UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
LADIES' HOME KANSAN FEATURE OF KIRMESS
Issue of April 26 to Be Written and Edited By the Girls
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1912.
EDITORIAL STAFF ANNOUNCED
Beulah Murphy Editor-in-Chief. Hele Hoopes, Managing Editor, Lucy Barger, Business Manager.
Friday is the day, April 26 is the date on which the entire editorial, reportorial and business staff of the University Daily Kansan will be in complete charge of the girls. By looking at the list of notables which have volunteered their services in order to bring out a paper which will be filled with news of the warmest temperature but also one of literary merit, it will be seen that the number will undoubtedly be a good one.
The editor-in-chief, Beulah Murphy, called a preliminary meeting of the staff in Fraser Hall this noon and formed plans, adopted rules and gave instructions so that each girl of each department should know exactly what she should do and govern herself accordingly. News concerning the Kirmess which takes place the following day will probably come in for a great share of the reading matter as it is one of the big events of the season.
A list of the entire staff follows:
Wilson in chief, Roboll Murphy.
The paper which comes out next Friday will undoubtedly be the newsiest and breezest papers that has ever been turned loose on a college campus.
Editor-in-chief, Smith College,
Oregon; Director, Oreta Gene,
Vince Wells.
Literary Editor, Alberta Cady,
Ass't Literary Editor, Anna Manley
Managing Editor, Helen Rhoda
Hones
Ass't Managing Editor, Elizabeth Dunaway.
NUMBER 66.
News Editor, Ruth Harger.
Campus Editor, Frederika Hodder.
High School Editor, Miriam Smyth.
Society Editor, Helen Degen.
Ast't Society Editor, Leota McEurin.
Sporting Editor, Nell Martindale.
Y. W. C. A. Editor, Glendale Griffiths.
Ass't Sporting Editor, Amarynthia Smith.
Weather Editor, Louise Fairchilds.
Copy Reader, Ethel Houston.
Manager, Lucy Burger.
Ass't Business Manager, Mina Johnson.
Exchange Editor, Caroline Greer.
Awt's Exchange Editor, Helen Thom-
son.
Marian Ellis, Mary Reding, Iva Harper, Mira Luce, Marie Sealy, Bess Bozell and Charibel Lupton.
2nd Ass't Business Manager, Fay Chisham.
Circulation Manager, Isabel Thomas.
REPORTAL STAFF.
More girls are wanted to act as reporters. See Miss Murphy or report at Daily Kansan office.
Fred Smithmeyer, '10, spent the week-end n iLawrence with his parents.
COLLEGE PICKS 'DAVY
Editor of Oread Mag. Unanimously Elected Student Day Speaker
Ellis Davidson was unanimously elected speaker for the College on Students' day at a mass meeting held in chapel at 12:15 today. Carl Cannon made the nominating speech, and there were no other candidates. Davidson has played on the football team for the past three years and is now the editor of the Oread Marianne Magazine.
The Weather.
"Well! Well!" said Baro to Thermo. "We will have some nice weather this week, I'm ready for I feel it in my glass bones."
"I know it is a little early to predict for the whole week, he for tomorrow and tonight we surely have fair weather."
HEAD OF GIRL'S INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL TO ADDRESS W. W. C.A.
Mrs. Julia Perry of Beloit to Talk Here April 24. Will Discuss Corrective Work.
Mrs. Julia B. Perry, superintendent of the State Girls' Industrial School at Beloit, Kansas, will address the W. Y. C. A. at the regular meeting, Wednesday, April 24 at 4:30, in Myers Hall.
The association has made several attempts during the last year to secure Mrs. Perry as a lecturer. All who are interested in the modern corrective and preventive work should hear Mrs. Perry at the Cause and Cure of Delinquency."
Mrs. Perry will probably talk before Dean Blackmar's class in "Remedial and Corrective Agencies," at 1:30 Thursday in Fraser Hall.
"She is one of the most remarkable women in the country," said Dean Blackmark of Mrs. Perry. "She has been spurintendent of the Industrial Workers Union, and has built up the school. She is recognized as an authority in this work."
SUMMER SESSION HAS 3 NEW DEPARTMENTS
Public Speaking, Physiology and Journalism to Be Added This Summer
Plans for the tenth annual Summer Session of the University of Kansas are now complete.
Three new departments, physiology, public speaking, and journalism, have been added this year.
The classes in journalism will publish a tri-weekly paper, the Summer Session Kansan.
Another new feature in summer school work at the University will be classes in coaching athletic teams, particularly basket-ball and track.
Amateur Base Ball Notes
PROMINENT 09 GRADUATES
WED IN KANSAS CITY
MEET TWICE EACH MONTH.
Hand your notices for the "Amatutee Baseball Notes" in the Daily Kansan to the sporting editor or the news editor before publication. The team website, www.kansanbaseball.com, page will contain a complete account of the doing of all the club teams, their games, their challenges and their line-ups.
The teachers from other schools than the University are: Frank J. Miller, professor of Latin, University of Chicago; D. L. McEachran, professor of English; M. K. Campbell, Washburn College; C.O. Hardy, professor of history, Ottawa University; F. A. Braun, instructor in modern languages, Princeton University.
Miss Copley was one of the first to agitate and work for student government and was a member of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet, and took part in many of the musical activities she and her family of the late Evelyn Copley, class of 1908.
Mr. Pleasant was a member of the University football team of '08, '09, and '10, being captain in the team of the city as attendant inspections of Kansas City, Mo.
KANSAS IS AS HOT AS SAHARA IN JUNE
The marriage of Miss Gertrude Copley and Mr. Carl Pleasant, which took place April 20 at Miss Copley's home in Kansas City, Mo., is of unusual interest. Mr. and Mrs. Pleasant are both graduates of the University, class of 1909, of which Mr. Pleasant was president and Miss Copley secretary. While in the University they were both prominent in student activities.
The Department of Physical Education held their regular semi-monthly meeting last night in the gymnasium. They have been holding such meetings during the whole of the school year, and it has become the custom to take turns in furnishing the luncheon for the members of the department.
And as Cold as Greenland in January, Says Prof. H.P.Cady
After May 15, Mr. and Mrs. Pleasant will be at home at 308 Brooklyn Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Members of Physical Education Department Take Turns in Luncheon.
Plans for the betterment of the department are discussed and various papers are read at the meetings.
Those who have been shivering and talking about the snow and ice all winter, were not so surprised when they learned that our average of sixteen degrees for January, is comparable to Alaska and Greenland and colder than the extreme southern points of South America or Africa.
"Here the isotherm swings southward when it crosses the contiments so it can truthfully be said that Kansas has the climate of 'Greeeland's ice mountains,' or 'India's coral strands.'"
BAD FOR SUMMER STUDENTS
"The Kansas average of eighty degrees is the hottest ten degree isotherm which circles the globe. It stays fairly close to the equator every year except where affected by the large land bodies of America and Europe. There it makes a big bend to the north. It is only the interior of the continents which have an average temperature of ninety degrees during June."
The students and instructors who attended chapel this morning abuddered in anticipation, when they learned from Prof. H. P. C.ady's talk on "isotherms," that Kansas, in June will be as hot as India, Alabama, or the northern boundary of the Sahara desert.
Cheer Up, Though, Weather Changes Even More in Pekin
Every Winter
STRIVE TO VANQUISH THE PURRING TIGER
Professor Cady assured his hearers, in closing, that there are other places on the globe which have even greater climatic changes than Kansas; mentioning Pekin, China, which has much colder winters and hotter summers than Kansas.
SHE ENLISTS GIRLS FOR PHILANTHROPHY
Y. W. C. A. Workers Asked to Meet Mrs. McLean of Denver
Mrs. Lester McLean, Jr., of Denver, national student secretary of the Central Western division of the Y. W. C. A., is at the University this week taking a census of the senior girls who are interested in philanthropic work. At a meeting in Fraser hall yesterday afternoon, thirty senior girls filled out blanks which will serve the National Board at New York as a guide in bringing the graduates in touch with the various philanthropic organizations in the country. Senior girls who do not care to take up teaching are planning to give either paid or voluntary service.
of Denver
"We depend on the college women to carry on this great work," said Mrs. McLean, yesterday. "We lose our jobs and do not have her and her interests."
Mrs. McLean said the girls at the University were the only senior girls in Kansas who were asked to consider the subject.
The old and the new cabinets of the Y. W. C. A. are asked to meet Mrs. McLean at the home of Miss Nadia Thomas, 1134 Louisiana, at seven o'clock, Tuesday, April 23, to discuss the work of the year, past, present and future.
Kansas Meets Missouri Friday Night in Fourteenth Annual Debate
NOT A VICTORY SINCE '05
But Revival of Interest This Year Points to Rebirth of "The Good Old Days"
The fourteenth annual debate between Kansas and Missouri will be held in Fraser hall next Friday evening. The question will be the recall of judges and Kansas will present the affirmative.
Missouri has defeated Kansas in debate five years in succession. Of the thirteen contests they have taken, Missouri has been the only state has had to be satisfied with four.
Debating with Missouri started in 1898, and Kansas got her share of the honors for the first few years, winning in '99, '00, '03, and losing in '98, '01, '02, and '04. Since that time the University has won but once, in '05. Kansas has never been ahead of Missouri in debates won except in 1900, when the University had two victories and only one defeat.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
The debate in 1905 is the one which is often referred to by the old graduates when they tell about debating at Kansas, "in the good old days." R. L. Douglas of Crestline, R. O. Douglas of Mound City, and Frank E. Tylor of Clifton were the Kansas speakers, and they had the task of convincing the people solved, that the open shop should be maintained by law." The debate was at Columbia, and the judges awarded the decision to Kansas.
REVIVAL OF INTEREST
TALK ON DESIGNING OF MODERN LINERS
The University cancelled all intercollegiate debates in 1906 except one with Baker but the yearly contests have been never resulted in a Kansas victory.
Interest in debating was greater at the University before 1905 than it has been in the past few years, but a revival in interest is quite noticeable since last year. New debating societies have been formed and more men have attended the try-outs. This interest can mean but one thing, the older members of the faculty who are connected with the debating council say, and that is that Kansas is due to commence winning again.
Professor Walker Will Give an Illustrated Lecture Tomorrow at 4:30
An illustrated talk on the design and construction of modern steam ships will be given in the lecture room of the engineering building Wednesday at 4:30.
This talk will be given by Prof. P. F. Walker of the mechanical engineering department, who for several years was a designer at the Newport News Ship-building Company's ship yard at Newport News, Va., and at other ship yards along the Atlantic coast.
There will also be shown, by means of lantern slides, how cellular double bottom construction and water tight compartments have been developed as safety features and how they failed on the Titanic.
The difference between warship construction and merchant types of ships will be brought out.
This lecture has been arranged for by the student section of the A. S. which is open to all students of the U.S.A. are interested in ship construction.
Cornelia Hardcastle, '11, has returned to her home in Emporia after having spent the week-end at the Pi Phi house.
Is Second of Two Volumes on "Truth and Reality"—Will be Finished Next Summer
BOODIN WRITING BOOK;
SUBJECT METAPHYSICS
A new book on philosophy is being written by Prof. J. E. Boodin of the department of philosophy. It is the volume entitled "Truth and Reality."
The first volume which was completed last summer dealt with the theory of knowledge. It was well received by the scientific world and has been commented upon very favorably leading periodicals and newspapers.
The second volume is about metaphysics. Professor Boodin hopes to be able to complete it this summer.
Grad Students Choose Speaker.
Mr. Wilbur T. Tilberg was chosen at a meeting of the Graduate School this morning to be their speaker at the Students' Day Exercises. Mr. Tilberg is a graduate of Bethany College and has had much experience in debating and public speaking.
TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF STUDENT FINANCE
University to Find Out Number of Students Independent of Father
Letters have been sent by Chancellor Strong to all students of the University asking for detailed information on the amount of money earned by the students and the amount spent by them during the school year. The purpose of the inquiry is to collect information about their priorities and opportunities in their efforts to better the condition of students and increase their chances for self maintenance.
A few of the questions asked are: What is the total amount, earned by you to help pay your expenses while a student in the University, and how? What is the total amount of money you earn while a student, and how? Have you received any assistance from the Y. M. C. A., W. Y. C. A., or University officials in finding employment? What are your total expenses per year? Have you earned any expense money during the summer vacation, and how? Do you receive any money from other students for expenses? Have you any suggestions that will aid the University in rendering the greatest assistance to students who have to earn part or all of their expenses while in the University?
A list of questions similar to the above was sent by the University to the students two years ago, and practically all students sent in answers to the questions. We find that a great part of the students earned all or part of their expenses while in school
LAWS ELECT SNYDER
the election of Students' Day speaker for the law school resulted in the choice of Ira C. Snyder. He received 101 votes and Frank M. Hyams 98 votes.
Student Day Speaker Chosen Oven Hyames by Majority of Three
Hepworth was appointed chairman of the meeting, and the voting was by ballot. The ballots were marked to prevent illegal voting.
One door of the lecture room was locked, the ballot bax was placed by the other door, and the ballots were placed in the box as they passed out. There was a noticeable lack of speech-making which characterized the former meeting.
WILL TALK ON "BEGINNERS
AND BEGINNERS AGAIN"
Dr. Robert Nelson Spencer, pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church of Kansas City, Mo., will speak at the regular W. Y. C. A. meeting Thursday evening on "Beginners and Beginners Again." Dr. Spencer addressed the M. Y. C. A. meeting two weeks ago concerning the social work that his church is doing with people in need. As a speaker Dr. Spencer is earnest and forceful and the fact that he is to come back for another talk shows how his first address was received.
Raymond Malty, a sophomore engineer from McPherson, returned yesterday from his home, where he was called by the death of his grandmother.
ALL FOR THE SAKE OF THE DORM FUND
The Week Night Date Rule Lid Is Non Est for Tonight
STUDES WILL THRONG "JITNEYS"
Nearly $100 Worth of Tickets Sold-
Special Films Have Been Ordered
—Vaudeville Specialies.
The rescinding of the week night date rule by Dean Templin for tonight only, has helped the sales of the Jit- tickets for the Dorm fund immensely.
Yesterday afternoon, the young women made an invasion of the business district and sold a large number of tickets to the business men.
"A great deal of credit is due the girls who have been working so hard for the fund," said Miss Johnson. So far, Bertha Mix holds the record for number of tickets. Her total money amounted to "wenty-four dollars."
The girls have secured a special attraction at the shows, Charles Younggreen and John Musselman, who will perform at the Patee Nickel, and Ben Kiddin, who will act at the Aurora. These men promise to put on something good.
Four good films are also scheduled at the Aurora. One which will be of interest at this time is called "Teebergs in the North Atlantic." Large bergs in the vicinity of the recent Titanic disaster will be shown. Another "The Children's War" film, with Chinese actors, "Rudgrans" a hard colored film showing medieval romance, and "The Infancy of Moses" complete the program.
At Mrs. Pateste, the films shown will be "The Last Days of Nero," a hand colored feature which will be the headliner, a Biograph called "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and "A College Girl," and a comedy film "Archibald Chubbs and the Widow."
Wichita Asks Professor Haworth to Make Survey From Newton
SEEKING A WATER SUPPLY
Not only the small municipautes call on the University for help. Wichita has asked Prof. Erasmus Haworth, as state geologist, to aid in finding a good and sufficient water supply.
Newton's well known mineral springs are just seven miles north of Wichita, and with them as a starting point, Professor Haworth's survey is working south. The object of the survey is to find out how far south the vein of mineral water runs and its farthest southern point will become the source of Wichita's water supply.
Mr. Robert S. Forsythe, a former instructor in English at the University, now at Columbia, has been awarded a fellowship in the English department for 1912-13, by the University Council of Columbia University.
DECIDE LIVE PROBLEMS
K. U. Debating Society Threshes Out Aldrich Currency Plan and Pension List
The judges at the K. U. Debating society last Friday night decided that the government should adopt the Aldrich currency plan, but that our national legislators should "view with alarm" in the system that might be advanced.
The winning affirmative speakers on the currency question were Robinson, Gorsuch and Steinmeyer. Strickland and Hornbaker spoke for the negative.
On the old-age pension debate, M-
Cormac, Oine and Bennett were the
winning negative speakers, and Wili-
sson and R. Soper talked for the affirmative.
The K. U. society-Cooley club debate was announced for May 9, and will probably be given in in the Green ball lecture room.
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