UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
December 12, 1918.
Public Improvements Suggested as Method Of Employing Veterans
Prof. A. J. Boynton Compares Situation to That at Close of Civil War
Charity Is Not Desirable
Providence, R. I., Levels Hills and Fills Marshes With Ex-Soldier Labor
To meet the problem of unemployment resulting from demobilization and closing down of war industries Prof. A. J. Boynton head of the department of economics, believes government and municipal improvements on a large scale will be undertaken.
"The situation after the Civil War was met by homebound grants," said Professor Boynton, "but that is scarcely practicable now."
A considerable number of men could, however, be employed in the building projects that were halted by the war, and in road improvements. The proposed Fort to Fort highway, would furnish work for many men but it should not be undertaken unless it will be of sufficient economic value to pay for its construction, economist believe. Unless the work is valuable and needed, it is but a temporary remedy that borders on charity.
"The system tried out in Providence, R. I., to provide employment for men was good," said Professor Boynton. "Providence is situated on hills and on marshy ground. The municipal authorities saw the advantage of lowering the hills and filling in the swamps and at the same time furnishing needed jobs. The reclaimed land made building sites which sold for enough to more than pay the wages of the men employed."
It has not been the rule for city or other governing bodies to use similar foresight, making improvements that would pay for themselves and making them only in times when work was most needed. If such a program for definite production enterprises would simplify the problem of giving returned soldiers adequate employment or jobs create merely an excuse for paying wages to unemployed heroes.
Even now there are more men than jobs, and the government has issued advice to industrial concerns not to reduce wages for the present and not to turn off men suddenly.
It is, according to the teachers of business, up to the city, state, and national governments to find productive occupations for the men who come back to resume civil vocations, learn new skills, take places which will be given back to these men, and for the many workers in war industries now closing down.
This will cause only temporary relief of the situation, and will not affect the problem of men returning from service. No further plans have been announced by the federal government or by state and local authorities.
Kansan Board Gave Its Annual Dinner Last Night
The first Kansan Board dinner of the year was given in the news room of the Kansan office, Wednesday night at 6 o'clock, for the members of the Kansan Board, the professors of the department, their wives and the office force. Majorie Roby, editor-in-chief, acted as tastemist-maestro.
Former Kansan Board members and students in the department who were present are: Mrs. Maurine McKenna Wood of the Topeka Capital, Miss Lucile Nowlin, George Montgomery and D.L. Hartley, all of the Kansas City Star, Vernon Moore, who is here on furlough from the Great Lakes Training School, and Guy Scriber who has been connected with The Nation's Business in Washington, D. C.
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Enter the Camera Man Who's a Real Rustler
The most dangerous man on the Hill is Otte O. Hopfer, head of the 1919 Jayhawker camera squand. Avoid him, if you don't want your smile gracing the back pages of the Peace Book. Hopfer is that rare specimen, the energetic, ophthisite, and efficient office-holder. He likes to sit behind a desk with something new in the way of persons who are elected to boards and staffs.
Hopfer goes to the committee meetings, but is one officer on the Hill who does not relish them. He prefers to dash across the Hill, camera strapped artistically over his shoulders, in pursuit of photographs. And this he does.
Last year Hopfer was a freshman. He did not wear his freshman cap and was therefore forced to walk along the campus one fine morning attired in pink negligence. The laws were the mean men who chastised Hopfer, but look what it did to his spirit—he's the regular K. U. man now, and is showing people how work can be done when one really goes after it.
Rooming Houses Should Elect Presidents Early
Woman's Student Council Will Assist Women to Organize If Requested
All women's rooming houses which have not elected house presidents should do so at once, according to Mary Smith, vice-president of the W.S.G.A., is who in charge of the House Presidents' Council. Women who want to organize their houses and who do not understand the method thoroughly will be assisted by members of the woman's student council if they send in their names and addresses to Miss Smith.
All houses should be organized before end of the term since the second meeting of the House President's will be held early in the second term.
Under the new rules, adopted by the presidents' council, all names of women breaking University rules will be reported to the house president instead of calling the women before the council. Continued breaking of rules dealt with by the council before being sent to the disciplinary committee.
Speaking of celebrities, there are some real men on the Hill this year. Lafayette and George Washington, Washington, and Mahali - Omar himself - are all with us.
Heroes in Our Midst Bear Historic Names
Like most celebrities they aren't honored in their own communities, and nobody much on the Hill seems to know them. In fact, the students who meet George and the Marquies and old Omar every day between barracks and war aims don't know who is passing.
To be perfectly serious, the celebrities have only a reflected glory, for they are not genuine personages of history. They are S. A. T. C. men whose fond parents did honor to heroes.
Ulysses and Xenophon, Wellington and Sherman are with us. Alexander is represented, of course, Vergil, Kipi and Gaias, and only literary geniuses on the roster.
Admiral Dewey is the favorite hero. There are twenty-two men on the S. A. T. C. roster named Dewey. Most of them are George Dewey, at that. Fred Funston is a close second in popularity, and Washington and Milton are men is labeled Willard, but without the courage to whether his parents named him for the prize fighter or the temperance worker, Miss Frances.
Vernon Moore Visits K. U.
Vernon Moore, formerly business manager of the Daily Kansan, is in Lawrences, a hotel furthough from the Great Lakes National Travel Hotelion. He tells of meeting Harley Holder, formerly of the Kansan Board, at the central postoffice. Robert Reed and Eugene T. Dyer, also members of the Kansan board while in the University, have been sent from Great Lakes to Harvard University to finish their radio work.
McKinley and James Garfield are the presidents of the United States who are at present, with added sur-
nices, enrolled in the University.
Vernon Moore Visits K. H.
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Hamilton Will Attend Conference of Coaches Friday and Saturday
To Make Basketball Schedule and Decide on Eligibility
Rules
W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics at the University, will attend the meeting of the coaches of the Missouri Valley at the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City, Mo., Friday and Saturday of this week to make out the Kansas basketball schedule and to arrive at some decision concerning the eligibility of the men who are being discharged from the S. A. T. C. Coach Hamilton is in favor of placing the men on the same standing previous to their induction and playing first year men the rest of the year.
Olson, a former Lawrence high school star, is playing good ball for the Jayhawkers. Bunn is coming out now and playing true to form. The men have been practicing passing and running, the last two practices. Coach Hamilton expects to be write the team every day after the first of the year.
Coach Hamilton was unable to get out for basketball practice Wednesday because of the meeting of the University Senate, and Matthews had charge of the men. The team has some good material and will develop into a winner with practice but the men are unable to get the floor at all times
The physical examinations for discharges from the S. A. T. C. will be given on the gym floor this week and the men may be unable to use the gym facilities in the tables and apparatus used by the examiners are removed every evening.
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Dr. Alice Goetz, of the department of
education, gives the following
report on the results.
Dr. Alice Goetz Prescribes a List of Get-Well Rules
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Keep up the irrigation of the nose and throat by using a good gargle and spray three or four times daily.
Avoid all undue exertion, such as walking up hill rapidly.
Eat less meat than usual, and eat as much fruit as possible.
Eat and sleep regularly.
Relapses in flue cases are often caused by irritating the bronchial tubes and it is for this reason that rapid breathing should be avoided.
In cases where the patient has carried high temperature, and in less severe cases also, the heart may be afflicted; the patient should avoid all strain.
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Take regular exercise but do not
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Stop Work on Y. M. Hut Work on the Y. M. C. A. hut which was being erected back of Barracks 6, was stopped when the building was practically finished except for the laying of the permanent floor, the putting in of the remaining window frames (half of them are already in), and the roofing of the entry porches. The building will probably not be used now that the S. A. T. C. is being demobilized.
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