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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII
NUMBER 72
WRITES FROM NORWAY
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 10, 1916.
Pringle, Aboard Ford Peace Ship, Tells Daily Kansan His Adventures
Christiansand, Norway.
Dec.18,1915.
To the Daily Kansah!
I received your telephone, asking for my job. I board on the Board II soon after we left New York City. Have had no opportunity to send you any news until now except by wireless and that is rather expensive. Now, to arrive in New York at 2 p. m., Friday, Dec. 3, I found that to get a passport I must go to Washington, D. C. They had already arranged for the State Department to be kept open until midnight that night and sent a man to Washington with a number of applications.
We were fortunate, however, in the fact that owing to delay the boat did not sail until 3:15 p. m. We were not very far out until practically everyone one had Mr. Ford. He is a likeable man, but he was much in earnest. Along in the evening a small chap dressed in a messenger boy's uniform approached Mr. Ford and announced that he was a stowaway. He had come aboard bearing a letter addressed to Mrs. Inez to explain that he concealed himself until the ship was well at sea. As soon as the stowaway found out about "Jake," as the stowaway called himself, he put the poor chap to peeling potatoes down in the kitchen. But Mr. Ford, upon being impressed, established in world peace made him a member of the party. Someone gave him clothes and now he is everywhere, running errands for the office force and making himself useful generally.
18 INTRODUCED TO HENRY
But there were five of us who could not get identified in time for this so we went, ourselves, on a later train. Next morning we called up State Department officials and got them to come to the office a little after 8 a.m. This let us leave Washington on a 9 o'clock train that was due in late evening at 2:15 p. m., fifteen minutes after the Oscar H. was scheduled to sail.
When I awoke Sunday morning, Dec. 5, I felt rather strange. It took me just an hour to get dressed and for the next three days I was utterly miserable from seasickness. The weather got better after getting my sea legs I began to enjoy it and to attend the meetings at which the plans of the party were being gradually evolved. Among the celebrities and prominent peace workers aboard was Mr. Steele, who had later beheaded Mrs. Inez Micholland Boissevain, Mrs. Fels of Philadelphia, and Mine. Schwimmer of Austria. There were twenty-five students aboard, seven of whom were at the Cornell Conference last June, Mrs. Steele was coming on the Frederick VIII and on it are about twelve other delegates, including a Mr. Steele, who is to represent Governor Capper. Besides the regular meetings of the whole party the students have held special meetings and discussed chiefly plans for a world court and a world federation.
On the evening of the 13th just at it was growing dark the engines suddenly stopped and the boat became perfectly still. Everyone rushed to the railings to see what was the trouble. Just a little ways off lay a British patrol ship with not a light showing. So soon we say a small boat around on the leeward we saw that it was a lifeboat containing about a dozen men. Our ladder was dropped and a British lieutenant climbed aboard. He was followed by two marines and three seamen. They were able to spot the vignettes. It seemed rather strange to be made prisoners thus. The ship soon started again but our course was abruptly changed. We were ordered to go up around the northern edge of the Orkneys and into Kirkwell from the east. We got there on the event side we were led into the harbor by trawlers. These trawlers opened and swung back the submarine net so as to let us in. There was a good deal of excitement on board because the rumor started that the floats that hold the boats get up out of the water. The next morning we steamed into the harbor and anchored about half mile from shore.
HOLD BREATH WHEN ENGINES STOP
OFFICER WEARS WRIST WATCH
The British first examined our passports and the ship's papers. Then we were left there with no apparent good enough proof of our identity. I talked with the British marines on
guard on the bridge, as we steamed into Kirkwell, and one said the British are sick and tired of the war. They had to be led soided as that they can get back home.
This man had been in the navy for thirty-two years. He was aboard the Majestic when it was sunk in the Dardenelles. The leutenant was in the water, and he was a joyful fellow and rather amusing with his drawl, his wrist watch, and his passion for hot tea. He said there was considerable rivalry in the navy over the capture of the change of Peace ship and he felt proud of his good fortune.
The crew of the Oscar II say that the British showed them every courtesy possible. On the morning of the 17th the harbormaster sent out two trawlers to take off all the parcel post. It seemed rather ironical that the British could prevent Christmas packages from reaching their destinations should be named "Good Shepherd" and "Pax Vobiscum." All this parcel post—several hundred sacks—was sent to London, to be searched for contraband. This is the first time it has been done. The Scottish Captain of Scudimvun American Line, so you see the British are tightening their blockade.
About noon on the 17th the Captain received orders to sail. At 2 p. m., we left the harbors and steamed out into the North Sea. The night was clear and bright and the sea smooth with a golden sheen. Next morning we were in sight of the mountainous, snowcapped coast of Norway. It was a very clear day and we got the full clear cut beauty of he fjord as the steamer made its way across the ocean. We reached at about 3 p. m. At 5 p. m., we were away again toward Christi ans, skimming the coast all the way. Many of us remained up all right because of the beautiful moonlight and the baffles description, December 19th.
MEET NORWEGIAN STUDENTS
COAST EIGHT MILES
When we arrived at Christianity at 4 a.m. this morning, December 19th it happened that I was the only student not in bed. A group of five students from the University here at Christiana came aboard quite unexpected to us. One of them spoke English quite fluently. We had other chances I called the president of our student organization aboard and the two of us talked with the one who could speak English until 6 a.m. Then he took us up town to an early breakfast. It seemed good to set foot on land again. After breakfast we secured some of the Norwegian morning papers, one of which contained a poem about a boy and a good writetime of the expedition. Having done this we returned to the boat where the unloading of biggreg was already well under way.
By 11 a. m, we had all reached our rooms at the various hotels, all of which are splendid except that the halls are very cold. At 1 p. m, the walls are made of metal forms headquarters and went by taxicals and then by trolley about four miles up into the mountains to a station located on a tobogganing course, which, as it curves around the mountains is about eight miles long. The snow has come early here this winter and winter sports are in full blast.
I thought that the florid at Christmasand was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen up to that time but it cannot compare with this snowdeneer garden. They are far as one rides up out of the foggy valley where the sun is entirely hidden and sees the fog gradually grow thinner and thinner until finally the sky becomes clear. No wonder these people enjoy their outdoor sports so intensely.
WILL WRITE AGAIN
Well, this is a rambling account. Use it as you see fit. Will write you a little later and devote my letter almost wholly to our plans which will then have been further developed afar. We meet in the Europes. We stay here three days and then go to Stackholm where the party spends Christmas.
Yours truly, Kenneth W. Pringle
The University of Kansas is offering a course in music instruction. This course will benefit the fine arts students who expect to become teachers, and will help children of Law students have direct supervision of the course and instruction will cost 22 1-2 cents for a half-hour lesson.
Will Teach Children
John M. Henry, an editor of the Kansan last year, has the distinction of being the youngest and only school newspaper man in the Western Iowa Editors Association. At the last meeting of this association, which was held in Council Bluffs last Friday he gave a talk on "The Relation of the School of Journalism to the Real Game."
J. M. Henry In A Dissertation
The Pharmics will hold a smoker at the Sigma Nu house Thursday evening at eight o'clock.
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Starving Armenia
Open your hearts, ye clothed from head to feet,
Ye housed and whole, who listen to the cry
Of them that not yet slain and mangled lie,
Only despoiled of all that made life sweet—
Only left bare to snow, and wind, and sleet,
And rooftop to the inhospitable sky,
Give them of your abundance lest they die,
And famine make this mighty woe complete;
And lest—if truly, as your creeds aver,
A day of reckoning come—it be your lot
To hear the voice of the uprisen dead:
"We were the naked whom ye covered not,
The sick to whom ye did not minister,
And the unhonored whom we gave not bread."
William Waxton in the New Armenia
RACHELLER IS COMING BYNNER HERE TOMORROW
And the ahungered whom ye gave not bread."
The Original "Eben Holden Has a Lecture Full of Humorous Satire
Irving Bachelier, author and lecturer, will present his novel, "Keeping Up With Lizzie" next Tuesday, January 11, in Fraser Hall. His entertainment is one of the big numbers of the University Lecture Course and will be given in the afternoon at 4:30.
Irving Bachelore has been writing for a quarter of a century and lecturing for many year. His novels, "Eben Holden" and "Keeping up With Lizzie" are his most famous novels. "The Gentleman" and "The Turning of the Griggsbys" are scarcely less well known.
**keeping Up With Lizzie** is a reading full of gentle saint and humor, but has the deep undercurrent of present day practices and customs.
Mr. Bachelere is a Connecticut man, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the possessor of several college degrees.
His lecture was originally announced for January 13, but January 14 was correct.
THE CALENDAR
Monday
;00: Morning Prayers, Fraser, the Rev. E. B. Backus, "Religion
4:30—The Dousse Versein, 313 Fr
eer Hall, "Kinderprogramm in
German."
4:30—Mathematics Club, 103 Ad Bidg, Prof. H. E. Jordain,
"Methods of Computing Areas."
7:30—Second Band, Fraser Chapel.
8:00—Morning Prayers, Fraser, the Rev. E, B. Backus, "Freedom."
2:30—Entomology Club, Museum.
2:30—Y. W. C. A., Myers Hall.
4:30—Lecture, Irving Baccheller, "Keeping Up With Lizzie," Fraser Chapel.
7:30—Men's Glee Club, Fraser Hall.
7:30—Orchestra, Fraser Chapel.
7:30—Zoology Club, Snow Hall.
8:15-University Concept, Oscar Seagle, Bartonite, Gymnasium
8:00 Morning Prayers, Faser, the
Re. E, B. Backus, "Responsi-
cal"
Thursday
Rev. E, B. Backus, "Responsibility."
4:30—W, S. G, A. Fraser Hall.
4:30—Chemical Engineering Club,
Eum. Blidg.
4:30—Cercle Francs., 306 Fraser Hall.
4:30—Geology Club, Haworth Hall.
4:30—Girl's Glee Club, North College.
4:30—Handlubn Club, Fraser Hall.
4:50—Play, The Witching Hour, K.
8:15—Play, "The Witching Hour," K.
U. Dramatic Club, Bowersock Theater.
8:00—Morning Prayers, Fraser, the
Fraser Hall
$10.00 Debtors Payable
8:00—Morning Prayers, Fraser, the Rev. E, B. Backus, "Patriot-
8;15—Concert, Hawaiian Orchestra Fraser Chapel.
Uni. Debating Society, 110 Fraser Hall.
8:00 - Morning Prayers, Fraser, the Rev, E. B. Backus, "Problems"
2:30 - Debating Tryouts, Green Hall.
7:00 - El Ateneo, 314 Fraser Hall.
7:00 - Mechanical Engineering So-
7:00 - Men's Glee Club, Fraser Hall.
7:30 - Dramatic Club, Green Hall.
7:30 - K. U. Debating Society, 313
Salicylic acid will be the subject of a talk by Prof. Geo. N. Watson of the food laboratory before the Chemical Club Wednesday after-6pm. The address is "Laboratory Notes on Salicylic Acid and Its Allies."
Friday
To Spend a Week on Moun
Oread—No Date Set
for Reading
Witter Bynner, poet and dramatist,
will come to Lawrence tomorrow and
will spend a week visiting his friend,
Dylan Frost. He will be in English.
While here Mr. Bynner
will read his version of Euripedes'
"hiphigenia in Taurus" which was written
for Iagoda Dunean, the foremost
poet in London, when the time has not been announced yet.
"My Bynner is one of the leaders in the group of young poets who are giving expression to the newer ideas of democracy," said Mr. Wattles today. "And his position is not the result of affectation or studied eccentricity, but rather an act of dedication." My Bynner is as free from affected numerisms as any American poet.
While Mr. Wattles was in the east castle, a guest of Mr. Bjinner for some time.
Proof, and Mrs. W. W. Davis will connect
concertin Mr. Bymer at dinner. Mrs.
K, U. WILL HEAR NATIVE
HAWAIANS PLAY MUSIC
Students will have an opportunity to become more familiar with the increasingly popular music of Hawaii when the Ellis orchestra of sixteen pieces gives its concert in Fraser Chapel Friday evening. The features of the program will benumbers for the instruments that they play, guitar, instruments which have been much in vogue for some time on the Pacific coast.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at the office of the Registrar. The price of admission is 50 cents. The orchestra comes to Lawrence under the auspices of the University Y. M. C. A.
Kausan Correction
In the interests of accurate reporting I should like to correct a statement attributed to me in Friday's issue. I do not know the relative salaries paid at the University of Chicago and that point in that institution. The woman who is in charge of the cafeterias and Commons at the University of Chicago is the one who mentioned as a high salaried person.
The following letter has been received by the Daily Kansan;
Needs Kansan To Watch Son
Mr. C. S. Giblen, manager of the Nickerson Telephone Company at Nickerson, Kansas, writes, "Please send me the Kansan for the rest of the year, I want to find out if my nephew is sick and that he is the "Sour Owl." The Kansan is glad to report that his son Leon Giblen, Sophomore Engineer, and a member of the Beta fraternity is a very good citizen and student, and there is no likelihood of him "getting in bad."
Yours very truly.
Elizabeth C. Sprague
Prize Essay Ready
OBJECT TO HOD-CARRIERS
Printed copies of the 1915 prize essay by Herbert Flint on Practical Christianity may be obtained free, by students and faculty, by inquiring at the general information winery, or by submitting a letter of his essay. "The Application of the teachings of Christ to the American-Japanese Problem."
To Entertain Medies
The students and faculty of the School of Medicine will be entertained at the home of Dr. and Mrs. M. T. Sudler, 805 Tennessee street, Friday evening Jan. 14, from seven to nine p.m., in the Prof. and Mrs. L. E. Sayre, of Lawrence, and Dr. and Mrs. S. J. Crumbine, of Topeka.
Students at Ann Arbor are incensed over the fact that the merchants sell Class Toques to newboys, wagon-drivers and day-laborers with as much impartiality as to students.
Though there is no way in which the University can force the merchants to do otherwise, the officials feel it lowers the traditions and dignity of the University to have such concessions. They are not willing to make the antitrust against this permissive wearing of the Class Toques so strong that the merchants will have to give in to the wishes of the students.
TAKE ONE; DROP ONE
K. U. Breaks Even With Ames in Opening Basketball Series
After opening the 1916 season with a victory the Jayhawk baskettossers lost the second game in the series to Ames. Both games were played on the final whistle. In the first Kansas happened to be ahead when the final whistle sounded and the score stood 26 to 25 for the Crimson and Blue. This was no accident, as their rally too long and the final score read Ames 24, Kansas 21.
"EARL" MAKES A HIT
A rally a few minutes before the initial game ended gave Kansas a one-point lead which held until the last in spite of the excitement and fear which threatened to bring the crowd onto the floor. Substitutions to increase the lead or take it but no one on a side would be able to increase the lead or take it but the new men came too late to change the figures.
The Ames aggregation was fast and husky, to say nothing of luck with long shots, and proved to be too much for the inexperienced Kansans in the line of teamwork. Captain Johnson, one of few others of his build would make a heavy line for a gidiron squad but their size did not affect their ability to get around on the indoor court. Most of their attempts for points from the field were made from a distance but they had the advantage of being able spite of the Kansas guards. Holmes known to the crowd as Earl, warned especially good on getting the long ones from anywhere on the court.
GIBRIE COULDN'T MISS BASKET
But speaking of long ones, the Jayhawker followers should not talk too much for in the last half of the second game, Gibben, the midgest Kansas forward, got his eye on the basket and for a few minutes he hit the basket every time he got hold of the ball. Six goals were scored by him with a free throw by Cole were the only Kansas points in this half.
In both games Ames took the lead right at the start but Kansas soon caught up in the first game. Gibben's eye was trained for free throws and he netted six points off the Aggie roughness. The first half was tight, and the second half started for it when the second half started. From then on the Ames men led until the final Jayhawker rally which saved the game. The second game belonged to Ames all the way. This time it was Aldrich of Ames who got the free throws while Gibben and Cole missed all but one of eight chances and ended 11 to 8 for Ames. Miller of Ames replaced Swiney who received a twisted ankle in the first game.
APPEL AND COLE TEMPORARY CAPTAINS
Captain Holmes and Aldrich showed up well for the visitors in both battles while the Kansas stars divided the honors more. Kennedy with seven field goa's, proved to be the point getter of the first game while Nelson and Cole bested show and defense. Gillen proved the star of the second game with his hard fast playing and lucky shots. Cole, Uhrlaugh and Wilson also showed up well while Kennedy was kept under cover by the Ames guards.
Cole was appointed temporary captain for the first game and Appel, for the second game, until he was replaced by Wilson. The job then
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MORNING PRAYERS
Week Jan. 10.14.
Daily subjects:
General subject, "Religion and Doctrine."
Monday, "Confidence in Humanity," Tuesday, "Freedom." Wednesday, "Responsibility," Problem Solving. Friday, "Patriotism."
K. U. WILL OFFER HELP
Clothes for French and Belgians—Money for Armenia's Homeless
The shepherds led the pilgrims and they showed them a man that had bundles of cloth lying before him, and garments for the poor that stood on their shoulders. She was never the less. Then said she "This is," and she the shepherds, "to give of his labor to the poor." This is, and she the shepherds, "to give of his labor to the poor." That he waterth shall be waterth; that the winnow gave to the prophet did not cause that she had lees in her mouth.
The University of Kansas will do its share in making less the suffering of Europe's war-striken millions, Money for the purchase of food will go to the much-persecuted Armenians, whose pight is almost past belief. Warm clothes will be sent to the people of Belgium because they are barely destitute, and dependent solely on American charity for their existence.
A University War Relief Committee, under whose supervision the collection of funds and clothes will be carried on, was organized in the office of Chancellor Frank Strong Saturday morning with a member of the faculty, Mr. Paul Winters, and members of the faculty. This committee will assume direction of all charitable work emanating from the University. Its members, as named by Chancellor Strong at the organization meeting Saturday morning, are: Professor Joseph Sutherland, Dr. Olin, P. F. Walker, Foster, Humble, Hyde, MacMurray, Whitaker, Thorpe, Cady, Davis; students: L. R. Miller, Leslie Dodd, Leland Thompson, Blanche Mullen, Hugo Wodell, Ann Gittins, James L. Ewing, Jerry Stillwell, Guy Lamar, Chancellor Strong was chosen chairman.
WANT WARM CLOTHING
The collection of clothing was placed in the hands of a committee of students, composed of L. R. Miller, Blanche Mullen, Leland Thompson, Elfride Fischer, Jerry Stillwell, Stella Simmons, and William H. Wilson, all of whom were diving houses of students have been asked to give all the warm clothing they do not need. These will be collected on the afternoon of Friday, the 14th, by the women of Lawrence, who are preparing a shipment, and sent with what they have gathered. Miss Edith Snow, who is at the head of the work being done by the women of Lawrence, will be offered wherever possible. Any one who has clothes to send should telephone her at Bell 2485W.
Funds for the Armenians will be raised through an entertainment in the gymnasium, probably about the first Wednesday of the new semester. The group has been asked to arrange with the various organizations for the presentation of a worth-will program that will fill the gym to its capacity. The group has also conducted and, thus, together with the fact that the semester finals will be just finished, assumes a good attendance. The sub-compete in charge of Armenian Relief consists of Prof. H. A. Mills, chairman, Mr. G. O. Foster, W. A. Whitaker, H. P, Cady, and L. R. Miller and John Glieiser.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
Funds raised for the Armenians will be sent to the general committee ip New York and by them to Ambassadeor Morgenthan, of Constantinople, and to United States consuls and other American representatives. It was assumed that Ambassador Kunyat, that the attainment of the power of America was called to the condition of the Turkish Armenians, and an attempt at organized relief begun.
Indisputable data show that not in modern times have such horrible atrocities been perpetrated in as Turkic Sultan, Al-Mustafa the Sultan, Defenseless, the ancient Christian nation has been made the victim of a carefully planned and well organized plot of extermination. It is clear that there were many were driven from their homes, how many were forcibly converted to Islam, and how many were put to the sword. Wholesale murder, and death have been committed with impunity.
At the outbreak of the war there were in Turkey some 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 Armenians. Of these, 200,000 were forced to flee from their fledged little besides expulsion. Of the others Lord Bryce has officially reported that 800,000 were driven from their homes, scarcely one-third of whom reached their remote destinations. An official French community makes of 800,000 having lost their lives.
A quarter of a million, and probably more, have fled to the Russian Caucasus, where they are in dire need, arriving as they did in a terrible state of exhaustion and want and sickness. In one town, where a
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