UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
Simple Social Life Will Continue at K.U. Says Adviser of Women
With Part of World Starving Conservation Still Neces-
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 14, 1919.
Kansas Spirit Commendable
University, Not Outsiders, Will Set Its Own Wholesome Standards
That the social life at the University should be kept down to the simple basis that it has been on during the war was the expressed opinion of Miss Alberta L. Corbin, adviser of women, today. Miss Corbin believes that students should become acquaintae with a larger circle of other students than they have hereforeo. Concerning class elections Miss Corbin said, "Such a very small percentage of the classes know the students that they vote for in class elections. If the social life at the University were more democratic and broader this would not be true. Students would be acquainted with a majority of their particular class at least.
The conditions that exist now are somewhat due to the fact that we have no suitable meeting place for the entire student body. If we had Commons where the whole student body might meet, we could plan many all-University gatherings. I believe it would be a good plan if we had Commons where the entire student body could be given, perhaps every two weeks."
NEED COMMONS BADLY
In speaking further of the social life at the University, Miss Corbin said:
"The question has recently been raised as to whether it is necessary or desirable to continue the simplicity of social life that was obtained at the University until peace came, and in large degree still obtains. In the first place the signing of the treaty of peace is probably still months away. In the meantime, the teacher be said to have arrived until the suffering of millions of sick and homeless and starving people in Europe shall have been alleviated.
STILL NEED FOR SAVING
"We saw by the "hunger map" printed in the Kansan, January 6, that no European country has an entirely adequate food supply. On January 5 there had appeared in the newspapers President Wilson's message to Congress in which he said that people in certain areas are faced with absolute starvation and that 'with the omission of the American people to find a remedy for starvation and anarchy renders it necessary that we should undertake the most liberal assistance to these destitute regions.'
"Up to the present, the conduct of social affairs at the University under war conditions has been commendable, as far a I have been able to observe. I returned to Lawrence last fall after a visit to ten American colleges and universities. I found the attitude at the University of Kansas toward the world situation inferior to that in none of the schools that I had visited.
"If the students of the University sense the situation, no question will remain in their minds as to the desirability of saving. There is no reason why there should not be a reasonable number of social affairs, or vice versa. Very good thought why no large sums of money should be spent on them.
K. U. SPIRIT COMMENDABLE
The members of the women's council and of the Women's Panhelenic had taken action that had contributed largely to create the right sentiment. They had faced the problem squarely and solved it rightly. The University may well be proud of them.
"I believe, too, we shall hold fast permanently to the best lessons in social life the war has taught. There are signs of a growing feeling that University social life should be put on a somewhat broader basis. Small social groups, as they exist at present, should continue. Probably more such groups should be formed. But students should know more than their own small groups. They should know the members of their own class and meet them in informal friendly intercourse. Otherwise they cannot share intelligently in the social and political life of the University, can neither
develop the best that is in them, no
give the highest service to others.
"The opportunity for a broader am
more varied social life has hitherto
been lacking, but the agencies already
exist through which it can be created.
These agencies are the men's and
women's councils, the faculty advisory
committees and student interests
committees.
"The war has revealed the power of leadership of college trained men and women. Social standards, too, will surely be created by college people themselves, not imposed upon them from without. I expect the so-called best thought of the student body to be same and wholesome for wartime and for all time, and to be worthy of all friends of the University."
Instructors in the department of economics are planning a trip to Kansas City for the members of the beginning economics classes. They will visit a number of factories and large business concerns.
Economics Class to Visit Kansas City Factories
The students will be taken through the houses in a different manner from ordinary visitors in order that they may study the business systems used. They will study the different uses to which waste and by-products are put. The instructors intend to take the students through shoe and furniture factories, the Ridower-Baker Wholesale Store, the Dressmaker's works, and Peet Brothers Soap Factory. They will also visit the Federal Reserve Bank.
The trip will be made soon, according to Prof. John Ise. The party will leave on an early car in the morning and will return late in the evening. Other economics students besides those in the elementary classes may arrange to go if they so desire.
S.A.T.C. Unit May Quit This Month Says Madden
"It probably will be the thirtieth of the month, before the S. A. T. C. unit here will be finished entirely," said Lieut. John Madden today. "We are holding eight men for duty, three of them in the adjutant's office, and five on the ground." In the station B men, who intend to go home when they get their discharges."
The officers still on duty are just waiting their discharges. The details of closing up are occupying their time now. Five army trucks are still in the possession of the S. A. T. C. headquarters, and no one knows as yet what will be done with them. The five drivers are being retained in case orders to take them overland are received.
Announcements
The University Women's Association will meet at the parish house of the Congregational Church Wednesday afternoon, to sew on refugee garments. All members are urged to be present.
Try-outs for the Dramatic Club will be held at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday and Friday afternoons in the Little Theater.
All members of the finance team of the Y. W. C. A. will meet in the assembly room of Myers Hall Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock.
Pi Lambda Theta meeting, 7:30 tonight, Room 110, Fraser. Dean Kelly will speak. All members urged to come.
The University Women's Association will meet in the Parish House of the Congregational Church Wednesday afternoon to sew on refuge garments. All members are urged to be present.
Meetings of the Entomology Club have been changed from Tuesday to Thursday.
Owls will meet Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock at the Delta Tau house.
The Men's Mixer to be put on in Robinson Gynasium Wednesday night by the University Y. M. C. A. will be between the hours of 8 and 9:30. The program will consist of musical numbers, boxing matches, mixing stunts, and a rally to stir up enthusiasm for a basketball team. There will be more than 100 students who will be served. Secretary Parker requests that all men who are going to the mixer keep wearing the yellow tags that have been given them.
Men to Hold Mixer Wednesday
Doctor Goetz Chosen By Y.W.C.A.to Give Lectures In Hygiene
Dr. Florence B. Sherbon Will Assist in Local
NUMBER 56.
Work
Dr. Alice Goetz, head of the department of physical education at the University, has been chosen by the Y. W. C. A. to give lectures to women and girls during February and March. Doctor Goetz receives her appointment through the central board of the Y. W. C. A. whose duty it is to choose the lecturers in the Social Morality Campaign. A convention of lecturers was held at New York in December to which Doctor Goetz asked that Dr. Florence B. Sherbon be sent. Doctor Sherbon will aid in the work since Kansas has more work than one lecturer can do. She will talk to women in several Kansas colleges.
Doctor Goetz will give lectures on social morality to freshman women in the university at the close of the week and to other women students in March.
Doctor Goetz wears the pin of the Volunteer Medical Service corps for active service in the U. S. Public Health Service in combating the influenza epidemic last October. She was sent to Winslow, Ariz., to organize influenza relief in co-operation with the other public health officers. She was then sent to Williams, Ariz. to organize a relief campaign, as there was only one doctor within a radius of many miles and nearly 300 people were ill with influenza and pneumonia.
She established an emergency hospital in forty-eight hours in the school house with separate wards for men, women and children, and a diet kitchen which was fully equipped. She organised the citizens into a committee to answer the questions to take charge. The hospital accommodated seventy-three patients.
Viola Engle, chairman of the membership committee of the Y. W. C. A, said today that a total membership of 560 had been reached in the campaign the week of December 3. Of these 262 are new members and 200 memberships carry over from last year.
After her work in Arizona Doctor Goetz was dangerously ill for several weeks with influenza and pneumonia.
W.S.G.A. Will Entertain In Honor of Miss Corbin
The Women's Student Government Association will entertain with a tea in the rooms of the adviser of women in Fraser Hall Thursday afternoon to 3 to 5 o'clock. The tea is in honor of Alberta Cabrion, adviser of women.
The University band will rehearse Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock in Fraser Hall. All S. A. T. C band members who are now in the University will be in the line-up. Anyone who has not tried out for the band in the try-outs that have been held this week, but who would like to play, may join the orchestra or be a soloist for J. D. C. McCanles, director of the band said the greatest need now is for trombones, clarinet, one alto and a bass drummer.
All women of the University have been invited through their house, presidents. Women members of the faculty also are invited. The members of the W. S. G. A. will be in the receiving line.
Mrs. Maureen McKernan Wood of Topeka and Agnes Hertzler of Kansas City visited at the Alpha Chi Omega house this week.
Phi Delta Theta announces the pledging of Bill Barrett on Concordia.
Y. W. Got 560 New Ones
In December Campaign
Jean Haynes, c'20, is spending Tuesday and Wednesday in Kansas City.
University Band Seeks Virtuoso on Bass Drum
The members of the membership committee will be at the check stand at Fraser Tuesday, January 14, and an opportunity will be given for women who have not signed up before to join the association.
Prof. Nevin's Sons Receive Seven Medals For Service in War
Hardwicke Nevin Has Fouragere Tricoleur and Cross of Legion of Honor
Hardwick Nevin, son of Proi Arthur Nevin of the University of Kansas, has received five decorations for bravery while in service in France. He is a member of the Foreign Legion and the entire company in which he fought was given the cross of the Legion of Honor. Because he was only twenty years old he could not get in any real fighting but was driving an ambulance at the time of the German advance at Villers-Cotteter when his ambulance was wrecked. All of them were German Germans but one, the French française. Hardwick Nevin thought of Alan Seeger and asked Colonel Rollet for a job in his company. He was wounded during the hard bayonet fighting of the next three days but it won for him the most coveted of all decorations given by the French government, the Fournère Trouleau.
"We drove them back—and back. I heard hell singing all the while, with the devil as end man," he wrote. This is a characteristic reply from *son of Professor Nevin who is a composer of distinction and a nobilist* of *Professor Nevin one of the greatest melodists the world has ever known*.
Mrs. Nevin is bacteriologist in a Red Cross Hospital in France and the younger son is an ambulance driver in Italy. The two brothers have received seven decorations between them.
Each Student is Asked To Give Food for 3 Days
Only 17 Cents Will Feed Starv ing Near East Victim a
Day
Food for three days is what University of Kansas students, residents of fraternities and sororities, will be able to eat in. The starving people of the Near East.
Translated into American money, this is 15 cents, for 17 cents will sustain a day in that country. A committee of students today was named to present the matter at each fraternity house, and to have the collection taken. Funds are to be collected and turned directly to I. R. Meade, treasurer of the Douglas county committee. The University student committee consists of Martha Banker, Eulalia Daughtery, Earline Allen, Charles Slawson, and Luther Hungen.
The Lawrence city schools are taking their collection by the milk bottle method, each class room striving to fill a bottle with coins to buy food for the sufferers in Armenia, Syria, and other countries of the Near East.
Ensign John Barline of Topeka, visited in Lawrence yesterday on a furlough. Ensign Barline was enrolled in the college three years ago. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta. He will leave next week for New York.
The Blackfriars, departmental club for students in the department of English, has reorganized for the year, with Frances Hitchock as the new president. The organization has planned to meet every three weeks during the school year and study the English or Irish drama. It is also planned to stage some of the old dramas in simple form.
Blackfriars Plan Work And Elect New Members
A letter from Earl W. Shinn, formerly a law student on the Hill, was received by the Dean of the School of Law this week, in which he said that he was now at his home in Burns, and he would return to his work here. He had just in the airplane his works as an inspector in the aircraft production in Detroit.
The new members elected to the society are: Wanda Ross, Marguerite Reinish, Helen Robb, Imra Lutz, Elizabeth Samuel, Elsee McNutt, Helen Glaves, Margaret Mitchell, David Gloeswa, Margaretta Jeffery, Annahra Stewart, Margaret Brown, Eva McCanies and Charlotte Carnie.
Kansas Men Back From Camp
Eight coaches of Kansas boys come posing a troup train from camp Ben jamin Franklin, Md, passed through Lawrence at 12:20 o'clock Tuesday afternoon on their way to Camp Funston to be discharged. The train stopped for a few minutes in North Lawrence at the Union Pacific station, a crowd soon gathered and the air was full of Rock Chawk and other K. U. yella. Many K. U. men including Floyd Hockenhill and Lester Patterson were on the train and intend to be back in college in a few days.
Plain Tales From the Hill
Little Sunny Bud Owens who stays at the Phi Chi house is one of the best trade rushers for the University cafeteria. Some university students were standing out in front of one of the eating houses yesterday waiting until they could be served. Sunny Bud approached them and upon finding out their trouble pointed his litter and said, "Myes. Hall said, 'Yes, you have to wait a long time for anything to eat at this restaurant but if you go over there where the picture of Jesus is, you don't have to wait a minute."
One of the Kappa freshmen is in great distress. She just got one of those new fur coats that are so popular this winter and now she is going to the Phillipine Islands. All people who are interested in buying the coat will please see the freshman at once.
One of the latest slippery stories out is that of the man who went down fourteenth so fast that he mistook a potato near a pool of water for potato soup. The steam was probably included also.
The morals of the freshmen women this year show a decided improvement. In one of the rooming houses, recently the women had a "truth meeting," and asked all the freshmen to come.
The topic of the discussion was "Kissing."
"Now," said one of the freshmen girls, "that is one thing I am radiated with. Why. I can count on my ten fingers, the men who have ever kissed me."
Just a tip to the admirers of the returned heroes. If in doubt as to what branch of the service a man has been in, just look at the cut of his hair. If he has been in the navy, you can just stake all your money on it that his hair will be parted in the front and back of his body and sticks straight up, he has been in the army in the United States. If the covering of his pate is almost a minus factor, and quite non-descript, well he's from over seas.
No! No one has died over at the museum! Calls came in to the University Daily Kansan office all day yesterday from students asking if any one was dead over at the museum. Upon being informed by the journalists that the animals, birds and similar things were the only things at the museum dead, each inquirer became highly insulted and would say "Well, then, why is crepe hanging on the door?"
C curiosity got the best of the journalists and a squad of investigators went to the museum to see what was the matter. A black cloth, which the man who was putting the new name on the door of the building was using was draped around the door knob.
In speaking of the interesting places in Kansas City to visit, in one of the economics classes recently Professor Ise, said, "Oh, you students haven't learned the good places in Kansas City yet."
Asks Bids on Removal of University Barracks
"The University has asked for bids, for the removal of the barracks," said John M. Shea, superintendent of building and grounds. "Nothing in regard to the barracks will be disregarded. We are atitude of the War Department has been achieved, as the government may desire to use them later on."
K. U. Man With Capper Paper
V. G. Sorviner, c'16, who returned last month from a short session in the army is now with the Cappen Publications as advertising manager of the Missouri Valley Farmer. He was advertising manager and also editor of the Clay Center Dispatch-Republican before entering the service.
Read the Daily Kansan.
Men's Student Council Preparing Class Lists For Class Elections
Two Stenographers Making Impromptu Student Directories
Election Date is Thursday
Two Tickets Appear in Every Class But the Juniors This Year
The election will undoubtedly be held Thursday of this week. Herschel Washington said. The student Council has two stenographers at the office of the registrar, tabulating the names of the members of all classes.
Petitions for two sets of candidates for class officers in each of the freshman, sophomore, and senior classes, and for one set of candidates in the junior class were handed in to the president of the Men's Student Council by Monday night. The names of the candidates endorsed in the petitions will be placed on the ballots of the election.
The following is the list of persons or whom petitions were turned in. These names will appear on the election ballots as they stand, President Washington said, unless there are objections or corrections.
FRESHMAN CLASS
SOPHOMORE CLASS
For president, Harley Scott, Harry Turner; vice-president, isabel Nason, Margaret Murdock; secretary, Kathy Brennan; secretary, Merlin Gordon, Robert Redding.
For president, John F. Kinkel, John R. Wahledt; vice-president, Lois Burke, Isabel Crandell; secretary, Dorothea Engel; Kathleen Davis; treasurer, Alfred Graves, McKenna Tressler; Soph Hop, Frank Marxen, Bob Lynn.
JUNIOR CLASS
For president, Dutch Lonbong; vicepresident, Dorothy Dawson; secretary, Jessie Lee Wyatt; treasurer, Phil杜迪ridge; 'managers Junior Prom, Loren Simon, Charles Shofstall; editor Jayhawk, Luther H. Hanger; manager Jayhawker, Edgar L. Hollis.
SENIOR CLASS
For president, Louise Nixon, Herman C. Hangen; vice-president, Tracey Conklin, Irene Fowden; secretary, Carol Martin, Esther Moore; treasurer, Margaret Young, Stem Foster.
Doughnut Sale Held By Home Economics Class
"Doughnuts, nice fat doughnuts,
just like Mother makes and only three
for a nickle, six for one thin dime."
The members of the Home Economics department were not saying this in Fraser today but they looked it. They were too busy selling to say very much of anything.
The instructors of the department found it necessary to give the members practise in preparing large amounts of food, and then to prevent the food from going to waste, it was profitable to sell it to the students.
This practise will be continued irregularly during the remainder of the school year. The money obtained will go to the department.
Two Former K.U. Men Meet on Way to Front
LePort Spangler, formerly a student in the department of journalism, writes from France that he has been vounded and expects to return to the United States soon. He is with lace Hospital 22 now.
He was in the fighting September 26 and was hit by a German machine gun bullet. He is now with a combo of arms and is outfitting for the states.
He tells of seeing Bill Studer, another former student in the department, on his way to the Verdun front, who was in charge of a platoon in Company B, 137 infantry during the fighting in September.
Capt. L. B. Flinton, U. S. Marines,
has been visiting at the Phi Kappa
Psi house this week. Captain Flintom
is returning to France where he has
charge of the courier system.