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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
December 9, 1918.
Varsity Basketers Can Use Gymnasium Each Day This Week
Regularly
Influenza and Military Dutie Keep Men From Practicing Regularly.
The basketball team will be able to use the gym this week and will try to hold a practice every afternoon. The hall has been in poor condition for practice the past week because of the company dances held there. The janitors will scrub the floor today.
Slonaker has not turned out for practice and Bunn has been unable to get out often because of his work in the naval section. Dotson is planning to return to school next quarter but his return is not certain. The men will have to come out better if they expect to put out a winner this week. The Aggies will have a good team this year and are working out now. Matthews is the only man who is practicing regularly.
The schedule will be arranged the latter part of this month at a meeting of the Missouri Valley coaches and some of the conference rulings may be changed. Clyde Williams, coach at Ames will call the meeting. Missouri has closed school because of the flu and the Tigers may be late in getting a start at basket ball this season. The conference will be in a normal condition next year, as many of the old athletes will be back in school but the standard of athletics this year cannot be determined.
Sport Beams
The basketball season in the Bigi "10" will open January 11.
T. Davis, secretary of Stephens College of Columbia, Mo. is trying to form a girls' basketball league in Missouri. The junior colleges of the state have been playing ball for several years but have had no real organization.
The Aggies will have Van Tirne, Wheden and Foltz back for their basketball team this season and Hines and Clarke my return for the next quarter according to reports sent out from the Aggie camp. Coach Z. G. Clevenger is planning to use freshmen this season.
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Who Says Green River Isn't a Regular Town?
Green River, Wy., may be only a green spot on the map with less than 300 inhabitants, surrounded by sage brush and desert, and raided systematically by bands of marauding coyotes, but it has its good points, nevertheless, according to Ralph Curry e'18, who is employed as a railway clerk at that place. Traffic shunted through Green River keeps the interest of the inhabitants at fewer pitch. A trailed train of Dutch officials and a troop train of French soldiers are among the attractions chronicled by Mr. Curry in a letter to the Daily Kansan. He says of the place:
"Iimagine a rough hilly region with little in sight except sagebrush and desert and a break in the ups and downs through which a good-sized creek flows. Near the creek is a roaring railroad yard, surrounded by a business district of two blocks on one side of the street only, a few homes on the other side and the whole town entirely surrounded by desert. That is Green River. It never sleeps. Come what may, snow-slides, landslides, volcanoes, earth, quakes, flu epidemics, plagues or what not, Green River roars on forever." This country may be a desert, but it is certainly not unintolerable. It some ways ecologically and from an aerialist's and Hunter's viewpoint. There are no bear closer than forty miles, but I think there are some that far away to the north. Coyotes are thicker than the sagebrush, which is saying something. They shoot them and an occasional grey wolf for snort and coyotes. Coyotes are an awful pest to a cheeen country.
"Green River has a big soda plant and is building a potash plant. About forty miles east and north there is a mountain of potash. The plant must be located here on account of having the only water in many miles.
"Just a few nights ago we had a bunch of French soldiers through here on their way from France to Siberia. And a couple or three weeks ago a trainload of Dutch officials and merchants enroute to Java, Dutch East Indies, from Holland via New York. They were carrying one one warm day recently when a freight dragged three refrigerator cars of silk worms through here under ice, enroute from China to Europe—Ialy I suppose.
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"I like the work in the office here very well indeed. I have a splendid bunch of co-workers. They come from all points of the compass, but mostly from Omaha, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Chicago and the east. Met one Washburn man who has been in Lawrence many times."
Mr. Curry was a student in the department of journalism. He left the University to enter the service but was discharged when war was declared on account of illness just before his regiment left New York for overseas. Mr. Curry then returned to Lawrence and re-entered K. U., completing his work here last summer.
| War Savings cost in December |
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| $4.23; worth $5.00 January 1, 1923 |
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Scher Replies to Papers
from his recent visit to Chicago, when he was authorized by Brigadier General R. I. Rees, Chairman of the Committee on Education and Special Training, War Department, to hire the necessary mess attendants (Kitchen Police), and submit extra vouchers for this service.
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"The commanding officer never has received any word to this effect except, when is was so stated by the Chancellor, himself, at a meeting of the University's cabinet, to which he was invited. The statement of the Chancellor was accepted by the commanding officer and the detailing of kitchen police was discontinued, as fast as help could be hired.
"The above FACTS readily prove the falsity of the statements made in the Journal-World, which claim that the army officers on duty here made these details of kitchen police in order to save money for the food contractors alleged to amount up to $150.00 to $200.00 per week.
"As pertains to the other false statements on the part of the Journal-World, I consider them to be so far below my notice, and at such great variance with the truth, that I can not believe, that any right minded person took the seriously, and I do not care to make any personal defense. "No organization has a greater right to the respect of the world, than the American Army, and no organization is so proud of its records and reputation. The ease with which newspapers at times state "army scandal" shows their lack of patriotism and appreciation. The scandal—where such
actually exists—is not in any way attributable to the army, but refer to the fact that some individual has orronely been taken into the military service, whose character—if known—would have barred him from mission thereto and left him as a civilian. "The recent scandal was entirely a fabrication of enemies to the Army, a commanding officer I had just in touch with them, and I had already investigated the accusations before the publicity was started, and knew that no foundation existed for same.
"Whatever injury may have resulted from this scandal to the University (or individuals) cannot be attributed to the army; but to the sensational writing of the newspaper, which became the champion of the libelous filth with which it fairly reeked in many of its issues."
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