THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME V.
TELLS OF CAMP LIFE
Paul Brindel Back From Nevada Tells of Camp Clark Experiences
NUMBER 9
RESUMES SUMMER WORK
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1916.
"Many of the national guardsmen," said Mr. Brindel yesterday, were far from being anxious to go to the front and did everything possible to get themselves rejected, even going to the extent of faking poor eye sight and defective hearing. I was a member of the ambulance corps and assisted in the examination work; and I saw many instances of this kind. Faking was especially common in some of the companies from the mining district of southern Missouri where many men left jobs paying fifty dollars a week to answer the call to the colors. One man was absolutely deaf in both ears until one of the officers remarked about not drinking all of "that beer," and the fellow turned around to see what was going on. Of course he was passed, and afterward all suspected of slacking were passed unless their commanding officer could vouch their veracity.
Kansan Editor Rejected Because of Poor Eye Sight
The inside workings of the mobilization camp of the National Guard of Missouri at Newada were vividly described yesterday by Paul Brindel, a member of the Kansan Board, who spent ten days there as a member of Ambulance Company Number 1 of Kansas City. Brindel returned to Lawrence this morning to resume his Summer Session work. He is one of the company who were rejected by the United States army officers because of physical disability. His sight was defective.
MANY DESIRED REJECTION
"During the first few days of the federal physical examinations, I acted as a clerk in the sinection tent but the last three days of my stay at Camp Clark I assisted in the typhoid vaccine inoculation. One day I "took" the temperatures of over six hundred recruits, and the last two days even assisted in administering the vaccine itself.
"Many of the slackers who were rejected were so jubilant over the disqualification that they forgot all about their alleged physical defects when they returned to their company, and by keeping a careful watch many officers were able to weed out the fakers.
"Army camp life isn't nearly as bad as pictured even if one has to get up at five o'clock every morning. Although we troops always had plenty to eat, and the last Sunday in camp the ambulance corps, being a detached company, was given a stewed chicken dinner by its commissioned officers. The rest of the time however the diet consisted mostly of prunes, bread, potatoes, coffee, rice, boiled beef, bacon, beans and bread pudding.
FOOD PRICES SOARED
"Food prices in Nevada soared but little because of the presence of the soldiers, and as the round trip fare on the hourly shuttle trains was only fifteen cents, several thousand guardmen went to the town every night to satisfy their appetites. A provost guard from the infantry companies was detailed each night to maintain order in the down town streets, but so orderly were the guardmen that only one arrest was recorded during the entire two weeks. Liquor was not to be had; Nevada being a dry town, and a strict prohibition law being in force at Camp Clark. The lack of alcohol resulted fatally for two "floaters" who, lacking their usual stimulus could not stand the excessive heat and drill, and suffered fatal heat prostrations.
"As all of the Missouri National Guardmen were mustered into the United States army before given their federal physical examination, all of the guard men were given honorable discharges from the United States army.
"All of them who served over a week, will be entitled to a pension along with the other troops who serve in Mexico, according to army officers."
A fair coed walked into a class room one morning recently and upon opening her note book found a large moth ball. She blushed, closed the note book quickly, and looked up to see if any one was looking. Then she laughed and went about her work but she was careful not to open the note book any offender than was necessary.
LEFTY SPROLL OPERATED
ON FOR APENDICITVS
ON FOR APPENDICITIS
An attack of appendicitis caused Ralph D. (Lefty) Sproull to undergo an operation Wednesday morning. Sproull had had several attacks recently, and on the advice of physician Dr. Duncan, he instruction while in good physical condition.
During the last year Lefty has been assistant of Coach Hamilton. He is enrolled in summer school and had intended playing professional baseball on the Pacific coast as soon as Summer Session was out.
FORUM IS UNDER WAY
Teachers Discussed Methods and School Organization— Elects Officers
The School Men's Forum, for the exchange of ideas in school supervision, was organized and set to work last Friday evening at Blake Hall. Officers were elected and every Friday evening at four o'clock in Room 210 in Blake Hall fixed as the time and place of regular meeting.
"The best superintendent I ever knew, lost his job," said Dean Kelly, "not from any fault of his own, but because he could not get the community to back plans of forging ahead. A teacher can not succeed by giving the best he can in school work, paradoxical as it may seem.
"He can only succeed by seeing that the town accepts what he advocates in school measures," said Professor Kelly. "The question is how to educate the community, rather than how to educate the children. Superintendents deals with women teachers and children until they become unfitted to talk in men's crowds and commercial club meetings. It is not necessary that he should do the stunts of the crowd, smoke with them and imitate their language, but he must have interests outside the school—interests in the country; the questions before the commercial club and the citizens. A superintendent's limitations are not the school, the teachers, and usually not the school board, but the community."
Following Dean Kelly's discussion, there were informal talks by teachers from various quarters of Kansas and other states. The following offices were elected, with instructions to report on plans of permanent organization: president, C. D. Raich; vice-president, Prof. Ralph E. Carter; secretary-treasurer, W. N. Vanslyke; chairman program committee, J. F. Hughes; chairman social committee, L. H. Petit.
The Dean outlined a course of publicity through school and local papers, and cited the weekly school newspaper of Kansas City, Kan., as an ideal medium of carrying school news to the homes of patrons.
Miss Nora Dolby, assistant in botany at the University of Illinois, spent a few days this week with friends in Lawrence, on her way to Sterling, Kansas. Miss Dolbee is at work on her doctor's degree. She took her master's degree from K. U. in 1914.
Dean F. J.Kelly.
A family reunion is the attraction in Crete, Nebraska, for F. W. Osterhout who left Friday for a week's visit at home.
Summer school work is being delivered for Charles Curtis, a sophomore in college, by a visit from his mother and small brother.
Parsifal" and "As You Like It" it each in three reels will be given in Fraser Chapel, Friday evening at 8 o'clock. This will be the last of the series of free motion pictures. The next set will be the Antarctic Pictures" for which a charge will be made.
Last of Free Moves
Students of the University who wish to play tennis will not be allowed to use the tennis courts without first obtaining a permit from the Dean's office. The man who are working on the court must be ordered to let no one play who does not have a permit.
Chapel will begin at 11:15 today. Arthur MacMurray, professor of public speaking, will give several entertaining readings. You will miss a treat if you are not present.
Chapel Today
Must Have Tennis Permits
Gives Last Course of Special Lectures
JAMES W. GWINN
superintendent of Schools, New Orleans, who will deliver the last series of lectures on special educational problem.
SESSIONISTS ON PICNIC C. CHAPLIN IS EXPOSED
Forty-one Students Enjoyed Lunch on the Golf
Links
The Summer Session students threw off their cloaks of apparent enniu and had a real life picnic, as scheduled in chapel last Friday. The picnic was of the progressive type, beginning at the tennis lins奶 our Mekele Hillside for lunch and wound up with a late recreation hour on the campus.
The summer students arrayed in their most "comfy" clothes began to arrive at the tennis courts at five o'clock. Every one left his dignity at home and pinned his name in a cone of his shirt. He was getting acquainted. A few games of tennis helped the newcomer to quickly forget his timidity.
The eats arrived in a clothes basket used as a hamper about the hour of 6:30. Every one began at once to look for a camping ground. The men carried the clothes basket and the women insisted on guarding the pickles and worked off a jar of salad on a poor unsuspecting man who openly boasted that he escorted the pickles. The crowd soon found a position under a table outside the claim with umbrellas. Lunch was served immediately, and consisted of a plentiful supply of sandwiches of several different varieties, potato salad and pickles followed by strawberry brick ice cream.
Forty-one persons enjoyed the lunch after which they called on Prof. S. H. Horn for an after dinner speech. Mr. Horn answered magnanimously in the time honored custom of saying much about nothing with the customary applause. He switched the honor by introducing Prof. Grover C. Dotzour who relieved himself, by repeating what Prof. Horn had said and ordered brewing of camp and a "double brewing" of camp and the women were discredited by the failure of the entire thirteen to have a match with which to burn bridges behind them. Admitting their unwitting display of being "non users" they lustied over the hill and attacked the first chap who looked like he carried 'em.
Prof. Frank D. Tracy, of the Kansas City, Kansas, High School has been forced to discontinue his summer school work. He was called home by the illness of his wife who was seriously injured by a speeding automobile.
Kelly to Speak Sunday Evening Dean F. J. Kelly speaks to the Epworth League at the First Methodist church, Sunday evening at 6:45 o'clock on "Putting Religion into Community Service." A social hour will precede the service. Come and get acquainted.
Arriving on the campus with the loss of only three deserters the Summer Students of one accord clamored for dancing, to the taboo of such games as volleyball and basketball. The piano was brought from the gym and placed under a convenient street light. Nell Martindale took charge of the Folk Dances: Carousel, Let is Dead Blicking. These were followed by an easy polka called Dainty Steps and an old fashioned square dance.
The evening's frolic closed after singing America and giving "Rock Chalk." Every one admitted that they had forgotten to leave early in order to "take in" the picture shows as it was then 9:30 o'clock.
Now We Know Where He Got That Fifty Thousand Dollar Walk
Alas, for Charlie Chaplin, the soon to be deposed king of comedians. The former idol of child moving picture fans will no longer bring shrieks of delight from his most ardent admirers. And the small boys who have been practicing the Charlie Chaplin walk will be reduced to a state of gloom. It's bad enough to be told that your whiom idol is an imitator, but to have him accused of imiting a -penguin is enough to plunge anyone else into a frenzy. Since the posters announced that Sir Douglas Mawson's travel pictures of the Antarctic region will be shown in Fraser Chapel on July 12 and 13 all the small boys in Lawrence have been unable waiting for those days.
"Santa Claus he's just father ane mother, and Charlie Chaplin, he imitates a penguin," reflects the small on the worthlessness of life.
Who is to be called to account for this destruction of another of childhood's illusions? No less than sixty-six university graduates who, to satisfy their limitless curiosity, went on a trip to the South Pole to see what they could see. They saw one hundred thousand penguins, a queer kind of bird, all doing the Charlie Chaplin walk on an ice stage, with the aurora borealis for light and an appreciative group of seals for the audience.
As university graduates are always quick to detect and expose fraud of any kind, proof of Charlie Chaplin's famous decryption of the great American public was bought back and shown to the world in moving pictures.
James Aslop who was graduated from the School of Engineering at Manhattan and is now working in Minnesota, is visiting his sister Florence Aslop.
Wise grown-ups, long ago accustomed to the ways of base deceivers profess no surprise that Charlie Chaplin has slyly palmed off as his own, the penguin slide and glube. But the boys mourn for their fallen idol and they are yet open to proof for they say, "I'd just like for those university graduates to tell me how Charlie Chaplin ever saw the old penguins walk because the poster says, 'the pictures were taken 10,000 miles from America, in a land never seen by man,' so there."
Arthur D. Vogel has returned from Jefferson City, Mo., where he took the Missouri bar examination. He will complete his courses in Summer Session while waiting to hear the results of the examination.
Prof. John J. Wheeler of the department of mathematics left last week for the University of Chicago, where he will study this summer taking advanced work in mathematics in preparation for his doctor's degree.
Dr. Eugene Mattice of the class of '14, is visiting friends at the Phi Beta Pi house this week. He has been attending the University of Washington this year and is now an intern in the Swedish hospital at St. Louis.
All of the boys are withholding final judgment as to their former idol's conduct until they see the evidence for themselves.
To Topeka, then to Silver Lake where she enjoyed camp life was the way Dorothy Bigelow spent the Fourth.
MacMURRAY TO ENTERTAIN
AT 11:15 CHAPEL TODAY
Chapel exercises will be conducted at 11:15 today in Fraser Hall. Prof Arthur MacMurray will enter tain with some reading and Dean F J. Kelly will be in charge of the exercises.
A mass meeting will be held after chapel for a discussion of an All-University party to be held a week from today in the Gymnasium. The matter will probably be decided by a vote of those interested.
SEES SCOTTS' CLASSIC
"Lady of The Lake" Pleases Movie Fans in Fraser Channel
"The Lady of the Lake" drew a large crowd when she made her appearance in the movies at 4:45 Wc.nesday afternoon in Fraser Hall. Lock was with the operator this time there was little trouble with the film.
The pictures held the attention of everyone as Douglas, the outlaw from the lowlands of Scotland, sought shelter with the tribe of Roderick Due and as the King of Scotland disguised himself as James-Fitz-James and enters the chase. He lead the chase and finally became lost. The audience was still more interested when he blew a blast on his horn and pretty Ellen, thinking it to be her father, rowed to the main land to get him. As she liked his appearance she brought him to the Island and offered him lodging for the night. The play went on and Douglas gave himself up to the king to prevent bloodshed and Fitz-James met Ellen by chance and, charmed by her beauty 'he gave her his ring.
Then the king learned that Douglas was his prisoner and Ellen appeared before him and asked for the freedom of Douglas, presenting the ring that Fritz-James gave her. The audience relaxed with a laugh as Ellen found that Fritz-James was the king of Scotland, and he turned Douglas over to her with the king's necklace around his neck.
CUPID WORKS SECRETLY
Dan Cupid is a skilful and sure worker but he is also adept in keeping his work secret. Miss Murl Garrett of 1332 Tennessee Street paid a visit to Ft. Riley a week ago Sunday and came home announcing to a startled mother and sister that she was not Murl Garret but had been Mrs. Robert A. Young since January the seventeenth of this year.
Murl Garnet and Robert Young Married Since Last January
"We were married at Topeka and intended announcing it at the end of the semester," said Mrs. Young, "but something turned up to prevent it. We planned several times later to announce our marriage but something was always in the way. We had a hard time keeping the secret ourselves. Neither my mother nor my older sister knew of it, nor any of Robert's relatives. I kept my wedding ring sewed in a cushion. Mrs. Young expressed a sincere hope that the Mexican trouble would pass over without the boys in Company M having to go to the front.
Mr. Young is a junior in the College and a member of Company M, now stationed for instruction at Ft. Riley before receiving orders to prosecute the criminal offense in senior in the Lawrence high school and would have finished next year.
Edward Taylor, c'12, who came from the Philippine Islands, to attend the Summer Session, was initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity Monday night. Mr. Taylor is superintendent of the fish hatcheries on the islands.
Arthur D. Vogel spent Saturday in Kansas City looking for a position after the close of the sumer school.
Dean H. L. Butler of the School of Fine Arts left for his vacation Monday morning. He and his family will spend the summer at Estes Park, Col. While there they will live in Chancellor Strong's cottage.
While waiting for his grades from the Missouri state bar examination, Don Burnett is attending the Lawrence Business College for a pastime.
May Pilkington spent the Fourth at her home in Garnett. Miss Pilkington teaches in Coffey, Missouri.
PROF. MILLIS TO RESIGN
Call to University of Chicago Offers Big Salary And Opportunities
IS NOT OFFICIAL AS YET
K. U. Can't Complain—Legislature Too Stingy
The University of Kansas is likely to lose one of its strongest teachers because of the ability of other universities to pay them salaries that the legislature of the state of Kansas is not yet progressive enough to pay. Prof. Harry A. Millis of the department of economics has received a call to the University of Chicago at an increase of salary so substantial that there is little hope that he will refuse it. The new position will mean, in addition to an increased income, fewer hours of work with adequate opportunity for research, and a broad field for rapid advancement and deserved recognition. Professor Millis is teaching in the department of economics at Chicago this summer. If he continues there he will be the fifth man that the faculty of the University of Kansas has lost this year.
Dean Templin was seen yesterday, the Dean made the following statement:
"So far as we know Professor Millis has not yet decided on his course. The general feeling, however, is that he cannot do otherwise than accept; and so we anticipate loosing him with feelings of great regret. He has been here four years, and came to us from Leland Stanford. He has built up a strong department from next to nothing. He is among the foremost men in his line in the United States. If he accepts the position at Chicago he will have what we are not in a position 'o salary combined with adequate time for study.' He will also have the opportunity f participating in a million dollar gift which is to be at the disposal of the School of Commerce."
MRS MILLIS NON-COMMITTAL
HAS NOT YET ACCEPTED
Professor Mills' family did not accompany him to Chicago for his summer's work and Mrs. Mills when asked of the possibilities of his accepting said she was unable to say whether Mr. Mills would accept or not, but that it was altogether possible that he would since it offers an advancement with a future attached only to a large institution in a metropolis that very few schools could offer. She said that a number of Professor Mills' old friends are in the University of Chicago which will add greatly to the congeniality of the Mills' eyes sparkled when considered by prospects for the advancement of her home, quite forgetful of self; but whenQUA concerning again making her home in Chicago she said she was reluctant to leave Lawrence with its quiet for the city with its bustle and noise. The youngest daughter of the family, a young miss of about ten years who would be expected to be overjoyed at the prospects of living in Chicago expressed herself as quite the contrary. The family seemed to prefer Lawrence to all placed they had lived with the exception of California.
Inquiry at the Chancellor's office proved that Professor Millis has not yet officially accepted the position. The professor, will probably close the matter.
THE HAILS FROM INDIAAN
Professor Millis was reared and educated in Indiana. His academic career began with the graduated from the rural school and entered the Paii (Indiana) high school, graduating from there he taught two years in the rural schools before entering the University of Indiana. There he received his A. B. degree in 1895 and his A. M. a year later.
HE HAILS FROM INDIANA
In 1899 he received a Doctor's degree from the University of Chicago. His ambition to become a deeper student of Economics was inspired during the third year of his college training by Prof. John R. Commons now of the University of Wisconsin. A later instructor who added much to the sest of his work was Prof. Frank Fetter who then was at the head of the department, and now of Princeton University.
In 1902-03 Professor Millis was Professor of economics and sociology at the University of Arkansas. From there he accepted the position of assistant professor of economies at Leland Stanford which he held from 1903 to 1910 when he was promoted
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