UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
Inquiry Into Conduct Of S. A. T. C. Officers Resumed in Green Hall
NUMBER 43.
Major Ballinger Sent Here from Chicago to Conduct Investigation
Privates Being Questioned
A further investigation into conditions within the S. A. T. C. is being made by Major C. W. Ballinger, U.S.A., who has been sent here from central headquarters of the War Department at Chicago. Men from the different companies in the S. A. T. C. apparently chosen at random, are being called Michigan Ballinger to be the basement of Green Hall, and are being asked questions relative to the conduct of affairs in the burrows.
Probe Apparently Is Continuation of Previous Inquiry
According to military heads on the Hill, this investigation is being made to complete the one recently made by Capt. D. B. Miller, whose final report exonerated the officers. It is necessary, the military authorities say, that Captain Miller's report be corroborated by specific evidence from enlisted men in the S. A. T. C. The evidence will be collected and sent into departmental headquarters at Chicago, closing the whole investigation. Men who are being questioned by Major Ballinger are asked if they have seen any drunkenness among the officers, if the conditions in the barracks are clean and satisfactory, and if the S. A. T. C. has been operated in conformity with strict military regulations. The individual grilling lasts usually about two minutes, but if the soldiers shows a disposition to talk freely, his examination of course lasts longer.
Major Ballinger was formerly a student at K. U., and is now assistant inspector general of the war department for the central district.
The prevalent belief that this later investigation is a new one, and that it is being held because the Captain Miller decision was without weight, is apparently wrong; since the military authorities say the present investigation is simply the completion of the former one.
The finances necessary to carry on the work, have come from the Hostess House committee of the War Work council of the National board of Y. W. C. A. On December 12, Miss Katherine Duffield received a letter from the War Work Council saying that whatever added expense was necessary in closing the house, would be met by the council. When the law institutes learned that the S. A. T. C. would not be demobilized until December 21, they felt that the house should be kept open until the end of the quarter.
Y.W. War Work Council Supports Hostess House
...On December 20, the Hostess House in Myra Hail will close. The work has been carried on since September 15, under the supervision of Mrs. W. H. Johnson, Mrs. F. J. Kelly and Mrs. W. J. Baumgartner of the local War Work Committee. If the number of men who have used the Hostess House signifies anything, the work has been a marked success.
Physically Unfit Men
Cannot Be Discharged
Thirteen Convalescents Will Be Sent to Some Other Camp
There are at present thirteen members of the S. A. T. C. who are physically unfit to be discharged with the rest, according to Lieut. Judson Allen Influenza has been the cause of the condition of twelve of these men and influenza-meningitis of the remaining one.
These men who are practically unfit will be sent to some camp for convalecents designated by the surcon general for these times. At the time they camp they will be sent.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1918
Aside from these thirteen there are three men now in the Simmons Hospital and four in the Jones Hospital whose exact condition is undetermined.
New Semester Schedules Not Ready Until Vacation
Schedules for classes for the second quarter are now in the hands of the printer, but will not be out until some time next week, it was announced at the Dean's office today. It will be impossible for students to decide what they will take next quarter until the schedules are out, and the hours of the different courses are finally announced.
Monday, December 20, will be enrolment day for the second quarter. It is believed there will be so few new registrations, the enrolment can be completed in the one day, as in previous years.
Barracks Offered for Sale
Barracks offered all the
barracks, but they have entirely
vaunted in a way that they have
been needed for sale. They will be
torn down and the materials moved
away by the purchaser and very soon
the grass will be growing over the
spots where the Student Army Training Corps quarters now stand.
Pay Issued To Men Of Student Army But Discharges Not Here
Men May Remain In Barracks After Receiving Final Papers
In case discharge papers for the S. A. T. C. arrive from Chicago before Saturday, any men who may be kept in Lawrence until the end of the term may stay in the barracks until they are ready to leave for their home, Capt. W. A. Hatch said this morning. Men who receive discharge papers before the end of the term and who are not planning to stay in school may leave Lawrence as soon as they receive their papers.
Nothing has been heard so far from the Chicago headquarters, where the discharge papers were sent last Friday night. A telegram received earlier said they would be returned on or before Saturday, December 21. Companies A, B, and C were paid last night in Robinson Gymnastium. Companies D, E, F, G, and H will be paid tonight.
Every man in the vocational training detachment, Section B of the S A. T. C. has been paid.
Contrary to the rumor that men would have to leave the barracks as soon as they received their discharges, it was explained that they could remain in barracks till they are ready to go home.
Professor's Son Gives Specimens to Museum
The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism owns and operates a boat made entirely of wood, except in the places where iron is usually employed. These parts are constructed of bronze, to eliminate any local magnetism, while experimenting.
Allan Sterling Resumes Work With Carnegie Institute
Allen Brenkle, a former student of the University who left the College in 1916 to take up education work, died of pneumonia following influenza recently at Lamona, Iowa. He is survived by a wife and one child. Mr. Brenkle was principal of the high school at Lamona.
Allan Sterling, son of Prof. M. W. Sterling of the department of Greek, has returned to Washington where he is in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institute. Mr. Sterling returned from a 2-year trip to South America last July and immediately went into the army, after obtaining an extended absence from the Carnegie Institution.
Mr. Sterling obtained some aigrettes for the Museum while in South America. A law forbids the hunter to kill the white horse from which the aigrettes are obtained, and Mr. Sterling had to get the permission of the Customs Department to bring the aigrettes into the country, for the University. Museum authorities had to agree in writing that the factors were to be used scientific purposes for the Customs Department of the Treasury would send them here. While cruising in southern seas, Mr. Sterling also obtained for the Museum a rare specimen of snake which is found only in the tropics.
Former Student Dead
Patterson Believes Students Should Get Standing From Profs
Ritan Intended to Relieve Dean's Office and Benefit Students
A proposition was made at the meeting of the College faculty Tuesday night that students should go to their different instructors to learn their standing in work rather than to the dean's office. Prof. D. L. Patterson, dean of the College, who put the proposition before the faculty, explained today why he thinks such a ruling should be made. He gave two reasons for holding that the dean's office should issue no grades.
"The most important reason," he said, "is that the student should go to his instructor for his standing in a course at any time. The instructor only knows the character of the work being done by the student. Further, because the increase the questionites for the student to be advised by his instructor.
"Under the present system of obtaining grades from the dean's office, the results are unsatisfactory. Such grades as are in the office are never up-to-date. If for no other reasons, the transmission of the grades through the University mules place the records in arrears. Often they are five or six weeks out-of-date. Consequently the student fails to get the information which he could from the instructor. The instructors are always willing and anxious to advise students as to their work.
"The second and less important reason is that the present system interferes with the routine work of the dean's office. This work in the College is necessarily great on account of the large number of students enrolled, and the many interferences with work should be avoided unless the results indicate otherwise."
Daan Patterson said that this did not mean students were unwelcome in the classroom.
"Students are always welcome," he said, "and especially when in need of advice concerning their studies. Professor Brandt, assistant dean and chairman of advisers for freshman men, and Miss Wilson, chairman of the dean's office at regular hours for consultation by students."
The suggestion of Dean Patterson's was not acted upon at the meeting, but will be taken up at the faculty's next regular meeting in January.
The Snow Zoology Club held its annual Christmas meeting this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Snow Hall. All of the students and faculty of the zoology department were guests of the club. The following program was given:
A Christmas Reading by *Leona Baumgartner;* Among Enchanted Isles by Dr. B.M. Allen. The Aquaria at Naples, by Miss Nowlin; With a Bird Tramper, by Mrs. Douthitt. Christmas decorations were used, and refreshments were served.
“I summon you to the comrade ship.” — Woodrow Wilson.
Snow Zoology Club Holds Its Christmas Meeting S.A.T.C. Men Run Into Chuck Hole on Tenn. S
Mining Department Offers Real Course In Rescue Car Work
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Students Wear Gas Helmets
And Learn First Aid
Somehow you haven't felt a bit of the Christmas spirit this year.
With college work broken by the advent of a military regime, an epidemic of influenza and a half dozen other things, it doesn't seem time for Christmas yet.
But as you begin to realize that a week from today you will be back home for Christmas dinner, perhaps you catch just a breath of the holiday atmosphere. There will be presents to buy for the home-folks and as you begin to count your money you recall that you made a pledge to the United War Work Campaign to help care for the men "over there" who will spend Christmas thousands of miles from home without seeing a single one of the home-folks.
Besides, who can feel like Christmas with October weather and not a bit of snow?
Mine Rescue Car No. 1, in charge of Dr. J. R. Jutledge, district mining engineer for the Southwestern district—Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Southern Missouri is in Lawrence this week to give students in the department of mining a course of instruction in mine rescue and first aid
S. A. T. C. men were taken to the Union Pacific yards Tuesday to see the car, which arrived in Lawrence Monday night coming from Oakland, Calif. This heavy steel car is used for rescue work at the mines in time, and as a means of training the miners in "first aid" and "mine rescue work."
John Fiske and George Bailey, both members of the naval section at K. U., were injured by heated tar when their car dropped into a chuck hole at the corner of Fourteenth and Tennessee streets, Tuesday. The hole had just been filled wit htar by men working for the street railway company. Fiske was burned about the face and his right car was injured. Bailey's face was burned and his clothing was ruined. The men say there was no sign of danger near the place. The car was not hurt.
Yes, it may call for some sacrifice, but that is the Christmas spirit.
Wouldn't it help you to get more of the Christmas spirit to go to the Registrar's office, if you haven't already done so, and pay for the present you promised to the fellows "somewhere in France" before you go home for your own happy holiday season?
While the soldiers passed through the demonstration room, Dr. Rutledge explained the various things necessary in case of disaster at a mine. The first thing that attracted attention was the care of canary birds. Dr. Rutledge explained that birds were very necessary to perceive if gasses are present in the mines.
After the men passed through car, they were entertained with reading by Miss Leona Baumgartner. Courses in "first aid" and "mine rescue" work will be given in class. Students with Prec A. C. Terrill, with several students, attended the first class in "mine rescue" work at 7:30 o'clock p. m. Tuesday. Five days are required to finish either of these two courses.
Dr. Rrulezdee's headquarters are at McAlester, Okin, and he is being assisted by men from the rescue station at Pittsburgh. The Bureau of Mines now has ten of these special researchers, which contain, besides space for the rescue apparatus, living quarters for the crew. Instruction in first aid may be extended to more than 30,000 men employed in the mines, and probably half that number have been trained to do rescue work with the helmets.
In addition to the instruction at the car, there are seven motion picture reels showing the work of the mine rescue service of the Bureau of Mines, and these reels are being shown to the mining students and also to members of the Student Army. In addition, the films this morning, and then visited the car to see a demonstration of the apparatus used.
The Red Cross is Mobile.
Plain Tales From the Hill
One University man must have been in a great hurry to get away from one of the booths conducted in the Rea Cross drive. Or else he was extreme in the opposite direction and was in no hurry to leave the booth and in so leaning forgot what he was supposed to be doing. At any rate the booth, leaving a dollar but not signing his name. Consequently on the list of contributors a dollar is entered as a subscription from "Cash".
The instructor called on one of the students, to recite, but there was no response, and the student was found to be asleep.
For instance, when he wants Valma, by either her first name or her last by either her first name or by last name. Because Thelma will accept her name and get the one for Valma. This in itself doesn't seem queer, but the trouble comes when the dates are alr up fixed. Enough!
"Ah," said the instructor, "it's plain he's an S. A. T. C. man; Sleep All Through Class."
In these days when dates are made at the eleventh hour, on account of "passes," furloughs, K. P., and numerous other military reasons, extreme care must be exercised to avoid confusion. Now, when there are two women in the same house who have the same name or nearly the same name, especial care should be exercised by the gallant rookie when he calls.
Captain C. A. Haskins, formerly chief engineer for the State Board of Health, now in the sanitary corps or the Surgeon General's Department, is stationed at Washington.
Announcements
Sigma Xi will meet Thursday night at the home of Dean L. E. Sayre, Dr. F. B. Daines will give a paper on "Chemistry of the War."
Hygiene classes for freshman women will meet next quarter. Women whose names begin from A to M will have hygiene instead of floor work in Room 202 Robinson Gymnasium, on Monday, and those names are in the N to Z class, will meet Wed-
The date rule is off for the rest of the week. The 10 o'clock closing rule for rooming-houses is in effect. Lucene President, Steward W.S.G.A.
Department of Physical Education.
There will be no gymnastics classes
for women Friday, December 20.
Saturday.
The regular varsity dance under the direction of the W. S. G. A. will be given at F. A. U. Hall Friday night December 20.
Students are requested to retur now all books which they have belong ing to the University Library.
C. M. Watson, Librarian.
Any freshman women on the Hill who has not been assigned a "Big Sister," or who is not satisfied with arrangements already made are askee to report to the Y. W. C. A. office and all difficulties will be adjusted—Mary Burnett, Chairman Big Sister Committee.
FRANK STRONG. Chancellor.
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The University Senate will meet at 4:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon in Room 110, Fraser Hall.
Booths for Red Cross Offerings by Students To Be Open Thursday
Number of Student Subscriptions Disproportionately Small, Says Mitchell
K.U. Quota Not Yet Reached
Total of 384 Names Reported to University Finance Committee
Booths at which students of the University may sign the Red Cross membership rolls and pay their dollar, will be kept on Thursday morning in Fraser Hall and Administration Building, it was announced to Prof. U.G. Mitchell, chairman of the University war finance committee.
"The students have not been responding to the Red Cross plea," said Professor Mitchell. "Out of the two lists published, less than 200 of the names are those of students. Unless the students respond more liberally, the members of the faculty and employees of the University will have to contribute all out of proportion to their numbers if the University is to go over its goal, low as that goal is."
Today's list, which was reported to Professor Mitchell up to 5 o'clock last night, contains 128 names, and there had been previously reported 256 names, making a total of 348. Today's list follows:
FRASER HALL BOOTH
Faculty and Employees
Imra Leon, Graco Olsen, Mary Olesen, Julia N. Kennedy, Mrs. F. J. Kelly, Georgina Bleakley, Florence Carney, F. D. Gill, Mrs. S. G. Dill, N. H. Huffart, Marilyn Wittman, Robert H. Mann, Anlanger Dorothea Engel, Milissa Mann, Georgie Lindley, Arthur Novin, Coe A. Smith, Grace E. Hoff, Myrtle Chaffee, Amber Bettas, Lela Belt, Haxel Kostebauer, James K. P., R. Reagh, Helen M. Nichols, Edwin Swope, A Lautbach, Thela Short, Helen Nicholson, Jesse E. Craig, Ida Logne, George Lynn, Ebtul Silliman, John S. Browning, Jessie H. Smith, Irma F. Lutz, Margaret Walker, Margaret Sammon.
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
JOURNALISM BUILDING
M. C. Elmer, Junny Ashley Elmer,
Leora Seacat, Arthur J.邦恩, F.W.
Blackmark, Kate N. Blackmark, Dorothy
Blackmark, W. M. Dufus, Mrs. W.M.
Blackmark, W. H. Heilberg, V. R. Holleberr,
U. G. Michiel, Mrs. U., G. diltheil.
N, L. Fllent, Mrs. L, N. Fllent, Maurice Flint, Robert Fllent, George Flint, William B. Brown, Mrs. William B. Brown, Guy M. Brown, Mrs. Guy M. Brown, Guy M. Pennon Jrr., Cornman C. Pennook, W. A. Dill, Mrs. W, A. Dill, H. D. Plank, C. H. Westfall, Marion Lewis, Josephine Nelson, Ruth B. Enniston, John McCarthy, Ruth Jane Gerver, Ia. H. Hydra
AD. BUILDING BOOTH
Nautteen Crane, D'Elestel Tromaine Edna Hilley, Leone Lillie, Mary Underwood, Nellie Hollie, Ava Bair, Mary Barnett, Midred Taylor, Margaret O'Donnell, Doris Drought, Hollen Foley, Margaret J. Watson, Geneva Ogden, Paul M. Reid, Wallace B. Armstrong, Earl Vainer, Walter Leo Morrison, Margaret Giles, John Sernick, Schick, Elise Grant, Elizabeth Samuel, Josephine Fulks, Louisa Miera, Or Frances Nicholson, Ethel C Clark, Jessica E. Dann, Walter F. McCormack, John W. Bunn, Laban C. Dunlap, Nellie Gann, Cash (Forgot to sign name).
CHEM. BUILDING—(Additional)
Clarence Estes, Mrs. E., F. H. Vaughn,
W. S. Pearce, Vera Peacock, Mrs. W.
S. S. E. Leng, E. Long, M. Long,
Zaire N. Long,
SPOONER LIBRARY
Edna R. Dart, Betty Brown, Noelle
Jimche Woodbury, B. H.
M. Woodbury
The following names were on the copy for yesterday but were omitted in setting up the list. Robert R. Easkin, Edward A. E. H. Bailay, Mrs J. J. Wheeler
Typographical errors made the following names carefully recognizable: Kane, John Glennandt, Dorothy Engle, Elliott Havekinson, Maude Hagen, Marjorie Nickelar, Genevieve Dalhousie, Virginia Quintan, Frances Strickland.
Two Will Re-Enter University
Bud Gorrill and George Jones, former students in the University, who left here last October for Atlanta, Ga. to enter a preparatory naval training camp, returned to Lawrence last night and will re-enter the University next semester. Had not the armistice been signed, the men would have entered a training camp at Paris Island, S. C. in January. The boys were given the option of either receiving their discharge or going to Paris Island to continue their training.