UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 22.
K. U.'s Contribution To 7-in-1 Campaign $12,000--U. G. Mitchell
Navy Leads With Average Gift of $6.59 for Each One Making Payment
Faculty Canvass Completed
Three-Fourths of Company F Men Make up Largest Company Total in S.A.T.C.
Although the total amount subscribed cannot be figured up until all the pledge cards go through the registrar, Prof. U. G. Mitchell, chairman of the Work Place Campaign on the Hill "it safe to say that approximately 12,000 has been subscribed so far, Douglas County asked the University to give $10,000, but the National Committee expects us to raise $15,000, and until that amount has been subscribed K. U. has not come up to the mark."
Today and tomorrow are the last chances to give to the War Work Campaign, since the entire drive on the Hill will close Wednesday night. But that time no more soliciting will be done unless they are not raised, K. U., students will have ignored their duty and their obligation to the men in France.
The drive among faculty members under the personal direction of Professor Mitchell, was successful. All the buildings on the Hill over-sub-arabic woods, with the exception of Green Hall and the Administration Building.
At a meeting of all men in the University who are not members of the S. A. T. C., held this noon in Room 101, Fraser Hall, by Frank Parker, secretary, pledge cards were circulated and a considerable amount subscribed. This was the first chance men not in the S. A. T. C. have had to give.
Miss Katharine Duffield, Y. W secretary, has directed the campaign among the women, Frank Parker, Y. M. secretary, has been in charge of the drive for S. A. T. C. subscriptions, and Professor Mitchell has conducted the faculty campaign. As soon as all of the pledge cards are in, and the campaign is closed, a tabulated list of amounts subscribed can be printed. There has been considerable rivalry among the companies of the S. A. T. C. over the amount subscribed. The navy company has the largest per capita subscription. Company E has the largest percentage of members subscribing and the largest company total of Section A. The navy quota it not complete, having been delayed yesterday by inspection-
S. A. T. C. subscriptions are as follows:
Company Av, per man Total
A 5.49 $577.00
B 5.44 783.00
C 5.21 532.00
Navy 6.59 405.50
E 4.35 809.00
F 5.76 484.00
G 4.26 328.40
H 5.10 607.50
Sec. B 6.20 1462.50
Unclassified ... 131.00
$6.119.90
Shortened Quiz Week This Term, Says Senate
Instructors Will Give Quizzes In Class Last Week of
Term
On account of the shortness of the present term it was decided by the University Senate last night that it would be unnecessary to hold a formal final examination week at the close of the present term.
Each instructor will give an examination in his courses during the class period, at the close of the semester. In this way practically a week's time will be added to the present semester
Inspector Lands K. U. Gohs
Inspect of our area. Walter Acrief Moore was on the Hill Monday, inspecting the naval section of the Students' Army Training Corps. He told the officers here he had inspected a dozen or more students' corps and had found none so far along in their work as at the University of Kansas.
Spanish Club to Meet
The Spanish Club, "El Ateneo" will meet in Room 313, Fraser Hall, at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Earth Trembles for Two Hours; Source Not Far
An earthquake, having an amplitude of an eighth of an inch was recorded yesterday afternoon by the seismograph in Blake Hall. The shock, which began at 1 o'clock and lasted until 2:59 p.m., almost two hours in duration, was divided into three disturbances. The primary one occurred at 1:02:54 p.m.; the third, and main one, at 2:59 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 19, 1918.
The source was between 720 and 730 miles from the station here. Although the direction of the disturbance was unknown, Professor Kester said today that all indications point to regions in eastern Tennessee or Texas where the disturbance is probable that the disturbance resulted in little damage at Rs source.
Nine Men Out of 1960 Are Meningitis Carriers
Out of the 1550 S. A. T. C. boy and the 350 vocational students who were examined when the first case of meningitis developed in the barracks only nine of the cultures showed meningitis germs. These men were quarantined immediately and are now under the care of the medical corps of the S. A. T. C. They are being examined from time to time to see how long it will be before they may be discharged. The authorities have made no announcement, whatever, as to their final disposition.
There are yet to be examined about seventy-five men who were in the hospital at the time of the other examination. It is very probable that the cultures will be "run out" within a short time.
Administration Building Will Be Open January
Work is progressing as rapidly as possible on the new Administration Building, said John M. Shea, today. Owing to the stress of the present times there has been delay in getting the necessary fixtures.
The building will be ready for use January 1, and according to Registrar George O. Foster, it has not yet been occupied departments will occupy the building.
Prize to be Offered for Play
The usual senior play contest will be held this year, according to Prof. Arthur MacMurray of the department of public speaking. Any student in the University may compete for the prize of $50 and the winning play will be produced by the senior class some time in the spring. Professor MacMurray will make announcements of the details in a few days.
Nevin Puts on Peace Concert
North Pointe on Peace Concert
Monday evening, December 2, at
o'clock, in Robinson Gymnasium,
a peace concert will be given by a mixed
chorus of more than one hundred
voices.
Abont half the chorus will be members of the University faculty and the other half town people. The chorus will be under the direction of Prof. W. E. Nevin. This will be the first recognition of peace, of this kind that has been given anywhere in the United States.
The Botany Club will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 at Professor Steven's home, 1121 Louisiana Street. "Plant Production in the United States," will be the subject of a talk by Dr. Charles.
Announcements
Women who are enrolled in swimming courses will have to substitute some other physical training work in its place for a while as the pool has not yet been filtered and made ready to receive instruction to Miss Hazel Praat, instructor, which will probably begin within a month, but until then girls may choose between regular floor work, basketball or aesthetic dancing.
The Woman's Forum will meet in Room 110, Fraser Hall, Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Prof. F. H. Johnson at The Problems of Reconstruction.
All students of the University and S. A. T. C. men who are interested in debating are requested to meet in Room 3, Green Hall tonight at 8 o'clock, to organize a debating society.
..Woman's Panhellenic Council will meet Wednesday night at 7 o'clock, instead of today.
Heavy Backs Training For Missouri Contest If Field is Muddy
Coach Bond Profits by Experience at Lincoln When Light
Men Failed
Training of a seat of heavy buckets to furnish line-plunging beef, if the Thanksgiving field is heavy with mud, is one of the points of strategy Conch Bond and the squad are working on this week in preparation for the annual game with the Tigers here Thanksgiving day.
The light, speedy backs of the team are handicapped by mud, which favors beer and plenty of it. They were unable to gain at Nebraska last Saturday because speed was impossible in the mud. Now if this condition comes up Thanksgiving the team is forced to a bunch of heavy line men who are training for backfield work in just such an emergency.
It is not expected to use the heavy backs unless the field is heavy. With fair footing the Jayhawk will depend on how much weight backs for ground training,
Coach Bond ordered 14,000 tickets Monday for the Thanksgiving game. The game will start at 2:30 o'clock Gates will be open at 2 o'clock. Orders for tickets are being received now. Checks and stamped registered letters should accompany all orders by mail.
K. U. Woman's Story One of Best for 1918
The name of Hearty Earl Brown instructor in the department of English, has been placed on the honor roll for writing one of the twenty best stories that appeared in this country in 1918. The story for which Miss Brown received special mention is "The Marrying Time" published in the October number of the Atlantic, and it was also among the three best printed in the Atlantic this year. It will appear in the book of Best Short Stories for 1918.
Chancellor is Improving
Chancellor Frank Strong, who has been suffering from laryngitis, is recovering slowing and is still confined to his bed. Doctors have agreed however that it is not influenza that is troubling him and think that he will be able to be out in two or three days.
Dr. Arthur Braden will give the first of a series of four lectures at the regular meeting of Y. W. C, A this afternoon at 4:45 'clock in Fraser Hall Chapel. Miriam Merritt will play a special pine-organ selection. Nadine Blair will lead the meeting.
Dr. Braden Will Speak
Candy Between Meals Valuable Part of Diet, Says K. U. Food Chemis
Lifting Ban on Sugar Will Help Personal Rationing Tremendously
"Some of us have been very much arrrived because the customary amount of sugar could not be obtained for use on the table and because of the curtainment of the supply of sugar to the candy shops, soda fountains and ice cream parlors," says a food chemist of the University. "Now that there is a prospect of the ban on sugar being removed, we shall no doubt see a sensible increase in the use of these so-called luxuries. People do not realize to what extent they really are fed by the food they obtain from these sources. Some interesting work has been done recently by the Carnegie Institute upon the use of popular sweets and beverages."
President Wilson's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
"We have all become accustomed to talking about calories, and know that they represent the energy we obtain from our food. We have not been accustomed to think of candy and ice cream as part of our food supply, yet this is really the case. A bar of sweet chocolate furnishes 200 to 300 calories. The chocolate candy sold in bar form furnishes 300 to 755 calories. The ordinary man, while engaged in active work, uses about 3,500 calories a day, and a box of chocolate candy, at 500 calories, would furnish one-seventh of all the food needed for a day's supply.
"Ordinary the food taken between meals in this way does not diminish that taken at the regular meal. Even ice cream soda gives us 200 to 450 calories, and the sauces 300 to 500 calories. In these so-called luxuries we get considerable protein in addition to the carbohydrates from the sugar. Even the afternoon tea, with candy and fancy cakes, furnish considerable energy and usually takes away the appetite for the evening meal.
"One of the Carnegie investigators found that at a boys' school the between-meals candy, sundaes, etc., helped out the dietary to the amount of 640 calories a day, and at Vassar it was said the extras furnished by the confectionery stores outside amounted to 10 per cent of the total intake of food. It might be worth while to inquire sometimes, when there is complaint of little appetite, whether a good proportion of the necessary food is not actually taken in between-meals way, and whether we may not forget that this is food just as much as our mush.
God has indeed been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing as revives and strengthens in us all the best traditions of our national history. A new day shines about us, in which our hearts take new courage and look forward with new hope to new and greater duties.
It has long been our custom to turn in the autumn of the year in praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his many blessings and mankind.
While we render thanks for these letters, let us not forget to seek the divine guidance in the performance of those duties and divine mercy and forgiveness for all errors of act or purpose, and pray that in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among nations.
"If we should eat a pound of sugar, we should get more than 1,800 calories, but, of course, sugar is such concentrated nourishment we could not live on sugar alone. We must have balanced rations."
This year we have special and moving cause to be grateful and to rejoice. God has in his good pleasure given us peace. It has not come as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from the strain and tragedy of war. It has come as a great triumph of right. Complete victory has brought us not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations. Our gallant armies have participated In a triumph which is not marred or strained by another purpose of selfish aggression. In a righteous cause they have won immortal glory and have nobly served their Nation in serving mankind.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Therefore I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the ruler of nations.
Done in the District of Columbia this sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-third.
By the President:
ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State
WOODROW WILSON.
Senior Women to Confer
On House Government
There will be a meeting of the senior women Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. in Room 110 Fraser Hall. The meeting is a conference between the advance of women, the officers of W. S. G. A. and all senior women to consider the question of house government.
In speaking of the meeting, Dean Corbin said that she hoped the regulations made would be few in number but that those few would be kept.
Plain Tales From the Hill
When you march in at the Hostess House, sink into one of the comfortable chairs, and stretch out to rest while the hostess sews the buttons on your overcoat, "oh, boy, ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?"
It is safe to say that the women with the rosy cheeks and fylde veils, who were "called" unmercifully in an excellent editorial in this paper last night, are not the type who peruse the editorial page carefully.
What seniors did when they heard the museur that the semester plan might fail?
Tore their hair and said they could never get a degree.
Got up petitions for degrees.
Took the job to go home.
Phoned to father.
Decided that a degree didn't mean much, anyway.
Went to the movies.
One of many S. A. T. C. men who has withdrawn from the army, and who was enrolling in the college yesterday, was heard to remark with feeling, "I'm getting out of the army, believe me. I want to get into my own heavy clothes."
When the girls hold hands around the table and try to concentrate to make the phone ring, things are in a pittable state.
The general opinion that college professors are not courageous is without foundation. There are two English professors who carry small black cords drawn together with cords, containing students' papers, and several pedagogies on this Hill wear overcoats that are of an ancient vintage. Things like these take courage.
Since the department of German was unable to obtain a proper text book for S. A. T. C. German, they have compiled a booklet containing the most common conversational phrases. The booklet has gone to press and will probably be ready for use next week.
It has been announced that everyone one must be sure to know the umber and model of his rifle, so that if asked at inspection it could be rattled off mechanically. One of the boys in what was formerly Company J was very careful to have his answer framed before inspection of barracks the next night. As the Lieutenant stepped in front of him he was asked, "Who is your Grandmother?" With the least hesitation the reply came back, "Westinghouse Russian model, No. 107548, Sir."
A guide of Company E while marching along at attention at drill this morning, saw a couple of dollars lying near the line of march. "Ah," he thought, "two days pay." And he proceeded to pick them up. He may be found on K. P. duty the rest of the week.
A lot of well-meaning upper-class men are going around Mount Orean with long faces, and much to say concerning the "good old times". Don't listen to them. It's simply another sign of advancing age. There never were such times as these where a man was so fierent and exciting. So don't let any calamity howlers discuss the moss-covered "good old times" with you.
For loyalty's sake we've been asked to eat Bunkum's bottles stringless string beans, to wear Bingo's bottom-less top shoes and to do a lot of other strange things the last few years—to show loyalty to having the face photographed for the 1919 Jay-hawt.
College Faculty to Meet Today The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet this afternoon in Snow Hall for its first meeting since the vacations. The election of a budget committee will be discussed.
4-Quarter Plan Kept For This Year; Return to Semester Plan Later
University Senate Finds It Undesirable to Rearrange Schedule Now
Old Division Was Better
Hot Summers Make Long Summer Sessions Impractical, It Is Declared
To avoid the difficulties of returning to the two semester plan this year, after the University has been reorganized on the 3-term schedule, the Senate decided last night to postpone resumption of the former system until next fall. There was very little sentiment in favor of adopting the 4-term plan permanently, and a large minority of the Senate favored throwing it out as soon as possible after the War Department should give its consent.
Among the arguments that the 3-term plan should, be continued this year was the one that men discharged from the army during the winter or spring might wish to return to the University. They will have better opportunities to do so with the short term system in operation. It was also not clear that many seniors would find it impossible to arrange their work so as to get their degrees this year if the 3-term plan was abandoned now with the consequent increase in the number of opportunities open to them before June to do the variety of work necessary to meet requirements.
The Senate devoted two hours to discussing the pros and cons of the 4-quarter year. The vote taken showed only 10 per cent in favor of it. The general sentiment expressed was that it would be expensive, that our salary is not suited to a full twelve weeks on the summer, and that it would entail too much expenditure of time for examination and enrollment periods.
In view of the fact that commencement comes almost at the end of June this year, it is expected that only a 1-week summer session can be held.
Aggies Have Dual Plan Dividing School Year
Classes for men in the S. A. T. C. at the state agricultural college are separate from classes for other students. S. A. T. C. men are under the 4-quarter system, and the regular students are on the semester plan. The students will continue through the present school year according to Miss Jessie Machir, registrar of K. S. A. C. or as long as the S. A. T. C. is kept up.
The general sentiment at Manhattan is in favor of the semester plan. The students have tried both plans, having been under the quarter system several years previous to this year, and practically all of them prefer the semester system, and find it less confusing, it is said.
State Teachers Meetings May Be Omitted
Health Conditions at Salina and Pittsburg Complicate Problem
Owing to the fact that the influenza epidemic has not abated in the vicinities of Salina and Pittsburgh, it is possible the meetings of the State Teachers' Association, scheduled for March 28 and 29, will be postponed indefinitely, Dean F. J. Kelly of the School of Education, said today.
J. O. Hall, superintendent of schools at Hutchinson, and president of the State Teachers' Association, will go to Topeca today to consult with Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the State Board of Health, about the advisability of holding the four meetings, or two of them or none. F. L. Pinet, secretary of the Association, has written to the leading educators in the state and will present their opinions on the subject.
If it is decided to hold the meetings, liberal provisions will be made by the School of Education here to excuse students from classes to attend the sessions.
Stop spending. Save.. Then give.
November 11-18.