UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NIGHTGOWNS FIND NO PLACE IN ARMY LIFE
NUMBER 15
Sob Letters or Fancy Sleeping Garments Not Needed, Says Doctor Naismith
CHEERY MISSIVES BETTER
Anything That Goes for Health or Happiness is Always Welcome
Many mothers and others are asking that question or will be asking it this summer. In reply Dr. James Carson writes, "I am very excited in the University, says; 'Send him candy and lemons, a good book, and if his company has a talking machine, a record of light music or sound, a cello, or send him sob letters or night gowns."
Doctor Naismith speaks from thirty years experience training university and college youths and from four months on the Mexican border last summer as chaplain of the First Battalion. He played basketball and has trained hundreds or athletes and kept thousands of students physically fit.
SOB LETTERS A HARM
"Sob letters and nightgowns were the most worrying and useless things the boys on the border last summer received from home," said Doctor Naismith. "Write that boy once or twice a week. Send him the home paper. He may not seem prompt to welcome home, but never forget he has an applause for home letters and the home paper. His appetite for sweets, too, is keen. The army ration, wholesome and nourishing, hasn't many trimmings, so candy is warmly welcomed by the boys. Homemade fudge or caramel candy something that doesn't mash the food, or anything it in oiled paper in quarter pound boxes and send as many of the boxes as you desire in a larger box.
UNCLE SAM THE DOCTOR
"Don't pack a lot of candy in one box. Don't send chicken, cake or other stuff that will spoil in shipping. Be careful with the packaging; little of almost everything in a box last summer. When it arrived in Engel Pass, Texas, it was an awful mess, for it contained a layer cake in which were imbedded bananas, lemons, onions, and a baked chicken, tomatoes, however, are always welcome.
"I am very much in earnest when I ask that no sob letters be sent to the boys. Also, if you know of some boy who has no one to write to him or send him cardy, remember him. I saw boys last summer who felt it quite a little that there was no one to remember them. They're all just big kiddies, you know, and they need appreciation."
M. S. C. REPORTS TO FOSTER
"There is no need to send clothing or medicine. Uncle Sam will look out for that. But small musical instruments are valuable in keeping a camp cheerful. Banjos, mandolins, even ukelees are good. Baseballs, any sport, always are welcome. Anything that encourages healthful play is good to run."
Managers of Soph Hop and Junior Prom Hesitate to Comply With Ruling
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1917.
"A report from the Men's Student Council has been received at the Registrar's office," George O. Foster announced this morning. "Other organizations have reported that they will turn in their statements as soon as they can get their accounts in order."
Nothing has been heard from Kenneth Bell or Frank Gage, managers of the Soph Hop, according to Mr. Foster. The report Bell made of receipts and expenditures of the second-year dance was not recognized at the Registrar's office. No report has been received from the Junior Prom.
KANSAS WOMAN GIVES
SCHOLARSHIP IN MUSIC
A scholarship of $50 for the benefit of a sophomore student in music will be awarded by the School of Fine Arts of the University of Kansas in September. The scholarship is the gift of the university to Wellington. It will be awarded the body music student who shows evidence ability. The fine arts faculty will judge the candidates. Friends of the University have given three scholarships to the School of Fine Arts the first said. The first was by Governor Capper and the second by Mrs. A. C. Stich of Independence.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansas.
DRAMATIC ART CLASST PLAYS
FOR PARENT-TEACHER ASS*
Members of the class in dramatic art gave a farce, "Our Aunt from California," at McAllister school last night under the auspices of the Parent-Teachers' Association. The same play was recently given at the Congregational and Methodist Churches.
Members of the class who took part were: Helen Wedd, Florence Hear Rosala Griffith, Bernice Boyles, Eva Hangen, and Georgia Bebe.
KANSAS SCHOOL HEADS WILL PLAN WAR AID
Chancellor Calls Meeting in To peka to Consider Schools' Service to Nation
It will also be recommended that all Kansas colleges include military training as a required course. All young men unavailable for military service or other governmental work are to be shown the opportunities the colleges offer them in training them for more effective service during the war or in the reconstruction period following, it is proposed.
Chancellor Frank Strong is sending out letters to the heads of all colleges and institutions of higher education in Kansas, asking them to attend a meeting of the association of Kansas universities. Frank Strong is president of the association. The meeting will consider the plan adopted recently in Washington by the association of state university presidents to make higher educational institutions more useful to the nation. Doctor Strong attended the Washing-ington conference, which was in conference with the National Council for Defense.
A specific proposal, made by Dr. H. J. Waters, president of the State Agricultural College, at the Washington meeting was that the school year consist of quarter terms instead of half terms as at present. This would allow students to do a year's or three-quarter's of a year's school and spend the remainder of the time on the farm without breaking into the school schedule.
Students pursuing technical courses such as medicine, agriculture, and engineering are to be urged especially to remain in school. The question of how athletics will be conducted, probably will be discussed. The Topeka meeting is expected to be of the utmost importance in determining the course of colleges in this state next year.
SCHOTT TO TALK FRIDAY
Former K. U. Student Will Speak on Subject, "News—A Human
Necessity"
Henry Schott, former K. U. student,
and now publicity director for Montgomery,
Ward & Company of Chicago,
will speak at the University at 3:30
o'clock Friday afternoon. The subject
is "The Art of Necessity." All students are invited to hear him. Mr. Schott will speak to journalism classes in the morning.
Mr. Schott is one of the highest salaried advertising men in the country. He entered the advertising affair as night editor of the Kansas City Star.
He has been making plans for establishing an endowment fund for K. U. and believes the alumni will support him in working out the plans. When in the University, he was a choice to Hartley Badley, former governor of Missouri, and of E. E. Slosson, literary editor of the independent.
The editorial board is: Editor,
Page Wagner; associate editor, E.
Pickering; business manager, E. H.
Schoenfeldt; associate business man-
ager, C. K. Mathews; distributing
manager, R. W. Davis.
Officers of the governing board are: President, S. W. Mickey; vice president, W. R. Neuman; secretary and treasurer, J. S. Marshall.
Sigma Xi Will Initiate
The governing board-elect of the Kansas Engineer for next year met last night and chose their officers and editorial board.
Charles Sloan, e174, has been awarded a scholarship in hydraulics at the University of Wisconsin for his work. The scholarship was given upon a competitive basis.
Sigma Xi will meet Thursday evening in Blake Hall. Besides the regular meeting, initiation will be held for the following, recently elected: W. Welch, P. B. Lawnson, C. F Sloan, Raymond Reamer, and O. L Maig.
OFFICER AND EDITORS OF KANSAS ENGINEER CHOSEN
Each of six societies in the School of Engineering elect two members to the governing board, which chooses its officers and the editorial board.
Y. M. C. A. HELPS 600
MEN EARN EDUCATION
Attendance at Social Events for Year More Than Four Thousand
MEMBERSHIP IS NOW 1,000
Largest University Delegation to Estes Park Sent by Local Association
The active part the Young Men's Christian Association plays in the student life of the University is shown in a report by Hugo Wedell, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., issued today. This year's report indicates a better condition of the local association than those of former years, owing to the broadening of the association's work.
The membership of the University Y. M. C. A, reached 1,000 in the last year. The employment bureau obtained work for 600 men, making it possible for one-third of the men in school, with limited means or no means at all, to obtain an education. The general secretary is also room inspector and during the year the rooms of 1,800 men were inspected.
MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED
Two hundred K. U. men did active work at universities. C. U. among university men. The attendance of religious meetings for the year was 3,103. More than 1,000 women and men attended the joint socials of the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. These entertainments provide social contact for hundreds of persons who otherwise would be deprived of all social activities. This group is informal and democratic. Also, 1,025 men attended the star socials.
Twenty-five men attended the M. Y. C. A. convention at Estes Park, Colo., summer. Thirty-five men attended the state Student Volunteer Convention.
GIVE OUT 1,500 HANDBOOKS
GAVE OCT. 1,500 HANDBOOKS
the association gave 1,500 handbooks to the student this year.
These "Freshmanables" are valuable information concerning the University and its surroundings for the new student. A thousand men were touched by a personal work committee of forty men. Character building literature was sent to all them during the year.
The Weather
Gospel teams conducted friendship campaigns among high school boys of the state and churches lacking leadership. Nine of last year's cabinets are going into Christian work; some are going to A. A. secretaryship and the ministry, and other administrators and engineers in foreign countries. A budget of almost $4,000 was raised, mostly from the students and faculty, to meet the local expenses.
OREAD TO GRADUATE ELEVEN
Generally fair tonight and Thurs-
day at 10:30 there and in west por-
tion tonight.
The Ex-officio members are Dean Dearle and Assistant Dean D. W. Pattera.
The college faculty of the University last night elected the Administrative Committee, which heretofore has been appointed. The members are elected to serve a term of three years.
F. R. Hamilton, Director of Extension Division, Will Deliver Commencement Address
An enrollment of one hundred is expected for next year. This will facilitate the teacher training work. The students of Oread have several advantages over students in other institutions, including more individual attention, better equipment, and access to the University laboratories.
At the last meeting of the faculty twelve members were nominated for places on the board from which five were chosen. Those elected were W, G. Mitchell, M. Allen, F. B. Dains, W, G. Mitchel, E. W. Murray, and Eugenia Gallo.
Eleven seniors are expected to graduate. "The work for the year," said Prof. H. F. Nutt, has been spent in "The University." The school being to supply training work for high school teachers, the Oread high school has maintained a very high standard of work. The average enrollment for the year has been sixty. Only a few students from the university are making up work at Oread.
The Oread high school commencement will be held in the Unitarian Church Thursday evening, May 31. The Oread High School tension Division, will give the address
COLLEGE FACULTY NAMES
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
WOULD-BE OFFICERS GET FOUR HOURS DRILL
Work Began in Earnest Yesterday at Ft. Riley for 122 From Lawrence
HIKE ON TODAY'S PROGRAM
Men Come From All Parts of U. S.for Kansas Training
Camp
After spending several days installing themselves in their new quarters at Fort Riley, the 122 Lawrence men who are candidates for commissions in the officers' reserve corps had their first work yesterday of marching in squads, studying drill manual, and practicing at semaphore signalizing.
It was a strenuous day for all those who have had no military experience, drilling from 6:30 to 10:30 every morning, but many of the K. U. men have had military experience either in the National Guard or in some of the voluntary drill classes organized here this spring. Company M, the company own organization, sent six men. All of them are men of military experience, and several of the K. U. men have been appointed as "non-coms."
MANY COLLEGE MEN THERE
The University men write of meeting many college men from Cornell, Yale and other eastern schools. These men chose Fort Riley, they believed because it has the reputation of being the best military post in the United States. To avoid going to the camp at Plattsburg, they came to St. Louis and enrolled for the training at Fort Riley.
MANY COLLEGE MEN THERE
"The St. Louis boys cuss Kansas and her laws," writes Wint Smith, a Company M man who went to the store to buy cigarettes. He found they could buy cigarettes here one of them said, 'It is just as I have always maintained: Kansas and her laws are a joke.' When he had finished I politely told him that Kansas held the habit of making laws for the United States military reservations."
THE men had their first practice hike for an hour today. The companies marched separately, and the men had a chance to put in practice some of the things they learned in the squad." All of the companies now have their rifles, but they did not use them on their first hike today.
A MILE HIKE TODAY
BAR EXAMINATIONS IN JUNE
Before Lawyers Are Examined, Certificates Must Be Presented to
State Board of Examiners
State Board of Examiners
The senior laws who did not take
the bar examinations recently will
take them on the 18th and 19th of
June.
Before a man is permitted to take bar examinations in Kansas he must present a certificate to the state board of examiners stating that he has studied three years in an accredited law school or that he has read law three years in the office of a public attorney. The degrees to be met by those desiring to practice in Missouri are practically the same.
Admittance to the bar is transferable from state to state when the transfer is made in a westerly direction. For example, Montana will accept a practicing attorney from Kansas without an examination, but New York will not except under extraordinary conditions.
A photograph has been received by the department of chemistry of John H. Long, 77, who is professor of chemistry at Northwestern University School of Medicine. Mr. Scholom of the College of Pharmacy there. Professor Long was the first K. U. man who studied chemistry abroad. He has written a number of text books, and recently contributed an article to The Medicalologist on "When Science Was Your Brain" Read." The photograph will be framed and hung in the laboratory.
Prof. Long's Photo Received
Van der Vries Begins Tour
Prof. J. N. Van der Vries of the department of mathematics has started on his tour of Kansas towns to deliver his annual high school addresses. Professor Van der Vries will speak at seven high schools. He will not return to the University until final examination week.
Brown Unable to Return
W. B. Brown, superintendent of the journalism press, is still confined to his home because of illness. His physician hopes that he will be able to continue his work after a short rest. It is not known whether or not he will return to his classes this semester.
ART DEPARTMENT OFFERS
TEO TWACHERS COURSES
Two summer school courses will be offered by the department of art and design. One course has been planned especially for teachers who are able to attend the University only during the summer months. Those who enroll in the course are supposed to have had some work in art.
An extra lecture course in design will be given along with this work for the benefit of those who are not regular teachers; be the regular teachers' course and will include work in free-hand drawing, water color, and design.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Face powder hasn't gone up but it is high at that. A good substitute for marygarden stuff or essence-of-theose powder is theatrical powder which comes in cans the size of a tomato can selling for thirty-five dollars, besides three longer, the users have found. And as good. This is a more refined the old method of sneezing in the flour barrel.
Mysterious things are happening over in the Chemistry building. Pale starey-eyed professors move on about to tole, least they jar something that might cause a blowup. They pour smelly liquids into glass test tubes and wait in breathless anxiety for something to happen. From early morning to late at night they work. And wait. Some day, maybe and perhaps, something will blow up. Then they will be ready for Germany.
Prof. Arthur L. Owen of the department of romance languages will teach Spanish at the University of Chicago during the summer quarter.
Millard Wear, Kansan Board member, waited until the last day. Then he withdrew from school and is now on a farm learning the first things about practical farming. He thought first of the army. Then he wanted to be newspaper reporter for the summer. But his last thought—that of the farming took hold. And that is where he is. Out near Maple Hill. And the Kansan loses another man.
You thought it kinda funny to see ten or fifteen students sitting on the greensward west of Green Hall yesterday morning, didn't you? We did too, thought at first glance that they were having a morning picnic. But we found that it was just a freshman class enjoying the beauties of nature and watching the little worms fall from the trees to the ground.
We're letting you in on a secret when we tell you that to keep their hair up and looking pretty girls use lots of hairpins. But violent exercise such as tennis playing sometimes pins loose hairs. And the hair falls down on your face, causing your hair unpretty. Fred Butcher has observed this. So he purchases a package of the things and has them ready for the girls when needed.
Ray Hempill did something last night that almost broke his own little heart. You see, someone called Raymond P. on the phone and wanted him to answer for some kind. But Ray refused. And six studied solid pages of Spanish.
NAMES ELEVEN DELEGATES
TO Y. W. C. A. CONFERENCE
The University Y. W. C. A. plans to send thirty-five delegates to the Western Field Conference at Hollister Mo. June 15 to 25. Eleven women have been invited delegates. They are: Mary Brown, Barbara Stevenson, Esther Moore, Gertrude Ott, Edna Burch, Winifred Ward, Mary Smith, Dorothy Sandberg, Evelyn Rorabaugh, Hazel Quick, Leah Stewart. Miss Anne Gittens, associate secretary, also will attend. University women who decide to go
University women who decide to go to the conference should inform Eather Moore, chairman of the conference committee at once.
TO ELECT REPORTERS TO KANSAN BOARD ON MERIT
The spring election of the Kansas Board will be held Wednesday evening, May 23. This is an opportunity for reporters who have done good work to get on the staff. The news team will be teaching the workers and slackers, and they are posted each day of those who did commend work the day before.
There should be twenty-five members on the Kansan board. At present there are only fifteen, leaving a vacancy of ten places to be filled. The candidates are elected on merit of work on the Kansan.
Chemical Society Elects Officers
The Chemical Engineering Society elected the following officers, yesterday afternoon: Jack H. Wagner, president; Rowland J. Landk, Clark, vice-president; and Charles D. Hughes, secretary and treasurer.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
DOLLARS HEEDLESSLY SPENT HELP GERMAN
Immediate Danger Lies in Our Failure to Economize, Doctor Ise Believes
IS ECONOMY A FICTION
No, When Nation Wants Men t Fight, to Farm, to Make Munitions
Fear of waste and fear of a hy-
teria of economy are mixed together
in the situation this nation faces to
day, and it is important American
think straight now on bread economic
says, says John Ise, assistant profes-
sor of economies in the University of
Kansas. The danger now is that the
country will not economize enough
Doctor Ise believes.
"History never has revealed an example of a nation that was too economic in war time," said Doctor Ise 'The man or woman who is eager to help whip Germany can do it best by saving in every way possible, by cutting out every luxury. One thousand dollars invested in an automobile has directed labor and capital into the business and amenities and away from war business and amenities much to make Germany happy. But $1,000 invested in war bonds encourages labor and capital in building ships to beat the submarine menace and helps win the war for civilization. Every man and woman who spends money for luxuries is helping Germany win the war.
MANY ECONOMIC FALLACIES
MANY ECONOMIC FALLACIES
"The crop of economic fallacies exploits the benefit of the public is unusually large. It has been written about 'carrying on business as usual' and 'keeping up prosperity.' A little careful thought will indicate there is no danger of hysterical economy. The danger is that the country will not economize enough. There never has been a war against it, but such extravagance, too much buoyancy inuries. It was so in the Revolutionary War. While soldiers froze to death at Valley Forge, the merchants in Philadelphia were selling silks by the thousands of yards—they were 'keeping up prosperity', money was 'circulating', and the army was getting licked.
"It is true, close economy would mean the makers and sellers of luxuries would have to quit business temporarily. Some of them would suffer. But when the country is engaged in war for the army, men to grow food, keep munitions output, there need be no serious question of employment.
"The real question is, what kind of a country is likely to win in a war, one whose labor is engaged in making and selling candy, wrist watches, and automobiles, or one whose labor force is thrown unreservedly into the production of munitions, food, clothing, and other equipment for a great army? Germany is showing us a nation of the latter class. Is the United States to be a spectacle of the first type?"
WAR FUND MOUNTS TO $220
Faculty Members and Students Make Liberal Contributions to Swell
The treasurer of the Company M war fund received $4.46 from the sale of tags Friday and $0.47 from faculty subscriptions. In addition, faculty members have subscribed $30 to the institute elected committee of members from both student councils are in charge of faculty subscriptions.
The war fund now totals $300.18.
The dance given by the student
added $75.25. Dr. Naismith,
chaplain of Company M, gave $50 to
the fund.
"We probably will have over $325." Walter Havekorest, president of the Men's Student Council said this morning. "The committee has been unable to see every member of the faculty but will try to finish the canvass this week. Faculty members and students whom the committee has not seen may leave their contributions at the registrar's office."
PROF, HUMBLE WILL EDIT
LAW BOOKS THIS SUMMER
Dr. H. W. Humble, professor of law, will go to Chicago at the end of the first six weeks of the summer session to be editor-in-chief with a law publishing concern for the remainder of the summer.
"I shall not be surprised, however, to hear at any time of a rather general suspension of law book publishing because of the high cost of paper," said Doctor Humble this morning. "In that case I shall fill an engagement of a tentative character I have made with a chauatua bureau."