THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XX
Tornado, Fire and Flood Sweep Over Hot Springs, Ark.
Downpour of Rain Conquer Flames; Fifteen Persons Missing; Loss is $1,500,000
Hot Springs, May 15. - Searching parties trampled through debris and mud today in search of a number of persons believed to have been killed when this famous summer resort was struck by fire, flood, and tornado.
The steady downpour of rain which continued through the night finally conquered the flames, and shortly before daybreak the army of rescue workers, headed by Army and Navy squads and police officials, task of saving the insurer, and caring victims who may be left homeless.
At least fifteen patients are missing, first reports of the rescue workers said. The rescue parties were made up of staff from the Army and Navy hospitals and business men and women who were commandeered to aid.
Fifteen Are Missing
Property damage will exceed $1,500,000, business men estimated as they made their way through torn and broken buildings and visited two of the city's most popular hotels which are the city's fire following the flood and storm.
Physicians and nurses who spent the night in the storm swept area reported some persons had been killed, but were unable to give any estimates. No bodies had been received at the morgue.
Details Not Complete
Little Rock, May 15. — The tury of elements whirled about Hot Springs city of many disasters, throughout the night and at dawn it was impossible to determine the number dead. One report said seventeen persons lost their lives in the tornado. Other reports reported gases higher estimates.
Telephone and telegraph communication with the stricken district has not been restored early today. Decem-
bler, however, did discover it were not complete today.
The storm swept a wide area around Hot Springs, railroad companies reported. Stretches of track south and east of the resort town were ripped up in the tornado or washed away by the high waters and stranded trains were forced to re-emerge from the storm through the night.
E. R. Underwood Resigns
Governor Appoints Lambertson to Fill Vacancy
Topela, May 15.—Ernest R. Underwood, Republican member of the Board of Administration, resigned from the board today, and W, P. Lambertson, Republican candidate for nomination for governor at the last election, was appointed by Governor Davis to fill the vacancy.
W. P. Lambertson, of Fairview,
arrived at the state house today to
take up his duties as a member of
the state board of administration.
Underwood refused, for a time, to resign, as his term of appointment did not end till 1925, but after being advised by Attorney-General Griffith that the terms of the members of the board were determined by the governor himself, and as Governor Griffith resigned, Underwood gave way.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1923
Shinn Leaves to Give Commencement Addresses
H. A. Shim, of the department of public speaking, will leave Wednesday to deliver commencement addresses in the southern part of this city, given address Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
He will return to the University the first part of the week to give his final examinations, and will leave the latter part to make other come back for his class. He will make eight in all. His trip will include Nice City and Concordia.
Harvey A. Jetmor, c24, Lawrence, has been elected by the local chapter of Kappa Sigma to be their delegate to the national conclave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity which is to be held in Atlanta, Ga., June 30.
Professor Walker Will Attend Meeting in East
NUMBER 15J
Prof. A. T. Walker, head of the department of ancient languages, will leave this afternoon for New York to attend the meeting of the committee on the investigation of Latin teaching. This committee was organized two years ago for the purpose of investigating the merits of teaching Latin throughout the United States. The investigation is financed by the General Educational Board, who gave $100,000 for the work. This meeting is for the benefit of planning, not making, the report, Dean Andrew F. West, of Princeton University, is chairman of the committee.
K.U. Commons Director Urges Home Economics For All College Woman
Anna Barnum Says Housekeepers Need Special Training In Homemaking
"I hope the time will come when no woman will be given a degree from any college or university who has not had at least one year of home economics," said Miss Ama H. Barron, an administrator in an address "Eliminate Home Drugsry," broadcasted by WDAF last evening.
"The high calling of the true home maker makes it the highest profession open to any women. Too many the homemaker enters her profession without any special training. Why should we not train women for homemaking as we train men for business?" continued Marm Bumern.
"Every woman needs a hobby to take her out of the routine of her home. A nervous, fretful woman reacts upon her family and makes its other members irritable. Many women are without a mechanical sense if the home. The result is that they not know how to use labor-saving evices. All kitchen drudgery can be alleviated and has been those bullied,
if women who are awake to their possibilities. The money spent or a mald every month may be condemned by buying modern-bearing devices.
"No one likes to see piles of soiled dishes standing around getting dry and harder to wash each hour. The modern dishwashing machine, which cleans dishes can be scraped and put in into after each meal and covered with suns." "A cheap dish-washing machine may be made by the housewife herself," she says. The vacuum, cover, and cover attached. The vacuum cleaner, the fireless cooker, which should be aluminum lined, a good steamer, washing machine, mangle iron, electric household mixing machine are really practical in a household."
Miss Barrn at the conclusion of her speech emphasized the fact that no labor-saving machinery can be used without careful study. "Housekeeping," she wrote, "teeping," and "The Dellinator" were recommended as good references.
Barrie Play Presented
students of Dramatic Art Class Act Their Parts Well
"The Twelve Found Look," by Sir James M. Barrie, was the play given by students of the dramatic art, lass yesterday afternoon. It is a typical Barrie play, with the usual twist at the end, and the same element of paths which one finds in most of his work.
Blanche Eckles, c24, as Lady Sims did excellent acting. Her carriage appearance, and speech portrayed the 'battery to perfection.'
esting interpretation of a difficult part. Theodore Wear, c24, as Sir Harry Slims, played well the part of the successful and conceived man of affairs. The part of the butter was played by Oscar Mamigon, c24.
Carolina Harbraker, c'24, as Kate the typist, and, as is discovered, the former wife of Sir Harry Sims, was dishonest for her noise and inter-
Guest Day will be the feature of the farewell meeting of the K. U. Dames tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of the Mrs. Wayne Gill, University Heights. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Wane Lameruex, Mrs. Harry Franze, Mrs. James Myer, Mrs. Crawshade and Mrs. Freud Snart.
Student Pow-Wow For New Sachems Will be Tomorrow
Ten Junior Men to be Presented at All-school Services Held in Front of Blake Hall
New Sachem members will be picked from the crowd at the all-University pow-wow which will be held Wednesday, 16月, at 10 a.m. in front of Blake Hall. They will be led to the steps by the old Sachem member, who will teach and announce the names to the students assembled.
Sachen is the honorary organization of senior men of the University. Its members are chosen each year from the men of the junior class for character, scholarship, ability, attitude and campus leadership. Eight members are to be selected tomorrow.
Election of the new members was held two weeks ago, by the old Sachems advised by a faculty board consisting of the following members: Prof. W, W. Davis, Prof. L, N. Flint, Dean John R. Dyer, Prof. A. H. Rice, F. C. Allen, director of athletics, M. B. Sussler, A. H. Huss, and F. R. Fice.
Election two Weeks Ago
The University band will open the Sachem pow-wow. The program includes the awarding of wrestling medays by Coach G. B. Patrick.
Chief Sachem, Lloyd H. Ruppenthal, will welcome the new Sachems and present them to the Chancellor and the student body. Following the announcement Chancellor E. H. Lindley will speak.
Initiation In Afternoon
Initiation In Afternoon
Formal initiation services will be held at Brower's Grove Wednesday at 3:50 p. m. In case of rain the pow-wow will be conducted in person at a. n. m. and other arrangements will be made for the initiation.
Sachem was founded at the University in 1910 by ten men of the senior class. At present twenty men are elected to the organization each year. Sachem members have never lost sight of their university all-University convention with the ceremonial which will be a feature of the celebration tomorrow.
Next Kansas Engineer Out
Issue Contains Special Articles On Economic Problems
"Some Recent Developments in the Study of Concrete," by W. C. MeNown, professor of highway engineering, is the leading article in the last Kansas Engineer for this year, whilst came out yesterday.
Seniors Must Pay Fees Before Degree is Granted
"More than two-thirds of the seniors who are to receive degrees this spring have paid their fees," accented a note in an office. May 1 had been set as a dead line for the payment of the fees in order to make it easier for the Registrar to make up a list of applicants, but this deadline has been extended.
Other special articles in this issue of the Engineer are "Models in Architectural Representation," by Gilbert L. Geery, c24, department of architecture; "The Proposed Consolidation of Railways," by Marcy McCaulen; "The Role of Workforce in Employment Methods," by Waddon T. Armstrong, c24, industrial
An article entitled "Notes from the Dean's Office" emphasizes the importance of general business and economic problems "o the engineer. Mention is made of the questions which have been taken up by the Federated American Engineering Societies. The first of these was the investigation and report on the elimination of waste from industry. The second deals with the question of the use of coal in transportation industries. The third, which is about to be undertaken, has to do with the storage of coal. Transportation offers a fourth problem of vital importance for future investigation.
Every student who is graduate this spring must pay a fee of ten dollars before he receives a degree. Payments are now coming in slow and could start coming in faster with graduation day rapidly approaching.
Washington, May 15—Another cold wave of marked intensity is sweeping down on the country out of the northwest, trailing in its wake snow and freezing temperature, the weather bureau saw the snow the Atlantic coast will shiver from it not freezing temperature.
WIRE FLASHES
Peking, May 15.—Chinese bands, still holding foreign kidnappers from the Shanghal express May 6. The band has issued their demands for ransom today.
Independence, May 15—Five tramps riding on a freight train near here today were killed when sixteen freight cars went into a ditch. Two other men stealing a ride on the train were injured, one seriously. The dead and injured were taken to Mount Valley.
Paris, May 15.—Lives of six victims, two Americans, who were burned to death when a London Airplane飞近 near Ameis yesterday, might have been saved if recent recommendation regarding paraplegia had been adopted, reports of eyewitnesses of the disaster showed today:
High School Seniors To Receive Letters From "Big Sisters'
Freshman Committee Members And W. S. G. A. Send Invitations
The Big Sister Committee, composed of members from the Freshman Group committee and the W. S. G. A., is sending out letters of invitation to about 700 high schools throughout the state to interest high school seniors in coming to the University next year.
The letters will contain information about the University, especially about women students' organizations such as W. S. G. A., Women's Forum, W. A. A., and Y. W. C. A. They are also designed to aid next year's freshmen in securing Big Sisters for next year who will help them in registering, enrolling, and in getting accustomed to University life.
Beginning September 15 information booths will be kept open at the railroad stations for the first week of school and groups of upperclassmen will meet all trains. Lists of rooms in the building for new students at Tenley house.
Open house will be hold every evening of the first week of school next fall at Honey House to help freshmen get acquainted with other students during the first two weeks a, tea will be given for all women students.
The Big Sister work will be carried on throughout the whole first semester. June Judy is chairman of the committee, Ethel Mull is second chairman and the captains are as follows: Dorothy Maclear, Emma Mills, Wilma Atkerson, Elizabeth Noyes, Debra Fillea, Glenn White, Wilson, Lila Pyle, Dorothy Gayford, Nadine Morrison. Each captain will supervise three sub-captains, with one assistant working under every sub-captain.
The forty-fourth annual convention of the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association will begin its annual events on Friday. Attendees will continue until Thursday.
Druggists Hold Convention
Dean Sayre Will Attend Meeting and Give Talk
Dean L. E. Sayre, of the department of pharmacy, will read two papers; one on a "Simplified Formula for the Difusion of Glasses" by Ronald B. DeVries; "The Fact as to the Classification of Alcohol as a Remedial Agent or Drug." Both Prof. L. D. Havenhill, of the department of pharmacy, and Prof. Robert A. Smith, of read papers. Professor Havenhill's paper is on "Rubber, its manufacture and Use," and Mr. Rottluff's an illustrated lecture on "The Use of Botanical Gardens in Connection with Biological Schools of the United States."
The meeting is to be especially interesting, according to Dean Sayre, because of the many men who expect it to be presented, and the talks that will be made.
"Cards on Table At United States Mexico Conference
Long Parley Was Expected It is Now Believed Present Session Will be Short
Mexico City, May 15—The promptness with which the American delegates to the "recognition" conference will meet and the closing session has completely changed the aspect of the Mexican situation. Where a parley lasting weeks and possibly months was held in the US, the session will be of short duration.
The secrecy issue also received a jolt, although the sessions are private. A few hours after the conference began, the American delegates handed the press a statement going into great detail about the United States attitudes toward Mexico.
No Compromise Says Warren
The statement at the opening session made by American delegate, Charles C. Warren, to the effect that "there can be no compromise with fundamental principles essential to the work of this conference" in the keynote of the entire conference.
"The Mexican press 'understands' that no matter what is proposed at the parley, Mexico's laws are to remain unchanged. The Mexican Senate has been told by the congress to construct the new petroleum laws, but uniform opinion is inclined to the belief that the objectional clause relating to the nation's possession of sub-oil rights (which feature was conceived in the oil interests) will be retained.
Warren is Condemned
In government circle, Warren's statement is condemned as evidence that the United States retains the principle of finance as "allowed to ethic"
What he said was: "Noither the government of the United States nor its people seek special advantages in Mexico; we seek no rights we are not willing to share with others. We have neither the intention nor the desire to interfere with the sovereity of Mexico.
"We are convinced, however, that certain principles are essential as a basis of economic co-operation between nations."
Jewell Finishes Inventior
Director of Water Laboratory Has New Stove Wall
Albert H. Jewell, director of the water and sewage laboratory at the University, has completed an attachment for oil cooking stove that will be installed.
The invention consists of an asbestos lining that will fit into the interior of the chimney of an oil burner, forcing all of the heat upward and making a hotter fire than that of the ordinary oil burner. The attachment is designed to prevent waste of heat in an oil burner through radiation, by the insulated wall that is inserted in the firebox to conform to the popular type of oil stoves, and new models will be made to fit all types of burners.
The Perfected Chimney Company has been formed, and Mr. Jewell plans to market his products through UniLand. The company will demonstrate his invention in the summer.
Many City Officials Aided by Municipalities League
Thousands of city officials have patronized the service of the service bureau of the League of Kansas Municipalities during the past fifteen years. The information bureau has also monitored the officers of the League where consider able data is compiled and made available for study for city officials.
Ordinance forms for practically every subject are prepared, and general information and some legal advice is given on the various phases of the construction. The Tax rate bulletins, giving the tax rates, assessed variations and bonded indedentation of all the cities in Kansas, pamphlets dealing with the water, light, telephone, and gas supplies, assessed variations and construction, and equipment of tourist camps are some of the publications which are supplied.
A Student Union Building Next!
Engineers Hold Annual Meeting at Country Club
The University of Kansas division of the Kansas-Nebraska section of the S. P. E. E. held their annual Spring meeting at the Country Club Saturday evening. "There were thirty-three members present, and a very good discussion was held," Dean Walker said this morning.
Professor M. E. Rice read a paper on "The Ideal Textbook for use in Teaching Science," Prof. F. L. Brown discussed "The Ideal Textbook for use in Teaching of Mechanics to Engineering Students." "Some Textbooks from the standpoint of an engineering from the standpoint of a recent Graduate," was read by G. W. Bradshaw, instructor in the department of civil engineering.
Student Conference For Y.M.C.A. to be June 8-18 at Estes
Program
The annual Rocky Mountain Student Conference for the Y. M. C. will be called June 8-18, this year at Estes Park. Colo.
Education and Recreation Will
Constitute Ten Days'
Program
The ten days will be full of valuable training for everyone that attends. Among the best speakers and leaders of the young-man movement who will be there are: William Sweet, governor of Colorado; "Dad Elliot of Chicago; and Herbert Grays of Chicago," and the rest. This year's conference will be "Making the Will of Christ Effective in Human Society."
Last year twenty-five men from the University of Kansas attended the summer camp. They made the trip in five cars. The ten days in camp were filled with the mornings being devoted to interviews and lectures, while the whole afternoon are given to hiking, fishing, riding, tennis, and other athletics. Last summer the Kansas baseball team won the championship of the camp.
The delegates live in modern loo cabins which are arranged in a large circle in the valley at the very base of Long's peak. Meals are served at a cafeteria. Eaters is some sixty percent tall. In the river in the very heart of the Rockies.
Milton Cummings, president of the Y. M. C. A., said that he is having numerous inquiries from men on the campus and from all indications K. U. will be well represented there this summer. Booklets giving complete details of the conference may be secured at the Y. M. C. A.
Art Faculty Holds Exhibit Display Consists of Portraits, Landscapes and Handwork
The members of the faculty of the department of drawing and painting have on exhibition on the third floor of East Administration building a number of pieces of their own work. The exhibition will continue during week from 0 to 11 o'clock each day and also next Sunday from 2 to 5 o'clock.
The exhibit includes five portraits of local persons by John B. Fraser; seven landscapes and one still life by Houghton C. Smith; and one portrait, five landscapes, and one still life by Raymond Eastwood. Rosemary Ketchan has on display eight hand-book books and five pieces of copper ware on an ink well, a pendant, and an enamel box. The books received honorable mention at the Kansas-Oklahoma exhibition in 1922.
All the pictures except the portraits are for sale. Both Mr. Eastwood and Mr. Fraser will contribute half the purchase price of one sale to the art scholarship fund. This fund will provide many of enabling students to study this summer at the Hawthorne Landscape School, Providence, R. I.
All AU-University conventation is called for 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Classes will be shortened to forty minute periods, and the morning schedule will be as follows:
1st hour
2nd hour
Convocation
3rd hour
4th hour
8:30 to 9:10
9:20 to 10:00
10:10 to 10:40
10:50 to 11:30
11:40 to 12:20
E. H. Lindley
Chancellor's Car Skids Into Ditch; A. A. Doerr Hurt
Machine Slides From Paving When Being Turned Out to Avoid Ford Truck
Chancellor Lindley was bringing the other occupants of the car to Lawrence to attend the performance of the Rotary Mintrests, as his guests after a conference in Topeka yesterday. He turned out to pass a car going west and his machine skidded down the road and hit a pile up on the hard surface road, struck the post of a culterv and caromed off into the ditch.
A. A. Doer, state business manager, was badly cut about the face, and his nose was injured when a car driven by Chancellor E. H. Lindley struck him. He was killed six miles west of Lawrence last night at 8:00. Neither Chancellor Lindley, Dean F. J, Kelly, A. B. Carney, nor Roger Williams, both of the state board of administration, were seized from the building, according to Chancellor Lindley.
Kelly and Williams Hurt
Doer who was in the rear seat was thrown against the back of the front seat bruising his nose, breaking his jaw severely, according to Chancellor Lindley. Williams was bruised on the cheek bone and Dean Kelly's knee was wrenched. Doer was hurried in the McConnell hospital for treatment.
"The car skidded shortly before the accident and I was on my guard," Chancellor Lindley said. "We all agreed that I was driving about twenty miles an hour at the time. No one was to blame as we were not in the ditch, but skidded on the wet clay which covered the movement."
Car Damaged Considerably
The car went off the road obliquely and came to a sudden stop when it struck the ditch, but did not eirn over. The right running board was smashed and the doors and body were badly bent. The accident occurred at the bottom of a hill, and at a curve in the road.
Derrir will be unable to leave the hospital for several days, according to hospital authorities, but he is not suffering so much today. His daughter is coming here from Topeka today to be with him.
May Fete Plans Progress
Four Hundred From Gymnasium Classes to Take Part
June Judy, c'23, followed by members of Torch, will lead the troop to the Stadium at the annual May 'elette, May 22, where she will be crowned Queen of May, by the Dialion Bearer, Joe Dinkle, Jr. Over four hundred students, 160 boys and Tau Sigma, dancing security, will take part in the fete this year.
The Y. W. C. A. has turned the concessions over to Wiedemann, who will serve a light, inexpensive supper on the field after the program. The supper will be served at campus patio. Coatings at campus will be admitted to the stadium for 25 cents. All other tickets are 50 cents.
According to Miss Margaret Barto, assistant professor of physical education, Mr. McCanes and the bandman are working hard on the music which has been especially arranged for the dancing. She also urges that everyone be on time as the queen will be crowned promptly at 5:30.
Kansas City Chemists Meet Here Wednesday
The Kansas City section of the American Chemical Association will hold its regular monthly meeting here in the chemistry building. Wednesday, May 16. Lee E. Clarke, B. S. '16, will on "Selling Yourself as a Chemist."
Prof. Ray Q. Brewster of the department of chemistry is the chairman of the section and has been highly involved by that society in its publication.
Redding, Cal., May 15–Mount Lassen, California volcano, was quiet today after having threatened eruption all day yesterday.