SEPTEMBER 23,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence Will Build Community House For S.A.T.C., Citizens Plan
County Fair Will be Free to Students—a Dance for Them Friday
Elks Open Clubrooms to Men
F. A. U., Chamber of Commerce and City "Y" Eager to Serve the K. U. Men in Khaki
The city of Lawrence through its various civic service organizations is busy with plans for entertaining student soldiers. T. J. Sweeney has been appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to make arrangements for a community hall down town. He is conferring with state and national military authorities to be able to announce definite plans soon. Such a community hall will cooperate in every way with the University and the Hostess House.
FAIR FREE TO STUDENTS
The Elks have opened their hall to the soldiers and they will be welcomed there at any time. The hall is equipped with billiard tables and bowling alleys.
The student soldiers are especially invited to attend the Douglas County Free Fair at the fair grounds all this week. No charge will be made at the gate. The Elks, Chamber of Commerce, F. A. U, and Y. M. C. Conference center, the soldiers to be given in the arts hall at the fair grounds next Friday night.
The Lawrence City Library is open every week day from 10 o'clock in the mornin' until 9 o'clock at night. Latest fiction can be checked out for two week periods, and copies of certain current magazines may be obtained for three days at a time. Reading rooms are maintained where war manuals may be found, and visitors would wander at will through the stocks.
THEATERS TO CHANGE HOURS
A special picture show will be given each day at the Varsity if a schedule can be arranged whereby the student-soldiers will have time to see the full show. If the crowds warrant it, the stock will also be open for the soldiers.
Physical Examinations Require 21-2 Hours Each
"They are a husky lot," is the way Dr. E. J. Biair, a representative of the local draft boards expressed the conditions of the men who have received their physical examinations preparatory to being inducted into the S. A. T. C. It has not been determined at this time just what physical standards are necessary before a student may be inducted into the S. A. T. C., and Washington detailing any possible changes in requirements to meet the changed condition caused by including men under 18 years.
Many of the men have been found under weight and the medical board is awaiting special orders as to what weight to require as a minimum. As a whose the examination is almost the same as the draft examination.
A board of six doctors aided the army medical corps men under Lieutenant Allen, the representative of the mobilizing boards, and Doctor Blair, representative for the draft office, the representative for object to the 'approval of Capt. B, T. Scher, commander of the S. A. T. C at the University.
Fright and nervousness caused the heart tests of several of the candidates to be higher than normal, according to Doctor Bairt. Such conditions will be taken into consideration as a judgment of the complete examinations.
About five hundred students are being examined daily. Two and a half hours is the average time necessary student to complete the examination.
Two Professors Return From Big Powder Plant
Since last March, C. C. Williams, professor of railway engineering, and J. O. Jones, professor of hydraulics, who have been supervisor engineer and engineer of tests, respectively, during the construction of the government-owned Nitro Railway returned to Lawrence last week to resume charge of their departments.
This 60-million-dollar plant for the manufacture of nitro-cellulose powder was begun last March and completed the middle of last month. It covers 25,000 acres. A city to accommodate 25,000 employees at the plant was built.
The plant has a capacity of 750,000 pounds of powder a day. Six weeks are required to make one batch of the explosive.
Mrs. D. L. Harker of Belton, Mo., visited her son, Jewell, at the Pi Upsilon house Thursday.
Miss Dorothy Button of Burillon visited friends in Lawrence last week.
High Schools in Kansas To Give Military Work
Many of the larger high schools of the state have added military training to the regular school work, according to Prof. W. H. Johnson of the School of Education. More high schools will provide military training when the government finishes its plans for the organization of high school military work.
Leavenworth has always had a well-organized system of military training in the high school and Kansas City has recently established a commendable schedule of military work, Professor Johnson said.
Three "Shows" Weekly To Be Given By K.U. To Entertain Soldiers
Committee Has Arranged for Motion Pictures, Concerts and Other Attractions
Three free entertainments each week, composed of the latest motion picture releases, community sing, concerts or dramatics, for the memorial to the S. A. T. C. and their guests is being arranged by the University.
"The purpose of these entertainments," said F. R. Hamilton, chairman of the committee on entertaining facilities, and chairwoman of facilities of the University available for the S. A. T. C. at such a time that they will work in best with their already heavy schedule. Relaxation enjoyment will be the sole object."
"These entertainments, which probably will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights of each week, will be held at the Hall. They will begin in about 5:45 o'clock in the afternoon and will continue until 7:15 o'clock. The first entertainment will be given the week before an induction of the men into service."
As planned by the committee made up of Mr. Hamilton, Dean H. L. Butterfurth of the School of Fine Arts, and Prof. Arthur MacMurray, public speaking department, one night the latest motion picture releases will be shown accompanied by pipe organ music. Another night will be given to a community sing directed by the other night either concerts, dramatics, musical recitals, or illustrated lectures are to be given.
A series of popular musical programs for Sunday afternoon are being considered and particulars con-
taining them will be announced at a later time.
From time to time the programs will be adjusted to meet the needs of the S. A. T. C. men. The programs will also be in direct harmony with the entertainments planned by the Y. M. C. A., and the committee in charge is planning the programs with the co-operation of the Y. M. C. A.
The American papers are using some rather vigorous English just now in regard to the Germans, but our lack of practice in vitiation puts us at a disadvantage. If we could only resurrect Heinrich Heine it would be more like the press campaign. What leader, writer or paragraphist could beat this;
How Heinrich Heine Hits the Hated Hun
I could not trust this Prussian, this tall, pietistic hero in gaiters, this
braggart, with the capacious maw, carrying a corporal's staff which he first dips in holy water before bringing it down on your head. I had great misgivings about this philosophic, Christian, military despotism, this medley of beer, deceet and sand. And I am not surprised ever this Prussian, this pedantic, hypocritical, sanctimonious Prussia—this Tartuffle among the nations.
Somehow Heine has never been so popular in Prussia as elsewhere and she has become the most beaten surprised to find that his well meant eulogies of his favorite German
Extra copies of this issue of the University Daily Kansas may be obtained at the Kansan office in the Journalism Building, south side of the campus. Regular publication of the paper begins with the opening of school, as usual, September 30.
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poet have met with a cold reception from his German hosts.—E. E. Slosson in the Independent.
The Red Cross means Morale.
The marriage of Lieut. Ralph "Leffty" Sproull, l'16, and Miss Merle Clarke, c'14 has been announced. Lieutenant Sproull was captain of the University team in 1915.
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