UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 138.
WANT APPLICATIONS OF RESERVE CORPS MEN
W. B. Cobb. F19, Has Been Au-
horized to Receive Names
at Marvin Hall
TRAINING STARTS MAY 8
Officers for Training Classes Have Been Announced— Many Are Dropped
Applications of men who will attend the officers reserves corps training camp at Fort Riley, beginning May 8, should be handed to W. B. Cobb, '199, who has been authorized to receive them. This matter will be handled by Mr. Cobb in office where Mr. Cobb may be found any afternoon from 2:30 o'clock.
"I want to impress the need of haste on everyone who wishes to make application for the training camp," Mr. Cobb said this morning, "for all applications must go to the authorities and be sent back before the eighth of May. The only examination that will be given is physical. The applicant must be examined here and at Fort Riley."
PREFER THOSE WITH TRAINING
PREFER THOSE WITH TRAINING
The applications of the men who have passed the reserve officers examination will be given the first consideration by the authorities. Others who are eligible are men who have had cadet work or some other valuable military training. Efforts are being made by Chancellor Strong and Dean Walker to have the men being done here by the war board receiving as cadre training, and it is expected that those training here will be allowed to take the reserve corps training.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1917.
This work requires three months of intensive training, the first month being spent in infantry drill by all those in the camp. The last two months the men will spend in specializing themselves for work in their choice of infantry, cavalry, field or coast artillery or in the engineering corps.
GOVERNMENT PAYS EXPENSES
GOVERNMENT PAYS EXPENSES
Transportation and all other expenses excepting that of a uniform are to be paid by the government. Each man will have to purchase his own uniform.
The classes in the short courses of shop work met for the first time today. These classes are to prepare men to enter the quartermaster de forces of the army or as civilian mechanics in the navy yards and arsenals.
LEARN TO MAKE SHELLS
Enrolling in the drill classes has slowed down some in the past few (Continued on page 1)
Students Are Working Daily in Industrial Courses Taught in Fowler Shops
Fifteen students have enrolled in the Industrial course in Fowler shops. The work covered by the course is of a manual nature, for pair course, and a munitious course.
The general repair course is intended to train men for work in quartermaster departments and in master carpenter wagons, and anything else that might attention. The work in the shops will consist of ten days of machine work, sixteen days of forge work, and seven days of elementary wood work.
The munitions course is intended to give some training in arsenal work. It consists of twenty-three days of machine work, and ten days of forge work. Five hours a day for six weeks, or twelve weeks wishing to enroll in this course should see Prof. F. H. Sibley in Marvin Hall.
HALEY'S MARIMBA BAND
MAKES HOP A SUCCESS
One-hundred and fifteen couples danced to the time of Haley's latest tunes at the Hop in Robinson Gym Friday night. Manager Kennett Bella said late this afternoon that complete figures and the amount that would be given to the Red Cross could not be announced today.
Haley's twelve piece marimba band was one redeeming feature of the dance. Upper classman who attended are of the opinion that in every respect except the music the Hop this year did not begin to compare with those of previous years. The farce was a farce in the fullest sense of the word "adult" workspicuously scant compared with other years. Manager Bell explained this by saying he attempted to keep the expenses as low as possible so that the contribution to the Red Cross would be large.
Sigma Delta Chi initiation at Sigma Chi house Tuesday evening 7:39.
K. U. PROFESSORS WILL GO TO CITY CONFERENCE IN K.
The National Conference on City Planning will meet in Kansas City May 7,8,and 9,to discuss municipal problems. Special attention will be given to small town planning and especially to the difficulties of the towns of Kansas, Missouri, and adjacent states.
The University of Kansas and the League of Kansas Municipalities are in close co-operation with the Kansas City committee and will have an important part in the conference. K. U. State College is the secretary of the Kansas League of Municipalities, and W. C. McNown professor of civil engineering.
MANY VISITORS ATTEND Y.W. STATE CONFERENCE
Washburn Has Largest Delegation—K. S, A. C. Representative, Pennsylvania
tatives Furnish Music
The Y. W. C. A. conference for college associations in the state of Kansas was attended by 165 delegates from other colleges of the state. The first meeting of the session was held Friday evening in Myers Hall. The leader, Miss Louise Holmquist, is the executive secretary of the Department of Law, the National Holmquist and the New York City. Holmquist was the only member of the executive board who attended the meeting.
The visiting delegates were entertained by members of the association at the University and towns people. A dinner was given for the members Saturday evening at the Parish house in Congregational church. Rasca Hillman presided as tausistmisses. Two hundred guests attended the banquet.
Music was furnished for all the meetings by a girl's octette made up of eight Manhattan students. The group included Susan Washburn who had 25 representatives. The visitors were given the opportunity to visit the University and Haskell Institute, a part of Saturday institution was set as recreation hour.
The conference was planned by Miss Lucy Y. Riggs, Student Secretary of the Field Committee, and a member of the Lawrence Association.
Sweet Young Thing Just Must Mail Her Letter
In order to get the proper slant on this story, you must know that Uncle Sam has a post office in Fraser Hall where stamps and various other government commodities are dispensed for cash.
This same post office is extensively patronized by our co-eads who bring their rainbow tinted missives here to be conveyed by Uncle Sam to parishioners and some other people with which this narrative has nothing to do.
the particular point to note in this story is the surprising length of time consumed in mailing one of these letters. The sweet young thing is going out to the window and something like the following conversation takes place:
A period of sixty seconds is consumed in a frantic search for the necessary change. Add another frame for the search, or place for the placing of the stamps on the letters. All this time the s.y.t has remained firmly intrenched in front window, frustrating all attempts to book the matching professor to mail his letter.
"Oh dear, isn't this wind awful to today, I thought never would get here, and I am late to my class now. Let me give you two and a one. Oh no, that won't give me seven twos and a one. I never was any good in mathematics."
Mrs. Stimpson, wife of Prof. E. F. Stimpson, of the department of physics is critically ill at her home, 926 Indiana Street.
L. D. Havenhill, professor of pharmacy, has just published a small volume of about two hundred pages comprising a study and review of the state board of pharmacy examinations of the various states.
When the professor has just about decided to walk down town and mail his letter, and the line of students behind him have settled down for an indefinite stay, the s. y.t. gathers up her books and leaves, after having tied up traffic for a period of approximately five minutes.
Havenhill Publishes Book
MRS. STIMPSON CRITICALLY
ILL AT HER RESIDENCE
Guards are stationed at both ends of the block in which the Stimpson home is situated for the purpose of having automobiles and vehicles de-terried. The streets that absolute quiet may be had in the vicinity of the residence.
"IF I WERE DEAN" CAST BUSY KEEPING STILL
There's a Naughty Rally, and a Stenographer Talking Like Billy Sunday—Wait
Censorship has been drawn tightly around the senior play, "If I Were Dean," They—the cast, the producer, the author and those few students and faculty members who have seen the rehearsals won't tell—or aren't allowed to tell. All we really know is that the play is to be at the Howerd stage, the April 19th day the manager of the play told us that the seat sale was the largest at this stage of the game than for many years previous.
Like a symphony, "If I Were Dean," has a theme running through it. The naughty rally is the theme. And then, of course, there is a love story—in fact, two of them. They are pretty romances, both of them. So true to life. The main participators quarrel and make-up.
And from there everything is conserved. We have to talk in a general way.
And it is going to be funny—not this Charlie Chapla funniness—but humor that shows thought and careful study of the persons told on. But it isn't all humor—not by about two acts. There are some mighty impressive scenes. Which brings us to the cast.
Stenographers usually have nice times—also nice names. The stenographer in this play has both. Fan, candy gum and powders her nose like all the things she talks with. She talks like Billy Sunday. She works in the Dean's office. Now we should speak of the plot. Her censorship forbids. Wait until West.
KANSAS TO DEBATE TIGERS
Jaybawkers Go to Columbia Today to
Bloomberg.
tion of Industrial Disputes
The University of Kansas will meet the University of Missouri in debates tonight at Columbia. The three Kansas men, H. Merle Smith, Charles H. Dewey, and Alfred B. Richmond left this morning for Columbia.
The Missouri debaters are Fred Gableman, Fred Suddarth, and Bernard Hurwitz. They are all of Kansas City and have had previous experience in intercollegiate debates. In the debate will he be Daniel Brown, Jacques Harfield, and Judge J. M. Johnson, prominent men of Kansas City.
FORM ORATORICAL LEAGUE
The question for debate is compulsory investigation of industrial disputes similar to the Canadian Compulsory Investigation Disputes Act. Kansas will try to disprove the advisability of such legislation.
Seven Missouri Valley Universities and Colleges Will Meet at Ames
Next Year for Contest
Otis H. Burns of the department of public speaking, has just returned from Des Moines, Iowa, where he attended the first Missouri Valley Oratorical Contest. Kansas was not entered this year. First place was by washington University; Missouri and Kansas Aggies, third. Six school ceremonies was a good contest", said Professor Burns, "and the speeches were good."
S. D. Flora, meteorologist of the Kansas section of the Weather Bureau visited the University Saturday to inspect the work of the Weather Stations of the University. Mr. Flora was pleased with the work of the Evaporation station and showed great interest in the data which are being accumulated. Plans were discussed for aiding a study of soil temperature and moisture to the work of the station.
University Women's Association will meet at the home of Mrs. Olm Templin, 1025 Missouri Street, at three o'clock Thursday afternoon.
A permanent organization was formed which will be called the Missouri Valley Oratorical Association. Schools represented will be Washington University, University of Nebraska, Ames Agricultural College, Kansas State Agricultural College, University of Kansas and University of Missouri. We send a faculty representative with a testant. The meet will be held at Ames, Iowa next year and at Lawrence the following year. Plans are being made to send a contestant from the University of Kansas next year.
Education Club meets at the Orca Cafe Tuesday night at eight o'clock Dr. R. A. Kent will talk on educational topics of current interest.
STUDENTS LIST HOMES FOR RED CROSS WORK
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Information Concerning Volunteer Work and Conservation Asked of 4,000 Families
Sixty-five University students took part in the house to house survey made under the auspices of the Red Cross Society in Lawrence, Saturday, 4.400 houses were visited and survey cards were filled out for each house.
"Students who took part were enthusiastic over the survey and collected the information with interest," said Prof. M, C. Eimer, who conducted the survey. "Their work was made harder because of the small number who volunteered for the survey. Each student had on the average five blocks to cover and the work took the entire day instead of the morning as was intended. One girl was so interested that she did not stop with her assessee but moved about 175 houses. I have not been able to tabulate the results but on looking over the cards hurriedly, good data seems to have been collected."
Blanks answering fourteen questions were filled out for each family. There were two groups of questions. One group concerned the relief and support of families who could do. This information was desired as a part of the nation wide movement for conservation. The other group of questions was about diseases and the children in the family. The data compiled by these question will be used for Baby Week in May, which will be Professor Elmer is managing.
"The people of Lawrence for the most part answered the questions willingly," said Professor Elmer. "They were almost unanimous in offering to do any kind of work to help. A few persons refused to answer the questions because they were solicited last week for membership by the Red Cross organization. Some of the canvassers thought certain persons would not answer because they sympathized with the Germans."
Miles of Electric Wires and Thou sands of Contacts Will Replace
REWIRE FRASER PIPE ORGAN
Work has been started on the rewiring of the pipe organ in Fraser Chapel. Several miles of electric wires will be installed, together with a cable that entails thousands of electric contacts.
The pipe organ was installed eighteen years ago, and was one of the first organs with electric action built in this country. Rewiring is one of the major installations; its installation was made when the knowledge of electric action was rather limited. Since that time many improvements that are to be greatly desired in the way of facilities for playing the organ have been brought out.
FRENCH CLASSES OPENED
More than a week will be necessary to finish the work on the organ. Before the war, the cost of installation will have been a few years ago. It would have been a few years ago.
In Case Soldiers Should Go Abroad,
They Must Learn Foreign
"Should it be necessary to send American troops abroad, authorities will find it absolutely imperative that at least a portion of the men know how to express their needs and inquiries to our troops. French so that they will not together helpless in a strange land," said Professor Galloo this morning.
Languages
The department of romance languages is therefore offering a course in rudiments of conversational French to students interested fit themselves to aid their country. At present several students have signed up for the course and the possibility of such a class is assured. It will be as long as is considered necessary.
PROF. SKIDMORE LEAVING K. U. FOR U. OF ARIZONA
This class will also be of benefit to any students who are intending to enlist in the Red Cross service and in the path to follow the troops to France.
Prof. Mark Skidmore, of the department of Romance languages, will leave the University at the end of the semester for the University of Arizona, where he will have charge of the department of French. Professor Skidmore's wife has been in ill health or several months and he is leaving or the new school partly on her account.
The Weather
Generally fair tonight and Tues-
day. Tuesday cool in west portion.
K, U. WILL NOT ABANDON
GERMAN NEXT SEMESTER
The faculty of the department of German is not afraid that the teaching of the German language in the University will be abandoned. Notwithstanding the attitude of the people against the Germans, the students still continue to attend their classes in this language.
The department may be cut down for next year if the military draft bill is passed by Congress, but it will not be so affected as those departments and schools which contain large numbers of men. No definite action is expected until the end of this semester.
Plain Tales from the Hill
“PP” is a good dog, and a true demotivator. He is the official Pi Upsilion house dog, and is opposed to home-house fire. The house fire cannot shake his optimism.
With his home deserted and the boys scattered, Pi doesn't mops around and hang his tail, but wags it with joy as he goes among strangers. He is "jes" boardin' him. He is "jes" boarding nights last week at different Kentucky street homes, and attended the Steph Hop Friday night.
Warren Wattles has hard luck. Aided and abetted by William Hower, a breakfast was prepared in for an early morning jawn Sunday.
Germany Piepenburg, "117, startles the world. He advises a "lump of sugar before bedtime" for sweetheartso who would dream of what is happening to their beauty at the battlefront. Aaron L. Pieppenburg is color sergeant in the K. N. G., and, in romantic awakening came way back in his high school days, he still believes in dates and dreams.
The Sigma Kappas have a new playground. Under the direction of Josephine Lambert, the underclass sorority sisters are learning the art of swiping on the school apparati in South Park. They "run under" and "work up doubly" and "wait their turns" peacefully enough.
Katherine Reding went along to share the breakfast. After a long hike they opened the basket and found rocks and sticks reposing in the basket instead of eats. No breakfast was served.
And now Warren is trying to hush the first, woman editor-in-chief by offering a bribe of a dinner la a la Eldridge.
It is an actual fact that a University man tried to buy a two-cent stamp from the K. U. post-office on the in-place of a penny and a penny today and a penny tomorrow.
Tadpoles have hearts... That's thoughtful. And they always have thyroid glands. That's optional of course, but the main point is that they grow quickly. That's why Tadpole's heart is necessary to his life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Well, the first went forth in the department of biology to remove the thyroid glands of fifty tadpoles. One man toilet diligently over his half-head, but but there was something wrong. Yea, awful wrong. All his patients died.
And then he discovered that he had not extracted the thyroids but the hearts. The tadpoles felt so bad about it that they "up and died."
BUGS AS COSTLY AS WAR
Entomologists Urge Students to Help Stop Loss to Crops From Insect Pests
WORLD WAR TO BE WON BY AMERICAN FARMER
The department of entomology has started a movement to help conserve the food supply of the country by educating the public on the eradication of injurious insects.
"The annual loss due to insects in the United States is enormous," Prof. S. J. Hunter said. "If this were saved, it would equal the enormous war appropriation bill of seven billion dollars pending in Congress. By the tax mechanism, raising this large sum it will take fifty years for the people to pay it."
To the above loss must be added the cost of fighting the insect pests, which amounts into millions. Prof. P. W. Claassen told one of his classes this morning that students of entomology could help a great deal in reducing this loss by giving the best preventive methods to their home communities. He will lecture every Friday to his classes on the best methods to combat the common injurious insects.
George Murphy, c. e'14, has accepted a position with the firm of Harger Lute Baten geologists of Tulsa Oklaho who will have his headquarters in Tulsa.
President H. J. Waters Urges Back to Farm Movement at Conservation Meeting
MUST GIVE UP LUXURIES
Wasters and Food-Hogs Partly to Blame for High Cost of Living
"The winning of the present war rests upon the American farmer," said H. J. Waters, president of the Kansas State Agricultural College and chairman of the State Council of Defense, in a mass meeting of all Lawrence churches in Robinson Gymnasium last night.
UNIVERSITIES CAN HELP
"The European army and people will need food, and there is no one but the American farmer to feed them. To do this, the farmer will do better than he has ever done before. The United States cannot produce more by planning more, because there is not enough labor to take care of present crops."
The only way to care for the crops is to keep the farm laborer on the farm because city men cannot do efficient farm work. We must protect and save what we now have, and do this in the face of what seems to be a next year. Universities and colleges organize to help the farmer fight grasshoppers, chinch bugs and other crop pests that destroy millions of dollars' worth of food each year. The farmer is also sure thatrops that are sure and can be stored for the future, for we may be on war bread before the year is over.
PEOPLE WASTE MUCH
PEOPLE WASTE MUCH
J. D. Bowersock of Lawrence, who also spends the people of the United States wastes $10,000,000 every year, spend $20,000,000 each year for chewing gum, and more than this sum for soft drinks, besides the waste of more than 65,000,000 bushels of grain each year for liquor. Martin, ex governor of the Philippines, will aid the African people must stop the waste in their homes. The rush to store foods in the home does not help the situation, but makes it more serious by raising prices.
FEATURE MAY POLE DANCES
Gym Classes Plan Program of Old Customs Used on May Day
Festivals
Many clever ideas are being worked out by the May Fete committee for the pageants and tableaux to be presented on McCook Field, Tuesday, May 1. For the last week the Y. W. C. A. girls have been working on costumes—gaudy and otherwise—to be worn in the Fete.
May Day, was back in the ages, was originally intended to be celebrated by the May Pole Dance. Gradually this custom has been done away with. Other forms of amusement are planned. But the K. U. M. Fate includes a May Pole Dance by members of gymnasium classes. And another old custom to be observed will be the crowning of the Queen.
But the May Pole舞 is to be enlarged upon and seven of the departments will give dances portraying their representative works and characters. Take for instance the German department.
An old German folk dance in costume will be given on the green on McCook by students from the department of German. In the English department Hamlet and MacBeth will dance with Maud Muller and Juliet.
The history of Speech will be portrayed by the Public Speaking department with a non-speech tableau. The Spirit will parade around the field with the Spirit of 63 and the Spirit of '17 will bring up the procession.
And then they are going to have lots more pageants. This is only a start.
FIRST CLASS IN SPECIAL FRENCH MEETS TONIGHT
The first class in Special French, conducted for men who desire to learn the language as an aid in the present var situation, will be conducted by Professor Galloo in Room 308, Praser dancy applications at seventh-thirty o'clock, dancy applications received by the department of Roemer languages for instruction in both French and Spanish. The Spanish class meeting will be announced later.
Dr. A. J. Mix of the department of botany was called to Manhattan this morning to attend a conference of plants in the field crops of Kansas this afternoon. Mix will be secretary of the meeting to be held at Manhattan this afternoon.