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THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 
The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa
VOL. XVIII—NEW SERIES  VOL. III  IOWA CITY, IOWA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1918  NUMBER 36

EXTRA UNIVERSITY TO CUT LIVING COST FOR ALL ITS STUDENTS
Room for Men at 50 Cents a Week Available in New West Side Barracks

CAFETERIA OPEN TO WOMEN
Mess Hall in Armory to Be Used In Furnishing Board at Lowest Cost
   Room in the University dormitory at 50 cents a week for all discharged S.A.T.C. men and board at cost in the University cafeteria for all students is the plan of the University of Iowa next quarter.
   Confronted with the problem of taking care of many returning soldiers and discharged S.A.T.C. men, the University officials have decided to assist in aiding the students to cut the cost of living.
   West side barracks are fitted up to accommodate student men. Army has given over the use of cots, mattresses, blankets, etc. Plumbing, electric lights, and other conveniences will be installed. All military restrictions will be removed.
   A cafeteria plan has been worked out whereby both men and women can get board at cost at a University cafeteria. Menus have been made out which will not exceed $3.50 a week in cost.
   There is no limit to the number of people who can be accommodated.

IMPORTANT
   All men are urged to attend the mass meeting this evening at 8 o’clock at natural science auditorium.

WAR INSURANCE TO BE CONTINUED
Insurance Officer at Great Lakes Urges College Men of Naval Section to Invest
   Questions regarding government insurance, allotments, of Liberty Bonds of men in the naval are to be addressed to Ensign Royal A. Roberts, Insurance Officer, Great Lakes, Ill.
   War risk insurance should be continued, says Ensign Roberts. Men in the college naval sections are urged to consider this carefully. They are at the age when it is most opportune to have insurance, and the government offers unusual terms.
   Holders of this insurance have the government’s pledge that it will be 30 are 40 per cent cheaper than any similar insurance offered them. It ranks high as collateral; any bank will lend money to insured men.
   The government insurance plan is a privilege extended only to soldiers and sailors as a partial compensation for their services. 

MISS HAARER TO RED CROSS MEETING
   Mary Catherine Haarer, superintendent of the University training school for nurses, leaves today for Chicago, where she has been called to a Red Cross convention and a meeting of the Council of National Defense nursing committee. 

SOPHOMORES PREPARE FOR ELECTION TUESDAY
   The Victory ticket announces the following candidates for the sophomore election to be held on Tuesday, December 17, from 3:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon:
  President, Everett E. Smith; vice president,  Jean Birdsall; corresponding secretary, Vivienne Coady; Recording secretary, Helen E. Evans; treasurer, Leila Stevens; class delegate, Jean Holloway; Hawkeye trustees: Joel Hill, Carl Spencer, Nancy Lamb, Marion Smith. 
   The elections will be in room 7 of the liberal arts building.

STUDENTS MAINTAIN GOOD CREDIT RECORD
Merchants Say That Bills Are Paid In Prompt, Business -like Manner
   Students credit, as a rule, is better than the credit of the general public, according to statements made by members of the Iowa City credit bureau. University students are classed as persons who are willing to pay their debts, and in almost all cases live up to this reputation.
   Organizations are not so prompt as individual students in paying bills. In the last year or so, however, fraternities and sororities seem to be on a more strict business basis than formerly and are taking care of their accounts in a way much more satisfactory to the Iowa City merchants.
   Several fraternities are now in debt to some extent because their active members are in service. Knowing that those men who had charge of the finances of the fraternity were called into service hurriedly, and [theat] they will meet their debts as soon as they return, the credit bureau is not at all concerned about the payment of those accounts.
   Girls are more prompt in the payment of bills than the men. The fact that school work and affairs in general for the men have been greatly confused this year may explain the difference.
   The only difficulty with student credit is the fact that careless persons [sowetimes] write checks without knowing their bank accounts are exhausted, says one Iowa City business man. This careless practice causes a waste of time and money and a source of annoyance to both merchants and bankers. However such cases are the exception, rather than the rule.

FOURTEEN GET LETTERS
Four Secondary Letters Given Numerals Also Awarded
   Fourteen of this year’s Hawkeye football squad had been awarded the letter I for faithful work on the football field this fall.
   Those who have been given I’s are Captain Reed and Belding, ends; Slater, Block and Synhorst, tackle; Heldt, Center; Hunzelman and Mockmore, guards; Backfield men who were honored are Scott, Donnelly and Sykes, halfbacks, and Lohman, fullback. Kelly and Greenwood also made their letter.
   Secondary letters were awarded to Scanlon, Justin, Cumberland and E. Smith. Members of the second team who were freshmen and did not make the I were given numerals.

“DON’T QUIT” SAY FACULTY MEMBERS TO S.A.T.C. MEN
Professors Unanimous in Opinion That Education is Essential to Young Men.
PLEASURE YET TO COME
University Life in Normal Times Offers More Opportunities for Social Life.
   “Disobey that impulse” and come back to school, is the advice which members of the University faculty offer to the men of the S.A.T.C. 
   That many of the students who have lived in barracks since October are planning to leave school as soon as the S.A.T.C. has been demobilized, is a current rumor on the campus. Many men are discouraged with their work, tired of restraint, or anxious to “get into a job,” they say. Members of the faculty urged them to think twice before deciding to leave school.

Will Save Time
   “Students who ask for my opinion are advised to stay in school, at least until the end of the school year,” R.A. Kuever declares. “They will actually gain time in obtaining their education.” He prophecies that after Christmas things scholastic will be quite normal again and it will be easily possible to do more than a semester’s work.
   “Some students say they have not been able to get the spirit of the work. This is largely true because so little of the time has been our own. After the holidays there will be time for play and recreation,” Professor Kuever said yesterday. The atmosphere of a University is essential to good scholarship, he believes, and will do much to create a spirit of work. The excellent basketball schedule which has been arranged and the parties planned for the coming semester, he points out as features which will contribute toward the creation of the proper University atmosphere.

New Courses Next Term
   Men of the S.A.T.C. will have less excuse for leaving school than men of any previous year, Prof. Charles Bundy Wilson who is teaching his thirty-third year in the University of Iowa, declares. The University is bending every effort to make it financially easy for men to finish the year and is planning means of furnishing assistance to students who must earn a part of their way through school. Beginning courses in essential subjects will be offered after Christmas, for the benefit of men who have not felt satisfied with University work, he points out.
   “The time is here when the man without the fullest development of (Continued on page four)

DEAN RAYMOND RETURNS
   Dean W.G. Raymond of the engineering college return Friday night from Boston, Washington and New York where he has been for the past ten days attending meetings.
   He attended a joint meeting of the S. P. E. E. and British Educational Mission and a joint meeting of the Association of Amercan and British Universities at Boston. At Washington Dean Raymond attended a meeting concerning the formulation of a bill giving aid to engineering research.

A WORD TO THE WISE SUFFICETH, THEY SAY
   By petitioning the committee on administration and classification, those who have classes the Saturday before vacation may be excused. A sufficient excuse is inability to get trains on Sunday.
   Attendance at the last class before vacation and the first class after vacation is required, according to University ruling.
   Those absent from last class will be given only partial credit for the course. Those missing the final examination will be given no credit at all, unless permission to make it up later is granted.
   No class will be allowed to meet at any other time than that for which it is regularly scheduled.

STAFF OF VICTORY HAWKEYE APPOINTED
Twelve Women and Six Men Will Represent 1919 Annual— No Junior Dents
   The Victory Hawkeye will have its office in the basement of the Physics building. The old office was unsuitable because of poor heating, and an unsafe place to keep the books. Mr. Fisk and Professor Stewart have agreed to give the staff the use of an office room in the southwest corner of the basement.
   The staff has been appointed as follows: art editors, Margaret Hayes and Katherine Dayton; liberal arts, Alice Hinkley; military, Dwight Ensign; athletic editor-in-chief, Frank Peterson; publicity and publications, Ophelia Miller; faculty and alumni, Rosalie Martin; fraternities, Robert Aurner; sororities, Evelyn Bracewell; dramatics, Marjorie Heberling; women’s forensics and clubs, Miriam Brueckner; Christian activities, Clarice Knudson; music, Mary Anderson; women’s athletics, Elizabeth Dorcas; feature editor-in-chief, Edward Chamberlain.
   College representatives are: Liberal arts. Alice Hinkley; engineering, Paul Brown; medicine, H.W. Dahl and law college, Sabra Clark. The representatives for the Homeopathic college, and the Pharmacy college have not been appointed as yet. The Dentistry college has no juniors this year, because of the new four year course, but a representative for the Victory Hawkeye will be elected.

VESPERS ANNOUNCEMENT
   The next vespers will be Jan. 19. President Burton of the University of Minnesota will be the speaker. The musical program, which was to have been today, but was postponed on account of the influenza ban, will be held Feb. 16. It will consist of selections by the orchestra, and the vesper choir. A paper on community singing will also be read.

WILL REMIT TUITION FEES
   The annual tuition fees of $20 in the colleges of liberal arts and applied science will be remitted to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, according to the resolution passed at the meeting of the State Board of Education which was held at Colfax, Dec. 10 and 11. This applies to the state schools, and they are to remit to soldiers and sailors of other colleges an amount equivalent to this, on their tuition or incidental fees.


S. A. T. C. DISCHARGE IS NOW IN PROGRESS GOBS AWAIT ORDERS
Demobilization of Army Unit Will Be Completed by the End of December
COMPANY DINNERS HELD
Practically All Medica I Test Were Completed Last Week—Men in Good Condition
   Demobilization of the entire S.A.T.C. is now in progress. All the necessary discharge papers, together with the November pay roll, have arrived and there is nothing to hinder the speedy disbanding of the several companies.
   The entire strength of the local unit, 1,750 men, received pay for the month of November last Friday. The December pay will be sent to the men after they have been demobilized and returned home.

Must be in Good Health
   Medical examinations for every soldier were completed Friday at University hospital. Capt. Myron Snell, the army surgeon ordered here from Camp Dodge, was in charge. Final examinations cannot be given those men whose physical condition is not normal until a few hours before such men receive their discharges. The government requires that all men leave service in the best physical condition possible.
   The men of Co. O of section  B, received their discharges Friday and Saturday.  Co. N. the only other unit in this section, will be disbanded today. One company a day will be released from section A, commonly known as the collegiate unit, starting tomorrow. Although the entire demobilization will not be completed by Dec. 21, as previously planned, it is certain that all men will be out of service by Jan. 1. The officers of the S.A.T.C. will be the last to receive discharges. 


Separate Orders for Gobs
   The demobilization of the navy unit is being handled in a different manner than that of the army. The sailors are to be discharged upon consideration of their applications for release by naval authorities at the Great Lakes Training Station. No word has, as yet, then received from the naval post and therefore the time of their demobilization is uncertain. It is expected, however, that the “gobs” will be given their discharges very soon, possibly before the S.A.T.C. is completely demobilized.
   Dinners are to be given the members of every company on the evening of the day they are discharged. Every feast will be held at the Hotel Jefferson. The banquets will be financed by the canteen fund. The first dinner to be held under arrangements was the one given to Co. O at the Jefferson last evening. [ening.]

HEALTH OFFICER WILL REMAIN AT UNIVERSITY
   Dr. C.C. Steelsmith, head of the University health service, will not accept the office of health commissioner at Des Moines. He was recommended for the place by the present official, Dr. W.C. Witte, whose term ends shortly.
   “I should say not,” said Dr. Steelsmith, when asked if he intended to accept the offer. “I like [tht] University too well to leave.”

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THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa VOL. XVIII—NEW SERIES VOL. III IOWA CITY, IOWA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1918 NUMBER 36 EXTRA UNIVERSITY TO CUT LIVING COST FOR ALL ITS STUDENTS Room for Men at 50 Cents a Week Available in New West Side Barracks CAFETERIA OPEN TO WOMEN Mess Hall in Armory to Be Used In Furnishing Board at Lowest Cost Room in the University dormitory at 50 cents a week for all discharged S.A.T.C. men and board at cost in the University cafeteria for all students is the plan of the University of Iowa next quarter. Confronted with the problem of taking care of many returning soldiers and discharged S.A.T.C. men, the University officials have decided to assist in aiding the students to cut the cost of living. West side barracks are fitted up to accommodate student men. Army has given over the use of cots, mattresses, blankets, etc. Plumbing, electric lights, and other conveniences will be installed. All military restrictions will be removed. A cafeteria plan has been worked out whereby both men and women can get board at cost at a University cafeteria. Menus have been made out which will not exceed $3.50 a week in cost. There is no limit to the number of people who can be accommodated. IMPORTANT All men are urged to attend the mass meeting this evening at 8 o’clock at natural science auditorium. WAR INSURANCE TO BE CONTINUED Insurance Officer at Great Lakes Urges College Men of Naval Section to Invest Questions regarding government insurance, allotments, of Liberty Bonds of men in the naval are to be addressed to Ensign Royal A. Roberts, Insurance Officer, Great Lakes, Ill. War risk insurance should be continued, says Ensign Roberts. Men in the college naval sections are urged to consider this carefully. They are at the age when it is most opportune to have insurance, and the government offers unusual terms. Holders of this insurance have the government’s pledge that it will be 30 are 40 per cent cheaper than any similar insurance offered them. It ranks high as collateral; any bank will lend money to insured men. The government insurance plan is a privilege extended only to soldiers and sailors as a partial compensation for their services. MISS HAARER TO RED CROSS MEETING Mary Catherine Haarer, superintendent of the University training school for nurses, leaves today for Chicago, where she has been called to a Red Cross convention and a meeting of the Council of National Defense nursing committee. SOPHOMORES PREPARE FOR ELECTION TUESDAY The Victory ticket announces the following candidates for the sophomore election to be held on Tuesday, December 17, from 3:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon: President, Everett E. Smith; vice president, Jean Birdsall; corresponding secretary, Vivienne Coady; Recording secretary, Helen E. Evans; treasurer, Leila Stevens; class delegate, Jean Holloway; Hawkeye trustees: Joel Hill, Carl Spencer, Nancy Lamb, Marion Smith. The elections will be in room 7 of the liberal arts building. STUDENTS MAINTAIN GOOD CREDIT RECORD Merchants Say That Bills Are Paid In Prompt, Business -like Manner Students credit, as a rule, is better than the credit of the general public, according to statements made by members of the Iowa City credit bureau. University students are classed as persons who are willing to pay their debts, and in almost all cases live up to this reputation. Organizations are not so prompt as individual students in paying bills. In the last year or so, however, fraternities and sororities seem to be on a more strict business basis than formerly and are taking care of their accounts in a way much more satisfactory to the Iowa City merchants. Several fraternities are now in debt to some extent because their active members are in service. Knowing that those men who had charge of the finances of the fraternity were called into service hurriedly, and [theat] they will meet their debts as soon as they return, the credit bureau is not at all concerned about the payment of those accounts. Girls are more prompt in the payment of bills than the men. The fact that school work and affairs in general for the men have been greatly confused this year may explain the difference. The only difficulty with student credit is the fact that careless persons [sowetimes] write checks without knowing their bank accounts are exhausted, says one Iowa City business man. This careless practice causes a waste of time and money and a source of annoyance to both merchants and bankers. However such cases are the exception, rather than the rule. FOURTEEN GET LETTERS Four Secondary Letters Given Numerals Also Awarded Fourteen of this year’s Hawkeye football squad had been awarded the letter I for faithful work on the football field this fall. Those who have been given I’s are Captain Reed and Belding, ends; Slater, Block and Synhorst, tackle; Heldt, Center; Hunzelman and Mockmore, guards; Backfield men who were honored are Scott, Donnelly and Sykes, halfbacks, and Lohman, fullback. Kelly and Greenwood also made their letter. Secondary letters were awarded to Scanlon, Justin, Cumberland and E. Smith. Members of the second team who were freshmen and did not make the I were given numerals. “DON’T QUIT” SAY FACULTY MEMBERS TO S.A.T.C. MEN Professors Unanimous in Opinion That Education is Essential to Young Men. PLEASURE YET TO COME University Life in Normal Times Offers More Opportunities for Social Life. “Disobey that impulse” and come back to school, is the advice which members of the University faculty offer to the men of the S.A.T.C. That many of the students who have lived in barracks since October are planning to leave school as soon as the S.A.T.C. has been demobilized, is a current rumor on the campus. Many men are discouraged with their work, tired of restraint, or anxious to “get into a job,” they say. Members of the faculty urged them to think twice before deciding to leave school. Will Save Time “Students who ask for my opinion are advised to stay in school, at least until the end of the school year,” R.A. Kuever declares. “They will actually gain time in obtaining their education.” He prophecies that after Christmas things scholastic will be quite normal again and it will be easily possible to do more than a semester’s work. “Some students say they have not been able to get the spirit of the work. This is largely true because so little of the time has been our own. After the holidays there will be time for play and recreation,” Professor Kuever said yesterday. The atmosphere of a University is essential to good scholarship, he believes, and will do much to create a spirit of work. The excellent basketball schedule which has been arranged and the parties planned for the coming semester, he points out as features which will contribute toward the creation of the proper University atmosphere. New Courses Next Term Men of the S.A.T.C. will have less excuse for leaving school than men of any previous year, Prof. Charles Bundy Wilson who is teaching his thirty-third year in the University of Iowa, declares. The University is bending every effort to make it financially easy for men to finish the year and is planning means of furnishing assistance to students who must earn a part of their way through school. Beginning courses in essential subjects will be offered after Christmas, for the benefit of men who have not felt satisfied with University work, he points out. “The time is here when the man without the fullest development of (Continued on page four) DEAN RAYMOND RETURNS Dean W.G. Raymond of the engineering college return Friday night from Boston, Washington and New York where he has been for the past ten days attending meetings. He attended a joint meeting of the S. P. E. E. and British Educational Mission and a joint meeting of the Association of Amercan and British Universities at Boston. At Washington Dean Raymond attended a meeting concerning the formulation of a bill giving aid to engineering research. A WORD TO THE WISE SUFFICETH, THEY SAY By petitioning the committee on administration and classification, those who have classes the Saturday before vacation may be excused. A sufficient excuse is inability to get trains on Sunday. Attendance at the last class before vacation and the first class after vacation is required, according to University ruling. Those absent from last class will be given only partial credit for the course. Those missing the final examination will be given no credit at all, unless permission to make it up later is granted. No class will be allowed to meet at any other time than that for which it is regularly scheduled. STAFF OF VICTORY HAWKEYE APPOINTED Twelve Women and Six Men Will Represent 1919 Annual— No Junior Dents The Victory Hawkeye will have its office in the basement of the Physics building. The old office was unsuitable because of poor heating, and an unsafe place to keep the books. Mr. Fisk and Professor Stewart have agreed to give the staff the use of an office room in the southwest corner of the basement. The staff has been appointed as follows: art editors, Margaret Hayes and Katherine Dayton; liberal arts, Alice Hinkley; military, Dwight Ensign; athletic editor-in-chief, Frank Peterson; publicity and publications, Ophelia Miller; faculty and alumni, Rosalie Martin; fraternities, Robert Aurner; sororities, Evelyn Bracewell; dramatics, Marjorie Heberling; women’s forensics and clubs, Miriam Brueckner; Christian activities, Clarice Knudson; music, Mary Anderson; women’s athletics, Elizabeth Dorcas; feature editor-in-chief, Edward Chamberlain. College representatives are: Liberal arts. Alice Hinkley; engineering, Paul Brown; medicine, H.W. Dahl and law college, Sabra Clark. The representatives for the Homeopathic college, and the Pharmacy college have not been appointed as yet. The Dentistry college has no juniors this year, because of the new four year course, but a representative for the Victory Hawkeye will be elected. VESPERS ANNOUNCEMENT The next vespers will be Jan. 19. President Burton of the University of Minnesota will be the speaker. The musical program, which was to have been today, but was postponed on account of the influenza ban, will be held Feb. 16. It will consist of selections by the orchestra, and the vesper choir. A paper on community singing will also be read. WILL REMIT TUITION FEES The annual tuition fees of $20 in the colleges of liberal arts and applied science will be remitted to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, according to the resolution passed at the meeting of the State Board of Education which was held at Colfax, Dec. 10 and 11. This applies to the state schools, and they are to remit to soldiers and sailors of other colleges an amount equivalent to this, on their tuition or incidental fees. S. A. T. C. DISCHARGE IS NOW IN PROGRESS GOBS AWAIT ORDERS Demobilization of Army Unit Will Be Completed by the End of December COMPANY DINNERS HELD Practically All Medica I Test Were Completed Last Week—Men in Good Condition Demobilization of the entire S.A.T.C. is now in progress. All the necessary discharge papers, together with the November pay roll, have arrived and there is nothing to hinder the speedy disbanding of the several companies. The entire strength of the local unit, 1,750 men, received pay for the month of November last Friday. The December pay will be sent to the men after they have been demobilized and returned home. Must be in Good Health Medical examinations for every soldier were completed Friday at University hospital. Capt. Myron Snell, the army surgeon ordered here from Camp Dodge, was in charge. Final examinations cannot be given those men whose physical condition is not normal until a few hours before such men receive their discharges. The government requires that all men leave service in the best physical condition possible. The men of Co. O of section B, received their discharges Friday and Saturday. Co. N. the only other unit in this section, will be disbanded today. One company a day will be released from section A, commonly known as the collegiate unit, starting tomorrow. Although the entire demobilization will not be completed by Dec. 21, as previously planned, it is certain that all men will be out of service by Jan. 1. The officers of the S.A.T.C. will be the last to receive discharges. Separate Orders for Gobs The demobilization of the navy unit is being handled in a different manner than that of the army. The sailors are to be discharged upon consideration of their applications for release by naval authorities at the Great Lakes Training Station. No word has, as yet, then received from the naval post and therefore the time of their demobilization is uncertain. It is expected, however, that the “gobs” will be given their discharges very soon, possibly before the S.A.T.C. is completely demobilized. Dinners are to be given the members of every company on the evening of the day they are discharged. Every feast will be held at the Hotel Jefferson. The banquets will be financed by the canteen fund. The first dinner to be held under arrangements was the one given to Co. O at the Jefferson last evening. [ening.] HEALTH OFFICER WILL REMAIN AT UNIVERSITY Dr. C.C. Steelsmith, head of the University health service, will not accept the office of health commissioner at Des Moines. He was recommended for the place by the present official, Dr. W.C. Witte, whose term ends shortly. “I should say not,” said Dr. Steelsmith, when asked if he intended to accept the offer. “I like [tht] University too well to leave.”