UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV
LAWRENCE PEOPLE TO PUSH RED CROSS WORK
President Wilson Desires All Work to be Supervised by National Society
STUDENTS TO VOLUNTEER
Committees Will Make Complete Survey of Ability of Entire City to Aid
A huge Red Cross campaign was launched today in Lawrence as a result of President Wilson's message Friday in which he asked that all work done to alleviate suffering in the present war be conducted under the direction of the national Red Cross Society. In this way useless would result in the lack of organizations would result with many organizations in the field, are done away with.
A call for volunteers from the student body and the citizens of Lawrence will be issued this week for making a complete survey of the re-entry population in Cross work of all the families in the city. This work must be completed within ten days. Students will make the best sort of workers in this camp, but it will take more than this morning urged University students to help all they can in the work.
Besides finding out how much Red Cross work will be undertaken by each family, the amount of sewing, fabric and materials they are willing to give, the survey will find how many wish to do gardening or have land which they will give for the use of public gardening. The Red Cross conducted because the Red Cross has charge of supplying food in case of suffering from famine.
The survey is being directed by Prof. M. C. Elmer, of the department of sociology, who is an expert in social survey work. The success of the campaign will depend to a great extent upon the work done by the K. U. men and women. Many similar activities in the Philippines several months, and now that war has been declared the work is being carried on with doubled effort.
Prof. J. N. Van der Vries said this moring the less expensive contributions will be urged in the campaign for membership in the Red Cross, and practically all work would be to get $1 memberships. There will be two committees downtown and a University committee. Prof. J. N. Van der Vries. Else Neuen Schwander, Prof. Nadine Nowilin, Prof. C. H. Ashawan, Dean F. J. Kelly, Prof. T. T. Smith, Prof. P. V. Faragher, Prof. W. R. B. Robertson, Prof. E. B. Stoffer, and Prof. M. W. Sterling are on the University committee.
FRENCH OF TRENCHES FOR STUDENT SOLDIERS
Romance Department Will Do Its Bit to Help K. U. "War Bureau."
In co-operation with the University military authorities, the Romance language department is considering a new course in oral French and Spanish to be started at once. This will give the men and women who are enlisted in some military organization, and who might possibly be sent to Europe, a chance to become familiar with the more commonly spoken words of French. The course will first teach such phrases and expressions as will enable a person to purchase his meal in France. Then the trench words signifying army divisions and orders will be mastered.
In short the purpose of the course as outlined at the departmental meeting last night will be to make an army or Red Cross organization in France to better co-operate with the French mission by speaking their language.
The course is a volunteer course and will probably be taught in night classes. Nothing definite has been decided as it is not known how many wish to take the course. Mr. F. A. G. Cowper, professor of Romance languages was appointed chairman of a course that is instituted and made suggestions for the course. Any suggestions should be turned in to him or to the other members of the committee: A. L. Owen and Mark Skidmore.
Y. M. C. A. To Hold Conference
"Plans are being made for holding a Y. M. C. a conference in June," Dutch Wededl, general secretary said this morning. "We expect to have program written with respect." Theference for Y. M. workers held April 5 and 6 showed us the desirability of holding another such meeting."
DYKSTRA WILL LECTURE
ON THE WHY OF WARFARE
All University women who have been unable to see any excuse for America's entrance into the war will have an opportunity to hear a detailed explanation of the situation at the Women's Forum in Fraser Rest Room at four-thirty o'clock this afternoon. Prof. C. A. Dykstra, of the department of history, will speak on "America at War—Why?"
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1917.
ORCHESTRA CONCERT
ENDS SEASON COURSE
A permanent organization for the Fellowship will be perfected at the meeting, this February.
Minneapolis Symphony Organi zation Will Give Two Pro grams Here April 19
NUMBER 130.
The University Concert Course will close its series with two concerts given by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Thursday afternoon and evening, April 19, in Robinson Symphony Hall, where the concert has repeatedly been Lawrence, it is entirely unnecessary to say anything of the organization, as it is always greeted by a packed house for both concerts. This year, the orchestra's performances bring with it. They are: Marie Kaiser, soprano; Jean Vincent Cooper, contralto; Warren Proctor, tenor; Royal Dadmun, dhumur; Richard Czerwonky, violin and Corpilius van Vilet, cello. These artists will add a new piece to the program, which grams will be given under Mr. Oberhoffer's direction.
The orchestra will arrive early Thursday morning in its own special train, a. "leave the night of the con- fession," Kansas, where it gives two programs.
Only a few seats remain unsold for these two concerts, as practical; everything in Robinson Gymnasm was sold out in season tickets to the entire crowd. The remaining tickets will be put on sale at the Round Corner Drug Store and the Registrar's office Thursday morning April 12, and those who wish to bu tickets to both concerts can do so. If any single admission tickets are left for this sale, they will go on sale the morning of April 16, at the same places.
CHEMISTS CONVENE IN K. C
Students and Faculty Represent University at Meeting of American Chemical Society
The University of Kansas will be well represented at the meeting of the American Chemical Society at Kansas City. Several K. U. men are on the program. Prof. H. P. Cady is chairman of the society, and Prof. W. A. Whitaker is president of the Kansas City section of the society.
The first chemical address will be held this afternoon. Petroleum and has being the subject for discussion. B. C. Moore, of the department of reology, and Ivan P. Parkhurst, professor of chemistry will lecture. Roy Cross and E. E. Lyder, both K. U. graduates will also speak.
All juniors and senior chemists have been requested to attend the meetings at Kansas City, and many of them will be there at least part of the time. The professors who will attend are: R. C. Moore, E. H. S. Bailey, H. P. Cady, F. B. Daines, G. W. Stratton, F. Faragher, G. W. Stratton. The following assistants also expect to be there W. M. Latimer, E. V. Berger, Avis Tailcock, Ralph A Branch, R. N. Harger, W. M. Janney Ivan P. Parkhurst, and W. C. Seibel.
A young instructor in the department of English who is reported to have various ideas of his own believes that most of the women leave the University with curvatures of the spine, although there are a few who can get over a mud-puddle without being helped.
There will be regular semimonthly convocation at 10:10 o'clock Friday, April 13. Classes will be shortened according to the usual schedule for convocation mornings.
This is the stock question going the rounds among the men of the University these days. Up to the present, writing, some thirty men are in charge. The remainder are cherishing dreams of receiving commissions.
Chancellor Frank Strong is in Kansas City today attending the meeting of the state Republican National Committee.
...
"Have you enlisted yet?"
FRANK STRONG Chancellor
(Signed)
ALUMNAE PLAYS SCORE BIG HIT LAST NIGHT
Helen Clark, Mrs. Carter and Willard Wattles Show
Do you believe in thirdes?
No finer appeal appears to be made to them than in those five words.
And William Butter Yeats is most eloquent in his pleading for those little messengers of love in his play "The Land of Heart's Desire",
presented last night by the Association Collegiate Alumnae in F. A. U. Hall.
Miss Helen Clark is charming. Those who recall "The Stuff of Laughter", last year, know of her artistic interpretation of the imaginative in the poetry of motion. As a writer of poetry and prose she same delicacy and finesse of touch. An added charm comes from the dramatic reading of aer lines. Mr. Willard Wattles as Shawn Brunel and Mrs. R. E. Carter as the young bride
MISS CLARK TAKES LEAD
But then, there's 'the Man Who Married a Dumb Wi'. This is a satirical, sixteenth century force written by Anatoleine. A man has married a dumb wife. He will not let well enough medical profession cut his "dear Catherine's tongue ligament" and give her a pill. Why did the apothecary give her a pill? Sh-hh-! A professional secret! Because of the interdependence of the organs! And then Catherine talked: That is—haltingly afraid of fire. The man that—she gabbled and chattered incestually and gave him no peace until, in despair, she summoned the salutary triumvirate. These men, with much pamphil and dignity, produced in him "a sweet and gentle cophosis, which (ahem) is vulgarly called deafness". The wife tried to cajole him with honied words—but
CLEVER COMEDY SHOW!
"The illusory," he trumpeted in emotion joy, "from a thing." From pity, the wife swings to terror and then to madness. She bites her husband, who in turn, bites a doctor on stage until everyone on the stage is mad.
Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopens can well claim the honors which she won last night in her interpretation of the "Dumb Wife", Catherine B. Harp, sharp and elegant; B. Catherine, enunciation; her nervous and estatic movements made the audience see the spirit of the "spring too long bottled up" and the expression of pent exhilaration. Mr. Gerhard Baergren, Mr. Mc Elmer as Mastere Adam Fume must both be commended for their excellent work in those roles.
FRENCH RELIEF WORKER TO SPEAK HERE FRIDAY
Miss Fell, Who Has Worked in France, is Organizing Committees In U. S.
It is a national movement started by the French government called "Orphelin des Armees," the "orphans of the army," or as it is known in this country, "The Fatherless Children of France."
Miss Elizabeth Fell, who will speak in convolution Friday morning concerning the relief work for French orphans, is one of the organizers of the relief work. She has been active in the actual relief work in Paris. Last year she traveled all over this country, speaking to university audiences and in large cities, placing the needs of the organizers in the center and organizing local committees.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
The French government allows to the widow of a soldier about thirty-five cents each day. The society asks her to teach children for a child in order to guard against the danger of privation and insure a minimum of security.
"Miss Fell is a very interesting and forceful speaker and will bring the latest information in regard to him in France and the French orphan."
"Probably no phase of the war relief work has appealed more strongly to the people of the United States," said Prof. D. L. Patterson of the department of history this morning. He was in France as a war correspondent for the Pittsburg Gazette Times last summer.
"So far about fifty thousand fatherless children have been aided, but only a beginning has been made, for it is estimated that if the war will end, there will be at least three hundred thousand in need of assistance.
RIP, ROARING COMEDY FEATURES K.U. FOLLIES
Orpheus thought he -was doing something when he invented his title of God of Amusements and Vodevil. Had Orpheus known what was coming he would have vanished. But he didn't know.
And that is why the K. U, Follies
and Robinson Gymnasium
Thursday night. It is
The Raveon Comedy Quartet with Rosceo Stubbs, Clell Confranzo, Fred Pausch and Orlo Holmes will stage a barber shop scent with real barber shop harmony. Kenneth Lott has a speech to make in this act.
The Knot Sisters, just out, will start things. There's Slip—she's some Knot. Forget-me and Bow can sing. Also dance. That is the first act. Frank Gage has written a song for this act and it is to be so bad (that is the act will be) that the Knots do not want their names in the paper. Jean (Earl Metcalf) and Jeannette (Helen Clark) are to appear in Fiction for the Names Gold and Dust, a dark couple in a bright act have some jigs to jig, some songs to sing and rather clever blackface comedy to face.
Act Five will be a sketch written by Durald Hartley and acted by Helen Clark, Frank McFarland and others. Number Six will have Philip Hayes, guitar comedian, as the entertainer.
They have some regular yukes in this next act called for short, "Down Honolulu Way." The Hula dancers perform Hula dances and sing Hula songs.
The big act, "Frills, Trills, Thrills"
is last on the program. Five acts
come under this head. Here they are
per schedule:
1. Raytay in Colonial Days—Jane Parmeret and chorus of fourteen.
2. Chink Specialty—Dora Lockett.
All alone.
3. Allah's Holiday—Leta Ellison.
This is Persian stuff, Costumes.
4. Speciality—George Marquis.
Postman's Football Game.
5. Naughty, Naughty, Naughty — That Marie-Antoineette act featuring Marie Buchanan and Antoinelette will be with them to keep them going.
And that's all.
Except that it costs 25 cents, that Shofstaff's Orchestra will play, and that the W. S. G. A. is putting it on, and Blanche Simons and Margaret Heizer are directing it, and it starts at 8:15.
TO DISMANTLE K. U. WIRELESS
Government Order Applies to All Licensed and Unlicensed Radio Sets
The K. U. wireless station was dismantled yesterday afternoon in accordance with instructions from the Department of Commerce. While this action will hamper the $ ^{*} $ students of wireless telegraphy, laboratory work will continue until permission is granted to replace the wireless. $ ^{*} $
Similar notices have been received by all of the licensed stations in Lawrence. This also applies to forty unlicensed sets.
John Warner, a Washburn college student, has been awarded the scholarship offered by the University of Kansas for a senior in Washburn for study in any field of work at the University. Mr. Warner will receive $280. He will devote a large part of his time to research work.
Mr. Warner is president of the Washburn Y. M. C. A. and is one of the student volunteers for Foreign Missions. He is also a member of the Math club and the Engineers' club. Last year he was manager of the Kaw, the Washburn annual, and for two years has been college electrician.
JOHN WARNER OF WASHBURN
AWARDED K. U. FELLOWSHIP
Examinations for the scholarship medal offered annually by the Grand Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, honorary chemical fraternity, to any student member, will be given Saturday morning.
CHEMICS TAKE EXAM FOR
FRSH SCHOLARSH MEDAIL
Last year the medal was won by a K. U. man, Emil C. Elefert, e'c7. Several members of the chapter here will take the 1917 examinations.
KAW RIVER ANTHOLOGY
KAW RIVER ANTHOLOGY
Why is it that one of the sisters hoods at the base of the Hill charges six dollars a week for sustenance while a fraternity one block away gets along on eighteen a month?
The Weather
Unsettled tonight and Thursday; probably showers. Colder tonight. Warmer Thursday in northwest portion.
Plain Tales from the Hill
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thankfully reed.
yurs trooly,
hansum hank.
"Isn't the dear chimney-sweep too cute for anything?"
It was a feminine voice whispering in the audience at the alumni play last night. But the sweep who was he? We saw our popular instructors in rhetoric.
"Avoid the bright lights," is the motto of the Sigma Kappa sorority in meaning if not in words. It might have been the girls, or their "friends," or possibly the wind, but no matter what it was that caused the reflector of the large electric light in front of the Sigma Kappa house to fall down and become a shade, the Sigma Kappa front porch now is dark at night.
The discontented student who has just returned from home and mother and is enjoying a touch of the spring is the one whose Deane one, it all depens on the liver.
"Well I am all right if I can just manage to pass a few days longer."
REMARKS OF ENLISTED STUDENT
"When is that term theme due?
Heavens, do you suppose that we won't
get our call before Thursday?"
"The rock crushes grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly fine," observed an engineer in a having a broken foot on the floor that he brought over to him from the crusher.
PREPAREDNESS
They stood out by the lilac hedge,
To say a last goodbyo;
He wore a uniform of tan
And she was very shy.
Above them waved the stars and stripes
"It almost breaks my heart," he sighed
"To have to say Goodbye."
She blushed and said, "I'll go along,
Don't stop me or I'll curs!"
Jane's quit knitting sweaters,
She's making no more stocks,
She's spending nearly all her time
And then she showed him on her arm
The badge of Red-Cross Nurse.
Like a making no move stocks,
She's spending nearly all her time
Making her best beau seaks,
He's signed up for the signal Corps.
She knits the livelong day and night,
And neither eats nor sleeps.
Prof. A. J. Boynton was unable to meet his class in Banking this morning; but he sent his students a gentle reminder that he was still on earth by giving them a quiz a-la-assistant-instructor.
Jawoke; Actor in "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" last night heralded the entrance of another character by peering off the side of stage anxiously and saying: "There he comes now."
Character enters from the back.
The campus reflected a truly martial spirit last night. Squads of men in uniform marched and drilled while future nurses in great numbers flocked to Snow Hall where a Red Cross banner floating in the air was bandaging that instruction in nursing and bandaging was being given within,
THE RIDDLE OF LIFE
I am the freshman paddle.
I died.
Some say I passed off naturally.
But I was strangled.
Yep!
The University Senate walked
Along my form with their
Hob-nailed number twelves.
Then they passed a cord
Around my neck.
Ah, squeezed and squeezed,
Farewell, O Engineers and
Lawyers!
And Kansan—I thank you
Muchly.
Muchly.
But I am happy where I am
Society of Biological Research will meet at 7:30 Wednesday night, Room 101 Snow Hall. W. W. Swingle will discuss the Mechanism of Sex-Determination."
WAR BUREAU ATTRACTS TALENT OF UNIVERSITY
Men With Military and Technical Training Offer Services to Organization
TRAIN FOR COMMISSIONS
Special Classes Open to Students of All Departments of University
All morning a swarm of students have surrounded Dean Walker's desk waiting for an opportunity to enroll in college. They will be conducted by a half dozen faculty men who have been officers or have seen active service. These units are filling rapidly, and they will assemble in Robinson Gymnasium tonight.
Immediate mobilization of the brains of the University into a big War Bureau for the purpose of securing complete records of the men who were sent to the war, and in writing the work was announced by Chancellor Strong yesterday. The Bureau will be large enough to care for the entire University, Dean Walker, of the School of Engineering, has been given additional other members have not been named.
ALL WANT TO BE OFFICERS
"How can I secure an officers' commission?" is the question most frequent in the phone calls of three lines of procedure open to men who desire commissions. Probably the shortest way is to enlist in Company M and study for an examination. According to late dispatches from Washington no more National Guard units will be formed. If such is the case this route to a commission will be present National Guard units are full.
The other two ways are to take examinations for a commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps or for a commission as provisional Second Lieutenant. These examinations are not snaps according to men who have tried them.
OFFER TECHNICAL COURSES Dean Walker is giving much time and personal advice to the men as to the military courses they should follow in order to advance as quickly as possible. They will receive a arm of the service which they expect to enlist. Courses are open to seniors and juniors and to members of Company M in field service regulations, military science, military engineering, topography, electrical signalling, and in the handling of explosives.
COLLEGE GRADS GIVEN PREFERENCE IN EXAMS
Registrar Receives Letters for Credentials to be Used in Getting Commissions
The need of the nation for commissioned officers to train the new armies which will be raised in the United States within the next two months, is showing its effect at the University. The Registrar's office has been swamped for the past week with letters and telegrams from former students and graduates asking for certificates of their work done at K. U. or to show that they are graduates from the school.
College men and graduates of universities are given preference in the examinations for officers' commissions in the regular army. It has been estimated that it will take 100.- 000 officers to train the required number of recruits into condition for a war. The number of officers the war body of Congress will mean that a million men will have to be trained within the next two years.
Registrar Foster predicts a decrease in enrollment next semester with developments in the war crisis and that it is almost certain to be a large falling off of attendance at the Summer Session. Many students have already left school, either to work or enlist in the regular army or national guard. It would have joined the newly formed engineering company in Topeka and some of the others have enlisted in guard units in their home towns.
Although the faculty will not be decreased to any great extent, it is quite likely that some members having one course of study will have it; it is seen that many of the sections of the same class will have to be abolished. Members of the faculty feel that the war will be brought to a successful close by the time the University reopens. There is a decrease in enrollment and in faculty members will not become a fact.
Really, it's nearly time to put the ban on those "When I was home Easter" stories.