UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
All Eligibility Rules For 1918-19 Athletics May be Declared Blank
Suspending of Regulations Will Let Old Players Play Another Year
Foster Could Play Again
Big 9 Decides That S. A. T. C Year Was Too Confused to Count in Sports
The question of the day for the Missouri Valley Conference is whether or not this year shall be chalked down as a goose egg. At a recent meeting of the Western Conference – the Big 9—formal action was taken to call the school year of 1918-19 a “blank year” and it is probable that the Missouri Valley Conference will pass a similar resolution.
By the "blank year" is meant that this year will be treated exactly as if it had never existed. A man's eligibility will be decided on his standing last year, ignoring what he may or may not have done since the opening of school this fall. Should such a ruling pass the Missouri Valley conference meeting, which held in Kansas City and Saturday in KU, for K.U., the "Stone" Foster, veteran quarterback, will be eligible to play again next fall. Otherwise "Stem" would be a has-been in college athletics.
CONFUSION WAS GENERAL
NUMBER 37.
The athletic question has, at least,
been a vexing and trying one all over
the country this fall and K. U. has
had its share, say the coaches. A
poor start was anticipated with the
S. A. T. C. established in the schools
and then came the "du." In the middle
of the season, at a very inopportune
time, W. O. Hamilton, manager of
athletics was called to a training
camp at Princeton, N. J., for the S. A.
T. C. athletic coaches, leaving all the
work on Coach Joy Bond who already
had his hands full to overflowing
But what K. U. faced, almost every
school in the country faced, so that
athletes, at first a tradey became a
comedy.
The ruling making this a "blank year" would make eligible everyone in school, which includes freshmen and men with flunks against them. They could all play basketball now and baseball and football in the spring. Then, next fall everyone would forget it and the "dope" would be figured from last year's status.
FOOTBALL UNIFORMS BE 329
Coach Hamilton said he had no had sufficient time to make his report but he believes $3,000 will cover the University's loss this season.
"Usually we clear about $10,000 a year in athletics," said Mr. Hamilton. "There are usually about a hundred men out for football. This year 329 checked out uniforms, which in itself represent about $6,000 in equipment. Five dozen footballals were bought. We can under normal conditions depend on the Nebraska game for $5,000. This year it cost us around $1,400. Basketball should pay for itself, track costs from $2,100 to $3,000 and baseball always runs better than $2,500 in the whole."
Willard Wattles' Poems Appear in Book Form
"Lanterns in Gethsemane," a book of poems by Willard Wattles, Kansas poet and K. U. instructor, has been published recently and is being advertised extensively in magazines. The book is a collection of seventy-five poems which Mr. Wattles has written during a period of nine years, beginning when he was a senior in the University.
Mr. Wattles is now a private first class in the Medical Corps and is stationed at Camp Funston. It is probable that he will be discharged from the service and return to the University. He was instructor in English last year in the School of Engineering and previously he had held the same position in the College for several years.
While the book as a collection is published for the first time, about half of the poems have appeared in various magazines. The poems are mystical-religious in character. They are an attempt, Mr. Watties has said, to find the "simple, fundamental truths common to all religions," and an attempt to find what Jesus would do facing present day conditions.
Influenza Situation Unchanged, Says Clark
"Conditions seem to be much the same this morning in regard to the influenza situation and unless unlocked for complications arise there will be no closing orders for the University," said Dr. A. W. Clark, local health officer this morning. "The order closing the Agricultural College at Manhattan was a local condition and does not affect conditions here."
The S. A. T. C. infirmary reports only a dozen cases and all the patients have mild attacks of grip or influenza. The University Hospital is caring for seven patients and of the three patients admitted yesterday only one person had the influenza.
Thirty-Six Positions Open to K.U. Women Says Miss Duffield
Most Positions Are for House work and Table Waiting; Two Clerks Wanted
There are many more positions open to the women of the University who wish to earn part of their expenses than there are women to these positions, according to Miss Duffield, the Chair of the Young Women's Christian Association, who has charge of the University Employment Bureau.
At present there are thirty-six positions waiting to be filled, two of which are for clerical work. The others consist of either house work by the hour, or for lay work by the hour, or in some instances, board and room may be earned.
There are twenty-five University women now holding positions which they obtained through the University Employment Bureau. The women in this position have been more applications for it than there are places to be filled.
The work which the University Employment Bureau does is free. Women wishing assistance in finding work, or people who have positions open, should call Miss Duffield at 131b or apply at her office in Myers Hall.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 10, 1918
Men in All Companies
Sign S. A. T. C. Payrolls
Soldiers Have Begun Checking In Clothes—May Get to Keep Uniforms
Members of Companies A, B, C, and E, signed the payroll today, and F. G, and H, sign tomorrow.
By December 20, all S. A. T. C. men will be out and free, Lieut. Ralph E. Carter, personnel adjutant, said this morning. Final orders have been given, and all papers and physical examinations will be completed at that time, so that no delay can be possible. Section B will be discharged and paid December 17. Companies A and B will be discharged December 18; C and E will be out December 19; and Companies F, G, and H, December 20. All officers will be mustered out Saturday, December 20.
The men have begun checking in their clothes. They are allowed to keep them, however, four months, and there is a law before Congress at the present time, which, if passed, will permit the S. A. T. C. and the soldiers of the regular army to keep their uniforms permanently. It is believed, by the army officials, that this law will be passed at once, and the uniforms will serve as a "war memoir" for the soldiers.
Herschel L. Washington
Back From Army Work
Herschel L. Washington, president of the Men's Student Council, returned Sunday from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where he has been in the recruiting service the last three months. Washington will re-enter school and will continue his activities as president of the Men's Student Council. Washington will serve in the army after repeated efforts to enlist or to gain admission to officers' training camps had failed because he could not meet the army requirements as to sight. Washington is a member of the Acacia fraternity.
Mu Phi Epsilon announces the pledging of Maud Gordon of Vinland; Dorothy Ashlock of De Soto and Mable Fallis of Dighton.
Chancellor Specifies What Meetings Are Regarded Unnecessary
Lectures for S. A. T. C. To Cori
tinue But no Dances or
Y. W. C. A.
"I have no idea that the University will close," said Chancellor Frank Strong this morning. "By eliminating unnecessary gatherings we hope to avoid having to close.
"The lectures for the S. A. T. C. men have been continued because the men have been together in the barracks and there is no more danger of spreading the influenza in a lecture room than in the barracks.
"The ban applies to all unnecessary gatherings, which I can not specify, but I consider the W. Y. C. A. unnecessary. The lecture by Lieutenant de Ricci was arranged for before the ban was ordered, and since he is responsible for missions when it would not be considered an unnecessary gathering.
"I see by the papers that the State Agricultural college and Washburn are closed," continued the chancellor, "but if we can successfully avoid another epidemic by doing away with unnecessary gatherings we will not have to close the University."
Those Who Wish to Remain in Service to Be Sent to Great Lakes N. T. S.
Release Men in Naval
Section By December 23
The men in the naval section who had not signed applications for release from active duty signed their applications Monday afternoon and all of the men in the section who desire releases will get them on or before December 21, according to announcement made to the section by the officer of the Navy, that the Navy in the navy will be ordered to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in a few days and will be in the service for four years.
Men who wish to remain in school will receive their releases at the same time as those who intend to leave the University. Some of the men may be released a few days ahead of the others but all will get out at practically the same time. The sailors will be given their physical examinations and all will be excused from classes all day. Naval physicians will be in charge of the examinations and will try to rush the men through.
The unit did not receive its expected pay Sunday and no information is available as to when it will get its clothes or uniforms.
Lieut. Seymour de Ricci Lectures at K.U. Today
Castles of the Loire" Will Be Discussed by Members of French Mission
Lieut. Seymour de Ricci will lecture on "The Castles of the Loire," this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Fraser Chapel.
Lieutenant de Ricci is an art critic and former editor of "Art in Europe." He is a distinguished scholar, whose contributions to history of art are greatly appreciated throughout the world.
Lieutenant de Ricé is a member of the French Mission, composed of leasing French scholars, which has an important role in the dominant elements of French culture
The seven members of the mission will remain in this country during December and probably some of them will stay through part of January.
The mission was sent here through the influence of the American Council in Education and under the patronage of the French Government. The purpose of the lectures is to bind America and France more closely together in intellectual sympathy. "They will be able to understand what has learned societies and other bodies and will concern the different aspects of French civilization.
Spanish Club will meet Wednesday,
December 11, at 7:30 o'clock, at the home of Marjorie Rickard, 1104 Kentucky Street.
Josephine Thurman, c21, has been unable to attend her classes this week on account of illness.
Hostess House to Be Closed After Dec.15 Y.W.Council Announcees
owners have been received closing the Hostess House December 15. At that time the house will have been open just three months.
Has Been Open Every Day for Months for Soldiers and Friends
Since September 15, the Hostess House has been open every day, including Sundays, from 8 until 9:30 o'clock. Saturdays, when visiting relatives were here, the house was open to them before 7:30 o'clock. They used it, too, both the boys and their Wimput and "mother Wilmet" or "mother Wilmot" as many of the men call her, comes to open the rooms in the morning many S. A. T. C. men are there before her, having entered by way of the Y. M. C. room.
On school days three hundred or more men come to the Hostess House, and on week-end not only the regular room, which accommodates two hundred people, but also the Doctor Braden's room, both the hall and the Y. W. G. A. room, are used by men.
The men buy stamps, candy, and peanuts here. During the last four weeks they have bought 1200 chocolate bars, 300 boxes of salted peanuts, 300 marshmallow bars, and innumerable packages of chewing gum. All of these things were sold at almost cost.
The Hostess House gives the me an unlimited supply of stationery. At least ten thousand sheets of, writing paper have been used since September 15 On week days approximately one hundred letters are mailed to the house, and on Sunday three or three hundred letters are put in the box.
The men can always find current magazines there as well as the University Daily Kansan, the Journalist, and the Kansas City Star and Times.
The fireplace has been a favorite attraction ever since the house opened, and especially during the influenza epidemic men were always gathered about it. They have corn to pop, also furnished by the Hostess House, and plenty of music. The victoria is in need of rest. The police are unable. The men also have the use of both local and long distance telephones.
The mending room has been open since the first day of October, under the direction of the Social Service committee of the Y. W. C. A. This room is supplied with two electric irons and two sewing machines. A checking system is used by which the men leave clothes to be pressed, altered or mended. The men do most of the work themselves but the sewing is left to the women. Overcoats and shirt sleeves to be shortened, buttina to be sewed on, and general mending of rips and tears are all brought in such quantities that the committee has called for help from Lawrence women. There is now enough work stacked up in the mending room to take all the time of the workers until the fifteenth of this month.
The S. A, T. C. men themselves are not the only ones the Hostess House has served. Their visiting friends and relatives always had a place to go, where they might meet the man or woman who received information about securing the kind of rooms and men they wanted.
The expense of the Hostess House is covered by the Hostess House committee of the War Work Council and by the National Board of Y. W. C. A.
Many parents have expressed their appreciation of the services of the Hostess House to themselves and to their boys. One father gave Mrs. Wilmot five dollars, asking her to spend it for music for the men. A mother gave five dollars and said, "I wish I could make it possible for home children to be the kind of home you have given to my boy while he has been here."
Te Send Sick Men to Riley
Physical examinations of the members of the S. A, T. C. will begin next monday or Tuesday, according to Dr.德维辛 T. Sudlier, and all men whoail to pass this examination will be sent to the nearest base hospital, which is located at Fort Riley, for further treatment.
Mu Phi Epsilon will entertain with their Annual Christmas dinner Friday night at the chapter house.
Journalism Building Slowly Covers Hill
A new addition, in the form of a storm-door, has been made to the Journalism Building. This is only the tenth addition which has been made to the architectural atrocity during the year and since there are only two weeks left this quarter, it is clear that a mortuary throry takes things in charge, the annual average may fall below normal.
John Shen, superintendent of buildings and grounds, fears that if this many-headed hydra continues to expand, he may have to remove the flower-beds, and put Fraser Hall and Snow Hill over on the golf links.
Plain Tales From the Hill
Drill using four-by-fours instead of rifles was started Monday morning for Company A. The "pieces" do not "dress up" very well, and snap in movements is difficult, but otherwise the drill was quite a success—as a source of lots of amusement for the lieutenants and for the men of Company B who were watching from Barracks 2.
Numbers one and three of both ranks were the only ones armed, the other assisting the movements in case of necessity. Several 10-foot pieces were quite difficult to manipulate, but "right shoulder, arms" was done by two men with the piece over both shoulders.
After some limbering up exercises, the pieces were used to tamp the ditch for the water main in front of the barracks.
Old Bill who was once called the Kaiser.
One crime begats another. Several weeks ago the Kansan printed three verses written by Prof. H. A. Rice as a parting shot at the Kaiser after the armisure was signed. Dr. Arthur Cummings wrote a letter to Professor Rice, enclosing a "pome" by one of his friends, composed as s sequel to Mr. Rice's efforts.
Is a much sadder man and a wiser;
For the old U. S. A.
Set a price he must nav.
And the price to the Kaiser seems high, sir!
"But"—says Bill. "I will pay any price."
Though I still claim they loaded th dice.
I have danced in my day,
Now the Piner I'll pay;
But for Heaven's sake, call off Prof. Rice!"
A man was noticed on Hamilton Field Monday morning on his hands and knees evidently trying to acquire a mastery of equine cadences. His pace was not a gallop or even a tret, but more of the slow old-grey-Dobbin walk. For some reason, probably as a result of his mastery deserved to crawl on hands and knees around the field by his company commander.
Began Sale of Annuals
In Class and Barracks
Beauty Contest Not On Now Will Be Continued After Christmas
A large group of salesmen for the 1919 Jayhawker made their appearance on the campus this morning. The early selling campaign, according to the Jayhawker management, is to enable the men in the S. A. T. C. to order their copies of the big "Peace Book" before leaving school.
Christmas
Dr. H.P. Cady of K.U.
Discovered "Argon" Gas
For War Department
"The men are buying books right and left," said Lyman Hershey, business manager of the Jayhawker, this morning. "Such a picturequease year as this makes the Jayhawker more important than ever before as a personal record of school events. Most of the men appreciate this and want a book."
The campaign is not confined to simply the enlisted men of the camp, but to officers and women who are also being canvassed. Several of the army officers are taking a very active interest in the Jayhawk campaign. Contrary to many conflicting reports, the Jayhawk Beauty Conferencing Society annual purchasers are given coupons which entitle them to votes. Immediately after the holidays ballot boxes will be opened and the Beauty Contest will commence in full force. Vote coupons can then be cast
The Red Cross is Efficient.
Non-inflammable Balloon Gas Made Observing Much Safer Branch of Service
Cady Valuable $1-a-yr. Man
Laboratory on Oread Housed Valuable Information for Germans
The "discovery" of a new, non-mi- fable balloon gas, which the Navy Department announces in news dis- patches December 10, is owing entirely to work done in chemistry laboratories of the University of Kansas, where the gas was discovered as a part of the natural gas and where a process for obtaining it in sufficient quantities was worked out.
In May, 1917, the War and Navy departments called Dr. H. P. Cady, a professor at the University of Kansas, to Washington and asked him if he could find a substitute for the dangerous inflammable hydrogen gas which has been used in balloons for many years. The scientists in America and England were all tired of that new element, "argon," but knew of no source from which it could be obtained in other than very minute quantities and at a high cost.
“ARGON” BALLOONS SAFE
Doctor Cady had discovered "argon" in the natural gas of Kansas in 1906, and as a war measure he was asked by the government to develop a method of obtaining "argon" from natural gas. If the government could obtain "argon" in sufficient quantities much of the danger of balloon work of the army would be eliminated, and much valuable property in observation balloon saved, besides making the balloon service much safer for officers and men. The Germans shoot an "argon" filled balloon as full of holes as a sieve, and the balloon would not catch fire. Instead of burning up, as would a hydrogen-filled balloon, the bag filled with "argon" would sink to the ground gradually, if punctured by shells or bullets.
The government employed Doctor Cady at a salary of $1 a year and he returned to the University of Kansas in May, 1917, and at once began work to discover a method of obtaining "taron." For weeks Doctor Cady's library was the charter building; was the busiest place on the campus, although only a few faculty members knew the work that was going on there.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURE FOUND
For a while that little laboratory in one room would have been the most valuable place in America for a competent German spy to have found. Within its discolored walls was developed a manufacturing method that would have made the huge German Zeppelins many times more effective as war machines than they were, a method that would have made their destruction by gunfire almost impossible.
Agents of the government sent to the University samples of natural gas from wells in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Ohio and Pennsylvania and only after prolonged experiments was Petrolia, Texas, selected as the place for the reducing of "argon." Doctor Cady recommended Petrolia after his system of manufacture had been developed. At the plant "argon" was compressed and shipped in cylinders to the army and navy.
ASSISTANTS HELP IN TASK
Associated with Doctor Cady in this war service were C. W. Seibel, an instructor in chemistry at the University; Dr. P. V. Faragher, associate professor of chemistry; F. W. Bruckmiller, assistant professor of chemistry; Miss Emily Berger, an instructor in chemistry.
When Doctor Cady was called to Washington to be assigned this war work a British commission was there seeking to find a way of obtaining "argon." Britain had sent several such "argon" missions to America without success and one of the members of the "argon" mission at that time told Doctor Cady that England would give almost any sum for a method of producing "argon" in sufficient quantities. Doctor Cady and Doctor Faragher undertook the job at $1 a year each.
"To up date Uncle Sam hasn't paid me the dollar, or whatever part if it he may consider due me," Doctor Cady laughed.