UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 96
Particulars of Bonus Received by Blackmar From Service Section
Authorities Advise Registering of Discharges and Releases to Prevent Loss
Particulars concerning the bonus on discharges have been sent by the Home Service Section of the A. R. C. to Dean F. W. Blackman, chairman of this section. The payment of $00 will be made to "all persons serving in the military or naval forces of the United States during World War II" who are deployed in April 6, 1947, resigned or been discharged under honorable conditions . . . or who at any time here after . . . may resign or be discharged under honorable conditions."
Reservists who have been, or will be, placed on inactive duty are included in the provisions of the Revenue Act. The bonus is not payable to (1) any person who did not report for duty at his station on or prior to November 11, 1918; (2) any person entitled to retained pay; (3) heirs or legal representatives of the officer discharged twice during the period limited by the Act, he is entitled to the payment of only one bonus.
Officers, soldiers, field clerks, and nurses of the army who have been discharged and have received their final pay without the $60 bonus, should write a letter to the Zone Finance Officer, Lemon Building, Washington, D. C., stating their service since April 6, 1917, the date of last discharge, and their present address to which they desire their bonus checks to be sent and enclosing with this letter their discharge certificate or military order for discharge and both, if both were issued.
Officers and men of the navy (including the marine corps) who have been relieved from active duty, discharged or disenrolled prior to the approval of the Act, will present their claims for the bonus, substantiated by their discharges or orders to inactive duty, to the Disbursing Officer, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., for payment. Officers and enlisted men of the coast guard will present their claims to coast guard Headquarters, Washington, D. C. In case the original discharge or orders to inactive duty are lost, it will be necessary to obtain a certified copy from the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., and a certificate from the officer by whom final settlement of pay accounts was made that no credit of this bonus has been made by him. Upon receipt by the Disbursing Officer, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, of claims filed by men no longer in active service, the requests will be compared with the enlistment records on file in the Bureau of Navigation in order to ascertain the correctness of the claims, and the Disbursing Officer will certify that such comparison has been made and that according to the records, the bonus is due and remains unpaid.
For protection against loss the discharge papers may be registered at the courthouse before they are forwarded.
Sophomore Dance to be In Robinson Gym Friday
The first Sophomore dance of the year will be held in Robinson Gymnasium Friday, March 14. Eddie Kuhm's 4-piece orchestra from Kansas City will provide the music. The gymnast will be decorated with class colors.
Tickets may be obtained for $1.00 from Jack Dolaney, Eugene Graham, John Kinkle, Robert Lynn, and Jack Jones. This party is not the Soph Hop, nor a substitute for it. The event will be announced until further action has been taken on the present dance price ruling.
Enrollment for Third Quarter will be Tuesday, March 25. Mrs. Esterly.
Home Economics Club to Sing
The Home Economics Club will have a 'Sing' at the home of Miss Sprague at 1701 Louisiana Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present.
Bumpstead-Leigh Again for Relief of Armenians
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1919.
"Mrs. Bumpsted-Leigh" will be repeated Monday, March 17 at the Bowersock Theater, for the benefit of the Armenian Relief Fund. Business men have urged that the play be produced again at a meeting of the cast with Prof. Arthur MacMurray Monday they decided to give it again.
W. C. Simons, editor of the Journal-World, is going to give the play-publicity and advertising free of charge, so that the cost of production will be decreased. J. R. Holmes, who was manager of the Red Cross Auction Sale, will devote some of his time to publicity also.
The tickets will be the same price as they were at the first production, and are on sale at the Round Corner Drug Store.
Five Minutes in the Wide, Wide World
Written for students who are too busy or too
lazy to read a paper from above the campus.
Mail Seized Since the signing of the armistice has disclosed that the I.W. w anarchists and other radical socialists are perfecting a amalgamation which has for its object the overthrow of the American government through "bloody revolution," and the establishment of a Bolshevik republic, according to Solicitor Lamar of the Post Office Department.
General Pershing Catching Washing ton Monday that he had issued orders for the Rainbow Division, (42nd) to prepare for embarkation. That would indicate that the Rainbow Division may be expelled between April and June as the average period between such orders and embarkation has been one month.
Definite Steps Were taken in the Peace Conference Monday to reduce the Kaiser's great army to a mere police force. The changes are even more severe than those recommended by Marshal Foch. The German Army is to be cut down 100,000.
Letters Received By Senator Curti of Kansas from Kansas people indicate sentiment in Kansas is against the ratification of the league of nations covenant until it is amended to protect American rights better. Senator Curti is one of the signers of the "round robin" who refuse to vote for the League until it is materially amended.
Kansas State Officials in the United States Supreme court today attacked the authority of Postmaster General Burleson to fix intrastate as well as interstate telephone rates. They ask permission to file prosecution on a recent order to increase rates in Kansas and to get a final decision as to his power.
The Daily Estimated production of Mid-Continent fields for the past week was 281,000 barrels. The Okahama fields produced 208,000 barrels.
Departure From France of about 100 officers and 5000 men on five transports and cruisers was announced Monday by the war department.
The First American memorial to the American dead, will be at Reims. It will be a large American hospital and the sum of $100,000 has already been granted by the American fund organization in the United States.
The New Victory 3-cent postage stamp has appeared and is now on sale at the post offices. It has on its face a figure of Liberty Victorious with a background composed of the flags of the five countries which had the most active part in the World War.
Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith of the department of architectural engineering was in Topeka Saturday in connection with his work as consulting architect on the new $125,000 women's dormitory at Washburn, construction of which will begin this summer.
Prof. Goldsmith Architect For Washburn Dormitory
Ralph E. Scamell, who graduates from the University of Kansas in 1911, now assistant professor of engineering at Washburn, is architect for the new dormitory. Professor Scamell was the architect who planned the barracks put up at Washburn last fall for the S. A. T. C.
Texas:—Chocolate and tea are to be served by the Y.W.C.A. in the study hall during examination week.
Those students of the University of Chicago who favor the Christian Science religion, have a society of their own.
Prof. Sherwood Denies Isolation of Flu Germ By University Instructor
McNaught Says Story Accrediter to Him Not True—Department Wishes it Were
The "flu" has the scientific world up a tree, on an out a limb, in deep water, gagged, bound hand and foot, yet waving both hands and yelling loudly for help. So, in effect, said Prof. Noble P. Sherwood in denying widely-published reports that University of Kansas bacteriologists had discovered the "flu" germ. Professor Sherwoid is head of the department of bacteriology at the University.
Nobody knows what causes the "flu," Professor Sherwood said. Pfeffer's bacillus for a while was believed to be the cause. Then it was generally rejected, but more widely several pathologists have back to a belief that the best cure is so far produced charges Pfeffer bacillus with the crime, if it does not actually convict.
Army experiments have demonstrated apparently that the disease is transmitted by hand to mouth and not through the air. Hence, the "fur masks so generously worn benefited only in keeping people's fingers out of their mouths and in psychic effect.
The public health service took cultures from throat and nasal passages of persons who had the flu and endeavored to infect fifty healthy persons, who volunteered for the experiment, in San Francisco and a like number in Boston. Not one of the hundred took the flu. Then cultures from the flu patients were put in solution and sprayed into the throat of the patient. They could not caught the flu. They sat with their faces right up against flu patients for forty-five minutes and not one caught the flu.
French scientists believe that "flu"
comes from a "filterable virus," which
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Wireless Will be Offered
To All K. U. Students
Physics Department Will In struct in Theory and Code Practice
A five hour course in Wireless Telegraphy will be offered by the Physics department next quarter, according to an announcement from that department today.. The course will comprise of both theory work and practical experience. It will be given to recitation and an hour daily code practice will be held.
Prof. M. E. Rice of the Physics department will give instruction in theory and the code practice will be under the supervision of Carl Ross, a student, who was one of the wireless instructors for the wireless work that was given for men in Section B of the S.A.T.C. last summer and fall.
The course will be open to all University students. No prerequisites will be required, a knowledge of algebra, trigonometry, and physics is almost essential. The class will be limited to about twelve or fifteen.
"The course will be essentially a vocational course," and Mr. Ross today. "As little technical theory as possible will be given and our efforts to support them will give the students a practical working knowledge of the subject."
Practical experience will be available in the University Wireless station which has been reopened and newly equipped since the close of the war. The station is now in excellent condition and has been copied from as far as stations in Japan, England, Alaska, and the Philippine Islands.
The Mathematics Club met Monday afternoon in room 103 in the Administration building. The feature of the program was a talk on the History of Calculus by Vesta Schar '19.
The Woman's Forum will not meet again until after examinations.
The History Club will meet Wednesday at 7:15 o'clock in Myers Hall. Prof. George H. Derry will speak on "An Analysis of the League of Nations."
Announcements
House Presidents' Council 'I will meet Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Room 110 Fraser. Miss Duffield and Miss Corbin will speak.
Enrollment One Day Tuesday, March 25 For Third Quarter
All Schools Have Same Vacation Although Laws and Engineers Need Not Enroll
Only one day, Tuesday, March 25,
will be given over for enrollment
for the third quarter of the school year.
Robinson Gymnasm will be used for
enrollment of all students except those
of the School of Pharmacy. They will
be taken care of at the Chemistry
Building.
The School of Law and the School of Engineering are running on a different basis from the rest of the University and will not have enrollment at this time. But they will have the same vacation as the rest of the schools, from Thursday, March 20, to Wednesday, March 26. The School of Law is running on the four quarter system and held its final quizzes three weeks ago. The School of Engineering has combined the work of the second and third quarter into one semester.
One hour quizzes will be given on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday instead of the usual finals as have been given in the past. The places of enrollment will be open all day on March 25.
The class schedules are being printed by the state printer at Topeka and are expected to arrive for distribution the last of the week. There will only be a limited number of the schedules.
First Senior Try-outs Monday for "Oh Shoot"
Fifteen Seniors Wanted for Parts Eleven Women and
Try-outs for the senior play, "Oh Shoot!" began Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Little Theater at Green Hall. Twenty-five persons appeared to tryout at that time, and a great many more are expected this week. Try-outs continue through the week at the same place.
"Any man or woman with senior credits may try out," said Prof. Arthur MasMurray who will coach the play, "and I want all of them to try. They can come out for their try-out and get into one of the parts. I certainly want to urge it heavily upon each of them."
There are about fifteen parts in the play, eleven of them being women's parts. The play was written by Ed. Dawson and beheaded by the Bowersock Theater this spring.
"It is one of the big events of the year," said the coach, "and will receive as much advertising and public as "Mrs. Bumpstand-LElid" did. Typewritten copies of the play have been made, and are in stock where any senior who wishes to look over his part before he tries out, may get one.
Nellie Reese Evans Elected President of Y. W. C. A
Lillian Cottrell, Vice-President and Marian Bradley, Secretary for 1919-20
The following women were elected officers of the Y. W. C. A. for next year at the meeting of the association this afternoon: Nelle Reese Evans, c 20; president; Lillian Cottrell, c 20; vice-president, and Marian Bradley, c 21; secretary.
Nominations were made last Friday by a nominating committee. The members of this committee were Mrs. W. H. Johnson, chairman of the board of directors of the Y. W. C. A.; Evelyn Rorabaugh, president; Meriam Merritt, vice-president; Mary Burnett from the association at large, and Miss Katherine Duffield, general secretary. The nominations were presented for adoption at the regular meeting of the association this afternoon.
Stamp Sales Increase
Sales of stamps and stamped paper in the post office in Fraser Hall has increased greatly since last year. In January of this year the sales amounted to $881.93 while sales of January, 1918 were $865.41, an increase of $16.52. The sales of February of this year were $993.90 as compared with $707.77 for February, 1918, showing an increase of $87.13.
Many Druggists Inquire About Drug Substitutes
Following the publication of the discovery of a harmless, no habit forming drug as a substitute for morphine in medicine, in last Thursday's Kansan, Dean L. E. Sayre of the School of Pharmacy, who with G. W. Watson of the state board of health laboratory perfected the new drug, has been busy answering the letters of inquiry that have come to his office. Letters from prominent drummists and chemists all over the country have been received, and Monday a man from out of the state conferred with Dean Sayre about the new discovery.
Plain Tales From the Hill
The senior was walking down the Hill with one of his professors. Wishing to light a fag, he asked his companion, "Got a match, professor?" A freshman, following close, nudged him and asked if he did you hear that? He sure must be in good with his prot to ask him a thing like that."
The W.A.A. will put on their circus April 1 this year. The big feature in the past has been the sack race between the women. The women should make some fast time this year according to the men on the Hill as they have had so much practicing in the new tight skirts.
It is reported that the Senate has placed a restriction on "Fergy"s dating University women. "Fergy" thinks this blow came at the wrong time as he was writing the names of the good women dancers at the Jazz in a notebook so he could get a ticket to see their performance of dancing alone," said Fergy the day the Senate came forth and smote his unbitions.
George O. Foster is not looking for any more work. In fact he is advertising for a second to keep him cool on his second bout. He has begin the auditing for the 1018 Jayne and says it will take at least two weeks.
Students find it more practical to attend the Varsity dances early in the evening now, instead of waiting later when we used to think that some of the couples would leave. Now the hall is generally more crowded after intermission or rather at the time the doorkeeper goes after a drink.
Some of the women in the "Home Nursing" classes who have to go over to the University Hospital each day for practical work are seriously considering inviting "Hap" Hoover to accompany them. They are sure that "Hap" could help them immensely in one part especially of their varied tasks because he is so accustomed to taking "Puls."
Marie Lavrov Will Tell Aspirations of Russia
Marie Lavrov, a native Russian lecturer, who will speak in Fraser Hall Thursday at 4:30 o'clock on "The Forces Behind the Russian Revolution," is a graduate of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. It is her purpose to make Russia better understood by the American people through her lectures on Russian life and literature.
Her lecture will include phases of Russian peasant life and customs, the part the women took in the Russian peasant fluencing forces in the present time.
"She is not a propagandist for any political party," said H. G. Ingham of the Extension Division this morning, "but rather aims to give an insight into the life and character of her native people." Miss Lavrov has will come through these trying times and establish a genuine democracy.
The lecture will be open to the public.
Mrs. Williams B. Thayer Is Visiting University
Mrs. William B. Thayer and Miss Seagrist of Kansas City have been visitors on the campus for the last several days. Mrs. Thayer is here to continue a study of Spanish Art and Miss Seagrist has been visiting the classes in the art department. To receive permission to serve William B. Thayer Memorial Art Collection, part of which is now on display on the third floor of the Administration Building, was given to the University by Mrs. Thayer.
University Was Given Subsistence for Navy Says S.A.T.C. Yoeman
Letter to Welfare Committee Tells Money Was Paid in Full
Gives the Men $36 Apiece
Investigations are Being Continued According to Chairman of Committee
That the Navy has paid the University in full for the subsistence of the men in the naval unit of the S.A.T.C., and that this money was paid with the understanding that each man would receive a refund of $1.00 per day from the date of induction to No.ember 5, are statements contained in a letter just received by John R.Wahlstedt, e'21, member of the Naval Welfare Committee, from Charles J.Sutherland, Chief Yoeman, U.S.N.R.F., who with the local unit of the S.A.T.C. last fall.
"The Navy did pay the University in full, at the rate of $1.25 per day per man, from the date he was inducted or reported for duty until December 21, between $25,000 and $26,000," writes Chief Weson Metherland. "This amount, which was in two checks, was turned over to Mr. Klooz by Ensign Finnegan about January 20.
"The money was given to the University with the understanding that each man of the naval unit would receive a refund of $1.00 a day (the other 25 cents per day was for tuition) from the day he was inducted or reported for duty, until November 5 inclusive. The inducted men who reported giving the date each man reported, and the amount due him, was furnished Mr. Klooz by Ensign Finnegan.
"I can not say whether you were given orders to eat at barracks No. 2 before No. 4 was completed. There went nothing to this effect among the files."
"The men who were in the naval unit at K.U. are far from satisfied with the settlement proposed by the University," said John Wahlstedt. "They are entitled to refund up to November 5, a total of $46,000 on eligible boats and they would receive a total of only $13,500, including six days for board at 75 cents a day and thirty-six days for lodging at 25 cents a day."
The total amount to be refunded to the men of the S.A.T.C. is $14,745.80, according to Karl Klooz, chief clerk of the University business office. This will probably be ready for distribution shortly before May 1.
"Although the total of all claims made have never been figured up," said Mr. Kloos, "from about 160 taken over, over, over they would approximate $30,000."
"It appears an injustice is being done the men unless steps are taken to adjust the matter equitably" said Prof. C. C. Williams, who has been acting as informal adviser for the Naval Welfare Committee.
The Naval Welfare Committee is continuing its investigation, according to chairman Warren Blazier. A number of letters have been written to the authorities and colleagues to find out how the matter of substance was handled.
Alumni to Furnish Room in Co-operative Hoase
The Lawrence Chapter of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae will furnish one room in the co-operative house to be established at the University next fall. This association is a national organization of college women graduates.
The house will be in working order by next fall according to plans now being made. Different organizations and clubs will be asked to donate furniture or money to aid in furnishing the house. The furnishing is under the direction of the department of home economics. The house is being established mainly for the benefit of University women who wish to live more economically and each woman will have a part in the direction and work necessary to keep the house going.
Ohio:-Three students in the school of architecture have received honorable mention in the competitive exhibition of the "Beau Arts Institute of Design," New York City.