UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 156
Naval Reserve Open To All University Men Who Are Physically Fit
Applicants Armed With Enroll ment Certificate, Take Examinations in K. C.
Training At Great Lakes
Not to Be Called This Summer
If Needed at Home
For Work
Any physically fit man in the University, who is regularly enrolled in a school and expects to graduate with a degree, is eligible for enlistment in the Naval Reserve, according to N. B. Whitzel, petty officer from the Navy recruiting station at Kansas City.
sas' city:
To exist in the Reserve, the student must present a certificate of good standing from the dean stating that he is regularly enrolled. If the applicant passes the physical examination, which is given in Kansas City, he then obtains release from his local draft board and will continue with his regular school work in non-duty status until he is graduated.
RETURN TO SCHOOL IN FALL
Reservists will be trained at the Great Lakes training school of seamanship during the summer months and allowed to returned to their regular school work in the fall. At this school they are taught the rudiments of sailors' duties. They learn the riggins of vessels, how to tie knots, to man life boats and all the elements of seamanship. The technical training comes later.
Training at the Great Lakes school for this summer, however, will be at the option of the applicants and he can specify at the time of his enlistment. If he is needed for useful work at home this summer he will not be called to the school.
LISTED SECOND CLASS SEAMEN
At the Great Lakes, the reservoirs
will be classed as second class sea-
men and receive $35.90 a month.
Mr. Whitzel will be at the post office Friday afternoon to talk to the men who are interested in the Reserve.
Less Than 50 Per Cent Of Students Here Give To Red Cross Drive
Flag
Students Must Contribute 75
Per Cent To Obtain Honor
Less than 50 per cent of the University students have pledged to the Red Cross and 75 per cent must pledge to enable K. U. to obtain an honor flag. About 80 per cent of those who have failed to pledge so far are men.
The University has raised more than twice the amount assessed but the burden has been upon about one-half of the students. $2,313 has been pledged and $1,500 of that amount has been paid. Honor badges will be given to those who pay their pledges as they are paid. The badge is oblong in shape and has the Red Cross emblem in the center.
The University is trying to get its complete quota by Friday. Those who have failed to pledge are asked to leave their name and address with their pledge at the Registrar's office in Fraser Hall. The pledges may be paid at the Registrar's office.
The honor flags for organizations are large square emblems with the Red Cross insignia in the center. At the bottom of the square small Red Crosses are placed with the per cent of employees or members of the organization who have made their pledges to the Red Cross.
All students who fail to make a Red Cross pledge will be reported.
"The Red Cross must be supported by voluntary contribution, because if the government supported it, many things could never be accomplished, which is now done by this organization," said Prof. U. G. Mitchell, to the women of the University at the Food conservation lecture, in Fraser Chapel Wednesday. "The Red Cross," he continued, "Is the only thing that can reach the men when they are taken prisoners."
Mr. and Mrs. F. Firestone of Anthony will be guests at t he Pi Upsilon house Saturday evening.
O.T.S. Class Day to Be May 29 in Green Hall
Class Day exercises of Oread Training School will be given by the seniors in Little Theater in Green Hall the night of May 29, at 7:45 o'clock.
Commencement exercises are to be held at the Unitarian church the night of May 30, at 8 o'clock. Prof. U. G. Mitchell will give the address. Dean F. J. Kelly of the School of Education will present the diplomas.
The War Here and Over There
The German submarine, instead of being the menace it has been, is reported to be now on the defensive. Submarines are being destroyed faster than they can be built.
United States shipyards have been asked to rush production to make July 4 the most notable launching day in history. Charles M. Schwab, director general of government shipbuilding, said that more ships are being built than can possibly be sunk by submarines.
Artificial meat, supported by pepper, salt, and onions, is being sold in Germany to try to fill the need caused by the scarcity of the real article
The Germans are trying to get the Geneva Red Cross to express a protest against the use of poison gas.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY, 23, 1918
German official statements say that there are 3,575,000 prisoners in Germany and her allies, including civilians as well as soldiers. The labor power of these persons, Germany says is of "supreme value." It is estimated that two-thirds of the prisoners are Russians.
University Men Are Needed As Officers In Artillery Corps
Chancellor Gets Word of Training Camp at Fort Monroe, Va.
Word has been received by Chancellor Frank Strong from the Coast Artillery training camp at Fortress Monroe, Va., calling the attention of University men to openings for enlistments in this branch of the service.
Effort is being made to interest members of colleges and universities, especially technical institutions, in the opportunity offered by the coast artillery corps, to become officers in this branch of the service.
To handle heavy artillery and conduct its fire, officers with previous scientific training are desirable. It is also desirable for the men to serve in that branch of the army where their training will be of best advantage.
CORPS SUPPLIES OFFICERS
This corps is supplying all the army artillery for the mobile army aboard; that is, the large reserve of medium and large caliber artillery attached to the army organization. It also will supply all anti-aircraft batteries and trench mortars.
CORPS SUPPLIES OFFICERS
TRAINING LASTS THREE MONTHS Officers are now commissioned in coat artillery by passing successfully a 3-month course of training in the Coat Artillery Training Camp. The next training camp starts July 1.
TO SELECT UNIVERSITY MEN
It has not been possible during the last few months to secure a sufficient number of candidates for the training camp from the enlisted personnel of the army. A provision is now in force by which cretain selected students from the universities can be placed almost immediately* in the training camp. Students now are given under the draw law will be given the necessairy, inducted by the local board, sent to the Coast Artillery School and assigned to a special company, where they will be given preliminary training until July 6. Students not registered may go to Fort Monroe, at their own expense, and enlist there.
Library Notice
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Students are requested to return this week all books which they have out of the University Library.
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Many Well Known Teachers Will Speak at Annual Meeting
Y. W. C. A. Conference For Women of Colleges To be at Hollister, Mo
The annual Student Conference, held under the auspices of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association for women in the schools and colleges of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas, will be held June 25 July 5, on the Presbyterian Assembly grounds at Hollister, Mo.
Christian interlocutor
The speakers will be the Reverend Mr. Thomas R. W. White of Bloomington, Ind.; Prof. Frank L. Jewett of the University of Texas; the Reverend Mr. J. L. Kessler of Baylor University, Texas; the Reverend O. D. Wannaker of the South Methodist
"World Citizenship" is the subject of the conference. Three phases of the subject which will be studied are, social justice, world democracy and Christian internationalism.
The United States Navy has perfected plans for the enrollment and training of considerable numbers of engineering officers. A school for this training known as the United States Navy Steam Engineering School, has been established at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., under Dean F. L. Pryor.
School to Train Men In Steam Engineering Offered By U. S. Navy
University, Texas; the Reverend Mr. A. J. Waller of Pueblo, Colo., and others.
Candidates Are Given Rank of Officer Upon Successfully Completing Courses
But the amount the University subscribes doesn't make any difference when it comes to earning a Red Cross flag. That is determined by the number of people who help raise the fund.
And the Red Cross is asking only ten cents for every hundred dollars of a student's income. But they are asking that from every student's income. We're all in it now and all of us must come through.
The Red Cross quota set for the University has been overscribed. Students had subscribed $2,313 at 6 o'clock last night. They had paid $1,500.
The course consists of five months training, divided as follows:
So far only 50 per cent of the students of the University have pledged to the Red Cross fund. Seventy-five per cent must give something before K. U. can add a Red Cross flag to the Liberty Bond flag.
DAYS TO BE WELL FILLED
A uniform schedule for each day of the meeting has been planned. The morning sessions begin with Assembly at 8:30 o'clock. Bible classes will be held, from 9-10 o'clock. Mission study classes will meet from 10-11 o'clock. From 11:10-12:00 there will be special councils for student presidents, cabinet members, normal school students, Indian students, general secretaries and faculty members. The afternoons will be given over to competitive sports in tennis, basketball and swimming. There will be opportunities for horseback ride and tramping trips. In the evening a platform meeting will be held at 7:25 o'clock. The day will close with separate delegation meetings.
training divided as follows:
One month of military training at the Naval Training Camp, Pelham Bay Park, New York. One month at the U. S. Navy Steam Engineering School. Two months practical training on board ships and in repair shops in the vicinity of New York.
One month finishing coruse at the U. S. Navy Steam Engineering School.
The school is open to men between twenty-one and thirty, who are phys-
ALL IN IT
CANADA CONTINUING WORK
The need of such conferences even in time of war is evident from the fact that Canada, after two years in the war doubled the number of summer conferences held there.
Unmanageable Milk Car Runs Down Children
net conference. The conference is opened for all students under graduates who are interested in the work. For additional information students are requested to see Nille Reece Evans, chairman of the conference committee, or Miss Duffield.
Two small sons of Prof. L. N. and Mrs. Flint, and Helen Naismith, e19, were run down and injured at noon today by an automobile that became unmanageable on Fourthgen Street, back down the hill and jumped the curb at Louisiana Street. Miss Naismith was trying to drag the two children from the path of the car when the three were struck. Her foot was painfully bruised. Bobbie Flint, 4-year-old, was severely bruised on one leg and the other leg slightly cut, George Flint, 2 years old, was knocked down, but apparently was unhurt. The two children were standing on the sidewalk at Fourthgen and Louisiana streets, as a milk delivery car bearing the name Wilson's Dairy passed up Fourthgen Street. The engine went dead just above Louisiana Street and when the brakes failed to stop the car the driver apparently tried to back into Louisiana Street. The car struck the curb and ran partly across the sidewalk before stopping.
CANADA CONTINUING WORK
rically qualified, of thorough ability
who have completed the engineering
course at any recognized technical
school.
This school presents particular desirable opportunities to the young technical man, both in affording him a proper outlet for his trained facilities during the war, and in rounding out his college work with a practical course and school experience which will be of value to any engineer.
For additional details application can be made to the Civilian Director, U. S. Navy Engineering School, Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.
The service that a graduate from the school will perform will be that of an engineer-officer in the auxiliary service of the Navy. A graduate of the school will be commissioned an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force.
One Engineer Remains For Graduation of 42
In a statement this morning Dear G. C. Shand of the School of Engineering said that of the forty-two senior engineers who were to have been graduated this year, the school will be represented at the graduation exercises by only one, a chemical engineer.
Plain Tales From The Hill
gineer. The other seniors are all in active military service, many being called to the engineers$^2$ reserve. Several were called this week to report to the reserves.
Men registered in the draft can enroll with the proper enrolling officer by securing from the draft board a letter of release which in all probability can be obtained for this purpose, provided the men are not included in the current draft quota.
SOME IRRITATING THINGS
Special provision has been made for the continuance of the school with proper material by a navy regulation which permits under-graduates of the freshman, sophomore and junior classes in recognized engineering schools to enroll in the navy with a rating seaman second class and continue their courses at the Institutions where they have matriculated. Such men will be called into active service after their graduation and can at that time, if they are physically qualified to pass an officer's physical examination, enroll for the course at the U.S. Navy Steam Engineering School.
BONE IRRITATING THINGS
The idea that seniors will loaf next week while you struggle with quizzes. The sudden realization that you
Athletic Equipment To Be in May 28
Call has gone out from the office of W. O. Hamilton for students to check in all athletic equipment belonging to the University athletic association. All equipment of every variety must be turned in at the McCook Field sheds or at Manager Hamilton's office in Robinson Gymnasium before May 28, or the cost of the missing articles will be charged to the students. Only Varsity men who are actually using the material on the teams are exempted in this call and they should check in as soon as they finish their final athletic event. Students will not be allowed to keep any sort of athletic equipment during the summer except by special permission.
The audden realization that you have fooled around all semester.
A phone call from the bank that you have over-drawn.
have to
Doing the entire work of a course
from 11 o'clock until four in the
morning.
The discovery that you have not paid a lot of dues.
Wearing your old raincoat on the Hill, only to have it clear up.
This is encouraging. The Student Council will give its final dance Saturday night, and it will only cost 85 cents, which is 25 cents cheaper than last week.
The Hill has its charm. Several prominent members of the School of Law who left early to save the nation have returned to Lawrence.
From "Hyms of Hate" in the Jay-hawker: "The Senate shows pretty pictures of tanks and gasses on the bulletin boards so that we will have something to read while waiting for our girl." John Monteith acted on this suggestion Wednesday night, and got wise to the war while his girl sat through a meeting.
Entomology students looked out s Snow Hall window and viewed the latest improvement on the Journalism Building. "If they tack enough sheds on that building," one remarked with unnecessary acidity, "they may be able to hold it down."
Said Prof. C. C. Crawford in a disussion of politics, "We don't want republican water works nor Democratic water works. We want water works that will squirt."
A knife was used to cut the fire hose at the Fowler Shops fire several weeks ago so water would come out the end of the hose. The knife was lent to Dale Mellenburch by another student, Mellenburch, who lives at 1344 Kentucky Street, has been trying to find the original owner of the knife that cut the hose, that did much to put out the fire, that caused a large loss, and that still has an undetermined origin.
FINAL FIRE NEWS!
The owner should get his knife.
The class in Newspaper II is learning how to keep a box score of baseball games. "What's a Texas leaguer?" asked the instructor Wednesday. "Oh, just a little fly drop between the infield and outfield," replied a fan. Which remark was tremendously illuminating to the women in the class.
Rocklund Leaves Museum
Theored A. Rocklund, who has been taxidermist of Dyce Museum for fifteen years was called in the last draft quota from Douglas County. He will leave tomorrow for Camp Funston. Rocklund is responsible for much of the work of the museum.
MEN OF KANSAS!
The spirit of brave old Kansas calls each man of us to give what he can to the Red Cross
Let us be true to the tradition and to ourselves; let there be no mean slacker here. Unashamed, let us do what we can, knowing well that but twenty-five cents for a bandage may save a life.
If you have given,-fine.
If not,-an opportunity will be
yours Friday morning.
Watch for that opportunity be true to this old Hill.
Committee.
Be American!
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Dr. Frank Strong Back With Favorable Report Of Peace Conference
Ex-President William H. Taft Presided Over Meeting Held In Philadelphia
Foreign Delegates Present
Attendance So Large Crowd Had to Be Divided Into Two Sections
That the win the war for permanent peace meeting of the League to Enforce Peace held in Philadelphia on May 16 and 17 was one of great enthusiasm and great influence is the report brought back by Chancellor Frank Strong who was a delegate to the conference. That conference was much lauded as it was expected to charge and the character of the meeting has given the League to Enforce Peace a very wide influence, he said.
The conference was presided over by ex-President William H. Taft who is president of the League. Ambassadors from Great Britain, France and Japan were present, and a general from the Italian army also attended. Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels delivered a speech which he told of the accomplishments of the navy in the present war.
One of the most significant feauret of the conference, according to Chancellor Strong, was the presence of delegates of the socialist party and labor representatives. These men pledged themselves to give their big support to the idea of permanent peace after the war.
SEAMEN STAND UP TO EAT
TWO HOTELS FOR CROWD
SEAMEN STAND UP TO IT
The speech of Secretary Daniels was very interesting according to the Chancellor, and he said that the American destroyers had traveled an aggregate of a million miles since the beginning of the war. The life on board these destroyers is especially arduous, according to the speech of Secretary Daniels as the small boats go through the water at the rate of twenty-five to thirty knots an hour and the quarters are so cramped the men on board often go weeks without eating a meal except while standing.
TWO HOTELS FOR CROWD
The attendance of the big war dinner Friday evening was so much larger than expected that the company had to be divided into two sections and two hotels were used for the dinner. Twenty-two hundred persons attended. The speakers also had to be divided and the two divisions were shifted so at both hotels the delegates heard the same speakers.
The conference at Philadelphia was only one of many meetings of the league to Enforce Peace but the character of the meeting gave the eague much more prestige than it ever held before.
Oread Training School Opens Summer Term Soon
Regular Supervisors Will Have Charge From June 10 to August 9
The Oread Training School will open its second annual summer term June 10, and will continue until August 9. Classes will be provided in English, mathematics, science, history, and the like, according to the enrolment. All work will be under the direction of the regular supervisors and all will be of the same quality as that of the regular school year. Half units of credit will be given for each subject successfully completed. No tuition will be charged. All persons interested should make application for enrollment at the earliest possible date.
Alexander Gets Degree
Charles P. Alexander, assistant curator of the Museum, has been granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Cornell University. Mr. Alexander recently sent his thesis on "The Biology of Crane-fies," to Cornell, where he studied eight years. The faculty of Cornell acted upon his thesis yesterday.
Prof. R. A. Schweigler will meet his class in Adolescence Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in the class recitation room.