florence Shanklin, secretary of Prof. W, H. Johnson of the School of Education today. "We can't wait to hear how military service began to be popular. Men who care to teach have opportunity to secure positions just now."
Besides the war, another factor that makes applicants scarcity is the law concerning eligibility of teachers which went into effect in September. Teachers in school schools must hold a teacher's certificate and an A. B. degree.
COMING FOOTBALL TEAM
WILL HOLD REAL PRACTICE
Coach Beau Olcott said this morning that he expects to get in one good week of intensive football practice about the last of May. At present the players have not decided whether they will stay in school, go home, take military training, or just what they will do.
Coach Olcott says that after the excitement is over he will probably be able to get twenty or thirty men out for one week of real practice. He believes this will accomplish a great deal of good in preparation for the beginning of the football season next year. He argues that difference athletic representatives decide to abolish intercollegiate athletics at the meeting May 25.
Museum Gets Valuable Books
"The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland" by J. G. Millail, is one of the most valuable recent additions to the Museum Library. The volumes contain beautifully colored plates of the various inhabitants of the animal world in those countries. The three volumes are valued at $120.
SIGMA DELTA CHI ELECTS
SIGMA DELTA CHI ELECTS
PAUL FLAGG PRESIDENT
Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity, held its last meeting of the year last night at the Pi Kappa Alpha house. The part and problems of the newspaper man in the present war were discussed.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1917.
The following were elected officers for the coming year: Paul Flagg, president; Eugene Dyer, vice-president; Lawson May, secretary and corporeal for the Quill, the fraternity treasurer; and Harry Morgan treasurer.
QUICK FIRE AD MAN TO TALK TO STUDENTS
Henry Schott, Formerly of K.U.
Comes Back to Explain
How He Did It
"His eyesight was ruined," so ran a ityame a cub reporter wrote.
The night editor took one swif. glance at the item.
"Was his earharming injured?" he asked coldly.
The foregoing represents a little scene on the Kansas City Times one night when Henry Schott was night editor several years ago. It represents, too, the effective and original writer as a reporter, then as editor, and in the last six years as a highly successful advertising man. Mr. Schott probably would have been a success as a teacher of journalism or English, for young newspaper men who never forgot the question of training under him never forget the question of fire, practical lessons Henry Schott peopled them with day after day.
Mr. Schott will come back to K. U. tomorrow to speak to classes in the department of journalism. He will tell of experiences in editorial and advertising work, and at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in 102 Medic Building he will give a general talk on Human Necessity." This talk will be held by all students and all students are urged to attend. Mr. Schott is advertising manager for one of the largest merchandising establishments in the world. Since he left K. U. some years ago he has had an interesting and active career. After achieving a good measure of success in the editorial department of a great paper he did a thing very few have done. He have been able to do. He quit the intellectual side of newspaper work and took up the advertising "game". His success as head of a big agency led to his present position.
The inquiry came quick as a flash. The cub reporter's story had scarcely reached the night editor's desk before that dignitary had spotted its errors and instantly driven home a lesson that the cub never forgot.
IN HER MOTHER'S OCTAVES
Mrs. Olin Bell, fa '92, and Daughter Will Play in Miss Bell's
Mother and daughter, the former as graduate of the School of Fine Arts; and the other graduating this year will appear on the same program tonight in Fraser Hall when Grace will give her graduating recital in piano.
Recital
Miss Bell will be assisted in the first number of her graduating program by her mother, Mrs. Olin Bell, fa '92. Another number by Miss Bell will be taken from her mother's graduating program. Mrs. Bell gave her graduating recital twenty-five years ago in the old Methodist church, then she married a teacher at the site of the present Masonic Hall. Miss Bell has studied under Prof. Carl Prever under whom her mother had one year's graduate work.
Miss Bell is the first of the second generation to graduate from the school. She and her brothers were students of alumnae of the school have graduated but did not take their degrees.
Prof. A. T. Walker, of the department of Latin, will teach Cicero and Caesar in the summer session of the University of Chicago July and August. He was an instructor in the spring before coming to K. U. Professor Walker will teach the first six weeks of the summer school here.
Stills Chemistry Still
Walker to Teach at Chicago U
Owing to a shortage of coal at the power plant, the supply of steam at the Chemistry Building was cut off last Friday and the chemists were forced to be distilled water instead of being distilled water. Distilled water are used each day in the laboratories. The steam was turned on again Wednesday.
The Student Council will give a dance in F. A. U. Saturday night. The may be hot," announced Herb Mee, "but I'm going to be there."
CITIES SHOULD HELP FARMERS GET HANDS
Establish Free Employmen Agencies to Relieve Rural Labor Problem
"The cities of Kansas should establish free employment agencies in order to furnish the farmers with help during the continuance of the war," is the opinion of Homer Talbot, secretary of the league of Kansas farmers. "The city will be a great demand for farm labor and it is the duty of the cities to help relieve the situation.
"Co-operation between different cities would be necessary to shift the workers to the best advantage. The idea of municipal employment agencies originated in the Iowa Municipality, League and it is gaining success now in next issue of the Municipal Magazine will feature employment agencies.
"One of the most important factors in winning the war is going to be providing an adequate food supply, and Kansas and the mid-west will be looked to for maximum production. It would be advisable for cities to take up such a role, but it would be able for farm work. These men should be listed with the free employment agency and in this way the farmers could be put in touch with them.
"All municipal improvement work, except that absolutely necessary, should be postponed until the end of the war to release as many men as possible from the laborious work as building water works, however, should be continued."
"K" BEANS ARE COMING UP
Favorable Reports From Garden Planted for Home Economics Canning and Food Preparation
The University beans are up in the University garden. That is, the Sure Crop and the Black Wax varietie. The University beans are just now being planted.
Sweet corn, Ford Hook lime beans, and chick peas are planted in the University garden, but they have not made their appearance.
The idea of the University bean crop is to furnish home grown material for the home economic department for experiments in preparation and canning of vegetables, especially beans and corn.
The Tepary bean will be an interesting addition to the garden, since it is an Arizona plant and has not been grown extensively in Kansas. It can be grown in the rich soil this bean is often raised on the clover crops the last 200 years. It is drought resisting and, if adapted to Kansas soils, should be a good crop to plant in dry years. When a plant is grown in Kansas that have set on ripen and after a rain the plants revive and begin setting on more beans.
The Lucinda Smith Buchan Memorial Scholarship offered by the alumna chapter of Pi Beta Phi security is open to young women of the age 18 and under. Applications for the year 17 and 18 will be received until May 24.
Offer Scholarship for Women
NEW BOARD IS NAMED TO MAKE OWL HOOT
Five Men Elected to Publis
Humorous Magazine—Old
Owls Leave Fund
Officers for next year's Owl society and the board that will publish the Sour Owl were elected last night. The officers chosen are: President, Raymond Hemphill; vice-president, Ray Walters; secretary and treasurer, Kenneth Bell. The Sour Owl board is: Lawson May, Eugene Dyer, Willard Hilton, Eben Mitchell and Ewart Plank.
Plans for issuing the magazine enrollment week were discussed and the matter left in the hands of the new board. Work will begin immediately contributions from the entire University, students and faculty, will be used.
The old Owl organization, that published the magazine this year, met after the meeting of the newly initiated members, and decided to turn the money over to Registrar Foster to be held for use, as a loan, on the Sour Owl for next year. This greatly will increase the interest in the magazine as, heretofore, the fund had to be stood personally by the students publishing the magazine.
Much material is already in the hand of the old board that was to be used on the Sour Owl this year but the war disturbed the plans and the last issue did not appear. This will be turned over to the incoming board at a meeting of both boards Sunday through Thursday, up of: Don Davis, Harry Morgan, Walter Havekorst, Warren Wattles and Richard Treweke.
COMPANY M LOSES 9 MEN
Orders From Fort Riley Ask Release
of Students for Offices
Training Camp
Company M will lose nine men who will go to the Officers Training Camp at Fort Riley. First orders received by the commanding officers of the company called for a discharge of the men accepted for the camp, but the officers gave them only a leave of absence, lost recruiting officers said this morning.
The men going to the camp are:
Byron McGinnis, H. T. McGinnis,
Floyd Couchman, R. T. Rader,
Boyd Ralph, Carroll B. Kell, Boyd Ralph, Rush and Virgil Orlarch.
The present total enlistment in Company M is eighty-nine men. Sergeant James Grinstead said this morning there had been no enlistments for several days, but that the company still wanted men.
The Way Us Kansan Folks Feel.
UNIVERSITY CATALOGUES
TO BE OUT IN TEN DAYS
"Catalogues for the school year 1917-18 will be ready for distribution in about ten days," said Registrar George O. Foster this morning. The catalogue will contain a summary of this year's work and the work to be given next year. The catalogues will be mailed as soon as they are ready.
Meeting of the senior class scheduled for tomorrow has been post-po
M'LUTHEON
Now that thirty men reporters have left school to go to the farm or to take a job or to go to Fort Riley. Besides the reporters, us Kansan folks have lost ten men from the Board. So this is the way we feel when we go to press; kinda lonesome. PI hangs around and the kids in the neighborhood come over to look on.
BAND WILL GIVE CONCERT
ON MUSEUM STEPS MAY 2
The University Band will give an open air concert on the Museum steps the night of May 25. Open air concerts at the University are a custom adopted by Director J. C. McCanlies. Last year, however, only one such prowess could be given because of bad weather. The band remain a week after quizzes and furnish music for commencement exercises.
Plain Tales from the Hill
HOUSEHOLD HINT NUMBER FOUR
Banana pests make a good substitute for a real, honest-to-Greeish shine when rubbed heavily and gently on the surface of the shoes. Lasts one day anyway.
Save and Conserve!
There's lots of whispering going around the rounds these days. It's all because the representative from the College to speak at the Student Day exercises is to be elected Friday morning and, they say, the girls are running one of their own for the job. The election will be between classes at eleven-twenty o'clock Friday in Fraser Hall and they're already lining up their candidate. That is, the girls are. Boys haven't said much.
Letters from the soldier boys at Fort Riley are beginning to arrive in Lawrence. And the boys seem to be asking themselves as best as possible
But you ought to come anyway.
When the war started, the French department of the University grew patriotic and started to do its bit. A class in French trench conversation was started. Interest kept up until last week. Then all members but one stopped coming. Not that they didn't like the course. But they had to go to Fort Riley. This one lone member expects to serve in the French ambulance corps and wants to know enough French to be able to talk.
Milton Nigg writes: "The food we get here is real luxurious compared to that we have been getting in Lawrence at the boarding clubs which were suffering from lack of funds. We are now working on the slightest detail, even having a wrist watch. The watches are of the Radiolight type and at night the bunks are as light as if a hundredwatt tungsten was burned. . . . When we aren't eating and drilling and sweeping and sleeping, we are going to K. U. reunion. . . . Going to get a piano and have some real music."
And here us K. U. kids who stayed in school are burning the proverbial mishiteoil and still eating sinkers and.
Clifford Butcher put in his application for the Officers' Reserve Camp at Fort Riley. His papers were sent to Chicago with the rest of the bunch that were never referred to. So the Reserve camp had to start without him. And in the course of human events he wanted a job. To help city jobs he took. Now he is on the Excursion team to the place of a near go out to Riley.
Butcher isn't the only one up there from Kansas, however. Glendon Allive is on the telegraph desk of the Times, taking that place Monday of this week. Harry Morgan is doing reportorial work on the Times and Darald Hartley is in the Kansas City Kansas, office of the Star.
For all of which the Kansan is proud.
When one gets to be an upperclassman one likes to be so designated and recognized. Which brings us to the point that we have to apologize for a certain little something we said yesterday. In issue number 154, which was yesterday's note, was written that folks sitting on the greenward wall men. But they were not. And deny the charge. All of them were upperclassmen except one, and he's the guy that told us about it.
Ray has been the possessor of a sore throat and a cold for two weeks now. Missed a few classes because she was sick, he profess to explain the absent marks.
ORMOND HILL WRITES OF FORT RILEY LIFE
"Smatter?" asks Professor Hunter or in words something like that. "Professor Hunter, if you will parade me in saying I, I wish to report to you that I have had an extremely bad cold and I've worked for the two weeks and have been unable to attend classes. I got in a draft and contracted this severe cold" responded the truthful Ray in his best English.
"Army draft or otherwise?" asken the professor.
Habit is a mighty strong thing when it gets a hold on you. Going to the library is one thing, and being excused from the dinner table is another thing. This lady o' the Hill frequently visits the library. And studies. The other day she got up from one of the tables and in a hoarse voice said, "Please excuse me." Habit is fierce.
K. U. Correspondent Pictures Daily Routine at Officers' Camp to Kansan
LOAFERS CHANGE MINDS
Rigid Enforcement of Army Discipline Causes Deluded Ones to Turn About Face
Living out of doors certainly makes a fellow feel fine and this three months ought to put us in mighty good physical condition—writes Ormond Hill to the Kansan. This is the first of a series of new letters from students using interesting happenings of the camp life at Ft. Riley.
An idea of the kind of life led by the men at Fort Riley can be had from a letter received from Ormond Hill this morning. By request of the Kansan, Hill has promised to keep students at the University in touch with the developments at the camp. His first letter follows;
To the Daily Kansan: Training work started in earnest this morning and those coming to the camp with the idea that they were on a vacation trip have decided by now they have come to the wrong place.
A bulletin from headquarters will give, a good idea of our program;
Revelleys (First Call) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:15
Revelleys (Second Call) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:35
Mess Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:50
Mess Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:50
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:20
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30
Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:40
Sergeants Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:40
School Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:50
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Study Hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:30
Retreat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:30
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00
Mess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00
Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:45
Quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:45
Towns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00
Saturday morning is reserved for inspection and drill on any points that are needed. We have Saturday afternoon and Sunday free. Taps on Saturday night sounds at 11 o'clock or the o'clock as on other nights. On Sunday revenue sounds forty-five minutes later than on week days.
They did not start us off on that program at first, as it will take us some time to get used to the work. After breakfast this morning we had setting up exercises about fifteen minutes and drill an hour and a half. After that we were given a short rest and then another hour's drill. This after them were assigned to permanent squad training in elongated oaths. We are due now for inspection and many of the fellows are straightening up their beds.
There are fifteen companies in the camp. The first twelve are quartered in the cavalry and artillery barracks. The last three companies are in the temporary barracks. The regiment are large stone building and look very comfortable. The new barracks are smaller and made of wood.
The grub has been good so far.
The men have all they want to eat and they certainly eat like a bunch of harvest hands. If any one does not get enough, all he has to do is to call the mess sergeant and he will fix it.
Living outdoors certainly makes a fellow feel fine and this three months ought to put us in mighty good physical condition. Sincerely,
Ormond Hill.
WAR CUTS DOWN ORDER
FOR Y. M. FROSH BIBLES
The war has cut down the order for next year's "K" books. Formerly about 2,000 of these "Frost Bibles" were distributed. Only 1,000 of them have been ordered for next year. Hugo Wedell, secretary of the Y. M. Murdoch believes the enrollment next year will be up to 2,000 books, even though the supply this year was not sufficient to meet the demand.
CARL VROGMAN MAY TALK
ON FOOD ECONOMY HERE
An effort is being made by F. R. Hamilton director of the extension division, to have Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, speak at the University. Mr. Vroman will be in Kansas City next Monday. It is hoped he may be here Monday or Tuesday to speak on food economy.
Prof. Evans to Wisconsin U
Prof. Evans to Wisconsin U Prof. J. W. Evans, of the journalism department, will go to Wisconsin University this summer to take charge of the journalism department there, during the summer session.