THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. XXIV
R. O. T. C. Camps Will Be at Ft. Sill and Leavenworth
No. 127
Thirty-Eight Members Local Unit Expected to Attend This Summer
Summer training camps for members of the R. O. T. C. will be held from June 11 to July 27. Two locations for the camps have been chosen one at Fort Sill, Okla., for the coast artillery corps, and the other at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for the engineer corps.
Major J. R. Cyon of the University staff will be the only officer from to attend camp at Fort Sill, and Lieut. George J. Nold will be the K. U. representative at Fort Leavenworth. Lieut. Harry F. Meyers will not go to Fort Sill this summer but Lieut. Robert W. Knox will Know Knoe. Last summer, Lieutenant Meyers went to Fort Sill for the training period.
Twelve members of the coast artillery of the local R. O, T. C, will attend camp at Fort Stil. These are also required to attend camp at the end of their third year in the department. Their work will include training in anti-aircraft work, together with adjustment of their millimeter and the 156 millimeter gun.
The camp at Fort Still be probably be large and include not only men from K. U. and the Kansas Aggris, but others from the various colleges and universities of the Eighth Corps Area. This district is composed of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado. Between 500 and 600 students will probably contain this camp which will be a large increase over last year.
The training camp was also held at Fort Sill last year and proved to be a suitable location. All of the students who attended the camp there are said to have enjoyed it and re-covered it there far exceeded their expectations.
The students in the engineering unit will attend the camp at Fort Leavenworth, which will be held during the same time as Fort Silv. There will be about 400 students there from the central western district. Twenty-four men from the University of Iowa will attend the Leavenworth camp.
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Training at Fort eLavenworth will consist of work and duties pertaining to the engineering corps, such as bridge building, surveying, mapping and fortification work. The students of this corps are also advanced students of the department of military science.
Work at both training camps will be tempered with the proper amount of recreation. Swimming, handball, tennis, baseball, and various other sports will occupy much of the students time. One of the main purposes of the camps is for physical education as well as teaching military science.
The following men of the coast artillery unit will probably attend camp at Fort Stil; Lester Jones, c'28; Lord Gott lion, uncle; e. William Moore, c'28; George Rosceo, c'28; David Lasley, c'28; Francis McKenna, c'28; Thomas O'Brien, c'28; Thomas Randle, c'28; Bryon Sarvets, c'28; John Sparks, c'28; Perry May, and Howard Rose, c'28; and Howard Rose, c'28
The men who will attend from the engineering unit are as follows: Carl Addington, e$^{2}$; Joe Boyer, e$^{2}$; Clyde Campbell, e$^{2}$; James Hemsley, e$^{2}$; Wiley Toad, e$^{2}$; David Sainman, unl. e$^{1}$; William Conley, e$^{2}$; Gray Hazard, e$^{2}$; Eugene Hill, e$^{2}$, G. Howden, e$^{2}$, Thomas Hughes, e$^{2}$, Paul Johnson, e$^{2}$, H. Teller, e$^{2}$, H. Klemp, e$^{2}$, Thomas Larrick, e$^{2}$, William Lloyd, e$^{2}$, Richard Lloyd, e$^{2}$, Leslie Bury, e$^{2}$, Lloyd Muller, e$^{2}$, Miller Troup, e$^{2}$, McAllister, J. R. e$^{2}$, John Wisner, e$^{2}$ and Harry Skinner, e$^{2}$.
Lutherans to Organize League
At their last meeting the students of Immaculate College organized a local branch of the national Lutheran Student's League. A committee appointed to take care of preliminary arrangements consists of: Earl Tyrrell, Emmy Klinker, edu; Lee Reifel, c27; Leo Buchring, c27; they also decided to give a banquet in honor of Dr. William Dallman a vice-president of the Missouri arti and who will speak here on
Mother Goose Number of Sour Owl Out Friday
The Mother Goose number of the Sour Owl will go on sale on the campus Friday morning, according to Guy Graves, editor. This issue is the fifth
Modernized Mother Goose rhymes, fairy stories, and cartoons, relating to the rhyms are the main features of this number. It will contain 32 pages and about twenty-one hundred copies will be printed.
The Sour Owl will contain the following feature articles: A short history of colleges, by Jack Harris of the Ottawa Herald; "Mother Goose for the Newspaper," by Guy C. Graves, and "An Owl Routier for the News," by Jack Kinead. Edgerton. The cover design is drawn by Jack Kinead.
Contributors to this issue can get complimentary numbers at the business office in the Journalism building Friday morning.
Newspaper Contest Is Being Conducted for High School Pupils
News Stories, Advertisements Editorials and Features Are Included
The annual high school newspaper contest conducted by the department of journalism will close on April 1. The contest is open to all high school journalists. The certificates will be sent to the winners at its close. The winning stories and editorials will be reprinted in the high school newspaper published by the department and announced in state and in the schools of journalism generally.
There are five divisions in the contest as follows: First, for the best individual competition for a
high school paper, including both the story itself as printed in the paper and the enterprise shown in obtaining it, as vouched for by the supervisor, principal or superintendent. The articles need not be the work of
one person only since it is almost inevitable that more than one person has something to do with any story printed in a newspaper.
Second, for the best original editorial printed in a high school paper.
Third, for the best record of service to a high school by the newspaper of that school. The statement must be accompanied by an endorsement by the supervisor, principal or superintendent of the school.
Fourth, for the best report on methods of securing and handling a unlaw problem, either in advertisement or consultation for a high school gymnasium.
Fifth, for the best feature story printed in a high school newspaper. The story must be based upon some subject, whether person or event, with which the school is rather directly involved. We have some news value to the school.
Only one entry for any one award may be submitted by each school. The awards will be made by the faculty of the department of journalism at the University. The announcement of the winners and those receiving honors was made as soon as possible after the close of the contest on the first of April.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927
Spanish Club Tryouts Will Be Held March 15
All majoring in the department or interested in Spanish and having 15 hours or are now completing 15 hours of Spanish, are eligible for the tryout. Students admitted to Mia Briones or Meredith Gerber by next Tuesday, March 16.
Spring trouts for election to F Atenyo will be held Wednesday, March 16, at 7:30 p. m. in room 106 ear Administration building.
The nature of the tryout is left to the individual or the group trying out, however ability must be shown either in written or spoken Spanish. Conferences may be held with any interested department in regard to the tryouts.
Hospital Filled with Patients
One case of scarlet fever has been added to the University hospital, according to Dr. R. H. Edmison, superintendent. All available room in the hospital is in kind and any kind could not be taken care of.
Hospital Filled with Patients
In the last three weeks, the total of suicide deaths among college and high school students has risen to 18.
Y.W.C.A.Elects Student Officers for Coming Year
Constance Nuckles Chosen President; Members of Cabinet Not Announced
Constance Nuckles, uncle,c, was elected president of the Y. W. C. A, for the coming year at the election held yesterday afternoon. The other officers elected were: Vice president, Eunice Harker, Harker; council representative, Ruth Tinsley, uncle,c, The new officers take office April 1.
The other cabinet officers retiring are: Elizabeth Walker, c'27; Moyne Rice, c'27; Miriam Grant, d'27; Margaret Patton, ed'27; Katherine Andrews, c'27; Ause George, gr.; Dorothy Loxon, c'27; Eunice Humbercy, e'28; Emma Johnson, c'28; Ethel Davis, c'29; Dorothy Gregg, c'29; Marion Cowles, c'28; Dorothy Brock, c'29; Audrey Phillips, c'29.
The retiring officers are: President, Mary Sissy, c'27; vice president, Martin Martin, c'27; secretary, Marina Egan, c'27; director, Dorothy Rosebough, uncle.¹
A group conference to be held Saturday, March 19, has been called by Mary Sisson, retiring president. The purpose of the conference is to decide on new cabinet positions and to discuss possible nominations. We will also matter of policy for the year will also be discussed. The conference does official business and the meeting is an important one. The conference is open to any Y. W. C. A. member, and begins Saturday morning. Lunch and dinner are arranged are asked to give their names to Mary Sisson or leave them at Henley house.
The new cabinet will be announced soon by the president. The new cabinet will make plans for the summer work and the program for next year.
Tau Sigma Gives Recital
National Dances Are Included in Revue Program
Nearly six hundred attended the Tau Sigma dance revue given last night in Robinson gymnasium, by the dancing students and members of Tau Sigma, under the direction of Miss Margaret Barto and Miss Elizabeth Dunkle of the women's physical education department.
The program included national dances, character dances, and a demonstration of dancing technique. Children appeared for the first time in a Tau Sigma recital and gave a group of dances.
The staging of the recital, difficult as it was with no better facilities, added much to the program. Prof. Allen Crafton, of the department of speech and dramatic art, directed the staging of the production. Scenery for the recital contained drapery from both "The Dover Road" and "HIL." The stage lighting was particularly by the students and were particularly colorful and interesting.
An orchestra composed of Ada Clark, Anna Webb and Paul Hawn played for the recital. Miss Ruth Schoenfeld sang in Members of W. A. A. u.sherwood.
The affirmative debate squad of Kansas University won over the negative squad of the Kansas State Agricultural College debate team by a split decision Monday night in Manhattan.
Debaters Beat K. S. A. C
Sarah Kron, c28, is ill at her home in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas was represented by Burton Kingsburg, c'unl., Rice Lardner, c'28 and Richard Brewster, 750. D, L.MaCRon, vice-president of Washburn College, Martin Holcomb, debate coach at Bethany College, Lindsborg, and George Philom, professor at the University of Chicago, Emporia, acted as judge, returning a two-to-one decision in favor of Kansas.
According to E. C. Buchler, professor in the department of speech and dramatic art of the University, this was a hotly contested debate, much interest being shown on both sides.
Affirmative Squad Registers
Split Decision Victory
Shriveport, La., March 9—Johnson Motfell, Chicago White Sox player, who attempted suicide late yesterday by stabbing himself, was considerably better today, his doctor reported and hopes are now that he will recover. Motfell spent a restless night, however, but was asleep early today.
Wire Flashes
United Press
Vermillon, D. S., March 9—Cromley Marian Meyers, University of South Dakota student who attempted to rob a bank in order to complete her education, was sentenced to 30 days in the penitentiary today. The young woman plead guilty of attempting to steal a car and a bank Vernillon. Lenency was asked of the court for her and was granted in the short sentence by the judge.
Washington, March 9—The American Red Cross requested Under Secretary of State Grew to offer relief to Japanese earthquake sufferers through the United States embassy at Tokyo.
Washington, March 9 — An agent from President Coolidge will go west, shortly to pick a vacation site for the president. The spot will be in the South Dakota Black Hills, Estes Park, Colo., or the Lakes Region of Minnesota. Fifty palettes' estates and ranches from the Great Plains are offered by citizen and organizations.
Ventilating System in New Union Building Is Officially Accepted
Completion of Cafeteria Floor Will Be Next Contract
to Be Given
The ventilating system installed in the Memorial Union building was of formally accepted from the contractors building committee Tuesday afternoon.
Irving Wright, field representative of Pond and Pond, Chicago architects, was present to make the necessary tests and observations. The material and the quality of the workmanship was found to be satisfactory and the air current flow was all that was specified in the contract.
Bids for the completion of the cafeteria floor have been advertised for and will be received at the Chancellor's office at 2 p. m. March 25 with a view of letting the contract for this piece of construction.
The Memorial Union building is rapidly nearing completion with only a few contracts for interior jobs yet to be filled. The first contract was accepted from the contractor Feb. 15 and since that time work has been steadily progressing on the interior construction and decoration of the Memorial Union. The owner of the Memorial Corporation.
After this contract is let, bid will be advertised for the remaining construction work as fast as the finances of the corporation permit.
W. S. G. A. Heads Meet
Election System Is Discussed by Group Leaders
The new election system was presented by Helen Buchenau, c27, member of the joint elections committee and president of leaders in central Administration building Tuesday afternoon. The system was discussed and plans made to interest the women in voting. Possible candidates for the election were also discussed.
The groups were asked to take charge of some of the W. S. G. A. aetas. Announcement of the groups which will take charge will be made by the group leader at dinner to be given Wednesday, March 30, at the Thimble Tea room for the members of the group system. A committee was appointed by Ruth Shaw, c'27, W. S. G. A. group manager, to take charge of the dinner. The group leader is Marion Leigh, c'29, Maurine Morley, c'28, and Leona Maher, c'28.
A Red Cross life saving class has been established at De Pau University at Greencastle, Thirty men are given the training, which is given under the auspices of the athletic department. Examinations will be given at the end of four weeks instruction, and those qualifying will be given in the shipment in the Senior Life Saving Corps.
Oriental Problems Will Be Discussed at Noon Luncheon
Fifth Y. M. C. A. Forum to Deal With History of Late Events in China
"Recent History in the Orient" be the subject of Charles H. Corlitt, secretary of the Christian world education committee of the council of Christian associations Friday, March 14, at the fifth University, Y. M. C.
Mr. Corbett has spent two-thirds of his life in the Orient, where he has had intimate contact with the educational, social, political, religious and business interests of that part of the world.
Corbettt Knows Politics
Corbett Knows Pollies
For many years he has been a professor at the University of New York, who is personally acquainted with the leaders of the Chinese renaissance.
He has watched at close range the movements of the emperors who have taken place in the Far East.
By active service in famine relief and in other similar enterprises he has acquired a knowledge of the sociological and cultural nature of these underlie present political changes.
Business Needs Are Known
Mr. Corbett has been a constant student of Oriental culture, as multi-ethnic people, and he has two brothers in business in China, and this fact has enabled him to keep in touch with the point of view of business interests and to understand their difficulties as this
As a teacher of science and author of a textbook of physics for Chinese students, he has received an intimate knowledge of the scientific progress being made in that part of the world. The noon lunch meeting on 12:20 Friday, March 11. Single tickets are available at the Y. M. C. A. office in Friars hall
Positions Will Be Filled
Engineering School Students to Be Interviewed
Representatives from five companies will be on the campus this week to interview students of the university, and provide it positions with their companies.
On March 16 and 17, a representative of the General Electric company will interview senior students of mechanical, electrical, and mechanical engineering. He will employ such men as can be used by the company.
The Southwestern Bell Telephone company American Telephone and Telegraph company, and the Western Electric company will have repaired 18,000 and 18,100. They will also interview students of the School of Engineering.
S. E. McKee, a representative of the Doherty Central Station will be March 14 to talk to the students. Men employed by this company will begin work in Denver, Calo, and later travel most of the world for the trade.
The representatives will come here mainly for the purpose of employing graduates of the department of electrical engineering, but some of the students of industrial and mechanical engineering may be employed.
Emporia Gazette Writer Visits at the University
William Lindsey Day, of Emporia,
was in Lawrence Tuesday, March 8
on a business trip. He was a guest
at the Lawrence Library during
his stay in Lawrence.
White was a student in the department of Journalism at the University in 1918-1920. Then he went to Harvard and was graduated from there in 1924. At present he is an editorial writer on The Emporia Gazette, of which his father, William Allen White, is editor-in-chief.
On Tuesday afternoon White visited the department of journalism and his former professor, Mia Helen O. Mabin. While he was visiting in the university he attended the editorial conference of the University Daily Kansan.
A $50,000 clubhouse for the use of both men and women is planned at the University of Denver. The club is to be financed under the supervision of students with the aid of the alumni.
Naval Limitations Plan Has Effect in England
United States
London, March 16
London, March 16
President Cooley's desire for a three-power naval limitations conference is having its effect here.
First Lord of the Admiralty, W. C. Bridgman told the House of Commons today that Great Britain would not hay lay for the new righting ships of 1027 until late in the year, after the result of the proposed contract between Great Britain, United States and Japan had become known.
Brodman said work on ships already under construction would be continued in the same speed, as though no naval conference had been suggested, and as through Britain had taken over the control, he was not intended to lay down any new vessel of the 1927 building program until late in the year.
Annual Glee Club Sing at New York Will Be Rebroadcast by KFKU
The annual count of the Nationa Intercollegiate Glee Club Association will be broadcast and relayed to all parts of the country Saturday, March 12, according to Miss Berlin Britina Brown of radio station KDKA Pittsburgh.
National Contest to Be Picked Up by Local Station From WJZ Circuit
The contest is to be held in New York and will be broadcast first over station WJZ, New York, relayed to KDKA, Pittsburgh, transmitted to WEHB, Chiengo, and finally sent to KFKX, at Hastings, Neb., which pick the contest up on a short wave length and send it out at 283.8 meters. KFKX at Hastings will receive it and will replay the concert at its own wave length and allow smaller sets to receive the music which will begin at 7 p.m., central time.
Winners Are to Compete
The following clubs will compete: Fordham, University of California, Princeton, the winner of the Ohio state group, Yale, the winner of the state of Pennsylvania, the winner of the New England states, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, the winner of the southern group of states, Columbia, and Missouri.
The contest will be divided into three sections: The choice group in which the competing clubs sing any song chosen by the group itself, the prize group in which all the clubs sing the "Lotus Flower" by Schumann. The last group is the college song required to sing a song of any nature of their school.
Missouri Represents Valley
Missouri Kobe University of Missouri will represent the Missouri valley in the national contest. The Missouri club won the right to enter the national contest by the winning of the valley contest which was held in St. Louis. The Kansas singers, under the guidance of T. A. Iarrmorem, placed second.
"It is my hope that the Missouri club wins the contest," said Professor Larmore. "The Missouri club has always been strong under the direction of Mr. Wall and they should be best when they sing in New York.
Pi Sigma Alpha Initiates
Organization Ranked Third in Scholarship Last Year
The Gamma chapter of Pi Stigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity, initiated eight people last night at a meeting in the Thimble Tea room. Membership is based on scholarship and leadership in political science, and the seminars were elected on this basis.
Those initiated last night were: Lee Latin, Brewster Morgan, Rice Larder, Barrow Barrens, Calvin O. Johnson and Prof. W. A. Gray. Johnson and Prof. W. A. Gray.
This organization was ranked third in scholarship by the registrar's office last year, only Sigma Xi and Phi preceding it in the standings.
The object of the fraternity is to build up a nucleus of students standing for good government in the city, and to train them in the art of 12 chapters in the United States.
Margaret Duval, ex'28, of Kansas City, Missouri, is a guest in Lawrence this week.
Kansas Will Meet Colorado Tonight in Crucial Debate
Winning of Championship Will Be Determined by Decision Given Tonight
The debate tonight with the University of Colorado will determine whether the University of Kansas can become an intercollegiate荣誉 championship or the for first place, with the chance of hosting first if the tie is decided by more debates, according to Prof. E. C. Bunker, in the department of speech and dramatics.
"We have a hard contest "night," said Professor Bucher. "The University of Texas debate squad sent us on our home ground, while Colorado beat Texas on Texas territory. Colorado beat us last year, so we are ready to compete tonight, but to average last year's defeat at the hands of Colorado."
The victory over the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan Monday night put Kanae in the lead. The team, with one contest, so a victory with Colorado tonight will mean first place for Kansas. If Kansas loves this contest they will be in a triple to compete by University of South Dakota and Drake.
This will be in a two-man debate, with Kansas in the negative using the undefended negative team composed of George Chumos, c28, and David Evans, c29. Earl Wright and Isaac Keppler make up the Colorado defense squad. Judges will be D. L. Lawrence, coach of debate at Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia. Jake Barnhill bursary to barn College, Topeka, and R. E. Richie, debate coach at Ottawa University. A. T. Walker, professor of Latin and Greek at the University of Kansas will be chairman.
The question to be debated upon in the Missouri Valley Conference argument, resolved: Congress should enact legislature embedding the principles of the McNary-Haugen farm bill. The debate will be hold at 8 p.m. in the auditorium in central Administration building.
School May Go to Dodge Senate Passes Bill Establishing New Institution
A bill for the establishment of another state school, to be located at Dodge City, was passed by the state senate yesterday afternoon.
The bill was strongly supported by Senator J. W. Davis, representative of the district in which Dodge City is located. In a speech before the state legislature, he need for such an institution that in part of the state, showing that in a territory of 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width there was no state educational institution wherein the east and southeastern part of the state there are four within a shortly extended distance of one another.
Two weeks ago the house of representatives voted for the location of a state polytechnic school at Great Bend but it was apparently forgotten in the midst of Senator Davis's elusive plea.
In his plan Senator Davis emphasized the hardships involved by students of southwestern Kansas who had to go such a long distance to attend school. Many students go home due to the length of the trip as well as the financial expense.
It is desired to make the school and agricultural school as it will be best set the needs of the people in that art of the state.
Ball Says Library Rumor Is False
A rumor that was circulated on the Hill this morning about the probability of Watson library slipping off the bottom of the hill in the near future, is all wrong according to H. II, H. Ball, superintendent of buildings and grounds. So far as he knows the library is very firm on itsfoundation, but he believes her knowledge about the matter.
No repairing has been done on the library since a month ago, when the roof on the west side was braced.
Three native Indians from Old Mexico will run in an endurance race at the Texas relays this year.