UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 144.
Jayhawker Team Off To Meet Missourians In Three Day Contest
Chances Seem Good for Taking Lead in Race for Championship
Freshmen Defeat Varsity
Dutch Wedell's Yearlings Take Advantage of Regulars' Misplays
Coach Bond and twelve members of the Varsity baseball team left on the Santa Fe this afternoon for Columbia, Mo., where the Jayhawker nine will meet the Tigers May 8, 9, and 10. Every player was in good condition and the team expects to give the Missourians the battle of their lives in the series. If the Jayhawkers can take two games from the Tigers, they will go into lead in the Missouri Valley race and have an excellent chance for the championship.
WEDELL HELD VARSITY SLUGGERS
DWELL HELD VARSITY SCOOPERS
The Varsity regulars, batting against Coach Dutch Wedel, again lost to the freshmen Monday afternoon, by a 3-2 score. The Varsity, by hitting Wedell in the early innings, gained a 2-run lead until the final innings, when a couple of hits, mixed with three or four misplays by Varsity infielders, allowed the yearlings to score three runs. Goodwin pitched good ball for the Varsity while the regulars were unable to connect with Dwell Wedel with men on bases.
BOND WILL USE SAME LEAGUE.
The same lineup that has been playing all year will probably be used against the Missourians. Bunn will do most of the catching and Rubble, Scheepel and Slawson will do the pitching. Coach Bond has not announced his selection to pitch the first game, but it will be either Scheepel or Slawson. Cherry will be on first base, Isenberger will play second base, Foster will be at his old position at short and Lonborg will play third. Smith, Keeler and either Weltmer or Oyster will be used in the outfield.
Thelma Wharton to Give Her Graduating Recital In Fraser Friday Night
Leah Stewart, Soprano, and Professor Kendrie, to Assist on Program
The program is as follows:
The graduating recital of Thelm
Wharton, piano, assisted by Leah
Stewart, soprano, students in the
School of Fine Arts, will be held in
the Chapel of Fraser Hall, Friday
May 10, at 8:15.
The program is as follows:
Arina it est doux (Hero-
diana) Miss Stewart.
Miss Stewart.
The Hills of Arcady, C. W. Coombs; Till I Wake, Van Nuys Fogel; To a Violet, Brahms. Miss Stewart.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor,
Bach, Miss Wharton.
Prelude in G minor, Rachmaninoff,
Nocturne, Op. 19, No. 4, Tschiakowksy;
Harmonies du Suor, Pachulski;
March of the Dwarfs, Moszkowski.
Miss Wharton.
Elegie, Massentet; Cuvre tes yeux
bleas, Massenet; (violin obligatos by
Prof. Frank Kendrie). Miss Stewart.
Mr. On, No. 2, No. 3, Saout Seens.
Concerto, Op. 22, No. 2, Saint Saen't (first movement). Miss Wharton.
Prof. Carl Preyer, second piano.
Miss Helen Pendleton, organ.
Instruction in Surgical Dressings to be Given
A class in the making of surgical dressings will be organized, under the instruction of Mrs. W. H. Johnson, if twelve women wish to take the course and can afford time for it. The class will meet in 205 Fraser, at 7 o'clock, four nights in the week. It has not been possible to arrange for the work in day time. The work will include all the standard dressings, and a Red Cross certificate will be given to those finishing the course. A fee of $1 is required by the Red Cross. Those wishing to enter the class should apply to Misa Margaret Lynn.
Men's Student Council will hold a special meeting Wednesday night, at 7 o'clock, in Fraser Hall, Room 110. Plans will be made for a Permanent Income Bill campaign.
Law School to End Its Session Thursday
The School of Law will end its term Thursday, three weeks before the rest of the University will finish, as the law students have been attending classes six days a week. Final examinations are being held every afternoon this week.
Fourteen senior laws will take the ear examination at Topeka, which will be held May 20, 21 and 22 this year nearly a month earlier than is customary.
The War Here and Over There
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 7, 1918.
An unsuccessful gas attack was carried out against the American forces on the Picardy front Monday.
A tentative arrangement for an American army of 6,000,000 men by July 1, 1920, has been made by the House Committee on Military Affairs.
There was no general infantry action on the western front yesterday but the Australians made a gain of three-quarters of a mile, east of Amiens.
Heavy rains on the western front are thought to be delaying the German drive.
Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, paymaster general of the navy, is the "boss" of a system that daily spends $30,000,000. By using his "cost plus" contract system he has virtually saved the department $1,500,000.
Already we have sent to our Allies 387,000,000 bushels of wheat,
2,000,000 pounds of pork products,
and 2,000,000,000 pounds of sugar.
In 1910 the farmer got 32 per cent of the total cost of a loaf of bread. The miller got 7 per cent and the remaining 61 per cent went to those handling the loaf between the miller and the consumer. In January and February, 1918, the farmer got 45 per cent, the miller 6 per cent and others interested got but 49 per cent.
ARMY INFORMATION
An army corps is 60,000 men.
An infantry division is 19,000 men.
An infantry brigade is 7,000 men.
A regiment of infantry is 3,000
A battalion is 1,000 men.
A supply train has 283 men.
A platoon is 60 men.
A field artillery brigade comprises
300 i.e.
A field battery has 195 men.
Firing squad is 20 men.
A machine gun battalion has 296
An engineer's regiment has 1,098 men.
An ambulance company has 66 men.
A field hospital has 55 men.
A medicine attachment has 13 men. A major general heads the field army and also each army corps.
A brigadier general heads each in fantry brigade.
A colonel heeds each regiment.
A lieutenant colonel is next in rank.
Miss Wood Addresses Class in Sociology
A corporal is a squad officer.
A colonel heads each regiment
Miss Elizabeth Wood, assistant director of the Civilians Relief Corps of the southwestern division of the Red Cross lectured to the 11 o'clock classes in sociology this morning on "War Relief and Home Service."
Urges Personal Service as Well As Financial Aid in War
"The secret of good case work is the practice of individualizing the family." Miss Wood advised. "Do no work on the theory that all cases are to be approached in the same manner; we need the same kind of attention."
"Financial support is not everything. If you stop when you give money you defeat your own ends."
A major heads a battation.
A captains heads a company.
A lieutenant heads a platoon.
A sergeant is next below a lieuter
Arrangements were made that sociology students who are contemplating doing social service and Red Cross work might have private interviews with Miss Wood.
Relief
Comus, Unique Rustic Production to Be Given on Golf Links May 9
K. U. Orchestra To Play All Old English Music For Milton's Masque
All of the old English music to be used in the campus play, "Comus", has been arranged for the orchestra by Prof. F. E. Kendrie, of the School of Fine Arts. The themes for the play were composed in the seventeenth century, especially for the first presentation or "Comus" at an old English castle.
The play "Comus" will be giver Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock in the natural amphitheater on the golf links, west of the Museum. Prof. Arthur MacMurray, who is coaching the play, reports that the members of the cast all have their parts in a finished form.
"Comas" is an historic masque written by John Milton. It includes acting, dancing, and singing, and was written especially to be played outdoors. A special rural stage will be constructed on the golf field with unique lighting effects. Ofursday night there are shrubbery other outdoor scenery will be taken to Robinson Gymnasium, and a similar rural effect produced there.
"The play, 'Comus', is something different in dramatic work at the University," said Prof. Arthur MacMurray. "It is the first outdoor amateur production to be staged here. 'Comus' has proved a very successful performance at other places where it has been given. We have had the best dramatic work by the University of actors. The first dress rehearsal showed that they were well prepared for the play, and that the grotesque costumes, the dancing, and the orchestra music will make the production a most interesting one."
Dr. Sundwall Confers With Federal Medicos
Government Considering War Policies for Medical Schools
Dr. John Sundwall is in Washington this week attending a conference on medical schools called by the National Council of Defense. He will also attend a conference called by Surgeon-General Gorgas May 15, to decide on a policy for medical schools during the war.
Because of the large number of professional men who have been instructors in medical schools being needed in the army, many medical schools have been threatened with severe handicaps by losing their instructors. Nineteen men have been called from the faculty of the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas. The purpose of the conference to be held May 15 is to settle on a definite policy that the army will pursue regarding the faculty of medical schools.
Annex to Be Completed For Kansan in 10 Days
The annex to the journalism building will be ready for occupancy within ten days according to Supt. John M. Shea. The superstructure is already up and the roofing is being put on and the heating pipes installed today.
There will be one large room and three small offices in this addition. The large room will be used as the Kansan news room and one of the smaller rooms will be the business office of the Kansan. The other two will serve as offices of instructors.
Present Business Office to B Used for Magazines and Papers of Library
The present business office of the Kansan will be used as a newspaper and magazine room of the journalism library and the present library will be used only for books. The old news will be converted into a class room.
One of the windows between the press room and the addition will be cut to provide a connection between the old and new parts of the building.
Senior caps and gowns cannot be ordered after Wednesday, according to statement by chairman of committee.
Men's Glee Club Gives Annual Spring Concert In Fraser Hall Tonight
The Men's Glee Club of the University of Kansas will give its annual spring concert in Fraser Hall, tonight at 8:15 o'clock. Claire L. Dietrich, pianist, will assist the club.
Social Director at Funston Says K. U. Club Is Best of Soccer
The club gave a series of concerts at Camp Funston a couple of weeks ago where their presentations were highly praised. L. A. Weatherax, the Camp Social Director, after hearing the various glee clubs that had visited the camp said that the Kan-
Thel following program will be given:
Par I
"What Are You Going To Do To Help the Boys?"—Kahn and Van Rl-stley. Club.
"Clange of the Forge," Poem by Henry Vaughn—Rodney. John R. Wahlstedt.
Piano—Etude (Black Key) Op. 1
No. 5. Chopin.
"The Cheerful Wanderer" — Mendelsohn. Club.
Bourree Bretonne (Wood Shoe Dance)—Moret. Claire L. Dietrich.
"Fairness Sally Brown"—Poem by Thomas Hood—Steele, First Quartet
"Invictus"—Poem by William E. Henken—Huhn. Arranged by Hynes.
"The Magic of Your Eyes"—Penn
1. C. Good and Club.
"Kentucky Babe"—Geibel. Second Quartet.
Trio, Violin, Cello, and Piano—"Life's Lullaby." Professor Farrell Hartzell Ray and Marcellus Law.
"Send Me a Curl "Crimson and the Blue."
Engineering Students Will Celebrate With No Frills on Friday
Stunts and Open-House in Engineering Work Is Program
The annual Engineers' Day will be held Friday. The events will begin at 10:50 o'clock, and will continue throughout the day. The engineers have a big something planned for the entire day and until 10 o'clock Friday night.
The first event will be the parade which will be headed by the band on top of a tallyho, drawn by freshmen. The procession will return to the Engineering Building about noon, where the Chancellor will make a short talk. Then the engineer's service flag with approximately 500 stars will be unfurled.
In the afternoon, the engineering students will hold open house. The laboratories will be running full blast and there will be plenty of guides to escort the visitors and explain the apparatus and work. In the lecture room each stunts of the school will put on stunts such as, "An Ideal Summer Camp," "How To Cook On Ice."—————
"All guests will be welcome, even to our picture show, which will be in Fraser Hall starting at 7:30 o'clock," Dean G. C. Shaad, of the School of Engineering, this morning.
Emphasis on War Work
At Y.W.C.A. Conference
The regular summer conference of the West-Central field of the Young Women's Christian Association will be held in Hollister, Mo. June 25 to July 5 this year. This is the conference formerly held at Estes Park.
At the conference the war work of the Y. W. C. A. will be planned and women will be interested in the different forms of war work. Enthusiasm is being aroused to send women from the University of Kansas to bring back ideas for the war work. The State represented in this conference are Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, and Louisiana.
George O. Foster talked on the work of the summer conferences at the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. in Myers Hall this afternoon. Last year twelve women were delegates to the conference from K. U.
Gym Classes to End May 17—For Faithful
All physical exercise will be discontinued May 17,—for those students of the University who have no unexcused absences. For the rest, who are not so fortunate as to have a clear record, cuts may be made up from May 17 to 24.
This special arrangement is made to give students an opportunity to prepare for final examinations, and to help them in their preparation, their failure to attempt to beat the system.
Plain Tales From The Hill
NEW TRACK IDEA
The seven passenger red Buick owned by Florence Butler who is starring in "Comus" was taken from in front of Green Hall one night last week. It was returned at twenty-five minutes till 10 o'clock to its original position with the assistance of a Murphy man who had succeeded in establishing an unusual and original cross-country speedway across the flower beds of the east end of the campus. The culprits, whose names were taken at the time the crime was consummated were (censored by request). Other unidentified accomplices escaped in a car and a Ford.
One renowned professor on this Hill has a wife, who gets the 6 o'clock Santa Fe train whistle confused with the 6:30 o'clock rising whistle which was installed for the students by authority of the University Senate last fail. Every morning his wife reasoned that she must wake up every morning he wakes up with half an hour to his credit. It's a hard life at K. U.
SEVEN WONDERS OF K. U. WORLD (And Then Some)
Incinerator; Student Council; K. U. Loop; The Whistle; Seismograph; Roof of Eraser.
Bulletin Board; 1914 Bench; Bird Fountains; Blake Hall Clock; Law Steps; Sun Dial; Pi.
Pipe Organ; New Ad Building;
Engineers' Transits; White Rats at
Aux; Museum Basement; Freshman
Sons; Dandelions.
Vote for any Seven
the telephone late at night.
The campus beautiful between
classes.
The library 9:30 o'clock at night.
Automobiles owned by men.
The porch alcove after a dance.
Green Hall steps for meat hunter
Sororities with good looking women
"Snooks" Jacobs, aged four, was a visitor today at one of Professor Loud's classes.
"Didn't that man say some funny things," was her remark, "he ought to be in a picture, I think."
No, Modestine, the drill companies have not started artillery practice, in spite of the sounds reminiscent of the western front coming from the eastern end of the campus this morning. Nor were the track men practicing starts, and it was not a rehearsal for anything, either. That group of interested men conducting the gun play was simply Prof. M. E. Rice's physics class who were conducting experiments in the velocity of sound.
Horace Rich had his last summer's suit cleaned and pressed recently. When he put it on after coming from the cleaners, the trouser cuffs had shrunk up considerably. As he emerged from his home his roomie noticed the abbreviated trouser legs and shouted: "Hey Rich, where you going with your date, out wading?"
A senior approached the hen house which the frish was whitewashing and asked, "What are you doing that for?"
"Two bucks."
"No, I mean why white wash that new shed "
"Oh, to keep the hens from eating the grain out of the wood."
Students in English History have a habit of sitting in the back of the room to the disgust of Prof. C. C. Crawford. When he asked them to move forward and they failed to do so, he said:
"I suppose that you fellows think you can fight better with your backs against the wall."
Prof. L. N. Flint of the department of journalism will read a paper on "A Clinic On Advertising Copy," before the meeting of the State Editorial Association in Wichita, Friday, May 10.
Engineering Students May Train to Become Officers in the Navy
Navy Will Need Many Officers to Man Ships Now Being Launched
Training School at Hoboken
Coast Artillery Schools Will Train Electrical Engineers to be Sergeants
The purpose of the school is to provide engineering officers to man the many new ships that are being put into commission. The course is only open to men who have graduated from a school of engineering. Undergraduates may be enrolled as second class seamen and are exempted from the draft, and not to be called until they are graduated. The navy department has an excellent manner for a student to get, some good training in practical engineering. Following are the qualifications for intrance to the school:
Men in the School of Engineering who wish to become officers in the navy may apply for admission to the U. S. Naval Engineering School at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., say navy notices received by Prof. F. B. Dains.
MUST BE GRADUATES
Men of ability and officer material, aged 21 to 31 inclusive. A complete high school course and a graduate of an engineering course at a recognized technical school. Must pass the examination for a navy officer.
electrical engineers are also wanted at the Coast Artillery School, Ft. Monroe, Va. All men who enter this school will receive the rank of electrician sergeant and will take charge of electrical signals, telephone systems, mine firing apparatus and power plants, limb sawes. Like those of this school, that it is the best chance for a civilian to become more than a private and that it is the most direct route to an officer's training camp.
Students who desire further information along these lines can obtain it from Dr. F. B. Dains of the department of chemistry.
Information For Reservists
Those Called to Be Given Summer's Training in Military Instruction
Active duty for naval reservists who are called for summer training will consist almost entirely of preliminary military instruction. This information was sent out by the government to the men who are in this reserve, and who are wondering what their duties will be. There will be little opportunity to assign men to technical work who have had training in some lines on account of the short time they are in service.
Board of Visitors Come To Inspect University
Make Second Visit of Year May 8—To Report Before Alumni Meeting
The Alumni Board of Visitors will inspect the University Wednesday, May 8. This is the second visit the Board has made to the University this year.
The Board is composed of Helen Perry Edwards, '96, Eureka; W. W. Holloway '14, Kansas City; Grace Wilkie '12, Wichita; R. C. Russell, '00, Great Bend; John F. Bender, '06, Pittsburgh; C. B. Brown '96, Topeka. The Board will make a report of this visit and investigation, before the June meeting of the Alumni Association.
Student Organizations To Aid French Children
Helen DeWitt, a junior in the special problems class, of the department of home economics, will give a talk and demonstration Thursday at 5 o'clock in Fraser Hall, Room A, on "Gatmeal." She will show how oatmeal may be used in place of other flours, both in hot-breads, cakes and puddings. The next public demonstration will be held on Saturday, May 18.