UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 118
Chancellor Will Declare Holiday For Company M When It Parades Here
137th Infantry is Expected Home in Two or Three Weeks
University Whistle to Blow
Celebration is in the Hands of General Metcalf of Topeka
K. U. will be out in full force when Co. M of the 137th Infantry, the University company, parades in Lawrence some time in the next three weeks, according to Chancellor Frank Strong. A holiday will be declared and all the students will be expected to attend the parade. The K. U. Band will play for the parade.
Although the 137th has not sailed from France, they are expected to arrive in the United States in two or three weeks and will parade in Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka and Wichita.
Battery B of the 130th Field Artillery, which is a Lawrence outfit, will arrive at Newport News next Saturday and will probably parade in Lawrence in the next two weeks. Several University men are members of Battery B. The 110th Engineers, which has a large number of University men, will also parade in Lawrence about the same time as Battery B.
General Metcalf, who is chairman of the Welcome Committee, will have charge of the parades and the welcoming of the boys at the various towns where they stop. Colonel Hugh Means, formerly a major in the 137th Infantry, is in charge of the Lawrence division, also the Army's division. He served the War Department more than half of the 35th Division has sailed. This makes more than 15,000 Kansas and Missouri soldiers who have sailed from France.
According to Chancellor Strong, the day that the boys are to get here the University whistle will blow several long blasts for the dismissal of classes. Plenty of time will be given for the students to get to the depot before the train arrives.
K. U. Extension Division Is Praised by Visitor
Official notice from the war department was received this morning by Mayor George L. Kreeche, but no definite arrangements can be made until the day that the boys will get here has been announced. Mayor Kreeche went to Kansas City this morning to confer with the committee in charge of the war department, and they arrive in Kansas City. When Mayor Kreeche returns home he will appoint a committee to be in charge of the celebration here.
Arkansas University Director Seeks Information—Confers With Professor Elmer
"The Extension Division at the University of Kansas is conducted in a very effective manner and Mr. Ingham certainly is running it on the most efficient basis of any of the nine state university extension divisions that I have visited in the last several weeks," is the praise that B. C. Riley offered the University Extension Division today. Mr. Riley is the director of the general extension division of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
He is touring the middle western universities and visiting their extension divisions in an effort to find new features that he may add to his division or to offer any suggestions that he might think profitable.
Mr. Riley also had a second purpose in coming to the University. The social surveys of Kansas towns by Prof. M. C. Elmer of the department of sociology, have attracted much attention at university of Arkansas. Mr. Riley asked to discuss the work of making social surveys with Professor Elmer.
Dr. Mix to be at Botany Club
The Botany Club will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Professor W. C. Stevens, 1121 Louisiana Street. Dr. A. J. Mix will tell of his work in Florida with truck crops. He worked for the Government Department of Agriculture which is carrying an extensive study of experimentation with plant diseases and their control.
University Loses Nothing
On Account of Barracks
The final settlement between the District Manager of the Committee on Education and Special Training of the War department, and the University of Kansas, was made Tuesday afternoon at Topeka when Chancellor Frank Strong was authorized to sign the final couchers and the cancellation letter. He was board of administration and James A. Kimbal, business manager.
"The settlement with the Navy department will undoubtedly be made along the same lines in the near future," said Chancellor Strong today. "It will be of interest to all K.U. who are interested and led with the University without any ousty K. U. on account of the baracks."
Beyond The Hill
Written for students who are too busy or too
iy to read a paper from outside the campus.
Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey are not particularly, promising debtors, but the reparations commission, with the problem of German compensation for damages out of the way, is taking up the question of the financial responsibility of these states, along the same lines as in the case of Germany. They will be required to accept the principle that they are responsible for damages to the civilian life and property under the same categories as applied to Germany.
Herbert Hoover director of food relief in Europe for all the allied governments, and Lieut. Robert E Olds, Red Cross commissioner for Europe have issued the following joint statement.
"There is no basis of truth whatever in the report appearing in some of the press this morning that the American Red Cross has been asked by the United States or any other government to undertake the relief of Europe or to fight Bolshevism with food. Fighting the famine in Europe is an affair of the governments and can not possibly be undertaken by the Red Cross."
An order from Marshall Foch which permits Germany to repatriate the Russian prisoners has reached Berlin, and it is expected that the task of sending back seven hundred thousand soldiers of the old Russian army will begin at once.
The Marine Workers Affiliation declared tonight a renewal of the general harbor strike which will involve sixteen thousand workers. The new walkout will go into effect at 6 o'clock Thursday morning and efforts will be made to tie up everything afloat including ferry boats, coastwise and transhipatic shipping. Leader of the maritime union, even those exceptions, and that even hospital ships will be included. The strike will also hit the transports.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 16, 1919.
All factories and stores, with the exception of bread shops and provisions, were closed in Limerick, Ireland Tuesday, because of the strikes there. During the night military forces which are enforcing military law in this region, erected barriers across all the roads entering the city and no persons except with military passes were allowed to pass. The workingmen in Cork were idle today as the result of a proclamation of a strike as a protest against martial law. Electric and gas supplies of the city have been cut off and traffic is at a stand still.
The present system of military justice needs no radical alteration in the opinion of Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, commander of the Rainbow Division throughout its active service in the war. General Menoher said that with some elaboration of regulations to make the system more easily understandable to officers serving only for a war emergency, he saw no necessity for changing court martial practice and procedure.
Fear that the strike that begins Wednesday at the Central Coal and Coke Company's plants and its subleased properties in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, may spread to all associated companies was expressed Tuesday night. "Associated companies" in the commercial adaptation of the term would include members of the operator's association. Reports received at Fort Smith, Ark. Tuesday indicated also that a strike was brewing at the Missouri plants of the Western Coal and Mining Company.
An Anti-Blood Club has been organized at the University of Texas to cut university social costs.
Victory Loan Campaign Begins on Mount Oread With Booster Meeting
Sale of Bonds for Fifth Liberty Loan Will Begin
Monday
The campaign on the Hill for the Victory Liberty Loan will begin Monday morning. Prof. U. G. Mitchell will conduct the campaign.
The quota for this loan is to be about two-thirds of the last loan. The quota for the Fourth Liberty Loan for the University of Kansas was $25,000, but the allotment was over-subscribed to $68,400.
"Our quota will probably be about $19,000 or $20,000 this time," said Professor Mitchell. "The campaign will be conducted by buildings, just as it was before, although no definite amount will be allotted to each building. Each one will just do its best. The campaign will begin early Monday morning, and will be purely voluntary.
Today at 4:30 o'clock there will be a booster meeting in Fraser Hall, when Superintendent Keut of the Lawrence High School will speak. Tonight at 8:15 o'clock there will be a five-reel picture shown in Fraser of the battle of Chateau-Thierry. This has been arranged by Mrs. Genevieve H. Chalkley of Lawrence. The films will be shown free, and a large attendance is urged by Professor Mitchell, as it is part of the Victory Loan campaign.
2-Sentence Happ'nings
"Safety Engineering" is the subject of the meeting of the Mechanical Engineering Society to be held Thursday at 7:30 o'clock, at the home of Prof. F. H. Sibley. Several business matters will be discussed at this meeting. Kenneth Craig will speak on "Protection, Appliances and Devices"; C. K. Dichl on "Casualty Insurance"; and Paul Snyder on "Welfare Engineering."
The Victory Loan is next.
The Senate Memorial Committee will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Room 110 Fraser. Further arrangements for memorial exercises will be made and the matter of a permanent memorial discussed.
Prof. A. M. Wilcox lectured this morning on Ancient Bible Manuscripts. The manuscripts were in Greek and represented different periods in the history of hand-written books.
"The Price of Peace" is the title of a five real feature film to be shown in Fraser at 4:30 o'clock and again at 8:15 o'clock today. The film will depict some of the most stirring scenes of the war. It is a government film and there will be no admittance charge.
The annual banquet of the Sigma Xi honorary scientific fraternity will be held Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. at the Congregational Parish House.
Nell Gunn, c'20, has gone to her home in Great Bend to see her brother who has returned from overseas.
Sigma Xi Annual Banquet Will Be Thursday Nigh
A force written by Agnes Brady and Margaret Husson will be presented before El Ateneo Thursday by the following members: Sibyl Martin, Maurine Clark, Katherine Robertson, Gladys Tibals, Dorothy Owens, Ethlyn Green, Alfrieda Biresak, Myrtle Gidingham, Margaret Husson and Agnes Brady. The club meets at 4:30 o'clock in Room 313, Fraser.
There will be a business meeting at 6 o'clock and a program after the banquet. Dr. H. B. Ward, head of the department of zoology at Illinois University, and instructors from the University faculty will speak.
Prof. C. C. Williams of the School of Engineering was able to meet his classes Monday after an illness of several days.
The Graduate Club will hold a meeting Friday at 4:30 o'clock in Westminster Hall. The program will be in two parts. The first will be a number of piano selections by Mrs. A. L. Owen, and the second will be a play, given by the dramatic section of the club.
W. S. G. A. Installation For 1919-20 Officers Took Place Tuesday
Association Gave About $400 to Co-Operative House and War Orphan Fund
These officers of the Woman's Student Government Association for 1919-20 were installed Tuesday night: President, Rila Hammam; vice-president (for the College), Iris Russell; vice-president (for the School of Fine Arts), Lorna Marie Raub; secretary, Eileen Van Sandt; treasurer, Marion Eastlake; representative representatives, Doris Drought and Earline Allen; junior representatives, Catherine Oder and Helen Olson; sophomore representatives, Margaret Matthews and Ruth Garver.
Katherine Fulkerson, secretary of the out-going council reported on the work of the association for the last year. The report showed the women assumed charge of the book exchange, formerly conducted by the Men's Student Council, and handled over $500 worth of books this year. The House Presidents Council under the leader, John Reed, presented Four hundred dollars was given to the co-operative house fund, and a French orphan was adopted.
During the S. A. T. C. the W. S. G. A., conducted the Varsity dances, but now the dances are operated in conjunction with the Men's Student Council. Several midy dances have been given this year by the association.
A point system, uniform with the point system of the Men's Student Council, has been provided by the association.
Y.M.C.A. Will Give Party the Evening of April 23
Plan of Procedure Is Being Worked Out for Rest of Year
The cabinet of the Y. M. C. A. met Tuesday evening, and endeavored to work out a plan of procedure for the rest of the year. The plans are not complete, but are expected to be at the end of a continuation of the meeting tonight. Meetings are to be held regularly every Thursday evening and are to be followed by the World Problems Forum.
A "Y" stag will be held on next Wednesday evening, April-23. The object of the stag is to bring the men together that they may take a greater interest in the work of the association. The Y. M. C. A. of the University and the Eustes Park seven men to attend the Estes Park convention this summer.
The recent election of men as officials of the Y. M. C. A. resulted as follows:
Fred B. Jenkins, president.
John Wahlstedt, meetings committee; Herbert Olson, Inner Circle; John Bunn, social committee; Frank Stacey, boys' work; Marvin Harms, publicity; Ralph Rodkey, sick visitation; Alfred Graves, church relationships; Virgil Hower, membership. Olin K. Fearing, in addition to being vice-president, is chairman of the conventions committee.
Olin K. Fearing, vice-president.
Donald Blair, recording secretary
Chairmen of the various commit
ees are:
Announcements
"The Fraternity System," the subject of the third of the Wake Up Kansas talks, will be given at Myers Hall at 7:15 Thursday night by Dutch Wedell. Everyone interested in the subject is requested to come.
The Entomology Club will have initiation followed by a wienie roast Thursday afternoon. Members will o'clock in room 205 on the Museum steps.
The Blackfriars Club will have a meeting Wednesday night at 7:30 o'colck in room 205 Fraser. There will be a program and short business meeting.
Owls will meet Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the Phil Delta Theta house.
Sphinx will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the Alpha Tau Omega house.
Quill Club will meet Thursday April 17, at 8 o'clock in Fraser Rest room.
Campus Will Have Shrubs
Blossoming Until Lat Fall
The flowers and shrubs planted on the Hill two seasons ago are just beginning to bloom well this spring in fulfilling their mission for a "campus beautiful."
The forstythia, the first to bloom,
showed its small yellow flowers close
to the stems even before the shrub
had any leaves. It is planted in the
beds between the Journalism Building
and Fraser. The thumberg spirea is
the next shrub that has come into
bloom. It has a tiny white blossom
and fills several of the beds between
it and the frasers. It climbs up the
garden west of the Law Builder.
The red bud and wild plum are the trees which are showing their blossoms first. Their red and white flowers bloom when they are planted together.
Another yellow flower that is blooming now is the Japanese kerria, which can be found in the beds in front of the Museum. The blossoms of the kerria are rather similar to small yellow roses.
"The University landscape gardening," said Prof. W. C. Stevens of the department of botany, "Has been planted so that we will have some shrubs in bloom from early spring until late fall. The first shrub to bloom in the spring will always be the forsythia and other shrubs will bloom in succession until the fall frosts become too severe."
Plain Tales From the Hill
A PERMANENT MEMORIAL
A PERMANENT MEMORIAL
(Ed. Note - All campus opinions will be printed indiscriminately in this column for the proponents of all things that would be memorable. You must sign your name in good faith.)
I think that the new administration building should have more additions in the way of chimneys so that it could be in style with the Chem. building. Therefore I think it would be a proper memorial to place several pretty chimneys on top of Ad., and these could be painted in different colors.—A Chint, A. Sween.
WHY?
Why are the following signs on the door at 414 West 14th Street?
“Strangers Not Allowed.”
“Strangers Please Knock.”
LIGHT OCCUPATIONS
Sliding down the back roof of the Physics Building.
Playing hide-and-go-seek among the chimneys on the chem. building.
Picking one hundred dandelions a minute.
Riding K. U. cars.
The new student union building which has been recently suggested might contain a room for all overflow dates at the sororities on Sunday nights.
Getting lost in the journalism labyrinth.
Lee A White, who spoke at the University this week has had a hard time with printers in keeping the period out of his name. When asked whether A was a middle name he said no, but that when he was very young, his mother had a very fine friend named Adeline. Consequently his middle name is Adeline, and since he has always written his middle name A without the period.
A visitor recently asked one of the students why there wasn't any other kind of flower planted on the campus besides the dandelion.
FAMOUS LAST LINES Unprepared. Unprepared.
Safety Engineering to Be Society Discussion Topic
"Safety Engineering" is the topic for discussion by the Mechanical Engineering Society which will meet Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Pref. F. H. Silley, 1607 Tenney Street. The program is as follows:
"Protective Appliances and Devices," Kenneth Craig, e'21.
"Welfare Engineering," Paul C Snyder, e21.
Send The Daily Kansan Home.
All mechanical engineering students have been requested to be present at this meeting, as business of importance in connection with the annual mechanical engineers' day and banquet will come up.
League Sure To Work Charles F. Scott Says At Forum Of Students
"Casualty Insurance," Clifford K. Diehl, e21.
Constitution of League Will Be One of World's Four Great Documents, Says Editor
Entirely Question of Duty
Scott, M.S. 'S8, Says Borah, Prep '85, Has Mis-stated Facts in His Criticism
"The League of Nations will work," said Charles F. Scott, editor of the Iola Register, in a speech before the Student World Problems Forum Tuesday afternoon in Fraser Chapel. "It will work because the welfare of the world is wrapped up in the working of it. I believe every institution of government, no matter how crude, can be made to work if people want it to.
"In the course of the progress and development of our own and other races many important documents from time to time have been framed and promulgated, but when we broaden our vision and scan the annals of all mankind we find but three instruments that deserve to be ranked as supremely and superlatively great; independent national existence.
"The Ten Commandments, handed down from the thunders of Sinai, establishing for all time the one moral code, which must forever bind the consciences of men.
"The Magna Charta, wrung from King John by the barons at Runnymede, setting forth the inalienable rights of the individual man in his own person and property.
"The Declaration of Independence, laying down the principles which justify a people in asserting and maintaining its right to a separate and independent national existence.
"We have come together today to discuss an instrument which I believe is destined to take its place as the fourth supremely and superlatively great human document; The Constitution of the League of Nations.
LEAGUE BOUND TO COME
"For the League of Nations is going to be formed, I do not permit myself for a moment to doubt that. The time is ripe for it. The logic of the world situation enforces it. The great heart of humanity, wrung with the unutterable griefs of four years of soul-searing warfare, demands it The league is bound to come The only question for this nation to decide is whether it shall lead the van of the march toward the great consummation of whether it shall be scourged into a tardy and reluctant assent." At this point Mr. Scott read extracts from the constitution of the
"I have been much impressed," continued Mr. Scott, "with many of the criticisms. We surrender our sovereignty. We do not yield to a supervision but to international law, and in doing this we would do no more than the states did when they entered the United States or than every person does when he becomes a member of society.
TOO CLOSE FOR ISOLATION
"We would engage ourselves in entangling alliances, say the critics. We can no longer remain in a state of isolation. The world has grown too close together for that. The modern inventions of the telephone and the telegraph have made the world a whispering gallery. It would rather
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Science Professor's Text is Popular in England
Prof. W. L. Eikenberry, of the School of Education, who is now teaching biological science at Oread Training School, has received an invitation to prepare an article on science teaching for the Journal of the British Association of Science Masters in Secondary Schools, of London
The editor of the journal writes that the British science teachers value Professor Elkenberry's textbook on general science very highly. It was first published in 1914, and has grown so rapidly in popularity as an introductory textbook that the British science teachers are planning to have an edition revised especially for their use.