UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
Barracks Prove Value As Temporary Hospital During Flue Epidemic
Dr. M. T. Sudler Says Death List Cut Materially by Prompt Action
Are Worth All They Cost
The barracks at the University have paid for themselves many times over, according to Dr. Mervin T. Sudler, associate dean of the School of Medicine and chief surgeon at the University Hospital at Rosedale. In the recent influenza epidemic the barracks served as emergency hospitals and thus saved the lives of many men, Doctor Sudler says.
Government Makes First Payment to Reimburse the University
"There is some criticism that the barracks at the University represent a huge waste," said Doctor Sudler, "and in a sense that is true. They were erected as a little part of this country's war activities and as such were like much of the war activities, waste. That's simply the nature of war, waste of lives, waste of iron, waste, but absolutely necessary waste. But our barracks cannot be put in that class because of the influenza epidemic that found them available for use as hospitals.
"If the University had not and those barracks during the epidemic the loss of life would have been much greater. When the epidemic developed the barracks were promptly transformed into emergency hospitals and were ideal for that purpose. Medical students were detailed to help the limited medical personnel and in a few days the barracks in hospitals were organized institution. None can ever know how many lives were saved by these large, well-ventilated, airy structures. In some institutions the mortality reached as high as 10 per cent or even slightly higher."
Medical authorities estimate that the emergency hospitals were the means of saving from 100 to 165 lives at the University, and as Doctor Suder points out, the $180 million of the barkves has been reenold many, many times over.
"Lawrence was utterly without facilities to care for the more than eight hundred men who were ill during the epidemic," said another authority. "Had not these barracks been here for such emergency use the number of cases would have been greater, and the percentage of fatalities higher. Men would have been scattered all over town and the task of caring for them and checking the epidemic would have been much more difficult."
The government is said to have allowed so far $88,000 of the $180,000 the University has spent on the S. A. T. C. This money is expected to be available any day now and to be paid back into the contingent fund from which it was drawn, the balance has been borrowed from the University through the S. A. T. C. will be paid back just as soon as all the business formalities and governmental tape have been compiled with, it is said.
The University authorities do not agree as to what use to make of the barracks. It is considered certain that Sunshine Hospital will remain and probably Barracks 1, which is to be used as athletic training quarters. The three barracks on the Hill probably will be put to use by the School of Engineering, which needs more shop room very badly.
Boxing Instructor Sought
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1918.
W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics at the University, is trying to get a first class boxer to instruct the Kansas men in the art of self defense. Dr. Reilly of the K. C. A. C. is trying to contract with Tommy Murphy, lightweight amateur champion of the United States, to teach the K. C. A. C. will come over from Kansas City on certain days to work out with the Kansas men. Several of the best men in K. U. will assist with the instruction.
W. A. A. Elects Today
NUMBER 34.
The annual election of the Women's Athletic Association was held today at Robinson Gymnasium. The polls were open from 10 to 12 o'clock and from 3 to 5 o'clock. The returns of the election will be announced Friday.
Investigation of Officers of S.A.T.C. is Resumed
Investigation of the conduct of officers of the S. A. T. C. unit here was resumed today on the return to Lawrence of Capt. D. B. Miller, who is conducting the investigation. Among the witnesses summoned today, to the hearing, which is being held behind closed doors in Room 120, Fraser Hall, were members of the police and of the S. A. T. C. commission personnel. The policeman is presumed to be one of the squad that raided the Officers' Club last week in search of liquor.
In Agin, Out Agin,
So Says Sullivan
The members of the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corpa have a feeling, not so tender as it might be, for the government. At least they blame the government in the absence of any other definite source of the trouble. This feeling the medics have was brought about by not transferring them to the S. A, T. C., so they could be paid and issued clothing in pay for the work they did at the infirmaries. But one medic is scheduled to receive pay, though not for his hospital work. Bradley Sullivan, a medical student in good standing, was called into active service, because his name was confused with a Sullivan from another school. After much red tape and a loss of about eight weeks time, he was transferred to school in the meantime was inducted into the S. A, T. C. He will be paid and issued clothing and will necessarily have to be mustered out, or demobilized, as it were. Don't you suppose the rest of the medics down at Rose-dale envy him?
Classes Will Elect December 12—DeVoe
All Petitions of Nominees Must Be Handed in Decem-
ber 9
"Election of class officers will be held Thursday, December 12, and all petitions must be turned in to me by 8 o'clock, Monday, evening, December 9," said George DeVoe, acting president of the Men's Student Council today.
Only one caucus has been held so far. This resulted in the nomination of aa women's ticket for offices of the senior class. It is expected that there will be a large number of women candidates this year, especially in the senior and junior classes, where the enrollment of men is unusually small. DeVoe urges that the classes get together to select nominees, so that it will not be necessary for last year's officers to serve in that capacity, awaiting the election of their successors.
Hershel Washington, who was elected president of the Men's Student Council last year, is expected to be in office in 2015. He will resume his position at that time.
Flu Worse in Lawrence But Not Serious on Hill
Twelve cases are reported to be in the University Hospital. One new patient was taken in today. A number of students are ill and under the care of city physicians who have not been reported to the University Hospital.
Dr. A. W. Clark, of the city health office, has had only 32 student cases reported to him during the last week. Dr. Clark says the city conditions are not so good and that there is danger of a ban being placed on the city today. The schools will try to run through the week. A ban placed on the city schools will not effect the University, which in all probability, under the present conditions, will remain open.
The influenza condition among University students remains practically the same today.
Swingle训 To zoology Club W. W. Swingle, formerly an instructor in department of Zoology at K. U., discussed "The Effect of Iodine on Thyroid Development" at the meeting of the Zoology Club, Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Swingle, who has just returned from Camp Funston, is an enthusiastic member of the Zoology Club.
There are twenty men in the S. A.
C. infirmary, and two new cases
in the ward.
Frank Russell Descends On Home Town, Flying From Barron Field, Tex
"Rusty" and Lieut. Milton Elliott Will Fly to Kansas City
Today
Lieut. Frank "Rusty" Field, e08
flew from Barron Field, Texas, near
Ft. Worth, to Lawrence Wednesday
and after circling over the town,
made a landing about one-half mile east
east of the Bullent's home is in Lawrence,
and his parents live at 1731 Vermont
Street.
Lieutenant Russell was accompanied by Lieut. Milton Elliott also from Barron Field, and they will fly to Kansas City some time this afternoon, in the morning. They expect to make the return trip to Barron Field Saturday.
Lieutenant Russell received his training at the Officers Training Camp for aviators at Columbus, Ohio, and obtained his commission as second lieutenant of aviation last March. From Columbus, he went directly to New York, where he has been stationed. Lieutenant Russell is a member of Sigma Chi.
The aviators made a short exhibition flight about 11:40 o'clock this morning, circling over the University grounds and returning to the Bullene field where a large crowd of spectators had gathered to view the plane.
Their present landing is not so good as it should be and when the flyers return from Kansas City Friday they are going to the Bullein field east of town.
Lucy Gates' Concert Opens Sixteenth Season
The first number of the sixteenth annual concert course of the University will be given in Robinson Gymnasium Friday night at 8:20 o'clock.
Lucy Gates, one of the greatest American sopranos, will sing. The program follows:
Caro mio ben ... Giordani
Where're you walk ... Handel
A Pastoral ... Carey
Jordan river flowin' on ...
.. Negro Spiritual-Burleigh
By an' by ..Negro Spiritual-Turner
Her blanket ...
.. American Indian-Lieurance
The place of breaking light ...
.. American Indian-Cadman
Recit: Quella fonte. (Lucia) ...
Donizetti
Aria: Regnava nel silenzio. (Lucia) ...
Donizetti
The rose's cup ..Ward-Stephenson
Youth ..Gustav Ferrari
The Angels are stooping ...
Rudolf Ganz
Four leaf clover ..Huerter
Arall: Boll song. (Lakme) ..Delibes
Alan Sterling, c16, is in Lawrence on a furlough visiting his parents, Prof. and Mrs. M. W. Sterling. He is engaged in research work on the Bureau of Aircraft Production at Washington, D. C.
Prof. Arthur MacMurray wants to meet all students who are trying out for the Dramatic Club, and who have not been assigned parts, at the Little Theater in Green Hall, Monday, December 9, at 4:30 o'clock.
Will Make Series Of Campus Exhibits
At a meeting of the Senate Tuesday night, Prof. A, C. Terrill was appointed chairman of a committee for the entertainment of the S. A. T. C. men during the period of demobilization. These entertainments will be both entertaining and instructive. The first one, a series of readings given by Prof. C, C. Williams and a short lecture by Professor Terrill, was held in Fraser Hall Wednesday night. Professor Terrill also wishes to set up a series of permanent exhibits in the various departments of the University, for the instruction of the S. A. T. C. “I do not think a single soldier should go away from this institution without a definite picture in his mind of our campus, and the inside of every building, even Snow Hall,” said Professor Terrill. “The best way to do this is to have 'sightseeing tours,' consisting of groups of ten and fifteen men, with a guide, who can take them to the various departmental exhibits, spending from ten to fifteen minutes in each building.”
No Reason Why Men Should Leave School, Says Employment Man
Dr. Henry Has Calls for Workers in Every Known
Line
"There is work enough to keep one hundred men in school, many of whom never planned upon a college education," said Dr. Charles Henry, of the Y. M. employment bureau, today. "The situation is just a little different than ever before, in that many men who worked during the summer in order to attend school this winter, did not conserve their funds when the S. A. T. C. movement went into effect. Many of these men will of necessity be compelled to leave the University unless
The men available for jobs have had training in every calling and avocation. During this week, men have been placed by the employment bureau in all kinds of positions, ranging from hospitality workers to furnishers and water workers.
Secretary Henry hopes to see the people of Lawrence respond to the need for employment, and is confident they will when they realize the importance of K. U. men getting work when the S. A. T. C is demobilized.
About thirty men are asking for jobs now. Persons wishing to employ K. U. men will get better results if they file their files with Secretary Henry immediately. It is hoped that a long list of available positions will be in the Y. M. office when the S. A. T. C. demobilization is completed and the rush for work comes.
"The room-house situation seems to be taking care of itself," said Dr. Henry. "At least, it will not be critical until demobilization is an accomplished fact."
S.A.T.C. Band to Give Only Concert Tonight
Military Organization to Disband Soon—Last Chance to Hear it
The first, last and only concert to be given by the S. A. T. C. band will come off in Fraser Chapel tonight at 7:30 o'clock, Director McCanes announced this morning. The band will soon be disorganized, because of the demobilization of the S. A. T. C., and this is the only opportunity K. U. people will have to hear the military organization, beside the few times the band has appeared at football games.
The concert is primarily for S. A.
T. C. men, but every one is invited.
Admission is free. The program follows:
1. C. c. men, but every one is i
Admission is free. the Prog
loops:
March: "Thannhauser" . . . Wagner
Spanish Serenade: "Fontella". Kiefer
Overture: "Barber of Seville" . . .
Rossini
March-Song: "S. A. T. C."
. . . J. C. McCanless
Respectfully dedicated to the S. A.
T. C.
"Bullfrogs' Serenade" . H. Engleman
Selection: "Dance of the Serpents"
. . . Boccalari
Caprice: "Hearts' Message"
. . . Santilman
March: "Stars and Stripes Forever"
. . . Sousa
"The Star Snaugled Banner"
Lieut. Ennis Whitehead
Testing New Airplanes
Lieut. Ennis Whitehead visited at Prof. V. S. G. Mitchell's home in Lawrence Saturday. He has been in France a year, at the aviation fields of Issoudun as a tester of planes and was ordered to Washington to test a new type of plane. He will return to France immediately after finishing his tests. He told of meeting Prof. James Naismith and Prof. F. C. Dockery at the aviation fields and giving them both an aerial trip. Professor Dockerey was taken up ten thousand feet where he enjoyed the loop the loop, flying upside down and various other tricks. When Professor Naismith was taken up Lieutenant Whitehead was unable to secure the use of a good machine so his trip was without the usual performances.
"Rusty" Friend an Ensign In Naval Aviation Now
..The meeting of Theta Sigma Phi which was to have been held at the home of Emily Ferris tonight, has been postponed.
"Rusty" Friend, cheerleader of the University last year has received his commission as ensign at the naval aviation station at Pensacola, Fla., according to word received here by his wife, Mr. Friend. The letter said that Mr. Friend made numerous flights with other officers recently as pilot.
Before he entered the military service Mr. Friend had taken a major in geology at the University of Kansas and he was employed during the early part of last summer in the Texas oil fields by an Oklahoma City refining company. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. His brother, Paul Friend, from the University, is in the military service.
Plain Tales From the Hill
One of the S. A. T. C. lieutenants is credited with this remark: "I've been here more than two months now, and the first free automobile ride I've had was the other day when a taxi driver picked me up."
Don't be surprised if you meet a man on the Hill who appears halt sailor, half soldier, and whose name, when it is mentioned by some jackie, sounds suspiciously like Opal. He isn't a member of a new military unit, but simply a gob, half of whose uniform disappeared in the night.
Men in Barracks 6 are so fond of their overcars that they always keep on the alert to see that no one borrows them. They have the habit of yelling, "Watch your overcoat," when any stranger enters the barn. One day this week a minister entered the barracks and ordered doors from the men were, "Watch your overcars; hold on to your pocket-coats."
"Why," exclaimed the excited rookie, "I almost knocked the gold braid off that officer and then didn't salute him."
Next to the farewell dances, the most popular amusement of members of the training corps is to take a last view of the barracks and surrounding scenery from-the pinnacle of Fraser Hall.
"What I can't see," said an S. A. T. C. man as he looked at one of those sight-seeing parties and surveyed the walls of Fraser, "is how they ever get up there."
Yells of Idle S.A.T.C.
Rival Laws' Old Noise
No monopoly has ever been placed on shouting and yelling When the Laws, in past years, stood upon the steps of Green Hall and had yell practice for hours at a time, all KU, conceded that they were the noisiest bunch on Mt. Oread.
With the departure of this boisterous crowd a more peaceful atmosphere was expected to hold away over the entire Hill. But the S. A. ruling would be providing the hilarity that the Laws used to feel called upon to display.
Sudden outbursts of yelling, rapid successive shouts of laughter and unexpected demonstrations of jeering burst forth at almost any hour of the day and announce to all that the S. A. T-C men are on the Hill. The soldiers wander dibly about as if no work was or ever need be expected of them. All their energy seems to be used up in the noisy demonstrations which take place at irregular intervals during the day.
Private Franks Dies in France
Word has been received that Pri
Varite Verne Franks, c'20, died of pneumonia in a hospital in France, November 6. Mr. Franks was a member of Company M and has been doing scout duty at the front for the past four months.
To Sing at Soldiers' Club
W Sing at Soldiers Club
The Women's Glee Club will give it first short concert of the year at th Soldiers and Sailors' Club Sunday at ternoon, December 8, Prof. W. I Downing director of the club, anounced this morning. The regular rehearsal of the club will be held to night in Fraser Chapel at 7:15 o'clock and every one who wishes to kee her membership in the club is ask to attend this practice.
Prof. Geo. E. Cophil of the school of Medicine, went to Roseale Wednesday to attend the regular meeting of the faculty of the school.
Sailors Not In Class To Have Stiff Drill Under New Coxswain
If Naval Section Is Kept Here,
Seventy-Five Men Will
Stay In
Get Releases in Three Weeks
Sunday
Seamen to Get Pay—About $75 And Clothing Next Sunday
The men in the naval section who are not attending classes will be required to drill on the same schedule used before the University opened and when the flu ban was on, when a coxswain arrives from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station to take charge of drill. Coxswain Cavaughn will be here some time this week. Charles J. Sutherland, chief yeoman in the U. S. navy came in from the Lakes Wednesday and has taken charge of the clerical work of the section. The men who are attending classes will be excused from drill and all detail work.
The naval section does not belong to the S. A. T. C. and is entirely cut loose from the other branches of the service at the University. It will be in charge of D. E. Finegan, Ensign U. N. Navy. The men will be required to marry between revelle roll call and chow. The ensign plans to have the men go through a schedule similar to that used in naval training stations.
About seventy-five men are expected to remain in the naval section if a unit is kept here. The men who stay in the unit here will receive their clothing, pay and subsistence. Men can apply for their releases from the reserve at any time through their commanding officer, according to off- duty regulations of the section. It is not definitely known how standing is that man who are discharged from the S. A. T. C. will be able to enter the new naval section.
Men in the naval section who have applied for releases will get them in about three weeks. They are not enlisted men since a man cannot enlist in anything but the regular service, according to Sergeant Adams of the marines. The men in the naval service are the naval reserve, and will receive an active service and will be subject to call for four years. At the expiration of that time the men will receive discharges from the service.
The sailors will receive their pay Saturday or Sunday and each man will receive approximately $75.00. The men will receive a b g of clothing valued at $105.00, which garments they will be allowed to keep. They may wear the clothes three months. The sailors are supposed to receive $2.00 a day for subsistence up to the time the barracks were available. They will sign their subsistence pay roll soon. The University will get the subsistence money from the time the sailors moved into the barracks.
Officers who have had charge of the section will leave this week. Top sergeant Birl F. Adams will go back to the station in Kansas City and will be on recruiting detail. Sergeant Robert P. Jackson will Friday. Sergeant Henry Fields will go to New Orleans. Lieutenant H. B, McPeak has received no orders.
All passes will be made out by the new commanding officer in the future and no men not attending classes will be allowed to leave the barracks without permission of the officer in charge.
Davis Sends Camp Papers To Dept. of Journalism
Don Davis, 18, manager of the 1918 Jayhawker, has sent the department of Journalism a complete set of "Trench and Camp," also several copies of the "Kelley Field Eagle," the Camp Sherman "News," and the Camp Kearney, "Trench and Camp." Mr. Davis will start work, December 9, in the advertising department at Jefferson City, Missouri. He expects to get back to visit K. U. friends in a short time.
S. A. T. C. Sees Museum
Members of the Students Army Training Corps went through the Natural History Museum today in groups of twenty-five. Every twenty minutes a group started in the basement and continued through the building, each floor being explained to them by the curator, C. D. Bunker.