UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 157.
VOLUME XV.
All Women on the Hill Give to Red Cross Fund Winning Honor Banner
Engineering Students Make Canvass to Increase Total for University
K.U. Offering Is Now $3,00
Feminine Instructors and Employs Make Contribution of $463
Women members of the faculty ano women employees of the University have registered 100 per cent in their contribution to the Red Cross and are winners of the first honor pledge banner issued by the local managers of the campaign. Their contribution was $463. May Gardnr, instructor of the Romance Language, was in charge of this group.
Today the entire student body of the School of Engineering is working strenuously to solicit contributions from those students who have not yet given to the Red Cross. They are working under the direction of Dean G. C. Shaad, who has charge of the K. U. campaign.
By tomorrow the committees in charge of the contributions hope to have seen every student enrolled in the University and every employee. Up to the present more than $5,000 has been raised.
Kansas to Enter Four In Valley Conference Field Meet in Columbia
War Takes Such Toll It Is Un certain How Many Will Receive Letters
Four men of the University of Kansas track team left today for Columbia, Mo., to enter the Missouri Valley conference meet being held there today and Saturday. Rice will compete in the high jump, Rodkey in the broad jump, Deewail in the mile, and Oglewie in the two-mile run. The remaining men in have either gone work and have gone home, or are unable to go to the meet on account of studies.
These four men are expected to count thirteen or fourteen points. A number of stars or near-stars from smaller colleges and universities havemen entered in this meet. Missouri with a squad of nearly 22 men should win the meet with little difficulty, although Apes and Nebraska have strong teams. The Kansas Appalachians contested four men, but Foreman in the two-mile looks like the only chance for the Farmer team. Graf of Nebraska should beat him and their is a chance that Orlevie may noh him out.
So many members of the track team this year have gone into the service that it is hard to estimate how many will get letters. The usual number is about sixteen.
K. U. has gone through the track season this year without electing a captain and it is expected that the team will elect one on this trip or next week, for this year as well as for 1919. "Dummy" O'Leary, captain-elect this year, in is aviation and has been in the army service since last spring when he enlisted in the Kansas Engineers.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 24, 1918.
Wednesday's Big Rain Counteracted Evaporation
There is no immediate danger of drought although the evaporation for month of May has been three times that of last year. With the two inch rain which fell Wednesday morning, it should be some weeks before any plants suffer lack of moisture. Prof. Charles A. Shull, who is in charge of one of the Government's Class A Standard Evaporation Stations accounts for the extremely high evaporation in three ways: high winds, high temperature and low humidity of the air. The government has established thirty of these stations since 1911 in different states and Port Rico.
By studying the reports from various sections of the country the government hopes to be able to some time be in a position to predict to some extent the weather conditions.
Wear of Kansan Gets Orders for West Point
The seventh of those who have been editors of the Daily Kansan to *in*-national service, Millard Wear of Topeka, a junior in the college, has passed examinations and has been ordered to report early in June at West Point.
Wear has been editor of the Plain Tales column, sports editor, news editor, and editor-in-chief this year, and has been on the Kansan Board two years. He is a member of the Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic fraternity of America. He has been correspondent for the Topeka Capital, the Kansas City Star, and the Lawrence Journal-World.
The War Here and Over There
The United States shipped more than a million tons of food to the Allies in March.
Official figures show that the United States Army by June 1 will have 1,898,894 men and 148,328 officers. The men include the national army, numbering 519,963, 150,000 men drafted in April, and 233,742 drafted in May.
Flat and house dwellers in London are allowed to buy the following amounts of food a week: a pound of meat, half pound of bacon, ham, or sausage, and a quarter pound of butter or butter substitute.
General Schulte of the German army, in his report before the Reichstag, May 11, said more than two million Germans have been killed since the beginning of the war. In addition to this, he said, more than 629,000 men have been disabled beyond further military duty.
An amendment to the selective service regulations announced by Provost Marshal General Crowder provides that all draft registrants must work or fight after July 1. Idlers and men in non-useful occupations, such as gamblers, waiters, bartenders, theater ushers, and possibly professional baseball players, will be given the choice of useful jobs or the army.
Germans have again bombed British hospitals and killed and wounded several hundred persons, patients and members of the hospital forces.
Correspondence-Study
Department Is Growing
Increased Number of Student Take Courses, Many Not For Credits
The correspondence-study department has closed a busy year and is now ready to start on its busiest season, according to Harold G. Ingham, secretary of the department.
There are many University students who enroll with the department during the summer months in order to get more credits. There are also many students from other colleges in Kansas, who enroll in courses they want which are not given in their college curriculum. These students who enroll are not taking courses for credit, and many are not college students.
Students who took Sociology I during the fall semester, please call for their term papers at Room 204, Administration Building—M. C. Elmer.
The largest enrollment during the past year was in English, the next largest in Romance languages. The enrollment in French has increased 80 percent over the last decade and also an increase in the study of journalism, mathematics, and Latin.
The Rota Club will hold its last meeting of the year at 1229 Vermont street Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Members are urged to attend.
Library Notice
Students are requested to return this week all books which they have out of the University Library.
There was an increase of 117 in the enrollment in the department over that of last year. This year, 1,357 have taken courses in the department while last year there were only 1,220.
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THE WAR'S RECOMPENSE
The original of this verse was found on an American soldier who bravely fought and as nobilly died. The man is yet unknown.
Ye who have faith to look with fearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife,
And know that out of death and night shall rise
The dawn of ampler life.
Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart,
That God has given you a priceless dower,
To live in these great times and have your part
In freedom's crowning hour.
That ye may tell your sons who see the light High in the heavens—their heritage to take— "I saw the powers of darkness put to flight, I saw the morning break."
"Kansas Engineer" Out; Annual Number Filled With Many Articles
Technical Subjects, Honor Roll And News Items Make Up Publication
The 1917-1918 Kansas Engineer is off the press! Exactly ninety-five pages of interesting material from cover to cover for the information and pleasure of Engineers, alumni, men in the service, and outsiders. The editor of this year's publication, P. P. Wagstaff, discusses the last few months to give the engineers a magazine full of interest to them as engineers.
There are three leading articles in the "Engineer," one by B. L. Wolfe, 63, associate professor of mining, engineering, on "Mining in Kansas." He emphasizes oil production in the Augusta and Eldorado fields which in 1917 alone yielded 37,986,670 barrels of oil, at a value of $65,000;000, on 1917, 7,500,000 tons being mined in 1917; the value of lead and zinc in the Galena district, and of the many other minerals being mined in the state. The article is of interest to every citizen in the state.
"The Recovery of Casing-head Gasoline," by J. J. Bakowsky, e20; is a story of how gasoline is recovered from casing-head gas told in a technical, yet intelligible enough for the average layman to understand. The third big article deals with "Present Development of Electric Power Transmission." A professor of electrical engineering. It gives an account of the spread of transmission lines to all parts of the state including the rural districts.
P. P. Wagner, editor-in-chief; Ernest Pickering, assistant editor; R.W. Warner, circulation manager; Clarence Lynn, business manager; C.K. Matthews, assistant business manager; George DeVoe, advertising manager, and Prof. F.R. N. Raymond, advisory member editorial board.
"Field Notes" contains articles on "Sanitation," "Drainage and Irrigation in Kansas," "Kansas Highway Commission," "Oil and Gas Developments," written by K. U. graduates.
This issue is number four of the Kansas Engineer, published annually.
The men responsible for this year's issue of the "Engineer" are;
The "Societies" of the Associated Engineers are given several pages, and the Campus Notes gives a complete account of the Engineering School, its various departments, and its connection with war work. This department should be of interest to every man in high school as it might help him determine which field of work he should enter.
Among the illustrations of the magazine are pictures of Dean P. F. Walker, Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers, N. A., the late Captain Ernest Charles Seward, the first艇长; Charles Seward, of the class of 19, killed by a fall in an airplane.
The Honor Roll of the magazine gives a complete directory of all the alumni and former students in the service, and this makes the "Kansas Engineer" a necessary volume for every engineering student in the school, and all alumni.
Class Day This Year To Include Two Meals Served on K.U. Campus
Breakfast and Senior-Alumni Luncheon Will be Saturday Near Fraser
Class Day, Saturday, June 1, will include two outdoor meals on the campus near Fraser Hall, Warren Wattles, president of the senior class, said this morning. The first will be a senior breakfast at 8:30 o'clock in the morning, and the other the senior-alumni luncheon at noon.
Two different tags will be sold, one for breakfast and one for luncheon. They will be sold when the caps and gowns are given to the seniors. The time and place of this will be announced later.
"The price charged for the breakfast tag," said Wattles, this morning, "will be but about half of the cost of the breakfast. The balance of the cost will be paid out of the senior class treasury. I want all seniors to get tags for themselves for the breakfast and the ones for the noon luncheon when they get their gowns, so that we will know how many will be there."
Following the breakfast will be the Class Day exercises, with the smoking of the pipe of peace and accompanying exercises. It is "pipes" of peace this year, according to Wattie, for separate individual pipes will be furnished.
Morgan, Annual Editor,
Leaves for Service
Another Kansan editor has been called into the service. Harry H. Morgan, c'18, former Kansan editor, has been ordered to report for service in the national army Saturday at Camp Fonstun. Morgan tried four times last summer to enlist but was refused because of defective hearing. This, however, did not keep him from being moved by the draft board.
Last summer Morgan worked on the Kansas City Star, and returning from there he remained with the Kansan until he was called. Mr. Morgan worked up to the last moment as editor of the Jayhawker before leaving for service. He was a member of Alemannia, an active member of Sigma Delta Chi, the honorary journalism fraternity. He was also an Owl and a member of Sachems, honor senior society.
Morgan, along with Don Davis, was he first freshman to make the Kanan Board. Since then he has worked steadily on the paper for the last our years. Last semester he held the position of student helper, endeavored to teach the students with his coy copy who had just begun the course in Journalism.
Mrs. Tector Asks Conferences
Mrs. E. D. E. Tector will be glad to meet in the early part of next week
for her work, and to be joined by anior in the department of Home Eco-
omics next year, to talk to over the work with them.
Mrs. Teetor Asks Conferences
Seismograph in Blake
Records a Long Quake
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering society, will award a medal next fall to the freshman engineer having the highest scholarship. The medal is of gold and attached to a watch fob.
The seismograph in Blake Hall yesterday morning recorded an earthquake shock which it is estimated was about 1,170 miles, and the probable location was in California. The vibration of the main wave was so intense that the maximum motion of the needles was slightly more than an inch.
The primary wave came at 7:01:40 o'clock, the secondary wave at 7:04:53 o'clock, the main wave at 7:07:01 o'clock. The end of the record came at 8:25 o'clock, making the record last nearly an hour and twenty-four minutes.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Last day o'r school, kid!
You won't have to dress a la fire horse, bolt your breakfast, hurry up the Hill, and arrive breathless and without the lesson any more. At least, not for several months.
This theory, given by a man on the Hill, whose ethics are above question, may be of use to the student whose papers are not in: "Art that conceals itself is the best kind of art."
Prof. B. F. Moore: "Hang around my hotel lobby for A while, and listen to the men between thirty-five and fifty tell what they would do if they could only fight. You will be convinced that the war came ten years earlier. Now you are indulging putting the greatest fighting generation on lobby in uniform."
And there was rejoicing, for was there not calf, un-Hooverized and ready for the sacrifice, standing on the front porch?
The dark hours of Thursday night, fast approaching Friday morning, brought unto the Kappa porch a calf. Members of the Kappa, squeeping out of the windows, saw human forms with handkerchiefs covering their faces. A few hours later it humored these forms had some connection with the coming of the calf.
Tied to the railing, the animal stood meekly while the sisters petted it. Then came the rescue, and the rejoicing.
"Some students are like wheelbarrows," said a professor of Greek recently. "They go no farther than they are pushed."
We had a wonderful story for this space. But Evelyn Rorabaugh promised us a trip to Brick's to suppress it, and we are always susceptible to food. *
"A stick of gum in the tin foil was worth two wads of it on a theater seat." Thus soliloquized Ed Mason this morning.
The reason: Thursday night Mason kipped cramming and went to the picture show. He laid his gum on a table, then drown on the seat, und on the gum.
Heard while going into the food conservation lecture, "Shall we sit lown front, Marjorie, or do you want a write a letter?"
There are many compensations for going to war. Harry Morgan, who is in the next draft, has so many dinner invitations he can't accept them all. People are saying such nice things about him, that he almost feels as if he were dead.
Two More Honor Freshmen
Two additional names for the fresh-
han honor roll were announced this
warning by Assistant Dean D. L.
L.
Alfred James Graves, Dodge City. Elizabeth Evans, Lawrence.
WHEN THEY COME
3 o'clock classes, Saturday afternoon.
10 o'clock classes. Mon d ay morning.
1 o'clock classes, Monday af
ternoon.
9 o'clock classes., Tuesday morning.
8 o'clock classes. Wednesday morning.
exclusively Saturday classes.
Tuesday afternoon.
Land Army Appoints County Chairman For Work During Vacation
2 o'clock classes, Wednesday afternoon.
11 o'clock classes, Thursday morning.
Much Expected of Women Going to Preach Farm Gospel In Fields
National Leaders Pleased
Movement Has Made Great Progress at University—Dr. Hyde
"The progress of the University Women's Land Army has been very good," said Dr. I. H. Hyde today, "the national organization at New York wrote it was very pleased with what the women at the University of Kansas had done toward a unit in Kansas."
Doctor Hyde said the organization would be kept alive this summer, and she expects a great deal of work to be done by the chairmen of the different counties.
The officers of the central organization at the University are: Chairman, Minnie Moody; secretary, Gussie Gaskill; executive committee, Irma Smith, Kathryn Davis, Glessia Blackburn and Carol Martin. The advisory committee consists of Dr. Ida Hyde, chairman, Miss Elsie Neuenschwander, Miss Margaret Lymn, Miss Mineie Moodie, Miss Hanna Oliver, Miss Katherine Duffield, Miss Lucene Spencer, and Miss Alice Winston.
The following are the county chairmen; Cecelia Robinson, Atchison county; Irma Smith, Barber; Dorothy Dawson, Barton; Julia Kennedy, Bourbon; Margaret Fairchild, Brown; Jane Stratford, Bitter; Miriam Holmes, Chase; Edith Whitcher, Cloud; Doryh Flint, Crawford; Viola Engle, Dickinson; Margaret Deuveron, Donjaphan; Carol Martin, Douglas; Winifred West, Edward; Frances Greenwood, Graham; Helen Feept, Greenwood; Frances Luderman, Harper; Helen Murphy, Leaventworth; Earline Allen, Linn; Mckinley, Marion; Lillian Cottrell, Marshell; Eileen VanZandt, Neosho; Georgia Tucker, Norton; Esther Larson, Republic; Glessie Blackburn, Stafford; Ruth Trut, Wyandotte.
These are tentative chairmen who have not yet accepted. They are asked to report to Miss Minnie Moody if unable to serve.
Mary Anderson, Allen; Ala Mane Gerhold, Anderson; Nell DeHart, Cherokee; Ava Lockwood, Cheyenne; Alma Messing, Clark; Jessie Rankin, Clay; Carold Stephenson, Coffey; Carroll McDowell, Cowley; Alice Perkins, Elk; Evalina Watt, Ellsworth; Hazel Skinner, Finney; Lora Gould, Ford; Lucky Hostetter, Franklin; Agnes Thomen, George; Myrtle Hge, Harvey; Olive Reynolds, Jackson; Jesie Craig, Jefferson; Mary Pyle, Jewell; Eden Roberts, Kiowa; Clora Riggs, Lyon; Dionie Chafer, McPherson; Blanche McNulty, Montgomery; Dorothy Farragar, Nemaha; Fay Foster, Rawilins; Ether Moore, Reno; Beth Amsthose, Worth; Ecther Gillett,莉丝; Mimie Locke, Martha黛wild; Russell; Margaret Walker, Saline; Maline Garvin, Scott; Evelyn Rorahaugh, Sedgwick; Clara Pittman, Seward; Martjorie Roby, Shawnee; Marie McKinney, Sheridan; Ruth bottomly, Smith; Mildred Schwinn, Summer; Martjorie Gibson, Treo; Susie Burger, Wauburens; Josephine Montegue, Washington; Pauline Kimbail, Wilson; Thelma Hale, Woodson; Ruth Trant, Wyandotte.
Benefit Brings In $300
For French Children
Dancing of* Miss Topping and Her Class Pleased Well Filled House
The benefit for the Fatherless Children of France given at the Bowersock Theater Thursday night was well supported by the patriotic people of Lawrence.
The total receipts amounted to more than $400, but were reduced to $366 after the war tax had been paid. From this amount a number of expenses must be paid, which will leave about $300 net proceeds.
Credit must be given to Helen Topping for the success of the entertainment. Miss Topping's efforts were given absolutely free, as was the work of her class. She paid the expenses of herself and her class while in Lawrence.