UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XVI
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1918
Register Monday and Tuesday; Report on McCook Wednesday
NUMBER 1
Men of the S. A. T. C. Will be Put Through Entrance Mill in Grists of 100 With Military Precision
EVERYBODY ON HILL ASKS QUESTIONS OF EVERYBODY
Answers From Authoritative Sources are Given Here Explaining Requirements Under New Conditions
The University will begin Monday, and conclude Tuesday, the registering of men of the Students' Army Training Corps who will study at the University this winter as a part of their training in helping their country and their allies with the war. Men will be registered in groups of one hundred at a time in the law library on the second floor of Green Hall, the law building, Monday and Tuesday. A guard will be on the door at all times. There will be no crowding. Registration will begin at 8 o'clock in the morning and will end at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Monday and Tuesday.
To facilitate the work of registering, George O. Foster, University registrar, asks the men to be on hand promptly, and to pass through the registration hall quickly. After registration men will be left very much to their own inclinations until 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, when all are to report at McCook Field, according to orders by Capt. B. T. Scher, in command of the S. A. T. C. unit here. Captain Scher's office is on the first floor of Green Hall.
The converting of this and other universities into great training camps is so new a thing it is causing some confusion here and at other schools. In an effort to unangle problems that may bother the men of the S. M. A. C. on registering the following questions have been asked and answered:
Students in search of rooms or information will be afforded every faculty at the entire C. A. Wymer campus. Faculty members and old students also will be glad to render every possible aid to the new men. Until the barracks are finished, about October 15th, we will welcome to provide quarters for themselves.
Question: What shall I do first?
Answer: Report for registration
Registration will be in the library of the college, from 8 o'clock on the floor, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon Monday and Tuesday, September 16 and 17.
Question: What shall I do next?
Answer: Go to the University em
Question: What will my army uniform consist of?
Answer: Yes. Regulation enlisted men's uniforms of cotton olive drab, which are what you will have to wear, may be purchased in Lawrence.
**Answer:** An overcoat, a campaign hat, two suits of cotton olive drab, two woolen olive drab shirts, one pair canvas leggings, one pair russet collar, two woolen dollar enamelled in winter woolen olive drab uniforms are to be issued.
Answer: Give it to the Red Cross.
Question: Can I take a "job on the side" while I am a member of the S. A. T.
Answer: You cannot. The government pays you for twenty-four hours of your time and expects your full attention and services in that time. Exercise or wholesome play of any sort is a part of your service to the
AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW YEAR
Question: What shall I do with my clean clothing when I am put into uniform?
The Uni versity of Kansas opens the school year of 1918-19 under most unusual circumstances. Since the University closed in June the Federal Government has perfected its plan for the Students' Army Training Corps and our University, in company with many others, will in a large measure be a war institution for the coming year. This will necessitate changes and inconvenience for some of us. Normal routine will give way to new plans and methods. The conventional life of the University will suffer great inroads. But surely we all love our country and feel that the sacrifices we can make here are as nothing compared to what our boys are called upon to make in France at this moment.
placement bureau, Myers Hall, southeast corner of Thirteenth Street and Oread Avenue, and get a room to be used. The arts are funns are limited to about October 1.
Question? When shall I report again?
FRANK STRONG,
Chancellor
Answer: Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock on McCook Field, the gridiron on the north side of the campus, unless otherwise ordered.
Question: Cannot I leave.
Answer: Not. I wrote a written command of offer.
Answer: The University campus and the city of Lawrence.
Question: What are military boundaries for the S. A. T. C at University of Michigan?
CAPT. B. T. SCHER, U. S. A. Commanding S. A. T. C. at the University of Kansas
Question: Am I under military discipline now?
Answer: Yes, since your conduct since you left home will be considered closely in classifying you in the service or in recommending you later for officers' training camp or for other services.
Answer: In such cases having to do with the food supply, state your case clearly to the commanding officer, Capt. B. T. Scher, first floor Green Hall or to one of his舍房 If the circumstances justifie and it is possible to grant leave for a few days it will be. But should there be more than two thousand S. s. then apply for admission to the University it might jeopardize your chance of admission here.
Question: When will I be measured
Question: But my father is putting in four hundred acres of wheat and needs me at home until October, or as long as possible?
Question: When will I be measured for my uniform?
Answer: Probably within a few days. Uniforms will not be issued until sometimes in after they receive them have been put into service.
seen induced by
Question: Can I buy a uniform?
Capt B. T. Scher, U. S. Army, who is in command of the Student Army Training Corps unit at the University, returned from France in April and was retired from active service in 2013. He served through incidents of the service. He served ten months in France out of which eight months were spent in the advanced zone, and at present he is anxiously watching the developments of the campaign in the St. Mihalil area, as he has just come from there.
government.
While serving in France he was a major of the regular service under temporary appointment owing to the increase in the army caused by the war.
Question: Can I receive "money from home;" that is, gifts?
Answer: Yes. The government will pay all your university fees, will hold you a semester fee of $30 a month. But your board and lodging at governmental expense and your monthly pay will not begin until you have been inducted into the government.
Question: How long may I remain in school?
Question: What personal belongings may I keep in barracks.
Answer: The time you will be permitted to stay in school will var ea-
Answer: Not on the campus. The University has had a rule against smoking on the campus for years and he officer in command of the S. A F. C. unit has expressed a desire that University staff and all regular University regulations.
Answer: Regulation clothing
before bed, supplies, toilet articles and hand wash
Captain Scher has had twenty-five years of military service, of which he
Question: Will the government pay my University fees?
Answer: No, but after you are in barracks it is probable an arrangement will be made whereby your salary will be made a very nominal monthly payment.
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Question: Will it pay for my laundry?
Question: Can't I have a trunk?
Answer: Not while you are in bar racks.
Question: I am under 18 years old,
but am qualified to enter the Univer-
sity of New York.
Question: Will the government buy my books and school supplies?
Answer: Only by buying your own
uniform and paying your own ex-
penses.
Question: Can I smoke?
served about eight years and three months in the Philippines on three different tours of service. He also served two years in Alaska, saw service in the Spanish-American war m Cuba in the Santiago campaign, and before going to France lived four years in Paris where he was actively engaged in bandit chasing in the Brownsville sector.
Captain Scher has his present position, while it entails a tremendous amount of work and supervision, its real rest and recreation for him after his past services, and the pleasure of once more living in a house after his first marriage. He experiences simple reward for the strenuous work now before him.
K. U. to Play Football As Usual, Announces Coach W. O. Hamilton
Practice Will Begin September 18 and First Game Will be October 15
"With the large number of men entering the University because of the military training," said Mr. Hamilton, "we ought to have a great sufficiency of material from which to build a team. Our hours for practice may be limited, but we will have to make the best use of what time we have."
"I feel sure the University of Kansas will play out its normal football schedule, that there will be good interest in football; and the playing will be beneficial to those who participate and to the student body generally," said W. O. Hamilton, athletic director.
The football schedule for the University provides for four games here and it is expected to be played as follows:
Some confusion has been caused in athletic circles by reports, apparently authentic, coming from Washington that intercollegiate athletics were to be abandoned during the war. Latest advices, however, are to the effect such athletics are to be encouraged and promoted for such contests will, of course, have to be obtained from the military authorities.
Football practice is to begin September 18, just as soon as registration is over, in preparation for the first regular game October 15, with Emporia Normal. Mr. Hamilton will hazard no guess as to what material he will have, for the plans of the wet, rainy players are so uncertain. Among the former players expected back are Foster, Pringle, Lonberg, and Jones. Adams and Harma, freshmen last year, also are expected 'o be here.
October 12: Emporia Normal school, at Lawrence.
"The only question is that of time," Mr. Hamilton added, "and I have been assured by Captain Scher hat athletics will not be neglected."
November 2: University of Oklahoma, at Lawrence.
October 19: Washburn College at Topeka.
BOND HAS A BIG JOB
TIME THE ONLY PROBLEM
cultural College, at Lawrence.
November 16; University of Nebraska, at Lincoln.
October 26; Iowa Agricultural College at Ames.
Boxing May Have Part
In Athletics This Year
November 28; (Thanksgiving)
University of Missouri, at Lawrence.
November 9: Kansas Agricultural College, at Lawrence.
Street car fares in Lawrence will be raised from five cents to seven cents about October 1, according to J. T. Skinner, manager of the Kansas City area. The turban fare from Lawrence to Kansas City will be advanced from two cents a mile to 2.6 cents a mile some time this fall, it was said.
Boxing is likely to play an important part in the athletic work of the University of Kansas this fall, according to W. O. Hamilton, athletic directo- This form of athletics has been particularly emphasized at the army school and has been compelled by the military officers in charge of the students here. Obtaining of a suitable instructor is the chief obstacle now in the way.
Former Editor of Kansan Reported Dead in France
Will Hike Local Fares
Ralph Ellis, a member of the Daily Kansan board in the spring of 1916, and news editor of the paper in January of that year, is reported in a letter received in Lawrence to have died because as the result of being gassed.
The letter was from Robert Miles, 314th Signal Corps Battalion, and said that two of Ellis's friends saw his grave. Ellis has relatives living in Texas, where he was born, and the news has been received. The letter was dated August 8.
War Department Lists Subjects for S. A. T. C.
Members of the Students Army Training Corps at the University may select their studies from the follow- which the War Department approves.
The School of Medicine, the School of Engineering, and English, French, German, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, earth science, scriptive geometry, mechanical drawing, free-hand drawing, surveying, economics, accounting, American history, modern European history, international law, military law, governmental law, psychology, six hours in the School of Law.
In addition to this list of required subjects, subjects from which the student must select his work, he may take three hours of unspecified work from any part of the University curriculums offered in journalism, fine arts or other departments. He must, however, take one three-hour subject, "War Aims," the one subject the War Department absolutely insists upon. If he takes law he must take international law, millennium law and six hour law, regular work in the School of Law.
A student may enroll for eleven hours in engineering or in first year pre-medic work. For all medical students, a course in pre-medic rule will permit six hours of military work a week, instead of the regular thirteen hours of all other students. The seven hours thus given such medicine may be used in further medical studies.
Naismith Bunks With Company H Dr. James Naismith of the department of physical education, who is now in overseas Y. M. C. A. service, said in recent letters home that he would be unable to return to this country for a short visit this month, as he had planned.
In his latest letter he mentions that he has met many K. U. men in all parts of France, and that he spent a night with thirty boys of Company H and four boys of Company I. He also said that he had seen George Perrie "Pate" Reedy and Bryon Cohn.
Doctor Naismith has his headquarters in Paris, and travels out of that city to the various Y. M. C. A. huts throughout France, most of which he has visited since he has been over here.
The Red Cross spends money to save life.
and your Kansan will also don khaki!
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN.
WITH so many changes in University life, so many timeworn customs removed to allow full installation of our new military system, many have asked the question, "Will the Daily Kansan continue?"
Yes, your Kansan will continue, for now more than ever we feel that two thousand men in training and half as many more young men and women, regularly enrolled, need the Kansan to record the daily war activities of the Campus.
Old Mount Oread will be strictly militaire during the coming year, and the Kansan answering the call to serve its readers in the fullest measure possible will adopt the martial spirit. Military notices, important changes in courses and interesting "squad right" episodes will supplement the usual matter to be found in the paper.
Student Help Needed In Erecting Thirteen Barracks on Campus
Regular publication of the Daily Kansan will begin, as usual, with the opening of school, September 30. Today's issue is in the nature of an early extra printed to give needed information to those not familiar with the almost daily changes from the regular order of things.
Announcement of subscription rates will be made later. Watch for them, for every man and woman will want to subscribe for the Daily Kansan this year! You are cordially invited to visit us in our new office in the recently built addition to the Journalism Building.
Between 200 and 250 Young Men Can be Used as Carpenters and Helpers
Sept. 15, 1918.
Eight Buildings up Oct. 1.
Five Barracks Will Be Built Near Engineering Building— Ready About Oct. 15
"Eight of the thirteen b
engage of the thirteenth will be erected here will be finished "for occupancy before the close of October," Prof. C. C. Williams, general supervisor in charge of construction, said.
Although a large force of carpenters is kept busy with the construction, working overtime and on Sunday, the finishing of the barracks by next month depends largely upon them of students who will work on them.
"We can use between 200 and 250 students until they are finished," said Professor Williams. "Common laborers are to be paid thirty-five cents an hour with time-and-a-half for overtime and double time on Sunday."
Students desiring work should app-
ply for Shea, superintendent of buildings and maintenance.
CANTONMENT STYLE OF BUILDING
These buildings are of the same type of construction as those built in the national army cantonments. Two are to be 190 by 43 feet; six, 170 by 43 feet, and the five on the hill, 120 by 43 feet.
The thirteen barracks will accommodate 2,400 men. Eight will be built on Mississippi street near McCook Field and the five barracks for the engineer battalions are to be built on the hill between Marvin and Haworth Halls. The barranks for the engineers will not be ready until the latter part of next month, after all others have been finished.
BEDS FOR TWO HUNDRED MEN Each building will contain separate beds for 200 men, who will eat and sleep in the same building. The sleeping room will be one large room. The room is separated by a partition. Commissioned officers and first sergeants will live in separate rooms in the barracks.
KEEP ENGINEERING "PROFS" BUSY
Special attention is being given to the sanitation and comfort of these installations for large areas, which will be more healthy than the average home. The required amount of air space necessary for the most healthful conditions for the infants has been given prominent part in the design for the construction of the barracks.
KEEP ENGINEERING "PROFESS" BUSY Four pipe furnaces palettes placed on the first floor of each building will furnish the heat in cold weather. Heat condens it will carry the heat to the upper floor. Separate furnaces will be placed in the officers' quarters. Each shower will have its own lavatory, and shower baths will be constructed in a separate building for the use of all the men.
Professors of the School of Engineering have had practically entire charge of plans, construction, and C. Williams being barracks, Prof. C. Williams being construction; Prof. Goodwin Goldsmith, architect; Prof. R. L. Grider, resident engineer, and Prof. J. O. Jones, assistant to Professor Williams work. J. M. Shea is acting as Superintendent of Construction.
Frats to Run Houses At Least Two Weeks
Owing to the fact that at least two weeks will elapse before the S. A. T. C. will occupy barracks, the various fraternities on the hill are opening their houses as usual and will go ahead wgith fall rushing. Practically all houses will run tables until they are full. Many organizations have not yet decided what they will do with their houses. It is probable many will be left open as gathering places for the student soldiers when they have hours off.
Extra copies of this issue of the University Daily Kansan may be obtained at the Kansan library, south side of the campus
Regular publication of the paper will begin with the opening of school, as usual, September 30.
Men's Student Council—A meeting will be held at 7:50 o'clock Monday
Money save works day and night
or you. Buy War-Savings Stamps!