UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
NUMBER 129
WILL GIVE SIX WEEKS ARMY TRAINING COURSE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 10, 1917.
Engineering Faculty Plans School for Men Who Aspire to Commissions
ALSO TO TRAIN WORKERS
Three Men Needed in Fields and Factories for Every Man In Uniform
A school for training munition workers, army and navy mechanics, signal corps, engineering, quartermaster and ordinance recruits and officers will be opened by the University of Kansas in a short time. Dr. Frank Strong, chancellor of the University, has approved the plan worked out by the faculty of the School of Engineering and Dean P. F. Walker of the Engineering School went to Leavenworth Monday to confer with army officers.
The army training school will be open to all students of the University and to young men from Kansas towns. The training is planned to last about six weeks. Each student will be given a diploma, a work a driver as nearly as possible the conditions he would meet in navy yards, arsenal, munition plant or field. The remainder of the time will be spent in teaching the rudiments of steam and gas engineering, automobile construction and operating, electric wiring, transmission of electric power, telephone lines, repairing their proper handling and the use of cement in concrete and masonry construction.
WILL USE ENGINEERING SHOPS
"The importance of this work is realized when you know the industrial and civil branches of the army require three workers to every man in the field," said Dean Walker. "If necessary the School of Engineering is ready to diminish work of regular students, allowing them to act as assistants, where possible, and so handle our staff that we may instruct a large number of men. The University environment requires twenty hours a day on four or 5-hour shifts and so accommodate a large number of army students."
Every branch of the School of Engineering, mechanical, electrical, civil, mining, chemical, and sanitary, will be used in the work of the new school. Besides this training for men who expect to enlist in army departments requiring special training, such as the quartermaster's, the signal and the ordnance departments, a course will be given strictly along military lines for men who expect to qualify for the combat engineer. This is proposed with the approval of the adjutant general of the state. Dean Walker taught these subjects in the University of Maine at the time of the Spanish-American war.
This training will include field service, regulations, army organization, regular drill work, class work in military topography, mapping and military roads, and military engineering including drainage, sanitation, earthworks and water systems. The course also will be special classes for electrical signaling and telephoning, practical care of explosives, mining and trenching.
The Kansan Chemallurgist for 1917 came off the press today and will be distributed at the meeting of the National Society in Kansas City this week.
COMPANY M OFFICERS WILL HELP Captain Jones and other officers of Company M, the University unit in the First Kansas, will aid in this work as long as Company M is in Lawrence, KS. Because they have had military training in the army or in school and are prepared to assist in the military instruction.
1917 CHEMALLURGIST OUT
Annual Publication of Kansas Chemists to be Distributed at Kansas City Meeting
One of the features of the issue is the article, "When Science Was Young on Mount Oread," by John H. Long, K. U. 77, who is now director of chemical work in the Northwestern Medical School.
Other contributors are Julius Stiesslitz, president of the American Chemical Society, H. P. Cady, K. U., '97 of the University of Kansas, David McFarland, K. U.'00, of the University Rockville, R. W.00, of the Kansas City Testing Laboratory, and Edward R. Weidelin, K. U.'00, of the University of Pittsburg.
Prof. W. A. Whitaker is advisory editor, and the board of editors is as follows: C. H. Kidman A. T. Beckley, C. H. Kidman F. M. Foley, F. C. Walters, and F. S. Farley.
Paul Shaft, engineering '16, is vitiing in Lawrence this week.
K. U. IS WELL REPRESENTED
IN LOYALTY DAY CEREMONY
All K. U. was represented in the parade in celebration of Loyalty Day Thursday afternoon. In the parade were the grade and high school pupils, traskell Indian boys, Campfire Girls, Boy Scouts, K. U. and Haskell Bands, University men women, and students, a book of autobooks. The parade started at Thirteenth Street on Tennessee Street and marched to Seventh Street and then down Massachusetts Street to South Park.
FEATURE A SOLO DANCER
Lucile Elmore Will Appear With
Follies Thursday Night
A K. U. ukulele orchestra, a la Hawaii, will appear for the first time in the K. U. Follies in Robinson Gymnasium Thursday night. The orchestra will accompany Hawaiian songs and dances in a realistic Hawaiian village setting. Lucile Elmore, fa'29, will be the solo舞师. Members of the Hawaiian orchestra are Blanche Dorsett, Milred Pitta, Opal Day, Aiili Nui, Ella Kauai, Aurel worth, Charlotte Hungate, Jaine Waters, and Lenore Rainey.
Leta Elliott, fa2'00 will sing "Al-
menn" by a chorus in *Qualcina*, Persia.
Shefstal's orchestra will accompany the entire program of eight meters.
DUTCH WEDELL MAY RESIGN
Receives Offer of Position at Tuba,
Oklahoma, in Y. M. Social
Service
Dutch Wedell, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., may resign and accept a position in the social service department of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Y. M. C. A. Wedell said this morning that though he had not met with any other opportunity and presented an excellent opportunity for social service.
Tulsa, with a population of 50,000 because of its rapid growth and enormous wealth has many social problems and has recognized the fact by appropriating $25,000 for social service work.
Dutch has been with the Y. M. C. A, here two years, coming here to take the place of Conrad Hoffman, who resigned to do the M. C. A. work in NYC. The new Weddell resign, his successor will be chosen by the University Association.
RELAY RUNNERS SHOW FORM
Chances Good for Victory in One Mile and Two-Mile Events
at Drake, April 21
Prospects are good for a winning team in the Drake Relay Meet at Des Moines April 21 according to Captain Fred Rodkey. Kansas will be entered in two events—the mile and two mile events.
The runners who will be entered in the mile are Captain Rodkey, Sproull, Welch, O'Leary, Murphy, and Crawley. In the two mile event Captain Rodkey, Sproull, Stateler, Welch, O'Leary and Murphy will compete.
Practices for the meet are being held every afternoon on McCook Field and the runners are beginning to show up for the meet. The runners come out every afternoon.
$15,000 HANGS IN BALANCE
Vertical Error in Totalling K. U Appropriations May Boost Salaries by That Amount
The question is whether the legis lature appropriated the total of $777, 000, or each item separately. If each item is given separately the amounts that each item was made at the last session for a slight increase in salaries at the Universities but the additional $15,000 was cut by the House. The salaries and wages appropriation was cut to $893,000 which was no changed proportionately.
A mistake of $15,000 has been found in the total of appropriations which the 1917 legislature made for the University of Kansas. The total amount appropriated as printed in the official state papers is $777,000
It is possible that the legislators will say that it is merely a clerical error but as the matter now stands K. U. will get $770,000, if the official state papers stand for anything. Here we question the figures:
Salaries and wages ... $460,000
Maintenance ... 154,000
Repairs ... 35,000
Chancellor's fund ... 500
Of other items ... 119,000
aries by That Amount
(for each year).
Chancellor's Fund 500.
Erection of class rooms 112,500.
Total
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily
Kansas.
$777.000
PI UPSILON FRATERNITY HOUSE BURNS MONDAY
Damage to House and Furniture Estimated at $7,000 and Personal Loss at $1000
A fireplace, a defective flue and a probable gaspacket in the wall are the causes of a fire that partly destroyed the Pi Upsilon fraternity house yesterday. The damages are estimated at seven thousand dollars. The house and its furnishings were insured but the fire was ruined by the flames or water, are a dead loss. The personal loss of the members is estimated at $1,000.
Lewis M. Hull who was one of the few members of the Pi Uplion fraternity to be in Lawrence over the summer under the eaves and around the cornices of the front porch. An alarm was immediately turned to in the fire department and in a few moments bands of neighboring townmen and students were busy saving the furniture pictures on the first and second floors.
Even after the arrival of the fire automobile, considerable time was lost because the firemen were unable to get into the base of the flames with a stream of water. A hole was chopped in the weather-boards just above the porch. Almost at the same time, an explosion of the confined gases from the smoke was heard. This opened the way for the flames to lick out onto the roof. The flames had eaten their way from the inner walls into the third floor in a very short period, no doubt by a draft that was sweeping through from the window to another. Nothing was saved here because no opportunity was given to enter on account of the flames.
Much of the furniture and personal possessions of the men on the second floor was saved, however, and the piano, rugs, tables, stove and kitchen outfit were taken to safety. James B. McNaught lost several new dancing costumes valued at seventy-five dollars and several articles of clothing.
ALUMNAE TO GIVE TWO PLAYS
"The Land of The Heart's Desire"
and "The Man Who Married a
Woman."
Dumb Wife" Tonight
Two plays, "The Land of the Heart's Desire," by William Yeats, and "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife," by Anatole France, will be given in the Fraternal Aid Hall at 8 o'clock tonight. These plays are given under the auspices of the Association of Collegeiate Alumnae and the proceeds will go towards increasing the association's scholarship.
"The Land of the Heart's Desire,
is a poetical play. Miss Helen Clark
in the role of a fairy child, has the
dances in the play, will give several
dances in the play."
Faculty members or wives of faculty members make up the casts of these plays. The idea of giving faceless roles to students year and will be continued each year.
"The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife," is a farce especially adapted for amateur production. Miss Helen Wilson, the author of *Expression school has the leading part.*
The licensed stations have been dis manteled and owners of unlicensed stations are notified that they, too, must dismantle within forty-eight hours of the receipt of this notice, which comes from Mr. J. F. Dillon radio inspector for this district, who has authority to enforce the order.
Notice has been received at Radio Station 91Q, the radio station of S. Kruse at 1538 Kentucky Street, that all local radio stations are to be distributed at once, the acrails being nected until permission to resume operation is granted by the Department of Commerce. This notice has been received at all of the licensed stations in Lawrence, of which there are five, and at all of the unlicensed sets of which they are some thirty-five or forty.
The ushers for the performance to-night will be the Misses Margaret Holder, Evelyn Strong, Ruth Foster, and Carolyn Mewtunn.
ALL WIRELESS STATIONS MUST CLOSE AT
WHY THEY MISSED CLASSES
More than fifty students living on Union Park towns, have an alibi for not attending classes this morning. Union Park train No. 102 due to arrive in Lawrence from the west at 8 o'clock this morning, did not reach 11:30 o'clock. The train hit some freight cars which explain the delay.
GUILTY DANCERS CAN'T ATTEND VARSITY HOPS
The library in Snow Hall was greatly improved during vacation. New casings were put in and the department will serve for several years.
Reprimanded by Chancellor Wil Also Punish Students Caught in Night Raid
The ten University students caught at the unauthorized public dance two weeks ago will be reprimanded by the Chancellor and will not be permitted to attend any University dance this year. A resolution to this effect was passed by the University Senate Wednesday.
The three women were found guilty of breaking the date rule and attending a public dance, which is a violation of the law, while the seven men are punished for violating the latter. More severe punishment was considered, but reprimanding and not permitting them to attend dances was finally decided
The Senate also decided to grant the degree of Master of Science in Education to graduates of the State Normal School and any other schools of the state, who finish a year's graduate work at the University, provided the schools comply with some course requirements.
A special meeting of the Senate will be held next Tuesday to consider the appointment of a committee on University policy. The purpose of such a committee is to confer with the Chancellor about the general policies of the University.
BEWARE OF THE OIL SHARKS
State is Overrun With Wildcat Companies Who Lease and Advertise Worthless Property
"With the increasing interest in oil development which is spreading over the state," said Prof. Raymond C. Moore of the geology department, who is working against certain types of oil companies, which are being operated in Kansas.
"Many of these companies are operated by unscrupulous men who will not hesitate to fcee the unwary inadvertent person, the unwary first and investigates afterwards."
The usual method of procedure of these companies is to lease property of undoubtful value and on this basis attractive advertising and pamphlets making extravagant claims of oil conditions and quick returns are prepared. In one case a map falsely said to be a government publication is used. The public, anxious to get in touch with the stock, later finds that the property is worthless or that the company has mysteriously evaporated.
TWO QUAKES REGISTERED
The Blue Sky laws do something towards combating these wild schemes, but in many cases it is hard to obtain any direct evidence against them. A survey of the oil and gas resources of the state is being made by the State Geological Survey which will be a great aid in this respect.
Seismograph Records Two Shocks 185 Miles Away Yesterday Afternoon
The University seismograph registered two earthquakes yesterday afternoon at a distance of 185 miles. The direction of the disturbance was north, and both quakes came from the same location according to Prof. F. E. Kester.
The primary wave of the first quake came at 2:53:23, the secondary wave at 2:53:57, the long wave at 2:54:12 and the end of the disturbance at 2:56:00. The maximum movement of the needle was three-quarts of an inch.
TO GIVE FRENCH COMEDY
Department of Romance Languages Chose Play of Eminent Author, Lahiche Martin
The primary wave of the second quake came at 5:35:56, the secondary wave at 5:36:29, the long wave at 5:45 and the end of the disturbance at 5:42.
The department of Romance languages will give the French comedy, "Le Voyage de M. Perrichon," April 14 in Green Hall. The play is one of the best of the well known French writer, Labiche Martin.
The cast is as follows
as noted as follows:
M. Perrison, Guy L. Eorody.
Mme. Perrison, Lucie Blackfan.
Henriette, Marjorie Rickard.
Marjiont, Neale J. Carman.
Marid Desroches, Robert Hartley.
Savary DAVV, Samuel Mitchell.
La Commandant Mathieu, Roscoe
Mme L'aubergiste, Mary Pedroja.
Joseph: Jean. Edward S. Mason.
The Weather
Generally fair night and Wednesday,
Warmen tonight in southeast and
northeast.
Plain Tales from the Hill
They were trying to make the 11:30 car Thursday and there was little time to spare. He rushed into Green Hall and left her standing outside. He was to call a cab to get them to the station in time. He grabbed the first phone in sight and placed it on his desk. In a moment a woman answered at the other end of the line. "Say, send a good car just as soon as you can to Green Hall, me'n my girl, two of us want to make the next car. Make it snappy please. We haven't much time. What? This is. Mrs. Eustace Brown's office. 'Um---I beg your permission.' The fact that he hasn't gotten out the nection but had called the jitney company's number on the University branch line. And he wasn't a freshman
Max Brown is credited with having the narrowest escape. When Brown, c'20, stepped on the scales for his physical examination, he balanced them at 125 pounds—just three pounds less than the minimum weight allowed. But Brown was made of the same material as all the fused to be a retreat. Instead, he went over to the water fountain and drank his fill. A second weighing showed that he had gained one and one-half pounds. Brown's thirst seemed to be still unquenched and he again sought the water fountain. he had the proportion of a fire fighting man and he tipped the scales at just 128 pounds—and was accepted by the recruiting officers.
SAFETY FIRST NOTE
Warren Wattles spent his Easter vacation in Kansas City. He returned with all his money.
After all, war is just a practical application of the famous advertising phrase: "Eventually, why not now?"
Mount Oread was a lonesome spot during vacation. With the library running on short time, and with Brick's and Lee's closed, the unfortunate students who remained in town could find no better amusement than remaining in their rooms and studying.
The flames had devastated the third floor of the Pi Upson house and the crowd, nervous and excited, all as "fire-crowds" are, had lapsed into an aftermath of quietude. The firemen were climbing through the charred beams and timbers to cut out windows, but no one entered, who had been standing nearby, was seen to remove his cap and clap his hands. The crowd wondered and then looked up to see a fireman unfurl an American flag from a window. It was scorched and holes were burnt into it here and there. But it elec- tromed them. The fireman threw it to the crowd Below, and a little boy cannuck it.
"Hang it on the fence there, here,
and spread it out so we can see."
And spread it out so we can see.
Rusty Friend, returning several hours late from his Easter vacation, rushed madly to the telephone to find out about his date. The clock said 9:30, and the party at the other end said "No she's at the Varsity." It is rumored that Rusty has lost his good disposition.
One of the proofs that the world is growing better is the fact that there is less space being given to the column since war was declared.
K. U. Musician Gave Local Tinge to Thursday's Concert—Belgian Airs Sir Audience
Carl Preyer, professor of piano, was heard in concert with the Zoellner String Quartet Thursday night in Robinson Gymnasium. The local musician added particular interest to the performance of the Zoellner musicians, who are capable of making an interesting evening, unaided.
National airs played by Belgians, who as a people have the deep sympathy of all Americans, gave the program a touch of the enthusiasm without which no concert has been complete for several weeks.
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
For the purpose of regulating the work and securing complete records of the men who enter military service, a committee to act in an advisory capacity and to give information as to the kinds of service, has been appointed. P. F. Walker is chairman of this committee, which will act for the whole University. Other members of the committee will be announced later. Any incidents contemplating entering a branch of service should confer with Dean Walker.
FULL CREDIT AND NO EXAMS FOR ENLISTERS
Senate Ruling Applies Only to Those Doing Passing Work Who Will Return
WILL FINISH SCHOOL YEAR
Commencement and May Fete Will be Modified and Money Given to Hospital
Full credit will be given to all K. U, students who are members of the Kansas National Guard or who wish to enlist before the end of the present semester, according to a rule passed last week at a special meeting of the University Senate. Students, however, must be doing pass work at the time they leave school, but no examination is required.
At any time they return to the University they will have their year's credits although work which is pre-designed must be finished before going on with their projects. The University of Missouri and many other universities and schools over the United States have taken similar action, so that students who enroll in the navy may not be handicapped by being deprived of their school credits.
TO HAVE COMMENCEMENT
The resolution which is introduced at the same meeting to abolish commencement exercises and festivities this spring and suggesting that the money saved by doing away with these exercises be used for the local hospital fund or for some other war emergency, failed to pass. The Chancellor's cabinet was authorized, however, to consider the advisability of modifying the exercises in any way or of abolishing the Annual May Fete.
Chancellor Strong believes the University ought to finish the year in as normal a manner as possible under the circumstances because there will be trouble enough later. He may make me again in special session tomorrow to take on the matter of a Senate committee to take up the matter of a Senate policy.
MAY DROP FACULTY
This committee was originated for the purpose of conferring with the Chancellor and deans on important University affairs. The present committee will undertake a law attachment by the new law and members of the Senate feel that as members of the governing body of the University they should have more voice in University policies. The Chancellor is judge and judge commissionations for changes at the present.
One thing the Senate anticipates and which will mean the dropping of part of the faculty is the decrease in the University enrollment on account of something. Something will have to be done if the faculty drops off 1,000 by next year and the Senate wants to have a say in any such faculty changes.
WHO'S WHO LISTS FACULTY
Sketches of Achievements of Twenty-
nine K. U. Professors Given in
America's Exclusive Book
Twenty-nine members of the University faculty have biographies in Who's Woman? A series for 1916-17. Besides these there are three others who were members of the faculty last year. This makes a total of 32 listed for 1916, a gain of six over 1915 when 26 were listed.
Who's Who in America gives short sketches of all Americans whose achievements makes his personality of interest. It is considered a great honor to be mentioned in Who's Who on account of its exclusiveness.
Twenty-three of the faculty members were recorded in the 1915 edi- Dr. Ida H. Hyde is the only woman professor listed from the University.
The following faculty members are recorded: Edgar H. S. Bailey, Frank W. Blackman, William S. Burdick, H. P. Cady, Frank B. Dains, Charles G. Haworth, William E. Green, Erasmus Haworth, Edward W. Green, H. Hodder, Edwin M. Hopkins, Samuel J. Hunter, Ida H. Hyde, F. E. Kester, William A. McKeever, Nevin Nevin, Carl Preyer, Lucius E. Sayre, George C. Shadef, Frank R. Strech, George C. Stophens, Frank Strech, Olm H. Ewald, E. Todd, Arthur T. Walker, P. W. Shelden L, Whitcomb, Alexander M. Wilcox, J. S. Crumbine.
Speaight Gives Reading
Frank Spesight closed the series of University lectures with a recital of "A Tale of Two Cities" in Fraser on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Spesight messages from the work and visualized several characters of Dickens' novel.
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