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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, OCTOBER 15, 1918
NUMBER 10

BILL FELKNER, OLD UNIVERSITY LEADER DIES OF INFLUENZA
Influencial Iowa City Insurance Man and S. U. I. Enthusiast Passes Away
HOSPITAL NURSE IS ALSO VICTIM
All Medical Men Are Striving To Cope With Emergency Conditions
W. W. Felkner, insurance man of this city died Sunday.  He was in the University for three years, two years in the college of applied science and one year in the liberal arts.  He was affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.  Last June he was married to Lottie Lester who was an Achoth in the University some years ago.  He was active in many local enterprises and was a Mason and an Elk.
Death came as a result of pneumonia following Spanish influenza.  Until shortly before his death his condition was not regarded as serious and he was supposedly on the road to recovery.
Loss To City
The death of "Bill" Felkner will come as a personal loss to Iowa City and University people alike, for he was well known to many and beloved by all who knew him.
Miss Rovena Spencer, head nurse in the department of pediatrics of the children's hospital, who died Sunday at the University hospital of pneumonia came here from Chicago where she had been doing infant welfare work following a position in the Children's Memorial hospital, of which institution where she was a graduate.  The body will be sent to Eagle Grove where funeral services will be Wednesday or Thursday from the home of her sister, Mrs. John Tyck.
Miss Spencer was 27 years old and was waiting her call to foreign service with the Red Cross in which she was to have done infant welfare work.
Two Students Die
Francis Quinn, freshman, of Company B, S. A. T. C. died of influenza at the University hospital at one o'clock yesterday morning.  He was the son of F. E. Quinn of Parnell and the body was sent there for burial.
Arland L. Orcutt of Company C, S. A. T. C. died yesterday at the University hospital of Spanish influenza.  His home was at Swan, Iowa.  He was the son of D. B. Orcutt.
Nurses at the University hospital are all working overtime and many are not taking their regular hours off duty.  The day nurses begin duty at 7 a. m. and the night nurses at [?] p. m.  Out of 135 nurses, 66 are ill and there are 22 probationers too ill for duty.  All the probationers are helping and also the junior and senior medical students, dental students and S. A. T. C. men.

WOMEN IN DEMAND
Fewer women than usual are working their way through school this year and because so many of the men are being inducted into the S. A. T. C., women are in much demand.  Bernice Cole, Y. W. C. A. secretary, reports that many good positions are still unfiled.
Girls have replaced men in the dining room at Currier hall and in many of the offices of the faculty.

GIRLS NOT TO LOSE ON "I" TICKETS
At Least 12 Games Are Guaranteed Or Refund Promised
After a consultation with President Jessup yesterday afternoon Coach Jones states definitely that girls who hold "I" tickets will not lose money on them and that probably a good game will be enjoyed next Saturday.
At least 12 games must be furnished for the $6.00 purchase price.  If on account of the quarantine or military regulations, 12 games are not furnished during the year holders of season tickets will refund of 50 cents a game.  Negotiations are under way for a tilt with Cornell on the Iowa field Saturday, but this is not definite.

INFLUENZA IS NOW GREATLY CHECKED
No New Pneumonia Cases Reported at Military Headquarters Yesterday
Only one new influenza case was reported yesterday and no new pneumonia cases, according to information from Capt. Wm. S. Brownell's office.  The Psi Omega house, which was used as a detention hospital, is closed and the few remaining patients have been transferred to the women's gymnasium.
Two deaths, F. A. Quinn of Co. B and Mrs. Taylor, wife of the janitor in the liberal arts building, occurred yesterday.  Sunday, Rovena Spencer, head nurse in the pediatrics department, and Orland L. Orcutt of Co. C died of influenza.
Of the 60 pneumonia cases on record half are dangerous.  Each pneumonia patient has some faculty member appointed to look after his welfare.  This faculty man communicates with the parents if the patient in his charge is seriously ill, meets them at the train, escorts them to the hospital and the hotel, and does everything he can to be of service.

PROF. HIXSON IN WASHINGTON
Arthur W. Hixson, associate professor of chemistry, who is now absent on leave, is holding an important post in Washington.  In a letter recently received by Professor Rockwood he tells something of the work in which he is now engaged.  He is responsible for the entire production of trench warfare powder.  Under his supervision are 27 high explosive plants, manufacturing ammonium nitrate, mercury fulminate, nitro starch powder, lyconite, and ammonium chloride.  When the big synthetic nitrate plants in the South start up, he expects to have something to do with them also.

NO CONFERENCE THIS YEAR
The department of psychology has dispensed with the conference system which has been employed in the course in elementary psychology in previous years.  Because of the increase in the number of students the department is unable to conduct the conference sections as usual.  Instead the department has adopted the policy of three lectures each week instead of two as formerly.  Next year the department expects to return to the system of two lectures and a conference section weekly.

Bertha Roewe, ex '19, is attending Iowa state college this year.

IOWAN STAFF TO BE CHOSEN EVERY MONTH UNDER NEW SYSTEM
Student Members of Board of Trustees Now in Service or Government Work
NIGHT EDITORS NAMED THURSDAY
Sporting Writer is Only Man of The Iowan--Business Manager is Woman
A new system has been devised for editorial work on The Iowan this year.  Staff members will be chosen for the period of one month, subject to reappointment.  The managing editor will be the only permanent member of the staff.
The editorial staff for the month, Oct. 15,-Nov. 15, follows:
Rowena Wellman--managing editor
Agnes Kingsbury--news editor
Ethyn Williams--exchange editor
G. D. Evans--sporting editor
Elizabeth Hendee--humorous editor
Ruth Stewart--Feature editor
tants will be announced ETAOIN
Night editors and their assistants will be announced in the masthead of each paper.  The Iowan also plans a military section of the paper, and a military editor will be announced as soon as the column makes its first appearance.
Every Student A Chance
Shortage of experienced workers and an abundance of good material among the new reporters, copy readers, and special writers in journalism courses brought about the change from permanent to temporary staff organization.  Every student who is registered in journalism and does superior work on The Iowan will now have a chance for a place on the editorial staff, proper, sometime during the year.
Due to changes in registration, the reportorial staff of The Iowan will be announced later.  About the same number or reporters are gathering news for the student paper as were last year.  Girls will dominate the staff almost entirely, since men in the S. A. T. C. have not time to spend on the work.
Woman Is Business Manager
For the first time in its history the business management of The Iowan is in the hands of a woman.  Romola Latchem has the distinction of being the first woman business manager.
The board of trustees of The Iowan lost all of its student members this year.  Virgil Hancher, the senior member of the board is in train-
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KICK!
If your copy of The Iowan is not delivered regularly, please let us know.  The Iowan is trying to give the best of service, but conditions of quarantine and influenza are making it difficult.  Help us to help you.  Phone our business office, 935, or leave your complaint at the Chesnutt Printing Co., 103 Iowa avenue, under the University Book Store.  Thanks.
Y. W. C. A. GIRLS MEET TOMORROW
Mrs. Aurner and Violet Blakely To Speak--Tea Served at Four
The first meeting of the Y. W. C. A. for the year will take place Wednesday afternoon at 4:45 in the liberal arts auditorium.  An attractive program has been arranged for the initial meeting.
Nellie C. Aurner, dean of women, will speak and Violet Blakely, president of the association, will talk on various phases of Y. W. C. A. work and of the association's need of girls.  Special music has been prepared for the occasion.
Tea will be served in the liberal arts drawing room at four o'clock.  The Y. W. C. A. is especially desirous that the new students attend.
The first cabinet meeting of the year was held at 4:30 yesterday afternoon in the liberal arts drawing room.

"MORALE COUNTS" SAYS "DAD" ELLIOTT
Y. M. C. A. Leader Gives Inspiring Address to S. A. T. C. in Local Unit
"Dad" Elliott gave an inspiring address to about 350 S. A. T. C. men on the campus Sunday afternoon.
In the course of his talk he spoke of the place of morale in the life of the soldier, stressing what Thorndyke would call "mind set," wherein each man upholds the honor of his country by maintaining his individual standard of life.  He also spoke of Gen. Pershing who, when he landed in France and realized the situation, brought his fists down on the table and said:  "By God's help we are going to send these men back to America as good as they were when they came over here."
Mr. Elliott, who is in charge of all Y. M. C. A. work of the S. A. T. C. in the central department, came here to talk over the plans of the Y. M. C. A. work for the coming year.
Various entertainments have been given on the campus for the S. A. T. C. men the past week.  The program Saturday evening consisted of a "sing" by the soldiers, three flute solos by John Parosns of Company M and three vocal solos by Margaret Wieneke.  A "sing" by the soldiers closed the program.

NO MORE WORK ON DIRECTORY YET
No action has been taken, thus far, toward the publication of a student directory.  Prof. C. H. Weller stated yesterday that it will be given consideration as soon as adjustments of other matters are completed.  Since the S. A. T, C. men are to live in barracks, a directory will be unnecessary, for the men may be reached, according to their companies, through the central office.

Ruth Fall, recent graduate of the University, has entered canteen work in France.  Miss Fall, whose home is at Albia, left in September for New York, where she expected to remain a week before leaving for France.  She may be transferred later into educational work.  Miss Fall taught last year in the high school at Mason City.

Miriam Chase who has been absent from her work in the English department since Monday on account of Spanish influenza, returned Friday morning.

VARSITY IS GIVEN PEPPERY WORKOUT AFTER COE BATTLE
Probable That There May Be a Game With Another Iowa Team Saturday
MANY REGULARS FAIL TO REPORT
Jones Issues Call For Linemen To Fill a Shortage In The Forward Wall
The Iowa varsity went through a light practice on the Hawkeye field last night.  the initial practice after the defeat of the Coe team in Saturday's mix.  The regulars showed that they are sadly in need of stiff scrimmages and plenty of signal work.  Their work in the Coe game was anything but rosy as Eby's huskies made our Hawks look anything other than a varsity team that whipped the Nebraska team a week ago.
The Presbyterians displayed a fight and a variety of plays that made the Hawks look bad in the first quarter of the game, for they succeed in taking the oval to Iowa's 10 yard mark before being halted in their mad attempt at a touchdown.  Time after time they broke a Hawkeye pass or recover the ball on a fumble and marched toward the Old Gold goal.  Another desperate effort was put forth in the final period when they advanced to the 12 yard line only to have the whistle interfere.  Considering the fact that the Coe men were in their first battle of the season and that they had several green men in the lineup, they put up a game that demonstrated that they will land toward the top of the Iowa college percentage column.
Many Hawkeyes out of Game
The Hawks started the Coe game with no fewer than four regular battlers on the varsity team missing, and this no doubt helped in no small way to weaken the offensive game of the Iowa team.  Hunzelman, Reed, Greenwood, and Lohman were the absentees, the first 3 being victims of the flue, while the big tank has not recovered from his injury sustained in the husking bee with Nebraska.  Last reports indicate that the broken cartilege is not mending properly, and in all probability the big boy will not enter the ranks until the Illini are taken on at Urbana in the next big 10 game.  The services of these gallant Hawks were badly missed in the teams fight and drive, but not too much honor can be bestowed on those who filled their places in the teams personnel last Saturday.  Saturday's combat gave the coach a line on his material and several men showed promise as comers who were heretofore unheralded as athletes.  The showing of Belding, Parker, Voege and Smith of Cherokee, was especially pleasing to Iowa followers for if these young hawks develop as they should, Iowa will posess a reserve list almost the equal of the first team.
Negotiations are now underway whereby Iowa may take on another Iowa college as an opponent in the next game.  What team will appear is not known at present but in all probability, Iowa will go up against one of the state's best college teams.  Thursday's Iowan will state the team to take on the Hawkeye eleven.  Coach Jones is doing his utmost toward giving the Iowa followers the best card that may be had, although
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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, OCTOBER 15, 1918 NUMBER 10 BILL FELKNER, OLD UNIVERSITY LEADER DIES OF INFLUENZA Influencial Iowa City Insurance Man and S. U. I. Enthusiast Passes Away HOSPITAL NURSE IS ALSO VICTIM All Medical Men Are Striving To Cope With Emergency Conditions W. W. Felkner, insurance man of this city died Sunday. He was in the University for three years, two years in the college of applied science and one year in the liberal arts. He was affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Last June he was married to Lottie Lester who was an Achoth in the University some years ago. He was active in many local enterprises and was a Mason and an Elk. Death came as a result of pneumonia following Spanish influenza. Until shortly before his death his condition was not regarded as serious and he was supposedly on the road to recovery. Loss To City The death of "Bill" Felkner will come as a personal loss to Iowa City and University people alike, for he was well known to many and beloved by all who knew him. Miss Rovena Spencer, head nurse in the department of pediatrics of the children's hospital, who died Sunday at the University hospital of pneumonia came here from Chicago where she had been doing infant welfare work following a position in the Children's Memorial hospital, of which institution where she was a graduate. The body will be sent to Eagle Grove where funeral services will be Wednesday or Thursday from the home of her sister, Mrs. John Tyck. Miss Spencer was 27 years old and was waiting her call to foreign service with the Red Cross in which she was to have done infant welfare work. Two Students Die Francis Quinn, freshman, of Company B, S. A. T. C. died of influenza at the University hospital at one o'clock yesterday morning. He was the son of F. E. Quinn of Parnell and the body was sent there for burial. Arland L. Orcutt of Company C, S. A. T. C. died yesterday at the University hospital of Spanish influenza. His home was at Swan, Iowa. He was the son of D. B. Orcutt. Nurses at the University hospital are all working overtime and many are not taking their regular hours off duty. The day nurses begin duty at 7 a. m. and the night nurses at [?] p. m. Out of 135 nurses, 66 are ill and there are 22 probationers too ill for duty. All the probationers are helping and also the junior and senior medical students, dental students and S. A. T. C. men. WOMEN IN DEMAND Fewer women than usual are working their way through school this year and because so many of the men are being inducted into the S. A. T. C., women are in much demand. Bernice Cole, Y. W. C. A. secretary, reports that many good positions are still unfiled. Girls have replaced men in the dining room at Currier hall and in many of the offices of the faculty. GIRLS NOT TO LOSE ON "I" TICKETS At Least 12 Games Are Guaranteed Or Refund Promised After a consultation with President Jessup yesterday afternoon Coach Jones states definitely that girls who hold "I" tickets will not lose money on them and that probably a good game will be enjoyed next Saturday. At least 12 games must be furnished for the $6.00 purchase price. If on account of the quarantine or military regulations, 12 games are not furnished during the year holders of season tickets will refund of 50 cents a game. Negotiations are under way for a tilt with Cornell on the Iowa field Saturday, but this is not definite. INFLUENZA IS NOW GREATLY CHECKED No New Pneumonia Cases Reported at Military Headquarters Yesterday Only one new influenza case was reported yesterday and no new pneumonia cases, according to information from Capt. Wm. S. Brownell's office. The Psi Omega house, which was used as a detention hospital, is closed and the few remaining patients have been transferred to the women's gymnasium. Two deaths, F. A. Quinn of Co. B and Mrs. Taylor, wife of the janitor in the liberal arts building, occurred yesterday. Sunday, Rovena Spencer, head nurse in the pediatrics department, and Orland L. Orcutt of Co. C died of influenza. Of the 60 pneumonia cases on record half are dangerous. Each pneumonia patient has some faculty member appointed to look after his welfare. This faculty man communicates with the parents if the patient in his charge is seriously ill, meets them at the train, escorts them to the hospital and the hotel, and does everything he can to be of service. PROF. HIXSON IN WASHINGTON Arthur W. Hixson, associate professor of chemistry, who is now absent on leave, is holding an important post in Washington. In a letter recently received by Professor Rockwood he tells something of the work in which he is now engaged. He is responsible for the entire production of trench warfare powder. Under his supervision are 27 high explosive plants, manufacturing ammonium nitrate, mercury fulminate, nitro starch powder, lyconite, and ammonium chloride. When the big synthetic nitrate plants in the South start up, he expects to have something to do with them also. NO CONFERENCE THIS YEAR The department of psychology has dispensed with the conference system which has been employed in the course in elementary psychology in previous years. Because of the increase in the number of students the department is unable to conduct the conference sections as usual. Instead the department has adopted the policy of three lectures each week instead of two as formerly. Next year the department expects to return to the system of two lectures and a conference section weekly. Bertha Roewe, ex '19, is attending Iowa state college this year. IOWAN STAFF TO BE CHOSEN EVERY MONTH UNDER NEW SYSTEM Student Members of Board of Trustees Now in Service or Government Work NIGHT EDITORS NAMED THURSDAY Sporting Writer is Only Man of The Iowan--Business Manager is Woman A new system has been devised for editorial work on The Iowan this year. Staff members will be chosen for the period of one month, subject to reappointment. The managing editor will be the only permanent member of the staff. The editorial staff for the month, Oct. 15,-Nov. 15, follows: Rowena Wellman--managing editor Agnes Kingsbury--news editor Ethyn Williams--exchange editor G. D. Evans--sporting editor Elizabeth Hendee--humorous editor Ruth Stewart--Feature editor tants will be announced ETAOIN Night editors and their assistants will be announced in the masthead of each paper. The Iowan also plans a military section of the paper, and a military editor will be announced as soon as the column makes its first appearance. Every Student A Chance Shortage of experienced workers and an abundance of good material among the new reporters, copy readers, and special writers in journalism courses brought about the change from permanent to temporary staff organization. Every student who is registered in journalism and does superior work on The Iowan will now have a chance for a place on the editorial staff, proper, sometime during the year. Due to changes in registration, the reportorial staff of The Iowan will be announced later. About the same number or reporters are gathering news for the student paper as were last year. Girls will dominate the staff almost entirely, since men in the S. A. T. C. have not time to spend on the work. Woman Is Business Manager For the first time in its history the business management of The Iowan is in the hands of a woman. Romola Latchem has the distinction of being the first woman business manager. The board of trustees of The Iowan lost all of its student members this year. Virgil Hancher, the senior member of the board is in train- (continued on page 3) KICK! If your copy of The Iowan is not delivered regularly, please let us know. The Iowan is trying to give the best of service, but conditions of quarantine and influenza are making it difficult. Help us to help you. Phone our business office, 935, or leave your complaint at the Chesnutt Printing Co., 103 Iowa avenue, under the University Book Store. Thanks. Y. W. C. A. GIRLS MEET TOMORROW Mrs. Aurner and Violet Blakely To Speak--Tea Served at Four The first meeting of the Y. W. C. A. for the year will take place Wednesday afternoon at 4:45 in the liberal arts auditorium. An attractive program has been arranged for the initial meeting. Nellie C. Aurner, dean of women, will speak and Violet Blakely, president of the association, will talk on various phases of Y. W. C. A. work and of the association's need of girls. Special music has been prepared for the occasion. Tea will be served in the liberal arts drawing room at four o'clock. The Y. W. C. A. is especially desirous that the new students attend. The first cabinet meeting of the year was held at 4:30 yesterday afternoon in the liberal arts drawing room. "MORALE COUNTS" SAYS "DAD" ELLIOTT Y. M. C. A. Leader Gives Inspiring Address to S. A. T. C. in Local Unit "Dad" Elliott gave an inspiring address to about 350 S. A. T. C. men on the campus Sunday afternoon. In the course of his talk he spoke of the place of morale in the life of the soldier, stressing what Thorndyke would call "mind set," wherein each man upholds the honor of his country by maintaining his individual standard of life. He also spoke of Gen. Pershing who, when he landed in France and realized the situation, brought his fists down on the table and said: "By God's help we are going to send these men back to America as good as they were when they came over here." Mr. Elliott, who is in charge of all Y. M. C. A. work of the S. A. T. C. in the central department, came here to talk over the plans of the Y. M. C. A. work for the coming year. Various entertainments have been given on the campus for the S. A. T. C. men the past week. The program Saturday evening consisted of a "sing" by the soldiers, three flute solos by John Parosns of Company M and three vocal solos by Margaret Wieneke. A "sing" by the soldiers closed the program. NO MORE WORK ON DIRECTORY YET No action has been taken, thus far, toward the publication of a student directory. Prof. C. H. Weller stated yesterday that it will be given consideration as soon as adjustments of other matters are completed. Since the S. A. T, C. men are to live in barracks, a directory will be unnecessary, for the men may be reached, according to their companies, through the central office. Ruth Fall, recent graduate of the University, has entered canteen work in France. Miss Fall, whose home is at Albia, left in September for New York, where she expected to remain a week before leaving for France. She may be transferred later into educational work. Miss Fall taught last year in the high school at Mason City. Miriam Chase who has been absent from her work in the English department since Monday on account of Spanish influenza, returned Friday morning. VARSITY IS GIVEN PEPPERY WORKOUT AFTER COE BATTLE Probable That There May Be a Game With Another Iowa Team Saturday MANY REGULARS FAIL TO REPORT Jones Issues Call For Linemen To Fill a Shortage In The Forward Wall The Iowa varsity went through a light practice on the Hawkeye field last night. the initial practice after the defeat of the Coe team in Saturday's mix. The regulars showed that they are sadly in need of stiff scrimmages and plenty of signal work. Their work in the Coe game was anything but rosy as Eby's huskies made our Hawks look anything other than a varsity team that whipped the Nebraska team a week ago. The Presbyterians displayed a fight and a variety of plays that made the Hawks look bad in the first quarter of the game, for they succeed in taking the oval to Iowa's 10 yard mark before being halted in their mad attempt at a touchdown. Time after time they broke a Hawkeye pass or recover the ball on a fumble and marched toward the Old Gold goal. Another desperate effort was put forth in the final period when they advanced to the 12 yard line only to have the whistle interfere. Considering the fact that the Coe men were in their first battle of the season and that they had several green men in the lineup, they put up a game that demonstrated that they will land toward the top of the Iowa college percentage column. Many Hawkeyes out of Game The Hawks started the Coe game with no fewer than four regular battlers on the varsity team missing, and this no doubt helped in no small way to weaken the offensive game of the Iowa team. Hunzelman, Reed, Greenwood, and Lohman were the absentees, the first 3 being victims of the flue, while the big tank has not recovered from his injury sustained in the husking bee with Nebraska. Last reports indicate that the broken cartilege is not mending properly, and in all probability the big boy will not enter the ranks until the Illini are taken on at Urbana in the next big 10 game. The services of these gallant Hawks were badly missed in the teams fight and drive, but not too much honor can be bestowed on those who filled their places in the teams personnel last Saturday. Saturday's combat gave the coach a line on his material and several men showed promise as comers who were heretofore unheralded as athletes. The showing of Belding, Parker, Voege and Smith of Cherokee, was especially pleasing to Iowa followers for if these young hawks develop as they should, Iowa will posess a reserve list almost the equal of the first team. Negotiations are now underway whereby Iowa may take on another Iowa college as an opponent in the next game. What team will appear is not known at present but in all probability, Iowa will go up against one of the state's best college teams. Thursday's Iowan will state the team to take on the Hawkeye eleven. Coach Jones is doing his utmost toward giving the Iowa followers the best card that may be had, although (continued on page 3)