UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
Increase of $140,000 For University Salaries Is Asked By Auditor
F. W. Knapp Also Approves K U. Campus Improvements
Cuts Out Proposed Hospital
Treasury Guard Has Struggle to Hold Educational Prices
Topeka, Dec. 30.—Recommendation that the appropriations for the University of Kansas be increased $140,000 a year for the next two years, in order to provide increases in salaries of faculty members averaging 30 per cent, are contained in the report of F. W. Knapp, state auditor, which will be transmitted to the state legislature with the budgets for the various state institutions and departments. At the same time the auditor has eliminated from his estimates the request of the board of administration for $200,000 for a new hospital building at Rosedale, but proposed improvements on the campus at Lawrence are retained in the list.
CUTS OUT $240,000
The total of appropriations asked by all the state institutions and departments totalled $15,591,354.26. Elimination of items from the budgets by the state auditor cut this total to $13,928,870.43, or a reduction of more than a million and a half dollars. At that, the total recommended is nearly three million above the total appropriations for 1917-18.
The University budget as prepared by the board of administration, asked that the appropriations for the state University be increased from $460, 000 for each year of the biennium, to $840,000, but Auditor Knapp eliminated items totalling $240,000.
IT'S A HARD JOB
"I never found a job so difficult in my life," said Mr. Knapp Saturday, "as that of trying to keep down appropriations in these price-sourcing times and at the same time not cripple the institutions or departments. In addition to the natural growth in population of the institutions, which has made necessary an increase in the amount to be appropriated for their support by each succeeding legislature, the high prices for all items going into the maintenance cost and a reasonable increase in the salaries to be paid, runs the total which I have recommended for salaries and maintenance for the twenty-six state institutions $2,243,929.01 in excess of two years ago. This is an increase of 30 per cent. I have also recommended an increase of $442,908.21 for permanent improvements. These, with a $200,000 increase for the purchase of a fuel and a total of $118,959.59 deficiency appropriations to pay bills incurred during the fiscal year 1917 more than account for the total increases I have recommended over the appropriations made by the 1917 session of the legislature."
Would Cost Huge Sum
To Break K.U. Drought
In theory the University is supplying students with pure water but funds for such a supply are lacking. Without funds the water situation will not be solved and no method of minimizing costs has been discarded. Students have been warned not to drink water that has not been boiled.
"It would cost the University $15 to $25 a day to supply one glass of distilled drinking water to each of the two thousand students on the campus," said Dr. Alice Goetz in discussing the water situation recently. "We are promising to provide pure water but the promises never are carried out."
"The student is rather up against it
if he cannot get pure water any place
and right now it looks as if he would
do without." said Doctor Goetz.
NUMBER 45.
Two Track Veterans Out
Two Track Veterans' Rodkey and Dewall, at the only track men who have been in school all year and will be working out for a week and week and get into condition early. Kansas probably will be unable to enter a team at the meet which will be held in Kansas City New Year's Day. Many of the old athletes are expected back and Kansas probably will have a winner.
Basketteers Get Ready For Game With Ames
The Kansas basketball squad will start practice for its opening games with Ames, at Ames, January 17-18, as soon as the gymnasium is cleared of registration day furniture. Kansas will have a strong team this year with Bunn, Uhrlaub, Matthews, Heizer, Mason and Bennett out for the team. Most of the men have returned from their vacation; they will be ready for the practice this week. The first year men will give the Varsity some good work outs with Gross, Turner, Gardner and Olson working together.
Untutored Tooter Toots Early Toot at Tutors
The tutors and the tooter weren't at all together this morning. When the tooter tooted the toot for the first daily University period he tootted it at 8 o'clock which was twenty minutes earlier than he should have tooted. The tutors had forgotten to tell the tooter not to toot the first toot at 8 o'clock but to toot it at 8:30 o'clock the tutors having decided in solemn conclave that nothing earlier than 8 o'clock would summons a tutor. The tutors have not yet decided as to which *tutor* is responsible for the tooter being unattended as to the change in the tooting schedule. Toot, toot.
Men's Gym Work Will Be Recreational Next Quarter—Hamilton
Fifty Pairs Gloves Ordered for Bozing
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 30, 1918.
Fifty pairs of boxing gloves have been ordered by the department of physical education for use in men's gymnasium work this quarter, and plans are being made to lay considerable stress on boxing as a sport.
Physical education for men will be along recreational lines, according to Coach W. O. Hamilton, director, and little time will be spent in teaching skills such as physical coordination and had extensive practice in marching during the regime of the S. A. T. C.
There will be no technical training
accept for men who intend to become
residents.
"It is prabable," said W. O. Hamilton, director of athletic works, "that this term men who do not report for gymnasium or who have unexcused cuts will be dropped from their other classes at once instead of waiting until the end of the term."
Mines Bureau Car Gives Instruction to Students
"The class in first aid begin at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon," said J. S. Rogers of Pittsburg, who is in charge of the instruction. "These courses are especially recommended for mining students. The training will be in the car in the afternoons and at night. Tonight at 7:45 o'clock we will give an illustrated lecture at Haskell. These films which we have, show mine rescue work. We will also demonstrate bandaging and first aid."
Two new courses for students in mining engineering are being offered this week at the government bureau of mines car near the Santa Fe depot. One course is mine rescue; the other, first aid. To complete a course of fifteen hours work in first aid at the car three hours work a day will be required, the course in mine rescue is ten hours and requires two hours work a day.
The car is open to visitors, either University students or town people, and they are invited to inspect the car.
The mine bureau car, which is sent out by the Department of the Interior, is paying its second visit to the University. It was here a short time before Christmas. It is one of the new $30,000 steel cars which the bureau * mines owns.
Doctor McCollum Publishes Book
Doctor McCollum is Dr. E. V. McColum, e03, has just published a book, *New Knowledge Nutrition.* Doctor McCollum is now a member of the faculty of John Hopkins University. After he was graduated here, he was a fellow in chemistry at Yale and later an instructor there. He took his doctor's degree at the University of Wisconsin. From there he was called to John Hopkins. Doctor Collium is amember of the United States Food Commission.
R.O.T.C. Plan Rejected By Senate For Fear Of Militarism Evils
University Law Makers Had Close Vote in Deciding Question
By a close vote in the proportion of 4 to 3, the University Senate voted not to establish a Reserve Officers Training Corps in the University. The vote was cast at the special meeting of the Senate December 19. The reasons expressed for rejecting the proposal for the R, O, T, C were that such an organization would serve to spread militarism, and that until the peace terms were definitely determined it would not be known just what sort of system of R, O, T, C the War Department would institute.
Senate members who opposed establishing the R. O. T. C. and who held the controlling vote argued that if such an organization were started at Kansas University the War Dept department later might make military training compulsory in colleges and universities which have the R. O. T. C.
The majority opinion of the members of the Senate was that the University would profit by waiting until peace terms were fixed absolutely, and then deciding whether military training was advisable. Some faculty members believe there will be no military training at all, when conditions are anrain normal, and that it would be unwise to continue with a course when there is a possibility that it might be discontinued in a few weeks or months.
Aid in Choosing Vocation Is Suggested in Letter
Judge J. C. Ruppenthal Points to Research Work in High Schools
To The Daily Kansan:
A sermonette by Eulala Dougherty in your issue of December 16 interested me. It deplored the want of a definite aim in life in the studies of the average student. Suggestion is to begin with an essay entitled senate or other board of personal advisers to help students to a choice or life vocations.
The writer does not mean to enter into that discussion, but wishes to draw attention to data collected on this subject two or three years ago. Frank R. Aldrich, then superintendent of the school of Russell, and later of Hiawatha, took up the matter of choice of vocation by high school students, as the subject of his thesis for the Master's degree at the Chicago University. He obtained reports of thousands of students in the high schools of Kansas, and of a number of the states adjoining Kansas. He discussed the extent (very small indeed) to which students choose a life work while in high school or earlier, and considered further the various influences that led to such choice, such as reading, teachers, parents, etc. In any consideration of choice of vocation by the students of Kansas University it may be helpful to note analogous work in the high schools.
Lieut. Paul H. Royer, '114, has been cited for special bravery in action at St. Milhiel. Mr. Royer was with the 26th Division which relieved the marines at Chateau Thierry and later played an important part at St. Milhiel. He was sent back to the United States in October and was stationed at Camp Pike, Ark., as instructor. He received an honorable discharge several weeks ago and is now practising law at Abilene.
Lieutenant Royer, F14,
Mentioned in Dispatches
The University has long been familiar with "two star" alumni (graduates who are children of graduates of the University of Kansas.) Are there any students or have there been, whose parents and grandparents, or any parent and his-her parent who have been students at the University of Kansas? If not, that day of dignity for the school on Mount Oread must soon come.
J. C. Ruppenthal,
J. C. Kuppenthal,
Major Judge Advocate,
Washington, D.C.
Miss Deibel, c'16, a Visitor
Maria Deibel, c'16, who has been
visiting Friends during the holidays
has returned to Kingman to resume
teaching.
French Towns Bought By American Forces For Use as Targets
Capt. J. S. Alford Says Men Will Be Better Americans for Visit to Europe
"The men who have been fighting in France will come back better Americans, more appreciative of what their country is and has to offer them after they have seen conditions in Europe," said Capt. Joseph S. Alford, A.B.04.01, who was in Lawrence Saturday for a brief visit with his mother, Mrs. S. J. Alford, after his return from service of six months with the 35th Division. Captain Alfred arrived in France June 8 after an eventful landing.
"We were attacked twice the sum night by submarines as we were going to Europe, but none of the ships of our convoy was lost. From the way the depth charges dropped by the destroyers shoot our transports, making the shaft rattle, and the whole ship seem to lift from the water. I don't see how any submarine could stand the shock. And there were no depth charges exploded less than half a mile from us, either.
France on the Zeelandia December 10 and arriving at Newport News December 22. He has been assigned to Fort Douglas, at Salt Lake, and left for that place Saturday night.
"The work of the destroyers was marvelous to see," continued Captain Alford. "Those little boats have the quickest getaway of anything I have ever seen. It takes a mighty little time for a destroyer to get to the place where a submarine is located, and it sees a sub and signal the convoy, the whole fleet moves off on new lines, for all the world like a football maneuver.
Captain Alfred spent a few days in England before going to France for final training. He was with the 35th division during its service in Argonne forest, and was with the 81st at Verdon the day the armistice was signed.
"The men of the 35th did mighty good work in the Argonne forest," declared the captain, as he described the fighting of the week before the end of hostilities. The infantry of the 35th was relieved a few days before the end, but the artillery, to which Captain Alford's medical unit was attached, remained on duty because the 1st artillery still was in training.
"There were a few stray shells after 11 o'clock of the 11th," said Captain Alford, "but almost at the hour a most unnatural silence fell. That night all the troops, both the ties and the decorations by which they were counted of colored signals. The Germans seem as glad as he Allies to have the war end."
In describing the training undergone by the American troops, Captain Alfred told of the purchase by the Americans of several French towns to be used as targets for the American artillery. These towns were either those which has been badly damaged by shell fire of the enemy or, having been the scene of some epidemic, were unfit for habitation.
Captain Allford's unit penetrated beyond the Hindenburg line in the Argonne, and was in the army of manneuvre in the St. Milhul drive. He said it was true that the attackers were found hot on the fires when the Americans arrived, but he did not have the opportunity to taste any of the food.
"Another thing that impressed me," continued Captain Alfred, "was the way the K. U. boys in the Argonne drive put into practice the prayers they had learned back in the old United States."
Particularly high praise is given the work of the Red Cross by Captain Alford.
Fossil Requires Platform
Fossil requires Platform
On account of the length of the huge fossil lizard, which H. T. Martin, assistant curator of the Department of Paleontology, is assembling, it has been necessary to build a platform in the opening between the second and third floors of the museum. The fossil will be fitted together on the platform and taken through the window into the south end of the museum.
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Regular class work will be held Wednesday, New Year's Day, according to a decision of the University Senate.
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New York Beaux Arts Praises Four K.U. Men
Four students in the department of architecture at the University were given honorable mentions by the Beaux Arts Institute of Design of New York for problems they worked out and submitted to the institute, according to notices received by Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith.
Ernest Pickering, e'19, and Paul Strickland, e'19, were given honorable mention for designs of a boat club. Leo Fleming, e'21, and Earl Moore, e'19, were mentioned for designs of an entrance to a city club.
Plain Tales From the Hill
There were many disappointments among the women uniform worshippers this morning when their S. A. T. c. veterans who had looked so well in khaki, appeared on the campus in their civilian clothes.
"Oh," wailed one of the disillusioned creatures, as she watched her young Sir Galahad approach, "he looks like a coral, and he even wears a derby."
It's here! The old time regime, that was usurped by the establishment of a training camp at the University of Kansas has asserted its rights and has come into its own.
Yes, he's back from training camp as a second lieutenant and they say he'll wear his uniform as long as there are any privates to salute him. Aw, can't you let a lieut swell 'round a bit?
It is being planned by some of the authorities on the Hill to build an annex to the town in order to hold some of the returned lieuts.
It is almost impossible for the town to hold some of them now, but just think what it will be as time passes. A good story always increases with age, and by the time their grandchildren are old enough to listen to their yarns and not be bored, it will be the S. A. T. C. licatus that run the Huns out of their trenches and made them holler "Kamarad."
No all that wear leather puttees are not officers. So it was discovered during the vacation. Before the men who have been in the S. A. T. C. returned to their home towns according to t he clothiers of Lawrence, a large number of them dropped in at the stores and bought them new serge suits, officers cut, and Cordovans.
"It would be just as sensible to have a contest to see which man has the longest ears as it is to stage a beauty contest," announced one of the most popular woman fusers on the Hill this morning.
"You know," he said as he nonchalantly stroked his enviled blonde pompadour, "they don't have 'em here Beauties don't seem to thrive in K. U climate."
"Ain't it orfell though," said one of the men who is still wearing his O. D issues, "that Christmas and the mobilizing of the Student Army Training Corps had to come at the same time?"
Pay of Veterans Melts Under K. U. Demands
The part of the army song about "thirty dollars every month, they dock you twenty-nine," was almost literally true for all the men of the S. A. T. C. who received their December pay. By the time their pay was docked for insurance, Liberty bonds, United War Work Campaign subscrip-tion, the men had precious little left for their best girl's Christmas present, but on top of all that as soon as they left the gym they were met by Lynn Hershey and his force collecting for the cuts in the Jayhawker and about a dozen sorority girls begging them to subscribe for a Jayhawker from them so that their candidate might receive the 500 votes.
Final plans have been made by the University of Colorado for the construction of a women's dormitory, a gymnasium for men and a social center building. The social center house is a room for dancing, rooms for the Home Economics department, and a cafeteria.
By the time these unfortunate victims of collectors got as far as an Brick's they didn't have much more than enough left to buy a chocolate malted milk. And the best girl will have to go without, or else Dad will have to be called on for another loan.
Expect 2500 Students Will Enroll in K. U. For Second Quarter
College Claims 1500 as Its Share Dean Patterson Says
Many Army Men Returning
Credit to Be Granted Men Withdrawing to Attend Training Camps
Registration and enrollment at the University began at 8 o'clock this morning and continued throughout the day. Students were lined up in front of Registrar George O. Foster's office in Fraser Hall at 7:30 o'clock this morning to register and the line grew in size as the day progressed. The gymnasium was crowded with students who had come to enroll and faculty members seemed pleased with the showing. Enrollment was conducted in the same manner as in former years, students drawing numbers for their places in line and entering by classes.
Although it is too early to make an accurate statement as to the number, Dean D. L. Patterson of the College estimated that there would be 1,500 students in the College and at least 2,500 in the entire University.
"A full schedule is being offered by the College, with 241 courses in twenty-five different departments," said Dean Patterson.n "More students have reported than we exported and it is sertain the University will have returned to a definite peace basis in a better world." And men will be returning every week and this will materially boost the enrolment."
Classes this term will begin on the half-hour instead of the hour, as was the case the last semester of last year. Work will begin in earnest tomorrow moning, according to Dean Patterson and the first class will be at 8:30. The new arrangement calls for 50-minute periods instead of the 45-minute periods in the S. A. T. C. The last regular class will begin at 3:30 in the afternoon and conclude at 4:30. A—Inspis on regular work . . .
"The college will have to get down to solid work in the morning," said Dean Patterson today. "The work has been badly broken up by the S. A. T. C. in the first quarter but from now on, the usual academic work will be insisted upon."
There will be no new instructors in the college this term, but Prof. W. S. Hunter of the department of psychology, assistant Professor Alter of astronomy and Prof. T. S. Smith of the department of physics, who of course, the Army troops have returned to the University and will resume their old places.
"We expect a very successful quarter and hope a large per cent of those who were in the S. A. T. C will return to school," said Chancellor Frank Kruse. "Our remainder of the year will be thoroughly satisfactory to everybody."
Registrar George O. Foster said this morning that a large number of new students had registered at his office but that he could not estimate the number before Tuesday. Students who have been in school only part of the day may not be able to the Administrative Committee of the College and the number of hours credit they will receive will be determined upon soon, according to Mr. Foster.
University Colors Fly Over Fraser Today
All of the new students and many of the old are wondering about the serpent-like penchant which floated above their head the flagstaff on Fraser all day today.
The pennant is, or was, the University colors, red and blue, and is always displayed on the first day of each term. It is hollow, and the slightest breeze will cause it to wave. Soot and age obscure the colors, making the banner resemble a pirate flag more than anything else.
Miss Engel to High School Work
Miss Engel to High School Work
Arnes Engel, c15, who has been taken
care of by the school district,
has accepted a position as instructor
in the Manhattan High School.
The "Mako" or Magic Mirror, the college annual of the University of Ohio will be a special war time issue. One section is devoted to the "Gold Star" men of the University.