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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 9
Chamber of Commerce Standardizes Products And Eliminates Waste
J. N. Van der Vries, Former Math Prof Here, Is District Secretary
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9. 1918
Keeps Manufacturing Stable
No Plants Are Being Closed or Built Up Exten-
Standardization of products and the elimination of waste in manufacturing plants are the work of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, according to J. N. Van der Vries, central district secretary of the organization. Mr. Van der Vries was formerly professor of mathematics in the University and has been a member of Christmas. He is here for a few days' visit on his first vacation since going to work for the government.
Mr. Van der Vries has his office in Chicago, but makes trips constantly to all parts of his district which comprises all the territory between the Alleghenies and the Rocky Mountains. The installing of uniform systems of accounting in manufacturing plants is one of the principal parts of Mr. Van der Vrie's work.
HELP MANUFACTURER AND CONSUMER "As an instance of one reform we have accomplished," said Mr. Van der Vries. "I may cite the new method of letting contracts. Last winter competitive bidding and the cost plus system were in use. These two methods tend to cause waste in production, as the profit was the same no matter what the cost of production. By auditing the books and finding out just what it costs each manager to make his product, the government is now enabled to obtain products at the lowest possible price without depriving any manufacturer of his profit."
EFFECTING STANDARDIZATION
Preserving the stability of all man-
ufacturing interest through the war
crisis is one of the aims of the Cham-
ber of Commerce. No plants are being
closed down and none are being
built up to a state of inflation. Labs-
orers in factories where no feed or
be not essential, but being transferred
to plants, but no confiscations,
either of men or materials, are being
made.
Call for Clerks And
Typists In S. A. T. C
"In order to accomplish this standardization, a complete census of each industry is being taken," Mr. Van der Vries continued. "We have now the complete facts with regard to 350 different industries, and have still to organize 150 more."
"There were 132 different shades of paint on the market at the beginning of the war," said Mr. Van der Vries in explaining what has been accomplished by standardization. "Now there are less than thirty. This means that owners of paint stores have cut down their stocks by 75 per cent.
Quartermasters' Corps and Ad jutants' Office Assistants Will Be Trained Here
The training of men at the University for the quartermasters' corps and as clarks in adjutants' offices was commenced this morning when Lieutenant R. E. Carter, Capt. Scher's attendant, issued a call for men to begin work as office assistants. More than fifty men responded to the call.
Training in office work will be useful to men who expect to become line officers, according to Lieutenant Carter, and other soldier students who desire to fit themselves for clerks or adjutants will find the training of great value. Men from here showing good ability will be sent to training camps to try for commissions.
A permanent office staff to look after the records of the S. A. T. C. will be selected from the men who began work today in Lieutenant Carter's office. Who have volunteered for the work as typists or bookkeepers are being exempt from fatigue duty in the form of cleaning up the grounds, but their hours of work will be longer.
Try-outs for the University Orchestra will be hold Wednesday from 5 to 6 o'clock and Thursday from 4 to 6 o'clock in Fraser Hall, Room 401. Prof. F. E. Kendric, Director.
S. A. T. C. Men Raise Fund for Sick Comrades
A hatful of money, literally, was collected this morning at drill to provide a fund with which to purchase fruit, postage stamps, and other "extras" for the members of the S. A. T. C., who are in Barracks No. 1, either ill with influenza or suspected of having the disease.
"We can get a thousand dollars any time we need it," said Lieutenant Cramer this morning. "All we asked this morning was a few cents from each man, and we raised more than $125. If necessary we will take another collection. The boys are going to have all they need."
The War
L'Hombre Libre—We are on the road to victory. We will not let them stop us.
Paris Figaro-Germany wants to stop the war at the moment she is going to be beaten, and knows it.
Here and Over There
Le Temps—"The white flag trick."
Journal des Debats—The cornered beast draws in its claws and offers us ts paw.
Chicago Tribune—There is but one answer . . . That answer is our redoubled efforts against the enemy.
Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram—Abolute and complete surrender, with o German allowed in the counsels, ther than as a criminal at the bar ught to be the only terms upon which he Allies will halt fighting.
Philadelphia Public Ledger-The German peace offensive will fall as the German military offensive has failed.
San Francisco Chronicle— . . .
apparent that Kaiserism was again
assigning to trick and device.
Topeka Daily Capital—An armistice and peace parley cannot be granted at his time.
Wichita Eagle—With Germany and Austria, as with Bulgaria, there can be only one basis for negotiations—unconditional surrender to the Allies.
Five hundred pairs of field glasses, worth $37,500, were discovered in a supply depot at Omaha and immediately were shipped overseas together with other emergency supplies whose value reached $75,000. The division of military aeronautics alone has turned up ten million dollars worth of unused materials for the government to put to use. These were training planes, old aeroplanes, motors and rope.
saturday, 4 o'clock, Steak- roast.
The President, before answering Germany's last plan for an armistice, demands to know if the German Chancellor spoke for the military government or for the German people. He demands complete withdrawal of Central Powers from Allied soil before considering a cessation of arms.
Only 11,750 cases of influenza were reported to the office of the surgeon general in the twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday. This is a sharp decrease over the daily average of last week. Reports show that the epidemic is spreading through the civil population despite the decrease in army camps.
The Turkish cabinet has resigned, according to a dispatch from Berne, Switzerland, to the London Evening Star. The message says that great excitement prevails at Constantinople.
Movement of the S. A. T. C. men to the barkracks will add to the already large list of places one for women who wish to work a few hours a day. An employment bureau for University women is maintained by the Y. W. C. A., with the secretary, Miss Katherine Duffield in charge. Waiting on table, light housework, and caring for small children are among the particular lines of work open. Miss Duffield's office hours are from 8 until 12 noon, and from 2 until 4.
Smother the cough and cover the sneeze.
Positions Open for Women
For the kaiser laughs when you spread disease.
...
University women who imperial their own health by disobeying the order to remain in Lawrence—
Who imperil their homes by taking a chance at carrying influenza into them
THINK TWICE
Who imperil the health of the University when they come back from infected communities or in infected trains—
Women who will not take the word of the Board of Health that traveling at such a time is the worst possible thing to do—
Students Must Prevent Spread of Influenza Chancellor Announces
Order Keeping Them in Law rence to Prevent Strict Quarantine Regulations
Such women deserve the condemnation of the University. Any measures of quarantine that are available should be used against them and their dangerous practices.
While Lawrence has not been placed under strict quarantine by the State Board of Health, the Chancellor has issued an order that all students stay in Lawrence. A student who goes home now to a community where he knows there are cases of influenza is almost sure to bring it back to Lawrence with him and make the order closing the University worthless.
Influenza is worse in the western part of the state and in Kansas City than in Lawrence. The closing of the University has been a preventive measure, to ward off the spread of the disease, rather than wait and be obliged to establish quarantine because the situation could be handled in no other way. In this regard the Chief University authorities are doing all they can to check the epidemic, he said, but the students must aid in the work.
One Form of Authorized Diversion Left for University
Wednesday, 4 o'clock, Wienier- roast.
Wienie and Bacon Roasts Also Eggs, Maybe Steak On Y. W. Hike Schedule
--saturday, 4 o'clock, Steak- roast.
Women
Thursday, 12 o'clock, Egg-roast.
Friday, 4 o'clock, Bacon-fry.
Saturday, 4 o'clock, Steak-
This schedule of entertainments has been planned by the social committee of the Y. W. C. A. for all women of the University while the quarantine lasts. It complies with the order of the health board that all gatherings be held in the open air.
Monday, 4 o'clock, Marshmallow-toast.
Sergeants, the worst enemy of man, were stationed in front of the movies last night to remove privates from their girls, and take them (the girls, of course) home themselves.
Buy Savings Stamps! It will be easy to help win the war this week-end, fellows, because you can go to movies, neither can you escort the pretty freshman to a dance, and let her tramp upon you.
At a meeting Monday night the Kansan Board elected eight new members: Lacille McNaughton, Guy Fraser, Jessie Wyatt, Geneva Hunter, Belva Shores, Edith Roles, Nadin Blair, and Mary Samson.
Everyone is asked to bring her own lunch. All women who wish to attend these hikes will meet in Myer's Hall at the hour given in the schedule. The women will be divided into groups of less than two teachers and some of the learners are planning hikes to Cameron's; others will go only a short distance.
New editors elected are Marjory Roby, news editor and Geneva Hunter, war column editor.
Eight Members Added To Daily Kansan Board
University women are urged to accept this opportunity to get together. While picture shows and Spooner Library are closed and students are forbidden to leave Lawrence, this one legal opportunity for a good time is offered.
Vocational Detachment Moves Out October 16; Third Unit is Comin
Four Hundred Men to Be Sent Here By Kansas Draft
rour hundred men will be sent to Lawrence October 16 by the various draft boards over the state to make up the vocational corps, section B, of the S. A. T. C., according to an order received here this morning from the office of Charles R. Huffman, adjutant-general, at Topeka. These men will be given practically the same courses which have been given the men in the vocational corps this summer. Besides the 400 men who will arrive, October 16, between twenty and thirty men in the present vocational corps will be retained as noncons for the new detachment.
The government contract provides that the new men will be trained here for a period of two months, at the end of which time they will be classed as experts, middlemen, and apprentices. They will be divided as follows for training: 100 auto-drivers and repair men; twenty-five auto mechanics; twenty blacksmiths; fifteen concrete foremen; thirty machinists; five fire brigades; six radio operators; twenty-five surveyors; forty telegraphers; forty general draftsmen; and fifteen topographical draftsmen.
The men will be part of the S. A.
T. C. under the command of Captain
Bruno T. Scher, since the vocational
department became a section of the
students' army training corps when
that organization was established at
the University.
Fifteen men in the present vocational corps have already been sent to other camps to report for duty, and the work of getting the men out will continue during this week, so everything will be ready to receive the new detachment October 16. The new men will be housed in Robinson Gymnasmium for a time, at least, but may later be assigned to arracks 1 and 2. They will be measured for uniforms immediately upon arrival.
Miss Corbin Discusses Co-operative House Plan
At a meeting of the University Women's Association held Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Frank Strong, Miss Alberta Corbin, acting adviser of women, informally discussed the question of establishing co-operative houses for non-fraternity women and a hall for women at the University. Miss Corbin says that the Women's State Council with headquarters at Topeka, and the W. S. G. of A. K. U., are both promoting this plan. She also urged that the idea of all rooming-houses for women electing a house president be carried out.
It was voted that members of the University Women's Association meet at the Paris House of the Congregational Church the first and third Thursdays of each month from 2:30 to 5 o'clock to do Red Cross work.
Emporia Game Not Off
Says Manager Hamilton
Yours Not To Do and Die, Yours But To Buy and Buy.
Doubling our quota today? Your bet!
The game scheduled to be played with Emporia on McCook field next Saturday will not be called off unless something unforeseen occurs, according to Mgr. W. O. Hamilton. He has conferred with Lieutenant Cramer, who sees no reason for calling off such a meeting in the open air.
Enforced Vacation Cuts Bond Sales on the Hill
The Fourth Liberty Loan drive on the Hill is being seriously hampered by the closing of the University, Prof. U. G. Mitchell, in charge of the drive, said this morning.
"I feel very confident that the University will go over the top gloriously, but I fear we will not double our quota of twenty-five thousand as I had planned we would do. The University has oversubscribed and is doing it again, but people are hard to find because they have gone down off the Hill."
Professor Mitchell is spending to day checking up on his sales.
Plain Tales From the Hill
What's Being Done
The W, S. G. A. met last night, but had mightly little to do, in the way of "calling" the dear girls for breaking the date rule. Heaven knows lots of staid K. U. women would like to break it, but how is it to be done? please? The girl who submitted the date rule, the girls have substituted the following indoor and outdoor sports:
Using Lux and doing the family washing.
Writing all possible letters.
Sitting on the grass to keep from getting the "flu," and.
Sleeping long and late.
Knitting all the yarn in the house.
Eating more than ever, since the ones who have gone home have to pay their board just the same.
Going on Y. W. hikes, because they are a form of diversion, however mild.
Going down town to buy new curtain rods and a new waste basket.
Making things for the hope chests.
Washing their hair.
Gargling and saying they feel queer.
Feeling they have no friends, and Weeping softly.
This week would be a great time for fraternity calls. The men could meet all the keen girls—the ones who haven't the price to get home.
It's a great life!
An urgent call has gone out for "all persons in Lawrence who can" to contribute palamas for the S. A. T. C. men in the infirmary. The call had better not be made too urgent, or a lot of soldiers will be wearing Billie Burkes, besides being ill. This would be too much for any one.
One nice thing about this vacation is that we are having lovely weather.
The film was "The Hun Within," but because of the officious police, the Hun stayed within and they stayed without. So most of them went home and had porch-swing dates.
With swollen tongue projecting and eyes glazed, he staggered feebly on, shirt unbuttoned and hat left far behind. Visions of green oases with rushing brooks of cool, wet water danced before him. He knew them to be merely visions, yet they lured him on.
"Water, water," he babbled as he stumbled along the lonely road. All day he had toiled on and on, always searching for the liquid solace that danced before him, eternally out of reach.
Deserted by his comrades, many of whom had doubtless perished by the wayside in a similar quest, he pushed feebly forward. At length he reached a modest brick building and ascended the steps.
In the hallway stood a primitive ice-water tank. With a feeble moan, he lurched forward and emptied glass after glass of the cooling, thirst-quenching fluid. Satisfied at length, he kicked his lips and gazed about him.
"Why in blazes don't they issue canteens if they expect us to work up there on that hill all day?" he said.
The old girls who know no men in school this year have been consoling themselves with Wallace Reid. And now, what have they done but closed the picture shows? They can stay on the Hill with some inconveniences, but the end has nearly been reached
S. A. T. C. men will feel badly about not being allowed to go to their classes, but of course there is the consolation that they will not have to keep their Friday and Saturday night dates.
S. A. T. C. Authorities Report 130 Influenza Cases at Infirmary
Probably Will Increase Medical Force at Univer-
Ten Cases at K. U. Hospital
Many Students Report Colds and Sneeze—Doctor Sent To Rooming Houses
There are now 130 cases of the influenza in the infirmary of the S. A. T. C, according to an announcement made this morning by Lieut. Judson Allen, M. D., who is taking care of the men. "The men are improving rapidly," said Dr. Allen this morning. "Some of them were well enough to be moved to first floor. The sickest patients are put on second floor of the north barracks. As they get better and begin to talk and have a good time they are moved on first floor so they won't disturb the other men."
There are only about seven dangerous cases in the entire infirmary, and these are well under control now. New cases are being reported all the time and they are moved to the S. A. T. C. infirmary, but all the cases seem to be very light.
NEED MORE DOCTORS
On account of the scarcity of doctors at the University most of the care of the men has fallen to Doctor Allen. Dr. H. T. Jones, one of the local physicians, has given part of his time in assisting Doctor Allen, but this amounts to only a few hours a day. The advanced medical students at the University have been detailed to help with the sick at night.
At a conference this morning, Chancellor Strong, Captain Bruno T. Scher and Doctor Allen decided to increase the medical staff of the S. A. T. C. It is thought the medical men will be sent from Kansas City or some near army camp.
TEN WOMEN AT HOSPITAL
Ten cases of the gripe have been reported among the women and are being taken care of at the University Hospital. None of the women are dangerously ill, however, and physicians have not yet decided whether it is Spanish influenza or just ordinary influenza that has been related as much as possible and every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
Many students with colds have been sent to the hospital and have been given instructions about taking care of themselves. Doctors are calling on any students in rooming houses at the hospital or nursing home, hospital, and students are urged to report for examination at the first sneeze.
Quarantine Does Not Stop Inoculations
Inoculation for typhoid is being given to all women of the University and men who are not members of the S. A. T. C. at the University Hospital today and tomorrow. Men will be inoculated tomorrow from 9 to 12 in the morning and from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. All the women are being inoculated on this day. The University is closed this week will not interfere with the work at the University Hospital, which will be carried on just as usual.
Meetings Are Postponed
As a precaution against spreading possible cases of Spanish influenza, meetings which were to have been held this week, are postponed indefinitely. No committee meetings are to be held, and this afternoon Y. W. C. A. meeting has been postponed. The Association Tea which was to be given Friday evening and the Freshman Frolic for Saturday night will not be held. The try-out for the Women's Glee Club is postponed.
The University Library will be open this week for the delivery of books to students so they may study in their own homes. Students are cautioned not to study in the library, nor may there after drawing necessary books.
FRANK STRONG,
Chancellor.