UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
December 13.1918.
Kansas Men on Front Lines When Armistice Papers Were Signed
Lawrence Hughes, c'20, Write of Celebration When Hostilities Ceased
Credit Given to Infantry
Message to Stop Fighting Gets to Front but Short Time Be- fore Appointed Moment
When the armistice was signed, K. U. men were knee deep in mud, pursuing fleeing Germans who were rapidly vanishing in the direction of Berlin, according to a letter received today from Lawrence D. Hughes, of the Thirty-fifth Division. He served in the college at the time he enlisted for service, April 11, 1917. His letter follows:
"Well, it is over, over here. We finished it up yesterday, and maybe you think we are not a happy bunch.
"Did you note the curious part of the end? Hostilities ceased on the eleventh month, eleventh day and eleventh hour.
"I imagine the states went wild about 6 o'clock, yesterday morning. You should have seen the celebration we had last night. The whole sky was lighted up over the front as far as we could see. Red, white, blue, and green rockets, stars, and all of them were sent up, making it a scene much bigger and more beautiful than any Fourth of July celebration you ever saw.
"Ooen thing that I have to be proud of was that I was on the front in the fight to the finish. When I say "on the front," I mean right on the front, for this was a case of the artillery being in front of the infantry. We think there are no soldiers in the world as good as our division of doughbags. Kansas and Missouri can sure do, prow of them. Of course, don't think there is any better regiment of artillery than ours, for it is a crack one, but we realize that to the infantry belongs the honor and glory.
"Yesterday morning, I was standing around in a field where headquarters was established, about frozen in the mud. About 9:15 the major was called over the phone when the message to cease hostilities was received. As we listened to the major repeat it, our hearts went right up in our mouths and on every face was a big and happy smile. One hour and forty-five minutes after that the noise had stopped and it was hard to believe that there was once more peace in this shell-torn country.
"I know there were many happy mothers in America, and I am mighty glad, especially for their sakes, that it is over."
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The program of the pre-nursing course which is to be given next quarter will be as follows:
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Senior women who are considering taking a nurses course should see that they have all this work, faculty members in the courses say. There is still a very great demand for nurses, they say and nurses and aids are still being sent abroad. Army hospitals in this country also many nurses too and will continue to did so for some of Of course, workers not be ready to go into work at once but nurses from hospitals may be released and hospital work in part carried on by the students.
The scientific part of nurses training is becoming constantly of more importance and college women with higher education will be greatly needed, it is pointed out.
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M1SREPRESENTING A BEE
MISREPRESENTING A BEE
English officers and men still experience difficulty with the language at the front. Recently an officer, seeing a swarm of bees settled near his billlet, rushed to adjacent cottages to inform the residents. But explain verbally he could not. So, taking paper and pencil, he drew a rough sketch of a hive, then wangged his fingers in which he thought the correct wing-like way. it was a failure, so he sketched a number of bees, and buzzed a beesome buzz. Thereupon the cottagers, together with one consent bolted to their dugouts, believing that he meant hostile aircraft overhead—London Daily Chronicle.
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Delay of Class Voting Declared Not Result Of Masculine Politics
Revival of Student Interest is Expected After Opening of New Quarter
The men on the Hill deny that they are trying to play politics, by delaying the senior election until after the Christmas holidays. The election was set for next week, but the announcement was made a few days earlier. In fact, no one knew of the lack of class spirit, and the fact that only one ticket was up.
The ticket contained three women: Louise Nixon, president; Esther Moore, secretary; and Margaree Young, treasurer. Only one man, Tracy Conklin, was running, and he for the vice-presidency. The foot that the men have in previous years held the majority of offices, and always the presidency, combined with the fact that only one man was up this year and not for presidency, at that, made the election postponement take on a political tide. Herschel Washington, president of the Men's Student Council, has just returned to the University from training camp, and he denies any knowledge of Hill-politics whatsoever.
"It is a matter of the lack of class spirit," said Mr. Washington. "The very fact that neither the junior, sophomore, nor freshmen class have even put up a single ticket, is proof enough of the fact, it seems to me. As soon as we can get some class pep aroused, everyone will take more interest in the election, and it will swing with a little spirit, at least." I talked to the women who were running on the present ticket, and Miss Corbin, and to the representative men on the campus, and they all agree that it would be better to wait until another ticket was up, and the other classes had up their tickets, and swalling all four class elections at the same time," was the explanation George DeVoe offered when asked his reason for the delay. Mr. DeVoe has been acting president of the Merit Association of Mr. Washington. "There was no intention of making anyone peeved at all," he said, " or we would have gone ahead with it."
The election is now set for the second week in January, and Mr. DeVoe hopes that by that time four class tickets will be ready, and all elections can be held the same day.
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