UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 149.
Nerves of Submarine Lie in Conning Tower Writes Former Teacher
C. W. White, Instructor In School of Engineering, Tells of Government Work
Part of Work Is Difficult
Six Men Frequently Crowded Into Four by Six Foot Space Installing Instruments
The following letter was received by F. H. Sibley from C. W. White who was a professor in the School Engineering and is now in Gov ment service in San Francisco. "Dear F' end:-
"I arrived here safely after an uncomfortable journey due to the fact that I am a poor traveler. Left, K. C. Tuesday night and arrived in San Francisco about noon Friday. Was assigned to the Union Iron Work offices and sent to the office of the company in the afternoon and enrolled for work."
"The machinists were all wanted for submarine work. I had expected to go into the shops on small machine work, but Mr. Myers, who has charge of the submarine work, represented to me the extreme need for men to work within the hulls putting them out and making sure that make up the equipment, so I asked I would work where I was most needed as long as I could stand the work.
"I was assigned to the coming towers. The conning tower is to the submarine what the head is to the body. All the nerves center there. The specialized devices which record what is going on without and within; and those which command the action of the tremendous forces with which the hull is crowded, are located in the tower. Innumerable holes to drill and tap, frequently in most difficult places. We have made helpful tools we have for our work. Much has to be done with ratchet and drill. Can seldom use a double and tap wrench. Files and hammer and chisel are our steady companions.
"The hulls are afloat and I work practically in the open air. The climate is fine except for a cold wind that blows in from off the ocean at this time of year. They tell me that San Francisco does not have warm weather until September.
"Each machinist has a helper. Sometimes he is of great assistance, but much of the time can not be of service and sometimes he is in the way. The towers are oval about four feet one way and six feet the other. Frequently three machinists and their helpers are crowded into a tower at the same time for measurements to be made; tools to require constant climbing in and out and you can be sure it is hard work.
"I am not certain that I shall be here after this week. I have a sister in Los Angeles and I have received an offer of a job on small machine work in a ship yard at Long Beach about thirty miles from Los Angeles. It is government work and the pay is the same as it is here. It will not be so hard for me as this climbing around. I will be near my sister and I think the climate will be more desirable. Shall take the week to think it over.
"You would be tremendously interested in the various mechanical processes going on here. The Oxy-Acetylene torch is a Godsend to the shipbuilding industry, and we are over twelve thousand employed here at the Union Iron Works."
Dittmar, c'12. Wins War Cross
Dittmar, c12, Wins War Cross Lieut. Elmer H. Dittmar, A. B, '12 was awarded the French "Croix de Guerre" for bravery and calmness under fire. At the time he received this distinctive honor he was suffering in a French hospital from the effect of German mustards shell.
While in the University, Lieutenant Dittmar was business manager of the Jayhawker, member of the Dramatic Club, the Black Friars, and Sachems. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity.
Lieutenant Dittmar won his commission at the first officers' training camp in November and has been in the thick of the fight on the Picardy front. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dittmar of Clay Center.
Men's Student Council will meet in Room 110, Fraser Hall, at 7 o'clock, Wednesday night.
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Student Welfare League To Collect Old Clothes
The Woman's Student Welfare League will canvas Lawrence May 18, to collect old clothes that have been discarded but which may be used by girls in the poorer schools of Kentucky and Tennessee. All University girls are asked to go through their ward-robes and get articles ready for the committee which will collect Saturday morning.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1918.
Welfare leagues, who have investigated conditions in these mountain schools, report they are suffering from a lack of all kinds of supplies and that many of the scholars will be unable to continue their work unless clothing is sent them.
T. War
Here and Over There
May 15, 536 officers will go to Camp Perry, Ohio, to be trained as snipers in the Small Arms Firing School, and ten days later 525 more will report. One thousand officers and marksmen each month and will be sent back to campments to pass on their knowledge to their men.
The report that American troops were not to be used on the west front until they became more powerful was an error; all American forces in France have been placed under General Foch's command.
Aliens who meet government tests will receive their naturalization papers in accordance with a recent act of Congress. This will grant citizenship to about 123,277 men in the national army and many more civilizers.
A national exhibition was held in Berlin recently to popularize the use of paper clothing. In an effort to get additional gold, wedding rings have been suppressed in Germany. The food and health situations of that country are reported to be quite critical.
The third training camp for Y. M. C. A. workers for overseas service was opened last week at Princeton University, and a fourth will be held late this month. Foreign language classes, gymnasium work, conference, and lectures are given.
More than 100,000 women are employed on Prussian-Hessian railways in Germany as against 10,000 before the war.
Women of University Will Dance for Orphans
Miss Topping, Professor Preyer and Mrs. Olcott Will Feature Program
Featuring as a solo dancer Miss Helen Topping, f. a. 17, with twenty-two of her dancing pupils, and Prof Carl A. Preyer and Mrs. Herman Olcott, a benefit for the Fatherless Children of France will be given at the Bowersock Theater on Thursday, May 23. The benefit will be given under the auspices of the Lawrence Division of the Society, of which Mrs. F. B. Dains is chairman, and Prof E. W. Murray is secretary. The committee is now supporting 150 orphans in France.
Twenty-two dancers, most of them University women, will appear with Miss Topping. Clyde Farnsworth, her dancing partner in Kansas City, will dance with her, and in solo work. Miss Topping's pupils made a distinct hit last year in a Red Cross benefit; but the performance was without the efforts of Miss Toppings, as she was ill at the time. This year she promises to present a better program than ever.
Prof. Carl A. Preyer, whose piano work is known not only all over America, but in foreign lands, needs no introduction to a K. U. audience. Mrs. Herman Olcott, the wife of former Coach Olcott, is a member of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts, and is in Lawrence in her own concerts, and in the Minnesota Choral Union and in the Minnesota Symphony Orchestrum.
Tickets for the recital are being sold by a committee of University women, who will canvass the campus and maintain a ticket office in Fraser Hall check stand on Wednesday and Thursday. Reserved seats may be had at the Round Corner Drug Store May 20.
Lee Bryant Says Twenty-six Pounds of Turkey Served Eighty-four Persons
Caterer Denies Charge That Kanza's Supper Violated Food Rules
Only Unfit Scraps "Wasted"
Rolls Served Were Regular Wa Substitute Made by Bakeries, Reply Declares
"Food conservation rules were not violated, as charged by the county food administrator, at the Kanza Supper at the Country Club, last Friday night," said Lee Bryant, who served the supper, to v.
"Wheat flour hot rolls were not served at the ms il. The rolls were made of flour containing the propionate institute now being used by the bakers.
"The food administrator's letter complaining of the Kanza saupper said; 'The turkey carcasses contained enough meat to have provided ample supply for several, families for a week.' Two turkeys were served to eighty-four persons at the dinner and the two fowls together dressed down to a total of twenty-six pounds. That averages less than three-tenth of a pound of turkey to a person served, the turkey meat is and all. The fact of the turkey would not amply supply several families in meat for a week let alone the fact that they had first been served to eighty-four people.
"A standard cook book calls for thirty-four instead of twenty-six pounds of dressed turkey to serve seventy people, which was the number of the guests. In addition to the nearest five ten employees and four musicians."
"The scraps of bread which were thrown away were positively unfit for further use. It would have conflicted with the pure food laws to use them and they were only uneaten bits that had been served and scraps of crust. There was no waste in connection with the supper."
Officers of the Kanza fraternity deny that there was any waste or violation of Food Administration orders at the supper.
The charges referred to above were made by the Douglas county food administrator, and the investigation followed a complaint received by him. The charges were sent in the form of a letter to the following: Walter P. Innes, federal food administrator for Kansas; Chancellor Strong; Lee Bryant, caterer for the supper; University Daily Kansan, Lawrence JournalWorld; The Daily Gazette, and the Kanza fraternity.
L. U: Crawford, certified public accountant of the firm of Crockett, Couchman and Crawford of Kansas City, will lecture to students interested in accounting, in Room 202, Administration Building, Wednesday at 1 o'clock, on the subject, "Municipal Accounts."
Ross Clayton, an instructor in the department of journalism, who has been enlisted in the aviation section of the army for some time, has received his call and will report at Austin, Tex., next week for a course of training.
Sachems will meet at the Phi Beta I house at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday night.
Cleopatra is with us again; not the Cleopatra that Caesar and Anthony loved, but perhaps a reincarnation of her spirit. She comes robed in a golden coat and bound with chains. She stands chained to the front porch of the Pi K A House passively chewing her cud.
Cleo Is Here To Help In Winning the War
All this is to say the Pi K A's have a cow. Having no way to raise a war garden, they feel that keeping a cow is another way to help win the war. To her intimate friends and members of the Pi K A household the newcomer is Cleo for short, but no such familiarity will be tolerated on the part of strangers. To them she is Cleopatra.
Life with the freshmen has lost its rosy hue. A cow of Cleopatra's temperament requires lots of care. Freshmen now leave the house with an admonition to return home in time to do the chores.
THE CALL
Jims and Mames, Who "Fail to Pass" in School Cost $1,910,260 Yearly
Dean Kelly Urges Appointment of School Nurses for
By Lieut. Dick Treweeke. 343d Infantry
But the children with their tears had a more correct estimate of the situation than did father and mother with their smiles. While is wasn't a tragedy, it was no smiling matter. For Jimmy and Mary and the 56,053 other school children who failed to pass last year cost the State of Kansas just $1,910,260, by that failure. Each one of them will remain approximately a year longer in school and do a year's work over again and for each year a child spends in school the state pays an average of $33.54.
Lieutenant Treweke, a loyal son of K. U., record holder of University of Kansas broad and high jump, prominent in dramatics, member of Sigma Chi fraternity and the Sigma Delta Chi honorary journalism fraternity, entered the service of his country from the University a year ago. This poem was written at Camp-Grant, Illinois:
Kansas
Jimmie and Mary came home from school the other day crying bitterly. They had failed "to pass" and would have to take the third grade or the fourth grade, which ever it was, over again. Mother sympathized. Father smiled with smiled at the tragedy the youngsters were making of such a little thing.
"A big part of this loss of $1,910,260 could have been prevented last year and could be avoided easily henceforth," said Dr. F. J. Kelley, dean of the School of Education of the University of Kansas. "It has been stopped in many other states and in Butler County in our own state, they have taken successful steps to stop it. Mary and Jimmie failed because they were handicapped in some way. They wanted to keep up with their school-mates and their failure was a real childhood tragedy. But nature was against them, some little constitutional trouble or other aliment that could have been corrected by a competent school nurse.
When comrades call me to the place
Where regiments are falling into line,
Have I the right to linger here
And to the marchers say—"My life is mine!"
“This is not theory. It is substantial fact that has been worked out in other states. We can do it in Kansas, A competent school nurse at $2,000 a year, for each county in Kansas, will cost $210,000 a year and a competent school nurse for each city of the first and second classes would cost $174,000. In addition cities of the third classes should have teachers at $12,000 a year, for backward children, and that would cost $184,000 a year. Altogether it would total $658,800 a year, but it would be worth it. It would have a big part of that $1,910,260 thrown away each year.
When death runs rife on fields of hate
That gush with lind profanities of lust,
Have I the right to feast on life
While friends partake the eucharist of dust?
When starlight gleams on crosses white
Where heroes under sacred srecline,
Have I the right to look to God
And shout about the knell "My life is mine!"
"The Fittest Shall Survive" Is the Doctrine of Germany
Vernon Kellogg Told of the German Philosophy and the Value of The American College Trained Man, in Lecture Following Phi Beta Kappa Initiation, Last Night
Military Expediency Is Only Argument With Germany
"It is the Collegian's Duty to Interpret German Philosophy to the People and to Show the Impossibility of a World Ruled by German Ideals."
Plain Tales From The Hill
ANOTHER COMMUNICATION
Dear Editor:
Two fraternity women—who live across the street from the University of Kansas campus—loitered up to class yesterday at noon in their car. That is to say the car they had that day.
I hear you are going to elect new members to the Kansan Board this week. What I want to know is where you will get the new members. I hear that they—the cublets—have not been working since the last weekly fire. Please return with the self-addressed and stamped envelope. Windy Pete.
Foot note: One father has come back for his car, but the other has forgotten that he left it in Lawrence and never found it, although the week-end has passed by.
ATHLETIC NOTE!
So speaks out a local Topeka paper.
A most determined effort has been launched to give Washburn a place in the athletic world once more.
K. U. students will be glad to hear that a "determined effort" has been launched. So many have been launched in the past which have never set sail, that Jayhawkers interested in athletics always recall the life story printed nearly a year ago. This epic intimation that KU students soon be instituted as compulsory exercise Washburn. But it was a false alarm, and nothing came of the extreme advocates.
But, seriously Washburn is in Kansas. K. U. stands for all things good in Kansas and will welcome a generous rival in sport.
Dean Blackmar Made Member of Committee To Help Immigrants
Inadequate Provision Made for Reception and Care of Foreigners—He Says
Dean F. W. Blackmar has been made a member of a committee to organize a League for Constructive Immigration Legislation, to recommend Federal laws which shall more adequately control immigration.
The main purpose, according to Dean Blackmar, is to provide for the education of immigrants in the English language, in the principles and practice of citizenship, in their induction into society, and in the number of immigrants to come in one year, together with improved methods of naturalization.
"Trouble with immigrants is largely our own fault," said Dean Blackmar today. "We have made inadequate provision for their reception, education and care. It is believed the number of immigrants coming in any one year should be limited to 5 or 10 per cent of the naturalized citizens of that race already here. This would allow them to come only as fast as we could change them into American citizens and help them to find a place in the labor market.
"The laws should insist that if immigrants come here to make their permanent home, they should be forced to take out naturalization papers at once, and to learn the English language.
"After the war in all probability the governments of European nations will prevent emigration of able-bodied men in the war-stricken countries. No doubt there will be a desire of millions of helpless people to come to America if they could find a way. Special legislation must be made giving attention to this class."
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the deportations from Belgium, the doctrine of military expediency, the German Neo-Darwinistic philosophy, the conflicts with the German authorities over relief boats, the failure of the military government to understand the motive of the Belgian Relief Commission, the conversations of the German staff officers which Mr. Kellogg heard at Grand Headquarters, the views of the All-Highest, were revealed to a University audience by Vernon L. Kellogg, K. U. graduate, former professor at the University of Kansas and at Leland Stanford, Jr. University and nationally known for his work with the Belgian Relief Commission in Belgium and Northern France and with the Food Administration, in the address given after Phi Beta Kappa institution Monday night.
CHARITY MUST BE PROFITABLE
"The only argument which has any weight with the German authorities in Belgium or anywhere else is military expediency. No considerations of humanity could move them if they thought charity would not be a military advantage. Canal boats were held up in Rotterdam for six weeks, while supplies were almost exhausted in Belgium and North France, because some German officer thought the boats might come into English hands. After six weeks of argument we got them released by depositing their value with General Von Bissling. "The deportations from Belgium were undertaken with a coldly calculating attitude. Men were needed in German war factories and a large population were idle in Belgium. After three months men came back, released at the request of the Pope and President Wilson, the Kaiser said. But they were released because they could be of no further use to the German government. They were physical wrecks, starved, beaten and suffering from exposure because they would not say they voluntarily offered their services to the German Government.
BELIEVES IN RIGHT TO RULE
BELIEVE IN NATURE.
"The right of the strongest people to survive and to subdue all other peoples to their will is the principle for which Germany is fighting. No one has a place in their philosophy. I must of a zoologist and biologist to know that no complete analogy can be drawn between men and beasts. Even if qualitative differences only separated men and beasts, those are so great that no parallel can be drawn.
"It is the duty of the collegiate to interpret the German philosophy to the people, to show them the impossibilities of a world ruled by their ideals.
"The German officers whom I knew asked me to tell the truth about them in America. They believe that their business is am I telling the truth about Germany."
COLLEGE MEN PROVE WORTH
Of the work of the 150 American college men, students in English universities, we must assign the Belgian Relief Committee Mr. cellogg said: "It was a task requiring consideration, education, tact, diplomacy and patience, and these young men rose to the occasion splendidly. There was a time when a as pessimistic professor, doubted whether the products of our American colleges were going to be able to meet such situations. The work of the young men in Belgium changed my views."
The German passion for detail impressed Kellogg especially. "I was riding one day in the armed military car that was provided for me," said Mr. Kellogg, "and it occurred to me that I could leap over the side and before either the German officer who held the gun or the military chaufer, or the German orderly in the front seat could swing one of the big guns on the side of the car into position and fire at me. I remarked on this possibility to the
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