FEBRUARY 17, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
By The Way
Mrs. Arthur Hohn of Marysville and Mrs. A. E. Bittel of Kansas City visited with Nelle Hohn, c'19, at the Acoth house Friday and Saturday.
Wealthy Babcock, c'19, and Fanny McCall, c'19, spent Sunday in Eudora.
E. V. Cook, instructor in gymnasium last year, who is now traveling for a copper company of Pittsburg, Pa, spent Sunday with friends in Lawrence.
Ora Webb, c'19, and Ruth Guild,
c'19, went to Topea Friday to hear
Schumann-Heink.
Helen Carlin, c21, spent Saturday in Kansas City.
Adele Murphy, c'19, spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Jarba.
Kathleen Booker, c'22, and Rhea Robinson, c'22, spent Friday and Saturday in Kansas City.
Lucille Bunggardner, c19, -went to Manhattan Saturday.
Allen Sandie, m21, spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City.
Blanche Coventry, c'20, and Clarice Gardner, c'21, went to Kansas City Saturday.
Dorothea Cavanaugh of Washburn College, Topeka, visited Ruth Cavanaugh, c'22, Sunday.
Annette Fugate, c20, spent Saturday in Kansas City.
Sigma Chi entertained with a house dance Friday evening.
Blanche Mullen of Leavenworth Ruth Foster of Topeka and Margaret Heizer of Osage City were week-end guests at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
Margaret Mattews, c'22, and Harriet Penney, c'22 were guests of Sena tor and Mrs. Wilson in Topeka Satur day and Sunday.
Mrs. Margaret Coleman Rose, c'16 of Chapman and Miss Helen Streeter c'17, of Kansas City, Mo., spent Sunday at the Alpha Xi Delta home.
Legion of Honor Given To Millard Shaler, B.S. '04
Afrique
Developed Mining and Agricultural Regions in Belgium-
The following is a copy of his of
ficial appointment, which was re
ceived by the alumni office.
LSU ENTRYING @ LA JEWER
Millard K, Shaler, A. B., College 1902, and B. S. mining engineer, 1904 for a number of years has been working for the large mining and development company composed principally of American capitalists in connection with mining and exploiting valuable mining and agricultural properties in Belgium Afrique.
At the outbreak of the European war Mr. Shaler had his offices in Brussels from which he moved to London. He was made Secretary of the Belgium Relief Commission of which Mr. Hoover was President.
Because of his work the French government has bestowed upon him the national order of the Legion of Honor and appointed him a member of the committee to care for the devil's regions of Belgium and France
LE PRESIDENT DE LA REPUB
LIQUE FRANCAISE
sur la proposition du Ministre des Affaires Etrangers
DECRETE:
Article leer : Sont promus ou nommes dans POUCE Nationale de la LEG.
au grade de Chevalier;
Monsieur Millard K. Shaler, Membre de la Commission on de Ravittilement des regions envahies de la France et de la Belgique.
Article 2: Le Ministre des Affaires Étienne François Grand Chan cellier de l'Orde sont chargés chacun en ce qui le concerne de l'exécution du present decret.
Fiat a Paris. Le 7 janvier, 1919.
Signe: POINCARE.
Reexecution du present decree.
Fint a Paris. Le 7 Janvier, 1919.
Signe: POINCARE.
Contresigne: S. Pichon.
Student Directories This Week
Student Directories This
The student directories which are being printed by the Journal-World will be ready for the students the last of the week, the directory management announces. The price of the directories and the time they will be on sale will be announced later.
The University of Illinois will have a formal junior prom and a military ball this spring, but the faculty have refused the petition for a sophomore cotillion, freshman frolic, and freshman smoker.
Press Comment Favors Willard Wattles' Book In Kansas and the East
First Poems of "Lanterns in Gethsemane" Written While Author was in College
Much comment has been made by the press favorable to the book of poems by Willard Wattles, "Lanters released by the publisher late in 1918.
The book is of great interest to students and faculty members of the University of Kansas because its author is a K, U. graduate and an instructor here, only recently resuming his position in the Department of English in the School of Engineering after being in the army at Camp Funston since last spring. The first poem for the volume was written in the year Mr. Wattles received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University, 1909.
The favor with which the poems have been received is shown by the fact that many of them were printed by national magazines before being incorporated in the "Laters in Gethsomane." Though some critics say they do not agree with all the sentiments expressed, they praise the writer's earnestness and sincere expression.
The nature of the book of poems is brought out in the following comment by Harold Chase in a recent issue of the Toeka Capital:
"A new Kansas book of verse that is not local but universal, is Willard Wattles' 'Lanters in Gethsemane,' as the title implies, poems of religion. It would be a mistake to infer that they are for that reason trite or conventional. 'Is there anything new in religion?' Read Willard Wattles' remarkable book and see. These poems have the greatest variety in form and they present the religion of Gethsemane, of Galilee, as a living and even thrilling thing, full of charm and of vitality. There are pictures of Mary and Joseph, of the little Christ, of the life of the time, that modernize the Gospel epic in intense and glowing verse. There is a new school of poets in England and America, which exaltes humanity and common life, in its earnestness and sincerity, a cheerful contrast to the dilutate experimenters in socialistic free love, sentimentality and moral anarchy, which it took the moral earnestness of war no time to blot out entirely. That artificiality is now apparently done, for Willard Wattles in 'Lanters in Gethsemane' proves his claim to a place among the sincerest and best equipped of the young revivers of poetry here and in England."
Ross F. Sanderson, pastor of the Lawrence Congregational Church calls Willard Wattles "porphas the leader" in the literature U on the literary map of America."
It is not only in Kansas that the new book has aroused interest. The Boston Transcript has commented thus: "Mr. Wattles has embedded for secular interfaiths a spirit essentially spiritual, so often curated by its own creation and expression in words and made it creatively imaginative and beautiful."
Comedy of S.A.T.C.Takes
Its Final Curtain Call
Actors Still Wait for the Ghost to Walk and Wardrobe Keeper to Appear
A new comedy has been finished,
the S. A. T. C, says the Outlook of
February in an account of the S.
A. T. C. from the serious point of
view, of a college president. Says
the Outlook's article in part:
"This is Monday, and on Saturday our Students' Army Training Corps was demobilized. I said that the bays were demobilized, but of course they were occupied." The team has come on time except orders and they usually have come ahead of time.
"We had an abundance of officers, including an expert in bayonet practice; we had an abundance of men, half of them had already had military training in an R. O. T. C. or in a summer camp; we dug trenches and constructed dummies for bayonet practice. But "rifles" No, indeed.
"Clothing had been coming for weeks, but of course had not arrived, so I wired to our Senator and received this reply: 'Department has telegraphed authorities Fort X to immediately equip students from fort's supply of clothing, avoiding further delay.' I replied by wire that Fort X, an old army post located near our town, had been abandoned for eight years and had no supplies nor authorities in charge of them.
Some one might be injured—perhaps even shot. The men were demobilized after two months training, fourteen hours a day, and never laid hands on a rifle. Can I ever cease to be thankful for such a committee on Education and Special Training, who saved my dear boys from this peril?
"We got the best of one deal with the committee anyway. Our commanding officer, an experienced retired captain of the Regular Army, wired his requisition for a sufficient supply of cots, mattress covers, and blankets, and signed his telegram as an army officer should, 'Smith, C. O.' Three days later, September 12, a telegram came from the committee, addressed to President C. O. Smith. It was identical to one which I had received a few days before. Apparently the committee in Washington did not understand how a requisition should be signed and I had to wire back and explain that 'C. O.' stood for 'Commanding Officer.'
"The students were oblited to study, under supervision, and never before did the old Library see such a sight. Every seat filled with a man, and every man deep in a book. A miracle? What a pity it was so deeply suggests an old English epitaph on infants' tombstones;
'Since I was so quickly done for.
I wonder what I was begun for?"
In conclusion he says, "I am sorry for the boys who were so earnest and and who now feel as though they were deceived in every particular. I talked with one bright fellow just before he left for home—a sophomore who had never been to college or maybe month year. 'I am sorry that I cannot go on with my college course,' he said, 'but it is too late to find work enough to carry me through. I might earn my board and room but I could not pay my tuition.' The colleges were so heavily in debt that they could not give tuition free so these boys were forced to drop out of school.
"As a result are it to ascertain whether the S. A. T. C. organizations had a good or poor influence upon the Universities and Colleges."
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