UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1912.
CAMPUS TO SWARM WITH KANSAS EDITORS
Reports Point to a Record Breaking Attendance at Association Meet
FAT OF THE LAND FOR THEM
According to reports received by entertainment committees the Kansas State Editors meeting here next Monday and Tuesday will be the best attended of any meeting outside of Topeka in legislative years. Prospects are that between 400 and 500 editors will attend.
Elder Brothers of The Daily Kan san to be Taken Care of Right Royally During Stay.
The merchants of Lawrence are preparing a banquet for 400, and the Home Economics girls are expecting 600 guests at their Tuesday luncheon.
As opposed to former years many of the daily editors are planning to come. Most of them are members of the Associated Press and they want to meet its general manager, Melville E. Stone, who will be the guest of the University during the meeting.
TO STERILIZE SEWAGE
Eldorado Will Install Electrolytic System Under Direction of Prof. Hoad.
"The city of El Dorado is trying out an electrolytic sterilization system for their sewage, under the supervision of the engineers of the university," Prof. W. C. Hoad said, when asked about the matter.
"Preliminary plans have been sent to the engineers at the University for revision and returned to the city council to be accepted. The reason that El Dorado is doing this, is because Augusta and Winfield take their water from the Walnut river and it is necessary for El Dorado to dump their sewage into this river,DISSEW and Winfield have first class, modern, up-to-date filtration systems but in order to make an assurance doubly sure, El Dorado is planning to install this system of filtering their sewage.
Song Recital Next Monday.
Song Recital Next Monday.
On Monday night at 8:00 Mr. John Hoffman, tenor will give a song recital at Fraser hall. Mr. Hoffman, tenor will give a song recital at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and is filling a week's engagement at the Lindsburg Musical Festival. He is one of the best known American tenors, and has given successful recitals at Berlin, Paris, and London.
"The idea of sterilizing sewage by a strong electric current is old, but at El Dorado we have a new application of it. The success of such a system depends a great deal on its economy. At El Dorado they have a municipal electric light plant and they plan to make the Walnut river furnish sufficient power to generate the electricity which is used to sterilize the sewage that is damped into it."
WANTED: ROOM TO EAT
Robinson Gym Not Big Enough To Seat Hordes Of Hungry Alumni.
What will the executive committee for commencement do for room in which to hold the annual alumni banquet this year?
Last year the capacity of the first floor of the gymnasium was overtaxed and one thousand and four alumni and faculty attended. This year it is expected that the attendance will reach twelve hundred and no more room is to be had. This is the problem that the commencement committee must face and any suggestions as to its solution will be thankfully received.
Chancellor Strong will preside at the banquet which will be held, June 5, at twelve o'clock immediately after the commencement exercises.
COOLEY CLUB MEETS
AND ELECTS OFFICERS
The Cooley Club at its meeting Friday afternoon, elected officers for the coming term. They are: Francis Schmacke, president; Otis Edmonson, president; William tressurer; Gilbert Lowe, secretary; and Adrian Campbell, servant at arms.
Orin Wheed, Kenneth Simmons, and Clifford Sullivan will represent the club at the Rugby League Matching Society. Clanrood Burnett and Eccombe Davis were elected to membership.
CAN SEE COLLECTOR NOW WITH COURAGE
New System Brings Checks to Employees on First of Month
The credit of the University faculty and employees is henceforth redemanded according to the new system of issuing the pay roll and they, like the rest of the business world, will be able hereafter, bill collectors will collect the first of every month.
Prior to two months ago the pay roll was made up and sent out the last of each month, and owing to the rush of business in the State auditor's office the last of the month, was not returned until between the seventh and tenth.
According to the new system the pay roll is sent out on the evening of the twenty-seventh, and all checks and warrants are returned by the first of the month, making the issuing of pay checks between the first and third. Although causing some conflict in later months thecks is Browne, less secret and purchasing agency for the University, says the new system will have many advantages over the old one, both for the University employees and the State auditor.
BRAZILIAN MINISTER WILL
LECTURE HERE NEXT FALI
After a Series of Addresses at Stan ford University, M. Oliveira Lima Will Tour The U. S.
The committee on University lectures today, received notice through Prof. R. R. Price of the Extension department, that Monseur Oliveira Lima, Brazilian minister to Belgium, would give a lecture at the University on October 15, 1912.
M. Oliveira Lima will lecture to several weeks at Leland Stanford University on the subject of "South American History," and will visit several universities on his way east from Stanford.
E. D. Adams, of the history department of Stanford University, who has charge of the schedule writes that the date as stated is definitely fixed.
PROFESSORS LECTURES OUTSIDE
Prof. Hodder at Hutchinson And Prof.
Engel at Sterling and Alden.
Professor Engel, of the German department, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Rhine" before the high school at Sterling, Friday afternoon, April 5. The same evening he will give a lecture on "Oberammergau and the Passion Play" before the general public at the same place. On Saturday, April 6, he will give the Oberammergau lecture at Alden.
Prof. W. H. Johnson's high school manual is used in the University of Indiana as a reference book by the classes in education. The manual is made up of reports and statistics showing the development of Kansas high schools during the last six years and is the most complete set of statistics compiled by any western state except Minnesota.
Prof. Rice Injured in Engineering Lab.
While helping remove a cement beam which he was having tested,
Prof. H. A. Rice, of the department of Engineering, cut a severe gash in his hand yesterday. The bar which Professor Rice was using slipped, forcing his hand against a sharp corner of the beam. He will be unable to use his hand for drawing for several days.
HOOSIERS USE JONSON N'S
HIGH SCHOOL MANUAL
Professor Hodder will give his regular extension lecture at Hutchinson on Friday, April 5.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
CAST OF FORTY TO PLAY FOR EDITORS
Red Dominos Will Presen Original Musical Comedy April 9-10
COSTUMES FROM NEW YORK
Manager is Sparing no Expense to Make "Object, Matrimony," the Best Student Play Yet.
NUMBER 52.
The Red Domino Club's second annual production, "Object; Matrimony," will be presented before the editors and students April 9 and 10. This is a musical comedy with a cast of forty people, and is written by two sophomores in the University, Arvid Frank and Earl Moore. The music is clever and the production is said to surpass the "Idle Idol," given by the club last year.
Ruth Walker, who plays the lead,
is a freshman. Her voice is good
and her dramatic work clever. Wm.
Q. Cain, playing opposite her, had a
leading part in the "Dictator" last
year, and needs no introduction.
The team work of Miss Helen Woolsey and Lawrence Smith is said to be a feature of the show. Another is the work of Lola Eaton as the telephone girl.
"Joe" Bishop, as "Buttons" might put a real bell boy to shame. Louis Buxton, who appeared in "Pyramus and Thisbe" at the May fete last year, takes the heavy part, that of the "barn" actor. The chorus of twenty-four is good, and some of the best parts of the play depend upon it.
CHORUS IS GOOD
About 200 tickets will be put aside for the club's guests, the editors, but there will be several hundred remaining seats downstairs. The scenery will be from the Willis Wood theater, Kansas City, and the costumes from New York.
"No expense has been spared to make the show the best student production ever given; a thing which the club's play last year accomplished," said Don McKay, manager of the Red Domino, this morning.
VOTE ON "WHO'S WHO" IN THE SENIOR CLASS
Cicket That Is Polling Most
Votes at This Time,
Is Announced
The voting at the senior booth this morning was carried on spiritually by rival factions, both of whom were pushing a ticket, to the best of their ability. Automobiles and five pound boxes of candy, for the young women were not in evidence today, but it is expected that they will appear tomorrow, the last day of the election.
It is against the principles of the annual board to give out any prelection returns but to the readers of the Daily Kunan this tip is being slipped含即.
7. —The worst politician: 'Hal Har lan.
GOLF CLUB TO BUILD CLUB HOUSE ON LINKS
The following ticket is being pushed inard, and unless the opposition maniets unexpected strength tomorrow, *t will win in a walk*:
2. The laziest man: Redmond.
3. The most popular man: Ice Cream.
5. The worst flubs! *lister.* The best athlete? Tod Wood bury.
8. The biggest grafter: Ike Lambert.
9. —The worst grind: Jack Williams.
10. —The most popular girl in the
senior class: Myrtle Wykoff.
The voting will continue through chanel time tomorrow.
4. The Beau Brunel of the class; Murray Conley.
A Day Earlier.
The date of the next recital in the fine arts course has been changed from April 9 to April 8.
Plans Are Being Made for a Very Tasteful $1000 Bungalow
MUST PETITION THE REGENTS
The Club of Sixty-Five Members Ha Been a Prominent Factor in Beautifying the Campus
At a meeting of the Golf club last Thursday it was decided to build a club-house in the near future. Further plans were discussed Saturday night at a smoker given to the club by J. Gordon Gibb. The Golf club has been in existence about four years, and has at present 64 regular members, with a number more desiring to join.
“Our finances are in good shape,” said Dean F. W. Blackmar, president of the club, this morning. “We have decided to build a neat, attractive little bungalow, costing about $1,000. We will petition the Board of Regents to allow us to place this building somewhere near the links. As soon as the permission is obtained we will have the plans drawn.
"We want our club-house to be an adornment to the landscape. It will be built primarily for the convenience of the members, containing a lounging room, lavatory and lockers." Professor Blackmar says that the beauty of the campus is due in a large part to the Golf club. It maintains a horse and several mowers to keep the grass and ground in shape. Last year the club expended from its own treasury over $300 in beautifying and trimming the campus and links.
Membership of the club is open to both students and faculty members. The initiation fee is $2.50 and the dues $5.00 per annum.
Y. W. C. A. District Entertained.
The district of which Miss Florence Payne is chairman will be entertained this evening from 7 till 8 at the home of Miss Dorothy Ward, a sophomore in the College.
KIRMESS CALLS FOR LILTS AND FLINGS
National Dances Will Be Given on Four Separate Platforms
The dances at the spring Kirmes will be given on four platforms at different parts of the campus. Each group of dances will be repeated four times and the spectators will move from one platform to another until they have seen every dance.
The Irish Lilt and the Irish Jig will be given by Miss Rose Abbott's classes on the Irish platform. Miss Nell Martindale's classes will give the Scotch Reel and the Highland Fling.
The junior and senior girls will occupy the fourth platform for special dances. One of these will be an Italian dance.
On the Spanish platform, Miss Gladys Elliott's classes, to the click of castanets and the jingle of tambourines, will dance two Spanish dances, La Tzaneque and La Tierra.
Between each class dance, a solo dance will be given or a national dance.
"The costumes will be characteristic of each nation," said Miss Beulah Murphy, president of the Women's Student Government Association, "and a committee of faculty women will have charge of them." A procession of senior girls, in white gowns and academic caps, will escort the Queen of the Kirmess and the dancers from Robinson gymnasium to the lawn in front of Fraser hall where the Queen will be crowned. The procession will form a daisy chain, held together by ropes of daisies.
The Weather.
Thermo and Baro came out of their box in front of Fowler Shops this morning and had a frolic on the green grass.
"Fine business," said Thermo. "Look out for me. I'm going up."
The other meter twin agreed, and so there will be fine weather and warmer for everybody tomorrow.
SMASH CONCRETE TO LEARN ITS STRENGTH
Engineers Apply Earthquake Tests to Beams of Cement and Steel
Five senior engineering students, H. L. Wilson, H. M. Stockwell, H. H. Houk, T. P. Humphery, and R. J. Tucker, under the direction of Professors H. A. Rice and C. I. Corp, have constructed an apparatus in the basement of Fowler shops for testing materials and experiments and experiments on the beams will constitute the material for the senior thesis of each of the five men.
The method of testing is simple yet the results of the test are accurate enough for use in actual practice. Beams of different dimensions and lengths are supported by pillars at each end. Various forces at varying intervals are then applied to the middle of the beams, and the "stress," caused by the weight, recorded by an indicator pencil on a strip of naker.
When force is applied at relatively long intervals, a beam will withstand enormous weight, but as the intervals get smaller the forces on the beam will support decreases rapidly.
An 8x12 beam, fourteen feet long was struck with a force of 15,000 pounds, and the indicating pencil showed a deviation of only an inch. The force was applied at shorter and shorter intervals until the strong beam broke. For the beam was then computed from data obtained from the experiments.
The results of the tests are valuable to railway and construction companies who desire to know how much weight may be safely put upon bridges and concrete work, and also how often the weight can be applied with safety.
MILK POWDER TESTED IN
ICE CREAM EXPERIMENT
Professor Jackson Invices Daily Kan san Reporter to Sample New Preparation
"Yes, it is pretty good. I would just as soon have it as to have real ice cream, if there wasn't any ice cream to be had."
Accepting an invitation from Professor H. Louis Jackson, of the department of food analysis, a reporter for the Daily Kansas visited the laboratory in order to eat some of the ice cream which had been prepared from some of the ingredients used in the dessert in for analysis and the professor resolve to try it out in a practical way.
"I agree with you," said the professor, "but how does it really taste?"
"Well, I like it very much, but there is a sort of greasy taste to the stuff, almost like tallow," replied the reporter, with a bottom portion of the dish and licked his chops.
But the reporter was the only one out of ten people who had tasted the ice cream, who said he really liked it.
The ice cream has a good body and keeps up as long as there is any ice around it. It has the same color and the same grainy appearance as any other ice cream.
FINE FOSSILS ARRIVE
Three hundred and twenty-five new geological specimens, from the Eocene of Alabama, have been placed in the collections of the geology department. The specimens are distributed among eighty-four species and fifty genera.
Eighty-four Species And Fifty Genera in New Collection
Send the Daily Kansan home.
"They are practically all fine specimens," said Prof. W. H. Twenhefel, "and are a great addition to the geological museum."
Chancellor to Boston. Chancellor Strong will attend a K. U. Club meeting, at Boston, April 20.
A 95-VOICE CHORUS FOR LAST VESPERS
Lawrence and Garnett Voices Will Sing Ontatorio, "The Holy City"
IN FRASER HALL APRIL 14
Prof. Hubach Left Today For Garnett,
Where He Will Conduct Chorus
of Local Singers.
A mixed chorus of 45 from Garnett, united with a chorus of fifty voices from Lawrence, will sing "The Holy City," an oratorio by Gaul, in the last veneri service of the year to be held at the chapel of Fraser Hall, April 14.
The chorus is composed of local singers, among whom are several University girls. Bonnie Coleman, ex'10, of the School of Fine Arts, will sing one of the principal parts.
Professor C. Edward Hubach, of the School of Fine Arts, leaves today for Garnett, where he will conduct chorus in a rendition of "The Holy City."
Miss Rachel Williams of Seneea, is visiting Miss Ruth Smith at the Kappa house.
SUPPLEMENT SUCCESS
Another May Be Printed Soon,
Copies Free at Daily Kansan
Office
The Daily Kansan's Directory Supplement has proved a remarkable success. So many applications have been received for names to be entered even after the supplement was printed, that the management has arranged to print another in the near future, if necessary. Persons desiring copies of the supplement may secure them on the Daily Kansan office.
PLEASES OTTAWA AUDIENCE
Professor Carruth Discussed Great Poems and Poets in Lecture Friday
W. H. Carruth, of the department of German, delivered his lecture on "Great Poems and Great Poets," Friday. Professor Carruth discussed the works of Longfellow, Dante, Milton, Lowell, and Shakespeare. He emphasized the point that the poem and not the poet is the factor that should determine the greatness of the work.
"A great poet is not always a great man," said Professor Carruth. "Great poems are not necessarily the works of great poets, but sometimes the products of the flights of genius come from writers in whom no greatness is supposed to exist."
Miss Mabel Anderson, a junior in the College, entertained a number of her friends at a whist party last night in honor of her sister, Miss Florence Anderson of Chicago. Afterwards, the party enjoyed a three course supper at Lee's.
SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED
Application For Innes Fund
Must Be In May 3.
See Prof. Galloo
Through the kindness of Mr. George Innes, the Eliza Matheson Inns scholarship is offered for the year 1912-13 to a woman student of the College, who shall be a member of a class above the freshman, or of the Graduate School.
Applications must be in by May 3, to the committee on University Scholarships for Women, composed of Miss Galloo, Miss Hyde, and Miss Oliver.
Miss Crete Stewart, freshman in the Fine Arts department, is visiting her mother in Kansas City.
Miss Dorothy Porter, a freshman in the College is visiting her parents in Topeka.