UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
Strong Favors R.O.T.C.
For K.U., But Does Not
Want To Hurry Into I
1370 K. U. Students Sign Petition to Establish Officers' Training Camp on Hill
To Decide By January
NUMBER 40.
Faculty Committee Will Settle Question Within Two Weeks
A petition to have a Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University of Kansas, signed by 1730 K. U. men, was presented to Capt. D. B. Miller, who conducted the government Investigation here last week, and has been turned over to Chancellor Frank Strong. The petition also requested that Lieut. Frank J. Cramer, commanding officer of the collegiate section of the. A. T. C., be retained as officer in charge of the R. O. T. C., in the event that such an organization be established at the University.
Chancellor Strong, when interviewed by a student committee representing the various schools of the University, in regard to his opinion concerning the petition, expresses himself as being in favor of the R. O. T. C. at the University of Kansas, but said that he believed its installation should be postponed until every one is more prepared for it.
"I believe the Reserve Officers' Training Corps would be a fine thing for K. U.," said the Chancellor, "but we should not rush it until we are sure enough men would enter to run is successfully."
Dr. Strong has recently expressed himself publicly as considering the S. A. T. C. at K.U. U. a failure, and not in a hurry to combine military and collegiate affairs again until he has some assurance that the plan will be more feasible than the S. A. T.C. has been.
The student committee which took up the matter with Chancellor Strong included Herbert Mee, of the School of Law, James Scott, of the School of Medicine, Joe Mahan, of the School of Engineering, and Lynn Hershey, of the College.
Capt. W.A. Hatch, 36th Infantry Will Take His Place Until Demobilization
Captain Scher Will Leave Tonight for Home in East
The decision as to whether K. U. wants to have an R. O. T. C. established here, will be made before the first of the year, and the result sent in to the War Department. The faculty committee with whom the de- signer is supplied of Prot. R. H. Hodder, Dean George C. Shad, Prof. F. B. Dains, Coach W. O. Hamilton, Prof. A. T. Walker, and Dean F. J. Kelly.
Capt. Bruno T. Scher, commandant of the Student Army Training Corps at the University, will leave tonight for his home in Massachusetts. He will stop in St. Louis and New York and will be at his old home for Christmas for the first time in twenty-five years. Captain Schoen is now on the retired list of United States Army officers and has put on civilian clothes.
Capt. W. A. Hatch, 36th Infantry,
will take his place in the S. A. T. C.
until December 21. Captain Hatch
has been stationed at the Naval Base
Kansas City since August. He has been in
the service a year and a half.
Captain Hatch, who came to Lawrence today to report to Captain Scher, returned to Kansas City today but will be back Saturday.
Varsity Dance Saturday
Varsity Dance Saturday
Because of the great decrease in influenza cases this week the ban is removed for the varsity dance which will be given Saturday night in F. A. U. hall. The Venetian Troubadors, a company of musicians from out of town, will play.
Leuttenant Welker is Sent West Lieutenant Joseph E. Welker, assistant professor of sanitary engineering, has been transferred from Pt. Ogletorhee, Ga., to Marshfield, Cal., and has been made camp sanitation officer on the leave of absence from the University since November. He took an active part in managing the campaign against the "flu" epidemic here.
Students' Loan Fund Drawn on for $2250
About $2250 has been lent this year to various students of the University by the Students' Loan Fund, vision of George O. Foster, registrar.
The ruling is that no student may borrow more than $100 at one time.
The number of loans that have been made this year is about the same as in previous years. At present there are four loans pending.
Con Hoffman, American, Is Still In Germany With Prisoners of War
Former K. U. Secretary Allowed to do Y. Work for Captives With Government Consent
Now that the armistice provisions relating to the repatriation of American prisoners of war are being carried out, it may be written for the first time how, all during the hostilities of the last nineteen months, an American citizen, working for the Y. M. C. A. in Georgetown the day before the attack, was on the enemy's camps—and all with the approval and consent of the German government.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1918.
Not to give too much credit to Germany for the concession, however, it should be stated that the name of the American in question is Conrad Hoffman, and that he had done Y. M. C. A. work in German cities and towns for a number of years before the war. He had friends at courts and in the army so that when the time came for ex-Ambassador Gerard to leave, the latter was able to peraude the authorities to let Mr. Hoffmann remain behind and to free him from danger of being interned or arrested.
He was made to give his oath that he would not propagate among the American prisoners and the intermed American civilians whom he was to serve; that he would not aid them to escape or wink at attempts to escape and that he would recruit whatever staff he needed entirely from neutrals. He did so, and with the help of the United States men and women was able to mitigate in some way the arduous life of the prison camps.
Through A. C, Harte, a Y agent in Berne, Switzerland, he received both funds and such things as athletic equipment, phonographs and records, books, magazines, tobacco, and soap. In every camp he organized committees from the prisoners themselves to take care of the local distribution of the supplies. In one of the larger camps he succeeded in placing a library of some 500 volumes and in another, by the aid of the funds sent through, the prisoners were able to get out a little camp paper of their own entitled the "Barbed Wireless." — Stars and Strings.
The State Board of Pharmacy will hold a meeting and an examination in Lawrence, February 12 and 13. All pharmacists in the State of Kansas must be registered and to get licenses must make application to this board, the University school of Pharmacy of the University are registered without examination.
Mr. Hoffman was secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at the University for several years. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered for foreign service and was sent to Germany.
The Kansas basketball team prac-
ticed shooting and passing last night
and took a short session at scrimmage.
This was the first scrimmage of the season. The physicians are conducting physical examinations of student army men in the gym, and moving the apparatus every night de-
riving it to the最佳 condition. Hallmark
attending the Missouri Valley Con-
ference meeting at Kansas City today
and will not be with the squad for
practice.
State Pharmacy Board Will Hold Exams Her
Mrs. Sam Huston of Topeka is in Lawrence because of the illness of her daughter, Thema, c'22.
Up to the present time the School of Pharmacy has had 487 graduates, and the University State of Kauai. Altogether there has been 2,200 students in the school.
The Red Cross is Efficient.
Basket Ball Men Practice
Christmas Red Cross Drive Starts Monday With 8 o'Clock Whistles
Workers Expect to Enroll 50 Per Cent of Population in Three Days
"When the whistle closing the 8 o'clock classes Monday morning is prolonged," said Prof. U, G. Mitchell this morning, "I do not want University people to think that fire has broken out. It will mean that the Christmas Red Cross drive has started."
Lawrence will initiate the campaign by blowing whistles and probably by a parade down town. The drive will extend from next Monday till Christmas but the enrollment in the university will necessarily be done next week. Re Cross workers expect to make the q ota in the first three days before exe instinations begin.
Each person joining the Red Cross in this campaign will receive a badge, similar to the one issued in last year's drive, but the year is added. Ten Christmas Red Cross stamps will be given each member, and a window card will go to each house, with stickers to be placed on the card for every additional member from this house joining.
"Persons ought to put up their window cards and wear the badges," said Professor Mitchell, chairman II of the staff. "It is important that the workers a lot, if all do this."
Subscriptions this year must be cash, according to Professor Mitchell, as a dollar must be turned in by the University Red Cross W. E. Spalding, treasurer of the campaign in Lawrence for every name entered on the enrollment sheets. No receipts will be issued.
The quota of the University has not been determined yet, because the population has not been counted. The goal will amount to a membership of 50 per cent of the University's population. Figured on the basis of the number of faculty members and employees, there are resident students of Lawrence in the last drive, the quota will be about 600, Mr. Mitchell said.
Each day the names of the persons subscribing the previous day up to 5 o'clock in the afternoon will be published in the Kansan, as nearly as Chairman Mitchell can compile the lists.
This bulletin was assembled at the suggestion of committees of the National Research Council in conference with prominent military man, and is one of a series of such reports from this meeting. It is also on m.a.s. throughout the United States.
A fund amounting to about thirty-five dollars was raised for the fatherless children of France by the sale of post cards in Fraser Hall. This sale was under the charge of Margaret Mitchell. The amount will be enough to keep one child a year. Postcards will be on sale down town next week and the money added to the same fund.
State Geologist Surveys Lands At Camp Funston
"The Environment of Camp Funston" is the title of a bulletin just off the press, and issued by the state geological survey, under the direction of Dr. Raymond C. Moore of the University, and state geologist.
Comparisons Are Made With Territory Fought Over In France
The "Western theater of War" is given in a chapter comparing conditions at Funston and Riley with French battle fields by Major Douglas W. Johnman. When it is realised that maps were made for Perishing's drive at St. Mikhil and that other countries have very minute maps of such geographical features, the importance of this bulletin can readily be seen.
The bulletin was prepared as a war measure, being in the hands of the printer at the time of the signing of the artillery and is still of lasting value, as Fort Riley and Camp Funston will be permanent stations.
The bulletin is filled with interesting maps and other data relative to war and peace and some of the maps are interesting comparison of the topographical features in similar formations in France about Solisons and the valley of the Aisne.
Co. M. Gets in Fight Few Days Before End Of Titanic Conflict
One Thought is to Dig In and
Dig Deeply While Shells
Are Dropping
Company M, 137th Infantry, which contains a large number of University of Kansas men, saw some active fighting just before the close of hostilities. Corp. Harvey Rodgers, who was a student in chemical engineering writes his wife, who is now a student on the Hill, of his impressions under date of November 8. He says:
"From there we took trucks to the place where we did go into the real thing. I wish the people at home could have seen the traffic that moved over that road that night. One has no idea of the amount of men, equipment, supplies, artillery, ammunition and trucks used in a big drive until he has seen a small part of it. In our truck train there were twelve hundred trucks making a train ten miles long. Part of the way there were two or three such trains running beside each other over the wide road rock that I'll bet has been a big factor in wars since the middle ages.
“ . . . Last September when we learned that we were leaving our peaceful little playhouse down in a quiet sector and going to the big show we were full of enthusiasm and said, ‘Now we'll take those Dutch devils home.’ Then they put us in the reserve on the. . . . and expected to use there but the enemy offered so low resistance there that few troops were used and they didn't have much to do. We simply bivouicated in the woods there for about a week waiting to be called up but never went.
"If ever preparation was made for anything it was made for our drive. When we went over the top three and six-inch guns were sitting hub to hub, some of them so close that you couldn't have slipped a sheet of paper between them. These were about a kilometer behind the line. A little farther back at suitable locations were plenty of nine-inch Howitzers. Our eightteen inch naval guns were mounted on flat cars on a railroad about two or three kilo's behind the line and car loads of ammunition were run right up along side of the guns. When these guns opened up it was like a monstrous earthquake. One doesn't know the value of this support until be gets about ten miles ahead of his own artillery and so close to the German artillery that 't is shooting point blank at him.
"It was 5:30 in the morning and the darkness was just commencing to fade away so that we could recognize the heavy gray fog hovering close to the earth when we climbed out of the trench. We formed our line there and waited few minutes while a few of our men cut paths through our own wire. We had sometimes talked about how we would feel when we went over the top the first time and I had read sentimental articles on how a man feels at such a time but none of them fit the case. As near as one could tell every man a man was the same thing. They were drinking in the wonderful big excitement that was taking place. I felt just like I did a long time ago when I was just outside the entrance of my first circus.
"That was the beginning. After that enuf happened to write a library about. Sometimes we advanced as if we were on a lark. Other times we 'ducked' from shell-hole to shell-hole or wished a shell hole was there, as we advanced on machine guns. Then at times the enemy artillery opened up and caused us to dig as we never dug before.
Club Night
"But we gave the Boche a good start towards the Fatherland and if reports are true we won quite a reputation for ourselves."
Lord Charmwood, who lectured at the University this afternoon, is the guest of the University Club. He wil talk tonight before the members at the regular Club Night.
"People have tried to tell me what a man thinks about when he gets in a tight place. I'll tell you what he thinks about. It isn't past or future or folks at home, but it's himself and right now. Fellows were saying, This job hadn't fair interaction. If one had to dig with, instead of a mess kit to dig with," and all that time old mess kit was throwing up more dirt than a steam shovel.
Freshman Caps to Arrive With First Green Grass
Upperclassmen have said that they will make strenuous efforts to revive the old tradition of freshman caps. All erring freshmen will be severely reprimanded if not punished. Although, the Senate, last year, passed a ruling against paddling, upperclassmen say they will think of some way to remind the freshmen of their short comings.
The Red Virgils, an organization for the purpose of enforcing the wearing of the freshman cap, will be active again this year. No one but the unfortunate freshman knows who these mysterious visitors are; what they do nor where they go.
Plain Tales From the Hill
One optimistic child has expresses the opinion that it is not so bad to be the "goat" always after all. Because, he reasons, there must be a "goat" in everything so that by being "it" one is not left out.
One could tell this morning whether a Company H man slept upstairs or downstairs by the condition of his shoes. The men in the loft of Barn 8 were marched up and down hill this morning and then through the mud, as a penalty for raising Ned after taps, while those who live on the ground floor were quiet and consequently have reasonably clean shoes.
"Who are those keen girls over there?" was the query heard at the Library desk the other night.
"Their name is Blank." was the reply. "They are sisters." was the reply.
It is reported that one of the S. A.
T, C. sergents called him folks by long distance recently and told them
this:
"Ih, I've been promoted; I'm officer of the day every fourth day now."
"No, only one of them."
The mud changes things. Yea,
verily.
Even the S. A. T. C. companies which usually march down the middle of streets and roads have been permitted to forsake the dirt and mud and use the sidewalks. Thursday several companies were privileged to march boldly down the sidewalk to a lecture in Fraser Chapel.
Now will some faculty member of the English department kindly rise and—no, on second thought, he may remain seated if that will make it any easier for him—but kindly rising or sitting, will he kindly give us a dissertation on the poetic symbolism of, "Good morning, Mr.Zip Zip, etc."
Y.M. Agency Has Jobs
For More than 100 Men
The Y. M. C. A. employment agency is placing men on good paying positions at the rate of eight or ten a day and they will be able to use one hundred more. Men wanting to stay over the holidays may get good employment at two dollars a day. There is need of a competent photographer at once and there are several requests for corn huskers and nursery men. These oitions afford S.A.T.C.'s an opportunity to stay in school but are not money request offices. There probably be more requests for men at the beginning of the second term. There are plenty of positions open to women and Miss Duffield asks that all women wanting them report to her at once. At the beginning of the new term there will be opportunities to work for room rent and board.
wm. Wertz Leaves Naval Service William J. Wertz has returned from Hampton Roads, Va., where he has been a United States Naval Base since July.
Mr. Wertz says the government is discharging 100 men a week and he was one of the first 50 to leave. The men who are being discharged are either married or are returning to educational institutions.
Mr. Wrerts is entering his senior
law school at the School of Law of
the University
Edgar L, Hollis,
Athletic Ed., Jayhawker.
Athletic Ed., Jayhawker.
The group picture of the football team will not be taken at McCook Field Saturday. The picture will be taken some afternoon next week.
Irish Question Is One For Irish To Settle, Says Lord Charnwood
Some Plan of Government Needed That Will Be Just to Minority
Irish Have Enjoyed War
English Peer Addresses University Audience on League of Nations
Lord Charnwood, who has been personally interested in home rule for Ireland, a man who is in a position to know of the relation between England and her colonies, today gave the Kansan his opinion of home rule for Ireland.
"As a life-long home-ruler," he said, "I am convinced that the settlement of the Irish question now depends upon the Irish people themself. Upon a scheme which can justly be imposed upon the minority in Ireland.
"The attitude of the Irish during the war has created a real obstacle to Home Rule. It should be remembered that Ireland has made great strides in prosperity in that there is no longer any passion to be removed, and far from being oppressed, the Irish people are the only people in Europe who have had a good time during the War."
"Self government for Ireland is most desirable, but unless a scheme for it is derived which would be just to the universities, it would mean instant war and ruin in Ireland," Lord Charnwood continued.
Lord Charnwood is chairman of the subcommittee on relations with America of the British Committee for Prosecution and Other Missions to the Allies and Friendly Countries.
The pleasing English manner of speaking has not been lost by Lord Charnwood. His conversation is more fluent, and much of brouge with which he speaks.
The rain apparently has no effect upon the good humor of Lord Charnwood. "Why this is nice," he said. "This is real English weather. This is the kind of weather we should expect this time of the year."
Lord Charnwood was scheduled to speak on the "League of the Nations proposal as it affects the British Empire" today at 4:30 p. m., in Fraser Chapel. This is his first visit to the University of Kansas.
Dramatic Club Plays For Benefit of S.A.T.C.
The Dramatic Club presented a farce, "A Little Mistake," and "A Proposals Under 'Difficulties,' by John Kendrick Bangs last night in Fraser Hall.
These plays were presented under the auspices of the entertainment company, S. A. T. C. and were most enthusiastically received by the capacity audience.
The cast presenting "A Little Mistake" was tried out for Dramatic club membership in the rehearsal in the afternoon and all were success- 31.
They were: Jessie Martindale, Lucey Cleveland, Marguerite Adams, Armenia Rumberger, Margaret Watson and George Dyche.
The other skit "A Proposal Under Difficulties," was presented by the following Nadine Bairr, H俊 Al-Neal Carman and Florence Ingram.
A complete stage setting was used for the first time in Fraser with spot lights, footlights and all the accessories of a complete stage.
Corporal Rader Missing
Corporal Rider Missing
Corporal V. S. Rader, architectural engineer, 17, has been reported missing in action. He was with the 89th US Army Infantry Division (353rd) Corporal Rider is a brother-in-law of Mrs. Ralph Rader, instructor in chemistry, whose husband is also in France. His home is in Howard.
"Sing" to be part of Program
An old fashioned "sing" will be part of the program at a farewell social in honor of S. A. T. C. men who will not return to school after Christmas. Christ's Sunday evening, beginning at 7:30. The social is given by the Christian Endeavor society of that church. All Presbyterian young people and their friends are invited.
The Red Cross is Mobile.