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The Daily Iowan
Theta Sigma Phi
The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa
Vol XVIII-New Series Vol. III
Iowa City, Iowa, Tuesday, March 18, 1919

UNCLE JOHN SEELMAN PRESENTS ENGINEERS IN ORIGINAL COMEDY
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"Safe At The College," Written by Engineers, Harks Back to Wartime Days
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CONCLUDES CELEBRATION
               ________
Will Feature Vaudeville Between Acts and Give Opportunity for Latent Talent
               ________
   "Safe At The College," written, managed, directed and staged exclusively by the Associated Students of Applied Science for the amusement of engineers and their friends, will be given tonight at the Englert Theater at 8:15 o'clock.
   This play, the concluding event of the tenth annual Mecca day celebration of the engineers, is presented by "Uncle John" Seelman, janitor of the college of applied science.
               Local Color
   "Safe At The College" is a love story based upon the old S.A.T.C. days at Iowa, in which the hero and heroine are students of the University of Iowa.
   Charles Maruth, taking the part of an Iowa S.A.T.C. soldier, is the hero of the play and wins the girl from back home, who comes to the University to take up nursing. Leonard Rohret is the leading lady.
   William Gallaher, a sailor from Northwestern, vies with the Iowa soldier in endeavoring to win the
affections of the fair maiden, but of course can not win out.
       Good Curtain-raisers
   Others in the cast are Ira Stanton, Walter Hohl, Robert Dethlefs, Lester Wright, Louis Roberts, Howard Rich, Joseph O'Grady, Charles Larier, Dicken Schenck and W. Hogt Larken.
   Vaudeville acts intersperse the play. In these will be featured "The Gobs" composed of "Joe" Benda, "Adolph" Blietz, "Bill" Gallaher, "Wes" Burton, "Andy" Anderson, "Larry" Larimer, "Herb" Pillars, and "Fluejey" Flentje. A legerdemain artist of worldwide fame, a Westerner fresh from the plains, and "Ikey and Rastus" are among the vaudeville artists. "Shorty" Hanapel will wield his diamond studded clubs.
           Special Quartette
   The authors and managers of the play are Martin Flentje and Wendell Anderson. Other staff members are William Gallaher, stage manager; Frank Patzer, musical director; Beatrice McManus and Lois Trundy, critics; Cecil Ewen, chief electrician; Barnes MacDonald, property manager; Milton Konkright, assistant property manager; Martin Geib and Donald Magown, publicity agents; and Malcolm Dowell, pianist. Miss Ann. M. Wolfe of the department of physical education has supervision of the dances.
   Besides the general chorus there is a special quartette composed of Calvin Katter, Reuben Katter, Charles Maruth, and Lloyd Keith.
               ________
   Among the alumni of the college of applied science who have returned to Iowa for the Mecca celebration are: Will Weber, electrical, '18; Walter Yager, civil, '18; Paul Lorenz, civil, '18; L.A. Canfield, civil '19; Elmer Eigling, mechanical, '10; and La Verne Smith and Lieut. Verne Muth, former students.

         THE PROPOSED 
    ENGINEERING BUILDING
               [Image]
ENGINEERS HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET
               ________
Col. Mumma, President Jessup and Maj. Lambert on Toast Program
               ________
   Engineers held their annual Mecca banquet at the Jefferson hotel last night. Stanley Price, George Brun, Oral Dold and John Cumberland were the committee in charge. One hundred and fifty students, faculty members and alumni attended.
   Alvin Hanapel acted as toast- master for the following program: "Our Future," I.L. Sharp; "Lucky Accidents," F.S. Mortimer; "Signs of the Times," Prof. J.H. Dunlap; "The Highway Game," A.F. Fischer; "The Engineer in War," Col M. C. Mumma; "Efficiency," Prof. J.B. Hill; "Dreams," Dean W.G. Raymond; "Follies," President Walter A. Jessup; "The Charge," Prof B. J. Lambert.
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DR. SOARES FAVORS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
               ________
Chicago Theologian Gives Strong Address on Present World Problems and Policies
               ________
   Voicing vigorous arguments for the league of nations, the Rev. Theodore G. Soares, University of Chicago theologian, spoke before more than a thousand University students and professors at the monthly vesper service Sunday afternoon. "It Must Never Happen Again" was the firm determination of Dr. Soares.
   "Today for the first time in the world's life, great democracies of the world stand face to face," he stated. America has always looked toward international right, duty, and justice; now we have these. For the first time in the history of the world it is safe for a nation to be small. But war will happen again unless some machinery is set into operation to prevent it."
   The league of nations is not going to obviate differences of opinion, admits Dr. Soares. But disputes which loom large at first dwindle under consideration. "It's an awful thing to take time to consider when you are made," he declared.
   "The men who never went over
were the men who won the war" was another striking statement of Dr. Soares in his tribute to our soldiers. Ludendorff realized the great force of man power which was being trained on this side of the water, and he told the politicians it was time to stop.
   Especially did Dr. Soares laud the men who did the unromantic things of war, those who specialized in "sorting soiled underwear" and like tasks. He related an incident of a professor of English literature he met, who after having spent his period in service mending roads in France was applying for release to enter Oxford, "a new kind of a Rhodes scholar."

JOURNALISTS PLAN FORCEFUL PROGRAM FOR ANNUAL MEET
               ________
Iowa College Press Association to Convene at Colfax on April 11 and 12
               ________
J. N. DARLING WILL SPEAK
               ________
Prominent Men in Newspaper Work Scheduled to Appear Then Before Students
               ________
   A meaty program, full of pepper, garnished with sauce, and served with punch, has been prepared for the Iowa College Press Association which meets at Colfax April nell's contingent of journalists at 11 and 12, according to an announcement made yesterday by W. Earl Hall, president of the association.
   Some of the good things which college journalists of the state will relish at this newspaper family gathering are pithy talks by "Ding" Iowa's famous cartoonist, C.C. Lyon, and United Press overseas correspondent, Charles H.J. Mitchell, president of the Iowa State Press association, and by the heads of journalism work at the University of Iowa State. The program also includes a number of talks by students prominent in college journalism in the state.
   The association meeting ends in a banquet and dance on Saturday night. A large representation from the University will make the trip to Colfax. The complete program follows:
              Friday, April 11
   2:00-3:00 p.m. - "The Newspaper as a Force for Good," W.H. Powell, editor of the Ottumwa Courier.
   3:00-3:30 - "Opportunities in Industrial Journalism," Prof. Harry R. O'Brien, acting head of the department of journalism at Iowa State College.
   3:30-4:00 - "The College Newspaper," Frank B. Thayer, head of the work in journalism at the University of Iowa.
   4:00-4:15 - Paper written by Grinnell's contoingent of journalists at Columbia university, read by Willard Osincup, editor of the Grinnell Scarlet and Black.
     (continued on page 8)
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GIVE TENTH ANNUAL DANCE
   The tenth annual Mecca day dance of the students of applied science was given Saturday evening in the women's gymnasium. Old gold and black bunting decorated the hall and the programs were of orange leather tied with black cords and fastened with clasps.
   Punch was served in the mirror-lined aesthetic dancing room.
   Chaperones were Dean and Mrs. W.G. Raymond and Mr. and Mrs. G.J. Keller. Music was furnished by "Punch" Dunkel's sextette.

ENGINEERS' EXHIBIT AFTER PARADE
               ________
How Engineering is Taught at Iowa Will Be Shown Visitors
               ________
   How engineering is taught at the University of Iowa is to be outlined briefly in the Mecca Day exhibition to be given at the hall of engineering immediately after the parade.
   The committee in charge of the exhibition consists of Dicken P. Schenck, John F. McLaughlin, Gordon R. Lunt, and Raymond Allen.
   The trip through the different buildings and laboratories begins at the drawing and descriptive geometry display and from there, goes to the blue print room. The display of surveying apparatus including levels, transits, and plane tables comes next. After this display, the materials testing laboratory and the steam laboratory and the steam laboratory are to be exhibited. The men at the steam laboratory will show how the different machines operate.
   Four stops at the engineering building cover points of interest there. By following some object through the stages of production, the wood shop, the force, the foundry, and the machine shop are visited. In the physics hall, the electrical display includes the dynamo laboratory and the dark room. The crushing and pulverizing of ore, the assaying of gold on a commercial scale, the chemical indication phenimena are included in the chemical display at the chemistry building.
               ________
FORTY THREE MEDICS FINISH THIS MONTH
               ________
Dr. Dean Lewis of the University of Chicago Will Address Next Convocation
               ________
   The next University convocation will be Thursday, March 27 at 10 o'clock. About sixty-seven degrees will be conferred by the different colleges of the University.
   Dr. Dean D. Lewis, associate professors of surgery, for the University of Chicago, will deliver the principal address on "medical Experiences during the last Offensive." He has just recently returned from active service in France, where he was lieutenant-colonel of a base hospital, and will tell of the medical work in France during the late war. His experiences have been particularly interesting and his work at the front was of great value to the wounded.
   Forty-three students of the college of medicine will receive degrees, forty-three stuents of the college of medicine will receive degree, forty-two men and one woman. At the advice of the war department, senior work in medicine was begun June 16 of last year, making graduation come three months earlier than usual.
   Ten women will receive the certificate of graduate nurse at the convocation. Their names have already been passed upon and the list is as follows: Amanda Ahrens, Anna Brinker, Flora C. Weber, Bessie Daniels, Crystal Echtenacht, Anna Schuchman, Velora Patfen, Meda Dise, Velam Toland and Regina Russell. Others will be graduated next June.
   Clifford R. Berrien will receive the degree of bachelor of engineering at this convocation. In addition to twelve degrees of bachelor of science and bachelor of arts, a degree of master of arts will probably be conferred.

ENGINEERS FEATURE UP-To-DATE TOPICS IN MECCA PARADE
               ________
Twenty-Seven Floats Give Varied Review of University Activities
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PARADE STARTS AT 12:30
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Every Man of College of Applied Science to Participate in Annual Mecca Stunts
               ________
   The students of the college of applied science will give their tenth annual Mecca day parade, today, at 12:30 o'clock. Twenty-seven floats will appear in this year's parade.
   Allen Wallen, chairman of the parade committee, has been called home on account of the illness of his father. William Benda will take his place and have charge of the parade with Joe Dean and Horace Tousley. The floats represent present day topics, and the slogan of the engineers is "Every Man in the Parade." Each department has developed a stunt, and no particular subject predominates.
   The float on National Prohibition demonstrates how every man will have his own still after July 1. The Guardhouse scene pictures a soldier combating the cootie. Other conspicuous floats are "Captain Robertson on duty," and the exhibit "Gas and Flame division of the S.A.T.C." has a mounted civet cat and men wearing gas masks.
   The complete list of floats to be given are as follows:
   1. Band.
   2. Bolsheviki.
   3. Are we next?
   4. Multiplex telephone.
   5. Passing of the S.A.T.C.
   6. Our Allies.
   7. Engineers at S.U.L.
   8. Memorial to S.U.I.
   9. National prohibition.
  10. Backers of the American Eagle.
  11. Intensive farming.
  12. Keeping the boys on the farm.
  13. Bill's pardon.
  14. Public dances in Iowa City.
  15. Captain Robertson.
  16. Guardhouse scene.
  17. Roughneck engineers. 
  18. The U.S.S. "Women's Gym"
  19. League of Nations.
  20. "Du Biddy"
  21. Biplane.
  22. Future Events Cast Their Shadows.
  23. Gas division of the S.A.T.C.
  24. How to get a new chemistry building at Iowa.
  25. Street car service in Iowa City.
  26. Veterans of the S.A.T.C.
  27. Brisco's efficiency.
   The order of march of the engineer's parade was announced last night as follows: Washington street to Clinton, Clinton to Jefferson, Jefferson to Linn, Linn to Bloomington, Bloomington to Van Buren, Van Buren to Iowa avenue, Iowa avenue to Linn, Linn to College, College to Clinton and Clinton to the engineering building.
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   Homemade pie, sandwiches, coffee, candy and ice cream are again available at the canteen in the Y.M.C.A. building. The canteen is operated by the women's counsel of national defense of Johnson county, although the women who helped with the work in charge of the war camp community service have assumed direction.

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The Daily Iowan Theta Sigma Phi The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa Vol XVIII-New Series Vol. III Iowa City, Iowa, Tuesday, March 18, 1919 UNCLE JOHN SEELMAN PRESENTS ENGINEERS IN ORIGINAL COMEDY ________ "Safe At The College," Written by Engineers, Harks Back to Wartime Days ________ CONCLUDES CELEBRATION ________ Will Feature Vaudeville Between Acts and Give Opportunity for Latent Talent ________ "Safe At The College," written, managed, directed and staged exclusively by the Associated Students of Applied Science for the amusement of engineers and their friends, will be given tonight at the Englert Theater at 8:15 o'clock. This play, the concluding event of the tenth annual Mecca day celebration of the engineers, is presented by "Uncle John" Seelman, janitor of the college of applied science. Local Color "Safe At The College" is a love story based upon the old S.A.T.C. days at Iowa, in which the hero and heroine are students of the University of Iowa. Charles Maruth, taking the part of an Iowa S.A.T.C. soldier, is the hero of the play and wins the girl from back home, who comes to the University to take up nursing. Leonard Rohret is the leading lady. William Gallaher, a sailor from Northwestern, vies with the Iowa soldier in endeavoring to win the affections of the fair maiden, but of course can not win out. Good Curtain-raisers Others in the cast are Ira Stanton, Walter Hohl, Robert Dethlefs, Lester Wright, Louis Roberts, Howard Rich, Joseph O'Grady, Charles Larier, Dicken Schenck and W. Hogt Larken. Vaudeville acts intersperse the play. In these will be featured "The Gobs" composed of "Joe" Benda, "Adolph" Blietz, "Bill" Gallaher, "Wes" Burton, "Andy" Anderson, "Larry" Larimer, "Herb" Pillars, and "Fluejey" Flentje. A legerdemain artist of worldwide fame, a Westerner fresh from the plains, and "Ikey and Rastus" are among the vaudeville artists. "Shorty" Hanapel will wield his diamond studded clubs. Special Quartette The authors and managers of the play are Martin Flentje and Wendell Anderson. Other staff members are William Gallaher, stage manager; Frank Patzer, musical director; Beatrice McManus and Lois Trundy, critics; Cecil Ewen, chief electrician; Barnes MacDonald, property manager; Milton Konkright, assistant property manager; Martin Geib and Donald Magown, publicity agents; and Malcolm Dowell, pianist. Miss Ann. M. Wolfe of the department of physical education has supervision of the dances. Besides the general chorus there is a special quartette composed of Calvin Katter, Reuben Katter, Charles Maruth, and Lloyd Keith. ________ Among the alumni of the college of applied science who have returned to Iowa for the Mecca celebration are: Will Weber, electrical, '18; Walter Yager, civil, '18; Paul Lorenz, civil, '18; L.A. Canfield, civil '19; Elmer Eigling, mechanical, '10; and La Verne Smith and Lieut. Verne Muth, former students. THE PROPOSED ENGINEERING BUILDING [Image] ENGINEERS HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET ________ Col. Mumma, President Jessup and Maj. Lambert on Toast Program ________ Engineers held their annual Mecca banquet at the Jefferson hotel last night. Stanley Price, George Brun, Oral Dold and John Cumberland were the committee in charge. One hundred and fifty students, faculty members and alumni attended. Alvin Hanapel acted as toast- master for the following program: "Our Future," I.L. Sharp; "Lucky Accidents," F.S. Mortimer; "Signs of the Times," Prof. J.H. Dunlap; "The Highway Game," A.F. Fischer; "The Engineer in War," Col M. C. Mumma; "Efficiency," Prof. J.B. Hill; "Dreams," Dean W.G. Raymond; "Follies," President Walter A. Jessup; "The Charge," Prof B. J. Lambert. ________ DR. SOARES FAVORS LEAGUE OF NATIONS ________ Chicago Theologian Gives Strong Address on Present World Problems and Policies ________ Voicing vigorous arguments for the league of nations, the Rev. Theodore G. Soares, University of Chicago theologian, spoke before more than a thousand University students and professors at the monthly vesper service Sunday afternoon. "It Must Never Happen Again" was the firm determination of Dr. Soares. "Today for the first time in the world's life, great democracies of the world stand face to face," he stated. America has always looked toward international right, duty, and justice; now we have these. For the first time in the history of the world it is safe for a nation to be small. But war will happen again unless some machinery is set into operation to prevent it." The league of nations is not going to obviate differences of opinion, admits Dr. Soares. But disputes which loom large at first dwindle under consideration. "It's an awful thing to take time to consider when you are made," he declared. "The men who never went over were the men who won the war" was another striking statement of Dr. Soares in his tribute to our soldiers. Ludendorff realized the great force of man power which was being trained on this side of the water, and he told the politicians it was time to stop. Especially did Dr. Soares laud the men who did the unromantic things of war, those who specialized in "sorting soiled underwear" and like tasks. He related an incident of a professor of English literature he met, who after having spent his period in service mending roads in France was applying for release to enter Oxford, "a new kind of a Rhodes scholar." JOURNALISTS PLAN FORCEFUL PROGRAM FOR ANNUAL MEET ________ Iowa College Press Association to Convene at Colfax on April 11 and 12 ________ J. N. DARLING WILL SPEAK ________ Prominent Men in Newspaper Work Scheduled to Appear Then Before Students ________ A meaty program, full of pepper, garnished with sauce, and served with punch, has been prepared for the Iowa College Press Association which meets at Colfax April nell's contingent of journalists at 11 and 12, according to an announcement made yesterday by W. Earl Hall, president of the association. Some of the good things which college journalists of the state will relish at this newspaper family gathering are pithy talks by "Ding" Iowa's famous cartoonist, C.C. Lyon, and United Press overseas correspondent, Charles H.J. Mitchell, president of the Iowa State Press association, and by the heads of journalism work at the University of Iowa State. The program also includes a number of talks by students prominent in college journalism in the state. The association meeting ends in a banquet and dance on Saturday night. A large representation from the University will make the trip to Colfax. The complete program follows: Friday, April 11 2:00-3:00 p.m. - "The Newspaper as a Force for Good," W.H. Powell, editor of the Ottumwa Courier. 3:00-3:30 - "Opportunities in Industrial Journalism," Prof. Harry R. O'Brien, acting head of the department of journalism at Iowa State College. 3:30-4:00 - "The College Newspaper," Frank B. Thayer, head of the work in journalism at the University of Iowa. 4:00-4:15 - Paper written by Grinnell's contoingent of journalists at Columbia university, read by Willard Osincup, editor of the Grinnell Scarlet and Black. (continued on page 8) __________________________ GIVE TENTH ANNUAL DANCE The tenth annual Mecca day dance of the students of applied science was given Saturday evening in the women's gymnasium. Old gold and black bunting decorated the hall and the programs were of orange leather tied with black cords and fastened with clasps. Punch was served in the mirror-lined aesthetic dancing room. Chaperones were Dean and Mrs. W.G. Raymond and Mr. and Mrs. G.J. Keller. Music was furnished by "Punch" Dunkel's sextette. ENGINEERS' EXHIBIT AFTER PARADE ________ How Engineering is Taught at Iowa Will Be Shown Visitors ________ How engineering is taught at the University of Iowa is to be outlined briefly in the Mecca Day exhibition to be given at the hall of engineering immediately after the parade. The committee in charge of the exhibition consists of Dicken P. Schenck, John F. McLaughlin, Gordon R. Lunt, and Raymond Allen. The trip through the different buildings and laboratories begins at the drawing and descriptive geometry display and from there, goes to the blue print room. The display of surveying apparatus including levels, transits, and plane tables comes next. After this display, the materials testing laboratory and the steam laboratory and the steam laboratory are to be exhibited. The men at the steam laboratory will show how the different machines operate. Four stops at the engineering building cover points of interest there. By following some object through the stages of production, the wood shop, the force, the foundry, and the machine shop are visited. In the physics hall, the electrical display includes the dynamo laboratory and the dark room. The crushing and pulverizing of ore, the assaying of gold on a commercial scale, the chemical indication phenimena are included in the chemical display at the chemistry building. ________ FORTY THREE MEDICS FINISH THIS MONTH ________ Dr. Dean Lewis of the University of Chicago Will Address Next Convocation ________ The next University convocation will be Thursday, March 27 at 10 o'clock. About sixty-seven degrees will be conferred by the different colleges of the University. Dr. Dean D. Lewis, associate professors of surgery, for the University of Chicago, will deliver the principal address on "medical Experiences during the last Offensive." He has just recently returned from active service in France, where he was lieutenant-colonel of a base hospital, and will tell of the medical work in France during the late war. His experiences have been particularly interesting and his work at the front was of great value to the wounded. Forty-three students of the college of medicine will receive degrees, forty-three stuents of the college of medicine will receive degree, forty-two men and one woman. At the advice of the war department, senior work in medicine was begun June 16 of last year, making graduation come three months earlier than usual. Ten women will receive the certificate of graduate nurse at the convocation. Their names have already been passed upon and the list is as follows: Amanda Ahrens, Anna Brinker, Flora C. Weber, Bessie Daniels, Crystal Echtenacht, Anna Schuchman, Velora Patfen, Meda Dise, Velam Toland and Regina Russell. Others will be graduated next June. Clifford R. Berrien will receive the degree of bachelor of engineering at this convocation. In addition to twelve degrees of bachelor of science and bachelor of arts, a degree of master of arts will probably be conferred. ENGINEERS FEATURE UP-To-DATE TOPICS IN MECCA PARADE ________ Twenty-Seven Floats Give Varied Review of University Activities ________ PARADE STARTS AT 12:30 ________ Every Man of College of Applied Science to Participate in Annual Mecca Stunts ________ The students of the college of applied science will give their tenth annual Mecca day parade, today, at 12:30 o'clock. Twenty-seven floats will appear in this year's parade. Allen Wallen, chairman of the parade committee, has been called home on account of the illness of his father. William Benda will take his place and have charge of the parade with Joe Dean and Horace Tousley. The floats represent present day topics, and the slogan of the engineers is "Every Man in the Parade." Each department has developed a stunt, and no particular subject predominates. The float on National Prohibition demonstrates how every man will have his own still after July 1. The Guardhouse scene pictures a soldier combating the cootie. Other conspicuous floats are "Captain Robertson on duty," and the exhibit "Gas and Flame division of the S.A.T.C." has a mounted civet cat and men wearing gas masks. The complete list of floats to be given are as follows: 1. Band. 2. Bolsheviki. 3. Are we next? 4. Multiplex telephone. 5. Passing of the S.A.T.C. 6. Our Allies. 7. Engineers at S.U.L. 8. Memorial to S.U.I. 9. National prohibition. 10. Backers of the American Eagle. 11. Intensive farming. 12. Keeping the boys on the farm. 13. Bill's pardon. 14. Public dances in Iowa City. 15. Captain Robertson. 16. Guardhouse scene. 17. Roughneck engineers. 18. The U.S.S. "Women's Gym" 19. League of Nations. 20. "Du Biddy" 21. Biplane. 22. Future Events Cast Their Shadows. 23. Gas division of the S.A.T.C. 24. How to get a new chemistry building at Iowa. 25. Street car service in Iowa City. 26. Veterans of the S.A.T.C. 27. Brisco's efficiency. The order of march of the engineer's parade was announced last night as follows: Washington street to Clinton, Clinton to Jefferson, Jefferson to Linn, Linn to Bloomington, Bloomington to Van Buren, Van Buren to Iowa avenue, Iowa avenue to Linn, Linn to College, College to Clinton and Clinton to the engineering building. ________ Homemade pie, sandwiches, coffee, candy and ice cream are again available at the canteen in the Y.M.C.A. building. The canteen is operated by the women's counsel of national defense of Johnson county, although the women who helped with the work in charge of the war camp community service have assumed direction.