UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
NUMBER 67.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS SEEING THE SIGHTS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, 1912.
Visit Zine Smelter In Argentine And The Armour Packing Plant.
TWO LOST IN THE GREAT CITY
Spillman and Bailey Wandered Away-
Grignard Forsakes Hotel Life For
Calm of Y. M. C. A. Rooms.
The following despatches were received this morning from the Daily Kansan's representative with the chemical engineers on their tour of inspection.
Kansas City, Mo., April 22.—"We arrived in Kansas City with every one in good spirits over the expectation of a fine trip. As is usual with a bunch of students, Professor Whitaker is having a hard time keeping everybody together. Spillman and Bailey became lost in the maze of streets.
"At last united after a two hour search, we set forth to visit the zinc smelter and acid works. A mile-and-a-dime drive from the entrance of the street car line was reached.
"We were cordially received by the manager of the works, Mr. Wheeler, who will be remembered as one of the speakers at the recent Engineers' banquet. Those mortals who believe the fumes in our chemistry building are stifling should have been with us today. The manager took great delight in making us gasp for breath and shed tears.
"At noon, no restaurant being near, we invaded a small grocery. The proprietor, after recovering from the shock of so many customers, fed us on crackers and cheese, pickles, ham sandwiches and pop.
The afternoon was spent in visiting two soap plants, the Procter and Gamble and Peet Bros. Manufacturing Co. with their workers making and making were inspected and noted."
The following students are taking the trip under the direction of Professor Whitaker: H. K. Shaw, C. C. Spillman, C. G. Amstrong, C. J. Pecoraro, C. E. Pajares, J. D. Malcolmson, E. E. Grignard, R. K. Bailey, E. L. Leatherock, C. A. Nash, C. E. Teeter, C. H. Armsey, H.F. Bennett and T.M. Godfrey.
"We viewed the transformation of the bog into the finished meat as it ripened."
Kansas City, April 23. "We spent the morning in the inspection of the Armour Packing Co. We found it to be an immense concern, preparing everything from sandpaper and glue to the choicest meat and canned goods. At the plant every by-product is utilized. This is where the work of the chemical industry goes. It finds new uses for by-products and stops the leaks in the large plants.
"Our afternoon was filled by inspecting the Star's paper mill and the Kansas City, Kansas, water plant, which is transformed into pure, clear water."
"The trip is proving to be one of great benefit to the future chemical industry."
"Many interesting personal items are to be noted. Emile Grignard, tiring of the gay hotel life, has engaged rooms at the Y. M. C. A. R. K. Bailey, not being able to drink water in Kansas City, Mo., set out at Kansas." We expect to see him again so he learning a large demijohn of aqua pura.
"We leave tonight at 11:45 for St Louis."
SPENT A FORTUNE FOR
NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Expenditures Last Year Exceeded All Previous Records in Kansas
More Kansas school boards secured money and spent it for new buildings last year than ever before during a similar period. A total of $1,360,000 was spent for that purpose during the year, an increase of $898,000 over the preceding year.
The total number of school buildings erected last year was 198. There are now 9,912 school buildings in the state with a total of 14,457 rooms.
Helen Ames, '10, of Topeka spen the week-end at the Pi Phi house.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
GENERAL CATALOG WILL BE ISSUED ABOUT MAY
Registrar George O.Foster announced today that the general catalog of the University for the ensuing year would be out some time near May 1. Last week, the catalog was not finished and sent out all the middle of the summer vacation.
Men Tread Primrose Path as Women
The Yale University Dramatic club,
which is recognized as being the best
organization of its kind in the country,
appeared in Bernard Shaw's "The
Devil's Disciple" last month. All of the
 female characters were played by men.
SIGMA XI TO DINE IN THE CAFETERIA
Committee Will Provide Electrical Effects---Dean Sayre to Be Toastmaster
The Sigma II honorary fraternity will hold its annual banquet Friday evening in the Cafeteria. The dinner will start at 6:30 o'clock, a sharp
Following the dinner toasts will be heard from Prof. T. H. Boughton, Prof. C. Y. Cunningh, Chancellor Frank Strong, Prof. H. P. Cady, Prof. C. E. Mitchell, Prof. U. G. Mitchell, Dean Sayre will act as teast-master for the occasion.
In addition to the talks a short program of songs and instrumental music by some of the members will be given. Not to be outdone by the engineers the decoration committee will provide electrical effects. The Greek letters Sigma and Xi will be formed with incandescent lights.
Professor Cardiff, of the department of zoology at Washburn, is expected to attend the banquet. He is on the program for a toast.
SOPHS DEFER HANDING
IN DATES FOR HOPH
As in Former Years, Invitation Committee is Obliged to Make Direct Appeal to Class
It seems that the sophomores are having the same trouble about dates this year which has confronted every other "Prom" manager, and are making a strong appeal for those who are going, to hand in their dates as soon as possible. Hopp is only about ten days off and very few dates have been handed in.
"I did not think we would have to do it," said Charles Strickland, chairman of the invitation committee of the company. "But I guess it will be necessary."
According to Arvid Frank, manager of the Hopp, it is going to be the best yet, with some new ideas in the working out of a musical farce comedy and some new features in the Hopp. To get to know these new features make this a distinctive class affair and to do this must have the support of the other members of the class.
Professor Hodder Will Show Cartoons Political cartoons of the middle period in American history will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by Professor Hodder tomorrow after noon at 3:30 in the Greek room to which all who are interested are invited. This lecture will cover the period from 1844 to 1860, following that covered in a lecture before the Graduate club last fall. Professor Hodder has made an exhaustive study of cartooning and has a fine collection of slides illustrating the subject.
"The Hopp will be entirely sophomore" said Frank, "since for the first time the farce has been written and is being directed by a sophomore.
"We thought that wilh the exceptional amount of advertising that had been given the farce and Hopp this year, dates would come in early of their own accord. We had expected to have at least half of the dates by today" continued Strickland, "which would obviate the necessity of following in the foot steps of every invitation committee yet, that has had to make an appeal to the members of the class about ten days before the prom to be busy and hand in their dates. It seems as if we will have to follow the procession, however, as only a few have appeared."
“If the class will only hand in its dates as soon as possible, I feel sure that this will be the best sophomore entertainment ever given.”
FIRST MANDOLIN CLUB CONCERT IN 4 YEARS
Pickers of The Twentieth Century Lute To Perform In Fraser Tonight.
THE PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED
Classic Numbers to Prevail—Barcarole From "Tales of Hoffman" and "Dance of Skeletons"
The Mandolin club seventeen in number is ready for its first concert in four years, tonight in Fraser Hall at 8:30.
After the concert, the club will be entertained at dinner by DeWitt Mickey, manager of the club.
PART TWO
"The instrumentation of the club," said James F. Lawrence this morning, "is well balanced, and the mando-cellow will be introduced tonight in Lawrence for the first time. The mando-cello is an instrument which corresponds to the violoncello in the orchestra and is played with a pick." Among the numbers which the director says are especially good, are "The Dance of the Skeleton's" which is a descriptive piece, Carbarole from "The Tales of Hoffman," and a mandolin solo unaccompanied.
1. (a) March, Les Petis Pierrocott. Bose
(b) Overture King Midas Ellenbury
(c) La Lisonjera Chinamide
2. Bereceuse. From Jocelyn Godard
Tenor-mandola solo by Lawrence Morris
3. (a) Barcroule to "Tales of Hoffman"
    b) Magnolia Serenade Missud
4. Tenor Walter Eastman
5. (a) Gavotte Caprice Life's Hours Wells-Smith
    b) Dance of the Skeltons. Descriptive
PART TWO
1. Spring's Awakening ... Bai Violin, William Hoyt; cello,钢琴Stevens; flute, Clare Poland; piano,Carl Brown.
2. Solo for unaccompanied mandolin,Bandurria ... Stauffer
James F. Lawrence
3. Violon Kelby
4. Ralph Stevens
4. Les Patineurs
5. Waldeufel
Jayhawker Quintette.
5. a) Selection from "The Girl at the Holes."
(b) March, National Emblem ...
... Bagle ...
RECITAL DELIGHTS HEARERS
Miss Audrey Harshberger Gave Second Commencement Concert
Assisted by Mrs. George Hickman, Miss Audrey Harshberger gave the second of the commencement concerts, a piano recital, in Fraer Hall last night. Miss Harshberger is one of the graduating class under Professor Prever.
Adjusting Engine's Valves.
The H. N. Strait Mig, Co. have had a man at the University for the first three days of the week adjusting the valves on the 400 h.p. Corliss engine in the Engineering laboratory. The engine was built by the Strait people. A test was run on the engine Thursday by the seniors in the Mechanical Engineering department.
The recital was well attended and the audience expressed appreciation of the program. The third recital will be on March 3 at 8:30 in Fraser hall tomorrow night at 8:30 in Fraser hall.
Adjusting Engine's Valves.
DORM-GRAZED STUDES PLUGGED THE NICKELS
Regular Film-den Fans Were Dispossessed By Throng ing Week-nighters.
FINANCIAL RESULTS UPHELD
CARRUTH HOLDS A CLASS IN ROOM I,OUTDOORS
Will be Announced as Special Feature of Woman's Kansan—Music and Vaudeville Big Hits
To recite their lessons in the open air, surrounded by no dusty blackboards and perched in no ancient round-back chairs, was the good fortune of Prof. W. H. Carruth's class in the German novel at 11:15 this morning. The class is usually held in the basement of the library, a dark gloomy retreat at the best, but on a day full of sun and breeze and fragrance, positively unendurable.
Though it were for the sake of the dormitory fund, or for the reason that the week night date rule was off for one night only, it is enough to say that the moving picture shows were simply packed last night at every performance. The pictures were especially good and the interludes between the films were filled with stunts by John Musselman and Charles Younggreen.
Ben Leventhal's efforts on the violin at the Aurora were always met with a round of applause and he responded to repeated encores. Musselman and Younggreen at the Pattee in their various acts were good, as they always are, and even better than they have ever been before.
Sh! it's a dark secret, how much money was made for the dorm fund. Miss Delpha Johnson who was the chief instigator of the affair and is now the Chief Comptroller of the Leather Money Bag, absolutely refuses to reveal the amount that said Bag contains. When interviewed in regard to it this morning she said, "We don't want you to but we intend to wait until the psychological moment to reveal it. I will say however that it has exceeded our fondest expectations and we are more than pleased with the outcome."
EPSOM SALTS IN WELL
WATER MAKES STOCK SICK
concentration of Chemicals in Old Wells, Used as a account of Drought.
During the extreme hot weather of the summers of 1910 and 1911 the water in the wells of Kansas was sapped to its lowest depth. Since then, the question of water for the stock has worried the farmer very much. As a last result he has turned to the old well, put down years ago and abandoned when the water in it became unfit for use, even for his cattle and horses.
The water in the majority of the old wells made the cattle sick. To be sure of the contents, the farmers sent samples to the department of water analysis. After a thorough investigation by a. C.C. Young, the samples found a contain Epsom salts, Glaucer salts, and just plain ordinary salt.
The counties in the eastern and northern portions of the state seem to be in worse condition than in the southern areas, with the flowering flowing in good underground currents.
Medical Frat Initiates Two.
Phi Beta Pi held initiation last night for Dr. J. C. Wilmotz of K. S. A.C., and Dr. L. J. Uhls, state superintendent of the asylum at Osawatomie. Both men were initiated as honorary members.
Medical Frat Initiates Two.
So when Professor Carruth proposed this morning that the class adjourn to the big recitation room of the campus with its grass and budding lilac hedge, the class whooped its delight, and piled out of that stuff
Harry Dixon, a sophomore in the College, was called to Fort Smith, Ark. last Saturday by the death of an uncle He has not yet returned to Lawrence.
TRY TO MAKE CACTUS
GROW IN COLD CLIMATE
room like birds from a darkened cage.
"I confess that I held a class outdoors this morning," said Professor Carruth, when interviewed by a representative of the Daily Kansan,
"but that is no unusual thing. For several years I have held classes on the campus, every spring, when the inside rooms, as you know, become very uninviting places.
One of the interesting specimens in the Botany laboratory is the Burbank Spineless Cactus.
"The German Seminar room in the basement, with its shelves of dusty books, is an especially dreary place, in this kind of weather, and I have no cause to doubt," added the professor, philosophically, "that my students feel the same way about it as I do."
This species of cacti was created by hybridization of the California spined cactus with the Central American spineless. This cactus will prove of great value out on the desert as cattle can use it as food.
Mr. Burbank also hopes to create a plant which will grow in a colder climate by combining the Alaskan and spineless species. The resulting cactus will be very hardy and at the same time make rapid growth.
BRING HOME BUGS,
SNAKES AND BEES
Zoology Class Does Some Real Field Work With Great Success
Professor Baumgartner, his class in field work and life histories, part of the comparative anatomy class, and Professors Moodie and Lindsey spent the day Saturday at Horse Shoe lake.
The class had previously been carefully instructed by Professor Bammargart that this was not to be used for actual field work. An experimental expedition for actual field work.
At eight o'clock as the last member of the party climbed into the conveyance, the first anxious inquiry was made by Professor Baumgartner, who wished to know whether they had forgotten the coffee. The coffee was there but no sugar.
"Never mind," he said, "if that is what you wouldn't be a 'picnic' without forage."
THE SNAPPER WAS WISE
Many specimens were collected. Spiders, centipedes, queen ants, bees, bugs, larvae, crickets, grasshoppers, fish, turtles, crawfish, and a garter snake were brought back for classification and dissection.
The large snapping turtle must have had a preconceived idea of a seven mile jolt and a zoological dissecting table. He quietly cut his picket rope and disappeared while he enjoyed their mid-day lunch.
Professor Baumgartner's interesting stories of his western trips made the time in coming home pass quick. When the party returned about six o'clock.
Iowa Freshmen Are Improving Scholarship at the University of Iowa is improving, according to the published report of the university's study of students of the man class show that 53 per cent of the men made a fair average standing this year as compared with 44 per cent last year.
To Clean up Graft at Drake
A "Civic League of Drake University" the purpose of which is to purge student academics at Drake of all grafts and factionalism, has been organized and is now carefully investigating the qualifications, past record, and affiliations of every candidate who has announced himself for office.
Dad Comes in For Fun and Song "The Dad of the Undergrad" is announced as the name of the musical comedy to be given this year by the students at Illinois. Mistaken identies and the Junior prom at "Orbule" college are prominent features of the plot.
Botanists Will Go To Baldwin.
Holsteinists Will Go To Badwin.
The Botany Club will go to Badwin. the club will go to Badwin of the club are willing. If they prove unwilling the club will take the train. Professors Stevens and Sterlings, also Dr. Charles, will head the expedition.
Professor Price to Pomona.
Prof. R. R. Price, head of the University extension department, will deliver the commencement address at Pomona high school, May 22.
Frank Nutter, '10, of Kansas City, spent Sunday at the Phi Psi house.
Earl Fisher, '11, spent Friday and Saturday at the Alpha Tau house.
Hazel Kelly, of Paola, is visiting this week at the Pi Phi house.
GIRLS' OWN KANSAN TO PRESS ON TIME
Editor-in-Chief Murphy Has Assignments Out and Beats Covered
EADY FOR COPY TO COME IN
Editors All Well Fited For Their Jobs—
Few Pikers, And No One Dares
to Predict Failure.
According to Miss Beulah Murphy, editor-in-chief of the women's number of the Daily Kansan, there will be "something stirring" in University journalistic circles next Friday. Already the girls have mustered their legions and armed their cohorts for the big fight with the close-mouthed and the secretive on the day after tomorrow.
"The girls will try to make this number of the Day Kansas a model in all respects," said Miss Murphy this morning, "and that one will reflect no discredit on the literary and journalistic skills of the young women University will be at the office early Friday morning, and expect o be on the job all day.
FEW PIKERS IN CAMP.
"Some of the girls have 'piked,' continued Miss Murphy, and her voice carried a tinge of scorn, "but most of them are working hard and we certainly will be a pronounced success. We know that getting out the Daily Kansan is no child's play, and we are fully awake to the responsibilities that we have assumed.
"It think you can promise," she concluded, "that none of the readers of the Daily Kansan will be disappointed with our edition."
The plans for the issue are practically all laid. Miss Beulah Murphy, the editor-in-chief, has already shown her sagacity and executive ability as a member of the editorial staff of the Oread Magazine and as president of the Women's Student Government Association, and is marshaling her forces with the generalship of a Tecumseh Sherman or a Melville E. Stone.
STAFF CHOSEN BY MERIT SYSTEM.
The staff she has chosen was selected with foresight, as to the ability of each individual on it. Both the editorial writers, Oresta Moore and Genevieve Wells, have already proved their worth as they have written editorials under the supervision of Professor Flint, of the Department of Journalism.
The literary editor, Alberta Cady and her assistant, Anna Manley are both well fitted for their positions—the ormer having written some excellent poetry and the latter short stories for he Oread Magazine.
The News Editor, Ruth Harger, will undoubtedly show great news-gathering ability, as she has been associated with her father, C. M. Harger, editor of the Abilene Reflector, until she came to the University.
It is impossible in this limited space to recount the merits of all the staff but let it suffice to say that they are ill well fitted for their job.
SENIORS TRY OUT TONIGHT
Director Wants Everyone to Bring Something to Read - Play Ready
The tryout for parts in the senior play will be held tonight at 7:15 in Fraser hall. It is the wish of the director that everybody that intends to try out would bring something along to read.
The play is entirely finished and rehearsals will start this week. The date of the play has been changed from May 16 and 17 to May 15 and 16.
The Weather.
"Tell the good people to advertise for lost and stolen umbrellas" cried Baro Meter this morning when he saw the Daily Kansan reporter passing by his home. "It may not rain tonight but I have that unsettled feeling for tomorrow."
Brother Thermo is getting in better spirits than he has been for the past few days, and the pottering around his airplane.