UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 35
Observance of Rulings Up to House Presidents Under New Organization
Date Rules Are Explained to Heads of Roaming-Houses For Women
To Cooperate With W.S.G.A.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1918.
Houses Not Organized Now Will Be Checked Up, and Urged to Join
"It is up to the house presidents to make the House President system a more important establishment at this University," said Mary Smith, Vice-President of the W. S. G. A., at the meetin' of the house presidents in Frei. Ti all Thursday afternoon.
will president of other univer siti on's highly honored and their posi tion are of much more impor tance TJ in has been attached to the house assistants of K. U. in former years continued Miss Smith.
In discussing the plans and duties of house presidents, the date rules of the old system were emphasized. It is the duty of each house president to see that the following rules are obeyed:
1. All rooming houses must be closed on week nights at 10 o'clock
z. Dates may last till 11 o'clock on Friday and Saturday and 10 o'clock on Sunday.
on Sunday.
3. No mid-week dates will be allowed with the exception of out-of-
town dates and the duration of such dates will be left to the discretion of
the house president.
4. No disturbing noises should be allowed after 8 o'clock.
Houses which have not organized are urged to do so at once and to elect a house president. The W. S. G. A. will check up all those who have not organized, in an attempt to get all University women to co-operate with the plan.
If these rules are disobeyed the offenders should be reported to the Dean of Women or W. S. G. A.
with the president.
House presidents will meet every month. The next meeting will be held after the holidays and it is hoped by that time to have the women of the entire University under a zettled system of government. Twenty-two women attended the first meeting.
The house presidents present at the meeting were:
Mariorio Dilley, 1345 Tennessee
Hazel Clark, 1223 Ohio
Jane Straftford, 1231 Louisiana
Ina Cole, 1235 Oread
Boulch Alumni, 1234 Mississippi
Mayme J. Lewis, 1235 Mississippi
Maurine Clark, 1124 Indiana
Jessie E. Jessie, 1128 Kentucky
Mayme J. Lewis, 1400 Tenn
Pilina Short, 1231 Oread
Minnie C. Swanson, 1340 Tenn
Iona Veigel, 414 West Fourteenth
Ignomie Gillpee, 1246 Miss.
Margaret L. Walker, 1137 Indiana
Lydia Tomlinson, 1141 Indiana
Perkins Perkins, 1339 Tennessee
Ruth Q. Syster, 1245 Louisiana
Lois Allen, 1244 Louisiana
Kathrina Baldwin, Westminster
Sadie McMillan, 1220 Ohio.
Miss Marie Dunne, c'18, Dies in Wichita Hospital
Mis Marie Dunne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Dunne of Wichita, died Wednesday morning at St. Francis Hospital it Wichita, after a brief illness of influenza, followed by pneumonia.
Miss Dunne was graduated from the University last year. She was twenty-three years old, and had lived the greater part of her life in Wichita. After attending the Wichita High School and Fairmount College, she came to K. U. She was a member of the Pibta Beta Phi sorority. Last week she became interested in the work of the Red Cross and one of the valued workers at Lawrence. The past summer she gave up her vacation brothel for Miss Charlotte Brothel, secretary of the local home service section in Wichita.
will miss her deepen-
Funeral service will be Friday af-
ternoon at 4 o'clock from the Gill
Funeral Home in Wichita.
vice president of the News of Miss Dunne's death was a shock to all those who knew her in the University, and her friends will miss her deeply.
The dance to be given tonight in Robinson Gymnastium by Company G will not be limited to members of the company, but will be open to anyone who buys a ticket. Haley's orchestra will play.
S. A. T. C. Band Closes Season With Concerts
The concert given by the S. A. T. C. band last night at Fraser Hall was attended by an appreciative audience, chiefly composed of S. A. T. C. men. The band will be necessarily disorganized with the disbanding of the Student Army Training Corps, and last night's concert was the only opportunity to hear the University's war-time musical organization.
This year's band of forty-three pieces was much larger than the organizations of previous years and much credit for its success must be given Director J. C. McCans.
The members of the bap presented Mr. McCanles with a fine gold watch to show that his efforts this fall has been appreciated. Mr. McCanleen entertained the men as his guests at Lee's after the concert.
K. U. Class Elections Put Off Until January When S.A.T.C. is Gone
Greater Class Spirit Expected When Student Life Resumes Normal
Class elections, which were to have been held next week, have been postponed until the second week in January, George DeVoe, acting president of the Men's Student Council announced this morning. Lack of class spirit and the fact that only one ticket has appeared led to a ponenton, Mr. D.Voe. After the denomination will revive the S. A. T.C. spirit will revive and more interest may be taken in class elections, he believes.
bettives.
Petitions are being circulated for the "Representative Ticket" by members of the senior class. This ticket consists of Louise Nixon, president; Tracey Conklin, vice-president; Esther Moore, Secretary; and Margaret Young, treasurer.
The fate of next year's Jayhawker depends upon the junior class, who elect the editor and manager. Soph Hop and Junior Prom managers will be chosen at this time also besides the regular class officers.
Plain Tales From the Hill
The S. A, T. C. men are now divided into two classes, and receiving an education. One class is en route to becoming scholars; the other is training to become model husbands and restaurant helpers.
Uncle Sam is going to turn out a bunch of sporty students, at least for four months, till they send back their wool uniforms and their pay savings run out.
Some of the practical-minded rookies are suggesting that it would be wasteful to salvage the Mississippi Street barracks. They say several of them could be used to manufacture ice while the others would be efficient cold storage houses.
Now that the war is over between the political factions of the women of the university, a peace may be expected on the Hill that has been made safe for Tammany men.
The Greek letter societies were excused from their barnracks last night to hold fraternity meetings in their chapter houses and to attend to the business they have been letting drag because of conditions. The fraternities will open their houses in a few days and the men who meet Greek will be able to move to the houses in order to meet them. The fraternity men are on the look out for work so all their first year men will be able to remain in school.
Greek Letter Men Will Meet Every Week
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Within e start of the next quarter
the fraternities expect to be on a
normal basis and start the year with
the customary parties and rushing
will start with the end of barracal
life. The frats elected representative
to Pan-Hellenic in their business session last night. Hereafter the men will be executed every Monday night for meeting until all the S. A. T. C is demobilized.
Omicron Nu, honorary home economics fraternity, will hold initiation Friday night for: Marie Steckle, Lucella Varner, Una Vermilion, Edna Burch, Florence Harkrader, and Nellie Reece Evans.
Official Farewell to the S.A.T.C.
GENERAL ORDERS OF THE DAV
1. The Students' Army Training Corps was inaugurated at over 500 fifty American universities, college professional and technical schools on October 1, 1918. By direction of the Secretary of War on November 23, 1918, all units of the Students' Army Training Corps will be demobilized between December 1 and December 21, 1918.
mobilized between **2. The Committee on Education and Special Training of the War Department desires to express to the officers and men of the Staffs' Army Training Corps its recognition of the need with which they have discharged their duties under the difficult conditions which have so generally obstructed the past three months. In spite of the serious effects of the influenza epidemic, and the many new adjustments incident to the working out of a new plan, the Students' Army Training Corps has already served a useful purpose in supplying officer material, and had reached a point of development at which its success as a military project was assured. Created to meet purely military needs, and involving the temporary subordination to these needs of the normal collegiate activities, its further continuance is now no longer necessary. Both the men and the educational agencies which have been utilized must now be restored to their normal status and devoted freely to the peaceful development of the national life.
velopment of the national life.
3. This war has been won by the united efforts of all the friends of mankind and of civilization. Comparatively few have had the good fortune to meet the enemy face to face, but the credit for the victory belongs to all who have served loyalty. You were called upon to remain temporarily at your studies, because the Army needed a reserve of trained leaders. You have been eager to play a more direct and exciting part in the war. Nevertheless, you have done the work required of you, which is the full duty of a soldier. You can now take back with you to your homes an honorable record of service. You have earned the gratitude of your country, and you may now devote to the upbuilding of your country and to the restoration of civilization the same soldierly allegiance and trained intelligence which fitter you for service in time of war.
Brigadier General, U.S.A.
General Staff Corps
Chairman, Committee on E. & S.T.
B. T. SCHER,
Captain, U. S. Army, re
Bureau of Education Requests Information
A report of attendance is required of the commanding officer after the exhibition.
This film constitutes part of the prescribed instruction and is handled by the surgeon General's office through the commission on training camp activities.
Summary to be Made of Opportunities for Soldiers at All
Colleges
The bureau of education at Washington has requested Dean F. J. Kelly to telegraph information concerning opportunities of employment for soldiers remaining in school, special or short courses offered, estimated weekly cost of board and room in barracks or outside, number of scholarships open to soldiers and the cost of tuition.
A summary of this information from all the schools and colleges in the country will be tabulated and sent out to the various authorities to be presented to the student soldiers. It is thought that some institutions will be able to make living expenses lower than customary, by utilizing the housing and messing facilities provided for the S. A. T. C.
"I expect to send the answer at once," said Dean Kelly, "but I do not think there is any possibility of using the barracks here for this winter. It would cost the men more to make the barracks suitable to live in than to pay regular board and room in houses, I believe."
The motion picture film, "Fit to Fight," which is a part of the surgeon General's educational program to combat diseases, will be shown Saturday in Fraser Hall to the Students' Army Training Corps men.
All S.A.T.C. Men Must See Film, "Fit to Fight"
Attendance will be compulsory. There will be three runs of the film to enable every member of Sections A and B to see the film. Each run requires one hour and ten minutes. Twenty minutes will be allowed for training. The film will be designated, and the companies will be marched to the shows.
To the University:
Leadership Developed By Student Activities
Adviser of Women Sees More In School Life Than "Grind"
Because of the increasing number of influenza cases in the University and in the city; on the recommendation and advice of the Health Service of the University I would say that all unnecessary assemblies such as dances, etc., are forbidden after Friday, December 6, and until further notice. FRANK STRONG, Chancellor.
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FRANK STRONG, Chancellor
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"Student activities develop initiative and leadership," said Miss Alberta Corbin, adviser of women, in a lecture on "Some Phases of University Life." Miss Corbin was the speaker at a regular meeting of the Woman's Forum Thursday.
The schools of Germany have no student activities and they therefore have no opportunity to develop initiative and leadership," said Miss Corbin. "We see two forms of government in student activities and in this country they tend to develop democracy. They have often been criticised as playing too prominent a part in school life which, in some cases, is true but in spite of this they do more good than harm."
"The new phase which has not yet been established here but which is necessary, is the vocational phase," said Miss Corbin. "It is quite necessary for college women to be trained in such work for there is an increase demand for business women, for secretarial jobs who have had that business college training. Such extra, necessary work could be required in the college."
Miss Corbin showed how the different student organizations' reflected the different phases of student life. The W. S. G. A, takes up the political phase; the Y. W. C. A, the religious; the W. A. E, the athletic; the numerous clubs and the departmental clubs the literary and professional, she said.
Dean Sayre Will Head U.S. Pharmacy Society
"The war has increased greatly the activity of women. Look at our own, school, for instance. The Kausan is edited by women, the dances are now in the hands of women and during the influenza epidemic the nursing was done almost exclusively by women. In former years the men led and the women assisted. It has now come to the place where the women lead and the men help. It is my wish that when conditions become more normal that the men and women students work together in school activities as they never have done."
The Red Cross is Efficient.
The presidency of the American Pharmaceutical Association came to the University today when Dr. L. E. Sayre, dean of the School of Pharmacy received word from Philadelphia that he had been chosen for the position, in an election by mail that has been in progress for one weeks. The association has members all through the United States and Canada.
the Cincinnati. Dr. Sayre was the candidate from the Middle West, the others being from Detroit and Chicago. This is the first time the honor has been given to a westerner.
The next meeting of the association will be held in New York.
Young Veteran Points Criticism at Kickers in University S. A. T. C.
Lawrence High School Boy Compares Here and Over There in Letter
France.
A Lawrence boy who is a graduate of the high school is with the 35th Division in France, writes the following comparison between life over there and in the S. A. T. C;
October 19, 18
We have just been reading the Journal-World about the S. A. T. C and how each man has only forty-five square feet for his bed, clothes, etc. it is too bad about the poor dears getting only $30 a month for going to school. Nine of us have what we call the place we had in France. It is a room 10×15, four beds, double decked, one single, a stove, table three stools, and a water can. At present two of us are writing letters, two frying spuds, two picking cooties and one lying on his bunk crabbling about the army and the French Dagoes, and two are taking a bath in a wash pan, the first in over a month and a half. We are perfectly satisfied to stay here until the kaiser says enough.
Dean Templin Will Go To Russia as Member Of Relief Expedition
The Daily Kansan violates a news rule here by adding a comment to the foregoing communication, but it believes that this form of petty criticism is so general and so unfair that breaking the rule is justified. The S. A. T. C. was organized to give men a chance to study and to train for war at the same time. That being its double purpose it obviously must provide conditions under which men could fulfill that purpose. The S. A. T. C. barracks are unsatisfactory as places of study. As billets for men who had nothing to do but go through military routine they perhaps are wholly admirable. Near the front over there they might be considered palatial and the height of luxury. But men over there have only one job, the biggest job it is true, to fight, and men live and fight under conditions under which they couldn't well live and study effective. The S. A. T. C. men if they had and the chance would have been in a cooty-infested French腔 in the same spirit that hundreds of American boys have occupied them, and if the boys who got across had remained here in the S. A. T. C. they would have kicked just as quickly over the shortcomings that necessarily must exist in an experiment of the magnitude of the S. A. T. C.
There is no basis for comparison between a squash and a counterpane. They have different purposes. So in this case, The S. A., T. C. men could as justly censure the men in this French billel for "crabbing about the army and the French Dages." Disgust with this sort of petty and irrelevant criticism is the chief thing that keeps competent critics from giving the benefits of their views in letters to newspapers.
The service at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening will be very attractive. The singing—of which there will be plenty—will be in charge of Prof. Arthur Nevin. Religious songs and war songs will be used. In addition to the singing Mrs. Harold Butler will read and the Pastor, Frank Jennings, will make a short talk. The service begins at 7:30 o'clock.
There will be a meeting of the men's Panhellenic Council at the Beta Theta Pi chapter house December 8, at 9:30 A. M.
The Red Cross means Morale.
Appointment Follows Year of Work for National Food Administration
Honor to University, Strong
Dean Years Ago Urged Founding of Department of Russian Here
Olin Templin, dean of the college, has been appointed as a member of the relief expedition which is to be sent to Russia soon. Dean Templin has been in Washington, D. C, for a year, as a member of the food administration board, in the educational division of the work, and is being sent abroad to help Russia solve her food problem. He will be accompanied by several other members of the food administration.
Several times during the last year, Mr. Templin tried to leave that work in Washington and return to his work at K. U. Mr. Hoover, however, has refused to let him go, and his recent appointment is a reward for his work. The University and the State Department have given Dean Templin special leave to go, believing that his going will be of special benefit to the University.
"The expedition has a chance for great service," said Chancellor Strong this morning, "and the University of Kansas regards it an honor to have a member of its faculty chosen to go." Two years ago, while Dean Templin was here, he wanted to put some money into the founding of a department of the Russian language, but due to the lack of funds for that purpose, his plan fell through.
"Russia, in the not distant future, is going to be the great melting pot of the world," was Dean Tempelin's significant statement at this time. "America is going to look like a frying-pan, beside her."
Irene Tihen Elected President W.A.A. Board
More than usual interest was taken in the W. A. A. election Thursday, and the results show that more than one third of the women in each class voted. The following women were elected: President, Irene Then; secretary-treasurer, Helen Wagstaff; business manager, Doris Drought; senior representative, Waldo Hawk; junior representative, Iris Rushel; sophomore representative, Grace Olsen; freshman representative, Florence Chase.
After the election, all members of the W.A. A. board gave a dinner at the University.
Shrieks and Groans Issue From Green Hall
Try-outs for the Dramatic Club are coming fine if anything can be judged from the noise in Green Hall. Each person seems to believe if he out-screams everyone else his success is assured. Rehearsals take place behind closed doors and the chattering and laughing, the moans and shrieks that issue are deafening. Books have been discarded and the actor is forced to rely on his memory which results in a great deal of hair pulling and stuttering. The star member of the cast just as the most dramatic climax is reached to suggest that the person with a walking part stand instead of sit. The actors all feel sure that the Dramatic Club will have an increased membership at least one, when the try-out plays have been presented.
Capt. Miller To Resume Investigation Saturday
The investigation of conditions in and relating to the S. A. T, C., particularly touching upon the alleged connection of the Field and Staff Officers Club with alleged liquor consumption took a recess Thursday night and will not be resumed until next Saturday. Chancellor Strong received a telegram this morning from Lawrence about an investigation, saying that Captain Miller, would return to Lawrence next Saturday to continue the investigation. The telegram is said to have specified the class of witnesses who would be given an opportunity to testify when the hearing is resumed.