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Daily Iowan, November 5, 1918

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The Daily Iowan The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa VOL. VXIII-NEW SERIES VOL. III IOWA CITY, IOWA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1918 NUMBER 19 CHAWA KWAI WILL BE HOMECOMING EVENT THIS YEAR Girl's Annual Japanese Party Will Be Given on Night Before Big Game UNIVERSITY IN BEST DRESS Town and School in Gala Attire for Returning Alumni-Plan Many Stunts Homecoming guests are to have the pleasure of seeing the gay Chawa Kwai. All University women and any guests who wish, may take a place in the procession of brightly colored lanterns. If the weather is disagreeable the committee plan to hold the party in the L. A. building. After the procession it is planned to have a short program in the lobby of L. A., followed by dancing in the halls. The recitation rooms on the first floor will be open for those who do not care to dance. Both the town and the University will be decorated in gala attired for the occasion. Cars will be provided to take the alumni and visitors around over the University, to the new campus across the river, the sire of the new barracks and the children's hospital. Special intelligence officers will explain the new system of study, conduct, and all the innovations around the University, both military and academic. Postcards are being to parents of the S.A.T.C. men, inviting them to visit their boys at this time. Guides from among the soldiers will be provided at the Alumni headquarters to direct people to rooms. As many as is possible of these rooms will be within a few blocks of the campus. Tickets for the soldiers mess may be obtained by alumni and friends either at alumni headquarters or at the armory door Friday night for 30 cents. All visitors, alumni, and members of the University instructional staff are invited to eat a "regular" soldier's meal. The executive committee of the Iowa Association will meet Friday evening. Members of this committee who will be here are: The president of the association, Mr. W. H. Bremmer[?] of Minneapolis, president of the M. and St. L. railroad, Will O. Finkbine, head of the Green Bay Lumber Co. of Des Moines, former president of the Iowa Association; Supt. J.J.[?] McConnell of Cedar Rapids; and Carl Kuehnle of Denison. RECREATION HOUR AT NOON IS SUCCESSFUL Drop in your dimes and make the noonday dance a success. Under the supervision of the Y.W.C.A. and Nellie S. Aurner dean of women a half hour of recreation beginning at 2:50, has been arranged. The cimmittee has provided a good student orchestra to be supported by the contributions of the dancers, and all students are welcome to dance as long as there is any floor space. A special effort will be made to see that every one becomes acquainted and has a chance to dance if he or she wishes. The enthusiasm of the student already assures its success and if you haven't got the "hurry habit" at noon get it, and join the dancers. George C. McJilton is now out of the hospital. Mr. McJilton has pneumonia following influenza. SOUTH DAKOTA MAN DIES Alvin Stevenson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stevenson of Scotland, S.D., died Monday morning at 8:30 at the University hospital. His parents were at his bedside when the end came. The young man contracted Spanish influenza which developed into pneumonia. He belonged to the South Dakota contingent of the S.A.T.C. Notwithstanding this death however, the situation is well under control and hospital authorities are very optimistic as to the final checking of the epidemic. TELLS OF CHANCES FOR GIRLS IN NAVY Yeomanet at Recruiting Station Here Explains How a Girl May Wear the Uniform The Presence of the United States yeowomen at the Navy headquarters in the women's gymnasium aroused the interest of a number of University girls in this form of patriotic service. An interview with the young women at the office elicited information that will be of especial interest to those who are considering the work as possible for themselves. To be a yeowoman it is necessary for a girl to be a stenographer of experience, though there are a very few places open for those who do other sorts of clerical work. The girl who wishes to enlist for the regular period of four years, must pass a fairly rigid physical examination, the Navy mental test, and a test of her skill in stenography and typewriting. The yeowomen is enlisted in the navy as a 'Landsman for Yeowomen, with a salary of $92.60, besides subsistence and uniform fees. She must always wear the regulation uniform of navy blue Norfolk suit with insignia of position and rank, white shirtwaist, and black sailor hat with band inscribed, "U.S.Naval Reserve." The "Landsman for Yeowomen" may work up through third, second, and first classes to the rank of petty officer, with salaries, in the respective ranks, of $108, $112, and in the highest positions, varying salaries up to $300, with uniforms and subsistence fees in addition. Enlisted yeowomen are subject to appointment, call, and change of station just as are any other members of the naval forces. They are used in all recruiting offices, at national headquarters, and in port and shipyard offices. There are large numbers of them in Washington and New York and scattered groups in naval offices throughout the country. Information in regard to enlistment in the landsmen for yeowomen may be had by writing to the Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D.C. ANNOUNCES POLLING PLACES Voting place for S.A.T.C. men will be in the natural science auditm. today. It is the patriotic duty of every man eligible to cast his ballot, says Mr. W.O. Coast who is helping make arrangements. NOTICE TO SENIORS There will be a meeting of all seniors Tuesday at 5 o'clock in the liberal arts drawing room to set a date for the class election. MAJOR DUGMORE TO LECTURE TONIGHT ON WINNING THE WAR British Major Is Scheduled For First University Lecture of Year WAS CAPTURED AS A SPY As Civilian Major Dugmore Was Taken By British, Belgians, and Germans "Winning Out" is Major A. Radslyffe Dugmore's timely subject for the first war lecture at the University this year. This lecture will be given in the natural science auditorium tonight at 7:30. In these days when we are following the final efforts of our armies on the battlefields of Europe; the story of how our Allies are "winning out", told by an actual participant, will be of intense interest, it is thought. Major Dugmore comes to the United States with the approval of the British foreign office. As a lecturer, he ranks with Major Ian Hay Beith, who gave an address here last year. His experience on the lecture platform, including several years prior to the war, make it posible for Major Dugmore to tell the story of his participation in the war in an unusually graphic way. Actual experiences at the front furnish the background fo the story of how the Allied armies are "Winning out." At the outbreak of the war, Major Dugmore, then a civilian, made a tour through Belgium for the purpose of securing photographs of modern warfare. While on this trip he was arrested as a spy, first by the British and then by the Belgians, and was nally captured captured by the Germans Soon after, he succeeded in making his escape. Although over military age, he was anxious to join the British forces on the firing line. He enlisted first in the Inns of Court Officer's training corps, and later received a commission as lieutenant in the tenth battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was soon promoted to a captaincy, and in 1918 received the rank of major. The lecture which will begin promptly at 7:30, is open to the faculty and students of the University and to the people of Iowa City. No one will find difficulty in getting on the campus, for the sentries have been removed from the entrance. OPEN HOUSE WAS A BIG SUCCESS The first Open House held at the Y.M.C.A. headquarters Sunday afternoon was in every was a success, everyone declares. From three until five o'clock the sorority girls who were the hostesses of the afternoon served coffee, sandwiches, and candy, to hundred of young men in the S.A.T.C. uniform. Formalities were impossible, but everyone sang, talked to his or her neighbor, made dates for a later hour, and altogether camp life seemed a happier one than it promised the week before. DEAN AURNER CALLS MEETING Mrs. Nellie S. Aurner, dean of women, has called a meeting of all women in the city who are renting rooms to girl students and of all chaperones of student houses for Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in the liberal arts assembly. Helen Loeb, '18, is teaching in the Correctionville high school. NOV. 17 IS FIRST VESPERS The first vesper service of the year will be held Sunday, Nov. 17 at 4 o 'clock in the afternoon in the natural science auditorium. William J. Hutchins of Oberlin College, Ohio will deliver the address. The former plan of the vesper committee was to hold the services in the armory because of its superior seating capacity, but this plan will have to given up for the present at least, because that building is in use. BELGIAN NURSE WILL SPEAK HERE NOV. 11 Marie Von Gastel, Belgian College Women, Secured for Address by War Camp Service Marie Van Gostel, the Belgian nurse, will come through Iowa City Nov. 11, through the War Community Service to relate her experience as a nurse during the advance of the Germans. She is not a Red Cross nurse, and until the time of her service in the first Belgian hospitals of the war she had had no experience in nursing. The story of her experience is filled with incidents and description which give an almost photographic impression of what she saw. She speaks with a decided French accent and her manner of delivery is very stirring and appealing. Her interesting personality shines out in every sentence she speaks, and her appearance is another asset in her work of rousing America to her maximum force, declare those who have heard her speak. At the time of the outbreak of hostilities Miss Van Gastel was a college student in Belgium. She felt her duty to be in the service of her country, and she therefore enlisted her services as a nurse. For some months she served under the adverse conditions which prevailed during the first months of the war, and while so doing lost all trace of her family and relatives. During this time she was wounded but nevertheless stayed with her work until the doctors forced her to stop. The only money she possessed was that with which she had left school, and she has no means of procuring more. Se was absolutely on her own resources in war-ridden Belgium, and for some time she was destitute, a Belgian refugee. Finally she secured the opportunity of coming to America, and since her arrival here she has been working tirelessly in the cause. A special hour is being planned that all enlisted men may hear Miss Van Gasted's lecture in the afternoon of her engagement, at the natural science auditorium. While she is in Iowa City Miss Van Gastel will be the guest of her friend Katheine Roberts. F.T. McGill, K.C. secretary who was at Camp Dodge last year is here preparing for a K.C. hut to be established near the campus or across the river where the new barracks are being built. Mr. McGill graduated from the law college in 1916 and was fomarly president of the Newman club. At present, no recreation center has been provided by the knights but all the soldiers are welcomes to their hall on College street. ATHENA: Program meeting has been postponed from Tuesday to Wednesday. It will be held at home of Alice Dragstedt, 14 E. Burlington. HAWKEYES START PRACTICING FOR MINNESOTA GAME Jones Sends Team Against Kent's Eleven Trained in the Gopher Plays IOWA'S CHANGE IS FAIR Hawkeye's Weigh As Heavily As Minnesota Men-Tickets on Sale Today Although somewhat bettered and sore from the Illini game in which the Hawk's lost their chance for a championship, Coach Jones sent his team through the first of a week's hard drill in preparation for the Gophers who will be Iowa's opponent in the annual Homecoming classic. After a long signal drill and practice in punting, passing, and other fundamentals of the football sport the varsity took on the seconds in a short tilt. The seconds coached in the Gopher attack and formations. Until the varsity set themselves to the shifts the seconds made good ground, but the firsts were not long in breaking the plays sent against them. The varsity lined up with the same men who started the Illinois game. Lohman, Scottm Sykes, and Kelley made up the back field, with Greenie, Reed, Slater, Mockmore, Helft, and Hunselman as the forward wall. Tickets on Sale for Minnesota Game Tickets for the Gopher game are on sale now, S.A.T.C. men will be given a chance to get good seats by purchasing the tickets at the office across from the mess hall. This sale will open today at 12, until 1:30, each day until Thursday noon. General sale tickets may be bought at Whetstone's drug store after Thursday noon for $1.50 and $2.00. By buying at the ticket office at noon the S.A.T.C. men will get them for 75 cents. Girls may buy tickets at the secretary's office in the Old Capitol building. A section of the best seats on the west side had been reserved for the women and by obtaining tickets from the Secretary's office they are sure of having excellent places. As applications for tickets are coming fast it is advised that students buy early. Minnesota Team Strong That the Iowa team will have a hard foe is a dead certainty. Coach Williams has developed a team that has shown a good knowledge of football and has handed out a few good trouncings to the teams in that section of the country. They have beaten the Overland team of Saint Paul, and St. Thomas college of Minneapolis, both rated as a formidable elevens among the northern schools. Last Saturday the Gophers handed a bad beating t othe Carlton team, one of the best in this section, especially remembered by the trimming they have Coach Stagg's team two years ago. Gophers Have Fast Backeld Although the Gopher coach has been noted for the teams that he puts out he will be at a loss of experienced men with which to make his team the more complete. Iowa has seven of last year's men who have all stood the attacks of hard teams. According to the dope from the northern school they are reported as having a fast backfield. In Lampi at the left half they have a man who was a wonder last year, tearing up every opposing line that offered resistance. It is around this cog that (continued on page 4)
 
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