UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 37
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1912.
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STREET 6000 FEET HIGH
Glee Club Descended on Foot Into Grand Canon of Colorado
THEN HAD TO GET BACK OUT
On Record Breaking Run From Arizona to California, the Men Had to Hold to Their Seats.
It was a tired but happy bunch of minstrels that returned yesterday from a three weeks' tour of the West, during which time they sang in twelve cities between Lawrence and Los Angeles and started half a continent talking about the excellence of the Kansas gleenem.
All of the Glee club returned except Harvey Phillips who took a sid trip to his home in Boulder, Colorado, in order to wear his dress suit at his sister's wedding next Saturday. Professor Hubach, director was also in the original party, but was called home while the club was in New Mexico by the death of his mother.
Many and strange are the stories told by the wanderers and over their books today they are dreaming again with their friends the happenings of the trip.
The visit to the Grand Canon of the Colorado on the return trip was one of the most interesting features of the entire journey to the members of the Glee club. The entire club followed the trail down the side of the canon to the banks of the Colorado. At the point where they viewed the canon there was almost a perpendicular drop of 6,000 feet.
The boys made the trip on foot and it required a little over an hour and a half to make the descent. The trail was about three feet wide the greater part of the way, and in the words of one of the singers, "as steep as the Adams street hill all the way." In places the trail was cut out of the rock. The climb up the side of the canon was made in between three and four hours which was considerably better than "the mule time."
The trip down the canon was considered the most wonderful part of the trip, but from the different members' accounts, the Harvey House meal followed took the most prominent place in the eyes of the hungry Kansas youths.
BROKE 23-YEAR RECORD.
Not satisfied with breaking the record of all student organizations in the distance travelled from the University, the club undertook to break a record of twenty-three years' standing by the Santa Fe, over the road between Williams, Arizona, and Needles, California. The distance was 153 miles. Owing to heavy snows there was no train from the east and Manager Kates was afraid that his travelling minstrels would be too late to give their scheduled concert at Needles, so a special engine was hooked on the private car, and the engineer started his record-breaking run.
It was down-hill all the way and a drop was made from an altitude of 7,000 feet to one of 400 feet. Several of the boy sat or arched "hung" on the rear vestibule of the car. A game of what inside the coach had to do could not always manage the cards, and were busy holding themselves in their seats.
Bob Campbell timed several miles, and for a while they were travelling 70 miles an hour. The run was quite a "feather in the engineer's cap." The brakeman said afterward that in his twenty years of experience he had never made such a run.
PROM TICKETS ON SALE
Arrangements are being completed for the annual Junior Prom, this year, which promises to be one of the most elaborate yet.
Wednesday, March 13, the Day They Begin to Fight for Admission Cards
The sale of tickets will start Wednesday, March 13. Tickets can be secured from the finance committee composed of John Sterling, Everett Johnson, John Bodman, Amos Johnson, James Malcolmson, Francis McCreath, Elizabeth Kennedy, Vera Atkinson, and Vera Wolfe.
PUBLIC MUST ENFORCE THE PURE FOOD LAWS
Tickets must be secured before Tuesday, April 2. The price is $3.50.
Professor Jackson Says They Are Useless Unless People Demand Enforcement
WONT ENFORCE THEMSELVES
Manufacturer May Lie in Letters
Half Inch High. If He Prints
Truth as Fine as Lace.
That the pure food law, like any other law, will not enforce itself; but that its effectiveness depends on the watchfulness and intelligent interest of every citizen, was the theme of Prof. H. Louis Jackson's chapel address this morning.
"When the law was first passed, manufacturers who were making strawberry jam by combining glucose, starch, grass seed, phosphoric acid, a chemical preservative and a coal tar dye and those who were selling pepper which contained seventy-five per cent of ground olive pits, were ag ash. The ink was not dry on the act before it was given fifty-seven varieties of treatment to make it harmless.
THE ETHICS OF THE CASE
"The ethics of the act, as the man- manufacturers put it, were expressed in the following doggeral:
Thou mayst tell in letters a half inch high
high,
All thou wilt of thy clever lie;
Provided only, in some other place
Toull tell the truth in print as fn
Last year Professor Jackson at tended hearing before the Board of Food and Drug Inspection at Washington, where adulteration of vinegar was discussed. As a result of that hearing, it is announced by the Washington officials that water may be added if only the manufacturers will say so and the per cent need not be stated.
NEGAR ALWAYS GIVES TROUBLE "Vinegar has always been one of the hardest products to keep straight, and with these new advantages I feel that the manufacturing interests are in the ascendency. But if the vinegar may be watered why not milk? Why not dilute coffee and tea with harmless bark or shells?"
Professor Jaccison thinks that public interest will be a check on the further misuse of the law.
NEW YORK HAD TO ASK KANSAS FOR ENGINEER
W. S. Kinnear, C. E. '07, to Become President of Construction Company
W. S. Kinnear, who obtained a C.E.
degree from the Graduate School in
1907, is to resign as president of the
Kansas City Terminal Company and
will accept the presidency of the United
Realty Real and Construction Company
of New York at a salary of $50,000
a year.
Mr. Kinnear has a son, Lawrence W., who is a sophomore in the School of Engineering and a member of the Beya Thets Pi fraternity.
Chancellor Will Go to St. Louis.
Chancellor Frank Strong leaves this evening for St. Louis to attend the meeting of the Religious Education Association. The Chancellor has been invited to address the students and faculty of Washington University.
The building of the Detroit River tunnel was the first work of importance which Mr. Kinnear pushed to completion. It was a unique tunnel, as the engineers dug a trench in the river bed, displaced the water temporarily, and laid the cylinders of steel and concrete in the excavation, instead of tunneling under the river, as is usual in each work. It was accompanied with Mr. Kinnear. The construction work in connection with Kansas City's new Union Station has been under the direction of this alumnus of the University since August, 1910.
February Weather Reduced to Black and White
Chart prepared by F. W. Bruckmiller, official weather recorder on Mount Oread, showing the changes in temperature during the month of February. The temperature is taken three times each day. The variations in the thermometer is shown by the vertical column, the zow of horizontal figures being the days. The highest temperature during the month was on February 16-55 degrees; the lowest on February 4-3 degrees below zero.
UNIVERSITY RESPONDS TO CALL OF STATE
Three Professors This Week Helping Cities With Municipal Problems
Snow fell on seven days in the month, the total being 5.85 inches.
5 inches of which fell on February 25.
C. Prentiss Donald 08, captain of the football team in '06, visited friends at the University Saturday and Sunday. The former Jayhawker star is in the engineering department of the Rock Island railroad at Topeka.
Responding to the call of the state, three University professors are visiting a half dozen cities this week, giving scientific advice in sanitary engineering. The professors are Hoad and Haskins, of the Sanitary Engineering Department and Sherwood of the Department of Bacteriology, and the cities which called them are Burr Oak, Augusta, Cherryvale, and Lyndon. Mr. Haskins, yesterday and Saturday, made an investigation of the location and sanitary character of a proposed new municipal water supply at Burr Oak.
Nellie Taylor, who has been visit ing at the Theta house, returned to her home in Kansas City, today.
Today, Professors Hoad and Sherwood are in Augusta testing out the new municipal water filtration plant at that place. This is a new plant built for the purpose of treating Walnut river water and although small is thoroughly modern in type and character.
TEST FILTRATION PLANT.
Tomorrow, Professors Hoad and Sherwood will make a similar test of the efficiency of the new municipal jail. Cherryville, only recently completed.
Donald Visited University
The Cherryville plant," says Professor Hoad, "is one of the best in the state. The new water supply of the city is taken from the Verdigris river and is pumped overland about six miles into a reservoir on a hill-top from which it flows by gravity through the filteration plant into a filtered water reservoir, from which it is again pumped into the city mains."
Both these filtration plants were designed and built by Worley and Black, consulting engineers of Kansas City, Missouri. Both Mr. Worley and Mr. Black are University of Kansas students in Civil Engineering. Mr. Worley will represent the city in the conduct of the tests
In addition to their work in the University, Professors Hoad and Haskins are engineers for the State Board of Health and Mr. Sherwon is bacteriologist of the Water and Sewage Division of the State Board.
Mr. Haskins at the request of the mayor and council of Lyndon, will go to that place on Thursday to advise with them regarding a new waterworks system which they propose to build, including a filtration plant similar to those at Augusta and Cherryville.
Mr. Haskins will address a public meeting on filtration in Lyndon, Thursday evening.
tomorrow, Mr. Haskins will join Professors Hoad and Sherwood at Cherryvale to assist in an investigation of the sewage purification plant.
NEW WATERWORKS SYSTEM.
CAFETERIA IS HAVEN SOUGHT BY Y.W.C.A
Annual Membership Banquet Will Be Served There Next Saturday Evening
The girls of the Department of Domestic Science, under the direction of Miss Kmittrick, will serve the annual membership banquet of the Y. W. C. A. at the University Cafeteria next Saturday evening, March 16, at six o'clock.
Tickets for the banquet are on sale at the Rest Room in Fraser Hall until Wednesday noon. Anyone wanting a ticket must have it reserved before
Dr. Henry C. King, president of Oberlin College, and President R. F. Sairdes of Washburn, will be the guests of honor. Mrs. L. E. Sisson will be the toastmistress. The program is as follows:
Our Sustaining Members, Ruth Van Daren.
Making the Wheels Go Round, Mrs. Frank Strong.
A Bit of Extension Work, Marie Sealy. The Association and Some National Problems, Mrs. J. E. Manley.
On Being a Good Citizen, Lucie March.
The Significance of the Modern Student Movements, President Henry Churchill King.
Mrs. Blanche Lyons, assistant professor of Voice at the University of Kansas, has signed a contract as soloist with the Ohlmeyer Coronade Band for an extensive tour of the United States, and will perform in May and continuing until October.
This tour extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast and includes all of the principal cities from New York to San Francisco. It is similar to the one Mrs. Lyons made last year, but more extensive.
KANSAS MEN HONORED
LL. D. Conferred on Norman Duncan and Doctor of Science on Robert K.
At the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the University of Pennsylvania, honorary degrees were conferred on two professors connected with the University of Kansas. The degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred on Prof. Norman M.Duncan, formerly professor of English here; and the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on Robert -Kennedy Duncan, director of the department of industrial chemical research in the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh.
Obit
Prof. Boynton made the Daily Kansasan a pleasant call this morning Many reminiscences were indulged in, and changes in the staff were discussed, and a profitable half hour was passed.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
AWAY, WAY DOWN IN GOOD AS OLD WHEAT,
SADDLETOWN, A BOY DECLARE MERCHANTS
Weeps for His Mother, He' Looked All Round, She Can't Be Found
AND HE CAN'T FIND ANOTHER BUY ON TICK; SETTLE QUICK
III
This is First Verse of a Genuine Kansas Ballad Collected by Professor Lomax While in City.
The story is that of boy, both of whose parents had died by violence. His mother had jumped off a bridge and his father was shot in a bar-room brawl. Afterward, the remains of the parents were soaked up from the soil, into which they had disintegrated, by the tobacco plants which the boy, now a man, had planted. He sent the tobacco off to the East where it was made into cigars, and plug tobacco.
When Prof. John A. Lomax of the University of Texas, was here last week, he collected several cowboy ballads from the students. A large number were handed to him and several were accepted.
One of the most unique was submitted by William W. Ferguson, a junior in the College. It was sung at the University last year by John Freed, of Scott County, Kansas, and is entitled "Saddletown."
At last we have him smoking the cigars and chewing the plug that had been grown from the dust of his parents' bodies. Part of the ballad is as follows:
He does not ween the nicotine Is the life-blood of his mother. So let him smoke and let him joke And let him show his gold
"He knows not that his cigar is Is the thigh-bone of his father,
Poor man, God knows, cannot suppose
The fearful thing he did "
"The ballad 'Saddletown,'" said Professor Lomax, "is certainly unique. I know of no other like it. It has all of the romantic and imaginative qualities of the old English ballads, and the peculiar by frank and cheerful gruseness of the treatment is reminiscent of the cowboy type. But the story is certainly new, ans is undoubtedly American in it's origin."
Frank F. Maret also handed Professor Lomax a ballad, which he liked very much. It was a Wyoming song, and very characteristic of the wild and gruesome type.
BIBLE INSTITUTE TO START NEXT FRIDAY
Presidents King and Sander of Oberlin and Washburn Will Lecture
Students Get Good Rating From Lawrence Dunns and Bradstreets
The purpose of the institute is to give the students in particular, and the public in general, a chance to become acquainted with some of the leaders of religious thought and activity of this country.
The seventh annual institute for religious education will be held at the University of Kansas from March 15 to March 21 inclusive.
Since the institute started seven years ago, the University has had as speakers Prof. G. H. Palmer, of Harvard, Dr. Lyman Abbott of The Outlook, Prof. Hugh Black of the Union Theological Seminary, Dean Shailer Mathews of Chicago, Dr Washington Gladden of Columbus and President Frank K. Sanders or Washburn College.
The speakers this year will be two men very well known for their work among students, President Henry C. King of Oberlin University and President Frank K. Sanders of Washburn. President King will give a series of lectures on "Religion as Life" and President Sanders will discuss "The Apocalyptic Writings and Ideas of Judaism and Christianity."
Floyd Nutting, a freshman engineer, was operated on for appendicitis at Dr. Jones' hospital Saturday
Little Loss to Anyone by Trusting University Men and Women— Improvement in Recent Years.
"I have been in business in Lawrence for forty years and I have never lost a dollar through my student trade. I find that the students, or rather the girls, for they constitute my portion of the student trade, never fail to pay their bills and are unusually prompt," said Mr. George Ines, senior member of the dry goods firm of Innes, Bullene and Hackman, when asked his opinion of student trade.
Many persons think that with the coming of the first of the month come also the trials and tribulations of the Lawrence merchants. This fact however was disproved this morning when several of the leading merchants gave their opinions concerning student trade, because they believed that them was that students as a whole make a better credit business than the average citizen of Lawrence.
I like to deal with students," were the words of B. J. Gustafson, the jeweler. "My greatest trade is with University people and I find that they want above all things good quality. I don't believe that I have actually lost one dollar in giving credit to students and as an average they are more prompt in paying their bills than any of my other trade."
H. B. Ober, who has been in the clothing business in Lawrence for seventeen years, gave his approval of student trade in the following manner. "At least one half of my business is with people connected with the University and though they are more critical I find them to be among my best buyers. My trade grows with the University and I could think of nothing longer than we have only students as custodians. That makes it easier habits of trading in Lawrence is shown by my large mail order business with former students. Once in a long while I have a fellow 'beat his bill,' but this occurs very seldom."
The University Book Store in twenty years has never refused credit to a student, J. G. Gibb, the owner, said this morning, "I never send a collector into the student district and yet I seldom have trouble in getting full payment on all student bills. Sometimes it takes a man a long time to pay up but in the end I never lose. It used to be that the University people, especially fraternity men, were exceedingly poor pay. Now, however, conditions have exactly reversed themselves and I never feel more safe than when extending credit to people on the hill."
"Do I like student trade?" repeated A. D. Carroll with his jovial smile, Mr. Carroll is the owner of the Smith's News Depot and deals exclusively with the men students of the University. "Yes," he answered with emphasis and continued. "Students are fine customers and I have never lost a single cent through them during the whole time I have been in business. They have always made me their policy to give have always made it my policy to give the same to them."
E. S. Peckham, one of the owners of the Peckham Clothing Co. which operates in several Kansas towns, said, "I never count student debt as an actual loss. Sometimes it takes a man a long time to pay me, but eventually he pays off." As a general rule, however, the students pay up promptly, though sometimes the so-called 'social lions' of the hill are a little slower than the others."
"My entire trade is with the students," said D. L. Rowlands, owner of Rowland's College Book Store. "My losses in the last five years could easily be covered by an average day's sale. Perhaps half of this loss comes from items too trivial to waste postage on. It has been my policy to extend credit whenever possible, but the students do not seem to realize that slow payment on their part greatly inconveniences me in settling with the wholesale. However I find the hill trade very pleasant and I have never yet run up against a student who would willingly defraud me."