UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
University to Exceed Its Red Cross Quota, Says Prof. Mitchel
Nearly One Hundred Names Are Added to List of Subscriptions
Fraser Blanks Still Out
Final Acknowledgements Will Be made in Kansas After The Holidays
That the University of Kansas will exceed its Red Cross quota by 25 to 50 per cent is the prediction of Prof. U. G. Mitchell, who has charge of the "drive" on the Hill. Subscript lists turned in yesterday up to b o'clock contained 67 names. These added to the 383 previously acknowledged, makes the total for the camus 450.
"There is no question about the University going over the top," said Professor Mitchell this morning. "There are several large lists in Fraser Hall which have not been turned in yet. These names will be published in the Daily Kansas after the Christmas holidays."
Booths were maintained this forere noon in Fraser Hall and Ad Building and they listed many student contrib ts that are not previously acknowledd leared艺
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
MARVIN HALL
Anna Marm, Florence Black, Ida K
Faragher, Cara A. Elawal, Evelyn A
Kolley, E. R. Peabody, W. S. Swaby
M. G. Lorenzo, E. H. Holmstead, B. W
M. G. Lorenzo, E. W. Holmstead, B. H
Mra, C. A. Antion, A. M. Bills, Mre, W
P. Parr
ROBINSON GYMNASIUM
C. C, Williams, Geo. C, Shand, Mrs G. C, Shad, Dorothy Shad, Charles A Keenner, Goldwin Goldamth, Gertrude H. G, Shad, Dorothy H. F. H, Fibley, Maidencarter, Bertha K, Lawrence, LaForce Bailey, W. C McNown, Mrs. W. C McNown, J. O Jones, George J. Hood, Mrs. George J. Houssain, Mrs. Shrisa, Mrs. H. Alsona Shosu,
Alice L. Goetz, W. O. Hamilton, Mss.
W. O. Hamilton, Dorothy W. Cole,
Miriam A. Jones, Hazel H. Pratt, Adelaide L. Steger, Msher, W. L. Stricker, Lucy E. Marley, Roy S. Bennett, Mac Keeffe, Richard C. Woods, Wesley Bibbole, Marina Castle, L. C. Moore, Marjorie Shankle, Ruin M. Scott.
OREAD TRAINING SCHOOL
Copy is Being Prepared For Next Year's Catalog
H. W, Nutt, Mrs. H, W, Nutt, W, L, Eikenbery, Mrs. W, W. L, Eikenbery Robert S, Eikenbery, Lita Battie, M. C, Karnes, Payne Karnes, Paul Shuler Goo Dell, Olive Oliarme, Mrs. G, E. De Thalmame listed yesterday as Cash represented the subscription of Read O. Phipps.
Material for next year's University catalog is now coming in from heads of schools, departments, and divisions of the University, according to Prof. D. L. Patterson, chairman of the catalog committee. The final date for the admission of copy is next Friday. Before that, students mustting the copy early so that it can be in the hands of the state printer before the legislature opens.
The catalog is written up to conform to the semester plan as it will be in use next year. All Student Army Training Corps courses will be omitted. The catalog is never intended as a review of the year preceding its issue, but rather a prospectus of the year to come.
The Senate Committee on Publication of the Catalog is: Dean D. L. Patterson, chairman, Prof. George J. Hood, Registrar George O. Foster and Prof. Rose R. Morgan. Miss Morgan is editor of the catalog.
Chemists of K. U. to Mix With Chemists of K. C.
The Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society will meet Saturday at 7:30 c'clock in the Y. M. C. A, building in Kansas City, Mo. C. J. Patterson, of the Isert-Hincke Milling Company will talk on "Chemistry as applied to Flour Milling." "Conditions and Future of Technical Work in this Section" will be the topic for general discussion.
Dr. F. B. Danes and other members of the department of chemistry will attend the meeting.
Answer the Red Cross Christmas
roll call for universal membership.
Pipe Down, Veterans,
Until Blanks Arrive
They are waiting for the blanks to come. In the meantime, S. A. T. C. men will be glad to learn what is going on.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1918.
In this space will be found all the exact, accurate and dependable information the S. A. T. C. headquarters as to the date of denobilizing;
In this space will be found al the exact, accurate and dependable information. It is to be understood that here has as to how the S. A. T. C. is to be demobilised, and when and where and how:
In this space will be found all the citations, words of praise, orders of merit and decorations that the committee on education in charge of the department dependable, efficient, thorough, perfect and businesslike system of managmt;
Senior Play Contest
Is Open to Aspirants
Any student in the University who wishes to enter the Senior Play Competition should interview Prof. Arthur MacMurray at once.
A prize of fifty dollars is offered to the writer of the best play, providing that it is accepted and produced. All copies should be in by the middle of January.
The plays should have local settings and should preferably be comedy. A character of the same name, Murray. The prize play will be presented some time during the spring.
New Courses Approved For College by Faculty
Committee to Consider Credit For M·r Who Attended Officers' Training Schools
At its meeting Tuesday the College faculty approved the courses which had been proposed for incorporation in the University schedule next quarter. They include courses in history, economics, and botany. New courses for next year were suggested and were referred to the administrative committee to act upon. This committee will meet tonight to consider these courses and other matters that have been referred to it.
The question of whether students who left the University this quarter to enter officers' training schools should receive credit this term was raised. The answer is that the administrative committee and probably will be acted upon tonight.
Two students, Hazel Skimmer, and Mrs. Nell I. Strowig, were recommended for degrees. The degrees probably will be given early next quarter.
Navy Men to Have Smoker
The men in the naval section will hold a farewell smoker at the Soldiers and Sailors Club tonight. Boxing, wrestling and stunts will help to pass away the time. Blazier, Turner and Gross are in charge of the company which is most possible by the company fund. The club will take on a salty air and the smoking lamp will be lit at eight bells in the evening watch, according to the seamen in charge.
Dean D. L. Patterson proposed that the faculty rule that no more grades should be given out to students from the office of the dean of the College. Action on this proposal was postponed till the January meeting of the body. Chancellor Frank Strong presided at the meeting, Prof. U. G. Mitchell was re-elected secretary of the faculty.
Navy Men to Have Smoke
Alpha Xi Delta Dinner
Alpha Xi Delta will entertain a the chapter house tonight with their annual Christmas dinner. Christmas colors will be used in the decorations and the centerpiece will be a large Christmas pie containing a humorous gift for each girl.
In accordance with the usual custom, there will be no issue of the Kansan Friday, December 21, the last day before the Christmas holidays.
NUMBER 44.
Major C. W.Ballinger Can Put Out Nothing About Investigation
Today
Officers and Men are Being
"I know nothing whatever concerning the investigation," said Capt. W. A. Hatch, commandant of the S. A. T. C: "The previous one was, of course, held before I became commandant here, and I knew nothing about it, and nothing about the one which is now going on."
"Being governed by the customs of the service, and army regulations, I can issue no statement," said Major C. W. Ballinger, U. S. A., when questioned today regarding the military investigation which is being held on the Hill, concerning conditions within A. T. O. I am not at liberty to rave about the reason for the investigation is being resumed, nor the results which are obtained."
Offers and enlisted men in the S. A. T. C. are being interviewed by Major Ballinger in the Court Room in Green Hall today. The investigation will probably be continued on Friday, aged when the evidence is collected, it will be handled proper military authorities at the central headquarters of the War Department at Chicago, or to Washington.
Men Back From O.T.C.
Receive College Credit
Individual Cases Will Be Considered by Administrative Committee
Committee
The administrative committee, yesterday, on recommendation of the faculty, voted to give eight hours credit to a student who recently returned from an officers' training camp. Considering the fact that students who entered the service last year were given twenty hours credit toward graduation, members of the administration in extending credit to S. A. T. C. men who have been sent to officers' training camps this year is justified.
Students who were enrolled in the College the first week of school and who were later summoned to officers training camps, will be given credit enrollment, according to Prof. D. L. Patterson, dean of the College, today.
When asked if he had seen the statement of Dean F. J, Kelly, in Tuesday's issue of the Kansan, to the effect that no credit would be given S. A. T. C. men in such cases, Dean Paterson said: "I did see this statement of Dean Kelly's." However, I hardly understand the action of the college faculty and college administrative committee.
"This action of the faculty is intended to relieve mainly the cases of seniors to whom an injustice would be by preventing graduation this year.
"Each case will be handled individually. The committee will not consider the granting of credit for work done in training camps by students who were not enrolled in the College at the time they were sent to camp."
The campaign to raise funds for the Fatherless French, Children carried on recently among the students and faculty of the University netted $3.00 or nearly enough to support a child for a year. Funds were obtained for the Christmas cards. The committee composed a generous response, considering the unsettled condition and the apathy toward Christmas this season.
A few cards are still in the hands of the committee and may be obtained of Miss Sellard at her office, Room 121, Fraser. The campaign on the Hill was conducted by Margaret Mitchell, c'19.
Campaign for French Orphans Brings In $31
Kansan Board Changes
The Kansan Board, at its regular monthly meeting today, elected the following members to serve as editors during the first month of the next quarter: Ferdinand Gottlieb, editor-in-chief; Luther Hunger, news editor; Jessie Wyatt, Plain Tales editor; and Mary Samson, society editor.
The Red Cross is Efficient.
Committee of Senate Divides on R.O.T.C. At Today's Meeting
To Take Action Today at Request of War Department
The committee of the Senate to investigate the feasibility of establishing an R. O. T. C. at the University will bring in their report at a called meeting tonight at 4:30 o'clock. It is understood a majority report in favor of establishing the R. O. T. C. and a minority report against it will be presented. Action is taken on the matter at this time at the request of the War Department in order that they may detail an officer here for next quarter. If a hundred men in military tactics and it is approved in military tactic's and it is approved by the University authorities the War Department will send an officer to K. U. to take command. The committee will also decide what war courses will be given next quarter.
Two Lectures are Given To Men of Student Army
Mining Students are Given Instruction in First Aid To Injured
Two lectures were given this morning to members of the Students' Army Training Corps, one at 10 o'clock by M. Prof. E. Riege on "Vibrations," also on America's Future; A. C. Terrill, on 'America's Future,' the attendance at the lectura
Professor Rice described the var-
ious forms of vibration as manifested
in wireless telegraphy, the X-ray, and
in color photography and color print-
ing. Professor Terrill's lecture, which
was illustrated with slides, pertained
 chiefly to the country's mineral re-
sources.
Students in the department of mining last night took their first lesson in first aid, at the Bureau of Mines rescue car, which is in Lawrence for the week. Saturday the car will be taken to Lansing, for demonstration and description at the penitentiary and other coal mines. The car is ex-merged with a ladder so students lowling soon so the students in mining may complete their courses in mine rescue and first aid, and obtain their government certificates.
S.A.T.C. Veterans Plan
S.A.T.C. Veterans Home Folks
Maybe it's the desire to get a snappy salute or so. Maybe it's because they want to impress the drug store gang back home. Anyway, a great many S. A. T. C. men are planning, costumes as nearly like officers' uniforms as possible for use when they leave Lawrence.
Downtown clothing stores are being mobled by men who desire to look spiffy on the homeward trip. They buy everything in the way of officers' equipment short of the shoulder bars, and some even purchase black and gold hatscords, which they say are for Christmas presents for the girls. Every barracks have at least half a dozen men who have leather puttees, acquired mostly when they rode motor-cycles before going to war. Others will wear spirals to create the effect. Then there are a few who meditate purchasing officers' caps and removing the emblem.
Oversera caps, made from scraps of overcords by means of patterns obtained at the Hostess House, are the indoor sport among the men now. The silver chevroon market is booming, and the corporsals and servicers who haven't enough stripes for all their clothing are laying in supplies now. One man who was issued an overcoat with bone buttons has had several dozens chances to trade or sell, but no, he wants to wear it himself.
The bronze hatchcords will help a lot in bringing salutes, the men figure. The gold is a little more golden, and as many schools wear other colors, the illusion is often complete.
War History Courses Offered
Coat Tail Surplus Makes Overseas Cap
Two practical courses in war aims will be offered in the department of history next quarter, says Prof. H. F. Holder. The first course, "The War—Peace and Reconstruction," will be open to all students in the University. The second course, "National Governments and The World War," will be open to all the students with the exception of the freshmen.
Pricked fingers and ruffled dispositions tell the tale of self-sacrificing S. A. T. C. men who have shorn their new khaki overcoats of lengthy tails to construct niffy, nobly overseas caps as Christmas surprises for the girls at home.
The mending room at the Hostess House for the last week has sheltered a busy circle of ambitious solitaries and those long time in shaping the stylish headscarf.
The overseas bonnet is put together in four pieces and is lined in some instances with silk begged, or borrowed from girls in Lawrence.
Military law forbids men here wear ing the coy headcoverings from over seas, but there is no law to keep sty lish girls from wearing them.
The S. A. T. C. milliner say that in the future when Mrs. S. A. T. C.'s demand bonets of Paris make, the S. A. T. C.'s themselves will furnish the things. The experience here, they claim has been well worth while.
The navy is out of it again. They have no coat-tails to clip.
Plain Tales From the Hill
Members of the S. A. T. C. are pessimistic about almost everything They try to tarnish all the sunshine.
Now will come the battle to make the world safe for ex-aergeants.
When one of the soldier-students enters mess-line, he growls, "Well, I suppose they'll choose the other end to go first just because I'm at this moment," where he is in the run, he forsees the grub will run out before he gets to it.
If it is announced that the men will be discharged, the rookie will say decidedly that it is an unfounded rumor. Many army men now never expect to be discharged, and some navy men do so. We have to consider others that do expect releases; they will be called back into active service shortly after Christmas.
Pessimism abounds concerning pay. The most kill-joy thoughts, however, come when the rookie wonders whether "Sugar," whom he left behind him, still thinks of him.
Some fair one in the Jayhawker beauty contest has been gained some votes by a pair of dice. The man who got the votes for her, however, didn't do so by gambling. He merely traded the pair for the votes, because the one who formerly had them was too stubborn to give them up without any return.
An S. A. T. C. man who allotted half his pay and has taken out insurance, a Liberty Bond, a Jayhawker, and other things, has figured up and concluded that he will owe the government three dollars when he gets out of the army. Which is somewhat worse than the shock one of the vocational men received not long ago when the handwritten master him a dime as the remainder of his month's pay.
Latest Reports from the Rumor Bureau:
All physical examinations must be taken again before S. A. T. fbc men.
Men must stay here until January 1.
No Christmas boxes may be sent by
mail.
Discharge papers lost in wreck on way from Chicago.
All causes of plain, ordinary colds are sent to the base hospital at Eunice.
Early Student of K. U.
Dies at Her Home Here
Officers report themselves more eager to get out of the army than the
Mrs. Abbie Noyes Raymond, a student of the University when it consisted only of North College, died at her home 746 Mississippi Street, this morning. Mrs. Raymond was the wife of a hirry L. Raymond, a graduate of the School of Pharmacy in 1885, who died a few years ago. Mrs. Raymond's daughter, Mrs. Bessie Raymond Cox, died about two months ago. A brother of Mrs. Raymond, Ellis Noyes, of the class of 1874, is a clerk in Norfolk Navy Yard. Mrs. Raymond's father, one of the early settlers of Lawrence, came from Massachusetts. He built the house west of Lawrence now owned by Jess Willard.
The Red Cross means Mercy.
Word Received That Navy Pay Checks Are On Way From Chicago
Eight Naval Reservists Sent Here From Lakes Get Pay Today
May Be Out This Week
Bonds
Sailors Can Have Government Sell Their Liberty
Pay checks for the naval section of the University are now on the way from the district disbursing officer of the 9th, 10th and 11th naval districts, according to word received from the Great Lakes Station this morning by Ensign D. E. Finnegan. The message stated that the pay would be "forwarded shortly," and this is taken to nen it is already on the way.
Pay for eight men who came to the University from the Lakes as naval reservists was received this morning. The checks ranged from $74 to $124. The eight men have not been released but received their pay in advance of the others because of their service at the Great Lakes Station.
Three more releases were received from headquarters this morning. This makes a total of 185 which have been received here, and papers for the remainder of the company, which numbers 254, are expected immediately.
If the pay checks for the other men and the remainder of the releases arrive this afternoon or Friday, as Ensign Finnage expects, the University's unit of the navy will be mustered out before the end of the week. The Navy doesn't have yet set and no word has been received as a whether or not it will be issued.
Naval men who have signed up for Liberty Bonds and have not completed paying for them are enabled to dispose of them by an order received this morning. Members of the unit have only to notify the Liberty Loan Bureau of the Treasury Department at the location of their insurance benefit the remaining payments on the bonds, which will then be placed on sale. When the bonds are sold, the amount paid in by the men will be remitted to them
Provisions for war risk insurance taken out by the navy men are also included in the orders received this morning. The government insurance may be carried for five years more, the rates remaining the same as though the owners were in the service. The insurance will still be handled by the government and not turned over to a corporation. At the end of the five-year period, the insurance may be converted into an old-line policy.
Precautions Prescribed For Christmas Vacation
To keep the influenza epidemic from breaking out again when students return to the University after the Christmas holidays, Miss Mary Abramson advises students to spend the week of vacation as a week of rest.
"The past five weeks have been strenuous ones," said Miss Hight, "and every one should take Christmas week off for a good time. Eat wholesome, sensible food, but do not overheat. Keep away from crowds as much as possible, especially from poorly ventilated places where crowds gather. Wear clothing that is suitable to the weather."
Professor Smith Back from Capital Prof. T. T. Smith of the department of mathematics will return to the University the first of next quarter. Professor Smith has been engaged in war work for the government in the Department of Standards in Washington, D. C.
Plays to be Given Next Quarter
Professor Arthur McMurray announces that the second number of the popular play series will probably be given the second week of next quarter.
The American Red Cross is an emergency organization by nature it deals with problems as they arise.
The University Cafeteria will not be open Friday, December 20. It will reopen after Christmas vacation.
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